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Rick Warren - You Are Called To Belong (Part 2)

February 1, 2026 | 27:29

Rick Warren - You Are Called To Belong (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 - You Are Called To Belong (Part 2) | February 1, 2026
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Pastor rick warren: you belong to god's family.
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  • That is the second calling or purpose or reason or mission of
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  • Your life.
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  • First, to know god, who loves you dearly, but second is to be
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  • A part of his family.
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  • And that family is called the church.
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  • Romans 1:6 says, "you are among those who have been called to
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  • Belong to jesus christ."
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  • Called to belong, that's what we're looking at this weekend.
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  • You are called to belong to jesus christ.
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  • God designed his family, the church, to meet your five
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  • Deepest needs.
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  • In fact, the church is the only thing that can meet your five
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  • Deepest needs.
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  • In the bible, the church is often referred to by a
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  • Different metaphor.
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  • The church is called a family, the church is called a temple,
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  • The church is called a body, the church is called a flock, and
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  • The church is called a garden.
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  • Each one of these have profound implications for your life.
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  • And if you understand the five meanings of these five
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  • Metaphors, you will understand how the church was designed,
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  • God's family was designed to meet your deepest needs in life.
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  • Ephesians 4:25, "in christ's body, we're all connected to
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  • Each other," and a disconnected part dies.
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  • Now, let me give you a fourth metaphor.
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  • The fourth description of the church in the bible is a flock.
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  • It is a flock, like a flock of sheep.
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  • We're god's family, we learn our identity.
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  • We're in god's temple, we're supported by each other.
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  • We're christ's body, we discover our own unique value.
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  • And in god's flock, we're banded together.
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  • Look up here on the screen, psalm 100:3 says this, "god made
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  • Us and we are his--we are his people,
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  • The sheep of his pasture."
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  • Now, probably, i imagine what you're thinking, you're saying,
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  • "i'm a sheep in a flock, that doesn't sound too appealing."
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  • I mean, because we live in suburbia, you've never seen
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  • A sheep.
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  • And you have no idea how well cared sheep are taken care of,
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  • Because sheep are pretty innocent animals.
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  • They have no natural defense against predators, so they have
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  • To be protected by shepherds.
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  • You don't have to care for cows like you care for sheep.
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  • You don't have to care for horses or even chickens like you
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  • Have to care for sheep, because sheep are pretty dependent.
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  • And let me read to you what it means to be a sheep from psalm
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  • 23, the most famous psalm, most famous chapter in the bible,
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  • "because," this is from the living bible, "because the lord
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  • Is my shepherd, i have everything that i need!"
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  • Now i'm interested in being a sheep.
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  • If god's my shepherd, then i have everything i need.
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  • "he lets me rest in meadow grass and he leads me beside
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  • Quiet streams.
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  • He gives me new strength.
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  • He helps me to do what honors him the most.
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  • And even when i'm walking through dark valley of death i
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  • Won't be afraid, because you, lord, my shepherd, are close
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  • Beside me, guiding, guarding all the way.
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  • You provide delicious food for me in the presence of
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  • My enemies.
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  • And you welcome me as your guest; blessings overflow!
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  • Your goodness and unfailing kindness shall be with me all of
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  • My life, and afterwards i will live with you forever in
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  • Your home."
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  • Now i wanna be a sheep, okay?
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  • Now we're talking.
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  • Let me read you what jesus said about shepherds and flocks and
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  • Sheep in john 10, "i am the good shepherd.
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  • And the good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep.
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  • A hired hand runs away because he cares nothing for the sheep,"
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  • Like when the wolves come, "but i'm the good shepherd; and i
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  • Know my sheep and my sheep know me, and i lay down my life for
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  • My sheep.
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  • They listen to my voice, and they follow me.
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  • And i give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and
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  • No one will ever be able to snatch my sheep out of my hand."
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  • Now i want to be a sheep.
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  • So, flock is a good term.
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  • I'm god's temple, i'm god's body, christ's body, i'm god's
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  • Family, i'm god's building, and i'm in god's flock.
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  • And why did god choose a flock of sheep as an illustration of
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  • What the church is like?
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  • Write this down: because in god's flock, i'm protected and
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  • I'm cared for.
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  • I'm protected and i'm cared for.
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  • I'm not on my own.
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  • I have other people looking out for me.
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  • I enjoy safety and security 'cause i've got a shepherd, and
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  • That makes me more confident, and that makes me less anxious,
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  • And it makes me less fearful.
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  • And i know that god is protecting me because i'm in
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  • His flock.
