Speaker 1: Hi, this is Rick Warren, Bible teacher of the Daily
Speaker 1: Hope Broadcast. Did you know that because of Easter, your
Speaker 1: past can be forgiven, you get a purpose for living,
Speaker 1: and you can have a home in heaven. That's good news.
Speaker 1: Where else can you get that kind of news? Nowhere else?
Speaker 1: And did you know that at Easter, studies have shown
Speaker 1: people are more open to an invitation to go to
Speaker 1: church than at any other time of the year. Don't
Speaker 1: go to church by yourself, but bring somebody who doesn't
Speaker 1: know Jesus Christ, a family member, a friend, a coworker,
Speaker 1: a neighbor, a relative. And if you bring them to
Speaker 1: that church service and they come to know Christ, You're
Speaker 1: going to be making a friend for eternity. It'll be
Speaker 1: the most important investment you can ever make in their lives.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if they come to Christ, would
Speaker 1: you let me know about it. I'd love to hear
Speaker 1: that story that you brought somebody to Easter and they
Speaker 1: found Jesus. You can write to me Rick at Pastorrick
Speaker 1: dot com. That's rickat Pastorrick dot com. I would love
Speaker 1: to hear from you. God bless you and Happy Easter.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us here today. On Pastor Rick's Daily Hope,
Speaker 2: the audio broadcast Ministry of Pastor Rick Warren. Today we
Speaker 2: bring rick series called the Seven Greatest Words of Love.
Speaker 3: To a close.
Speaker 2: There are seven words in particular that Jesus spoke during
Speaker 2: his final hours on the Cross that hold the keys
Speaker 2: for finding fulfillment in your life, relationships, and even your career.
Speaker 2: Right now, here's Pastor Rick with the final part of
Speaker 2: a message called the Word of trust.
Speaker 1: If you have a child in your family, and your
Speaker 1: child loves you and grows up and learns to love you,
Speaker 1: one day they get mad at you, they walk out
Speaker 1: of the house by their own volition, they walk out
Speaker 1: of the house.
Speaker 3: They're still your child. They can't.
Speaker 1: Once you're born, you can't be unborn. Once you're born again,
Speaker 1: you can't be unborn again. You are safe. Does that
Speaker 1: make sense? You are safe. You might lose the fellowship,
Speaker 1: and well, there might be strained fellowship between this and
Speaker 1: we're not talking to each other, but you're still my daughter,
Speaker 1: You're still my son. And the Bible says that look
Speaker 1: at this verse tewod John chapter one, verse seven.
Speaker 3: Eight, many deceivers.
Speaker 1: There are people out there trying to mess everybody up
Speaker 1: all the time. Many deceivers who don't acknowledge Jesus as
Speaker 1: coming in the flesh have gone out into the world.
Speaker 1: So he said, you know, not everything you hear out
Speaker 1: there's true. Watch out so that you don't lose what
Speaker 1: you have worked for. Circle the phrase worked for watch
Speaker 1: out that you don't lose what you have worked for, okay,
Speaker 1: but that you will be fully rewarded. Now question, do
Speaker 1: you work for your salvation? Huh no, So if you didn't,
Speaker 1: this is not what he's talking about here. He's not
Speaker 1: talking about salvation because you don't work for your salvation,
Speaker 1: you don't earn it. We talked last week it was
Speaker 1: all done for you. It's all that. That's the difference
Speaker 1: between Christianity and every other religion. Every other religion is
Speaker 1: due and they all have their list of dos and don'ts.
Speaker 1: Christianity says, done has already been done for you on
Speaker 1: the Cross by Jesus Christ. He did what we can't do.
Speaker 1: So he's not talking about that. He's saying the rewards
Speaker 1: that you're going to have in heaven. He could lose
Speaker 1: some of those. Let me ask you, this one's very
Speaker 1: personal to me. What about believers who commit suicide, okay,
Speaker 1: and in a moment take their own life. And the
Speaker 1: answer is, if they were a true believer, they're going
Speaker 1: to heaven. They're going to heaven. We'll say, isn't suicide
Speaker 1: and unpardonable sin? The answer is no, it is not.
Speaker 3: It is not.
