WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:08.439 Pastor Rick Warren often says you were made by God and for God, and 2 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:14.599 until you understand that, life will never make sense. Welcome to Pastor Rick's 3 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:19.199 Daily Hope. Today. In our series called God's Vision for the Rest of 4 00:00:19.239 --> 00:00:24.399 your Life, Rick continues in his effort to help you discover the unique purpose 5 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:29.320 and vision that the Lord has for your life. In just a few moments, 6 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:33.600 we're going to tell you how to get a hardcover copy of Pastor Rick's 7 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:38.399 wonderful book, The Purpose of Christmas, just in time for the season. 8 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:42.840 Go to pastor Rick dot com to find out more, or text the word 9 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:49.280 daily to eight hundred six hundred five thousand and four. That's Pastorick dot com, 10 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:54.399 or the word daily to eight hundred six hundred five thousand and four. 11 00:00:55.079 --> 00:01:00.000 Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part three of a message called Choose 12 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:03.480 your Future. See, you can't blame anybody else for the direction of your 13 00:01:03.519 --> 00:01:08.560 life. If it sucks, it's because you're letting it suck. Now, 14 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:15.560 let me be real clear. We are products of our past, but we 15 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:19.200 are not prisoners of our past. Yes, your past has influenced you, 16 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:23.120 but it doesn't control you. Other people can hurt you, and they will. 17 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:27.640 I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. Other people can hurt you, they 18 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:33.280 can harm you, and other people can scar you, but nobody can ruin 19 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:38.000 your life except you. They don't have the power to ruin it because you 20 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:42.599 have the power of choice. They can harm you, they can hurt you, 21 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:49.200 they can scar you, but they cannot ruin you unless you allow them 22 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:53.319 to do. You accept responsibility and say I'm gonna choose short term pain for 23 00:01:53.560 --> 00:02:00.040 long term gain. Now, let me just say to I know we've got 24 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:04.719 a young students in our services today, so let me just tell you this. 25 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:10.599 You're going to have pain in life either now or later. And you 26 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:15.719 can either do the easy thing now, easy life now, hard life later, 27 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:20.840 hard life now, easy life later. In other words, if I 28 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:23.120 do the hard thing right now, and I put in the effort and the 29 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:28.360 discipline to learn, to grow, to become strong, to mature, and 30 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:31.960 I do the hard things now later in life, I get to benefit from 31 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:36.680 all of that. I right now am benefiting from decisions I made in my 32 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:42.479 twenties. And I'm benefiting from those financial decisions that I made in my twenties 33 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:46.240 to not spend more than I made to save, to tithe to honor God 34 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:51.400 all of the I'm benefiting from that many years later because I was disciplined. 35 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:55.719 I did the hard thing first. Now, if you're a teenager and you 36 00:02:55.800 --> 00:03:00.080 do the easy thing first, you're gonna do the hard thing later. My 37 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:01.240 life will be hard. The rest of your life. You can goof off 38 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:05.400 in school and you not learn, and you cannot grow, and you not 39 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:07.960 accept responsibility, not grow up, and then the rest of your life it 40 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:13.120 will be hard. So it's either going to be pain now or later. 41 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:16.960 I suggest you get the pain out of the way early. There are a 42 00:03:17.240 --> 00:03:22.080 couple promises from God about pain there on your outline. First thing God says 43 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:23.919 is even the pain you go through Number one, it's going to help you 44 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:31.719 grow. Romans five, we can have joy even in our troubles because we 45 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:37.919 know that these troubles produce patients, and patience produces character, and character produces 46 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:39.919 hope. So I even know when I'm going through the short term pain, 47 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:46.520 it's producing character in my life. And the second thing I know God promises 48 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:50.319 is He's going to reward me for the pain I go through in heaven next 49 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:53.759 verse. Yet, these present troubles that we're going through are quite small, 50 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:58.800 and they won't last very long. I mean, even if they lasted my 51 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:00.960 entire life, that's only nine years compared to trillions of years in heaven. 