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Rick Warren - You Are Called To Become (Part 1)

February 8, 2026 | 27:29

Rick Warren - You Are Called To Become (Part 1)
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 - You Are Called To Become (Part 1) | February 8, 2026
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  • Pastor rick warren: now, it's really interesting
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  • As little kids, we often wanna
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  • Become things--let me just ask you, how many of you when you
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  • Were a kid you wanted to be a fireman, a policeman,
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  • Or an astronaut?
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  • Can i see your hands?
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  • Yeah, that's one of the most common.
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  • How many of you, wanted to be a nurse when you were growing up?
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  • Yeah, all right.
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  • How many of you wanted to be barbie?
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  • How--here's the more likely question.
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  • How many of you did not become what you thought you would
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  • Become when you were eight years old?
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  • Yeah, that's universal, pretty universal.
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  • But the bible says god created you not just to be loved and not
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  • Just to belong, but the third calling in life is you are
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  • Called to become.
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  • Now, what is a calling?
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  • We said that's the same thing as a purpose.
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  • God has five purposes for your life.
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  • God has five reasons for creating you.
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  • God has five assignments, five missions, five rationales for
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  • Your life.
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  • They're the callings of god or the purposes of god for
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  • Your life.
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  • The bible uses the word calling at least ten times more often
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  • Than the word purpose when it talks about your life.
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  • Romans 8:28-29 from the bible says this.
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  • "we know that god causes everything to work for the
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  • Good--together for the good of those who love god."
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  • It's not all good,
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  • But "god causes everything to work together for
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  • The good of those who love god and are called"--there's that
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  • Word, "according to his purpose"--there's that word
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  • "for them."
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  • Calling and purpose go together.
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  • Your calling in life is your purpose in life.
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  • "for god knew in his--his people in advance."
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  • Before you were even born, god knew you.
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  • He thought you up, you were his idea, you're not an accident.
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  • "for god knew his people in advance, and he chose them to
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  • Become like his son."
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  • That's talking about jesus.
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  • Why don't you circle that phrase?
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  • "become like his son."
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  • That's your third calling in life.
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  • Once you get into god's family, god wants you to grow up and
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  • Become like your older brother, jesus christ.
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  • "he chose them to become like his son, so that his son"--
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  • Jesus, "would be the firstborn with many brothers and sisters."
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  • All right, i want you to write this down.
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  • My third calling in life is to become like christ.
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  • And what does that mean?
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  • Well, you're not gonna be a god, you're never gonna be a god,
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  • You're not even gonna be a little mini-me god.
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  • God is god and you're not.
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  • That's an antidote to stress when you realize that.
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  • But god wants you to become godly.
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  • In other words, he wants you to take on the characteristics of
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  • His family, like father like son, and the bible says that god
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  • Is loving and god is joyful and god is peaceful and god is
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  • Patient and god is kind.
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  • The bible tells us that god is self-controlled, that god
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  • Is merciful.
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  • These are called the fruit of the spirit.
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  • They're a perfect picture of jesus.
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  • If you're gonna become like jesus, it means to be filled
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  • With love, to be filled with joy, to be filled with peace,
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  • To be filled with patience and all of those other qualities.
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  • Now, five times in the bible it compares becoming like jesus to
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  • Running a race.
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  • It is the race of life.
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  • Life is not a 50 yard dash, it's a marathon, and you're running
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  • This race right now, and the goal is to become the man god
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  • Wants you to be.
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  • The goal is to become the woman god wants you to be.
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  • This is your third calling in life to become what god made you
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  • To become.
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  • And as i said, the bible calls this a race, and the bible talks
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  • About walking the christian walk.
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  • It talks about running the race.
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  • It talks about finishing the course.
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  • And so what i wanna do this weekend is take the five
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  • Different passages of the bible that compare life to a race, and
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  • Compare becoming who god wants you to be to a race and draw out
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  • From them eight principles.
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  • I call this the marathon to maturity.
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  • This is how you get to where god wants you to be in life.
