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Rick Warren - When God Tests You With Success (Part 2)

August 17, 2025 | S25 E33 | 28:30

Rick Warren - When God Tests You With Success (Part 2)
Pastor Rick shares biblical truth and practical tools for living the full life God desires for everyone.
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Rick Warren | Rick Warren - When God Tests You With Success (Part 2) | August 17, 2025
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  • Pastor rick warren: now, let me just say this to you.
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  • You can be expected to be tested in your success.
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  • Whatever level of success you have in life, god will test you.
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  • If you pass the test, you get more.
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  • If you don't, you get less.
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  • Jesus said it.
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  • It's taught all the way through scripture.
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  • Proverbs 14:21.
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  • You want to be happy?
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  • Well, the bible says this: "if you want to be happy, be kind to
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  • The poor; it is a sin to despise anyone."
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  • You're walking down the street, you see a homeless person.
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  • They're sitting there hoping for a buck or something and you just
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  • Ignore them.
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  • It's a sin to despise anybody.
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  • If you want to be happy, be kind to the poor.
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  • Look at this next verse.
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  • Proverbs 14:31, "whoever mistreats the poor insults their
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  • Maker," god considers it a personal affront when you diss a
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  • Homeless person.
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  • "whoever mistreats the poor--" let me go back to that one.
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  • "whoever mistreats the poor insults their maker, but whoever
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  • Is kind to the needy honors god."
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  • That's how you honor god.
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  • God says, "you honor me when you honor the people i made."
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  • Proverbs 21:13, "those who shut their ears to the cries of the
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  • Poor will be ignored in their own time of need."
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  • This is what happens in small groups.
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  • When you care for other people in your small group in their
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  • Need, they'll be there for you in your need.
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  • You're gonna to reap what you sow.
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  • If you don't ever help anybody--are you doing anything
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  • Totally unselfish to help other people who couldn't possibly
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  • Help you back?
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  • God says that's like banking goodwill in the bank of heaven.
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  • Let me show you another one.
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  • You want to be a leader? proverbs 29:14.
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  • Love this in the message paraphrase.
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  • "leadership gains authority and respect when the voiceless poor
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  • Are treated fairly."
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  • You want to be a leader in the community, leader at work,
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  • Leader on a sports team, leader at school?
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  • Leadership and authority and respect comes when the voiceless
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  • Poor are treated fairly.
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  • You know, most of you know this story, that when i wrote the
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  • Book, "purpose-driven life," it became a huge global success,
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  • Far more than i could have ever imagined.
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  • It was the best-selling book in the world for many years, like
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  • Four or five years.
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  • It was number one on "the new york times" for
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  • Over three years.
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  • It's the most translated book in the world, except for the bible.
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  • It's in 137 languages.
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  • And when that book became the bestselling, nonfiction hardback
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  • In american history, it brought in tons and tons of money to me
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  • And it also brought in tons of tons of influence and all of a
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  • Sudden i'm getting calls from people like bill gates and jack
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  • Welch and the president of the united states and the head of
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  • The un, and i'm getting asked to speak at davos world economic
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  • Forum and ted and the un and congress.
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  • And i didn't want it to be the--this famous person, but the
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  • Book kind of ruined that, [congregation laughing]
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  • You know, and-- [congregation applauding]
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  • And all--you know, all of a sudden enormous amounts of
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  • Money, tens of millions of dollars start coming in and
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  • All of a sudden enormous amount of
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  • Notoriety or fame, and i--you know, when you write a book and
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  • The first sentence of the book is, "it's not about you," then
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  • You know the money is not for you and the fame is not for you.
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  • So i'm going to go, "okay, lord, what am i--obviously i know this
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  • Money is not for me.
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  • What do you want to do with it?
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  • I'll just give it away, but how do you want it to be
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  • Given away?"
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  • And, you know, i'm a pretty simple guy.
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  • If i got a pair of jeans and a good t-shirt,
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  • I'm happy, you know.
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  • I don't need a lot of bling.
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  • And so i began to pray through scripture and god gave me two
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  • Passages of scripture: one from the new testament on what to do
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  • With the money, and one from the old testament on what to do with
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  • The fame and the notoriety.
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  • In 1 corinthians 9, paul says this: "those who teach the
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  • Gospel should make a living by the gospel."
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  • In other words, it's okay to pay your pastor.
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  • It's okay to pay a missionary, a priest.
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  • It's okay to pair--pay people who serve god full time.
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  • That's fine.
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  • But paul says, "but i will not accept that right.
