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Rick Warren - Are You Learning From Those Who Came Before You? (Part 1)

August 31, 2025 | 28:30

Rick Warren - Are You Learning From Those Who Came Before You? (Part 1)
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  • Pastor rick warren: if you'll take out your message notes,
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  • We're in a series on "the ten great tests of life."
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  • And we've been looking at the life of daniel, who lived about
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  • 2500 years ago.
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  • At 15 years of age, he was taken as a prisoner of war to the
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  • Babylonian empire with about 25% of the jewish nation.
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  • But there he just continued to pass every test of life.
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  • And when he was 85, 70 years later, he is the second most
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  • Powerful man in the most powerful empire in the world.
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  • Now, we don't have time to review all of what's happened.
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  • But in daniel chapter 5, where we are now, king nebuchadnezzar,
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  • Who was the most famous king, babylonian king, built this
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  • Great hanging walls of babylon.
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  • He's died, and he reigned for 45 years.
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  • And now his grandson, a guy named belshazzar, is the king.
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  • Belshazzar was a terrible leader.
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  • Absolute terrible leader.
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  • He was a party boy, he was a spoiled, royal brat.
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  • And all he liked to do was drink and party with his friends.
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  • And so, sensing weakness--i'm setting up where we're going.
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  • The two biggest enemies at that time, the medes and the
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  • Persians, joined together.
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  • Darius the mede and cyrus the great.
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  • And they came to besiege this great walled city of babylon.
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  • Now, it's a pretty safe city.
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  • The euphrates river runs through it.
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  • It's got walls 50 to 80 feet in depth.
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  • It's a pretty fortified city.
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  • But at the--at this moment that we're gonna look at this
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  • Weekend, these two armies are camped around the city of
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  • Babylon waiting to attack.
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  • And belshazzar, the king, this young kid, he's not worried
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  • About it, he's overconfident.
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  • And so, what does the party boy do when he's under attack?
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  • He throws a party.
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  • And in this chapter, he invites a thousand of his friends to the
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  • Royal palace, and he has--and they all get drunk.
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  • They all get drunk.
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  • They're having a really fun time, and then the king gets a
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  • Very bad idea.
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  • And here's what he says.
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  • He says--and he's drunk.
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  • He said, "hey, you guys, when my grandfather was the emperor of
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  • Babylon, and when we sacked jerusalem and destroyed it and
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  • Took over israel," he said that, "we stole all of the temple
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  • Utensils, all of the goblets and all that stuff.
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  • And it's been in storage here in babylon now for 45 years."
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  • He says, "how about this?
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  • Let's get out the temple goblets and we're gonna drink in them
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  • And toast to our pagan gods."
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  • Bad idea, bad idea.
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  • This is called being sacrilegious.
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  • And it's making fun of somebody else's religion.
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  • It's taking something that is created to honor god, and
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  • Instead misusing it to dishonor god.
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  • And you turn something sacred into something profane.
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  • And let's look at this story and then we're gonna draw some
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  • Lessons out of it.
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  • Okay, here's what it says in the bible: daniel chapter 5, "king
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  • Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles,
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  • And they all got drunk.
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  • When belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in
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  • The gold and silver goblets that nebuchadnezzar his predecessor
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  • Had taken from the temple of god in jerusalem."
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  • Now, he thought it'd be fun to drink using these goblets
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  • Intended to worship god.
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  • And so it says, "so they did, they used the cups, laughing and
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  • Making toast to all the pagan gods and idols.
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  • Now, suddenly," it says, "a finger of a human hand appeared
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  • In the royal banquet hall and began writing--supernaturally
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  • Writing on the plaster walls of the royal palace.
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  • And the king," it says, "and all the guests watched this hand as
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  • It wrote."
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  • Now, this is a hand without a body, okay.
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  • Anybody remember the thing in the addams family?
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  • I don't know if thing was around then, but you know, he could
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  • Have--you know, he was detached.
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  • It certainly wasn't one of those giant foam fingers they have at
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  • The angel game, you know, "we're number one."
