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<v Speaker 1>Hello, everybody. This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope with Rick Warren.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm really glad you're here today. We're continuing our series

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<v Speaker 1>from Psalm twenty three called living in the Goodness of God.

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<v Speaker 1>It's all about how God's goodness meets you right where

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<v Speaker 1>you are and brings hope even in difficult seasons. And

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<v Speaker 1>now part two of a message called how Jesus treats

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<v Speaker 1>his sheep.

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<v Speaker 2>Now number three, what about when he's leading me? What

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<v Speaker 2>if I get confused when he's leading me through life?

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<v Speaker 2>And what if I wander off? Well, that's the third

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<v Speaker 2>thing we learned, is that if I get confused and

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<v Speaker 2>I wander off, Jesus finds and brings me back. He

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<v Speaker 2>finds me and he brings me back. Now we're all

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<v Speaker 2>going to wander and Jesus had some specific things to

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<v Speaker 2>say about this. In Matthew chapter eighteen, verse twelve. He says,

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<v Speaker 2>if a shepherd, this is Jesus talking. If a shepherd

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<v Speaker 2>has a hundred sheep and one wanders away and is lost,

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<v Speaker 2>won't he leave the ninety nine safe sheep to go

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<v Speaker 2>search for the lost one?

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<v Speaker 3>Yes? Why?

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<v Speaker 2>Because every sheep matters. You matter to God. You matter

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<v Speaker 2>to God. He says, if I've got a one hundred sheep,

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<v Speaker 2>ninety nine of them are saved and one of them's lost,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going after the unsaved one. I'm going after the

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<v Speaker 2>lost one. That, by the way, is the heartbeat of

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<v Speaker 2>saddle Back Church. It's why we never stopped growing. Last weekend,

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<v Speaker 2>you heard we had over seventy one thousand people at

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<v Speaker 2>Saddleback Church in all of our campuses. And yet we're

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<v Speaker 2>not going to stop growing. Why not because we need

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<v Speaker 2>more people.

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<v Speaker 3>We don't.

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<v Speaker 2>My favorite sized church was three hundred people. Really it

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<v Speaker 2>was because I could know everybody, every kid, every cat,

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<v Speaker 2>every dog. Not to pay my salary, and I go

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<v Speaker 2>play golf three times a week, except I hate golf.

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<v Speaker 3>I love that because I knew everybody.

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<v Speaker 2>The fact there's the bigger church that gets, the more headaches,

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<v Speaker 2>the more problems, the more stressed. Why do we do this?

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<v Speaker 2>We do it because Jesus says, if there's one person

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<v Speaker 2>out there who still doesn't know me, we're going after them.

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<v Speaker 2>We don't grow for our benefit. We grow because people

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<v Speaker 2>need the Lord. And as long as there's one person

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<v Speaker 2>still out there who hasn't heard the good news of Jesus,

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<v Speaker 2>we're going to leave the ninety nine saved sheep and

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<v Speaker 2>go after the one.

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<v Speaker 3>Why because that's what Jesus did.

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<v Speaker 2>You see, it takes unselfish people to grow a church

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<v Speaker 2>to leave the ninety nine and go after the one.

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<v Speaker 3>And yet that's what Jesus did.

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<v Speaker 2>The church that doesn't want to grow is basically say

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<v Speaker 2>into the world, go to hell. That's what they said.

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<v Speaker 2>We're all saved, we're happy, we're going to Heaven. The

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<v Speaker 2>rest of you can go to hell. It takes unselfish

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<v Speaker 2>people to be like Jesus to say we're going to

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<v Speaker 2>keep reaching out. There's still one more who needs the Lord.

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<v Speaker 2>We're still one more who needs the Lord. So if

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<v Speaker 2>there's somebody out there confused and wandering, Jesus says, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>going after him. We're going to bring him back. This

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<v Speaker 2>is the reason Jesus came to Earth. Look at the

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<v Speaker 2>next verse, Luke Ate Luke nineteen, verse ten. Jesus said,

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<v Speaker 2>I came to seek and to save those who were lost.

