Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.
Speaker 2: If you're joining us for the first time or you've
Speaker 2: been listening every day for ten years, we just want
Speaker 2: to say welcome, We love you, and we pray for
Speaker 2: you every day. So we're continuing with this series called
Speaker 2: Daring Faith the Key to Miracles. And in this series
Speaker 2: you're learning how to have a bold, unshakable faith that
Speaker 2: gives you courage to impact the world around you. And
Speaker 2: if you're like me, you'd really like to be more
Speaker 2: bold and have more courage to share your faith in Christ.
Speaker 2: Now let's hear what Rick has to say today in
Speaker 2: part one of a message called Daring to Believe.
Speaker 3: The Bible records the first Easter morning this way in
Speaker 3: John chapter twenty. Let me read it to you. Early
Speaker 3: Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went
Speaker 3: to the tomb to visit the tomb where Jesus had
Speaker 3: been buried, and she found a huge stone had been
Speaker 3: rolled away from the entrance. So she ran and she
Speaker 3: found Peter and John, two of Jesus' disciples. She said,
Speaker 3: they have taken the Lord's body out of the tomb,
Speaker 3: and I don't know where they've put him. See, in
Speaker 3: this time, nobody expected the resurrection, even the disciples, even
Speaker 3: though Jesus had predicted it, told nobody expected it. They
Speaker 3: thought somebody had stolen the body. So then Peter and
Speaker 3: John ran to the tomb to see for themselves. And
Speaker 3: John got to the tomb. First he saw the linen
Speaker 3: burial cloth lying there folded. Now, this is kind of strange.
Speaker 3: If you're a grave robber, you're not going to take
Speaker 3: a dead body, unwrap it, fold up the roll, and
Speaker 3: sit the wrapping right there, and then take a dead
Speaker 3: naked body. That would be kind of weird. So why
Speaker 3: would they have the burial clothes sitting right there folded?
Speaker 3: It says? Then Peter arrived and went inside, and he
Speaker 3: also noticed the linen wrapping lying there with the cloth
Speaker 3: that had covered Jesus' head. Now, when John saw this evidence,
Speaker 3: he believed. For up until this point, the disciples still
Speaker 3: had not understood the scriptures that said Jesus would rise
Speaker 3: from the dead. Do you dare to believe? That's the
Speaker 3: most important question you'll ever be asked, because your determined
Speaker 3: eternal destiny will be based on the answer. Will you
Speaker 3: dare to believe? Here at Saddleback Church. We're in a series.
Speaker 3: This is week three that we're calling Daring Faith, Pikeita
Speaker 3: Miracles and really what I want to do is just
Speaker 3: two simple things this weekend. Answer two questions. First, what
Speaker 3: are the benefits of believing in Jesus Christ? What are
Speaker 3: the benefits to you for believing in Jesus Christ? And
Speaker 3: then second, I want to answer the question what does
Speaker 3: it actually mean to believe in Jesus? And then I
Speaker 3: want to end with the personal testimony about believing in
Speaker 3: your darkest days. Now let's begin for benefits. Write these down.
Speaker 3: I could give you fifty benefits of what you benefit
Speaker 3: from if you believe in Christ, but let me just
Speaker 3: give you four. These four will cover the major areas.
Speaker 3: Number one first benefit of believing in Jesus Christ. Everything
Speaker 3: I've ever done wrong is forgiven. Everything I've ever done
Speaker 3: wrong is forgiven because of what Jesus Christ did on
Speaker 3: the cross and dying for your sins and mind. God
Speaker 3: forgives you freely, completely, instantly and repeatedly. Even if there
Speaker 3: were no such thing as a heaven, and of course
Speaker 3: there is, but even if there were no heaven, it
Speaker 3: would be worth believing in Jesus just to get a
Speaker 3: clear conscience, because having talked to thousands of people, I
Speaker 3: know that most people are carrying secret guilt, secret regret,
Speaker 3: and secret shame. And you can be completely forgiven of that.
Speaker 3: Here's what the Bible says, Acts Chapter ten. All who
Speaker 3: believe in Jesus will be forgiven of their sins through
Speaker 3: Jesus's Romans three says this, we're made right with God
Speaker 3: in God's sight when we trust Jesus Christ to take
Speaker 3: away our sins, and we can all be saved in
Speaker 3: this same way, no matter who we are or what
Speaker 3: we've done. I love that last part. Doesn't matter who
Speaker 3: you are, doesn't matter what you've done, who you've done
Speaker 3: it with, how long you did it, or where you
Speaker 3: did it, You can be saved. You can be forgiven.
