Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. This is
Speaker 1: the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren. Hey, we're so
Speaker 1: glad you've joined us. Today. We're continuing a powerful series
Speaker 1: called radicalis Developing Spiritual Roots. And in this series, Rick
Speaker 1: will show you how to grow deep in your faith,
Speaker 1: stay grounded in God's word, and become everything He created
Speaker 1: you to be. And now here's part one of a
Speaker 1: message called Radical Love.
Speaker 2: This Christmas, I want us to look at the most
Speaker 2: famous verse in the Bible. It's not a very long verse,
Speaker 2: but it is the most famous and the greatest verse
Speaker 2: in the Bible. Billions of people over history have memorized
Speaker 2: this verse. And of course that would have to be
Speaker 2: John what three sixteen? John three point sixteen is the
Speaker 2: most famous verse in the Bible. You can often find
Speaker 2: it anywhere in our culture. Maybe you've seen this guy
Speaker 2: like a Super Bowl games here on the on the
Speaker 2: he ends up in the in the you know, the
Speaker 2: end zone. Practically every score. John three sixteen guy. A
Speaker 2: lot of athletes have to do with this. Here's Tim Tebow,
Speaker 2: Heisman Trophy winner for the Florida Gators. Here's Austin three
Speaker 2: sixteen the wrestler. Then maybe you've seen pictures like this.
Speaker 2: You know Turner burn, you're gonna go to fry and die,
Speaker 2: and you know read John three sixteen. Oh, that very
Speaker 2: positive message right there. Did you know at the bottom
Speaker 2: of every in and out cup? There is John three
Speaker 2: sixteen written on the bottom of every in and out drink,
Speaker 2: And of course on the back of Dudfield's back there
Speaker 2: is John three sixteen. I took that when he wasn't looking,
Speaker 2: but I just had to share it with you, So
Speaker 2: don't tell him I had that picture, please. John three
Speaker 2: sixteen explains the reason for Christmas. John three sixteen explains
Speaker 2: how to get to heaven. John three sixteen explains the
Speaker 2: entire Bible. Innocent, let's read it together, John chapter three.
Speaker 2: For God so loved the world that he gave his
Speaker 2: only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish,
Speaker 2: but have everlasting life. If you only got one verse
Speaker 2: out of the entire Bible, and you got this one right,
Speaker 2: you're gonna make it because this one is the Gospel,
Speaker 2: the good News in a nutshell. It is the greatest
Speaker 2: verse in the Bible. And I want us to tear
Speaker 2: it apart phrase by phrase. Tonight, looking at the greatest love,
Speaker 2: the greatest sacrifice, the greatest offer, and the greatest gift,
Speaker 2: the whole reason we give gifts at Christmases. God so
Speaker 2: loved the world that he gave. Now, first, let's look
Speaker 2: at the greatest love. The Bible says God so loved
Speaker 2: the world. Now, that little word so isn't a very
Speaker 2: big word, but in the original Greek it is what's
Speaker 2: called an adverb of intensity, means a whole holy life.
Speaker 2: He so loved the world. If you're a single woman
Speaker 2: and the guy comes up to you and says I
Speaker 2: love you, you might shine that on. If he says I
Speaker 2: so love you, you might pay a little bit more attention.
Speaker 2: That's an adverb of intensity. God's love for you is intense.
Speaker 2: God's love for you is extravagant. God's love for you
Speaker 2: is lavish. No one will ever love you as much
Speaker 2: as God does. No man will ever love you like
Speaker 2: God does. No woman will ever love you like God does. Now,
Speaker 2: let me just show you a couple of verses out
Speaker 2: of the Bible. There are hundreds of verses on the
Speaker 2: love of God. Let me just show you a couple
Speaker 2: about how much God loves you. Look at this one.
