Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. This
Speaker 1: is the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren. Now today
Speaker 1: we're continuing into the new year, and we're digging deeper
Speaker 1: into one of life's biggest questions, does my life really matter?
Speaker 1: In today's message, Rick's going to continue his powerful series
Speaker 1: Live Your Calling? What on Earth Am I here for?
Speaker 1: In it, you'll discover how living out God's purpose for
Speaker 1: your life brings real meaning, direction, and joy no matter
Speaker 1: where you're starting from. Let's get straight to Rick for
Speaker 1: the final part of a message entitled Called to Be Sent.
Speaker 2: Now, when we talk about the peace Plan, we talk
Speaker 2: about it in three dimensions, personal piece, local peace, and
Speaker 2: global peace, and your life needs to be involved in
Speaker 2: all three of these. You need to have a personal
Speaker 2: peace plan, a local peace plan, and a global peace plan.
Speaker 2: This is what it means to be called to be sent.
Speaker 2: My personal peace plan is the ministry my personal mission
Speaker 2: to the people in my life, my family, my friends,
Speaker 2: my neighbors, and my coworkers. That's my personal peace plan.
Speaker 2: How can I be a blessing to them in their lives?
Speaker 2: How can I help them come to know God in
Speaker 2: a personal way.
Speaker 3: That's my personal peace plan.
Speaker 2: Local peace is what we do in our small groups,
Speaker 2: when we go help the poor, when we go care
Speaker 2: for the sick, when we go educate people who are illiterate,
Speaker 2: when we teach English as a second language, all of
Speaker 2: the hundreds of different ministries we have in this church
Speaker 2: to help the hurts and the hang ups and the
Speaker 2: habits of other people. And we have hundreds of these ministries.
Speaker 2: That's local peace. Global peace is your church's mission to
Speaker 2: the whole world. Now, Jesus didn't just say do this.
Speaker 2: He actually gave us a model. And when you study
Speaker 2: the ministry of Jesus, find that Jesus did five things
Speaker 2: with his life, and they are the five same things
Speaker 2: that God wants you to do to fulfill this calling.
Speaker 3: Now, there are some things that.
Speaker 2: Jesus did you can't do, like die on the cross
Speaker 2: for the redemption and the sins and forgiveness of the
Speaker 2: human race.
Speaker 3: I can't do that. You can't do that.
Speaker 2: But Jesus said, I've given you an example to follow.
Speaker 2: Now go as I have done unto you. And Jesus,
Speaker 2: when he was here on earth, did five things. First,
Speaker 2: he planted a church. He said, I will build my church.
Speaker 2: And there was a special kind of church. It was
Speaker 2: a church that promoted reconciliation with God and with other people.
Speaker 2: You see, the reason there's so much conflict in the
Speaker 2: world is because there's spiritual emptiness in the world. When
Speaker 2: people are empty in their hearts, they war not only
Speaker 2: with themselves, they war with God and they war with
Speaker 2: other people. And so we have conflict between genders, and
Speaker 2: we have conflict between economics status, and we have conflict
Speaker 2: between nations, and we have conflict between races, and we
Speaker 2: have conflict between religions, and we have conflict and marriage.
Speaker 2: Why because we don't have peace in our hearts. And
Speaker 2: when the Prince of Peace reigns on our hearts, then
Speaker 2: it allows us to make reconciliation with God and with others.
Speaker 2: And so Jesus planted a church that promoted reconciliation. That's
Speaker 2: the first thing he did. Second thing Jesus did is
Speaker 2: the equipped servant leaders.
Speaker 3: Follow me on this.
Speaker 2: Jesus loved everybody, but he fed the five thousand, but
Speaker 2: he trained the seventy, but he discipled twelve, and he
Speaker 2: mentored three. He equipped servant leaders. And that's part of life.
Speaker 2: And the third thing that Jesus did is he assisted
Speaker 2: the poor. Jesus in his very first sermony, he says,
Speaker 2: the spirit of the Lord has bond me because He's
Speaker 2: anointed me to preach good news to the poor. It
Speaker 2: was the number one agenda. Does God have favorites?
