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<v Speaker 1>Hello, everybody, This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Thank you

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<v Speaker 1>so much for joining us today, and if you're brand new,

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<v Speaker 1>welcome to the Daily Hope family. We hope you'll enjoy

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<v Speaker 1>the teachings of Pastor Rick Warren right here. I'm so

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<v Speaker 1>excited for all of you to learn about your shape.

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<v Speaker 1>It might not be the shape you're thinking of right now.

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<v Speaker 1>Rick loves to use acrostics and this one is shape

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<v Speaker 1>your shape, your spiritual gifts, heart abilities, personality and experiences.

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<v Speaker 1>And one of the reasons I love this series and

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<v Speaker 1>have shared it with so many friends is because Rick

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<v Speaker 1>talks about the way God wired you and why you

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<v Speaker 1>need not just know your shape, but how to use

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<v Speaker 1>it to do the things that God designed you to do.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, let's get right to it. Here's Rick with

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<v Speaker 1>part two of a message called Why God shaped you

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<v Speaker 1>the way He did.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, so God made me unique. There's nobody else like me.

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<v Speaker 3>I've got I'm shaped and I'm going to discover it

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<v Speaker 3>over the next five or six weeks.

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<v Speaker 2>Why should I even care? Oh? You should care.

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<v Speaker 3>There are a lot of reasons your success or failure

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<v Speaker 3>in life, your satisfaction or dissatisfaction in life and a

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<v Speaker 3>lot of other things that depend upon it. But tonight

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<v Speaker 3>is this introduction. Let me give you this four things

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<v Speaker 3>real quickly. Why you have to care about your shape

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<v Speaker 3>Number one because my shape reveals God's purpose for me.

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<v Speaker 3>It reveals God's purpose for me. The way you find

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<v Speaker 3>out what God wants you to do with your life is.

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<v Speaker 2>To discover how He shaped you.

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<v Speaker 3>And the better you understand that, the more clear what

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<v Speaker 3>God wants you to do with your life will be.

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<v Speaker 3>In architecture, they have a phrase that goes like this

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<v Speaker 3>form follows function. All architects know this form follows function,

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<v Speaker 3>And what that means is, tell me what you want

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<v Speaker 3>the building to be used for, and then I'll tell

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<v Speaker 3>you how to form it. Tell me what the function

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<v Speaker 3>of it is, and then I'll tell you what to build.

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<v Speaker 2>To build it.

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<v Speaker 3>If you want the function to be a church, will

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<v Speaker 3>you build it one way. If you want it to

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<v Speaker 3>be a cafeteria, you build a building another way. If

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<v Speaker 3>you want it to be a school or a theater,

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<v Speaker 3>or a business or an office, then you build it

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<v Speaker 3>every way. Tell me what the function is, what you're

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<v Speaker 3>going to do in it, and then we will design

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<v Speaker 3>it to fit that function.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's how it works in architecture.

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<v Speaker 3>But with human beings it's the exact opposite. In human beings,

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<v Speaker 3>function follows form. Function follows form. In other words, figure

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<v Speaker 3>out how God shaped me, and then I'll know what

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<v Speaker 3>his purpose is for my life. Figure out how he

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<v Speaker 3>formed me, and then I'll know his will for the

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<v Speaker 3>rest of my life. If I figure out how He

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<v Speaker 3>wired me up, that will give me a pretty good

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<v Speaker 3>clue as to what he expects me to do, because

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<v Speaker 3>God would not give me gifts and heart and ability

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<v Speaker 3>and personality and experience in one area and then say, oh,

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<v Speaker 3>by the way, we're gonna ignore all that, and I

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<v Speaker 3>want you to do this over here that you hate

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<v Speaker 3>to do and you're bad act. If you're good at something,

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<v Speaker 3>it's a pretty good indication that's what God wants you

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<v Speaker 3>to do. We're gonna look at this in great detail

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<v Speaker 3>in the weeks ahead. But knowing how you're shaped gives

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<v Speaker 3>you the direction of your life. That's why it's so

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<v Speaker 3>important you need this series. God said this to Jeremiah

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<v Speaker 3>in chapter one.