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  • Now, when is that important?
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  • When i'm being beat up in the business world, when my family
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  • Or my marriage is being strained to the breaking point, when i'm
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  • Facing a personal crisis or a terminal illness,
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  • I need to know that somebody's protecting and caring for me.
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  • Now, not just god cares and protects for you.
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  • In the flock of god, we help each other.
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  • And what you need in your life is you need some people who will
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  • Step up to bat for you when you need them.
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  • You need some people who walk into your life when everybody
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  • Else walks out of your life.
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  • Do you have anybody like that?
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  • That's what the church is for.
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  • We're to walk into each other's life when everybody else
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  • Walks out.
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  • That's what it means to be in the flock of god.
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  • Now, you need people who will step up for you.
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  • And in the flock of god, god has created two kinds of people who
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  • Are caregivers, two kinds of people who will step up for you,
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  • Two kinds of people who will look out for you.
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  • The first is pastors.
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  • My pastors look out for me or watch out for me when i'm in a
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  • Part of the flock of god.
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  • You know what the word pastor means?
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  • It's the greek word for shepherd.
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  • That's what it means.
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  • Poimen, a pastor is a shepherd, a shepherd is a pastor.
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  • Pastors are to shepherd the flock of god.
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  • In fact, you wanna know my job description?
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  • Look at this.
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  • On your outline, 1 peter 5:2, this is god's word to pastors,
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  • To shepherds, "take care of god's flock, his people, that
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  • You are responsible for.
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  • Watch over them because you want to, not because you're
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  • Forced to."
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  • I'm to take care of god's flock.
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  • I'm the shepherd, i'm to be responsible, i'm to watch
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  • Over you.
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  • Let me show you another verse.
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  • Look up here on the screen.
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  • Hebrews 13:17 says this, "obey your spiritual leaders, and do
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  • What they say.
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  • Their work is to watch over your souls, and they know they are
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  • Accountable to god."
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  • Now, i'll be honest with you guys, that to me is the scariest
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  • Verse in the bible.
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  • It scares me to death.
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  • Not the part about, "obey your spiritual leaders and do what
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  • They say."
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  • The part that scares me is, "they watch over your souls, and
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  • They know they are accountable to god."
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  • That scares me to death.
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  • Let me just share with you heart to heart here for a minute.
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  • The bible says that if you choose to put yourself under my
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  • Care as the shepherd of saddleback church, and you join
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  • This flock, and you say, "this is gonna be my family, this is
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  • Gonna be my flock, this is where i'm gonna serve the body of
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  • Christ, this is the temple that i'm gonna be built into and
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  • Sharing with," that if you put yourself under my care, that one
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  • Day i am gonna give an account to god for how well i helped you
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  • Grow spiritually, and that scares me to death.
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  • One day, i'm gonna give an account to god.
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  • Me, rick warren, will personally give an account to god for how
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  • Well i took care of your soul.
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  • And you guys, i'm not that smart.
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  • And if you joined this church, i beg you, beg you to pray for me
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  • 'cause i'm--i don't think anybody's smart enough to pastor
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  • A church this size.
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  • I couldn't possibly care for everybody's needs, much less
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  • Know everybody's needs.
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  • And yet the bible says one day, i will give an account for the
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  • Direction that i led this flock.
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  • And i take that very, very seriously.
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  • It drives me to my knees every single day.
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  • And i am praying for you and your spiritual care, and i beg
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  • You to pray for me 'cause as i said, i'm just not smart enough
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  • To do that.
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  • I need your help.
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  • And i am concerned that i lead you in the right direction.
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  • I would rather stick a knife in my heart than lead you in the
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  • Wrong way.
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  • This is the family of god.
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  • This is the flock of god.
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  • This is not like some business where you just mess it up.
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  • You just go start another one.
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  • Eternity is in the balance here, heaven and hell.
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  • It's extremely important.
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  • And but sometimes the burden is crushing to me.
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  • The bible says i will give an account to god one day.
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  • And so, i take that serious, that i wanna make sure that
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  • You're safe, that i protect you from false doctrine and cults
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  • And wolves and false ideologies and things like that, and lead
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  • You in the right way because i'm accountable to god.
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  • But not only do we have pastors to help us in the flock of god,
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  • We have our small groups.
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  • And 58 times in the bible, the phrase "one another" is used.
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  • And the bible says that the sheep take care of each other.
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  • Sheep care for sheep, not just shepherds.
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  • And the bible uses the phrase "one another."
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  • It says love one another, care for one another, help one
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  • Another, encourage one another, support one another, pray for
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  • One another, love one another, greet one another.
