WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:06.400 Hello everybody, and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the 2 00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:10.199 Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren. We're so excited that 3 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:13.279 you've joined us today. As we continue in this powerful 4 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:18.079 series how the Church meets your deepest needs. Together, we're 5 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:21.679 uncovering the joy and strength that comes from being a 6 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:25.160 part of God's family. Okay, and now here's Rick with 7 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:28.480 the final part of a message called you need others 8 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:30.039 for spiritual support. 9 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:33.479 So first off, I need a church family. I need 10 00:00:33.560 --> 00:00:35.600 others to walk with me. Let me give you a 11 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:39.479 second reason. I need others to work with me. Not 12 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:42.439 just to walk with me, but to work with me. 13 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:44.840 And did you know that God has a special work 14 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:47.240 for you to do with your life. Here's what the 15 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:50.960 Bible says Esians two ten. God made us to do 16 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:54.119 good works. Look at that well, he said, why am 17 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:56.960 I alive? God made you to do good works, which 18 00:00:57.000 --> 00:00:59.960 He planned in advance for us to live our life. 19 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:02.560 Did you know that before you were born? God planned 20 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:04.439 the good works he wants you to do with your life. 21 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:08.480 You could miss him, you could miss your purpose in life. 22 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:12.680 It's not automatic. Remember, life on earth is to practice 23 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:15.000 for eternity, and one of The fourth things you're going 24 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:18.680 to do in heaven is serve God. In heaven, everybody's 25 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:20.719 going to share the work, so we'll never get tired. 26 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:23.040 But on earth what happens is we try to do 27 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:27.120 it all ourselves and the result is fatigue. Now God 28 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:29.439 tells us why we need to work together. Look at 29 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:33.040 this first Ecclesiastes four nine. Two people are better than 30 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:37.000 one because they get more done. What read it with 31 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:40.840 me working together? Two people are better than one. They 32 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:42.920 get more done by working together. So you need a 33 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:45.000 church family to get the work that God has for 34 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:46.840 your life done. God never meant for you to do 35 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:47.519 it by yourself. 36 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:50.200 You know. One time, a few years. 37 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:53.400 Ago, I was making a tour of the East Coast 38 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:59.519 and I spoke at West Point, the Army Academy. I'll 39 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:02.560 spoke at the Navy Academy too, but at West Point 40 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:03.239 it's interesting. 41 00:02:03.239 --> 00:02:05.840 They have a system there. It so impressed me. 42 00:02:05.879 --> 00:02:09.919 It feeds four thousand people, get this in fifteen minutes. 43 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:12.280 So how in the world do you do that? How 44 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:14.759 do you feed four thousand people in fifty minutes? Everybody 45 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:17.400 has a role, And I noticed that when they were 46 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:20.240 doing this in Westpond, everybody had a role. In fact, 47 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:21.960 it was a roll with butter on it. 48 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:23.560 Never mind. 49 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:29.759 But God has called you to serve others, and it's 50 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:33.599 in the context of a family, a church family. Sometimes 51 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:35.560 we think that the greatest Christians are out there all 52 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:38.520 by themselves. You know, there's this myth about Mother Teresa 53 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:41.080 that she was out there serving on the streets of 54 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:43.039 Calcutta all by herself. 55 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:44.360 No, she wasn't there. 56 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:47.319 Kay went and served with Mother Teresa a little bit 57 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:50.560 years ago and came back tell me that Mother Teresa 58 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:54.719 has an army of sisters helping. You need other people 59 00:02:54.759 --> 00:02:57.599 helping you fulfill the work that God is for your life. 60 00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:00.199 And I said, like this, by myself, I can't do 61 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:02.360 a lot. You can't do a lot, but together we can. 62 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:06.879 Snowflakes are frail, they're not by themselves, they're not very 63 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:10.439 they're not very strong. But if enough of snowflakes stick together, 64 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:14.280 they can stop traffic. And together we can make a difference, 65 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:18.680 with each person doing a little. So if you're sitting 66 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:22.319 listening to me today and you say, man, I'm really tired, 67 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:25.479 I'm exhausted, it's probably because you've. 68 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:27.479 Got nobody helping you. 69 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:30.000 You're missing one of the benefits of being in a 70 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:33.360 small group and really totally connected to a church family. 