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now to understand your life purpose and
understand your life calling you have to
begin with God because God created you
and you can't tell yourself what your
purpose is only your creator can tell
you what your purpose is and your
purpose your calling in life actually
begins in the nature of God now the
Bible tells us that God is love we' have
talked about this so many times that God
doesn't have love God God doesn't just
show love God is love love love is the
nature the character the essence of God
there would be no love in the universe
if it weren't for the fact that God is
love the only reason you're able to love
the only reason you're able to give it
and receive love is because God who is a
god of love Made You In His Image ants
can't love snails can't love cows can't
love but human beings love because we're
made in the image of God now the Bible
says that everything in the universe was
created so God could love it God has
never made anything he doesn't love he
loves every Rock every tree every plant
every animal every human being God has
never made anything he doesn't love so
if you're alive it means God loves you
and you were created as an object of
God's love we talked about this in 40
days of purpose but this time in this
campaign we're going to go much deeper
in understanding the love of God that
the reason why God made you and he made
you to love you is so that you could
experience that love and he could
express that love the Bible says this in
Ephesians chapter 1 there on your
outline long
ago even before he made the
world God loved us and chose us whoa let
me just stop right there before God even
created the universe he had already
chosen you and loved you he made the
universe so he could make earth so he
could make the human race so he could
make you so he could love you if God
hadn't wanted to love you all the other
stuff wouldn't have happened it says
before he made the world God loved us
and chose us in Christ to be holy and
without fault in his eyes his unchanging
plan has always been from the very
beginning of time to adopt us into his
own family by bringing us to himself
through Jesus Christ and this gave him
this plan to to have a family God wanted
a family and he wanted you to be a part
of it and the reason the universe exists
is because God wanted a family it was
all made so we could be made so we could
be loved and he says and this plan gave
him read it with me
great pleasure Circle that great
pleasure now you remember when you read
Purpose Driven Life the Bible says you
are planned for God's pleasure and the
reason you're alive is that God Made You
to love you now that's all background we
all know that in this series when we
look at the five callings of God and the
word calling is used far more than
purpose in the Bible when we look at
God's calling on your life we're talking
about God's assignment God's purpose for
your life God's reasons for creating you
I want you to write this down the first
purpose of my life is to be loved by God
the first purpose of my life the first
reason you were
created is to be loved by God God Made
You To Love You Now let that sink in a
little bit the first purpose of your
life is not to serve God the first
purpose of your life is not to trust God
the first purpose of your life is not to
obey God the first purpose of your life
is not even to love God no no the first
purpose of your life is to let God love
you God didn't create you first in first
place to do something he created you in
the first place to receive something now
if you understand this revolutionary
truth and most of you have never really
got this it's going to transform your
life
that my number one purpose in life is
not to do
something for God it's to receive
something from God to get his love
because I was made to be a receptacle a
receiver a benefactor of God's love let
that sink in let me say it again because
I don't want you to get this your first
Duty in life is not to do something it's
not to learn it's not to listen it's not
to pray it's not to give it's not to
sacrifice it's not to serve it's not all
those are all good things but they're
not the first thing God created you to
do he created you to accept to receive
his love to just let God love you that's
the first purpose of life to be loved by
God now this is taught all through the
scripture in the book of Jude and I
always like to mention these these
little books that nobody ever reads the
book of Jude is a very short book it's
only one chapter 25 verses it's the
second to the last book in the Bible
right before Revelation and I always
like to mention these because when you
get to heaven I don't want my people to
be embarrassed in
heaven and and when Jude comes up to you
and says hey how'd you like my book I
don't want you go oh Mr Jude I didn't
even know you were in the
Bible no when he walks over go Hey
Jude loved your book
love that book really good in fact one
of my favorites cuz it was only 25
verses I could you could memorize the
book of Jude now very short book but a
lot of profound truth in it and in Jude
chapter 1 verse one it says
this this letter is from Jude a servant
of Jesus Christ and a brother of James
now I want to stop here that friends is
one of the most humble statements ever
written you say why he says I'm a
servant of Jesus Christ and I'm a
brother of James he forgets to mention
one thing he's the half brother of
Jesus said wait minute Jesus had
Brothers yes Jesus had brothers and
sisters they're talked about in the
Bible when Mary gave birth to Jesus she
was a virgin that was a miraculous birth
because God was the father of Jesus
Christ but the Bible tells us that after
Jesus was born Mary and Joseph had many
other children they're mentioned in the
bible one of them is named James one of
