Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the
Speaker 1: Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren. We are excited that
Speaker 1: you are with us today as we bring our powerful
Speaker 1: series How the Church Meets your Deepest Needs to a close. Together,
Speaker 1: we'll uncover the joy and strength that comes from being
Speaker 1: a part of God's family. So let's continue now with
Speaker 1: the final part of a message called how Worshiping with
Speaker 1: others changes you?
Speaker 2: Now, how do I worship? I want to give you
Speaker 2: some tips here. I want to talk about how do
Speaker 2: you tell God that you love him? And I want
Speaker 2: to give you seven different very practical acts of worship.
Speaker 2: So write these down. But not only were we just
Speaker 2: going to write them down, we're going to do them.
Speaker 2: And in each of these we're going to pause and
Speaker 2: usually ask you to actually do what I just talked about. Now.
Speaker 2: The one we're starting with is what we are doing
Speaker 2: right now. The first way you can worship write this
Speaker 2: down is by listening and responding to God's word. By
Speaker 2: listening and responding to God's word, I'm teaching you from
Speaker 2: God's word, what you're doing right now is an act
Speaker 2: of worship. The Bible says in Deuteronomy thirty one, verse twelve.
Speaker 2: In the New Century version, it says, gather all the
Speaker 2: people together, men, women, children, and the immigrants living in
Speaker 2: your towns. He's talking about visitors, people who are not
Speaker 2: citizens here. Gather all the people together, men, women, children,
Speaker 2: and immigrants living in your towns, so that everyone can
Speaker 2: listen and learn so to respect the Lord and carefully
Speaker 2: obey everything in his words. Notice, he says, this is
Speaker 2: something we do together. We worship together. We're to gather
Speaker 2: together to get up and go to a place of worship.
Speaker 2: Are you doing that every week? That's what God wants
Speaker 2: you to do. Psalm eighty five, verse eight says this,
Speaker 2: I listen carefully to what God, my Lord is saying,
Speaker 2: for he speaks peace to his people and his faithful ones.
Speaker 2: Now notice he says, I listen carefully to what God says.
Speaker 2: How do you listen carefully? Well. One of the ways
Speaker 2: you do this, what you're doing right now, take notes.
Speaker 2: The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory. And
Speaker 2: one of the reasons why we pass out notes and
Speaker 2: let people see the notes that they can take notes
Speaker 2: on is so you can listen carefully. Did you know
Speaker 2: that you forget about ninety five percent of everything you
Speaker 2: hear within about seventy two hours. That's the United States
Speaker 2: Air Force statistic, and that's depressing statistic. If you're a pastor,
Speaker 2: it means that I can spend all week preparing to
Speaker 2: teach you, and then by Wednesday you've forgotten ninety five
Speaker 2: percent of it. You could have been a member of
Speaker 2: Saddle Backed Church for thirty years and you've forgotten ninety
Speaker 2: five percent. You've forgotten all but five percent of everything
Speaker 2: I've ever taught unless you wrote it down. But if
Speaker 2: you write it down, you can go back and review it.
Speaker 2: When we teach the Purpose Driven Church Conference to pastors,
Speaker 2: and over half a million pastors have taken this from
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty four countries, I give them fifteen
Speaker 2: reasons that they should never teach without actually handing out
Speaker 2: an outline. In the first place, everybody uses different translations,
Speaker 2: and so when you look on an outline, everybody can
Speaker 2: read from the same translation. The second place, writing it
Speaker 2: down increases your memory and your retention. Third, you can
Speaker 2: go later, go back and review it. I won't go
Speaker 2: into all of these reasons. I know guys who've wadded
Speaker 2: up the sermon notes and put them in their wallet
Speaker 2: and pulled them out later when they need it. You
Speaker 2: can put it up on the wall. You can underline,
Speaker 2: you can circle, you can take notes. So all of
Speaker 2: these are just to help you to listen carefully to
Speaker 2: what God says, for he speaks peace to his people.
Speaker 2: But it's not enough to just take notes. If you're
Speaker 2: really going to worship, you have to do what he says.
Speaker 2: The Bible talks about being doers of the word, not
Speaker 2: hearers only. In John thirteen, verse seventeen, Jesus says this,
Speaker 2: now that you know these things, you will be blessed
Speaker 2: if notice you do them. He didn't say you'll be
Speaker 2: blessed if you know them. He doesn't even say you'll
Speaker 2: be blessed if you take notes on them. He says,
Speaker 2: now that you know these things, you'll be blessed if
Speaker 2: you do them. So taking notes is a part of worship.
