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. All right, Now, here's part two
Speaker 1: of a message called Why God Made You.
Speaker 2: God puts you on this planet for eighty years, a
Speaker 2: hundred years the most to practice what you're going to
Speaker 2: do in heaven. He wants you to practice here. This
Speaker 2: life is preparation for the next and one of the
Speaker 2: things you're going to do in heaven is love God.
Speaker 2: So he wants you to practice here. He wants you
Speaker 2: to learn how to love Him here. He wants you
Speaker 2: to learn to worship here because we're going to worship
Speaker 2: in heaven. And the other thing, we're gonna fellowship in heaven.
Speaker 2: We're gonna love each other in the family of God.
Speaker 2: That's called fellowship what's he wants you to do. He
Speaker 2: wants you to practice here. He wants you to learn
Speaker 2: how to love God and how to learn other people
Speaker 2: love other people here on earth. So when you get
Speaker 2: to heaven, you're not a dufus. You know exactly what
Speaker 2: to do. So write this down. The second purpose of
Speaker 2: my life. What on earth am I here for? Is
Speaker 2: to learn to love others. Learn to love others. And
Speaker 2: the place you learn to love others is in God's family.
Speaker 2: The church is the laboratory for learning how to love.
Speaker 2: You don't learn how to love in business. You don't
Speaker 2: learn how to love in school. You don't learn how
Speaker 2: to love competing with other people in sports. The God's
Speaker 2: family is the laboratory for learning real love. Now I've
Speaker 2: heard people say this, Well, I don't really need the church.
Speaker 2: All I need to do is get alone in nature
Speaker 2: and then I can love God. Well that's true. Actually
Speaker 2: that is true. And God created that nature and that's
Speaker 2: why we feel close to God nature. And it is true.
Speaker 2: You can get alone in nature and love God, but
Speaker 2: you can't get alone in nature and love other people.
Speaker 2: And that's the second purpose of your life. And your
Speaker 2: life has more than one purpose. It has five And
Speaker 2: the only way you're going to learn to love people.
Speaker 2: I hate to tell you this is by getting around
Speaker 2: some unlovely people. Now, don't look at them. You got
Speaker 2: to be around unloving people. I've told you this before.
Speaker 2: If you can't think, who are the unlovely people in
Speaker 2: my life? I hate to tell you this, it's you, Okay. Now,
Speaker 2: God wants us to learn to love real people, with
Speaker 2: all of their quirks and their false and their flaws
Speaker 2: and their social you know, mess ups and things like that.
Speaker 2: God wants you to learn real love, real people, not
Speaker 2: ideal people. You know, all love people in heaven. Yeah,
Speaker 2: in heaven. To dwell above with those we love, that
Speaker 2: will be a glory. But to dwell below with those
Speaker 2: we know, that's another story. God says, no, No, this
Speaker 2: is why you're here, not in heaven. First, I want
Speaker 2: you to learn real love where it's difficult, where you
Speaker 2: have to learn that love is a choice. Romans twelve,
Speaker 2: verse five says this, we belong to each other, and
Speaker 2: each of us needs all the others. You will not
Speaker 2: make it in your purposes in life without being a
Speaker 2: part of a spiritual family. Number three, write this down.
Speaker 2: God created me to become like Christ. That's the third
Speaker 2: purpose in life. God created me to become like Christ.
Speaker 2: And once you understand in this, life's going to make
Speaker 2: a whole lot more sense because God wants you to
Speaker 2: grow up spiritually and the model of perfection is Jesus.
Speaker 2: Jesus is the only perfect human being whoever lived, because
Speaker 2: he was God come to earth in human form. He
Speaker 2: lived a perfect life. He showed us exactly what it
Speaker 2: meant to be fully human. So God wants you to
Speaker 2: learn to think like Jesus, to act like Jesus, to
Speaker 2: respond like Jesus, to talk like Jesus, to value like Jesus.
Speaker 2: This is the third purpose in your life. Once you're
Speaker 2: born into the family, God wants you to grow up
Speaker 2: in the family and the model for growth is Jesus Christ. Now,
Speaker 2: God is far more interested, don't miss this. God is
Speaker 2: far more interested in who you are than what you do.
Speaker 2: We're always worried about what does God want me to do? God?
