Speaker 1: Hey everybody, Happy New Year and welcome to Pastor Rick's
Speaker 1: Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren. As
Speaker 1: we begin a new year, it's the perfect time to ask,
Speaker 1: does my life really matter?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Today, Rick Launch is a powerful news series called Live
Speaker 1: Your Calling? What on Earth am I here?
Speaker 3: For?
Speaker 1: You'll discover that your deepest significance comes from understanding and
Speaker 1: living out God's purpose for your life. Okay, well, here's
Speaker 1: part one of a message called the Call is for You.
Speaker 3: One of the most beloved verses in the Bible is
Speaker 3: Romans eight twenty eight. So verse you've probably heard many, many,
Speaker 3: maybe hundreds of times. It's one of the great promises
Speaker 3: of the Bible, and it says this at the top
Speaker 3: of your outline.
Speaker 2: We know.
Speaker 3: That in all things God works for the good of
Speaker 3: those who him. And usually we stop right there, we
Speaker 3: leave off the second half of the verse, and we say,
Speaker 3: what a great promise. We know that in all things,
Speaker 3: not just the good things in life, but even in
Speaker 3: the bad things, the ugly things, the terrible, the tragic
Speaker 3: things of life. In all things, God works for the
Speaker 3: good of those who love Him. Doesn't say they're good.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of bad in life. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of bad things happening in your life, not all things
Speaker 3: that happen to your good. But God says all things
Speaker 3: God works them together for good. He can bring good
Speaker 3: out of even bad for those who love God. And
Speaker 3: usually we stop the verse right there, but the rest
Speaker 3: of the verse says this, we know that in all
Speaker 3: things God works for the good of those who love Him,
Speaker 3: who have been called, circle the word called, who have
Speaker 3: been called according to His purpose, and circle the word purpose.
Speaker 3: Circle called and circle purpose, and draw a line between them,
Speaker 3: because calling and purpose go together. And that's what we're
Speaker 3: going to look at for the next six weeks. Now,
Speaker 3: if I were to say to you, what do you
Speaker 3: think of first when I say the word call, make.
Speaker 2: A call, get a call, be called.
Speaker 3: You think of a telephone and maybe they calling out
Speaker 3: for pizza, you know, something like that. When I have
Speaker 3: to be honest with you, a little true confession, as
Speaker 3: your pastor, I don't like telephones. I never have because
Speaker 3: telephones to me represent two things. Number One, they represent
Speaker 3: an interruption, and maybe they don't seem like an interruption
Speaker 3: to you. But if you were a pastor, you would
Speaker 3: be on call twenty four hours a day, like doctors are,
Speaker 3: I get calls twenty four hours a day, often in
Speaker 3: the middle of the night, and so when the phone rings,
Speaker 3: it usually means it rings when I'm busy, or I'm relaxing,
Speaker 3: or I'm studying, or I'm sleeping, or I'm talking with
Speaker 3: somebody else or whatever. But it represents the interruption. The
Speaker 3: second thing reason I don't like it is because, in
Speaker 3: my case, it often or normally means bad news. Somebody's
Speaker 3: calling to tell me about somebody's just died, somebody's just
Speaker 3: lost the loved one, somebody's gone been rushed to the hospital,
Speaker 3: somebody's just found out a cancer test. And as a pastor,
Speaker 3: of course, I deal with people in pain literally every
Speaker 3: day of my life. And so when the phone rings,
Speaker 3: I'm not thinking, I wonder if I just won the lottery.
Speaker 3: First place, I don't use the lottery, which you shouldn't either.
Speaker 3: By the way, if you want to do the lottery,
Speaker 3: here's what you do. Come outside and just give me
Speaker 3: the money, okay, because you're not gonna get anything out
Speaker 3: of it. You might I might as well put it
Speaker 3: to use and use it for the peace plan. But
Speaker 3: you know, Let's say the phone rang one day and
Speaker 3: you thought this is an interruption or it's going to
Speaker 3: be bad news. But somebody who's calling to tell you
Speaker 3: just inherited fifty million dollars, you would not want to
Speaker 3: miss that call. What if God called you? Let me
Speaker 3: give you a little tip. When God calls, you do
Speaker 3: not use call waiting. When God calls, you do not
Speaker 3: put it on the answer voicemail. When God calls, you
Speaker 3: do not let it ring and ring and ring and ring.