Speaker 1: In fact, the Bible says there's only one sin that
Speaker 1: is unforgivable, only one in the.
Speaker 3: Entire and it isn't suicide. By the way.
Speaker 1: In fact, some of the greatest saints in history in
Speaker 1: the Bible were suicidal. Some of them were very depressed
Speaker 1: and despair. Some wished at low points if they'd never
Speaker 1: been born. David in the Bible, Jeremiah in the Bible,
Speaker 1: job and the Bible also that I wish that I
Speaker 1: had never been born. That's pretty depressed. And they were
Speaker 1: great believers. And there were three people in the Bible
Speaker 1: actually asked God to kill them, to take their lives.
Speaker 1: Moses asked God to take his life. Elijah asked God
Speaker 1: to take his life. Jonah asked God to take his life.
Speaker 1: That's pretty depressed. And he said, God, just kill me,
Speaker 1: Just kill me. If you feel that much in despair,
Speaker 1: you feel that depressed, do not carry it by yourself.
Speaker 1: It's not a sin to be sick, it's not a
Speaker 1: sin to feel depressed. The Bible says there's only one
Speaker 1: unforgivable sin, only one. It's called blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? What is blasphemy against Holy Spirit?
Speaker 1: It means rejecting God's grace and rejecting Christ all the
Speaker 1: way up to death. It means to die rejecting Christ.
Speaker 1: So let me put your mind at ease, because some
Speaker 1: of you think, have I ever committed the unpardonable sin,
Speaker 1: the unforgivable sin?
Speaker 3: You wonder about that? Okay?
Speaker 1: Number One, if you've ever worried that you committed the sin,
Speaker 1: you haven't because if you had, you wouldn't worry about it.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: So if you worry I've done the one unforgivable sin,
Speaker 1: you ain't done it.
Speaker 3: For ends. Sorry.
Speaker 1: The fact that you're worried about it, you're concerned about it,
Speaker 1: means you still have a conscience. So if you've ever
Speaker 1: worried about it, you haven't done it. Second thing is,
Speaker 1: if you're alive, you haven't committed the sin because you
Speaker 1: can only commit it by dying rejecting Christ. So if
Speaker 1: you're alive, you cannot commit the sin. You can only
Speaker 1: commit it by dying, saying forget you God, and I
Speaker 1: croak and I die.
Speaker 3: Does that ease up anybody's mind a little bit? Here? Okay,
Speaker 3: you can't you can't do it without dying.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: Number three, let's go to the third great news.
Speaker 1: When I'm going through dark days, I have a father
Speaker 1: in heaven who loves me. And when I'm going through
Speaker 1: dark days, or remind myself that I have a father
Speaker 1: in heaven who can be trusted. He doesn't just love me.
Speaker 1: I can trust him with every air of my life.
Speaker 1: And I shouldn't worry. I should commit it and trust
Speaker 1: everything I'm worrying about to him. Number three, my father
Speaker 1: is taking care of things I can't see. This is
Speaker 1: the third thing we learned from this passage is that
Speaker 1: my father in heaven is taking care of the things
Speaker 1: that I can't see. We only see the physical things
Speaker 1: in life. We only see the material things in life,
Speaker 1: but we know that there's a lot of things going
Speaker 1: on in life we can't see. Just because you can't
Speaker 1: see it doesn't mean it's not real.
Speaker 3: It's as real. It's what you see.
Speaker 1: You're what you see is limited by your eyeball and
Speaker 1: your brain. We know, for instance, right now there are
Speaker 1: radio waves and television waves running through this building and
Speaker 1: actually going through your body.
Speaker 3: You can't see them.
Speaker 1: But if you turn on a radio, turn on a
Speaker 1: TV and tune in, you can get the picture. They're there.
Speaker 1: They're in this air right now. There are all kinds
Speaker 1: of radio and television waves going through the air right now.
Speaker 1: You cannot see them. Just because you cannot see them
Speaker 1: does not make them false. There's far more to life
Speaker 1: than just the material. There's far more to life than
Speaker 1: just the physical. In fact, the things that are gonna
Speaker 1: last are not material. All the material stuff. This chair
Speaker 1: is not gonna last one day. It'll fall apart because
Speaker 1: all material things, according to the second law of thermodynamics, deteriorate.