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  • God doesn't want you to stay the same.
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  • He doesn't want you to be in spiritual diapers your
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  • Entire life.
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  • He wants you to grow up and what is full maturity?
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  • Look at jesus and you know that's what god wants you to
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  • Become like.
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  • Now how do i do this?
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  • How do i run the marathon to maturity?
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  • Well, as i look at these five passages, i can summarize them
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  • In eight statements.
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  • You might write these down.
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  • The first step in making it to the end of life and finishing
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  • The course god has for you is first, i must simplify my life.
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  • I must simplify my life.
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  • I have to cut out and clean out and discard all the junk that's
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  • Holding me back from becoming the person god wants me
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  • To become.
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  • You gotta clean out the clutter, you gotta clean out your mind,
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  • You gotta clean out your schedule.
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  • You gotta clean up your relationships.
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  • You gotta get rid of unnecessary baggage.
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  • In other words, you don't run a marathon in a parka.
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  • You don't wear nine layers of clothes.
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  • If you've ever seen somebody running a marathon, they strip
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  • Down to the bare essentials.
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  • A pair of shorts, a t-shirt, and the lightest pair of shoes you
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  • Can find.
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  • You don't wanna be carrying extra baggage through your life.
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  • So really, if you're gonna become the man god wants you to
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  • Be or the woman god wants you to be, first thing you gotta do is
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  • You gotta let go of some stuff.
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  • You gotta let--you gotta eliminate the diversions, the
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  • Distractions, the detours, the dead ends, the time wasters.
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  • Hebrews chapter 12 is one of the books of the bible--chapters
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  • That deals with this metaphor of life is a race.
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  • So we're gonna spend a lot of time in hebrews 12, verse 1 says
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  • This, "let us strip off anything that slows us down or holds
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  • Us back."
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  • Circle that word "anything."
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  • That word in greek is the word "ogkos", and it actually means,
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  • "a weight."
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  • That means something bulky, something--a burden, something
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  • Heavy that holds you back.
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  • "let us strip off anything that slows us down or holds us back,
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  • And especially those sins that wrap themselves so tightly
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  • Around our feet and trip us up," we've all had that.
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  • "let us run with patience the particular race that god has set
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  • Before us."
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  • You have a particular race that god wants you to run in life,
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  • And everybody else has a race that god wants them to run.
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  • Here's the problem, everybody wants you to run their race.
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  • Everybody has a plan for your life.
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  • Your parents wanted you to run the race they wanted you to run.
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  • You may be married to a husband or wife who want you to run the
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  • Race they want you to run.
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  • You may have a boss who wants you to run a race he or she
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  • Wants you to run, but you gotta decide this, whose race am i
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  • Gonna run in life?
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  • I can run my own race.
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  • I can run a race that somebody else wants me to run, or i can
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  • Run the race that god created me to run.
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  • You can't run all three.
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  • I can't do god's plan for my life and my plan at the same
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  • Time, and i can't do your plan for my life and god's plan at
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  • The same time.
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  • So the starting point, if you're gonna win in the race of life,
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  • You gotta decide which race you're gonna run.
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  • The particular race that god has designed for you, then that's
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  • The one you wanna run and say, "god, i'm gonna strip off
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  • Everything, the sins that messed me up.
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  • I do a moral inventory and i get the junk out of my life and
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  • I--and the weights, the things that hold me back, the habits
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  • And the hurts and the hang ups that hold me back, i let go of
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  • Those things and i run the particular race."
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  • Which means you're gonna have to let go of some expectations too,
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  • 'cause you can't please everybody else and please god.
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  • You've gotta decide, did god put me on this earth to please my
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  • Parents, to please my girlfriend, to please my
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  • Teacher, to please my clique, my club, my fans, my peers, my
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  • Parents, my partners, or did god put me on this earth to live for
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  • The plan that he made me for?
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  • And so you have to kind of say, "i'm willing to not just let go
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  • Of sins and i'm not willing--not just willing to let go of
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  • Weights, i'm willing to let go of what everybody else expects
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  • Me to do with my life."
