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Rick Warren - The Call is for You! (Part 1)

December 28, 2025 | 28:30

Rick Warren - The Call is for You! (Part 1)
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 - The Call is for You! (Part 1) | December 28, 2025
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  • Pastor rick warren: one of the most beloved verses in the bible
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  • Is romans 8:28.
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  • It's a verse you've probably heard many, many, maybe hundreds
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  • Of times.
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  • It's one of the great promises of the bible and it says this at
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  • The top of your outline: "we know that in all things god
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  • Works for the good of those who love him," and usually we stop
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  • Right there.
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  • We leave off the second half of the verse and we say, "what a
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  • Great promise."
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  • We know that in all things, not just the good things in life but
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  • Even in the bad things, the ugly things, the terrible, the tragic
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  • Things of life, in all things, god works for the good of those
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  • Who love him.
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  • Doesn't say they're good. there's a lot of bad in life.
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  • There's a lot of bad things happening in your life.
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  • Not all things that happen to you are good, but god says all
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  • Things, god works them together for good.
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  • He can bring good out of even bad for those who love god.
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  • And usually we stop the verse right there, but the rest of the
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  • Verse says this: "we know that in all things god works for the
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  • Good of those who love him, who have been called," circle the
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  • Word called.
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  • "who have been called according to his purpose."
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  • And circle the word purpose.
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  • Circle called and circle purpose and draw a line between them
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  • Because calling and purpose go together.
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  • Now, if i were to say to you, "what do you think of first when
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  • I say the word call, make a call, get a call, be called?"
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  • You think of a telephone.
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  • And you may be thinking about calling out for pizza or, you
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  • Know, something like that.
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  • When--i have to be honest with you, a little true confession as
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  • Your pastor.
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  • I don't like telephones.
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  • I never have, because telephones to me represent two things.
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  • Number one, they represent an interruption.
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  • And maybe they don't seem like an interruption to you, but if
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  • You were a pastor, you would be on call 24 hours a day, like
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  • Doctors are.
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  • I get calls 24 hours a day, often in the middle of
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  • The night.
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  • And so when the phone rings, it usually means it rings when i'm
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  • Busy, or i'm relaxing, or i'm studying, or i'm sleeping, or
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  • I'm talking with somebody else, or whatever, but it represents
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  • A interruption.
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  • The second thing, reason i don't like it is because in my case it
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  • Often or normally means bad news.
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  • Somebody's calling to tell me about somebody just died,
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  • Somebody just lost a loved one, somebody's gone to--been rushed
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  • To the hospital, somebody just found out a cancer test.
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  • And as a pastor, of course, i deal with people in pain
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  • Literally every day of my life.
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  • And so when the phone rings, i'm not thinking, "i wonder if i
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  • Just won the lottery."
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  • 'cause first place, i don't use the lottery, which you
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  • Shouldn't either, by the way.
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  • If you wanna do the lottery, here's what you do.
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  • Come outside and just give me the money, okay, 'cause you're
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  • Not gonna get anything out of it.
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  • You might--i might as well put it to use and use it for the
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  • Peace plan.
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  • But, you know, let's say the phone rang one day and you
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  • Thought, "this is an interruption or it's gonna be
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  • Bad news," but somebody was calling to tell you you had just
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  • Inherited $50 million.
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  • You would not want to miss that call.
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  • What if god called you?
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  • Let me give you a little tip.
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  • When god calls you, do not use call waiting.
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  • When god calls you, do not put it on the answer--voicemail.
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  • When god calls you, do not let it ring and ring and ring
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  • And ring.
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  • Pick it up on the first call when god calls you.
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  • Now, the bible says you have already been called.
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  • You have been called according to his purpose.
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  • Couple verses down from that verse,
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  • Romans 8:30, it says this.
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  • Look here on the screen.
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  • "those that god predestined, he also called, and those he
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  • Called, he also justified, and those he justified, he
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  • Also glorified."
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  • Now, that's a lot of big theological words and we're
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  • Gonna cover some of those in the weeks ahead, but the word i want
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  • Us to focus on as we begin "live your calling" is that
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  • Word called.
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  • The bible says you have been called by god.
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  • What does that mean?
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  • The word in the greek is the word kaleo.
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  • K-a-l-e-o, kaleo.
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  • It's almost like--kaleo, call.
