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Today on Daily Hope with Pastor Rick
Warren, we continue in our riveting journey

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through the series The Invisible War.
In it will explore the unseen world of

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good and evil and see how it
impacts our day to day existence. Join

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us for eye opening biblical insights into
the spiritual dimensions that influence our lives in

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ways we never imagined. Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part one

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of a message called making the Hard
Changes in Me. This week I learned

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two new terms. One of them
was called unavoidable defects and the other was

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called the zero defect mentality. Now, unavoidable defects is a term that the

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FDA uses to refer to the amount
of contamination they allow in your food.

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And since some of you are having
a difficult time with the Daniel Plan,

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I thought that I would provide a
loving service and inform you of some of

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the contamination in your favorite junk food. Then maybe you wouldn't want to eat

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it as much anymore. For instance, you like pizza, Oh, you

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love pizza. The FDA allows thirty
fly eggs per one hundred grams of pizza

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sauce. You like chocolate and one
hundred grams, the government allows sixty insect

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parts. You like potato chips,
The government allows up to six percent of

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the chips in a bag to be
rotten. You like pasta, I love

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pasta, not anymore, they should
call it pasta rick. But the FDA

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allows in six samples of pasta,
two hundred and twenty five insect fragments.

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M yummy. So you're getting protein
then with your pasta. So now,

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how about a peanut butter and jelly
sandwich on wheat bread. I mean,

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what could be better than that?
Okay, now, peanut butter and jelly

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sandwich and wheat bread. You're not
gonna love it anymore. You hear this?

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Cherry jam can have up to thirty
percent mold. One hundred grams of

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peanut butter, the government allows twenty
five milligrams of dirt, thirty insect fragments,

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and two rodent hairs. Yummy,
all right, And in every kilogram

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of wheat, the government allows nine
milligrams of rat poop. How many of

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you are now going to go on
the Daniel plan with me? Mass your

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hands. Yeah, that's what's called
unavoidable defects. At the same time,

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I read another term that I hadn't
heard of, and that is zero defect

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mentality. It actually started about twenty
years ago when a guy named Philip Philip

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Crosby. He wrote a book called
Quality is Free and it's a very famous

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book on manufacturing, saying that we
should have zero defects in manufacturing, but

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really, can you do that?
This week I was reading a book on

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software programming and it was saying there's
no way you can have zero defects in

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software program and I read this quote. I thought that was interesting. It

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said, the fastest way to kill
motivation, The fastest way to kill motivation

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is what the army calls the US
Army calls having a zero defect mentality.

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Now, zero defect mentality is an
atmosphere that tolerates absolutely no mistakes. Perfection

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is required down to the smallest detail. And the Army considers a zero defect

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mentality a serious leadership failure because it
kills the initiative necessary for success on any

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battlefield. Now you see, if
you apply this to your life, you

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try to live a zero defect life, you will always be paralyzed by indecision.

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You will run from responsibility because you're
afraid of making mistakes. You have

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a difficult time making decision. You'll
have a difficult time accepting responsibility. You

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will live with unrealistic pressure and unresolved
guilt because everybody has defects. Nobody's perfect.

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Nothing is perfect on this planet except
the word of God. It's all

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broken. Every relationship is broken,
every body is broken, the weather's broken,

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the economy is broken. And if
you try to live with this zero

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defect mentality, you're going to be
frustrated your entire life. The Bible tells

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us this. Look at a couple
verses up here on screen. The Bible

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says, there's not a single person
all the earth who's always good and never

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since. There are no no defect
people, not a just bent upon the

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earth that does good and sins.
Not James three verse two says this on

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the screen in the message prayerphrase,
none of us is perfectly qualified. We

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get it wrong nearly every time we
open our mouths. Anybody want to agree

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with that part? Yeah, okay. If you could find someone whose speech

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was perfectly true, you'd have a
perfect person in perfect control of life.

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The truth is we're all defective.
We all have parts of our lives,

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parts of our personality, parts of
our relationships that simply don't work. We're

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all defective. The Bible says it
like this in Romans chapter three, twenty

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three. All have sinned. That
means you, me, the Pope,

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everybody else, all of sin nobody's
perfect, All have fallen short. None

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of us measure up to standard of
perfection, none of us bat a thousand

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and so to pretend like you got
it all together when everybody knows you don't

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have it all together, it's kind
of silly. In fact, the Bible

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tells us it's actually self deception.
We have an amazing ability to lie to

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ourselves. And in First John,
chapter one, verse eight, says this,

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if we claim to be sinless,
claim to be without sin, we

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deceive ourselves. And the truth is
not in us. We've all got our

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flubs, we've all got our failures, We've all got our mistakes and faux

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pause and sins, and shoot,
I don't measure up to my own standards

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much less Gods. Now, what
I want to say as we begin this

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weekend is you will never be sinless
on this planet, but it is possible

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to sin less. You're never gonna
be sinless, but it is possible to

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sin less, and it is possible
to deal with your defects. And that's

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what we're gonna look about at this
weekend. And I want us to just

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look at a couple of things.
Why is it so hard to change stuff

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in me that I really don't like
about myself that i'd like to change?

