Speaker 1: Hello, and thanks for joining us today on Pastor Rick's
Speaker 1: Daily Hope. This is the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren,
Speaker 1: and today we are continuing in a series called the
Speaker 1: Miracle of Mercy. Rick will show us how God's mercy
Speaker 1: can lift your guilt, heal your wounds, and transform the
Speaker 1: way you live. Okay, here's part one of a message
Speaker 1: called how Much You Matter to God?
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: One of the purposes of the Miracle of Mercy series
Speaker 2: is to help you've better understand what God is really like.
Speaker 2: Most people have poor misconceptions of God. They don't understand
Speaker 2: fully deeply the mercy of God, that God always acts
Speaker 2: in mercy toward us.
Speaker 3: Every good thing in your life.
Speaker 2: Is because of the mercy of God. You wouldn't be
Speaker 2: alive if it weren't for the mercy of God. The talents,
Speaker 2: the gifts, the abilities you have are gifts of the
Speaker 2: mercy of God. The fact that all of the good things,
Speaker 2: the relationships that happen in your life, the fact that
Speaker 2: you're going to go to Heaven one day is only
Speaker 2: due to the mercy of God.
Speaker 3: Without that we would have nothing.
Speaker 2: Now, the Bible says in Titus chapter three, if you
Speaker 2: pull out your message notes all the verses were gonna
Speaker 2: look at this weekend or on your notes. Titus chapter three,
Speaker 2: verse five says this Jesus saved us not because of
Speaker 2: the good things that we did, but because of his mercy.
Speaker 2: His mercy he washed away our sins and he gave
Speaker 2: us new life through the Holy Spirit. Now, God is
Speaker 2: such a god of mercy. He came to earth in
Speaker 2: human form, as a form of Jesus Christ. He came
Speaker 2: in human form to show us his mercy. He came
Speaker 2: on a mission of mercy, and that mission of mercy
Speaker 2: was to save us. In fact, Jesus says it like
Speaker 2: this in Luke chapter nineteen, verse two. I have come
Speaker 2: to seek and save those who are lost. Now this
Speaker 2: is the ultimate expression of mercy.
Speaker 3: Jesus said. The whole reason I came to earth.
Speaker 2: Why we have Christmas, while we have Easter, while we
Speaker 2: have everything that exists, is I came to seek and
Speaker 2: save those who are lost. The ultimate expression of mercy.
Speaker 2: Mercy seeks, Mercy takes initiative, Mercy makes the first step.
Speaker 3: Mercy saves.
Speaker 2: And by the way, this is the reason Saddleback Church exists.
Speaker 2: The whole reason we have Church is because of this verse.
Speaker 2: We exist to seek and to save those who are lost.
Speaker 2: That's the whole purpose of Saddleback Church. Now, I want
Speaker 2: you to circle the words saved and the word lost.
Speaker 2: Saved and lost. In God's eyes, there are only two
Speaker 2: kinds of people. There are only two distinctions that matter.
Speaker 2: There are saved people and there are lost people. Every
Speaker 2: one of us are in one of those categories. We're
Speaker 2: you've saved or were it lost? And ultimately, no other
Speaker 2: human distinction matters. Gender doesn't matter, doesn't matter whether you're
Speaker 2: female or male. Race doesn't matter, doesn't matter what your
Speaker 2: culture is, what your language is, what your background is.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what your religion is. Your wealth doesn't
Speaker 2: matter in terms in God's view. Your education doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: God doesn't distinguish people by their IQs, by their abilities,
Speaker 2: by their looks, by their talent, or anything else. God
Speaker 2: says there are two kinds of people in the world.
Speaker 2: There are people who are saved and there are people
Speaker 2: who are lost, who have not yet been saved by God.
Speaker 2: Now maybe you're thinking, well, I'm not in the saved,
Speaker 2: so I must be in the lost. Don't consider that
Speaker 2: to be a put down.
Speaker 3: It's not. In fact, it's a compliment.
Speaker 2: Both of these phrases, saved and lost, imply somebody loves you.
Speaker 2: Both of these phrases saved and lost, imply you have
Speaker 2: enormous value. Both of these phrases saved and lost are
Speaker 2: actually compliments. They're saying you matter to God, and he
Speaker 2: knows whether you're in this condition or in this condition.
Speaker 3: You're valuable.