Speaker 3: Everything is forgiven when I trust in Jesus Christ. Number two,
Speaker 3: I learn God's purpose for my life. That's the second
Speaker 3: big benefit. I learn the purpose of my life, God's purpose. Now,
Speaker 3: if you don't know your purpose, and most people don't
Speaker 3: know the purpose of their life, you end up drifting
Speaker 3: through life. You get bounced around. Life controls you rather
Speaker 3: than you controlling life. Now there's only one way you're
Speaker 3: going to learn the purpose of your life. You got
Speaker 3: to talk to your creator. You can't tell yourself what
Speaker 3: your purpose is because you didn't invent you. Sometimes people say,
Speaker 3: if you want to know your purpose, then well I
Speaker 3: did that. That didn't work. You can't tell you what
Speaker 3: your purpose is because you didn't create you. Only the
Speaker 3: Creator can tell you what purpose you were created for.
Speaker 3: And you will never never, never, never, never, never never
Speaker 3: know the purpose of your life until you believe in
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ, because he is your creator. The Bible says this, everything,
Speaker 3: absolutely everything got started in Christ and finds its purpose
Speaker 3: in him. Today, so many people are confused about their
Speaker 3: identity and their purpose. I don't know who I am
Speaker 3: and I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing
Speaker 3: with my life because you're looking in the wrong places.
Speaker 3: The Bible says this, it is in Christ that we
Speaker 3: find out who we are and what we're living for.
Speaker 3: Who we are, that's identity, what we're living for, that's
Speaker 3: our purpose. It is in Christ we find that out
Speaker 3: part of the overall purpose He's working out in everything
Speaker 3: and everyone. Number three third benefit believing Christ. I get
Speaker 3: God's strength for daily living I get God's strength for
Speaker 3: daily living. Now, I used to think this wasn't a
Speaker 3: big deal, but I've realized that this is the number
Speaker 3: one problem most people have today. Most people, the number
Speaker 3: one problem isn't worry or fair or guilt or boredom
Speaker 3: or bitterness. Their number one problem is weariness. I talk
Speaker 3: to people all the time just say I'm just so
Speaker 3: tired all the time. I can't get it all done.
Speaker 3: I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. I
Speaker 3: don't have enough energy to get everything done that I
Speaker 3: need to do. And the reason why you're tired all
Speaker 3: the time is you have a power shortage. And the
Speaker 3: reason you have a power shortage is you're not plugged
Speaker 3: into God's power. You're trying to live your life on
Speaker 3: your power alone. Now, there's no way you can fulfill
Speaker 3: your purpose in life without being plugged into God's power.
Speaker 3: A toaster unplugged is worthless. A blender unplugged is worthless.
Speaker 3: A vacuum cleaner it has no purpose. It's just a
Speaker 3: bunch of metal. If it's not plugged into the power source,
Speaker 3: your life cannot possibly be all God intends for it
Speaker 3: to be. Until you're plugged into God's power. The Bible
Speaker 3: says this in Isaiah chapter forty, God gives power to
Speaker 3: those who are tired and worn out, and he offers
Speaker 3: strength to the weak. And in Ephesians chapter one, the
Speaker 3: Bible says this, I pray that you will begin to
Speaker 3: understand how incredibly great his power is. Whose power Jesus
Speaker 3: power to help those who believe him. That's the key.
Speaker 3: Belief unlocks God's power in your life. It is the
Speaker 3: same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead. Oh ho,
Speaker 3: wait a minute, time out. Are you telling me that
Speaker 3: the same power that raised Jesus from the dead, that
Speaker 3: split history into AD and BC is available to me
Speaker 3: on a personal basis date every day. That's exactly what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. That the same power that raised Jesus Christ
Speaker 3: from the dead. The Bible says, it's available to you
Speaker 3: if you believe he said. Well, what do I need
Speaker 3: power for? Oh? You need it in more ways than
Speaker 3: your real life. You need it. You need God's power
Speaker 3: to change things in your life you can't change on
Speaker 3: your own power. The truth is, if you were honest,
Speaker 3: there's some things about you you don't like about you.
