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. So let's join Rick right now
Speaker 1: for a special message titled you are Called to bless.
Speaker 2: Good morning everybody.
Speaker 3: It's good to see if you'll take out your message
Speaker 3: notes welcome to Live your Calling? What on Earth am
Speaker 3: I here for? And we're looking at the five callings
Speaker 3: of your life, the five purposes of your life, the
Speaker 3: five reasons God created you, the five assignments that He
Speaker 3: has for your life. The word calling has used more
Speaker 3: than even the word purpose in the Bible, and we've
Speaker 3: looked at these.
Speaker 2: First four or three so far.
Speaker 3: We looked at God's first calling on your life, is
Speaker 3: your call to be loved.
Speaker 2: God made you to love you.
Speaker 3: The second calling, as you're called to belong, to belong
Speaker 3: to his family, the body of Christ, the family of God.
Speaker 3: Last week we looked at your third calling. You're called
Speaker 3: to become. God wants you to grow up. He wants
Speaker 3: you to mature. He wants you to become We want.
Speaker 2: You to be.
Speaker 3: This week, we're going to look at the fourth calling
Speaker 3: on your life, and it is you are called to bless.
Speaker 3: You're called to bless other people. Now, how do you
Speaker 3: do that?
Speaker 2: You bless other.
Speaker 3: People when you serve them. It may be physical assistance,
Speaker 3: it may be financial assistance. It may be emotional support.
Speaker 3: It could be relational support, it could be practical support.
Speaker 3: There are a thousand different ways that you can serve
Speaker 3: the people around you.
Speaker 2: And when you serve.
Speaker 3: Others, the Bible says you actually bless them. Now, I
Speaker 3: want you to write this down on your outline. The
Speaker 3: fourth purpose of my life is God shaped me to
Speaker 3: serve him. God shaped me to serve Him. I'm not
Speaker 3: going to spend a lot of time on this because
Speaker 3: we've covered this many many times at Saddleback. That God
Speaker 3: has uniquely shaped you with five elements your spiritual gifts,
Speaker 3: your heart, your abilities, your personality, your experiences. We've covered
Speaker 3: this many times, that God wired you to be you,
Speaker 3: and he shaped you to serve him. Phesians two ten
Speaker 3: explains this. By the way, this is our memory verse
Speaker 3: this week. So let's read it aloud with great enthusiasm.
Speaker 3: All right, let's say it. Ephesians two ten. We are
Speaker 3: God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works,
Speaker 3: which God prepared in advance for.
Speaker 2: Us to do.
Speaker 3: Ephesians to ten. I want you to work on that
Speaker 3: this week.
Speaker 2: It says we.
Speaker 3: Are God's work We talked about this a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks ago. You are God's masterpiece. You are God's work
Speaker 3: of art. You are unique. There's nobody like you in
Speaker 3: the world, and you are created in Christ Jesus to
Speaker 3: do good works. That good works is called your service.
Speaker 3: It's called your ministry. It's called your blessing. It's the
Speaker 3: way you help other people. You weren't made to just
Speaker 3: take up space, breathe, live a self centered.
Speaker 2: Life and die.
Speaker 3: God put you here to make a contribution with your life,
Speaker 3: and that is called your ministry, another word for blessing,
Speaker 3: another word for services ministry. The word servant and the
Speaker 3: word minister are the same word. In the Bible and
Speaker 3: the word service and ministry are the same words. The
Speaker 3: fact is we're all ministers. Now, we're not all pastors.
Speaker 3: I'm a pastor. My job is to administer the ministers.
Speaker 3: So if somebody ever asked you how many ministers does
Speaker 3: our church have, you say thirty thousand, because everybody is
Speaker 3: a minister. So I want you to write this down.
Speaker 3: My life calling is to be a bi vocational minister
Speaker 3: of Jesus. I'm gonna have to explain this to you.
Speaker 3: My life calling is to be a bi vocational minister
Speaker 3: of Jesus. Now, what does bivocational mean. Well, it's like
Speaker 3: the word bifocal. You know, when you get glasses that
Speaker 3: are bifocals. It means you can see two things at
Speaker 3: the same time. You can see far away and you
Speaker 3: can see up close. You can see both with clarity.
