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Just as the calendar is counting down to the official start of summer,

it's also counting down to the return of Christ. Today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie says

we need to be prepared. There are Christians today that can be asleep at the wheel,

instead of walking in the spirit, they're in effect sleep walking. And by that I mean,

there's a luthirgy, there's a passivity, sometimes there's even a laziness in their life.

So God is saying to us, wake up.

You're still gonna see me, this is the day that you will live again.

Ever been driving down a familiar road and suddenly you realize you don't remember the last

couple of miles. Your mind was in a fog. You were going through the motions and on the steering

wheel, put on the gas pedal, but you weren't focused. Pastor Greg Laurie is concerned,

some people may be serving the Lord that way, lack of focus in a bit of a fog.

Today on a new beginning, we'll get a wake of call to be alert and prepared for the soon

return of the Lord, insights from Romans.

Let me ask you a question, have you ever gotten a call in the middle of the night?

Well, maybe we should say early in the morning, say two or three.

Remember the phone rings, your heart jumps, right? Nobody wants to call at that hour of the morning.

And I don't know why, but the caller will always ask, did I wake you?

Did you wake me? And why is it that we generally say, no? Why do we say, yes, I'm asleep.

It's nighttime. You woke me up, we deny it. Sometimes I watch cartoons with my grandkids,

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