them named Jude he had Jesus had half
sisters and they often came to see him
speak heard him do watched him do
Miracles the interesting thing about
Jesus brothers and sisters none of them
became followers of
Jesus until after Jesus died on the
cross and then rose again from the dead
and when they saw him resurrected from
the dead dead is like he's
back and that made a Believer even his
brothers and sisters they go he was who
he claimed to be they watched him die
and they watched him come back to life
and it was only after that happened they
became followers of Jesus Christ and J
Jude and James be actually became
leaders I mean now can you imagine how
difficult will difficult it would be
growing up with Jesus as your
brother I mean every time you're
fighting in over or getting upset over
something and you go to Mom Mary and you
say now Mom and he did it and and she
said now Jude your brother is
Jesus who's really at fault
here I mean like how difficult would it
be to have a perfect brother now how
many of you grew up that your parents
thought your brother was perfect yeah
but this one really was perfect
okay really was he was always right so I
think I probably would have grown up
with a little Grudge on a chip on my
shoulder and not wanting to believe he
was who he claimed he would be I I think
I'd feel that way like come on I grew up
with her I played stickball with
him but in Jude it says this this letter
is from Jude a servant of Jesus Christ
he does if anybody could have been the
ultimate name dropper it would have been
this guy okay but he says I'm just a
servant of Jesus and a brother of James
does even mention that thing and I'm
writing to all who are called to live in
the love of God the Father circle the
word called and what am I called to do
I'm called to live in the love of God
the love of God the father and in the
care of Jesus Christ now if the first
purpose of my life is to be loved by God
my first calling is this I'm called to
enjoy a relationship with God write that
one down my purpose is to let God love
me my calling is to enjoy a relationship
with God I'm called to live in the love
of God it's a relationship what I'm
saying to you this is so fundamental is
that the number one calling in your life
is not to a rooll it's not to a
responsibility it's not to a bunch of
rules it's not to regulations it's not
not to Ritual it's not to religion it's
to a
relationship now this is going to
surprise some of you Christianity is not
a
religion people try to make it a
religion they try to make it about rules
and regulations and rituals but it's not
about it Jesus said it's about a
relationship God sent Christ so you
could have a relationship not a religion
but a relationship to God because God is
love and he wants you to learn to
experience his
love now what kind of relationship does
God want you to have with him does God
want you to be his slave no does God
want you to be his servant no does God
want you to be his Soldier and fight his
battles for right and wrong in the world
no does God want you to be his Warrior
no does God want you to be his worker no
does God want you to be his employee no
does God want you to be his minions no
God wants you to be his son
or his daughter he wants you in his
family here's what the Bible says Romans
chapter
1 dear friends in Rome this is Paul
writing God loves you dearly Circle that
word dearly God loves you
dearly and he has called you there's
that word here's the calling of God he
has called you to be his very own people
so here are the three fundamental truths
of everything we're doing in this
campaign
the first purpose is to be loved by God
that's my first purpose my first calling
is to enjoy a relationship with God and
number three that
relationship that God wants me to have
is to be his son or daughter the
relationship God created you for is to
be his
son or his
daughter now that is the most amazing
truth you will ever hear in your life
that but the King of Kings the Lord of
lords the creator of the universe
doesn't want you to be a slave servant
Soldier but his
son and his daughter and his child God
wants a family to love and he wants you
in it here's what the Bible says 1 John
chapter 3 what an
incredible quality of love the father
has shown to
us that we should be named and called
and and counted the children of God and
so we are I love that in the Amplified
we're named the children of God we're
called the children of God we're counted
the children of God because we are the
children of God this is your number one
calling in life your number one purpose
in life is not to accomplish something
your number one purpose in life is not
to make something of yourself your
number one purpose in life is not to
make a lot of money to be famous to have
a lot of fun your number one purpose in
life God created you and called
you to be loved by him to experience
that love and most people have never
truly experienced the love of God oh
they've heard about it everybody here
said oh God loves you yeah yeah I know
God loves me the very fact that you're
bored by that means you don't get
it because if you got it you would be so
excited about it you've never
experienced it you've heard it in your
head but you don't have it in your heart
and a lot of people are going to miss
Heaven by 18 in CU they got it here and
they don't got it here they don't have
it here you've got to experience God's
love in your life he says we're named
and called and counted the children of
God now why in the world would God do
that in order to express his love and
God's love is extravagant and God's love
is lavish and God's love is beyond com
comprehension and as I've said so many
times he loves you on your good days and
bad days when you feel it and don't feel
it when you think you deserve it when