Speaker 3: Yes he does. He loves the poor.
Speaker 2: There are over two thousand verses in the Bible about
Speaker 2: the poor, and God says, if you help the poor,
Speaker 2: or I will help you. He assisted the poor, He
Speaker 2: cared for the sick. The Bible tells us that Jesus
Speaker 2: went into every village preaching, teaching, and healing. One third
Speaker 2: of his ministry was health care. He did preaching, that's
Speaker 2: telling the good news. He did teaching, that's education. He
Speaker 2: did healing, that's health care. It's not by accident that
Speaker 2: in every single nation in the world the first hospital
Speaker 2: and the first university.
Speaker 3: Were started by Christians.
Speaker 2: It's not an accident that was started because we have
Speaker 2: a preaching, teaching, healing faith. That the church invented the hospital.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know this. Christians invented the hospital.
Speaker 2: That's why there's so many of them. Saint Mary's and
Speaker 2: Saint Mark's and all these others because we invent Jesus
Speaker 2: was a preaching, teaching, healing ministry. He wasn't just our savior.
Speaker 2: He's our teacher and he's our healer. So we believe
Speaker 2: in educating the mind, caring for the body.
Speaker 3: And saving the soul.
Speaker 2: So Jesus preached planet churches, He equipped leaders, he assisted
Speaker 2: the poor, cared for the sick. He educated the next generation.
Speaker 2: He said, let the little children come to me. They
Speaker 2: are the Kingdom of God. If you want to care
Speaker 2: about the next generation, you got to care about you
Speaker 2: want to care about the King of God, You've got
Speaker 2: to care about the next generation. Now here's the amazing thing.
Speaker 2: Jesus Peace plan is the antidote to the five biggest
Speaker 2: problems on this planet. Go look up the millennial goals
Speaker 2: of the United Nations. You know what the millennial goals are.
Speaker 2: They all have to do with these five big problems.
Speaker 2: Emptiness and conflict, corruption, self centered leadership, poverty, disease, and
Speaker 2: a lack of education their literacy. Jesus is the antidote
Speaker 2: to the world's greatest problems. So what does God want
Speaker 2: you to do? What does God want you to do? Well,
Speaker 2: look at this verse up here, on the screen. The
Speaker 2: Bible says this in Acts chapter twenty, verse twenty four.
Speaker 2: The most important thing you're talking about in my entire life,
Speaker 2: the most important thing with my life is that I
Speaker 2: complete my mission. God has a mission for your life.
Speaker 2: God has a life message he wants to say to
Speaker 2: the world to you. And God has a life mission
Speaker 2: for your life. The most important thing that I is
Speaker 2: my complete my mission.
Speaker 3: And what is.
Speaker 2: It the work that the Lord Jesus gave me? And
Speaker 2: what is it to tell people the good news about
Speaker 2: God's grace?
Speaker 3: How do I do that? Can you write? Quick? Let
Speaker 3: me give you four thanks? Do is it? Wrap it
Speaker 3: up with us? Four thanks? Number one? Pray.
Speaker 2: I pray that people will say yes to God. I
Speaker 2: pray that people will say yes to God and accept
Speaker 2: their life mission and their life message. In Matthew chapter nine,
Speaker 2: this is what Jesus said when he sent his followers
Speaker 2: out on the very.
Speaker 3: First peace trip. Here's what he said.
Speaker 2: Jesus said, there are so many people to harvest, but
Speaker 2: only a few workers to help harvest them. Pray pray
Speaker 2: to the Lord who owns the harvest, that he will
Speaker 2: send out. There's that phrase, call to be sent. He
Speaker 2: will send out more workers to gather his harvest. So
Speaker 2: part of your calling in life is to pray that
Speaker 2: God will send out people to reach everybody with the
Speaker 2: good news of God's love, because everybody deserves to hear
Speaker 2: Does anybody deserve the chance to hear the good news
Speaker 2: twice when there's some people who haven't heard it once.