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<v Speaker 2>Before I shaped you. There's that word again, Before I

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<v Speaker 2>shaped you in the womb. I knew all.

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<v Speaker 3>About you before you saw the light of day, I

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<v Speaker 3>had holy.

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<v Speaker 2>Plans for you. Would you circle that holy plans?

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<v Speaker 3>God had holy plans for you before you were even born,

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<v Speaker 3>before you came out of your before you saw the

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<v Speaker 3>light of day. God said, I'd already had all these

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<v Speaker 3>plans designed for you, he says to Jeremiah, a spokesman

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<v Speaker 3>to the nations. That's what I had in mind for you.

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<v Speaker 3>And did you know that God had something in mind

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<v Speaker 3>for you before you popped out of your mama?

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<v Speaker 2>He did.

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<v Speaker 3>God had something in mind for you. He already had

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<v Speaker 3>decided what he wanted you to do with your life.

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<v Speaker 2>Now here's the thing. God won't force you.

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<v Speaker 3>To do his plan. You can waste your life. You

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<v Speaker 3>can blow your life, you can use it on all

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<v Speaker 3>kinds of personal self centered all kinds of things, and

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<v Speaker 3>totally miss God's plan and purpose for your life. In fact,

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<v Speaker 3>most people do. And that's the tragedy. And that's why

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<v Speaker 3>they're so frustrated and why they're lonely, and why they

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<v Speaker 3>worry and why they feel depressed, because they're trying to

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<v Speaker 3>do their thing and be something that somebody else wants

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<v Speaker 3>them to be, rather than what God wanted them to

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<v Speaker 3>do and be what God I wanted them to be.

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<v Speaker 2>God says, before you.

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<v Speaker 3>Were even born, I had holy plans for you, and

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<v Speaker 3>he had stuff in mind. Number two not only because

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<v Speaker 3>it reveals God's purpose for you, because it equips me

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<v Speaker 3>to serve him. The Bible says this in Isaiah forty nine.

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<v Speaker 3>God formed me in my mother's womb to be his servant,

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<v Speaker 3>and he commissioned me. God has a mission for you

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<v Speaker 3>that he has commissioned you to do. God says, I

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<v Speaker 3>shaped you to serve me, and I made you for

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<v Speaker 3>a mission. I shaped you to serve me, and I

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<v Speaker 3>made you for a mission. And if there's a life

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<v Speaker 3>mission that God has for you that nobody else in

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<v Speaker 3>this planet can do, nobody else may even know about it.

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<v Speaker 3>But it's what God wants.

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<v Speaker 2>You to do with your life.

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<v Speaker 3>And maybe you've missed that mission, and maybe you've misserving God.

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<v Speaker 3>And I'm saying, okay, let's start today. Let's make the

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<v Speaker 3>rest of your life the best of your life. Let's

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<v Speaker 3>don't blow it for all of your life. Let's just say, Okay,

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<v Speaker 3>I messed up a few years, but now I'm going

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<v Speaker 3>to shape, find my shape, observe God. Then I'm going

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<v Speaker 3>to find my mission and do it and be what

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<v Speaker 3>God made me to be and do what He made

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<v Speaker 3>me to do. Now, God will never ask you to

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<v Speaker 3>do anything in life that he hasn't already given you

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<v Speaker 3>the ability to do. So you look at your abilities,

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<v Speaker 3>you go, I'm good at that. That's what God wants.

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<v Speaker 2>Me to do.

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<v Speaker 3>The third thing, because life is a test. Life is

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<v Speaker 3>a test. Now this is a big one. You need

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<v Speaker 3>to know your shape because this is preparation for eternity.