Speaker 3: Pick it up on the first call when God calls you. Now,
Speaker 3: the Bible says you have already been called. You have
Speaker 3: been called according to His purpose. A couple verses down
Speaker 3: from that verse Romans eight thirty, it says this, look
Speaker 3: here on the screen. Those that God predestined he also called,
Speaker 3: and those he called he also justified, and those he
Speaker 3: justified he also glorified. Now that's a lot of big
Speaker 3: theological words, and we're going to cover some of those
Speaker 3: in the weeks ahead. But the word I wants to
Speaker 3: focus on as we begin live your calling is that
Speaker 3: word called. The Bible says you have been called by God.
Speaker 3: What does that mean? The word in the Greek is
Speaker 3: the word kalao ka l e o calaioh. It's almost
Speaker 3: like calleaioh call. And the word calaoh means God is
Speaker 3: calling you. And it's used about one hundred times in
Speaker 3: the New Testament, over one hundred times, and most of
Speaker 3: the time it's talking about your assignment in life, your
Speaker 3: purpose in life, your mission in life, the reason God
Speaker 3: created you.
Speaker 2: It is called your calling.
Speaker 3: Now in purpose driven life forty Days of Purpose, we
Speaker 3: looked at the word purpose, but actually the word calling,
Speaker 3: which refers to the same thing, is used ten times
Speaker 3: more than the word purpose in the Bible, ten times
Speaker 3: more to refer to your assignment, your purpose, the reason
Speaker 3: you exist, why God made you, What on earth am
Speaker 3: I here for? And in the next six weeks we're
Speaker 3: gonna look at why am I alive? And what am
Speaker 3: I supposed to do with my life? And if forty
Speaker 3: Days of Purpose was kindergarten, now we're moving a step
Speaker 3: up and we're going into the advanced class on God's
Speaker 3: calling on your life.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: The Greek word is the word kalo for calling. The
Speaker 3: Latin word is another word you've heard of for calling,
Speaker 3: and it is the word vocation. You've heard of that
Speaker 3: a vocation. Vocation comes from the Latin word vos vossera.
Speaker 3: It means to speak, it means to call. We get
Speaker 3: the word voice, we get the word vocal, vocalized comes
Speaker 3: from the word vocation. It is your calling. So your
Speaker 3: vocation and your calling are the same thing. Now here's
Speaker 3: the problem today. The word vocation has been so reduced
Speaker 3: and so minimized to just mean my job. My career
Speaker 3: is not your career. I'm going to explain that in
Speaker 3: detail in the weeks ahead. But your calling is not
Speaker 3: your career. Your calling is.
Speaker 2: Far far, far far far far far.
Speaker 3: More significant, far larger, far more all encompassing than your career.
Speaker 3: So your vocation is misused when you say my vocation
Speaker 3: is my job. No, you have a job, But your
Speaker 3: vocation is your calling in life. And we are going
Speaker 3: to study that. The Bible, this book is the story
Speaker 3: of God calling people, and the whole Bible is about
Speaker 3: God calling Noah, God calling Abraham, and Abraham responding, God
Speaker 3: calling Moses for a purpose in life, and Moses responding,
Speaker 3: God calling Nehemiah, who was a builder, God calling Isaiah
Speaker 3: and Jeremiah and Ezekiel and Daniel and Hoseiah, and Joel,
Speaker 3: and God calling David, in God calling Solomon, and in
Speaker 3: the New Testament, God calling Peter and Paul and Mary.
Speaker 3: And if you laughed at that, you are incredibly old. Okay,
Speaker 3: some twenty something Peter, Paul, Mary.
Speaker 2: I don't get it. I don't get it.
