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This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope,
the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

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Today we continue with our series called
Doing Business with God. In this

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series, Rick helps you understand why
you work, what you should be working

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for, and how God can use
you in your workplace. Right now,

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here's Pastor Rick with the final part
of a message called the purpose of Work.

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Now we come to the sixth purpose, which is the highest purpose of

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all. And this is the purpose
not of identity or necessity, or charity

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or credibility or maturity. It is
the purpose of eternity. And this is

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thinking long term about what your job's
implication is. Eternity is I use my

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job to build God's kingdom. I
use my job to build God's kingdom.

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You can use your work to bring
glory to God. You can use your

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career to bring glory to God.
You can use your skills, you can

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use your business. You can use
your workplace to further God's kingdom. So

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how do I do that? Oh? There are lots of ways, lots

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of ways you can use your business
to further God's kingdom. One way is

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to use the contacts that your businesses
have to spread the good news and to

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tell other people about the good news
to pass it on. This is why

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we have in the peace peace and
assist the poor using business people to go

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out and teach businesses which will assist
the poor to create jobs. Let me

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give you an example. While back, I got a call between the services

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of this guy named Eric Stamminger.
He's a German guy calling from Germany.

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He said, my name is Eric
Stammiger. I am the president and CEO

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of Adidas. You know what Adidas
is, you know the shoes and all

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that. Actually it's called Adi Das
in German because it's named after Adi Dossler,

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who is the founder. He said, my name is Eric Stanminger.

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I'm the CEO of Adi Das.
He said, I have just finished reading

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Purpose Driven Life. It changed my
life. I've given my life to Christ.

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I will come anywhere in the world
to meet you. How soon can

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we meet? I said, Well, why don't you come to church next

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week? He said, I will. He said, I got to go

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to China. I got to close
the deal in China. Then I got

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to go to Tokyo close the deal
there. I'll be back over in California.

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I'll be there next Sunday. So
the next Sunday, the president and

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CEO of Adidas came and came to
church, and I went back and we

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sat down on a couple of chairs
in the back and I said, so,

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mister Stamminger, tell me how can
I help you. He said,

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well, I just need to know
one thing I've read purpose Driven Life.

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It's changed my life. I'm a
Christian. Now I want to know should

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I resign a CEO of Adidas and
become a pastor? I said, let

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me show you how to use your
job for the kingdom, how to be

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a kingdom builder, not just a
wealth builder. I said, do you

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have an executive team at Adidas?
He said yes, there are six of

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us. I said, are any
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well, actually two of them are. I said, you start meeting with

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those two and start praying for the
other three. And your first ministry is

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to win your six coworkers to christ
That's your first job. That's your first

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ministry to win the people close to
you. Nobody else is as likely to

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win them as you are, So
you start working on that. I said,

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number two, how many employees do
you have an Adidas? I don't

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remember. I think he said twenty
five thousand. I said, that's called

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the megachurch. I said, your
congregation is bigger than most pastors will ever

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preach to. So you've got twenty
five thousand members in your congregation, they're

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all employees. You start praying for
them, you start being available to them,

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you start putting instituting good Christian principles
in your business. I said,

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would you like to influence other CEOs? I said yeah. I said,

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then you need to stay at a
CEO, because you'll have far more influence

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on them as a CEO then as
a pastor or missionary anybody else. I

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said, would you like to influence
culture? He said, well, yes,

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of course I would. I said, then you've got to influence the

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culture makers if you want to influence
culture, and the culture makers are musicians

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and athletes and celebrities and people in
the media. I said, do you

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do celebrity endorsements? He said yes. I said, of course you do.

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And I said, the next time
you do a celebrity endorsement, you

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bring that pro athlete in, you
sit them down and you say, look,

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I'm not just your endorser. I'm
not just your sponsor. You're going

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to make a lot of money off
me. But I'm not just your sponsor.

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I want to be your friend.
And here's my business card. And

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when you get in trouble, and
when you have a need, please call

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me personally. And then you just
wait because the problem will come. And

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celebrities have rovos. They're just more
visible. And I said, they'll have

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a slump in their game, or
they'll have a drug crisis, or a

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marriage crisis, or a health crisis, or an injury, or a financial

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crisis, or something will happen and
they're going to need you. And when

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they come back to you and they
ask for your help, then you can

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share Jesus with them. You do
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you are and be that person.
Does that makes sense. I know a

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number of Christian businessmen in Hong Kong
been there many times who were concerned about

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mainland China because the churches were under
persecution by the Communist government and they weren't

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always allowed the freedom. And so
they decided, how can we be planning

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churches in China when some of the
places we can't plant them. They'd just

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immediately be outlawed. So these businessmen
began building factories in mainland China and putting

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churches in the factories. In today's
globalized economy, the new missionaries are businessmen

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and businesswomen. If you are a
businessman, there's not a country in the

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world who doesn't want to know what
you're doing. They want to know about

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your distribution and your products, stuff
like that. There are many countries they're

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not going to allow a pastor in, they're not going to allow a full

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time missionary in. But you,
as a businessman or businesswoman, can go

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where nobody else can go. Business
People are the missionaries for the great commission

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of the twenty first century. That
is being a kingdom builder, not simply

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a wealth builder. You're using your
business for the one thing that's going to

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outlast everything else, the Kingdom of
God, the Church, God's family.

