Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, thanks for joining us today on Pastor Rick's
Speaker 1: Daily Hope, the Bible teaching Ministry of Rick Warren. Today
Speaker 1: we're bringing our series called the Habits of Happiness to
Speaker 1: a close. In this series, Rick dives into the Book
Speaker 1: of Philippians and helps you discover God's path to true
Speaker 1: and lasting happiness. And now over to Rick with the
Speaker 1: final part of a message called God's Promise to the generous.
Speaker 2: Every time you're generous, what happens is a change takes
Speaker 2: place in you. Every time in you your heart moves,
Speaker 2: just another tweak up the dial toward God. You become
Speaker 2: more like Jesus. You become more loving. Every time you give.
Speaker 2: You the Bible says, you give a cup of cold
Speaker 2: water in Jesus' name. He said that counts. Every time
Speaker 2: I practice generosity, I become a little bit more like Jesus. Philippius,
Speaker 2: Chapter one, verse eleven says this your lives will be
Speaker 2: filled with the truly good qualities which only Jesus Christ
Speaker 2: can produce for the glory and praise of God. Now,
Speaker 2: what we're talking about here is extremely counterculture, because everything
Speaker 2: in our culture does not say give. Everything on our
Speaker 2: culture says get would you agree we're living in an
Speaker 2: increasingly self centered culture. Ever, I agree with that narcissism
Speaker 2: is on the ride. It's all about me, me, myself, I,
Speaker 2: my stuff, my things, my needs II III. Now the
Speaker 2: middle letter of crime is I, and the middle letter
Speaker 2: of pride is I, and the middle letter of sin
Speaker 2: is I. I have an eye problem. And when I'm generous,
Speaker 2: what does it do? It gets the focus off me,
Speaker 2: and I stop thinking about me, and I start thinking
Speaker 2: about others. Philippians two four and five says this, don't
Speaker 2: just look out for your own interest. You realize how
Speaker 2: counterculture that is, but look also to the interest of others.
Speaker 2: Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ.
Speaker 2: Jesus the Bible says he became poor that we might
Speaker 2: be enriched. Number four, The fourth reason our benefit of
Speaker 2: generosity is every time I'm generous, I strengthen my faith.
Speaker 2: I strengthen my faith. My faith gets stronger. Why is that?
Speaker 2: Because when I give, when I take something that I've
Speaker 2: got and instead of using it on me, and I
Speaker 2: use it to help you, then I'm going to have
Speaker 2: to depend on God to help me. Let's say, you know,
Speaker 2: I've got some money that I want to. I need
Speaker 2: to pay my bills with and I help you because
Speaker 2: you're in a tough fix. Now, I've got to trust
Speaker 2: God all I've only got a certain amount of time,
Speaker 2: and I got to get all my stuff done, and
Speaker 2: I stop and I help my neighbor with my time. Now,
Speaker 2: I've got to trust God to help him that all
Speaker 2: my little bit of time left, He'll expand it and
Speaker 2: make it work so I can get stuff I need
Speaker 2: to get done. When I only have a certain amount
Speaker 2: of energy, and I go invest it in helping somebody
Speaker 2: else when I go, I've got all the stuff on
Speaker 2: my to do list to do. That's a statement of
Speaker 2: faith because I'm going God, I'm gonna trust you that
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna worry about it, but I'm going to
Speaker 2: pray about it and expect you to take care of
Speaker 2: my needs. Every time I give, my faith grows stronger.
Speaker 2: Every time I give, it's like a muscle, it just
Speaker 2: gets stronger. Philippians four to six says this, do not
Speaker 2: worry about anything. Instead, pray and ask God for everything
Speaker 2: you need, always giving thanks. In other words, I'm just
Speaker 2: going to trust God to meet my needs. Number five,
Speaker 2: the fifth benefit of generosity. Every time I'm generous, I
Speaker 2: invest in my eternal home. The Bible says, every time
Speaker 2: I invest, I'm generous when I give time, money, energy,
Speaker 2: whatever I invest in my eternal home. Now, Jesus called
Speaker 2: this principle quote storing up treasure in heaven. This phrase,
Speaker 2: he says, store up for yourselves, not for God. It says,
Speaker 2: store up for yourselves treasure in heaven. Now, you want
Speaker 2: to know how many times Jesus used this phrase when
Speaker 2: he says store up for yourselves treasure in heaven. He
Speaker 2: didn't say it once in the Bible. He didn't say
Speaker 2: it twice. He didn't say it three times. He didn't
Speaker 2: say it four times. He didn't say it five times.