Speaker 3: This building will.
Speaker 1: One day deteriate, the trees will deteriorate, and your body
Speaker 1: is deteriorating.
Speaker 3: Hate to tell you that, but the physical is not
Speaker 3: getting better.
Speaker 1: Anybody want to give a testimony of that right now?
Speaker 1: The physical the spiritual is actually more real, and God
Speaker 1: is taking care of the things that you can't see.
Speaker 1: So when you're in your dark days, you can't see
Speaker 1: the solution. When you're in the dark, you can't see
Speaker 1: the antidote. You can't see the solution, the problem that's solved.
Speaker 1: And while you're waiting, God is working. And what you
Speaker 1: need to do is trust. While you're waiting for that job,
Speaker 1: while you're waiting for that answer to prayer, while you're
Speaker 1: waiting for that change. While you're waiting, God is working.
Speaker 1: And that's why you need to trust. I entrust my
Speaker 1: spirit circle that word my spirit, that it flies. That
Speaker 1: you're far more than a body, and of course you are.
Speaker 1: Life is far more than a material or physical. You're
Speaker 1: made in the image of God, which means you have
Speaker 1: a spirit, you have a soul. One of my friends
Speaker 1: is a brilliant businessman. His name is Peter Teal. He's
Speaker 1: a good friend, and some of you know who Peter
Speaker 1: Teal is. He's an entrepreneur's up in the Silicon Valley.
Speaker 1: He started PayPal, became a billionaire starting PayPal. And one
Speaker 1: day I was that one of his intellectual confabs.
Speaker 3: Called the Dialogue.
Speaker 1: It's upheld at Sundance in Utah, and as all these
Speaker 1: brainy axes, you know, nuclear physicists and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and we were in a discussion one day, and Peter
Speaker 1: Teal asked me. He said, Rick, with the advent of it,
Speaker 1: artificial intelligence, which we know is getting smarter and smarter
Speaker 1: and smarter, He said, Rick, are is artificial intelligence ever
Speaker 1: going to need faith and religion? That's a legitimate question.
Speaker 1: And the answer to that, of course is no. Now,
Speaker 1: if all you were was simply an intellect, we know
Speaker 1: that we can create machines right now that are smarter
Speaker 1: than you, or meat. In certain things, human beings can
Speaker 1: create meat machines that are smarter than us. But you're
Speaker 1: far more than intelligence. Human being, yes, has an intellect,
Speaker 1: but you have far more than just intelligence. You have spirit.
Speaker 1: You have a soul. And while we can create greater intelligence,
Speaker 1: we can't create a soul.
Speaker 3: And so it's a question that's not needed now.
Speaker 1: The Bible says that here on earth there's an unseen
Speaker 1: battle going on for your soul between good and evil.
Speaker 1: Let me give you a couple examples where you have
Speaker 1: to trust. Job says it like this, when he talking
Speaker 1: about God, when he is at work in the north,
Speaker 1: I don't see him. And when he eat God turns
Speaker 1: to the south, I catch no glimpse of in other words,
Speaker 1: I don't see God with my physical eyes. But he
Speaker 1: says he God knows the way that I take, and
Speaker 1: when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
Speaker 3: That dark spot you're in right now, this is a test.
Speaker 1: And although you cannot see God, he can see you,
Speaker 1: and God can see what you cannot see, and you
Speaker 1: can trust God.
Speaker 3: That he loves you, that he cares for you, that he.
Speaker 1: Can be trusted, and that he's taking care of the
Speaker 1: things that you cannot see. Paul says the same thing
Speaker 1: Tewod Corinthians four. Our light and momentary troubles are achieving
Speaker 1: for us in eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
Speaker 1: So he says, we fix what is by the way,
Speaker 1: What does that part mean. He's saying that the problems
Speaker 1: you're going through right now, God's purpose is greater than
Speaker 1: the problem you're going through, and what you need to
Speaker 1: do is get your eye on God's purpose rather than
Speaker 1: your problem. That's what it means, Father, I entrust myself
Speaker 1: to your care. Our light and momentary troubles are achieving
Speaker 1: for us in eternal glory, a greater purpose that far
Speaker 1: out weighs.