Speaker 3: And when you are a bi vocational minister of Jesus,
Speaker 3: it means that no matter what you do in life,
Speaker 3: you do it for two reasons, not one. You are
Speaker 3: a bi vocational minister. So whether you're a truck driver
Speaker 3: or an attorney, or a janitor or a hospice worker
Speaker 3: or a homemaker or a teacher, or a deal maker,
Speaker 3: or a stockbroker, or an accountant or a farmer. It
Speaker 3: doesn't matter what you are. If you're a Christian, you
Speaker 3: were to do it for two reasons, to help others
Speaker 3: and to honor God. To help others and to honor God.
Speaker 3: To help and honor God. Everything I do in life.
Speaker 3: If I'm a follower of Jesus is bivocational. I have
Speaker 3: a job, but in that job, I do it to
Speaker 3: help others and to honor God. To help others and
Speaker 3: honor go on. I am a bivocational minister of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3: Look up here on the screen Glossom three seventeen. Whatever
Speaker 3: you do, whatever you do, whether in word or deed,
Speaker 3: do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus,
Speaker 3: giving thanks to God the Father through Him. So it says,
Speaker 3: whatever you do, it can be a ministry. It can
Speaker 3: be a blessing. If you honor God and you help others.
Speaker 3: In whatever you do, you do it in the name
Speaker 3: of the Lord Jesus. I can take out the garbage
Speaker 3: as a ministry, I can change a dirty diaper as
Speaker 3: a ministry. I can clean the living room. I can
Speaker 3: make a deal. I can help somebody across the street.
Speaker 3: Everything in your life can become a ministry if you
Speaker 3: do it to help others and honor God. And he says,
Speaker 3: whatever you do, it becomes part of your ministry if
Speaker 3: you have the right motivation. And I want you to
Speaker 3: write this down. Menial tasks become meaningful tasks when I.
Speaker 2: Do that, do it out of love for God.
Speaker 3: Menial tasks become meaningful tasks if I do it out
Speaker 3: of my love for Jesus for God. So everything in
Speaker 3: your life becomes significant. Really, Let's say you're at a
Speaker 3: meeting in your office at where you work, and all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, the meeting's over and everybody gets up
Speaker 3: to walk out, and they've left coffee cups and trash
Speaker 3: and all kinds of thing, and you just decide, I'm going
Speaker 3: to clean that up.
Speaker 2: Everybody.
Speaker 3: It's not my job, but I'm going to clean that
Speaker 3: up to help people and honor God. And so while
Speaker 3: they're all gone, you clean off the table and you
Speaker 3: put it all in the trash. When they just walked
Speaker 3: out expecting somebody else to do it, you have just
Speaker 3: done a ministry and God will notice and God will reward.
Speaker 2: You for it.
Speaker 3: Now, the fact is the calling to salvation and the
Speaker 3: calling to service are the same. So when you became
Speaker 3: a believer, when you stepped across the line, you weren't
Speaker 3: just called to be saved. You were called to serve.
Speaker 3: You're saved to serve, to make a difference with your life.
Speaker 3: And as I said, every member is a minister, and
Speaker 3: everybody has a ministry. Galatians one, chapter, chapter one, verse
Speaker 3: fifteen says, this God, in his grace chose me even
Speaker 3: before I was born and called me to serve him.
Speaker 3: Circle that last phrase, call me to serve him. This
Speaker 3: is the fourth purpose of your life. This is the
Speaker 3: fourth calling on your life. You are called to serve.
Speaker 3: Your shape to serve. You're made for ministry. You're called
Speaker 3: to bless What happens if I begin to use my
Speaker 3: life in this fourth calling, When I begin to stop
Speaker 3: thinking about me all the time and begin to start
Speaker 3: thinking about other people in my life and begin to
Speaker 3: think about not how can I be served, but how
Speaker 3: can I serve others? Well, it brings four amazing benefits.
Speaker 3: The first thing that happens you write write this down,
Speaker 3: is that serving others unselfishly will create joy in my life.
