WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.080 --> 00:00:06.360 Hello, everybody, This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Thank you so much 2 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:10.439 for joining us today, and if you're brand new, welcome to the Daily 3 00:00:10.519 --> 00:00:15.119 Hope family. We hope you'll enjoy the teachings of Pastor Rick Warren right here. 4 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:19.039 I'm so excited for all of you to learn about your shape. It 5 00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:22.839 might not be the shape you're thinking of right now. Rick loves to use 6 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:31.679 acrostics and this one is shape your shape, your spiritual gifts, heart abilities, 7 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:36.600 personality, and experiences. And one of the reasons I love this series 8 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:40.479 and have shared it with so many friends is because Rick talks about the way 9 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:44.840 God wired you and why you need not just know your shape, but how 10 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:49.479 to use it to do the things that God designed you to do. And 11 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:53.960 now let's listen to Pastor Rick as he shares the final part of a message 12 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:58.640 called the purpose of your Personality. Now, you're going to be tempted the 13 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:03.079 rest of your life, and the Bible says this, They're on your on 14 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:07.159 that linees First Peter, Chapter two. Since your real home is in heaven. 15 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:08.719 In other words, you're not going to spend forever here on this planet. 16 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:15.079 Keep away from the evil pleasures of this world. They're not for you, 17 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:21.599 for they fight against your very souls. They fight against your souls and 18 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:25.599 your emotions. It just keep away from them, don't always give in to 19 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:29.840 them. Don't do that. Now, what's the warning to feelers. The 20 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:34.040 warning to feelers is this, you must let God lead you. You must 21 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:41.079 let God lead you. The Bible says this in Glatians chapter five, verse 22 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:44.319 sixteen. Don't be led by your emotions, but be led by the spirit. 23 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:49.760 It says, let the Spirit direct your lives, and you will not 24 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:53.799 satisfy. You, won't yield to you, won't give into the desires the 25 00:01:53.920 --> 00:02:00.120 lust of the human nature. Now, we all have desires, and not 26 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:04.239 all of them are good desires. Not every desire you have is a good 27 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:07.879 one. You got some good ones, you got some bad ones. You're 28 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:10.240 gonna give in to your desires unless you let the spirit lead your life. 29 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:15.000 You'll either be controlled by your feelings or by God's spirit. And when you 30 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:19.159 say I let God's Spirit lead me, it doesn't mean you don't have the 31 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:22.280 feelings. It just means you don't give in to them. A lot of 32 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:24.240 people think, well, if I feel it, then I'm gonna I'll do 33 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:27.879 it. And once I become a Christian, God will take away all my 34 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:31.360 feelings for bad. No, he doesn't. You will have those feelings the 35 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:37.199 rest of your life. But a follower of Christ is not someone who has 36 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:39.879 no feelings. The follower of Christ is someone who just doesn't obey the wrong 37 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:45.360 ones, doesn't give in, doesn't get addicted to, doesn't yield to, 38 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:51.280 doesn't let the negative or the wrong feelings control you. Doesn't say you're tempted. 39 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:54.560 It says you won't satisfy, you won't give in. That's interesting that 40 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:59.360 in worship, feelers often close their eyes. I don't know if you've noticed 41 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:01.639 this. There's nothing wrong with that. In fact, it's a good thing 42 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:06.680 if it helps you focus in on God. It's fine to close your eyes. 43 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:10.199 Feelers use their body, they'll raise their hands. You know. It's 44 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:15.719 like at a ball game. People get excited, go whoo, Well we 45 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:17.280 do about somebody hit a home run? When can you go? God, 46 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:23.560 woo? That's fine? And so you see it in their faces. And 47 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:30.000 the Bible says that, in fact, when you are worshiping God, all 48 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:35.000 around you becomes irrelevant. You're not paying attention to how somebody else looks or 49 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:40.120 how even you look, you're focused on God. The third personality are the 50 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:47.680 thinkers. Now, talkers love God with their hearts, and feelers love God 51 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:53.479 with their souls. Thinkers love God with their minds. Did you know that 52 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:58.000 you can love God with your intellect? Did you know that when you're doing 53 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:02.000 intellectual activities that brings glory to God? Did you know that God never said, 54 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:05.000 now, I want you to take the brain that I gave you and 55 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:09.879 put it on the shelf and follow me. No, he said, I 56 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:14.159 want you to use your mind. Use your brain, use your intellect. 