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Rick Warren - When The Heat Is On (Part 2)

July 27, 2025 | 28:30

Rick Warren - When The Heat Is On (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 The Heat Is On (Part 2) | July 27, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Pastor rick warren: when you're in the problem, when you're in a
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  • Crisis, when you're faced with your whole life falling apart,
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  • You not only have to believe that god has the ability to help
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  • You, the ability to rescue you, the ability to deliver you and
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  • Save you, you must believe he will.
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  • In the second part of daniel 3:17, they said, "and he will
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  • Save us from your power, o king."
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  • Now, think about this.
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  • These guys, they're in their 30s.
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  • In the entire nation, three guys stood up to the king.
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  • Everybody else in the nation is bowing down every time
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  • They--the, you know, the royal band plays.
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  • Everybody's lock stock in step, and everybody's conforming to
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  • The king saying, "you're gonna worship me, and i'm the
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  • Deity now.
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  • I'm god."
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  • But three guys have the courage, "no, we're not going to.
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  • We're not kiss ups, we're not stuck up, we're stand-ups, and
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  • We're not afraid because god can save us.
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  • He's got the power, and he will save us."
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  • Now, if you're going through the fire right now, you really need
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  • To get in this book, because there are hundreds of promises
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  • In the bible from god to you.
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  • If you don't know those promises, it's like not knowing
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  • What's on your insurance policy, you know?
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  • When you don't know what's on your insurance policy,
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  • You worry.
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  • If you know your insurance policy covers that procedure and
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  • This thing over here, you go, "i'm not gonna worry about it.
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  • The insurance will pay for it."
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  • If you know what god says he'll do in your life, you
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  • Won't worry.
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  • When you worry, it means you don't know what god has
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  • Promised you.
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  • That's what it means, you don't know what god has promised you.
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  • There's 7,000 plus promises in the bible.
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  • Here's just one of the hundreds of promises about deliverance
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  • And rescue, isaiah 43.
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  • Some of you need to write this one on a card and put it on
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  • Your refrigerator.
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  • "when you go through deep waters in great trouble, i will be with
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  • You," this is god's promise to you.
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  • "when you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown!
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  • And when you walk through the fires of oppression, you will
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  • Not be burned up; the flames will not consume you!
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  • For i am the lord, your god!"
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  • I believe god can save me, but i believe god will save me.
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  • "when you walk through the fire, the flames will not
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  • Consume you."
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  • That's a literal promise of god.
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  • Now, based on those three things, i'm not worried, i know
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  • What god can do, and i'm expecting him to do it.
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  • Number four, i announce my loyalty to god no matter what.
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  • If you're having to get ready to go in and have that one-on-one
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  • With your boss or do a confrontation somewhere, you
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  • Say, "i'm announcing my loyalty to god no matter what the
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  • Outcome of this conversation is or this confrontation is."
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  • And they said this, "god has the ability to save us, we believe
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  • He will save us.
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  • But," verse 18, "even if god doesn't save us, we will never
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  • Serve your gods or worship the gold statue you set up."
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  • That's pretty courageous.
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  • They're announcing their loyalty to god no matter what: "he can
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  • Save us, we believe he will save us, but if he doesn't, we're
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  • Still not gonna change.
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  • We're not gonna back out."
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  • Now, i'm gonna pause here for a minute and say that when god
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  • Works in your life, you got a problem in your life?
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  • He always works one of three ways.
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  • When god delivers you, he--there's three ways he can
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  • Deliver you from a problem.
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  • When god saves you, there are three ways he can save you from
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  • A crisis.
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  • When you need rescuing, there's three different ways he
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  • Could rescue.
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  • You might just write these down.
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  • It's not on your own notes.
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  • You gotta find--make some room on the sidelines.
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  • This is one of those outlines that i didn't give you any room.
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  • But here are the three different ways on the screen.
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  • Number one, when you're in a problem, sometimes god saves us
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  • From the crisis.