Speaker 3: It creates enormous, massive amounts of joy in my life.
Speaker 3: Most people are looking for happiness in all the wrong places.
Speaker 3: You don't find happiness and pleasure, power, possessions, position, prestige,
Speaker 3: you know, all of these different things that we typically
Speaker 3: look for popularity. Success doesn't bring satisfaction. Sex doesn't bring satisfaction.
Speaker 3: Salary doesn't bring satisfaction, status doesn't bring satisfaction.
Speaker 2: Those are all temporary.
Speaker 3: For permanent, ongoing joy, it comes not through sex, status, salary.
Speaker 3: It comes to service by giving my life away. God
Speaker 3: wired us that when you give your life away, that's
Speaker 3: when the joy flows into your heart. Why because he
Speaker 3: wants you to be like him. Most people don't know
Speaker 3: the two secrets of joy, but I'm gonna give them
Speaker 3: to you right now here.
Speaker 2: They are one number one.
Speaker 3: The first secret of joy is get the focus off myself.
Speaker 3: The more you focus on you, the more miserable you're
Speaker 3: gonna be. It is not by accident that the word
Speaker 3: miser and miserable come from the same root word. You've
Speaker 3: got to shift your focus from inward focus it's all
Speaker 3: about me, to outward focus.
Speaker 2: It's all about God and serving others.
Speaker 3: And when you do that, that is a counterculture move
Speaker 3: because everything in our society says.
Speaker 2: It's all about you.
Speaker 3: Every advertisement says it's all about you. We do it
Speaker 3: all for you, have it your way, you're number one,
Speaker 3: you're the best. But when you begin to give your
Speaker 3: life away, the more you give your life away, telp
Speaker 3: others guess what, the more joy flows into your life.
Speaker 3: Good example of this is the apostle Paul Philippians, Chapter two,
Speaker 3: verse seventeen. He says, my life is being poured out
Speaker 3: as a part of the sacrifice and service. There's those words,
Speaker 3: as a part of the sacrifice and service I offer
Speaker 3: to God for your faith. Yet he says, in spite
Speaker 3: of this sacrifice and service, I am filled with joy,
Speaker 3: and I share that joy with all of you. It
Speaker 3: is a fact of life that the most helpful people
Speaker 3: are the most happy people in life. If you want
Speaker 3: to be happy, you got to be helpful. The more
Speaker 3: helpful you are, the more happy you are, the more
Speaker 3: self centered you are, the more.
Speaker 2: Unhappy you're going to be in life. It's just the
Speaker 2: way the universe works.
Speaker 3: So joy floods into my soul when I begin to
Speaker 3: give it away. God wired the universe that the more
Speaker 3: unselfish you are, the more joy flows into your life.
Speaker 3: The Bible says this in Philippians four. Always be full
Speaker 3: of joy in the Lord. Say it again, Rejoice. Let
Speaker 3: everyone see that you are unselfish and considerate in all
Speaker 3: you do. Now notice how he pairs joy with being
Speaker 3: unselfish and considerate. If you are inconsiderate and you are selfish,
Speaker 3: you're not going to be joyful. But if you are
Speaker 3: unselfish and you are considerate, you're going to be joyful.
Speaker 3: I'll be real blunt with you. Look at this verse
Speaker 3: up on the screen. Philippians one four says, forget about
Speaker 3: yourself long enough to lend a helping hand. That should
Speaker 3: have been our memory versus week. It's shorter, forget about
Speaker 3: yourself long enough to lend a helping hand. If you
Speaker 3: lack joy in your life, you're not happy right now.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you start serving. Start finding a place
Speaker 3: where you can volunteer to give part of your time
Speaker 3: away and you get nothing in return, You're not paid
Speaker 3: for it. You're just giving your life away. If there's
Speaker 3: nothing in your life that you are doing, say on
Speaker 3: a weekly basis, on which you're just doing it for
Speaker 3: others benefit, not for your own. If there's nothing in
Speaker 3: your life like that, you're living a pretty selfish life.