Speaker 3: There's some things about your personality. There's some things about
Speaker 3: your past, there's some things about how you handle life
Speaker 3: you don't like and you've tried to change, but you can't,
Speaker 3: so you won't. And really, maybe you do will power
Speaker 3: for a while and it works for a while, and
Speaker 3: then you give up and you quit. You need a
Speaker 3: power greater than yourself to make changes. You need God's
Speaker 3: power in your life. And when you mess up and
Speaker 3: you screw up and you make a big failure in
Speaker 3: your life, you need God's power to start over. And
Speaker 3: when you're ready to give up and throw in the towel,
Speaker 3: you need God's power to keep going. And sometimes when
Speaker 3: you have things, God gives you the power to say
Speaker 3: no to things that you know, these aren't good for me.
Speaker 3: They're messing up my life, the destructive on my relationships.
Speaker 3: God gives you the power to say no, the power
Speaker 3: to start over, the power to begin again, the power
Speaker 3: to keep going, the power to change. Paul says it
Speaker 3: like this, I have the strength to face all conditions
Speaker 3: by the power that Christ gives me. Now, this is
Speaker 3: not positive men latitude. This is not self help psychology.
Speaker 3: This is not pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.
Speaker 3: Every day and every way, I'm getting better and better. No,
Speaker 3: this is supernatural power. I have the power to face
Speaker 3: all conditions by the power that Christ gives me that strength.
Speaker 3: What are the all conditions? The power to handle loneliness
Speaker 3: when you're lonely, the power to handle pressure when you're
Speaker 3: under tension, the power to handle stress, the power to
Speaker 3: handle guilt and fear and boredom and bitterness and rejection.
Speaker 3: The power to handle the financial crisis, the power to
Speaker 3: handle a physical health crisis, the power to handle a
Speaker 3: relational crisis. Where does that power come from. It comes
Speaker 3: from God when you believe in Jesus Christ. So I
Speaker 3: get all of my sins. Everything I've ever done wrong
Speaker 3: is forgiven. I get my past forgiven. I get a
Speaker 3: purpose for living, and I get a power for living.
Speaker 3: Then there's a fourth one. This is a cherry on top.
Speaker 3: I am guaranteed eternal life. Hello, now we're talking. Even
Speaker 3: if none of these other things were available, I am
Speaker 3: given eternal life because of jesus resurrection. When I believe
Speaker 3: in him. You see Jesus bringing himself back to life
Speaker 3: changed everything. When Jesus came back to life, it literally
Speaker 3: split history into AD and BC. It's the most important event.
Speaker 3: In fact, your birthday is dated by day, month, and
Speaker 3: year in relationship to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Every
Speaker 3: time you write a date, you were using jesus resurrection
Speaker 3: as a reference point. Because as God came to earth
Speaker 3: in human form, split history into ADY and BC. Nothing
Speaker 3: is bigger. And the resurrection proved three things. First, it
Speaker 3: proved that Jesus was exactly who he claimed to be.
Speaker 3: Jesus repeatedly said I am God. I am God, come
Speaker 3: in human form to die for your sins. Now a
Speaker 3: lot of people say, oh, well, I don't believe Jesus
Speaker 3: was God. I believe he was a great teacher. He
Speaker 3: couldn't be a great teacher. That's the one thing he
Speaker 3: possibly could not be, because a good great teacher would
Speaker 3: not claim to be God. He's either who he says
Speaker 3: he is, or he's the biggest liar in history. He's
Speaker 3: a con man, or he's a lunatic like the guy
Speaker 3: who thinks he's Napoleon or a fried Egg. A good
Speaker 3: teacher is not an option. For instance, if I were
Speaker 3: to stand up here today and I said, Hi, my
Speaker 3: name's Rick Warren. I'm a good teacher, you might say, Okay,
Speaker 3: I can buy that Rick's a good teacher. I might
Speaker 3: even be able to get away to say, Hi, I'm
Speaker 3: Rick Arrant, I'm a prophet of God. I'm not sure
Speaker 3: about that one, but maybe, okay, maybe. But if I
Speaker 3: stood up here and it said Hi, I'm Rick and
Speaker 3: I'm God, would that change our relationship? Yeah, because all
Speaker 3: of a sudden you're forced to make a decision. He's
Speaker 3: either who he says he is, or he's trying to
Speaker 3: con me, or he's nuts. There's no other alternative, and
Speaker 3: you have to decide. Was Jesus nuts, was he totally insane?
