Speaker 1: Hi, this is Pastor Rick Warren and I can't wait
Speaker 1: to see what God's going to do through Daily Hope
Speaker 1: in this coming new year. Thank you so much for
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Speaker 2: This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry
Speaker 2: of Pastor Rick Warren. Today we continue in a series
Speaker 2: called Transformed. In these lessons, Rick uncovers key principles found
Speaker 2: in God's Word that will completely transform our lives from
Speaker 2: the inside out in every area including spiritual, physical, mental, emotional, relational, financial,
Speaker 2: and vocational. Now, if you can improve in any of
Speaker 2: these areas I just mentioned, stay with us, because in
Speaker 2: just a few moments we're going to let you know
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Speaker 2: out more. Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with the
Speaker 2: final part of a message called how to get Closer
Speaker 2: to God.
Speaker 1: Okay, now, here's the third step to getting back to God,
Speaker 1: to getting back in his love and his grace. Not
Speaker 1: that he doesn't love you, He always loves you no
Speaker 1: matter where you are, but to feeling that love. Here's
Speaker 1: a third thing. I get fed up. I own up.
Speaker 1: Number three, I offer up. I offer up my life,
Speaker 1: I offer up myself, I offer up my total being.
Speaker 1: And this is a third thing that we find this
Speaker 1: young man did. He got fed up. He came to
Speaker 1: a census. He owned up. He says, I've sin against God,
Speaker 1: and then.
Speaker 3: He offered up. Now.
Speaker 1: Notice in Luke chapter fifteen, verse twelve, the son drifted
Speaker 1: away saying give me my share. And in Luke fifteen nineteen,
Speaker 1: when he comes back, he returned to the father saying,
Speaker 1: make me a servant. Do you notice any change in
Speaker 1: attitude there? Hello, He leaves saying give me, give me,
Speaker 1: give me, give me, give me, give me. He comes
Speaker 1: back saying make me. That is transformation. That is true transformation.
Speaker 1: When your heart moves from self centeredness to God's sinneredness,
Speaker 1: that's transformation. Are you there yet? Are you still in
Speaker 1: the gimme, gimme, gim me, give me, gimme. What can
Speaker 1: God do for me? Give me my stuff now to
Speaker 1: make me your servant. That's the transformation. He returns, saying,
Speaker 1: make me. That's a heart transformation, and that is the
Speaker 1: greatest transformation of well, from self.
Speaker 3: Centered to God's thereness. Are you letting God do that
Speaker 3: in you? Now?
Speaker 1: That transformation, it doesn't happen overnight. God is still working
Speaker 1: on me on this one, and it's gonna be your
Speaker 1: entire life. He's gonna work on It's never instant, but
Speaker 1: there is a decision that starts the process. Second, during
Speaker 1: these three eighteen, says this, we reflect the Lord's glory
Speaker 1: and are being transformed. That means a continuing process. We
Speaker 1: are being transformed, not just once, but on a ongoing basis.
Speaker 3: It's a process.
Speaker 1: We're being transformed into His likeness now with ever increasing
Speaker 1: glory which comes from the Lord. Was the spirit that
Speaker 1: word transformed? You know, the Bible was written the New
Speaker 1: Testament in Greek. You know what the word there is
Speaker 1: in Greek metamorphouso Does that sound like anything, you know, metamorphosis.
Speaker 1: It's the word we get metal. What's the metaphor of morphosis.
Speaker 1: It's when a butterfly goes from a caterpillar to a
Speaker 1: pupa a chrysalis, and from a pupa a chrysalis into
Speaker 1: a butterfly. That's metamorphosis. It hadn't happen overnight. In fact,
Speaker 1: there's that stage where it's sitting there in that chrysalis.
Speaker 1: It forms that little cocoon. It's pretty ugly. Ever seen
Speaker 1: one of those things, doesn't look very beautiful to me,
Speaker 1: But when it breaks out, that butterfly is stunning. I
Speaker 1: so badly want to be that, and I want you
Speaker 1: to be that. I want you to be transformed from
Speaker 1: the lowly caterpillar into the beautiful butterfly. That is what
Speaker 1: transformation is all about. It is metamorphosis. It is going
Speaker 1: from you know, when you're a caterpillar, what can you do?
