Rick Warren - God's Promises To You When You're Afraid Of Failing (Part 3)

January 5, 2025 | S25:E1

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 - God's Promises To You When You're Afraid Of Failing (Part 3) | January 5, 2025
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  • Pastor rick warren: no matter how successful you are in some
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  • Areas of your life, there are others that you're scared to
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  • Death about and you fail at.
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  • In fact, you fail in more areas of your life than you succeed.
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  • All of us do.
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  • Nobody can be good at everything.
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  • And so you're only good--really good at a few things.
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  • So that means most of the things in life you're not good at,
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  • You're a failure at; and we often don't want people to know
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  • That and that anxiety causes us great, great problems.
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  • Now, the fear of failure will paralyze your potential.
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  • It will keep you from becoming all god intends for you to be.
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  • It will limit your purpose in life.
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  • The fear of failure is deathly.
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  • It will kill your dreams if you let them.
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  • It will rob your happiness.
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  • It will prevent your success.
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  • It can keep you single if you want to get married, the fear
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  • Of failure.
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  • I could give you 100 negative things that the fear of failure
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  • Does in your life.
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  • And so what i want to do today is talk about god's promises for
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  • The fear of failure.
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  • Now, this is so important jesus told a whole story about the
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  • Fear of failure.
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  • It's called the parable of the talents.
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  • Now, we actually get our word talent from this story.
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  • Today when i say the word talent you think of abilities like a
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  • Musical talent or a mathematical talent or mechanical talent or a
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  • Sports talent, but we actually get the word talent from this
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  • Story in the bible.
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  • But in the bible days, the word talent was actually a
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  • Measurement of gold.
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  • Specifically, a talent of gold was amount of gold equal to the
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  • Weight of a normal human being.
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  • So we're talking about an enormous amount of money.
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  • One talent would easily be worth over $1 million.
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  • A talent of gold it--is an exorbitant amount of money not
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  • Just now but in those days, too.
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  • And jesus tells this story about a fear of failure to represent
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  • How we're supposed to handle it.
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  • Let me read you the story.
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  • It's right here in matthew chapter 25.
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  • Jesus told this story.
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  • "a business owner was going to leave on a long journey.
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  • So he called his three servants together and he entrusted his
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  • Wealth to them.
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  • To one servant he gave five talents of money."
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  • That's a lot of money.
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  • Maybe 5 million or more.
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  • "to another he gave two talents of money, and to a third servant
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  • He gave one talent of money."
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  • That's still 1 million bucks.
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  • "and he did this each according to his own ability.
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  • And then he," the master, "went on a journey.
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  • Now, the servant who was entrusted with five talents went
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  • At once and used his money to gain back five more talents."
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  • In other words, he had five.
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  • Now he's got ten.
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  • "in the same way the servant who was given--entrusted two talents
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  • Put his talents of money to work and he gained two more."
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  • Again, he gets 100% return on his money.
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  • Doubles his money.
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  • "but the servant who had been given just the one talent did
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  • Nothing," did nothing.
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  • He went out and he dug a hole in the ground and he buried his
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  • Master's money to keep it safe.
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  • "now, after a long time the master of those three servants
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  • Returned and he asked each servant to give an account of
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  • What they had done with the money they had been
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  • Entrusted with.
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  • Now, the man who had received five talents brought the other
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  • Five that he had gained and he said, 'master,' he said, 'you
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  • Entrusted me with five talents and see i've gained five more
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  • For you here.'
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  • His master replied, 'well done.
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  • Well done, you good and faithful servant.
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  • You have been faithful with a few things so now i'm going to
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  • Put you in charge of many greater things.'"
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  • Now, you know, this is a parable and jesus is talking about he's
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  • Invested in you and he's asking you when you get ready to come
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  • To heaven, "what did you do with what i gave you?"
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  • My job as your spiritual coach, my job as your pastor is to
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  • Prepare you for the day when god says, "what did you do with what
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  • I gave you, what i entrusted you, what i loaned to you, the
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  • Talent that i loaned to you?"
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  • And he said, "i've doubled."
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  • Then he says, "well done, good and faithful servant.