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Why is that so hard? And
then what does it take to change?

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And we're gonna look at the classic
passage in the Bible on this, Ephesians

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chapter four, which gives us the
six requirements for personal change. Takes to

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change those deeply ingrained defects in your
life that you don't like, you don't

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want to carry on with you the
rest of your life, you really would

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like to change them. What does
it take to change those things? First,

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why is it so hard? Why
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stuff in me that I don't like? Well, there are four reasons.

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I put a little space there at
the top of your outline. You could

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just write these in there. Four
reasons why it's hard to change some of

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the defects in our life. That's
what we're talking about, the hard stuff

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that just seems to be stubborn and
resistant. Number one, the first reason

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is because I've had them so long. I've had my defects so long.

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I'm actually pretty comfortable with them.
Now. You didn't get the way you

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are overnight. I mean, it
took a long time for you to get

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as messed up as you are.
It didn't happen overnight. It took years.

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Some of the patterns that you have, your fears, your anxieties,

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your faults, and the way you
act in self defeating ways, you know

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you developed them in childhood. Maybe
you know, in resistance or to a

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pain, or to as a stress
coping device, and maybe it was a

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survival tactic as a kid. But
you're an adult and you still act that

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way and you're not a kid anymore. But the truth is, you've had

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these defects in your life for a
long time, and they may be self

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defeating, but at least they're familiar
and you're comfortable with them, and you

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know what it is. The second
reason that I have a hard time dealing

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with my defects is because I identify
with them. I not only have had

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them for a lifetime, but I
identify with them. And this is a

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real big problem because we often confuse
our identity with our defects. You are

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not your defects. You are not
your faults. You are not your sins.

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They may be something you do,
but they're not your identity. In

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other words, a lot of people, rather than saying I work too much,

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will say I'm a workaholic. Or
instead of saying, you know,

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I have a tendency to put off
and procrastinate, they say I'm lazy.

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You create it as an identity and
you may say, you know, I'm

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timid, or I'm shy, or
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to think, or I'm aggressive or
I'm passive or I'm fearful, and you

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start identifying with your defects. You
are not your defects. This, by

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the way, is the difference between
Celebrate Recovery, which is Saddleback's biblical based

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recovery program, and something like say
Alcoholics Anonymous. In Alcoholics Anonymous, a

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person will stand up and they will
say Hi, I'm Joe, and I'm

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an alcoholic. In other words,
they identify their identity with their defect I'm

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Joe and I'm an alcoholic. But
in Celebrate Recovery, we will stand up

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and say hi, I'm Joe.
I'm a believer in Jesus Christ who struggles

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with alcohol. You see the difference. You are not your sin, you

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are not your defect. You see
a lot of people think, because I

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have a certain tendency, a certain
lust, a certain attraction, a certain

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fault, a certain habit, then
that is me, And they say I

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am and then name it. No, no, you're not your identity.

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Now this is so important because when
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you set yourself up to perpetuate it. In other words, if you say,

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you know, I'm always nervous when
I get on a plane. When

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you get on a plane, guess
what's gonna happen, You're gonna be nervous.

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It's a self fulfilling prophecy. And
if you tell yourself I'm always late,

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guess what You're gonna always be late, or I'm this or I'm that,

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and you're going to act and according
to your identity, And then that

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keeps you from changing because unconsciously,
I think, you know, if this

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is me, then if I change, who am I? And all of

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a sudden your identity is kind of
messed up because you have identified yourself with

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a particular way of acting, thinking, attracting, desiring, lusting, or

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whatever. It's hard to change because
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It's hard to change because I tend
to identify with them. Number three,

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it's hard to change because my defects
have a payoff. There is a reward

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to everything you do. People don't
do things that aren't rewarded, and whatever

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is rewarded gets repeated. And if
you're doing something that you know isn't good

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for you, or it's self destructive, or it's ruining a relationship or messing

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up your marriage, or it's destroying
your finances or whatever, it's because there

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is some kind of payoff, an
emotional payoff or relational payoff. And maybe

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you don't see it, but we
don't do things that aren't rewarded. Anytime

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a negative behavior gets repeated over and
over and over, maybe in a little

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kid, maybe in a grown adult. You see something being done over and

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over and over. Maybe say I
don't like to do this, but I

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do it anyway, you're still getting
some kind of payoff. And part of

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what you've got to figure out.
The Bible Talls tells us to examine ourselves,

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figure out what's the payoff? Why
do I keep doing this? Because

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you don't do things without a payoff, maybe temporary. You know, kids

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set their moms up to yell.
I mean a mom says, kids come

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down to dinner. Nobody comes down
to dinner. Kids come down to dinner.