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<v Speaker 3>That's why Jesus came to earth.

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<v Speaker 2>God came to earth in human form to seek and

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<v Speaker 2>save the lost. He's on a rescue mission, a search

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<v Speaker 2>and rescue mission. Now this follow the logic on this.

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<v Speaker 2>If we weren't lost, Jesus wouldn't have needed to come.

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<v Speaker 2>So it clearly implies we're lost without God. If you

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<v Speaker 2>could get to heaven simply on being kind of a

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<v Speaker 2>nice person and you have more good works out balancing

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<v Speaker 2>all your bad works, if that's how you could get

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<v Speaker 2>to heaven, then Jesus dying on the cross was a

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<v Speaker 2>total waste of time. Believe me, If there was any

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<v Speaker 2>other way for you to get into Heaven except by

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus Christ, God coming and living a perfect life, dying

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<v Speaker 2>for your sins because he didn't have any, don't you

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<v Speaker 2>think God would have used it. Don't you think God

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<v Speaker 2>would have chosen an easier way to gain your salvation if.

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<v Speaker 3>It was possible. There was no other way, And.

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus says I came to seek and save that which

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<v Speaker 2>is lost, which means the world is lost. Everybody is

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<v Speaker 2>not going to heaven. If they were, Jesus didn't need

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<v Speaker 2>to come to earth. Let me say it again. If

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<v Speaker 2>everybody was automatically going to heaven, Jesus did not need

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<v Speaker 2>to die on the cross. That was a big, total

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<v Speaker 2>waste of suffering and sorrow and sadness and pain. But

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<v Speaker 2>he said I came to seek and save that which

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<v Speaker 2>is lost. Look up here on the screen. The Bible says,

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<v Speaker 2>we are lost without God Isaiah fifty three, verse six.

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<v Speaker 2>We're all like sheep who've wandered off and gotten lost.

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<v Speaker 2>And we've all done our own thing, and we've all

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<v Speaker 2>gone our own way. And God has piled all our sins,

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<v Speaker 2>everything we've done wrong on him. Talking about what Jesus

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<v Speaker 2>did on the cross. Now he says, we're all like sheep.

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<v Speaker 2>It's human nature to wander, it's shuman nature to get lost.

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<v Speaker 2>Let me ask those how many of your parents got

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<v Speaker 2>your hands?

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<v Speaker 3>Your parents? All right? Question?

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<v Speaker 2>Is it easy or is it hard for a little

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<v Speaker 2>child to wander in a crowd and get lost?

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<v Speaker 3>Kind of obvious.

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<v Speaker 2>Have you ever had to teach your child how to

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<v Speaker 2>get lost? No, you never had the class. Let me

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<v Speaker 2>tell you how to get lost in.

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<v Speaker 3>Them all, son, But they already know how to do it.

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<v Speaker 2>Naturally, by our nature, we naturally wander. We wander away

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<v Speaker 2>from our parents, we wander away from God, We wander

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<v Speaker 2>away in the situations we shouldn't.

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<v Speaker 3>Be in, and we get lost.

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<v Speaker 2>And the Bible says allus in and comes short of

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<v Speaker 2>glory God, We're we're all lost. So God says, I'll

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<v Speaker 2>be the good shepherd, and I'm going to come and

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<v Speaker 2>seek and save. I'm gonna find you. It's in our nature.

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<v Speaker 2>We naturally wander, we naturally get lost in life. You

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<v Speaker 2>may be feeling lost right now. You're going to I

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<v Speaker 2>have the slightest idea what I'm supposed to do next

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<v Speaker 2>with my life? Feel a little lost. You're lost over

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<v Speaker 2>what to do with your finances. You feel a little

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<v Speaker 2>lost over what should I.

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<v Speaker 3>Do about my career? Do I stay here? Do I move? Sometimes?

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<v Speaker 3>You don't know. Do I hold on? Do I let go?

