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Hi, this is Rick Warren, Bible teacher for the Daily
Hope Broadcast. Did you know that because of Easter, your
past can be forgiven, you get a purpose for living,
and you can have a home in heaven.
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That's good news.
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Where else can you get that kind of news? Nowhere else?
And did you know that at Easter, studies have shown
people are more open to an invitation to go to
church than at any other time of the year. Don't
go to church by yourself, but bring somebody who doesn't
know Jesus Christ, a family member, a friend, a coworker,
a neighbor, a relative. And if you bring them to
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that church service and they come to know Christ, You're
going to be making a friend for eternity. It'll be
the most important investment you can ever make in their lives.
And by the way, if they come to Christ, would
you let me know about it. I'd love to hear
that story that you brought somebody to Easter and they
found Jesus. You can write to me Rick at Pastorrick
dot com. That's rickat Pastorrick dot com. I would love
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to hear from you. God bless you and Happy Easter.
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Hey, everyone, welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Well, this weekend,
across every continent and in thousands of languages, millions of
people will join together to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
the cornerstone of our faith. But you know it doesn't
stop there. Not only was Jesus resurrected, he is still alive.
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And now let's join Pastor Rick as he shares the
final part of this powerful Easter message.
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What it means to believe in Jesus Now.
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The third thing that it means to really believe in
Jesus the eye in faith is I invest my life
in him. I invest my life for him. Now, friends,
you got three choices with your life. You can waste
your life, you can spend your life, or you can
invest your life.
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Those are your choices.
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If you want to waste I can give you a
thousand ways to waste your life, and so with the world.
If you want to spend your life, I can give
you a thousand ways to spend your life. You can
spend your life making money. You can spend your life
storing up possessions. You can spend your life trying to
get pleasure. You can spend your life trying to have
power and popularity. You can spend your life trying to
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become famous. There are a lot of ways you can
spend your life. But the purpose of life is not
to pile up a bunch of possessions. Haven't you figured
that one out yet? You didn't bring anything into the world.
You're not taking anything out of the world. You only
get to use it for eighty years. And there's more
than now here and now there's eternity. The purpose of
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life is not the acquisition of things. You're not going
to keep them anyway. The greatest things in life aren't things.
I hope you figured that one out.
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Now.
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God has a purpose for your life. He has a
plan for your life, and he made you for a reason.
You're not an accident. He made you to fill a
purpose on this planet. But he won't force you to
go with his plan. You can choose your own plan. Shoot,
you can waste your life if you want to.
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You just blow it. God's not going to stop you.
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God gives you the choice to either follow his purpose
or follow.
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Your own plan. Now you got the freedom of choice.
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He gives you that choice, but you are not free
from the consequences of it. And The choices you make
on this planet have eternal implications, so you better choose wisely.
You better figure out why you're doing what you're doing,
because you're betting your life on it, and you don't
want to be wrong. Now, God has a purpose and
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a plan for your life, and he wants you to
follow that plan. Jesus Christ did not come and die
on the cross for your sins so you could go
to heaven just so you could continue living a self
centered life. In fact, the Bible says this, it's up
here on the screen. It says he died for everyone,
that's Jesus, so that those who receive his new life
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will no longer live to please themselves. Instead, they will
live to please Christ, who died and was raised for them.
God says, what on earth are you here for? You're
here for his plan and his purpose, and God wants
to use you in a way you can't even imagine.
Look at this next verse. The Bible says, give yourselves
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completely to God, every part of you, for you've been
saved from death and you want to be tools in
the hands of God. Tools in the hands of God
to be used for his good purposes. Friends, That is
the greatest adventure in life to be used by God
for the purpose.
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He made you.
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Nothing comes close to this that when you finally experience
the day where you.
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Go, WHOA, this is it.
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This is why God made me, and you know it,
and you go, WHOA, this feels so good.
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Well, of course it does. It's what God made you
to be.
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And there's satisfaction, and there's significance, and there's meeting, and
there's fulfillment and the.
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Greatest thrill in life.
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The greatest adventure in life is the feeling of being
used by God for the purpose that you know you
were created for. If you've never experienced the thrill of
being used by God for the purpose you were made for,
I'm sorry, but you're missing out on it.
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You're missing There's nothing. It's better than sex, it's better
than making a million dollars.
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There's nothing to compare to that feeling of WHOA, this
is why I'm here.
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God made me this purpose.
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And now I know why I'm on this planet, and
it's the greatest adventure of life. God says, this is
the difference between success and significance. I got a lot
of successful friends. I probably know a dozen guys who
are billionaires. But you know, the problem is success it
doesn't satisfy. Why because you always want a little bit more,
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and because there's always who's got somebody some more than
you do. You were made for more than success. It's
why so many people go, if I'm so successful, why
do I feel like a fake? Why am I so unfulfilled?
Because you were made for more than success. You were
made for significance. Success is just the middle level of living.
You can live at the lowest level, survival, or you
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can live at the success level, or you can live
at the best level, which is the significance level. And
how do you live a life of significance being what
God created.
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You to be?
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And then you know, Wow, that's what I'm here for.