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Another way you can do it is
by making money in your business and giving

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that for kingdom causes. And I
know many businesses like that. One of

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them is hobby lobby. It is
one of the most profitable businesses ROI return

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on investment in America, and because
it's all built on Christian principles, they

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tie their money to help other things
and God continues to bless that business.

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Bless that business. Bless that business, because they're using the profits for God's

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kingdom. The employees are better paid
than anywhere else. I keep raised on.

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They're making great wages, and because
the people at the top are generous,

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that blessing is on that business,
and they keep going on and on.

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So I talk to the Greens about
one of the projects we're working on,

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what we're calling the Final Frontier,
which is one of our ten decade

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of Destiny goals. Twice in the
New Testament, twice in the Book of

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Revelation, it says that in heaven
one day there will be people from every

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tribe, every nation, and every
language around the throne of God in heaven.

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I take that serious. That God
wants people from every nation, every

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language, and every tribe. Somebody
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Here's the problem. There are three
four hundred tribes in the world that have

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no Christian no Bible, and no
church. So there's nobody going to be

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in heaven from that tribe. Yet
somebody's got to get to that tribe.

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We call that the Final Frontier.
And I began to enlist other churches to

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help us do this. And when
I'd go out and speak, I'd encourage

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others, and people were signing commitment
cards, and I was asking a church

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to adopt a people group. In
the last two years, we've taken four

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hundred off that list. Used to
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four hundred. Can you imagine getting
to heaven one day and you say,

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yeah, you know, my business
it wasn't that big. But we helped

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fulfill the great commission. We helped
raise the money by the stuff we sold

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to help get the Bible in the
last translations and get churches in the last

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tribes that needed to be done.
Let me show you some amazing promises and

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we'll close. They're on your outline. Matthew six thirty three is a good

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verse for businessmen. Jesus says,
be concerned above everything else with the Kingdom

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of God, more than my business. Yeah, even than more than your

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business. Be concerned above everything else
with the Kingdom of God and what He

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requires of you. And he God
will provide you with all the other things.

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So what do you need more of? Well, I need more staff

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that goes into all the other things. I need more distribution that goes in

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all the other things. I need
a smarter salesforce that goes in all the

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other things. I need an innovative
idea for my business that goes in all

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the other things. Be concerned with
God's kingdom and what it requires you.

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He will provide you with all the
other things. Look at the next verse

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there on your outline. We know
that the same God who raised Jesus will

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also raise us one day. That's
in heaven. And as God's grace brings

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more and more people to Christ.
In other words, as the kingdom is

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built, as it spread, as
we build the Kingdom, as God's grace

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brings more and more people to Christ, there will be great thanksgiving and God

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will receive more and more glory.
Kingdom builders reach one more for Jesus.

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Matthew six point twenty. Jesus said, store up for yourselves treasure in heaven.

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Circle the phrase for yourselves. Did
you know that you can store up

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for yourselves treasure in heaven, not
say to store up for God? God

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that needed God says, you can
create a bank account in heaven that is

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eternal, pays the highest dividends and
nobody can steal it. From you.

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You can store up for yourself treasure
in heaven. That's the best investment you'll

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ever make. How do you do
that by using your work and using your

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business to get people there? The
only way you can in heaven is to

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invest in people who are going there. Your business isn't going to heaven,

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your car isn't going to heaven,
your house isn't going to heaven. But

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people are. And when you invest
in people getting them into heaven, you

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are storing up treasure in heaven to
use for eternity. So here's the big

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question. I wrote it on your
outline. Will I be a wealth builder

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or will I be a kingdom builder? You can use your work to build

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wealth. That's okay, nothing wrong
with that. Trying to make a living,

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make a profit, fine, But
it's short sighted. God says,

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don't just be a wealth builder,
be a kingdom builder. Which of those

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are you going to circle? Will
I be a wealth builder? Circle that?

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Or will I be a kingdom builder? Circle that? Now, let

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me close this. You don't realize
how important your work is. You may

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think your work is I work at
a Starbucks. You know, I work

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at a fast food place. I
help clean in a certain place. I

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don't care what you do, whether
you are a mother of preschoolers or you're

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the CEO of a corporation. Your
work has far more significance than you realize

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because it wasn't meant for simply necessity. God says, I want to use

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your work, no matter what it
is, for identity. I want you

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to express your talents through that.
I want you to use it for maturity.