Speaker 2: Why because it helps me to have my to do
Speaker 2: list after worship is over all. Right, So the first
Speaker 2: way that you can express your love to God is
Speaker 2: by actually listening carefully to the word of God. And
Speaker 2: you care enough to take notes. I'll never forget that
Speaker 2: one time I read the verse where Jesus says, don't
Speaker 2: cast you pearls before swine. And as I was reading
Speaker 2: that verse, I felt the Holy Spirit saying, Rick, who
Speaker 2: do you think the swine is? And I said, well,
Speaker 2: that's got to be the religious pharisees, who you know
Speaker 2: we're attacking Jesus all the time. He said, no, you're
Speaker 2: the swine. So what mean why? He said, because you
Speaker 2: don't care enough to write down what I say to you.
Speaker 2: And the Word of God are the pearls of wisdom
Speaker 2: that come out of the word of God. And God
Speaker 2: is casting these pearls that you but you're just letting
Speaker 2: them fall away. You're not writing them down, you're not
Speaker 2: connecting them, you're not collecting them, you're not reviewing them,
Speaker 2: you're not applying them, you're not practicing them. So I'm
Speaker 2: casting pearls before swine. So learn to listen carefully. That's
Speaker 2: an act of worship. Take notes and write yourself to
Speaker 2: do list and things you're going to do as a
Speaker 2: result of what you learn from the word of God.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to a second way to worship.
Speaker 2: This is one we all know about. I can worship God,
Speaker 2: I can show my love to God by singing to him,
Speaker 2: by singing to him when we sing to Him with
Speaker 2: our whole hearts, and it's not half hearted singing, it's
Speaker 2: singing with our whole hearts. Remember God loves whole hearted worship,
Speaker 2: Psalm thirty two, verse eleven. I love this. In the message,
Speaker 2: it says this, celebrate God, sing together everyone, all of
Speaker 2: you with honest hearts. All of you raise the roof.
Speaker 2: I love that raise the roof. Worship is meant to
Speaker 2: be a celebration, not a commiseration. It's meant to be
Speaker 2: a festival of joy, not a funeral of sadness. He says,
Speaker 2: sing together. I was glad when they said to me,
Speaker 2: let us go into the house of the Lord. Not
Speaker 2: I was mad or sad, or bored or oh brother,
Speaker 2: it's not a duty. It's a delight. Celebrate God sing
Speaker 2: together all this week in our daily devotionals. I'm going
Speaker 2: to give you some ways to celebrate God on your own,
Speaker 2: but it's it's really important for you learn to celebrate
Speaker 2: with other people. I have a counselor friend, a therapist
Speaker 2: who everyone who comes to him who's depressed. One of
Speaker 2: the first questions he asked is did you sing all
Speaker 2: the songs last Sunday at church? And they said no. Well,
Speaker 2: he says impression without expression leads to depression, and you
Speaker 2: need for your emotional health, you need to sing. You say, well,
Speaker 2: I can't carry a tune in a baggy. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm a prison singer. I'm always behind a few bars
Speaker 2: and I never have the right key. Well, you know what,
Speaker 2: the Bible says, make a joyful noise. Anybody can do that,
Speaker 2: and so you don't have to be on key. You
Speaker 2: just have to sing with your heart. And you know what,
Speaker 2: would you rather sing by yourself? Would rather sing with
Speaker 2: one hundred people or three hundred people or a thousand people?
Speaker 2: The Bible says we sing together, and that is an
Speaker 2: act of worship. Did you know that music and love
Speaker 2: to go together because music is God's gift for expressing emotions,
Speaker 2: and all of the emotions that are known demand can
Speaker 2: be expressed through music. You know, there are radio stations
Speaker 2: that are dedicated entirely to just love songs because they
Speaker 2: are a way of expressing emotions. Now, I know some
Speaker 2: people come to church late because they go I just
Speaker 2: want to hear the message, and they want to come
Speaker 2: in in the music. They don't worry about getting there.
Speaker 2: You are making a big mistake and it is detrimental
Speaker 2: to your spiritual health, to your soul, to your spirit,
Speaker 2: and to your emotional health as well. You need to
Speaker 2: sing these songs. You're cheating yourself. You're missing out on
Speaker 2: an importantnt A moment of worship if you don't sing
Speaker 2: along the song. So learn to sing the songs. Praise
Speaker 2: is a moodlifter. It's an anecdote, as I said to depression. Now,
Speaker 2: let's go to a third way that we worship God.