There's so many stories in the Bible where Jesus talks
about this concept and about investing your life. Most people
don't realize about half the stories Jesus told have to
do with business. In fact, every principle of business success
is in the Bible. And if you'll do business by
the book, you will prosper at it because God has
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given us the principles for business. And in one of
the stories that Jesus told on investments. He ends his
story by saying this, to those who use well and
invest what they've been given by God, even more will
be given to them. But for those who are unfaithful
with what they've been given, even what little they have
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will be taken away from them.
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What's he saying?
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God has made an investment in your life. First he
created you. Then he gave you gifts and ability and
personnelity and experiences, and he gave you talents.
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And God has made.
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An investment in your life and expects a return on
the investment. And he says that if you do well
with what he gave you, and you use it for
the right purposes, then God's going to say, I'm going
to give you more of it. I'm going to give
you more talent. I'll give you more experience, I'll give
you more. One day, you're going to stand before God
and God's going to give a final exam. And here
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are the two questions on the final exam. The first
question God's going to ask you is this, what did
you do with my son Jesus? What did you do
with my son Jesus. He's not gonna say, did you
join a contry club? Did you join a church? Did
you have religion? He's gonna say, what did you do
with my son Jesus, you know, the one I sent
to earth to die for your sins? Did you ever
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develop a relationship with him? Did you ever follow him?
You ever accept his grace? Second question he is going
to ask is what did you.
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Do with what I gave you?
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Well, you know, Lord, I had a really good time
and then I retired and died. What you think I
put you on earth to live for yourself? Little puny self?
You gotta be kidding me. You think that the biggest
thing in life was you, for you to live for you.
If you don't have anything greater than yourself than yourself
to live for, you got a pretty puny god. You
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don't have much reason to get out of bed in
the morning just for you, And that's why you get
stressed out all the time.
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You need something greater than.
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Yourself to pull you out of yourself, to make you
greater than you think you could possibly be. God sees
in you what you can't even see in yourself, the
ability for greatness.
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And God said, I want to make.
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An investment in you, and I expect a response back
what are you doing with what you've been given? And
he says, Lord, what are we going to do with
what you've given us?
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Well?
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Where to use it? And we're not to use it?
Just on ourselves where to use it and helping other people. Now,
of course, every investment has a return on it, either
good or bad. Can you say bear Stearns, Because this
last week I had some friends who were millionaires in
there now zero errors because they lost it all. They
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had it all invested in bear Stearns. You better make
your investments in life wisely? What is the ROI on
following Jesus? What is the return on investment if I
follow God's purpose for my life instead of my own
dinky plans. Well that's a good question, and Peter asked
it about two thousand years ago on the screen. Peter said,
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in the Bible, Lord, we've given up everything to follow you.
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Will we get out of it?
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Jesus replied, I assure you this in heaven, anyone who
has given up anything to follow me will receive a
hundred times as much in return, and will inherit eternal life.
WHOA He says, whatever you give up to do God's
purpose and plan, you get restored one hundred fold in eternity.
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Do you know what a hundredfold is? That's ten thousand
percent interest. There's not a hedge fund in.
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The world that'll give you those rates. There's not a.
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Single thing you could do with your life on this
planet that will give you a ten thousand percent return
on your investment except doing what God made you to do.
And he says, and you get to enjoy that, by
the way, not for eighty years, but for all of eternity.
I know if I knew a better investment plan than
give my life Christ, believe me, I'm due, I'd be
doing it because I'm not going to waste my life.
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But there isn't and so I've given my life to
invest my life for Him. Now, I want to tell
you this, if you choose to join Saddlebacked Church at
some point in your life, you need to realize that
the people in this church, they get this principle. They
understand it probably better than anybody else, that life is
not about us. It's about investing it for good and
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for God in others, and the rewards are going to
be eternal. I say, without fear of contradiction, this may
be the most unselfish church around. I heard this week,
Just yesterday, I heard about a couple hundred guys in
our church business, guys who quietly, without any fanfare, have
been every weekend for the last year going and feeding
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the homeless here in Orange County.
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I didn't even know they were doing it.
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And then over eight almost eight thousand, seven thousand, seven
hundred and sixty six people in this church in the
last four years have paid their own way to go
overseas to care for the sick, assist the poor, educate
the next generation, help people build stuff, to help people
less fortunate than us. Paying their own way. Why because
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we have been blessed to be a blessing. Now, folks,
we live in southern California and an Orange County. This
is a blessed area. Everybody want to agree with that.
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I don't know many. I've been around the world many times.
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There are not many places in the world as blessed
as Orange County. And why did God put us here
just so weed be fat cats and spending all on ourselves.
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No, he put us here.
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We are blessed to be a blessing to others, and
it's time for you to give back. It's time for
you to make a difference with your life in the world,
so you don't spend all your time and money just
on yourself. Are you doing anything in your life that
is totally unselfish. You do it for somebody less fortunate
than you, and you don't get anything back from you.
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Just do it. It's good for your heart.
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Now the tea in faith, Pastor Tom is going to
come and talk about the fourth facet of faith.
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And it's trust. You trust his wisdom and strength. Trust
his wisdom them in strength. The Bible says this in
Colass chapter two, verse six. Just as you trusted Christ
to save, you trust him for each day's problems too.
Live in vital union with him.
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That's how it works.
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You trust him at the beginning of this life of faith,
and then you trust him for each day's problems too.
