Speaker 1: You belong to God's family. That is the second calling
Speaker 1: or purpose or reason or mission of your life. First
Speaker 1: to know God, who loves you dearly, but second is
Speaker 1: to be a part of his family, and that family
Speaker 1: is called the church. Romans one six says you are
Speaker 1: among those who have been called to belong to Jesus Christ,
Speaker 1: called to belong That's what we're looking at this weekend.
Speaker 1: You are called to belong to Jesus Christ. God designed
Speaker 1: his family, the church, to meet your five deepest needs.
Speaker 1: In fact, the church is the only thing that can
Speaker 1: meet your five deepest needs. In the Bible, the church
Speaker 1: is often referred to by a different metaphor. The church
Speaker 1: is called a family, the church is called a temple,
Speaker 1: the church is called a body, the church is called
Speaker 1: a flock, and the church is called a garden. Each
Speaker 1: one of them have profound implications for your life. And
Speaker 1: if you understand the five meanings of these five metaphors,
Speaker 1: you will understand how the church was designed. God's family
Speaker 1: was designed to meet your deepest needs in life Ephesians
Speaker 1: four twenty five. In Christ's body, we're all connected to
Speaker 1: each other, and a disconnected part dies. Now let me
Speaker 1: give you a fourth metaphor. The fourth description of the
Speaker 1: church in the Bible is a flock. It is a flock,
Speaker 1: like a flock of sheep. We're God's family. We learn
Speaker 1: our identity. We're in God's temple. We're supported by each other.
Speaker 1: Where Christ's body, we discover our own unique value. And
Speaker 1: in God's flock we're banded together. Look up here on
Speaker 1: the screen some one hundred, verse three says this God
Speaker 1: made us, and we are his. We are his people,
Speaker 1: the sheep of his pasture. Now, probably I imagine what
Speaker 1: you're thinking. You're saying, I'm a sheep and a flock.
Speaker 1: That doesn't sound too appealing. I mean, because we live
Speaker 1: in suburbia. You've never seen a sheep, and you have
Speaker 1: no idea how well cared sheep are taken care of.
Speaker 1: Because sheep are pretty innocent animals. They have no natural
Speaker 1: defense against predators, so they have to be protected by shepherds.
Speaker 1: You don't have to care for cows like you care
Speaker 1: for sheep. You don't have to care for horses or
Speaker 1: even chickens like you have to care for sheep, because.
Speaker 2: Sheep are pretty dependent.
Speaker 1: And let me read to you what it means to
Speaker 1: be a sheep from Psalm twenty three, the most famous
Speaker 1: Psalm FoST famous chapter in the Bible, because this is
Speaker 1: from the Living Bible. Because the Lord is my shepherd,
Speaker 1: I have everything that I need. Now I'm interested and
Speaker 1: being a sheep. If God's my shepherd, then I have
Speaker 1: everything I need. He lets me rest in meadow grass,
Speaker 1: and he leaves me beside quiet streams. He gives me
Speaker 1: new strength. He helps me to do what honors him
Speaker 1: the most. And even when I'm walking through dark valley
Speaker 1: of death, I won't be afraid because you, Lord, my shepherd,
Speaker 1: are close beside me, guiding, guarding all the way. You
Speaker 1: provide delicious food for me in the presence of my enemies,
Speaker 1: and you welcome me as your guest. Blessings overflow. Your
Speaker 1: goodness and unfailing kindness shall be with me all of
Speaker 1: my life and afterwards, I will live with you forever
Speaker 1: and your home. Now I want to be a sheep. Okay,
Speaker 1: now we're talking. Let me read you what Jesus said
Speaker 1: about shepherds and flocks and sheep and John ten. I
Speaker 1: am the good shepherd, and the good shepherd lays down
Speaker 1: his life for his sheep. A hired hand runs away
Speaker 1: because he cares nothing for the sheep, like when the
Speaker 1: wolves come. But I'm the good shepherd, and I know
Speaker 1: my sheep, and my sheep know me, and I lay
Speaker 1: down my life for my sheep. They listen to my
Speaker 1: voice and they follow me, and I give them eternal
Speaker 1: life and they will never perish and no one will
Speaker 1: ever be able to snatch my sheep out of my hand.
Speaker 2: Now, I want to be a sheep. So flock is
Speaker 2: a good term.
Speaker 1: I'm God's temple, I'm God's body, Christ's body, I'm God's family.