Speaker 2: A third way we worship God is by talking to
Speaker 2: God together in prayer. By talking God to God together
Speaker 2: in prayer. Now, of course you could pray on your
Speaker 2: own anytime, but you know there's added power when we
Speaker 2: pray together. The Bible says when two or three agree
Speaker 2: as to anything, it shall be done. There's additional prayer
Speaker 2: power when we pray together. In Acts, Chapter one, verse fourteen,
Speaker 2: it says they all join together constantly in prayer. You know,
Speaker 2: we would have the power of the New Testament Church
Speaker 2: like they had in Acts. We'd see those kind of
Speaker 2: miracles if we prayed as much as they did in
Speaker 2: the Book of Acts. Paul talks about the importance of
Speaker 2: prayer in corporate worship in Romans, Chapter one, verses twelve.
Speaker 2: He says this, we must help each other with the
Speaker 2: faith we have, and your faith will help me, and
Speaker 2: my faith will help you. So when we pray together
Speaker 2: and we're all praying for the same thing that builds
Speaker 2: my faith, it builds your faith. You don't get that
Speaker 2: when you pray on your own. There's an additional element
Speaker 2: of prayer power that happens when you pray with other people.
Speaker 2: And that's why prayer together is a part of worship.
Speaker 2: You know, one of the things I've learned about a relationship,
Speaker 2: whether it's friendship or marriage. I've been married now for
Speaker 2: forty two years, is that if you're going to build
Speaker 2: a relationship, you've got to communicate. On the days that
Speaker 2: Kay and I communicate with each other through the day,
Speaker 2: our relationship grows. On the days that I don't get
Speaker 2: to talk to her through the day, it decays. The
Speaker 2: same is true with God. If you want to build
Speaker 2: a friendship with God, you've got to talk to him
Speaker 2: all the time. Of course, you can talk to him
Speaker 2: all the time, but if you never talk to your
Speaker 2: spouse or they never talk to you, you'd start doubting
Speaker 2: that they loved you. And if you really love God,
Speaker 2: you're going to talk to him all the time. What
Speaker 2: do you talk to God about? Well, whatever is interesting
Speaker 2: to you. You can talk to God about your hopes,
Speaker 2: about your dreams, about your fears, about your heart. You
Speaker 2: can talk to God about the conflicts. You can talk
Speaker 2: about how your stomach feels. You can talk to him
Speaker 2: about things that you feel are not fair. There is
Speaker 2: nothing off limits in a love relationship with God. He
Speaker 2: wants to hear everything that is a concern to you.
Speaker 2: He doesn't want to hear what you think you how
Speaker 2: to talk about. He wants to hear what's really concerning you.
Speaker 2: Prayer is not a duty, it is a privilege. And
Speaker 2: if you don't feel close to God, there's a simple remedy.
Speaker 2: Talk to him more. Okay, talk to him more. Prayer
Speaker 2: is an act of worship, but particularly when we pray together.
Speaker 2: There's power in group prayer. And so pray in your
Speaker 2: small groups, and pray in your Bible studies, and pray
Speaker 2: when you're at a church worship service together. All right,
Speaker 2: let's go to number four. A fourth way that we
Speaker 2: express our love to God is by sharing the Lord's
Speaker 2: supper together. By sharing the Lord's supper together, it's called communion.
Speaker 2: It's called the Eucharist, which comes from the word eukaristo,
Speaker 2: which means I receive it with thanks. But Jesus gave
Speaker 2: us two symbols of his death and his burial and
Speaker 2: his resurrection. One is the Lord's supper and the other's baptism.
Speaker 2: In First Corinthians, chapter eleven, verse twenty five, Jesus said,
Speaker 2: this cup the cup of communion that he was going
Speaker 2: to pass around to his disciples. He said, this cup
Speaker 2: is the new covenant between God and you, sealed by
Speaker 2: the shedding of my blood. So do this often in
Speaker 2: remembrance of me. We are to do this often in
Speaker 2: remembrance of him. Jesus said, I want you to take
Speaker 2: the bread and the cup together because it symbolizes my
Speaker 2: death and resurrection and my salvation that I've paid for you.
