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Greg Laurie: A New Beginning

Upside-Down Living | Where Happiness Is Found

Greg Laurie: A New Beginning

Greg Laurie

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.83.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Philippians 2:1-11

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0:00.0

Today's episode of a new beginning is brought to you by Harvest Partners, helping people everywhere know God.

0:07.2

Learn more at harvest.org.

0:09.7

And while you're there, browse our library of free e-books designed to help you grow in your faith.

0:16.6

If we want to be happy, we should not be selfish.

0:20.5

We need to be self-less. It's upside down, living.

0:25.8

Pastor Greg Lourys is the Lord wants us to live a life that's humble and sympathetic and sacrificial toward others.

0:32.3

That's where happiness is found.

0:34.1

It seems like no, think about yourself. Make the world revolve around yourself.

0:37.8

That leads to unhappiness and misery and depression.

0:41.0

But when you put others first and you think about them, the fringe benefit is happiness.

0:46.3

This is the day when the lost are found.

0:50.2

This is the day for a moment again. Amazing grace comes with the stone.

0:58.0

But can you hear the only action for seeing this?

1:02.6

This is the day when I'm living.

1:08.4

Celebrity marriages are twice as likely to end in divorce.

1:12.7

The reason? Research shows the stars experience more pain and suffering than the rest of us.

1:18.5

So you have people who are wealthy, famous, attractive, powerful, everything the world says is supposed to make one happy.

1:26.2

And they're miserable.

1:27.9

Today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Lourys points out why.

1:31.3

When we look to the world's prescription for happiness, we get just the opposite.

1:36.2

We'll instead look to God's word.

1:38.0

And today, the day when I begin...

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