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Rick Warren - Why You Need To Say Hungry (Part 2)

June 14, 2026 | 27:29

Rick Warren - Why You Need To Say Hungry (Part 2)
Pastor Rick shares biblical truth and practical tools for living the full life God desires for everyone.
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Rick Warren | Rick Warren - Why You Need To Say Hungry (Part 2) | June 14, 2026
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  • Pastor rick warren: there's a book in the bible called romans,
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  • And the first ten chapters explain the concept of grace in
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  • Great detail.
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  • Chapter 3 gives kind of a summary of it, and it says this,
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  • Romans 3:23, "for all have sinned; and all fall short of
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  • God's glorious standard."
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  • Now, as i said, that's not news.
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  • It's certainly not good news, but it's not even news.
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  • We all know--i don't measure up to my own standards, much less
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  • God's perfect standard.
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  • We've all stand--we've all fallen short of god's
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  • Glorious standard.
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  • "yet," here's the good news, "now god in his gracious
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  • Kindness," that's grace, "declares us not guilty."
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  • You might circle that, that's righteousness.
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  • He declares us not guilty.
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  • Am i guilty? yes.
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  • Do i deserve to be punished? yes.
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  • Am i not--does god declare me not guilty?
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  • Yes.
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  • "he has done this through christ jesus, who has freed us by
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  • Taking away our sins.
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  • For god sent jesus to take the punishment for our sins," the
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  • Scapegoat, the sacrificial lamb, "the punishment for our sins and
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  • To satisfy god's anger against us.
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  • We are made right with god when we believe that jesus shed his
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  • Blood, sacrificing his life for us."
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  • This is atonement.
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  • Now, in the church, we believe that god gave us two symbols to
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  • Remember this important truth.
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  • That i have made mistakes, i have blown it, i've sinned.
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  • There's no way i could repay it.
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  • You know, the bible says, well, you know this, when you break
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  • Man's laws, you pay man's penalty.
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  • You out--speed, you get a ticket.
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  • When you break god's laws, you pay god's penalty.
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  • And the bible says, in scripture, in the old testament,
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  • Says, "the soul that sinneth, it shall die."
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  • The bible says the wages of sin is death.
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  • So, somebody's got to pay for my sin.
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  • Either me, or somebody else.
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  • And this is where the judge becomes a savior and he says,
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  • "i love you, and i'm going to do this for you."
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  • See, this is the difference between a lot of other systems
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  • And the gospel of grace.
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  • Other systems can say, do, do, do, do, do.
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  • Do all these things to make god love you.
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  • Gospel of grace says done.
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  • Done, it was done for you, that's grace.
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  • And we have two symbols of this: baptism and communion.
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  • In baptism, we take a person, we put them under the water and
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  • Bring them back up, which is a symbol of a death, a burial, and
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  • A resurrection.
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  • Okay, and then communion, jesus took bread and wine and said,
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  • "this is gonna represent my sacrifice for you, my body and
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  • My blood, atoning for your sin as foretold for centuries."
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  • Let me show you a couple of other verses.
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  • 2 corinthians chapter 5 says this--verse 21, "god made
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  • Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so
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  • That we could be made right with god through christ."
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  • In the old testament, there's an entire sacrificial system of the
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  • Scapegoat and the sacrificial lamb who take the sins of
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  • The nation.
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  • It's a symbol of what jesus would do for us one day.
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  • Look at this verse on the screen, titus chapter 3, verse
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  • 5: "god saves us, not because of righteous things we've done," in
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  • Other words, "wow, i'm really impressed with that."
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  • God doesn't save us because of what we've done, "but because of
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  • His mercy."
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  • So, this is the good news.
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  • First, i can't make myself righteous.
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  • I can't make myself--there's not a snowball's chance in hell
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  • You're getting into heaven on your own effort.
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  • Because you're not good enough, and neither am i.
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  • But, good news, god sent jesus to pay for my sins.
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  • Now here's the third part of the gospel, write this down.
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  • I accept by faith what god did for me.
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  • I accept by faith what god did for me.
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  • That's all you have to do.
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  • That's all i'm required to do.
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  • I simply--all i do is accept god's grace, his mercy.
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  • I accept god's forgiveness, and i say, "i believe that what
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  • Jesus did on the cross paid for my sins."
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  • So i can go and be a part of god's family.