Speaker 2: You're worth seeking, you're worth saving, You're worth finding their
Speaker 2: expressions of love. I want you to write this down
Speaker 2: on your outline. Lostness implies value. Lostness implies value. If
Speaker 2: I'm spiritually lost, it doesn't mean I'm not valuable. No,
Speaker 2: you're incredibly valuable to God, so valuable that Jesus Christ
Speaker 2: came to Earth to seek and.
Speaker 3: To save you.
Speaker 2: Lostness implies value. You see invaluable things are misplaced, but
Speaker 2: valuable things are lost. In other words, nobody loses a toothpick.
Speaker 2: You may misplace a toothpick, you may misplace a paper clip,
Speaker 2: you may misplace a kleenex, But you don't lose a
Speaker 2: kleenex because it's not that valuable, And so you don't
Speaker 2: go seeking and saving the kleenex because it's not valuable enough.
Speaker 3: Let me give you example.
Speaker 2: This is a paper Mate flair pin. I think it
Speaker 2: costs nineteen cents. It's about the cheapest pen you can get.
Speaker 2: I have used this type of pen for over thirty
Speaker 2: five years. I have signed hundreds of thousands of books
Speaker 2: with this bluepen. People try to give me mont Blancs
Speaker 2: and all these other I wouldn't use them.
Speaker 3: Why I'd lose them. These I can.
Speaker 2: Lose one hundred a day and it doesn't matter. And
Speaker 2: so if I'm traveling internationally, we always take a stack
Speaker 2: of about fifty of these flair pins because I can
Speaker 2: lose two or three in an hour. But because they're
Speaker 2: so cheap, it doesn't matter to me. I don't even
Speaker 2: consider them lost. I consider that's my donation whoever I
Speaker 2: left it behind to Okay, and so while I could
Speaker 2: have a much more expensive pen, this is Rick Warren's
Speaker 2: pen of choice. Now, somebody should pay me a product
Speaker 2: promotion for that. Okay, all right, I bought it. You
Speaker 2: should try it too. Okay, But it's cheap, and so
Speaker 2: I don't lose these, I just misplaced them. Now, this
Speaker 2: is my wedding ring. If I lost this, it would
Speaker 2: be a real loss because it represents over forty years
Speaker 2: of commitment to the same woman, and she gave it
Speaker 2: to me and I love her, and if I lost it,
Speaker 2: it would not I wouldn't misplace my wedding ring.
Speaker 3: I would lose it. You only lose stuff that's extremely valuable.
Speaker 2: I didn't when my son, my youngest son, died, I
Speaker 2: didn't misplace my son. I lost him because my son
Speaker 2: was priceless to me and it was a major loss
Speaker 2: in my life something invaluable. You misplace something priceless or invaluable,
Speaker 2: can't put a priced egg on it.
Speaker 3: You lose that.
Speaker 2: You know, this year, all of the airlines in America
Speaker 2: together will permanently lose.
Speaker 3: They do this every year.
Speaker 2: Over three hundred thousand pieces of luggage happens every year.
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about the ones you lose and then fine,
Speaker 2: I'm talking about they permanently lose three hundred thousand pieces
Speaker 2: of luggage a year.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Most of those are filled with worthless stuff, dirty clothes,
Speaker 2: but some of them are filled with stuff that's priceless.
Speaker 2: In fact, when a masterpiece in art is lost, a
Speaker 2: price actually goes up. So when we talk about whether
Speaker 2: you're saved or whether you're lost spiritually. Both of them
Speaker 2: imply enormous value. It's not a matter of is one
Speaker 2: more important or one more valuat than that.
Speaker 3: They're not. They're just both incredibly valuable.
Speaker 2: Now, what I want to do this weekend, as we
Speaker 2: look at the mercy of God is ask three questions.
Speaker 2: What do I lose when I am spiritually lost?
Speaker 3: What do I actually lose?
Speaker 2: I mean, you've heard people talk about, well, I'm saved
Speaker 2: or I'm lost or whatever. What I actually lose? Now,
Speaker 2: many of you you say I know the Lord. You
Speaker 2: need to know what I'm about to teach you because
Speaker 2: you don't need to know how to explain it to
Speaker 2: somebody else. What do you actually lose when you're spiritually lost?
Speaker 3: We're going to talk about that.
Speaker 2: And then second, what does God's mercy do when I
Speaker 2: am lost?