Speaker 2: So we pray, we pray that God will send people out.
Speaker 2: And that's the first thing you do. Second thing you
Speaker 2: can do is you can give, give to help others go.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're in a stage of life you can't go
Speaker 2: right now, but you can give to help others people go.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're at home with young little ones preschoolers and
Speaker 2: you couldn't go to somewhere in the world. Or maybe
Speaker 2: you're an elderly person and you know you've gotten a
Speaker 2: little more creaky in your old age, and you know
Speaker 2: you got a hitch in your get along and you
Speaker 2: don't know how to but you can help. When the
Speaker 2: Bible says, when you support other people to go on
Speaker 2: humanitarian missions and peace missions and relief missions and sharing
Speaker 2: the good news missions, you actually participate in their reward.
Speaker 2: The Bible says this in Third John chapter one, verse eight.
Speaker 2: We must support believers. Let me talk about financial support.
Speaker 2: We must support believers who go on trips like this
Speaker 2: so we can work together with them in spreading the truth.
Speaker 2: And then Matthew ten verse eight says this freely have
Speaker 2: you received? Freely give? So God says I've been generous
Speaker 2: with you. You should be generous and help get the word out.
Speaker 2: I can pray, I can get number three, step out,
Speaker 2: I could step out in faith. And what does that mean?
Speaker 2: Volunteer God's army. God's mission is one hundred percent volunteer.
Speaker 2: It's no conscription, there's no draft. You got to volunteer.
Speaker 2: You gotta say, Lord, I'm in, I'm willing, I'm able.
Speaker 2: Do you know what God uses me? Because I volunteered.
Speaker 2: In fact, I volunteer every day of my life, said God.
Speaker 2: I wake up in the morning, and before my feet
Speaker 2: hit the ground, I say, Lord, I know you're going
Speaker 2: to do some really cool things in the world today.
Speaker 2: Would you give me the privileges us being in on
Speaker 2: some of them? And the trains moving. I just want
Speaker 2: to get on his train. I want to get in.
Speaker 2: I don't get out and say God, bless what I'm doing.
Speaker 2: I get up in the morning and say, God, help
Speaker 2: me to do what you're blessing. I know you're going
Speaker 2: to bless a bunch of things in the world today.
Speaker 2: Would you let me get in on some of it?
Speaker 2: I want to get in on this plane. It's not
Speaker 2: God working on my plan. I'm working on his PLANEL said, God,
Speaker 2: bless my plans. To say, God, what do you planned
Speaker 2: to do today? Can I be in on some of it?
Speaker 2: I step out in faith like Isaiah did, the great
Speaker 2: prophet in the Old Testament Isaiah six' to. Eight isaiah,
Speaker 2: says THEN i heard the voice of The lord, saying
Speaker 2: whom SHALL i? Send there's that Word i'm called to?
Speaker 2: Me said who WILL i? Sin and who will go for?
Speaker 2: Us AND i said to The, lord hear My, lord send,
Speaker 2: me send. Me thirty nine years, ago WHEN i was
Speaker 2: one year, OLD i volunteered to give a summer In, Nagasaki,
Speaker 2: japan to help start a new. CHURCH i was twenty years.
Speaker 2: OLD i didn't know a single word Of. JAPANESE i
Speaker 2: didn't know anything about helping a. CHURCH i just, SAID
Speaker 2: i want to be in on What god's, doing and
Speaker 2: SO i, volunteered AND i gave my summer that summer
Speaker 2: WHEN i was twenty years old to move To japan
Speaker 2: for three, months AND i, SAID i don't Speak, japanese
Speaker 2: but whatever you need to, do run, errands print, programs
Speaker 2: take out. Coffee AND i helped start a new church
Speaker 2: in the suburbs Of, Nagasaki. Japan thirty nine years, later
Speaker 2: that church is still doing. Good It's karen for the,
Speaker 2: sick it's assisting the, poor it's educating the next. Generation
Speaker 2: it's telling people the good. News it's helping them find
Speaker 2: freedom from their faults and their hang ups and their,
Speaker 2: hurts finding freedom from. Addictions it's putting marriages back. Together
Speaker 2: it's changing, lives it's helping people get ready for. Heaven
Speaker 2: it's doing all kinds of good. Things was that worth
Speaker 2: three months of my? Life are you kidding? ME i
Speaker 2: think of all the THINGS i could have done that.