Speaker 2: Ephesians chapter one says, long before he laid down the
Speaker 2: earth's foundations, God had us in mind and settled on
Speaker 2: us as the focus of his love. It says there
Speaker 2: that before God even made the universe, he already had
Speaker 2: you in mind, and he made you to love you.
Speaker 2: The only reason you exist is you were made to
Speaker 2: be loved by God. And God planned the universe so
Speaker 2: that you could exist because he wanted a family. And
Speaker 2: God made you to love you. Now that's not hard
Speaker 2: to understand if you're a parent. I used to tell
Speaker 2: my kids, and now I tell my grandkids, I loved
Speaker 2: you before you were born, because I did when my
Speaker 2: wife was carrying our three children. I didn't know if
Speaker 2: it was going to be a boy or girl, but
Speaker 2: I still loved him. I loved him in advance. And
Speaker 2: God loved you even before he created you. You were
Speaker 2: in his mind. He's always loved you, not only that,
Speaker 2: he loves you every minute. Look at the next verse.
Speaker 2: The Lord is good to everyone. He showers compassion on
Speaker 2: all his creation. Now doesn't say he showers compassion just
Speaker 2: on this religion, or on just this nation, or on
Speaker 2: this kind of people. He says. The Lord is good
Speaker 2: to everyone. He showers his compassion on all his creation.
Speaker 2: And everything in your life is actually a gift from God.
Speaker 2: Now you take it for granted, you probably never even
Speaker 2: thank God for it. But for instance, like air is
Speaker 2: a gift. You know, you wouldn't last very long without air,
Speaker 2: But I doubt you've ever said God, thank you for air.
Speaker 2: But you have to have it. The air you breathe,
Speaker 2: the water you drink. Your body's over ninety percent water,
Speaker 2: the sunshine, the food, all of these things are gifts
Speaker 2: of God. Your heart beating is a gift of God.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't take your next breath if God hadn't planned
Speaker 2: for you to take it. Because He loves you. Everything
Speaker 2: in your life is a free gift of God of grace,
Speaker 2: whether you ever recognize it or not. And maybe you
Speaker 2: need to be a little bit more grateful for all
Speaker 2: the things in your life that God has given you,
Speaker 2: including your life. So God's love for you is eternal,
Speaker 2: and God's love for you is literally everywhere. But the
Speaker 2: most important thing is that it's unconditional. And that's different
Speaker 2: than human love. Human love wears out, human love doesn't
Speaker 2: always work out We know that at Christmas times, when
Speaker 2: you try to put fractured families back together, it's kind
Speaker 2: of like, well, where we go in this year and
Speaker 2: who we're going where to? And there's a lot of
Speaker 2: broken relationships that often show up at holiday seasons because
Speaker 2: human love wears out, but God's love never wears out.
Speaker 2: There is no condition where God will ever stop loving you.
Speaker 2: That's called unconditional love. Look at this verse, nothing in
Speaker 2: all creation is able to separate us from the love
Speaker 2: of God, that is in Christ Jesus. It says nothing,
Speaker 2: nothing can separate you from God's love. You can't make
Speaker 2: God stop loving you. You can try, but you will fail.
Speaker 2: Because God's love is based on who you are. It's
Speaker 2: based on who he is. It's not based on what
Speaker 2: you do. It's not based on your performance. God isn't
Speaker 2: waiting for you to be nice and to act right
Speaker 2: for him to love you. His love is based on
Speaker 2: who he is. He loves you on his bad days
Speaker 2: and on your bad days. He loves you on your
Speaker 2: good days. He loves you when you feel it, when
Speaker 2: you don't feel it. In fact, a thousand years ago,
Speaker 2: in fact, before God even created the universe, God knew
Speaker 2: you would be in a saddleback church on Christmas Eve
Speaker 2: service so he can get you to be quiet long enough,
Speaker 2: just so he could say this to you. You matter
Speaker 2: to me, and I love you. I have always loved you.
