Rick Warren - When Your World Is Shaken Up (Part 2)

May 11, 2025 | 27:29

Pastor Rick shares biblical truth and practical tools for living the full life God desires for everyone.

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  • Pastor rick warren: god will sometimes shake up your life for
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  • Very good reasons, and that's why i want to cover this in
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  • Detail because this is the one that's unexpected and i want you
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  • To look at that.
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  • Now, it really doesn't matter where your problems came from.
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  • They could be caused by the devil, they could be caused by
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  • The world, they could be caused by you, or they could be brought
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  • On in your life by god.
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  • It doesn't really matter.
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  • God will use every one of them for your good if you will
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  • Trust him.
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  • Sometimes god thinks--shakes things up in my life to
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  • Inspect me.
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  • To inspect me.
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  • And what i mean by that is god will bring a problem in my life
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  • That reveals a motivation that's out of whack, or a character,
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  • Or a thought, or an emotion, or a motive.
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  • He examines and he checks it out, and he does it all
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  • The time.
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  • And when you--somebody said, you know, people are like tea bags.
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  • You don't know what's in them till you drop them in hot water.
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  • And god will use problems to inspect you and show you what's
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  • Wrong and what's out of whack in your life.
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  • You got a fear.
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  • You got a wrong motivation.
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  • You got a value.
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  • You got a misperception.
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  • There's some lie that you're believing.
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  • God uses problems to inspect you.
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  • Now, of course, god already knows what's going on in you.
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  • He doesn't need any problem to tell him what's--he knows you
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  • Better than you do.
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  • When god allows a problem in your life is 'cause he wants you
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  • To know what's out of whack.
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  • And sometimes when you--when things are just flying off the
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  • Wall and you're in a crisis and, you know, you're just--your
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  • Whole world is shaken, god is saying, "i want you to see what
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  • I want you to work on in your life.
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  • We're going to inspect this in your life."
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  • I remember in the garden of eden adam and eve sinned.
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  • And then the bible says one day god comes walking through the
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  • Garden of eden metaphorically, and says, "adam, where are you?"
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  • Now, let me let you in on a little secret.
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  • Anytime god ask you a question, he already knows the answer.
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  • It's not like god didn't know where adam was.
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  • He knew exactly where adam was every second of his life.
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  • He wanted adam to know where adam was.
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  • And adam goes, "well, god, i was afraid and i felt guilty and
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  • I hid."
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  • And we've been afraid and guilty and hiding from god ever since.
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  • When god asks you a question, it's never for his benefit.
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  • He already knows the answer.
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  • He's asking you 'cause he wants you to know.
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  • And sometimes god shakes things up to inspect you.
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  • Jeremiah 17:10 says this: "the lord searches our hearts and
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  • Examines our deepest motives so he can give to each person his
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  • Right reward, according to how he has lived."
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  • Now, notice god examines your motives.
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  • Listen to this.
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  • Why is always more important than what.
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  • In life--what you do in life is not nearly as important to god.
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  • That's why you do it.
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  • Not what you do but why you do.
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  • There are a lot of things you can do in life,
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  • God say, "that's fine.
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  • Go ahead and do that. i made you.
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  • You could do that, or that, or that, or that.
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  • That'll be--all be fine with me.
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  • I just want to know, why are you doing it?"
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  • God looks at the heart.
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  • He looks at the motivation.
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  • And god inspects us because he's much more interested in your
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  • Integrity than he is in your image.
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  • Image is what everybody else can see.
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  • Integrity is what you are in the dark.
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  • Integrity is what you are when nobody is listening, nobody
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  • Is watching.
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  • And god says, "i want to test you so you can see your
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  • Own heart."
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  • Have you ever thought about the fact why it took the israelites
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  • 40 years to get across the desert from egypt, where they
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  • Were set free as slaves, to israel?
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  • You could walk across the sinai in a couple months easily.
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  • It took them 40 years.
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  • Are you kidding me?
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  • Why did it take them 40 years to get from egypt to israel?