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  • I have the right to be paid for what i do, but i will not accept
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  • That right because i want to serve the gospel for free so i'm
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  • A slave to no man."
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  • And when i read that, i thought, "that's what i want to do."
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  • And so kay and i made five decisions on what to do with
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  • The money.
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  • All of a sudden unexpected success.
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  • "what are we going to do with this success, money and fame?
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  • What are we going to do with it?
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  • Well, we're going to use it to serve the poor.
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  • We're going to use it to help other people."
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  • And so we made five decisions.
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  • First, we said we're not going to spend the money on us.
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  • I still live in the same house i've lived in 25 years.
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  • I drive a 16-year-old ford truck.
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  • I bought my watch at walmart.
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  • Actually, this one was given to me.
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  • It keeps the same time as your rolex.
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  • Doesn't go any faster or any slower, okay, you know.
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  • I paid 15 bucks for it, okay?
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  • I don't need a whole lot of things 'cause i don't need
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  • Things to prove my worth.
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  • So i said, "i'm not--we're not going to change our lifestyle
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  • One bit."
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  • Second, i stopped taking a salary from the church in 2002.
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  • Third, i added up all the church had paid me in the previous 22
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  • Years, many of you know this, and i gave it all back.
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  • So i've now served this church free for 36 years.
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  • I'm a volunteer pastor, okay?
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  • So nobody pays me to do this, okay?
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  • So those of you who volunteer in this church:
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  • Well, welcome to the club.
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  • I'm a volunteer pastor, okay?
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  • In fact, i'm a full-time volunteer.
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  • And when some of you retire, i expect you to volunteer full
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  • Time, okay, because i'm a volunteer pastor.
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  • You know, this is difference between professional
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  • And amateur.
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  • A professional is paid to do good.
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  • Now, those of us who are amateurs, we're good
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  • For nothing.
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  • Actually, the word "amateur" comes from the word "amore."
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  • You know what that is. the word love.
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  • And an amateur does it out of love.
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  • The professional does it to be paid for it.
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  • I am not a professional pastor, i'm an amateur pastor.
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  • I do it because i love you and because i love jesus.
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  • Nobody pays me to do this.
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  • And then we set up a foundation called acts of mercy to help the
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  • Vulnerable and the poor and people with aids and children
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  • And widows and orphans and all kinds of things like that.
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  • And then the last thing, most of you know kay and i became
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  • Reverse tithers.
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  • Now, we'd been raising our tithe every year.
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  • We got married 41 years ago.
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  • When we got married, we paid--gave 10% to the lord.
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  • The next year we gave 11%, next year we gave 12%.
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  • The third year of marriage we raised it 3%, and every year we
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  • Raised our tithe, giving away because i just wanted my heart
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  • To grow bigger every year.
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  • Every time i give, it breaks the grip of materialism in my life.
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  • Every time i give, my heart grows bigger.
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  • Every time i give, i become more like jesus.
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  • I want to be like jesus.
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  • And so on years that it was very tight financially and the
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  • Cupboards were bare we would still raise our giving like a
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  • Quarter of a percent, and on years i'd get a raise or we'd
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  • Have a windfall or something and we'd raise it 4 or 5%.
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  • Most of you know that today kay and i give away 91% and live on
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  • 9, and i've played this game with god for now, you know,
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  • 41 years.
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  • God says, "you give to me and i'll give to you and we'll
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  • See who wins."
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  • And i've lost that for 41 years.
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  • I dare you to try that one.
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  • That was actually the easy part.
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  • What do you do with all that money?
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  • Just give it away, and it's been so much fun just giving it away.
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  • So we did. we just gave it all away.
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  • The second thing, though, was, what do you do with the fame,
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  • The attention?
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  • This is the thing that you get when you--the more successful
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  • You become, and i was reading for that and i came upon
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  • Psalms 72.
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  • Psalms 72 is a prayer by solomon the son of david who was the
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  • King of israel.
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  • At that time, he's the most powerful man in the world in
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  • Israel, he is the king of this--the united kingdom, it's
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  • Apex of power, he's the wisest man in the world, and he's the
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  • Wealthiest man in the world.
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  • And in psalms 72, it's his prayer for more influence.
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  • When you read this prayer, it sounds so self-centered because
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  • In this prayer, psalms 72, da--solomon says this: "god, i
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  • Want you to make me more successful than i already am.
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  • I want you to make me famous.
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  • I want you to spread the fame of my name to every nation.
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  • I want everybody to know who i am.