71 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:36.360 You could attend and not really be connected. I want 72 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:39.800 you to write this down under this point. Community is 73 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:45.240 God's answer to fatigue. Community is God's answer fatigue. God 74 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:46.840 didn't meant for you to do it on your own. 75 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:48.840 If you ever watch the Amish build a barn in 76 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:51.400 a day, I once saw a TV show about it, 77 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:54.719 the entire community shows up and they all help. The 78 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:58.199 Bible says in Galatians six'. Ten every time we get the, 79 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:01.919 chance let us work for the fit of, all starting 80 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:04.680 with the people closest to, us in the community of. 81 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:09.520 Faith SO i need a church family to walk with, 82 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:12.520 me AND i need a church family to work with 83 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:14.599 me so THAT i can do the work That god's 84 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:17.439 called me to. Do number, THREE i need a church. 85 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:21.399 FAMILY i need others to watch out for, me not 86 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:23.199 just to walk with, me to work with. 87 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:25.439 ME i need them to watch out for. 88 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:28.759 Me in other, WORDS i need people in life my 89 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:32.600 life who will warn me of, traps who will defend, 90 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:35.160 me who will protect, me wh will help me stay on. 91 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:38.639 Track The bible has a lot to say about. This philippians, 92 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:41.199 two verse four says this look out for one another's, 93 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:44.120 interest not just for your. Own that's a good. Thing 94 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:46.759 that's what a family is all, about what a church 95 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:48.879 family is all. About you, KNOW i have ever seen 96 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:51.720 any of those neighborhood watch? Signs says you know there's 97 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:54.160 a neighborhood watch in this. Area that's a sign of. 98 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:58.199 Community let me ask you, this when have you ever 99 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:02.040 left on vacation and before you, left you asked a 100 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:05.680 neighbor to watch your stuff while you were. Gone, probably 101 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:09.639 so you've asked neighbors to watch your. Stuff, here let 102 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:12.240 me ask you another. Question have you got anybody watching 103 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:17.040 out for your? Soul it's far more. Important you may 104 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:19.240 have a neighbor watching your, stuff but who's watching out 105 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:23.120 for your? Soul that's part of the family Of. God 106 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:27.199 we need other people watching out for. Us why because 107 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:29.680 we all have blind. Spots some of us have bald, 108 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:33.920 spots but all of us have blind. Spots and there's 109 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:35.879 some things you just can't. SEE i, mean If i've 110 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:37.480 got a bald spot back on the back of my 111 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:42.000 head AND i can't see, that there are some things 112 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:44.680 that you need other people to tell you in your. 113 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:47.600 Life when you have a tail light, out you can't see. 114 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:48.759 It you need other. 115 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:51.079 People when you have let us in your, teeth you 116 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:54.720 can't see. It The bible says In hebrews, thirteen verse, 117 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:59.399 one keep being concerned about each other as the lord's 118 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:03.959 fo followers should now notice this, says keep being concerned 119 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:09.040 keep means you be, viligent, vigilant, sorry. Vigilant and in a, 120 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:13.639 war everybody takes turn on sentry. Duty somebody's got to 121 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:16.240 be vigilant watching out for the. Enemy you, know since 122 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:19.839 nine to eleven happened here in The United, states we've 123 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:24.000 had to be vigilant against terrorists and terror. Attacks AND 124 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:25.920 i just went through a couple of airports this week 125 00:06:25.959 --> 00:06:28.279 WHERE i had to get, scanned and because they're being 126 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:31.920 vigilant for the. Enemy but did you know that you 127 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:34.720 have an even greater, enemy far greater than the terrorist 128 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:37.480 in the. World and that enemy wants to mess you. 129 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:41.040 Up he wants to destroy your. Life he's plotting your 130 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:43.839 downfall every morning before you ever wake. Up he's thinking 131 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:47.680 how to defeat you with temptations and trials and