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  • Because the bible says that while they were in the desert,
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  • God kept testing them to show them that their faith was
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  • Insufficient and they weren't ready to go into the
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  • Promised land.
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  • And the bible says over those 40 years god gave them seven tests.
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  • Seven.
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  • And every time they failed, god would say, "okay, another lap
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  • Around the desert."
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  • And they--some of them died in the desert.
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  • They spent their entire lives there.
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  • They didn't pass the test.
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  • Deuteronomy in the bible, chapter 8, verse 2 says this:
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  • "god led you all the way in the desert these 40 years, to humble
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  • You and to test you in order to know," you would know, "what was
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  • In your heart, whether or not you'd keep his commandments."
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  • And by the way, when god takes you through a desert, he's doing
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  • It for the same reason.
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  • When you're in the wilderness of life, what is the desert or the
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  • Wilderness of life?
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  • It's when you can't feel god at all.
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  • It's when you're in that dry period of your life.
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  • You don't have any emotion.
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  • You don't feel close to god.
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  • God's just going to go, "i'm going to take away your
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  • Emotions, see if you're trusting in me or you're trusting in
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  • Your emotion."
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  • You're not living by faith until you don't have any feelings.
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  • And so sometimes god will take away all your feelings and just
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  • Say, "will you do the right thing even though you don't feel
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  • 'cause it's the right thing to do?
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  • This is a test. this is a test.
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  • Will you trust me?"
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  • God is testing you.
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  • You see, it--what matters in your maturity spiritually is not
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  • How high you jump when you feel god in a worship concert.
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  • The test is how straight you walk when you don't feel god
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  • During the rest of the week.
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  • "and, i mean, i have no emotion.
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  • I'm in the desert.
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  • I'm in a dry period.
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  • I'm in the wilderness."
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  • "will you trust me?
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  • Will you obey me?"
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  • You see, what god is saying is that the problems that come into
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  • Your life, they're a measuring tool.
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  • And your reactions to difficulty actually measure your faith and
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  • A bunch of stuff.
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  • Your reactions to difficulty measure your faith, measure your
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  • Commitment, measure your maturity, they measure
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  • Your integrity.
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  • The bible often compares problems to a refining fire.
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  • You know how they get the mature--the immat--impurities
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  • Out of gold and silver is they put it in a vat and they heat it
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  • All up and it burns off the impurities.
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  • And when you're going through the fire and when you're
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  • Suffering, god is burning off the impurities in your life.
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  • In life, god is testing you.
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  • And what's he testing?
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  • Well, he's saying if--do you really believe what you claim
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  • To believe?
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  • You say, "well, god is first in my life."
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  • But when the heat's on, is he sidelined when it's inconvenient
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  • And unpopular?
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  • You say, "you know, i have integrity."
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  • But are you willing to lower your standards because you want
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  • To be popular and approved by the people at work or school?
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  • You say, "you know, i'm totally committed to you, god."
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  • But when the pressure is on, do you give up and walk away?
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  • So i want you to write down a question.
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  • I'm going to give you a question on each of these.
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  • Here's the question to ask about when god uses problems to
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  • Inspect me.
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  • What does this problem reveal about me?
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  • When your whole life is being shaken and everything--you're on
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  • Shaky ground, the foundation is unstable, "what does this
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  • Problem reveal about me?"
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  • God is inspecting you.
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  • Number two, here's another reason, sometimes god shakes
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  • Things up in your life not to inspect you but to correct you.
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  • God wants to correct me.
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  • Now, this is exactly what happened in the nation of israel
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  • 2,500 years ago.
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  • So i told you they'd fallen into deep idolatry, and god says,
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  • "you know, i'm going to cure you of that addiction.
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  • We're just going to get rid of those, you know.
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  • And there's only one true god, and i don't want you messing
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  • Around with other gods anymore."
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  • And when god allowed them to be hauled off into a foreign
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  • Country for 70 years, 25% of the nation, when they came back
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  • 70 years later, they were cured.
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  • I mean, they--israel never again reverted to idolatry.
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  • In fact, later on i'll give you the seven things that changed in
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  • The nation of israel after being in that period of captivity for
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  • 70 years, and they were all good things.