It's about it's about trust. I don't know if you've
ever talked to somebody I have often as a pastor,
who they feel frustrated with the whole idea of faith.
To them, faith just seems like one more thing to
add to a too busy life. And you hear people
say something like this, I've tried the religion thing. It
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just didn't work for me. Anybody hear anybody say something
like that, you know what I'm talking about. Here's the
problem with that phrase. It's in the word tried. Faith
is not about trying. It's about trusting. In fact, you
might if you're takeing a note, you might even write
that down in your outline. It's not trying, it's trusting.
If it's about trying, it's just one more thing to
make me more weary.
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I got to get up and go to.
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Church on Sunday and try to be a good person
for God. Now that's not what it's about. It's about
trusting Him to do what only he can do in
my life. Trusting God's wisdom and God's strengthen my daily life.
I know some of you you're at the end of
your trying. I mean you've tried and tried in your marriage.
You've tried to make it at school. You've tried in
a relationship to make things work. You've tried to make
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it work in your business. You're at the end of
your trying. When we get to the end of our trying,
Jesus meets us there and he says, trust me, trust me.
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I will lift you up.
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I will give you wisdom and I will give you strength.
Now you need both. I need both. I need wisdom
and I need strength. Wisdom that shows me what to do,
and then strength that gives me.
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The power to do it.
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And I got to have both. Another way to say
that is, I need perspective and I need power. Next
couple verses talk about those two things. Romans eight twenty
eight says, we know that in all things God works
for the good of those who love Him, who've been
called according to his purpose. That's perspective. That's a different
way of looking at life. Even in the worst that
life throws at me, God's working for my good. He's
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working to he's working to develop my character. Would you
like to have that perspective on life or even the
worst that comes your way? God is working, Jesus says,
when you trust me, that's what I give into your life.
He gives your perspective and he gives you power. I
love this next verse. It's one of my favorite verses
in the Bible, Philippians four thirteen.
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Would you read it with me?
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I have the strength to face all conditions by the
power that Christ gives me.
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He gives you.
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Both when you trust him. How do you know when
you're not trusting? Well, let me tell you one of
the sure signs that you're not trusting.
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It's in the little word worry.
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Anybody else familiar with this word and know what I'm
talking about. When you're worrying, you're not trusting. And when
I'm trusting, I'm not worrying. If I'm sure that a
chair I'm going to sit on is solid, I trust it.
I don't worry that it's going to collapse under me.
But when I start worrying, I stop trusting.
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And one of the.
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Keys to knowing what's going on in my life is
the worry factor in my life? How much am I worrying?
Jesus Christ can help you with your worries.
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Now, the last facet of phase the h and faih
is hold on to his promises, hold on to his promises.
Did you know that in the Bible, in this book
there are over seven thousand promises from God to you,
and God says, if you'll trust him, he will make
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these promises true in your life because he wants you
to learn to trust him. There's promises he'll say, I'll
take care of you. Promises of provision, I'll meet your need.
Promises of protection, I'll watch out for you. Promises of prosperity,
Promises of power, promises of peace. Did you know that
in this Bible that there are promises to you about
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success if you do certain things, Promises about health, Promises
about healing, promises about comfort. When you're down about loneliness
over and they're over seven thousand promises. They're like blank
checks waiting for you to just write them out and
send them back to God. Because God wants you to
learn to trust him, you hold on to his promises. Now,
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if I have an insurance policy and I know what's
covered in that policy, I don't worry about it when
I get in an accident or I have some kind
of surgery, because I know my policy's going to cover that.
When I don't know what my insurance covers, if all
of a sudden I have some kind of accident, I
go I don't know if it covers that, I start
worrying about it. Now, you know the reason why you
worry all the time is you don't know what's covered
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in the policy. You don't know what God's promised to
do in your life. Well, if you don't even know it,
you certainly can't claim that promise for God to help
you out.
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Now.
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I get asked all the time, is there anything that
God can't do? Is there anything impossible for God?
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Yes? There is.
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The Bible tells us there's one thing it's impossible for
God to do. God cannot lie because God is truth,
he is ultimate truth. And God cannot lie something impossible
for him to do. And the Bible says, this your outline.
God can't break his word, all these promises he's made,
So we who have trusted our very lives to God
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have every reason to grab the promised hope with both
hands and read it with me. Never let go, Never
let go now. One of the great promises in the
Bible is the promise that God says, I will never
stop loving you. I will never stop loving you. Look
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at this next verse.
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He was a promise.
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Nothing will ever be able to separate us from the
love his love. Death can't, and life can't, angels can't,
demons can't. Our fears for today are worries about tomorrow.
Even the powers of hell can't keep God's love away.
Whether we're high above the sky or in the deepest oceans.
Nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate
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us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ.
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Jesus, our Lord.
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You know you might try to make God stop loving you.
You can try, but you're gonna fail. You can't make
God stop loving you because his love isn't based on
what you do. It's based on who he is. And
he says, I will never stop loving you.
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Now.
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I don't know how you've been hurt in life, but
I'm sure you've been hurt many different ways. And I'm
sorry as your friend, as a pastor, I'm sorry about
your hurt. Maybe you up, maybe you have been lied to,
Maybe you've been deceived, maybe you've been conned by somebody,
maybe you've been betrayed, and you go, I don't know
if I can believe anybody anymore.