you don't think you deserve it you can't
make God stop loving you God will never
love you any more than he does this
second God will never love you any less
than he does this second because God's
love is not based on who you are or what
you do it's based on who he is God is
love so I'll say it again cuz I want you
to get it your number one calling in
life is not to do
something to impress god with what you
do your number one calling in life is to
receive something to let God love you
now the Bible says this in Ephesians
3 I pray and by the way as your pastor
this is my prayer for you during these
six weeks I pray that Christ will be
more and more at home in your hearts as
you trust him in other words that you
get more and more comfortable with go
with Jesus in your life may your roots
go down deep into the soil of God's
marvelous love your life needs to be
rooted in the love of God and he says
and may you have the power to understand
as all of God's people should how wide
and how high along and how high and how
deep deep his love really is and may you
experience the love of Christ not just
know it exper circle the word experience
God says I want you to feel loved I
don't want you to know you're loved I
want you to feel it I want you to feel
it in every fiber of your life may you
experience emotionally the love of
Christ though it is so
great you'll never
fully understand it as I've said it's
like an ant trying to understand that
internet your brain doesn't have the
capacity to understand how much God
loves you now the Bible says that part
of your calling is to understand how
wide long high and deep God's love for
you is so let me explain it to you write
this down how wide is God's love well
write this down it's wide enough to be
everywhere that's how wi it is there is
no place on this planet that God's love
isn't there's no place in the the
universe that God's love in it it's in
the bar where a bunch of people are
drunk it's in the red light district
where people are being sold and selling
their bodies it's in the bario the the
the slum the uh
flla the ghetto it's in the place of the
poorest of the poor it's in every there
is no place where God's love is not you
say well I don't see it there well that
doesn't mean it's there it's not there
there are a lot of things you can't see
that are real that are reality you just
can't see them for instance right now
through this Air wave there are radio
waves going through this air between me
and you actually these air these radio
waves are going through your body right
now and they carry music and there there
are television waves right now going
through the air that carrying colored
pictures you can't see them and you
can't hear them unless you have a
receiver and you are tuned
in they're real you just can't see them
we can't see God here right now you
don't see him but he's here he's real
and if you tune in you'll experience it
if you get on God's wavelength you will
experience his love you will know he is
as real as I am standing here today but
you got to tune
in and just CU you can't feel him or see
him right now doesn't mean he's not
there you can't see those radio Wes
there are a lot of stuff you can't see
you can't see an atom but everything in
life is composed of
atoms so how wide is life it's wide
enough to be everywhere that means there
in your life there will no be no place
you go where God is
Not and although you may feel lonely and
you may feel alone at different points
in your life you will never ever ever
truly be alone because God's love is
there whether you are aware or
not it's wi enough to be everywhere
number two it's long how long is God's
love it's long enough to last
forever now that makes it different than
human love because human love wears out
and that's why we have divorces and
that's why we have breakups that's why
we have conflict and that's why we have
people estranged from each other that
are not reconciled because human love
often wears out but God's love never
wears out God will never never never
never never never stop loving
you even if you chose to reject him and
go to hell God will still love you
because God's love is eternal he made
you to love you God loves you with an
everlasting love it's long enough to
last forever how deep is God 's love
it's deep enough to handle
anything deep enough to handle no matter
what pain you're going through what
problem you're going through or what
hurt you're going through God's love is
deeper still you say man I'm in the
pits I I've hit bottom I'm in the pit of
Hell right now I'm in the pit of despair
I can't get any lower than I am well let
me tell you what God's love goes deeper
and lower than your problem there is no
pit so deep that God's love is not
deeper it is deeper than any problem
you're going to ever hand deep enough to
handle anything and how about height how
high is God's love listen to this it is
high enough to overlook my sins to
overlook my faults to overlook my
mistakes because of Jesus Christ God is
able to overlook my faults my failures
my flood my sin my rebellion and God
offers forgiveness through the cross
because of his love and he offers you a
fresh chance to start
over
now 1 million years
ago before anything
existed God had already thought of you
and decided to choose you and love
you and God has been waiting your entire
life for this very moment where he could
get you to sit still for just a minute
and he could say this to
you you have no idea how much I love
you I have always loved you there has
never been a moment of your existence
that I didn't love you I was the one who
planned your birth I allowed that
fertilization I allowed that conception
I wanted you alive so I could love you
and I saw you formed in your mother's
womb I saw you take your first breath I
heard your first cry there's been no