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  • Now, here's a very important verse.
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  • Hebrews chapter 12, verses 8 to 12--8 to 11.
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  • "god corrects all of his children, and if he doesn't
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  • Correct you, then you don't really belong to him."
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  • Whoa.
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  • So if you can sin and get away with it, you should doubt, "am
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  • I really in god's family?"
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  • "god corrects his children, and if he doesn't correct you, then
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  • You don't really belong to him.
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  • God corrects us for our own good, because he wants us to be
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  • Holy, as he is."
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  • Now, it's never fun to be corrected.
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  • How many of you agree with that part of the bible?
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  • Yeah, it's never fun to be corrected.
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  • "in fact, at the time it's always painful.
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  • But if we learn to obey by being corrected, we will do right
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  • And live at peace."
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  • See, ultimately it's for your good.
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  • So you can live at peace.
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  • I mean, did you benefit from correction growing up?
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  • Of course, you did.
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  • It's how you learned to walk, talk, eat, bathe, read, write.
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  • And everything else you learned you learned because somebody
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  • Cared enough to correct you.
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  • A parent that doesn't correct their children doesn't love
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  • Their children.
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  • And if they don't correct them, they don't love--correction is
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  • Proof that i'm part of god's families.
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  • Now, how many of you who have been parents would rather not
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  • Correct your children?
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  • Me, okay?
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  • I'd rather not.
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  • It's no fun.
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  • It's not only not fun for the kids, it's not fun for the
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  • Parents, okay?
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  • If you like to correct, you got a masochistic problem,
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  • Friend, okay?
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  • But how many of you, even though you don't like to correct your
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  • Children, you want to just let them get away, that would still
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  • Have to do it anyway?
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  • Yeah, we would all do that.
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  • You don't have to raise your hand.
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  • I know you would.
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  • Because sometimes the only way to train is through pain.
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  • Sometimes the only way to train is through pain.
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  • Now, the next verse, hebrews chapter 12, is an extremely
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  • Important verse for your life.
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  • When god spoke the ten commandments, he--and moses
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  • Chiseled them into the--you know, the tablets up there on
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  • Mount sinai, when he spoke, the bible says he spoke so loud,
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  • He's up in the mountains, so people down in the valley could
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  • Hear him.
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  • Now, hebrews 12 says this: "when god spoke from mount sinai his
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  • Voice shook the earth, but now he says," god says, "'i will not
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  • Only shake the earth but the heavens too.'"
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  • Now, what's that mean?
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  • "well, by this he means that he will sift out everything without
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  • A solid foundation," talk about your life, "so that only the
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  • Unshakable things will be left."
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  • Okay, sometimes you're going to go through the fire, you're
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  • Going to go through a problem, you're going to go through
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  • A difficulty, and you are being shaken.
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  • It's like sifting, when you're sifting, you know, flour or
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  • Anything else.
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  • And what he's doing here, he's just saying, "we're going to get
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  • Rid of all the temporary stuff, all the man-made stuff in your
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  • Life, and we're only going to keep in your life the stuff
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  • That's going to last forever."
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  • That's why you're going through that problem.
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  • Job chapter 5, verse 17, "consider yourself fortunate
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  • When god all-powerful chooses to correct you."
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  • He says it's a privilege, it's an honor to be corrected by god
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  • 'cause it just means he loves you.
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  • Parents who don't correct their kids don't love their kids.
  • 00:12:05.306 --> 00:12:09.144
  • And so he says, you know, god whispers us--to us in our
  • 00:12:09.144 --> 00:12:13.047
  • Pleasure, but he shouts to us in our pain.
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  • And we only change, the only time we change is when the fear
  • 00:12:17.252 --> 00:12:21.422
  • Of change is exceeded by pain.
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  • The only time we change is when our fear of change is actually
  • 00:12:25.627 --> 00:12:29.364
  • Exceeded by pain.
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  • When the pain gets bad enough, then you change.
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  • I don't know why, but sometimes god has to lay us flat on our
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  • Back before we look up to him.