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  • Sometimes god saves us from the crisis.
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  • He helps us avoid the fire, and this is what i call a
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  • Divine detour.
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  • And god could have done it with these guys.
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  • They could have been marked for execution, and the king
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  • Convinced us--is convinced, "nah, let's don't do that."
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  • And sometimes, when you're in a problem, god will just take you
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  • Out of it.
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  • That's nice, that's always fun.
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  • He saves us from the crisis, and he helps us avoid the
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  • Fiery furnace.
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  • Number two, sometimes god saves us through the crisis.
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  • Sometimes god saves us through the crisis.
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  • And we walk through the fiery furnace.
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  • You know, he doesn't take you away from the problem, but he
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  • Takes you through the problem, and he gives you the strength to
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  • Handle the problem.
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  • He doesn't remove the problem, but he gives you the strength to
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  • Handle it.
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  • He takes us through the crisis.
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  • And then the third way is that sometimes god saves us by the
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  • Crisis, by the crisis.
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  • And what i mean by that is sometimes the problem in your
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  • Life is not the problem.
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  • The problem is what saves you from the real problem.
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  • And sometimes a smaller problem is the warning sign that gets
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  • Your attention for a bigger problem.
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  • And sometimes god even allows a problem because he wants to
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  • Save you.
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  • Let me give you an example of this.
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  • The bible says in 1 peter chapter 1, verse 6-7 up here on
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  • The screen, "...it may be necessary," and sometimes pain
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  • Is gonna be necessary in your life, "...it may be necessary
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  • For you to be sad for a while because of the many trials
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  • You suffer."
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  • God doesn't pull you out of every problem you go through,
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  • He doesn't.
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  • Sometimes it's necessary for you to go through the problem, and
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  • Sometimes it's necessary for god to save you in the problem,
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  • "because of the many trials you suffer.
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  • Their purpose," the purpose of these trials you're going
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  • Through, "is to prove that your faith is genuine.
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  • Even gold, which can be destroyed, is tested by fire,"
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  • It's purified by fire, "so that your--and so your faith, which
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  • Is much more precious than gold, must also be tested, so that it
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  • May endure.
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  • Then you will receive praise and glory and honor on the day when
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  • Jesus christ is revealed," that's at the end of time.
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  • And when christ comes back, he said, "you're gonna be rewarded
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  • For the fact that your faith proved to be trustworthy."
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  • Now, why is that?
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  • Why does god allow me to go through pain on this planet?
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  • Because god is more interested in your character than he is in
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  • Your comfort.
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  • This is not heaven.
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  • The no sorrow, no tears, no sadness, no sickness, that's
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  • Coming in eternity.
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  • Right now, you're in preschool.
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  • Your life here on earth, this is a school.
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  • You're learning, you're learning some things, and god wants you
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  • To learn.
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  • And if life were incredibly easy to do and you never had any
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  • Problems, you wouldn't learn anything.
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  • You'd just be a selfish little brat if you always got your way
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  • About everything.
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  • So god's more interested in your character than your comfort.
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  • He's more interested in your salvation and your
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  • Sanctification, becoming like christ, than he is in
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  • Your security.
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  • And it says, "sometimes god saves us by the crisis."
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  • You know people who were headed the exact opposite way of god,
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  • And then they went through a bankruptcy or a divorce or the
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  • Loss of a loved one or something, and it got their
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  • Attention, and they came to christ, and the problem actually
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  • Saved them for eternity.
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  • Was that problem worth it?
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  • Yes, the problem was worth it, 'cause it saved them
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  • For eternity.
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  • Now, these guys have given a direct challenge to
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  • Nebuchadnezzar, his claim to be god, "everybody's gonna worship
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  • Me, i'm number one, i'm the best, you're all to honor me."
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  • They said, "no, we're not."
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  • And so, nebuchadnezzar, of course, gets angry.