Speaker 1: Not much except munch on leaves ba boom boom boom
Speaker 1: boo boom boo boom boo boom boo boom, and you're
Speaker 1: stuck on the ground. And I'm sure when caterpillars have
Speaker 1: looked in the air, butterflies go. You never get me
Speaker 1: up in one of those things. God made you to
Speaker 1: be a butterfly. God made you to soar. God made
Speaker 1: you to be beautiful, not ugly beautiful. But you've got
Speaker 1: to go through the transformation process. And the transformation process
Speaker 1: is number one. Get fed up with the way you've
Speaker 1: been living, and then own up. Get honest to God. God,
Speaker 1: I admit I have been living for myself. I've been
Speaker 1: doing it my way, and do that check up, and
Speaker 1: then offer up myself. Transformation is a process, but the
Speaker 1: starting point is what the prodigal son said.
Speaker 3: Make me. That's offer up, make.
Speaker 1: Me, transform me, change me.
Speaker 3: God.
Speaker 1: I don't want to live the rest of my life
Speaker 1: the way I'm living right now, Change me. Romans twelve
Speaker 1: to one. This is our theme verse. But let me
Speaker 1: read you the verse before it. Because God is merciful
Speaker 1: to you. Offer yourselves, Offer yourselves. That's it. I offer
Speaker 1: up myself. That's step one. I get fed up. Okay,
Speaker 1: I own up, and now I offer up. Offer yourselves
Speaker 1: as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God. This
Speaker 1: is your spiritual act of worship. And don't be conformed
Speaker 1: to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by
Speaker 1: the renewing of your mind.
Speaker 3: No transfer until you do the offer up.
Speaker 1: It's important to notice the father's response Luke fifteen twenty three,
Speaker 1: filled with love and compassion. He ran out to his son,
Speaker 1: threw his arms around him, and kissed him. He said,
Speaker 1: bring the best, bring the best robe, bring the best
Speaker 1: bring bring the best shoes, bring the fatted calf. In
Speaker 1: all these things the father's response. Notice he didn't wait
Speaker 1: for the son to come home while he was still distant.
Speaker 1: He ran out the moment you just say, God, I'm
Speaker 1: tired of living the way I've been living. God, I'm tired.
Speaker 1: He will do more than halfway. He will run out
Speaker 1: to meet you. God is not waiting for you to
Speaker 1: come knock on the door. He's waiting for this moment
Speaker 1: in your life where he runs.
Speaker 3: Out to you. He takes an issue.
Speaker 1: He throws his arms around you, he kisses you, and
Speaker 1: he says, okay, look, I know you blew it.
Speaker 3: Go get the best rope, get the best clothes in
Speaker 3: the house.
Speaker 1: And then he says, go get my signet ring. Do
Speaker 1: you know why he says that. You know what a
Speaker 1: signet ring is? In those days, the signet ring was
Speaker 1: your credit card. Because you take the ring and you
Speaker 1: press it into wax, and that was like a credit card.
Speaker 1: He said, go get my unlimited Black American Express and
Speaker 1: bring it out to my son who just blew half
Speaker 1: of my income. God isn't holding the grudge. He's ready
Speaker 1: to lavishly pour this on you. Bring out the best,
Speaker 1: bring out the best shoes, do all these things. God
Speaker 1: has a better plan for your life than you can imagine.
