Daily Hope - Rick Warren

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Thanks for joining us here today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope,
the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren. Today we
continue in a series called the Seven Greatest Words of Love.
There are seven words in particular that Jesus spoke during
his final hours on the cross that hold the keys

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for finding fulfillment in your life, relationships, and even your career.
Right now, here's Pastor Rick with the final part of
a message called the Word of Victory.

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In the Old Testament, the sacrificial system was the way
that people said they were sorry for their sins, and
there were sacrifices made. And the Bible says, now that
Jesus Christ has died on the cross, there is no
need to offer any more sacrifices because Jesus was the
ultimate sacrifice for everything you've ever done wrong. Now, let

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me explain this in implication of it. Some of our friends,
some of you right here in our church are Christians
who believe about the second Coming, that for before Jesus
Christ can come back, that a temple has to be
built in Jerusalem and the sacrificial system restarted before Jesus

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can come back. But the Bible just said there's no
need for any more sacrifice, so that's irrelevant. There is
no need for the temple to be built because the
sacrifice has already been made. There will never again be
a need for sacrifices in the Temple in Jerusalem, never never.

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Never never never never never never never again. It doesn't
have to happen.

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Why because the Bible says Jesus was the sacrifice and
there will never ever again be any need for any
other sacrifice. Now, some of you have felt guilty over
something you've done wrong, and you believe God has forgiven you,
but you haven't really felt God has forgiven you, and
you keep trying to pay off your sin. Maybe if
I go on a peace trip, that'll pay off my sin.

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Maybe if I go to church, that'll pay a fe
off my sin. Maybe if I tie, then I can
get rid of this gill. And you're trying to pay
off your sin when it's already been paid for.

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That's good news. That is good news.

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The sacrifice was final, it was complete, and it is finished.
To tell us die, there will never be anything else
you could ever ever do to pay for your sins
because it's already all been paid for. No need to
try to keep repaying for your mistakes. I remember one

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time reading about a lady who was an elderly woman
and she went to her insurance company and she walked
in and said, how can we help you, ma'am? She said, well,
my husband died five years ago and I can't afford
to keep paying his insurance life insurance premiums. I just
can't afford to do it anymore. And I said, men,
you don't need to. It's been paid off. It's done,

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and now you get to benefit from it. He died,
and because he died, you are now going to benefit
from his death. You don't have to pay anything anymore.
And that's what Jesus did for you. Now, there's one
other use of the word to tell us stye that
I didn't mention, and that it was often used as

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a battle cry, and in war when armies would go
to battle and they had won the battle and they
had completely defeated the enemy, the soldiers would shout to
tell us die, it's done, we're finished, it's paid in full,
we won.

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It's all ours. And these are the last two.

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Meanings of this in your life. Number four, The fourth
thing that happened when Jesus said it is finished. Was
he defeated the fear of death. He defeated the fear
of death. Now this is a universal fear. Nobody is
exempt from it. Everybody has some fear of death. But

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Jesus broke that power. And this was a battle cry.
It was a shout of a victorious conqueror when he says,
I have defeated death, and I have proved to you
you don't have to be afraid of it, because I'm
going to come back to life. And if I am
the resurrection, you can be resurrected. And believing in me,
death is not the end, and you don't need to

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fear it anymore. A couple verses Romans five seventeen. The
sin of one man Adam caused the death.

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To rule over all of us. But all who receive.

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God's wonderful, gracious gift of righteousness will live in triumph
over sin and death. Through this one man, Jesus Christ
triumph over sin and death. Look at the next verse
he Brews chapter two, fourteen fifteen. Jesus became flesh and
blood by being born in human form, for only as

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a human being could he die, and only by dying
could he break the power of the devil who had
the power of death. And only in this way, how
Jesus died on the cross could he deliver those set
us free, deliver those that's you and me, who have

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lived all their lives as slaves to the fear of dying.
I don't have to be afraid of death anymore. I'm
not afraid of death. I can honestly say I'm afraid
of pain, but I am not afraid of death, because
death is just a transfer. And I know where I'm going,
and i know I'm supposed to be there, not here forever,

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and I'm looking forward to being there since more and
more of my friends and parents and relatives are there.

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And he breaks the fear of death. He defeats the
fear of.

