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Rick Warren - Why God Made You (Part 1)

March 8, 2026 | 27:29

Rick Warren - Why God Made You (Part 1)
Pastor Rick shares biblical truth and practical tools for living the full life God desires for everyone.
#WordofGod #Purpose #Calling #Preparation #Heaven #LoveofGod #Focus #Worship #Freedom #RickWarren

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Rick Warren | Rick Warren - Why God Made You (Part 1) | March 8, 2026
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  • Pastor rick warren: now, if you wanna know the purpose
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  • Of your life, you gotta start with god.
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  • You can't find it on tv.
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  • You can't find it in the movies.
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  • You can't find it, you know, reading a book.
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  • You can't find it--a lot of people say, "well, the way you
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  • Need to find your purpose is look within, like trust
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  • The force, luke.
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  • Look within."
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  • That doesn't work.
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  • I tried that a lot of times. "look within."
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  • All i saw is a bunch of confusion.
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  • You can't tell you what your purpose is because you didn't
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  • Make you.
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  • Does that make sense?
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  • It--only your creator can tell you what your purpose is.
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  • You can't tell yourself because you weren't alive when whoever
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  • Thought you up thought you up.
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  • If i were to hold up a--just any kind of invention that you
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  • Had never seen and i held it up and i said, "tell me what
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  • This is.
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  • What's the purpose of this invention?"
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  • You wouldn't have the slightest idea.
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  • And the only way you would know the purpose of an invention
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  • You've never seen is either a, talk to the inventor, the
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  • Creator who made it, and they can tell you what it does, or b,
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  • Read the owner's manual.
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  • The same is true for your life.
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  • The only way you're ever gonna know your purpose for your life,
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  • Why you're here on this planet, what on earth you're here for
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  • Is a, talk to your creator, god, who made you, and b, read
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  • The owner's manual.
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  • Now, the bible says this.
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  • Look there on your outline.
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  • Ephesians chapter 1 from the bible says, "it is in christ
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  • That we find out who we are and what we're living for...
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  • Part of the overall purpose that he, god, is working out in
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  • Everything and everyone."
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  • The next verse, colossians chapter 1, verse 16 says this:
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  • "everything, absolutely everything...
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  • Got started in christ and finds its purpose in him."
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  • You were made by god. you were made for god.
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  • Until you understand that, your life is never gonna make sense.
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  • You're gonna go through life wondering, "what on earth am i
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  • Here for?"
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  • You gotta start with god.
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  • Now, the bible says that you were made to last forever.
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  • One day, your heart is gonna stop.
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  • That's gonna be the end of your body, but it's not gonna be the
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  • End of you.
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  • That's gonna be the end of your time on earth, but it's not
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  • Gonna be the end of you.
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  • God has long-range plans for your life, and i'm not
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  • Exaggerating, 'cause he wants you to live forever and ever and
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  • Ever and ever and ever and ever and ever.
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  • So you're gonna actually spend more time on the other side of
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  • Death than you do on this time-- side.
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  • And have you ever thought about this?
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  • If god wants to take me to heaven, why doesn't he just take
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  • Me there instantly?
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  • Why didn't he just make me and start with me in heaven?
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  • Why does god put you on this planet for 80 years?
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  • Really?
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  • Why does he do that?
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  • Well, the bible says you're not ready for heaven.
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  • There's some things you need to learn.
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  • And god says this life--follow me--this life is preparation
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  • For the next.
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  • If you wanna know why you're on this planet, it is to get ready
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  • For the next life.
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  • This life is preparation for the next.
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  • This is the preschool.
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  • This is the warm-up act.
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  • This is the get ready stage.
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  • This is the kindergarten.
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  • This is the dress rehearsal before the real show begins.
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  • This is the first lap around track before the real
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  • Race begins.
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  • This is the warm-up act, getting ready for eternity, because
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  • That's the real show that's gonna go on forever and ever
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  • And ever.
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  • Now, in heaven, you're going to do a number of things, and the
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  • Bible tells us what's gonna happen in heaven.
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  • And what god wants you to do here on earth is practice what
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  • You're gonna do in heaven forever, so when you get to
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  • Heaven, you know what to do.
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  • Now, i'm gonna explain to you this evening exactly what god
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  • Wants you to practice while you're here on earth.
