Speaker 1: This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry
Speaker 1: of Pastor Rick Warren. Today we continue in a series
Speaker 1: called Transformed. In these lessons, Rick uncovers key principles found
Speaker 1: in God's Word that will completely transform our lives from
Speaker 1: the inside out in every area including spiritual, physical, mental, emotional, relational, financial,
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Speaker 1: the final part of a message called setting personal Goals
Speaker 1: by Faith.
Speaker 2: When you give your life to a good goal, it
Speaker 2: builds a legacy on earth. The Bible says in Proverbs
Speaker 2: eleven twenty seven. Let's read this verse aloud together. Okay,
Speaker 2: read it with me. If your goals are good, you
Speaker 2: will be respected. Circle that you will be respected. You
Speaker 2: want to be respected, then you need to set some
Speaker 2: goals that are good. The entire nation will celebrate Martin
Speaker 2: Luther King Day. Why why do we take a holiday
Speaker 2: for one guy? Because he was a man who set
Speaker 2: good goals and he didn't live for himself. He didn't
Speaker 2: live for greed, he didn't live for pleasure, he didn't
Speaker 2: live for popularity. He lived to fight in justice and
Speaker 2: to fight prejudice, and to fight racism, and to fight
Speaker 2: for truth. He set good goals for his life, and
Speaker 2: so he is honored with a holiday. One of the
Speaker 2: greatest honors I've ever been given in my entire life
Speaker 2: was the honor of preaching in Martin Luther King's home
Speaker 2: church on the fortieth anniversary of his death. And so
Speaker 2: on the fortieth anniversary of Martin Luther King's death, on
Speaker 2: that day, they invited me to speak at Ebenezer Baptist
Speaker 2: Church in Atlanta. I was the first white preacher to
Speaker 2: preach in that church, and that was an honor to me.
Speaker 2: Why because I respect people who use their lives to
Speaker 2: make a difference. And if you were to come to
Speaker 2: my study, you'd find a picture of Martin Luther King
Speaker 2: on the wall with a typed letter, signed letter underneath it.
Speaker 2: And you'd see another picture of Mother Teresa with a
Speaker 2: handwritten note underneath it. And you'd see a note from
Speaker 2: Billy Graham with a handwritten a note, and many others.
Speaker 2: And some of these people on that wall are not Christians.
Speaker 2: They're not Christians, But I honor them. Why because they
Speaker 2: gave their lives for the good of others. They had
Speaker 2: a goal greater than themselves. They didn't live a little
Speaker 2: selfish clot of a life living for I want to
Speaker 2: make a lot of money and retire. Oh yeah, you
Speaker 2: think God puts you on earth to do that. Make
Speaker 2: a lot of money and retire. That's the whole purpose life.
Speaker 2: Wrong answer. God wants to teach you how to love.
Speaker 2: If your goals are good, you'll be respected. But the
Speaker 2: real reward in setting good goals is going to come
Speaker 2: in eternity. Look at this next verse first Corinthians nine
Speaker 2: twenty five. All athletes practice strict self control. You know,
Speaker 2: they eat right and they sleep right, and they they
Speaker 2: they you know, they work out, they exercise. They do
Speaker 2: it to win a prize that will fade Nobody's going
Speaker 2: to remember yesterday's game in two weeks, much less two years.
Speaker 2: They do it to win a prize that will fade away.
Speaker 2: But we do it for an eternal prize. So I run.
Speaker 2: Paul says, straight to the goal, with purpose in every step.
Speaker 2: He's purpose driven goal setter. You need to be that too. Now,
Speaker 2: not every goal that you can set is a good goal.
Speaker 2: Not every goal is a goal that God's going to bless.
Speaker 2: So you want to set goals in these seven areas
Speaker 2: over the next seven weeks. You want to set these
Speaker 2: in your life. But you want to set the kind
Speaker 2: of goal that God is going to bless. God's going
Speaker 2: to give you the power to do. So, how do
Speaker 2: I know the kind of goal that God will bless?