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  • I can live the way he wants me to live now, and i can
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  • Go to heaven in eternity.
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  • That is righteousness.
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  • Let me show you a couple verses.
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  • Romans chapter 3: "we are made right in god's sight," that's
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  • Righteousness, when we do a whole bunch of good things.
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  • And that doesn't say that.
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  • "we're made right in god's sight when we trust in jesus christ to
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  • Take away our sins."
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  • And i love this part and here's the cool part, "we can all be
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  • Saved," that's everybody, "in the same way, no matter who we
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  • Are or what we've done."
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  • All right, i like that part.
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  • I want to say hallelujah to that part.
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  • We can all be saved no matter who we are, what we've done, who
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  • We've done it with, how long we've done it.
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  • All be saved.
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  • Now i don't care what religious background you are.
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  • Your background may be catholic.
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  • Your background may be baptist or buddhist.
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  • You, your background may be muslim or methodist or mormon.
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  • Or pentecostal or presbyterian.
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  • Your background may be atheist or agnostic or secularist or no
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  • Faith at all or a mix up of everything.
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  • I really couldn't care less about that because religion,
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  • No religion can get you to heaven.
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  • Only god's grace can get you to heaven.
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  • No amount of works can make you righteous, whether it's this
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  • Guy's list or this guy's list or that guy's list.
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  • None of those religious lists can get you to heaven, because
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  • You can't be righteous enough.
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  • It's just simply a relationship to god through his son, jesus.
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  • And here's what the bible says, romans chapter 10, "if you
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  • Confess with your mouth that jesus is "lord, in other words,
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  • He is who he claimed to be.
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  • He's the son of god, the savior of the world, he came to die
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  • For you.
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  • "if you confess with your mouth that, 'yeah, i believe jesus is
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  • Lord,' and you believe in your heart that god raised him from
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  • The dead," that's what easter is all about, "you will be saved;
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  • For you believe him--for you believe with your heart,
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  • Resulting in righteousness, and you confess with your mouth,
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  • Resulting in salvation."
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  • Now i want you to settle this issue this morning.
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  • As your friend, as somebody who cares about you, as your pastor,
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  • I don't want you to ever doubt, ever, ever, ever, ever again
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  • That you're going to heaven when you die.
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  • I don't want you to worry about it.
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  • I don't want you to be concerned about it.
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  • I don't want you to have any doubts about it.
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  • So we're gonna do what romans 10 says to do.
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  • "confess with your mouth and believe in your heart, you will
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  • Be saved."
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  • Would god lie? no.
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  • Why? because god cannot lie.
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  • People often ask me, is there anything god can't do?
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  • There are a lot of things god can't do.
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  • One of them is he can't deny his character, so it means god
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  • Cannot lie.
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  • God can only tell the truth, and what's true is always true, and
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  • What's false is always false.
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  • If truth wasn't always true, the universe wouldn't work.
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  • If the law of gravity was only true on tuesdays and thursdays,
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  • That would be a problem.
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  • The universe operates because some things are always true and
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  • Some things are always untrue.
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  • The moon is not made of cheese.
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  • You might want to think that, but it's not true.
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  • And so the bible says, "i am truth," jesus said, "i am the
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  • Way, i am the truth, and i'm the life.
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  • No one comes to the father but by me."
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  • I want you to be absolutely certain you've settled this
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  • Issue in your life.
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  • On what basis do you know you're going to heaven?
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  • And on what basis of scripture do you know that you're going
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  • To heaven?
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  • And so i'm gonna pray a simple prayer.
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  • Honestly, it doesn't even matter the words you pray.
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  • What matters is the humility of your heart when you say, "god,
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  • God is god and i'm not, and god, there's not a snowball's chance
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  • In hell of me earning perfection.
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  • I need somebody.
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  • I can't swim to hawaii, i got to get on a boat.
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  • I need a savior.
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  • I need an ark to save me in the flood."
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  • So let's bow our heads.
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  • And right now, just in your own heart, why don't you tell god
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  • You love him.
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  • Just say, "god, i love you."
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  • Or maybe you could say, "god, i wanna learn to love you."
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  • And then just say these words, "dear god, thank you for
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  • Creating me.
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  • Thank you for having a plan and purpose for my life.
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  • Thank you for loving me even when i didn't know you.
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  • Thank you for your plan of grace.