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  • This may be the most important message you've ever heard in
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  • Your life, 'cause i can't think of anything more fundamental
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  • Than "why am i here on earth?
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  • And what am i supposed to do with my life?"
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  • If i only had one sermon to preach, it would be this
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  • Message: to teach you why god made you and what you're
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  • Supposed to do with your life.
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  • God wants you to practice five things on this planet.
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  • We call them our purposes, the reasons for living.
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  • We often use the word callings.
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  • There are five callings, but there are five things god wants
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  • You to do with your life here on earth for five reasons.
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  • He made you for five reasons.
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  • Now, i want you to write these down.
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  • Number one, the first purpose of your life is this.
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  • God planned me.
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  • God planned me for his pleasure.
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  • God planned me for his pleasure.
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  • God created you just to love you.
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  • That's the whole idea.
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  • The bible says that god is love.
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  • I've told you this many times.
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  • It doesn't say god has love.
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  • It says god is love.
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  • It is the essence of his nature.
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  • It is his character.
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  • It is who god is.
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  • God is love, and if god wasn't a god of love, you would not be
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  • Able to love anybody else because you're made in
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  • God's image.
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  • The only reason you're able to love is because god said, "i'm
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  • Gonna make men and women in my own image."
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  • And if god was not a god of love, there would be no love in
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  • The universe.
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  • There would be no love between human beings.
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  • Now, the bible says that god made you simply to love you.
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  • God made you to love you.
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  • He didn't need you.
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  • God is totally satisfied in himself, father, son,
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  • Holy spirit, but he wanted you.
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  • That shows how valuable you are.
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  • Now, let me show you some verses about how god planned you for
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  • His pleasure.
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  • He planned you, he created you just so he could love you.
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  • Revelation 4, verse 11, "you god created everything, and it is
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  • For your pleasure," circle that, "for your pleasure that they
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  • Exist and they were created!"
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  • Everything was created because god gets enjoyment out of it.
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  • He wanted to love it.
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  • God loves every rock, every plant, every animal, every star,
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  • And every human being.
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  • Psalm 149, verse 4, "the lord takes pleasure in his people."
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  • God gets pleasure in watching you be you because he
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  • Made you, you.
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  • And when you do something that's so typical of you, he goes,
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  • "that's my girl.
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  • That's my boy.
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  • That's what i made them to do."
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  • Here's what the bible says, ephesians chapter 1, verse 4.
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  • "long before he, god, laid down the earth's foundation--" in
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  • Other words, that means long before god created the universe,
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  • God had us in mind.
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  • Whoa, god had us in mind.
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  • "and he settled on us as the focus of his love."
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  • Circle the word "focus."
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  • His focus of his love is us.
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  • And the reason why is because he has given us the capacity to
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  • Love him back.
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  • This is what makes you different from animals.
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  • Animals can't pray.
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  • Animals can't talk to god.
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  • Animals can't worship 'cause they're not made in god's image.
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  • God gave you the freedom of choice, the freedom to respond.
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  • You can learn to love and love him back.
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  • God knows everything about you.
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  • You know almost nothing about god.
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  • God loves you in spite of everything he knows about you.
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  • God wants you to learn to know him and love him back, and the
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  • Bible calls this worship.
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  • And it's the first purpose of your life, that god planned me
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  • For his pleasure, and he wants me to learn to love him back.
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  • Here's what he says in the book of hosea in the bible,
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  • Chapter 6, verse 6.
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  • God says, "i don't want your sacrifices--i want your love!"
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  • This is god talking to you.
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  • "i don't want your offerings--i want you to know me!"
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  • Now circle the word "love" and circle the word "no," because
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  • That is the first purpose of your life, to know god and to
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  • Love god.
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  • The most important thing you can know in life is that god loves
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  • You, and the most important thing you can do in life is love
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  • Him back.
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  • So as i've said to you many times, you ought to get up in
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  • The morning and say, "god, i wanna know you and love
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  • You more."
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  • I have done this every single morning of my life for decades.
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  • If at the end of the day, i know god a little bit better and love
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  • Him a little bit more, i didn't waste that day.
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  • On the other hand, it doesn't matter how many things you
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  • Accomplish, how many things you achieve, how famous you become,
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  • How much money you make.
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  • If at the end of each day you don't know god a little bit
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  • Better and love him a little bit more, you just wasted that day,
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  • Because god did not create you and put you on earth just to
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  • Mark things off your to-do list.