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<v Speaker 3>We talked about this so many times, that this life

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<v Speaker 3>is preparation for the next life in heaven where you're

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<v Speaker 3>going to spend trillions of years and on this side

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<v Speaker 3>you're only going to spend eighty or one hundred years.

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<v Speaker 3>And God says, this is a test. I'm testing to

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<v Speaker 3>see you what you do with what you've been given

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<v Speaker 3>on earth, and based on that, I will determine what

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<v Speaker 3>I give you to do in heaven for eternity. One day,

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<v Speaker 3>you're going to stand before God and he's going to ask.

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<v Speaker 2>You two questions.

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<v Speaker 3>Sometime within the next one hundred years, you're going to

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<v Speaker 3>stand before God, and when you stand before him, he's

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<v Speaker 3>going to give you the final exam. And my job

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<v Speaker 3>as your pastor, who loves you, is to help you

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<v Speaker 3>prepare for that exam. Fortunately, as God wants you to

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<v Speaker 3>pass it, and He's already told us the answers. Now,

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<v Speaker 3>the first question God's going to ask you is this,

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<v Speaker 3>what did you do with my son Jesus Christ. He's

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<v Speaker 3>not going to ask you were you Catholic or Baptist,

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<v Speaker 3>or Buddhist or Jewish or Muslim, or he's not going

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<v Speaker 3>to ask you what religion you are. He's going to say,

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<v Speaker 3>what did you do with my son Jesus Christ. I

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<v Speaker 3>send him to earth to be your savior, to die

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<v Speaker 3>on the cross for you.

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<v Speaker 2>Did you accept that.

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<v Speaker 3>Or did you just blow that off? Did you accept

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<v Speaker 3>what I sent him to do, to give forgiveness, to

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<v Speaker 3>give salvation, to give you a ticket to heaven. The

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<v Speaker 3>answer is I accepted Jesus as your son. I accepted

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<v Speaker 3>Jesus as my lord, as my savior. I accepted Jesus

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<v Speaker 3>and what he did for me. I accepted his forgiveness,

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<v Speaker 3>and I began to learn and trust him. That's the

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<v Speaker 3>question that gets you into heaven. All the works on

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<v Speaker 3>earth will do nothing in getting you into heaven. It's

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<v Speaker 3>just that first question, What did you do with my son.

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<v Speaker 3>The second question is not about salvation. It's about the

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<v Speaker 3>stewardship of life. And that's the question, what did you

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<v Speaker 3>do with what you were given? And that's the second

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<v Speaker 3>great question, and that's going to determine not whether you

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<v Speaker 3>get into heaven, but what you do after you get there.

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<v Speaker 3>And Jesus told the number of stories in which he

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<v Speaker 3>said that your rewards in heaven and your role in

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<v Speaker 3>heaven and your responsibility in heaven will be based on

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<v Speaker 3>what did you do with what you were given here?

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<v Speaker 3>What did you do with the talent I gave you?

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<v Speaker 3>What did you do with the freedom I gave you?

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<v Speaker 3>What did you do with the health that I gave you?

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<v Speaker 3>What did you do with the family that I gave you?

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<v Speaker 3>What did you do with the relationships? What did you

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<v Speaker 3>do with your network? What did you do with the

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<v Speaker 3>education you were given? What did you do with your

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<v Speaker 3>spiritual gift and your heart and your abilities? What did

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<v Speaker 3>you do with the personality I gave you? And what

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<v Speaker 3>did you do with the experiences I gave you? Did

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<v Speaker 3>you just use them on yourself or did you just

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<v Speaker 3>really learn to use it for my purposes? That is

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<v Speaker 3>the question that this series is to help design, to

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<v Speaker 2>And God says this.

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<v Speaker 3>He says, if you're faithful in what I gave you

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't give you a lot of money. I didn't

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<v Speaker 3>I gave you a little bit, okay, And I gave

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<v Speaker 3>you talents. I didn't give you all the talent in

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<v Speaker 3>the world, but I gave you a little bit. And

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<v Speaker 3>I gave you some interest, and some abilities and some personality.