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  • You've been faithful with a few things.
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  • Now i'm going to put you in charge of more."
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  • Greater responsibility.
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  • "come and share your master's happiness."
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  • That's what i want god to say to you when you get to heaven.
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  • "now, then the man who'd received two talents gave
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  • His account.
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  • 'master,' he said, 'you entrusted me with two talents
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  • And i've gained for you two more.'
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  • And his master said, 'you--well done to you, good and
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  • Faithful servant.
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  • You also have been faithful with a few things so now i'll put you
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  • In charge of many larger things.
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  • Come and share your master's happiness.'"
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  • Now, the last part of the story is there on your outline, if
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  • You're taking notes.
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  • "but the servant who had been given just one talent said, 'i
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  • Was afraid i'd lose it.'"
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  • Now, if you're taking notes, circle on your outline the word
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  • Afraid 'cause this is the fear of failure.
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  • He said, "i was afraid i'd lose what you gave me so i hid your
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  • Talent, the talent that you gave me."
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  • In other words, "nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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  • I played it safe."
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  • "i went out and i buried it in the ground and now i'm
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  • Handling--handing it back to you."
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  • Now, what's the master's reaction?
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  • "that made the master mad and he said, 'you lazy and
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  • Wicked servant.'"
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  • He said, "you should have at least put it in the bank where
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  • It would gain some interest."
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  • He goes, "you didn't even put it in the bank, you just hid it in
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  • The ground."
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  • He said, "but you did nothing with what i gave you."
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  • Okay, everybody, look up here just a minute.
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  • My greatest fear in life would be that you stand before god
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  • Someday and god says to you, "you did nothing with what i
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  • Gave you.
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  • You did nothing with the talent i gave you.
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  • You just used it on yourself.
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  • You didn't make a difference in the world.
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  • You didn't make the world a better place.
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  • You didn't serve anybody else.
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  • You just served yourself.
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  • You did nothing with what i gave you."
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  • It is my responsibility to make sure that doesn't happen to you,
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  • And it is your responsibility to make sure that doesn't happen to
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  • You too.
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  • He says, "you did nothing with what i gave you."
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  • So the master, this is god, says, "i'm taking back the one
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  • Talent i gave you and i'm going to give it to the man who
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  • Multiplied the ten talents that i gave him.
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  • To those who use well what i give them, they will be given
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  • Even more."
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  • Talent that sits on the shelf rots.
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  • It wastes.
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  • It goes away and you lose it.
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  • And god says, "i'm going to give it to the guy out there who's
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  • Using the ten talents.
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  • Now he's going to have 11."
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  • This is a principle of the universe.
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  • And so you've got to get rid of the fear of failure.
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  • "i was afraid and i hid it in the ground."
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  • Now, this is a pretty harsh reaction if yeah--if you look
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  • At it.
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  • He says, "you're lazy.
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  • You're wicked, and i'm going to take away what i gave you in the
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  • First place and give it to somebody else 'cause you're not
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  • Using what i gave you for the way i intended it."
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  • Here's the point of the story.
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  • You never please god by playing it safe.
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  • You never please god by playing it safe.
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  • Now, follow me on the logic of this.
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  • If you don't take any risks in life, you don't need any faith.
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  • And if you don't have any faith, then at that point you are
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  • Being unfaithful.
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  • Let me say it again.
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  • If you're not taking any risks in your life for the benefit of
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  • Other people, for the glory of god; you're not taking any risk,
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  • Then you don't need any faith.
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  • And if you don't have any faith, then at that point you are being
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  • Unfaithful and god says that's wicked.
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  • It's not just lazy, it's wrong.
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  • It's evil.
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  • "i made you to make a difference with your life, not just live
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  • For yourself."
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  • Hebrews 11:6 says, "without faith it is impossible to
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  • Please god."
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  • Faith means i'm going to try.
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  • I'm going to set a goal and i'm going to go after it.
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  • Faith requires taking that risk.
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  • If you're doing something in faith, then you're already a
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  • Success because it's pleasing to god.
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  • Whether you reached your goal or not, whether you meet the
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  • Challenge or not, whether you hit the pinnacle peak or not
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  • Is irrelevant.