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Speaker 4: Have you ever noticed that the world has ever changing
Speaker 4: so called answers to your relationship struggles, solutions to your
Speaker 4: financial troubles, and explanations to your search for meaning? But
Speaker 4: what the world offers often leaves us empty and searching
Speaker 4: for more. The good news is God's Word contains timeless
Speaker 4: truths that can transform every area of your life from
Speaker 4: the inside out. That's why Pastor Rick created a very
Speaker 4: special Bible study called Transformed. In it, he'll help you
Speaker 4: discover the key Biblical principles that will completely transform you
Speaker 4: by changing the way you think Pastor Rick covers every
Speaker 4: area of your life spiritual, phys mental, emotional, relational, financial,
Speaker 4: and vocational, filled with weekly lessons, daily devotions and exercises
Speaker 4: to help you go deeper in God's Word. This seven
Speaker 4: week DVD and workbook study is perfect to do on
Speaker 4: your own or with a small group of friends. We'll
Speaker 4: send you the Transformed Study kid as our way of
Speaker 4: saying thanks when you give a gift to Daily Hope
Speaker 4: to help take the certain Hope of Jesus to people
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Speaker 1: Hi, it's Pastor Rick with some big news. My daily
Speaker 1: devotional is now available in French. If you know somebody
Speaker 1: who would enjoy reading the devotionals in French, would you
Speaker 1: please email me and I'll send you a link to
Speaker 1: sign up. My email is Rick at Pastorick dot com.
Speaker 1: That's Rick at Pastorick dot com. Once again, here's Rick.
Speaker 3: How do I get back to God?
Speaker 1: I get fed up, I own up, and I offer up.
Speaker 1: And then there's one other thing I do. Once I
Speaker 1: come home and I'm entrapped in God's love, and he
Speaker 1: hugs me and he kisses me, and he says, bring
Speaker 1: out the best. All is forgiven, All is forgiven. Go
Speaker 1: get the credit card, Go get the rope, Go get
Speaker 1: the shoes. Let's let's have a barbecue. Get that fatted calf,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna have Lucille's barbecue tonight. Okay, and we're
Speaker 1: giving him the ribs, all right, and it's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be finger licking good time.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Here we go, and in that celebration, you now come home.
Speaker 1: Not to condemnate, you come back to God in celebration.
Speaker 3: Here's the fourth thing. I lift up my praise.
Speaker 1: And I just go, thank you God, thank you for
Speaker 1: your grace, thank you for your love, thank you for
Speaker 1: your goodness. I lift up my praise. Luke fifteen, here's
Speaker 1: what the father says. We're gonna celebrate. We're gonna celebrate
Speaker 1: with a feast of eating and drinking. We're gonna celebrate
Speaker 1: with a feast of eating and drinking. He was lost,
Speaker 1: but now is found. So the party begins and life
Speaker 1: becomes a party. When life comes to transformation. The Bible
Speaker 1: says in Psalm sixty eighty four, sing to God, sing
Speaker 1: praises to his name.
Speaker 3: Lift up.
Speaker 1: There's that word, lift up my praises, lift up a
Speaker 1: song to him. His name is the Lord. Now let
Speaker 1: me just tell you something for your own transformation. You
Speaker 1: need to start singing at church. Some of you just said,
Speaker 1: I'm just coming to hear rick. I had a psychologist
Speaker 1: friend who anytime somebody came to see him for depression,
Speaker 1: his first question was, did you sing all of the
Speaker 1: songs at church last week? And if they said no,
Speaker 1: he said, then I want you to go and I
Speaker 1: want you to sing all the songs at church for
Speaker 1: the next three weeks and come back and see me.
Speaker 1: I never really understood why he was doing that until
Speaker 1: this week a global study came out done by Swedish
Speaker 1: researchers and that they've done this scientific study. It concluded
Speaker 1: that the habit of group singing, not singing by yourself.
Speaker 1: The habit of group singing is good for your health.
Speaker 1: It is great therapy to sing with other people. It's
Speaker 1: good for mental health. They prove it's good for your
Speaker 1: emotional health, it's good for your social health and it's
Speaker 1: good for your physical health in all different areas and
Speaker 1: extensive study and they discovered that singing with other people
Speaker 1: lowers your blood pressure, releases endorphins which makes you feel good,
Speaker 1: improves your mood, build your confidence, relieves loneliness, releases negative
Speaker 1: emotions and stress, and creates positive study emotions. Another study
Speaker 1: showed that people who sing and worship each week live longer.