Speaker 3: And God didn't put you on this planet just to
Speaker 3: live for you. You got to give back, you got
Speaker 3: to make a contribution, you got to be unselfish. That's
Speaker 3: where the joy comes from. Number two. The other way
Speaker 3: joy comes is when I use my gifts to help others.
Speaker 3: Joy comes from getting the focus off myself. And joy
Speaker 3: comes from using my gifts to help others. And when
Speaker 3: you use the gifts that God gave you to help
Speaker 3: other people, it feels good. I was reading an article
Speaker 3: this week about the Oscar contenders for the Academy Awards
Speaker 3: this year. One of the actors said, I was created,
Speaker 3: I was made for this role.
Speaker 2: And you know that feeling.
Speaker 3: That's how you feel when you know I'm on what
Speaker 3: God made me to do, what God wired me to do.
Speaker 3: One Peter four to ten says this God has given
Speaker 3: each of you some special abilities. Be sure to use
Speaker 3: them to make a ton of money. Oh sorry, I
Speaker 3: misread that. That's in the reviled substandard perversion translation. God
Speaker 3: has given each of you some special abilities, be sure
Speaker 3: to use them. To read it with me, help each other, Okay,
Speaker 3: passing on to others. God's many kinds of blessing. We're
Speaker 3: blessed to be a blessing. God blesses you so you
Speaker 3: can bless other people. We're blessed to be a blessing.
Speaker 3: And how do we bless others? We bless others by
Speaker 3: using our skills, by using our time, our talents, whatever
Speaker 3: we've got. When we use it to help other people
Speaker 3: in service, you bless other people. Number two. Surviving others unselfishly.
Speaker 3: Are serving others unselfishly will create not only joy in
Speaker 3: my life, it will improve my relationships. And boy do
Speaker 3: we need this one. Your relationships will get better the
Speaker 3: more you learn how to serve, and that's something you
Speaker 3: got to practice at will. It will improve my relationships.
Speaker 3: Why because the root of every single relational problem in
Speaker 3: your life is self centeredness. Now there are other issues
Speaker 3: that come in, but at the root, it's selfishness. I
Speaker 3: want what I want when I want it, and what
Speaker 3: you want when you want it, and neither of us
Speaker 3: are willing to budge and give in and change. And
Speaker 3: I want it my way and you want it your way,
Speaker 3: and that causes conflict. The verse verse that K and
Speaker 3: I memorized when we were actually on our honeymoon was
Speaker 3: Proverers thirteen ten. Only by pride cometh contention. In other words,
Speaker 3: when you have an ego, you're going to have conflict.
Speaker 3: Anytime you're having a conflict in your marriage, egos showing
Speaker 3: up and you're not being a servant, you're being selfish.
Speaker 3: But the more you practice, the more you learn to
Speaker 3: get yourself out of yourself, get a bigger perspective, you
Speaker 3: begin to serve unselfishly. It's going to change and improve
Speaker 3: every single one of your relationships. Because you change, it
Speaker 3: changes your relationships. You see, friends, Life is the lifelong task,
Speaker 3: the lifelong school of learning how to be unselfish. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: some people never learn it. They go through all of
Speaker 3: life living for themselves. The whole task of life. Why
Speaker 3: God puts you here is to learn unselfishness. Why because
Speaker 3: God is love and God wants you to learn to
Speaker 3: be like him. So how do I learn to be unselfish?
Speaker 2: Simple?
Speaker 3: Copy Jesus, because he lived the most unselfish life ever.
Speaker 3: Matthew ten twenty eight says this your attitude. Your attitude
Speaker 3: must be like my own, Jesus says, for I did
Speaker 3: not come to be served, but to serve. Now when
Speaker 3: you take on the attitude of Jesus and you begin
Speaker 3: to live your life not for the benefit of yourself,
Speaker 3: but you begin to live your life for the benefit
Speaker 3: of others, to help others and honor God.
Speaker 2: Help others and honor God.
Speaker 3: You accept you're a biblecational minister of God. Two incredible
Speaker 3: benefits happen. One you become more like Jesus, and two
Speaker 3: you're more loved respected, You're more popular. If you want
Speaker 3: to have more friends, learn to be a servant. If
Speaker 3: you want to learn to be more popular, learn to
Speaker 3: be a servant. If you want people to love you
Speaker 3: like you, to respect you, learn to be a servant.
