Speaker 1: Hello, and thanks for joining us today on Pastor Rick's
Speaker 1: Daily Hope. This is the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren,
Speaker 1: and today we are continuing in a series called the.
Speaker 2: Miracle of Mercy.
Speaker 1: Rick will show us how God's mercy can lift your guilt,
Speaker 1: heal your wounds, and transform the way you live. And
Speaker 1: now here's part two of a message called God can
Speaker 1: Use anybody.
Speaker 3: Now here's the third key, the third secret of being
Speaker 3: used by God the rest of your life, no matter
Speaker 3: what's happened in your past. Here it is number three.
Speaker 3: Remember it's not about me. Remember it's not about me. Now,
Speaker 3: every time you forget that, you're gonna either get bitter
Speaker 3: from problems or you're gonna get prideful from blessings in
Speaker 3: your life. And when you forget that it's not about you,
Speaker 3: you take everything personally. In verse five, Paul gives this
Speaker 3: third key. He says, this our message is not about ourselves.
Speaker 3: It's about Jesus Christ. It's about Jesus Christ as the Lord.
Speaker 4: We are merely.
Speaker 3: Your servants for Jesus's sake. He uses this phrase for
Speaker 3: jesus sake twice in this chapter. He says, it's not
Speaker 3: about us. It's all about Jesus. Does anybody remember the
Speaker 3: first sentence of the purpose driven.
Speaker 4: Life, It's not about you. It's not about you.
Speaker 3: That is the most counter culture statement you could possibly
Speaker 3: make in today's society. It's not about you. It's the
Speaker 3: exact opposite of everything you're taught, because everything else in
Speaker 3: our society says it's all about you. Every advertisement appeals
Speaker 3: to your self centeredness, it appeals to your narcissism. Every
Speaker 3: single message you get every day goes.
Speaker 4: It's all about you. We do it all for you.
Speaker 3: Have it your way, You deserve the break today, Today
Speaker 3: you get the best your number one. It's all about you.
Speaker 3: You need to think of what's best for me. I
Speaker 3: need to think of what's best for me, and on
Speaker 3: and on every a thousand times a day. Our society
Speaker 3: says it's all about you. It's very hard to live
Speaker 3: an unselfish life in today's culture because our entire culture,
Speaker 3: in our entire economy, is built on the fact that
Speaker 3: everybody says, no, it's all about you. It's not. You
Speaker 3: are not the center of the universe. God is the
Speaker 3: center of the universe. And when you live a self
Speaker 3: centered life, as I said, you become frustrated, you become unfulfilled,
Speaker 3: and eventually you become bored. You know, when I wrote
Speaker 3: that sentence and purpose Liven Life, first sentence of the book,
Speaker 3: it's not about you. Honestly, I had no idea that
Speaker 3: I was going to be tested on that sense every
Speaker 3: day for the rest of my life. I sometimes thirty
Speaker 3: forty times a day I have to say that sentence
Speaker 3: to myself, It's not about you. And when I get
Speaker 3: a great opportunity to do something, it's not about you.
Speaker 3: And when I face a big, big problem, it's not
Speaker 3: about you. And when I'm criticized fairly or unfairly, it's
Speaker 3: not about you. And when I'm praised and somebody says
Speaker 3: something nice, it's not about you. And when somebody gets angry,
Speaker 3: I go, it's not about you. And when somebody's upset
Speaker 3: because their needs not being met, it's not about you.
Speaker 3: I sometimes have to say that twenty thirty forty times
Speaker 3: a day to myself, it's not about me. In fact,
Speaker 3: sometimes I wish I hadn't written that sentence because I
Speaker 3: didn't want to be tested on it every day for
Speaker 3: the rest of my life. That God's gonna say Okay, Rick,
Speaker 3: you wrote it, you're gonna live it? Are you going
Speaker 3: to live it? It's not about you, It's all about God.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: Learning to follow Christ and learning to let Jesus Christ
Speaker 3: use you in an amazing way is all about motivation.
Speaker 3: God is far more interested in why you do what
Speaker 3: you do than what you actually do. There might be
Speaker 3: one hundred things you could do with your life that
Speaker 3: God say, fine, that's great. I made you, I shaped you.
Speaker 3: Any one of those would be fine with me. There
Speaker 3: might be one hundred different things God would say that
Speaker 3: would be fine for you to do with your life.
Speaker 3: What he is interested in is why you do it.