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  • But evidently, this is a kind of a freaky friday thing.
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  • A hand shows up and it starts writing on the wall.
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  • By the way, have you ever heard the expression, "the handwriting
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  • Is on the wall?"
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  • It's from this story, 2500 years ago.
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  • This idiom that we use now, "the handwriting is on the wall,"
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  • Which means, that's a warning, bad news is coming.
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  • You're about to get fired.
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  • The handwriting is on the wall.
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  • Anytime you use, "the handwriting is on the wall,"
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  • It's from this story in the bible.
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  • And i could give you 400 or 500 other phrases, expressions, and
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  • Idioms that actually came out of bible stories.
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  • The handwriting on the wall is referring to the fact that
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  • Belshazzar is gonna be warned.
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  • He's gonna die that night because he has been sacrilegious
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  • And he's disrupted god and he hasn't been, you know, humble.
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  • Now, this is a--it's a warning, but this is the origin of it.
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  • Now, in verse 6, it says this, "when the king saw this--this
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  • Hand writing on the wall it scared him to death."
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  • Well, i guess so.
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  • It said, "his face turned pale and he was so frightened that
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  • His knees knocked together and his hips gave way."
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  • I love this last phrase, "his hips gave way."
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  • That's just a polite way of saying, he soiled his pants.
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  • He was moved, if you get my drift, okay, okay.
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  • The guy got diarrhea.
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  • Now, i don't know about this one, but it might--that may be
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  • The source of the expression, it scared the poo out of him, okay.
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  • But that's exactly what happened to this king.
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  • He just messes himself.
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  • Now, a thousand guests see this handwriting on the wall, nobody
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  • Can read it, nobody understands it, nobody can interpret it.
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  • So they call for this guy, daniel, who's been serving now,
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  • First as a prisoner of war, then as an intern, he gets--and now
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  • He's an administrator and he's moved up.
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  • And by this point, daniel, in his life, has developed a
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  • Reputation for being the smartest guy in the empire.
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  • He's the best educated, he's the wisest man in the empire.
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  • And he--daniel is the go-to guy when you don't know what to do,
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  • When you don't understand it, when there's a mystery that
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  • Needs to be unraveled.
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  • You couldn't explain something, you call on daniel.
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  • So they call on daniel and he comes to the banquet hall.
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  • And daniel reads the message and he--and translates it and he
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  • Interprets it.
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  • Now, here's what the message was, daniel 5:25, "now, this is
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  • The message of the handwriting on the wall: mene, mene,
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  • Tekel, parsin."
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  • Well, nobody understood that because that happens to
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  • Be aramaic.
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  • It's the only aramaic phrase in the entire hebrew scriptures,
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  • The old testament.
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  • Everything else written in hebrew.
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  • This is the only phrase in the entire bible in the old
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  • Testament written in aramaic, which by the way, was the
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  • Language that jesus spoke.
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  • Now, he not only reads it, he translates it, and then
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  • He--daniel interprets it.
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  • And he says, "okay king."
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  • He said, "mene means numbered, and it means your days
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  • Are numbered."
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  • God has numbered the days of your reign, and they're
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  • Gonna end.
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  • Your time's up.
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  • Your number has been pulled.
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  • He said, "tekel means weighed, weighed, weighed in the
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  • Balance," like at a scale.
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  • He said, "you've been weighed on the scales of god and you have
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  • Not measured up."
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  • And then he says, "parsin means divided."
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  • And he says, "your kingdom is gonna be divided tonight between
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  • The kings and the persians, and you're gonna die."
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  • And the word parsin to a hebrew mind or a chaldean mind, it's a
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  • Play on words.
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  • Parsin and persian sound real similar.
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  • Now, this is not exactly good news.
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  • You're losing your kingdom and you're gonna die tonight.
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  • But daniel, because he always does the right thing, he gets
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  • Promoted again.
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  • Look at this next verse on the screen.
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  • It says, "then the king commanded--king belshazzar
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  • Commanded that a royal robe be put on daniel, and a gold chain
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  • Was put around his neck," 'cause he had interpreted this.