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  • And when you're doing that, then you're saying, god, i'm ready to
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  • Become the woman you made me to be, i'm ready to become the man
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  • You made me to be.
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  • That's the first step, simplify my life.
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  • Step two is in the next verse or the next part of that verse, and
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  • It's this, don't get impatient or in a hurry.
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  • This race is going to take your entire life.
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  • You're not gonna finish it in a week, a month, or even
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  • Next year.
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  • God's plan to make you the person he wants you to be is
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  • A lifetime plan.
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  • It's gonna take your entire life, and you can't run the
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  • Race quickly.
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  • It's not a short 50 yard dash.
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  • It's a marathon.
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  • So you don't get impatient.
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  • You know, when i was growing up as a kid, i actually was a long
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  • Distance runner and pretty quickly you learn your coaches
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  • Teach you that if you're gonna run 10 miles or 15 miles or if
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  • You're gonna run a marathon, you have to pace yourself.
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  • You can't start out really, really fast 'cause if you do,
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  • You'll get winded, you run out of steam, you run out of energy,
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  • You get fatigued, you give up and you don't finish.
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  • You gotta pace yourself.
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  • Now, when you become a christian, you start growing
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  • Really fast, just like babies in the early months, they grow
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  • Enormously fast.
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  • They'll double in size, you know, their first year and
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  • They--but thank god you're not growing as fast as you did your
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  • First year.
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  • Aren't you glad?
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  • You'd look pretty funny.
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  • In fact, you'd probably take up the whole row.
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  • If you grew as fast every year as you did your first year.
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  • Growth slows down, but it's stable and it's secure and over
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  • A period of time god says "i'm not in a hurry to growing you to
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  • Where i want you to grow."
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  • God is in a hurry--not in a hurry; you are, but he's not.
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  • When god wants to make a mushroom, he takes six hours.
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  • When god wants to make an oak tree, he takes 60 years.
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  • Where do you wanna be, a mushroom or an oak tree?
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  • I wanna be solid like an oak tree.
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  • I want my life to be deeply rooted.
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  • I want it to be strong, stable, secure, so that when the rogue
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  • Winds of life and the storms of life buffet me and when i get
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  • Blown over by problems, and pressures, and suffering, and
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  • Sorrow, and scandal, and loss, and all of the financial
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  • Problems that you have in life, whatever it is, it doesn't blow
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  • You over 'cause you're as solid as an oak tree.
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  • I can show you how to become a man of god.
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  • I can teach you how to become a woman of god.
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  • I cannot teach you how to do it quickly.
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  • It's gonna take your entire life.
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  • You spell maturity, t-i-m-e.
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  • Now we get in a hurry, but god's not
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  • In a hurry, so you need to just relax and realize that he's not
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  • Impatient with you.
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  • Champions know how to pace themselves.
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  • Here's the second verse in hebrews chapter 12, verse 1.
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  • Notice that part, it says, "let us run"--like the the race of
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  • Life, "let us run with patience the peculiar or particular race
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  • That god has set out before us."
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  • Circle "with patience."
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  • That's why, you know, each week at the end of every service,
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  • I always give you like one or two baby steps to take.
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  • I usually say take out a card, you know this, and in fact, i
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  • Got one this week and we're gonna look at it later and i'll
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  • Say take out the card, my decision to become, and each
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  • Week i give you one or two baby steps to take.
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  • Why?
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  • 'cause if every week you take one or two baby steps at the end
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  • Of the year, you're much further down the road than you thought
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  • You were gonna be.
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  • Pastor rick: number three, the third key to running the race of
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  • Life god has for you is, i must spend time focusing on jesus
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  • Every day.
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  • I'm gonna spend a little bit of time.
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  • I'm not talking about an hour, two hours, three hours,
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  • Ten hours.
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  • I'm gonna start with five minutes, ten minutes,
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  • 15 minutes.