dead 132 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:52.439 ends and. Detours See satan fights with an arsenal of 133 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:57.519 habits and hurts and hang ups and, problems and much of. 134 00:06:57.519 --> 00:06:58.079 The time we're. 135 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:00.680 Defeated why because we're trying to him on our. 136 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:01.240 Own that's. 137 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:06.279 Dumb, well you need other people helping you resist. Temptation 138 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:09.399 that's what celebrate recovery is all. About so what so 139 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:12.079 many of our programs are all. About ecclesiastes four to 140 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:15.000 twelve says a person standing alone can be attacked and, 141 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:18.560 defeated but two can stand back to back and, conquer 142 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:22.319 and they are Even the three are even. Better for 143 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:27.079 a triple braided cord is not easily. Broken you, know 144 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:29.600 WHEN i read that verse makes me think about years. 145 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:34.000 AGO i walked across a prison yard in Northern california 146 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:37.399 with two thousand, convicts most of them there with life, 147 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:42.120 sentences standing on that, field AND i was invited there 148 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:43.959 to speak to them on that prison. 149 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:45.920 Yard but you know, WHAT i had no. 150 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:49.600 Fear Why why didn't have no hear because Thirty christian 151 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:52.680 inmates were walking with me on every, side in, front, 152 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:55.839 behind on either, side watching every. MOVE i wasn't afraid at. 153 00:07:55.839 --> 00:08:00.720 All let me ask you a very personal, question is 154 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:05.480 anybody protecting your? Backside who's watching out for? 155 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:05.600 You? 156 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:09.199 Spiritually nobody at works doing That nobody at school's doing. 157 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:12.519 That nobody in the, government neighborhood's doing. That you need 158 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:16.399 a church. Family you need a small. Group you, know 159 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:19.120 as a, LIFEGUARD i was a lifeguard for three. YEARS 160 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:21.839 i used to tell people never go swimming by yourself 161 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:24.439 in the. Ocean you need to have a, buddy a. 162 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:27.879 Partner we're better. TOGETHER i want you to write this. 163 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:33.720 Down community Is god's answer to. Defeat the church, family 164 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:39.279 the family Of god is the answer to Defeat ecclesiastes 165 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:42.039 four to. Ten if one person, falls another can reach 166 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:45.120 out and. Help but people who are alone when they, 167 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:49.120 fall they're in real. Trouble Have let me give you 168 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:52.840 a couple. More number, FOUR i need people to. FIRST 169 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:56.639 i need people to walk with me and to watch 170 00:08:56.679 --> 00:08:59.039 over me and to work with. Me number, FOUR i 171 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:04.480 need others to wait and weep with. ME i need 172 00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:06.519 other people in my life to wait with me When 173 00:09:06.519 --> 00:09:08.679 i'm going through a tough time and to weep with. 174 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:11.200 Me and that's what a church family is all. About 175 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:15.559 help me through the inevitable crisis of. Life you, said, 176 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:17.840 well what are you talking, About, well let me just 177 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:21.320 give you a list of some. Situations then nobody should 178 00:09:21.320 --> 00:09:24.960 ever have to face. Alone in other, words nobody should 179 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:30.080 ever have to face waiting in a hospital alone during 180 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:33.799 a risky. Surgery nobody should ever have to wait alone 181 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:39.159 for a lab report or a pregnancy. Problem nobody should 182 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:42.799 have to wait alone for news from a battlefield from 183 00:09:42.840 --> 00:09:45.240 a son or a, daughter or a father or. Mother 184 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:48.039 nobody should have to have to wait alone for a 185 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:52.600 corner while they're identifying a. Body nobody should have to 186 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:56.080 wait alone standing in front of a fresh, grave or 187 00:09:56.120 --> 00:09:58.559 the first night after your husband or your wife, dies 188 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:01.080 or the first night after your husband or wife walks, 189 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:02.120 Out that go on and. 190 00:10:02.159 --> 00:10:04.320 On fact these things like this. 191 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:08.919 Will happen in your life, eventually and it's foolish not 192 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:12.600 to have your support, network your support your safety net 193 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:17.960 in place, now because at some point you will have 194 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:21.639 a life shaking. Crisis none of us know what it 195 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:24.360 is or how it's going to hit, us but the 196 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:28.279 time to prepare is. Now and what Is god's safety. 