Speaker 2: The fact is Jesus paid the penalty for your sin
Speaker 2: by his death on the cross, and he broke the
Speaker 2: power of sin so you could be free from all
Speaker 2: of the habits. And he guarantees freedom eventually from the
Speaker 2: presence of sin in your life because of what he
Speaker 2: did on the cross. One day you're going to be
Speaker 2: in heaven. There's going to be no sin there. So
Speaker 2: what should be my attitude when I take communion? Jesus'
Speaker 2: sacrifice did three things. It paid for your forgiveness. Every
Speaker 2: sin you've ever done wrong is completely forgiven. It's wiped out,
Speaker 2: washed away. Think of the most guilty thing you've ever done,
Speaker 2: the thing you're most ashamed of in your past, and
Speaker 2: thank God that that's forgiven. It's not only forgiven. God
Speaker 2: wiped it out. It's forgiven and forgotten. So he paid
Speaker 2: for your forgiveness. So what should be my attitude when
Speaker 2: I come to the Lord's Supper? Should it be guilt
Speaker 2: over my sin? No, because it's all been paid for,
Speaker 2: it forgiven. Should it be grief over Jesus' death? No,
Speaker 2: because he didn't stay dead, so it's not a grieving thing.
Speaker 2: He came back to life. That's what Easter is all about.
Speaker 2: It shouldn't be guilt and it shouldn't be grief. The
Speaker 2: attitude for the Lord's Supper is gratitude. I should take
Speaker 2: it grateful, grateful e charisto. I receive it with thanks
Speaker 2: that God would love me this much. Now, communion is
Speaker 2: not for everybody. If you have never accepted God's gift,
Speaker 2: the salvation and forgiveness, you shouldn't take communion because it
Speaker 2: doesn't mean anything to you. It's meaningless, it doesn't help
Speaker 2: you in any way. But if you have never given
Speaker 2: your life to Christ, before we take these elements, you
Speaker 2: need to say God, as I take these elements today,
Speaker 2: the bread and the Jews, I am saying by taking
Speaker 2: these that I accept what you did for me, and
Speaker 2: I ask you to forgive me, and I ask you
Speaker 2: to accept me into your faith, and I need your salvation.
Speaker 2: That's the right way to take communion. Because Jesus paid
Speaker 2: for your forgiveness. He also paid for your freedom. So
Speaker 2: I want you to think about the thing that you
Speaker 2: would like to change the most about you, what you'd
Speaker 2: like to change but you don't feel you can change.
Speaker 2: And in a minute, I want you to thank God
Speaker 2: that you have the power to change. That He will
Speaker 2: give you because of what Jesus did for you, your forgiveness,
Speaker 2: your freedom, and then your future. The Bible says because
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ died of the cross for you, that he
Speaker 2: has a future for you. In heaven. The Bible says,
Speaker 2: eye has not seen, and ear has never heard, and
Speaker 2: no one has even imagined the wonderful things God has
Speaker 2: prepared for those who love Him. So not out of grief,
Speaker 2: not out of guilt, but out of gratitude. We take
Speaker 2: these elements and we thank God for our forgiveness. We
Speaker 2: thank God for our freedom in Christ, and we thank
Speaker 2: God for our future in heaven. During communion, you probably
Speaker 2: did something that is the fifth way that we offer
Speaker 2: our worship to God. Number five is by recommitting our
Speaker 2: lives to God. Many of you did that as you
Speaker 2: were taking conminion communion. Some of you did it for
Speaker 2: the very first time, and you committed your life to
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, saying, I want you to be my Lord,
Speaker 2: to be my savior. I want to accept your salvation.
Speaker 2: I need your forgiveness. Now, this is an important act
Speaker 2: of worship. Romans twelve, verse one says this because of
Speaker 2: God's great mercy to you. In other words, because God's
Speaker 2: been so good to you, offer your lives as living
Speaker 2: sacrifices to Him, dedicated to serving Him in a holy
Speaker 2: and pleasing way. Now, I want to stop right here
Speaker 2: and look at this first for just a minute. First,
Speaker 2: it says, because of God's great mercy. Mercy is when
Speaker 2: God doesn't give us what we deserve. He's merciful grace
Speaker 2: is when God gives us what we don't deserve. So
Speaker 2: mercy takes away all the bad, grace gives us all
Speaker 2: the good. He says, because of God's great mercy and
Speaker 2: his grace, he says, offer yourselves as living sacrifices to him.
Speaker 2: That means you say, God, I give you myself. You
Speaker 2: know the old problem with the living sacrifice, It can
Speaker 2: crawl off the altar. And that's what happens. On Sunday,
Speaker 2: on the weekend, we say God, I give you my life.