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  • You're doing it in faith.
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  • That is pleasing to god.
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  • And if what you're attempting is for the glory of god, then you
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  • Can't be considered a failure no matter what happens.
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  • You know, when we started saddleback, when i started it
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  • With kay almost 40 years ago, i told the kids and i told kay
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  • Many time in the early years what i wanted written on my
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  • Tombstone was four words: "at least he tried."
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  • Because the jury was still out and it wasn't--i wasn't sure if
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  • This thing was going to work or not.
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  • And so i said, "just put on my tombstone: 'at least he tried."'
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  • I had a great goal, a great vision, great dream, but it--i
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  • May not have reached it.
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  • But at least he tried.
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  • I can't put that on the tombstone today 'cause now it'd
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  • Look like false humility 'cause it worked, okay?
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  • It worked. we're all here.
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  • But in the early days of a project, it's okay for you to
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  • Say, "at least he tried."
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  • "i'm going to start this new business."
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  • "at least he tried."
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  • "i'm going to start this new ministry."
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  • "at least she tried."
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  • That is faith.
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  • You redefine the meaning of failure.
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  • I--you know, life is a marathon.
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  • The bible says in matthew 9:26, "according to your faith it will
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  • Be done unto you."
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  • So if you have faith, then you're going to move forward and
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  • God's going to say, "according to your faith, you get to choose
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  • How much i bless your life."
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  • But this life is a marathon.
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  • It's not a 50-yard dash.
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  • And in a marathon, only one person wins.
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  • There might be 20,000 people running.
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  • People do not run a marathon to get first place 'cause only one
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  • Person is going to get first place.
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  • They run a marathon to finish, just say, "i did it.
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  • I did it."
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  • Life is not a 50-yard dash.
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  • You're not going to be number one in most things in life.
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  • Neither am i.
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  • You're just not going to be number one.
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  • There aren't enough things to be number one in.
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  • But what really matters is did you finish the race, or did you
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  • Cop out and quit too soon and coast the latter part of your
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  • Life, or did you run hard and fast for jesus christ till the
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  • Day he took you home?
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  • That's the question.
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  • It--the question is not, will you be number one?
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  • The question is, do you finish the race god put you in?
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: hey, if you're like me, sometimes you feel like
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  • Your prayer life has become inconsistent or routine and just
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  • Pastor rick: the seventh step in overcoming the fear of failure
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  • Is to refocus on god's love for me and others, and both of them
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  • Are important.
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  • I refocus on god's love for me first, how much god loves me;
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  • And then i focus on my love for other people.
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  • Why?
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  • Because love is the antidote to fear.
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  • A lot of people think the opposite of fear is faith.
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  • It is not.
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  • The opposite of fear is love; and love lets go of fear, love
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  • Moves against fear.
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  • When love comes in your front door of your heart, fear goes
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  • Out the back door.
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  • You can't be afraid and loving at the same time, not with
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  • Real love.
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  • Fake love you can.
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  • But if you have real love in your heart, you don't have
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  • Any fear.
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  • Why would people run into a burning building to rescue
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  • Little children?
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  • Not because of faith.
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  • They would do it because of love.
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  • Love moti--a mom will do all kinds of things and put her life
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  • At risk because she loves her babies, and a dad will put his
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  • Right--life at risk to protect his family, his wife and
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  • His kids.
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  • He'll do that not out of faith, he'll do it out of love.
  • 00:13:58.920 --> 00:14:02.023
  • And so if you make love the motivation of everything you do,
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  • Fear is going to disappear.
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  • Here's what the bible says.
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  • 1 john 4:18, "wherever god's love is, there is no fear."
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  • Circle that.
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  • There's no fear.
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  • "because god's perfect love drives out all fear."
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  • So when you start feeling fear rise up in you--you've got
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  • A project.
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  • You've got something you got to do.
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  • It's making you a little nervous.
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  • You're worrying, "am i going to be able to do this or not?"
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  • You need to pause and at that moment start going, "god, you
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  • Really love me."
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  • And you start focusing on how much god loves you.