Speaker 3: How does God respond to that?
Speaker 2: And then third question I want to ask is how
Speaker 2: can I experience God's mercy? How do I experience this
Speaker 2: God's mercy? Now, fortunately, all of the answers to those
Speaker 2: three questions are in the same chapter in the Bible.
Speaker 2: It's Luke chapter fifteen. And in Luke Chapter fifteen, Jesus
Speaker 2: tells three stories, the story of a lost sheep, the
Speaker 2: story of the lost Coin, and the story of the
Speaker 2: Lost Son. And in these three stories he tells us
Speaker 2: the answers.
Speaker 3: To these questions.
Speaker 2: And actually this passage is often called by Bible scholars
Speaker 2: the Lost and Found chapter of the Bible because the
Speaker 2: word lost and the word found together are used ten
Speaker 2: times in one chapter. So Luke fifteen is called the
Speaker 2: what chapter, lost and Found chapter of the Bible because
Speaker 2: it's the story of the lost sheep, the lost coin,
Speaker 2: and the lost son, three different stories all saying the same.
Speaker 3: Thing, You matter to God.
Speaker 2: Now, in these stories, the shepherd and the woman and
Speaker 2: the father all represent God. And in these stories, the shep,
Speaker 2: and the coin and the sun represent you and me.
Speaker 2: So let me just tell you the three stories real quick.
Speaker 2: First is the story of the lost sheep. And Jesus says,
Speaker 2: there's a guy, a shepherd who has a hundred sheep,
Speaker 2: and every night he brings them back to the sheep
Speaker 2: pen the sheep fold to lock them up for the
Speaker 2: night so that they're safe from wolves and predatory animals.
Speaker 2: And he counts them every night, and as they're coming back.
Speaker 2: In ninety eight ninety nine, and then there's no one hundred,
Speaker 2: and he realizes that one is missing, and he counts
Speaker 2: them because they just like we say at church, we
Speaker 2: count people, because people count.
Speaker 3: Every life matters.
Speaker 2: Every number represents a name, and every name has a story,
Speaker 2: and every story is somebody that Jesus Christ died for.
Speaker 2: And so the story of the Good Shepherd here is
Speaker 2: he leaves the ninety nine saved sheep in the pen
Speaker 2: to go out and search for the one that's lost,
Speaker 2: and as long as there's there's one lost, he's gonna
Speaker 2: keep reaching out. He didn't say, well, hey, I got
Speaker 2: ninety nine saved sheep, forget the lost one.
Speaker 3: No, they all matter. They all matter.
Speaker 2: As long as Saddleback Church has one person who doesn't
Speaker 2: know Christ, they all matter. We got to keep reaching
Speaker 2: out to people. So he goes off and he searches
Speaker 2: all night, and he finds the one lost sheep, and
Speaker 2: he brings them back and puts him in the fold.
Speaker 2: He's so happy he throws a party and everybody comes
Speaker 2: to this party. Then there's the second story, and the
Speaker 2: story is the story of the lost coin. And Jesus says,
Speaker 2: there's this woman who has ten valuable coins and I
Speaker 2: don't know if they're laying on a table or whatever,
Speaker 2: but somehow one of them gets lost and she loses
Speaker 2: it and she can't find it. Now, she didn't say, well,
Speaker 2: you know, I got nine coins. They're all valuable. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna worry about this one lost coin. No, she
Speaker 2: turns the house upside down and she's frantically searching, and
Speaker 2: she's tearing the furniture apart and looking all over. She
Speaker 2: does not give up until she finds the one lost coin,
Speaker 2: and then she's happy about it, and she throws a
Speaker 2: party and invites all of her neighbors and friends to celebrate.
Speaker 3: That she's found her lost coin.
Speaker 2: Then there's the third story that Jesus tells is the
Speaker 2: story of the Lost Son. Sometimes this story is called
Speaker 2: the Prodigal Son, and the story goes like this. There's
Speaker 2: a wealthy man who has two sons, and one of
Speaker 2: the sons, the younger son, is kind of rebellious and
Speaker 2: comes to one day and says, Dad, this is really
Speaker 2: boring living here at home. I'm leaving. I'm splitting. I
Speaker 2: want you to give my half of the family inheritance
Speaker 2: to me. Now, I'm not gonna wait till you die,
Speaker 2: give it to me now. So the father gives the
Speaker 2: younger son half of his entire wealth, and the son splits.