Speaker 2: I give you my time, my money, my life, my energy,
Speaker 2: my future, my reputation. And then on Monday we crawl
Speaker 2: off the altar. We sing onward Christian soldiers on Sunday,
Speaker 2: and on Monday we go a wall awl absently without leave.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, offer your lives as living sacrifices to Him,
Speaker 2: dedicated to serving him. This is an act of worship God.
Speaker 2: I want to serve you this week, serving Him in
Speaker 2: a holy and pleasing way. This is your spiritual act
Speaker 2: of worship. Underline that this is your spiritual act of worship.
Speaker 2: Did you know that every time you make a spiritual decision,
Speaker 2: a spiritual commitment, you are participating in worship. Nothing ever significant,
Speaker 2: happens without worship. You will become whatever you are committed to,
Speaker 2: whatever you commit to, And so your decisions determine your destiny,
Speaker 2: and your commitments determine your character. And so worship is
Speaker 2: something that we say, God, I give you myself. Now.
Speaker 2: Along with that, in that offering basket we put our offerings,
Speaker 2: and that leads to the sixth act of worship. Write
Speaker 2: this down. I show my love to God by giving
Speaker 2: back some of what God has given me. I show
Speaker 2: my love to God by giving back some of what
Speaker 2: God has given me. You can give without loving, but
Speaker 2: you cannot love without giving. When I first fell in
Speaker 2: love with k I could not keep money in my pocket.
Speaker 2: It's like it was burning a hole. I wanted to
Speaker 2: spend it on her all the time. Why I was
Speaker 2: in love with her and I just wanted to buyer things.
Speaker 2: Because when you love somebody, you want to be generous
Speaker 2: with them. You want to give them, give to them.
Speaker 2: The Bible says God so loved the world that He gave.
Speaker 2: And so in giving back to God, we don't give
Speaker 2: out a duty. We don't out of pressure. In fact,
Speaker 2: you should never give out of pressure. You give out
Speaker 2: of love. Because if you don't give out of love,
Speaker 2: and you don't give wholeheartedly, it doesn't matter. But giving
Speaker 2: is an act of worship. A lot of people think, well,
Speaker 2: when the offering baskets are past, I mean it's time
Speaker 2: to get up and leave because the worship is over. No.
Speaker 2: One of the most important parts of worship is the
Speaker 2: act of you giving back to God. Here's what the
Speaker 2: Bible says in one Corinthians sixteen, verse two, in the
Speaker 2: Living Bible, that says this, on every Lord's Day, each
Speaker 2: of you should put aside something from what you've earned
Speaker 2: during the week. What's the Lord's say this first day
Speaker 2: of the week, and put aside something you've earned the
Speaker 2: past week and give it back to God as you're offering.
Speaker 2: The amount depends on how much the Lord has helped
Speaker 2: you to earn. Now this is pretty basic. It's proportional giving.
Speaker 2: If you made a lot of money this week, then
Speaker 2: you give a lot back to God. If you made
Speaker 2: a little this week, you give a little back to God.
Speaker 2: If you didn't make any, then I guess you don't
Speaker 2: give anything back to God. You can always give something.
Speaker 2: You can give a penny if you have to, But
Speaker 2: it's just an attitude that says God, I want to
Speaker 2: express my love to you by giving. The amount depends
Speaker 2: on how much the Lord has helped you to earn. Now,
Speaker 2: the Bible uses the word tithe, which means ten percent.
Speaker 2: Means if I earned one thousand dollars, one hundred dollars
Speaker 2: comes back to God. If I earned ten bucks, one
Speaker 2: dollar comes back to God. Kay and I have been
Speaker 2: reversed tithers for over twenty years now. We give away
Speaker 2: ninety one percent of our offerings and of our income
Speaker 2: and give away and live on nine percent. Most of
Speaker 2: you know, I don't take a salary from Saddleback Church.
Speaker 2: I've served this church for free now for almost forty years.
Speaker 2: But God says, play this game with me. I'll give
Speaker 2: to you, and you give to me, and we'll see
Speaker 2: who wins. I've lost that game for almost forty years. Now.
Speaker 2: Here's the last of seven ways. There many many more
Speaker 2: other ways that you can worship God. You can worship
Speaker 2: God in silence, but The seventh way that I want
Speaker 2: to give you this weekend is that I show my
Speaker 2: love to God by being baptized, to publicly declare our faith.
Speaker 2: We're baptized as an expression to the world. It's not
Speaker 2: in secret. It's kind of our coming out party. It's
Speaker 2: kind of your debutante. It's your saying I'm not ashamed
Speaker 2: to say I love Jesus Christ. Let me just close
Speaker 2: with a few verses. Romans Chapter six, verse three tells
Speaker 2: us that baptism symbolizes what Jesus Christ did for us.