moment of your life that I've turned my
back from you that I have not listened
to you that I've have not watched you
I've saw every pain you go through every
sin you've ever done the celebrations
and the sadness the happy times and the
sad times the grief the pain the
exhilaration I've been there at every
moment of your life and whether you
realized it or not I was gazing on you
in love because I made you to love
you so here's the question I wrote to
you this on an email this week how would
your life
change how would your life be different
how would it be transformed if you began
to be aware of God's
unconditional continuous and NeverEnding
love for you how would your life change
if when you got up in the morning the
first thing you felt was I am deeply and
unconditionally loved by God and as you
got out of bed and you went to the take
your shower you'd think I can sense
God's love in my life and how would it
be is as you got ready and you ate your
breakfast you felt the love of God and
as you got in your car to go to work you
felt the love of God and as you got to
work or you got to school you felt the
love of God and when you came home and
you went to a movie or you watched some
TV or you worked out in your backyard
you was sensing God's love what would it
be like if you felt God's love
unconditionally in your life totally and
you were aware of it all the time how
would that change your
life I want to give you five ways five
ways I could give you a hundred but I
want to give you five very practical
ways
that this concept if you get your first
calling in life is not to do something
your first calling in life is to receive
God's love to just let God love you what
happens when I learn to become aware all
the time there's no moment that I'm not
aware that I am loved unconditionally
deeply and eternally by God number
one I feel accepted rather than
ashamed I feel accepted rather than
ashamed and that'll change your life
most people go through their entire life
avoiding God and the reason why they
avoid God is because they are ashamed
they feel ashamed they feel guilty they
feel under condemnation they feel judged
they feel criticized they think God is a
perfect God and I am so not perfect so
why in the world would I want to hang
out with a perfect God who's simply
going to remind me of all the ways that
I
fail because that's not what God does
Jesus said I didn't come to condemn the
world I came to save it he said I didn't
come to condemn the world I came to save
the Bible says there's no condemnation
for those who are in Christ Jesus it's a
no condemnation
lifestyle now the Bible says this Romans
5:1
by faith we have been made
acceptable by God acceptable to God and
now because of our Lord Jesus Christ we
live in peace with him we've been made
acceptable to God Circle that word
acceptable and because of that God
accepts me completely totally
unconditionally because of his love I
live at peace with God now let me tell
you why that's so important because it
sets you free from the addiction that
you have to
approval you have spent your entire life
trying to gain the approval of other
people and everything you do is
determined to get other people's
acceptance and approval you dress the
way you do in order to get other
people's approval you talk the way you
do in order to get other people's
acceptance and approval you do certain
things in life some things you wouldn't
even want to do but you do them because
you want the approval of other people
and you are addicted to their approval
and you've been trying to gain approval
from some unpleasable people your entire
life and you're never going to get
it but when you realize that God loves
you unconditionally and without
condition of any type you realize this I
don't need the approval of other people
and it sets you free I don't need other
people approval to be
happy most of your life you have been
worried about what other people think
and that's because you don't feel
totally unconditionally loved by God and
when you don't feel it then you're
trying to make yourself impressive and
you're trying to approve uh get the
approval of other
people but when you know God loves you
can can criticism doesn't bother you
anymore it it it because if if God loves
me and I like me you don't like me
that's your
problem you know because I'm a pretty
well-known person uh in in this country
I get anybody who's who's pretty
wellknown is going to get a lot of
criticism and you say Rick how do you
handle all that criticism because I
don't care about
it I know God loves me unconditionally
so what's your
problem you know I don't need your
approval okay I don't need it
and whether you like me or not is
totally irrelevant to my happiness it's
not going to affect me one
bit because I'm not looking for your
love I'm looking to receive the love
that I'll never deserve from God
criticism doesn't bother you look at the
next verse Romans 8 if God says his
chosen ones are acceptable to him and he
has can anybody bring charges against
him the answer is
no or can any body condemn them the
answer is
no does criticism really matter them no
no
indeed because I feel accepted rather
than
ashamed that's a big one it'll set you
free number two when I experience the
unconditional love of God on a daily
Moment by moments basis I am bold in
bringing my needs to God I'm bold in my
prayers why because I'm a Son of God I'm
a daughter of God I'm a Child of God I'm
a member of the family and so I know God
loves me unconditionally and when I pray
to him I can talk to him about anything
cuz I'm his son when my kids were little
and they would come to me they could ask
me
anything and and and they would come and
just tell me what they needed they
assumed I had everything knew everything
and could afford
everything now you know that's not true