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<v Speaker 3>If you're faithful in what little I gave you here

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<v Speaker 3>on Earth, then I can trust you with greater roles,

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<v Speaker 3>greater responsibilities, and greater rewards in heaven. But if you're

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<v Speaker 3>not faithful in that little stuff, I can't trust you

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<v Speaker 3>in heaven. This life is a test. God teaches it

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<v Speaker 3>over and over and over in the Bible. Look at

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<v Speaker 3>this one verse up on the screen. Jesus says this.

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<v Speaker 3>From where he sits, God overlooks all of us on earth.

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<v Speaker 3>He has shaped each person in turn, and now he

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<v Speaker 3>watches everything we do. Now not this, It says, God

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<v Speaker 3>is watching everything you do. Do you remember that song,

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<v Speaker 3>bet Middler. He's just saying, from a distance, God is

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<v Speaker 3>watching us. Will you got it half right?

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<v Speaker 3>God is watching, but he's not watching from a distance.

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<v Speaker 3>He's right here.

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<v Speaker 2>He's with you. If you're a believer, he's in you.

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<v Speaker 2>He's up close and personal.

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<v Speaker 3>He is intimately interested in every single detail of your life,

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<v Speaker 3>even how many hairs wash out of your head and

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<v Speaker 3>go into the shower drain each morning. God says, every

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<v Speaker 3>hair in your head is numbered, and he knows when

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<v Speaker 3>you've washed a few. Now, God is watching you here

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<v Speaker 3>on earth. What is he watching to see what you

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<v Speaker 3>do with your shape? And Jesus said this, look at

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<v Speaker 3>the screen again. Whoever can be trusted with very little

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<v Speaker 3>can also be trusted with much. And if you have

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<v Speaker 3>not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, in other words,

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<v Speaker 3>the stuff I give you here on the earth, who

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<v Speaker 3>will trust you with true riches, true spiritual riches that

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<v Speaker 3>go on forever and ever in eternity, He goes, If

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<v Speaker 3>you haven't handled what I gave you on.

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<v Speaker 2>Earth, what do you think I'm going to do with

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<v Speaker 3>This is a test, and so it's very important that

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<v Speaker 3>you know your shape. The fourth reason is because it

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<v Speaker 3>shows God's glory. When you use your shape and you

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<v Speaker 3>do what God made you to do, it not only

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<v Speaker 3>feels good to you, it makes God smile.

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<v Speaker 2>You know.

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<v Speaker 3>Irenaeus was a great Christian leader in the first century.

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<v Speaker 3>He gave a very famous quote and he said this,

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<v Speaker 3>the glory of God is a human being fully alive.

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<v Speaker 3>He said, the glory of God is a human being,

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<v Speaker 3>fully alive. He says, you know what makes God smile

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<v Speaker 3>when he looks down and he sees the guy using

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<v Speaker 3>the talents that God gave and he goes, that's my boy.

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<v Speaker 3>I made him to be a salesman. I made him

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<v Speaker 3>to be an accountant. I made him to be a

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<v Speaker 3>WWF wrestler. I made him you know, I wired him

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<v Speaker 3>to be an athlete. I wired him to be an entrepreneur.

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<v Speaker 3>And he's doing what I made him to do. That's

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<v Speaker 3>my boy.

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<v Speaker 2>And he looks down and he says, look at that woman.

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<v Speaker 3>I made her to do this or this or this

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<v Speaker 3>or this or this or this, and she's doing it.

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<v Speaker 3>That makes me happy because I'm the creator and that's

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<v Speaker 3>what I wired her.

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<v Speaker 2>To do and to be, and she's doing it. And

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<v Speaker 2>it makes me smile.

