Speaker 1: This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the broadcast ministry of
Speaker 1: Pastor Rick Warren. Today, Pastor Rick takes a final look
Speaker 1: at the power you need to live on, the principles
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Speaker 1: the final part of a message called how to Tell
Speaker 1: God you love Him?
Speaker 3: Can you imagine how do you think my wife would
Speaker 3: have felt if years ago when we were dating, I said, honey,
Speaker 3: let's get married and we'll be committed to each other.
Speaker 3: But let's just keep it our little secret. Let's don't
Speaker 3: tell anybody about it. You know, I'll be committed to you, you
Speaker 3: be committed to me. But when we're in public, let's
Speaker 3: pretend like we don't know each other, and let's just
Speaker 3: act like total strangers. Won't that be great? She'd say,
Speaker 3: what kind of love is that? Buster It didn't any
Speaker 3: kind of love at all, because when you really love somebody,
Speaker 3: you're not ashamed of him. You say this is my husband,
Speaker 3: this is my wife. You take on a name and
Speaker 3: you say we're a family, and you identify.
Speaker 2: With each other.
Speaker 3: And you can't say you love Jesus Christ and be
Speaker 3: ashamed of him at the same time. Jesus said it
Speaker 3: like this, Mark eight thirty eight. If anyone is ashamed
Speaker 3: of me and my teachings, then I will be ashamed
Speaker 3: of him when I come in with the glory of
Speaker 3: my father. Jesus said, if if you are ashamed of
Speaker 3: me on earth, I'm going to be ashamed of you
Speaker 3: in heaven. So we need to publicly identify ourselves with Christ.
Speaker 3: That's how we show our love for him. Now, Jesus
Speaker 3: understood the power of symbolism, and so he gave us
Speaker 3: two very powerful symbols.
Speaker 2: The first one is the symbol of communion.
Speaker 3: Communion helps us identify with what Jesus Christ did for us.
Speaker 3: What did Jesus do when he died for us? He
Speaker 3: did three things. Number One, he saved us from the
Speaker 3: penalty of sin. Everything you've ever done wrong was paid
Speaker 3: for on the cross, so you get to go free
Speaker 3: and forgiven. Number Two, he saves us from the power
Speaker 3: of sin. He breaks its grip in our lives, and
Speaker 3: he gives us a new power to be able to
Speaker 3: make changes so that we're not the same anymore, and
Speaker 3: that he can do new things in our lives that
Speaker 3: we always wanted to do but never thought we could
Speaker 3: do on our own. And then he saves us eventually
Speaker 3: from the presence of sin in heaven, where there will
Speaker 3: be no sin.
Speaker 2: No sorrow, no suffering, no pain, no grief. That's good news.
Speaker 3: And when we take communion we remember what Jesus Christ
Speaker 3: paid for. What should be my attitude when I take
Speaker 3: the Lord's Supper. Should I sit here feeling guilty remembering
Speaker 3: all of the wrong.
Speaker 2: Things that I've done in my life.
Speaker 3: No, because they've already been paid for by Jesus Christ
Speaker 3: and forgiven.
Speaker 2: When I take communion, Should I.
Speaker 3: Feel grief thinking about all the torture and the suffering
Speaker 3: that Jesus Christ went through for me. No, because he
Speaker 3: didn't stay dead. He came back to life. So what
Speaker 3: should be my attitude when I take the Lord's Supper?
Speaker 3: It should be the attitude of gratitude, gratefulness, gratefulness for all.
Speaker 2: That God has done.
Speaker 3: That God would love me this much, would love me
Speaker 3: this much before I even knew him, to come and
Speaker 3: die on the cross for me. Now, communion is not
Speaker 3: for everybody. The Bible says only believers who have accepted
Speaker 3: God's gift should take communion. He said, well, I'm not
Speaker 3: a believer. Well you can become one right now, even
Speaker 3: as you take these elements. That can be your physical
Speaker 3: act of stepping across the line of saying today Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3: As I eat this cracker and drink this juice, it
Speaker 3: is my symbol of saying, yes, I accept what you
Speaker 3: did for me. I accept that you died for me,
Speaker 3: I that you paid for all my sins, that you
Speaker 3: paid for my.
Speaker 2: Ticket to heaven.
Speaker 3: And I accept you as the leader of my life
Speaker 3: from this day forward. As we take communion, we do
Speaker 3: several things. We publicly identify our faith in Christ, we
Speaker 3: publicly identify our love for Christ, and we publicly state
Speaker 3: that we want.
Speaker 2: To be closer to Christ.
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ paid for three things in your life, and
Speaker 3: I want you to thank him for those three things
Speaker 3: right now. First, he paid for your forgiveness. Think of
Speaker 3: the thing that you feel the most guilty about, the
Speaker 3: thing that has caused you the most shame in your life,
Speaker 3: that thing that you wish it had never happened.