Speaker 2: What job should I have? Where should I go to work,
Speaker 2: where should I go to school? What should I do?
Speaker 2: And we're always worried about what we should do. God
Speaker 2: is much more interested, not in what you do, but
Speaker 2: in what you become. And the reason why is you're
Speaker 2: not taking your career to heaven. You're not taking your
Speaker 2: car to heaven. You're not taking your cash to heaven.
Speaker 2: How much money you're making. You're not taking your china
Speaker 2: to heaven. You're taking your character. The only thing that's
Speaker 2: going to heaven after your eighty years or so here
Speaker 2: on Earth is you. You're not taking any of your accomplishments.
Speaker 2: You're not taking any of your achievements. You're not taking
Speaker 2: any of your acquisitions. You're not taking any of your things.
Speaker 2: You've piled up stockpilbum, money, materialism, and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: None of that's going to heaven. The only thing that's
Speaker 2: going to heaven is the person you became, the man
Speaker 2: you became, the woman you became. The only thing you're
Speaker 2: taking to heaven is your character. And God puts you
Speaker 2: on this planet to develop your character, to grow up spiritually,
Speaker 2: and to become like Jesus Christ, because that's what he's
Speaker 2: interested in. He's not interested in what you do. He's
Speaker 2: interested in who you are. Now, let me show you
Speaker 2: a couple verses Romans, Chapter eight, verse twenty nine. From
Speaker 2: the very beginning, God decided that those who came to him,
Speaker 2: and all along he knew who would. He knows who's
Speaker 2: gonna come into his family. He knows who's gonna accept him,
Speaker 2: who's gonna let him adopt him into family. All along
Speaker 2: he knows who would. He decided that those who came
Speaker 2: to him should become like his son. It's always been
Speaker 2: the plan of God that you become like Jesus Colossians
Speaker 2: one fifteen. We look at the sun Jesus and see
Speaker 2: God's original purpose in everything created. Now, this is not
Speaker 2: Plan B. It's been God's plan from the very beginning.
Speaker 2: Even before Adam sinned, God created Adam and said, let's
Speaker 2: make man in our image. From the very beginning, God
Speaker 2: has been wanting to make us like himself. Now, God
Speaker 2: doesn't want you to become a god. You're never going
Speaker 2: to become a god. Never never never never never never
Speaker 2: never never never never. You're never gonna be a god. Now,
Speaker 2: there's a whole movement out there called the New Age movements. Us.
Speaker 2: You're a god, You're a goddess. God is within you,
Speaker 2: You're the God. You're the master of your union. You're
Speaker 2: not a god. You're not even a mini me God.
Speaker 2: If you're a god, why don't you solve all your problems?
Speaker 2: You're not a god and you never will be. You
Speaker 2: can't solve the problems of the world. You can't solve
Speaker 2: your own problems. You're not a god. And that new
Speaker 2: age is actually Satan told us to Eve in the
Speaker 2: garden of Eden. It's the first lie. He said, eat
Speaker 2: this fruit and you'll be God. It's not new age,
Speaker 2: it's old lie. In fact, it's the oldest lie. That
Speaker 2: you're a god. That is the oldest lie in the universe.
Speaker 2: You're never going to be a god. But God says,
Speaker 2: I don't want you to be a god. I want
Speaker 2: you to become godly. That means tell the truth like
Speaker 2: I tell the truth, Be faithful like I'm faithful, Love
Speaker 2: like I love, Be patient and forgiving like I'm patient
Speaker 2: and forgiving. God says, I want you to be godly.
Speaker 2: I want you to become like me in character, in wisdom,
Speaker 2: in your values, and in who you are. Now. When
Speaker 2: things happen you, the normal question you ask is the
Speaker 2: word why, why is this happening? Why is this happening
Speaker 2: to me? Why is this happening now? And the answer
Speaker 2: to all the why questions of life? Is this to
Speaker 2: make you like Jesus? To make you like Jesus. If
Speaker 2: God's going to make you like Jesus, He's going to
Speaker 2: take you through everything Jesus went through, and Jesus wasn't
Speaker 2: spared from difficulty. Was there are times when Jesus was lonely? Yes?