197 00:10:28.279 --> 00:10:32.600 Net it's a group of believers who are committed to 198 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:35.559 you and you were committed to. Them who's committed to 199 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:38.240 you right? Now could you could you rattle off the 200 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:41.519 name of people who'd be there in an? Instant let 201 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:43.799 me ask you it another, Way who could count on 202 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:46.200 you that if they had crisis in their, life you 203 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:49.879 would be there in an instant for them One peter three. 204 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:51.840 Eight the first part of the verse is, this you 205 00:10:51.879 --> 00:10:56.360 should be like one big, family full of sympathy toward each. 206 00:10:56.399 --> 00:10:59.480 Other And i've told you many times about how my 207 00:10:59.639 --> 00:11:03.080 personal small group has helped me through very difficult, times 208 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:05.919 and how we've traced all you, know we faced. 209 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:06.559 All kinds of trauma. 210 00:11:06.600 --> 00:11:11.440 Together First corinthians twelve twenty six Is god's plan for 211 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:14.080 a church, family and it says it like, this if 212 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:19.200 one member, suffers all suffer. Together one of our members get, 213 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:22.080 cancer we all ought to care about, that pray for, 214 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:22.720 him support. 215 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:24.200 Him you. 216 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:28.440 KNOW i remember while back reading the newspaper article about 217 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:32.519 a guy who laid dead in his bed for two 218 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:36.840 years in his home and nobody. Noticed, Friends that is. 219 00:11:36.879 --> 00:11:44.000 Tragic imagine. Despair no one should ever die. ALONE i 220 00:11:44.039 --> 00:11:47.879 want you to write this. Down community Is god's answer to. 221 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:53.919 Despair It's god's answer. Despair romans fifteen, Twelve verse. Fifteen 222 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:57.039 be happy with those who are, happy and weep with 223 00:11:57.200 --> 00:12:01.279 those who. Weep that MEANS i need people who wait 224 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:04.240 with me When i'm scared to, death and who will 225 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:07.600 watch with me and they'll pray for me and they'll 226 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:10.919 weep with. Me you, know the truth is we often 227 00:12:10.919 --> 00:12:14.440 don't know how to handle. Tears and sometimes you'll be 228 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:16.879 in a small group and somebody starts crying and everybody 229 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:19.200 feels a little. Awkward why are you feeling? Awkward let 230 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:21.039 me give you a little. Tip when you're in a 231 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:25.480 small group and somebody tears, up tears are always a 232 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:27.919 sign that is time to stop and pray. 233 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:30.879 And probably just go over and give them a. 234 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:34.320 Hug or put a hand on their hand and, squeeze 235 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:38.240 squeeze their. Hand you don't have to fix people's, problems 236 00:12:38.840 --> 00:12:41.480 but you do have to be. There you have to 237 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:43.720 have the ministry of. Presence sometimes you just need to 238 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:45.879 sit in silence with them and weep with. 239 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:47.639 Them The bible says weep with those who. 240 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:51.720 Weep, First tesstalonians five eleven, says you, know you've got 241 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:54.759 to be. Flexible it says, this encourage each other and 242 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:59.240 strengthen one. Another, well let me ask you a very personal. 243 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:02.600 Question who do you need to encourage? Today can you 244 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:05.240 think of somebody who might need your encouragement right? Now, 245 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:10.720 finally let me give you one more reason why you 246 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:16.399 need the support of A christian spiritual church family in 247 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:19.960 order for spiritual. HEALTH i need him to walk with. 248 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:21.679 ME i need him to work with. ME i need 249 00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:24.639 him to watch and wait with. Me, OKAY i need 250 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:26.879 him to just be with me and all the things of. 251 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:30.440 Life but the number, FIVE i need others to witness with. 252 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:33.519 Me did you know That god, SAYS i expect you 253 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:35.919 to tell other people about What i've done for. You 254 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:39.840 did you know That god expects you to fulfill a 255 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:43.600 mission in the world and share your life, message the 256 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:47.279 story of your life with. Others, Well god doesn't expect 257 00:13:47.320 --> 00:13:50.799 you to do it by. Yourself he, SAYS i need 258 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:53.720 other people to witness with. Me and there's great power 259 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:56.759 in group. Witness it's very impressive when people come to 260 00:13:56.759 --> 00:13:59.600 Saddle Back church any of our, campuses and they walk 261 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:02.240 in and they see people worshiping. 262 00:14:02.279 --> 00:14:03.240 Together that's a. 263 00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:06.639 Witness but you know, what the greatest witness of your 264 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:10.519 life is to unbelievers loving each. 265 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:12.639 Other loving each. 266 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:15.919 Other The bible, says see how they love one. Another 267 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:19.879 The bible says that that is the essence of our highest. 