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  • I want you to give me more influence, more power,
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  • More visibility."
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  • Now, it sounds totally self-centered until you read
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  • The motivation.
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  • And then he says, "so that," here's the motivation.
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  • "so that the king may support the widow and orphan, the king
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  • May release the oppressed, the king may help the poor, that the
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  • King may care for the sick, that the king may, you know, help
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  • Those who are in prison and oppressed, that the king may be
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  • The defender of the immigrant and the foreigner."
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  • Today, he's mentioning all the people who are marginalized in
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  • Society and he's saying--you know, today he'd say, "so that i
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  • Can help the mentally ill and the handicapped and the aged
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  • And the elderly."
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  • And all the people that we want to push off to the side
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  • Of society.
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  • And in that passage, i remember tears were coming down my face
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  • As i read that passage, god said to me the purpose of influence
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  • Is to speak up for those who have no influence.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Announcer: if you want to live a life full of purpose and joy,
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  • Then you need to transform the way you think.
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  • And to help you do this, pastor rick created a brand-new set of
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  • Scripture cards with 52 hand-selected verses from his
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  • Series "rethinking your life."
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  • These verses will guide you
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  • Into a deeper understanding
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  • Of your purpose and faith,
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  • And you'll find yourself
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  • Gaining the strength to
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  • Overcome temptation and conquer
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  • Discouragement when you allow god's word
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  • To transform your mind.
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  • You'll see your life through his eyes, apply his wisdom, and step
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  • Into a life of purpose and joy.
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  • This set of beautifully-designed cards will help you memorize
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  • Scripture so you can recall god's word when you need it
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  • The most.
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  • And today when you give a gift to help "daily
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  • Hope" take the hope of jesus to a world in
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  • Need, we'll send you the "rethinking your
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  • Life" scripture card set to say thanks.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Pastor rick: god did not give you success so you can be a fat
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  • Cat and prideful and buy an island and, you know, have
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  • Drinks with little umbrellas in them.
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  • God gives you success not for your benefit but for the benefit
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  • Of others.
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  • And when you understand that, god will give you more.
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  • And if you're faithful in little, then you'll be faithful
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  • In much.
  • 00:11:48.357 --> 00:11:49.892
  • Now, i know some people hear that story and say, "well, yeah,
  • 00:11:49.892 --> 00:11:51.927
  • Rick, if god gave me millions of dollars,
  • 00:11:51.927 --> 00:11:54.130
  • I'd give millions away too."
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  • No, you wouldn't 'cause you're not doing it now.
  • 00:11:55.464 --> 00:11:58.367
  • I had a track record of being generous when i didn't have
  • 00:11:58.367 --> 00:12:01.337
  • The money.
  • 00:12:01.337 --> 00:12:03.339
  • I had a 36-year track record on that, and the fact is--you know
  • 00:12:03.339 --> 00:12:10.045
  • Why god made that--let me be the author of the bestselling book
  • 00:12:10.045 --> 00:12:13.349
  • In american history?
  • 00:12:13.349 --> 00:12:15.117
  • He knew what i'd do with the money.
  • 00:12:15.117 --> 00:12:17.820
  • He knew he could trust me with the money, that i wasn't going
  • 00:12:17.820 --> 00:12:21.857
  • To use it on me and that the first sentence would be, "it's
  • 00:12:21.857 --> 00:12:25.828
  • Not about you."
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  • One of the verses that god showed me when i was having to
  • 00:12:27.363 --> 00:12:29.532
  • Go--'cause it scared me to death.
  • 00:12:29.532 --> 00:12:31.000
  • I said, "i know what success does to people."
  • 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:33.702
  • A lot of money, a lot of fame can ruin you very quickly.
  • 00:12:33.702 --> 00:12:38.073
  • Now, one of the verses--god gave me this verse on the screen.
  • 00:12:38.073 --> 00:12:40.409
  • Proverbs 31:8 and 9, "speak up for those who cannot speak for
  • 00:12:40.409 --> 00:12:44.747
  • Themselves; ensure justice for those who are perishing."
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  • By the way, that would include the unborn because they can't
  • 00:12:50.019 --> 00:12:53.956
  • Speak for themselves and they are certainly perishing.
  • 00:12:53.956 --> 00:12:57.092
  • "speak up for those who can't speak for themselves; ensure
  • 00:12:57.092 --> 00:13:00.296
  • Justice for those who are perishing.