Speaker 2: Time when he was misunderstood? Yes? Were the times when
Speaker 2: Jesus was disappointed by people? Yes? Were the times when
Speaker 2: who's tempted to be discouraged and give up? Yes? We
Speaker 2: are there times when who's just tempted? Yes? And if
Speaker 2: God let his own son go through all that, don't
Speaker 2: you think he's gonna let you go through it too? Yes? Why?
Speaker 2: Because He's more interested in your character than your comfort.
Speaker 2: This is not the comfort side of life. The comfort's
Speaker 2: gonna come in eternity. Comfort's gonna come in heaven. This
Speaker 2: is the classroom side of life where you are to learn.
Speaker 2: In some things you only learn through difficulty. The Bible
Speaker 2: says in Philippians chapter two, verse five, in your lives
Speaker 2: you must think and act like Christ Jesus. This is
Speaker 2: the third purpose for your life. You must learn to
Speaker 2: think and act like Christ Jesus. So if I'm supposed
Speaker 2: to think and act like Christ Jesus, what is Jesus like? Well,
Speaker 2: I've told you this before that the perfect picture of
Speaker 2: Jesus in the Bible is Galatians five, twenty two and
Speaker 2: twenty three. It's often called the Fruit of the Spirit
Speaker 2: and its It says in Galatians the fruit of the
Speaker 2: Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, self control,
Speaker 2: nine qualities. What is that? That's a perfect picture of Jesus.
Speaker 2: God wants you to love like Jesus, to be at
Speaker 2: peace like Jesus, to be patient like Jesus. God wants
Speaker 2: you to be faithful like Jesus. God wants you to
Speaker 2: have self control like Jesus had self control. Now here's
Speaker 2: the question, how does God teach us the fruit of
Speaker 2: the spirit. How does God make us like Jesus like?
Speaker 2: For instance, if God wants to make turn me into
Speaker 2: a great loving person, a real lover, what am I doing.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna walking down the street one day and
Speaker 2: all said, I'm zapped with love and I love everybody
Speaker 2: and just call me buddy love. You know, No, No,
Speaker 2: it doesn't happen that way. There's no pill you can
Speaker 2: take that's gonna make you patient for the rest of
Speaker 2: your life, or loving for the rest of your life.
Speaker 2: Life are faithful for the rest of your life. There's
Speaker 2: no seminar, there's no book, there's no experience that's gonna
Speaker 2: zap you, and all of a sudden you're like Jesus
Speaker 2: and you never have a problem and you're never tempted again.
Speaker 2: It's a lifelong process becoming like Jesus. That process is
Speaker 2: called discipleship. Worship. Fellowship, discipleship are the first three purposes
Speaker 2: of life. Know and love God, learn to love others,
Speaker 2: and grow up like Christ and that it takes time,
Speaker 2: and it takes and God. Here's how does God do it.
Speaker 2: He puts you in the exact opposite situation. And that's
Speaker 2: easy to love people who are lovely. If God's gonna
Speaker 2: teach you real love, He's gonna put you around unlovely
Speaker 2: people so that you have to learn to love. Love
Speaker 2: is a choice. It's easy to love people who are
Speaker 2: cool like you. No, if God's gonna teach you real love,
Speaker 2: he puts you around some people that are difficult to love,
Speaker 2: hard to love. When they talk, they spit on you.
Speaker 2: And you know that kind of stuff, and they irritate you,
Speaker 2: and they get in your face, and they talk too much,
Speaker 2: and on and on and on and on, and they
Speaker 2: irritate you in there like heavenly sandpaper. God's teaching you love.
Speaker 2: How about joy? How does God teach you joy? Joy
Speaker 2: is different than happiness. Happiness depends on happenings. If things
Speaker 2: are going good in your life, you're happy. Things are
Speaker 2: going bad, you're unhappy. Happiness depends on circumstances. I go
Speaker 2: to Disneyland and unhappy, the happiest place on earth. When
Speaker 2: I come out, I realize how much I spent. I'm
Speaker 2: not happy. I spent way too much money in the
Speaker 2: happiest place on earth and it didn't last. But before
Speaker 2: I get to the goofy parking lot, I'm already sad again.
Speaker 2: Joy is different happiness. Joy is internal, and joy is eternal.
Speaker 2: You learn joy in the middle of grief. I could
Speaker 2: talk to you a lot about one. How to learn
Speaker 2: joy in the middle of grief? Patience? How does God
Speaker 2: teach you patience by testing it by irritations, by chaos.