Speaker 2: In the message prayer phrase, it says this, when we
Speaker 2: went under the water, we left the old country of
Speaker 2: sin behind where we and when we came up out
Speaker 2: of the water, we entered into the new country of grace.
Speaker 2: We left the old country of sin under the water.
Speaker 2: We come out to the new country of grace, a
Speaker 2: new life in a new land. That's what baptism in
Speaker 2: the life of Jesus means. When we're lowered into the water,
Speaker 2: it's like the burial of Jesus, and when we're raised
Speaker 2: up out of the water, it's like the resurrection of Jesus.
Speaker 2: So it symbolizes what Jesus did for us. But it
Speaker 2: also has a much greater significance. Colossians chapter two, verse
Speaker 2: twelve tells us that baptism symbolizes our dying to an
Speaker 2: old lifestyle Colossians two twelve, and the message says, going
Speaker 2: under the water was a burial of your old life,
Speaker 2: and coming up out of it was a resurrection, God
Speaker 2: raising you from the dead, just like he did Christ.
Speaker 2: So it symbolizes Jesus death and resurrection. It symbolizes you're
Speaker 2: dying to all your old sins and being given a
Speaker 2: brand new life. And then it symbolizes our new life
Speaker 2: in Christ. Galatians three twenty seven. Then the message says
Speaker 2: this your baptism in Christ was not just washing you
Speaker 2: up for a fresh start. It also involved dressing you
Speaker 2: in an adult faith ward robe. Have you been baptized
Speaker 2: as an adult? And it's your commitment to Christ, Christ's life,
Speaker 2: the fulfillment of God's original promise. Are you ashamed to
Speaker 2: let other people know that you're a follower of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: If you're not, you need to be baptized. But I
Speaker 2: want to challenge you to realize that baptism is an
Speaker 2: act of worship. And if you've taken communion. But you
Speaker 2: haven't been baptized. You need to be baptized. Now, what
Speaker 2: are all of these verses telling us, Well, let me
Speaker 2: give you a closing verse. Ephesians two twenty two says,
Speaker 2: in Christ's body, that's the family of God, that's the
Speaker 2: true which is what we're talking about during this series.
Speaker 2: In Christ's body, you are being built together. That means
Speaker 2: you and everybody around you who's in the family. This
Speaker 2: family called saddle backed church is just part of the
Speaker 2: expression of God's family. In Christ's body, you're being built
Speaker 2: together to become a dwelling place in which God lives
Speaker 2: by his spirit. God doesn't live in buildings, He lives
Speaker 2: in people. You become part of the temple of God
Speaker 2: when you're part of a local church family. In Christ's body,
Speaker 2: you're built together to become the temple of God.
Speaker 1: That was such an encouraging message from Pastor Rick. And
Speaker 1: now here's Rick to tell you about today's offer.
Speaker 2: One of the things that I've discovered is that everybody
Speaker 2: eventually asks the questions of significance. Why am I here?
Speaker 2: And what is my purpose? What on earth am I
Speaker 2: here for? So I've updated the purpose driven life because
Speaker 2: I wanted to help people like you under stand how
Speaker 2: God created us for five eternal purposes. The Bible says
Speaker 2: that long before we heard of Christ, he had his
Speaker 2: eye on us, had his designs on us for glorious living.
Speaker 2: That it was part of his overall purpose that He's
Speaker 2: working out in everything and everyone. God has never made
Speaker 2: a person that he doesn't have a purpose for. You know,
Speaker 2: that simple message needs to be shared with the whole
Speaker 2: new generation. A young girl who was twelve years old
Speaker 2: when I wrote Purpose Driven Life is now twenty two,
Speaker 2: and she needs to hear this essential message that God
Speaker 2: has a plan, has a purpose, and has a reason
Speaker 2: for everything that happens in our lives. And what I
Speaker 2: did is, after reading hundreds of thousands of comments that
Speaker 2: have come into me over the past decade, I've added
Speaker 2: two new chapters that'll help you handle the two most
Speaker 2: common problems and barriers to living a life of purpose.
Speaker 2: Now I want you to have this newly revised, expanded
Speaker 2: copy of Purpose Driven Life. I think you'll find it's
Speaker 2: a fresh reminder of things that you may have forgotten
Speaker 2: when you first read it. Or you might want to
Speaker 2: give the book to somebody who has never read it
Speaker 2: and is struggling to find their purpose. So this month,
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