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I don't know who to trust.
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I'll never trust a man again, I'll never trust a
woman again.
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And you say I don't know who I can believe.
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Well, Jesus says this, I am the truth, and he
says the truth will set you free.
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What you need in your life is freedom.
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You need freedom, and he will always tell you the truth. Now,
maybe you felt battered and beaten and bruised and beat up.
Maybe you've been abused. Maybe you've been abused physically or sexually,
or maybe you've been abused verbally or emotionally. Jesus Christ
says to you, he says, I promise, if you'll trust me,
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I can heal your heart and I can heal that
hurt if you'll give it to me. Maybe you feel
like you've been cast off. Maybe you've been rejected by somebody.
You've known that pain of rejection, and you feel like
you've been unwanted, you've been discarded. Jesus says to you,
I will never leave you. I will never forsake you.
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He says, I will never abandon you. It's in the Bible.
I will never abandon you. Maybe you feel like you've
gotten burned in life. He said, you know, I really
got burned recently, and my life's just a pile of ashes.
It's all gone up in smoke. Did you know that
there's a promise in the Bible where God says, if
you'll give me all those pieces, I will restore beauty
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for the ashes. I will restore beauty for the ashes.
You know, for so long I couldn't figure out how
people could hear about how much God loves them and
they walk away from it. I just couldn't figure that out.
You know, the Bible says, he says, I'll give you
your past forgiven, I'll give you a purpose for living,
and I'll give you a home in heaven, past, president
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of future. Nobody can offer you that except Jesus Christ.
And yet I've seen people walk away from it, and
I couldn't figure it out for so many years. But
after talking to thousands of people, I know now why.
Behind every one of it is fear. It's fear that
causes people to walk away from God.
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It's fear. Now.
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It may look like pride, but it's not pride. It
may look like a stubbornness, but it's not stubbornness. It
may look like intellectualism, oh I have all these intellectual arguments.
It may look like ego, it's not ego. Erneath every
single person's life, I found this every day. It's fear.
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I'm afraid of losing control. I'm afraid of giving up
control to God. I'm afraid of letting God be God
in my life. Now, if you're afraid of God, who
could you not be afraid of?
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It's fear.
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I've seen grown men walk away from the greatest gifts.
Say God has a plan and purpose for your life.
And I've seen guys walk away out of fear and cowardice.
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It's fear on the inside.
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It says, don't give up, don't let go hold on,
don't give him control.
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That's sad.
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The Bible says, there's no fear in love. Perfect love
casts out all fear. And because Jesus came at Easter
and died on the cross and rose again, it says this.
Jesus said, I am the one who raises the dead
and gives them life again. Anyone who believes in me,
even though he dies, shall live again.
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He's talking about heaven.
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He has given eternal life for believing in me, and
shall never perish. Look at the next verse. The Bible
says this, because Jesus was raised from the dead, that's
what Easter is all about. We've been given a brand
new life. That means you get a second chance, you
get start over and everything to live for. That's purpose
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for life, including a future in heaven. That's God's retirement plan.
And the future starts now. You say, how do I
get it? How do I take that first step? Real simple?
You give up your fear. You let go of your fear.
You don't let fear keep you from the greatest thing,
what you were created to enjoy. Now, I've written on
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your outline a believer's prayer, and what I want to
do is I want to read through it, and then
I want us to all pray it together. So let
me just read it to you, Dear Jesus. I want
to have a real faith in you, not a fake faith.
Thank you for dying for my sins and showing me
the way to live today. I want to become a
true believer in you. I want to follow your example.
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I want to accept your gift of grace. I need
your forgiveness and mercy. You made me for a purpose,
and I want to invest my life in serving you.
I want to trust your wisdom and strength, and I
want to hold on to your promises when times are tough. Friends,
this is what it means to be a true believer.
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Whosoever believes in me shall not perish, but have ever
lasting life. Are you ready to accept that? Let's bow
our heads. I'm going to pray this prayer again. You
don't even have to close your eyes. You can keep
them open and look at this prayer in your lap
and you can just follow along with being go me too, God,
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or you can read it aloud in your mind as
I read it. Make this your prayer, Dear Jesus. I
want to have a real faith in You, not a
fake faith. Thank you for dying for my sins and
showing me the way to live.
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Today.
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I want to become a true believer in you. I
want to follow your example. I want to accept your
gift of grace. I need your forgiveness and mercy. You
made me for a purpose, and I want to invest
my life in serving you. I want to trust your
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wisdom and strength, and I want to hold onto your promises.
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And times are tough. Amen.
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You know, if you just prayed that prayer for the
very first time, or you just recom i your life
to Jesus again today, would you let me know about it.
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Hi, this is Rick Warren, Bible teacher for the Daily
Hope Broadcast. Did you know that because of Easter, your
past can be forgiven, you get a purpose for living,
and you can have a home in heaven.
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That's good news.
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Where else can you get that kind of news? Nowhere else?
And did you know that at Easter, studies have shown
people are more open to an invitation to go to
church than at any other time of the year. Don't
go to church by yourself, but bring somebody who doesn't
know Jesus Christ, a family member, a friend, a coworker,
a neighbor, a relative. And if you bring them to
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that church service and they come to know Christ, You're
going to be making a friend for eternity. It'll be
the most important investment you can ever make in their lives.