268 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:25.200 Witness what impresses a. Community the most is our love 269 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:28.519 for each. Other john thirteen thirty. Five jesus said it this, 270 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:33.200 way your love for one another will prove to the 271 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:37.360 world that you Are my. Disciples if you don't love 272 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:39.639 other members of a, church where are you proving to 273 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:42.639 the world's true is. Disciple this is our, Goal this 274 00:14:42.679 --> 00:14:45.759 is our goal for this entire, series that your love 275 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:48.159 for each other will prove. 276 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:51.159 To the world that You're my. Disciples that is our. 277 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:55.519 Goal the one thing that proves to the world that 278 00:14:55.559 --> 00:14:58.639 you're a follower Of Jesus. Christ it's not our, buildings 279 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:01.519 it's not our bumper, stickers it's not our. Programs it's 280 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:05.720 our love for each. Other and in this, series this 281 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:08.519 forty eight days, TOGETHER i want you to start a 282 00:15:08.600 --> 00:15:13.159 revolution of love in your, community at your, office at your, 283 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:17.879 workplace at, school in your. Neighborhood, First timothy wants Tewod 284 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:18.559 timothy one. 285 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:19.320 P seven says. 286 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:22.159 This The Holy spirit doesn't want you to be afraid of, 287 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:25.159 people but he wants. You wants you to be wise 288 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:29.200 and strong and to, love love, them and enjoy being with. 289 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:34.440 Them that is one of the reasons Why god needs 290 00:15:34.799 --> 00:15:36.639 us to be in a, family so that other people 291 00:15:36.639 --> 00:15:37.279 can help. 292 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:38.519 Us in sharing the good. 293 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:41.679 News you, Know i've often asked, you is anybody going 294 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:42.720 to be in heaven because of? 295 00:15:42.759 --> 00:15:45.399 You So i'm asking it again. 296 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:47.360 Today is anybody going to be in heaven because of? 297 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:50.039 YOU i want to help, you AND i want to 298 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:51.320 help you by, saying you don't have to do this 299 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:56.399 on your. Own let's reach your, friends your, neighbors your family, 300 00:15:56.480 --> 00:15:59.960 members your. Relatives let's reach to people in your. Circle 301 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:03.440 and you're part of the world. TOGETHER i want you 302 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:08.080 to write this. Down god's answer to fear is. Community, 303 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:11.559 see you lose your fear when you Realize god is 304 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:14.240 near and other people with. You you're just not as much. 305 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:19.639 Afraid you know WHAT i want people to be able 306 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:22.840 to say about this church Saddle, back BUT i Want 307 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:24.759 god to be able to say it about other churches. 308 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:29.480 Too that what THEY i Want god to be able 309 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:31.320 to say about us and other people say about. Us 310 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:35.200 what was said about the church In, philippi which was 311 00:16:35.240 --> 00:16:38.279 a little city In. Greece and In philippians chapter, one 312 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:41.879 verse twenty, Seven paul says this about that. Congregation he, 313 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:45.799 says you are working, together that's the family Of, god 314 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:50.279 and you're struggling side by side to get others to 315 00:16:50.279 --> 00:16:53.039 believe the good. NEWS i want that to be said 316 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:56.360 about Saddle Back, church that we're working, together struggling side 317 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:59.200 by side to get others to believe the good. News 318 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:02.360 and here's the bottom. Line so let me sum it 319 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:06.559 all up for this. Weekend we need each. Other you 320 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:09.640 need other believers in a, church family and in a small, 321 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:13.440 group and you need them to walk with, you especially 322 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:16.000 through troubles and. Trials you need them to work with 323 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:19.160 you as you develop your, gifts your spiritual, gifts and your. 324 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:21.759 Shape you need them to watch out for you and 325 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:24.680 the traps and the troubles all. Around you need them 326 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:26.960 to weep with you when you have, losses and you 327 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:31.079 need them to witness with. You as together we make 328 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:33.200 a front of the world to say we are not 329 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:36.920 ashamed to say we Love Jesus. Christ Now i'm going 330 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:40.079 to ask you to say something aloud in all twenty. 