WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.560 --> 00:00:05.599 This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry 2 00:00:05.639 --> 00:00:09.359 of Pastor Rick Warren. Today we continue in a series 3 00:00:09.439 --> 00:00:13.240 called Better Together. In this series, Rick takes us through 4 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:18.079 First Corinthians chapter thirteen and shows us how to cultivate deep, 5 00:00:18.280 --> 00:00:22.600 meaningful relationships with the people around us. In just a 6 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:25.160 few moments, we're going to tell you how you can 7 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:28.719 get a copy of Pastor Rick's book called God's Power 8 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:32.399 to Change Your Life. In it, you'll discover how God 9 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:35.520 provides the power you need to take you from where 10 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:38.719 you are to where you want to be. Find out 11 00:00:38.759 --> 00:00:42.280 more by going to Pastorick dot com or by texting 12 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:46.399 the word Daily to eight hundred, six hundred five thousand 13 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:50.439 and four while you listen to today's message, that's Pastorick 14 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:54.520 dot com or the word Daily to eight hundred, six 15 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:58.840 hundred five thousand and four. Right now, here's Pastor Rick 16 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:01.960 Warren with part three of a message called Why We 17 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:02.799 Need each Other. 18 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:06.120 You see in heaven when you get there, everybody's going 19 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:08.400 to work, but we'll all each just have a little piece, 20 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.120 so you'll never get tired. You're not gonna be overworked 21 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:13.680 or overloaded in heaven because God will give you just 22 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:16.519 a little piece to do, but everybody will do their 23 00:01:16.519 --> 00:01:20.040 part and it'll all get done. What happens here on earth, though, 24 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:24.319 is you're worn out. You're exhausted, you're burnout. Some of 25 00:01:24.319 --> 00:01:28.200 you came to church exhausted. Why because you're trying to 26 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:30.359 do it all, and you're trying to do it all 27 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:34.319 by yourself, and that's why you're worn out. God never 28 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:35.959 meant for you to go through life. 29 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:38.840 Walking alone or working alone. 30 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:41.400 You need to be in a relationship with others who 31 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:44.439 help you get done what you need to do. Otherwise 32 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:47.400 you're gonna be worn out and fatigued all the time. Now, 33 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:50.400 God tells us in the Bible why we're supposed to 34 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:51.159 work together. 35 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:52.920 Look at the next verse. 36 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:57.719 An Ecclesiastes, for two people are better than one because 37 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:01.239 they get more done. Read it with you, would you 38 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:05.359 by working together? They get more done by working together. 39 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:08.199 Now everybody knows this. Show aways get more done as 40 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:11.319 a team than you do as an individual. It's also 41 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:17.199 a whole lot more fun. It's also less tiring, and 42 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:20.120 you learn to cooperate together. There's all kinds of benefits 43 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:21.400 to working together. 44 00:02:22.599 --> 00:02:22.800 You know. 45 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:24.960 In the last twelve days I was on a speaking 46 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:27.719 tour on the East Coast, and I spoke in eleven 47 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:31.479 different cities in twelve days, and it was up and 48 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:34.840 down in a plane for the last twelve days. We 49 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:37.360 started a week ago. On a week ago on Friday 50 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:39.439 to Washington, d C. I flew to Washington, d C. 51 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:42.879 Where I spoke at the Pentagon. Spoke twice there, once 52 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:46.000 to a general's Bible study had sixty seven generals in it, 53 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:49.840 and then another to the employees of the Pentagon. Then 54 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:52.879 we left the Pentagon and we flew to Philadelphia, where 55 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:53.800 we had meetings there. 56 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:54.919 We went from. 57 00:02:54.719 --> 00:02:58.199 Philadelphia to West Point, where I spoke to the four 58 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:02.120 thousand cadets at West Point, and then we went from 59 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:04.960 West Point to New York City and a place after 60 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:06.759 play well, I would have been worn out if I 61 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:10.800 hadn't taken a team with me. We then went to Chattanooga, 62 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:14.439 where one hundred and seventy churches in that one city 63 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:18.439 did forty days of purpose altogether. And it was citywide 64 00:03:18.479 --> 00:03:21.360 and had fifty thousand people going through it. And they 65 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:24.120 put up billboards all over town and said got purpose. 