Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the
Speaker 1: Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren. We're so excited that
Speaker 1: you've joined us today. As we continue in this powerful
Speaker 1: series how the Church meets your deepest needs. Together, we're
Speaker 1: uncovering the joy and strength that comes from being a
Speaker 1: part of God's family. Okay, and now here's Rick with
Speaker 1: the final part of a message called you need others
Speaker 1: for spiritual support.
Speaker 2: So first off, I need a church family. I need
Speaker 2: others to walk with me. Let me give you a
Speaker 2: second reason. I need others to work with me. Not
Speaker 2: just to walk with me, but to work with me.
Speaker 2: And did you know that God has a special work
Speaker 2: for you to do with your life. Here's what the
Speaker 2: Bible says Esians two ten. God made us to do
Speaker 2: good works. Look at that well, he said, why am
Speaker 2: I alive? God made you to do good works, which
Speaker 2: He planned in advance for us to live our life.
Speaker 2: Did you know that before you were born? God planned
Speaker 2: the good works he wants you to do with your life.
Speaker 2: You could miss him, you could miss your purpose in life.
Speaker 2: It's not automatic. Remember, life on earth is to practice
Speaker 2: for eternity, and one of The fourth things you're going
Speaker 2: to do in heaven is serve God. In heaven, everybody's
Speaker 2: going to share the work, so we'll never get tired.
Speaker 2: But on earth what happens is we try to do
Speaker 2: it all ourselves and the result is fatigue. Now God
Speaker 2: tells us why we need to work together. Look at
Speaker 2: this first Ecclesiastes four nine. Two people are better than
Speaker 2: one because they get more done. What read it with
Speaker 2: me working together? Two people are better than one. They
Speaker 2: get more done by working together. So you need a
Speaker 2: church family to get the work that God has for
Speaker 2: your life done. God never meant for you to do
Speaker 2: it by yourself.
Speaker 3: You know. One time, a few years.
Speaker 2: Ago, I was making a tour of the East Coast
Speaker 2: and I spoke at West Point, the Army Academy. I'll
Speaker 2: spoke at the Navy Academy too, but at West Point
Speaker 2: it's interesting.
Speaker 3: They have a system there. It so impressed me.
Speaker 2: It feeds four thousand people, get this in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: So how in the world do you do that? How
Speaker 2: do you feed four thousand people in fifty minutes? Everybody
Speaker 2: has a role, And I noticed that when they were
Speaker 2: doing this in Westpond, everybody had a role. In fact,
Speaker 2: it was a roll with butter on it.
Speaker 3: Never mind.
Speaker 2: But God has called you to serve others, and it's
Speaker 2: in the context of a family, a church family. Sometimes
Speaker 2: we think that the greatest Christians are out there all
Speaker 2: by themselves. You know, there's this myth about Mother Teresa
Speaker 2: that she was out there serving on the streets of
Speaker 2: Calcutta all by herself.
Speaker 3: No, she wasn't there.
Speaker 2: Kay went and served with Mother Teresa a little bit
Speaker 2: years ago and came back tell me that Mother Teresa
Speaker 2: has an army of sisters helping. You need other people
Speaker 2: helping you fulfill the work that God is for your life.
Speaker 2: And I said, like this, by myself, I can't do
Speaker 2: a lot. You can't do a lot, but together we can.
Speaker 2: Snowflakes are frail, they're not by themselves, they're not very
Speaker 2: they're not very strong. But if enough of snowflakes stick together,
Speaker 2: they can stop traffic. And together we can make a difference,
Speaker 2: with each person doing a little. So if you're sitting
Speaker 2: listening to me today and you say, man, I'm really tired,
Speaker 2: I'm exhausted, it's probably because you've.
Speaker 3: Got nobody helping you.
Speaker 2: You're missing one of the benefits of being in a
Speaker 2: small group and really totally connected to a church family.
Speaker 2: You could attend and not really be connected. I want
Speaker 2: you to write this down under this point. Community is
Speaker 2: God's answer to fatigue. Community is God's answer fatigue. God
Speaker 2: didn't meant for you to do it on your own.
Speaker 2: If you ever watch the Amish build a barn in
Speaker 2: a day, I once saw a TV show about it,
Speaker 2: the entire community shows up and they all help. The
Speaker 2: Bible says in Galatians six'. Ten every time we get the,
Speaker 2: chance let us work for the fit of, all starting
Speaker 2: with the people closest to, us in the community of.