Speaker 2: Then you regret deeply.
Speaker 3: And now thank God that because of Jesus Christ's sacrifice
Speaker 3: on the cross, It's been paid for and forgiven, wiped
Speaker 3: out as if it never happened in God's mind. Thank
Speaker 3: him for that gracious forgiveness. Jesus Christ paid for your freedom.
Speaker 3: I want you to think of the freedom that you
Speaker 3: have because of Jesus Christ, the changes that He's made
Speaker 3: in your life. Thank him for those changes. Thank him
Speaker 3: that he gives you the power to change. Jesus Christ
Speaker 3: has paid for your future. Because of his sacrifice, you
Speaker 3: can have the future secured in heaven. I has not
Speaker 3: seen nor ear heard, neither has entered into the heart
Speaker 3: of man the wonderful things that God has prepared for
Speaker 3: those who love him. So thank Him for the future
Speaker 3: of heaven. Because of Jesus Christ and what he did
Speaker 3: for us, we will never be the same again. We're
Speaker 3: different people. We're forgiven people. Jesus Christ has the power
Speaker 3: to change lives that nothing in the world can change
Speaker 3: except Jesus. No fad and no therapy, no pill, nothing
Speaker 3: can change lives the way Jesus Christ can because he
Speaker 3: is God. And Jesus Christ turns failures into successes. And
Speaker 3: he changes fearful, timid, weak, cowardly people into confident people.
Speaker 3: And he turns selfish, egotistical, prideful people into loving, gentle servants.
Speaker 3: He turns wife beaters into loving husbands, and distant dads
Speaker 3: into caring fathers. He turns drug addicts into responsible citizens. Folks,
Speaker 3: that is why we are here. We are not here
Speaker 3: to impress anybody. We are not here to just go
Speaker 3: through a ritual. We are not here to build buildings.
Speaker 3: We're not here to build monuments to ourselves or just
Speaker 3: make up programs. We're not even here to just have
Speaker 3: a good time. We're here because the only person who
Speaker 3: can take the changes in human behavior that we need
Speaker 3: in our society is Jesus Christ. And he starts in
Speaker 3: our lives, and he moves to our families and our
Speaker 3: friends and our culture. And I am not ashamed to
Speaker 3: identify with him.
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Speaker 4: In the Bible, Jesus told us that in this world
Speaker 4: we will have trouble, but we should take heart because
Speaker 4: He has overcome the world. It's easy to forget Jesus's
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Speaker 3: There's another way that you can identify yourself as a believer,
Speaker 3: and that is through the second symbol that Jesus gave us,
Speaker 3: and that's baptism. Now, what is baptism all about? I mean,
Speaker 3: what is this thing about, you know, getting dunked underwater?
Speaker 3: I mean, what's the big deal about this? Baptism makes
Speaker 3: three powerful public statements. Look at your outline number one
Speaker 3: Romans six'. THREE i love this in the message, paraphrase
Speaker 3: when we went under the, water we left the old
Speaker 3: country of sin, behind and when we came up out
Speaker 3: of the, water we entered into the new country of,
Speaker 3: grace a new life in a new. Land that's what
Speaker 3: the baptism into the life Of jesus. Means when we're
Speaker 3: lowered into the, water it's like the burial Of.
Speaker 2: Jesus it's a. Symbol it's like the burial Of.
Speaker 3: Jesus and when we're raised up out of the, water
Speaker 3: it's like the resurrection Of Jesus.
Speaker 2: Christ the first.
Speaker 3: Reason you need to be baptized is SAY i believe
Speaker 3: in the death and resurrection Of.
Speaker 2: JESUS i believe In.
Speaker 3: Easter and you give a picture of that by going
Speaker 3: under and coming. Up and that's Why jesus, himself as
Speaker 3: thirty year old, adult went down to The Jordan river
Speaker 3: was baptized By john to, say this is HOW i
Speaker 3: want it. Done it's a picture Of jesus death and. Resurrection,
Speaker 3: second it's a picture of what happens to you that
Speaker 3: you are dying to an old way of. Life clausius
Speaker 3: two to twelve says.
Speaker 2: Going under the water was a burial of your old.
Speaker 3: Life coming up out of it was a, Resurrection god
Speaker 3: raising you from the dead as he did In. Christ
Speaker 3: and when you are, baptized you're, Saying i'm dying to
Speaker 3: all my old. Sins they're, forgiven they're, forgotten they're out
Speaker 3: of my, life And i'm beginning a.
Speaker 2: Brand new lifefe In.