And by the way, if they come to Christ, would
you let me know about it. I'd love to hear
that story that you brought somebody to Easter and they
found Jesus. You can write to me Rick at Pastorrick
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to hear from you. God bless you and Happy Easter.
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Hey, everyone, welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Well, this weekend,
across every continent and in thousands of languages, millions of
people will join together to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
the cornerstone of our faith. But you know it doesn't
stop there. Not only was Jesus resurrected, he is still alive.
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And now let's join Pastor Rick as he shares the
final part of this powerful Easter message.
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What it means to believe in Jesus Now.
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The third thing that it means to really believe in
Jesus the eye in faith is I invest my life
in him. I invest my life for him. Now, friends,
you got three choices with your life. You can waste
your life, you can spend your life, or you can
invest your life.
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Those are your choices.
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If you want to waste I can give you a
thousand ways to waste your life, and so with the world.
If you want to spend your life, I can give
you a thousand ways to spend your life. You can
spend your life making money. You can spend your life
storing up possessions. You can spend your life trying to
get pleasure. You can spend your life trying to have
power and popularity. You can spend your life trying to
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become famous. There are a lot of ways you can
spend your life. But the purpose of life is not
to pile up a bunch of possessions. Haven't you figured
that one out yet? You didn't bring anything into the world.
You're not taking anything out of the world. You only
get to use it for eighty years. And there's more
than now here and now there's eternity. The purpose of
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life is not the acquisition of things. You're not going
to keep them anyway. The greatest things in life aren't things.
I hope you figured that one out.
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Now.
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God has a purpose for your life. He has a
plan for your life, and he made you for a reason.
You're not an accident. He made you to fill a
purpose on this planet. But he won't force you to
go with his plan. You can choose your own plan. Shoot,
you can waste your life if you want to.
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You just blow it. God's not going to stop you.
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God gives you the choice to either follow his purpose
or follow.
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Your own plan. Now you got the freedom of choice.
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He gives you that choice, but you are not free
from the consequences of it. And The choices you make
on this planet have eternal implications, so you better choose wisely.
You better figure out why you're doing what you're doing,
because you're betting your life on it, and you don't
want to be wrong. Now, God has a purpose and
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a plan for your life, and he wants you to
follow that plan. Jesus Christ did not come and die
on the cross for your sins so you could go
to heaven just so you could continue living a self
centered life. In fact, the Bible says this, it's up
here on the screen. It says he died for everyone,
that's Jesus, so that those who receive his new life
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will no longer live to please themselves. Instead, they will
live to please Christ, who died and was raised for them.
God says, what on earth are you here for? You're
here for his plan and his purpose, and God wants
to use you in a way you can't even imagine.
Look at this next verse. The Bible says, give yourselves
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completely to God, every part of you, for you've been
saved from death and you want to be tools in
the hands of God. Tools in the hands of God
to be used for his good purposes. Friends, That is
the greatest adventure in life to be used by God
for the purpose.
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He made you.
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Nothing comes close to this that when you finally experience
the day where you.
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Go, WHOA, this is it.
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This is why God made me, and you know it,
and you go, WHOA, this feels so good.
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Well, of course it does. It's what God made you
to be.
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And there's satisfaction, and there's significance, and there's meeting, and
there's fulfillment and the.
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Greatest thrill in life.
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The greatest adventure in life is the feeling of being
used by God for the purpose that you know you
were created for. If you've never experienced the thrill of
being used by God for the purpose you were made for,
I'm sorry, but you're missing out on it.
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You're missing There's nothing. It's better than sex, it's better
than making a million dollars.
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There's nothing to compare to that feeling of WHOA, this
is why I'm here.
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God made me this purpose.
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And now I know why I'm on this planet, and
it's the greatest adventure of life. God says, this is
the difference between success and significance. I got a lot
of successful friends. I probably know a dozen guys who
are billionaires. But you know, the problem is success it
doesn't satisfy. Why because you always want a little bit more,
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and because there's always who's got somebody some more than
you do. You were made for more than success. It's
why so many people go, if I'm so successful, why
do I feel like a fake? Why am I so unfulfilled?
Because you were made for more than success. You were
made for significance. Success is just the middle level of living.
You can live at the lowest level, survival, or you
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can live at the success level, or you can live
at the best level, which is the significance level. And
how do you live a life of significance being what
God created.
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You to be?
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And then you know, Wow, that's what I'm here for.
There's so many stories in the Bible where Jesus talks
about this concept and about investing your life. Most people
don't realize about half the stories Jesus told have to
do with business. In fact, every principle of business success
is in the Bible. And if you'll do business by
the book, you will prosper at it because God has
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given us the principles for business. And in one of
the stories that Jesus told on investments. He ends his
story by saying this, to those who use well and
invest what they've been given by God, even more will
be given to them. But for those who are unfaithful
with what they've been given, even what little they have
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will be taken away from them.
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What's he saying?
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God has made an investment in your life. First he
created you. Then he gave you gifts and ability and
personnelity and experiences, and he gave you talents.
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And God has made.