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  • And the word kaleo means god is calling you and it's used about
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  • A hundred times in the new testament, over a hundred times,
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  • And most of the time it's talking about your assignment in
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  • Life, your purpose in life, your mission in life, the reason god
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  • Created you.
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  • It is called your calling.
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  • Now, in "purpose driven life: 40 days of purpose," we looked at
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  • The word purpose, but actually, the word calling, which refers
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  • To the same thing, is used ten times more than the word purpose
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  • In the bible.
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  • Ten times more to refer to your assignment, your purpose, the
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  • Reason you exist, why god made you.
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  • "what on earth am i here for?"
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  • And in the next six weeks we're gonna look at, "why am i alive
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  • And what am i supposed to do with my life?"
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  • And if "40 days of purpose" was kindergarten, now we're moving a
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  • Step up and we're going into the advanced class on god's calling
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  • On your life.
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  • Now, the greek word is the word kaleo for calling.
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  • The latin word is another word you've heard of for calling and
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  • It is the word vocation.
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  • You've heard of that, a vocation.
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  • Vocation comes from the latin word voca, vocare.
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  • It means to speak.
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  • It means to call.
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  • We get the word voice.
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  • We get the word vocal.
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  • Vocalize comes from the word vocation.
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  • It is your calling.
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  • So your vocation and your calling are the same thing.
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  • Now, here's the problem.
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  • Today the word vocation has been so reduced and so minimized to
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  • Just mean my job, my career.
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  • Your calling is not your career.
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  • I'm gonna explain that in detail in the weeks ahead, but your
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  • Calling is not your career.
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  • Your calling is far, far, far, far, far, far, far more
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  • Significant, far larger, far more all encompassing than
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  • Your career.
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  • So your vocation is misused when you say, "my vocation is
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  • My job."
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  • No, you have a job, but your vocation is your calling
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  • In life.
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  • And we are going to study that.
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  • The bible, this book is the story of god calling people.
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  • And the whole bible is about god calling noah, god calling
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  • Abraham and res--abraham responding, god calling moses
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  • For a purpose in life and moses responding, god calling
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  • Nehemiah, who was a builder, god calling isaiah and jeremiah
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  • And ezekiel and daniel and hosea and joel, and god calling
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  • David, and god calling solomon, and in the new testament, god
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  • Calling peter and paul and mary.
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  • And if you laughed at that, you are incredibly old.
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  • Okay.
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  • Some 20-something, "peter, paul, mary, i don't get it.
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  • I don't get it."
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  • Okay.
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  • God calling paul.
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  • And god has a call on every person's life.
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  • Now, as your pastor, my prayer for you is gonna be this verse
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  • There on your outline, ephesians chapter 1.
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  • "my prayer is that light will flood your hearts."
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  • You know when we sing that song, "open the eyes of my heart,
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  • Lord," you know that song, that's from this verse.
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  • That's from this verse.
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  • "my prayer is that light will flood your hearts and that you
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  • Will understand the hope, the hope that was given to you when
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  • God called you."
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  • Now, understand the calling on your life, when you understand
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  • You--when you understand your call in life, it's gonna give
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  • You incredible hope.
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  • And he says, "i want you to understand that."
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  • He says when you do, when you understand god's calling on your
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  • Life, "then you will discover the glorious blessings that will
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  • Be yours together with all of god's people."
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  • He's saying your--you--when you know your calling you understand
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  • Then, you discover the incredible blessings that you've
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  • Been missing out on.
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  • The reason i'm so excited about the next six weeks together is
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  • I'm gonna take you to a whole 'nother level to understand the
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  • Glorious blessings that god wants to do in your life.
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  • Now, what we're gonna do today is i'm just gonna introduce this
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  • Subject and give you an overview of eight things you need
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  • To know.
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  • I'm gonna summarize a hundred different verses on calling in
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  • The bible and give you the eight things you need to know about
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  • Your calling in life and why we're gonna do this together.
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  • Announcer: do you ever wonder if your life really matters or what
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  • On earth you're here for?
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  • Pastor rick wants to let you know that god has a good plan
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  • And purpose for your life.
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  • In his bestselling book "the purpose driven life," he lays
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  • Out a simple, life-changing roadmap to help you discover and
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  • Live it.
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  • This book has transformed millions of lives and it could
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  • Transform someone you love.
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  • And great news, it's been updated for today's generation.