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  • Up here on the screen, verse 19, "nebuchadnezzar became so
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  • Furious that his face distorted with rage, and he commanded that
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  • The furnace," look at this,
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  • This is almost laughable, "be heated seven times hotter
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  • Than usual."
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  • This is what you call overkill.
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  • It's redundant.
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  • It's unnecessary.
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  • He doesn't need that thing to be seven times hotter.
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  • Just normal fire will kill a person if you throw them in it.
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  • So, why is he doing this?
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  • I thought about this a lot, and i actually suspect that
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  • Nebuchadnezzar was secretly worried that the hebrew guys's
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  • God might actually help them out, and so he go, "let's just
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  • Make this thing sure.
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  • I don't wanna look bad here so heat that puppy up seven
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  • Times more.
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  • Turn--we're going up to 11, okay?"
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  • If you ever watched "spinal tap," "we don't stop at 10, we
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  • Go to 11, okay?"
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  • And so, that's what's happened here.
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  • Now, when somebody reacts like that, this is just a little side
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  • Note for you when you're at work, when somebody obviously
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  • Overreacts to your faith, they just like come unglued when they
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  • Hear you're a christian, you need to realize that the more
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  • Extreme your attacker, the more insecure they are.
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  • The more insecure a person is, the more over-the-top
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  • They become.
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  • People who are secure in what they believe aren't insecure
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  • About what you believe.
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  • I know what i believe.
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  • It doesn't matter.
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  • I don't get blown away when an atheist or an agnostic or
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  • Somebody of other faith sits next to me.
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  • I just engage them.
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  • It doesn't threaten me, doesn't bother me, why?
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  • 'cause i'm secure in what i believe.
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  • When people have, though, interior doubts, and they're
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  • Fighting with their own guilt or they're fighting with their
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  • Own conscience or they're fighting with their own past,
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  • They often take it out on you.
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  • So you just need to understand it, it's not about you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Announcer: what does it take to become more loving, live more
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  • Peacefully, have self-control?
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  • Pastor rick says throughout all the years he's been a pastor,
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  • The number one question he's been asked is, "why can't
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  • I change?"
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  • In his book, "god's power to
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  • Change your life," rick lays the
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  • Groundwork for personal
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  • Transformation, then offers
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  • Biblical insights and simple
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  • Steps for ten areas of growth
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  • That you can take from where you are to where you want to be.
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  • This book connects you with the power to actually make the
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  • Changes you long to make.
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  • And as you apply the truth of god's word by the power of his
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  • Spirit, your life will change.
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  • You'll move out of your rut and get on track with god's
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  • Wonderful purposes for your life.
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  • And today, when you give a gift
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  • To "daily hope" to help take the
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  • Hope of jesus to people
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  • Everywhere, we'll send you
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  • Pastor rick's book called "god's
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  • Power to change your life" to
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  • Say thanks.
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  • Pastor rick: so let's see what the king does, and then let's
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  • Look at what god does.
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  • Verse 20, it says this: "then the king ordered some of his
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  • Strongest soldiers to bind their hands," this is of shadrach,
  • 00:12:31.100 --> 00:12:37.339
  • Meshach, and abednego, "bind their hands and feet with ropes
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  • And throw them into the blazing furnace.
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  • So they tied them up and they threw them into the furnace,
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  • Fully clothed.
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  • But because the king, in his anger, had demanded such a hot
  • 00:12:51.854 --> 00:12:56.959
  • Fire," remember, turn it up to seven?
  • 00:12:56.959 --> 00:12:59.261
  • "the flames leaped out and killed the soldiers that they
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  • Threw the three men in!
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  • But securely tied up, they," these three men, "fell down into
  • 00:13:03.465 --> 00:13:09.205
  • The blazing flames of the furnace," okay?
  • 00:13:09.205 --> 00:13:12.975
  • Now, what happened next is six things, and when you know these
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  • Six things, you're gonna take a deep breath when you're going
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  • Through the fire, when the heat's on in your life, when you
  • 00:13:23.552 --> 00:13:26.722
  • Feel like you're going under, when you feel like everything's
  • 00:13:26.722 --> 00:13:28.657
  • Coming at you, you're under enormous pressure.