Speaker 2: I loved you before you were born. I thought you up,
Speaker 2: I created you, I saw you take your first breath,
Speaker 2: I saw you formed in your mother's womb. I've seen
Speaker 2: the good, the bad, and the ugly in your life,
Speaker 2: and I've never stopped loving you because my love for
Speaker 2: you is unconditional. Now, God's love, if you tap into it,
Speaker 2: is sufficient to handle any problem in your life. It's
Speaker 2: multi dimensional. In fact, look at the next verse. The
Speaker 2: Bible says, may you be able to feel and understand
Speaker 2: how long, how wide, how deep, and how high God's
Speaker 2: love really is, and it experienced this love for yourselves. Notice,
Speaker 2: God says, I don't want you to just know that
Speaker 2: I love you. I want you to experience it. You see,
Speaker 2: if you go, oh, yeah, I know God loves me.
Speaker 2: I know that big deal. So what then you've never
Speaker 2: You've never experienced it. Because when you experience the unconditional, eternal, lavish,
Speaker 2: outrageous love of God, it changes your life and if
Speaker 2: you just say, oh, yeah, I know God loves me,
Speaker 2: you don't really understand it at all. You may have
Speaker 2: a head knowledge, but you don't have a heart knowledge
Speaker 2: of it. He says, I want you to experience the
Speaker 2: love of God, and that is my prayer for you.
Speaker 2: He says, I want you to know how wide and
Speaker 2: long and high and deep it is. How long is
Speaker 2: God's love long enough to last forever? How wide is
Speaker 2: God's love wide enough to be everywhere you're going to be.
Speaker 2: How deep is God's love deep enough to handle any problem?
Speaker 2: How high is God's love high enough to overcome any barrier.
Speaker 2: God can overcome a barrier of a foreclosure. God can
Speaker 2: overcome a barrier of a job loss. God can overcome
Speaker 2: a barrier of a cancer. God can overcome a barrier
Speaker 2: of a loss of a loved one or a death
Speaker 2: or divorce. God is saying, I love you so much now.
Speaker 2: The second part of John three point sixteen tells us
Speaker 2: about the greatest sacrifice. God so loved the world that
Speaker 2: he gave his only begotten son. Now, God so loved
Speaker 2: that he gave. Love and giving go together. You can
Speaker 2: give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. Giving
Speaker 2: is the essence of love. You spell love, give, and
Speaker 2: the Bible says God so loved the world that he
Speaker 2: gave his only begotten son to come to earth and
Speaker 2: die for us. Now you've heard the expression, if you
Speaker 2: want something done right, do it yourself. And that's exactly
Speaker 2: what God did. He said, I'm going to go myself
Speaker 2: and solve this sin problem on earth. I'm going to
Speaker 2: go myself and die for the forgiveness of sins of everybody.
Speaker 2: I'm so glad. It doesn't say God so loved the
Speaker 2: world that he sent an avatar. God so loved the
Speaker 2: world that he sent an angel. God so loved the
Speaker 2: world that he sent an ambassador. God so loved the
Speaker 2: world that he sent a telegram. Doesn't say God so
Speaker 2: loved the world that he sent a nice guy, a prophet,
Speaker 2: a poet. That doesn't say God so loved the world
Speaker 2: that he sent a great teacher. It says he sent
Speaker 2: his son. Who was his son, Who was that baby
Speaker 2: in a manger two thousand and nine years ago? He
Speaker 2: was God in human form. Notice what the Bible says.
Speaker 2: The Bible says Christ is the visible image of the
Speaker 2: invisible God. Now, why did God come to Earth in
Speaker 2: human form because he wanted to communicate to us, so
Speaker 2: he became one of us. If God had wanted to
Speaker 2: communicate to Ansik would have become an. If God had
Speaker 2: wanted to communicate the cows, he would have become a cow.
Speaker 2: God had wanted to communicate to birds, he could have
Speaker 2: become a bird. But God wanted to communicate to human beings,
Speaker 2: so he became one of us. God with skin on it.