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  • This edition includes a video introduction and audio teaching
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  • From pastor rick for each chapter and two powerful bonus
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  • Chapters on the biggest barriers to living a purpose-driven life.
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  • As you go through this book, you'll uncover that your deepest
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  • Meaning and fulfillment doesn't come from success or status but
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  • From understanding and living out the purpose that god created
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  • You for.
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  • Pastor rick: so let's look at eight things i need to know
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  • About my calling in life, why god put me here on earth.
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  • Write these down.
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  • Number one, the first thing we learned from god's word is this,
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  • My calling is a gift from god.
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  • My calling is a gift from god.
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  • I don't earn it, i don't deserve it, i don't work for it, i don't
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  • Bargain for it, i don't barter for it.
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  • It's just a flat out gift of god's grace.
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  • It is his present to me.
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  • When he created me, he called me, and it's all by grace.
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  • Galatians chapter 1 says this: "god, by his grace through
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  • Christ has called you to become his people."
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  • Now, circle the phrase by his grace.
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  • What is grace?
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  • Grace is undeserved kindness.
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  • Undeserved kindness.
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  • It's when god gives you what you need, not what you deserve.
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  • If we all got what we deserved, we wouldn't be here.
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  • The fact is god says, "i give you what you need, not what
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  • You deserve."
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  • Grace is the fact that god knows every dumb mistake you're gonna
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  • Make in life and he still chose to create you.
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  • He knew all the times you were gonna disobey him and he still
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  • Chose to create you.
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  • That is the grace of god.
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  • The fact is grace is that god knows all the things i've done.
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  • And even when i was thumbing my nose to him and rejecting him,
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  • God was saying, "i love you, i love you, i love you."
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  • Now, your calling is actually a part of your salvation.
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  • The calling to christ is also the calling to your purpose.
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  • 2 timothy 1:9 says, "he has saved us and called us," notice
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  • They go together.
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  • "saved us and called us to a holy life, not because of
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  • Anything we've done but because of his own purpose and grace."
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  • His purpose and his grace.
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  • So god gives me a calling in life simply 'cause he wants to
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  • Give me a calling in life.
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  • I don't deserve it, he just gives it to me.
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  • Now, circle the word purpose on that verse because that leads us
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  • To the second thing we learned, and it is this.
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  • I am called for god's purpose.
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  • Not mine, but god's.
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  • I'm not called for god's--i'm not called for my plan in life,
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  • I'm called for god's plan.
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  • God did not make you for you.
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  • You think god created you just to live a selfish little life
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  • Of self-centeredness?
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  • "it's all about me, me, me, me, me."
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  • Are you kidding me?
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  • No, god didn't make you for you.
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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's never gonna make sense.
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  • And you're gonna get bored, and you're gonna get frustrated,
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  • You're gonna have all kinds of difficulty because you don't
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  • Understand you were made for god.
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  • I am called for god's purpose.
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  • God's calling is about his plan for my life, not my plan, his
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  • Dream for my life, not my dream, his purpose for my life, not my
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  • Purpose, or my parent's purpose, or my boyfriend's purpose, or my
  • 00:14:19.708 --> 00:14:22.912
  • Husband or wife's purpose.
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  • It's for god's purpose for my life.
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  • Now, a good example of this is the story of jacob and esau in
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  • The bible.
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  • They were twins.
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  • There was a guy in the bible named abraham and he had a son
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  • Named isaac, and isaac had two sons who were twins, jacob
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  • And esau.
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  • Now, in those days, the firstborn child, particularly
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  • The firstborn son, got all of the credit, got all of the
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  • Glory, got all of the love.
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  • The firstborn son was the one who he would inherit the family
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  • Inheritance and it's like, "you're special, number one,
  • 00:14:53.842 --> 00:14:57.479
  • You're great, and, number two, oh, we're glad you're here too."
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  • It was kinda like the side.
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  • Now, god didn't like that.
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  • And in the case of esau and jacob, esau was the
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  • Firstborn son.
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  • And god said, "you know what?
  • 00:15:09.792 --> 00:15:11.126
  • I have a calling for esau's life and i have a calling for jacob's
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  • Life, but just because i wanna do this, we're gonna reverse it,
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  • And i'm choosing jacob to get the blessing of the firstborn
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  • Son even though he was born second."
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  • And he told this to their mother rebekah before she
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  • Even delivered.
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  • In romans chapter 9 it says this: "before the two boys were
  • 00:15:30.012 --> 00:15:34.283
  • Born, god told rebekah, 'the older will serve the younger.'"