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  • What happens when i trust god in the furnace?
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  • When i'm going through the fire, if i trust him, god will walk
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  • Through the fire with me.
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  • That's a big relief right there.
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  • You won't be alone.
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  • God's presence will be with you.
  • 00:13:50.112 --> 00:13:52.014
  • Over and over and over again, god has promised his presence,
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  • No matter what you go through, if you will trust him.
  • 00:13:55.551 --> 00:13:59.355
  • He says, "i will be with you, i will be with you."
  • 00:13:59.355 --> 00:14:03.859
  • And so, in daniel chapter 3, verse 24-25, they throw him in
  • 00:14:03.859 --> 00:14:07.596
  • This fiery furnace, and here's what happens.
  • 00:14:07.596 --> 00:14:11.634
  • "suddenly, nebuchadnezzar," this is the biggest emperor in the
  • 00:14:11.634 --> 00:14:16.939
  • World at the time, "nebuchadnezzar jumps up in
  • 00:14:16.939 --> 00:14:19.642
  • Amazement and he asked his advisor, 'didn't we tie up three
  • 00:14:19.642 --> 00:14:24.280
  • Men and throw them in the furnace?'
  • 00:14:24.280 --> 00:14:28.117
  • 'yes, we did,' his advisor said, 'yeah, we did.'
  • 00:14:28.117 --> 00:14:31.787
  • 'well, look, look now!' he shouted.
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  • 'you can see four men now,'" in the furnace, they're walking in
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  • The furnace, "unbound," it means the ropes are burned off,
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  • "walking around freely in the fire," walking around?
  • 00:14:44.266 --> 00:14:48.037
  • "unharmed!
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  • And this fourth man," this fourth guy that you can see, and
  • 00:14:49.638 --> 00:14:52.107
  • They look at him, he's right there, "he looks like a son of
  • 00:14:52.107 --> 00:14:56.111
  • The gods!"
  • 00:14:56.111 --> 00:14:58.247
  • Now, this phrase, "the son of the gods," it's just
  • 00:14:58.247 --> 00:15:00.582
  • A euphemism.
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  • He's saying he looks like an angel, he looks like he's not
  • 00:15:01.951 --> 00:15:05.321
  • Human, he looks like he's, you know, divine of kind of sorts.
  • 00:15:05.321 --> 00:15:09.758
  • So, he's saying, "that guy--there's the three guys we
  • 00:15:09.758 --> 00:15:12.628
  • Tied up, and there's that fourth guy walking with 'em through the
  • 00:15:12.628 --> 00:15:15.864
  • Fire, and that guy doesn't look like your normal human being.
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  • He looks divine."
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  • It wasn't a son of the gods, it was the son of god, it
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  • Was jesus.
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  • Jesus was walking through the fire with them, walking through
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  • The fire with them, and he's promised to walk through the
  • 00:15:38.220 --> 00:15:40.522
  • Fire with you too.
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  • Jesus said, "i will never leave you, i will never forsake you."
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  • Is god a liar?
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  • No.
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  • "i will never leave you, i will never forsake you."
  • 00:15:49.965 --> 00:15:53.102
  • Almost the last words that jesus said when he gave the great
  • 00:15:53.102 --> 00:15:56.405
  • Commission, before he goes back to heaven, were these on
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  • The wall.
  • 00:16:00.009 --> 00:16:01.377
  • Matthew 28:20, jesus said, "i will always be with you, to the
  • 00:16:01.377 --> 00:16:06.615
  • Very end of the age," i'll always be with you.
  • 00:16:06.615 --> 00:16:10.019
  • Let's go back to that verse we looked at in isaiah, that
  • 00:16:10.019 --> 00:16:12.855
  • Promise again.
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  • Let's put that one back up on the screen.