Speaker 2: He leaves, and he moves to Vegas. And our son
Speaker 2: set's stripping downtown Jerusalem. And there he wasted his substance
Speaker 2: in riotous living. In other words, wine women, in special
Speaker 2: emphasis on women. And he's partying hardy, and he's having
Speaker 2: a fun time, and he's having a lot of blasts.
Speaker 2: Got a lot of friends, friends as long as you've
Speaker 2: got plenty of money. But eventually he runs out of money.
Speaker 2: And when he runs out of money, he runs out
Speaker 2: of friends, and all of a sudden he ends up
Speaker 2: on the skids. He can't get a job anywhere. He
Speaker 2: ends up feeding slop to pigs and living in the
Speaker 2: pig sty, in the pig pen.
Speaker 3: This is not a good.
Speaker 2: Thing for a Kosher Jew okay, to be living and
Speaker 2: eating or with a pig. And so he's there in
Speaker 2: laying there in the pig sty, in the slop. He
Speaker 2: has a moment of clarity, He comes to his senses.
Speaker 2: He goes, what in the world am I doing? He goes,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking about home, He said, the servants who work
Speaker 2: for my Dad, are better treated than this.
Speaker 3: I know what I do.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go home and say to my dad, Dad,
Speaker 2: I'm not worthy to be your son anymore. I blew
Speaker 2: half the family inheritance, and I am a big mistake.
Speaker 3: I have sinned.
Speaker 2: Just make me one of your hired servants, and I'll
Speaker 2: just serve you, because your hired servants live better than
Speaker 2: I'm living out.
Speaker 3: On my own in rebellion.
Speaker 2: And the loving father instead says, oh, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: He grabs him in a big hug. He kisses him,
Speaker 2: he hugs him, he welcomes him home. He says, bring
Speaker 2: the best robe, put it on him. He says, bring
Speaker 2: the signatory, which is like the credit card, give it
Speaker 2: to him. Find the best head of beef, and we're
Speaker 2: gonna have a barbecue tonight. And he throws a party.
Speaker 2: He says, my son has been lost and now he's found. Now,
Speaker 2: did you notice any common denominator between the three stories?
Speaker 3: What is it?
Speaker 2: There was a party exactly. I was actually gonna call
Speaker 2: this sermon, come to the party, because God wants to
Speaker 2: throw a party for you in his So let's look
Speaker 2: at God's mercy and what it has to do with
Speaker 2: being lost or saved. Now, to be lost in God's
Speaker 2: use means to be spiritually disconnected from God. If I'm
Speaker 2: not connected in a daily relationship, in a vital connection
Speaker 2: with God, I don't have a relationship with God. I
Speaker 2: am spiritually lost. So what happens when I am lost?
Speaker 2: What actually do I lose? Well, these three stories that
Speaker 2: Jesus told in Luke fifteen, The Lost Son, the Lost Coin,
Speaker 2: the Lost Sheep. Give us five things we lose. You
Speaker 2: might write these down so you can explain them to
Speaker 2: other people. What actually what do I lose if I'm lost?
Speaker 2: Number one, I lose my direction. I lose my direction.
Speaker 2: And we see this in the story of the Lost Sheep. Now,
Speaker 2: no sheep intends to get lost. It just wanders off.
Speaker 2: It's natural for people, I mean for sheep to get
Speaker 2: lost on a warm spring day, you know, sheep. They're
Speaker 2: not intentionally trying to get lost. They just go that
Speaker 2: looks a little better grass over there. I'll wander over
Speaker 2: there and munch around a little bit. That even looks
Speaker 2: a little better over there. And you wander over there
Speaker 2: and taste a little bit of that, and hey, I
Speaker 2: think I see some water down there, And you wander
Speaker 2: over there, and pretty soon the sheep is lost. He
Speaker 2: didn't intend to get lost, just naturally wanders. It is
Speaker 2: human nature in us the same way as with sheep.
Speaker 2: Humans do this too. You know, as a kid, I
Speaker 2: often wandered off. In fact, my parents would have heart
Speaker 2: attacks for all the times I wandered off on vacations
Speaker 2: and things like that. And I wasn't being rebellious. I
Speaker 2: wasn't being quote sinful. I just was wandering off. And
Speaker 2: you know, we'd go out camping, I'd go, hey, there
Speaker 2: goes a butterfly, and I start following the butterfly, and
Speaker 2: then well, there, that's kind of interesting.