Speaker 2: It's easy to be patient and at peace when everything's
Speaker 2: going your way. If you're on a backpacking thing up
Speaker 2: in the Colorado Rockies and you're in a beautiful stream
Speaker 2: fly fishing. You got it doesn't get any better than this,
Speaker 2: And well, anybody can be peaceful and patient when things
Speaker 2: are going your way. But real peace and real patience
Speaker 2: has learned in the middle of chaos. Peace has learned
Speaker 2: in the middle of difficulty. How does God teach you patience?
Speaker 2: Department of Motor vehicles, all right, traffic jams, doctors, waiting rooms.
Speaker 2: Have you ever been in a hurry and God's not?
Speaker 2: When you're sitting in God's waiting room and you've asked
Speaker 2: for God to answer prayer and God doesn't seem to
Speaker 2: be in any hurry to answer it, and you say, God,
Speaker 2: I need this right now. God just doesn't seem to
Speaker 2: be in any hurry. You're in God's waiting room. What's
Speaker 2: he doing? He's trying to teach you patience. One time,
Speaker 2: I was going through some really bad trials, bad difficulties,
Speaker 2: and I prayed, God, I need patience. Instead of the
Speaker 2: problems getting better, they got worse. And then I prayed God,
Speaker 2: I need patience, and they got more worse. God, I
Speaker 2: really really need patience, and they got really bad. And
Speaker 2: after about six months I realized I'm a lot more
Speaker 2: patient than when I started out six months ago. And
Speaker 2: so God wants to make character in your life. That's
Speaker 2: why you have problems. If you had no problems, if
Speaker 2: you got every prayer instantly answered like a you know,
Speaker 2: venning machine, you put in the prayer and pull out
Speaker 2: the cigarettes or whatever you got. A vending machine will
Speaker 2: give you bad stuff. God won't. If you got everything
Speaker 2: you want, everything went your way, you had no problems,
Speaker 2: you would be a spoiled brat, self centered brat. And
Speaker 2: the whole of life is learning unselfishness, learning it's not
Speaker 2: about you. Some people never learn that it's not about you.
Speaker 2: Most people end up at the end of their life
Speaker 2: still think it's all about me. It's not about you.
Speaker 2: It's about learning to love God and learning to love
Speaker 2: other people. And that's where fulfillment and joy and purpose
Speaker 2: comes from. We must become, I think and act like
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. Now this is a lifelong journey. Look at
Speaker 2: the next verse Tewod Corinthians three eighteen. As the spirit
Speaker 2: of the Lord works within us, we become more and
Speaker 2: more and more, in other words, progressively, it's a transition
Speaker 2: more and more like him. So what does God do
Speaker 2: to make you like Jesus. He uses truth, you're listening
Speaker 2: to it right now. He uses trouble, he uses trials.
Speaker 2: God uses temptations to make you like Jesus. Why Jesus
Speaker 2: was tempted? Temptation is just a choice. Well, it's a
Speaker 2: choice to do bad. Well, it's also a choice to
Speaker 2: do good. It's just a choice. And every time you
Speaker 2: have a tempted temptation, when you choose to do bad,
Speaker 2: you know you're defeated. When you choose to do good,
Speaker 2: you grow so temptation. Every time you have a temptation
Speaker 2: and you respond correctly, you actually grow, You grow more
Speaker 2: like Jesus. He uses people. What am I saying? You know,
Speaker 2: those problems you don't like in your life, Every problem
Speaker 2: has a purpose, and that purpose is to make you
Speaker 2: like Jesus. There is no situation in your life you
Speaker 2: cannot grow from if you'll just trust Jesus and if
Speaker 2: you'll just learn to respond in the right way. So
Speaker 2: I want you to write this down. The third purpose
Speaker 2: of my life is to grow up spiritually. First I'm
Speaker 2: born again, then I grow up. And God wants you
Speaker 2: to grow up and he wants you to develop spiritual depth.
Speaker 2: Is it possible to grow old without growing up? Yeah? Again,
Speaker 2: don't look at them, But you know people who are
Speaker 2: growing older every day and not growing up, and they're
Speaker 2: stuck in perpetual adolescents. They're stuck in perpetual infancy. One
Speaker 2: of the biggest problems in America today is shallow living.