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  • Something i could never earn or deserve.
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  • I don't understand at all, dear god, but as much as i know how,
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  • I wanna accept your grace, your forgiveness.
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  • And the atonement for my sins.
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  • I hunger and thirst for you.
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  • And for your righteousness.
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  • And so, jesus christ, as much as i know how, i open my life
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  • To you.
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  • I wanna learn to love you and trust you.
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  • I wanna learn to get to know you, the rest of my life.
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  • And i humbly make this request, admitting that i need you, god,
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  • In my life.
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  • In your name i pray, amen."
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  • Pastor rick: now, if you just prayed with me, just now, to
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  • Receive jesus christ, i wanna say, that's the smartest
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  • Decision you've ever made in your life, and congratulations.
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  • Did you know that in luke chapter 15, it says the angels
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  • Are throwing a party in heaven right now for you.
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  • Every time one person steps across the line, they have
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  • A party in heaven.
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  • So i'd like to celebrate with you too.
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  • And i'd like to send you some free materials to help you
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  • Understand the spiritual journey that you've just taken the
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  • First step.
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  • All you need to do is email me.
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  • Let me know, say, "rick, i prayed that prayer, open my life
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  • To christ."
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  • We'll get you some new materials, we'll pray with you,
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  • And we'll celebrate you.
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  • Congratulations.
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  • Pastor rick: so, the fourth key to being blessed by god is to
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  • Have a spiritual hunger for the rest of your life.
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  • God blesses those who are hunger--hungry and thirsty
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  • For righteous.
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  • They will be filled.
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  • Now, doctors tell us that the symptom of illness is you lose
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  • Your appetite.
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  • You know this, when you're sick, you've got a fever, you don't
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  • Feel good, you have aches and pains, food is the last thing on
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  • Your mind.
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  • A loss of appetite says you're sick.
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  • And a loss of appetite for god, saying, "i don't really care
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  • About god.
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  • I don't really care about knowing him, knowing his word,
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  • Doing his ways," indicates you are spiritually sick.
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  • You're not healthy, you got to get your appetite back.
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  • So how do i stay spiritually hungry the rest of my life,
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  • Because this is a good thing.
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  • How do i make sure i maintain an appetite for god the rest of
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  • My life?
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  • Write these down, quickly.
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  • Five things, i'm not gonna spend a lot of time describing them.
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  • I just want you to write them down, you can think about
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  • Them at home.
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  • Number one, the first key to a spiritual appetite is remind
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  • Myself how much god loves me.
  • 00:12:15.116 --> 00:12:18.386
  • Remind myself how much god loves me.
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  • When you get up in the morning before you put your feet down on
  • 00:12:21.990 --> 00:12:24.325
  • The side of bed, say, "god, help me to sense how much you
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  • Love me."
  • 00:12:27.228 --> 00:12:29.063
  • I had a guy tell me one time, he said, "you know, rick, i don't
  • 00:12:29.063 --> 00:12:31.699
  • Really have any hunger for god.
  • 00:12:31.699 --> 00:12:33.902
  • I don't have any desire to know god."
  • 00:12:33.902 --> 00:12:36.437
  • He said, "i guess the real problem with me is, i don't love
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  • God enough."
  • 00:12:41.075 --> 00:12:43.378
  • I said, "friend, that's not your problem.
  • 00:12:43.378 --> 00:12:45.580
  • Your problem is not that you don't love god enough.
  • 00:12:45.580 --> 00:12:48.349
  • The problem is you don't know how much he loves you.
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  • Because if you did, you can't help fall in love with a god who
  • 00:12:52.987 --> 00:12:57.058
  • Loves you that much."
  • 00:12:57.058 --> 00:12:58.693
  • When jesus dies on the cross, he says, "this is how much
  • 00:12:58.693 --> 00:13:01.262
  • I love you.
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  • I love you this much.
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  • I love you so much it hurts.
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  • I love you so much i'd rather die than live without you."
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  • You cannot make god stop loving you.
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  • You can try, but you'll fail.
  • 00:13:10.438 --> 00:13:12.073
  • God's love is based on who he is, not who you are.
  • 00:13:12.073 --> 00:13:16.411
  • So he loves you on your good days and bad days.