Speaker 3: Christ and number three it symbolizes your new life In
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: Galatians three twenty.
Speaker 3: Seven your baptism In christ was not just washing you
Speaker 3: up for a fresh. Start it also involved dressing you
Speaker 3: in an adult faith. Wardrobe christ's life the fulfillment Of
Speaker 3: god's original, promise an adult faith. Wardrobe NOW i have
Speaker 3: an honest question for some of. You you say you Love,
Speaker 3: jesus then why have you not followed him in the
Speaker 3: most basic act of?
Speaker 2: Baptism are you ashamed of?
Speaker 3: Him are you more concerned about getting your hair wet
Speaker 3: in front of somebody than making a statement to SAY
Speaker 3: i am not ashamed Of Jesus. Christ how can you
Speaker 3: say you love him if you won't even do the
Speaker 3: very first thing he, commanded and that is publicly signified
Speaker 3: through the waters of baptism that you are a follower Of.
Speaker 3: Christ if you're in a small, group why don't you
Speaker 3: make sure that everybody in your small group has taken
Speaker 3: this next.
Speaker 2: Step before the end of the.
Speaker 3: Year the fifth waite express love To god is simply
Speaker 3: by being committed to. Him you, see this is what
Speaker 3: love is really all.
Speaker 2: About it's about.
Speaker 3: Commitment you don't really love somebody unless you're committed to
Speaker 3: their best. Good, now nothing ever significant happens in life without.
Speaker 3: Commitment your commitments determine your. Future you are becoming whatever
Speaker 3: you are committed. To so you better choose your commitments,
Speaker 3: carefully because if you're committed to.
Speaker 2: The wrong, thing you're going to become the wrong. Thing.
Speaker 3: Now you can't lose by being committed To. God weak
Speaker 3: people are defined by their, circumstances but strong people are
Speaker 3: defined by their. Commitments The bible Tells Second chronicle sixteen,
Speaker 3: Nine god is looking for people whose hearts are fully
Speaker 3: committed to him that he can bless and can. Use
Speaker 3: what does it mean to be fully committed To? God,
Speaker 3: well in The, bible there are five basic. Commitments we've
Speaker 3: Built Saddleback church around these five. Commitments we talk about
Speaker 3: them over and over and. Over commitment number, one giving
Speaker 3: my life To Jesus.
Speaker 2: Christ that's.
Speaker 3: Good second step commitment number, two committing my life To his,
Speaker 3: family The body Of, christ The, church and joining a church.
Speaker 3: Family commitment number three choosing to grow spiritually and become
Speaker 3: more and more Like Jesus christ every day in my.
Speaker 3: Character commitment number four using my talents and gifts in helping.
Speaker 2: Others we call that. Ministry we talked about it last.
Speaker 3: Week And commitment number five sharing the Good news with
Speaker 3: other people and fulfilling the mission and Purpose god put
Speaker 3: me on this earth to. Do these are the five
Speaker 3: basic commitments At Life. Battleback we use a little baseball
Speaker 3: nymen to illustrate.
Speaker 2: Them what's the next step for?
Speaker 3: You give your life To, christ join his church family
Speaker 3: and be. Baptized start growing as A, christian find your,
Speaker 3: ministry begin to fulfill your life, mission and discover What
Speaker 3: god puts you on earth to. Do you see what
Speaker 3: we're talking about. Today worship is not just something that
Speaker 3: happens in the four walls of a building and a.
Speaker 3: Church worship can happen anywhere your life can Worship.
Speaker 2: God notice the next.
Speaker 3: Verse take here every day ordinary, life you're, sleeping, eating
Speaker 3: going to, work and walking around life and place it
Speaker 3: Before god as an, offering embracing What god does for
Speaker 3: you is the best thing you can do for, him
Speaker 3: committing your life to.
Speaker 2: Him, finally the sixth way that you can.
Speaker 3: Tell god you love him is by giving to. Him
Speaker 3: by giving to. Him you, see, giving at its core
Speaker 3: is the essence of. Love you spell love g iv
Speaker 3: e because that's what loves all.
Speaker 2: About when you love, someone you want to give to.
Speaker 3: Them, now you can give without, loving but you cannot
Speaker 3: love without.
Speaker 2: Giving it is impossible to do.
Speaker 3: That you say you Love, god then it's going to
Speaker 3: show up in your generous. Lifestyle you, SEE i can
Speaker 3: claim to be A, CHRISTIAN i can claim to be
Speaker 3: a follower Of.
Speaker 2: CHRIST i, Enclaimed oh, YEAH i Love.