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  • 58 times we are to do this, and the only way you can do that is
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  • In a small group.
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  • That's why if you're in a small--not in a small group,
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  • You're not really connected because you can't do those one
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  • Another's in a crowd of several thousand people.
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  • You could only do it in a group of four or six or seven
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  • Or whatever.
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  • Here's what the bible says, galatians 6:2, "share each
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  • Other's troubles and problems, and in this way," in other
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  • Words, when we share each other's troubles and problems,
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  • "in this way you obey the law of christ."
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  • What is the law of christ?
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  • Love your neighbor as yourself.
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  • And when you're in a small group and you pray for somebody who's
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  • Just gone through a tough time, somebody just says, "you know,
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  • This week was terrible.
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  • This happened, this happened, this happened," and you stop and
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  • You pray for them, and you encourage them, you give them a
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  • Pat on the back, you give them a warm encouraging word.
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  • You have just done the one another's.
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  • You have just shepherded the flock yourself.
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  • You have been a part of the family of god, you've been a
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  • Part of the body of christ, you've been a part of the temple
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  • Of god, you've been a part of the flock of god.
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  • And there has been protection and care.
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  • 1 thessalonians 5:11 says, "encourage each other and give
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  • Each other strength.
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  • " you get strength, i get strength, but when we encourage
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  • Each other in small groups.
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  • So, here's my question.
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  • Who's looking out for you?
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  • Here's another question, who are you looking out for?
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  • Can you name three or four specific people you go, "these
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  • Are people in our flock, in our family, in our small group, in
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  • Our body of christ that i'm looking out for, and they're
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  • Looking out for me"?
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  • That's what it means to be a christian.
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  • That's what it means to be a part of the family of god.
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  • That's what it means that i'm not just called to be loved, i
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  • Am called by god to belong.
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  • And one day you'll stand before god and he'll say, "did you do
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  • That one?
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  • Did you do the belonging part-- that i called you to be a part
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  • Of my family, a part of my flock, a part of my temple, you
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  • Know, a part of my body?
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  • Did you do those things?'
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  • But here's the cool thing, all the stuff that you're most
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  • Embarrassed about in the world, god uses it for good in
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  • The church.
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  • The very thing you're most embarrassed about, your habits,
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  • Your hurts, your hangups, your sins, your mistakes, your
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  • Weaknesses, god says, "you know what, in my family, i'm gonna
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  • Use those to encourage other people."
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  • So, the stuff you want to keep a secret from everybody else in
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  • The world, you get to tell everybody here because it'll
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  • Encourage them.
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  • Who could better help somebody who's on the verge of a divorce
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  • Than somebody who's been on the verge of a divorce?
  • 00:13:40.202 --> 00:13:42.705
  • "been there, done that.
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  • Let me tell you what's going on."
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  • Who could better help somebody who's struggling with an
  • 00:13:45.407 --> 00:13:47.643
  • Addiction than somebody who's had an addiction?
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  • Who could better help somebody who's been molested than
  • 00:13:51.146 --> 00:13:53.215
  • Somebody who's been molested?
  • 00:13:53.215 --> 00:13:55.184
  • Who could better help somebody who's gone through a bankruptcy,
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  • Or has lost a child, or anything good, bad, sinful?
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  • God says, "i can use it all."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Announcer: hey, would you like to go deeper with pastor rick to
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  • Our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and
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  • As our way of saying thanks.
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  • Pastor rick: now, the final description that i want us to
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  • Look at this weekend of the church is the church is called
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  • A garden.
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  • A garden, specifically a vineyard, and this is an organic
  • 00:15:27.509 --> 00:15:31.313
  • Metaphor that has to do with how being a part of a church family
  • 00:15:31.313 --> 00:15:35.351
  • Helps you grow like fruit in a garden, like grapes on a vine.
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  • On the screen, the bible says in john 15, jesus said, "i am the
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  • True vine, and my father is the gardener, and you are
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  • The branches."
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  • Now, what's the lesson we get out of this?
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  • The lesson we get out of the fact that the church is like a
  • 00:15:54.336 --> 00:15:56.739
  • Garden where jesus says, you know, "i'm the vine and you're
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  • The branches," you know, i actually grow a bunch of
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  • Different kinds of grapes, and i could bring in you some grape
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  • Vines, and i could bring them in, they're all cut up, but if
  • 00:16:07.216 --> 00:16:10.452
  • They're disconnected, they don't bear any fruit at all.
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  • This is talking about being fruitful.
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  • Your life needs to be productive.
