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Rick Warren | Rick Warren - When Your World Is Shaken Up (Part 2) | May 11, 2025
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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.
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- And so he says, you know, god whispers us--to us in our
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- 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
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- Of change is exceeded by pain.
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- The only time we change is when our fear of change is actually
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- 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
- 00:12:44.479 --> 00:12:47.348
- 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.
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- And sometime, you know, some things in life--you don't learn
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- 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
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- Lost it.
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- And so sometimes god allows pain and problems and shakeups
- 00:13:16.845 --> 00:13:21.182
- To inspect us, what's really in you, but sometimes god use pain
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- 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.
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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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- God's word, before you
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- Every day, helping you to memorize the word of god.
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- These scripture cards to say thanks.
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- Pastor rick: so here's the question.
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- 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
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- Ask what.
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- 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
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- 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
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- Shakes things up in my life to correct me, and number three,
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- 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.
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- 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
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- Direct your steps.
- 00:15:41.823 --> 00:15:43.191
- Question, how does god direct your steps?
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- Real simple, problems.
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- That's how he directs your steps.
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- Have you noticed that problems often change your plans?
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- Have anybody had that happen in their life?
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- Your problems change your plans.
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- What is god doing?
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- 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.
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- 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
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- Experience to make us change our ways."
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- And every one of you could give a testimony on that verse.
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- Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make us change
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- Our way.
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- Sometimes god has to light a fire on you so you become
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- Uneasy, you become uncomfortable, gets hot.
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- I mean, even aristotle said we cannot learn without pain.
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- Aristotle.
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- We cannot learn without pain.
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- Some things, as i said, you learned by being burned.
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- It's like when the prodigal son, he didn't change until
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- 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
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- 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.
- 00:17:17.919 --> 00:17:22.023
- We rarely think about the direction of our lives when
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- Things are going good.
- 00:17:24.692 --> 00:17:26.761
- 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.
- 00:17:35.403 --> 00:17:38.005
- "this is fun.
- 00:17:38.005 --> 00:17:39.340
- I'm in the driver's seat right now."
- 00:17:39.340 --> 00:17:41.843
- 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.
- 00:18:04.866 --> 00:18:07.301
- 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
- 00:18:09.437 --> 00:18:12.907
- Go, "ah, i'll just isolate that over here, i'll compartmentalize
- 00:18:12.907 --> 00:18:15.877
- 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
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- 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."
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- He says, "i'm redirecting my life.
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- Now that i got problems, god, you got my attention."
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- What is a problem in your life that you're pretending isn't
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- A problem?
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- 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?
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- That you just figure, "well, it's not a problem.
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- I know we got that there, but we've had it in this
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- Relationship all this time."
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- No. it's still a problem.
- 00:19:03.457 --> 00:19:06.160
- 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,
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- 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,
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- And to prompt us, and he uses things to direct us.
- 00:19:44.198 --> 00:19:47.735
- Write this down, question.
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- "where is this problem leading me?"
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- You want to ask yourself.
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- 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.
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- We talked about this the other week.
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- And he didn't want to go there.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Number four, sometimes god shakes things up to protect us.
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- Sometimes god shakes things up to protect us.
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- He's sold into slavery.
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- He's taken down to egypt.
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- 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.
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- She comes on to him, offers herself to him.
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- He refuses.
- 00:23:15.276 --> 00:23:16.644
- He said, "i have integrity.
- 00:23:16.644 --> 00:23:17.978
- I'm not going to have an affair with my boss's wife."
- 00:23:17.978 --> 00:23:20.247
- And so she feels spurned, she accuses him of rape, and he's
- 00:23:20.247 --> 00:23:25.219
- Put in prison for the rest of his life for a crime he
- 00:23:25.219 --> 00:23:28.189
- Never committed.
- 00:23:28.189 --> 00:23:29.523
- Everything's gone wrong in his life, but it's exactly where god
- 00:23:29.523 --> 00:23:31.625
- Wanted him.
- 00:23:31.625 --> 00:23:32.993
- And a series of circumstances in second half of his life is like
- 00:23:32.993 --> 00:23:35.863
- This and he ends up second in command, helping pharaoh save
- 00:23:35.863 --> 00:23:39.767
- The most powerful nation of that time.
- 00:23:39.767 --> 00:23:43.103
- You don't know.
- 00:23:43.103 --> 00:23:45.306
- Sometimes god is protecting you with a problem in your life.
- 00:23:45.306 --> 00:23:48.809
- And when it was all over, joseph said to his brothers who had
- 00:23:48.809 --> 00:23:53.047
- Betrayed him, genesis 50:20, "you intended to harm me, but
- 00:23:53.047 --> 00:23:56.784
- God intended it for good."
- 00:23:56.784 --> 00:23:59.987
- Now, there are people in your life, there are people in this
- 00:23:59.987 --> 00:24:02.356
- World who intend to harm you.
- 00:24:02.356 --> 00:24:04.191
- Not everybody is nice in this world.
- 00:24:04.191 --> 00:24:06.360
- There are evil people.
- 00:24:06.360 --> 00:24:07.695
- There are mean people.
- 00:24:07.695 --> 00:24:09.063
- There are people who don't like you 'cause you're a christian or
- 00:24:09.063 --> 00:24:11.232
- Because of a moral stance or an ethical decision you've made or
- 00:24:11.232 --> 00:24:14.235
- 'cause you won't go with the flow and won't, you know,
- 00:24:14.235 --> 00:24:17.304
- Party with the crowd.
- 00:24:17.304 --> 00:24:18.672
- And they think you're too good or they think you're
- 00:24:18.672 --> 00:24:20.841
- Self-righteous, and they misjudge you and on, and they
- 00:24:20.841 --> 00:24:23.511
- Want to bring you down.
- 00:24:23.511 --> 00:24:25.412
- They mean it for bad, but god means it for good.
- 00:24:25.412 --> 00:24:29.750
- 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.
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- 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.
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- You know, a fever warns you of an infection that needs to be
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- Dealt with.
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- And sometimes a small pain can alert you to
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- A life-threatening disease.
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- 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
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- Discouraged, and you got all these bad negative feelings, and
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- 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?"
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- 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.
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- And when you stop believing the lies about you, the lies about
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- Me, and the lies about other people, you're going to
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- 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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