52 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:09.960 Yet they produce problems, are productive. They produce for us an immeasurably great 53 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:16.759 glory that will circle this last forever. We're gonna have eternity to celebrate short 54 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:21.920 term pain for long term gain. Because God's more interested in your character than 55 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:26.319 your comfort. Why are am I going through all these problems. God's more 56 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:30.519 interested in your character than your comfort, and there's long term gain for the 57 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:33.639 short term pain. The verse after that, when we just read, is 58 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:38.720 verse eighteen. Look up here on the screen, Paul says, So we 59 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:43.199 fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. 60 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:47.759 What is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. The problems 61 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:50.279 that I'm looking at right now in my life, I have seen you on 62 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:57.519 my problems, financial problems, relational problems, physical problems, emotional problems, 63 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:01.399 mental problems. I see those problems. But then I gonna last. What's 64 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:06.560 gonna last is the character I developed from going through them. What's gonna last 65 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:10.800 is my trust in God that I'm going through. What's gonna last is the 66 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:14.519 reward I get for putting my faith in Christ when I'm going through the problems. 67 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:18.800 So what do I do. The first thing I do is I say, 68 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:23.040 I am going to refuse to define, let myself be defined by other 69 00:05:23.079 --> 00:05:28.319 people. And second, I'm gonna choose short term gain for long term short 70 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:30.759 term pain for long term gain. That's what Moses did. Third thing Moses 71 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:39.240 did, third life shaping resolution. I choose God's values, not the world's. 72 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:46.959 I choose God's values for my life, not the world's values. This 73 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:50.639 is what Moses did, and this is why God used him. Hebrews eleven, 74 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:57.240 verse twenty six. The next verse Moses regarded. Now that word regarded 75 00:05:57.319 --> 00:06:00.480 means to evaluate. It means to consider, It means to way in the 76 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:04.480 balance. He's making a value judgment. He's clarifying what matters most. Moses 77 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:09.040 regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ. In other words, I'm gonna be 78 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:15.199 treated like a slave. He regarded being disgraced for sake of Christ as of 79 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:18.480 greater value. That's a value judgment than the treasure of Egypt. He would 80 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:24.000 have inherited all the treasure of Egypt as Pharaoh's grandson, because he was why 81 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:29.800 looking ahead to his reward long term gain. I'm not gonna have short term 82 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:32.800 gain. I'm gonna have long term gain. Okay, he's making a valuate. 83 00:06:32.920 --> 00:06:36.399 He clarifies what matters most. Let me ask you this question. What 84 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:44.639 matters most in your life? What are the top three four five values in 85 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:46.920 your life? Can you name him? Just like that? Bam bam bam, 86 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:50.199 bam bam. What are the most important values in your life? If 87 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:54.920 you ask me, I would tell you real simply integrity, humility, generosity. 88 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:58.120 Because they decided over thirty years ago that's what I wanted to build my 89 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:00.600 life on. Integrity, humility, generosity. I'm not there, but that's 90 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:04.319 what I want to build my life on. Integrity, humility, generosity, 91 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:10.560 because are the antidotes of the three traps of leadership. Can you just name 92 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:13.839 the three most important values in your life right now? If you can't, 93 00:07:14.079 --> 00:07:17.560 you certainly can't live by them. You're not living your values if you can't 94 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:23.600 even name them. So you need to go home, and before you go 95 00:07:23.639 --> 00:07:26.519 one more day into this year, you need to sit down and say what's 96 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:30.079 most important to me? What are the top values in my life, and 97 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:33.160 you need to write them out. Until you clarify them, you can't live 98 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:41.240 by them. Moses chose God's values over the world's values. And why is 99 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:44.439 this so important? I'll tell you why. Here's a little secret. If 100 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:48.439 you don't decide what's important in your life, other people are going to decide 101 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:54.120 it for you, and they're going to push you into their mold, and 102 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:59.680 you're going to live their values, not yours. You got to decide what's 103 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:03.920 important to me and then live by those values, not live by other people's 104 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:09.000 values. No, Moses said, I'm not