  • 00:13:00.296 --> 00:13:02.031
  • Yes, speak up for the poor and the helpless, and see that they
  • 00:13:02.031 --> 00:13:05.668
  • Get justice."
  • 00:13:05.668 --> 00:13:07.403
  • So we are to repent, change our attitude, and we are to serve
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  • The poor.
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  • This is the warning that god gives to nebuchadnezzar.
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  • He totally ignores it.
  • 00:13:16.078 --> 00:13:18.514
  • And so the third thing that happens right now and the third
  • 00:13:18.514 --> 00:13:20.950
  • Problem is we put off doing what we know is right.
  • 00:13:20.950 --> 00:13:24.987
  • And this is the third reason that nebuchadnezzar fell, and
  • 00:13:24.987 --> 00:13:28.224
  • It's going to be the third reason that you might fall in
  • 00:13:28.224 --> 00:13:32.494
  • Your success if you don't hear the warning.
  • 00:13:32.494 --> 00:13:36.098
  • We put off doing what we know is right.
  • 00:13:36.098 --> 00:13:38.534
  • We procrastinate.
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  • We postpone.
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  • We delay. we defer.
  • 00:13:43.339 --> 00:13:44.673
  • We dawdle.
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  • Daniel 4, verse 28 says this, after he had had this dream
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  • Interpreted, "twelve months later--" oh, wait a minute.
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  • Twelve months later?
  • 00:13:54.984 --> 00:13:56.785
  • What's he been doing for the last year?
  • 00:13:56.785 --> 00:13:58.721
  • God says, "you're going to lose your kingdom and you're going to
  • 00:13:58.721 --> 00:14:01.457
  • Lose your mind if you don't change."
  • 00:14:01.457 --> 00:14:03.993
  • Let me ask you that.
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  • If--personally, if god warned you--the truth is he has
  • 00:14:05.361 --> 00:14:10.833
  • Warned you.
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  • It's right here in this book, and he says, "if you'll do these
  • 00:14:12.234 --> 00:14:15.304
  • Things, i'm going to bless you and you're going to succeed
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  • In life.
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  • If you don't do these things, you're going to fail.
  • 00:14:18.941 --> 00:14:21.176
  • You're going to hit the wall.
  • 00:14:21.176 --> 00:14:22.544
  • You're going to have dead-ends, delays, difficulties, and things
  • 00:14:22.544 --> 00:14:25.414
  • Are not going to go the way you want them to go."
  • 00:14:25.414 --> 00:14:28.284
  • "there's a way that seems right unto a man, but the ends thereof
  • 00:14:28.284 --> 00:14:30.586
  • Are the ways of death."
  • 00:14:30.586 --> 00:14:32.755
  • So we put off doing what we know is right.
  • 00:14:32.755 --> 00:14:35.291
  • He knew what to do.
  • 00:14:35.291 --> 00:14:37.259
  • And it says here, "twelve months later," 'cause he hadn't done
  • 00:14:37.259 --> 00:14:41.196
  • Anything, "all of what nebuchadnezzar dreamed did
  • 00:14:41.196 --> 00:14:45.367
  • Actually happen to him."
  • 00:14:45.367 --> 00:14:47.803
  • He lost it all.
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  • He's taking a walk on a flat roof of his royal palace in
  • 00:14:49.605 --> 00:14:52.241
  • Babylon, and as he took--looked out across the city," and i'm
  • 00:14:52.241 --> 00:14:57.179
  • Sure it was quite magnificent, the skyline, he boasted
  • 00:14:57.179 --> 00:15:00.582
  • To himself.
  • 00:15:00.582 --> 00:15:01.951
  • He's talking to himself.
  • 00:15:01.951 --> 00:15:03.285
  • I'm sure he's going, "man, nebi--" you know, he calls
  • 00:15:03.285 --> 00:15:05.487
  • Himself nebi.
  • 00:15:05.487 --> 00:15:07.856
  • "nebi, you are the man.
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  • You are the dude.
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  • You are number one.
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  • You--i mean, everybody wants to be you, you know."
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  • Got to be good-looking. he's so hard to see.
  • 00:15:18.467 --> 00:15:20.035
  • He say, "you are the man."
  • 00:15:20.035 --> 00:15:22.504
  • "and as the words were still on his lips, a voice
  • 00:15:22.504 --> 00:15:26.342
  • Came from heaven,
  • 00:15:26.342 --> 00:15:27.676
  • ... 'this is what god declares to you--decrees to you,
  • 00:15:27.676 --> 00:15:30.079
  • King nebuchadnezzar: your power is being taken away.