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  • Now, that's exact opposite of culture.
  • 00:15:37.653 --> 00:15:40.322
  • "and this was before the boys had done anything," in other
  • 00:15:40.322 --> 00:15:43.092
  • Words, they didn't deserve it.
  • 00:15:43.092 --> 00:15:44.426
  • They hadn't merited anything.
  • 00:15:44.426 --> 00:15:45.794
  • "good or bad.
  • 00:15:45.794 --> 00:15:47.129
  • God said this so that the one chosen would be chosen because
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  • Of god's own plan."
  • 00:15:50.466 --> 00:15:52.901
  • It's his purpose.
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  • "he was chosen because he was the one god wanted to call, not
  • 00:15:54.269 --> 00:15:59.608
  • Because of anything he did."
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  • I'm fortunate that i learned my call in life at a pretty, pretty
  • 00:16:03.345 --> 00:16:07.683
  • Young age.
  • 00:16:07.683 --> 00:16:09.084
  • I hadn't done anything, i hadn't deserved anything, i certainly
  • 00:16:09.084 --> 00:16:12.488
  • Wasn't worthy of any kinda call, but i learned what i'm gonna be
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  • Teaching you in the next 6 weeks when i was 16 years old.
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  • I was actually working at a camp in northern california up in the
  • 00:16:20.496 --> 00:16:25.167
  • Mountains in the redwoods.
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  • And one night i went back to my cabin and i got down on my knees
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  • And i said, "god, i don't understand it all.
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  • And if you're there, i don't--i just--i wanna trust you.
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  • And so, god, i need to know what you want to do with my life."
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  • And i prayed a prayer that night and said, "god, i'm signing my
  • 00:16:41.950 --> 00:16:45.621
  • Name on the check.
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  • I don't even know what the amount is, but i'm saying to you
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  • I'm yours and i'm gonna serve you the rest of your life and
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  • I'm gonna fulfill the calling you have for me."
  • 00:16:52.494 --> 00:16:56.131
  • And i prayed that prayer.
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  • And as soon as i finished praying that prayer, do you
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  • Wanna know what's happened?
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  • Nothing.
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  • No angels came down and flapped their wings.
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  • There's no blinding light, no thunder, no lightning.
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  • My hair didn't turn white like charlton heston, you know.
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  • It's like nothing happened, but that was the turning point in my
  • 00:17:15.017 --> 00:17:20.155
  • Life, when i recognized god's right and call on my life.
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  • And from that moment on i became bi-vocational, which means i
  • 00:17:25.494 --> 00:17:30.933
  • Would have a job in which i would put food on the table and
  • 00:17:30.933 --> 00:17:34.970
  • I would have a job in which i would pay all my bills, but i
  • 00:17:34.970 --> 00:17:38.373
  • Would also have a calling.
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  • And my career and my calling might match sometimes but might
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  • Not match other times because my calling was from god, and the
  • 00:17:43.479 --> 00:17:47.416
  • Career was just how i was making a living at that point.
  • 00:17:47.416 --> 00:17:50.486
  • Career makes a living, calling makes a life.
  • 00:17:50.486 --> 00:17:54.490
  • And so from that point on, i was bi-vocational the rest of
  • 00:17:54.490 --> 00:17:57.259
  • My life.
  • 00:17:57.259 --> 00:17:59.228
  • And i did a number of different jobs, even though i had this
  • 00:17:59.228 --> 00:18:02.564
  • Call on my life.
  • 00:18:02.564 --> 00:18:03.932
  • At one point i was a dishwasher.
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  • At one point i was a cook.
  • 00:18:06.602 --> 00:18:08.504
  • At one point i was a lifeguard for three years.
  • 00:18:08.504 --> 00:18:11.306
  • At one point i worked in a butcher shop.
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  • That was a whole lot of fun.
  • 00:18:14.510 --> 00:18:16.578
  • At one point i picked fruit.
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  • I picked grapes and i picked pears.
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  • At one point i was an editor of a magazine.
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  • Another point i taught college.
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  • I actually taught college.
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  • One point i was a youth pastor and then for the last 30 years
  • 00:18:28.524 --> 00:18:32.794
  • I've been a pastor.
  • 00:18:32.794 --> 00:18:34.296
  • My job has changed many, many, many times, but my calling has
  • 00:18:34.296 --> 00:18:38.734
  • Never changed regardless of what my job was.