Speaker 3: God is not interested in your methodology as much as
Speaker 3: he is interested in your motivation. You can have the
Speaker 3: right methodology and you do everything right and you're very
Speaker 3: successful in life, but if you've got the wrong motive,
Speaker 3: it doesn't count with God. On the other hand, you
Speaker 3: could really mess up and you do it all wrong,
Speaker 3: and you have so many failures and you have so
Speaker 3: many mistakes you have, but you got the right motive.
Speaker 4: God goes, that's good enough.
Speaker 3: Why is always more important than what, And when you
Speaker 3: figure out why you do what you do in life,
Speaker 3: God will show you how. It's always about motivation, and
Speaker 3: you've got to remember it's not about me. So I
Speaker 3: have to continue to ask why am I doing this.
Speaker 3: I see this happening all the time in people who
Speaker 3: become believers, that become followers of Christ, and then they
Speaker 3: want to get involved in like a ministry of Saddleback Church.
Speaker 3: We have every week over twenty five thousand people volunteer
Speaker 3: their time for free in one of five hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty ministries in the community. We don't do ministry in
Speaker 3: the church. We do it out in the community helping
Speaker 3: other people. And over twenty five thousand people every week
Speaker 3: volunteer their time in this church. And I noticed that
Speaker 3: when they first start serving as a brand new believer,
Speaker 3: you're doing it with the right motivation. You're aut of
Speaker 3: gratitude to God. But nobody's telling you to do this, nobody.
Speaker 3: You're not fearful, you're not pressured. It's just I want
Speaker 3: to give back God has saved me.
Speaker 4: I want to do something with my life.
Speaker 3: I want my life to count and I just ingratitude.
Speaker 3: I want to serve God. But I see slowly, over time,
Speaker 3: sometimes people who are doing a particular work or service
Speaker 3: or ministry. All of a sudden, the motivation starts changing,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, I do it for the
Speaker 3: wrong reasons. I like the approval I get, I like
Speaker 3: the applause I get.
Speaker 4: It makes me.
Speaker 3: Feel important, and all of a sudden, I'm doing it
Speaker 3: for me. And a lot of times what happens is
Speaker 3: people who start off as servants end up as celebrities.
Speaker 3: I see this happen in pastors all the time. You know,
Speaker 3: I coach pastors. Success is actually not really good for
Speaker 3: pastors because it can mess with your mind, particularly if
Speaker 3: you have a lot of success early in your life
Speaker 3: in your ministry and your church. And I see guys
Speaker 3: who started off genuinely loving God in serving Christ in
Speaker 3: their church, and they turn from servants into celebrities, and
Speaker 3: they're not realizing it's not about them. It's not about them.
Speaker 3: They're doing it for Jesus' sake. Now, Paul is crystal
Speaker 3: clear twice in this passage. Jes says, I do what
Speaker 3: I do for Jesus. I do it for Jesus Ac
Speaker 3: not for me. And he says we're just servants for
Speaker 3: Jesus ake. Now down in verse seven, he continues this,
Speaker 3: and he says, you know, we're just like clay jars.
Speaker 3: We're just like jars of clay in which this treasure
Speaker 3: is stored. God puts his power, God puts his love,
Speaker 3: God puts his mercy inside you. You're just the jar
Speaker 3: of clay. He puts his treasure in you. He says,
Speaker 3: the real power comes from God and not from us.
Speaker 3: So he says, you know, our frail bodies are like
Speaker 3: clay jars.
Speaker 4: And some of us have big jars.
Speaker 3: Okay, what happens if you drop a clay prop pot?
Speaker 3: It breaks, and we're all crackpots. We're all crackpots. We're
Speaker 3: all broken, we're all flawed. Nobody is flawless, nobody is blameless,
Speaker 3: and we're all a little cracked. And that's okay because
Speaker 3: when it is through the cracks that the light can
Speaker 3: shine out and the glory of God shines out. See
Speaker 3: a lot of people think that God wants to use
Speaker 3: your strengths. Well he does, but he actually uses your
Speaker 3: weaknesses even more than your strengths. Because, as as I
Speaker 3: just said, when when you go out and say, hey,
Speaker 3: let me tell you what I'm good at, I could
Speaker 3: tell you all the things I'm good at all the
Speaker 3: awards I've won, all the opportunities I've had.
Speaker 4: You go well, goody for you. That doesn't make us
Speaker 4: feel close.