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  • You're no longer the ruler of this kingdom!
  • 00:15:33.082 --> 00:15:35.451
  • You're going to be deposed from the palace, ostracized by
  • 00:15:35.451 --> 00:15:38.754
  • Everyone, forced to live with the wild animals.
  • 00:15:38.754 --> 00:15:41.523
  • And immediately it all happened.'"
  • 00:15:41.523 --> 00:15:44.526
  • He lost his kingdom and he lost his mind.
  • 00:15:44.526 --> 00:15:47.129
  • He literally went insane.
  • 00:15:47.129 --> 00:15:49.264
  • History confirms this, that there was a period of time--now,
  • 00:15:49.264 --> 00:15:52.401
  • We don't actually know how long he was in this loss where he
  • 00:15:52.401 --> 00:15:56.739
  • Lost his mind, lost his kingdom because the bible says, "you're
  • 00:15:56.739 --> 00:15:59.608
  • Going to lose it for seven periods."
  • 00:15:59.608 --> 00:16:01.710
  • And some scholars think that means seven seasons, which would
  • 00:16:01.710 --> 00:16:04.780
  • Have been a little bit less than two years, and some people think
  • 00:16:04.780 --> 00:16:07.349
  • It means seven years, which would have been a long time.
  • 00:16:07.349 --> 00:16:10.586
  • But it wasn't like a month or two.
  • 00:16:10.586 --> 00:16:12.955
  • He has a major ceo burnout and
  • 00:16:12.955 --> 00:16:20.029
  • It's public and it's embarrassing, and the guy who
  • 00:16:20.029 --> 00:16:23.499
  • Was the most powerful man in the world is now drooling on himself
  • 00:16:23.499 --> 00:16:26.268
  • And acting like an animal in the desert and can't even
  • 00:16:26.268 --> 00:16:28.837
  • Make sense.
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  • That's humbling.
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  • That's humiliating.
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  • He's out of touch with reality, becomes a fool.
  • 00:16:33.342 --> 00:16:35.344
  • He's unreasonable.
  • 00:16:35.344 --> 00:16:36.712
  • He acts like an animal.
  • 00:16:36.712 --> 00:16:38.047
  • By the way, you haven't ever seen it like this, but have you
  • 00:16:38.047 --> 00:16:41.283
  • Ever seen a friend who all of a sudden decides to not do what
  • 00:16:41.283 --> 00:16:46.288
  • God wants them to do and they walk off a cliff and do
  • 00:16:46.288 --> 00:16:51.193
  • Something self-destructive and you're going,
  • 00:16:51.193 --> 00:16:53.695
  • "what in the world? have you lost your mind?"
  • 00:16:53.695 --> 00:16:57.833
  • You go, "wait a minute.
  • 00:16:57.833 --> 00:16:59.201
  • You--tell me, you're going to leave your wife
  • 00:16:59.201 --> 00:17:01.036
  • And kids for her?
  • 00:17:01.036 --> 00:17:02.771
  • Have you lost your mind?
  • 00:17:02.771 --> 00:17:07.609
  • Wait a minute, you're going to leave your husband and you're
  • 00:17:07.609 --> 00:17:11.880
  • Going to break up your marriage for that guy?
  • 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:13.749
  • Have you lost your mind?"
  • 00:17:13.749 --> 00:17:17.286
  • People do this all the time, self-destructive behavior,
  • 00:17:17.286 --> 00:17:21.056
  • Because they're running from god.
  • 00:17:21.056 --> 00:17:23.625
  • And so his life just collapses in a very public and humiliating
  • 00:17:23.625 --> 00:17:27.429
  • Way, and we see it all the time.
  • 00:17:27.429 --> 00:17:29.765
  • In fact, the news love to cover this kind of stuff.
  • 00:17:29.765 --> 00:17:34.303
  • But god has mercy on nebuchadnezzar and after this
  • 00:17:34.303 --> 00:17:38.073
  • Period of humiliation, whether it's two and a half years or a
  • 00:17:38.073 --> 00:17:41.577
  • Couple years or seven years, we don't know,
  • 00:17:41.577 --> 00:17:44.947
  • He restored his mind.
  • 00:17:44.947 --> 00:17:46.548
  • And i want you to see now the steps that nehemiah took back
  • 00:17:46.548 --> 00:17:50.619
  • To sanity.
  • 00:17:50.619 --> 00:17:51.987
  • This is the road to recovery, and he did three things.
