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Pastor Rick Warren often says you were
made by God and for God, and

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until you understand that, life will
never make sense. Welcome to Pastor Rick's

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Daily Hope. Today. In our
series called God's Vision for the Rest of

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your Life, Rick continues in his
effort to help you discover the unique purpose

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and vision that the Lord has for
your life. Now, before we get

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Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren
with part three of a message called Embracing

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the Vision the purpose driven Life.
Now, the number one question I'm asked

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as a pastor is Rick, why
is this happening to me? And I'll

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tell you why. It's to help
you to grow up spiritually. Everything in

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life is designed to help you grow
up spiritually. The good, the bad,

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the ugly, the stuff you bring
on yourself, the stuff that other

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people do to you. God is
not the author of evil. God never

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does evil. But God can bring
good even out of bad. That's the

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cool thing about God. See,
anybody can bring good out of good.

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Anybody can do that, but God
specializes in bringing good out of bad.

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That's what Easter is all about.
He turns crucifixions into resurrections. He takes

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a terrible thing, the death of
his son, and uses it to save

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the whole world. God brings good
out of bad. And there's nothing in

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your life that you can't learn from
if you'll just respond with the right attitude

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and instead of saying God, why
is this happening to me? Say God,

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what do you want me to learn? What do you want me to

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learn from this? Every situation in
life will either make you bitter or better,

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and it's your choice. It's how
you choose to respond to it.

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So the problem you're going through right
now, you can just think of it

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right now, think of the problem
you're going to through. Every problem has

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a purpose. Every problem has a
purpose, and the purpose is to help

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you grow up spiritually, to not
be a spiritually immature person, but to

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grow up. And the model of
perfection is Jesus Christ. Notice the next

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verse, let's read it aloud from
Philippians. In your lives, you must

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think and act like Christ Jesus.
So the question then becomes, if God's

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third purpose for my life is for
me to grow up spiritually and become like

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Jesus, what is Jesus like?
Well, the Bible calls it the fruit

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of the Spirit, and it says
the fruit of the Spirit is love,

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joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self

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control. These are the qualities that
God wants to build in your life.

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He wants you to live a life
that's overflowing with love, overflowing with joy,

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overflowing with peace and patience and all
those things. Now, how does

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God then produce those qualities in my
life? How does God grow character in

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you and help you grow up spiritually? How does he make you like Jesus?

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I mean, are you just walking
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D D no alson zap God zaps
you with love, and for the rest

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of your life you love everybody.
I don't think so. As I said,

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God teaches you these qualities by putting
you in the exact opposite situation.

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He teaches you love by putting you
around unlovely people. It's easy to love

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people who are cool, people who
are like you, people who get along

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with But He'll put you around some
unlovely people. How about joy, Joy's

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not happiness. Happiness depends on happenings
circumstances. I can go to Disneyland and

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I'm happy. I come out,
I realize how much money I spent.

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I'm not happy anymore. Joy is
internal, and God will teach you joy

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in the middle of grief. How
about peace? Oh, it's easy to

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be peaceful when you're out fishing by
the lake. Hey, it doesn't get

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any better than this. No.
God teaches you real peace in the middle

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of chaos, when everything in your
life is falling apart, and you say

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God, I need your peace,
and he puts you full of peace.

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How does God teach us patience?
Department of Motor Vehicles, Oh, you've

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been there, traffic jams, doctor's
waiting rooms, a thousand different ways to

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wait now. Becoming like Christ is
a lifelong journey. It's a process.

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It's going to take the rest of
your life for you to grow up spiritually.

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Look at the next verse. The
Bible says, as the spirit of

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the Lord works within us, we
become more and more like him. Some

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of you are a little behind,
though, because you've been living your life

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not working on this, and you've
got some catching up to do now.

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God uses troubles and trials and problems
and pressures and other people. He uses

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all kinds of things in our lives
to make us mature. But write this

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down. Here's the third purpose of
life. To grow up spiritually. Not

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just physically. You're physically mature.
God wants you to be spiritually mature.

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He wants you to grow up and
become like Christ. He wants you to

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develop spiritual depth. And you know
why that is so needed because it is

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the biggest problem in our culture.
The biggest problem in American culture is shallow

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living, no depth, shallow living. And I hate to say this,

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but it's true. We are a
nation of spiritual babies. What do you

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mean, we'll think of what a
baby is. Babies are totally self centered,

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they all think about it. I
gotta do what's best for me.