and I know that's true but with God it
is true
the Bible says well actually in Romans 8
all who are led by the spirit of God are
children of God so you should not be
cowering like fearful slaves no no no
you should behave instead like God's
very own children adopted into his
family God adopted the hind family
calling him father dear father now I
love that phrase father dear father the
word there is the Aramaic word ABA now
ABA is not just a Swedish rock
group ABA is the word in the Middle East
in almost all of the Semitic languages
for Daddy it's the first word every kid
in the Middle East learns ABA it's easy
to say Aba Papa dad Mama ABA ABA simply
means Daddy and the Bible says that when
you come to God In Prayer you come to
him and you say Dad Papa ABA father dear
father you don't come to with some fancy
phrase if my kids had come to me and say
they needed a loue somebody oh thou most
gracious progenitor of the Warren Family
thou wonderful Observer and keeper of
all the family funds I'd go
huh no no they just say Dad I need cash
cash okay it's just like real
straightforward very bold Dad I need
cash and the Bible says that you can
come to God say Dad I need
cash ABA father just in the most
intimate terms God doesn't want you you
know all these fancy flowery prayers
that everybody prays God's gone what are
you talking
to you were to talk to me as ABA father
dadded my daddy and an person I feel
bold in bringing my request to God talk
to him father dear father and since we
are his
children we will share in his treasures
in other words I'm a Son of God I get
the family inheritance you're a daughter
of God you get the family
inheritance we will share in his
treasure for everything God gives to his
son Christ is ours
too this last week Kay and I went to see
the movie uh Lincoln have you seen this
movie it's a good
movie you know what impressed me the
most about Lincoln was not what a great
leader he was he was and a magnanimous
leader he was what impressed me the most
throughout that movie was how he gave
total complete unconditional access to
his youngest child
Ted and Ted here's Lincoln the most
powerful man in the world in the
greatest crisis in American history the
Civil War there is a line of people
outside waiting to get in the Oval
Office waiting for weeks for an
appointment and little Tad can come
barging into the O Oval Office at any
point and Lincoln will stop talking to
the Secretary of War or the secretary of
defense or whatever and sit down and put
Tad on his on his on his uh lap and say
what's going on and Tad will even come
in with you know you know pulling a you
know a little horsey pulling a trailer
and all kinds of stuff and and why he
has privileges he's a
son he's not all those people like out
in the outer room he's family he gets
special entry he has Total Access to
God I'm a Son of God you're a Son of God
you're a daughter of God you get Total
Access because he loves you that much he
didn't say excuse me I'll put you on an
appointment in three
months you can come boldly to God and
talk to him about anything anytime
anywhere and God's not going to go uh
excuse me I'm a little busy I'm trying
to solve the Middle East crisis right
now no you're a child of God you get
special
privileges and you bold in bringing your
needs to God I remember last year uh
when uh
You2 greatest rock group on the planet
right now came and did part of their you
their 360 concert series uh here in
Southern California most of you know
Bono and I are pretty good friends we've
done some stuff together on AIDS the
peace plan and things like that and I've
known him and Kade knows him real well
and and uh so when we he was coming to
town he sent all of my family uh not
just tickets but all access badges
passes so when you go over to Anheim
Stadium there were like Realm rings of
you know really dud people get kept out
here and then if you're cool you can get
into this far and if you're super cool
you get into this level if you're really
cool you get in this L and if you're
like family you get all access you can
go
anywhere and uh I have to admit I later
had to confess my pride but I loved
going around showing this
off all access yeah and you go up and
here's these giant thugs standing and
going how you going to get in here I'm
part of the family please come in Mr
Warren you know when you become a child
of God you get an all access
pass and God goes you're in any time you
want to talk to me pick up the phone
talk to me talk to me in prayer 24 hours
a day I become bold in bringing my needs
to God look at this verse Hebrews
4:16 let us then approach the throne of
grace that means prayer let us approach
the throne of grace with confidence the
word is actually boldness so that we may
receive
mercy and find Grace to help us when in
our time of need you need to be bold in
your prayer you're a Son of God you're a
daughter of God you're loved
unconditionally and Jesus said you can
ask anything in my name I feel accepted
rather than ashamed and I am bold in
bringing my needs to my ABA father my
papa father number three when I
understand God's love conditioning and I
just experience it not just know it I
have peace in pain I don't
understand peace in pain that I don't
understand you're going to have a lot of
things that happen in your life you
don't get you're going to ask the why
questions of life God why is this
happening to me why is this happening to
our family why now why here why this
you're going to see things happen in the
world Lord why now let me just say
upfront God doesn't owe you an
explanation for why he allows anything I
will tell you this not everything that
happens in the world is God's will God
hates evil and a lot of evil is done in
the world and God could easily take away
evil really simple take away your
freedom to do it and mine too because