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Let me come with you. Guys
get down here right now, and

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the kids come down. They are
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she learns the pay off is if
I yell, I get action. Okay,

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Now, that's true in every area
of life. Now, I don't

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know what the payoff is for the
defects you have in your life. Maybe

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it's to mask your pain. Maybe
it's to cover up a fear. Maybe

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it's to give you an excuse to
fail. Maybe it's to compensate for guilt.

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Maybe it's to get back at somebody, a former spouse or a parent.

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I really don't know. It may
be giving you attention. But there

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is a payoff to everything you do. And that's why it's hard to change,

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even stuff we don't like about ourselves, because we don't often know why

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we do it. Now, there's
a fourth reason why it's difficult to change

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these hard, ingrained defects in our
lives, and that is because Satan discourages

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me. Satan discourages me. He
wants you to stay stuck in your stuckness,

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and so he's constantly suggesting negative thoughts. As I've said to you many

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times, when you know God gives
you an idea, we call that inspiration.

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When Satan gives you the idea,
we call that temptation. When you

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get an idea, we call it
stupidity. No, I'm just kidding,

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But the truth is, you get
thoughts in your mind all your time,

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and Satan is constantly Once you start
trying to work on something in your life

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that you want to change, he
starts saying, who do you think you

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are? You're never going to change. You haven't been able to change in

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the past. You think you're going
to be able to change. Now,

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what do you think you're doing.
You can't change. It's hopeless. It's

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not going to work. And when
it starts working, you say, it's

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not going to work very long and
you may as well give up. And

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then sometimes Satan starts putting fears in
your mind when you start trying to change

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some things or letting God change you, and he starts saying, you know,

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if you rock the boat, something
really bad may happen. If you

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rock the boat in this relationship,
they may walk out on you. If

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you rock the boat in this relationship, they may not love you anymore.

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If you rock the boat, nobody's
going to like you. Where do you

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think those fears are coming from?
They're being planted in your mind. Now,

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these things keep us from wanting to
change, or keep us from changing

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the ingrain, things that we know
are not good for us, that are

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unhealthy. So what does it take
to change those deep patterns in my life

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that I really don't like about me? It takes six things. There are

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six requirements. We're going to look
at them today. From Ephesians chapter four.

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If you have a Bible, turned
to Ephesians chapter four, if you

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know what all of the verses are
written out there on your outline. Ephesians

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four, verses twenty one to twenty
seven says this, since you have heard

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all about Jesus and you have learned
the truth that is in him, throw

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off your old evil nature and your
former way of life that's rotten through and

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through full of lust and deception.
In other words, we deceive ours Instead,

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there's got to be a new,
a spiritual renewal of your thoughts and

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your attitudes. You must put on
the new nature, he says, put

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off the old, put on the
new. Put on the new nature,

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because you're a new person, created
in God's likeness, righteous and holy and

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true. So put away all falsehood. I means, stop faking it,

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stop posing, stop pretending you got
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and tell your neighbor the truth because
we belong. We belong to each

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other. Don't let the sun go
down while you're still angry, for anger

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gives a mighty foothold to the devil. Now, in this passage, it

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talks about the six requirements for personal
change. There are six requirements. You've

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got to have all six of these
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Number one, change requires learning the
truth. That's the first requirement. Change

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requires learning the truth. Now,
you know this famous quote of Jesus.

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Jesus said, when you know the
truth, the truth will what set you

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free. Yeah, and you're not
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truth. Now, Paul starts in
this very same thing. In verse twenty

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one, he says, since you
have heard all about Jesus, and you

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have learned the truth circle that the
truth that is in Him. Now,

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if you don't get anything else,
I say today, get this. The

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secret to personal change is not a
pill. It's not a program, it's

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not a process. It's not therapy. It's not a book, a seminar.

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It's not positive thinking or psychology or
anything else. The proof of personal

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change is found in the truth.
You've got to know and face the truth.

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You got to know and face the
truth about yourself before you can change.