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  • He put you here for the very first purpose, and there are
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  • Five purposes of your life, to know him and love him.
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  • Write this down.
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  • The first purpose of my life is to know and love god.
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  • Bam! that's it.
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  • It's pretty simple. love god with all your heart.
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  • You gotta get to know him before you can love him, and that's the
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  • Most important thing in life.
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  • It's what you were put here to do, to know god.
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  • 1 timothy chapter 6, the bible says this: "some people have
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  • Missed the most important thing in life--they don't know god."
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  • They don't know god.
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  • Now, how do you know when you don't know god?
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  • How do you know when you're disconnected from god?
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  • How do you know when in that moment you're not knowing and
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  • Loving god?
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  • God has given us a warning sign, and it goes off like a bright
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  • Yellow light in your life every time you get disconnected
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  • From god.
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  • And that warning sign is this: worry.
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  • Are any of you familiar with this term "worry"?
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  • [chuckles] yeah, yeah.
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  • Well, any time--when you worry, you're acting like god
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  • Doesn't exist.
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  • You're acting like, "if it's to be, it's up to me."
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  • No, it's not up to you.
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  • It's up to god.
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  • The bible says in matthew 6:32: "people who don't know god are
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  • Always worrying."
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  • I was planned for god's pleasure, so the first purpose
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  • Of life is to get to know and love god.
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  • I missed that. i just wasted my life.
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  • Number two, write this down.
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  • Not only did god plan me for his pleasure, number two, god formed
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  • Me for his family.
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  • God formed me for his family.
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  • God wanted a family, and you were created to be a part of it.
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  • The whole reason the universe exists--you wanna know why the
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  • Universe exists?
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  • God wanted a family.
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  • He wanted children.
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  • Now he didn't need us, but he wanted us.
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  • He wanted to show his love to something, so he created us as
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  • Objects of his love.
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  • And he created the entire universe to create this galaxy,
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  • To create this planet so--it's on an axis.
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  • Do you know that one degree this way, we'd burn up, and one
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  • Degree this way, we'd freeze up?
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  • It's just the perfect angle that would sustain life at this point
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  • From the sun just so he could create the human race, just so
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  • He could create you, just so he could love you.
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  • Pastor rick: god thought you up before he thought up
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  • The universe.
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  • The bible says this very clearly, that you were the focus
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  • Of his love.
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  • Ephesians chapter 1, verse 5: "god's unchanging plan," it
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  • Never has changed, "has always been to adopt us into his own
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  • Family," whoa, whoa, whoa, "by bringing us to himself through
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • And this gave him, god, great pleasure."
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  • God wanted a family and wanted you to be a part of it.
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  • God never meant for you to go through life alone.
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  • Whether you marry or not is irrelevant.
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  • Whether you are--your family stays together, splits up is
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  • Irrelevant at this point.
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  • God wanted you in his family.
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  • And the first thing he told adam is, "it's not good for a man to
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  • Be alone."
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  • You're made to be in a spiritual family that he created to take
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  • Care of you so you're not lonely in life.
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  • And by the way--i said this before--your spiritual family
  • 00:13:53.716 --> 00:13:56.752
  • Is going to outlast your physical family.
  • 00:13:56.752 --> 00:13:59.588
  • No physical family lasts.
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  • People grow up.
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  • They move off.
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  • They get married.
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  • They start their own family.
  • 00:14:06.295 --> 00:14:07.630
  • People divorce.
  • 00:14:07.630 --> 00:14:08.998
  • People die. people separate.
  • 00:14:08.998 --> 00:14:10.699
  • No physical family lasts forever, but your spiritual
  • 00:14:10.699 --> 00:14:14.169
  • Family is gonna last forever and ever and ever.
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  • In fact, it's the only thing on planet earth that is gonna last
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  • Forever and ever and ever, your spiritual family.
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  • 1 peter chapter 1 says this, verse 3: "god has given us the
  • 00:14:23.445 --> 00:14:27.883
  • Privilege of being born again so that we are now members of
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  • God's family."
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  • God's own family.
  • 00:14:35.991 --> 00:14:37.359
  • Circle that word "members."
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  • Being a part of god's family is not automatic.
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  • It's a choice.
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  • Now, listen to me very closely on this.
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  • "are you telling me that everybody is not a child
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  • Of god?"
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  • That's exactly what i'm telling you.