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  • When you have a major failure in your life, you need to do these
  • 00:17:55.924 --> 00:18:00.295
  • Exact three things.
  • 00:18:00.295 --> 00:18:01.630
  • He looked up, he woke up, and he spoke up.
  • 00:18:01.630 --> 00:18:04.633
  • Let's look at the first.
  • 00:18:04.633 --> 00:18:06.001
  • Number one, write this down.
  • 00:18:06.001 --> 00:18:07.336
  • Three steps to recovery after failure.
  • 00:18:07.336 --> 00:18:08.837
  • First, look up to god.
  • 00:18:08.837 --> 00:18:11.340
  • Look up to god.
  • 00:18:11.340 --> 00:18:14.042
  • The bible says in daniel 4, verse 34, "at this time--after
  • 00:18:14.042 --> 00:18:18.680
  • This time had passed," you know, when he had lost his mind, "i,
  • 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:22.918
  • Nebuchadnezzar," he's giving a testimony.
  • 00:18:22.918 --> 00:18:25.087
  • This chapter is his testimony.
  • 00:18:25.087 --> 00:18:27.222
  • "i, nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven and my sanity returned."
  • 00:18:27.222 --> 00:18:34.363
  • Literally, it says in the hebrew he lifted up his eyes to heaven.
  • 00:18:34.363 --> 00:18:38.500
  • Do you need to do that today?
  • 00:18:38.500 --> 00:18:41.136
  • Some of you have never taken this first step.
  • 00:18:41.136 --> 00:18:43.672
  • You're in a heap of trouble right now.
  • 00:18:43.672 --> 00:18:45.374
  • You're in a mess.
  • 00:18:45.374 --> 00:18:47.309
  • You're in a mess in your life.
  • 00:18:47.309 --> 00:18:49.011
  • It's going the wrong way, but you're looking to everything
  • 00:18:49.011 --> 00:18:51.647
  • Else and everybody else to solve it.
  • 00:18:51.647 --> 00:18:54.249
  • You're looking to other people.
  • 00:18:54.249 --> 00:18:55.584
  • You're looking to the government.
  • 00:18:55.584 --> 00:18:56.952
  • You're looking to yourself.
  • 00:18:56.952 --> 00:18:58.287
  • You expect your husband or your wife to solve it, whatever.
  • 00:18:58.287 --> 00:19:00.589
  • You're in a mess.
  • 00:19:00.589 --> 00:19:01.924
  • You need to look up to god.
  • 00:19:01.924 --> 00:19:04.626
  • You need to get your eyes on heaven, refocus on god, not be
  • 00:19:04.626 --> 00:19:09.531
  • Looking at anything and everybody else.
  • 00:19:09.531 --> 00:19:10.933
  • Now, by the way, sometimes god has to lay you flat on your back
  • 00:19:10.933 --> 00:19:14.636
  • To get you to look up.
  • 00:19:14.636 --> 00:19:17.573
  • I hope he doesn't have to do that to you.
  • 00:19:17.573 --> 00:19:19.908
  • Just do this now.
  • 00:19:19.908 --> 00:19:21.276
  • Look up to god.
  • 00:19:21.276 --> 00:19:22.611
  • The second thing he did is he woke up.
  • 00:19:22.611 --> 00:19:24.646
  • Here's the second step.
  • 00:19:24.646 --> 00:19:26.014
  • Wake up to god's greatness and start worshiping.
  • 00:19:26.014 --> 00:19:31.186
  • Wake up to god's greatness.
  • 00:19:31.186 --> 00:19:33.288
  • Not your own greatness but god's greatness,
  • 00:19:33.288 --> 00:19:35.924
  • And start worshiping him.
  • 00:19:35.924 --> 00:19:37.292
  • Worship just means focus on god.
  • 00:19:37.292 --> 00:19:39.595
  • When you focus on god's greatness, that's
  • 00:19:39.595 --> 00:19:42.164
  • Called worship.
  • 00:19:42.164 --> 00:19:43.765
  • You wake up to god's greatness and you start worshiping.
  • 00:19:43.765 --> 00:19:46.268
  • You get your focus off yourself, off your problem, off your
  • 00:19:46.268 --> 00:19:50.105
  • Humiliation and you get your focus back on god.
  • 00:19:50.105 --> 00:19:54.176
  • How do you do that?
  • 00:19:54.176 --> 00:19:55.544
  • You start worshiping again.