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  • You have a calling that is unique to your life.
  • 00:18:42.871 --> 00:18:46.875
  • The bible says in ephesians 2:10, "for we are god's
  • 00:18:46.875 --> 00:18:51.480
  • Workmanship, created in christ jesus to do good works."
  • 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:56.218
  • In other words, we were made for a purpose.
  • 00:18:56.218 --> 00:18:58.053
  • "to do good works, which god prepared in advance for us
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  • To do."
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  • Now, this verse is filled with some important truth, so let's
  • 00:19:02.991 --> 00:19:05.260
  • Look at it.
  • 00:19:05.260 --> 00:19:06.628
  • First it says we're god's workmanship.
  • 00:19:06.628 --> 00:19:07.963
  • Circle that word.
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  • The word there in the bible in the greek is the word poiema.
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  • It's the word we get poem from.
  • 00:19:13.936 --> 00:19:16.638
  • You are god's poem.
  • 00:19:16.638 --> 00:19:19.241
  • You are god's work of art.
  • 00:19:19.241 --> 00:19:21.944
  • You are god's craftsmanship, workmanship.
  • 00:19:21.944 --> 00:19:25.180
  • Many translations of the bible translate this, you are
  • 00:19:25.180 --> 00:19:28.283
  • God's masterpiece.
  • 00:19:28.283 --> 00:19:31.753
  • You say, "well, i don't think i'm much of a masterpiece."
  • 00:19:31.753 --> 00:19:34.089
  • Well then you don't realize how much value god has put in
  • 00:19:34.089 --> 00:19:37.392
  • Your life.
  • 00:19:37.392 --> 00:19:38.727
  • You say, "well, i'm not a masterpiece.
  • 00:19:38.727 --> 00:19:40.062
  • I'm pretty beat up piece of junk."
  • 00:19:40.062 --> 00:19:41.897
  • You're not junk.
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  • Jesus didn't die for junk.
  • 00:19:43.265 --> 00:19:46.368
  • If you look at jesus on the cross, arms outstretched and his
  • 00:19:46.368 --> 00:19:49.738
  • Nail-pierced hands, and he's saying, "this is how valuable
  • 00:19:49.738 --> 00:19:54.476
  • You are.
  • 00:19:54.476 --> 00:19:55.811
  • This is how valuable."
  • 00:19:55.811 --> 00:19:57.179
  • I'm--you're valuable enough to die for.
  • 00:19:57.179 --> 00:19:59.581
  • You're not junk because god doesn't create junk, jesus
  • 00:19:59.581 --> 00:20:03.085
  • Doesn't die for junk, and the holy spirit doesn't live
  • 00:20:03.085 --> 00:20:05.587
  • In junk.
  • 00:20:05.587 --> 00:20:06.955
  • You are a masterpiece.
  • 00:20:06.955 --> 00:20:09.324
  • You're god's masterpiece, but it only shows when you fulfill
  • 00:20:09.324 --> 00:20:13.695
  • Your calling.
  • 00:20:13.695 --> 00:20:15.063
  • If you try to be what somebody else wants you to be, you're
  • 00:20:15.063 --> 00:20:16.865
  • Gonna miss it, and your true beauty, your true greatness
  • 00:20:16.865 --> 00:20:21.103
  • Won't come out.
  • 00:20:21.103 --> 00:20:23.005
  • You are god's workmanship created in christ jesus to do
  • 00:20:23.005 --> 00:20:27.342
  • Good works.
  • 00:20:27.342 --> 00:20:28.677
  • Those good works are your contribution to the world.
  • 00:20:28.677 --> 00:20:32.047
  • You were not put on this planet just to breathe and take up
  • 00:20:32.047 --> 00:20:35.183
  • Space and die.
  • 00:20:35.183 --> 00:20:36.752
  • You weren't put here to simply be a consumer.
  • 00:20:36.752 --> 00:20:40.355
  • "oh, there's a new kind of makeup.
  • 00:20:40.355 --> 00:20:41.990
  • I think i'll get that.
  • 00:20:41.990 --> 00:20:43.592
  • Oh, there's a new clothing. i'll get that."
  • 00:20:43.592 --> 00:20:45.427
  • No, you were put here to be a contributor, to make a
  • 00:20:45.427 --> 00:20:48.997
  • Contribution with your life.