Speaker 3: Or was he the biggest con man and he conned
Speaker 3: two point three billion people. If that's true, we should
Speaker 3: all close up shop and go home. There's no reason
Speaker 3: for Christmas, no reason for Easter, no reason for Church
Speaker 3: because he's deluded most of the world and deluded people
Speaker 3: throughout history, or he is who he claimed to be. Now,
Speaker 3: throughout history, thousands of people have claimed to be God.
Speaker 3: This is nothing new. Lots of people in history have
Speaker 3: claimed to be God. But only one person said I'm
Speaker 3: going to prove it, and that's Jesus. And he said,
Speaker 3: here's what I'm going to do to prove that I
Speaker 3: am who I say aim. I'm going to let my
Speaker 3: enemies kill me, and I'm going to be buried in
Speaker 3: a tomb for three days. Then I'm going to raise
Speaker 3: myself back to life. And that's exactly what he did.
Speaker 3: And when he came back to life, he didn't just
Speaker 3: show up and appear to a few believers. He stayed
Speaker 3: on earth for another forty days, walked around Jerusalem for
Speaker 3: forty more days. All kinds of people saw him. One time,
Speaker 3: he had a party with five hundred people. It's kind
Speaker 3: of hard to fool five hundred people. Can you imagine
Speaker 3: being the Roman centurions who nailed Jesus to the cross,
Speaker 3: and the next week you're walking down the street in
Speaker 3: Jerusalem and there he is, and he go, he's back.
Speaker 3: That'd be kind of weird to see the guy that
Speaker 3: you just killed walking down the streets. And that's why
Speaker 3: so many in Jerusalem instantly became believers. It was in
Speaker 3: a matter of years one hundred thousand people were followers
Speaker 3: of Christ because everybody had seen him. The resurrection of
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ is one of the most well attested events
Speaker 3: in history. It would stand up in any court of law.
Speaker 3: In fact, it has many many times throughout many centuries.
Speaker 3: It proved Jesus was who he was, he is the
Speaker 3: son of God. But more than that, it proved that
Speaker 3: Jesus keeps his promises. And Jesus that I'm gonna let
Speaker 3: him kill me and I'll come back to life. Now
Speaker 3: did he keep that? Yes, Well, if he kept that one,
Speaker 3: then I can trust the other promises in this book,
Speaker 3: the ones that talk to me about my life, because
Speaker 3: I know he keeps his promises. And the third thing
Speaker 3: it tells me is that it proves that there is
Speaker 3: life after death. If Jesus Christ hadn't resurrected, you have
Speaker 3: no hope of the future, you have no hope of eternity.
Speaker 3: You would have no knowledge of heaven or anything else.
Speaker 3: Because Jesus Christ was the one who proved there's life
Speaker 3: after death. If he hadn't resurrected again, it's all just
Speaker 3: a big let's all go home, Let's go to the beach.
Speaker 3: I'm buying. I'll get some hot dogs or something. Now,
Speaker 3: let me show you what Jesus said. John eleven five
Speaker 3: and twenty six. Jesus said, I am the one who
Speaker 3: raises the dead and gives life again. Now, Buddha didn't
Speaker 3: say this, Muhammad didn't say this. Karl Marx didn't say that.
Speaker 3: Nobody else has ever said this, because nobody else has
Speaker 3: ever raised themselves back up to life, because they're not God.
Speaker 3: This is what puts Jesus in a unique position as
Speaker 3: the son of God. I am the one who raises
Speaker 3: the dead. And here's what he says. Because of that,
Speaker 3: anyone who believes in me, even though he dies, shall
Speaker 3: live again. He has given eternal life for believing in me.
Speaker 3: Circle that eternal life. Give an eternal life for believing
Speaker 3: in me, and shall never perish. Now, if Jesus Christ
Speaker 3: has not written at Easter, this verse would be a joke.
Speaker 3: It's just not true. You have no hope. When you're dead.