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I gotta think of what's best for
me. They're self centered, they're self

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absorbed, they're impatient. They don't
know how to wait. I gotta have

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it now, now, now,
now, now, I must have it

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now, even if I have to
charge it. They're unable to delay gratification.

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Babies are totally focused on their feelings, totally absorbed with the here and

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now. They have no long term
thinking. And that's the way most adults

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are. I gotta do what's best
for me. I gotta do what I

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feel. They're acting as if all
that matters is here and now, not

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in light of eternity. They're living
as if today only matters. They're manipulated

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by their moodsocused on their feelings,
and the Bible says this. Some people

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have the shallow soil of character that
when their emotions wear off and difficulty arrives,

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there's nothing to show for it.
What you need, what I need

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is spiritual depth. Thank you so
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You're listening to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope
once again, here's Pastor Rick Warren.

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God plans you for His pleasure,
So the first purpose is to get to

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know and love God. God formed
you for his family, so the second

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purpose is to get in his family
and start learning to love other people.

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The third purpose God created you to
become like Christ. He wants you to

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grow up spiritually, not just physically. Here's the fourth purpose. God shaped

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me to serve him. God shaped
me to serve him. The Bible says

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in Psalm one thirty nine, you
shaped me first inside then out. You

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formed me in my mother's womb.
Now, this is a truth we've taught

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over and over at Saddleback Church,
that you are unique. You're not one

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in a million, you're one and
six billion. God doesn't want you living

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up to the expectations of other people. God didn't create you to live to

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be what your parents wanted you to
be, or what your husband or wife

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wanted you to be, or what
your boyfriend or girlfriend wanted you to be.

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God wants you to be what He
made you to be. And you

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are unique. And when you die
and get to heaven, God isn't going

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to say why weren't you more like
somebody else? He's gonna say, why

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weren't you more like you? And
He uniquely shaped you, notice in your

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mother's womb for a purpose. Now, God says, there are illegitimate parents,

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but there are no illegitimate babies.
There are accidental parents, but there

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are no accidental babies. God had
a plan for you, and I don't

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care if your parents were good,
are totally terrible, maybe they even abandoned

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you. The reason they were your
parents is God knew they had just the

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right DNA to create you. And
God was more interested in creating you than

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he was in their parenting skills.
And that's why they were your parents.

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God wanted you and he uniquely shaped
you. Now to help you remember how

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God shapes you and makes you unique
from everybody else, we use a little

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cross to cure at Saddleback. Spiritual
gifts, heart abilities, personality and experiences.

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These are the five things that make
you you. I don't have time

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to get into these today. We
have a class here at Saddleback. It's

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a four hour class that thousands of
people have gone through to discover your spiritual

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shape. It helps you know what
kind of career should I have, what

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kind of ministry should I have?
How should I be using my life?

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Because God uses these spiritual gifts,
heart abilities, personalities, and experience,

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says to make you look on the
next page, the Bible says this God

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made us what we are. In
other words, He shaped us. And

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in Christ Jesus, God made us
to do good works, which He planned

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in advance for us to live our
lives doing a circle the phrase good works.

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Before you were even born, God
decided in advance what contribution he wanted

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you to make with your life,
and he wants you to serve him on

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this planet. God didn't put you
on this planet just to take up space,

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to breathe, to use resources,
and to die. No, he

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put you here to make the world
a better place. He puts you on

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this planet to make a unique contribution, to serve him by the shape that

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He gave you, and nobody else
could be you. And if you don't

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serve God the way God intended you
to serve him, then the world misses

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that part of the jigsaw puzzle.
Now another name for good works as ministry.

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And anytime you use your talents and
abilities to help somebody else, you

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are actually ministering to them. Then
notice this next verse one Peter for says

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this God has given you, each
of you some special abilities. Be sure

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to use them to make a ton
of money. Oh sorry, that's the

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reviled, substandard perversion of the Bible. Let me read the correct translation here.

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God has given each of you some
special abilities, be sure to use

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them to read it with me,
help each other, passing on to others.