  • 00:20:48.997 --> 00:20:50.532
  • And the bible calls your life contribution your good works.
  • 00:20:50.532 --> 00:20:56.238
  • It's part of your calling.
  • 00:20:56.238 --> 00:20:58.440
  • Now, here's a cool thing.
  • 00:20:58.440 --> 00:21:00.075
  • We all have different good works.
  • 00:21:00.075 --> 00:21:02.144
  • Your contribution, your good works are gonna be different
  • 00:21:02.144 --> 00:21:04.546
  • Than my contribution, my good works, and my contribution, good
  • 00:21:04.546 --> 00:21:08.116
  • Works are gonna be different than the person sitting next
  • 00:21:08.116 --> 00:21:09.851
  • To you.
  • 00:21:09.851 --> 00:21:11.219
  • And god makes us all different, gives us all different callings
  • 00:21:11.219 --> 00:21:14.356
  • So that everything in the world gets done.
  • 00:21:14.356 --> 00:21:17.693
  • It's all a part of it.
  • 00:21:17.693 --> 00:21:19.027
  • You're god's workmanship created to make a contribution, which
  • 00:21:19.027 --> 00:21:22.664
  • God prepared in advance, circle that, prepared in advance, for
  • 00:21:22.664 --> 00:21:26.435
  • Us to do.
  • 00:21:26.435 --> 00:21:27.803
  • That means a long time before you thought of it, god had
  • 00:21:27.803 --> 00:21:30.439
  • Thought of your calling.
  • 00:21:30.439 --> 00:21:31.807
  • In fact, here's the third principle.
  • 00:21:31.807 --> 00:21:33.608
  • Number three, god chose my calling before i was born.
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  • You need to know that as we get ready to go in to "live your
  • 00:21:39.448 --> 00:21:42.351
  • Calling" the next six weeks.
  • 00:21:42.351 --> 00:21:44.119
  • My calling is a gift from god, i'm called for god's purpose,
  • 00:21:44.119 --> 00:21:47.489
  • Not mine, and my calling was before i was born.
  • 00:21:47.489 --> 00:21:51.993
  • God chose it.
  • 00:21:51.993 --> 00:21:53.695
  • Let me show you some verses on this.
  • 00:21:53.695 --> 00:21:56.064
  • Galatians chapter 1, verse 15, paul says, "it pleased god in
  • 00:21:56.064 --> 00:22:01.603
  • His kindness to choose me and call me, even before i was born!
  • 00:22:01.603 --> 00:22:10.412
  • What undeserved mercy!"
  • 00:22:10.412 --> 00:22:12.280
  • Here's another example, jeremiah in jeremiah chapter 1, verse 5.
  • 00:22:12.280 --> 00:22:17.152
  • "before i shaped you in the womb, i knew all about you.
  • 00:22:17.152 --> 00:22:22.591
  • Before you saw the light of day, i had holy plans for you."
  • 00:22:22.591 --> 00:22:27.429
  • God called you before you were even born.
  • 00:22:27.429 --> 00:22:30.499
  • And the bible says god uniquely shaped you.
  • 00:22:30.499 --> 00:22:32.667
  • You are a custom-made baby.
  • 00:22:32.667 --> 00:22:35.003
  • Isaiah 44, verse 2, "i am your creator.
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  • You were in my care even before you were born!"
  • 00:22:39.875 --> 00:22:44.379
  • Now, this is gonna be our memory verse this week, so i want you
  • 00:22:44.379 --> 00:22:46.848
  • To look at it in detail.
  • 00:22:46.848 --> 00:22:48.216
  • It says three things.
  • 00:22:48.216 --> 00:22:50.085
  • First it says, "i am your creator."
  • 00:22:50.085 --> 00:22:52.087
  • What does that mean?
  • 00:22:52.087 --> 00:22:53.422
  • It means you're not an accident.
  • 00:22:53.422 --> 00:22:56.024
  • You're not an--you were uniquely chosen, created, and called
  • 00:22:56.024 --> 00:23:00.162
  • By god.
  • 00:23:00.162 --> 00:23:02.297
  • You say, "why is it important for me to not think i'm
  • 00:23:02.297 --> 00:23:04.833
  • An accident?"
  • 00:23:04.833 --> 00:23:06.168
  • 'cause if you think you're an accident, you're gonna live like
  • 00:23:06.168 --> 00:23:07.669
  • It and you're gonna accidentally just kinda go through life
  • 00:23:07.669 --> 00:23:12.073
  • Without any purpose, without any direction.