Speaker 2: Let me just close by giving you three questions. When
Speaker 2: you get ready to set a goal, you want to
Speaker 2: ask these three questions. Number one, the first question is
Speaker 2: will this goal honor God? That's the first question asked.
Speaker 2: Will this goal honor God? And what kind of goal
Speaker 2: will honor God? What kind of goal brings glory to God?
Speaker 2: Any goal that causes you to trust him more, to
Speaker 2: depend on him more, to love him more, to love
Speaker 2: other people more, to serve God and serve others, to
Speaker 2: be more unselfish. Those are going to be good goals,
Speaker 2: the Bible says in first print in six point twenty
Speaker 2: God paid a great price for you. Look at the cross.
Speaker 2: So use your body to honor God. Are you using
Speaker 2: your body to honor God? Are you using your body
Speaker 2: for pleasure for selfish reasons? Use your body to honor God?
Speaker 2: You might circle that first Crimsians ten thirty one. When
Speaker 2: you eat, or drink, or do anything, always do it
Speaker 2: to honor God. Everything can be done to honor God.
Speaker 2: You can take out the garbage to honor God. You
Speaker 2: can wash dishes to honor God. You can clean out
Speaker 2: your car to honor God. Or your closet. You can
Speaker 2: study it for a test to honor God. How by
Speaker 2: doing it with the right motive, out of gratitude and
Speaker 2: for the right motivation. I want my life to bring
Speaker 2: honor to God. So I'm going to be the best
Speaker 2: I can be for God's sake? Will this goal honor God?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: The Bible says this, We make it our goal to
Speaker 2: please him second Corinthians five nine. Second question, is this
Speaker 2: goal motivated by love? That's the second thing you want
Speaker 2: to ask. When you set a goal for your finances,
Speaker 2: for your health, for your relationships, will this goal? Is
Speaker 2: this goal motivated by love? God is not going to
Speaker 2: bless a goal motivated by greed. I don't want to
Speaker 2: make a whole lot of money. God is not going
Speaker 2: to bless a goal motivated by competition. I want to
Speaker 2: be better than that company. God is not going to
Speaker 2: bless a goal motivated by envy. God is not going
Speaker 2: to bless a goal motivated by greed or grief, or
Speaker 2: guilt or grudges. He's not going to be honor a
Speaker 2: goal that's built on worry or fear or anxiety. God
Speaker 2: is not going to bless a goal that's motivated by materialism,
Speaker 2: or by ego, or by pride. But when you set
Speaker 2: a goal out of love, God, I want to do
Speaker 2: this because I love you and I want to love
Speaker 2: other people. God's going to honor that because it's all
Speaker 2: about love. Life is all about learning how to love.
Speaker 2: First Grintin sixteen fourteen. Everything you do must be done
Speaker 2: with love. Everything first corinthing is fourteen to one. Love
Speaker 2: must be your highest goal. That should be the number
Speaker 2: one goal in your life. I want to learn to
Speaker 2: really love. I want to learn to love unlovely people.
Speaker 2: And I want to learn to love the loveless and
Speaker 2: the unloved. And I want to learn to love people
Speaker 2: who are hard to love. That's being like God. Why
Speaker 2: is it important for you to have goals that are
Speaker 2: based on love? Because if you set loveless goals, you're
Speaker 2: going to treat people's projects. You're going to run all
Speaker 2: over them to get to your goal. You're going to
Speaker 2: run over your marriage, You're going to run over your friends,
Speaker 2: You're going to run over the other people climbing up
Speaker 2: the ladder success. And God says, no, no, you got
Speaker 2: it all wrong. It's not about accomplishments. It's about relationships.
Speaker 2: It's about learning how to love. Third thing, Third question?
Speaker 2: Will this goal require depending on God? Will this goal
Speaker 2: require depending on God? Remember I said earlier Hebrews eleven six.