going to live by the world's 105 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:13.160 values. What are the world's values? Whether the same ones that the world 106 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:16.839 is valued throughout history? Every single advertisement is built on one of the three 107 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:22.480 values of the world passion, possession, position or sex, salary and status 108 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:26.480 or less of the flesh, less of the iyesh, pride to life. 109 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:30.759 They haven't changed in thousands of thousands of years. We see them in these 110 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:35.600 three verses. In verse twenty four, we see the world values popularity, 111 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:39.559 power, and prestige. In verse twenty five, we see the world values 112 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.720 pleasures the pleasure of sin. In verse twenty six, we values possessions, 113 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:50.440 the Treasures of Egypt. Moses walks away from the very thing we spend our 114 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:54.720 entire lives trying to get. We want the world's treasure, we want the 115 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:58.720 world's pleasure, and we want the world's measure of success. Moses walked away 116 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:05.240 from a all what we just say. I want to look good, I 117 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:09.120 want to feel good, and I want to have the goods. I want 118 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:13.120 to be famous, I want to be rich, and I want to have 119 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:18.320 fun. That's the world's value system, pleasure, passion, position, popularity, 120 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:26.360 possessions. It's ironic by moses standards. He had it made in the 121 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:31.440 Pharaoh's house, he would have all of these things. There would be nobody 122 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:35.679 else wealthier in the world, nobody else more important. And he walks away 123 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:39.679 from what we call the American dream. He walks away from what most people 124 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:46.879 spend their entire lives trying to get. Why because he knew it wouldn't last. 125 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:50.679 The Bible says this on the screen first John, chapter two. The 126 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:58.320 world and everything that is in it that people desire is passing away. But 127 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:07.600 those who do the will of God live forever. That's long term gain. 128 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:11.519 So the wise way to live is to live not by the world's value system, 129 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:18.639 but by God's value system? What does God value? You're listening to 130 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:22.799 Pastor Rick's Daily Hope rip will be back in just a moment with the rest 131 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:28.039 of today's lesson. If you've missed any part of today's teaching, you can 132 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:33.720 listen online anytime at pastorick dot com. That's pastorick dot com. What the 133 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:37.960 True Reason for the season? 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There would be nobody 151 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:13.000 else wealthier in the world, nobody else more important. And he walks away 152 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:18.039 from what we call the American dream. He walks away from what most people 153 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:24.200 spend their entire lives trying to get why, because he knew it wouldn't last. 154 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:28.000 The Bible says this on the screen first John, chapter two. The 155 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:35.639 world and everything that is in it that people desire is passing away. But 156 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:43.960 those who do the will of God live forever. That's long term gain. 157 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:48.799 So the wise way to live is to live not by the world's value system, 158 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:54.159 but by God's value system. What does God value. Well, these 159 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:58.080 verses of Moses tell us the three things God values. You might write them 160 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:05.879 down. Number one, Godd's purpose is more valuable than popularity. God's purpose. 161 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:11.080 Doing God's purpose for your life is far more important for your life than 162 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:16.799 being popular. Now, as Pharaoh's grandson, Moses is heir to the throne. 163 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:20.240 He's a celebrity, he's a young playboy, he's the it guy, 164 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:28.559 and he's famous. He's Pharaoh's grandson. Now, let me tell you, 165 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:33.360 as somebody who has had an experience with just a little bit of fame, 166 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:41.879 fame does it last? And fame is worthless. Never invest one second of 167 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:48.879 your life trying to be famous, because it doesn't last. Does anybody remember 168 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:54.279 who was on the cover of People magazine two weeks ago? No, because 169 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:58.639 that's how quick. One minute you're the hero and the next minute you're the 170 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:03.120 zero. Do you remember when you were in high school how important it was 171 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:07.919 for you to be