Speaker 2: Do you ever want to know what God looks like,
Speaker 2: take a long look at Jesus. Jesus said this next verse,
Speaker 2: He said, anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.
Speaker 2: He said, if you've seen me, you've seen God. I'm
Speaker 2: God coming to Earth in human form. And it split
Speaker 2: history into AD and BC. It's the most significant event
Speaker 2: because God invaded Earth. And the nice thing about it
Speaker 2: is that God didn't meet us halfway. He didn't say
Speaker 2: I'll meet you half way. You got a problem. No,
Speaker 2: he said, I'll come all the way. I'll come to
Speaker 2: Earth and I'll become like one of you. Now, why
Speaker 2: did God come to Earth as a baby? I mean you,
Speaker 2: figure of all the ways God could have presented himself
Speaker 2: to Earth, I can think of a lot more spectacular
Speaker 2: ways on a baby in a barn. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: a pretty humble, lowly approach for God to enter the world. Well,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you why he came as a baby, Because
Speaker 2: God came to save us, not to scare us, and
Speaker 2: nobody's afraid of a baby. There are a lot of
Speaker 2: ways God could have come to Earth that would have
Speaker 2: scared us all to death. I mean, if you've ever
Speaker 2: seeing you know, any of the movies like Close Encounters
Speaker 2: with the Third Kind or V or you know, Independence Day.
Speaker 2: God could have come down in a giant spaceship or whatever.
Speaker 2: He could have really freaked us all out. But he
Speaker 2: came as a baby because nobody's afraid of a baby,
Speaker 2: and he didn't come to scare us. He came to
Speaker 2: save us. The problem is is that most of us,
Speaker 2: in our minds, get stuck in that mentality, and some
Speaker 2: people won't let Jesus grow up. Their whole mentality is
Speaker 2: the baby Jesus, meek and mild and the major because
Speaker 2: he's harmless and he's controllable. They don't want to think
Speaker 2: that he grew up and went to the cross and
Speaker 2: died and suffered for our sins and then demanded allegiance.
Speaker 2: If Jesus had just stayed as a baby, we wouldn't
Speaker 2: need to need to worship and have Christmas services because
Speaker 2: it would be irrelevant. Christmas without the Cross has no
Speaker 2: message at all. Now, Jesus came to earth. God came
Speaker 2: to earth in human form, in the form of Jesus,
Speaker 2: to do several things. One to show us what God
Speaker 2: is really like. Two to tell us the truth, three
Speaker 2: to show us the way, four to show us how
Speaker 2: to live a model life. But the number one reason
Speaker 2: Jesus came to earth the Christmas is he came to die.
Speaker 2: He was born to die, to die for our sins.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, this look on the screen. God put
Speaker 2: his love on the line for us. In other words,
Speaker 2: he put his money where his mouth. He just didn't
Speaker 2: say I love you, He showed it. God put his
Speaker 2: love on the line for us by offering his son
Speaker 2: in sacrificial death. This is the sacrifice he did while
Speaker 2: we were of no use whatsoever whatever to him. Jesus
Speaker 2: didn't have to die for you. He didn't have to
Speaker 2: die for me. God wasn't obligated to die on the
Speaker 2: cross for us. He did it because he loved us.
Speaker 2: God so loved the world that he gave his only
Speaker 2: begotten son. Now why did he have to do that? Well,
Speaker 2: there's a real simple reason for it. God wants you
Speaker 2: to be in heaven with him when you die. But
Speaker 2: Heaven is a perfect place and you're not. And by
Speaker 2: the way, neither am I. Heaven is a perfect place.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, there's no sin in heaven, no suffering
Speaker 2: in heaven, no sorrow in heaven, no sickness in heaven,
Speaker 2: no sadness in heaven, no trials, temptations, no problems. There's
Speaker 2: no greed, there's no envy, there's no anger, there's no lust,
Speaker 2: there's no sin in heaven. It is a perfect place.
