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Rick Warren - Are You Learning From Those Who Came Before You? (Part 2)

September 7, 2025 | 28:30

Rick Warren - Are You Learning From Those Who Came Before You? (Part 2)
Pastor Rick shares biblical truth and practical tools for living the full life God desires for everyone.
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Rick Warren | Rick Warren - Are You Learning From Those Who Came Before You? (Part 2) | September 7, 2025
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  • Pastor rick warren: we've been looking at the life of daniel,
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  • Who lived about 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, but there,
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  • 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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  • Daniel had developed this reputation as being the go-to
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  • Guy because he was the wisest man in 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, here on the screen.
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  • The queen said this, "this man daniel...
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  • Has a sharp mind and he's filled with knowledge
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  • 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, that
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  • You possess brilliant knowledge and extraordinary wisdom."
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  • Isn't that incredible reputation?
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  • I mean, think about that, note those three things.
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  • He says, "you've got god's spirit in you, you are--you're
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  • Brilliant in your knowledge, and you're extraordinary in
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  • Your wisdom."
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  • Wouldn't you like to have people say that about you?
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  • Yeah, well, that--if you would, you picked a good weekend to
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  • Come to church, 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, and you can choose to become wise through learning,
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  • And 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, but let me
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  • Just show you one verse.
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  • Here's the verse up here on the screen, job chapter 8, verse 8--
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  • Verse 9, it says this, "ask the former generations and find out
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  • What their fathers learned, for we were born only yesterday and
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  • We 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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  • Become a student of history.
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  • The more you understand what's happened in the past, it's all
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  • Been done before, just in various forms.
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  • Well, we saw that 300 years ago, we saw that 900 years ago, we
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  • Saw that 1500 years ago.
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  • And the more you know, it builds your foundation.
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  • The bible says, "listen to the past generations, and learn from
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  • Them, and learn from biographies," which is why so
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  • Much of this book, the bible, is stories.
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  • It's filled with biographies.
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  • Now, these aren't fairy tales, "little peter cottontail" and,
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  • You know, "jumpity rabbit," or something.
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  • These are real people, moses was real, nebuchadnezzar was real,
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  • Daniel was real, jesus was real.
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  • These are people that actually happened, and the reason i love
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  • The bible, 'cause it always tells the truth.
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  • It doesn't just show you the good stuff about them, it tells
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  • All of the--you know, the bad stuff too, so you go, "well,
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  • Okay, then i can relate to that."
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  • In fact, all of these life lessons that are in this book,
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  • You need.
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  • And the more you know these, the wiser you're going to be.
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  • The wiser you're going to be.
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  • In fact, look at this next verse on your outline.
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  • Why--what the bible says about itself.
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  • 1 corinthians chapter 10, "these things--" talking about stuff
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  • That's in the bible.
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  • "these things occurred as examples to warn us and to keep
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  • Us from wanting to do the same evil kind of things they did.
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  • For the scripture says that we should avoid drunken parties,
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  • Sexual immorality, worshiping things that aren't god.
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  • We should test--we should not test the lord's patience or
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  • Grumble and complain as some did, and they died."
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  • And he said, "these things happened as examples and they
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  • Were written down as warnings for us..."
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  • So these are the first two things.
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  • Make a commitment to never stop learning, learn the lessons
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  • Of the prior generations.
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  • Number three, the bible says, "maintain a humble attitude that
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  • Honors god."
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  • Maintain, throughout your life, a humble attitude that
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  • Honors god.
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  • I said it earlier, humility and teachability actually
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  • Go together.
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  • Be humble or you'll stumble.
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  • The more humble you are, the less you'll stumble.
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  • The bible says, "pride goes before destruction and a haughty
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  • Spirit before a fall."
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  • Now, humility begins by simply realizing you're not god.
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  • If you ever get under stress, repeat this three times and call
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  • Me, "god is god, and i'm not.
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  • God is god, and i'm not.
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  • God is god, and i'm not."
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  • You need to realize you're not god, and you need to realize you
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  • Need god, that's humility.
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  • If you don't realize that, you're not a humble person.
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  • Now, the bible says, in proverbs 15, this.
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  • Verse 33, "reverence for the lord is an education in itself.
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  • You must be humble before you can ever receive honors."
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  • So he said, you know, "you want to start out with a lifelong
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  • Goal to be wise?
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  • Get to know god.