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  • Spend some time focusing on jesus every day.
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  • That's what the next verse said about about this race in life.
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  • Now, why do i need to spend some time focusing my thoughts,
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  • My mind on jesus?
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  • Because whatever you wanna become, you need to think
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  • About it.
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  • If you wanna become like jesus, you need to think about it, and
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  • If you wanna be like somebody, you become like whoever you
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  • Spend the most time with.
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  • If you hang out with people who have no ambition, you're gonna
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  • Have no ambition.
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  • If you hang out with people who are critical, you're gonna
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  • Become critical.
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  • Whoever you spend the most time with is who you're going to
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  • Become like.
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  • It's like that old cliché, you can't soar with the eagles if
  • 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:53.208
  • You're running with the turkeys.
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  • So maybe there's some relationships you need to
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  • Kinda--you know, not spend so much time with those people
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  • 'cause they're tearing you down, they're taking you down, but if
  • 00:15:01.750 --> 00:15:04.687
  • You spend time with jesus, 5, 10, 15 minutes a day, then you
  • 00:15:04.687 --> 00:15:09.825
  • Become more and more like him and we call this a quiet time.
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  • A quiet time is--i don't care when you do it, you just--best
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  • Time i think it's in the morning, get up and you go find
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  • Your favorite chair and you sit down in it and you spend some
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  • Time and you read the bible for five minutes and then you talk
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  • To god about the stuff that's on your heart.
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  • God, here's the stuff i'm worried about.
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  • Lord, here's the stuff i'm concerned about.
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  • Here's my schedule today.
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  • I'm really stressed.
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  • I need your help, and then you be quiet and you let god talk to
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  • You and you say, "god, is there anything you wanna say to me?"
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  • And you be quiet.
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  • The reason why god's never talked to you is you've
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  • Never been quiet long enough.
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  • You always got the radio on and you gotta just sit there and be
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  • Quiet and god--sometimes god will put a thought in my mind
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  • And sometimes he's like, everything's a-okay, go on with
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  • Your life, and we--and you move on.
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  • God doesn't have to speak aloud to me.
  • 00:16:00.142 --> 00:16:02.478
  • He's the one who created radio waves and television waves.
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  • He can put a thought immediately in my mind.
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  • We call it inspiration.
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  • The devil gives you a thought, that's temptation.
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  • God gives you a thought, that's inspiration.
  • 00:16:11.487 --> 00:16:13.288
  • You get a thought, that's stupidity, just kidding.
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  • You gotta spend some time focusing on jesus every day.
  • 00:16:19.128 --> 00:16:22.931
  • Here's what the bible says, hebrews 12, verse 2: "we do
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  • This--in other words, run the race of life "by keeping our
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  • Eyes on jesus"--that's focusing on him every day, on whom our
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  • Faith depends from start"--that's the beginning of
  • 00:16:35.811 --> 00:16:39.181
  • Your race in life, to finish"-- the end of your race in life.
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  • You cannot become like jesus unless you spend time
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  • With jesus.
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  • Now, let me give you a little tip, 'cause some of you have had
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  • This habit in your life where you would have what's called a
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  • Quiet time, and every day you'd sit down for five minutes or ten
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  • Minutes and just kinda center yourself, and you get quiet, you
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  • Read the bible, you pray, and then you go on with your life.
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  • Maybe review your schedule for that day and say, lord, is there
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  • Anything you need to change in this?
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  • But you've stopped it and then you started it and then you
  • 00:17:06.341 --> 00:17:08.777
  • Stopped it and you started, so let me give you a little tip.
  • 00:17:08.777 --> 00:17:12.081
  • Find a special place that that's where you meet with god every
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  • Day and make that your special place that when you go there,
  • 00:17:15.951 --> 00:17:20.389
  • I'm gonna go spend 15 minutes with god just being quiet,
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  • Thinking, meditating, looking at god's word, praying.
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  • I don't care.