57 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:18.879 And the Bible says love God with all your mind. When you're developing in 58 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:24.399 your mind, you're strengthening your mind, you're educating your mind. You are 59 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:29.920 doing an act of worship because you're doing something with what God gave you. 60 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:36.079 Now, the Biblical worldview and Christianity is a worldview. The biblical worldview that's 61 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:44.519 in this Bible is the only logical, rational worldview that squares with reality. 62 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:47.040 I don't know if you've studied all the nine major worldviews of life. I 63 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:54.759 have. I've studied them intensely. And every other worldview that's not based on 64 00:04:54.839 --> 00:05:02.959 this ultimately ends up in nihilism. Which means nothing matters. There is no 65 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:08.560 meaning in life if there is no God. People try to make it up, 66 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:12.759 but there really isn't. There is no morality in life without God. 67 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:16.480 You cannot have a moral society if there is not a moral God. Otherwise 68 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:21.079 we're just animals. If there is no God, then you are an accident 69 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:27.120 and your life doesn't matter. Squat. If there is no God, then 70 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:30.800 your life has no purpose, it has no meaning. You are a freak 71 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:33.959 accident. You're simply just an animal and a survival of fittest. And if 72 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:36.360 I want to come over and kill you and take your stuff, well sorry, 73 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:42.000 it's survival of fittest. There is no basis for morality in society if 74 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:50.439 there is no God. The logical, rational, intelligent, systematically lining it 75 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:57.639 up with reality is the worldview that God gives us in his word, and 76 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:00.839 God says, I want you to use your mind now. People who are 77 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:06.120 thinkers, when they become believers and follow Christ, all of a sudden they 78 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:11.360 fall in love with the Bible because they love to study this book. It 79 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:14.439 is so deep. There's no other book in the world like it. And 80 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:16.519 you could study it and study and study it goes deeper and deeper and deeper, 81 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:19.839 and it has all of the answers to life's questions, like why am 82 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:23.240 I here, Where am I going? What am I here for? What 83 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:26.319 is the purpose of life? Does my life matter? What's the past, 84 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:29.079 what's the future? Where did I come from? They're all here in this 85 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:35.279 book, and thinkers dig in and they study, and they love Bible study 86 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:41.120 because they are thinkers. The Bible says this, And so I'm one nineteen. 87 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:46.600 How I love your law? I think about it all day long. 88 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:51.399 Now, why do we need thinkers in the world. We need talkers because 89 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:57.560 we need communication. We need feelers because we need compassion. We need thinkers 90 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:02.519 because the world needs consideration. Consideration. In other words, somebody's got to 91 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:10.560 be thinking through complex issues, complex problems. Somebody's got to be thinking through 92 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:15.399 the implications of what the rest of us are doing. And we need people 93 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:20.040 who think through tough problems and bring solutions to the table. That's why we 94 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:26.839 need scientists. That's why we need writers. That's why we need philosophers. 95 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:30.720 That's why we need inventors inventing new things and thinking it through. That's why 96 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:36.959 we need innovators, and why we need creators. Who are thinking through solutions 97 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:41.720 to problems that are in the world. The Bible tells us that we are 98 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:45.600 to think about what God wants to do in our own lives. It says 99 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:51.199 this in Lamentations chapter three. We should think about think about the way we 100 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:58.360 are living, and turn back to the Lord. Socrates said, the unexamined 101 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:01.560 life isn't worth living. Need to think about the direction of our lives, 102 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:05.519 and thinkers are good at this. They ponder the path that they're heading. 