Speaker 2: Faith SO i need a church family to walk with,
Speaker 2: me AND i need a church family to work with
Speaker 2: me so THAT i can do the work That god's
Speaker 2: called me to. Do number, THREE i need a church.
Speaker 2: FAMILY i need others to watch out for, me not
Speaker 2: just to walk with, me to work with.
Speaker 3: ME i need them to watch out for.
Speaker 2: Me in other, WORDS i need people in life my
Speaker 2: life who will warn me of, traps who will defend,
Speaker 2: me who will protect, me wh will help me stay on.
Speaker 2: Track The bible has a lot to say about. This philippians,
Speaker 2: two verse four says this look out for one another's,
Speaker 2: interest not just for your. Own that's a good. Thing
Speaker 2: that's what a family is all, about what a church
Speaker 2: family is all. About you, KNOW i have ever seen
Speaker 2: any of those neighborhood watch? Signs says you know there's
Speaker 2: a neighborhood watch in this. Area that's a sign of.
Speaker 2: Community let me ask you, this when have you ever
Speaker 2: left on vacation and before you, left you asked a
Speaker 2: neighbor to watch your stuff while you were. Gone, probably
Speaker 2: so you've asked neighbors to watch your. Stuff, here let
Speaker 2: me ask you another. Question have you got anybody watching
Speaker 2: out for your? Soul it's far more. Important you may
Speaker 2: have a neighbor watching your, stuff but who's watching out
Speaker 2: for your? Soul that's part of the family Of. God
Speaker 2: we need other people watching out for. Us why because
Speaker 2: we all have blind. Spots some of us have bald,
Speaker 2: spots but all of us have blind. Spots and there's
Speaker 2: some things you just can't. SEE i, mean If i've
Speaker 2: got a bald spot back on the back of my
Speaker 2: head AND i can't see, that there are some things
Speaker 2: that you need other people to tell you in your.
Speaker 2: Life when you have a tail light, out you can't see.
Speaker 3: It you need other.
Speaker 2: People when you have let us in your, teeth you
Speaker 2: can't see. It The bible says In hebrews, thirteen verse,
Speaker 2: one keep being concerned about each other as the lord's
Speaker 2: fo followers should now notice this, says keep being concerned
Speaker 2: keep means you be, viligent, vigilant, sorry. Vigilant and in a,
Speaker 2: war everybody takes turn on sentry. Duty somebody's got to
Speaker 2: be vigilant watching out for the. Enemy you, know since
Speaker 2: nine to eleven happened here in The United, states we've
Speaker 2: had to be vigilant against terrorists and terror. Attacks AND
Speaker 2: i just went through a couple of airports this week
Speaker 2: WHERE i had to get, scanned and because they're being
Speaker 2: vigilant for the. Enemy but did you know that you
Speaker 2: have an even greater, enemy far greater than the terrorist
Speaker 2: in the. World and that enemy wants to mess you.
Speaker 2: Up he wants to destroy your. Life he's plotting your
Speaker 2: downfall every morning before you ever wake. Up he's thinking
Speaker 2: how to defeat you with temptations and trials and dead
Speaker 2: ends and. Detours See satan fights with an arsenal of
Speaker 2: habits and hurts and hang ups and, problems and much of.
Speaker 3: The time we're.
Speaker 2: Defeated why because we're trying to him on our.
Speaker 3: Own that's.
Speaker 2: Dumb, well you need other people helping you resist. Temptation
Speaker 2: that's what celebrate recovery is all. About so what so
Speaker 2: many of our programs are all. About ecclesiastes four to
Speaker 2: twelve says a person standing alone can be attacked and,
Speaker 2: defeated but two can stand back to back and, conquer
Speaker 2: and they are Even the three are even. Better for
Speaker 2: a triple braided cord is not easily. Broken you, know
Speaker 2: WHEN i read that verse makes me think about years.
Speaker 2: AGO i walked across a prison yard in Northern california
Speaker 2: with two thousand, convicts most of them there with life,
Speaker 2: sentences standing on that, field AND i was invited there
Speaker 2: to speak to them on that prison.
Speaker 3: Yard but you know, WHAT i had no.
Speaker 2: Fear Why why didn't have no hear because Thirty christian
Speaker 2: inmates were walking with me on every, side in, front,
Speaker 2: behind on either, side watching every. MOVE i wasn't afraid at.
Speaker 2: All let me ask you a very personal, question is
Speaker 2: anybody protecting your? Backside who's watching out for?