Speaker 3: I think I like to.
Speaker 2: Climb that, and climb that. For reason, Where's Rick? I
Speaker 2: don't know where is he? And I would just by
Speaker 2: nature wander off. And that happens to us too. The
Speaker 2: Bible says in Isaiah fifty three, verse six, all of
Speaker 2: us have strayed away like lost sheep. We've left God's
Speaker 2: path to follow our own paths, our own ways, and
Speaker 2: we always get lost when we follow our own ways.
Speaker 3: If you are following your.
Speaker 2: Plan for your life right now rather than God's plan,
Speaker 2: You're lost, okay, And if you're following your plan, you
Speaker 2: lose your direction. You lose your direction. What I've discovered,
Speaker 2: and I've talked to countless numbers of people, most people
Speaker 2: are drifting through life. That's why I wrote Purpose Driven Life.
Speaker 2: They don't have any purpose, they don't have any direction,
Speaker 2: they don't have a vision, They're not clear in their destination,
Speaker 2: they don't know where they're going. I couldn't tell you
Speaker 2: how many hundreds of people have told me over time
Speaker 2: the phrase, you know, rick, I have no idea where
Speaker 2: I'm going with my life. That's called drifting. You lose
Speaker 2: your direction. And we do this naturally as human beings,
Speaker 2: just as sheep do it naturally as sheep. We lack direction,
Speaker 2: we lack purpose, we lack meaning, and a lot of
Speaker 2: times doesn't mean we're going slow. You can be going
Speaker 2: very fast and not knowing you know the direction. It's
Speaker 2: like that famous World War Two pilot who radioed into
Speaker 2: control and the home base said where are you?
Speaker 3: And he said, I.
Speaker 2: Don't know where I'm am, but I'm making record time.
Speaker 2: And we do this a lot in life. We think
Speaker 2: that speed is direction. Now you can have a lot
Speaker 2: of speed in your life and absolutely have no idea
Speaker 2: where you're headed. We wander off, we lose our direction.
Speaker 2: Number two, the second thing we lose is we lose
Speaker 2: our protection. We lose God's protection in our life. And
Speaker 2: we find this in the story of the Sheep the
Speaker 2: Lost Sheep. Sheep are very vulnerable. They're pretty defenseless animals.
Speaker 2: They don't have claws, they don't have sharp teeth, they
Speaker 2: don't have fangs. They certainly can't run fast like gazelles
Speaker 2: or other animals that can get ahead of the predators.
Speaker 2: If you're a sheep, you're pretty vulnerable unless you have
Speaker 2: a shepherd. If you've got a shepherd who can beat
Speaker 2: off the wolves or scare away the bears or in
Speaker 2: some nations actually lions or tigers or other animals, if
Speaker 2: you're a sheep, you're kind of up for grabs. If
Speaker 2: you don't have a shepherd, they're very vulnerable. And a
Speaker 2: sheep that wanders off has no protection from the shepherd, so.
Speaker 3: They're going to get hurt. They're going to get hurt bad.
Speaker 2: And God says this is true of us in Zachariah
Speaker 2: chapter ten, verse two. My people are wandering like lost
Speaker 2: sheep without a shep, shepherd to protect them and to
Speaker 2: guide them. Now, you know, the most famous chapter in
Speaker 2: the Bible is Psalm twenty three that goes like this,
Speaker 2: The Lord is my shepherd exactly, and Jesus was called
Speaker 2: the good shepherd. We're the sheep, he's the shepherd. But
Speaker 2: if you're not following the shepherd, you're on your own,
Speaker 2: and you are defenseless in life, and you're gonna get
Speaker 2: eaten up. You're gonna get eaten up. You lose your
Speaker 2: direction and you lose your protection if you're not following
Speaker 2: the shepherd, which, by the way, is why you get
Speaker 2: stressed out. It's why you worry, it's why you have fear,
Speaker 2: you have anxiety because you're trying to work this thing
Speaker 2: all out on your own. You weren't meant to. You
Speaker 2: know how vulnerable you are in this world, how close
Speaker 2: you are to not making it financially, how close you
Speaker 2: are to not making it in your health. You know
Speaker 2: how vulnerable, how you know one phone call can turn
Speaker 2: your world upside down. And when you are spiritually lost
Speaker 2: and you don't you're not connected to your shepherd. If
Speaker 2: you're a sheep, you lose your direction, you wander, and
Speaker 2: you lose your protection whoever God, God is not protecting you.