Speaker 1: I'm God's building, and I'm in God's flock. And why
Speaker 1: did God choose a flock of sheep as an illustration
Speaker 1: of what the church is like? Write this down? Because
Speaker 1: in God's flock, I'm protected and I'm cared for. I'm
Speaker 1: protected and I'm cared for. I'm not on my own.
Speaker 1: I have other people looking up for me. I enjoy
Speaker 1: safety and security because I've got a shepherd. And that
Speaker 1: makes me more confident, and that makes me less anxious,
Speaker 1: and it makes me less fearful. And I know that
Speaker 1: God is protecting me because I'm in his flock. Now
Speaker 1: when is that important? When I'm being beat up in
Speaker 1: the business world, when my family or my marriage is
Speaker 1: being strained to the breaking point, when I'm facing a
Speaker 1: personal crisis or a terminal illness, I need to know
Speaker 1: that somebody's protecting and caring for me. Now, not just
Speaker 1: God cares and protects for you. In the flock of God,
Speaker 1: we help each other. And what you need in your
Speaker 1: life is you need some people who will step up
Speaker 1: to bat for you when you need them. You need
Speaker 1: some people who walk into your life when everybody else
Speaker 1: walks out of your life. Do you have anybody like that?
Speaker 1: That's what the church is for. We are to walk
Speaker 1: into each other's life when everybody else walks out. That's
Speaker 1: what it means to be in the flock of God. Now,
Speaker 1: you need people who will step up for you. And
Speaker 1: in the flock of God, God has created two kinds
Speaker 1: of people who are caregivers, two kinds of people who
Speaker 1: will step up for you, Two kinds of people who
Speaker 1: will look out for you.
Speaker 2: The first is pastors.
Speaker 1: My pastors look out for me or watch out for
Speaker 1: me when I'm in a part of the of the
Speaker 1: flock of God. You know what the word pastor means.
Speaker 1: It's the Greek word for shepherd. That's what it means, poyman.
Speaker 1: A pastor is a shepherd. A shepherd is a pastor.
Speaker 1: Pastors are to shepherd the flock of God. In fact,
Speaker 1: you want to know my job description, look at this
Speaker 1: on your outline one Peter five to two. This is
Speaker 1: God's word to pastors, to shepherds, take care of God's flock,
Speaker 1: his people that you are responsible for. Watch over them
Speaker 1: because you want to, not because you're forced to. I'm
Speaker 1: to take care of God's flock. I'm the shepherd. I'm
Speaker 1: to be responsible. I'm to watch over you. Let me
Speaker 1: show you another verse. Look up here on the screen.
Speaker 1: Hebrews thirteen seventeen says this, obey your spiritual leaders and
Speaker 1: do what to say. Their work is to watch over
Speaker 1: your souls, and they know they are accountable to God.
Speaker 1: Now I'll be honest with you, guys. That to me
Speaker 1: is the scariest verse in the Bible. It scares me
Speaker 1: to death. Not the part about obey your spiritual leaders
Speaker 1: and do what to say. The part that scares me
Speaker 1: is they watch over your souls and they know they
Speaker 1: are accountable to God.
Speaker 2: That scares me to death.
Speaker 1: Let me just share with your heart to heart here
Speaker 1: for a minute. The Bible says that if you choose
Speaker 1: to put yourself under my care as a shepherd of
Speaker 1: saddle backed church, and you join this flock, and you say,
Speaker 1: this is going to be my family, this is going
Speaker 1: to be my flock. This is where I'm going to
Speaker 1: serve the body of Christ. This is the temple that
Speaker 1: I'm going to be built in doing sharing with that.
Speaker 1: If you put yourself under my care, that one day
Speaker 1: I am going to give an account to God for
Speaker 1: how well I helped you grow spiritually, And that scares
Speaker 1: me to death. One day I'm going to give an
Speaker 1: account to God. Meet Rick Warren will personally give an
Speaker 1: account to God for how well I took care of
Speaker 1: your soul.
Speaker 2: And you, guys, I'm not that smart.
Speaker 1: And if you join this church, I beg you, beg
Speaker 1: you to pray for me, because I don't take anybody
Speaker 1: smart enough to pastor church this size. I couldn't possibly
Speaker 1: care for everybody's needs, much less know everybody's needs. And
Speaker 1: yet the Bible says, one day I will give an
Speaker 1: account for the direction that I led this flock. And
Speaker 1: I take that very very seriously. It drives me to
Speaker 1: my knees every single day. And I am praying for
Speaker 1: you and your spiritual care, and I beg you to
Speaker 1: pray for me, because, as I said, I'm just not
Speaker 1: smart enough to do that. I need your help. And
Speaker 1: I am concerned that I lead you in the right direction.