Speaker 2: SUMMER i could have spent the whole summer just. Surfing
Speaker 2: nobody would have remembered. IT i could have spent the
Speaker 2: whole summer just Playing Jimmy hendricks out. Records anybody remember?
Speaker 2: RECORDS i think you're all too young for. That, okay
Speaker 2: they're these big, things all. Right AND i could have
Speaker 2: tell you one hundred different. WAYS i got wasted that,
Speaker 2: summer BUT i did something WHERE i bore fruit that will.
Speaker 2: Last and thirty nine years, later that church is still
Speaker 2: helping a lot of people get their act, together get
Speaker 2: their lives. Changed and Someday i'm going to go to
Speaker 2: heaven and somebody's going to come up to me from
Speaker 2: that church and, SAY i want to thank You, rick
Speaker 2: AND i, GO i don't.
Speaker 3: Even know you said, no but you helped start a church.
Speaker 2: Fifty years, ago and last year BEFORE i, died that
Speaker 2: church taught me the good news AND i found forgiveness
Speaker 2: AND i found, freedom AND i found redemption AND i
Speaker 2: found salvation and my life was radically changed for the.
Speaker 2: Better And i'm in heaven because of.
Speaker 3: You. Thanks will that be worth? It?
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah that's fruit that will. Let what have you
Speaker 2: done in your life that's going to? Last what do
Speaker 2: you want to do in your life that's going to?
Speaker 2: Last if you Want god to use you in any,
Speaker 2: area something like this or anything, else you just have to,
Speaker 2: Say i'm IN i dare you to pray the most dangerous,
Speaker 2: prayer the most dangerous prayer you can ever, pray is
Speaker 2: only two. Words you've heard me talk about this. Far
Speaker 2: it's only two. Words the single most dangerous.
Speaker 3: Prayer you can say is, this use. Me you tell
Speaker 3: that one To.
Speaker 2: God you better get your boots, on Because god is
Speaker 2: looking for people to. Use and what we need is
Speaker 2: the same attitude That david. Had look at this Verse
Speaker 2: psalm sixty. Seven send us around your around the world
Speaker 2: with the news of your saving power and your eternal
Speaker 2: plan for all. Mankind that's the attitude, Jesse lord send me,
Speaker 2: here AM i send me Like isaiah, said the Great
Speaker 2: prophet Of. Israel SO i pray that people say yes To.
Speaker 2: GOD i give so others can. GO i step out
Speaker 2: in faith. Myself and number, four this is really. Important
Speaker 2: go WHERE i can, now you go WHERE i.
Speaker 3: Can.
Speaker 2: Now that's personal, peace that's local, peace and helping Other
Speaker 2: we live in the county that is filled with needs
Speaker 2: all around. Us once it was a guy who was
Speaker 2: just really struggling with some personal demons in his, life
Speaker 2: And jesus helped him get his head on right and
Speaker 2: helped him get his act, together and he wanted to
Speaker 2: Follow jesus on to the next, town And jesus told him.
Speaker 2: No look at this Verse luke, eight verse thirty, Nine jesus,
Speaker 2: said you go back. Home he, SAID i want you
Speaker 2: to go back home and tell people how Much god
Speaker 2: has done for. You so the man went all over
Speaker 2: town tell him how Much jesus had done for. Him
Speaker 2: some of the THINGS i think What god will say.
Speaker 2: You you need to go back. Home you need to
Speaker 2: tell people on your, campus if you're in, school or
Speaker 2: in your, business if you're in a, business or in your,
Speaker 2: neighborhood if you live in a, neighborhood to tell the
Speaker 2: people around, you tell them the good. News, now the
Speaker 2: last verse on your, outline that's a. MISPRINT i want
Speaker 2: you to scratch it. Out it's actually Two timothy four.