  • 00:12:36.471 --> 00:12:40.108
  • And god wants to teach you about himself and he wants you--teach
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  • You about yourself.
  • 00:12:42.710 --> 00:12:44.479
  • And some lessons really, you're only going to learn through
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  • Failure, you know.
  • 00:12:47.348 --> 00:12:49.551
  • "don't touch the stove."
  • 00:12:49.551 --> 00:12:53.321
  • You don't touch it a second time because you learn by
  • 00:12:53.321 --> 00:12:59.127
  • Being burned.
  • 00:12:59.127 --> 00:13:01.496
  • And sometime, you know, some things in life--you don't learn
  • 00:13:01.496 --> 00:13:04.465
  • The value of money till you've lost it.
  • 00:13:04.465 --> 00:13:08.136
  • You don't learn the value of friendship till you've lost it.
  • 00:13:08.136 --> 00:13:11.806
  • You don't learn the value of your health until you've
  • 00:13:11.806 --> 00:13:15.343
  • Lost it.
  • 00:13:15.343 --> 00:13:16.845
  • And so sometimes god allows pain and problems and shakeups
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  • To inspect us, what's really in you, but sometimes god use pain
  • 00:13:21.182 --> 00:13:24.419
  • And problems and shakeups to correct you like he did
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  • With israel.
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  • Pastor rick: friends, one of the most powerful ways you can
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  • Transform your spiritual life is to memorize scripture.
  • 00:13:41.469 --> 00:13:46.574
  • God tells us in proverbs 7, verse 2, "guard my words as your
  • 00:13:46.574 --> 00:13:50.945
  • Most precious possession.
  • 00:13:50.945 --> 00:13:53.815
  • Write them down and also keep them deep within your heart."
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  • Now, here's how i want to help you memorize god's word.
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  • We've put together a new packet,
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  • From the bible for you to memorize.
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  • Every day, helping you to memorize the word of god.
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  • Pastor rick: so here's the question.
  • 00:14:41.663 --> 00:14:43.264
  • Write this down.
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  • What is this problem teaching me?
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  • Instead of going, "why me," instead of asking why you should
  • 00:14:47.702 --> 00:14:51.406
  • Ask what.
  • 00:14:51.406 --> 00:14:52.740
  • Don't ask why when you go through problems, ask what.
  • 00:14:52.740 --> 00:14:57.645
  • "what should i be learning."
  • 00:14:57.645 --> 00:14:58.980
  • Not, "why is this happening to me," but, "what should
  • 00:14:58.980 --> 00:15:01.816
  • I be learning?"
  • 00:15:01.816 --> 00:15:03.151
  • Because god uses problems to correct you, all right?
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  • Well, let's look at number three.
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  • Sometimes god shakes things up to inspect me, sometimes god
  • 00:15:09.123 --> 00:15:12.694
  • Shakes things up in my life to correct me, and number three,
  • 00:15:12.694 --> 00:15:15.997
  • Sometimes god shakes things up to direct me.
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  • To direct me.
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  • He wants to point us in a new direction.
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  • He wants to guide us down a different path.
  • 00:15:23.972 --> 00:15:27.709
  • Proverbs 16, verse 9, "a person may plan his own journey," you
  • 00:15:27.709 --> 00:15:32.213
  • Got your own life plan out there, "but the lord directs
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  • His steps."
  • 00:15:37.485 --> 00:15:38.853
  • See, you can have all your plans, but the lord is going to
  • 00:15:38.853 --> 00:15:41.823
  • Direct your steps.
  • 00:15:41.823 --> 00:15:43.191
  • Question, how does god direct your steps?
  • 00:15:43.191 --> 00:15:46.394
  • Real simple, problems.
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  • That's how he directs your steps.
  • 00:15:49.664 --> 00:15:51.132
  • Have you noticed that problems often change your plans?
  • 00:15:51.132 --> 00:15:55.703
  • Have anybody had that happen in their life?
  • 00:15:55.703 --> 00:15:58.206
  • Your problems change your plans.
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  • What is god doing?
  • 00:16:01.142 --> 00:16:02.477
  • He's redirecting you.