Speaker 3: Also, he says, here's the solution. We fix our eyes.
Speaker 1: Not on what is seen, but on what is unseen,
Speaker 1: For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen
Speaker 1: is eternal. One last thing you need to remember when
Speaker 1: you're going through dark days. These are all four important,
Speaker 1: and the fourth one is this. My father can handle
Speaker 1: anything I put in his hands. My father can handle
Speaker 1: anything I put in his hands. He loves me, he's trustworthy.
Speaker 1: He's taken care of things I can't see, and he
Speaker 1: can handle anything I put in his hands. That's the
Speaker 1: last part of the phrase father. He's a loving father.
Speaker 1: I entrust he's trustworthy. My spirit. He handles the stuff
Speaker 1: that we the spiritual stuff we can't even see in
Speaker 1: the spiritual world. I entrust it into your hands. This phrase,
Speaker 1: into your hands is a beautiful expression of care and security.
Speaker 1: He's a well known TV commercial. You're in good hands
Speaker 1: with all State? Yeah right, okay, good for you. What
Speaker 1: in the world does that mean? What they are implying
Speaker 1: is our insurance company will take care of you. You're
Speaker 1: in good hands with all States. You know, my I
Speaker 1: have big hands because my dad had big hands, and
Speaker 1: my dad was a carpenter, and when my dad swung
Speaker 1: a hammer and he built all of his life. The
Speaker 1: hammer seemed small in his hand. He has such a
Speaker 1: giant hand, and I got big hands as a results.
Speaker 1: But my heavenly Father has even bigger hands, even bigger hands.
Speaker 1: He's got the whole world in his hands. Somebody should
Speaker 1: write a song about that. Really, okay, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: how big his hands are.
Speaker 3: When can I got married.
Speaker 1: One of the first Bible studies she did was called
Speaker 1: the Hand of the Lord. And she told me that
Speaker 1: she discovered over two hundred times in the Bible the
Speaker 1: phrase the hand of the Lord is used. So I
Speaker 1: just end with this, and you can write this down
Speaker 1: real quickly. How big is God's hands? How big are they?
Speaker 1: How big are his hands? We'll write these down. Number one,
Speaker 1: God's hands are big enough to bless me. God's hands
Speaker 1: are big enough to bless me. Jesus often put his
Speaker 1: hands on people to bless them. In Isaiah sixty two,
Speaker 1: it says, the Lord will hold you in his hands
Speaker 1: for all to see, a splendid crown in the hands
Speaker 1: of God, they're big enough to bless me. Number two,
Speaker 1: God's hands are big enough. They're strong enough to keep
Speaker 1: me eternally secure. God's hands are strong enough to keep
Speaker 1: me internally secure. If I put my life in that
Speaker 1: lock box, in that safety deposit box, it ain't going anywhere.
Speaker 1: Jesus said it like this very important verse. Follow me
Speaker 1: on it, John ten. Jesus says, I give them that's you,
Speaker 1: each eternal life, and they will never circle the word never,
Speaker 1: never perish. My Father has given them to me, and
Speaker 1: He's greater than all, and no one can snatch them
Speaker 1: out of my Father's hands. You cannot lose your salvation
Speaker 1: once I've been given to you. Nobody can snatch you
Speaker 1: out of God's hand. Even Satan can't snatch you out
Speaker 1: of God's hands. You say, well, you can't be snatched
Speaker 1: out of God's hands. Maybe you could jump out.
Speaker 3: On your own.
Speaker 1: How big do you think God's hand is? You think
Speaker 1: you can get to the edge of it and then
Speaker 1: fall off. No, God's hands so big, and you're in
Speaker 1: God's hands, there's no way you can fall out of it.
Speaker 1: When my kids were little, I'd get in the pool
Speaker 1: and Amy and Josh and Matthew line up on the
Speaker 1: side and I'd say, jump to me, jump into my hands,
Speaker 1: trust me, I'll catch you. And they were always scared
Speaker 1: to death to do it time, they just go, I
Speaker 1: don't want to do it, old daddy. Daddy jumped me.