Speaker 1: I want you to live longer.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: It referred to this book. So I went out and
Speaker 1: bought this book this week. It's called Imperfect Harmony, Finding
Speaker 1: Happiness in Singing with others. It's fascinating study that these
Speaker 1: guys have done on this. So we're going to do
Speaker 1: something good for your health right now. You're going to
Speaker 1: live a little bit longer. I told you I was
Speaker 1: going to give you two new habits. One of them
Speaker 1: is the habit of a regular checkup. And here's the
Speaker 1: other habit. I want you to intentionally start singing all
Speaker 1: the songs, even the ones you don't know, even the
Speaker 1: ones you don't like, even the ones you think are
Speaker 1: too loud, even the ones that's not your style. I
Speaker 1: want you to sing them because it will lower your
Speaker 1: blood pressure release endorphins, improved mood, build confidence, relieve loneliness,
Speaker 1: re meets making emotion of stress, and create posmotion. That's
Speaker 1: called transformation. Now the Father celebrated. He had a celebration,
Speaker 1: not a condemnation, a celebration. When the sun came back home.
Speaker 1: I'm fed up and I'm owning up, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to offer up. And now I lift up my praise
Speaker 1: and we're going to party, and we're going to celebrate,
Speaker 1: and we're going to sing. One Corinthians eleven twenty four
Speaker 1: says this, On the night he was betrayed, the Lord
Speaker 1: Jesus took bread, and he spoke a prayer of thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: and he broke the bread, and he said, this is
Speaker 1: my body, which is given for you. Do this to
Speaker 1: remember me. He said, I never want you to forget
Speaker 1: how much I love you. So I'm going to give
Speaker 1: you two symbols to remember my death, my burial, and
Speaker 1: my resurrection. And those two symbols are baptism and the
Speaker 1: Lord's supper. If you haven't been baptized, you should be baptized.
Speaker 1: It's one of the ways of saying I have come home.
Speaker 1: I'm getting close to God. I'm coming home and baptism
Speaker 1: is one and the Lord's Supper is the other.
Speaker 3: Now it says he.
Speaker 1: Prayed a prayer of thanksgiving before he served communion. The
Speaker 1: word thanksgiving in Greek is the word EUCHARISTO you ever
Speaker 1: heard the word eucharist. The Lord's supper communion is often
Speaker 1: called Eucharist. Where is that word from? It's from. Eucharist
Speaker 1: is simply the Greek word for thanksgiving. And when we
Speaker 1: take the Lord's Supper, when we take the Eucharist, when
Speaker 1: we take communion, we are saying thank you God, Thank
Speaker 1: you God for not coming and condemning me when I
Speaker 1: come home, but having a celebration when I come home.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your grace, thank you for your mercy,
Speaker 1: thank you for what you've done, thank you for all
Speaker 1: the things that you've done. I receive it with thanks. EUCHARISTO.
Speaker 1: I am so grateful God for your grace. I am
Speaker 1: so grateful for your love. I am so grateful that
Speaker 1: you don't scold me, you save me, that you don't
Speaker 1: scare me, you save me. And I am so grateful
Speaker 1: as I take these elements to remember what you have
Speaker 1: done for me. And just as they had the fatted calf,
Speaker 1: we take communion together to say, Lord, thank you. We
Speaker 1: receive this with thanksgiving. Let's bow our heads for prayer.
Speaker 3: Father.
Speaker 1: When we think of your grace, we are overwhelmed. It
Speaker 1: makes our hearts want to sing. There's no way that
Speaker 1: we deserve this kind of reaction, this kind of celebration,
Speaker 1: this kind of welcoming when we come home. But we
Speaker 1: come to you, and first we say we're fed up.