Speaker 1: I would rather stick a knife in my heart than
Speaker 1: lead you in the wrong way. This is the family
Speaker 1: of God, This is the flock of God. This is
Speaker 1: not like some business where you just mess it up,
Speaker 1: you just go start another one. Eternity is in the
Speaker 1: balance here heaven and Hell. It's extremely important, and sometimes
Speaker 1: the burden is crushing to me. The Bible says, I
Speaker 1: will give an account to God one day, and so
Speaker 1: I take that serious that I want to make sure
Speaker 1: that you are You're safe, that I protect you from
Speaker 1: false doctrine and cults and wolves and false ideologies and
Speaker 1: things like that, and lead you in the right way
Speaker 1: because I'm accountable to God.
Speaker 2: But not only do we.
Speaker 1: Have pastors to help us in the flock of God,
Speaker 1: we have our small groups. And fifty eight times in
Speaker 1: the Bible the phrase one another is used, and the
Speaker 1: Bible says that the sheep take care of each other, sheep, care.
Speaker 2: For sheep, not just shepherds.
Speaker 1: And the Bible uses the phrase one another says love
Speaker 1: one another, care for one another, help one another, encourage
Speaker 1: one another, support one another, pray for one another, love
Speaker 1: one another, greet one another.
Speaker 2: Fifty eight times. We are to do these. And the
Speaker 2: only way you can do that is in a small group.
Speaker 1: That's why if you're not in a small group, you're
Speaker 1: not really connected, because you can't do those one anothers
Speaker 1: in a crowd of several thousand people. You could only
Speaker 1: do it in a group of four or six or
Speaker 1: seven or whatever. Here's what the Bible says, Galatians six
Speaker 1: to two share each other's troubles and problems. And in
Speaker 1: this way, in other words, when we share each other's
Speaker 1: troubles and problems, in this way, you obey the law
Speaker 1: of Christ. What is the law of Christ? Love your neighbors, yourself.
Speaker 1: And when you're in a small group and you pray
Speaker 1: for somebody who's just gone through a tough time, somebody
Speaker 1: just says, you know, this week was terrible, this happened,
Speaker 1: this happened, this happened, And you stop and you pray
Speaker 1: for them, and you encourage them you give them a
Speaker 1: pat on the back, you give them a warm, encouraging word.
Speaker 1: You have just done the one on others. You have
Speaker 1: just shepherded the flock yourself. You have been a part
Speaker 1: of the family of God. You've been a part of
Speaker 1: the body of Christ. You've been a part of the
Speaker 1: Temple of God. You've been a part of the flock
Speaker 1: of God, and there has been protection and care for
Speaker 1: Thessalonians five eleven says, encourage each other and give each
Speaker 1: other strength. You get strength, I get strength by we
Speaker 1: encourage each other in a small group. So here's my question,
Speaker 1: who's looking out for you? Here's another question, who are
Speaker 1: you looking out for? Can you name three or four
Speaker 1: specific people? You go, these are people in our flock,
Speaker 1: in our family, in our small group, in our body
Speaker 1: of Christ that I'm looking out for, and they're looking
Speaker 1: out for me. That's what it means to be a Christian.
Speaker 1: That's what it means to be a part of the
Speaker 1: family of God. That's what it means that I'm not
Speaker 1: just called to be loved. I am called by God
Speaker 1: to belong. And one day you'll stand before God and
Speaker 1: I'll say.
Speaker 2: Did you do that one?
Speaker 1: Did you do the belonging part that I called you
Speaker 1: to be a part of my family, a part of
Speaker 1: my flock, a part of my temple, a part of
Speaker 1: my body.
Speaker 2: Did you do those things? Here's the cool thing.
Speaker 1: All the stuff that you're most embarrassed about in the world,
Speaker 1: God uses it for good in the church. The very
Speaker 1: thing you're most embarrassed about, your hurts, your hang ups,
Speaker 1: your sins, your mistakes, your weaknesses. God says, you know what,
Speaker 1: in my family, I'm going to use those to encourage
Speaker 1: other people. So the stuff you want to keep a
Speaker 1: secret from everybody else in the world, you get to
Speaker 1: tell everybody here because it'll encourage them. Who could better
Speaker 1: help somebody who's on the verge of a divorce and
Speaker 1: somebody who's been on the verge of.