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  • In isaiah 43, it says this again, we read it earlier, and
  • 00:16:16.158 --> 00:16:20.029
  • It says this: "when you go through deep waters in great
  • 00:16:20.029 --> 00:16:22.865
  • Trouble, i will be with you," this is god's promise to you.
  • 00:16:22.865 --> 00:16:26.935
  • "when you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown!
  • 00:16:26.935 --> 00:16:32.007
  • And when you walk through the fires of oppression, you will
  • 00:16:32.007 --> 00:16:37.846
  • Not be burned up; the flames will not consume you!
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  • For i am the lord, your god!"
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  • This is a certainty in your life, you're gonna go through
  • 00:16:47.556 --> 00:16:49.691
  • The fire many times in your life, count on it.
  • 00:16:49.691 --> 00:16:53.062
  • So you just need to know what to do when the heat's on, those
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  • Four things that they did and now the six things god says
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  • He'll do if you trust him.
  • 00:16:59.368 --> 00:17:01.170
  • "if i trust him first, he'll walk through the fire with
  • 00:17:01.170 --> 00:17:03.305
  • Me," okay.
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  • Second, write this down, second benefit: if i have faith in the
  • 00:17:04.673 --> 00:17:07.943
  • Furnace, god will burn off everything tying me down.
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  • I love this, god will burn off everything tying me down.
  • 00:17:12.714 --> 00:17:17.319
  • You notice that in this fire they didn't get burned, their
  • 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:21.590
  • Clothes aren't singed, they're not even, you know, they don't
  • 00:17:21.590 --> 00:17:25.961
  • Even smell on fire.
  • 00:17:25.961 --> 00:17:27.329
  • The only thing that got burned off were the man-made ropes
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  • They'd been tied up with.
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  • Question: what's got you tied up?
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  • What's holding you back?
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  • What's limiting you from being all you're meant to be?
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  • What are the limitations in your life that god wants to burn off
  • 00:17:45.080 --> 00:17:47.883
  • In your life?
  • 00:17:47.883 --> 00:17:50.385
  • You see, god may take you through the fire.
  • 00:17:50.385 --> 00:17:52.955
  • You're gonna come out on the other side unhinged--unsinged,
  • 00:17:52.955 --> 00:17:56.425
  • Untouched, unburnt, but the things that will be burned off,
  • 00:17:56.425 --> 00:18:01.597
  • The stuff that's tied you down, the stuff that was holding you
  • 00:18:01.597 --> 00:18:04.533
  • Back, the limitations in your life.
  • 00:18:04.533 --> 00:18:08.637
  • You see, pain never leaves you where it finds you.
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  • When you're going through life, you're walking through life,
  • 00:18:12.474 --> 00:18:14.476
  • Pain picks you up over here, but it doesn't drop you off there.
  • 00:18:14.476 --> 00:18:18.447
  • When it finishes, it drops you off over here, and you're not
  • 00:18:18.447 --> 00:18:21.283
  • The same woman, you're not the same man, because your character
  • 00:18:21.283 --> 00:18:25.888
  • Has been tested, refined, and grown in the fire, and all of a
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  • Sudden, you're over here.
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  • Before the fire, you're immature.
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  • Now you come out of the fire mature.
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  • Over here, you didn't trust god at all, you're full of doubts.
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  • Over here, now pain leave you, you trust god, you're full
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  • Of confidence.
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  • And god has burned off the stuff in your life that was holding
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  • You back.
  • 00:18:49.678 --> 00:18:51.647
  • Now, really hot fire actually can cauterize a wound.
  • 00:18:51.647 --> 00:18:56.451
  • You've seen this in movies.
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  • Somebody's shot in a battle, and they're bleeding to death, and
  • 00:18:57.986 --> 00:19:01.423
  • They'll take a hot poker, and they'll push it against the
  • 00:19:01.423 --> 00:19:04.159
  • Skin, and that heat will cauterize the wound and stop
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  • The bleeding.