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<v Speaker 3>That's a hard one to discover. What do I do now?

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<v Speaker 2>Do I keep going? Do I give up? Do I

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<v Speaker 2>try something different? You feel a little confused. You're feeling

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<v Speaker 2>confused about things in your life. That's called being lost, friend,

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<v Speaker 2>because you don't have a guide who's walking through you

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<v Speaker 2>with it or you you've got the guide, but you're

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<v Speaker 2>not depending on him, And I wonder what should I

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<v Speaker 2>do now?

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<v Speaker 3>Now?

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<v Speaker 2>Any parent who's lost a child in a mall or

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<v Speaker 2>got a campground something like that, let me ask you

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<v Speaker 2>this question when your child wanders off and your heart

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<v Speaker 2>is in your throat and you're searching for minutes or

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<v Speaker 2>maybe even an hour trying to find them, and it's

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<v Speaker 2>getting worse and worse. When you actually find them, you're

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<v Speaker 2>adrenaline settles, you calm down a little bit.

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<v Speaker 3>The fear subsides.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you then just go, that's no big deal and

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<v Speaker 2>you just brush it off. Oh No, if your child

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<v Speaker 2>has been lost and then now they're found, you don't

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<v Speaker 2>just brush it off and treat it like it's no

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<v Speaker 2>big deal. Because you love them deeply. You have the talk.

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<v Speaker 2>You can't run away from daddy like that, and it's

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<v Speaker 2>not it's serious, it's dangerous. You need to be near mommy.

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<v Speaker 2>You need to hold my hand. We're in the rear

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<v Speaker 2>crowd because this is not good. And you correct your child.

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<v Speaker 2>Now you're correcting your child out of hate. No, you're

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<v Speaker 2>correcting your child because you love them. You love them,

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<v Speaker 2>You love them, and so you correct them.

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<v Speaker 3>You love them.

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<v Speaker 2>Because you you discipline them because you love them. An

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<v Speaker 2>undisciplined child is an unloved child. A child that can

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<v Speaker 2>get its way and do everything it wants is not

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<v Speaker 2>a love child. It's an unloved child. Because kids need discipline,

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<v Speaker 2>we need direction, we need training. Well, let's just take

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<v Speaker 2>this now to your relationship with God. What does God

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<v Speaker 2>do when you wander off? He disciplines you, He has

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<v Speaker 2>the talk, he corrects you. Look at the next verse

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<v Speaker 2>Psalm one nineteen. David says, I used to wander off

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<v Speaker 2>until you Lord disciplined me. And he said, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I had a tendency to just walk off, leave God,

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<v Speaker 2>leave everything else that was valuable. I used to wander

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<v Speaker 2>off to the Lord discipline me. But now I closely

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<v Speaker 2>follow your word. You are good talking about God. God

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<v Speaker 2>is a good God and you only do good. So

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<v Speaker 2>even when He disciplines you, it's for a good purpose.

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<v Speaker 2>So train me in your principles. Now I want to

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<v Speaker 2>clear this up for you, so I want you to

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<v Speaker 2>write this down. Discipline is not punishment. Please write that down.

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<v Speaker 2>Discipline is not the same thing as punishment. Let me

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<v Speaker 2>explain the difference. Punishment is when you pay a penalty

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<v Speaker 2>for the past, and it's usually done in anger. You're

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<v Speaker 2>punished in anger for something you did in the past.

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<v Speaker 2>Discipline is not punishment. Discipline is training and correction for

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<v Speaker 2>the future, and it's.

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<v Speaker 3>Always done in love.

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<v Speaker 2>You're not angry, but you're doing it out of love

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<v Speaker 2>because you want the person, the child, or in this case,

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<v Speaker 2>the sheep to go in the right direction. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>sometimes if a shepherd has a sheep that is so

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<v Speaker 2>prone to wander, it's going to wander and kill itself.