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  • You got to choose to be in god's family.
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  • You gotta let him adopt you.
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  • Everybody is created by god.
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  • Everybody is loved by god.
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  • God has never made a person he didn't love.
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  • God has never made a person he did not want in his family, but
  • 00:15:05.187 --> 00:15:08.657
  • He gives you the choice, and he's not gonna force you in.
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  • A lot of people choose to opt out.
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  • They are not children of god because they choose to opt out.
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  • And god's not gonna force you into an adoption.
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  • You gotta want to be adopted into his family.
  • 00:15:22.271 --> 00:15:26.575
  • Now, what is god's family?
  • 00:15:26.575 --> 00:15:27.943
  • 1 timothy chapter 3 says, "that family is the church.
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  • The family is the church of the living god, the support and
  • 00:15:33.449 --> 00:15:37.319
  • Foundation of the truth."
  • 00:15:37.319 --> 00:15:38.954
  • Now, notice god says the church is a family.
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  • It's god's family, and we are children of god, which makes us
  • 00:15:43.926 --> 00:15:48.397
  • Brothers and sisters in the family of god.
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  • And god's purpose for your life is not just to know him and love
  • 00:15:51.834 --> 00:15:55.204
  • Him but to belong to his family.
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  • He doesn't want you just to believe.
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  • He wants you to belong, to be connected.
  • 00:16:00.376 --> 00:16:04.046
  • A christian without a church family is an orphan.
  • 00:16:04.046 --> 00:16:07.383
  • Now, it says that that family is a church of support and
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  • Foundation of the truth.
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  • Circle "support" and "foundation."
  • 00:16:11.186 --> 00:16:13.022
  • When you don't have the support and foundation of god's family,
  • 00:16:13.022 --> 00:16:16.625
  • You're not gonna make it through the tough times of life.
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  • You need support, and you need a foundation.
  • 00:16:21.764 --> 00:16:25.300
  • And the bible says that is the church, god's family.
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  • You cannot fulfill god's purposes for your life
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  • By yourself.
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  • Sorry, you can't.
  • 00:16:35.110 --> 00:16:36.445
  • You can try, but you will fail.
  • 00:16:36.445 --> 00:16:37.780
  • You cannot fulfill the purpose god made you for by yourself.
  • 00:16:37.780 --> 00:16:41.784
  • We're better together.
  • 00:16:41.784 --> 00:16:43.419
  • And the bible says in 1 peter 2:17, "love your
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  • Spiritual family."
  • 00:16:47.723 --> 00:16:50.159
  • Now, what's he wants you to do?
  • 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:51.527
  • He wants you to practice here.
  • 00:16:51.527 --> 00:16:53.962
  • He wants you to learn how to love god and how to learn other
  • 00:16:53.962 --> 00:16:56.598
  • People--love other people here on earth so when you get to
  • 00:16:56.598 --> 00:16:58.767
  • Heaven, you're not a doofus.
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  • You know exactly what to do.
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  • So write this down.
  • 00:17:05.374 --> 00:17:06.742
  • The second purpose of my life: what on earth am i here for?
  • 00:17:06.742 --> 00:17:10.479
  • Is to learn to love others.
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  • And the place you learn to love others is in god's family.
  • 00:17:14.116 --> 00:17:19.488
  • The church is the laboratory for learning how to love.
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  • God wants us to learn to love real people with all of their
  • 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:28.564
  • Quirks and their faults and their flaws and their social,
  • 00:17:28.564 --> 00:17:33.635
  • You know, mess-ups and things like that.
  • 00:17:33.635 --> 00:17:35.671
  • God wants you to learn real love, real people, not
  • 00:17:35.671 --> 00:17:38.540
  • Ideal people.
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  • We all love people in heaven.
  • 00:17:40.609 --> 00:17:41.944
  • Yeah, in heaven, to dwell above with those we love, that will be
  • 00:17:41.944 --> 00:17:45.881
  • A glory, but to dwell below with those we know, that's
  • 00:17:45.881 --> 00:17:49.585
  • Another story.
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  • God says, "no, no, this is why you're here, not in
  • 00:17:52.621 --> 00:17:55.324
  • Heaven first.
  • 00:17:55.324 --> 00:17:56.692
  • I want you to learn real love, where it's difficult, where you
  • 00:17:56.692 --> 00:17:59.628
  • Have to learn that love is a choice."