66 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:28.240 And then we went to Nashville and I spoke about 67 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:31.919 six thousand mothers of preschoolers there, and then Liberty University, 68 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:35.319 and then I spoke at Annapolis, the Naval Academy, and 69 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:37.639 stopped by Billy Graham's house at High and came home. 70 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:41.800 Now I would have been worn out. I wouldn't have 71 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:42.319 been here. 72 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:44.759 This weekend if I had had it all depended on me. 73 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:49.560 That's just overwhelming, that kind of a schedule. But I 74 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:52.240 took a team with me, and every time that plane 75 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:54.159 hit the ground, each of us knew what we had 76 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:57.240 to do. Nobody is good at everything. Would you agree 77 00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:00.280 with that? Nobody's good at everything? And so we need 78 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:03.719 each other. And so you put people around you compensate 79 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:05.719 for your weaknesses, who are strong in areas you're not 80 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:09.919 good at. And I came home from that, I wasn't tired. 81 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:12.439 I went I went to bed, got up next morning 82 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:15.919 at six thirty, and went back to work. Why because 83 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:20.639 when you share together, it lightens the load. You know, 84 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:22.959 when we were at West Point, they showed us a 85 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:29.360 system that feeds four thousand cadets in fifteen minutes. Imagine that, 86 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:31.560 and they do it three times a day, feed four 87 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:33.399 thousand cadets in fifteen minutes. 88 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:36.120 How in the world they do that. Everybody has a 89 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:38.639 role with butter. 90 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:46.079 Just seeing if you're listening, everybody has a role to play. 91 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:50.199 Everybody has a part, and it's all like clockwork. 92 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:51.560 Bam bam bam. 93 00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:54.560 Everybody has a part, and if you do little bits 94 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:57.319 of piece, it can all get done. The reason why 95 00:04:57.319 --> 00:05:01.920 you're exhausted you're trying to do it all yourself. You know, 96 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:05.680 some people fall for what I call them Mother Teresa syndrome, 97 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:08.600 and that's the idea that the lone person goes out 98 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:11.800 to change the world all by themselves. That doesn't even 99 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:14.759 Mother Teresa didn't do that. She had an army of 100 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:18.800 people helping her. You've heard me say before. Snowflakes are frail, 101 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:24.439 but if enough of them stick together, they can stop traffic. Now, individually, 102 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:26.560 I can't make that big a difference in the world, 103 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:29.160 and individually you can't make that big difference in the world. 104 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:32.800 But together, you know, in this church we got eighty 105 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:38.199 two thousand snowflakes. That's a lot of snow, and that 106 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:41.759 can make some significant difference. Together, we can make a 107 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:44.680 difference if everybody does just a little. 108 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:47.079 A little, would you write this down? 109 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:49.560 Community is God's answer to fatigue. 110 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:51.920 If you're tired. 111 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:54.360 It's because you don't have the relationships built in to 112 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:57.519 support you that you need in what God has called 113 00:05:57.519 --> 00:06:01.120 you to do. Have you ever watched on TV or 114 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:04.800 maybe the movie Witness where Amish build a barn together. 115 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:08.360 They do it in a day. It's amazing. I mean, 116 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:10.759 just you know, the whole community shows up and where 117 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:12.279 there was nothing, at the end of the day, there's 118 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:16.160 a barn standing what. Everybody has a little part to play. 119 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:20.360 Now. The Bible says this in Galatians six'. 120 00:06:20.519 --> 00:06:25.279 Ten every time we get the, chance let us work 121 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:28.800 for the benefit of all. THAT i need others to 122 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:32.120 work with, me starting with the people closest to us 123 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:33.639 in the community of. 124 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:36.199 Faith what's the community of? Faith it's our church. 