Speaker 3: Okay, God calling Paul, and God has a call on
Speaker 3: every person's life. What we're going to do together is
Speaker 3: look at five specific dimensions, like the five facets of
Speaker 3: a diamond, of God's call for your life, why you
Speaker 3: are alive, and what you're supposed to be doing with
Speaker 3: the rest of your life. How do you specifically fulfill
Speaker 3: that calling now? As your pastor my prayer for you
Speaker 3: in the next six weeks is going to be this
Speaker 3: verse there on your outline, Ephesians, chapter one. My prayer
Speaker 3: is that light will flood your hearts. You know when
Speaker 3: we sing that song Open the Eyes of my Heart, Lord,
Speaker 3: you know that song that's from this verse, that's from
Speaker 3: this verse. My prayer is that light will flood your
Speaker 3: hearts and that you will understand the hope, the hope
Speaker 3: that was given to you when God called you. Now
Speaker 3: understand the calling on your life. When you understand you
Speaker 3: when you understand your call in life is going to
Speaker 3: give you incredible hope, and he says, I want you
Speaker 3: to understand that. He says, when you do, when you
Speaker 3: understand God's calling on your life, then you will discover
Speaker 3: the glorious blessings that will be yours together with all
Speaker 3: of God's people. He said, when you know your calling,
Speaker 3: you understand, then you discover the incredible blessings that you've
Speaker 3: been missing out on. The reason I'm so excited about
Speaker 3: the next six weeks together is I'm going to take
Speaker 3: you to a whole another level to understand the glorious
Speaker 3: blessings that God wants to do in your life. Now,
Speaker 3: what we're gonna do today is I'm just going to
Speaker 3: introduce this subject and give you an overview of eight
Speaker 3: things you need to know. I'm going to summarize one
Speaker 3: hundred different verses on calling in the Bible and give
Speaker 3: you the eight things you need to know about your
Speaker 3: calling in life and why we're.
Speaker 2: Going to do this together.
Speaker 3: So let's look at eight things I need to know
Speaker 3: about my calling in life, Why God put me here
Speaker 3: on earth? Write these down.
Speaker 2: Number one.
Speaker 3: The first thing we learned from God's word is this.
Speaker 3: My calling is a gift from God. My calling is
Speaker 3: a gift from God. I don't earn it, I don't
Speaker 3: deserve it. I don't work for it. I don't bargain
Speaker 3: for it. I don't barter for it. It's just a
Speaker 3: flat out gift of God's grace. It is His present
Speaker 3: to me. When He created me, he called me, and
Speaker 3: it's all by grace. Galatians Chapter one says this, God,
Speaker 3: by his grace through Christ, has called you to become
Speaker 3: his people. Now circle the phrase by his grace. What
Speaker 3: is grace. Grace is undeserved kindness. Undeserved kindness. It is
Speaker 3: when God gives you what you need, now, what you deserve.
Speaker 3: If we all got what we deserved, we wouldn't be here.
Speaker 3: The fact is, God says, I give you what you need,
Speaker 3: not what you deserve. Grace is the fact that God
Speaker 3: knows every dumb mistake you're gonna make in life, and
Speaker 3: he still chose to create you. He knew all the
Speaker 3: times you were going to disobey him, and he still
Speaker 3: chose to create you.
Speaker 2: That is the grace of God.
Speaker 3: The fact is grace is that God knows all the
Speaker 3: things I've done, and even when I was thumbing my
Speaker 3: nose to him and rejecting him. God was saying, I
Speaker 3: love you, I love you, I love you. Now, your
Speaker 3: calling is actually a part of your salvation. The calling
Speaker 3: to Christ is also the calling to your purpose. Two
Speaker 3: Timothy one nine says He has saved us and called us.
Speaker 3: Notice they go together. Saved us and called us to
Speaker 3: a holy life, not because of anything we've done, but
Speaker 3: because of his own purpose and grace, his purpose and
Speaker 3: his grace. So God gives gives me a calling in
Speaker 3: life simply because he wants to give me a calling life.
Speaker 3: I don't deserve it, He just gives it to me.
Speaker 3: No circle the word purpose on that verse, because that
Speaker 3: leads us to the second.
Speaker 2: Thing we learned, and is this.
Speaker 3: I am called for God's purpose, not mine, but God's.