  • 00:13:16.411 --> 00:13:18.813
  • And you need to remind yourself of that, and that creates
  • 00:13:18.813 --> 00:13:21.716
  • A hunger for you to know him.
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  • You wanna know anybody who loves you that much.
  • 00:13:23.051 --> 00:13:25.787
  • If somebody died for you, wouldn't you wanna know him?
  • 00:13:25.787 --> 00:13:27.922
  • Yes, you would.
  • 00:13:27.922 --> 00:13:29.257
  • The bible says this, "pray that you have the power to understand
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  • How wide, how long, how high, and how deep god's love
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  • Really is.
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  • May you experience the love of christ, though it's so great
  • 00:13:40.501 --> 00:13:43.471
  • You'll never ever fully understand it."
  • 00:13:43.471 --> 00:13:46.307
  • But he says, "then you will be filled with the fullness of life
  • 00:13:46.307 --> 00:13:51.713
  • And the power that comes from god."
  • 00:13:51.713 --> 00:13:53.715
  • That's where fulfilled life, satisfying life comes from.
  • 00:13:53.715 --> 00:13:57.619
  • You gotta understand how much god loves you.
  • 00:13:57.619 --> 00:14:00.088
  • Number two, second key to staying hungry spiritually, stop
  • 00:14:00.088 --> 00:14:04.626
  • Filling up on junk food.
  • 00:14:04.626 --> 00:14:08.396
  • Stop filling up on junk food.
  • 00:14:08.396 --> 00:14:11.666
  • Stop trying to fill your mind and your life with other things
  • 00:14:11.666 --> 00:14:14.769
  • That you think are gonna satisfy you, when really what you're
  • 00:14:14.769 --> 00:14:17.438
  • Looking for and longing for is god.
  • 00:14:17.438 --> 00:14:19.607
  • Now when god made you, he put a physical hunger and a spiritual
  • 00:14:19.607 --> 00:14:23.678
  • Hunger inside you.
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  • We all know how to take care of the physical hunger--eat.
  • 00:14:25.046 --> 00:14:29.083
  • But we often don't know how to take care of the spiritual
  • 00:14:29.083 --> 00:14:31.119
  • Hunger, and we don't know how to deal with it.
  • 00:14:31.119 --> 00:14:33.588
  • But there's this hole in you, this god-shaped hole that only
  • 00:14:33.588 --> 00:14:37.025
  • God could fill.
  • 00:14:37.025 --> 00:14:38.927
  • And so, you need to stop filling up on junk food.
  • 00:14:38.927 --> 00:14:43.331
  • Now, let me just tell you this, if you're not hungry for god,
  • 00:14:43.331 --> 00:14:47.268
  • It's because you're full of something else.
  • 00:14:47.268 --> 00:14:52.540
  • And you may be full of yourself.
  • 00:14:52.540 --> 00:14:55.977
  • A lot of people are not hungry for god because they're so full
  • 00:14:55.977 --> 00:14:58.680
  • Of themselves, they have no hunger.
  • 00:14:58.680 --> 00:15:02.450
  • Look at this verse on the screen, i love this book--verse
  • 00:15:02.450 --> 00:15:04.552
  • Out of proverbs in the new living translation: "a wise
  • 00:15:04.552 --> 00:15:07.622
  • Person is hungry for truth, while the fool feeds on trash."
  • 00:15:07.622 --> 00:15:13.094
  • Maybe you need to take some trash out of your life.
  • 00:15:13.094 --> 00:15:16.331
  • If you're filling your mind with all these movies, and all of
  • 00:15:16.331 --> 00:15:19.801
  • These books and novels, and all of these gossip magazines, it's
  • 00:15:19.801 --> 00:15:24.472
  • No wonder you have no hunger for god.
  • 00:15:24.472 --> 00:15:26.975
  • And if you're filling your mind with all of the things about
  • 00:15:26.975 --> 00:15:30.111
  • Politics and about everything, it's no wonder you don't have
  • 00:15:30.111 --> 00:15:32.347
  • Any hunger for god.
  • 00:15:32.347 --> 00:15:33.815
  • You're full on other things.
  • 00:15:33.815 --> 00:15:36.351
  • Isaiah 55, the prophet says this, "the lord says,
  • 00:15:36.351 --> 00:15:40.321
  • 'all you who are thirsty, come to me and drink!