125 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:39.439 FAMILY i need people to walk with me through, life 126 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:41.600 AND i need people to work with me through. Life 127 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:45.000 BUT i also number, THREE i need others to watch. 128 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:47.439 Out for me in life to watch out for. 129 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:50.680 Them i'm talking about people who defend, me who'll stand 130 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:53.319 up for, me who'll protect, me who will help you 131 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:56.079 keep me staying on, Track who will you know watch my? 132 00:06:56.160 --> 00:07:00.079 Backside who'll warn? Me we all need this because we 133 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:02.399 all have blind. Spots The bible says In filippians two, 134 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:07.759 four look out for one another's, interests not just your. 135 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:10.959 Own if you want a counterculture, verse that's. It because In, 136 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:15.240 america the general idea is it's all about. Me it's 137 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:18.240 all about my, needs my, interests my, wants my, desires my. 138 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:19.560 Ambitions the rest of. You forget. 139 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:23.279 YOU i live for, myself forget everybody. Else this one, 140 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:26.839 says don't just look out for your own, interests look 141 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:30.480 out for others. Too have you ever seen these neighborhood watch? 142 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:33.160 Signs sometimes you see them out in an. Area that's 143 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:36.800 a sign of. Community it says we watch out for each. Other, 144 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:39.319 here we're looking out for each. Other my guess is 145 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:41.279 if you went on vacation this summer and you were 146 00:07:41.319 --> 00:07:43.720 gone for a week or maybe two, weeks you probably 147 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:45.680 told your neighbor you were going to be. Gone he, 148 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:46.759 said you, Know i'm going to be gone for a 149 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:48.199 couple of. Weeks would you kind of keep an eye 150 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:50.959 out on my? House would you kind of watch out 151 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:53.600 look out for my? Stuff because we all want our 152 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:57.439 stuff looked out, for and that's a good thing to 153 00:07:57.480 --> 00:08:00.480 have your stuff looked, after watched out. For but my 154 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:03.399 question is not is anybody watching out for your? Stuff 155 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:07.600 is anybody watching out for your? Soul because your soul 156 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:10.199 is a whole lot more important than your. Stuff is 157 00:08:10.199 --> 00:08:13.319 there anybody in your life who helps you stay on track? 158 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:16.240 Spiritually is there anybody who loves you enough to, Say 159 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:18.079 i'm not gonna let you get, Discouraged i'm not gonna 160 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:20.120 let you drop. Out i'm not gonna let, you you, 161 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:22.879 know get. Tired i'm here with. You let me support. 162 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:25.199 You and who encourages you in your spiritual. 163 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:28.600 Life if you don't have anybody like, that that's. Sad. 164 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:32.720 See the fact is we all have blind, spots things 165 00:08:32.759 --> 00:08:33.200 we can't. 166 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:35.879 See you. KNOW i grew this beard this. 167 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:38.600 Summer and then my Wife kay, said you, know, honey 168 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:40.120 if you're gonna have the, beard you gotta get rid 169 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:42.559 of the flat hair. Thing, okay so she came up 170 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:44.559 with this little spikey do, here you, know like you 171 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:47.720 know the only problem IS i can't see the back 172 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:50.440 and it sticks up straight on the. Back, Okay SO 173 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:52.320 i don't know if it's sticking up or is it right? 174 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:55.000 NOW i don't? Know, OKAY i. 175 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:58.159 Mean So i'm not making this up last night before 176 00:08:58.200 --> 00:08:59.960 and again this Morning i'm getting ready to come to. 177 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:01.919 Church i'm starting to walk out the. Door, okay go. 178 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:06.200 STOP i, thought what DID i? Do she's fixing a little. 179 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:10.720 You, know doing a little. THING i would have never known. 180 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:13.600 That you, know you get you get a tail light, 181 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:15.720 Out you're never gonna know. It somebody's got to look 182 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:18.440 out for. You somebody's gotta say you got a tail light. 