103 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:09.079 Now, are there any weaknesses to this personality? Well, of course, 104 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:13.480 just like their weaknesses to talkers and weaknesses to feelers, there are two weaknesses 105 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:22.079 of thinkers. Number one is pride. Pride because thinkers who have the ability 106 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:26.560 to think fast or are educated tend to look down on people who don't think 107 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:31.679 the way they do. And while you're not sophisticated, or you're not educated, 108 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:35.000 or you don't know what I know, and they tend to devalue everybody 109 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:39.200 else, not realizing that we now know there at least nine different kinds of 110 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:46.399 intelligence, not just one. First Corinthians eighty one says this. It says 111 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:54.360 pride puffs up or knowledge makes people arrogant, but love builds them up. 112 00:08:56.039 --> 00:09:01.480 King James says, knowledge puffs up, love builds up. If you're going 113 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:05.320 to be smart, great, use your smarts, but you must temper it 114 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:11.080 with love, otherwise you're going to be egotistical. Now, let me tell 115 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:16.679 you a little secret. Don't tell anybody who told you this. Last couple 116 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:20.360 of years, I've had the opportunity to speak at and meet with some of 117 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:26.919 the most brilliant minds in the world in congresses and conferences and seminars, very 118 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:31.159 bright people, and you know what, some of them are just flat out 119 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:39.639 stuck up. They're snooty, they're snotty there. I won't tell you what 120 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:46.519 they are, but they're smart. They know they're smart, and they'll be 121 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:50.960 happy to tell you they're smart, and they're proud of they're smarts. And 122 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:58.279 what they don't realize is everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects. Okay, 123 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:05.679 some things a physicist doesn't know, and the person next to you knows some 124 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:09.759 things you don't know, and they know some things I don't know. Everybody's 125 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:16.720 ignorant, just on different subjects. Nobody knows everything. So the Bible says, 126 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:18.759 don't be proud of your wisdom, be proud that you know the Lord. 127 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:24.600 Now, if you are a thinker, you ought to use your intelligence, 128 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:31.279 but temperate with love, because otherwise you can become egotistical about the Other 129 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:37.639 problem of thinkers is indecision. Some people you study as an excuse to never 130 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:41.480 act. And some of the most scholarly people I know are also the most 131 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:48.759 vacillating, wimpy, indecisive people I know. They're always studying. Well, 132 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:50.519 it could be this, and it could be that, and it could be 133 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:52.840 this, and it could and they never come to conclusion. The Bible talks 134 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:58.000 about them like this, always studying but never able to recognize the truth. 135 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:05.399 And some people use study as an excuse as a barrier to never act, 136 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:11.799 to never really do anything. So the Bible gives warnings the thinkers just like 137 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:16.919 it does the talkers and the feelers. The first one is practice humility. 138 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:24.240 The Bible says, don't be impressed with your own wisdom. Why because God 139 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:28.200 is God and you're not, and he's a lot wiser. Humility is a 140 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:37.480 choice. By the way, never pray for God to humble you in the 141 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:39.480 first place. Not once in the Bible are you ever told to pray that 142 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:43.799 prayer. It never says ask God to humble you, So not ever say 143 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:46.639 God, please humble me. No. In the Bible, it says, 144 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:52.159 humble yourself before the Lord. It's a choice. Humility is something you do 145 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:54.799 to yourself. Nobody else can do it to you. They can humiliate you, 146 00:11:56.720 --> 00:12:01.000 but they can't make you humble. Humble is something you do to yourself. 147 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:03.879 It's a choice to say, God, you know what in an essence, 148 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:07.399 humility is, It's total dependence upon God. God, I'm depending on 149 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:11.399 you. I'm trusting you in this moment, even with the gifts and the 150 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:16.279 talents and abilities that you've given me, I'm trusting you. And humility is 151 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:22.200 not denying your strengths. It's being honest about your weaknesses. The other warning 152 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:26.320 to thinkers is to practice what you know. Practice what you know. If 153 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:31.399 you know what, then do it. James one twenty two says, do 154 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:37.120 not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourselves. Do what. It 155 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:41.480 says. You could come to Saddleback Church for twenty years and take notes on 156 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:46.279 every single sermon ever preached here and still never