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  • He inspects you, he corrects you, and he directs you when
  • 00:16:04.746 --> 00:16:08.249
  • Things are flying off the wall.
  • 00:16:08.249 --> 00:16:10.718
  • A pain is a powerful motivation to change.
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  • You've heard me say this before.
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  • We don't change when we see the light, we change when we feel
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  • The heat.
  • 00:16:17.959 --> 00:16:20.294
  • And when it gets hot enough, then we change.
  • 00:16:20.294 --> 00:16:23.464
  • Proverbs 20, verse 13 says this: "sometimes it takes a painful
  • 00:16:23.464 --> 00:16:28.336
  • Experience to make us change our ways."
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  • And every one of you could give a testimony on that verse.
  • 00:16:31.172 --> 00:16:35.176
  • Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make us change
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  • Our way.
  • 00:16:38.346 --> 00:16:39.680
  • Sometimes god has to light a fire on you so you become
  • 00:16:39.680 --> 00:16:41.783
  • Uneasy, you become uncomfortable, gets hot.
  • 00:16:41.783 --> 00:16:44.952
  • I mean, even aristotle said we cannot learn without pain.
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  • Aristotle.
  • 00:16:49.690 --> 00:16:51.025
  • We cannot learn without pain.
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  • Some things, as i said, you learned by being burned.
  • 00:16:53.828 --> 00:16:58.066
  • It's like when the prodigal son, he didn't change until
  • 00:16:58.066 --> 00:17:02.136
  • He hit bottom.
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  • Ryan holiday preached on this two weeks ago.
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  • And everything's going great, he's living it up his life, but
  • 00:17:05.840 --> 00:17:08.976
  • When he hits bottom, he runs out of friends, money, and food, now
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  • He goes, "hm."
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  • He came to his senses.
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  • "maybe this isn't the way i should be living."
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  • God shakes things up to direct us in a new direction.
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  • We rarely think about the direction of our lives when
  • 00:17:22.023 --> 00:17:24.692
  • Things are going good.
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  • When your life's going good, you got it on cruise control.
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  • You're not even thinking about your goals.
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  • You're not even thinking about god.
  • 00:17:33.267 --> 00:17:35.403
  • You're not thinking about anything but cruise control.
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  • "this is fun.
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  • I'm in the driver's seat right now."
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  • But all of a sudden you have a traffic jam or car accident,
  • 00:17:41.843 --> 00:17:44.912
  • All of a sudden it gets your attention.
  • 00:17:44.912 --> 00:17:47.949
  • And god gets our attention many times and he changes
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  • The direction.
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  • One of the values of pressure and problems and crisis in your
  • 00:17:53.254 --> 00:17:59.827
  • Life is it forces you to think about stuff you wouldn't
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  • Normally think about on your own.
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  • You want to just live in denial.
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  • And you would just like to take that part of your life that
  • 00:18:07.301 --> 00:18:09.437
  • Needs changing and just forget it and go on with your life and
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  • Go, "ah, i'll just isolate that over here, i'll compartmentalize
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  • It, and that'll be just fine."
  • 00:18:15.877 --> 00:18:17.945
  • But it doesn't work.
  • 00:18:17.945 --> 00:18:20.181
  • Now, when david's life fell apart, he wrote this.
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  • Psalm 119, verse 59, "i have thought about my life--"
  • 00:18:22.683 --> 00:18:27.722
  • Probably didn't even think about it till the problem came.
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  • "i've thought about my life, and i've directed my feet back to
  • 00:18:30.324 --> 00:18:33.194
  • Your written instructions."
  • 00:18:33.194 --> 00:18:34.562
  • What's that?
  • 00:18:34.562 --> 00:18:35.897
  • That's the bible.
  • 00:18:35.897 --> 00:18:37.265
  • "your written instructions."
  • 00:18:37.265 --> 00:18:38.599
  • He says, "i'm redirecting my life.
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  • Now that i got problems, god, you got my attention."
  • 00:18:40.668 --> 00:18:43.571
  • What is a problem in your life that you're pretending isn't
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  • A problem?