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<v Speaker 2>And if they live in a very dangerous place where

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<v Speaker 2>there's like a mountain lions, they will often wrap and

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<v Speaker 2>hold a sheep's leg so it can't move, or sometimes

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<v Speaker 2>they will in olden days break the leg so that

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<v Speaker 2>the sheep could not wander off.

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<v Speaker 3>Was that done in anger? No? Was it done in hate? No?

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<v Speaker 2>It was done in love, because the love of sheep,

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<v Speaker 2>and they don't want to die. And sometimes God might

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<v Speaker 2>put a limp in you to keep you from wandering off.

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<v Speaker 2>That's not punishment, that's discipline. Punishment penalty for the past,

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<v Speaker 2>motivated by anger, disciplined training for the future motivated by love.

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<v Speaker 3>Now why is that important?

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<v Speaker 2>You know the difference because when something goes wrong in

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<v Speaker 2>your life, sometimes you're going to be tempted to think

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<v Speaker 2>this thought, and it's not a thought from God. God

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<v Speaker 2>is getting even with me right now. God is punishing

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<v Speaker 2>me for something I did in the past.

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<v Speaker 3>And it's a secret. You're even a Christian.

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<v Speaker 2>You've given your life to Christ, you've confessed your sins,

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<v Speaker 2>you've been baptized, you know, you're active in the church.

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<v Speaker 2>And you say, God is angry with me. Now he's

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<v Speaker 2>punishing me for this problem. Wrong wrong, wrong wrong wrong

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<v Speaker 2>wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.

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<v Speaker 3>I want you to listen very closely.

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<v Speaker 2>God never, never, never punishes his children. He disciplines them,

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<v Speaker 2>but he doesn't punish them. God never punishes those who

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<v Speaker 2>have put their trust in Jesus Christ for salvation, never never, never,

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<v Speaker 2>never never. Why doesn't he punish me? Because you obviously

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<v Speaker 2>keep sinning. You're sinning. He doesn't punish you. He doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>for your sins, that's double punishment. It means Jesus punishment too.

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<v Speaker 2>Took it on the cross was not enough, And of course.

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<v Speaker 2>All the guilt, all the regret, all the shame, all

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<v Speaker 2>that his son already took. He disciplines, but he's not

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<v Speaker 2>going to punish you on Good Friday. Jesus Christ took

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<v Speaker 2>already been forgiven. But there is education that I might learn.

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<v Speaker 2>It was good for me to be afflicted. What's an affliction, Well,

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<v Speaker 2>that I actually was disciplined because I learned your statues. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>the only way you're going to learn the statutes is

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<v Speaker 2>death for most things that happen in your life. Instead,

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<v Speaker 2>you should be saying what do you want me to learn?

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<v Speaker 2>And David says, it was good for me to go

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<v Speaker 2>any other way. You know that there's some things you

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<v Speaker 3>There on your outline.

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<v Speaker 2>He says, this, I used to wander off until you

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<v Speaker 2>Lord discipline me. Okay, And he says, but now I

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<v Speaker 2>closely follow your word. That's a good thing. You are

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<v Speaker 2>I tendency to go off the rails, have a tendency

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<v Speaker 2>to go out of bounds. I have a tendency to

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<v Speaker 2>In to prevent problems? You do realize that most of

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<v Speaker 2>the problems in your life you don't have to have,

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<v Speaker 2>and you are the source of the preventable problems, most

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<v Speaker 2>of them, and if you were trained in God's principles,

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<v Speaker 2>you could avoid them. What does it mean to be

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<v Speaker 2>trained in God's principles? He said, you train me in

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<v Speaker 2>God's principles. And what does it mean? It means to

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<v Speaker 2>learn to be wise? Wisdom is being trained in God's principles.

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<v Speaker 2>Where are the principles? They're all in this book. And

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<v Speaker 2>the more you understand God's principles, the wiser you'll be.

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<v Speaker 2>The wiser you'll be the fewer problems you bring on yourself.