Speaker 1: I'll catch you. I'll catch you in my hands. Look
Speaker 1: I can handle it all right. And they were just
Speaker 1: afraid to jump into my hands. But then finally they
Speaker 1: do it. And when they jump into my hands, of
Speaker 1: course I catch them. And then they want to do
Speaker 1: it one hundred more times, because once you've jumped into
Speaker 1: your father's hands, that's flat out fun, and you want
Speaker 1: to do it again and again and again. Once you've
Speaker 1: learned how to trust God with your life, you get
Speaker 1: addicted to it and you want to do it over
Speaker 1: and over and over, and you want to trust God
Speaker 1: for bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger thing.
Speaker 1: And that is the story of my life because as
Speaker 1: a little boy, I jumped into my heaveny other's hands
Speaker 1: and he caught me. And at that point, ain't you
Speaker 1: I can trust God? And so I start jumping further
Speaker 1: and further back, further and further back, and then jumping
Speaker 1: off cliffs, and every time he has caught me, and
Speaker 1: I'm addicted to it. It's flat out fun. Trusting God,
Speaker 1: trusting the loving hands. His hands are big enough to
Speaker 1: bless me and strong enough to keep me eternally secure.
Speaker 1: And I want to just tell you today, this God,
Speaker 1: your heaven, a father is waiting for you to jump.
Speaker 1: He's standing in the pool, going, come on, I love you,
Speaker 1: You can trust me. I'm accountable, you can count on
Speaker 1: my faithfulness, and I'm big enough to handle you. Jump
Speaker 1: into my hands. You need to do that, and you
Speaker 1: need to start doing it all the time. There's a
Speaker 1: third thing you need to know about the hands of God.
Speaker 3: It's this.
Speaker 1: His hands are scarred. Yes, the hands of Jesus are
Speaker 1: scarred with the nail prints, so that he cannot forget me.
Speaker 1: Do you know that in heaven you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: perfect body. There will be no scars in heaven. Aren't
Speaker 1: you grateful for that? No flaws on your body in heaven.
Speaker 1: No warts, no pimples, no scars none. The only scars
Speaker 1: that will be on anybody in heaven will be on Jesus,
Speaker 1: from his hands and his head and his side and
Speaker 1: his feet. And they're going to be their for eternity,
Speaker 1: to always be reminders of us of what he cost,
Speaker 1: what it cost him to pay for our salvation. The
Speaker 1: Bible says this Isaiah forty nine. Can a mother forget
Speaker 1: the baby at her breast and have no compassion on
Speaker 1: the child she is born? The obviously answers, of course,
Speaker 1: not nursing mother could not forget her baby. Though she
Speaker 1: may forget He says, I'm not. God says, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to forget you. I have engraved you on the
Speaker 1: palms of my hands. When you look at the nail
Speaker 1: prints of the cross, Jesus says, this is how much
Speaker 1: I love you. This is how much I love you.
Speaker 1: I love you this much. I have engraved you on
Speaker 1: the palms of my hands. God has a tattoo of you.
Speaker 1: You get a tattoo of people you love. God has
Speaker 1: a tattoo of you. I have engraved you on the
Speaker 1: palms of my hands when they were nailed to the cross.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're going through, but I advise
Speaker 1: you to do this. Last verse, Paul says this, I
Speaker 1: think you ought to know, dear brothers, about the hard
Speaker 1: times that we went through in Asia. We were really
Speaker 1: crushed and we were overwhelmed, and we feared that we
Speaker 1: would never live through it. Some of you feel that way,
Speaker 1: right now, and we felt we were doomed to die,
Speaker 1: and we saw how powerless we were. But here's the
Speaker 1: big change. But that was good. You know, the problems
Speaker 1: are going through, those are good. Why for then we
Speaker 1: put everything into the hands of God, who alone could
Speaker 1: save us, for he can even raise the dead. Give
Speaker 1: it to God, commit it, deposit it in the safety
Speaker 1: deposit box. And I mentioned earlier that Jesus was coding
Speaker 1: Psalm thirty one, the greatest psalm, and I mentioned that
Speaker 1: probably Mary probably taught that Jesus cycle.