183 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:19.039 Out. 184 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:22.360 Now The bible says That hebrews thirteen to, one keep 185 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:27.080 being concerned about each. Other as The lord's followers should 186 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:28.600 we should care about each. 187 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:31.799 Other we're, Family we're In god's, family and. 188 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:34.759 As brothers and, SISTERS i should defend, you and you 189 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:37.519 should defend. Me AND i help you stay on, track 190 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:39.879 and you help me stay on. Track now it says 191 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:40.960 keep being concerned. 192 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:45.000 Circle the word keep that means not just once you're you're. 193 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:48.759 Vigilant in a, war everybody has to take time on 194 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:52.679 sentry duty while everybody else is. Sleeping somebody stays awake 195 00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:56.519 to make sure the enemy isn't crashing. In, now since 196 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:58.360 nine to, eleven we've all been a whole lot more 197 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:01.720 vigilant for each other with terrorism and things like. That 198 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:04.759 but did you know that you have an enemy far 199 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:09.919 more destructive than. Terrorists oh, yeah you have a personal 200 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:14.720 enemy and he hates your guts and he wants to defeat. 201 00:10:14.759 --> 00:10:18.320 You his name Is, satan And satan wants to mess 202 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:21.440 up your. Life satan wants to bring problems in your. 203 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:25.960 Life satan wants to ruin your. Relationships he wants to 204 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:28.080 hurt you as bad as he. Can, now why would 205 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:31.480 he do that because he can't Hurt. God See, satan 206 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:32.679 what he wants to do is he wants to Hurt, 207 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:34.879 god but he. Can't when he can't hurt, somebody what 208 00:10:34.919 --> 00:10:35.039 do you? 209 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:35.960 Do you go after their. 210 00:10:36.039 --> 00:10:39.159 Children if you couldn't get to, me you'd go after 211 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:43.240 my wife or my. Kids satan can't Hurt, god so 212 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:45.840 what does he. Do he tries to Hurt god's, children 213 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:49.159 and he doesn't care what it'll, take how badly you get. 214 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:51.759 Hurt he wants to mess you up. Anyway and the 215 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:54.200 moment you wake up in the, morning he's already been 216 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:57.279 plotting how to get you to waste that, day to 217 00:10:57.279 --> 00:11:00.240 blow it with anger or worry or fear or guilt 218 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:04.960 or shame or depression or any other resentment or. Bitterness 219 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:09.080 he'll just try to get you all messed. Up i've 220 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:12.639 been reading this nine to eleven report from the. Commissions interesting, 221 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:16.600 reading but AS i read, IT i, thought what are 222 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:21.320 the parallels here between our, battle our spiritual battle Against? 223 00:11:21.320 --> 00:11:25.679 Satan now listen to. This listen to this. Parallel we 224 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:26.480 learned about an. 225 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:32.240 Enemy this is what the committee, reported who is, sophisticated, patient, 226 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:34.360 disciplined and. 227 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:37.240 Lethal that's exactly what the devil. 228 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:44.559 Is you're listening To Pastor Rick's Daily. Hope rick will 229 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:47.120 be back in just a moment with the rest of today's. 230 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:50.519 Lesson if you've missed any part of today's, teaching you 231 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:56.200 can listen online anytime at pastorick dot. Com that's pastorick dot. 232 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:57.519 Com what does. 233 00:11:57.320 --> 00:12:02.159 It take to become more, loving live more, peacefully develop, 234 00:12:02.279 --> 00:12:06.840 patience have self? Control Pastor rick, Says throughout all the 235 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:09.960 years he's been a, pastor the number one question he's 236 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:13.799 been asked is why CAN'T i? Change people want to, 237 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:17.399 change but they're. Stuck maybe you feel that way. 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On thank you so much for your. 257 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:28.159 Support now let's get back to today's lesson here On 258 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:29.480 Pastor Rick's Daily. 259 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:32.200 Hope, now The bible says In hebrews thirteen to, one 260 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:37.519 keep being concerned about each, other as The lord's followers. 261 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:41.360 Should we should care about each. Other we're, Family we're 262 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:44.480 In god's, family and as brothers and, SISTERS i should 263 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:47.440 defend you and you should defend, me AND i help 264 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:49.440 you stay on, track and you help me stay on. 265 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:51.879 Track now it says keep being concerned. 