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God's many kinds of blessings. Now
get this. You know the talents

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that you've got. Hate to tell
you this, but they're not for your

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benefit. God gave you your talents
for the benefit of helping other people.

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God gave me my talents for the
benefits of helping other people. They're not

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for me. You, the person
next to you their talents, and for

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the benefits of helping everybody else.
God wired the universe so that we would

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need each other. As I said, nobody's got it all together. I

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don't have it all together. You
don't have it all together. Nobody does.

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That's why we need each other.
And the Bible says, I want

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you to serve me now. When
you get to heaven. You're gonna love

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God in heaven, so he wants
you to practice now. You're gonna love

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other people in heaven, so he
wants you to practice now. You're gonna

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grow spiritually in heaven, so he
wants you to practice now. And you're

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gonna serve God in heaven, so
he wants you to practice now. Now.

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Some of you have a misunderstanding of
what you're gonna do in heaven.

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You think that when you get to
heaven you're gonna wear a white robe,

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sit on a cloud and play a
harp. Folks, that would be hell.

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I can't think of anything more boring. If that's heaven, no thanks

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God. But think about this.
Think of all the thrills, all the

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fun things you can do on this
Earth, and this is an imperfect planet

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and God created this. Think how
much fun on all the thrills it's gonna

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be in heaven. I mean,
if look at all the fun stuff there

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is to do on Earth and this
is imperfect, in heaven, it's gonna

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be a blast. I mean there
you can do all these bike flips like

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these you know guys do and never
crack up. You can serve the big

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waves and never wipe out. It's
gonna be unbelievably fun. But one of

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the things you're gonna do in heaven
is served serve God. Now here's the

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fourth purpose of life. To serve
God by serving others. You serve God

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by serving others. You see on
Earth, it's impossible to serve God directly.

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You can't serve him directly. The
only way you can serve God on

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earth is by serving other people.
So anytime you help somebody else, God

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says, it's like you're doing it
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you're gonna do in heaven. When
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little, self centered, clawed of
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going to help other people with my
wife, God says, now you're getting

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the point. You're practicing what you're
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God by serving others. We saw
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week with Ashley in Atlanta. Ashley
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a church that's doing forty days of
Purpose and she was going through the Purpose

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Driven Life book and she went out
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morning go get some cigarettes. Had
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into her house, Brian was gonna
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open the door, and he took
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house, tied her up, and
put her in the bathtub, and it

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looked like it was going to be
murder number five. But Ashley had been

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reading about God's purpose for her life. And she told Brian, you know,

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Brian, you're not an accident and
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And you were made to last forever, and God wants you to practice

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on earth what you're going to do
forever in eternity. And it started to

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sink in. He goes, God
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in spite of all the stuff I've
done. Yes, there is no pit

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too deep that God's love is not
deeper. Still, God could reach out

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to me. I've already killed some
people. Yes, what could my purpose

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be? Well, I don't know. But you know what, if you

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turn yourself in, you go to
prison, you may die for the people

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you killed. But as long as
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purpose for your life. And it
could be in that prison that he wants

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you to serve other people. And
then Ashley not only told him that,

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she said, can I read it
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So he untied her and she went
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of The Purpose Driven Life, and
it just so happened. She was on

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day thirty three, which is on
how leaders, how real servants act,

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and she read about how we are
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And she even then practiced it.
And she got up and she made this

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guy breakfast. She served him and
it melted his heart, and he turned

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around and served her by fixing some
curtains for her. And then she convinced

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him to turn himself in and to
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was stopped. Now you may think, well, I'm too far beyond for

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God. I've done too many things
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many years without a relationship with God. It's too late. You are dead

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wrong. You're dead wrong. That's
why God brought you here today. He

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wants you to know Him in a
personal way. Now number five, we

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got to move quickly. This is
the fifth purpose God. God made me

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for a mission. God made me
for a mission. Now I don't have

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time to get into this, but
during the next four weeks we're going to

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focus on this exclusively, understanding and
fulfilling your mission in life, and I

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hope you'll come back for part two. Jesus said this, in the same

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way that you gave me a mission
in the world, I give them a

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mission in the world. Should you
decide to accept, mister Phelps, God

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has a unique mission in the world
that He has asked for you, and

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only you can fulfill it. If
you do not choose to fulfill it,

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the world gets cheated. Thank you
so much for listening to Pastor Rick's Daily

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Hope. We've got some incredible news
to share with you. A very generous

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friend has given a one hundred thousand
dollars matching grant to this ministry. That

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means that all this month, every
dollar you give to help Daily Hope share

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the certain Hope of Jesus around the
world will be matched up to one hundred

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thousand dollars. Here's Pastor Rick to
tell you more. Let's be honest about

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this time of year. At the
end of every year, there are so

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many ministries that ask for you to
support them in the end of your giving.