Speaker 2: Five it's not two, ten it's four to. Five so
Speaker 2: we're not on the two ten. Freeway we're on the
Speaker 2: four h five, freeway, okay Tewod timothy four to five,
Speaker 2: says this work at bringing others To. Christ why because
Speaker 2: they'll experiences, love the experiences. Forgiveness the experience is, peace
Speaker 2: the experience is, purpose the experience past forgiven purpose for.
Speaker 2: Living all of these things That god offers to us
Speaker 2: work and. Bring by the, way this is our memory.
Speaker 2: Verse you, know each week we're memorizing one verse from The.
Speaker 2: Bible and this WEEK i thought it'd be really nice
Speaker 2: and light on you and give you a, word a
Speaker 2: sentence that's only so short anybody can memorize. It so
Speaker 2: when you memorize The bible, verse you say the reference
Speaker 2: where are you find it in The? Bible at the,
Speaker 2: beginning at the. End so let's say this allowed to
Speaker 2: get Second timothy four or, five work at bringing others To?
Speaker 2: Christ Second timothy four or. Five by the, way what
Speaker 2: is Second timothy four?
Speaker 3: Five?
Speaker 2: Yeah and by the, way where does it say work
Speaker 2: and bringing others To christ in The?
Speaker 3: Bible very good? Class all, right let me.
Speaker 2: Close so just a couple of, practically how DO i
Speaker 2: work at bringing other people To? Christ how DO i
Speaker 2: help share the good news That god isn't mad at,
Speaker 2: us That god loves, us That god wants a. Relationship
Speaker 2: God jesus didn't come to give us. Religion he, Said
Speaker 2: i've come that you might have life and have it to.
Speaker 2: Abundance and you know, what most people aren't really, living
Speaker 2: they're just.
Speaker 3: Existing they're just.
Speaker 2: Existing you get up in the, morning go to, work come,
Speaker 2: home WATCH, tv go to, bed get up in the,
Speaker 2: morning go to, work come on WMATCH. Tv you go to,
Speaker 2: bed go to a party a week and, think, Man i'm. Living,
Speaker 2: no you're not, Living you're. Existing jesus, Said i've come
Speaker 2: that you might have, life not, religion life a. Relationship
Speaker 2: let me close with a. Prayer let's, Power.
Speaker 3: Dear.
Speaker 2: God what we've talked about this weekend is really the,
Speaker 2: subject dearest to your own. Heart you want people in your.
Speaker 2: Family you know everything about, us and you want us
Speaker 2: to know. You it's the reason you created the. Universe
Speaker 2: it's the reason you sent your son to die for.
Speaker 2: Us it's the reason you have never made anybody that
Speaker 2: you don't. Love you've never made anybody you didn't have
Speaker 2: a plan and purpose for their. Life SO i pray too. Things,
Speaker 2: first that you would keep us from being distracted in
Speaker 2: things in our life that really don't, matter that we
Speaker 2: wouldn't waste our lives on stuff that isn't going to.
Speaker 2: Last and, second give us the faith and give us
Speaker 2: the courage to pray the most dangerous prayer in the.
Speaker 2: World use me, now you talk To. GOD i, mean you,
Speaker 2: know it really doesn't matter what. Say just say, hey,
Speaker 2: hey Hey, God and what matters is being. Honest if
Speaker 2: you don't even know if there is A, god Say,
Speaker 2: god if you're, real make yourself real to, me and
Speaker 2: over time he. Will god never turns down a genuine.
Speaker 2: Seeker so just, say Dear, god if you're, real make
Speaker 2: yourself real to. ME i want to know, you and
Speaker 2: if you love, ME i want to learn to love you.
Speaker 2: Back AND i want to take the first, step the
Speaker 2: step of. Openness AND i pray this in. Sincerity it's
Speaker 2: BEST i know.
Speaker 3: How.
Speaker 1: Amen, Wow Thanks rick for such an encouraging. Message, hey
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