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  • You need to make a difference with your life.
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  • Everybody wants to end their life feeling like, "i didn't
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  • Just waste my life, i was productive with my life.
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  • I did something with life.
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  • I made my life count."
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  • And this is the fifth thing that we learned, that in god's
  • 00:16:30.506 --> 00:16:33.042
  • Garden, my life becomes productive, it becomes fruitful.
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  • I do something with my life because now i'm connected to the
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  • Vine and there's life-giving--life flowing
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  • Through those vines and those branches, so i'm able to
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  • Bear fruit.
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  • If i'm disconnected, there's no way i'm going to bear fruit.
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  • I can cut off a branch of an apple tree, it will never in a
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  • Million years grow any apples.
  • 00:16:54.763 --> 00:16:56.665
  • It only grows apples as it's connected to the tree.
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  • The bible says in john 14:15, excuse me, 4 and 5, "a branch
  • 00:17:01.070 --> 00:17:06.975
  • Cannot bear fruit if it's severed from the vine, and you
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  • Cannot be fruitful apart from me."
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  • Jesus says, "i am the vine and you are the branches.
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  • Those who remain in me, and i in them, will produce much fruit."
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  • Circle, "much fruit."
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  • That's called productivity.
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  • "but apart from me you can do nothing."
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  • The point is, a disconnected branch can't bear fruit.
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  • God has all kinds of fruit he wants to bear in your life, but
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  • You can't do it.
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  • None of the fruit that god has for your life will happen unless
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  • You're connected to the church, unless you're connected to
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  • The vine, you're built into the building,
  • 00:17:48.250 --> 00:17:52.554
  • You're a part of the body, you're a member of the family,
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  • You're a sheep in the flock.
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  • All these connection metaphors say nothing happens that god
  • 00:17:57.926 --> 00:18:02.331
  • Intends for your life, your purpose.
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  • That's why your calling, your second calling is to belong, to
  • 00:18:04.733 --> 00:18:09.171
  • Get connected.
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  • You have five basic needs in your life.
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  • You have a need to know your identity, who am i really?
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  • You have a need to develop stability so you don't get blown
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  • Away by the tough things in life.
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  • You have a need to increase your capacity.
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  • You have a need to have security in your life, and you have a
  • 00:18:27.956 --> 00:18:33.862
  • Need for productivity.
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  • All five of these things are found in god's family.
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  • In god's family, i learn my identity.
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  • In christ's body, i discover my unique value, my capacity.
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  • In god's temple, i learn how to support others and be supported
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  • By others and have that stability.
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  • In god's flock, i come together for protection and
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  • Care, security.
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  • And in the vine, in the garden, i learn
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  • Productivity, fruitfulness.
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  • Let me say it another way.
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  • In your life, if you're gonna really live the life god made
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  • You to live, you need power to live on, you need people to live
  • 00:19:10.732 --> 00:19:16.038
  • With, you need principles to live by, you need a plan to live
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  • Out, and you need a purpose to live for.
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  • Where are you going to get that outside of the church?
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  • Nowhere!
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  • Nowhere in the world will you find those five things anywhere
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  • Else except in the plan of god, who created the whole thing and
  • 00:19:32.888 --> 00:19:37.192
  • Designed his family, the church, to answer your deepest needs.
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  • So, here's my one question.
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  • Why should you remain disconnected when a church like
  • 00:19:44.266 --> 00:19:47.436
  • This has so much to offer?
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  • People who say, "well, i love jesus, but i don't love
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  • The church.
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  • I don't need the church."
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  • That's the stupidest thing you can say.
  • 00:19:56.812 --> 00:19:58.914
  • The church was designed to meet your deepest needs.
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  • You cannot be what god put you on this earth to be without
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  • Being connected.
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  • We're better together, we grow together, and god says it four
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  • Or five different ways.
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  • The church is the hope of the world.
  • 00:20:13.528 --> 00:20:16.598
  • America is not the hope of the world.
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  • Politics is not the hope of the world.
  • 00:20:18.800 --> 00:20:21.069
  • Economics is not the hope of the world.
  • 00:20:21.069 --> 00:20:23.372
  • Education is not the hope of the world.
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  • If any of those things would work, we would have already
  • 00:20:25.307 --> 00:20:27.776
  • Turned the thing around.
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  • The hope of the world is the spread of god's good news so
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  • That lives are changed and hearts are changed, and families
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  • And marriages are saved.
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  • And the only thing that's gonna last is the church of god.
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  • So, i highly recommend you invest the rest of your life in
  • 00:20:41.523 --> 00:20:45.160
  • That which is gonna outlast it.