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And you know what, we believe
in every ministry that proclaims the name

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of Jesus, and we thank God
for them. And I know it can

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be difficult to decide who to give
to, So let me just give you

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some biblical foundations for giving, some
simple guidelines for end of your giving.

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You might think of these three or
four things. Number one, give to

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the ministry that God tells you to
support. Go to God, pray to

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him, ask him, Say God, who do you want me to support?

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And you know what, I support
you giving to whoever God tells you

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to give to. And if it's
not Daily Hope, I still support you

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to give to who God tells you
to give to. Pray and ask God.

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Second, never give when you feel
pressured. The Bible says in Corinthians

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that we are to never give under
pressure or compulsion or under guilt. So

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if you ever feel guilty about giving, don't give because God tells you in

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the Word not to give at that
time. Give because you want to give,

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not out of guilt or pressure.
Number three, give to where you

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support and believe in the goals of
that particular ministry. Now, every ministry

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has different goals. You know the
goals of Daily Hope. Our goal is

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ultimately to take the good News,
the Gospel to the three thousand tribes left

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in the world that have no Bible, no believer, and no body of

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Christ, no church. This is
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It's called the Great Commission. Now, other churches and other ministries have other

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goals, and that's fine. Some
only have the goal of just preaching in

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America. That's nothing wrong with that. But if you believe in and have

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a heart for going to the last, the least, and the lost,

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this would be a ministry you should
consider supporting because I don't know others that

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are doing what we're doing, trying
to go to these final three thousand tribes

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and then finally give where your gift
will be multiplied. For instance, at

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the end of every year, there
is a donor to Daily Hope who offers

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to give a matching grant to apply
to any donation that we receive before the

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end of the year. Now what
this means is that for every dollar you're

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able to give this month the Daily
Hope, it's going to be doubled.

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That donor will match it. That
multiplies your gift. Like the little boy

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who brought his loaves and fishes to
Jesus, and Jesus read the five thousand.

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If you give twenty five dollars to
Daily Hope this month, the matching

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grant will match it at twenty five
dollars. If you're able to give one

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hundred dollars, the matching grant will
add another one hundred dollars. That multiplies

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your gift. I would consider that
as a factor in where to give during

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this month. Now, let me
just say this. If you can't help

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us financially, that's okay, I
understand, but I would ask that you

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pray for us. I'm so grateful
for those of you who are a financial

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supporter of this ministry that monthly giving, month after month. It means so

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much to me, It means much
to God, but it means so much

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for eternity to those who are hearing
the good news for the very first time.

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You know, I don't take any
salary or any income from this ministry.

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I serve it for free, and
so you and I are partners together

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in reaching people for Christ all around
the world. In closing, let me

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just ask you to continue to pray, pray for me as I pray for

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you, and pray that God's word
will be taught clearly with compassion, with

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clarity, with simplicity in this new
year. And then it will not only

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help you as you listen to these
broadcasts, but it will help us reach

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people for Christ and disciple believers and
build churches all around the world, especially

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in the tribes that have never heard
the name of Christ. Thanks for your

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generosity. Thanks for your prayers and
God bless you. Remember, as Rick

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just shared, whatever you give today
will be doubled by the matching grant up

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to one hundred thousand dollars, but
only till midnight, December thirty first.

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Anything not matched will be lost,
so please contact us today. You can

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give right now by going to Pastorick
dot com or by calling eight hundred six

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hundred five thousand and four. We'll
say thanks by sending you the brand new

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Daily Hope prayer journal that's Pastor Rick
dot com or call eight hundred six hundred

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five thousand and four. Be sure
to join us again next time as we

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look into God's word for our daily
hope. This program is sponsored by Pastor

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Rick's Daily Hope and your generous financial
support