Speaker 2: Without faith, it's impossible to please God. If you don't
Speaker 2: have a goal that requires faith, then it's not a
Speaker 2: pleasing to God goal. Roman's fourteen twenty three. Everything that
Speaker 2: doesn't come from faith is sin. If you have a
Speaker 2: goal that's so small it doesn't require any faith to
Speaker 2: do it. It's a sin. Whatever is not a faith,
Speaker 2: the Bible says, is sin. Now look at this verse
Speaker 2: Proverbs sixteen, verse nine. Why don't we read this one
Speaker 2: aloud to you? Do with me? Proverb sixteen nine. We
Speaker 2: plan the way we want to live, but only God
Speaker 2: makes us able to live it. I love that in
Speaker 2: the message paraphrase, that's what we're gonna do during fifty
Speaker 2: days of transformation. You get the plan the way you
Speaker 2: want to live.
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Speaker 1: Once again, here's Rick.
Speaker 2: We get the plan the way we want to live,
Speaker 2: but it says only God gives us the power, gives
Speaker 2: us the energy, gives us the ability to actually do it,
Speaker 2: to make the transformation. Why because God provides the three
Speaker 2: things you must have to reach your goal. Write these down.
Speaker 2: Three things you must have to meet your goal. Three
Speaker 2: things you must have to change your life. Number one,
Speaker 2: I need God's Spirit to empower me. This is not
Speaker 2: something based on willpower. It's based on God power. It's
Speaker 2: not based on trying, It's based on trusting. I need
Speaker 2: God's Spirit to empower me. Zachariah for six says you
Speaker 2: will succeed. You will not succeed. It says you will
Speaker 2: not succeed by your own strength or your own power,
Speaker 2: but by my spirit, says the Lord. I need God's
Speaker 2: spirit to empower me to make changes I can't to
Speaker 2: make on my own. Number two, I need God's word
Speaker 2: to guide me. I need God's spirit to empower me.
Speaker 2: I need God's word to guide me. This book here,
Speaker 2: the Bible, is the owner's manual for life. The more
Speaker 2: you get this book into your mind, your heart, and
Speaker 2: your life. The more you read it, study it, memorize it,
Speaker 2: meditate on it, the more successful, the more fulfilled, the
Speaker 2: more strong you're going to be in life. When Joshua
Speaker 2: was given the great dream of taking over the Promised Land,
Speaker 2: and it was a goal that was going to take
Speaker 2: him the rest of his life, God had these words
Speaker 2: to say to Joshua Chapter one, verse eight. Keep this
Speaker 2: book that's the Bible. Keep this book of the Law
Speaker 2: on your lips. In other words, talk about it all
Speaker 2: the time. Recite it by day and night. That means
Speaker 2: memorize it so you can quote it. Recite it by
Speaker 2: day and night that you may carefully follow all that
Speaker 2: is written in it. That's the premise. Now here's the promise.
Speaker 2: Then you will successfully attain your goal. You might underline
Speaker 2: that last phrase if you ever intend to be in
Speaker 2: business for yourself, you ought to memorize that verse factive
Speaker 2: be a good verse for everybody to memorize. Keep this
Speaker 2: Book of the Law in your heart, read it, memorize it,
Speaker 2: live it, practice it. Study it. That you're careful to
Speaker 2: follow it and obey, then you will be successful. You
Speaker 2: will attain your goal. That is one of the greatest
Speaker 2: promises of success in the Bible. And that promise doesn't
Speaker 2: come from some self help guru. That promise comes from God.
Speaker 2: You will successfully attain your goal. How if you become
Speaker 2: a man of the word, you become a woman of
Speaker 2: the word. All you need to know about life is
Speaker 2: in this book right here. I need God's spirit to
Speaker 2: empower me, and I need God's word to guide me.
Speaker 2: And finally, the third thing I need is I need
Speaker 2: God's people to support me. You will not be able
Speaker 2: to reach your goals on your own. I haven't been
Speaker 2: able to reach my goals on my own. It takes
Speaker 2: a team to fulfill a dream. You need other people
Speaker 2: in your life. This is why we insist that everybody
Speaker 2: in our church family be in a small group. You're
Speaker 2: never going to feel like a part of our church
Speaker 2: till you're in a small group. A crowd can't support you,
Speaker 2: but a small group can three, four, five, six other people.