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  • Nothing else will.
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  • Let me close with this verse on the screen.
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  • Ephesians 3:21, "glory belongs to god in the church and in
  • 00:20:51.333 --> 00:20:58.573
  • Jesus christ for all time and eternity."
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  • Now notice, the bible says two things bring glory to god, the
  • 00:21:02.511 --> 00:21:05.380
  • Church and jesus christ.
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  • Jesus christ is the son of god, the church is the family of god,
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  • And those two things bring glory to god.
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  • Don't you ever put the church down again.
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  • It's god's bride, it's god's family, it's god's flock, and
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  • It's god's purpose for your life.
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  • You're called to belong.
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  • Let's bow our heads...
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  • Lord, i thank you that even with all of our faults and weaknesses
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  • And all of the many sins, in your family, you love your
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  • Family, the church.
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  • Of course, it's gonna be imperfect.
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  • It's filled with imperfect people, but you love it.
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  • And, jesus, i thank you that you're not ashamed to call us
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  • Your brothers and sisters.
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  • And so, we--may we never be ashamed of your church.
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  • It's your family.
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  • Lord, you said in the word, christ died for the church.
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  • And i pray that we would have that same attitude, that the
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  • Attitude of our brothers and sisters--
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  • You've said, we know what love is that we lay down our lives
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  • For our brothers and sisters.
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  • May we realize we're not just friends, we're not just
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  • Attenders, we're family.
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  • May we stick up for each other, may we support each other, may
  • 00:22:23.625 --> 00:22:26.294
  • We care for each other, and may the world look at saddleback
  • 00:22:26.294 --> 00:22:29.264
  • Church and say, "those guys really love.
  • 00:22:29.264 --> 00:22:32.300
  • They really laugh."
  • 00:22:32.300 --> 00:22:36.104
  • If you haven't stepped across the line and invited jesus
  • 00:22:36.104 --> 00:22:38.673
  • Christ in your life, say, "jesus christ, come into my life
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  • Right now.
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  • Come into my life and change me and save me.
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  • I wanna be a part of your family and i want to accept your call
  • 00:22:47.749 --> 00:22:53.021
  • To be loved and i want to accept your call to belong.
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  • In your name i pray, amen."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Pastor rick: friends, if you're having trouble staying
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  • Consistent in your bible study and quiet time, one thing you
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  • Can do is have the "daily hope" devotional and podcast emailed
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  • To you every single day.
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  • Did you know that?
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  • Now, each devotional, each daily devotional gives you a bible
  • 00:23:26.354 --> 00:23:29.391
  • Verse and both a written and an audio teaching about that verse.
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  • Now, i mention this because that's exactly what one of my
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  • Listeners has done.
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  • Marla wrote me and she says that getting "daily hope" devotionals
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  • Have helped deepen her relationship with the lord and
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  • Marla writes this, "hello, pastor rick.
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  • I've been a christian all my life, but i felt lost for the
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  • Past few years.
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  • But a friend of mine told me about your "daily hope" emails,
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  • And i've been getting them for about a month now.
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  • I read them every morning and my meditation and prayer practices
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  • Have become more regular and definitely more meaningful.
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  • My relationship to god has grown because of you and the "daily
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  • Hope" ministry.
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  • I now listen to your podcast every day on my way to or from
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  • Work, and i love it.
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  • They have really helped me as a mother, as a wife, as a boss,
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  • And as a friend.
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  • So, i'm gonna share them with my oldest daughter who's 19.
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  • She's trying to find friends and find her way in college.
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  • So, thank you, thank you, thank you."
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  • Well, thank you, marla.
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  • Thank you for writing.
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  • I'm so encouraged to hear how god uses "daily hope" to change
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  • Lives and help people just like you grow closer to him.
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  • You know, i think it's great that you are sharing your "daily
  • 00:24:48.470 --> 00:24:51.873
  • Hope" podcast with your daughter.
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  • And i would invite all of our listeners to do this.
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  • I have no doubt that she is gonna learn to lean on the lord.
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  • And as she does that, she'll develop biblical discernment.
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  • That means knowing which way to go and who to relate to, and
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  • It's going to help her find her way in college.
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  • Now, you'll find the "daily hope" podcast on my
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  • Announcer: hey, would you like to go deeper with pastor rick to
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  • Discover god's purpose in your life?
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  • Well, now you can with the video-based study kit called
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  • As you go through these lessons, you'll embark on a journey of
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  • You'll learn that it's only in god that we discover our origin,
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