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  • And the more you get to know god, the more you get to know
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  • His word, you're going to simply be a wiser person."
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  • You'll be wiser in relationships, you'll be wiser
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  • In the way you manage your money, you'll be wiser in
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  • Handling conflict, you'll be wiser in diffusing problems.
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  • You'll just be wiser in a whole lot of different areas because
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  • You're not simply depending on your own intellect.
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  • You're getting the wisdom of god, the wisdom of the ages.
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  • And he says, "maintain a humble attitude."
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  • By the way, do you know what the first mark of humility to
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  • God is?
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  • Being baptized, yeah, being baptized.
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  • Being baptized is a humble statement, saying, "god, you're
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  • God, and i'm not, and i recognize this."
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  • Have you ever been baptized?
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  • If you haven't, i would encourage you to do so.
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  • Now, i know some people say, "well, you know, i don't want to
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  • Get my hair wet."
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  • That's called pride, that's called pride.
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  • So, that's the very reason you need to do it, it's a statement
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  • Of humility.
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  • I know some people say, "well, i was baptized as a baby."
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  • Terrific, i--that's fantastic, that was a wonderful statement
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  • Of faith by your parents.
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  • Do you even remember it?
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  • No, it was their decision, not yours.
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  • You need to make your own decision in baptism too,
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  • In addition to that.
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  • You know how old jesus was when he was baptized?
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  • He was 30, it was his adult decision, it wasn't his
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  • Parents' decision.
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  • Now, when he was a baby, his parents took him to the temple,
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  • Had him dedicated.
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  • His adult baptism did not invalidate what happened when he
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  • Was a baby.
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  • It's not like one or the other, he did both.
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  • If you have not been baptized the way jesus was--i'm gonna be
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  • Baptizing, actually, next week.
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  • We have a pool out here, we got shorts, shower, towels and stuff
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  • Like that.
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  • And so what i do--the bible says baptism is a picture of two
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  • Things: of jesus dying, being buried in the ground, and being
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  • Raised again; and it's also a picture of you dying to all your
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  • Sins are forgiven and beginning a new perspective, a new life.
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  • And so, just as jesus died, was buried in the ground three days,
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  • And rose again, i take you, i put you under the water, i leave
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  • You there three days...
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  • Just seeing if you're listening.
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  • And if you--and raise you up.
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  • The bible says this, james chapter 4, verse 6, "god opposes
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  • The proud but he gives grace to the humble."
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  • Why does god oppose the proud?
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  • 'cause they're unteachable.
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  • They think they know it all, they can't learn.
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  • Humility said, "i can learn from anybody."
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  • You can teach me, can i teach you?
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  • Can other people teach you?
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  • Humility means you can learn literally from anybody.
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  • Now, number four, the fourth key to wisdom is to refuse to fill
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  • My mind with garbage.
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  • Refuse to fill my mind with garbage.
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  • You know, we're all worried about water pollution and air
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  • Pollution, and we ought to be, we're to take care of the
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  • Planet, but those very people are often not even worried about
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  • The pollution they allowed in their mind.
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  • The concepts, the words, the thoughts that are actually
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  • Harmful to your life, on television, in movies, in books.
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  • And actually, when it comes down to what you feed your mind is as
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  • Important as what you feed your body.
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  • So what do you need to eat more of?
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  • What do you need to eat less of, in the content that you fill
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  • Your mind with?
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  • You know, there's basically four kinds of content you can fill
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  • Your mind with.
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  • You can fill it with a poison, poison is stuff that will
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  • Kill you.
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  • There are concepts that will actually derange you, or degrade
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  • You, or demoralize you, or defeat you.
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  • There are self-defeating thoughts that you tell yourself.
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  • There are self-defeating thoughts that other people tell
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  • You, that's that's poison.
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  • Pornography is poison, you don't fill your mind with that kind
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  • Of stuff.
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  • So you stay away from that, but then a lot of stuff is just
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  • Junk food.
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  • And a lot of stuff that's on tv, i call it the equivalent of
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  • Mental twinkies.
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  • There's no nutritional value in it, it's just there.
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  • And yeah, you can eat junk food, but you're not gonna be very
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  • Wise watching the kardashians.
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  • I don't know that it's gonna make anybody smarter doing that.
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  • Then, the third thing you can fill your mind with is brain
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  • Food, and that's good stuff.