Speaker 2: Now there's a problem. I stopped being perfect about the
Speaker 2: fourth or fifth breath of my life, and so did you.
Speaker 2: I stopped batting a thousand a long time ago. So
Speaker 2: if God lets all of us into Heaven being imperfect,
Speaker 2: it's not going to be a perfect place anymore. Unless
Speaker 2: we are changed before we get to heaven. Heaven wouldn't
Speaker 2: be any different than earthf all of a sudden, we
Speaker 2: all go there with our lust, with our judgments, with
Speaker 2: our pettiness, with our self sinnedness and with all of
Speaker 2: our other sins, Heaven would be no different than earth.
Speaker 2: So how do you get in perfect people into an
Speaker 2: eternal heaven. Somebody has to do a transformation process. And
Speaker 2: Jesus said, I'll go to earth. I'll die for their sins,
Speaker 2: pay for them all, so they don't have to pay
Speaker 2: for them. They could get in on my ticket. I
Speaker 2: read this week about a Christmas letter to Santa Claus
Speaker 2: for this little boy. He said, Dear Santa, there are
Speaker 2: three little boys who live at our house. There's Jeffrey,
Speaker 2: he's two, There's David, he's four, And there's Norman he's seven.
Speaker 2: Jeffrey is good some of the time, David is good
Speaker 2: some of the time. Norman is good all of the time.
Speaker 2: I am Norman. You know that's the problem. The reason
Speaker 2: why we need a savior is you ain't Norman, and
Speaker 2: neither am I. None of us are Norman. None of
Speaker 2: us bat a thousand, none of us are perfect. None
Speaker 2: of us have never shoot. I don't measure up to
Speaker 2: my own standards, much less God's perfection, and neither do you,
Speaker 2: And so we need a savior. The Bible says at
Speaker 2: the First Christmas, the Angel said, unto you is born
Speaker 2: this day a savior who can get you into heaven.
Speaker 2: Who is Christ, the Lord the Friends. Believe me, if
Speaker 2: you didn't need a savior to get in heaven, God
Speaker 2: sure wouldn't have wasted the time to send one. All
Speaker 2: of the suffering, all of the sorrow, all of the
Speaker 2: sadness that God went through when he sent his son
Speaker 2: to die on the cross. Do you think if there
Speaker 2: was any other way God wouldn't have used that way
Speaker 2: to pay for your sins? Of course he would have.
Speaker 2: When Jesus stretched out his arms on the cross, he
Speaker 2: was saying, this is how much I love you. I
Speaker 2: love you this much. And when they nailed the nails
Speaker 2: into his hands, he was saying, I love you so
Speaker 2: much it hurts. I love you so much. I'd rather
Speaker 2: die than live without you. I love you. It was
Speaker 2: love in the first degree. What was going on there
Speaker 2: when Jesus is hanging on the cross, dying for the
Speaker 2: sins of man, Well, look at this verse on the screen.
Speaker 2: The Bible says it like this. When Jesus served as
Speaker 2: a sacrifice for our sins, he solved the sin problem
Speaker 2: for good. Not only ours, but the whole world. Man,
Speaker 2: that's good news. That is the greatest sacrifice. And why
Speaker 2: did he do it? Because he loves you and he
Speaker 2: wants you in his family and he wants you in heaven.
Speaker 2: But it's perfect and you're not. You know, when I
Speaker 2: take my kids, our grandkids now to Disneyland, I love
Speaker 2: to take them and the two oldest ones a Kaylee
Speaker 2: is six years old, and she wants to go on
Speaker 2: some of the adult rides at Disneyland. But there's some
Speaker 2: of the rides there that says you must be this
Speaker 2: tall to ride. Do you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: There's a little sign that says you must be this
Speaker 2: tall to get on this ride. And no matter how
Speaker 2: much he stands on her tiptoes, she's not tall enough.