Speaker 1: We're fed up with the way we've been living. We're
Speaker 1: fed up of life without Christ. We're fed up with
Speaker 1: doing it all on our own power. We're just fed
Speaker 1: up with all of that. And we own up. We
Speaker 1: realize that you haven't moved, but we have. And the
Speaker 1: reason we're not close is because we've allowed other things
Speaker 1: to cloud our vision of you. We have allowed idols
Speaker 1: in our lives. We have loved other things more than you,
Speaker 1: and that has made you feel distant. But we come
Speaker 1: back and we we own up to our sin, and
Speaker 1: then we offer up ourselves. We're not saying give me,
Speaker 1: give me, give me anymore. We're saying, make me, make me,
Speaker 1: make me Lord, transform our lives during these fifty days.
Speaker 1: If you've never accepted jesus gift of salvation. Say Jesus Christ,
Speaker 1: right now, I accept your gift of salvation. Thank you
Speaker 1: for loving me and dying for me on the cross.
Speaker 1: I give myself back to you. I offer up myself
Speaker 1: to you, make me your servant, and I ask you
Speaker 1: to transform my life in your name.
Speaker 3: I pray Jesus. Amen.
Speaker 1: Hi everybody, This is Rick and I hope you enjoyed
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Speaker 1: life to Jesus again today, would you let me know
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Speaker 2: This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. We're so thankful that
Speaker 2: you've chosen to spend some time with us. If you've
Speaker 2: missed any part of this broadcast, including portions we didn't
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Speaker 2: close out time today. But first, you know the world
Speaker 2: is shouting for our attention with answers to our relationship struggles,
Speaker 2: solutions to our financial troubles, and explanations to our search
Speaker 2: for meaning. But the world's promises leave us empty and
Speaker 2: searching for more. God's word contains the only answers that
Speaker 2: promise to transform your life from the inside out. That's
Speaker 2: why Pastor Rick has put together the Transformed Study Kit,
Speaker 2: which includes a vegan, leatherbound interactive workbook and a seven
Speaker 2: video session DVD. Right now, here's Pastor Rick to tell
Speaker 2: you more.
Speaker 1: During this series on transformation, we've been talking about seven
Speaker 1: key areas of your life spiritual health, physical health, mental health.
Speaker 1: We've talked about emotional health, your relational health, your financial health,
Speaker 1: even your vocational your career health. God cares about every
Speaker 1: one of these areas in your life.
Speaker 3: Did you know?
Speaker 1: He wants to bless each of these areas And He's
Speaker 1: given us principles and steps in his words for living healthy,
Speaker 1: fulfilled lives, not for our happiness alone, but ultimately for
Speaker 1: God's glory, for his happiness, for his joy. God enjoys
Speaker 1: watching his children be effective in life. Now the truth is,
Speaker 1: we can't change or transform these areas on our own.
Speaker 1: We have to start trusting God to create the changes
Speaker 1: within us. The Bible teaches that the closer we get
Speaker 1: to God, the more our lives will be transformed. And
Speaker 1: in Jeremiah twenty nine thirteen, God says, you'll find me
Speaker 1: when you get serious about finding me and want it
Speaker 1: more than anything else. So I want you, and I
Speaker 1: want me and all of us to get serious about
Speaker 1: discovering God's wisdom and allowing him to transform our lives.
Speaker 1: Imagine the difference the world would be if lives were
Speaker 1: really true transformed by the grace of God. Now, it's
Speaker 1: always been my goal here at Daily Hope not just
Speaker 1: to show you what God says to do and how
Speaker 1: to do it, but to supply you with practical tools
Speaker 1: for doing it on a daily basis. So I've created
Speaker 1: a special Transformed Bible study Kit. Now in this kit,
Speaker 1: there are a number of resources that I want you
Speaker 1: to have. First, seven lessons on DVD that help you
Speaker 1: go deeper and explore what the Bible has to say
Speaker 1: about each of these seven key areas of your life.
Speaker 1: And then there's a two hundred and twenty five page
Speaker 1: workbook filled with tools for personal evaluation, goal setting, daily devotions,
Speaker 1: versus to memorize, a place to take notes and journal
Speaker 1: information about additional resources. This study kit can be used
Speaker 1: not just in your personal life, but as a small
Speaker 1: group study guide with your friends. I want to send
Speaker 1: the Transformation Bible Study Kit to you as my gift
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