  • 00:18:47.275 --> 00:18:52.413
  • What's the big problem, the big elephant in your life, in your
  • 00:18:52.413 --> 00:18:55.116
  • Marriage, in your relationship?
  • 00:18:55.116 --> 00:18:57.818
  • That you just figure, "well, it's not a problem.
  • 00:18:57.818 --> 00:19:00.354
  • I know we got that there, but we've had it in this
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  • Relationship all this time."
  • 00:19:02.023 --> 00:19:03.457
  • No. it's still a problem.
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  • And god will use difficulty to correct you, inspect you, and
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  • Redirect you if he needs to.
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  • We would rarely change unless we had problems.
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  • We postpone difficult decisions.
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  • We put it off.
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  • I mean, you--if you had a disease that didn't hurt you,
  • 00:19:22.476 --> 00:19:26.647
  • You'd never go to the doctor about it.
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  • You just let it keep taking over your life until you die.
  • 00:19:29.650 --> 00:19:33.588
  • Pain gets your attention.
  • 00:19:33.588 --> 00:19:35.456
  • We ignore illnesses if they didn't hurt.
  • 00:19:35.456 --> 00:19:39.093
  • So god uses problems to prod us, and to poke us, and to push us,
  • 00:19:39.093 --> 00:19:44.198
  • And to prompt us, and he uses things to direct us.
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  • Write this down, question.
  • 00:19:47.735 --> 00:19:49.136
  • "where is this problem leading me?"
  • 00:19:49.136 --> 00:19:52.673
  • You want to ask yourself.
  • 00:19:52.673 --> 00:19:54.675
  • You want to get the most out of your problems.
  • 00:19:54.675 --> 00:19:56.711
  • "where is this problem leading me?"
  • 00:19:56.711 --> 00:20:00.514
  • Problems never leave you where they found you.
  • 00:20:00.514 --> 00:20:04.418
  • You know, jonah--god told jonah to go east to nineveh.
  • 00:20:04.418 --> 00:20:07.455
  • We talked about this the other week.
  • 00:20:07.455 --> 00:20:08.789
  • And he didn't want to go there.
  • 00:20:08.789 --> 00:20:10.157
  • He's racially prejudiced, so he went to spain at tarshish,
  • 00:20:10.157 --> 00:20:13.227
  • Headed that direction, went as far west as he could.
  • 00:20:13.227 --> 00:20:15.896
  • And god arranged a custom-made problem.
  • 00:20:15.896 --> 00:20:21.002
  • A custom-made fish swallowed him up.
  • 00:20:21.002 --> 00:20:24.405
  • And sometimes you get swallowed up by a big problem, but when it
  • 00:20:24.405 --> 00:20:27.141
  • Spits you out, you're headed in the right direction.
  • 00:20:27.141 --> 00:20:31.078
  • And sometimes you're going this way, and a problem swallows
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  • You up.
  • 00:20:33.481 --> 00:20:34.815
  • When it spits you out, you're going in the right direction.
  • 00:20:34.815 --> 00:20:36.651
  • God uses problems to direct us.
  • 00:20:36.651 --> 00:20:40.054
  • Number four, sometimes god shakes things up to protect us.
  • 00:20:40.054 --> 00:20:45.993
  • Sometimes god shakes things up to protect us.
  • 00:20:45.993 --> 00:20:49.130
  • Did you know that sometimes pain protects you from
  • 00:20:49.130 --> 00:20:51.866
  • Something worse?
  • 00:20:51.866 --> 00:20:53.934
  • That you're going through a problem, but it's actually
  • 00:20:53.934 --> 00:20:55.836
  • Preventing you from a bigger problem.
  • 00:20:55.836 --> 00:20:57.772
  • It's keeping you from greater harm.
  • 00:20:57.772 --> 00:21:00.474
  • You know, you might have wanted a certain job at a certain
  • 00:21:00.474 --> 00:21:03.110
  • Business and it didn't happen.