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  • "and the king named daniel to be the third highest ruler in
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  • The kingdom."
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  • It's another promotion, those of you who've been studying this
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  • With us for seven weeks now.
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  • Okay, he's the third highest ruler in the kingdom.
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  • "but that very night belshazzar was slain, and darius the mede
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  • Took over his kingdom, at the age of sixty-two."
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  • Archaeology now tells us how they actually invaded.
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  • They didn't try to tear the walls down.
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  • What they did is the euphrates river ran through the city under
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  • The walls.
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  • They actually diverted the river and the water went down low
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  • Enough that they could crawl under the wall.
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  • And they came in and this is a historical fact that the medes
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  • And the persians then took over from belshazzar that night.
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  • He only had a two-year reign.
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  • Now, there are a lot of lessons in this chapter we could
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  • Look at.
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  • I debated which way to go.
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  • Like, how to not lose a kingdom.
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  • The principles are in here.
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  • But what i wanna focus on is why they called daniel for the
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  • Crisis, when they didn't know what to do, they didn't know
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  • Where to turn.
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  • There are a lot of crises in the world.
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  • We need daniels today.
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  • We need women and men who can go, "this is what this means.
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  • This is what this means.
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  • We see this out here, this is what this means."
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  • And as i said, daniel had developed this reputation as
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  • Being the go-to guy because he was the wisest man in
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  • The empire.
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  • In fact, let's go back and let me show you what the queen and
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  • The king said about this guy.
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  • Here on the screen.
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  • The queen said this, "this man daniel...has a sharp mind and is
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  • Filled with knowledge and understanding.
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  • And he can interpret dreams, he can explain the meaning of
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  • Mysteries, he can solve difficult problems.
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  • So call for daniel, and he'll tell you what it means."
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  • And so, they put out the call, "sos, bring daniel in."
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  • And when he gets into the banquet hall, this is what the
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  • King said, the next verse.
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  • "i have heard,"--daniel, "that the spirit of god is in you,
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  • That you possess brilliant knowledge and
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  • Extraordinary wisdom."
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  • Isn't that incredible reputation?
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  • I mean, think about that.
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  • Note those three things.
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  • He says, "you got god's spirit in you, you're brilliant in your
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  • Knowledge, and you're extraordinary in your wisdom."
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  • Wouldn't you like to have people say that about you?
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  • Yeah, well, you would.
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  • You picked a good weekend to come to church.
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  • Because that's what we're gonna look at.
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  • How do you become wise like daniel?
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  • God used this guy, daniel, because he was wise, but wisdom
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  • Is a choice.
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  • And you can choose to become wise through learning, and
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  • Through study, and dedication, and prayer.
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  • And the bible's got a lot to say about wisdom and learning.
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  • We could spend an entire six months on this one.
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  • But let me just show you one verse.
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  • Here's a verse up here on the screen.
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  • Proverbs chapter 4, which is, by the way, the book of wisdom in
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  • The bible.
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  • Says this, verse 13, "always remember what you have learned.
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  • Your education is your life, so guard it well."
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  • Your education is your life, so guard it well.
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  • Announcer: if you wanna live a life full of purpose and joy,
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  • And to help you do this, pastor rick created a brand new set of
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  • Scripture cards with 52 hand-selected verses from his
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  • Series, "rethinking your life."
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  • These verses will guide you into
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  • A deeper understanding of your
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  • Purpose and faith, and you'll
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  • Find yourself gaining the strength
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  • To overcome temptation
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  • And conquer discouragement when
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  • You allow god's word to transform your mind.
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  • You'll see your life through his eyes, apply his wisdom, and step
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  • Into a life of purpose and joy.
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  • Pastor rick: let's look at what god says are the five ways to
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  • Become wise in life.
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  • Everybody, there's benefits to love, there's benefits
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  • To wisdom.
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  • And when you do the things god says to do, you're gonna just
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  • Become a wiser person.
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  • All right, let's look at 'em.
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  • First thing the bible says is this, "make a commitment to
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  • Never stop learning.
