What If This Were Your Last Year on Earth?
Greg Laurie: A New Beginning
Greg Laurie
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
If you knew 2026 was your last year on earth, would you live any differently? In this revisited, powerful message, Pastor Greg Laurie urges us to make this our strongest spiritual year yet, drawing timeless wisdom from two biblical figures who knew their time was short: King Hezekiah and the apostle Paul.
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| 0:00.0 | Greg Lorry and Harvest Ministries recommend a great new children's book by Sally Lloyd-Jones called Jesus Our True Friend. |
| 0:07.9 | You have kids, and they need to hear the story of Jesus. |
| 0:11.6 | And I bet you struggle at times trying to read Bible stories to your children. |
| 0:16.2 | This is a great tool. |
| 0:18.0 | So order your copy of Jesus Our True, stories to fill your heart with joy |
| 0:23.0 | written by Sally Lloyd Jones. Yours for a gift of any amount at harvest.org. The title of my message is, |
| 0:32.9 | what if this were your last year on earth? You know, one thing that you notice as you get older |
| 0:40.3 | is time seems to pass more quickly. Now of course time is the same, but it depends on where |
| 0:47.9 | you are at in your life as to how you view time. For instance, when I was a young boy in |
| 0:52.7 | elementary school, it seemed like sitting in class |
| 0:56.0 | lasted forever. I would just stare at the clock waiting for the hands to move. But then as |
| 1:02.0 | you get older, months go by more quickly, years go by more quickly, even decades go by more quickly. |
| 1:10.0 | And now as I look at my life, I have more behind me than I have |
| 1:14.3 | in front of me, and I have been described as middle-aged. However, I don't know about that |
| 1:21.3 | because I wouldn't feel bad about being called middle-aged if I knew a few more people |
| 1:25.4 | over the age of 100. I mean, middle age seems |
| 1:29.5 | like it would more realistically be somewhere in your mid-30s than where I'm at now in |
| 1:35.1 | my 40s. No, my 50s. But youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. |
| 1:43.2 | Middle age is when you're forced to, you know. Middle age is when you are allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to, you know? Middle age is when you know all of the answers and no one ever |
| 1:50.3 | asks you the questions. Yeah, time passes by quickly and then the funny thing is my generation, |
| 1:57.2 | the architects of youth culture are now officially entering retirement age. I read an article |
| 2:03.7 | the other day that said that the baby boom generation now is at retirement age and 7,000 |
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