  • 00:17:59.628 --> 00:18:02.998
  • Romans 12, verse 5 says this.
  • 00:18:02.998 --> 00:18:06.001
  • "we belong to each other and each of us needs all
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  • The others."
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  • You will not make it in your purposes in life without being
  • 00:18:11.473 --> 00:18:14.543
  • A part of a spiritual family.
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  • Number three--write this down-- god created me to become
  • 00:18:16.945 --> 00:18:21.150
  • Like christ.
  • 00:18:21.150 --> 00:18:22.918
  • That's the third purpose in life.
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  • God created me to become like christ.
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  • Once you understand this, life's gonna make a whole lot more
  • 00:18:28.891 --> 00:18:32.094
  • Sense, because god wants you to grow up spiritually, and the
  • 00:18:32.094 --> 00:18:36.365
  • Model of perfection is jesus.
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  • Jesus is the only perfect human being who ever lived 'cause he
  • 00:18:39.768 --> 00:18:42.571
  • Was god come to earth in human form.
  • 00:18:42.571 --> 00:18:45.040
  • He lived a perfect life.
  • 00:18:45.040 --> 00:18:46.575
  • He showed us exactly what it meant to be fully human.
  • 00:18:46.575 --> 00:18:50.712
  • So god wants you to learn to think like jesus, to act like
  • 00:18:50.712 --> 00:18:54.016
  • Jesus, to respond like jesus, to talk like jesus, to value
  • 00:18:54.016 --> 00:18:57.886
  • Like jesus.
  • 00:18:57.886 --> 00:18:59.221
  • This is the third purpose in your life.
  • 00:18:59.221 --> 00:19:00.989
  • Once you're born into the family, god wants you to grow up
  • 00:19:00.989 --> 00:19:04.726
  • In the family, and the model for growth is jesus christ.
  • 00:19:04.726 --> 00:19:09.731
  • Now, god is far more interested--don't miss this.
  • 00:19:09.731 --> 00:19:12.768
  • God is far more interested in who you are than what you do.
  • 00:19:12.768 --> 00:19:18.974
  • We're always worried about what does god want me to do?
  • 00:19:18.974 --> 00:19:20.842
  • "god, what job should i have?
  • 00:19:20.842 --> 00:19:22.444
  • Where should i go to work?
  • 00:19:22.444 --> 00:19:23.812
  • Where should i go to school? what should i do?"
  • 00:19:23.812 --> 00:19:25.514
  • We're always worried about what we should do.
  • 00:19:25.514 --> 00:19:26.848
  • God is much more interested not in what you do but in what you
  • 00:19:26.848 --> 00:19:30.285
  • Become, and the reason why is you're not taking your career
  • 00:19:30.285 --> 00:19:34.790
  • To heaven.
  • 00:19:34.790 --> 00:19:36.959
  • You're not taking your car to heaven.
  • 00:19:36.959 --> 00:19:40.395
  • You're not taking your cash to heaven, how much money
  • 00:19:40.395 --> 00:19:43.865
  • You're making.
  • 00:19:43.865 --> 00:19:45.234
  • You're not taking your china to heaven.
  • 00:19:45.234 --> 00:19:46.902
  • You're taking your character.
  • 00:19:46.902 --> 00:19:49.404
  • The only thing that's going to heaven after your 80 years or so
  • 00:19:49.404 --> 00:19:53.141
  • Here on earth is you.
  • 00:19:53.141 --> 00:19:55.344
  • You're not taking any of your accomplishments.
  • 00:19:55.344 --> 00:19:57.279
  • You're not taking any of your achievements.
  • 00:19:57.279 --> 00:19:59.081
  • You're not taking any of your acquisitions.
  • 00:19:59.081 --> 00:20:01.083
  • You're not taking any of your things you've piled up,
  • 00:20:01.083 --> 00:20:04.219
  • Stockpiled, money, materialism, stuff like that.
  • 00:20:04.219 --> 00:20:07.089
  • None of that's going to heaven.
  • 00:20:07.089 --> 00:20:08.557
  • The only thing that's going to heaven is the person you became,
  • 00:20:08.557 --> 00:20:11.960
  • The man you became, the woman you became.
  • 00:20:11.960 --> 00:20:15.497
  • The only thing you're taking to heaven is your character.