  • 00:15:40.321 --> 00:15:44.359
  • And those of you who don't have any money to buy food, come to
  • 00:15:44.359 --> 00:15:46.995
  • Me and eat for free!'"
  • 00:15:46.995 --> 00:15:49.998
  • And then he says, "why do you spend your money on something
  • 00:15:49.998 --> 00:15:52.500
  • That isn't real food and doesn't really satisfy you?
  • 00:15:52.500 --> 00:15:56.704
  • Come to me--," notice he doesn't say come to religion.
  • 00:15:56.704 --> 00:15:59.574
  • He doesn't say come to rules, regulations, rituals.
  • 00:15:59.574 --> 00:16:01.442
  • He says, "come to me," a person.
  • 00:16:01.442 --> 00:16:03.811
  • "come to me and you'll eat what is good; and your soul will
  • 00:16:03.811 --> 00:16:07.448
  • Enjoy the stuff that really satisfies!"
  • 00:16:07.448 --> 00:16:11.386
  • You know, when i read that verse, and i saw that food,
  • 00:16:11.386 --> 00:16:13.521
  • I said, some of you are eating stuff that isn't real food.
  • 00:16:13.521 --> 00:16:15.823
  • I read an article this week about how people are starving to
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  • Death by eating worthless food.
  • 00:16:19.327 --> 00:16:23.998
  • And it gave a couple of examples, that in the great
  • 00:16:23.998 --> 00:16:28.002
  • Famine of china, there was no food for millions and millions
  • 00:16:28.002 --> 00:16:32.840
  • And millions of people, and there was nothing to eat.
  • 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:36.210
  • And so the chinese actually started making a kind of bread
  • 00:16:36.210 --> 00:16:40.982
  • Out of an edible soil.
  • 00:16:40.982 --> 00:16:42.383
  • It was dirt, literally, it was dirt.
  • 00:16:42.383 --> 00:16:45.319
  • And it was an edible soil that they would make this fake bread,
  • 00:16:45.319 --> 00:16:48.723
  • And then they would eat it, and it would fill them up
  • 00:16:48.723 --> 00:16:51.092
  • Temporarily, and their stomach pains and pangs would go away.
  • 00:16:51.092 --> 00:16:56.664
  • The problem with it is it had no nutritional value.
  • 00:16:56.664 --> 00:16:59.233
  • No vitamins, no minerals, no fats, no carbohydrates,
  • 00:16:59.233 --> 00:17:02.570
  • No protein.
  • 00:17:02.570 --> 00:17:03.938
  • And so they were filling up and starving to death, at the
  • 00:17:03.938 --> 00:17:08.142
  • Same time.
  • 00:17:08.142 --> 00:17:09.477
  • They were temporarily satisfied, it had no nutrition in it.
  • 00:17:09.477 --> 00:17:14.282
  • Similar thing happened in australia during their
  • 00:17:14.282 --> 00:17:16.217
  • Great depression.
  • 00:17:16.217 --> 00:17:17.685
  • During that great depression, and there was a really--like
  • 00:17:17.685 --> 00:17:20.788
  • A famine, and people didn't have any money for food.
  • 00:17:20.788 --> 00:17:23.724
  • And there is a fern in australia called the navoo--nardoo,
  • 00:17:23.724 --> 00:17:29.597
  • Nardoo plant.
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  • It's a nardoo fern, they're all, literally, all over australia.
  • 00:17:30.932 --> 00:17:33.434
  • And they would take the spores of the nardoo fern, and they
  • 00:17:33.434 --> 00:17:37.238
  • Would make a porridge out of it.
  • 00:17:37.238 --> 00:17:38.706
  • And people were eating this porridge.
  • 00:17:38.706 --> 00:17:41.742
  • The only problem was, again, no nutritional value.
  • 00:17:41.742 --> 00:17:44.579
  • No fats, no carbohydrates, no minerals, no protein,
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  • No vitamins.
  • 00:17:48.649 --> 00:17:50.084
  • And so people were dying of starvation with their
  • 00:17:50.084 --> 00:17:54.055
  • Stomachs full.
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  • Friends, that is an accurate description of the united states
  • 00:17:57.225 --> 00:18:01.062
  • Of america right now.
  • 00:18:01.062 --> 00:18:05.099
  • Our nation is gorging itself to death on spiritual junk food.