Speaker 3: I'm not called for God's God's I'm not called for
Speaker 3: my plan in life. I'm called for God's plan. God
Speaker 3: did not make you for you. You think God created
Speaker 3: you just to live a selfish little life of self centeredness.
Speaker 3: It's all about me, me, me, me, me, Are you
Speaker 3: kidding me?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: God didn't make you for you. You were made by God,
Speaker 3: and you were made for God and until you understand
Speaker 3: that life's never gonna make sense, and you're gonna get.
Speaker 2: Bored, and you're gonna get frustrated.
Speaker 3: You're gonna have all kinds of difficulty because you don't
Speaker 3: understand you were made for God. I am called for
Speaker 3: God's purpose. God's calling is about His plan for my life,
Speaker 3: not my plan. His dream for my life, not my dream.
Speaker 3: His purpose for my life, not my purpose, or my
Speaker 3: parents purpose, or my boyfriend's purpose, or my husband or
Speaker 3: wife's purpose, is for God's purpose for my life.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: A good example of this is the story of Jacob
Speaker 3: and Esau in the Bible. They were twins. There was
Speaker 3: a guy in the Bible named Abraham and he had
Speaker 3: a son named Isaac, and Isaac had two sons who
Speaker 3: were twins, Jacob and Esau. Now, in those days, the
Speaker 3: firstborn child, particularly the firstborn son, got all of the credit,
Speaker 3: got all of the glory, got.
Speaker 2: All of the love.
Speaker 3: Of the firstborn son was the one who he would
Speaker 3: inherit the family inheritance and is like you're special. Number one,
Speaker 3: you're great, and number two, Oh, we're glad you're here too.
Speaker 3: It was kind of like an aside. And God didn't
Speaker 3: like that. And in the case of Esau and Jacob,
Speaker 3: Esau was the firstborn son, and God said, you know what,
Speaker 3: I have a calling for Esau's life, and I have
Speaker 3: a calling for Jacob's life. But just because I want
Speaker 3: to do this, we're going to reverse it. And I'm
Speaker 3: choosing Jacob to get the blessing of the firstborn son,
Speaker 3: even though he was born second. And he told this
Speaker 3: to their mother, Rebecca, before she even delivered. In Romans
Speaker 3: chapter nine, it says this before the two boys were born,
Speaker 3: God told Rebecca, the older will serve the younger. Now,
Speaker 3: that's exact opposite of culture. And this was before the
Speaker 3: boys had done anything. In other words, they didn't deserve it.
Speaker 3: They hadn't merit it anything good or bad. God said
Speaker 3: this so that the one chosen would be chosen because
Speaker 3: of God's own plan, It's his purpose. He was chosen
Speaker 3: because he was the one God wanted to call, not
Speaker 3: because of anything he did. I'm fortunate that I learned
Speaker 3: my call in life at a pretty young age. I
Speaker 3: hadn't done anything, I hadn't deserved anything. I certainly wasn't
Speaker 3: worthy of any kind of call. But I learned what
Speaker 3: I'm going to be teaching you in the next six weeks.
Speaker 3: When I was sixteen years old, I was actually working
Speaker 3: at a camp in northern California, up in the mountains
Speaker 3: in the Redwoods, and one night I went back to
Speaker 3: my cabin and I got down on my knees and
Speaker 3: I said, God, I don't understand it all, and if
Speaker 3: you're there, I just I want to trust you, and
Speaker 3: so God, I need to know what you want to
Speaker 3: do with my life. And I pray to prayer that
Speaker 3: night and said, God, I'm signing my name on the check.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what the amount is saying to you,
Speaker 3: I'm yours and I'm going to serve you the rest
Speaker 3: of your life and I'm going to fulfill the calling
Speaker 3: you have for me. And I prayed that prayer and
Speaker 3: as soon as I finished praying that period, do you
Speaker 3: want to know what's happened?
Speaker 2: Nothing?
Speaker 3: No angels came down and flapped their wings. There's no
Speaker 3: blinding light, no thunder, no lightning. My hair didn't turn
Speaker 3: white like Charleston Heston. You know, It's like nothing happened.