Speaker 2: And no matter how much I can plain sucks. I'm
Speaker 2: the grandfather. I will hold her in my lap. She'll
Speaker 2: be okay. They won't let her ride because she's not
Speaker 2: tall enough. Friend, there's a sign outside of it says
Speaker 2: this is a perfect place. You must be this tall
Speaker 2: to get in perfect and you're not, and neither am I.
Speaker 2: And somebody's got to make up the difference. So this
Speaker 2: was God's plan. Look at the verse on the screen.
Speaker 2: God took the sinless Christ and poured into him our sins,
Speaker 2: and then in exchange, he poured God's goodness into us.
Speaker 2: That's the only chance I have in getting into heaven.
Speaker 2: And so if I only make it up this tall
Speaker 2: because I'm not perfect, Jesus makes up the difference. His
Speaker 2: righteousness takes care of all of us. So what really happens.
Speaker 2: He showed his love by dying for our sins. Now
Speaker 2: that's the greatest sacrifice. The next is the greatest offer.
Speaker 2: Look at the third part of the verse. God so
Speaker 2: loved the world greatest love that he gave his only
Speaker 2: begotten son. That's the greatest sacrifice. Come to the greatest offer,
Speaker 2: that whosoever believes in him should not perish. Now, God
Speaker 2: has an incredible offer for you. And of course you've
Speaker 2: been getting all kinds of Christmas offers all season. You've
Speaker 2: been deluged by Here's how to save this money, here's
Speaker 2: how you can save this Here I can say that
Speaker 2: I decided, at the beginning of this Christmas season, I
Speaker 2: would collect every Christmas catalog I got in my mailbox,
Speaker 2: just to add them up. And I got them all
Speaker 2: and at the end of the season, I had one
Speaker 2: hundred and fourteen catalogs. Here they are right here. It's
Speaker 2: over forty pounds of Christmas catalogs that came in my mailbox. Now,
Speaker 2: I've always been fascinated by these guys who do this
Speaker 2: target marketing, who they can figure out what kind of
Speaker 2: catalog you need, and sometimes they're really right on. Now,
Speaker 2: it obviously didn't take a mental giant to figure out
Speaker 2: the first catalog which I got this season was missus
Speaker 2: Field's Cookies, So I didn't take Big Brother to figure
Speaker 2: out Sen Warren missus Field's Cookies catalog, so they were
Speaker 2: right on that. The second catalog I got was Hickory Farms. Hey,
Speaker 2: you right well that that's a pretty good one. The
Speaker 2: third one, though, by the time they got to the
Speaker 2: third catalog, they were really off base because it was
Speaker 2: follow your Innerstar American Girl. I had no need for
Speaker 2: that one. And then the really goofy one. For those
Speaker 2: of you who don't tend saddle back regularly. I don't
Speaker 2: wear socks and somebody sent me a sock catalog. What
Speaker 2: a total wasted thing is? I Mean, I can't believe
Speaker 2: a sock company, but Anyway, I added up all of
Speaker 2: the offers that were made to me and all the
Speaker 2: Christmas catalogs in this season, and I discovered that if
Speaker 2: I would take advantage of all these offers, I would
Speaker 2: save tens of thousands of dollars. Now, I'd have to
Speaker 2: spend hundreds of thousands, but I could save tens of
Speaker 2: thousands of dollars. But when I decided how much I'd
Speaker 2: have to spend in order to get the savings, I
Speaker 2: realized I can't afford the saving. On the other hand,
Speaker 2: God has an offer for you this Christmas. It's a
Speaker 2: Christmas offer that you can't afford not to accept. It
Speaker 2: is the offer to save you. You for unto you
Speaker 2: is born this day a savior. Whoever believes in him
Speaker 2: should not perry.
Speaker 1: Such a great message by Rick today and every day.
Speaker 1: I sure hope you were just as encouraged as I was.
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