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  • Now, the people who were on the stage just now, they deal in
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  • Brain food.
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  • And they teach you stuff about life.
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  • They teach you stuff about, you know, science, and math, and
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  • History, and english, and geography.
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  • That's brain food, that's good stuff.
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  • You need to fill your mind with, you know, stuff that educates
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  • You, makes you a stronger, a more rounded person.
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  • But then you also need, in addition to brain food, you need
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  • Superfood, and that's what this is.
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  • This is superfood, it can teach you stuff that you're not going
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  • To get anywhere else in how to relate to life and how to
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  • Relate--it answers the fundamental questions like,
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  • "who am i?
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  • Where am i? where did i come from?
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  • Where did i--where am i going?
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  • Does my life matter? is there purpose to my life?
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  • Is there meaning? am i significant?"
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  • Those kind of questions are in this book.
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  • The answers are right there.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Announcer: if you want to live a life full of purpose and joy,
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  • Then you need to transform the way you think.
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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
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  • Strength 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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  • Pastor rick: okay, number five, the fifth thing, and this is the
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  • Most important of all.
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  • If you're gonna learn to be wise, you must put into practice
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  • What i've already learned.
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  • Put into practice what i've learned.
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  • God doesn't teach you the second thing about life until you
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  • Actually act on the stuff you already know.
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  • God is not in the business of simply satisfying your
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  • Curiosity, and i'll tell you 15 really cool things about life.
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  • No, he tells you one thing, and he waits for you to act on it.
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  • Once you act on it, then you get to go the next step.
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  • And once you act on that, you get to go to level stage two,
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  • And three, and four, and five.
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  • You have to apply the truth.
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  • You have to act on the truth.
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  • You have to internalize what you've learned.
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  • There's a geico ad on tv right now, and it goes like this,
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  • "you're not really a firefighter until you've fought a fire.
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  • You're not really an actor till you've actually acted
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  • In something.
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  • You're not really an author till you actually authored a book."
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  • And i would say, "you're not really a believer in god until
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  • You start living by what you claim to believe."
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  • I have to act on it, i have to apply it, i have to
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  • Internalize it.
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  • I want you to write this down in your outline, "i haven't learned
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  • It until i do it."
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  • I haven't learned it until i do it.
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  • If i were to say, "do you believe the bible?"
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  • A lot of you say, "sure, i believe the bible."
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  • I said, "well, do you do it?"
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  • "well, no," then you don't really believe it.
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  • You only believe the things in life that you actually do.
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  • The bible says you're to forgive your enemies.
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  • Do you believe that?
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  • Yeah, do you do it?
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  • No, then you don't really believe it.
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  • I only believe what i actually do and i haven't really learned
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  • Until i do it.
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  • Now, belshazzar, this guy, this king, he loses everything
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  • Because he failed to do this last point.
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  • He failed to put into practice what he had seen and learned,
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  • And he pridefully refuses to learn the lessons of the
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  • Prior generation.
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  • Remember, this guy is the grandson of the most famous king
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  • Of the biggest empire of that day, nebuchadnezzar.
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  • He saw nebuchadnezzar literally lose his mind for about seven
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  • Years, out of pride.
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  • He saw all the mistakes his grandfather made.
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  • He saw his grandfather come back and correct those things.
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  • He saw the good and the bad in his life, and he chose to ignore
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  • God, he chose to ignore the lessons, he chose to be prideful
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  • And throw parties.
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  • And god said, "okay, you know, i might understand if you didn't
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  • Know this, but you know this, and so your kingdom is being
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  • Taken away.
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  • It's going to be divided."
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  • And daniel was the one guy in the empire who had the courage
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  • To point it out.
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  • Look up here on the screen.
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  • Here's what the bible says.
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  • Daniel said to king belshazzar, "even though you knew, you
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  • Knew, what happened to your 'father?'"
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  • "you knew all that happened to your 'father' (nebuchadnezzar.)"
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  • Now, actually, you need to understand that nebuchadnezzar
  • 00:15:22.640 --> 00:15:25.076
  • Was his grandfather, but in babylonian culture, you called
  • 00:15:25.076 --> 00:15:27.878
  • Any predecessor "father."
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  • So he's--they're using the predecessor term here.
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  • He said, "you knew what your predecessor did, you didn't
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  • Learn--but you didn't learn from his life and you still
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  • Refused to humble yourself (before god)
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  • Who rules from heaven."