Speaker 3: But that was the turning point in my life when
Speaker 3: I recognized God's rite.
Speaker 2: And call on my life. And from that moment.
Speaker 3: On I became by vocational, which means I would have
Speaker 3: a job in which I would put food on the table,
Speaker 3: and I would have a job in which I would
Speaker 3: pay all my bills. But I would also have a calling,
Speaker 3: and my career and my calling might match sometimes but
Speaker 3: might not match other times, because my calling was from
Speaker 3: God and the career was just how I was making
Speaker 3: a live at that point. Career makes a living, calling
Speaker 3: makes a life. And so from that point on, I
Speaker 3: was by vocational the rest of my life, and I
Speaker 3: did a number of different jobs even though I had
Speaker 3: this call on my life. At one point, I was
Speaker 3: a dishwasher. At one point, I was a cook. At
Speaker 3: one point, I was a lifeguard for three years. At
Speaker 3: one point I worked in a butcher shop that was a.
Speaker 2: Whole lot of fun.
Speaker 3: At one point I picked fruit, I picked grapes, and
Speaker 3: I picked pears. At one point, I was an editor
Speaker 3: of a magazine. Another point, I taught college. I actually
Speaker 3: taught college. One point, I was a youth pastor. And
Speaker 3: then for the last thirty years I've been a pastor.
Speaker 3: My job has changed many, many, many times, but my
Speaker 3: calling has never changed. Regardless of what my job was.
Speaker 3: You have a calling that is unique to your life.
Speaker 3: The Bible says in Ephesians two ten, for we are
Speaker 3: God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works.
Speaker 3: In other words, we're made for a purpose to do
Speaker 3: good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Speaker 3: Now this verse is filled with some important truth, so
Speaker 3: let's look at it. Versus says, we're God's workmanship. Circle
Speaker 3: That word, the word there in the Bible, in the
Speaker 3: Greek is the word poem. It's the word we get
Speaker 3: poem from. You are God's poem. You are God's work
Speaker 3: of art. You are God's craftsmanship, workmanship. Many translations of
Speaker 3: the Bible translate this, You are God's masterpiece. He said, well,
Speaker 3: I don't think i'm much of a masterpiece. Well, then
Speaker 3: you don't realize how much value God has put.
Speaker 2: In your life.
Speaker 3: He said, well, I'm not a MASTERI I'm pretty beat
Speaker 3: up piece of junk. You're not junk. Jesus didn't die
Speaker 3: for junk. If you look at Jesus on the cross,
Speaker 3: arms out wretched in his nail pierced hands, and he's saying,
Speaker 3: this is how valuable you are. This is how valuable.
Speaker 3: I'm you're valuable enough to die for. You're not junk
Speaker 3: because God doesn't create junk, Jesus doesn't die for junk,
Speaker 3: and the Holy Spirit doesn't live in junk. You are
Speaker 3: a masterpiece. You're God's masterpiece. But it only shows when
Speaker 3: you fulfill your calling. If you try to be what
Speaker 3: somebody else wants you to be, you're gonna miss it,
Speaker 3: and your true beauty, your true greatness, won't come out.
Speaker 3: You are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do
Speaker 3: good works. Those good works are your contribution to the world.
Speaker 3: You were not put on this planet just to breathe
Speaker 3: and take up space and die. You weren't put here
Speaker 3: to simply be a consumer. Oh, I know there's a
Speaker 3: new kind of makeup. I think I'll get that. Oh
Speaker 3: there's a new clotheing. All get that. No, you were
Speaker 3: put here to be a contributor, to make a contra
Speaker 3: with your life, and the Bible calls your life contribution,
Speaker 3: your good works. It's part of your calling. Now here's
Speaker 3: the cool thing. We all have different good works. Your contribution,
Speaker 3: your good works are going to be different than my contribution.
Speaker 3: My good works, and my contribution good works are going
Speaker 3: to be different than the person sitting next to you,
Speaker 3: and God makes us all different, gives us all different
Speaker 3: callings so that everything in the world gets done. It's
Speaker 3: all a part of it, your God's workmanship, created to
Speaker 3: make a contribution which God prepared in advance. Circle That
Speaker 3: prepared in advance for us to do. That means a
Speaker 3: long time before you thought of it, God had thought
Speaker 3: of your calling. In fact, here's the third principle. Number three.