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Death when he says it is finished. By the way,
do you know what is the symbol of this though
you don't have to fear death.

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It's baptism. Baptism.

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In the Bible, every time you see the word baptism used,
it's used to refer to.

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A burial and a resurrection.

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The Bible says by in baptism, we're buried with Christ,
and in baptism we're raised with Christ, which is why
we do it the way they did it in the Bible.
We don't sprinkle water, we don't pour on water.

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We do it the way that they did.

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It with Jesus, because it's a picture of a death,
a burial, and resurrection. Every time the word baptism is
used in the Bible, it refers. In fact, the word
means to put underwater baptizzo. And so just as Jesus
Christ died, was buried in the ground three days and
rose again and broke the power of death. And we
don't have to be afraid of death anymore because we

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know you can be resurrected from it.

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Jesus died, it was very three days, rose again.

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That you know, I take you, or one of our
pastors takes you, puts you under the water, leaves you there,
three days, raises you. I'm just seeing if you're listening,
raises you up again. And that is a symbol that
I have died to my old way of life. All
my sins are forgiven, they're washed away, they're forgiven, they're

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wiped out, and I'm being raised to live a brand
new life. And I don't have to fear death, all right,
number five now the fifth one, and I really love
this one. I appreciate it so much. Is that when
Jesus Christ died for us on the cross, one of
the things he set is free from, that he liberates
from He finished was this. He destroyed Satan's power to

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control me on the cross. He destroyed Satan's power to
control me, to control my mind, to control my life,
to control my destiny. You don't understand this, and I
don't have time to get into it fully right now.
But there was this cosmic war going on on the

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cross and God versus Satan. And from a human standpoint,
when Jesus is dying on the cross and bleeding, it
looks like Satan's winning. It just looks and a lot
of times the world looks like Satan's winning. But God
has a bigger perspective and he had Satan had no

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idea what was going on at this moment. When Jesus
died on the cross, Satan thought, man, I'm good.

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I've put Jesus to death.

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I've killed the Messiah, I've killed the savior of the world.
Now all of those people are gonna come to hell
with me. He thought he had won. He thought Now,
the audacity the foolish was a thinking that you can
fight God and win, because three days later Jesus arises
from the dead and he says I'm back, and Satans go,

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oh no, we have no idea what we've just got
our into. And one of the things that God did
on the cross is he destroyed Satan's power. When Jesus
said it is finished, Satan should have said I'm finished

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because his days are numbered. Now, let me be frank.
If you don't have Jesus Christ in your life, you
don't have the power God in your life. You are
defenseless against the devil. He can to swop, slap you around,
do anything you want. You have no power on your own.
You are not anywhere near as powerful as Satan. And

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if you don't have God's spirit in your life, you
have zero defense, zero power, zero armory against Satan's while
he can just whip you around, he can manipulate your emotions,
he can mess with your mind, he can get you
addicted to.

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All kinds and stuff.

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He's got all kinds of power, and you are flat
out powerless. You have no defense, zero, not a none
against the devil. If you don't have God in your life.
You have none. But when you get God's spirit in you,
the Bible says, greater is He that is in you
than he that is in the world.

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Now let me again be frank.

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Satan has two favorite tools to whip you around. One
of them is temptation and the other is condemnation, and
he loves to use them both. And the way he
uses temptation is he minimizes the sense that's no big deal. No,
come on, everybody does this. You know, go ahead, do
this thing, rebel against God. You're smarter than God. You know,

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it'll make you happy more than God does. And He's
given you all these thoughts in your mind. You don't
have to speak aloud. He just puts these ideas in
your mind, just like God. When Satan puts an idea,
it's called temptation. When God gives you an idea, it's
called inspiration. When you have an idea, it's called stupidity.
I'm just kidding. I'm just just kidding.

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But Satan's but no, this is no big deal. It's
no big deal. And then the the moment.

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You do that particular sin, you know what he does.
He reverses strategy instead of minimizing, and he maximizes. You
did that? Are you kidding me? God will never love
you again. It's over. You're dead, You're done for your head.
God could never use you. You'll never be blessed. What
kind of person do you think you are? How big
is it God that is so big you could never

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never be forgiven for that?

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See a strategy.