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<v Speaker 3>You see, anytime something fulfills the purpose it was intended

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<v Speaker 3>to fulfill, it brings glory to God. How does a

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<v Speaker 3>pencil bring glory to God by being a pencil by

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<v Speaker 3>doing what it's intended?

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<v Speaker 2>Pencils are made for writing.

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<v Speaker 3>And when a pencil is used for the act that

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<v Speaker 3>was intended, then it brings glory to God. Now, if

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<v Speaker 3>you use a pencil to get ear racks out of

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<v Speaker 3>your ear, that is a misuse and abuse. That does

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<v Speaker 3>not bring glory to God. Okay uh, how does a

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<v Speaker 3>knife bring glory to God? A knife is to be used.

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<v Speaker 3>Its intended purpose is to cut. Now, when you take

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<v Speaker 3>a knife and you try to use it for something

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<v Speaker 3>else like screwing in a screw as a screwdriver, then

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<v Speaker 3>you are abusing that knife.

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<v Speaker 2>What am I saying?

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<v Speaker 3>Everything you have in your life is a total gift

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<v Speaker 3>from God, everything, and it can be either used or

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<v Speaker 3>it can be abused. Every gift of God can be

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<v Speaker 3>a used or misused and abused. Sex When sex is

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<v Speaker 3>used the way God intended between a husband and a wife,

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<v Speaker 3>that brings glory to God. God goes, They're doing what

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<v Speaker 3>I made him to do. But sex can also be

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<v Speaker 3>misused and abused, and it dishonors God. Money can be

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<v Speaker 3>used to bring honor to God when it's used wisely.

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<v Speaker 3>When money is misused or abused, it brings dishonor to God.

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<v Speaker 2>Time time can be used to honor God.

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<v Speaker 3>Or can be misused and abused, and we abuse our

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<v Speaker 3>time and waste it, and it doesn't bring honor to God.

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<v Speaker 3>Everything in life can be used or abused. It's all

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<v Speaker 3>a different God, and it's all good, but it's used

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<v Speaker 3>or abused. And God says, I'm testing you to see

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<v Speaker 3>what you're doing with what I gave you. And there

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<v Speaker 3>are eternal consequences on everything you do, eternal consequences rewards, roles,

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<v Speaker 3>and responsibilities. So he says, I want you to bring

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<v Speaker 3>me glory. Now, what about people? When people fulfill their purpose,

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<v Speaker 3>they bring glory to God.

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<v Speaker 2>But here's the problem.

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<v Speaker 3>As human beings, we don't think like God, and we

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<v Speaker 3>think only really bright people and really beautiful people are

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<v Speaker 3>important and they're worth a lot. But those of us

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<v Speaker 3>who aren't bright and aren't important, we're not worth a lot.

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<v Speaker 3>You're dead wrong. Where does it say that in the Bible?

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<v Speaker 3>Does it say that God loves some people more than others,

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<v Speaker 3>or that Gods a summer worth more than others.

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<v Speaker 2>No, whether you're.

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<v Speaker 3>Contributing in some giant way, or contributing in some little way,

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<v Speaker 3>or you're sick and even can't even contribute.

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<v Speaker 2>At all, you have the same value in God's ns.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you so much for joining us on Pastor Rick's

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<v Speaker 1>Daily Hope today. Hey, I'm wondering have you ever asked

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<v Speaker 1>the question what does God want me to do with

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<v Speaker 1>my life? If you're like me, of course you have

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<v Speaker 1>and you're not alone. God intentionally created you to fulfill

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<v Speaker 1>a unique purpose. It's so important that you discover how

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<v Speaker 1>Difference Bible study, it was created by Pastor Rick and

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<v Speaker 1>taught by Pastor Eric Reith. Now, in this study, you're

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<v Speaker 1>going to see how the Crosstic shape, which stands for

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<v Speaker 1>spiritual gifts, heart, abilities, personality and experiences. And it will

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<v Speaker 1>reveal how God wired you and how you can use

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