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<v Speaker 2>Because when I'm not wise, I make dumb decisions and

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<v Speaker 2>if you want fewer problems, get wisdom. How do I

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<v Speaker 2>get wisdom? Learn God's principles? How do I get trained

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<v Speaker 2>in God's principles? He says, they're in the verse. I

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<v Speaker 2>closely follow your word. You need to spend more time

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<v Speaker 2>in this book. The more time you spent in this book,

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<v Speaker 2>the wiser you become because you know God's principles. The

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<v Speaker 2>gets easier the wiser you get because you're not bringing

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<v Speaker 3>Made it worse because you weren't wise in that moment?

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<v Speaker 2>And so God says, I stop wandering by being trained

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<v Speaker 2>in the principles. I get trained in God's principles by

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<v Speaker 2>closely following the word. Okay, how do I closely follow

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<v Speaker 2>the word? Well, welcome the saddle back church. Okay, we've

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<v Speaker 2>got hundreds of ways to help you get closer following

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<v Speaker 2>God's word. First thing you need to do is you

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<v Speaker 2>have a daily quiet time. That means you take five, ten,

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<v Speaker 2>fifteen minutes, as you get more mature, twenty minutes, thirty minutes,

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<v Speaker 2>and you read the Bible for a little bit, and

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<v Speaker 2>you talk to God in prayer, and you write down

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<v Speaker 2>some thoughts, and you prioritize your life and you pray

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<v Speaker 2>about it to God. That's called the quiet time. We

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<v Speaker 2>have an entire class that teaches you how to do this.

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<v Speaker 2>It's called Class to one. And if you've forgotten that

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<v Speaker 2>you took Class two on before, go back to that

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<v Speaker 2>to have a quiet time.

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<v Speaker 3>So you can become wise.

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<v Speaker 2>The more times you spend in this book, the wisdom

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<v Speaker 2>or five hours a day watching TV and you spend

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<v Speaker 2>zero time reading the Bible, are you going to become wise?

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<v Speaker 2>Why is it that we spend more time listening to

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<v Speaker 2>and reading something we don't believe than something we do.

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<v Speaker 2>Why do you spend more time reading magazines that you

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<v Speaker 2>know have a lot of false stuff in it newspapers,

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<v Speaker 2>of dumb stuff in it. When the stuff you know

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<v Speaker 2>is true God's Word, you don't spend any time in

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<v Speaker 2>it at all. So you have a quiet time. You

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<v Speaker 2>should maybe subscribe to Drive Time Devotions. Pastor Tom systematically

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<v Speaker 2>takes us through the Bible one book at a time,

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<v Speaker 2>and in life bit sized, daily bits, you can go

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<v Speaker 2>through the whole Bible just listening to Drive Time Devotions

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<v Speaker 2>with Tom. You should subscribe to Daily Hope. That's my

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<v Speaker 2>little you know that's on the radio, but it's also

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<v Speaker 2>there's a short version of it on an email.

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<v Speaker 3>About a million.

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<v Speaker 2>People get Daily Hope every day. If you're not reading that,

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<v Speaker 2>you should be. It gives you input into the Word.

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<v Speaker 2>And then, as I always say, get in a small group.

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<v Speaker 2>We have thousands, over eight thousand small groups in this church.

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<v Speaker 2>Get in the Word every day, and get in a

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<v Speaker 2>Bible study. There's just so many ways. Saddleback is committed

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<v Speaker 2>to helping you get in the Word. So you become wise,

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<v Speaker 2>so you make better choices, so life becomes easier, so

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<v Speaker 3>All right, number four. Okay, let's look at this. Number one.

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<v Speaker 2>He says, if I bring Jesus my hurts, he shows

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<v Speaker 2>me compassion. If I choose to follow him, he's going

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<v Speaker 2>Get a guide. If I get confused and wander off,

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<v Speaker 2>he's going to find me and bring me back. He

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<v Speaker 3>If I fall or if I fail, you're going to

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, if you're looking for daily encouragement from God's word,

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<v Speaker 3>For our daily hope.

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