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I want you to let it make
you a more stronger and a more

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mature and a more patient Christian.
I want to use it for credibility.

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I want you to use your platform
to influence the people you come in contact

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with for the good news and the
gospel. I want you to use it

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for charity. I want you to
figure out how to live on a little

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bit less so you can give a
little bit more so you're storing up treasure

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in heaven. If you're behind on
your tithe, you get caught up on

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that. But you learn to be
generous. And I want you to be

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a kingdom builder, not just a
wild builder. I want you to have

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a priority in your life. You
can waste your life, you can spend

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your life, or you can invest
your life. And the best use of

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your life is to invest it in
the King of God because it's the only

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thing. It's going to last forever. One day, God is going to

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do an audit on your work.
Did you know that You're going to have

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a job interview? One day,
God's going to do an assessment on your

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work, last versa on your outline. It is going to come a time

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of testing at the judgment day to
see what kind of work each builder is

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done. Where you're a wealth builder
or were you a kingdom builder. Everyone's

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work will be put through the fire
that means mine and yours to see whether

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or not it keeps its value.
What's the value identity, maturity, credibility,

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charity, priority, eternity. Everyone's
work will be put through the fire

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to see whether or not it keeps
its value. If the work survives the

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fire, that person will receive a
reward. But if the work is burned

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up, the builder will suffer a
great loss. The builders themselves will be

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saved, but like someone escaping a
fire. In other words, this has

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nothing to do with salvation. You're
in heaven, but you're going to lose

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reward. So here's the question.
Have you had a shallow conception of your

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work. You just thought ought just
get money, put food on the table.

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No, no, no, far
more significant than that. Are you

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ready to step up to all six
of God's purposes for your work? Will

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you become a purpose driven businessman with
these six purposes? Will you become a

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purpose driven business woman? Will you
become a purpose driven owner operator? Will

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you become a purpose driven employee?
Will you become a purpose driven professional?

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Will you say, God, I'm
going to give you my work for not

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just one, but for all six
of the purposes that you planned for my

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work to be. That's power heads. As I pray, follow me in

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this prayer, Father, I realize
that while I'm at work, you're working

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on me, and I want you
to use my job for all six purposes

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in my life. Please use my
job to express what you made me to

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be. Help me in this series
to find the right job for my shape.

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Use my career to develop my character. I want to use my job

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as a platform to bring people to
you, to share the good news.

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I want to use my job to
be able to help others financially and to

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give to others. I want to
use my job to help further your kingdom,

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and I want to use my job
to prepare to serve your purposes in

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eternity. I want to be a
kingdom builder. Please use this series to

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help me succeed in my work,
and I will honor you with my life,

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with my time, with my tithe
and by giving my best, knowing

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that I'm really working for you.
If you've never invited Christ in your life,

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said Jesus, Christ, become the
CEO of my life. Become the

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manager of my life, the president, the chairman of the board. Jesus

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be the director of my life.
I want to be under new management and

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I want to follow you from this
day forward in your name. I pray

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Amen. Hi everybody, this is
Rick, and I hope you enjoyed today's

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broadcast. You know, if you
just prayed that prayer for the very first

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time, or you just recommitted your
life to Jesus again today, would you

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let me know about it. There's
something real about sharing your commitment. So

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write me Rick at Pastorrick dot com
and say, Rick, I prayed that

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prayer of commitment. I gave my
life to Christ, and I'll send you

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some material that will help you on
your journey with Jesus, and I'll also

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pray for you. God bless you. Thank you so much for listening to

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Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. We've got
some great news to share with you.

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Very generous friends have given a ten
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That means every dollar you give right
now to help Daily Hope share the transforming

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love of Jesus with people around the
world will be matched up to ten thousand

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dollars. Here's Rick to tell you
more. You know, I just want

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to take a quick second to say
thank you everybody. Because of your generosity,

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we're able to take the hope of
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no Bibles, no believers, and
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Now, as you pray about giving, I want to ask you to

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ask God about sending a gift that's
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at this point of the year we
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your gift. That means what you
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the bang for the buck. In
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a give in such a way that
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gift, and I want to ask
you this, would you pray for us

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at Daily Hope. Pray as we
reach out to people around the globe with

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hope that people will find Christ by
the thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds

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of thousands. So thank you for
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the message, just go to Pastorick
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eight hundred, six hundred five thousand
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to ten thousand dollars. That's Pastorick
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to eight hundred six hundred five thousand
and four. Be sure to join us

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next time as we look into God's
word for our daily hope. This program

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is sponsored by Pastor Rick's Daily Hope
and your generous financial support