Speaker 2: One of the most biggest problems in America today is
Speaker 2: immature people who refuse to grow up. We are a
Speaker 2: nation of spiritual babies. What is the hallmark of a
Speaker 2: spiritual baby? Babies are one self centered. A baby can't
Speaker 2: think of anybody else. All can think about is me, me, me, me, me, me, I,
Speaker 2: I I my my my needs. I want it, I
Speaker 2: want it now. Babies don't know the difference we know
Speaker 2: and not yet. Babies don't know how to delay gratification.
Speaker 2: Babies have to have instant fulfillment. Babies have to have
Speaker 2: focused on their feelings, short term thinking, manipulated by their moods.
Speaker 2: I've got to have it now. That sounds like American culture.
Speaker 2: We have a very immature, spiritual baby culture where everybody
Speaker 2: wants to talk about my rights. I got to do
Speaker 2: what's best for me and not their responsibilities. God says,
Speaker 2: I want you to grow up. Mark Chapter four, verse
Speaker 2: seventeen talks about shallow people and says some people have
Speaker 2: such a shallow soil of character that when their emotions
Speaker 2: wear off, Oh I praise the Lord, Praise the Lord,
Speaker 2: and difficulty arrives, there's nothing to show for it. They're
Speaker 2: fair weather believers. So my first purpose is to know
Speaker 2: him and love him back. Then God formed me for
Speaker 2: his family. My second purpose is to get in his
Speaker 2: family the church, and learn how to love other people.
Speaker 2: Then God created me to become like Christ. And the
Speaker 2: third purpose of life is he wants me to grow
Speaker 2: up spiritually. He wants me to grow up spiritually. You
Speaker 2: might write that down. Then number four, the fourth purpose
Speaker 2: of life is once you begin to know God and
Speaker 2: love God and you begin to grow in God, then
Speaker 2: he wants you to learn to serve Him. And here's
Speaker 2: the fourth thing. God shaped me to serve him. God
Speaker 2: shaped me to serve Him, and He uniquely shaped you
Speaker 2: in a way like no one else. There are no
Speaker 2: two people on the planet the same. You are unique
Speaker 2: in every single way. You have a unique voice print,
Speaker 2: you have a unique EyePrint, you have a nique thumb
Speaker 2: print fingerprints, you have a unique footprint, You have a
Speaker 2: unique chemistry. You have a unique heartbeat. No heart beats
Speaker 2: the exactly the same as any others. God creates every
Speaker 2: snowflake different. God overdoes it in diversity and variety. God
Speaker 2: does not clone anything humans do. But God never copies
Speaker 2: and never clones. So nobody in history before you will
Speaker 2: ever be like you, and nobody after you in eternity
Speaker 2: in the future will ever be like you. And God
Speaker 2: uniquely shaped you to fulfill a unique purpose here on
Speaker 2: the planet Earth, and this is the contribution He wants
Speaker 2: you to make. Now, remember that in heaven, one of
Speaker 2: the things you're gonna do is you're going to serve God,
Speaker 2: and so God wants you to learn to practice here.
Speaker 2: Now here's what the Bible says, Psalm one thirty nine,
Speaker 2: verse thirteen. You shaped me God, first inside and then out,
Speaker 2: and you formed me in my mother's womb. Now Here
Speaker 2: at saddleback, we use a little crosty to say the
Speaker 2: unique shape that God has given you shape, spiritual gifts,
Speaker 2: heart ability, personality, and experiences. These are five categories where
Speaker 2: you're different in every area there from every other nobody else.
Speaker 2: For instance, God has given you unique spiritual gifts. You're
Speaker 2: gifted in some areas and you don't even realize it.
Speaker 2: And one of the things about giftedness is you're good
Speaker 2: at some stuff and you think everybody is good at it,
Speaker 2: but they're not. You're good at it. And then God
Speaker 2: gives you a unique heart. What is your heart? That's
Speaker 2: your passion. Your passion is what you love to do.
Speaker 2: Gifts is what you're good at. Passion is what you
Speaker 2: love to do. Have you ever realized that the reason
Speaker 2: you like some things and don't like some things is
Speaker 2: God gave you that shape. Why are some things really
Speaker 2: interesting to you? And other things bore you to tears?