Speaker 2: Jesus said the phrase store up for yourselves treasure and
Speaker 2: heaven six times. Now, I want you to listen very closely.
Speaker 2: Anytime Jesus says anything six times, you better listen to it,
Speaker 2: because if you don't, you're the one who's gonna get hurt.
Speaker 2: In the long run, You're the one who's gonna miss
Speaker 2: the blessing. You're gonna miss the benefit. Anytime Jesus says
Speaker 2: anything six times, then I better figure out what that means,
Speaker 2: because he's going get the message. This is really important.
Speaker 2: Life is not about storing up things here on earth.
Speaker 2: Life is about storing up things in heaven. It's like
Speaker 2: banking in heaven. It's investing in heaven. Now. You can
Speaker 2: store up things either here on Earth or in heaven.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, don't store up a whole bunch of
Speaker 2: stuff here on earth, where thieves can steal it, where
Speaker 2: rust can rust it, where moths can eat the clothes away.
Speaker 2: So it says, store up in heaven. Now that makes sense. Why,
Speaker 2: because you're gonna spend a whole lot more time in
Speaker 2: heaven than here, and you're gonna need the storage, the spoils,
Speaker 2: the rewards in heaven far more than here. You're only
Speaker 2: getting eighty years at the most one hundred on this planet.
Speaker 2: That's not very long. Everything you store up here on
Speaker 2: Earth you're leaving behind, but storing up treasure in heaven,
Speaker 2: you're gonna get to enjoy that for trillions and trillions
Speaker 2: and trillions and trillions and trillions of years. So it
Speaker 2: obviously makes more sense that I should be investing more
Speaker 2: in eternity than here and now, because I only get
Speaker 2: to enjoyed here, and anything I've got here, I'm leaving here.
Speaker 2: You can't take it with you. I've said many times,
Speaker 2: you never see a hearst pull on a U haul truck.
Speaker 2: You can't take it with you, But the Bible says
Speaker 2: you can send it on ahead. Now look at what
Speaker 2: Paul says here. He says, I invest in my internal home.
Speaker 2: He says, I'm really glad you Philippians are being generous
Speaker 2: because he said, you're actually storing up treasure in heaven.
Speaker 2: You're you're gonna get the reward there. He said, you
Speaker 2: will be rewarded for everything you've given away. You're given
Speaker 2: away your time, You're going to be rewarded in heaven.
Speaker 2: You're given away your energy. You're gonna be rewarded in heaven.
Speaker 2: You're gonna give away your money. You're gonna be rewarded
Speaker 2: in heaven. Philippians four seventeen. Paul says, though I appreciate
Speaker 2: your gifts, you Philippian Church, I love you guys. Thank
Speaker 2: you you helping me out. What really makes me happiest
Speaker 2: is the well earned reward circle that the well earned
Speaker 2: reward that you will receive because of your generosity. He says,
Speaker 2: you're storing up treasure in heaven. I love it. The
Speaker 2: New American Bible says, I want you to have the
Speaker 2: profit that a cruise to your own account. That word
Speaker 2: in Greek, the profit that a cruise is interest bearing account. Okay,
Speaker 2: interest bearing account. I want to ask you are you investing?
Speaker 2: How are you doing on your retirement account. I'm not
Speaker 2: talking about the retirement account here, I'm talking about your ER,
Speaker 2: your eternal retirement account, not your IRA, the individual retirement account.
Speaker 2: How you have you sent anything on ahead? Is there
Speaker 2: going to be anything in heaven there for you to
Speaker 2: build on? Are you all piloting it up on this side?
Speaker 2: That is a fatal mistake. That's why Jesus says six times.
Speaker 2: You really need to consider this. You're not gonna live
Speaker 2: very long here, but you're gonna live forever there. You
Speaker 2: need to send it on ahead. This is a statement
Speaker 2: of faith, and this is an investment in your eternal home.
Speaker 2: The contemporary English version says, I want you to receive
Speaker 2: the blessings that come from giving. Did you know that
Speaker 2: there's a verse in the Bible and Proverbs that says
Speaker 2: every time you give to the poor, God says I
Speaker 2: consider it as a loan to God, and I will
Speaker 2: repay it, says He who gives to the poor loans
Speaker 2: to the Lord, and he will repay where in heaven.