Speaker 3: You?
Speaker 2: Spiritually nobody at works doing That nobody at school's doing.
Speaker 2: That nobody in the, government neighborhood's doing. That you need
Speaker 2: a church. Family you need a small. Group you, know
Speaker 2: as a, LIFEGUARD i was a lifeguard for three. YEARS
Speaker 2: i used to tell people never go swimming by yourself
Speaker 2: in the. Ocean you need to have a, buddy a.
Speaker 2: Partner we're better. TOGETHER i want you to write this.
Speaker 2: Down community Is god's answer to. Defeat the church, family
Speaker 2: the family Of god is the answer to Defeat ecclesiastes
Speaker 2: four to. Ten if one person, falls another can reach
Speaker 2: out and. Help but people who are alone when they,
Speaker 2: fall they're in real. Trouble Have let me give you
Speaker 2: a couple. More number, FOUR i need people to. FIRST
Speaker 2: i need people to walk with me and to watch
Speaker 2: over me and to work with. Me number, FOUR i
Speaker 2: need others to wait and weep with. ME i need
Speaker 2: other people in my life to wait with me When
Speaker 2: i'm going through a tough time and to weep with.
Speaker 2: Me and that's what a church family is all. About
Speaker 2: help me through the inevitable crisis of. Life you, said,
Speaker 2: well what are you talking, About, well let me just
Speaker 2: give you a list of some. Situations then nobody should
Speaker 2: ever have to face. Alone in other, words nobody should
Speaker 2: ever have to face waiting in a hospital alone during
Speaker 2: a risky. Surgery nobody should ever have to wait alone
Speaker 2: for a lab report or a pregnancy. Problem nobody should
Speaker 2: have to wait alone for news from a battlefield from
Speaker 2: a son or a, daughter or a father or. Mother
Speaker 2: nobody should have to have to wait alone for a
Speaker 2: corner while they're identifying a. Body nobody should have to
Speaker 2: wait alone standing in front of a fresh, grave or
Speaker 2: the first night after your husband or your wife, dies
Speaker 2: or the first night after your husband or wife walks,
Speaker 2: Out that go on and.
Speaker 3: On fact these things like this.
Speaker 2: Will happen in your life, eventually and it's foolish not
Speaker 2: to have your support, network your support your safety net
Speaker 2: in place, now because at some point you will have
Speaker 2: a life shaking. Crisis none of us know what it
Speaker 2: is or how it's going to hit, us but the
Speaker 2: time to prepare is. Now and what Is god's safety.
Speaker 2: Net it's a group of believers who are committed to
Speaker 2: you and you were committed to. Them who's committed to
Speaker 2: you right? Now could you could you rattle off the
Speaker 2: name of people who'd be there in an? Instant let
Speaker 2: me ask you it another, Way who could count on
Speaker 2: you that if they had crisis in their, life you
Speaker 2: would be there in an instant for them One peter three.
Speaker 2: Eight the first part of the verse is, this you
Speaker 2: should be like one big, family full of sympathy toward each.
Speaker 2: Other And i've told you many times about how my
Speaker 2: personal small group has helped me through very difficult, times
Speaker 2: and how we've traced all you, know we faced.
Speaker 3: All kinds of trauma.
Speaker 2: Together First corinthians twelve twenty six Is god's plan for
Speaker 2: a church, family and it says it like, this if
Speaker 2: one member, suffers all suffer. Together one of our members get,
Speaker 2: cancer we all ought to care about, that pray for,
Speaker 2: him support.
Speaker 3: Him you.
Speaker 2: KNOW i remember while back reading the newspaper article about
Speaker 2: a guy who laid dead in his bed for two
Speaker 2: years in his home and nobody. Noticed, Friends that is.
Speaker 2: Tragic imagine. Despair no one should ever die. ALONE i
Speaker 2: want you to write this. Down community Is god's answer to.
Speaker 2: Despair It's god's answer. Despair romans fifteen, Twelve verse. Fifteen
Speaker 2: be happy with those who are, happy and weep with
Speaker 2: those who. Weep that MEANS i need people who wait
Speaker 2: with me When i'm scared to, death and who will
Speaker 2: watch with me and they'll pray for me and they'll
Speaker 2: weep with. Me you, know the truth is we often
Speaker 2: don't know how to handle. Tears and sometimes you'll be
Speaker 2: in a small group and somebody starts crying and everybody
Speaker 2: feels a little. Awkward why are you feeling? Awkward let
Speaker 2: me give you a little. Tip when you're in a
Speaker 2: small group and somebody tears, up tears are always a
Speaker 2: sign that is time to stop and pray.
