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Pastor Greg Laurie says, we need to make sure we're not living a lightweight form of Christianity.

Today, he points out our faith needs to be robust and it needs to be substantial.

When we get on a scale, in general, we want to weigh less, not more, right?

Well, that's not true of God's scales.

When we get on God's scales, we want to be a heavy weight.

We want our life to have substance and meaning and weight because of our relationship with God.

This is the day when the lost are found. This is the day for a moment again.

Always in grace, have we the strong?

Again, you get along and I just want to see you.

This is the day when life begins.

Be steadfast and immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.

That was an excitation from the Apostle Paul, then First Corinthians.

We do the work of the Lord and we're to be steadfast and immovable.

When the winds of change blow through our culture, we're to be solid as a rock.

And today, on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie points out how to do that,

as we consider a man who showed us how not to do that.

We're considering an epic failure in the Old Testament.

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