Speaker 3: And when people you share your strength, people they resent you,
Speaker 3: they're jealous of you, they're envious of you, and they
Speaker 3: just they blow you off. The guy's full of pride,
Speaker 3: she's full of pride whatever. On the other end, when
Speaker 3: you share your weaknesses and you share the problems you're
Speaker 3: going through, and you share how God shines through your weakness,
Speaker 3: people go wow. It draws them close, It pulls them
Speaker 3: into intimacy. This is why a lot of marriages aren't close.
Speaker 3: They don't share their weaknesses with It hasn't ever.
Speaker 4: Got to that stage.
Speaker 3: God has always used flawed instruments. Every person God has
Speaker 3: ever used was flawed, except Jesus Christ.
Speaker 4: Because obviously he was the son of God.
Speaker 3: I'd have to admit, looking back over my life, that
Speaker 3: I've gone through four stages in dealing with my own weaknesses.
Speaker 3: When I was a young man, I actually just denied
Speaker 3: my weaknesses. I was so afraid of my own weaknesses
Speaker 3: I wouldn't even admit him to myself, much less anybody else.
Speaker 3: And sadly, you can find people who are thirty, forty
Speaker 3: fifty years old who can't admit their weaknesses, and they
Speaker 3: never I apologize for anything, and they won't admit when
Speaker 3: they're wrong, and they can't admit their weakness. And anytime
Speaker 3: you find somebody who can't admit a weakness, you know this,
Speaker 3: they're extremely insecure. The more secure you are in God's mercy,
Speaker 3: the more secure you are in God's love, the more
Speaker 3: open and honest you will be about your weaknesses. The
Speaker 3: more insecure when you don't feel God's mercy and you
Speaker 3: don't feel God's love, the more you're going to deny
Speaker 3: your weaknesses. And I did that as a young man.
Speaker 3: I denied my weaknesses. I wouldn't even admit it to myself. Later,
Speaker 3: they just got so big I couldn't deny them anymore,
Speaker 3: and so I moved to phase two, in which I
Speaker 3: just hid them.
Speaker 4: I knew them, I knew.
Speaker 3: My weaknesses, but I didn't want anybody else to see them.
Speaker 3: So I hid my weaknesses. And that always makes more stress,
Speaker 3: and it can give you fear and panic and all
Speaker 3: kinds of things when you're hiding your weaknesses. Then I
Speaker 3: finally moved, and this was decades ago where I actually
Speaker 3: accepted my weaknesses and I said, okay, this is part
Speaker 3: of the package. You are a bundle of both strengths
Speaker 3: and weaknesses, and so am I. You have some great
Speaker 3: strengths in your life, but you also have some major weaknesses.
Speaker 3: They do not cancel out each other. Both are true.
Speaker 3: I have some great strengths in my life, but I
Speaker 3: also have some great weaknesses in my life. And God
Speaker 3: gives us these both so that we don't get too
Speaker 3: prideful and think we don't need God and think we
Speaker 3: don't need other people. But I finally accepted them, and
Speaker 3: then a couple decades ago, I actually started glorying, glorying
Speaker 3: in my weakness and goes, hey, look at my weaknesses.
Speaker 3: God is using me. I am a trophy of God's mercy.
Speaker 3: I am a trophy of God's grace. I don't deserve
Speaker 3: to be the pastor sadle Back church. I don't deserve.
Speaker 3: I didn't deserve to write purpose driven life. I don't
Speaker 3: deserve all these places. I've been invited to speak all
Speaker 3: around the world and meet with famous people. They like
Speaker 3: none of that.
Speaker 4: It's all.
Speaker 3: It's just God's mercy in spite of my weaknesses. And
Speaker 3: when you do that, then God can use you and
Speaker 3: you realize it's not about you. You see, Humility is
Speaker 3: not denying your strengths. Humility is being honest about your weaknesses.
Speaker 3: God only uses humble people. God does not use prideful people.
Speaker 3: But pride is not going out and saying, well, I'm
Speaker 3: just not good at this when you really are. No,
Speaker 3: that's fake pride, that's false pride. That's actually, you know,
Speaker 3: a false humility, that's actually pride. A false humility says
Speaker 3: I'm not really good at this when you really are
Speaker 3: and you know you are good at it's okay to say, hey,
Speaker 3: I'm good at this. There's some things in your life
Speaker 3: you're good at, and it's okay to admit it. I'm
Speaker 3: good at this, but it's the mercy of God that
Speaker 3: made me good at this. I was just I didn't
Speaker 3: ask for my talents, it's just what God gave me.