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An investment in your life and expects a return on
the investment. And he says that if you do well
with what he gave you, and you use it for
the right purposes, then God's going to say, I'm going
to give you more of it. I'm going to give
you more talent. I'll give you more experience, I'll give
you more. One day, you're going to stand before God
and God's going to give a final exam. And here
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are the two questions on the final exam. The first
question God's going to ask you is this, what did
you do with my son Jesus? What did you do
with my son Jesus. He's not gonna say, did you
join a contry club? Did you join a church? Did
you have religion? He's gonna say, what did you do
with my son Jesus, you know, the one I sent
to earth to die for your sins? Did you ever
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develop a relationship with him? Did you ever follow him?
You ever accept his grace? Second question he is going
to ask is what did you.
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Do with what I gave you?
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Well, you know, Lord, I had a really good time
and then I retired and died. What you think I
put you on earth to live for yourself? Little puny self?
You gotta be kidding me. You think that the biggest
thing in life was you, for you to live for you.
If you don't have anything greater than yourself than yourself
to live for, you got a pretty puny god. You
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don't have much reason to get out of bed in
the morning just for you, And that's why you get
stressed out all the time.
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You need something greater than.
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Yourself to pull you out of yourself, to make you
greater than you think you could possibly be. God sees
in you what you can't even see in yourself, the
ability for greatness.
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And God said, I want to make.
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An investment in you, and I expect a response back
what are you doing with what you've been given? And
he says, Lord, what are we going to do with
what you've given us?
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Well?
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Where to use it? And we're not to use it?
Just on ourselves where to use it and helping other people. Now,
of course, every investment has a return on it, either
good or bad. Can you say bear Stearns, Because this
last week I had some friends who were millionaires in
there now zero errors because they lost it all. They
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had it all invested in bear Stearns. You better make
your investments in life wisely? What is the ROI on
following Jesus? What is the return on investment if I
follow God's purpose for my life instead of my own
dinky plans. Well that's a good question, and Peter asked
it about two thousand years ago on the screen. Peter said,
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in the Bible, Lord, we've given up everything to follow you.
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Will we get out of it?
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Jesus replied, I assure you this in heaven, anyone who
has given up anything to follow me will receive a
hundred times as much in return, and will inherit eternal life.
WHOA He says, whatever you give up to do God's
purpose and plan, you get restored one hundred fold in eternity.
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Do you know what a hundredfold is? That's ten thousand
percent interest. There's not a hedge fund in.
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The world that'll give you those rates. There's not a.
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Single thing you could do with your life on this
planet that will give you a ten thousand percent return
on your investment except doing what God made you to do.
And he says, and you get to enjoy that, by
the way, not for eighty years, but for all of eternity.
I know if I knew a better investment plan than
give my life Christ, believe me, I'm due, I'd be
doing it because I'm not going to waste my life.
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But there isn't and so I've given my life to
invest my life for Him. Now, I want to tell
you this, if you choose to join Saddlebacked Church at
some point in your life, you need to realize that
the people in this church, they get this principle. They
understand it probably better than anybody else, that life is
not about us. It's about investing it for good and
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for God in others, and the rewards are going to
be eternal. I say, without fear of contradiction, this may
be the most unselfish church around. I heard this week,
Just yesterday, I heard about a couple hundred guys in
our church business, guys who quietly, without any fanfare, have
been every weekend for the last year going and feeding
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the homeless here in Orange County.
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I didn't even know they were doing it.
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And then over eight almost eight thousand, seven thousand, seven
hundred and sixty six people in this church in the
last four years have paid their own way to go
overseas to care for the sick, assist the poor, educate
the next generation, help people build stuff, to help people
less fortunate than us. Paying their own way. Why because
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we have been blessed to be a blessing. Now, folks,
we live in southern California and an Orange County. This
is a blessed area. Everybody want to agree with that.
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I don't know many. I've been around the world many times.
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There are not many places in the world as blessed
as Orange County. And why did God put us here
just so weed be fat cats and spending all on ourselves.
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No, he put us here.
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We are blessed to be a blessing to others, and
it's time for you to give back. It's time for
you to make a difference with your life in the world,
so you don't spend all your time and money just
on yourself. Are you doing anything in your life that
is totally unselfish. You do it for somebody less fortunate
than you, and you don't get anything back from you.
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Just do it. It's good for your heart.
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Now the tea in faith, Pastor Tom is going to
come and talk about the fourth facet of faith.
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And it's trust. You trust his wisdom and strength. Trust
his wisdom them in strength. The Bible says this in
Colass chapter two, verse six. Just as you trusted Christ
to save, you trust him for each day's problems too.
Live in vital union with him.
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That's how it works.
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You trust him at the beginning of this life of faith,
and then you trust him for each day's problems too.
It's about it's about trust. I don't know if you've
ever talked to somebody I have often as a pastor,
who they feel frustrated with the whole idea of faith.
To them, faith just seems like one more thing to
add to a too busy life. And you hear people
say something like this, I've tried the religion thing. It
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just didn't work for me. Anybody hear anybody say something
like that, you know what I'm talking about. Here's the
problem with that phrase. It's in the word tried. Faith
is not about trying. It's about trusting. In fact, you
might if you're takeing a note, you might even write
that down in your outline. It's not trying, it's trusting.
If it's about trying, it's just one more thing to
make me more weary.
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I got to get up and go to.