266 00:13:51.919 --> 00:13:52.759 Circle the word. 267 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:57.120 Keep that means not just once you're you're. Vigilant in a, 268 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:01.360 war everybody has to take time on sin duty while 269 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:04.120 everybody else is. Sleeping somebody stays awake to make sure 270 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:08.000 the enemy isn't crashing. In, now since nine to, eleven 271 00:14:08.039 --> 00:14:10.639 we've all been a whole lot more vigilant for each 272 00:14:10.679 --> 00:14:13.960 other with terrorism and things like. That but did you 273 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:17.600 know that you have an enemy far more destructive than. 274 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:22.480 Terrorists oh, yeah you have a personal. Enemy and he 275 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:26.000 hates your guts and he wants to defeat. You his 276 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:29.559 name Is, satan And satan wants to mess up your. 277 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:33.399 Life satan wants to bring problems in your. Life satan 278 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:37.360 wants to ruin your. Relationships he wants to hurt you 279 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:39.200 as bad as he. Can, now why would he do 280 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:42.559 that because he can't Hurt. God See, satan what he 281 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:44.039 wants to do is he wants to Hurt, god but he. 282 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:46.080 Can't when he can't hurt, somebody what do you? Do 283 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:49.360 you go after their? Children if you couldn't get to, 284 00:14:49.399 --> 00:14:52.639 me you'd go after my wife or my. Kids satan 285 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:55.360 can't Hurt, god so what does he. Do he tries 286 00:14:55.399 --> 00:14:59.000 to Hurt god's, children and he doesn't care what it'll, 287 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:00.679 take how badly you. GET i heard he wants to 288 00:15:00.679 --> 00:15:03.519 mess you up, Anyway and the moment you wake up 289 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:06.080 in the, morning he's already been plotting how to get 290 00:15:06.120 --> 00:15:09.200 you to waste that, day to blow it with anger 291 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:13.039 or worry or fear or guilt or shame or depression 292 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:16.759 or any other resentment or. Bitterness he'll just try to 293 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:21.039 get you all messed. Up i've been reading this nine 294 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:24.840 to eleven report from The. Commissions interesting, reading but AS 295 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:28.639 i read, IT i, thought what are the parallels here 296 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:33.320 between our, battle our spiritual battle Against. Satan now listen to, 297 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:37.840 This listen to this. Parallel we learned about an. Enemy 298 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:43.120 this is what the committee, reported who is, sophisticated, patient, 299 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:45.240 disciplined and. 300 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:48.120 Lethal that's exactly what the devil. 301 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:52.919 Is the enemy rallies broad support by addressing political, grievance 302 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:56.840 but it's hostility toward us and our values is, limitless 303 00:15:57.960 --> 00:16:00.279 And satan's hatred of you is. 304 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:04.960 Limitless its purpose is to rid the world of religious. 305 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:10.039 Pluralism it makes no distinction between military and civilian. Targets 306 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:14.919 collateral damage is not in its. Lexicon satan doesn't care 307 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:19.519 who gets. Hurt he just wants to. Hurt it, says 308 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:22.799 we learned that we did not understand how grave this 309 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:25.960 threat could, be and so we did not adjust our 310 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:28.919 plans and practices to deter or defeat. 311 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:31.000 It, well if that hadn't describe Most. 312 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:35.120 Christians we don't realize the war we're, in and so 313 00:16:35.159 --> 00:16:38.360 we don't make any plans to handle, temptation. 314 00:16:39.639 --> 00:16:43.360 It. Says, now the test before us now is to 315 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:45.159 sustain the unity of. 316 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:48.639 PURPOSE i could have written this, Stuff, Okay the test 317 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:52.120 before us is to sustain the unity of purpose and 318 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:56.840 meet the challenges now confronting. Us we need to design 319 00:16:56.919 --> 00:17:01.840 a balanced strategy for the long haul to attack terrorists 320 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:05.480 while at the same time protecting ourselves against future. 321 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:07.160 Attack any about. 