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  • In olden days, they would take gunpowder, literally, put it in
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  • The wound, light it.
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  • It's excruciatingly painful, but it stops the bleeding.
  • 00:19:15.137 --> 00:19:20.776
  • And sometimes in your life, god has to stop the bleeding in your
  • 00:19:20.776 --> 00:19:25.080
  • Life with a little fire, with a little heat, or you're just
  • 00:19:25.080 --> 00:19:30.452
  • Gonna bleed out and you're not gonna make it.
  • 00:19:30.452 --> 00:19:33.021
  • And so he cauterizes it, and he burns off everything tying
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  • You down.
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  • This is called, what the bible calls, a refining fire.
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  • Look at this next verse in your outline, isaiah 48, verse 10: "i
  • 00:19:41.563 --> 00:19:46.501
  • Have refined you but not in the way that silver is refined.
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  • Rather, i have refined you in the furnace of suffering."
  • 00:19:52.641 --> 00:19:57.045
  • You're not gonna go through a fiery furnace literally in your
  • 00:19:57.045 --> 00:20:00.215
  • Life, but you are gonna go through the furnace of suffering
  • 00:20:00.215 --> 00:20:03.018
  • Many, many times, and god is refining you in that fire.
  • 00:20:03.018 --> 00:20:09.024
  • Now, silver and gold, you know, they heat it up.
  • 00:20:09.024 --> 00:20:11.460
  • The way they get rid of the impurities, they put it at a
  • 00:20:11.460 --> 00:20:13.662
  • Very high temperature, and it burns off all the impurities, so
  • 00:20:13.662 --> 00:20:16.832
  • Then you have a 100% pure gold, 100% pure silver.
  • 00:20:16.832 --> 00:20:19.935
  • And if you ask a silversmith, "how do you know when the silver
  • 00:20:19.935 --> 00:20:23.405
  • Is pure?"
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  • He says, "when i look into the cauldron, the pot, and it's
  • 00:20:24.773 --> 00:20:27.876
  • Pure, i can see my reflection in it."
  • 00:20:27.876 --> 00:20:32.381
  • And when god knows you have been purified by the fire, he
  • 00:20:32.381 --> 00:20:35.717
  • Can see his reflection in you.
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  • You look like jesus, you're more christlike, you're a godly man,
  • 00:20:37.686 --> 00:20:43.625
  • You're a godly woman.
  • 00:20:43.625 --> 00:20:44.960
  • And it is the fire that produced that, burning off the stuff that
  • 00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:49.331
  • Was holding you back, all right?
  • 00:20:49.331 --> 00:20:53.135
  • Number three, here's the third one, this is a big one.
  • 00:20:53.135 --> 00:20:55.704
  • If i trust god when the heat is on, god will give me a new
  • 00:20:55.704 --> 00:21:00.108
  • Freedom, a new freedom.
  • 00:21:00.108 --> 00:21:03.412
  • You're gonna come out on the backside of that fiery furnace
  • 00:21:03.412 --> 00:21:06.715
  • With a new liberty, a new freedom.
  • 00:21:06.715 --> 00:21:08.984
  • You're not so bound up.
  • 00:21:08.984 --> 00:21:11.853
  • Now the bible is full of examples and testimonies
  • 00:21:11.853 --> 00:21:15.023
  • To this, that what people in the world mean to use to enslave you
  • 00:21:15.023 --> 00:21:20.762
  • Or what people mean to use to entrap you or to destroy you,
  • 00:21:20.762 --> 00:21:25.567
  • God wants to use that very problem in your life to liberate
  • 00:21:25.567 --> 00:21:28.637
  • You, to set you free from the expectations of other people, to
  • 00:21:28.637 --> 00:21:33.241
  • Set you free from the opinions of other people, to set you free
  • 00:21:33.241 --> 00:21:36.578
  • From a lot of other things that are holding you back and tying
  • 00:21:36.578 --> 00:21:40.549
  • You down.