Speaker 3: God chose my calling before I was born. You need
Speaker 3: to know that as we get ready to go in
Speaker 3: to live your calling the next six weeks.
Speaker 2: My calling is a gift from God.
Speaker 3: I'm called for God's purpose, not mine, and my calling
Speaker 3: was before I was born. God chose it. Let me
Speaker 3: show you some verses on this. Galatians chapter one, verse fifteen.
Speaker 3: Paul says, it pleased God in his kindness to choose
Speaker 3: me and call me even before I was born.
Speaker 2: What undeserved mercy.
Speaker 3: Here's another example, Jeremiah and Jeremiah chapter one, verse five.
Speaker 3: Before I shaped you in the womb, I knew all
Speaker 3: about you, before you saw the light of day. I
Speaker 3: had holy plans for you. God called you before you
Speaker 3: were even born, and the Bible says, God uniquely shaped you.
Speaker 2: You are a custom made.
Speaker 3: Baby, your prescription baby said, well, I got all kinds
Speaker 3: of flaws. Isaiah forty four, Verse two. I am your creator.
Speaker 3: You were in my care even before you were born. Now,
Speaker 3: this is going to be our memory verse this week,
Speaker 3: so I want you to look at it in detail.
Speaker 3: It says three things. First, it says I am your creator.
Speaker 3: What does that mean? It means you're not an accident.
Speaker 3: You were uniquely chosen, created and called by God. He said,
Speaker 3: why isn't important for me to not think I'm an accident?
Speaker 3: Because if you think you're an accident, you're going to
Speaker 3: live like it, and you're going to accidentally just kind
Speaker 3: of go through life without any purpose, without any direction.
Speaker 3: You're not an accident. I am your creator. You're not
Speaker 3: an accident. You were in my care. That means you're
Speaker 3: deeply loved. You were in God's care when you were
Speaker 3: in the womb, he says, even while you were growing
Speaker 3: inside your mother. Do you realize this is why abortion
Speaker 3: is wrong? Because that's not a fetus in that mother.
Speaker 3: That's a baby that God has already numbered, that baby's
Speaker 3: days chose that baby to be born. Accidental parents, yes,
Speaker 3: accidental babies. No, God chose to create and call you
Speaker 3: before you're even born. So you weren't a fetus before
Speaker 3: you were born. You were a baby already chosen, already called,
Speaker 3: and already created by God for a purpose and a calling.
Speaker 3: And then it says you were in my care before
Speaker 3: I was even born. God plans you before you're born. Now,
Speaker 3: I want you to memorize this verse because it will
Speaker 3: encourage you on days you feel discouraged, when you feel
Speaker 3: like your life's an accident. It's not when you feel
Speaker 3: like nobody cares. God does, when you feel like your
Speaker 3: life doesn't have a purpose. God planns you before you
Speaker 3: were born. So we're gonna learn this now. The important
Speaker 3: part of a memory verse, remember, is always learning the address,
Speaker 3: that is where it is in the Bible. That's the
Speaker 3: hardest part to remember, the numbers, the chapter and the
Speaker 3: verse Isaiah forty four to two. So the way you
Speaker 3: learn a Bible verse is you say it aloud. You
Speaker 3: learn through the ear, not through the eye. You can
Speaker 3: read something over and over and over and he still
Speaker 3: want memorize it. You only learn it by saying it
Speaker 3: and when you say it, you learn through the ear.
Speaker 2: You memorize with the.
Speaker 3: Ear, So each week for six weeks, we're gonna memorize. Now,
Speaker 3: that's pretty short verse. It's like ten words. You can
Speaker 3: get this. So let's say it aloud together. We'll say
Speaker 3: the verse reference at the beginning and at the end. Okay,
Speaker 3: read it with me, Isaiah forty four to two. I
Speaker 3: am your creator. You were in my care.
Speaker 2: Even before you were born. And where's that verse?
Speaker 3: Isaiah forty four to two?
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