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Minimize the sin before you do it, maximize it afterwards.

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Temptation, condemnation.

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And what did Jesus Christ do on the cross when
he said his finished?

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He defeated temptation and condemnation. Look at this.

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The Bible says that Jesus destroyed the irresistible power of temptation.
He now gives you the power to resist it. In fact,
he promises to give it. Colossians chapter one. God has
freed us from the power of darkness and brought us
into the kingdom of his dear son.

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It's a fatal blow to Satan, he said. A minute, Rick, you.

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Said, God has freed us from the power of darkness.
And you're thinking, well, it seems to me that Satan's
still pretty.

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Much alive right now. Yes, but he's on borrowed time.

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Now I've tried to think of the best illustration to
explained to you the predicament that Satan is in right now,
between now and the end of history. And the only
thing I can give you this and it's a little gory,
is from growing up. I grew up in an area
that had a lot of farms, and a lot of
farms raised chickens. And actually, when my parents lived in Portland,

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we actually had a chicken coop and we raised chickens. Now,
there's sorry, this may be a little gory, but there
are only two ways killed a chicken. You chop its
head off or you ring its neck.

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Okay.

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Now, when I was a little kid and my dad
would do this ring it just grossed me out. When
it became a teenager, I thought it was hilarious. Okay,
it was the funniest thing. I okay, and I just thought, wow,
that come on, let me do it dad.

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You know, when you're a kid, you know.

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But but this I have seen this many, many, many
times as a kid growing up, that when a chicken
loses its neck, either by ringing it or chopping it off,
it will then run around the yard for another three
or four minutes. That's where you get the phrase running
like a chicken with its head cut off. He's dead

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and doesn't know it. It's the only illustration I could
think of. And at the Cross, Jesus whacked off the
head of Satan.

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He's running around with his head cut off. He's dead
and doesn't know it. If you have Jesus Christ in
your life, Satan has zero power over you except the
areas you choose to give him.

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And when you choose to give in through resentment and
guilt and worry and fear, then you give him what's
called a foothold in your life. But otherwise he can't
touch you. He cannot harm you. Satan cannot harm me.
I'm hid with God in Christ, and I am protected.
I'm not afraid of Satan. I am afraid of listening

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to some of the stupid things he says and actually
believing them. I ought to be afraid of that, because
he can only if you have Christ in your life.
He can only affect you by suggestion. He cannot come
at you. Hold on now, if you don't have God
in your life, you're vulnerable. You're wide open. But when
Jesus Christ died on the cross, one of the things

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he did was he defeated the power of Satan to
manipulate you.

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Does Satan tent me? Yes?

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But I now have a power inside of me. It
gives me the energy to say no, and I didn't
have that power before. And then not only does he
have temptation, he has condemnation. Now look at this verse,
second verse. Jesus destroyed Satan's leverage to accuse you Colossians
two fifteen. God took away Satan's power to accuse you.

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God took away Satan's power to accuse you of sin,
and he openly displayed to the whole world christ triumph
at the Cross, where your sins were all taken away.
Now what does that mean? Before I send sayings, there's
no big deal, then I send this, it's a big deal.
God will never never love you. And I say, you're

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a liar, go to hell. You could tell Satan to
go to hell, nobody else but just Satan. Okay, his
accusations don't work on you, because the Bible says there
is therefore.

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Now no condemnation for those who are in Christ. Jesus.

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If Jesus paid for all of my sins on the cross,
including the ones I haven't done yet. And Satan comes
to me and says, Warren, you are such a jerk.
You did this, and you did this, and you did that.
I just go But it was paid for on the cross.
I'm a trophy of God's grace and so are you.

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So his accusations don't stick. He can't manipulate me anymore
by accusation.

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Does that make sense?

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And he can't manipulate you anymore because everything you've ever
done wrong and everything you ever will do wrong if
you put your trust in Christ has been forgiven.

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And Satan goes, oh, I accuse.

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You of this, And Jesus the defense attorney steps in
and said, out of order, in admissible evidence. It's already
been cleansed. It's already I canceled the payment, I paid
the debt, I satisfied the justice.

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To tell us die.

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Do you understand the significance of what I'm saying. The
difference between our faith and every other religion or faith
in the world is the difference between just two words
do and done. Every other religion says you gotta do this, this, this, this, this, this,
this got to do do do do do in order

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to make.