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  • Now, notice, on that verse he says, "you knew," and he says,
  • 00:15:47.665 --> 00:15:51.168
  • "you didn't learn."
  • 00:15:51.168 --> 00:15:52.503
  • Is there a difference between knowing and learning?
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  • Yes, you know a lot of things, but you haven't learned it till
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  • You put it into practice.
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  • I can go to a marriage seminar and learn all about how to have
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  • A good marriage, and come home, and if i put the seminar on the
  • 00:16:02.046 --> 00:16:05.649
  • Shelf, and i don't know anything about it, i haven't learned
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  • A thing.
  • 00:16:07.618 --> 00:16:09.320
  • It's like if i say, "you know, i'm gonna lose some weight."
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  • I'm gonna get a diet book down, and i start reading it, and
  • 00:16:10.955 --> 00:16:13.524
  • Underlining it while i'm eating my twinkies, and my guacamole,
  • 00:16:13.524 --> 00:16:18.062
  • And chips, and coke float, and i go, "man, i feel so healthy just
  • 00:16:18.062 --> 00:16:21.832
  • Reading this book."
  • 00:16:21.832 --> 00:16:23.968
  • Has it changed anything in my life?
  • 00:16:23.968 --> 00:16:25.636
  • Nothing, not a thing, not a zip, zero.
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  • I haven't learned it until i do it.
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  • You know certain foods are bad for you, but you eat
  • 00:16:35.079 --> 00:16:37.615
  • Them anyway?
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  • Yeah, i can know about god and never learn to trust him, that's
  • 00:16:38.949 --> 00:16:45.923
  • The difference.
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  • The bible says, "wisdom comes not from the knowing, wisdom
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  • Comes from the doing."
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  • So here's the big lesson of this story, why don't you write
  • 00:16:53.998 --> 00:16:56.434
  • It down.
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  • "if i don't humbly learn from the generations before me--"
  • 00:16:57.768 --> 00:17:02.406
  • This king belshazzar didn't, "then i'm gonna end up making
  • 00:17:02.406 --> 00:17:05.342
  • The same mistakes."
  • 00:17:05.342 --> 00:17:07.845
  • If i don't humbly learn from the generations before me, i will
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  • End up making the exact same mistakes.
  • 00:17:12.483 --> 00:17:16.954
  • And you learn a lot of things and have a lot of head
  • 00:17:16.954 --> 00:17:19.323
  • Knowledge, but not heart knowledge.
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  • Some people say--some people are gonna miss heaven by 18
  • 00:17:22.560 --> 00:17:25.729
  • Inches because they got it in their head, they don't have it
  • 00:17:25.729 --> 00:17:27.598
  • In their heart.
  • 00:17:27.598 --> 00:17:28.966
  • They know, but they haven't learned.
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  • They haven't learned it.
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  • You know, true confession.
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  • I went to school a lot, a long time.
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  • I went to school for 24 years, get my master's, to get my
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  • Doctorate, and in my field, it-- the languages you have to learn,
  • 00:17:43.247 --> 00:17:48.419
  • It took a long time.
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  • And i will say, i've forgotten a lot of it, but i have never
  • 00:17:50.621 --> 00:17:54.692
  • Forgotten the most important thing.
  • 00:17:54.692 --> 00:17:56.293
  • So let me tell you what i learned in 24 years of school,
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  • This is the most important thing to learn.
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  • You were made by god, and you were made for god.
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  • And until you understand that, life is never going to
  • 00:18:08.939 --> 00:18:11.342
  • Make sense.
  • 00:18:11.342 --> 00:18:13.210
  • You were not made for you.
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  • You were made by god and for god, and until you understand
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  • That, life is never going to make sense.
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  • Here's what the bible says.
  • 00:18:23.087 --> 00:18:24.455
  • Look up here on the screen, 1 timothy 6:21, "some people have
  • 00:18:24.455 --> 00:18:28.092
  • Missed the most important thing in life--they don't know god,"
  • 00:18:28.092 --> 00:18:32.897
  • Do you?
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  • You might know string theory, you might know chaos theory, you
  • 00:18:34.431 --> 00:18:38.736
  • Might know quantum physics, but if you don't know god,
  • 00:18:38.736 --> 00:18:41.172
  • [imitating buzzer] sorry, you missed the purpose of your life.
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  • Some of you students, you're honor students, congratulations.