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  • Make a commitment to never stop learning."
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  • Now, it all starts with a choice.
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  • And nobody can decide for you, you gotta make this
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  • Choice yourself.
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  • You have to realize how important learning is for the
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  • Rest of your life.
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  • Proverbs 23, verse 12, and the bible says this, "commit
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  • Yourself," that's making a commitment.
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  • "commit yourself to instruction; and tune in your ears to hear
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  • The words of knowledge."
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  • Now, your education--you know this, does not stop when
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  • You graduate.
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  • I've actually heard people say, "well, i'm glad i finished my
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  • Education, so now i can start my career."
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  • I'm going--i wanna go, "buddy, you're never going to finish
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  • Your education.
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  • Tell that one to god and he'll laugh at you."
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  • The rest of your life you're gonna be in education mode.
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  • There are a lot of things god wants to teach you that you have
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  • Not learned yet.
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  • Learning is a--is not a stage of life.
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  • Learning is your life.
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  • Learning is your lifestyle.
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  • And god wants you to learn something every day.
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  • And so, he says, "commit yourself to instruction."
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  • Commit yourself, make a commitment to never
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  • Stop learning.
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  • What new skill are you working on right now, that you didn't
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  • Have last year?
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  • What new skill next year are you gonna work on that you don't
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  • Have today?
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  • Are you gonna be any different?
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  • You're gonna be better, you're gonna be any stronger, you're
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  • Gonna know more, you're going to be wiser.
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  • You make the commitment because you're never finished with
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  • Your education.
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  • And lifelong learning is actually the key to being
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  • A leader.
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  • All leaders are learners.
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  • The moment you stop learning, you stop leading.
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  • You can never take a person any farther than you are yourself.
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  • And so, for instance, in a church, a growing church
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  • Requires a growing pastor.
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  • In business, a growing business requires a growing businessman.
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  • The classroom, it requires a growing teacher.
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  • In any area of life, all leaders are learners.
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  • If you're not learning, you're not a leader because you gotta
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  • Keep moving further and further ahead.
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  • As i said, it's not a stage.
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  • Now, why should you never stop learning?
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  • 'cause it's in your best interest.
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  • I could give you 40, 50 things that the bible says learning
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  • Does in your life.
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  • Let me just mention a couple.
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  • It brings success and it brings profit, success and profit.
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  • You want those in your life?
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  • Then you need to be a continuous learning person.
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  • The more you learn, the more you earn, the more you grow, the
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  • More you become effective in life.
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  • Let me show you a couple of verses.
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  • One of 'em is ecclesiastes 19--10:10.
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  • This is one of my life verses.
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  • I memorized it early in life, and it says this, "if an ax is
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  • Dull and its edge is unsharpened, more strength is
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  • Needed, but skill will bring success."
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  • Now, it says if you got an ax and you're chopping wood, if the
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  • Blade is dull, obviously it takes a lot more energy to chop
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  • The wood.
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  • If it's--if your ax is sharp, which represents skill, then it
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  • Doesn't take as much effort.
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  • He's simply saying here, work smarter, not harder.
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  • Work smarter, not harder.
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  • You're never wasting your time when you're sharpening your ax.
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  • Right now, when you come to church, you're sharpening
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  • Your ax.
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  • You're spiritually sharpening your ax to be more effective in
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  • The world.
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  • When you take a seminar, when you read a book, you're
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  • Sharpening your ax.
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  • And the bible says that skill will bring success.
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  • Notice, it didn't say desire.
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  • It didn't say, prayer, okay.
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  • It says skill will bring success.
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  • And you can pray all you want and you can have all the desire
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  • All you want, you can write down all your dreams all you want,
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  • But if you don't have the skill, you're not gonna be as
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  • Successful as you could be.
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  • I know a lot of people who desire to be a success, they
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  • Desire to grow, they desire to be effective, they desire--but
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  • They're not willing to learn the skills.
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  • Go back to school and get a new skill or whatever.
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  • "skill," the bible says, "will bring success."
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  • And not only that, the bible says, "it brings profit."