Speaker 3: So thank God, I'm good at this. But then at
Speaker 3: the same time, you go, but I'm not good at
Speaker 3: this or this or this. That's true not putting yourself down.
Speaker 3: It's humility is not thinking less of yourself. It's thinking
Speaker 3: of yourself less and all of a sudden, the focus
Speaker 3: is not on you. You focus on everybody else. I've
Speaker 3: told you this for you walk into party and if
Speaker 3: the first thing you're thinking is what does everybody think
Speaker 3: about me?
Speaker 4: That's pride.
Speaker 3: When you walk into a room, the same room and
Speaker 3: you go, what do these people need that I might
Speaker 3: be able to give them? Who's in pain here that
Speaker 3: I might be able to help, that's humility. You're not
Speaker 3: thinking less yourself, You're thinking of yourself less, and so
Speaker 3: you admit that it's not about me. Here's number four
Speaker 3: and this is a really big one. And if you
Speaker 3: get this, God will use you and bless you in
Speaker 3: ways you cannot possibly imagine. Paul talks about this in
Speaker 3: the next passage, and it is this, use my pain
Speaker 3: to help others. This is a secret of being used
Speaker 3: by God. Use my pain to help others. If you
Speaker 3: do this, God will bless you in ways you cannot
Speaker 3: possibly imagine. Use the things you're ashamed of, Use the
Speaker 3: things that have hurt you the most, Use the things
Speaker 3: that have been problems in your life in order to
Speaker 3: help other people going through those same things.
Speaker 4: Use my pain to help others.
Speaker 3: Now, Paul went through enormous pain in his life, which
Speaker 3: was why Paul could be used by God in enormous ways.
Speaker 4: Look up here on the screen.
Speaker 3: Later in the same book Second Corinthians, he says this,
Speaker 3: He's given his testimony about pain. He says, I've worked
Speaker 3: much harder. I've been in prison more frequently. I've been
Speaker 3: flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and
Speaker 3: again in my ministry. In other words, the work that
Speaker 3: God has me doing. He says, five times I've received
Speaker 3: thirty nine lashes. Now, think about how many scars were
Speaker 3: on on the back of Paul. Five times thirty nine.
Speaker 3: That's how many stripes, how many scars he out on
Speaker 3: his back? Five times I received thirty nine lashes. Three
Speaker 3: times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned.
Speaker 3: And it's not the kind of stone you're thinking of.
Speaker 4: He says. Three times I.
Speaker 3: Was shipwrecked out in the Mediterranean a sea, not once,
Speaker 3: not to watch. Three times I was shipwrecked, he said.
Speaker 3: I spent a night in the day in the open
Speaker 3: cy one day just holding on the driftwood after one
Speaker 3: of those shipwrecks, before I floated ashore at Cyprus. And
Speaker 3: he says I've worked much harder. I've been in prison
Speaker 3: more frequently. I spent a night in the day in
Speaker 3: the open sea. And I've been constantly on the move,
Speaker 3: he said. I'm never able to settle down. I'm always
Speaker 3: on the move because I'm trying to help other people.
Speaker 3: He said, I've been in danger from rivers. I've been
Speaker 3: in danger from bandits from my own countrymen from Gentiles.
Speaker 3: I've been in dangers in the city, in the country,
Speaker 3: at sea. I've been in danger from false brothers, people
Speaker 3: who betrayed me and cheated me.
Speaker 4: He said.
Speaker 3: I've often gone without sleep. I've known hunger, and I've
Speaker 3: all known thirst, and I've often gone without food. I've
Speaker 3: been cold, I've been naked. I took my clothes away.
Speaker 3: Besides everything else, I faced the daily pressure of my
Speaker 3: concern for all the churches. And tell me again your problem,
Speaker 3: and you think you got problems. Paul was used in
Speaker 3: an enormous way because he had enormous pain, and he
Speaker 3: used it for good and God. Now, if we were
Speaker 3: to bring Paul here on the stage today and say, Paul, why.
Speaker 4: Did you put up with all that?
Speaker 3: Why did you go through all those beatings and all
Speaker 3: those whippings, and allow yourself to be thrown into prison
Speaker 3: so many times and robbed? And why did you travel
Speaker 3: by foot all over you know, the Roman Empire? And
Speaker 3: why did you put up with shipwrecks and go without
Speaker 3: food and go without water?
Speaker 4: And and why.