Speaker 2: In heaven, God says, when you give to help somebody else,
Speaker 2: you are actually storing up in heaven. You're building your
Speaker 2: eternal home. Now, how do I do that? Look at
Speaker 2: this next verse verse Timothy six, verse eighteen and nineteen.
Speaker 2: Give happily, Circle that and happily. Okay. Bible says, God
Speaker 2: loves a cheerful giver. I saw bumper. Shicres say he
Speaker 2: also accepts from the grouch. But actually, actually, if you're grouchy,
Speaker 2: don't give. Why because you don't get any it for it?
Speaker 2: Because God doesn't want the money. God wants your attitude. Okay,
Speaker 2: he doesn't care. In fact, the Bible says very clearly,
Speaker 2: you should never give out of guilt, and you should
Speaker 2: never give or be generous out of pressure. If anybody
Speaker 2: ever pressures you to give or makes you feel guilty
Speaker 2: to get, you should not give. The Bible says it
Speaker 2: very clearly why because God doesn't want it. God need it.
Speaker 2: God doesn't want it. He wants your heart. Okay. If
Speaker 2: my kids are forced to give me a gift. It's
Speaker 2: not much of a gift, but if they come and
Speaker 2: enjoy it, Daddy, I got this for you that really
Speaker 2: warms my heart. Give happily to those in need, and
Speaker 2: always be ready to share whatever God has given you.
Speaker 2: Are you a giver or you take her? By doing this,
Speaker 2: you will be storing up real treasures for yourself in heaven.
Speaker 2: It is the only safe investment for eternity. So every
Speaker 2: time I'm generous, I are in the gratitude of other
Speaker 2: I show what really matters. I become more like Jesus.
Speaker 2: I strengthen my faith, and I invest in my eternal home.
Speaker 2: Then number six, when you learn this from the Book
Speaker 2: of Philippians, every time I'm generous, I make God smile.
Speaker 2: Every time you are generous, you make God smile. You
Speaker 2: make God happy. Generous giving is an act of worship
Speaker 2: that honors God. And notice this Philippians four eighteen. Your
Speaker 2: gifts are like a fragrant offering to God, a sacrifice
Speaker 2: that God accepts and is pleasing to him, pleasing him.
Speaker 2: It makes God smile, It makes God's happy. Now, those
Speaker 2: of you are parents, are you happy when your kids
Speaker 2: are selfish and won't share their toys. No, are you
Speaker 2: happy when your kids learn to share their toys? Of
Speaker 2: course you are. Are you happy when when your kids
Speaker 2: are generous? Of course you are. So is God. God
Speaker 2: loves it when his kids learn to be generous. Every
Speaker 2: time you're generous, you're not selfish. You give away money,
Speaker 2: you give away time, you give away energy, not for
Speaker 2: your own benefit. God goes, that's my boy. That's my boy.
Speaker 2: Do you see how generousy he was? Just in that's
Speaker 2: my girl. Do you see how generous he was? They're
Speaker 2: my kids. God takes pride why like father, like son.
Speaker 2: God is the most generous person in the universe, and
Speaker 2: he wants his kids to be the same way. This
Speaker 2: is one of the habits of happiness. It's not the
Speaker 2: only one, but it's the one Paul ends with. We've
Speaker 2: looked at integrity, we've looked at humility, we've looked at reliability,
Speaker 2: and we've looked at productivity, we looked at serenity. Now
Speaker 2: he's talking about generosity. God is watching you every day
Speaker 2: of your life to see what you do with what
Speaker 2: He's given you. He's watching to see how generous you are.
Speaker 2: And this everything I just said, is the premise behind
Speaker 2: the greatest promise in the Bible. Okay, this he's ending
Speaker 2: the book with this promise. But when God says, are
Speaker 2: like these Philippians who were noted for their generosity, He said,
Speaker 2: when you give out of gratitude, when you give to
Speaker 2: become more like Jesus, when you give to stretch your faith,
Speaker 2: when you give to invest in your home in heaven,
Speaker 2: when you give to show what really matters most, and
Speaker 2: when you give to please God. Then God says this promise.