  • 00:18:05.099 --> 00:18:11.172
  • Thinking that pleasure and passion and popularity and
  • 00:18:11.172 --> 00:18:15.042
  • Privilege and prestige and power and possessions are
  • 00:18:15.042 --> 00:18:19.013
  • Gonna satisfy.
  • 00:18:19.013 --> 00:18:20.515
  • But they could have read, thousands of years ago, solomon
  • 00:18:20.515 --> 00:18:23.985
  • Said, "that one doesn't work.
  • 00:18:23.985 --> 00:18:26.554
  • That one doesn't work."
  • 00:18:26.554 --> 00:18:28.456
  • And we have people in america with full bellies and
  • 00:18:28.456 --> 00:18:32.493
  • Empty souls.
  • 00:18:32.493 --> 00:18:33.861
  • And they're starving to death spiritually.
  • 00:18:33.861 --> 00:18:37.031
  • You need to stop eating junk food.
  • 00:18:37.031 --> 00:18:39.367
  • Number three, here's the third key--by the way, you know, kay
  • 00:18:39.367 --> 00:18:43.204
  • And i have another ritual that we do, it's every monday.
  • 00:18:43.204 --> 00:18:45.873
  • Monday's my day off, so we like to go out for lunch, or for
  • 00:18:45.873 --> 00:18:48.776
  • Dinner, on mondays.
  • 00:18:48.776 --> 00:18:50.411
  • And we play this game every week.
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  • What are you hungry for?
  • 00:18:52.813 --> 00:18:55.783
  • Anybody vaguely familiar with this game?
  • 00:18:55.783 --> 00:18:58.853
  • What are you hungry for?
  • 00:18:58.853 --> 00:19:00.221
  • And you go, "mexican food?
  • 00:19:00.221 --> 00:19:02.790
  • Chinese food?
  • 00:19:02.790 --> 00:19:04.125
  • Mediterranean food, italian?"
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  • You know you're hungry, but you don't know what you want.
  • 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:13.034
  • Let me ask you this question, what are you most hungry for?
  • 00:19:13.034 --> 00:19:16.470
  • Because your hunger will determine your happiness.
  • 00:19:16.470 --> 00:19:19.874
  • If you're hungry for your sports and your favorite team, and
  • 00:19:19.874 --> 00:19:23.044
  • That's all you think about, you're gonna be left empty.
  • 00:19:23.044 --> 00:19:26.247
  • If you're hungry for fame or fortune, you're gonna be
  • 00:19:26.247 --> 00:19:28.916
  • Left empty.
  • 00:19:28.916 --> 00:19:30.284
  • You gotta be hungry and thirsty for righteousness, for then
  • 00:19:30.284 --> 00:19:33.354
  • You'll be filled.
  • 00:19:33.354 --> 00:19:34.922
  • Number three, make knowing god my number one goal.
  • 00:19:34.922 --> 00:19:39.460
  • Make it my number one goal in life.
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  • You don't seek happiness, you seek god.
  • 00:19:42.930 --> 00:19:45.766
  • You don't seek success, you seek god.
  • 00:19:45.766 --> 00:19:49.237
  • And, if you want a good example of this, just go read
  • 00:19:49.237 --> 00:19:51.939
  • The psalms.
  • 00:19:51.939 --> 00:19:53.274
  • David is the pro at hungering and thirsting for righteousness.
  • 00:19:53.274 --> 00:19:56.544
  • And david over and over says, "i long for you, god.
  • 00:19:56.544 --> 00:19:59.480
  • I thirst for you, god, as a deer pants for water.
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  • God, i've gotta have you.
  • 00:20:03.284 --> 00:20:04.819
  • I cry out to god.
  • 00:20:04.819 --> 00:20:06.153
  • I plead with you, god.
  • 00:20:06.153 --> 00:20:07.955
  • I beg you, god.
  • 00:20:07.955 --> 00:20:09.290
  • I seek you, god.
  • 00:20:09.290 --> 00:20:10.658
  • I cry out to you, god.
  • 00:20:10.658 --> 00:20:11.993
  • I am longing for you, god."
  • 00:20:11.993 --> 00:20:13.361
  • Look at this verse on the screen, the bible says in psalm
  • 00:20:13.361 --> 00:20:16.197
  • 63, "o god, i earnestly seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my
  • 00:20:16.197 --> 00:20:23.604
  • Body longs for you, (as i) travel through this parched and
  • 00:20:23.604 --> 00:20:28.943
  • Weary desert where there's no water!"