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  • Again, it might be a la-z-boy chair in your living room, and
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  • You get a cup of coffee and sit down, sit back and get
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  • Comfortable, or you go out in your backyard if you're an
  • 00:17:35.070 --> 00:17:37.372
  • Outdoor person and you look outside and hear the birds and
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  • Sit under a tree or, you know, you might go--you just need to
  • 00:17:41.210 --> 00:17:44.713
  • Go where you can be alone, where you can pray aloud.
  • 00:17:44.713 --> 00:17:47.282
  • I highly recommend you pray aloud, 'cause when you
  • 00:17:47.282 --> 00:17:49.985
  • Pray--when i pray, when i close my eyes, i go to sleep.
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  • So when i talk to god, i don't close my eyes and i don't just
  • 00:17:54.289 --> 00:17:58.160
  • Think, close my eyes and talk like this, i'd fall asleep.
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  • I talk aloud to god.
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  • I like to have a conversation. you should do that too.
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  • So you don't wanna be sitting in starbucks
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  • Going, "now god, let me tell you about--"
  • 00:18:06.268 --> 00:18:09.271
  • I wouldn't recommend starbucks to be the place.
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  • I talked to a guy at the last service.
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  • He said, "my favorite place for my quiet time is sitting on
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  • The toilet."
  • 00:18:14.943 --> 00:18:16.812
  • I said, "excuse me?"
  • 00:18:16.812 --> 00:18:18.180
  • He said, "the bathroom is the only place that's quiet in
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  • My house.
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  • I got a lot of little kids."
  • 00:18:21.617 --> 00:18:22.951
  • Fine, okay, whatever floats your boat.
  • 00:18:22.951 --> 00:18:27.022
  • You find the spot that becomes special and sacred.
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  • Did you know that this was jesus's habit?
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  • Jesus liked to go to a standard place where he could talk to
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  • The father.
  • 00:18:35.964 --> 00:18:37.766
  • For god the father, notice this verse up here on the screen,
  • 00:18:37.766 --> 00:18:40.169
  • Luke 22 says this, "jesus went out as usual to the mount of
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  • Olives to pray."
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  • Now notice as he went out as usual, that means it was
  • 00:18:47.309 --> 00:18:49.578
  • His habit.
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  • It was his custom.
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  • He liked to go--i've been to this garden on the mount of
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  • Olives where there's a grove of olive trees.
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  • He liked to go there and that's where he would have his
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  • Quiet time.
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  • You need to choose a special place where you meet god
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  • Every day.
  • 00:19:06.562 --> 00:19:08.163
  • Now here's the thing, the more time you spend with god,
  • 00:19:08.163 --> 00:19:11.300
  • The more you're gonna become like him.
  • 00:19:11.300 --> 00:19:13.001
  • The more time you spend reading the bible and studying about
  • 00:19:13.001 --> 00:19:16.038
  • Jesus, the more you're gonna learn his love, his patience,
  • 00:19:16.038 --> 00:19:19.274
  • His peace, his character in your life.
  • 00:19:19.274 --> 00:19:22.978
  • 2 corinthians 3, says, "all of us have had that veil
  • 00:19:22.978 --> 00:19:26.448
  • Removed--we--you know, we don't have to wear a veil, so that we
  • 00:19:26.448 --> 00:19:29.251
  • Can be mirrors that brightly reflect the glory of the lord.
  • 00:19:29.251 --> 00:19:36.124
  • And as the spirit of the lord works within us"--as god's
  • 00:19:36.124 --> 00:19:42.064
  • Spirit works within you day after day, "we become"--there's
  • 00:19:42.064 --> 00:19:45.701
  • That word, third calling, "we become more and more like him
  • 00:19:45.701 --> 00:19:54.576
  • And reflect his glory even more."
  • 00:19:54.576 --> 00:19:56.578
  • Now i want you to circle a couple things.
  • 00:19:56.578 --> 00:19:57.980
  • First, circle the phrase "more and more."