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Church on Sunday and try to be a good person
for God. Now that's not what it's about. It's about
trusting Him to do what only he can do in
my life. Trusting God's wisdom and God's strengthen my daily life.
I know some of you you're at the end of
your trying. I mean you've tried and tried in your marriage.
You've tried to make it at school. You've tried in
a relationship to make things work. You've tried to make
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it work in your business. You're at the end of
your trying. When we get to the end of our trying,
Jesus meets us there and he says, trust me, trust me.
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I will lift you up.
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I will give you wisdom and I will give you strength.
Now you need both. I need both. I need wisdom
and I need strength. Wisdom that shows me what to do,
and then strength that gives me.
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The power to do it.
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And I got to have both. Another way to say
that is, I need perspective and I need power. Next
couple verses talk about those two things. Romans eight twenty
eight says, we know that in all things God works
for the good of those who love Him, who've been
called according to his purpose. That's perspective. That's a different
way of looking at life. Even in the worst that
life throws at me, God's working for my good. He's
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working to he's working to develop my character. Would you
like to have that perspective on life or even the
worst that comes your way? God is working, Jesus says,
when you trust me, that's what I give into your life.
He gives your perspective and he gives you power. I
love this next verse. It's one of my favorite verses
in the Bible, Philippians four thirteen.
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Would you read it with me?
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I have the strength to face all conditions by the
power that Christ gives me.
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He gives you.
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Both when you trust him. How do you know when
you're not trusting? Well, let me tell you one of
the sure signs that you're not trusting.
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It's in the little word worry.
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Anybody else familiar with this word and know what I'm
talking about. When you're worrying, you're not trusting. And when
I'm trusting, I'm not worrying. If I'm sure that a
chair I'm going to sit on is solid, I trust it.
I don't worry that it's going to collapse under me.
But when I start worrying, I stop trusting.
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And one of the.
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Keys to knowing what's going on in my life is
the worry factor in my life? How much am I worrying?
Jesus Christ can help you with your worries.
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Now, the last facet of phase the h and faih
is hold on to his promises, hold on to his promises.
Did you know that in the Bible, in this book
there are over seven thousand promises from God to you,
and God says, if you'll trust him, he will make
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these promises true in your life because he wants you
to learn to trust him. There's promises he'll say, I'll
take care of you. Promises of provision, I'll meet your need.
Promises of protection, I'll watch out for you. Promises of prosperity,
Promises of power, promises of peace. Did you know that
in this Bible that there are promises to you about
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success if you do certain things, Promises about health, Promises
about healing, promises about comfort. When you're down about loneliness
over and they're over seven thousand promises. They're like blank
checks waiting for you to just write them out and
send them back to God. Because God wants you to
learn to trust him, you hold on to his promises. Now,
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if I have an insurance policy and I know what's
covered in that policy, I don't worry about it when
I get in an accident or I have some kind
of surgery, because I know my policy's going to cover that.
When I don't know what my insurance covers, if all
of a sudden I have some kind of accident, I
go I don't know if it covers that, I start
worrying about it. Now, you know the reason why you
worry all the time is you don't know what's covered
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in the policy. You don't know what God's promised to
do in your life. Well, if you don't even know it,
you certainly can't claim that promise for God to help
you out.
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Now.
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I get asked all the time, is there anything that
God can't do? Is there anything impossible for God?
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Yes? There is.
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The Bible tells us there's one thing it's impossible for
God to do. God cannot lie because God is truth,
he is ultimate truth. And God cannot lie something impossible
for him to do. And the Bible says, this your outline.
God can't break his word, all these promises he's made,
So we who have trusted our very lives to God
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have every reason to grab the promised hope with both
hands and read it with me. Never let go, Never
let go now. One of the great promises in the
Bible is the promise that God says, I will never
stop loving you. I will never stop loving you. Look
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at this next verse.
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He was a promise.
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Nothing will ever be able to separate us from the
love his love. Death can't, and life can't, angels can't,
demons can't. Our fears for today are worries about tomorrow.
Even the powers of hell can't keep God's love away.
Whether we're high above the sky or in the deepest oceans.
Nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate
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us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ.
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Jesus, our Lord.
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You know you might try to make God stop loving you.
You can try, but you're gonna fail. You can't make
God stop loving you because his love isn't based on
what you do. It's based on who he is. And
he says, I will never stop loving you.
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Now.
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I don't know how you've been hurt in life, but
I'm sure you've been hurt many different ways. And I'm
sorry as your friend, as a pastor, I'm sorry about
your hurt. Maybe you up, maybe you have been lied to,
Maybe you've been deceived, maybe you've been conned by somebody,
maybe you've been betrayed, and you go, I don't know
if I can believe anybody anymore.
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I don't know who to trust.
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I'll never trust a man again, I'll never trust a
woman again.
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And you say I don't know who I can believe.
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Well, Jesus says this, I am the truth, and he
says the truth will set you free.
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What you need in your life is freedom.
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You need freedom, and he will always tell you the truth. Now,
maybe you felt battered and beaten and bruised and beat up.
Maybe you've been abused. Maybe you've been abused physically or sexually,
or maybe you've been abused verbally or emotionally. Jesus Christ
says to you, he says, I promise, if you'll trust me,
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I can heal your heart and I can heal that
hurt if you'll give it to me. Maybe you feel
like you've been cast off. Maybe you've been rejected by somebody.