Speaker 2: They can know when you're sick, they can know when
Speaker 2: you're having a tough time, when you've had a bad day.
Speaker 2: A crowd can't support you, but a community, a small
Speaker 2: group can. Ecclesiastes four to twelve says this, By yourself,
Speaker 2: you're unprotected. It means it's like an a football game.
Speaker 2: You're unprotected. You're out there running down the field by yourself.
Speaker 2: You don't have anybody to block and tackle for you.
Speaker 2: There's nobody out there to protect you. If you're not
Speaker 2: in a small group, you don't have any blocking tacklers.
Speaker 2: You don't have anybody who's gonna speak up for you,
Speaker 2: stand up for you. By yourself, you're unprotected. But with
Speaker 2: a friend, you can face the worst. Boy did I
Speaker 2: learn that this last year? And a group of three?
Speaker 2: A group of three is even better because a rope
Speaker 2: raided with three strands is not easily snapped. What do
Speaker 2: you call three people meeting together? A small group? That's
Speaker 2: what it is. Jesus said, where two or three are
Speaker 2: gathered in my name, I'll be in the midst of them. Hey, guys,
Speaker 2: this is going to be fun. But it's going to
Speaker 2: be more than fun. It's going to change your life.
Speaker 2: If you will do it. If you will hear and
Speaker 2: read and watch and talk and do, you will grow.
Speaker 2: If all you do is come to church and here,
Speaker 2: you're not going to be transformed. I guarantee you you're
Speaker 2: gonna be no different in seven weeks. But if you
Speaker 2: will hear it and read it and watch it and
Speaker 2: discuss it and do it, you will not be the
Speaker 2: same person in fifty days. You will be a better person.
Speaker 2: Let's power heads, Father. We already know that you're going
Speaker 2: to do some amazing things in our midst when we
Speaker 2: begin this fifty days of transformation. I know that lives
Speaker 2: are going to be changed. We know that families are
Speaker 2: going to be strengthened, marriages will be saved, friendships will
Speaker 2: be made. You know that some people are going to
Speaker 2: get engaged. We know that miracles are going to happen.
Speaker 2: It would be a waste of time first to not
Speaker 2: expect you to do a great thing. So I already
Speaker 2: thank you for what's already happening in the hearts of
Speaker 2: peace people and help them to realize they're already a success.
Speaker 2: Most of all, I thank you for the Cross, because
Speaker 2: we thank you and we do everything we do for
Speaker 2: jesus sake. Now you pray, Why don't you pray this? God,
Speaker 2: I give you permission to permanently transform my life and
Speaker 2: to make the rest of my life the best of
Speaker 2: my life. I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.
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Speaker 2: Here's Rick, Hi, friends, what did it surprise you to
Speaker 2: know that there are entire groups of people who have
Speaker 2: never heard of out Jesus still in our world today.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about the small tribes of less than a
Speaker 2: one hundred thousand people in many, many distant places who
Speaker 2: have never heard the name of Jesus Christ. That means
Speaker 2: there's not a single Christian among them. There is no church,
Speaker 2: they have no Bible, there is no believer. Can you
Speaker 2: imagine that? Would you help me reach these unreached, unengaged people.
Speaker 2: You know, one of the reasons I started Daily Hope
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Speaker 2: hope of the good news of the Gospel to the
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Speaker 2: Jesus wants us to witness to all nations and to
Speaker 2: all people. He never made a person he did in love.
Speaker 2: He never made a person he didn't want saved. And
Speaker 2: Jesus died so that all may be saved. But people
Speaker 2: can't follow Jesus if they've never heard about him, and
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Speaker 2: So I'm asking you to help me in this finish
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Speaker 2: somebody comes up to you and says, I just want
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Speaker 2: Will that be worth it? Even as we rejoice in
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Speaker 2: These resources are also going to help young pastors grow
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Speaker 2: I can't do this by myself. I need your help.
Speaker 2: It's a timely vision, it's a global vision. But every
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