  • 00:21:03.110 --> 00:21:05.446
  • And god was protecting you because he knew that there was
  • 00:21:05.446 --> 00:21:08.549
  • A relationship there that was going to mess you up, and he
  • 00:21:08.549 --> 00:21:12.286
  • Kept you out of that situation.
  • 00:21:12.286 --> 00:21:16.357
  • Sometimes a problem is a blessing in disguise.
  • 00:21:16.357 --> 00:21:19.126
  • Now, honestly, there will be times you have problems when you
  • 00:21:19.126 --> 00:21:22.196
  • Did the right thing.
  • 00:21:22.196 --> 00:21:24.699
  • Not the wrong thing.
  • 00:21:24.699 --> 00:21:26.067
  • Not every problem is because you did something wrong.
  • 00:21:26.067 --> 00:21:29.603
  • Sometimes you have a problem 'cause you did the right thing.
  • 00:21:29.603 --> 00:21:33.174
  • I mean, i remember one time there's a guy here at saddleback
  • 00:21:33.174 --> 00:21:35.743
  • Who--good business friend of mine, and he was asked to do on
  • 00:21:35.743 --> 00:21:39.680
  • A corporation something very unethical.
  • 00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:42.416
  • And he said, "sorry, i just can't do it.
  • 00:21:42.416 --> 00:21:44.418
  • I'm a follower of jesus christ.
  • 00:21:44.418 --> 00:21:45.820
  • I cannot be unethical in that area."
  • 00:21:45.820 --> 00:21:48.422
  • And they fired him.
  • 00:21:48.422 --> 00:21:49.924
  • Now, he lost his pension and he lost his job and, you know, he
  • 00:21:49.924 --> 00:21:52.526
  • Lost his--you know, all of that.
  • 00:21:52.526 --> 00:21:55.096
  • And it looked bad, but, you know, about a month later the
  • 00:21:55.096 --> 00:21:59.266
  • Sec hauled that entire corporation into court, and
  • 00:21:59.266 --> 00:22:02.536
  • They're all in jail now, and he's not.
  • 00:22:02.536 --> 00:22:07.141
  • And he's going, "well, thank god."
  • 00:22:07.141 --> 00:22:09.577
  • Okay, the problem was getting fired.
  • 00:22:09.577 --> 00:22:11.979
  • The bigger problem was going to jail for 20 years.
  • 00:22:11.979 --> 00:22:16.050
  • Which is the worst problem?
  • 00:22:16.050 --> 00:22:18.219
  • Yeah, sometimes god--he did the right thing and he had
  • 00:22:18.219 --> 00:22:21.589
  • A problem.
  • 00:22:21.589 --> 00:22:22.957
  • He lost his job, but it saved him.
  • 00:22:22.957 --> 00:22:24.925
  • Maybe getting fired might be the best thing to happen to you
  • 00:22:24.925 --> 00:22:27.128
  • 'cause it keeps you from a real problem.
  • 00:22:27.128 --> 00:22:29.563
  • Job 36, verse 16, "god led you away from danger--" god often
  • 00:22:29.563 --> 00:22:34.468
  • Does this, and you don't even realize it.
  • 00:22:34.468 --> 00:22:36.470
  • "god has led you away from danger, giving you freedom."
  • 00:22:36.470 --> 00:22:42.676
  • Problems are the preparation for success.
  • 00:22:42.676 --> 00:22:46.046
  • And it really comes down to a matter of faith.
  • 00:22:46.046 --> 00:22:47.782
  • Will you trust god?
  • 00:22:47.782 --> 00:22:50.317
  • Do you remember the story of joseph in the bible?
  • 00:22:50.317 --> 00:22:55.256
  • You know, he--well, he had this vision that one day he'd be
  • 00:22:55.256 --> 00:22:57.525
  • A great leader, and literally for the first 40 years of his
  • 00:22:57.525 --> 00:23:00.428
  • Life everything went wrong.
  • 00:23:00.428 --> 00:23:01.862
  • He's betrayed by his brothers.
  • 00:23:01.862 --> 00:23:03.330
  • He's sold into slavery.
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  • He's taken down to egypt.