you've done some evil things in life and
so have I and he could easily get rid of
all suffering by taking away your choice
and my choice and turn us all into
puppets but he wants us to voluntarily
love so he puts up with the pain that
evil cause in order to give you the
freedom of
choice and you're going to go through
life and a lot of things in life you're
not going to understand losses you don't
understand hurts you don't understand
rejection you don't understand problems
you don't understand but here's the
thing you don't have to understand them
to be at
peace in fact and explanation doesn't
give you peace anyway when someone you
love dies if somebody told you the
explanation for it it wouldn't get make
you any happier you still have the loss
explanations don't cover what you need
is not peace I mean not uh an
explanation you need presence the
presence of God in your life and what
you need is what the Bible calls the
peace that passes understanding look up
here on the screen Philippians 4:7 says
this the peace of God which pass passes
all understanding will keep your hearts
and Minds through Christ Jesus now what
is the peace that passes understanding
it's when you feel at peace even though
you don't understand what's going on you
have no reason no explanation no
discernment you just don't know why it's
happening but you're still at peace and
that is a supernatural peace that comes
from God is that peace that passes
understanding because I don't know why
this is happening happening but I do
know this I do know God is a good
god and I do know that he loves me and I
do know that he wants what's best for my
life and I do know that I can trust him
even when I don't understand it that's
the piece that passes understanding and
it comes from feeling the love of God in
your
life when I was five and a half years
old
my sister was 2 years old my dad was a
pastor in Portland Oregon he built the
church there one day my dad and my
sister and I were in the car together my
mom was at
home and in those days there was no such
thing as car seats in fact there weren't
even
strap seat belts it was just the little
belt around the front and they didn't
even have seat belts in the middle it
was just like on the two
sides and so we were in the car together
and my dad was driving and I was in the
front seat with my seat belt on and my
baby sister 2 years old was in the back
seat with the seat belt on and as we got
ready to go across a bridge one of the
many bridges in the city of Portland
across the Columbia River as dad started
to go across that bridge a car swerved
in front of our car and in order to not
hit it my dad jerked the car and did a
quick right turn to avoid being hit and
hitting that car and when we did the car
fishtailed and when it
fishtailed the back door of that car of
our car opened and I watched my baby
sister fly out the back
door I will never never forget that
sight and I watched my little
sister tumble over um gravel that was
covered with tar right there by the side
of that um that
bridge and in horror I watched her
tumble over and over as she flew out
that
door I'll never forget what happened
next my dad slammed on the break jammed
it in the park jumped out of the car and
ran over and scooped up my baby sister
who was bleeding
profusely in his
arms uh ran back to the car and put her
in the front
seat and uh there was no seat belt for
so it was my job to keep her there while
he's driving 90 mil or 80 mil or 70 M an
hour however fast it was to get to the
hospital we get to the
hospital and they Rush my baby sister
into the emergency and dad runs over to
the phone to call my mom to tell her
about this horrible scene that we have
just
witnessed and I'm sitting as a 5 and 1/
halfy old boy in that waiting room by
myself having just witnessed this
horrific
event and I was paralyzed with
fear and in my simple little way as a
little boy I began to
pray and all of the sudden the peace
that passes understanding came over my
life and one thought went through
this my father will handle
this my my father will will handle
this now you and I know that human
fathers don't have unlimited ability
unlimited power but your heavenly father
does and he can handle anything he has
unlimited power and he has unlimited
love and when you realize that he is
good and he is God and he loves you and
the things that don't make sense in your
life you can have the peace that passes
understanding now God's love does not
exempt you from pain or suffering in
this life no Christians have the exact
same problems that non-christians do the
difference is we get the peace that
passes
understanding where I can trust God in a
moment when everything is falling apart
around me and I can
know there's a promise in the Bible we
just looked at it last week Romans
8:28 and we know that in all things even
the bad things God works for the good of
those who love him who have been called
Circle that word called according to his
purpose Circle that purpose calling and
purpose to go together and when we live
the calling and we live out our purpose
and we let God love us and we love God
back we can know that in all things God
is working for the good of those who
love him and that gives us the Peace of
pass's understanding number four the
fourth things that happens when I know
that I'm totally loved by God is I gain
the courage to take
risks I gain the courage to take risk
when somebody believes in you you are
capable of accomplishing things you
would never be able to accomplish on
your own just because they believe in
you it gives you an additional power it
gives you additional energy you know
sometimes when we're doing uh Christmas
or Easter some of these times when I'm
doing 14 16 Services back to back and
along about number nine I'll start to
get tired and I think I don't think I