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  • Say it aloud, "god, you really love me.
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  • You're on my side.
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  • You want me to succeed at this.
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  • I'm doing--it's not like you want me to fail."
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  • God doesn't want you to fail.
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  • He wants you to succeed at what you're doing in life.
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  • "god, you love me."
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  • There's no fear in love.
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  • You've heard me say many times at--every service i come out
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  • Here i go, "god, i love you and i love these people, and you
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  • Love me and you love these people, and these people love
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  • You and these people love me."
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  • "there's no fear in love.
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  • Perfect love casts out all fear."
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  • This is not an audience to be fe--i'm not afraid of you.
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  • Why?
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  • 'cause this is not an audience to be feared.
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  • This is a family to be loved and love gets rid of all fear.
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  • And the more you're loved--you're filled with love,
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  • You're focusing on what other people need, not yourself.
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  • When you're fearful, you're focusing totally on yourself.
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  • That's not love.
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  • When you're loving; you're not focused on you, you're focused
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  • On what other people need.
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  • And the more loving you are, the less fearful you are.
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  • So if you make love your motivation for everything you
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  • Do, you're not going to be afraid to do it.
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  • The bible says, "perfect love casts out all fear."
  • 00:15:44.692 --> 00:15:47.695
  • Make love your motivation.
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  • Now, in 1 corinthians 13:7 and 8, we have five characteristics
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  • Of real love.
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  • Love never stops being patient, love never stops believing, love
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  • Is always hopeful, love never gives up, and love never fails.
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  • Circle that last.
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  • Love never fails, which means this.
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  • I don't care what you attempt with your life.
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  • If you do it in love, whether you succeed in human terms or
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  • Not, you cannot be considered a failure because you did it in
  • 00:16:20.561 --> 00:16:23.931
  • Love and love never fails.
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  • You're not going to reach all your goals in life, you're not
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  • Going to be everything you think you ought to be, you're not
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  • Going to accomplish everything you think you ought to
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  • Accomplish; but if you become a great lover, a lover of god and
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  • A lover of people, then your life is a success because love
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  • Never fails.
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  • And in god's book, it doesn't matter how many accomplishments
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  • Or how many achievements you have; but if you really learn to
  • 00:16:53.895 --> 00:16:56.664
  • Love--love god with all your heart, love your neighbor as
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  • Yourself--love never fails.
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  • You cannot be considered a failure.
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  • Everything else may fall apart, but love never fails.
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  • You are not a failure, because you loved god with all your
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  • Heart and you loved the people around you and you loved people
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  • Who needed the lord.
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  • Number six--number eight.
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  • The last one is real simple.
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  • I'll just read the verses.
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  • Replace my fear with faith in jesus.
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  • Now, if you take the fear out of your heart, it leaves a vacuum.
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  • You can't leave a vacuum in your heart so you have to replace the
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  • Fear with something else.
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  • I replace my fear with faith in jesus.
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  • I'll read these three verses and we'll close.
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  • Philippians 4:13, "i have the strength to face all
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  • Conditions," even the ones that scare me to death, "by the power
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  • That christ gives me."
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  • My faith is not in my own power, my faith is in christ's power
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  • Inside of me.
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  • And when i know that i'm going to--what i'm being called to do,
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  • I'm going to do it not in my power but in god's power, then
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  • I'm not afraid because he gives me the power to do it.
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  • Here's another great promise.
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  • We've been looking at promises all day.
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  • The fe--isaiah 41:10, god says this to you: "fear not, for i am
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  • With you; be not dismayed, for i am your god; i will strengthen
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  • You and i will help you and i will uphold you with my
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  • Righteous right hand."
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  • You can go to the bank on that one, friends.
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  • God cannot lie.
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  • He says, "i will be there for you."
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  • Saddleback is a church of big dreams.
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  • We've had big, big dreams.
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  • If you're going to be a part of this family, you need to learn
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  • How to dream big.
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  • And if there's anything i want you to do--if you're going to be
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  • A member of this church, i want you to dream great dreams for
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  • God this week.
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  • As your spiritual coach, as your pastor, i'm begging you: dream
  • 00:19:05.860 --> 00:19:10.097
  • Great dreams for god.