Speaker 3: And probably just go over and give them a.
Speaker 2: Hug or put a hand on their hand and, squeeze
Speaker 2: squeeze their. Hand you don't have to fix people's, problems
Speaker 2: but you do have to be. There you have to
Speaker 2: have the ministry of. Presence sometimes you just need to
Speaker 2: sit in silence with them and weep with.
Speaker 3: Them The bible says weep with those who.
Speaker 2: Weep, First tesstalonians five eleven, says you, know you've got
Speaker 2: to be. Flexible it says, this encourage each other and
Speaker 2: strengthen one. Another, well let me ask you a very personal.
Speaker 2: Question who do you need to encourage? Today can you
Speaker 2: think of somebody who might need your encouragement right? Now,
Speaker 2: finally let me give you one more reason why you
Speaker 2: need the support of A christian spiritual church family in
Speaker 2: order for spiritual. HEALTH i need him to walk with.
Speaker 2: ME i need him to work with. ME i need
Speaker 2: him to watch and wait with. Me, OKAY i need
Speaker 2: him to just be with me and all the things of.
Speaker 2: Life but the number, FIVE i need others to witness with.
Speaker 2: Me did you know That god, SAYS i expect you
Speaker 2: to tell other people about What i've done for. You
Speaker 2: did you know That god expects you to fulfill a
Speaker 2: mission in the world and share your life, message the
Speaker 2: story of your life with. Others, Well god doesn't expect
Speaker 2: you to do it by. Yourself he, SAYS i need
Speaker 2: other people to witness with. Me and there's great power
Speaker 2: in group. Witness it's very impressive when people come to
Speaker 2: Saddle Back church any of our, campuses and they walk
Speaker 2: in and they see people worshiping.
Speaker 3: Together that's a.
Speaker 2: Witness but you know, what the greatest witness of your
Speaker 2: life is to unbelievers loving each.
Speaker 3: Other loving each.
Speaker 2: Other The bible, says see how they love one. Another
Speaker 2: The bible says that that is the essence of our highest.
Speaker 2: Witness what impresses a. Community the most is our love
Speaker 2: for each. Other john thirteen thirty. Five jesus said it this,
Speaker 2: way your love for one another will prove to the
Speaker 2: world that you Are my. Disciples if you don't love
Speaker 2: other members of a, church where are you proving to
Speaker 2: the world's true is. Disciple this is our, Goal this
Speaker 2: is our goal for this entire, series that your love
Speaker 2: for each other will prove.
Speaker 3: To the world that You're my. Disciples that is our.
Speaker 2: Goal the one thing that proves to the world that
Speaker 2: you're a follower Of Jesus. Christ it's not our, buildings
Speaker 2: it's not our bumper, stickers it's not our. Programs it's
Speaker 2: our love for each. Other and in this, series this
Speaker 2: forty eight days, TOGETHER i want you to start a
Speaker 2: revolution of love in your, community at your, office at your,
Speaker 2: workplace at, school in your. Neighborhood, First timothy wants Tewod
Speaker 2: timothy one.
Speaker 3: P seven says.
Speaker 2: This The Holy spirit doesn't want you to be afraid of,
Speaker 2: people but he wants. You wants you to be wise
Speaker 2: and strong and to, love love, them and enjoy being with.
Speaker 2: Them that is one of the reasons Why god needs
Speaker 2: us to be in a, family so that other people
Speaker 2: can help.
Speaker 3: Us in sharing the good.
Speaker 2: News you, Know i've often asked, you is anybody going
Speaker 2: to be in heaven because of?
Speaker 3: You So i'm asking it again.
Speaker 2: Today is anybody going to be in heaven because of?
Speaker 2: YOU i want to help, you AND i want to
Speaker 2: help you by, saying you don't have to do this
Speaker 2: on your. Own let's reach your, friends your, neighbors your family,
Speaker 2: members your. Relatives let's reach to people in your. Circle
Speaker 2: and you're part of the world. TOGETHER i want you
Speaker 2: to write this. Down god's answer to fear is. Community,
Speaker 2: see you lose your fear when you Realize god is
Speaker 2: near and other people with. You you're just not as much.
Speaker 2: Afraid you know WHAT i want people to be able
Speaker 2: to say about this church Saddle, back BUT i Want
Speaker 2: god to be able to say it about other churches.