  • 00:20:15.497 --> 00:20:19.167
  • And god put you on this planet to develop your character,
  • 00:20:19.167 --> 00:20:23.205
  • To grow up spiritually, and to become like jesus christ because
  • 00:20:23.205 --> 00:20:27.809
  • That's what he's interested in.
  • 00:20:27.809 --> 00:20:29.177
  • He's not interested in what you do.
  • 00:20:29.177 --> 00:20:30.846
  • He's interested in who you are.
  • 00:20:30.846 --> 00:20:33.315
  • Now let me show you a couple verses.
  • 00:20:33.315 --> 00:20:35.250
  • Romans chapter 8, verse 29: "from the very beginning god
  • 00:20:35.250 --> 00:20:42.090
  • Decided that those who came to him--and all along he knew who
  • 00:20:42.090 --> 00:20:46.295
  • Would--he decided that those who came to him should become
  • 00:20:46.295 --> 00:20:49.631
  • Like his son."
  • 00:20:49.631 --> 00:20:52.434
  • Colossians 1:15: "we look at the son, jesus, and see god's
  • 00:20:52.434 --> 00:20:58.573
  • Original purpose in everything created."
  • 00:20:58.573 --> 00:21:03.211
  • Now, this is not plan b.
  • 00:21:03.211 --> 00:21:04.680
  • It's been god's plan from the very beginning,
  • 00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:06.348
  • Even before adam sinned.
  • 00:21:06.348 --> 00:21:08.750
  • God created adam and said, "let's make man in our image."
  • 00:21:08.750 --> 00:21:13.288
  • From the very beginning, god has been wanting to make us
  • 00:21:13.288 --> 00:21:16.491
  • Like himself.
  • 00:21:16.491 --> 00:21:18.193
  • Now, do not understand me.
  • 00:21:18.193 --> 00:21:20.729
  • God doesn't want you to become a god.
  • 00:21:20.729 --> 00:21:23.198
  • You're never gonna become a god.
  • 00:21:23.198 --> 00:21:25.400
  • Never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never,
  • 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:27.336
  • Never, never.
  • 00:21:27.336 --> 00:21:28.670
  • You're never gonna be a god.
  • 00:21:28.670 --> 00:21:30.339
  • Now, there's a whole movement out there called new age
  • 00:21:30.339 --> 00:21:33.342
  • Movement that says, "you're a god.
  • 00:21:33.342 --> 00:21:35.911
  • You're a goddess.
  • 00:21:35.911 --> 00:21:37.879
  • God is within you.
  • 00:21:37.879 --> 00:21:39.214
  • You're the god.
  • 00:21:39.214 --> 00:21:40.582
  • You're the master of your universe."
  • 00:21:40.582 --> 00:21:41.917
  • You're not a god.
  • 00:21:41.917 --> 00:21:43.618
  • You're not even a mini-me god.
  • 00:21:43.618 --> 00:21:46.755
  • I mean, if you're a god, why don't you solve all
  • 00:21:46.755 --> 00:21:48.890
  • Your problems?
  • 00:21:48.890 --> 00:21:50.225
  • You're not a god, and you never will be.
  • 00:21:50.225 --> 00:21:53.295
  • You can't solve the problems of the world.
  • 00:21:53.295 --> 00:21:54.896
  • You can't solve your own problems.
  • 00:21:54.896 --> 00:21:57.099
  • You're not a god.
  • 00:21:57.099 --> 00:21:58.567
  • And that new age is actually-- satan told us to eve in the
  • 00:21:58.567 --> 00:22:04.206
  • Garden of eden.
  • 00:22:04.206 --> 00:22:05.540
  • It's the first lie.
  • 00:22:05.540 --> 00:22:06.908
  • He said, "eat this fruit, and you'll be god."
  • 00:22:06.908 --> 00:22:08.243
  • It's not new age.
  • 00:22:08.243 --> 00:22:09.611
  • It's old lie.
  • 00:22:09.611 --> 00:22:11.780
  • In fact, it's the oldest lie that you're a god.
  • 00:22:11.780 --> 00:22:14.182
  • That is the oldest lie in the universe.
  • 00:22:14.182 --> 00:22:17.219
  • You're never gonna be a god, but god says, "i don't want you to
  • 00:22:17.219 --> 00:22:19.921
  • Be a god.
  • 00:22:19.921 --> 00:22:21.256
  • I want you to become godly."