Speaker 2: Look at the promise Philippians four nineteen. Then God will
Speaker 2: meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in
Speaker 2: Christ Jesus. God says, you are never never going to
Speaker 2: outgive me. So God says, let's play this little game.
Speaker 2: You give to others, you give to me, I'll give
Speaker 2: to you, and we'll see who wins. Then God will
Speaker 2: meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in
Speaker 2: Christ Jesus. Now this is, as I said, the greatest
Speaker 2: promise in the Bible. So I want us to memorize it,
Speaker 2: and let's memorize it in the new International version. It's
Speaker 2: easy to memorize it in that Philippians four nineteen. You
Speaker 2: need to learn this one. Now, remember the hardest part
Speaker 2: to remember the versus the address where it is in
Speaker 2: the Bible. So you always say the verse before and
Speaker 2: after the reference where it is the address. And you
Speaker 2: memorize something, not by reading it. You memorize by saying it.
Speaker 2: We learn we memorize with the ear, not with the eye.
Speaker 2: So look up here on the screen and let's say
Speaker 2: Philippians four nineteen, allowed together and say the reference at
Speaker 2: the beginning of the end. Okay, ready, Philippians for nineteen.
Speaker 2: God will meet all my needs according to his glorious
Speaker 2: riches in Christ Jesus, Philippians for nineteen. By the way,
Speaker 2: you guys, what is in Philippians for nineteen? God will
Speaker 2: meet all my needs according to his glorious riches in
Speaker 2: Christ Jesus Philippians for nineteen. Now, how many needs? Will
Speaker 2: God meet all my needs? Why does he meet him?
Speaker 2: In Christ Jesus? What does that mean? It means because
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ died for you. He's already paid for everything
Speaker 2: you need. Because Jesus Christ died on the cross for you,
Speaker 2: he made a way for you to be in harmony
Speaker 2: with God, to be at peace with God, and He
Speaker 2: paid for everything you need in your life. So let's
Speaker 2: try it one more time. Philippians for nineteen. God will
Speaker 2: meet all my needs according to his glorious riches in
Speaker 2: Christ Jesus. Philippians for nineteen. Now that's a verse you
Speaker 2: ought to dale card. Put it on your refrigerator, put
Speaker 2: on your car visor, and you keep reading it because
Speaker 2: it's a great antidote to worry this week. When you
Speaker 2: go God, I don't have enough time to get all
Speaker 2: is done. God will meet all my needs according does
Speaker 2: glorious riches in Christ Jesus Philippins four nineteen. God, I
Speaker 2: don't I'm not feeling good today. I need strength, I
Speaker 2: need energy. God will meet all my needs according to
Speaker 2: his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. God. I need a date.
Speaker 2: God will meet all my needs a glory glorious riches
Speaker 2: in Christ Jesus. God, I need peace of mind. I
Speaker 2: am so stressed out. God will meet all my needs
Speaker 2: according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. But you
Speaker 2: got to remember the premise. Before the promise, God says,
Speaker 2: I'm watching to see if you're generous. Now let me
Speaker 2: close with this. There are two ways to be generous.
Speaker 2: Write these down by reason or by revelation. I want
Speaker 2: to explain this to you. You can be generous by
Speaker 2: rea or you can be generous by revelation. One of
Speaker 2: them gets God's blessing and the other doesn't. One of
Speaker 2: them requires faith and the other doesn't. Now, the Bible says,
Speaker 2: according to your faith, that will be done to you.
Speaker 2: So you want to do the one that requires faith,
Speaker 2: and that is not by reason but by revelation. There's
Speaker 2: two ways to give. For instance, if I see somebody,
Speaker 2: let's see, let's just take the example of the Philippines,
Speaker 2: not the Philippians, the Philippines. Okay, the Philippines had this
Speaker 2: terrible tragedy, this tsunami, this typhoon that happened. Ten thousand
Speaker 2: people died. We have Filipino families in our church who
Speaker 2: lost loved ones in that typhoon. Now I say, I
Speaker 2: read about that and go, man, I need to help
Speaker 2: these people. I want to be generous. Now there's two
Speaker 2: ways I can figure out how to help those people.