  • 00:20:28.943 --> 00:20:32.079
  • David wrote this psalm as he was going through the desert
  • 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:35.483
  • Of judea.
  • 00:20:35.483 --> 00:20:37.151
  • But you're going through some deserts right now too.
  • 00:20:37.151 --> 00:20:39.220
  • Some of your marriage is a desert, it's all dried up.
  • 00:20:39.220 --> 00:20:44.625
  • Some of you are in a financial desert, your money is all
  • 00:20:44.625 --> 00:20:47.495
  • Dried up.
  • 00:20:47.495 --> 00:20:49.430
  • Some of you had your dream turned into a desert, it's all
  • 00:20:49.430 --> 00:20:52.366
  • Dried up.
  • 00:20:52.366 --> 00:20:53.734
  • Or a relationship, or a friendship, or a career,
  • 00:20:53.734 --> 00:20:57.672
  • It's all dried up.
  • 00:20:57.672 --> 00:20:59.140
  • What do you do when you're going through the desert?
  • 00:20:59.140 --> 00:21:01.242
  • You do what david did.
  • 00:21:01.242 --> 00:21:03.177
  • "god, i'm thirsty for you.
  • 00:21:03.177 --> 00:21:05.613
  • I gotta have you.
  • 00:21:05.613 --> 00:21:06.947
  • I--it's the number one goal of my life."
  • 00:21:06.947 --> 00:21:11.285
  • Jesus said it like this, matthew 6:33, "the thing you should want
  • 00:21:11.285 --> 00:21:15.222
  • Most is god's kingdom and doing what god wants.
  • 00:21:15.222 --> 00:21:20.494
  • And then all these other things you need will be given to you."
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  • Seek first the kingdom of god and his righteousness, and all
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  • These things will be added to you.
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  • Number four, get into god's word every day.
  • 00:21:31.505 --> 00:21:36.143
  • Get into god's word every day.
  • 00:21:36.143 --> 00:21:39.413
  • Now, this book, the bible, is god's soul food for you, it's
  • 00:21:39.413 --> 00:21:44.618
  • Food for your soul.
  • 00:21:44.618 --> 00:21:45.953
  • In scriptures, god's word is called meat, it's called bread,
  • 00:21:45.953 --> 00:21:52.593
  • It's called honey, it's called milk, lots of metaphors.
  • 00:21:52.593 --> 00:21:57.932
  • This is spiritual food.
  • 00:21:57.932 --> 00:21:59.633
  • If you don't eat spiritual food, you're gonna dry up.
  • 00:21:59.633 --> 00:22:04.171
  • You gotta get into god's word every day.
  • 00:22:04.171 --> 00:22:07.241
  • Look at a couple of verses here.
  • 00:22:07.241 --> 00:22:08.709
  • 1 peter 2: "you must crave this pure spiritual milk
  • 00:22:08.709 --> 00:22:12.713
  • [of the word] so that you
  • 00:22:12.713 --> 00:22:14.081
  • Can grow into the fullness of your salvation.
  • 00:22:14.081 --> 00:22:18.285
  • Cry out for this nourishment like a baby cries for milk!"
  • 00:22:18.285 --> 00:22:23.557
  • You know, during "40 days in the word," i showed you this verse,
  • 00:22:23.557 --> 00:22:26.427
  • Look at this, 2 timothy 3: "all scripture is god-breathed,"
  • 00:22:26.427 --> 00:22:31.031
  • Inspired, "and it's useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting
  • 00:22:31.031 --> 00:22:34.869
  • And training in righteousness."
  • 00:22:34.869 --> 00:22:37.505
  • You wanna be trained in righteousness, you need to get
  • 00:22:37.505 --> 00:22:39.673
  • Into this book more and more and more.
  • 00:22:39.673 --> 00:22:42.977
  • Now let me just close with this.
  • 00:22:42.977 --> 00:22:45.413
  • Studies have shown that appetite is influenced by association.
  • 00:22:45.413 --> 00:22:51.452
  • In other words, who you hang out with has a strong influence on
  • 00:22:51.452 --> 00:22:55.790
  • What you eat.
  • 00:22:55.790 --> 00:22:59.660
  • Associations influence appetite.