popular. Do any of those people actually even care about 172 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:13.279 you today? Doubtful. In fact, when you were on campus, you 173 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:18.279 were trying to be the big man on campus, or the beauty queen or 174 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:20.559 whoever you wanted to just be with the in crowd and you wanted to be 175 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:24.440 popular, you could graduate from that high school, go back two years later, 176 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:28.000 walk on the camps name campus, and people go and who are you? 177 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:33.559 That's how long it lasted. And you're trying to win the favor of 178 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:39.639 people who don't even care about you. So never waste your time on popularity, 179 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:43.720 on trying to be famous, because God's purpose. Doing God's purpose for 180 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:48.840 your life is far more important than being popular. Number two, people are 181 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:54.240 more valuable than pleasure. That's the second thing. Moses decides that freeing those 182 00:14:54.240 --> 00:15:00.440 slaves was far more important than living a life of luxury in Pharaoh's palace twenty 183 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:05.639 five, and he trades a royal lifestyle in order to help the neediest of 184 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:11.600 the needy slaves. This is why we're doing the Peace Plan, to help 185 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:15.240 people around the world, who are in poverty, who have disease, who 186 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:20.159 have a literacy, who are under oppression, who have aids orphans. You 187 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:24.759 can't get more vulnerable than that. And the first ten years of the Peace 188 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:26.399 Plan, we said we're going to go to every nation, and we did 189 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:33.279 that. And now the second over seventeen thousand of you, you went out 190 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:37.759 and it was at personal expense to go help somebody else, and you valued 191 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:43.759 you valued people more than pleasure. The money you spent to go on a 192 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:48.759 peace plan. You could have bought a widescreen TV with that, but you 193 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:54.960 didn't. God took note of that. You valued people over pleasure and the 194 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:58.240 things you could have done with that money just for pleasure. You help people. 195 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:03.559 And now in this next ten years, we're going to the remainings, 196 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:10.480 now down to about three thousand tribes who have no christian no church, and 197 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:14.279 no Bible. And they're all small tribes around the world, and we're gonna 198 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:15.440 go and we're gonna take the Peace Plan to them, and many of you 199 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:22.240 will go, and you're gonna sacrifice pleasure in order to go because these tribes 200 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:23.879 when you get there, Hey tell you this, there's no Rich Carlton, 201 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:32.480 there are montage, they're not even a holiday inn where these tribes are. 202 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:37.080 And people go, Why would you sacrifice money you could spend on your personal 203 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:44.120 pleasure to go help somebody in some tribe in some distant country. Because people 204 00:16:44.279 --> 00:16:48.759 matter more than pleasure, and God's purpose is more valuable than popularity. Number 205 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:55.519 three, peace of mind is more valuable than possessions. You could have a 206 00:16:55.559 --> 00:17:02.559 house stuffed full of possessions. And if there's antagonists and anger and disappointment and 207 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:07.759 discouragement in the house, peace of mind is far more valuable than possessions. 208 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:11.000 And where do you get peace of mind from doing the will of God? 209 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:15.759 You know, advertisements lie. Advertisements tell you that you can buy peace of 210 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:21.759 mind. You can't. You can't. You know why people buy things because 211 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:26.000 it gives temporary happiness when you when you buy a new car, or you 212 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:29.400 buy an iPad, or you get you get a new video game or something 213 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:33.279 like that. You love that and you feel happy for a while, but 214 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:37.400 after a while it wears off. Why Because people change and things don't, 215 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:41.359 and so we get bored with things that don't change. That's why you have 216 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:47.480 to redecorate, because that piece of art you just thought was so cool and 217 00:17:47.559 --> 00:17:51.319 so beautiful and brought you so much pleasure, and five years later on e 218 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:57.400 can we do something else with this? Why? Because they possessions don't give 219 00:17:57.720 --> 00:18:03.799 ultimate pleasure, and they certainly can't give you peace of mind. You can't 220 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:07.279 buy it. Peace of mind comes from doing the will of God. Now 221 00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:11.559 again, Moses gave up what everybody else spends their life, trying to get 222 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:18.839 success, fame, power, money, in order to do God's will because 223 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:23.599 people are more valuable than pleasure, and peace of mind's more valuable than possessions, 224 00:18:23.799 --> 00:18:27.039 and God's purpose is more valuable than popularity. And I'm going to do 225 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:33.519 short term pain for long term gain. Why the Bible says there he was 226 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:37.599 looking ahead to his reward. Wants you to write this down. Vision sets 227 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:45.559 values, vision sets values. What you're looking at will determine what you value. 