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  • The nice thing about it, i've told you this before, it doesn't
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  • Cost anything.
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  • It's free.
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  • Dreams don't cost anything.
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  • I dare you to dream great dreams for god.
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  • What do you want to see happen in your life this next year?
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  • Ask yourself this question.
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  • "what would i attempt for god if i knew i couldn't fail?"
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  • And let that expand your mind.
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  • Dream great dreams for god 'cause god says, "i'll give you
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  • The strength, christ be in you; and i'm going to be with you,
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  • And i will strengthen you and i will help you and i will uphold
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  • You with my righteous right hand."
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  • 2 timothy 1:7, last verse, "god does not give us a spirit of
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  • Fear that makes us afraid.
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  • Instead he gives us a spirit of power and of love and
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  • Of self-control."
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  • In the king james original english translation, it says
  • 00:20:05.419 --> 00:20:08.923
  • Gives us a spirit of power and love and a sound mind.
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  • Self-control, sound mind-- same concept.
  • 00:20:12.660 --> 00:20:16.364
  • I know this one from experience.
  • 00:20:16.364 --> 00:20:19.033
  • Kay and i got married very young.
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  • We were both 21 years old.
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  • Three months after we got married many years ago, i just
  • 00:20:24.272 --> 00:20:28.643
  • Had a total breakdown--physical breakdown, emotional,
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  • Mental breakdown.
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  • I ended up in the hospital and i was filled with the fear of
  • 00:20:33.614 --> 00:20:38.152
  • Failure and i thought, "my life is over."
  • 00:20:38.152 --> 00:20:41.689
  • It hadn't even started yet, but i thought at 21 years of age,
  • 00:20:41.689 --> 00:20:47.261
  • "my life is over.
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  • I'm married, but i can't even last here.
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  • I'm 3 months.
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  • I'm in the hospital, depressed and discouraged."
  • 00:20:52.333 --> 00:20:56.337
  • And the psychiatrist in that hospital came to me and said,
  • 00:20:56.337 --> 00:20:59.473
  • "you need to take a month off."
  • 00:20:59.473 --> 00:21:02.510
  • And so we went to my parents in northern california who lived up
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  • In the redwoods, and i felt like such a failure as a new husband
  • 00:21:06.714 --> 00:21:13.654
  • And in--just in my life.
  • 00:21:13.654 --> 00:21:15.289
  • I just thought, "i can't handle anything."
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  • Everything made me upset and made me nervous.
  • 00:21:17.124 --> 00:21:20.594
  • And i remember one night i had a dream from all of the tension of
  • 00:21:20.594 --> 00:21:24.598
  • Feeling such a failure and all i can say it was like a
  • 00:21:24.598 --> 00:21:28.035
  • Demonic dream.
  • 00:21:28.035 --> 00:21:29.403
  • It was evil, and i woke up in a cold sweat.
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  • And as i was laying in there in bed kind of breathing very fast,
  • 00:21:34.208 --> 00:21:39.213
  • I heard the phone ring in my parents' house and my mom picked
  • 00:21:39.213 --> 00:21:42.083
  • It up and the guy on the phone said, "is this the house where
  • 00:21:42.083 --> 00:21:46.153
  • Rick warren is?"
  • 00:21:46.153 --> 00:21:47.521
  • And they said, "yes."
  • 00:21:47.521 --> 00:21:49.123
  • Said, "could i talk to him?" and she said, "yes."
  • 00:21:49.123 --> 00:21:51.726
  • So she called me. i got out of bed.
  • 00:21:51.726 --> 00:21:53.427
  • I came and i got the phone and i said, "yes?"
  • 00:21:53.427 --> 00:21:56.397
  • And he goes, "rick, you don't know me.
  • 00:21:56.397 --> 00:21:58.632
  • We've never met.
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  • How i got this number doesn't really matter.
  • 00:21:59.967 --> 00:22:02.703
  • But i live in san diego and god told me to call you and give you
  • 00:22:02.703 --> 00:22:08.676
  • This verse."
  • 00:22:08.676 --> 00:22:10.010
  • And it's this verse.