Speaker 3: Now I lay me down to sleep.
Speaker 1: You know, when I was a little, a little little boy,
Speaker 1: when i'd get scared at nighttime, I'd go in and
Speaker 1: I'd fall asleep on my parents' bed. I'd actually try
Speaker 1: to get between them, and I'd try to fall asleep
Speaker 1: between my parents and because I was felt safe there,
Speaker 1: and after i'd fall asleep, my Daddy would pick me
Speaker 1: up in his strong arms and his big hands, and
Speaker 1: he would carry me back to my bed. After I'd
Speaker 1: fallen asleep, and in the more I would wake up
Speaker 1: and something amazing would happen.
Speaker 3: I would be awake in my own bed.
Speaker 1: Why because while I was sleeping, my father would carry
Speaker 1: me with loving.
Speaker 3: Arms to where I belonged.
Speaker 1: And I've thought about that a lot, as that is
Speaker 1: a perfect picture of what it means to die as
Speaker 1: a believer in Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3: One day you will go to sleep.
Speaker 1: And your heavenly Father will pick you up in his
Speaker 1: loving arms and he will take you to where you
Speaker 1: belong for eternity. And that's what heaven is all about. Friends.
Speaker 1: I know this has been a long message, but this
Speaker 1: is a theme that you need the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: It's not something just to say when you're dying, Father,
Speaker 1: into your hands, I commit my spirit. It's something to
Speaker 1: say every single day of your life. When you are fearful, Father,
Speaker 1: I entrust my spirit into your hands. When you're angry, Father,
Speaker 1: I entrust my spirit into your hands. When you're worried, Father,
Speaker 1: I entrust my spirit into your hands. When you're depressed, Father,
Speaker 1: I trust my spirit into your hands. When you're confused, Father,
Speaker 1: I trust my spirit in your hands. When you're in
Speaker 1: despair and you don't know which way to go, Father,
Speaker 1: I entrust my spirit into your hands. When you have
Speaker 1: a big decision, Father, I trust my spirit into your hands.
Speaker 1: You need to use this theme every day the rest
Speaker 1: of your life.
Speaker 3: Let's pray.
Speaker 1: If you've never said it the first time, you need
Speaker 1: to say it right now. Just like me saying to
Speaker 1: the little kids in my family, jump.
Speaker 3: Daddy will catch you.
Speaker 1: You need to jump into the arms of a father
Speaker 1: who loves you, who is trustworthy, who is handling the
Speaker 1: stuff that you can't see, and can handle anything you
Speaker 1: put into his hands. So I invite you to pray
Speaker 1: a one sentence prayer this weekend.
Speaker 3: Say Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: I don't understand it all, but with all that I am,
Speaker 1: in simple humility, I say to.
Speaker 3: You, I entrust my life into your hands. Everything in
Speaker 3: your name. I pray. Amen.
Speaker 2: Hey, if you've just prayed along with Rick to accept
Speaker 2: Jesus in your life, Rick would love to hear from you.
Speaker 2: Just email Rick at pass dot com. And now here's
Speaker 2: Rick to tell you about a resource that he created
Speaker 2: to help you in your walk with Jesus.
Speaker 1: You know, as we close today, I just want to
Speaker 1: say thank you for joining me in today's broadcast. I
Speaker 1: want to encourage you in another way through my free
Speaker 1: daily Hope devotionals. Are you getting those? These Daily Hope
Speaker 1: devotionals are a summarization of many of the things that
Speaker 1: I teach on the broadcast. All you gotta do is
Speaker 1: just go to my website. You can sign up for
Speaker 1: the daily devotionals.
Speaker 3: They're free.
Speaker 1: They'll be delivered free to your inbox seven days a week.
Speaker 1: And I want to help you in this other way.
Speaker 1: It's another way of reinforcing your spiritual growth.
Speaker 2: Just go to Dailyhope Radio dot com and sign up
Speaker 2: for this free Daily Hope devotional. Be sure to join
Speaker 2: us next time as we look into God's Word for
Speaker 2: our daily hope. This program is sponsored by Pastor Rick's
Speaker 2: Daily Hope and your generous financial support.