  • 00:19:57.980 --> 00:20:00.148
  • That means that in this race to maturity, to become a woman of
  • 00:20:00.148 --> 00:20:04.586
  • God, to become a man of god, to become the person that god made
  • 00:20:04.586 --> 00:20:09.858
  • You to be, not what your parents want you to be, but what god
  • 00:20:09.858 --> 00:20:11.927
  • Wanted you to be, it takes time, it's more and more.
  • 00:20:11.927 --> 00:20:15.097
  • In other words, it's sequential, it is systematic, it is daily,
  • 00:20:15.097 --> 00:20:20.102
  • It's one step at a time, it's a process.
  • 00:20:20.102 --> 00:20:22.404
  • Becoming implies that it doesn't happen instantly.
  • 00:20:22.404 --> 00:20:25.707
  • You see, all of us, what we want is a quick fix in our life.
  • 00:20:25.707 --> 00:20:30.312
  • We want one thing that'll take away all of our problems and all
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  • Of our hang ups and all of our fears instantly.
  • 00:20:33.515 --> 00:20:36.018
  • So we go around looking for that one book to read that'll change
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  • My life, that one message to listen to on a cd that'll change
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  • My life.
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  • We wanna take a pill, find the magic bullet, have an experience
  • 00:20:46.528 --> 00:20:50.265
  • And boom!
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  • It's just gonna instantly transform me and all of
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  • A sudden, i love everybody.
  • 00:20:53.335 --> 00:20:56.872
  • Nobody makes me impatient anymore.
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  • I'm just cool, copacetic, and i get--i'm just, i'm like jesus.
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  • It ain't going to happen.
  • 00:21:05.514 --> 00:21:06.915
  • It doesn't happen that way.
  • 00:21:06.915 --> 00:21:08.250
  • There is no--there's instant mashed potatoes okay?
  • 00:21:08.250 --> 00:21:13.922
  • There's instant coffee.
  • 00:21:13.922 --> 00:21:15.957
  • There is no instant spiritual maturity.
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  • It just doesn't happen.
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  • It takes time, one step at a time, and god, as i said, is
  • 00:21:21.196 --> 00:21:25.667
  • Never in a hurry.
  • 00:21:25.667 --> 00:21:27.536
  • So as i spend time focusing on jesus every day, it says, "we
  • 00:21:27.536 --> 00:21:32.007
  • Become more and more like him," and then it says, "we reflect
  • 00:21:32.007 --> 00:21:37.279
  • His glory."
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  • Circle that word "reflect."
  • 00:21:38.647 --> 00:21:39.981
  • If you spend time with god, you're gonna start reflecting
  • 00:21:39.981 --> 00:21:43.819
  • The qualities of god, his love, his joy, his peace,
  • 00:21:43.819 --> 00:21:47.322
  • His patience.
  • 00:21:47.322 --> 00:21:48.724
  • This reflection is actually has a biological basis in
  • 00:21:48.724 --> 00:21:53.328
  • Your brain.
  • 00:21:53.328 --> 00:21:54.830
  • Scientists have discovered that inside your brain you have what
  • 00:21:54.830 --> 00:21:58.467
  • Are called mirror neurons.
  • 00:21:58.467 --> 00:22:01.970
  • A lot of study being done on this right now, mirror neurons,
  • 00:22:01.970 --> 00:22:05.474
  • And what the mirror neurons do is they allow you to feel what
  • 00:22:05.474 --> 00:22:09.678
  • Other people feel when you look at them.
  • 00:22:09.678 --> 00:22:12.748
  • It's why you're able to empathize and sympathize
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  • With people.
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  • And so for instance, if i were to yawn right now, half the
  • 00:22:16.518 --> 00:22:19.488
  • Church would start yawning.
  • 00:22:19.488 --> 00:22:21.556
  • In fact, me just saying the word yawn makes some of you want to
  • 00:22:21.556 --> 00:22:25.026
  • Yawn, and your mirror neurons are firing.
  • 00:22:25.026 --> 00:22:29.731
  • That's why when you go to a movie and you see somebody in
  • 00:22:29.731 --> 00:22:32.567
  • A scary situation, your body gets scared.