Speaker 3: God but The bible says there's one way to really
Speaker 3: test the sincerity of your. Love look at the last
Speaker 3: verse on your. Outline Two corinthians eight says, This just
Speaker 3: as you excel in, faith in, speech in, knowledge and
Speaker 3: in complete, earnestness see that you ought to excel in
Speaker 3: the grace of. Giving i'm not commanding, you BUT i
Speaker 3: want to test the sincerity of your, love the sincerity
Speaker 3: of your love by looking at your. Giving why does
Speaker 3: he do? That god doesn't need your, Time he doesn't
Speaker 3: need your. Money what does he? Need he wants your,
Speaker 3: heart he wants what your giving, represents and he wants
Speaker 3: you to become like. Him god so loved the world
Speaker 3: that he. Gave now you can either become Like god
Speaker 3: and become a generous. Giver you can become Like satan
Speaker 3: become a stingy. HOARDER i have discovered that they're really
Speaker 3: basically two kinds of people in, life cheerful givers and fearful.
Speaker 3: Givers cheerful givers, say, Hey i'm gonna give it all
Speaker 3: belongs To. God, anyway he gave it all to. ME
Speaker 3: i wouldn't have anything Without, god So i'm gonna give
Speaker 3: it all to. Him he can take care of all my.
Speaker 3: Needs cheerful, givers that's the Kind god. Loves and then
Speaker 3: there's the fearful. Givers, OH i can't afford to do.
Speaker 3: THIS i can't afford to give. IT i got a
Speaker 3: WARD i gotta watch out with for. Me i've got
Speaker 3: to protect my selfish. Interest cheerful or, fearful you make
Speaker 3: the decision Like, god like the. Devil god tests the
Speaker 3: sincerity of my love by how GENEROUS i am in.
Speaker 2: Life so rate.
Speaker 3: Yourself which word best describes you're giving lifestyle, regularly, occasionally,
Speaker 3: rarely giving ties and.
Speaker 2: Offerings let me clarify.
Speaker 3: This at the end of service is not, Like, okay
Speaker 3: it's time to Tip. God if that's your, attitude forget.
Speaker 3: It god doesn't need your money and doesn't want it.
Speaker 3: Anyway giving is another active. Worship it's as much an
Speaker 3: active worship as, singing, praying, thanking listening and everything. Else
Speaker 3: it's Saying, GOD i love you so.
Speaker 2: MUCH i want to give back to. You. God you
Speaker 2: saved my. Life you saved.
Speaker 3: My, Life that's what he, did AND i want to
Speaker 3: give back to. You everything we have came From, god
Speaker 3: and we can't Outgive god Because he gave it all
Speaker 3: us in the first. Place now here's the bottom. Line
Speaker 3: there are many many ways to express.
Speaker 2: Your love To.
Speaker 3: God we just looked at six And god has wired
Speaker 3: you up in certain ways that certain ways are going
Speaker 3: to appeal to you Because he loves us and we love. Him,
Speaker 3: first you need to establish that relationship With. God so
Speaker 3: let's close in. Prayer would you pray this prayer in your?
Speaker 3: Heart if you've never opened your life To Jesus, christ Say,
Speaker 3: GOD i realize the need for You in my life
Speaker 3: And Jesus. Christ Today i've realized what you did for
Speaker 3: me on The, cross AND i realize That i'll never
Speaker 3: be able to repay what you've done for. Me AND
Speaker 3: i realize that EVERYTHING i have is the gift from.
Speaker 3: You please forgive me for not trusting you with every
Speaker 3: area and every moment of my. Life, TODAY i want
Speaker 3: to make these five life. COMMITMENTS i want to trust
Speaker 3: my life to. YOU i want to join a church.
Speaker 3: FAMILY i want to start to grow. SPIRITUALLY i want
Speaker 3: to use my talent to help other. People AND i
Speaker 3: want to fulfill the purpose and mission that you put
Speaker 3: me on this earth to. DO i want you to
Speaker 3: be first in every area of my, life my, schedule my,
Speaker 3: finances my. Relationships please use me to make a difference
Speaker 3: in the.
Speaker 2: World in your, NAME i. Pray.
Speaker 3: Amen hi, everybody this Is rick AND i hope you
Speaker 3: enjoyed today's. Broadcast you, know if you just prayed that
Speaker 3: prayer for the very first, time or you just recommitted
Speaker 3: your life To jesus again, today would you let me
Speaker 3: know about. It there's something real about sharing your. Commitment
Speaker 3: so write Me rick At pastrick dot com and, Say,
Speaker 3: RICK i prayed that prayer of. COMMITMENT i gave my
Speaker 3: life To, christ And i'll send you some material that'll
Speaker 3: help you on your journey With. Jesus And i'll also
Speaker 3: pray for. You god bless. You this Is Pastor Rick's Daily. Hope.
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Speaker 3: More one of the most powerful ways you can transform
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