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God like you Christianity.

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The Bible says, it was all done for you on
the cross. You don't have anything to it. You can't
add to it. It's done to tell Ustye, it's finished.
So let me summarize. Jesus fulfill the scripture what God
had promised to do. He satisfied the law and in

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his own justice. I did what God required. He paid
off the debt that I owed, a massive death that
I could never possibly pay off on my own, my penalty.
He took my penalty. He defeated the fear of death
and destroyed Satan's power to control me. Is that a
reason to celebrate?

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Yeah?

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And I'm sure that the Father said, well done, well done.
Now these are the five things that give us hope.
This is the uniqueness of the Christian hope. These things
give us hope. But not only that. There's hope for
your future too. Look at the next verse. Philippians one

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six says this. You can be certain of this, and
let me stop. Do you remember last week I talked
about three kinds of hope. There's wishful hope, which is
just you're just wishing. There's expectant hope. You have a
reason to expect some them, and then there's certain hope.
And that's the kind of hope God wants you to
build your life on. This is a certainty, This is
a certain hope. Right here you can be certain of this. God,

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who began his good work within you, will continue his
work until it is finally what circle that word start?
Put an arrow by it. Who God, who began his
good work in you, will continue his work in you
until it is finally finished on the day when Christ
Jesus comes back again. Now is there anything in there

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about you doing something? No, it's all about him doing something.
It's all about his work. One time I was asked
by a man. I was out on the patio and
I actually learned this response from a guy named de L. Moody,
previous generation pastor. But a man came up to me
and he said, he's pretty frantic. I gus, I just
want to know what do I need to do? I said,

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what do you mean?

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What do I need to do.

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To get into heaven? And I said, sorry, you're too late.
He said, are you kidding me? No, I'm sorry you're
too late. What do you mean it's too late? What
do I need to do? You're too late. It was

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all done two thousand years ago. You just need to
accept it.

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You can't do anything to get into heaven. You couldn't
be good enough to get into heaven, but you could
accept what Jesus did.

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I started this message by saying that you're going to
end your life with unfinished business. But there's one thing
that's definitely been finished for you, and it's the last
verse on your outline Ephesians two eight. Saving is all
his idea. Saving is all his idea, and it's all

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his work.

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It's God's work.

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All we do is trust him enough to let him
do it. It is God's gift from start to finish.
Do or done, that's your choice. It's bow our heads.
Would you pray this in your heart and mean it

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with every bone in your body. Dear Jesus Christ, thank
you that you did it all. Thank you that you
did it all. Everything I need to get to heaven,
to be forgiven, to have a purpose for living, you
did it all. Thank you for those three words, it

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is finished. Thank you that it's all done. Thank you
that you've fulfilled the promises of God. You satisfied the
justice of God. Thank you that you defeated the fear
of death. Thank you that you paid off my debt.
Thank you that you destroyed Satan's power to manipulate me.

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I want to live in those truths for the rest
of my life. And I thank you that what you
began in my life, you said, we can be certain
that you will bring it to completion. You will finish
it on the day that you return.

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And so really, with all my heart, I thank you.

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And in many ways, Lord, like David said in Psalm
one sixteen, what can I offer the Lord that always
done for me? And you say, just offer me your heart,
offer me your life. If you've never invited Christ in
your life, said Jesus Christ, I ask you to come
into my life and do what I cannot do for

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myself and could never do. I need a savior, and
I know I would never be good enough to be
in a perfect place. So I'm trusting you. Thank you
for the work of Christ.

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And Jesus name. I pray this prayer.

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Amen, Hi, this is Pastor Rick. If you just pray
to accept Jesus Christ into your heart, Congratulations, you're now
my brother or sister and the Lord. And you need
to tell somebody, and why don't you tell me write
to me Rick at Pastorrick dot com. Just email me

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Rick at pastorick dot com and tell me your story.
I would love to read it. And by the way,
I'll send you some free material to help you start
in your new journey with the Lord God bless you.

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Pastor Rick Warren says that every word Jesus spoke was
important and has life changing power. The words that Jesus
spoke during his final hours on the cross hold the
key to finding fulfillment in your life, career, and relationships.
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