  • 00:18:46.243 --> 00:18:49.413
  • You get straight a's, congratulations.
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  • But at the end of your life, and all of our lives, god's going to
  • 00:18:51.882 --> 00:18:55.519
  • Give us a final test.
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  • And the good news about that, it's an open-book test, okay?
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  • All the answers are here, so you had an entire lifetime to
  • 00:19:03.027 --> 00:19:05.963
  • Prepare for god's final test.
  • 00:19:05.963 --> 00:19:07.298
  • It's an open-book test.
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  • And on that test, god is not going to say, "did you--show me
  • 00:19:10.901 --> 00:19:13.804
  • Your report card.
  • 00:19:13.804 --> 00:19:15.172
  • You get straight a's?"
  • 00:19:15.172 --> 00:19:17.808
  • And guys, like i say, "how did you do in your career?"
  • 00:19:17.808 --> 00:19:20.878
  • God's not gonna say, "let me see your bank account balance."
  • 00:19:20.878 --> 00:19:23.113
  • He's not gonna say any of those things, he's gonna say this,
  • 00:19:23.113 --> 00:19:26.217
  • "did you get to know me?
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  • Were we friends?
  • 00:19:28.786 --> 00:19:30.854
  • Did you build a relationship with my son who i sent to earth
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  • To die on the cross for you?"
  • 00:19:34.258 --> 00:19:35.826
  • You know, about it, but did you learn it?
  • 00:19:35.826 --> 00:19:38.329
  • You know about it, but did you learn it?
  • 00:19:38.329 --> 00:19:40.965
  • Did you build--you had the religion, did you have
  • 00:19:40.965 --> 00:19:42.900
  • The relationship?
  • 00:19:42.900 --> 00:19:45.669
  • Let me ask you a real question, do you have god in your life?
  • 00:19:45.669 --> 00:19:49.540
  • "oh yeah, oh yeah, i--yeah, i've got god in my life."
  • 00:19:49.540 --> 00:19:53.043
  • Really, has he made any big changes?
  • 00:19:53.043 --> 00:19:55.846
  • Has he transformed your life in any way?
  • 00:19:55.846 --> 00:19:57.815
  • "hmm, no, no."
  • 00:19:57.815 --> 00:20:00.017
  • "but god's in here?"
  • 00:20:00.017 --> 00:20:01.352
  • "oh yeah, god's--" "he's never changed anything--" "no."
  • 00:20:01.352 --> 00:20:04.622
  • Let me just say this, i'm not an authority on a lot of things,
  • 00:20:04.622 --> 00:20:09.360
  • But i am an authority on human behavior, because i've dealt
  • 00:20:09.360 --> 00:20:12.429
  • With people for 45 years, tens and tens of thousands of people.
  • 00:20:12.429 --> 00:20:19.470
  • God is big, and god is really, really, really, really,
  • 00:20:19.470 --> 00:20:23.107
  • Really big.
  • 00:20:23.107 --> 00:20:24.475
  • And somebody who's just really, really, really, really, really
  • 00:20:24.475 --> 00:20:27.011
  • Big can't come into your life without it making a really,
  • 00:20:27.011 --> 00:20:29.913
  • Really, really big change.
  • 00:20:29.913 --> 00:20:32.316
  • So you may have gotten something, but you didn't
  • 00:20:32.316 --> 00:20:34.251
  • Get god.
  • 00:20:34.251 --> 00:20:35.786
  • You might have gotten religion, but you don't have
  • 00:20:35.786 --> 00:20:37.921
  • A relationship.
  • 00:20:37.921 --> 00:20:40.391
  • "some people have missed the most important thing in life,
  • 00:20:40.391 --> 00:20:43.327
  • They don't know me."
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  • Would you like to get to know him?
  • 00:20:46.263 --> 00:20:48.098
  • That i can help you do.
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  • It starts with humility.
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  • Let's bow our heads.
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  • Would you pray a simple prayer?
  • 00:20:58.175 --> 00:21:01.345
  • It doesn't really matter what you say, just talk to god.
  • 00:21:01.345 --> 00:21:03.580
  • The most important thing is that your attitude is humble.
  • 00:21:03.580 --> 00:21:07.351
  • You might just start with saying, "god, i've never really
  • 00:21:07.351 --> 00:21:09.553
  • Said this to you.