  • 00:22:21.256 --> 00:22:23.158
  • That means have--tell the truth like i tell the truth,
  • 00:22:23.158 --> 00:22:27.396
  • Be faithful like i'm faithful.
  • 00:22:27.396 --> 00:22:29.531
  • Love like i love.
  • 00:22:29.531 --> 00:22:31.199
  • Be patient and forgiving like i'm patient and forgiving.
  • 00:22:31.199 --> 00:22:34.035
  • God says, "i want you to be godly.
  • 00:22:34.035 --> 00:22:35.670
  • I want you to become like me in character, in wisdom, in your
  • 00:22:35.670 --> 00:22:42.411
  • Values, and in who you are."
  • 00:22:42.411 --> 00:22:44.880
  • Now, when things happen to you, the normal question you ask is
  • 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:49.217
  • The word "why."
  • 00:22:49.217 --> 00:22:50.752
  • "why is this happening?
  • 00:22:50.752 --> 00:22:52.554
  • Why is this happening to me?
  • 00:22:52.554 --> 00:22:54.589
  • Why is this happening now?"
  • 00:22:54.589 --> 00:22:56.558
  • And the answer to all the why questions of life is this:
  • 00:22:56.558 --> 00:23:01.463
  • To make you like jesus.
  • 00:23:01.463 --> 00:23:03.765
  • To make you like jesus.
  • 00:23:03.765 --> 00:23:05.867
  • If god's gonna make you like jesus, he's gonna take you
  • 00:23:05.867 --> 00:23:07.969
  • Through everything jesus went through.
  • 00:23:07.969 --> 00:23:10.839
  • And jesus wasn't spared from difficulty.
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  • Was there times when jesus was lonely?
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  • Yes.
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  • Time when he was misunderstood? yes.
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  • Were there times when jesus was disappointed by people?
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  • Yes.
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  • Were there times when he was tempted to be discouraged
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  • And give up?
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  • Yes.
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  • Were there times when he was just tempted?
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  • Yes.
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  • And if god let his own son go through all that, don't you
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  • Think he's gonna let you go through it too?
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  • Yes. why?
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  • Because he's more interested in your character than
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  • Your comfort.
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  • This is not the comfort side of life.
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  • The comfort's gonna come in eternity.
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  • Comfort's gonna come in heaven.
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  • This is the classroom side of life, where you are to learn,
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  • And some things you only learn through difficulty.
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  • The bible says in philippians chapter 2, verse 5: "in your
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  • Lives you must think and act like christ jesus."
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  • This is the third purpose for your life.
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  • You must learn to think and act like christ jesus.
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  • So if i'm supposed to think and act like christ jesus, what is
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  • Jesus like?
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  • Well, i've told you this before, that the perfect picture of
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  • Jesus in the bible is galatians 5: 22 and 23.
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  • It's often called the fruit of the spirit, and it lists
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  • Nine qualities.
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  • It says in galatians the fruit of the spirit is love, joy,
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  • Peace, patience, kindness, gentleness,
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  • Faithfulness, self-control.
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  • Nine qualities.
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  • What is that?
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  • That's a perfect picture of jesus.
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  • God wants you to love like jesus, to be at peace like
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  • Jesus, to be patient like jesus.
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  • God wants you to be faithful like jesus.
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  • God wants you to have self-control like jesus
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  • Had self-control.
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  • Now, here's the question.
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  • How does god teach us the fruit of the spirit?
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  • How does god make us like jesus?
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  • Like, for instance, if god wants to make--turn me into a great
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  • Loving person, a real lover, what am i doing?
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  • I'm just kinda walking down the street one day, and all of
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  • A sudden, zap, i'm zapped with love, and i love everybody.
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  • And just call me buddy love, you know?
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  • No, no, it doesn't happen that way.
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  • There's no pill you can take that's gonna make you patient
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  • For the rest of your life or loving for the rest of your life
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  • Or faithful for the rest of your life.
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  • There's no seminar.
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  • There's no book.
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  • There's no experience that you-- that's gonna zap you and all of
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  • A sudden you're like jesus, and you never have a problem, and
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  • You're never tempted again.
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  • It's a lifelong process becoming like jesus.
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  • That process is called discipleship.
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  • Worship, fellowship, discipleship are the first three
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  • Purposes of life.
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  • Know and love god, learn to love others, and grow up like christ.
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