really do it. Would you 157 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:50.200 write this down in your outline. I only believe the parts of the Bible, 158 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:56.399 I actually do. I only believe the parts I actually do. Do 159 00:12:56.440 --> 00:12:58.320 you believe we got to give to the poort? Yeah? Do you do 160 00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:03.559 it? Nah? Do you believe that people need Christ to go to heaven 161 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:07.960 the ad you tell them about it? No? Do you believe in tithing 162 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:11.159 the ad? You do it? No? You only believe the parts you 163 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:15.120 do. You may write it down, be kind to my wife. If 164 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:18.799 you're not kind to your wife, you don't believe it. You only believe 165 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:26.639 the parts that you do. Doers love God with their strength. This is 166 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:31.919 the fourth personality, the doer. These are the energetic activists of life. 167 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:35.879 They're the getted done people. They're the achievers, the accomplishers, the workers, 168 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:41.519 the people that push things forward, that make things happen in the practical 169 00:13:41.559 --> 00:13:46.200 sense of life. Psalm one sixteen says this, this is an averse of 170 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:52.519 a doer. Oh God, here I am your servant. You're a faithful 171 00:13:52.559 --> 00:13:56.360 servant. Set me free for your service, he saying, God, put 172 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:00.360 me in, coach. I want to be in the game. Me on 173 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:01.960 the sideline. I want to be involved in this. I don't want to 174 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:05.600 watch history happen. I want to make history. Put me in the game. 175 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:09.000 Let me in there, let me have a shot at it. I'm 176 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:13.159 ready to go to work. Lord, I'm obedient, I'm active, and 177 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:18.200 I'm ready to go to work. I'm ready to serve you. Now, 178 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:22.159 what is the purpose of doers in the world. Well, the world needs 179 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:30.919 contribution. We don't just need communication, just need compassion. We don't just 180 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:35.799 need consideration. We got to get to act, get to work and do 181 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:39.559 it. We need contribution. We need people of action. We need, 182 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:45.840 as Pastor Carrie calls him, get or done people, people with initiative, 183 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:50.720 with energy, with action, with a bias for achievement, with a bias 184 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:54.279 for starting things and growing things, and building things and developing things, hands 185 00:14:54.320 --> 00:15:01.480 and feet people go getters. The Bible says in Romans twelve one, offer 186 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:05.360 your bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, pure and pleasing. That's the 187 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:11.559 most sensible, the word's practical way to serve God, says offer your body. 188 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:15.399 Why, because that's the only way you can serve God. Even if 189 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:18.559 you're using your mind or your mouth, or your heart or your emotions, 190 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:22.039 it's part of your body. You can't serve God out of your body. 191 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:24.279 So be practically, says, give him your body. Say, God, 192 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:28.519 here's my body for you to use in this world in any way you want 193 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:37.519 to be used. And of course it takes thinkers and talkers and feelers and 194 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:41.519 doers, and about a fourth of us are in each of those categories. 195 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:43.200 And God says, now, I want you to love me all four ways, 196 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:48.519 but in the way that you're primarily shaped. That's the way I expect 197 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:54.240 your primary worship, your primary love, and your primary service to come by 198 00:15:54.320 --> 00:16:00.759 talking, by thinking, by feeling, by doing. And we're all necessary 199 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:06.440 in the body of Christ. Now, just as talkers and feelers and thinkers 200 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:11.080 have the weaknesses, what are the what are the weaknesses of doers? Well, 201 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:18.799 I can say it in one word, over work. Overwork. Doers 202 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:22.679 are always working work, work, work, work, work, work, 203 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:30.879 work, And they never stop to think. They certainly don't stop to feel, 204 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:36.480 and they wouldn't spend a second stopping to talk. Let's just get it 205 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:41.759 done. Let's get it done. And so they're always busy, busy, 206 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:48.240 busy. And God says this in Someone twenty seven, It is senseless for 207 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:53.720 you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, fearing you're 208 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:59.600 going to starve to death. For God wants his loved ones to get their 209 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:03.480 proper rest. That would be a good verse to put up on the mirror 210 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:10.160 in your bathroom. God wants his loved ones to get their proper rest. 211 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:14.079 This week, in my personal quiet time, as I was reading through the 212 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:18.319 Book of Jeremiah, God gave me a verse that I hadn't seen before. 