Speaker 3: Don't try to be interesting. Be interested. Be interested in others.
Speaker 3: That's how you make it at a party. Be interested
Speaker 3: in others. No think you're the greatest person in the world,
Speaker 3: because everybody is.
Speaker 2: Interested only in themselves.
Speaker 3: And when finally somebody is interested in them, they think
Speaker 3: you're the greatest conversationalist that ever lived. Here's what the
Speaker 3: Bible says Romans fourteen eighteen. If you serve Christ in
Speaker 3: this way, unselfishly serving, you will please God. Notice and
Speaker 3: be respected by people. You want to be respected by people.
Speaker 3: Learn to have a servant's heart. Here's the cool part
Speaker 3: of all this.
Speaker 2: The more I.
Speaker 3: Bless other people, the more God blesses me. The more
Speaker 3: I serve others, the more God honors me. The more
Speaker 3: I bless other people, the more I minister to other people,
Speaker 3: the more God ministers to me. Let me show you
Speaker 3: some verses up here on the screen Proverbs eleven twenty five.
Speaker 3: The one who blesses others is abundantly blessed, and those
Speaker 3: who help others are helped. In other words, it's the
Speaker 3: principle of sowing and reping. Whatever seed I sew, I'm
Speaker 3: going to get back. But I don't get back a seed.
Speaker 3: If I plan a seed, I don't get back one seed.
Speaker 3: I get a whole tree of seeds. And so, if
Speaker 3: you start blessing on other people, you get tons of
Speaker 3: blessing back. You start helping other people, you get tons
Speaker 3: of help back. You get more than you bargained for.
Speaker 3: Blessing others gives me blessing. You know when people tell me,
Speaker 3: you know, I'd really like to be involved in service.
Speaker 2: But I'm just too busy.
Speaker 3: I'm just I don't have any time to really be
Speaker 3: involved in volunteering anywhere. I'm just too busy. Then you
Speaker 3: just forfeited God's blessing on your business. I really feel
Speaker 3: sad for you. You want God's blessing on your business. God
Speaker 3: does not bless selfishness. You want God's blessing on your
Speaker 3: business and on your work so badly. God's saying, are
Speaker 3: you giving anything away? Are you thinking only about yourself?
Speaker 3: Is it all about you? Are you think I put
Speaker 3: you on earth just to live for you? No, the
Speaker 3: more you give your life away, the more God blesses you.
Speaker 2: Look at these verses Proverbs.
Speaker 3: Seventeen eleven, you do yourself a favor when you're kind.
Speaker 2: That interesting. You do yourself a favor when you're kind.
Speaker 3: The Bible says in Proverbs twenty two nine, a generous
Speaker 3: man will himself be blessed. So if I want God's
Speaker 3: blessing on my life, I've got to be a blessing
Speaker 3: on other people's life. And if I want better relationships,
Speaker 3: I need to start serving. Number Three, Serving others unselfishly
Speaker 3: will make my life meaningful. That's the third big surprise
Speaker 3: that most people won't know. The Only way you find
Speaker 3: meaning in life is to give your life away. God
Speaker 3: wired the universe on this principle. Meaning does not come
Speaker 3: from money. We think if I just get more money,
Speaker 3: then my life will have more meaning.
Speaker 2: No, it will not.
Speaker 3: Money has many good uses. It can make life easier.
Speaker 3: It can give you opportunities, it can open doors, it
Speaker 3: could save you time. But money cannot give you meaning.
Speaker 3: No amount of money will have give your life.
Speaker 2: Meaning.
Speaker 3: Meaning comes from ministry, from giving your life away. Jesus
Speaker 3: said it like this, Mark eight thirty five. If you
Speaker 3: try to keep your life for yourself, you will lose it.