Speaker 2: Because of your heart, your emotional your passion. Why are
Speaker 2: some things some hobbies you're interested in others you couldn't
Speaker 2: care less about? Some things whine your crank and turn
Speaker 2: you on some things bore you to tears. God made
Speaker 2: us all with different hearts, emotional hearts. We all like
Speaker 2: to do different things. Why that way everything gets done?
Speaker 2: If everybody liked to do the same thing in life,
Speaker 2: there'll be a lot left unnone. So God gives us
Speaker 2: all different interest in different hearts that comes from God.
Speaker 2: We're given different abilities. Some of you are really good
Speaker 2: at math. Some of you stink at math. You should
Speaker 2: never look at a number. You're just not good at.
Speaker 2: Some of you are good with words, and others you're
Speaker 2: not good with words. You may be good with plants.
Speaker 2: You may be good with animals. You may be good
Speaker 2: with people. Some of you are good at drawing, and
Speaker 2: some of us are just stick figure kind of people.
Speaker 2: You may be good at music, you may be good
Speaker 2: at mechanics. There are literally thousands of different kinds of abilities,
Speaker 2: and that's what makes shapes you. And then there's your personality.
Speaker 2: We all have different personalities. Some people like routine. Some
Speaker 2: people like they want to do the same thing every day.
Speaker 2: Some people like variety. They want to do something different
Speaker 2: every day. Some people like to work in a group,
Speaker 2: and some people like to work on their own. That's personality.
Speaker 2: Some of you are are you know, morning songbirds, and
Speaker 2: some of you are are night owls. Okay, how many
Speaker 2: of you are mourning people? You liked it. It's like
Speaker 2: up up into the pool. Let's get going, man, your
Speaker 2: mourning people? Right? How many of you are night ols?
Speaker 2: He said, I don't believe in God. At four eleven
Speaker 2: am yeah, yeah. Now let me let you in a
Speaker 2: little secret. Mourning people always marry night people. It's God's
Speaker 2: sense of humor. Opposites a tract and opposites attack, and
Speaker 2: God puts you together. He goes, this will be fun.
Speaker 2: Watch the sparks of fly. This will be really cool.
Speaker 2: And the reason why is we need each other's differences.
Speaker 2: If you married somebody identically like you, you're going to
Speaker 2: be bored with them and you can't grow. The greater
Speaker 2: your difference is, the greater the potential for growth, the
Speaker 2: greater you can become like Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: That was such an encouraging message from Pastor Rick. And
Speaker 1: now here's Rick to tell you about today's offer.
Speaker 2: One of the things that I've discovered is that everybody
Speaker 2: eventually asks the questions of significance. Why am I here?
Speaker 2: And what is my purpose? What on earth am I
Speaker 2: here for? So I've updated the purpose driven life because
Speaker 2: I wanted to help people like you understand how God
Speaker 2: created us for five eternal purposes. The Bible says that
Speaker 2: long before we heard of Christ, he had his eye
Speaker 2: on us, had his designs on us for glorious living
Speaker 2: that it was part of his overall purpose that he's
Speaker 2: working out in everything and everyone. God has never made
Speaker 2: a person that he doesn't have a purpose for. You know,
Speaker 2: that simple message needs to be shared with the whole
Speaker 2: new generation. A young girl who was twelve years old
Speaker 2: when I wrote Purpose Driven Life is now twenty two,
Speaker 2: and she needs to hear this essential message that God
Speaker 2: has a plan, has a purpose, and has a reason
Speaker 2: for everything that happens in our lives. And what I
Speaker 2: did is, after reading hundreds of thousands of comments that
Speaker 2: have come into me over the past decade, I've added
Speaker 2: two new chapters that'll help you handle the two the
Speaker 2: most common problems and barriers to living a life of purpose.
Speaker 2: Now I want you to have this newly revised expanded
Speaker 2: copy of Purpose Driven Life. I think you'll find that
Speaker 2: it's a fresh reminder of things that you may have
Speaker 2: forgotten when you first read it. Or you might want
Speaker 2: to give the book to somebody who has never read
Speaker 2: it and is struggling to find their purpose. So this month,
Speaker 2: I'm offering to you a hardback copy of the updated
Speaker 2: expanded edition of Purpose Driven Life. What on earth am
Speaker 2: I hear for? It's my gift to you for your
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