Speaker 2: A divorce, been there, done that. Let me tell you
Speaker 2: what's going on.
Speaker 1: Who could better help somebody who's struggling with an addiction
Speaker 1: than somebody who's had an addiction? Who could better help
Speaker 1: somebody who's been molested than somebody has been molested? Who
Speaker 1: could better help somebody who's gone through a bankruptcy or
Speaker 1: has lost a child, or any anything good, bad, sinful.
Speaker 2: God says, I can use it all.
Speaker 3: Hey, would you like to go so deeper with Pastor
Speaker 3: Rick to discover God's purpose in your life? Well now
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Speaker 2: As you go through.
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Speaker 3: answer life's most fundamental question, what on Earth am I
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Speaker 3: our significance, and our destiny.
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Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The final description that I want us to look at
Speaker 1: this weekend of the church is the church is called
Speaker 1: a garden. A garden specifically a vineyard, and this is
Speaker 1: an organic metaphor that has to do with how being
Speaker 1: a part of a church family helpshoot grow like fruit
Speaker 1: in a garden, like grapes on a vine on the screen.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in John fifteen, Jesus said, I am
Speaker 1: the true vine, and my father is the gardener, and
Speaker 1: you are the branches.
Speaker 2: Now, what's the lesson we get out of this?
Speaker 1: The lesson we get out of the fact that the
Speaker 1: church is like a garden where Jesus says, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm the vine and you're the branches. You know, I
Speaker 1: actually grow a bunch of different kinds of grapes. And
Speaker 1: I could bring into you some grape vines, and I
Speaker 1: could bring them in they're all cut up, but if
Speaker 1: they're disconnected, they don't bear any fruit at all. This
Speaker 1: is talking about being fruitful. Your life needs to be productive.
Speaker 1: You need to make a differ friends with your life.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to end their life feel like I didn't
Speaker 1: just waste my life. I was productive with my life.
Speaker 1: I did something with life. I made my life count.
Speaker 1: And this is the fifth thing that we learned that
Speaker 1: in God's garden, my life becomes productive, it becomes fruitful.
Speaker 1: I do something with my life because now I'm connected
Speaker 1: to the vine, and there's life giving life flowing through
Speaker 1: those vines and those branches, so I'm able to bear fruit.
Speaker 1: If I'm disconnected, there's no way I'm going to bear fruit.
Speaker 1: I don't cut off a branch of an apple tree.
Speaker 1: It will never in a million years grow any apples.
Speaker 1: It only grows apples as it's connected to the tree.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in John fourteen fifteen, excuse me four
Speaker 1: and five. A branch cannot bear fruit if it's severed
Speaker 1: from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful apart from me,
Speaker 1: Jesus says, I am the vine, and you are the branches.
Speaker 1: Those who remain in me and I in them will
Speaker 1: produce much fruit, circle much fruit. That's called productivity. But
Speaker 1: apart from me, you can do nothing. The point is
Speaker 1: a disconnected branch can't bear fruit. God has all kinds
Speaker 1: of fruit he wants to bear in your life, but.
Speaker 2: You can't do it.
Speaker 1: None of the fruit that God has for your life
Speaker 1: will happen unless you're connected to the church. Unless you're
Speaker 1: connected to the vine. You're built into the building. You're
Speaker 1: a part of the body, you're a member of the family,
Speaker 1: your sheep in the flock. All these connection metaphors say,
Speaker 1: nothing happens that God intends for your life, your purpose.
Speaker 1: That's why your calling, your second calling is to belong
Speaker 1: to get connected. You have five basic needs in your life.
Speaker 1: You have a need to know your identity, who am
Speaker 1: I really need to develop stability so you don't get
Speaker 1: blown away by the tough.
Speaker 2: Things in life.
Speaker 1: You have a need to increase your capacity. You have
Speaker 1: a need to have security in your life. And you
Speaker 1: have a need for productivity. All five of these things
Speaker 1: are found in God's family. In God's family, I learn
Speaker 1: my identity. In Christ's body, I discover my unique value,
Speaker 1: my capacity. In God's temple, I learn how to support
Speaker 1: others and be supported by others and have that stability.