Speaker 3: But if you give up your life for my sake,
Speaker 3: for the sake of the good News, you will find
Speaker 3: true life. Circle those last two words, true life comes
Speaker 3: from giving my life away. Now, knowing this, what should
Speaker 3: be my attitude toward service? One Corinthens fifteen fifty eight
Speaker 3: says this, always give yourselves fully to the work of
Speaker 3: the Lord, because you know that your work in the
Speaker 3: Lord is never wasted. Now, notice a couple words in
Speaker 3: that verse. It says always give yourself fully. That word
Speaker 3: fully parassio In Greek, it literally means not half hearted,
Speaker 3: you just totally.
Speaker 2: I'm all in, I'm jumping in. I'm going in the
Speaker 2: deep in.
Speaker 3: Give yourself fully to the work of the Lord, because
Speaker 3: you know that your work in the Lord is never wasted.
Speaker 2: That word wasted is kenos.
Speaker 3: It means empty, It means useless, It means without purpose.
Speaker 3: Everything you do for Christ has a purpose, and it
Speaker 3: may seem insignificant, and maybe nobody else seems to know
Speaker 3: about it, but it's important. The Bible says, even if
Speaker 3: you give a cup of cold water in God's name,
Speaker 3: in Jesus' name, that you get rewarded for that in eternity.
Speaker 3: And that brings me to the fourth reason. What will
Speaker 3: happen if I use my life to serve and bless others?
Speaker 3: If I switch the focus from it's all about me,
Speaker 3: to switch the focus on how many people can I serve?
Speaker 3: How can I honor God? By helping others? Creates joy
Speaker 3: in my life and improves my relationships. It makes my
Speaker 3: life meaningful. And the fourth thing is it will leave
Speaker 3: a legacy. It will leave a legacy. You will leave
Speaker 3: a mark. Actually, you'll leave two legacies, one on earth
Speaker 3: and one in eternity. The one on earth isn't gonna
Speaker 3: last very long because after about three generations, everybody forgets you.
Speaker 3: Given enough time, all your trophies are going to be trashed.
Speaker 3: All the things you think are so cool. Right now,
Speaker 3: two generations don't be even gonna care. You may get
Speaker 3: your name on a building. Nobody's even gonna ask who
Speaker 3: was that person?
Speaker 2: So what?
Speaker 3: But the rewards you get an eternity are going to
Speaker 3: go on and on and on and on forever. But
Speaker 3: when you begin to serve, what it does is it
Speaker 3: gives you a reputation. The Bible says this Proverbs ten
Speaker 3: verse seven. Good people will be remembered as a blessing.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you, what are you going to be
Speaker 3: remembered for? If you were to die tomorrow with people? Say, man,
Speaker 3: that person was a real blessing.
Speaker 2: They really live for other people.
Speaker 3: They served, They were sharing, They were generous, they were kind,
Speaker 3: They were always thinking of other people or would they
Speaker 3: think only? They were pretty self centered. They only had
Speaker 3: their goals. They only went after what they wanted. They
Speaker 3: didn't really care about anybody else, didn't take care of
Speaker 3: their wife or their kids or any and they just
Speaker 3: lived their life, did what they wanted to do. What
Speaker 3: do you want to be known for? Good people will
Speaker 3: be remembered as a blessing. Now, the truth is, everybody
Speaker 3: wants their life to count deep down inside of you.
Speaker 3: You want your life to have significance. You want your
Speaker 3: life to have meaning, You want your life to have purpose.
Speaker 3: You want to do something great with your life. Everybody
Speaker 3: wants that, and there's nothing wrong with that. To do
Speaker 3: something great with your life, you ought to want to
Speaker 3: do something great with your life. Here's how Jesus said
Speaker 3: you become great, Matthew twenty twenty six. If you want
Speaker 3: to be great, you must be the servant of all
Speaker 3: the others. The more you serve, the greater you're going
Speaker 3: to be. The more you serve, the more influence you'll have.
Speaker 3: I call with the Mother Teresa syndrome. Mother Teresa went
Speaker 3: to the poorest of the poor, the most outcast of
Speaker 3: the outcast in Calcutta, India, to people who are on
Speaker 3: the street and dying. Nobody has less influence than them.