Speaker 3: Did you put up with going without sleep and without
Speaker 3: comfort and without safety? And why did you never give up?
Speaker 3: And he would say the same thing, I'm using my
Speaker 3: pain to help others. I want to bring people to
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ. I'm using my pain to help others. Here's
Speaker 3: his response, verse eight and nine. He says, we often suffer,
Speaker 3: but we're never crushed. And even when we don't know
Speaker 3: what to do, we never give up. In times of trouble,
Speaker 3: God is with us. And when we're knocked down, we
Speaker 3: get up again. Now you're going to go through pain
Speaker 3: in your life, you may as well use it for good.
Speaker 3: Don't waste your pain. You're going to have pain in
Speaker 3: your life, use it to help others. In next verse,
Speaker 3: verse fifteen, he says this, now, all of these sufferings
Speaker 3: that He's gone through, all of these sufferings of ours,
Speaker 3: are for your benefit. This is called redempt suffering. It's
Speaker 3: suffering for the benefit of other people. In life, there
Speaker 3: are three kinds of suffering. Three kinds of suffering. The
Speaker 3: first is the kind of suffering that we bring on ourselves.
Speaker 3: We do this all the time. You know, eat the
Speaker 3: wrong food, you don't exercise, your body is going to
Speaker 3: suffer from it. We bring a lot of problems, a
Speaker 3: lot of suffering we cause because of our poor decisions,
Speaker 3: words we say, things we do, responses we make, and
Speaker 3: relationships and bad decisions, and so a lot of suffering
Speaker 3: we just bring on ourselves from our own poor judgment.
Speaker 3: That's one kind of suffering. God can even use that though,
Speaker 3: to help other people. Second kind of suffering is innocent
Speaker 3: suffering through no fault of yours. You're hurt by somebody else.
Speaker 3: You may have been molested, you may have been raped,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. You may have been abandoned, you may have
Speaker 3: been rejected, and many people, all of us, have been
Speaker 3: have suffered innocently at the hands of other people. You
Speaker 3: may have been scammed, you may have been ripped off,
Speaker 3: you have been cheated on, somebody who was unfaithful to you,
Speaker 3: And we're all hurt by the sins of other people.
Speaker 3: And that's innocent suffering. God can use that too for good.
Speaker 3: But the highest form of suffering is redemptive suffering, where
Speaker 3: you choose to put up with pain and problems in
Speaker 3: order to help other people, in order to bless others.
Speaker 3: When Jesus was hanging on the cross, he was doing
Speaker 3: redemptive suffering. He was redeeming the world. He was paying
Speaker 3: the redemption for your sins. He wasn't dying for his sins,
Speaker 3: he was dying for your sins. That's redemptive suffering, suffering
Speaker 3: on the benefit of others. Now, God can use all
Speaker 3: three of them for good, even the ones you bring
Speaker 3: on yourself. He can use it all for good if
Speaker 3: you'll give it to him and say, God, I want
Speaker 3: you to use my pain to bring.
Speaker 4: Benefit to others.
Speaker 3: He says, all of these sufferings are for your benefit.
Speaker 3: That's why I put up with all this. And he says,
Speaker 3: in the more of you who are one to Christ,
Speaker 3: he said, the more there are to thank Him for
Speaker 3: his great mercy, and the more God gets glory. Now
Speaker 3: you know, Kay and I have tried to do this
Speaker 3: with our lives. We've tried to use our pain to
Speaker 3: help other people. We're not going to waste our pain.
Speaker 3: Many of you know that our marriage was a wreck
Speaker 3: in the early years and we could have been in
Speaker 3: divorce court early on in our marriage and we did
Speaker 3: not get along. But we went and got counseling, and
Speaker 3: then we said, we're going to use our pain.
Speaker 4: To save other people's marriage.
Speaker 3: And so we talked openly about our problems and our
Speaker 3: less than perfect marriage and how God used that to
Speaker 3: help others. Kay's had cancer twice. I had a father
Speaker 3: in law with cancer, had a father with cancer. Kay
Speaker 3: had cancer, had a child who had cancer. And we've
Speaker 3: used that for good. And you know, even having a
Speaker 3: son who is mentally ill who took his life. We said,
Speaker 3: we're not gonna waste our pain. We're gonna even use that.