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  • "god has not given us a spirit of fear but of power and love
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  • And a sound mind.
  • 00:22:15.282 --> 00:22:16.617
  • Rick, you have a right in jesus christ to a sound mind."
  • 00:22:16.617 --> 00:22:20.788
  • And he hung up.
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  • You don't think god uses people like that?
  • 00:22:31.365 --> 00:22:33.634
  • Well, he does.
  • 00:22:33.634 --> 00:22:36.070
  • It could have been an angel, but it didn't have to be.
  • 00:22:36.070 --> 00:22:38.038
  • It just had to be a person, and god said, "call that guy."
  • 00:22:38.038 --> 00:22:41.075
  • And for whatever reason he called.
  • 00:22:41.075 --> 00:22:42.610
  • But i held on to that verse in that year of depression when i
  • 00:22:42.610 --> 00:22:47.681
  • Thought i was such a failure.
  • 00:22:47.681 --> 00:22:49.016
  • My life hadn't even started yet.
  • 00:22:49.016 --> 00:22:54.722
  • And he's done a few things in my life since then.
  • 00:22:54.722 --> 00:22:59.960
  • And what i want to say to you as somebody who loves you, as your
  • 00:22:59.960 --> 00:23:05.599
  • Pastor who prays for you all the time, god is not done with you.
  • 00:23:05.599 --> 00:23:13.908
  • God is not done with you.
  • 00:23:13.908 --> 00:23:18.045
  • I don't care what you've been through.
  • 00:23:18.045 --> 00:23:19.480
  • I'm sorry for all the pain, really i am, but god is not done
  • 00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:22.783
  • With you and you cannot let fear hold you back.
  • 00:23:22.783 --> 00:23:28.289
  • And i as your pastor will not let you hold--let fear hold you
  • 00:23:28.289 --> 00:23:32.393
  • Back, and i will push you to say--trust god and everything
  • 00:23:32.393 --> 00:23:38.098
  • You do, do it in faith and do it in love.
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  • And if you do it in faith and you do it in love, it doesn't
  • 00:23:40.668 --> 00:23:42.837
  • Matter how it turns out.
  • 00:23:42.837 --> 00:23:44.205
  • You're already a success because with faith it's
  • 00:23:44.205 --> 00:23:46.740
  • Impossible--without faith it's impossible to please god and
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  • Love never fails.
  • 00:23:49.877 --> 00:23:52.947
  • Let's bow our heads.
  • 00:23:52.947 --> 00:23:57.918
  • Dear god, we're all just normal people and we've all got habits
  • 00:24:02.156 --> 00:24:05.125
  • And hang-ups and hurts and we all have our secret fears and
  • 00:24:05.125 --> 00:24:09.697
  • Our anxieties and our insecurities, but the good thing
  • 00:24:09.697 --> 00:24:13.634
  • Is we know where to bring them.
  • 00:24:13.634 --> 00:24:15.936
  • To you.
  • 00:24:15.936 --> 00:24:17.304
  • You are the healer of minds like you did with kyle, and you are
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  • The healer of hurts like you did with valerie, and you are the
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  • Healer of hurts and so many other things if we'll just
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  • Trust you.
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  • We want our lives to be dominated by love and faith,
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  • Not fear.
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  • Forgive us for small thinking and petty believing.
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  • Forgive us for not attempting great things for you and
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  • Expecting great things from you.
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  • We don't want to be the guy who goes and buries the talent in
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  • The ground.
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  • We don't want to be lazy or wicked.
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  • That would be evil.
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  • You have made a deposit in every person's life here and you
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  • Didn't intend them to just use it on themselves.
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  • I pray that in this next year every person here would begin to
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  • Find a place of ministry, of service where they would be
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  • Giving back, making a difference in the world with the talent
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  • That you gave them.
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  • If you've never invited christ into your life, say, "jesus
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  • Christ, come into my life right now.
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  • I'm turning it over to you.
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  • You're the manager.
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  • You're the boss.
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  • From here on out, i want to go your plan, not my plan.
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  • Please save me, jesus, and i humbly ask this in your name.
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  • Amen."
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