  • 00:21:40.549 --> 00:21:41.950
  • One example, psalm 66, verse 12, and they say there, "you let the
  • 00:21:41.950 --> 00:21:47.356
  • Captors set foot on our neck," this is actually talking about
  • 00:21:47.356 --> 00:21:50.592
  • When the jews were slaves in egypt.
  • 00:21:50.592 --> 00:21:53.495
  • They said, "god, you allowed that, you allowed us to
  • 00:21:53.495 --> 00:21:55.764
  • Be slaves."
  • 00:21:55.764 --> 00:21:57.099
  • And set the captor's foot on our neck, but he says, "then we went
  • 00:21:57.099 --> 00:22:02.571
  • Through fire and water and you led us out to freedom."
  • 00:22:02.571 --> 00:22:08.510
  • Circle that word "freedom."
  • 00:22:08.510 --> 00:22:10.379
  • God wants you to be free.
  • 00:22:10.379 --> 00:22:12.647
  • "you know the truth, and the truth will set you free," and it
  • 00:22:12.647 --> 00:22:15.817
  • Often comes at a very high cost and a lot of heat.
  • 00:22:15.817 --> 00:22:20.956
  • Three years ago, you know, when my youngest son died, he
  • 00:22:20.956 --> 00:22:25.694
  • Struggled with mental health his entire life.
  • 00:22:25.694 --> 00:22:28.263
  • My son was born with a very troubled mind, tender heart,
  • 00:22:28.263 --> 00:22:33.335
  • Troubled mind.
  • 00:22:33.335 --> 00:22:34.669
  • Your identity is not your illness.
  • 00:22:34.669 --> 00:22:36.037
  • Your character is not your chemistry.
  • 00:22:36.037 --> 00:22:39.474
  • And he was depressed, he really struggled, mental illness his
  • 00:22:39.474 --> 00:22:43.812
  • Entire life, the most courageous young man i've ever met, and he
  • 00:22:43.812 --> 00:22:47.716
  • Made it 27 years.
  • 00:22:47.716 --> 00:22:50.685
  • But one day, as you know, three years ago, he took his life.
  • 00:22:50.685 --> 00:22:56.425
  • It was the worst day of my life, and i will never forget that,
  • 00:22:56.425 --> 00:23:00.595
  • And i was going through the fire with that one.
  • 00:23:00.595 --> 00:23:04.466
  • But to make it matters worse, satan just tried to take
  • 00:23:04.466 --> 00:23:07.169
  • Advantage of it.
  • 00:23:07.169 --> 00:23:08.770
  • I'm a pretty well-known guy, and anybody who's well-known has
  • 00:23:08.770 --> 00:23:12.240
  • Critics, and the critics, when my son died, came out of the
  • 00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:16.611
  • Woodwork in magazines and tvs and blogs.
  • 00:23:16.611 --> 00:23:21.750
  • And they were saying all kinds of evil things, mean
  • 00:23:21.750 --> 00:23:24.586
  • Thing--there were people celebrating my son's death.
  • 00:23:24.586 --> 00:23:28.390
  • There were people laughing at his death.
  • 00:23:28.390 --> 00:23:30.492
  • It was all over the internet.
  • 00:23:30.492 --> 00:23:31.993
  • It was just the meanest thing you could imagine.
  • 00:23:31.993 --> 00:23:36.531
  • And they were armchair, you know, psychologists saying,
  • 00:23:36.531 --> 00:23:40.335
  • "well, it's rick's fault, the dad's fault," and on and on and
  • 00:23:40.335 --> 00:23:43.939
  • Saying all kinds of nonsensical, biased, illiterate,
  • 00:23:43.939 --> 00:23:48.877
  • Illegitimate, nonsensical stuff.