Speaker 3: And all this last week Kay was on a road
Speaker 3: trip back on the East Coast speaking at universities and
Speaker 3: things on mental health because we're not gonna waste our pain,
Speaker 3: We're gonna use it for good and God. And Paul says,
Speaker 3: I keep going because I know it's helping others and
Speaker 3: I know it's bringing people to Christ. Now, why does
Speaker 3: Saddleback Church keep growing? I mean, how big does Saddleback Church.
Speaker 4: Need to get?
Speaker 3: Couldn't we have like just stopped to say ten thousand people.
Speaker 4: That's enough.
Speaker 3: Ten last weekend for Easter, fifty four thousand people came
Speaker 3: to a saddleback campus.
Speaker 4: Fifty four thousand, right.
Speaker 3: More important than that, one thousand, eight hundred and sixty
Speaker 3: four people gave their lives to Jesus Christ. Okay, eight
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty more people. Now, that took ten thousands
Speaker 3: of hours of volunteer time, people who did all kinds
Speaker 3: of volunteer work at every campus in order for that
Speaker 3: to happen.
Speaker 4: Why do we do it?
Speaker 3: We do it for Jesus' sake, and we do it
Speaker 3: because people need the Lord. We do it for the
Speaker 3: benefit of others. We're not doing this for our benefit.
Speaker 3: We don't grow for our benefit. We don't need a
Speaker 3: bigger church. We grow it because people need the Lord.
Speaker 3: God has never made a person he doesn't love that
Speaker 3: he doesn't want in heaven.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: In verse sixteen and seventeen, Paul says this, this is
Speaker 3: why we never give up, even though it's tough. He says,
Speaker 3: though our bodies are dying, and literally in the Greek
Speaker 3: there says they're decaying, they're wasting away. Though our bodies
Speaker 3: are dying. Our spirits are being renewed every day. For
Speaker 3: our present troubles are quite small and won't last very long.
Speaker 3: Yet they produce for us an immeasurable great glory that
Speaker 3: will last forever. Now, he says, you know, let's just
Speaker 3: be obvious. Your physical physique is not getting better. It's
Speaker 3: the king. Have you looked in the mirror lately? You know,
Speaker 3: bifocals and baldness and bulges, Okay, wrinkles, aches, pains. Many
Speaker 3: of you now have furniture problems. Your chest has dropped
Speaker 3: into your drawers. Okay, okay, I'm talking to the men.
Speaker 4: The man.
Speaker 3: Okay, let me clarify this. Okay, yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Don't want to.
Speaker 3: I don't get any trouble with all the ladies here.
Speaker 3: I'm talking to the men. Okay, your chest has dropped
Speaker 3: in your drawers.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: You can't stop the aging process, no matter how many
Speaker 3: botox things you go to, but you can stay fresh
Speaker 3: on the inside spiritually, Paul says, though our bodies are
Speaker 3: they're dying, they're waste in a way, our spirits are.
Speaker 4: Being renewed every day.
Speaker 3: The Bible tells us that Moses in his old age
Speaker 3: was just as full of them and vigor and energy
Speaker 3: and love and commitment and closest to the Lord as
Speaker 3: he was as a young man.
Speaker 4: You can't keep.
Speaker 3: Your body from aging, but you can keep your spirit
Speaker 3: from aging, he says. Where they're being renewed every day
Speaker 3: by the mercy of God.
Speaker 2: What a great message from Pastor Rick today. There's something
Speaker 2: I always take away from his message. Here's Rick to
Speaker 2: tell you how you can help support this ministry.
Speaker 3: Jesus told his disciples that they should live their lives
Speaker 3: according to five specific purposes. He said, You've got to
Speaker 3: love God with all your heart. That's worship, and love
Speaker 3: your neighbors yourself. That's ministry. That's called the Great Commandment.
Speaker 3: And then Jesus said, go make disciples. That's evangelism. Baptize
Speaker 3: them into the Family of God. That's fellowship, a sign
Speaker 3: of fellowship. And then he said, teach them obey everything
Speaker 3: I've taught you. That's discipleship. And we call that the
Speaker 3: Great Commission. We believe it daily. Hope that a great
Speaker 3: commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will
Speaker 3: produce a great Christian, a great church, a great company,
Speaker 3: a great community. You know, I started daily Hope so
Speaker 3: I could spread the good news about Jesus, not just
Speaker 3: across America, but all around the world. And we want
Speaker 3: people to know that God's word is filled with hope
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Speaker 3: know as well as I do, that the Word of
Speaker 3: God changes lives. It's a live it's active, and it
Speaker 3: breathes new life and new love into all of our lives.
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