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You've got to know and face the
truth about your relationships before you can

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change. You've got to know and
face the truth about your past before you

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can change. You've got to know
and face the truth about God. Before

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you can change. You've got to
know and face the truth about your habits,

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your hurts, your hang ups.
You've got to know and face the

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truth about your potential and your talents. You've got to know and face the

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truth about others, brothers, sisters, parents, everybody, all those kind

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of things. You've got to know
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your life. Nothing changes until you
start with a bedrock of truth. If

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you don't know the truth about these
things. You are building on a phony,

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fake, false foundation, and it's
going to crumble when you hit the

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rogue winds of life. Now,
why is it so important to learn the

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truth for anything I want to change
in life? I'll tell you why.

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Because behind every self defeating behavior in
my life is a lie. I'm believing.

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Behind every self defeating behavior in my
life is a lie I'm believing.

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If you're deeply in debt right now, it's because you believe some lies.

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You thought you know, I can
just keep charging it forever and then get

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away with it. Oh really,
the entire world governments now know that delayed

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gratification doesn't work. And maybe you
thought I have to have this house?

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Oh really, do you really have
to have this? Is it true?

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Can you prove it's true? How
do you know it's true? Every time

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you get yourself into problems because you
have believed some lie, like I have

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to do this in order to get
ahead. I have to do this in

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order to be liked. I have
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Oh really, we lie to ourselves
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amazing ability. The biggest liar in
your life is you to you okay,

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because you tell yourself all the time
it's no problem, when it really is

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a problem, and you tell yourself
it's not a problem, and you tell

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yourself it is a problem, and
sometimes it's not. What is it in

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your life you're pretending isn't a problem, the big elephant in the living room.

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You got to deal with the truth. I have to know and face

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the truth first of all, if
I'm going to change now, Jesus said,

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the truth will set you free.
But first it makes you miserable,

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and it makes you miserable as long
as you deny it. Now, the

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moment you are honest with the truth
about you and everything else in life,

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then it starts setting you free.
Now, who is the truth? Jesus

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said, I am the truth,
Not I have it, not I point

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the way, not I teach it. He said, I'm it. I

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am the truth. So you can
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the Bible. The Bible is good
for four things. The Bible tells us

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what it was given for why God
gave us. Look at this next verse

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two Timothy, chapter three. All
scriptures inspired by God, and it's useful,

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and it tells us for four things. Number one, to teach us

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what is true. You got to
build it on truth to make Number two

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make us realize what's wrong in our
lives. Number three it straightens us out,

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and number four it teaches us to
do what is right. It's God's

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way of preparing us in every way, fully equipped for every good thing God

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wants us to do. The Bible
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to us for four things. It's
like a path, and it shows us

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the path to walk on. It
shows us when we get off the path,

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it shows us how to get back
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us how to stay on the path. The theological words for this are doctrine,

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reprove, correction, and instruction,
and righteousness. It says God's word

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does four things. It shows you
the path to live on. You stay

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on that path, you're going to
have a pretty good life. It shows

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us when we get off the path
you messed up. That's called reproof.

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It shows us how to get back
on the path. That's called correction.

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It shows us how to stay on
the path. That's called instruction or training

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in righteousness. So change requires learning
the truth. You're listening to Pastor Rick's

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Daily ho We're so happy you've chosen
to study along with us. Today,

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here's Pastor Rick with a letter from
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want to share with you a note
I got in the mail from Alyssa.

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She wrote, Hi, Pastor Rick. I'm a thirty three year old living

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in Jamestown, North Dakota, and
I'm married with three kids. I just

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want to thank you so much for
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them regularly and I've learned so much. You know. I realized very quickly

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that I needed to have a notebook
journal available to write down all the notes

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as I listen to you. I
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and I turned them on as I'm
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cooking, or I'm in the car
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which is great. Eight I've also
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I often think of specific people that
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I've heard your message. I don't
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after I've shared them, but I
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been regularly listening to you now and
I ran into her at the park when

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she was jogging and when she stopped
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voice in her earbuds. That's great. She's been struggling with a verbally abusive

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relationship for many years, and I
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Rick. God has really used you
to reach so many people, and

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I thank you for being obedient to
Him and He's calling to you. I

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will continue to pray for you.
Thank you for impacting my life. Alissa.

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Well, Alissa, thank you for
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live to hear these stories, and
I'm so glad to hear how God is

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using Daily Hope not only in your
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friends because You've cared enough to pass
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podcast with others. I know you're
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want to say to the rest of
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Daily Hope with anybody? Would you
find one person today and recommend that they

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start listening to Daily Hope, either
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