228 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:48.400 And if you keep your eyes on Jesus, that's what you're going to 229 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:51.759 value. If you keep your eyes in the catalog, that's what you're gonna 230 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:59.559 value. Now there's a fourth life shaping choice that Moses made. It's a 231 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:04.599 fourth and it is this number four. I choose to live by faith rather 232 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:11.480 than by fear. I choose to live by faith, not by fear. 233 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:15.440 If you will make this resolution and you'll keep it, it will change your 234 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:21.599 life dramatically for the rest of your life. You stop living in fear and 235 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:29.440 you start living in faith Verse twenty seven. By faith, Moses left Egypt, 236 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:33.559 in other words, with all of the slaves not fearing the king's anger. 237 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:37.480 That's favors angery. Circle, faith and circle. Not fearing. You're 238 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:40.680 gonna live by one or the other. You're gonna live by faith in life, 239 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:44.519 You're gonna live by fear in life by faith. Moses left Egypt not 240 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:49.759 fearing the king's anger. He persevered because he saw him who is invisible as 241 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:56.279 Christ. Now Moses goes to the most powerful man in the world, and 242 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:59.519 he says, you know these slaves that are building all your pyramids, I'm 243 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:04.000 taking them and we're all leaving. We're packing up and we're leaving, and 244 00:20:04.039 --> 00:20:10.799 you're not going to have slave labor anymore, letting my people go. Now, 245 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:15.920 Moses had every reason to be afraid because he's going up against the most 246 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:22.680 powerful man on the planet. At this point. Pharaoh's Egyptian empire is the 247 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:26.720 most powerful empire on the planet at this point. Pharaoh in those days was 248 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:30.799 considered a god. And whatever Pharaoh said, you had to do. If 249 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:33.880 Pharaoh said cut your right arm off, you had to cut your right arm 250 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:38.279 off. If Pharaoh said murder your wife, you had to murder your wife. 251 00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:41.799 If Pharaoh said you got to drown your children, you had to drown 252 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:47.680 your children. What he said was the law. And Moses comes and says, 253 00:20:48.200 --> 00:20:51.839 We're not going to do that anymore. I'm going to choose to live 254 00:20:51.880 --> 00:20:53.960 by faith, not by fear. We're leaving, We're out of here. 255 00:20:55.000 --> 00:21:00.039 Goodbye, and Pharaoh goes you and who else? And Moses, I'm not 256 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:08.160 afraid of you because I report to a higher authority. And the closer you 257 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:11.920 get to God, the less fear you're going to have in your life. 258 00:21:12.359 --> 00:21:18.240 The more further you get away from God, the more you're going to be 259 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:21.960 filled with fear. The closer you get to God, the more you're going 260 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:29.880 to be filled with faith. I cannot overemphasize the importance of faith for the 261 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:33.559 rest of your life. The Bible says whatever is not of faith is sin. 262 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:41.720 This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. We're so thankful that you've chosen to 263 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:45.039 spend some time with us today. If you've missed any part of this broadcast, 264 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:51.279 including portions we didn't have time for, just go to pastorrick dot com 265 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:55.799 and listen online anytime. Rick will be right back to close out our time 266 00:21:55.839 --> 00:22:00.559 today. But first, let the true reason for the season fill your heart 267 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:06.200 with hope this year. When you discover Pastor Rick's inspirational book, The Purpose 268 00:22:06.359 --> 00:22:11.079 of Christmas. In it, Rick shows you how Christmas is designed to meet 269 00:22:11.160 --> 00:22:15.839 your three deepest needs and how receiving the three Christmas gifts God has for you 270 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:22.799 will transform your life forever. Right now, here's Pastor Rick to tell you 271 00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:26.160 more. Have you noticed that people are more open to talking about Jesus at 272 00:22:26.200 --> 00:22:32.039 Christmas than at any other time of the year, regardless of their religious background, 273 00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:36.799 or their problems or the circumstances. 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