  • 00:19:55.544 --> 00:19:57.412
  • If in the past you used to read your bible a little bit every
  • 00:19:57.412 --> 00:20:00.282
  • Day or try to pray every day and read the bible, that's called a
  • 00:20:00.282 --> 00:20:03.719
  • Quiet time, you need to do that with regularity.
  • 00:20:03.719 --> 00:20:06.088
  • You need to develop that habit and start focusing worshiping on
  • 00:20:06.088 --> 00:20:09.258
  • God every day.
  • 00:20:09.258 --> 00:20:11.126
  • If you've been inconsistent in your small group or you haven't
  • 00:20:11.126 --> 00:20:14.429
  • Been in a small group for a while, you need to get in a
  • 00:20:14.429 --> 00:20:16.798
  • Small group again.
  • 00:20:16.798 --> 00:20:18.166
  • You need to start going every week and be consistent
  • 00:20:18.166 --> 00:20:20.469
  • Worshiping god.
  • 00:20:20.469 --> 00:20:23.205
  • You see, in good times you start backing off, go, "hey, i don't
  • 00:20:23.205 --> 00:20:25.941
  • Need to go to church this week.
  • 00:20:25.941 --> 00:20:27.276
  • I'll go once a month, that's cool, you know.
  • 00:20:27.276 --> 00:20:29.111
  • Now that we got money, let's buy a boat, or a cabin, or a condo,
  • 00:20:29.111 --> 00:20:33.548
  • Or an rv and we'll spend three weeks playing and once a
  • 00:20:33.548 --> 00:20:36.952
  • Month we'll go to church."
  • 00:20:36.952 --> 00:20:38.720
  • Really?
  • 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:40.222
  • Is there anything more important in your life than worshiping god
  • 00:20:40.222 --> 00:20:43.258
  • And hearing from him on a regular basis?
  • 00:20:43.258 --> 00:20:46.695
  • If you know something that will help your life more than going
  • 00:20:46.695 --> 00:20:50.966
  • To worship god, stand up and tell us right now because i'll
  • 00:20:50.966 --> 00:20:54.936
  • Go do it with you 'cause i'm not going to waste my life.
  • 00:20:54.936 --> 00:20:59.274
  • Just tell us.
  • 00:20:59.274 --> 00:21:00.642
  • No, getting in touch with god every week in worship, you
  • 00:21:00.642 --> 00:21:05.013
  • Need--you know, when the doors are open at a church, i'm going
  • 00:21:05.013 --> 00:21:07.749
  • To be there, why?
  • 00:21:07.749 --> 00:21:09.351
  • 'cause i've often wondered what if that was the week god wanted
  • 00:21:09.351 --> 00:21:11.987
  • To speak to me that was going to turn the direction of my life,
  • 00:21:11.987 --> 00:21:14.556
  • Build a career that i never even imagined and if i didn't go that
  • 00:21:14.556 --> 00:21:17.693
  • Week i missed it?
  • 00:21:17.693 --> 00:21:20.262
  • I missed it.
  • 00:21:20.262 --> 00:21:21.596
  • I don't want to miss what god says to me.
  • 00:21:21.596 --> 00:21:23.565
  • Some of you need to make a recommitment to be at worship
  • 00:21:23.565 --> 00:21:26.001
  • Every single week, not like once a month or every two weeks
  • 00:21:26.001 --> 00:21:29.871
  • Or whatever.
  • 00:21:29.871 --> 00:21:31.239
  • I'm gonna--i do it--it's more important for me to hear from
  • 00:21:31.239 --> 00:21:33.375
  • God than to hear from television or hear from anything else going
  • 00:21:33.375 --> 00:21:39.147
  • On in life.
  • 00:21:39.147 --> 00:21:41.016
  • So i wake up to god's greatness and i start worshiping again,
  • 00:21:41.016 --> 00:21:44.419
  • And i'm there and i worship god all the time.
  • 00:21:44.419 --> 00:21:47.122
  • Verse 34, nehe--nebuchadnezzar says, "my sanity returned, and i
  • 00:21:47.122 --> 00:21:53.195
  • Praised and worshiped the most high," that's god, "and i
  • 00:21:53.195 --> 00:21:57.299
  • Honored the one who lives forever."
  • 00:21:57.299 --> 00:21:59.601
  • This is the second step to recovery.
  • 00:21:59.601 --> 00:22:02.037
  • "my sanity returned when i started praising and worshiping
  • 00:22:02.037 --> 00:22:04.873
  • And, you know, being grateful for the things god has done in
  • 00:22:04.873 --> 00:22:07.342
  • My life."