Speaker 2: I can go, okay, I can give by reason and
Speaker 2: say what's a reasonable amount that I can give? And
Speaker 2: what I do is I look at my check book
Speaker 2: and I figure out what I got, I could give that,
Speaker 2: and it's a reasonable amount. I don't have to pray
Speaker 2: about it. It doesn't stretch my faith. I just go
Speaker 2: that's what I can afford to give. That does not
Speaker 2: get the blessing of God, but it's the way most
Speaker 2: people give. Millions of dollars are given to charity and
Speaker 2: philanthropy every year by reason. People look say, how can
Speaker 2: I help this particular charity? And I'm going to write
Speaker 2: out a check and it's a reasonable amount. It's what
Speaker 2: can I afford to give. The other way is to
Speaker 2: give by revelation. And this makes giving our generosity an adventure.
Speaker 2: It stretches your faith. It's like we read on the
Speaker 2: front side of this about the Philippians. It said they
Speaker 2: gave more than they were able to give. How do
Speaker 2: you do that? How do you give more than you're
Speaker 2: able to give? You're not given by reason, you're given
Speaker 2: by revelation. You say, instead of saying, what can I
Speaker 2: afford to give to help this need? You go, Lord,
Speaker 2: what do you want to give? Through me? And God's
Speaker 2: always going to give you an amount that is way
Speaker 2: beyond what you think, so it forces you to trust him.
Speaker 2: I have done this literally hundreds and hundreds of times
Speaker 2: in my life, where I go, God, I have no
Speaker 2: idea what I should give to help this person, to
Speaker 2: help this cause, to help our church? What I have
Speaker 2: no idea? So just put an idea, and it's always
Speaker 2: something that I'm going There's no way I can do that.
Speaker 2: There's just no way, no way, God, no way. It's
Speaker 2: not reasonable. And God says, what you want to give
Speaker 2: by reason or revelation? Oh, you know, you know me.
Speaker 2: Of course. I want to stretch my faith. I want
Speaker 2: to grow, I want to be challenged. I want to
Speaker 2: go at the end, go, shoot, God did that one.
Speaker 2: It's just a flat out miracle. There's no way I
Speaker 2: could have done that on my own, And so I
Speaker 2: give by revelation. I learned to be a generous person
Speaker 2: from a little boy because my parents were the most
Speaker 2: generous people I've ever met in my life. They lived
Speaker 2: to give. I grew up I didn't have a problem
Speaker 2: being a taker. I didn't have a problem being a
Speaker 2: miser because I grew up in a family watching my
Speaker 2: dad be incredibly generous, watching my mom being it wasn't
Speaker 2: hard for me. It wasn't hard for me at all
Speaker 2: to be generous because I grew up in a family
Speaker 2: where my parents modeled it. If you have kids, you
Speaker 2: need to model generosity for your children so they don't
Speaker 2: learn it to be selfish little brats that they learned
Speaker 2: to be givers in life. So you discuss now, some
Speaker 2: of you say, Rick, I've never done this, for this
Speaker 2: is a new experience for me. I've never given by revelation,
Speaker 2: so I don't know how to do this. Let me
Speaker 2: give you a couple suggestions. One would be, if you're
Speaker 2: not tithing, that would start there just picking them out
Speaker 2: and just start giving on a regular basis and say God,
Speaker 2: we're gonna do this, and just picking them out and
Speaker 2: set it up. I would encourage you to do that.
Speaker 2: If you're not doing it, I do it. Second thing,
Speaker 2: if you are tithing, you're already giving. Let me suggest
Speaker 2: an idea. And I actually learned this from my parents.
Speaker 2: My parents developed the habit of at Christmas time giving
Speaker 2: a gift to God equal to the mount that they
Speaker 2: were going to spend on Christmas on everybody else. Now,
Speaker 2: think about this. Can you imagine going to a birthday party,
Speaker 2: by the way, whose birthday is Christmas. It's not yours,
Speaker 2: it's Jesus' birthday. What are you giving the birthday boy
Speaker 2: for Christmas? Can you imagine going to a birthday party
Speaker 2: and everybody gives the gifts to everybody else except the
Speaker 2: person whose birthday it is. What's wrong with this picture?
Speaker 2: By the way, you know where we got the idea
Speaker 2: of giving Christmas gifts to each other. It's from the
Speaker 2: wise men. The wise men brought the first gifts at
Speaker 2: Christmas to the baby Jesus. So you might want to say,
Speaker 2: I don't want to give more to other people than
Speaker 2: I'm given to the Lord who saved me, created me,
Speaker 2: and made me. Now we've been in this series on
Speaker 2: the habits of happiness. We've looked at all these different habits.