Speaker 1: And in God's flock I come together for protection and
Speaker 1: care security. And in the vine, in the garden, I
Speaker 1: learned productivity, fruitfulness. Let me say it another way. In
Speaker 1: your life, if you're going to really live the life
Speaker 1: God made you to live, you need power to live on.
Speaker 1: You need people to live with, You need principles to
Speaker 1: live by, you need a plan to live out, and
Speaker 1: you need a purpose to live for.
Speaker 2: Where are you going to get that outside of the church? Nowhere,
Speaker 2: Nowhere in the world.
Speaker 1: Will you find those five things anywhere else except in
Speaker 1: the plan of God, who created the whole thing and
Speaker 1: designed his family the church to answer your deepest needs.
Speaker 2: So here's my one question.
Speaker 1: Why should you remain disconnected when a church like this
Speaker 1: has so much to offer? People who say, well, I
Speaker 1: love Jesus, but I don't love the church.
Speaker 2: I don't need the church.
Speaker 1: That's the stupidest thing you can say. The Church was
Speaker 1: designed to meet your deepest needs. You cannot be what
Speaker 1: God puts you on this earth to be without being connected.
Speaker 1: We're better together, we grow together. And God says it
Speaker 1: four or five different ways. The Church is the hope
Speaker 1: of the world. America is not the hope of the world.
Speaker 1: Politics is not the hope of the world. Economics is
Speaker 1: not the hope of the world. Education is not the
Speaker 1: hope of the world. If any of those things would work,
Speaker 1: we would have already turned the thing around. The hope
Speaker 1: of the world is the spread of God's good news
Speaker 1: so that lives are changed, and hearts change, and families
Speaker 1: and marriages are saved. And the only thing that's going
Speaker 1: to last is the Church of God. So I highly
Speaker 1: recommend you invest the rest of your life in that
Speaker 1: which is going to outlast it. Nothing else will let
Speaker 1: the close of this verse on the screen. Ephesians three
Speaker 1: twenty one. Glory belongs to God in the Church and
Speaker 1: in Jesus Christ, for all time and eternity. Now, notice
Speaker 1: the Bible says two things bring glory to God, the
Speaker 1: Church and Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the son of God.
Speaker 1: The Church is the family of God. And those two
Speaker 1: things bring glory to God. Don't you ever put the
Speaker 1: Church down again. It's God's bride, it's God's family, it's
Speaker 1: God's flock, and it's God's purpose for your life. You're
Speaker 1: called to belong that's power heads. Lord, I thank you
Speaker 1: that even with all of our faults and weaknesses and
Speaker 1: all of the many sins in your family, you love
Speaker 1: your family, the Church. Of course, it's going to be imperfect.
Speaker 1: It's filled with imperfect people, but you love it. And Jesus,
Speaker 1: I thank you that you're not ashamed to call us
Speaker 1: your brothers and sisters, and so we may we never
Speaker 1: be ashamed of your church.
Speaker 2: It's your family. Lord.
Speaker 1: You said in the word Christ died for the church,
Speaker 1: and I pray that we would have that same attitude
Speaker 1: that the attitude of our brothers and sisters. You've said,
Speaker 1: we know what love is. That we lay down our
Speaker 1: lives for our brothers and sisters. May we realize we're
Speaker 1: not just friends, We're not just the tenders. We're family.
Speaker 1: May we stick up for each other. May we support
Speaker 1: each other. May we care for each other. And may
Speaker 1: the world look at saddle backed Church and say, those
Speaker 1: guys really love, they really love. If you haven't stepped
Speaker 1: across the line and invited Jesus Christ in your life,
Speaker 1: said Jesus Christ, come into my life right now, come
Speaker 1: into my life and change me and save me. I
Speaker 1: want to be a part of your family, and I
Speaker 1: want to accept your call to be loved, and I
Speaker 1: want to accept your call to belong.
Speaker 2: In your name. I pray amen.
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Speaker 3: Hey, would you like to go deeper with Pastor Rick
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Speaker 3: Earth Am I here for? This life changing study is
Speaker 3: taught by Rick and includes a workbook and six video sessions.
Speaker 2: As you go through these.
Speaker 3: Lessons, you'll embark on a journey of discovery to answer
Speaker 3: life's most fund mental question, what on earth am I
Speaker 3: here for? You'll learn that it's only in God that
Speaker 3: we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose,
Speaker 3: our significance, and our destiny.
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