  • 00:22:07.342 --> 00:22:08.710
  • Now, i want you to write this down.
  • 00:22:08.710 --> 00:22:10.045
  • I don't know what bad thing you're going through right now,
  • 00:22:10.045 --> 00:22:13.014
  • But i will tell you this.
  • 00:22:13.014 --> 00:22:14.383
  • We get better when we replace pride with praise.
  • 00:22:14.383 --> 00:22:20.756
  • We get better in any area of our lives when we replace pride in
  • 00:22:20.756 --> 00:22:26.128
  • Ourselves with praise to god.
  • 00:22:26.128 --> 00:22:30.732
  • Now, let me say it again.
  • 00:22:30.732 --> 00:22:32.100
  • Every time things are going good in your life, this is as much a
  • 00:22:32.100 --> 00:22:36.338
  • Test as the bad times, as the delays, the difficulties, and
  • 00:22:36.338 --> 00:22:40.509
  • The suffering and the pain.
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  • Every time things are going good in your life, god's going to go,
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  • "are they going to become prideful?
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  • Are they going to become praiseful?
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  • Are they going to just think, hey, look how cool we are, i
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  • Am, or, look how cool god is?"
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  • He--i would not have any of this if it weren't for god.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Pastor rick: friends, if you're having trouble staying
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  • Consistent in your bible study and quiet time, one thing you
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  • Could do is have the "daily hope" devotional and podcast
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  • Emailed to you every single day.
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  • Did you know that?
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  • Now, each devotional--each daily devotional gives you a bible
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  • Verse and both a written and an audio teaching about that verse.
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  • Now, i mention this because that's exactly what one of my
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  • Listeners has done.
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  • Marla wrote me and she says that getting "daily hope" devotionals
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  • Have helped deepen her relationship with the lord and
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  • Helped her be more consistent.
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  • Marla writes this: "hello, pastor rick.
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  • I've been a christian all my life, but i felt lost for the
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  • Past few years.
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  • But a friend of mine told me about your 'daily hope' emails,
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  • And i've been getting them for about a month now.
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  • I read them every morning and my meditation and prayer practices
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  • Have become more regular and definitely more meaningful.
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  • My relationship to god has grown because of you and the daily
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  • Hope ministry.
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  • I now listen to your podcast every day on my way to or from
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  • Work, and i love it.
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  • They have really helped me as a mother, as a wife, as a boss,
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  • And as a friend.
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  • So i'm going to share them with my oldest daughter who's 19.
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  • She's trying to find friends and find her way in college.
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  • So thank you, thank you, thank you."
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  • Well, thank you, marla.
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  • Thank you for writing.
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  • I'm so encouraged to hear how god uses "daily hope" to change
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  • Lives and to help people just like you grow closer to him.
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  • You know, i think it's great that you are sharing your "daily
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  • Hope" podcast with your daughter, and i want to invite
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  • All of our listeners to do this.
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  • I have no doubt that she is going to learn to lean on the
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  • Lord, and as she does that she'll develop
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  • Biblical discernment.
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  • That means knowing which way to go and who to relate to, and
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  • It's going to help her find her way in college.
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  • Now, you'll find the "daily hope" podcast on my
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  • Website dailyhopetv.com.
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  • All of these podcasts are free, and the reason we're able to do
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  • That is because the generous gifts from listeners like you.
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  • So those of you who are supporting us financially, a
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  • Million thanks.
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  • You're making a difference.
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  • You're changing lives.
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  • Your gifts are causing people to come into the kingdom, grow in
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  • Christ, and become all god intended for them to be.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Announcer: if you want to live a life full of purpose and joy,
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  • Then you need to transform the way you think.
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  • And to help you do this, pastor rick created a brand-new set of
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  • Scripture cards with 52 hand-selected verses from his
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  • Series "rethinking your life."
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  • These verses will guide you
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  • Into a deeper understanding
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  • Of your purpose and faith,
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  • And you'll find yourself
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  • Gaining the strength to
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  • Overcome temptation and conquer
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  • Discouragement when you allow god's word
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  • To transform your mind.
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  • You'll see your life through his eyes, apply his wisdom, and step
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  • Into a life of purpose and joy.
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  • This set of beautifully-designed cards will help you memorize
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  • Scripture so you can recall god's word when you need it
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  • The most.
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  • And today when you give a gift to help "daily
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  • Hope" take the hope of jesus to a world in
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  • Need, we'll send you the "rethinking your
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  • Life" scripture card set to say thanks.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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