Speaker 3: And she began to take the dying into her home,
Speaker 3: and she cared for them, and she began to serve
Speaker 3: those that everybody was trampling over. And as she went
Speaker 3: to the least influential people of life, God gave her
Speaker 3: enormous influence around the world, so that she could walk
Speaker 3: into the Congress and everybody would listen. She could walk
Speaker 3: into the United Nations and everybody would listen. If you
Speaker 3: want to be great, you learn to be the servant
Speaker 3: of all. You know, for thirty years, I've been training
Speaker 3: leaders around the world, you know, lots of different countries,
Speaker 3: and I've discovered that when I hold a leadership seminar,
Speaker 3: it's packed out. If I call it a service seminar,
Speaker 3: nobody wants to come. In fact, even when we want
Speaker 3: to be servants, we say, well, we want to be
Speaker 3: a servant leader. Why not just leave the leader part off?
Speaker 3: Just be a servant. If you want to be a great,
Speaker 3: learn to be the servant of all. If you go
Speaker 3: onto Amazon dot com, for every five hundred books on leadership,
Speaker 3: you'll find one book on being a servant. We got
Speaker 3: our values all upside down. The way you become great
Speaker 3: is by giving your life away.
Speaker 2: He said.
Speaker 3: But nobody's gonna see my secret acts of service. God
Speaker 3: will like if you clean up that table when everybody's
Speaker 3: left the room, God will see that. And the Bible
Speaker 3: says this in Hebrew six'. Ten god is fear he
Speaker 3: will not forget the work you did and the love
Speaker 3: you showed for him by helping his, people and he
Speaker 3: will remember that you are still helping. Them in, Fact
Speaker 3: jesus makes this promise In john twelve twenty. Six my
Speaker 3: father will honor anyone who serves. Me the friends that,
Speaker 3: honor right there is more important than winning The Nobel Priest.
Speaker 3: Prize you're not gonna win The Congressional medal Of. Honor
Speaker 3: you're not going to win The Nobel Priest, prize but
Speaker 3: you can win that. Price my father will honor anyone
Speaker 3: who serves. Me and if you want to leave a,
Speaker 3: legacy then you need to start serving, unselfishly doing something
Speaker 3: with your life that you don't get something back.
Speaker 2: For you, know.
Speaker 3: Monetarily you've heard me say before that the greatest use
Speaker 3: of life is to invest it in that which. Outlasted
Speaker 3: you got three choices with your. Life you can spend your,
Speaker 3: life you can waste your, life you can invest your.
Speaker 2: Life and the best use.
Speaker 3: Of your life is to invest it in that which
Speaker 3: will outlast. It there are only two things going to
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Speaker 1: Last that was such an encouraging message From Pastor. Rick
Speaker 1: and now Here's rick to tell you about today's.
Speaker 3: Offer one of the things That i've discovered is that
Speaker 3: everybody eventually asks the questions of. Significance why AM i?
Speaker 3: Here and what is my? Purpose what on earth AM
Speaker 3: i here? For So i've updated The Purpose Driven life
Speaker 3: BECAUSE i wanted to help people like you understand How
Speaker 3: god created us for five eternal. Purposes The bible says
Speaker 3: that long before we heard Of, christ he had his
Speaker 3: eye on, us had his designs on us for glorious.
Speaker 3: Living that it was part of his overall purpose that
Speaker 3: he's working out in everything and. Everyone god has never
Speaker 3: made a person that he doesn't have a purpose. For you,
Speaker 3: know that simple message needs to be shared with the
Speaker 3: whole new. GENERATION a young girl who was twelve years
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Speaker 3: two and she needs to hear this essential message That
Speaker 3: god has a, plan has a, purpose and has a
Speaker 3: reason for everything that happens in our. Lives and WHAT
Speaker 3: i did is after reading hundreds of thousands of comments
Speaker 3: that have come into. Me over the past, Decade i've
Speaker 3: added two new chapters that'll help you handle the two
Speaker 3: most common problems and barriers to living a life of.
Speaker 3: Purpose NOW i want you to have this newly revised
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Speaker 2: LIFE i think you'll.
Speaker 3: Find it's a fresh reminder of things that you may
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