331 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:42.720 Campuses you THINK i can't hear, you BUT i. Can, 332 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:45.160 OKAY i want you to say this, aloud so everybody say. 333 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:49.279 IT i, okay some of you did not say. IT 334 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:51.519 i see you on the fourth. Row, OKAY i see, 335 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:54.359 you AND i hear you SAY i, okay, EVERYBODY i, 336 00:17:54.880 --> 00:18:00.000 okay and then repeat this word really say it really 337 00:17:59.640 --> 00:18:07.000 really really really need a small. Group need a small. 338 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:10.160 Group you know what that. Is you just made the 339 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:16.720 declaration of. Interdependence that's the declaration of. INTERDEPENDENCE i really, really, 340 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:20.279 really really really need a small. Group during this, series 341 00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:22.880 we're going to learn how to meet the deepest emotional 342 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:26.079 spiritual needs of each, other and we're also going to 343 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:29.519 learn how to have our needs met at the same. Time, 344 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:35.079 now let me pray for you as we. Close, father 345 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:38.799 it is time for the church to really be the, 346 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:42.000 church not the kind of church that everybody's heard, about 347 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:45.440 the boring, kind the kind that doesn't meet the, needs 348 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:47.039 that doesn't fulfill the purposes Of. 349 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:47.359 God. 350 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:51.359 Father it's time for the church to have a revolution 351 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:56.039 of love and fellowship and. Community as we are members 352 00:18:56.119 --> 00:18:59.400 of The body Of. Christ, together we're brothers and sisters 353 00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:03.240 and the family Of. God please begin this in our hearts. 354 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:06.119 Today with all my, Heart, LORD i believe that our 355 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:09.519 church and all of our campuses and many many other 356 00:19:09.640 --> 00:19:15.359 churches will start Fulfilling god's purposes. Together that when we do, 357 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:19.079 that we'll see a new revelation and a new revitalization 358 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:22.599 and a new, revival not just in our church and 359 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:26.720 in other, churches but a spiritual awakening in our nations 360 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:30.200 and in the. World now you, pray would you pray 361 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:34.079 say something like, This Dear, god forgive me for all 362 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:36.039 the times THAT i FELT i didn't need other people 363 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:39.160 in my, life or didn't even need your, family the. 364 00:19:39.240 --> 00:19:39.519 Church. 365 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:42.079 GOD i want to be a part of What you're 366 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:47.240 doing on earth through your. FAMILY i want to experience 367 00:19:47.319 --> 00:19:52.960 real community and fellowship in my. Church i'm tired of superficial. 368 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:55.640 RELATIONSHIPS i want to learn to love and be loved 369 00:19:55.640 --> 00:19:57.839 in a deeper. WAY i open up my life to, You. 370 00:19:57.960 --> 00:20:01.880 Jesus thank you for bringing me to this church. Family 371 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:05.319 thank you for a place to, belong a place to, 372 00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:08.599 grow a place to, fellowship to, serve to, share to Worship. 373 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:12.920 GOD i don't want to be a passive follower or 374 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:17.880 a passive attender. ANYMORE i commit to getting into a small. 375 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:20.119 Group SO i can learn about real. 376 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:25.559 Community And please bless our church family as we learn 377 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:29.400 and grow together in the next forty eight. 378 00:20:29.480 --> 00:20:37.759 Days In jesus's, Name, hey if you. 379 00:20:37.880 --> 00:20:41.680 Just prayed to Receive jesus as Your lord and, savior awesome, 380 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:45.279 congratulations and we would love to hear from you and 381 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:47.920 send you some free materials to help you know him. 382 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:52.759 Better so Email rick at pastorrick dot. Com That's rick 383 00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:56.160 at pastor rick dot. Com and now Here's rick to 384 00:20:56.200 --> 00:20:57.519 tell you about today's. 385 00:20:57.519 --> 00:20:59.799 Offer one of the things That i've discovered is that 386 00:20:59.799 --> 00:21:03.920 everybody eventually asks the questions of. Significance why AM i? 387 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:07.319 Here and what is my? Purpose what on earth AM 388 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:10.559 i here? For So i've updated The Purpose Driven life 389 00:21:10.680 --> 00:21:13.480 BECAUSE i wanted to help people like you understand How 390 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:18.720 god created us for five eternal. Purposes The bible says 391 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:21.079 that long before we heard Of, christ he had his 392 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:24.559 eye on, us had his designs on us for glorious. 393 00:21:24.599 --> 00:21:27.440 Living that it was part of his overall purpose that 394 00:21:27.480 --> 00:21:31.880 he's working out in everything and. Everyone god has never 395 00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:35.599 made a person that he doesn't have a purpose. For you, 396 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:38.759 know that simple message needs to be shared with the 397 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:42.839 whole new. GENERATION a young girl who was twelve years 398 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:45.880 old WHEN i Wrote Purpose Driven life is now twenty, 399 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:49.720 two and she needs to hear this essential message That 400 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:52.279 god has a, plan has a, purpose and has a 401 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:55.519