213 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:22.759 In the message paraphrase, it says this on the screen, Slow down, 214 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:33.720 take a deep breath. What's the hurry? Why wear yourself out? Just 215 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:40.000 what are you after anyway? But you say I can't help it. I'm 216 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:44.240 addicted to alien gods. That means false gods, phony gods, fake gods. 217 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:48.200 It means not the true God. I'm addicted to something else other than 218 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:55.920 the one True God. And I can't quit. Let me read it again. 219 00:17:56.440 --> 00:18:02.160 Slow down, take a deep breath, everybody, Just take a deep 220 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:11.039 breath right now. Slow down, Take a deep breath. What's the hurry? 221 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:18.160 Why wear yourself out? Just what are you after anyway that you say 222 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:26.160 I can't help it. I'm addicted to alien gods. I can't quit. 223 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:37.880 Question what alien gods? Are you addicted to the approval of other people? 224 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:56.000 Money status? Are you addicted to praise? Two? Sex? To making 225 00:18:56.039 --> 00:19:03.000 a name for yourself. Are you addicted to adrenaline? You just like the 226 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:11.759 rush of working fast? Why can't you slow down? Why can't you stop 227 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:17.839 and take a break? What do you really after? You need to know 228 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:22.000 that, particularly if you're a doer, why do you do what you do? 229 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:29.079 When you know the why? God will show you how. But if 230 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:33.079 you don't know why you're doing what you're doing, you're in a cycle. 231 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:38.680 God says, slow it down. If you're a doer, you need to 232 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:44.880 slow it down. Some of you need to do less, not less for 233 00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:48.240 God, but less in other areas, so you've got more time to do 234 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:53.839 what matters most now. The Bible says that when you become a believer, 235 00:19:55.519 --> 00:20:02.400 that God makes you a new person inside. Tewod Corinthians Fire, verse seventeen 236 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:06.640 says, when anyone becomes a Christian, if any man be in Christ, 237 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:11.440 you are a new person inside. The oldest passed away, the newest come. 238 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:18.960 What is actually new in your life when you become a believer. Well, 239 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:22.160 we've talked about many times past forgiven purpose for living home in heaven. 240 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:26.960 Let me tell you something that doesn't change when you come to Christ. Your 241 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:30.920 personality doesn't change. If you were a talker before you knew the Lord, 242 00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:36.400 you're still a talker. If you were a feeler before you knew the Lord, 243 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:41.079 you're still a feeler. If you were a thinker before you knew the 244 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:45.119 Lord, you're still a thinker. And if you were a doer before your 245 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:49.680 Lord, before the Lord, you still are a doer. God doesn't slow 246 00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:53.440 you down when you come to him, He just changes your direction. In 247 00:20:53.440 --> 00:20:56.839 fact, he says, I want to empower it. Remember you got your 248 00:20:56.880 --> 00:21:02.720 personality from Him, and God doesn't want to make you a clone of everybody 249 00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:07.240 else in the way that you worship and serve and love God. No, 250 00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:10.519 he says, I want you to worship and love and serve me the way 251 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:15.119 I made you to be with your personality through talking, through feeling, through 252 00:21:15.119 --> 00:21:18.599 thinking, through doing. And I want you to do it all four ways, 253 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:23.039 even though I primarily put you in one category. But he says, 254 00:21:23.079 --> 00:21:27.759 not only that, I will strengthen your personality, not dampen it. I'm 255 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:32.559 not going to turn you into a religious nut. I'm going to make you 256 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:37.240 more you than you've ever been before. I can do all things through Christ, 257 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:45.279 who strengthens me. What a great message from Pastor Rick, I hope 258 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:48.960 it touched you just like it touched me today. And now let's end our 259 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:53.079 show with a closing thought from Rick. If you've been blessed by this message 260 00:21:53.079 --> 00:21:57.279 today, here's what I want you to do. Share it, tell somebody 261 00:21:57.359 --> 00:22:00.599 about it now. There's a lot of great ways you can share Daily Hope. 262 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:06.359 One of the easiest is by posting it on social media on Facebook or 263 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:11.319 Twitter or LinkedIn or Instagram. But you'll find a share button today next to 264 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:17.000 the message on my website. If you'd like to share this broadcast, just 265 00:22:17.079 --> 00:22:21.319 go to Pastororrick dot com, click on the listen tap. 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