  • 00:22:59.660 --> 00:23:02.496
  • You get a bunch of little kids together and have one kid say,
  • 00:23:02.496 --> 00:23:04.465
  • "hey, i'm hungry."
  • 00:23:04.465 --> 00:23:05.800
  • What happens?
  • 00:23:05.800 --> 00:23:07.168
  • Everybody's hungry.
  • 00:23:07.168 --> 00:23:09.603
  • If i said right now, "man, i would like a good in-n-out
  • 00:23:09.603 --> 00:23:12.306
  • Burger," 50% just start salivating.
  • 00:23:12.306 --> 00:23:18.446
  • Association influences your appetite.
  • 00:23:18.446 --> 00:23:23.184
  • So you wanna hang out with people who are hungry for god.
  • 00:23:23.184 --> 00:23:26.287
  • If you hang out with people who are just hungry for politics,
  • 00:23:26.287 --> 00:23:28.456
  • You're gonna become that.
  • 00:23:28.456 --> 00:23:30.424
  • If you're hungry--if you hang out with people who are only
  • 00:23:30.424 --> 00:23:32.059
  • Hungry for sports, that's what you're gonna become.
  • 00:23:32.059 --> 00:23:34.695
  • Here's the last thing, join a small group for support.
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  • Join a small group for support to keep you spiritually hungry.
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  • Proverbs chapter 2, verse 20: "join the company of good men
  • 00:23:44.305 --> 00:23:48.342
  • And women, who will keep you on the path of the righteous."
  • 00:23:48.342 --> 00:23:51.946
  • Let's bow for prayer.
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  • Father, i wanna thank you for each person that's here today.
  • 00:23:55.850 --> 00:24:00.721
  • And i thank you how you satisfy us when we seek you.
  • 00:24:00.721 --> 00:24:05.493
  • Not your blessing, not happiness, not pleasure,
  • 00:24:05.493 --> 00:24:08.562
  • Passion, or possession or any of those other things.
  • 00:24:08.562 --> 00:24:10.764
  • But when we seek you, you said we will be filled.
  • 00:24:10.764 --> 00:24:16.770
  • And so i pray a blessing on every person here this week.
  • 00:24:16.770 --> 00:24:21.041
  • And i pray that this week, that we'll accept by faith what you
  • 00:24:21.041 --> 00:24:25.179
  • Did for us.
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  • That we will remind ourselves how much you love us.
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  • That we'll stop filling up on junk food.
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  • That we'll make knowing you the number one goal of our life.
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  • Help us to get into the word every day.
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  • If we can't read it, to listen to it on the radio or in mp3s
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  • Or whatever.
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  • And help us to have a group that supports us to keep us
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  • Spiritually hungry.
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  • I pray this blessing on every person, in jesus's name, amen.
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  • Pastor rick: today, i wanna invite you to join me in
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  • Something that's very close to my heart, fulfilling the great
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  • Commission of jesus christ.
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  • Sharing the good news is the most important thing we do.
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  • When we work together, there's nothing that god cannot do
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  • Through us when we're unified.
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  • Through "daily hope," the message of jesus christ is now
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  • Reaching nearly every country in the world, that's 197 nations.
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  • We're going to even places where it's difficult or dangerous or
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  • Illegal to talk about christ openly.
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  • We're sharing the certain hope of jesus.
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  • And it's changing lives every single day.
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  • Right now, we have an incredible opportunity.
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  • That's why i'm saying this to you personally.
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  • There's some very generous friends that have offered to
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  • Match every single gift given to
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  • Daily hope, dollar for dollar.
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  • That means whatever you give today is gonna be doubled
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  • In impact.
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  • So i'm asking you, i want to encourage you, to give as god
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  • Leads you today.
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  • And i want you to pray this prayer, "god, what do you want
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  • To give through me?"
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  • Don't say, "god, what should i give?"
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  • Say, "god, what do you want to give through me?"
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  • That's called giving by faith, giving by revelation.
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  • And your gift will go twice as far to share the certain hope of
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  • Jesus christ, and make disciples all around the world.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Male announcer: you know, when you give a gift to daily hope,
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  • You're helping share the hope of jesus with people everywhere.
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  • And right now, your gift will be doubled by the $50,000
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  • Just scan the qr code or go to dailyhopetv.com.
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  • ♪♪♪
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