Speaker 2: I want to end the series with the words of
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ himself. Look at there the last verse on
Speaker 2: your outline talking about the habits of happiness. Jesus said this.
Speaker 2: Remember the words that Jesus himself said, there's more happiness
Speaker 2: in giving than in receiving. You guys, if I had time,
Speaker 2: I would give you my life as an example of
Speaker 2: this verse. Because God taught me how to be generous
Speaker 2: at a young age. To the point now you know
Speaker 2: my story that Kay and I give away ninety one
Speaker 2: percent of our income and live on nine raised it
Speaker 2: every year for thirty eight years, and I am the
Speaker 2: happiest guy on the planet. Why Because there's so much
Speaker 2: more fun in giving than in receiving. That's the habit
Speaker 2: of happiness. That's power heads for prayer. Lord, I want
Speaker 2: to thank you. I want to thank you for all
Speaker 2: the things you've given to me. Thank you that you
Speaker 2: made me, thank you that you created me, thank you
Speaker 2: that you gifted me. Thank you that you've saved me.
Speaker 2: Thank you for freedom, thank you for help, thank you
Speaker 2: for eyes to see, you in ears to hear. If
Speaker 2: you've never invited Jesus Christ in your heart, the first
Speaker 2: thing you need to do is you need to give
Speaker 2: yourself to God. That's what the Philippians did. They gave
Speaker 2: themselves to God. First, you need to say this, Jesus Christ,
Speaker 2: thank you for all that you've given me. I want
Speaker 2: to give myself to you. I want my life to
Speaker 2: be in the center of your plan. I want to
Speaker 2: live for the per that you made me. I want
Speaker 2: to trust you, I want to follow you. I want
Speaker 2: to learn to love you. I want to give myself
Speaker 2: to you, and I pray this in your name. Amen.
Speaker 2: You know, if you just prayed that prayer for the
Speaker 2: very first time, or you just recommitted your life to
Speaker 2: Jesus again today, would you let me know about it.
Speaker 2: There's something real about sharing your commitment. So write me
Speaker 2: Rick at pastor Rick dot com and say, Rick, I
Speaker 2: prayed that prayer of commitment. I gave my life to Christ.
Speaker 2: And I'll send you some material that will help you
Speaker 2: on your journey with Jesus. And I'll also pray for you.
Speaker 2: God bless you.
Speaker 1: What a moving message from Rick, and I'm also so
Speaker 1: moved when we hear from you. In fact, here's Rick
Speaker 1: with a letter from one of our listeners.
Speaker 2: Have you ever taken a step of faith with no
Speaker 2: idea what's next? Well, with the help of Daily Hope,
Speaker 2: Nicole did just that. She wrote this note to me, Hello,
Speaker 2: Pastor Rick. A close friend of mine suggested I listened
Speaker 2: to Daily Hope four years ago, and while I had
Speaker 2: faith and I loved the Lord, I was lost. But
Speaker 2: Daily Hope rescued me. My relationship with Jesus grew in
Speaker 2: ways and I never knew possible. I was soon baptized,
Speaker 2: and over the next four years I grew in boldness
Speaker 2: and in faith in the Lord, and I even left
Speaker 2: a high powered and high salaried position to follow a different,
Speaker 2: purpose driven path with the Lord's guidance. It's been a
Speaker 2: literal step forward in faith without knowing the next steps,
Speaker 2: certainly not something I was capable of years ago. And
Speaker 2: already God is showing me his goodness. You know, as
Speaker 2: my husband explores his own relationship with Jesus again, your
Speaker 2: ministry is literally a God's sin. Your ability to teach
Speaker 2: the good news and ways that are easy to understand
Speaker 2: and apply, it is just amazing. We also follow your
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Speaker 2: all you do for believers and those who are seeking
Speaker 2: Christ around the world. Rick You're loved and appreciated and
Speaker 2: no doubt a vessel of God's grace and mercy. Signed Nicole, Well, Nicole,
Speaker 2: I'm so glad that you've grown in your relationship with
Speaker 2: Jesus and you've taken the important step of getting baptized.
Speaker 2: What an important step this is, finding a church home,
Speaker 2: really listening to the Lord, and living a purpose driven life.
Speaker 2: All of that happens when you take time to listen
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