  • 00:23:12.073 --> 00:23:14.309
  • You're not an accident.
  • 00:23:14.309 --> 00:23:15.644
  • "i am your creator."
  • 00:23:15.644 --> 00:23:17.412
  • You're not an accident.
  • 00:23:17.412 --> 00:23:18.980
  • "you were in my care."
  • 00:23:18.980 --> 00:23:20.615
  • That means you're deeply loved.
  • 00:23:20.615 --> 00:23:22.284
  • You were in god's care when you were in the womb.
  • 00:23:22.284 --> 00:23:26.521
  • He says even while you were growing inside your mother.
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  • You realize this is why abortion is wrong, because that's not a
  • 00:23:29.791 --> 00:23:34.663
  • Fetus in that mother, that's a baby that god has already
  • 00:23:34.663 --> 00:23:38.233
  • Numbered that baby's days, chose that baby to be born.
  • 00:23:38.233 --> 00:23:42.137
  • Accidental parents, yes, accidental babies, no.
  • 00:23:42.137 --> 00:23:46.908
  • God chose to create and call you before you were even born.
  • 00:23:46.908 --> 00:23:52.080
  • So you weren't a fetus before you were born, you were a baby
  • 00:23:52.080 --> 00:23:55.617
  • Already chosen, already called, and already created by god for a
  • 00:23:55.617 --> 00:24:00.355
  • Purpose and a calling.
  • 00:24:00.355 --> 00:24:03.024
  • And then it says, "you were in my care."
  • 00:24:03.024 --> 00:24:05.861
  • Before i was even born.
  • 00:24:05.861 --> 00:24:08.363
  • God planned you before you were born.
  • 00:24:08.363 --> 00:24:10.465
  • Now, i want you to memorize this verse 'cause it will encourage
  • 00:24:10.465 --> 00:24:13.702
  • You on days you feel discouraged.
  • 00:24:13.702 --> 00:24:16.071
  • When you feel like your life's an accident, it's not.
  • 00:24:16.071 --> 00:24:18.807
  • When you feel like nobody cares, god does.
  • 00:24:18.807 --> 00:24:21.343
  • When you feel like your life doesn't have a purpose, god
  • 00:24:21.343 --> 00:24:23.812
  • Planned you before you were born.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Pastor rick: hi, everybody.
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  • This is pastor rick.
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  • I would like to thank you.
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  • Thank you for being a part of our "daily hope" family.
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  • I don't get to say that often enough, but your generosity is
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  • Helping us share the hope of jesus with people here at home
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  • And literally all around the world, even in places where it's
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  • Difficult and even dangerous to get the good news.
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  • You know, i recently heard from a woman named eunice
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  • In cameroon.
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  • Cameroon is a country in central africa.
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  • And she wrote to me, she said, "pastor rick, i lost both my son
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  • And my daughter in the war and now i'm raising four
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  • Grandchildren on my own.
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  • I was overwhelmed with grief."
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  • But then she says, "but through the 'daily hope' devotionals, i
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  • Have found strength and comfort and peace in god's word.
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  • So thank you for helping me hold on to hope."
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  • Wow.
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  • That's powerful. that's powerful.
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  • And that happened because your giving is helping eunice find
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  • The strength to carry on, to raise her grandchildren, and to
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  • Keep trusting god, even through the deep loss of her kids.
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  • Now, right now i wanted to tell you about this because we have a
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  • Special opportunity.
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  • There's some generous friends who have offered a matching
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  • Grant that will double your gift.
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  • What that means is whatever you give will be doubled, okay?
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  • They'll match it.
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  • That means whatever you give today will go twice as far to
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  • Reach even more people with god's word.
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  • So can i ask you a favor?
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  • I wanna encourage you, give your best gift you can today, but
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  • Together, let's keep bringing the hope of jesus christ to
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  • People like eunice and to the billions of other people who
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  • Still need to hear.
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  • There are still people who've never heard the name of jesus.
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  • We wanna keep expanding to get the message to the whole world.
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  • And i am so grateful that we are in this mission together.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Announcer: when you give a gift today, your gift will be doubled
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  • By the matching grant up to $100,000 and we'll send you "the
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  • Purpose driven life" to say thanks.
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  • ♪♪♪
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