  • 00:23:04.732 --> 00:23:06.267
  • He gets a job as a slave in a boss's home.
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  • The woman--the wife of the boss is attracted to him.
  • 00:23:09.804 --> 00:23:12.973
  • She comes on to him, offers herself to him.
  • 00:23:12.973 --> 00:23:15.276
  • He refuses.
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  • He said, "i have integrity.
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  • I'm not going to have an affair with my boss's wife."
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  • And so she feels spurned, she accuses him of rape, and he's
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  • Put in prison for the rest of his life for a crime he
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  • Never committed.
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  • Everything's gone wrong in his life, but it's exactly where god
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  • Wanted him.
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  • And a series of circumstances in second half of his life is like
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  • This and he ends up second in command, helping pharaoh save
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  • The most powerful nation of that time.
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  • You don't know.
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  • Sometimes god is protecting you with a problem in your life.
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  • And when it was all over, joseph said to his brothers who had
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  • Betrayed him, genesis 50:20, "you intended to harm me, but
  • 00:23:53.047 --> 00:23:56.784
  • God intended it for good."
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  • Now, there are people in your life, there are people in this
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  • World who intend to harm you.
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  • Not everybody is nice in this world.
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  • There are evil people.
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  • There are mean people.
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  • There are people who don't like you 'cause you're a christian or
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  • Because of a moral stance or an ethical decision you've made or
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  • 'cause you won't go with the flow and won't, you know,
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  • Party with the crowd.
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  • And they think you're too good or they think you're
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  • Self-righteous, and they misjudge you and on, and they
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  • Want to bring you down.
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  • They mean it for bad, but god means it for good.
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  • God is bigger than your enemies.
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  • God is bigger than your critics.
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  • God is bigger than the people who put you down.
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  • You intended to harm me, but god intended for good.
  • 00:24:38.526 --> 00:24:40.961
  • Sometimes god shakes things up just to protect you.
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  • It's kind of like a fever.
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  • When you get a fever and you feel really bad, fever is not
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  • The problem, friend.
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  • Fever is just a symptom.
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  • The fever is telling you something worse is going on
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  • In your body.
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  • And if you didn't have the fever, you wouldn't get
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  • The help.
  • 00:24:58.679 --> 00:25:00.047
  • You know, a fever warns you of an infection that needs to be
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  • Dealt with.
  • 00:25:03.050 --> 00:25:04.385
  • And sometimes a small pain can alert you to
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  • A life-threatening disease.
  • 00:25:06.921 --> 00:25:09.356
  • Now, this goes true with your emotions too.
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  • Sometimes you're feeling really bad, and you're feeling really,
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  • Really bad, and you're down, and you're depressed, and you're
  • 00:25:15.763 --> 00:25:17.765
  • Discouraged, and you got all these bad negative feelings, and
  • 00:25:17.765 --> 00:25:22.236
  • You're praying, "well, god take away the feelings."
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  • And he doesn't take away the feelings.
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  • You go, "and why aren't you taking away the feelings?"
  • 00:25:26.907 --> 00:25:28.342
  • God say, "'cause the feelings aren't your problem.
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  • The problem is what you're thinking about is causing
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  • Those feelings.
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  • You got to stop believing the lies.
  • 00:25:34.415 --> 00:25:36.884
  • And when you stop believing the lies about you, the lies about
  • 00:25:36.884 --> 00:25:40.354
  • Me, and the lies about other people, you're going to
  • 00:25:40.354 --> 00:25:42.823
  • Feel better."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Pastor rick: friends, one of the most powerful ways you can
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  • Transform your spiritual life is to memorize scripture.
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  • God tells us in proverbs 7, verse 2, "guard my words as your
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  • Most precious possession.
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  • Write them down and also keep them deep within your heart."
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  • Now, here's how i want to help you memorize god's word.
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  • We've put together a new packet,
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  • A new set of cards with verses
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  • From the bible for you to memorize.
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  • They're very beautiful and they
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  • Will keep these bible verses,
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  • God's word, before you
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  • Every day, helping you to memorize the word of god.
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  • I hope you'll take advantage of this new resource.
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