  • 00:21:09.553 --> 00:21:10.888
  • I--you're god, and i'm not, and i need you in my life."
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  • I'll pray a little prayer right now.
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  • If you wanna follow me, you can just say these words too, just
  • 00:21:20.264 --> 00:21:22.766
  • Go, "me too, god, what rick's saying, i--that's, that's me,
  • 00:21:22.766 --> 00:21:25.502
  • I agree with that."
  • 00:21:25.502 --> 00:21:26.970
  • So if you want to pray it, you can just say it too, "dear
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  • God--" you don't have to say to aloud, say it in your mind, he
  • 00:21:29.406 --> 00:21:32.242
  • Knows your thoughts.
  • 00:21:32.242 --> 00:21:33.577
  • "dear god, i know you made me, i know you love me, and i know
  • 00:21:33.577 --> 00:21:39.416
  • About you, but i really want to know you personally.
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  • I want you in my life.
  • 00:21:45.356 --> 00:21:49.093
  • And so today, as humbly as i can say it, i opened my life to you.
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  • I want to start the journey of learning, and i want that to be
  • 00:21:54.832 --> 00:21:58.869
  • A lifelong journey of learning, not just about the world, but
  • 00:21:58.869 --> 00:22:04.274
  • About you, and about others, and about myself.
  • 00:22:04.274 --> 00:22:09.947
  • And i'm going to learn more and more about you every day.
  • 00:22:09.947 --> 00:22:13.684
  • And so i want to take these five statements of growing in wisdom,
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  • And i want to begin this process today.
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  • First, i want to make a commitment to never stop
  • 00:22:22.259 --> 00:22:24.361
  • Learning, to learning more about you, and more about life, and
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  • Anything else you want to teach me.
  • 00:22:30.501 --> 00:22:33.637
  • Help me to learn the lessons of prior generations to not make
  • 00:22:33.637 --> 00:22:36.874
  • The same mistakes they did.
  • 00:22:36.874 --> 00:22:41.912
  • Help me to maintain a humble attitude that honors you.
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  • God, help me to be more discriminating in what i allow
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  • In my mind, to refuse to put junk in my mind, but to fill it
  • 00:22:51.722 --> 00:22:56.026
  • With brain food and superfood.
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  • And then most of all, help me to practice what i've learned.
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  • I don't want to get to the end of my life with the final exam
  • 00:23:05.369 --> 00:23:07.905
  • And have you say, 'you didn't pass.'
  • 00:23:07.905 --> 00:23:13.277
  • And so as best i know how, i humble myself and i ask you
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  • Today to accept me into your family.
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  • I want to learn you--to love you, i want to learn to
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  • Trust you.
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  • I want to understand what, jesus, you came to do.
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  • And i simply pray this in your name, amen."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Pastor rick: hi, everybody, this is pastor rick.
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  • How god is at work through the daily hope devotionals.
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  • Paul wrote me, he said, "i'd like to sincerely thank you for
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  • The free gift of your 'daily hope' devotionals.
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  • May god receive all the glory.
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  • For some time now, your inspiring and encouraging
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  • Messages, along with scripture references, have helped me push
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  • Through some really tough times and get closer to god.
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  • However," paul writes, "the best part is that my faith in god has
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  • Now grown to the point that he recently gave me the strength
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  • And wisdom to accept his free undeserved gift of grace and
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  • Salvation by accepting and confessing jesus christ as my
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  • Lord and savior.
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  • I feel like a new being, and i yearn to keep growing more and
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  • More in god's word and in wisdom, surrendering my life to
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  • His will alone.
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  • So please hold my hand in this journey to the glory and honor
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  • Of god in christ jesus."
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  • Paul, without a doubt, i will hold your hand as you journey
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  • With jesus.
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  • There is no greater decision that you could have made than
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  • Believing in receiving jesus christ.
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  • So congratulations, you're my brother in christ, and i wanna
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  • Encourage you to be on the lookout every day to see how god
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  • Guides you, how god directs you.
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  • It's an exciting journey.
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  • And by the way, keep studying his word every day.
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  • Get a bible, and read it every day.
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  • I'm so thankful that "daily hope" devotionals is helping you
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  • To do just that.
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  • Now, the "daily hope" devotional is helping many, many people,
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  • Just like paul, all around the world to grow closer to god, and
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  • It's free.
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  • And to help you do this, pastor rick created a brand new set of
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