got the energy to do this and I'll look
right over here to my wife who sits
right down here and she'll wink at me
and I'll think I could do a hundred
more cuz all I need her to do is to
believe in me and I it gives me enormous
energy when someone believes in you
unconditionally the way God does and
when you experience that it releases you
you have dreams that have gone
unfulfilled in your life because you
have been scared to death to go after
him what if I fail and you're going to
die with unfulfilled dream dreams unless
you key in to the love of God and you
let him give you that confidence that
comes from him believing in
you even if you're old it's not too
late when I was in the seventh grade we
lived up in Northern California in the
Redwoods and uh uh I was taking a shop
class in the seventh grade and uh we
everybody was supposed supposed to make
something for shop class and I decided
for that Christmas I was going to make
my mom and dad a redwood table now a
little True Confession here your pastor
has zero artistic and and uh craft
ability I my I'm just not very
coordinated with my hands I'm just not
good at all and I decided that I was
going to make this Redwood table and
after about I worked on it for about 6
months hard we had a barn on our
property and I wouldn't let my parents
come out the barn cuz I was working on
it there for 6 months and after 6 months
it was a
disaster I mean a mess and I mean
nothing in this this table looked right
I mean it was all wampy jawed it it it
it was misbalanced one Edge was longer
than the other it was had bad sanding
and parts of it were nicked off and I
had done too much lacquer at one end and
not enough at the other and it was a
mess and I remember how disappointed I
was in myself and how bad I felt I so
badly wanted this to be a nice gift for
uh for my parents and I just remember
sitting down in that Barn one day and
just
sobbing and I just thought I wanted this
thing to work out and I've given it my
best shot but truthfully my best isn't
good enough it just
sucks and I was there literally sobbing
in that barn by
myself and my dad heard
me and he came up to the barn and he
asked for permission to come in and I
let him come
in and I said dad I I just I just
screwed it up I have made such a mess of
this and I I wanted it so badly to be
nice but it's
not I don't never forget what he
said he said you know son it's
okay we can start over not you we can
start over and this time I'll help
you now my dad was a master Carpenter in
his lifetime he built about 150 churches
all around the world he knew how to
build stuff so if my dad said this time
I'll help you it's a done deal okay it's
going to
succeed and this is what your heavenly
father is saying to you today I don't
care if you're 15 or 50 or 95 God is
saying you may have really messed it up
royally and you gave it your best shot
but it just flat out wasn't good enough
and you really to be honest if you're
honest with your you're disappointed in
your
life and your heavenly father comes to
you today and
says it's okay okay you can start over
and this time I'll help you we will do
it together and one plus God is a done
deal I don't care how old you are it's
not too late to make that start
over nine-year-old Malachi Paul was just
a young little kid who auditioned for
Britain's Got Talent Britain go Talent
is the UK counterpart to American Idol
or the voice where you go and you
addition and then if you win that you go
to another edition if you win that you
start being on the show and uh and if
you get on the show then you you know
you try to win without getting
eliminated and Malachi Paul was at his
first audition packed out and when he
saw the crowd he got stage fright and he
choked and he started singing and it
just was coming out all bad bad really
bad and he wasn't doing very good at it
and he got so embarrassed at his own
work he froze on stage and just stopped
and started
crying his single mom was standing in
the wings and she runs out and she hugs
him and I want you to know notice how on
this video unconditional love turns a
loser into a winter watch
this before the break Malachi Paul took
to the the
stage what's your name um Malachi I'm
with my mom one thing I'm worried about
today is Malachi getting stage right he
gets a bit nervous yeah sometimes I get
a bit nervous and get a stage right and
I remember that mommy's backstage
imagine me backstage doing yes Mal go
Mal yes Mal think about that in your
head in front of big audiences I would
normally be in front of him now he's got
to face the music on his own and that's
the one thing that I'm worried about not
one of the judges will buzz
[Music]
you hopefully even if he gets it a
little bit shaky in the beginning that
towards the ending of it he would just
sell through if I just stop I can just
look at her and then I just carry on
scene a you're
H H you doing so good
so
good you tell me if you want to sing on
it you tell me what would you want to do
sweetheart you want to sing
again he wants to sing
again just relax and enjoy it a
[Applause]
c the
song my
heart I
start
complete listen
to the sound from deep
within it's only
Bing to find
release oh the time has come for my
dreams to be heard they will not be
pushed aside or turn into your
own you
[Music]
[Applause]
I think he's all right
now
home
to you
known now
I'm
you
feel you made on me and follow the voice
you think you gave so
me
I
my okay Alicia Malachi is very very
simple you are a star
it's a natural raw talent that's what
we're looking for that was amazing
sweet David yeah I thought that was a
really really special edition I agree
with Anisha you're a total
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
star well uh I've got to tell you what I
like about you your brain you know you
got you got off to a bad start you