Speaker 2: Too that what THEY i Want god to be able
Speaker 2: to say about us and other people say about. Us
Speaker 2: what was said about the church In, philippi which was
Speaker 2: a little city In. Greece and In philippians chapter, one
Speaker 2: verse twenty, Seven paul says this about that. Congregation he,
Speaker 2: says you are working, together that's the family Of, god
Speaker 2: and you're struggling side by side to get others to
Speaker 2: believe the good. NEWS i want that to be said
Speaker 2: about Saddle Back, church that we're working, together struggling side
Speaker 2: by side to get others to believe the good. News
Speaker 2: and here's the bottom. Line so let me sum it
Speaker 2: all up for this. Weekend we need each. Other you
Speaker 2: need other believers in a, church family and in a small,
Speaker 2: group and you need them to walk with, you especially
Speaker 2: through troubles and. Trials you need them to work with
Speaker 2: you as you develop your, gifts your spiritual, gifts and your.
Speaker 2: Shape you need them to watch out for you and
Speaker 2: the traps and the troubles all. Around you need them
Speaker 2: to weep with you when you have, losses and you
Speaker 2: need them to witness with. You as together we make
Speaker 2: a front of the world to say we are not
Speaker 2: ashamed to say we Love Jesus. Christ Now i'm going
Speaker 2: to ask you to say something aloud in all twenty.
Speaker 2: Campuses you THINK i can't hear, you BUT i. Can,
Speaker 2: OKAY i want you to say this, aloud so everybody say.
Speaker 2: IT i, okay some of you did not say. IT
Speaker 2: i see you on the fourth. Row, OKAY i see,
Speaker 2: you AND i hear you SAY i, okay, EVERYBODY i,
Speaker 2: okay and then repeat this word really say it really
Speaker 2: really really really need a small. Group need a small.
Speaker 2: Group you know what that. Is you just made the
Speaker 2: declaration of. Interdependence that's the declaration of. INTERDEPENDENCE i really, really,
Speaker 2: really really really need a small. Group during this, series
Speaker 2: we're going to learn how to meet the deepest emotional
Speaker 2: spiritual needs of each, other and we're also going to
Speaker 2: learn how to have our needs met at the same. Time,
Speaker 2: now let me pray for you as we. Close, father
Speaker 2: it is time for the church to really be the,
Speaker 2: church not the kind of church that everybody's heard, about
Speaker 2: the boring, kind the kind that doesn't meet the, needs
Speaker 2: that doesn't fulfill the purposes Of.
Speaker 3: God.
Speaker 2: Father it's time for the church to have a revolution
Speaker 2: of love and fellowship and. Community as we are members
Speaker 2: of The body Of. Christ, together we're brothers and sisters
Speaker 2: and the family Of. God please begin this in our hearts.
Speaker 2: Today with all my, Heart, LORD i believe that our
Speaker 2: church and all of our campuses and many many other
Speaker 2: churches will start Fulfilling god's purposes. Together that when we do,
Speaker 2: that we'll see a new revelation and a new revitalization
Speaker 2: and a new, revival not just in our church and
Speaker 2: in other, churches but a spiritual awakening in our nations
Speaker 2: and in the. World now you, pray would you pray
Speaker 2: say something like, This Dear, god forgive me for all
Speaker 2: the times THAT i FELT i didn't need other people
Speaker 2: in my, life or didn't even need your, family the.
Speaker 3: Church.
Speaker 2: GOD i want to be a part of What you're
Speaker 2: doing on earth through your. FAMILY i want to experience
Speaker 2: real community and fellowship in my. Church i'm tired of superficial.
Speaker 2: RELATIONSHIPS i want to learn to love and be loved
Speaker 2: in a deeper. WAY i open up my life to, You.
Speaker 2: Jesus thank you for bringing me to this church. Family
Speaker 2: thank you for a place to, belong a place to,
Speaker 2: grow a place to, fellowship to, serve to, share to Worship.
Speaker 2: GOD i don't want to be a passive follower or
Speaker 2: a passive attender. ANYMORE i commit to getting into a small.
Speaker 3: Group SO i can learn about real.
Speaker 2: Community And please bless our church family as we learn
Speaker 2: and grow together in the next forty eight.
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Speaker 2: Offer one of the things That i've discovered is that
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Speaker 2: Here and what is my? Purpose what on earth AM
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Speaker 2: BECAUSE i wanted to help people like you understand How
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