322 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:10.799 That we not only have to protect, ourselves we have 323 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:14.400 to go after. Them and that's what it says in The. 324 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:16.640 Bible the gates Of hell will not prevail against. Us 325 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:18.799 gates are, defensive he. Says you're going after the, devil 326 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:24.039 not vice. Versa, now let me tell you. Something so 327 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:26.279 When satan attacks, you he doesn't come in a little 328 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:29.839 red costume with pointy things and a pitchfork and, say, 329 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:36.039 boot how Does satan mess up your life through? Habits 330 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:39.640 you can't break the hurts that you won't let go, 331 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:43.440 of and you hold on to resentment through hang. Ups 332 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:47.400 you can't change in your life through, problems through, circumstances 333 00:17:47.559 --> 00:17:50.920 through relationships that break your heart and hurt. You and 334 00:17:50.960 --> 00:17:54.000 he Uses he Never he always works around through. Others 335 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:59.319 and most of The christians are. Defeated they live in. 336 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:04.319 Defeat why because we try to fight him on our Own. 337 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:06.920 And that's. 338 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:10.400 Stupid you're never going to win against the devil on your. 339 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:13.960 Own you need other people who will watch out for 340 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:17.039 you and help. You look at this next, verse please 341 00:18:17.079 --> 00:18:21.920 Ask he's four. TWELVE a person standing alone can be 342 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:25.000 attacked and, defeated but two can stand back to back and, 343 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:27.839 conquer and three are even. Better for a triple braided 344 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:30.960 cord is not easily. Broken that's a small, group he. 345 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:33.599 Says you know you watch out for each. Other last, 346 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:38.200 year about this, TIME i walked across a maximum security 347 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:44.279 prison yard in Northern. California two thousand inmates in that, 348 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:48.039 field in that, yard AND i walked across it with 349 00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:52.319 no guard protecting, me no, gun no, weapon no body, 350 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:55.119 armor but just myself And i'm walking across AND i 351 00:18:55.160 --> 00:18:58.960 was not. Afraid why BECAUSE i had a group of other, 352 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:02.599 inmates about three of them who Were, christians in front of, 353 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:07.400 me behind, me and on either side of. Me and 354 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:09.319 if anybody wanted to get at, me they were gonna 355 00:19:09.319 --> 00:19:11.119 have to get through these guys who have these tattoos 356 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:15.680 that Said mom And, jesus you. Know and there's no 357 00:19:15.799 --> 00:19:20.440 WAY i felt worried because these guys were there to protect. 358 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:25.400 Me now here's my. Question is there anybody watching your, 359 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:32.000 backside anybody who's watching out for your spiritual? Welfare do 360 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:34.960 you have anybody close like? That are you in a 361 00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:38.039 small group where that group of guys if you're a 362 00:19:38.119 --> 00:19:40.920 guy or, women if you're a, woman who are, saying 363 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:42.960 you know, what we're there when you're going through the tough. 364 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:44.839 Time we're not gonna let you do the. Scourage we're 365 00:19:44.839 --> 00:19:45.519 not gonna let you get. 366 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:48.200 Depressed we're not gonna let you get, worried because we're 367 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:48.960 gonna be here with. 368 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:52.400 You if you don't have anybody like, THAT i pity. 369 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:53.240 You you've got. 370 00:19:53.079 --> 00:19:57.400 A big bullseye on your back For. Satan say here's a. 371 00:19:57.440 --> 00:20:00.359 Loaner they're not, connected they're not in a. 372 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:04.519 Group you. KNOW i know this is hard to, believe 373 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:05.200 but WHEN i was a. 374 00:20:05.119 --> 00:20:10.400 Young YOUNG i was a lifeguard for three. Summers actually 375 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:12.240 they fired me because every TIME i see a, hannicle 376 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:14.640 YES i see that, Hand god bless, You, Yes god bless. 377 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:16.960 You is there? Another? Oh, yes many are raising their, 378 00:20:16.960 --> 00:20:19.720 Hands god bless. You, yeah thank. YOU i made that part, 379 00:20:19.799 --> 00:20:22.079 up but it was a. 380 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:25.079 Lifeguard and everybody. Knows you never go swimming by yourself 381 00:20:25.119 --> 00:20:28.119 in the. Ocean you might catch your. Ripties you never 382 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:30.400 go by. Yourself did you read about this? Kid he 383 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:33.799 is an experienced. Climber he's climbing a, mountain slipped and, 384 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:36.720 fell fell into a ravine and got his arm, caught 385 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:38.799 and he couldn't get, out and he would have died 386 00:20:38.839 --> 00:20:41.480 there because he was by. Himself he thought he knew 387 00:20:41.559 --> 00:20:45.079 enough to go it on his, own and the only 388 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:47.279 way he broke free was he had to cut his 389 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:48.319 own arm off. 390 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:53.279 Or. Die even the pros need a. 391 00:20:53.279 --> 00:21:05.079 Buddy this Is Pastor rick's daily. 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