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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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- When you give a gift to help "daily hope" reach the people
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- Around the world with the hope of jesus.
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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.
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- 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."
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Gives us a spirit of power and love and a sound mind.
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- Self-control, sound mind-- same concept.
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- I know this one from experience.
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- 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
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- 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."
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- 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."
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- 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
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- And in--just in my life.
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- I just thought, "i can't handle anything."
- 00:21:15.289 --> 00:21:17.124
- Everything made me upset and made me nervous.
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- And i remember one night i had a dream from all of the tension of
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- Feeling such a failure and all i can say it was like a
- 00:21:24.598 --> 00:21:28.035
- Demonic dream.
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- 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
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- 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."
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- Said, "could i talk to him?" and she said, "yes."
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- So she called me. i got out of bed.
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- I came and i got the phone and i said, "yes?"
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- And he goes, "rick, you don't know me.
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- We've never met.
- 00:21:58.632 --> 00:21:59.967
- 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
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- This verse."
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- 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?
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- 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
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- 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.
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- I don't care what you've been through.
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- I'm sorry for all the pain, really i am, but god is not done
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- With you and you cannot let fear hold you back.
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- And i as your pastor will not let you hold--let fear hold you
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- Back, and i will push you to say--trust god and everything
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- 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
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- 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.
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- To you.
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- You are the healer of minds like you did with kyle, and you are
- 00:24:17.304 --> 00:24:23.177
- The healer of hurts like you did with valerie, and you are the
- 00:24:23.177 --> 00:24:29.250
- Healer of hurts and so many other things if we'll just
- 00:24:29.250 --> 00:24:33.387
- Trust you.
- 00:24:33.387 --> 00:24:35.122
- We want our lives to be dominated by love and faith,
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- Not fear.
- 00:24:38.659 --> 00:24:40.961
- Forgive us for small thinking and petty believing.
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- Forgive us for not attempting great things for you and
- 00:24:46.066 --> 00:24:49.036
- Expecting great things from you.
- 00:24:49.036 --> 00:24:52.540
- We don't want to be the guy who goes and buries the talent in
- 00:24:52.540 --> 00:24:56.377
- The ground.
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- We don't want to be lazy or wicked.
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- That would be evil.
- 00:25:00.581 --> 00:25:02.182
- You have made a deposit in every person's life here and you
- 00:25:02.182 --> 00:25:05.686
- 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
- 00:25:14.628 --> 00:25:18.165
- Giving back, making a difference in the world with the talent
- 00:25:18.165 --> 00:25:21.268
- That you gave them.
- 00:25:21.268 --> 00:25:25.072
- If you've never invited christ into your life, say, "jesus
- 00:25:25.072 --> 00:25:27.441
- 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.
- 00:25:31.745 --> 00:25:33.113
- 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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- ♪♪♪
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- Announcer: hey, if you're like me, sometimes you feel like your
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- Prayer life has become inconsistent or routine and just
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- Needs a boost.
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- If you've ever felt like that, then you're going to want to get
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- A copy of the brand new "daily hope prayer journal."
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- This year's theme, "resting in the great i am."
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- And this is going to help you tap into god's power and
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- And purpose.
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- This is a journal that features 240 beautifully-designed pages
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- It really is a spiritual growth tool designed to help you enjoy
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