  • 00:22:32.567 --> 00:22:36.037
  • The mirror neurons are firing in your body, and when you see
  • 00:22:36.037 --> 00:22:39.174
  • Somebody win a game and they're celebrating, you feel that
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  • Same joy.
  • 00:22:43.912 --> 00:22:45.247
  • You didn't even play the game, but you felt it because your
  • 00:22:45.247 --> 00:22:47.616
  • Mirror neurons are enjoying the win that that guy just had.
  • 00:22:47.616 --> 00:22:51.820
  • It allows you to identify and when somebody's sad,
  • 00:22:51.820 --> 00:22:54.790
  • You feel sad.
  • 00:22:54.790 --> 00:22:56.324
  • And if you're watching a movie and somebody gets kissed, you
  • 00:22:56.324 --> 00:22:59.361
  • Feel that you feel good, you feel what's it's like to feel
  • 00:22:59.361 --> 00:23:02.664
  • Loved, to feel cherished, to feel embraced.
  • 00:23:02.664 --> 00:23:06.668
  • Those are your mirror neurons at work.
  • 00:23:06.668 --> 00:23:10.439
  • When you spend time with god and you focus on him, your mirror
  • 00:23:10.439 --> 00:23:14.476
  • Neurons begin to reflect god's love, god's qualities in
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  • Your life.
  • 00:23:19.881 --> 00:23:21.249
  • You tend to see things the way he sees it, and you become more
  • 00:23:21.249 --> 00:23:24.319
  • And more like him.
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  • All right, number four, the fourth thing on the steps of
  • 00:23:25.921 --> 00:23:29.858
  • Finishing the race of life is this, when it gets hard,
  • 00:23:29.858 --> 00:23:34.796
  • Remember the reward.
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  • When life gets hard you need to remember the reward.
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  • Now, as i said, this goal for god to make you the man he wants
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  • You to be, for god to make you the woman he wants you to
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  • Become, it's a lifetime process.
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  • It's not a 50 yard dash, and so you're gonna go through a lot of
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  • Problems, and pressures, and trials, and difficulties, and
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  • Ups and downs, and god's gonna use it all to make you more
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  • Like jesus.
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  • Now, since god's number one goal is to make you like christ,
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  • That's what he wants you.
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  • He wants you to be loved, he wants you to belong, and he
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  • Wants you to become like christ, then it means god is gonna take
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  • You--listen very closely.
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  • If god's gonna make you like jesus, he's gonna take you
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  • Through everything jesus went through.
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  • Were there times when jesus was lonely?
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  • Yes.
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  • Were there times when jesus was criticized?
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  • Yes.
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  • Times when jesus was betrayed?
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  • Yes.
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  • Were there times when jesus was worn out with fatigue and yet
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  • Had to keep going?
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  • Yes.
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  • Were there times when he was misunderstood?
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  • Yes.
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  • And if god did not spare his own son those things, why do you
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  • Think he would spare you?
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  • He won't.
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  • The next time you start to ask why is this happening to me,
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  • You need to realize god wants to use it to build your attitude,
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  • To build your character.
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  • God wants to use it to make you like christ, and instead of
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  • Asking why?
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  • You need to say, what?
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  • What do you want me to learn from this situation?
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  • The bible says jesus learned obedience through suffering.
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  • The bible says jesus was made complete through suffering.
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  • You're gonna learn them the same way.
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  • So you shouldn't be surprised when problems come into your
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  • Life, 'cause this isn't the easy stage.
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  • That happens in eternity.
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  • In eternity, no more sorrow, no more suffering, no more sadness,
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  • No more problems, no more difficulties.
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  • But right now, you're gonna have all kinds of problems.
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  • Because this is where you do the character development, where
  • 00:25:36.251 --> 00:25:39.220
  • You're growing and you're becoming, and when life gets
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  • Hard, you need to remember the rewards.
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  • Problems are part of the process.
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