Speaker 2: If you're out here going your way instead of God's way.
Speaker 2: God will protect you if you go his way. He's
Speaker 2: not going to protect.
Speaker 3: You if you go your way. Now you're on your own.
Speaker 2: You're just you're wandering off one of God's great promises
Speaker 2: Romans eight twenty eight. Here on the screen, we know
Speaker 2: that God causes everything to work together for the good
Speaker 2: of those who love God, and a call according to
Speaker 2: His purpose. Now we've talked about this verse many times.
Speaker 2: It doesn't say everything is good in life.
Speaker 3: It's not. There's a lot of bad.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of evil, there's a lot of harm,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of suffering in the world.
Speaker 3: Doesn't say it's all good.
Speaker 2: It says God causes even the bad stuff to work
Speaker 2: for good. Is this a promise for everybody? No, it's
Speaker 2: a promise for those who love God. If you're not
Speaker 2: following the shepherd, this isn't working in your life. All
Speaker 2: things are not working for good in your life. If
Speaker 2: you're ignoring God, all things are working for bad. You're
Speaker 2: on your own. You're on your own. But when I
Speaker 2: placed myself as a sheep under the Shepherd's care. Now
Speaker 2: I get direction, and now I get protection, and even
Speaker 2: the bad stuff that comes in my life, God says
Speaker 2: I can use that. I can make it work for good.
Speaker 2: But it's a promise for those who are under God's protection.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I am encouraged after
Speaker 1: that message. And let's keep the encouragement going with a
Speaker 1: letter from one of our listeners.
Speaker 3: Here's Rick.
Speaker 2: Have you ever taken a step of faith with no
Speaker 2: idea what's next? Well, with the help of Daily Hope,
Speaker 2: Nicole did just that. She wrote this note to me.
Speaker 2: Hello Pastor Rick, a close friend of mine suggest that
Speaker 2: I listened to the Daily Hold four years ago, and
Speaker 2: while I had faith and I loved the Lord, I
Speaker 2: was lost. But Daily Hope rescued me. My relationship with
Speaker 2: Jesus grew in ways and I never knew possible. I
Speaker 2: was soon baptized, and over the next four years I
Speaker 2: grew in boldness and in faith in the Lord, and
Speaker 2: I even left a high powered and high salaried position
Speaker 2: to follow a different, purpose driven path with the Lord's guidance.
Speaker 2: It's been a literal step forward in faith without knowing
Speaker 2: the next steps. Certainly not something I was capable of
Speaker 2: years ago, and already God is showing me his goodness.
Speaker 2: You know, as my husband explores his own relationship with
Speaker 2: Jesus again. Your ministry is literally a God's sin. Your
Speaker 2: ability to teach the good news and ways that are
Speaker 2: easy to understand and apply, it is just amazing. We
Speaker 2: also follow your suggestion to find a good local church.
Speaker 2: So thanks for all you do for believers and those
Speaker 2: who are seeking Christ around the world. Rick You're loved
Speaker 2: and appreciated and no doubt a vessel of God's grace
Speaker 2: and mercy. Signed Nicole. Well, Nicole, I'm so glad that
Speaker 2: you've grown in your relationship with Jesus and you've taken
Speaker 2: the important step of getting baptized. What an important step
Speaker 2: this is, finding a church home, really listening to the Lord,
Speaker 2: and living a purpose driven life. All of that happens
Speaker 2: when you take time to listen to God's word. I
Speaker 2: love how your friend shared daily hope with you, and
Speaker 2: now you've shared it with your husband. You know, any
Speaker 2: of you can do this. Anybody can do this. You
Speaker 2: can share daily hope with your friends and with your
Speaker 2: relatives and with people you don't even know. And well,
Speaker 2: then watch how God brings life to others through his word.
Speaker 1: You know I share Pastor Rick's Daily Hope all the time,
Speaker 1: and whether it's a friend or someone you meet in
Speaker 1: a restaurant, everyone needs hope and encouragement from the Bible
Speaker 1: every day. So tell the people you know in love
Speaker 1: about Daily Hope. Hey, be sure to join us next
Speaker 1: time when we look into God's Word for our daily hope.
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