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  • Look at this verse on your screen.
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  • The bible says in proverbs 19, verse 8, "do yourself a
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  • Favor,"--might see as self-serving, really to grow
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  • In wisdom.
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  • "do yourself a favor and learn all you can; then remember what
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  • You learn and you will," what?
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  • "prosper," okay, you'll have a better life if you--the more you
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  • Learn, you'll just have a better life.
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  • Now, here's what i've discovered.
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  • I've talked to tens of thousands of people in a hundred and sixty
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  • Four countries.
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  • And what i've learned is this, you can learn from anybody if
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  • You know the right question.
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  • I could--if you give me five minutes with you, i can get you
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  • To teach me something 'cause you know things i don't know.
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  • I know some things you don't know.
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  • And the person sitting next to you knows some things that
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  • Neither you nor i know.
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  • That's why we need each other.
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  • That's why it takes humility to be wise.
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  • Humility asks questions.
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  • Pride says, "oh, i don't wanna ask questions 'cause it'll look
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  • Like i'm dumb."
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  • There are no dumb questions in life.
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  • The dumb thing is not to ask a question.
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  • And so, in humility, you'll actually learn more because you
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  • Ask questions.
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  • There's a verse in the bible where it says, "counsel in the
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  • Heart of man is like a deep well.
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  • But a man of understanding will draw it out."
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  • Daniel was a man of understanding.
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  • How do you draw it out of people?
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  • By asking questions.
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  • You might wanna sit down and make a little list and keep it
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  • In your wallet or your purse.
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  • Every time you sit around with somebody who you think, "maybe
  • 00:19:22.211 --> 00:19:25.480
  • They could teach me something," take advantage of it.
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  • Whenever i meet, you know, a stranger and i've got a period
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  • Of time--i'm sitting on a plane with 'em or whatever--happen to
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  • Be waiting and we start talking, i have two questions on the back
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  • Of my mind.
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  • One of the first is, how can i help them?
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  • How can i serve them?
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  • Is there anything i could do?
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  • Maybe they need an encouragement or is there anything i could
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  • Assist them in 'cause we're here to serve.
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  • And then the second question is, what do they know that i
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  • Don't know?
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  • And i'll start asking a few questions for probing, and i go,
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  • "well, i don't know anything about that," and i'll ask
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  • About it.
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  • And that way anybody can teach you something.
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  • But the secret is, you have to pay attention.
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  • Look at this verse on the screen.
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  • Proverbs 23:12, "pay attention to your teacher
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  • And learn all you can."
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  • The point is, pay attention.
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  • And if the more you pay attention--that's part of the
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  • Commitment to never stop learning.
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  • All right, here's the second key that the bible tells us to
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  • Be wise.
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  • Learn the lessons of the prior generation.
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  • And the whole reason i wanted to talk about this is because this
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  • Was the mistake that this king belshazzar made.
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  • He could have learned the lessons that would have
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  • Prevented his kingdom from being overthrown because his
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  • Grandfather had made all these mistakes.
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  • But he didn't listen, he didn't learn, and as a result, he lost
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  • It all.
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  • You learn the lessons of the prior generation.
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  • Actually, this concept is something that god commands us
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  • To do.
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  • Let me give you an example of it.
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  • In the bible, in the book of job chapter 8, verse 8--verse 9, it
  • 00:20:58.373 --> 00:21:03.045
  • Says this, "ask the former generations and find out what
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  • Their fathers learned, for we were born only yesterday and we
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  • Know so little."
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  • He says, "i want you to go out and ask the former generations.
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  • You need to learn the lessons of people who came before you."
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  • He said, "if you don't, you're being prideful.
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  • If you're humble, you will learn."
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  • Now, what does that mean?
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  • In your life, if you're gonna be wise, you're gonna need four
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  • Kinds of people.
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  • I want you to write these down.
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  • There are four relationships you need to become wise.
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  • You need mentors, models, partners, and friends.
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  • This is not on your outline, just write it down in
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  • The corner.
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  • Mentors, models, partners, and friends.