Speaker 3: You're dead. It's over. That's it. But Jesus said, because
Speaker 3: of that, I give eternal life to those who believe
Speaker 3: in me. The most famous verse in the Bible talks
Speaker 3: about this. John three point sixteen. You've seen this verse
Speaker 3: held up on placards at football games for thirty years.
Speaker 3: God so loved the world that he gave his only
Speaker 3: begotten son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish
Speaker 3: but have everlasting life. Now again, I could give you
Speaker 3: fifty benefits of believing Christ. I just gave you four
Speaker 3: everything you've ever done wrong forgiven. You get a purpose
Speaker 3: for living, you get a home in heaven, and you
Speaker 3: get power for living here on earth. Question, where else
Speaker 3: are you going to get that? Nowhere? Who else can
Speaker 3: give that to you? No one. If you don't get
Speaker 3: it from Jesus, you don't get it because He's the
Speaker 3: only one who can give you those four things. Now,
Speaker 3: these are amazing benefits you can't get anywhere else. And
Speaker 3: the qualification I must believe. The Bible said, this is
Speaker 3: what God wants you to do. He wants you to
Speaker 3: believe in the one that he sent. So what does
Speaker 3: it mean to believe in Jesus? A lot of people
Speaker 3: think they believe, but really don't. A lot of people
Speaker 3: are going to miss heaven by eighteen inches because they
Speaker 3: got it up here in the head, but not here
Speaker 3: in the heart. They have a head knowledge about God,
Speaker 3: but they don't have a heart commitment to God, and
Speaker 3: so they're going to miss heaven because they don't understand
Speaker 3: the full meaning of the word believe. I was on
Speaker 3: a plane flight one time. I think I was going
Speaker 3: to China. Now sitting next to guy, and the guy
Speaker 3: asked me, so, what kind of work do you do?
Speaker 3: And when somebody asked me that on a planet, I
Speaker 3: always say I'm an author, because if I say I'm
Speaker 3: a pastor, then they think, oh, he's going to try
Speaker 3: to convert me, and they clam up. They don't want
Speaker 3: to talk for the rest of the flight. So I
Speaker 3: always just say author. And so then he goes, so,
Speaker 3: what's the name of your book? I said, well, one
Speaker 3: of them's called The Purpose Driven Life. He goes, I
Speaker 3: know who you are, and I said, he said, as
Speaker 3: soon as he knew who I was. He goes, I'm
Speaker 3: going to heaven. I said, great, see you there. And
Speaker 3: I said great. I said, let me ask him, how
Speaker 3: do you know you're going to heaven. How do you know?
Speaker 3: He goes, because I believe in God, he said, Good
Speaker 3: for you. I do too. I said, any other reason
Speaker 3: why you think you might be going to heaven? He said,
Speaker 3: because I believe in Jesus. I believe Jesus died on
Speaker 3: the cross for the sins of the world. I said,
Speaker 3: that's great. I said, would it surprise you if I
Speaker 3: told you that believing there is a God and that
Speaker 3: believing Jesus died on the cross is not enough to
Speaker 3: get into heaven. He said, are you in me? I
Speaker 3: said no, no. I said, let me ask you this.
Speaker 3: Do you believe in the devil? He goes, oh, yeah.
Speaker 3: Evil is obvious in the world. There's a lot of
Speaker 3: bad evil. I believe in the devil. I said, do
Speaker 3: you think the devil's going to be in heaven? He said, well,
Speaker 3: of course not. I said, well, the devil believes in God,
Speaker 3: and the devil who believes in Jesus. The devil knows
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ as the son of God. That's why he
Speaker 3: put him on the cross. He wanted to kill him.
Speaker 3: He wanted to destroy the Messiah. I said, do you
Speaker 3: think Satan's going to be in heaven? No? So obviously,
Speaker 3: believing in God, believing in Jesus as the son of
Speaker 3: God is not enough to get you to heaven, because
Speaker 3: even the devil believes that. He goes where's that in
Speaker 3: the Bible? I said, here's it, and I showed him
Speaker 3: this verse James chapter two nineteen. Do you think it's
Speaker 3: enough just to believe there's one God. Well, even the
Speaker 3: demons believe that and tremble. But you're not going to
Speaker 3: find them in heaven. Why because it's more than just
Speaker 3: a head knowledge. You got to go back to what
Speaker 3: the word believe actually means. And in the Greek in
Speaker 3: which the Bible is written in Greek, was is the
Speaker 3: word the belief, The word for belief is the word
Speaker 3: pistuo comes from his faith. Pistuo means to believe, and
Speaker 3: it actually means more than just knowing about something knowing
Speaker 3: something happens. It means to trust in, to cling to,
Speaker 3: to rely on, to adhere to, or to commit to
Speaker 3: big difference. It's a heart commitment. We all know that
Speaker 3: there's various levels of knowledge. For instance, there's real shallow knowledge.