  • 00:23:48.877 --> 00:23:52.314
  • And literally, not only did i have to deal with the grief of
  • 00:23:52.314 --> 00:23:54.683
  • Losing a son, but for about three months, i had to deal with
  • 00:23:54.683 --> 00:23:57.419
  • This barrage of critics, and it was incessant, and it was
  • 00:23:57.419 --> 00:24:03.024
  • Insane, and it was intense, and it was brutal, and it was
  • 00:24:03.024 --> 00:24:07.329
  • Public, and it was constant, and i was going through the fire.
  • 00:24:07.329 --> 00:24:11.333
  • I was going through hell, but god was walking through it with
  • 00:24:11.333 --> 00:24:14.703
  • Me, and i didn't get singed, and i made it through the
  • 00:24:14.703 --> 00:24:19.574
  • Other time.
  • 00:24:19.574 --> 00:24:20.909
  • And i came out and survived that great fire.
  • 00:24:20.909 --> 00:24:27.549
  • And i remember telling you, i told my family first, somebody
  • 00:24:27.549 --> 00:24:30.552
  • Had asked me, said, "rick, you know, after all that satan has
  • 00:24:30.552 --> 00:24:33.488
  • Thrown at you in the last 90 days, how do you feel?"
  • 00:24:33.488 --> 00:24:36.825
  • And i said, "honestly, i feel fearless, i feel fearless.
  • 00:24:36.825 --> 00:24:45.066
  • My attitude is, okay," i said, "i'm just not afraid."
  • 00:24:45.066 --> 00:24:52.841
  • My attitude was, "satan, that's the best you got?
  • 00:24:52.841 --> 00:24:57.012
  • That's all you can throw at me and have these people say things
  • 00:24:57.012 --> 00:25:00.415
  • That are untrue and unkind and all?
  • 00:25:00.415 --> 00:25:02.884
  • That's the best you got and i'm still here?"
  • 00:25:02.884 --> 00:25:05.720
  • I am not afraid of anything anymore, i'm just not.
  • 00:25:05.720 --> 00:25:10.959
  • I'm not afraid of people's opinions or disapproval.
  • 00:25:10.959 --> 00:25:13.828
  • Some of you, if somebody looks at you sideways, you wilt.
  • 00:25:13.828 --> 00:25:19.100
  • You can't stand the thought of somebody in your school or your
  • 00:25:19.100 --> 00:25:23.471
  • Business thinking you're a christian and saying one word
  • 00:25:23.471 --> 00:25:26.374
  • About you behind your back because you think i've got to
  • 00:25:26.374 --> 00:25:29.110
  • Have everybody love me.
  • 00:25:29.110 --> 00:25:30.478
  • You don't.
  • 00:25:30.478 --> 00:25:31.913
  • You don't need their approval to be happy.
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  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:25:34.215 --> 00:25:44.025
  • Announcer: what does it take to become more loving, live more
  • 00:25:48.229 --> 00:25:52.634
  • Peacefully, have self-control?
  • 00:25:52.634 --> 00:25:56.738
  • Pastor rick says throughout all the years he's been a pastor,
  • 00:25:56.738 --> 00:26:00.475
  • The number one question he's been asked is, "why can't
  • 00:26:00.475 --> 00:26:04.179
  • I change?"
  • 00:26:04.179 --> 00:26:06.948
  • In his book, "god's power to
  • 00:26:06.948 --> 00:26:08.650
  • Change your life," rick lays the
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  • Groundwork for personal
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  • Transformation, then offers
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  • Biblical insights and simple
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  • Steps for ten areas of growth
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  • That you can take from where you are to where you want to be.
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  • This book connects you with the power to actually make the
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  • Changes you long to make, and as you apply the truth of god's
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  • Word by the power of his spirit, your life will change.
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  • You'll move out of your rut and get on track with god's
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  • Wonderful purposes for your life.
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  • And today, when you give a gift
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  • To "daily hope" to help take the
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  • Hope of jesus to people
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  • Everywhere, we'll send you
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  • Pastor rick's book called "god's
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  • Power to change your life" to
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  • Say thanks.
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  • ♪♪♪
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