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  • If you're going to be all that god wants you to be in life, if
  • 00:21:45.120 --> 00:21:47.723
  • You're gonna succeed the way god intends for you to succeed,
  • 00:21:47.723 --> 00:21:50.959
  • You're gonna need mentors, models, partners, and friends.
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  • And these will help you from--lessons from the past.
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  • First, you need mentors.
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  • Now, mentors are your coaches.
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  • They're the people who help you along in life.
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  • In my life, i've had nine different mentors, why?
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  • Because nobody can teach you everything.
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  • So, you don't need one mentor for your life, you need somebody
  • 00:22:14.549 --> 00:22:17.386
  • Who teaches you this, you need somebody else over here who
  • 00:22:17.386 --> 00:22:19.287
  • Teaches you this, and somebody else who teaches you over this
  • 00:22:19.287 --> 00:22:21.590
  • And this.
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  • Nine mentors in my life, only one of 'em is still living.
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  • His name's billy graham.
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  • And then he's 96.
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  • Some of my mentors were famous, but some of 'em were
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  • Just normal.
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  • You would never even know who they were.
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  • Probably the most famous mentor i had was peter drucker.
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  • Peter drucker was the father of modern management.
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  • Pretty much invented the modern corporation.
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  • And for the last 20 years of his life, i would go to his home and
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  • He mentored me from age 75 to 95.
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  • And died at 96.
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  • And taught me stuff that i didn't know about.
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  • How do you organize a very large, well, you know,
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  • Complex system?
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  • So, you need mentors in your life.
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  • Second thing you need is you need models.
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  • Now, models are--they're already doing what you wanna do with
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  • Your life.
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  • We learn fastest by model.
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  • Everything you learned, all these skills in your life by
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  • Other people modeling it for you.
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  • Like how to talk.
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  • So, you need models in your life.
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  • I wanna recommend if you're gonna have a model for your
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  • Life, that they'd be dead.
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  • You say, "why?"
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  • Because the jury is still out on people who are alive.
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  • The jury is still out on me, on you, and everybody else.
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  • Some people start off well, but they don't end well.
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  • And so, you might wanna choose a model from history, because then
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  • You can see their life from beginning to end, you can see
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  • The arcs in it, ups and the downs, highs and lows, the
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  • Problems and the pitfalls.
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  • But you don't wanna choose as a model somebody who you think,
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  • "wow, that's my model," and a few years from now, they really
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  • Crack up and burn out.
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  • And you've been climbing this ladder of success, and you get
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  • To the top, and you realize it's leaning against the wrong wall.
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  • So, you need mentors, you need models.
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  • I would have live mentors, dead models.
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  • Then you need partners.
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  • Partners are the people in your life who row the boat with you.
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  • They're your coworkers in your profession.
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  • And partners can help you and challenge you, can support you.
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  • Everybody needs partners.
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  • And then of course you need friends.
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  • Now, friends aren't helping you with your goal, they're
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  • Just friends.
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  • And friends love you no matter what you do.
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  • You can really mess up and they love you.
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  • They say, "hey, you're a good egg, even if you are a
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  • Little cracked."
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  • And friend--what is a friend?
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  • A friend walks into your life when everybody else walks out.
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  • Then you know who your friends are.
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  • You know, they're there when you when you need them the most,
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  • When you don't deserve a friend.
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  • But you need to have in your life, always, somebody you're
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  • Building into and somebody who's building into you.
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  • You need a mentor, you need a paul, and you need a mentee, you
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  • Need a timothy.
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  • Everybody--you need to have somebody who's pouring into your
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  • Life and you need somebody you're pouring into their life.
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  • And usually they are older and younger.
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  • But you need to learn the lessons of the prior generation.
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  • Now, it says, "ask the former generation."
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  • How do you ask them if they're dead?
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  • Well, biographies, read biographies.
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  • I tell my staff--here at saddleback church, i have 513
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  • Staff--paid staff.
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  • And i'm telling 'em all the time--i'm telling 'em all the
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  • Time, "all the lessons are in the past, and all of the
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  • Opportunities are in the future."
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