Speaker 3: For instance, you all know about the Kardashians, okay, but
Speaker 3: you know now you don't really know them, but you
Speaker 3: know about them. And we all know about celebrities. I
Speaker 3: know about Tom Cruise. I don't know Tom Cruise personally,
Speaker 3: but I know who he is. I believe he exists. Okay,
Speaker 3: but I've never given my life to Tom Cruise. I
Speaker 3: just believe he exists. And a lot of people believe
Speaker 3: Jesus exists, they've never given their life to him. And
Speaker 3: then then you have your neighbors, and you're neighbors, you
Speaker 3: know a little bit more and you know a little
Speaker 3: bit about their background. You may know where they work,
Speaker 3: maybe where they came from. But you don't really know
Speaker 3: your neighbors. But if you've been married and you know
Speaker 3: your husband or your wife, you know them much more intimately.
Speaker 3: I know my wife. Now she's still a mystery. Okay,
Speaker 3: Now I'm not a mystery to her because she's deep
Speaker 3: and I'm shallow. I mean, she knows everything about me.
Speaker 3: I know very little about her, but I do know
Speaker 3: that I love her. And when I say I believe
Speaker 3: in k it means more than I know she exists.
Speaker 3: That's far more than I know my wife exists. It
Speaker 3: means I trust in her, I rely on her. I
Speaker 3: have committed my life to her, and I know her
Speaker 3: intimately in a way I don't know anybody else. Because
Speaker 3: in two months I will have been married to her
Speaker 3: for forty years. Now that's the that's a kind of
Speaker 3: knowledge and intimacy. And when I say I believe in
Speaker 3: my wife, it's more than I just believe she exists.
Speaker 3: It's I trust in her. I'm committed to her, I
Speaker 3: rely on her, and I love her with all my life.
Speaker 3: That's the kind of meaning pistuo means in Scripture. It
Speaker 3: means to trust in, cling to you, to rely on it,
Speaker 3: here to you. So what I want to do right
Speaker 3: now is explain to you five expressions of what it
Speaker 3: means to really believe in Jesus. Because you may not
Speaker 3: have really believed in him. You may have been in
Speaker 3: church all your life, or maybe this is your first
Speaker 3: time and you know about Jesus, but you've never really
Speaker 3: trusted in him. So I take these five expressions of belief,
Speaker 3: and I'm just for fun. I put him in the
Speaker 3: crossting t r ust. What does it mean to trust
Speaker 3: in Jesus? Christ? Write this down? The T means I
Speaker 3: turn everything over to Jesus. T is I turn everything
Speaker 3: over to Jesus. The good in my life, the bad
Speaker 3: in my life, the ugly in my life, the secret
Speaker 3: things in my life. I turn over my past, my present,
Speaker 3: and my future. I give him rein in my finances,
Speaker 3: in my relationships, in my sex life, in my health,
Speaker 3: in every area. I turn everything over to Jesus.
Speaker 2: What a great message from Pastor Rick today, There's something
Speaker 2: I always take away from his message. Well, friends, I
Speaker 2: want you to take just a second and think, is
Speaker 2: there anybody I know that is graduating this year? Could
Speaker 2: be a son or daughter, a grandchild, or maybe a
Speaker 2: neighbor or a family friend. Well, as you celebrate this
Speaker 2: important milestone and they begin the next phase of their journey,
Speaker 2: they really need to know that God created them, loves them,
Speaker 2: and has a plan for their lives. So Rick created
Speaker 2: a special resource just for graduates called The Purpose Driven Life.
Speaker 2: Selected Thoughts and Scripture for the Graduate. This is a
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Speaker 2: filled with inspirational scripture, biblical wisdom from Pastor Rick, and
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