You've known that pain of rejection, and you feel like
you've been unwanted, you've been discarded. Jesus says to you,
I will never leave you. I will never forsake you.
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He says, I will never abandon you. It's in the Bible.
I will never abandon you. Maybe you feel like you've
gotten burned in life. He said, you know, I really
got burned recently, and my life's just a pile of ashes.
It's all gone up in smoke. Did you know that
there's a promise in the Bible where God says, if
you'll give me all those pieces, I will restore beauty
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for the ashes. I will restore beauty for the ashes.
You know, for so long I couldn't figure out how
people could hear about how much God loves them and
they walk away from it. I just couldn't figure that out.
You know, the Bible says, he says, I'll give you
your past forgiven, I'll give you a purpose for living,
and I'll give you a home in heaven, past, president
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of future. Nobody can offer you that except Jesus Christ.
And yet I've seen people walk away from it, and
I couldn't figure it out for so many years. But
after talking to thousands of people, I know now why.
Behind every one of it is fear. It's fear that
causes people to walk away from God.
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It's fear. Now.
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It may look like pride, but it's not pride. It
may look like a stubbornness, but it's not stubbornness. It
may look like intellectualism, oh I have all these intellectual arguments.
It may look like ego, it's not ego. Erneath every
single person's life, I found this every day. It's fear.
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I'm afraid of losing control. I'm afraid of giving up
control to God. I'm afraid of letting God be God
in my life. Now, if you're afraid of God, who
could you not be afraid of?
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It's fear.
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I've seen grown men walk away from the greatest gifts.
Say God has a plan and purpose for your life.
And I've seen guys walk away out of fear and cowardice.
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It's fear on the inside.
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It says, don't give up, don't let go hold on,
don't give him control.
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That's sad.
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The Bible says, there's no fear in love. Perfect love
casts out all fear. And because Jesus came at Easter
and died on the cross and rose again, it says this.
Jesus said, I am the one who raises the dead
and gives them life again. Anyone who believes in me,
even though he dies, shall live again.
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He's talking about heaven.
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He has given eternal life for believing in me, and
shall never perish. Look at the next verse. The Bible
says this, because Jesus was raised from the dead, that's
what Easter is all about. We've been given a brand
new life. That means you get a second chance, you
get start over and everything to live for. That's purpose
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for life, including a future in heaven. That's God's retirement plan.
And the future starts now. You say, how do I
get it? How do I take that first step? Real simple?
You give up your fear. You let go of your fear.
You don't let fear keep you from the greatest thing,
what you were created to enjoy. Now, I've written on
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your outline a believer's prayer, and what I want to
do is I want to read through it, and then
I want us to all pray it together. So let
me just read it to you, Dear Jesus. I want
to have a real faith in you, not a fake faith.
Thank you for dying for my sins and showing me
the way to live today. I want to become a
true believer in you. I want to follow your example.
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I want to accept your gift of grace. I need
your forgiveness and mercy. You made me for a purpose,
and I want to invest my life in serving you.
I want to trust your wisdom and strength, and I
want to hold on to your promises when times are tough. Friends,
this is what it means to be a true believer.
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Whosoever believes in me shall not perish, but have ever
lasting life. Are you ready to accept that? Let's bow
our heads. I'm going to pray this prayer again. You
don't even have to close your eyes. You can keep
them open and look at this prayer in your lap
and you can just follow along with being go me too, God,
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or you can read it aloud in your mind as
I read it. Make this your prayer, Dear Jesus. I
want to have a real faith in You, not a
fake faith. Thank you for dying for my sins and
showing me the way to live.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Today.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I want to become a true believer in you. I
want to follow your example. I want to accept your
gift of grace. I need your forgiveness and mercy. You
made me for a purpose, and I want to invest
my life in serving you. I want to trust your
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wisdom and strength, and I want to hold onto your promises.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
And times are tough. Amen.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
You know, if you just prayed that prayer for the
very first time, or you just recom i your life
to Jesus again today, would you let me know about it.
There's something real about sharing your commitment. So write me
Rick at pastor Rick dot com and say, Rick, I
prayed that prayer of commitment. I gave my life to Christ.
And I'll send you some material that will help you
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on your journey with Jesus, and I'll also pray for you.
God bless you.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Pastor Rick Warren says that every word Jesus spoke was
important and has life changing power. The words that Jesus
spoke during his final hours on the cross hold the
key to finding fulfillment in your life, career, and relationships.
That's why Rick put together a powerful seven session study
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kit called the Seven Greatest Words of Love. Get it
now and unlock the full meaning and amazing blessings of
Jesus's last words before his resurrection words of forgiveness, assurance, love,
and more. And this is a life changing Bible study
with seven video sessions and a workbook.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Just go to pastorick dot com to get your copy
of this great resource.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
That's pastorick dot com. Or just text the word hope
to seven oh three to oh nine. Again, that's the
word hope to seven oh three to oh nine. And really,
thank you so much for your support.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
It means so much to us because your gift to
daily hope helps us share the hope of Christ with
people all around the world. We hope you'll join us
next time when we look into God's word for our
Daily Hope. This program is sponsored by Pastor Rick's Daily
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