picked yourself up and people are going
to like you a
lot okay let's go David yes or
[Music]
no a million per
yes
ala 100% yes from me well done m
absolutely brilliant well done
yes
you yeses
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
you have no idea how many times your
heavenly father has wanted to reach out
and grasp you in his arms when you have
felt like I just blew
it maybe you blew it publicly maybe you
blew it privately maybe you just think
it just sucked it didn't
work and your heavenly father
says it's okay we'll start
over and this time we'll do it
together for some of you and some of you
watching right now this moment God has
been waiting for this moment your entire
life he's been waiting for this moment
where you for the first time would get a
little inkling of how much he loves
you I've said many times it's not your
problem is not that you don't love God
your problem is you don't know how much
he loves you because if you did you
could not help but love
him and this is the moment where a
million years ago before anything
happened in your life God chose you and
decided to create you to love
you and you have spent your entire life
afraid to surrender your total life to
God and the reason why you've been
afraid to surrender your total life to
God is because you don't know how much
he loves you nobody
knows what is best for you nobody knows
what will make your life better than God
does so this is your
moment this is your breakthrough
moment this is the moment where you let
go of fear the Bible says this on the
screen there is no fear in
love but perfect love drives out all
fear because fear has to do with
punishment When Love Comes in the front
door of your life fear goes out the back
you need to stop being afraid of
God and you need to accept his love and
the fear will drain out of your
life so how do I become a son of God
how do I become a daughter of God how do
I become a child of God on the screen
the Bible says in John chapter 1 verse
12 to all who believed him that's Jesus
and accepted him he's already accepted
you accepted him Jesus gave the right to
become children of
God so let's talk to God about it this
is your moment let's bow our
heads I want you to pray this prayer
that will change and transform the rest
of your
life dear
God just say this in your heart I am so
amazed at how much you love
me thank you that your love for me is
white enough to be everywhere I
go thank you that your love for me is
long enough to never to last forever you
will never stop loving
me thank you that your love for me is
deep enough to handle all my
problems thank you God that your love is
high enough to overlook all my sins all
my mistakes all my faults and failures
because of
Jesus God I want to feel accepted rather
than
ashamed I want to be bold and bringing
my needs to
you I need the peace that passes
understanding I want to have peace even
in pain that I don't
understand I need your love to give me
the courage to take risks to go after my
dream Jesus Christ as best I know how I
Surrender every part of
and room of my
life and I want to learn to love you
back because you love me so much and I'm
going to spend the rest of my life with
that first calling of letting you love
me and I pray this in your name amen
amen if you prayed that prayer in a
minute I want you to take this card
that's in front of your seat and right
on the back I prayed that prayer or
check the box of committed life line
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I can send you some material now I know
how some of you hate not having the last
fill
in so for those of you who are obsessed
with that let me give you quickly the
last
point cuz you don't want to go home with
a half- fill out outline I
know the fifth things that happens when
you understand the love of God in your
life is I worship instead of
worry I worship instead of worry what is
worship worship is simply expressing my
love to God anytime you say to God I
love you God that's
worship you can worship in a small group
you can worship in a church building a
service you can worship with the windows
rolled down your car and the and the
radio blaring anytime you express love
to God you are
worshiping worship is always response we
love God because he first loved us look
on the screen we love God we love
because God first loved us remember your
problem is not that you don't love God
your problem is you don't understand how
much he loves you now how do you know
and we'll close with this how do you
know when you're not feeling God's love
oh it's real simple one simple thing
worry when you worry at that moment you
have forgotten how much God loves you
worry is acting like an atheist worry is
pretending you're an orphan worry is
saying I've forgotten I have a heavenly
father who loves me wants what's best
for me and created me and is watching
over me worry is pretending like you're
all on your own you're not worry at that
moment means at this point I have
forgotten how much God loves
me and you need need to choose worship
over worry my oldest son Josh had to go
back East this week and he hates to fly
when there's turbulence and because of
the storms he said Dad it was constant
turbulence and he said I had to decide
was I going to worry or was I going to
worship so instead of worrying he said I
put in my earbuds and put on a bunch of
worship
songs you're going to Panic or pray the
rest of your life you're going to worry
or you're going to worship you're going
to look at your problem or you're going
to look at God Jesus said this
don't worry about having enough food or
drink or clothing he'll give you all you
need from day to day if you live for him
and make the kingdom of God your primary
concern so don't worry about tomorrow
for tomorrow will bring its own worries
today's trouble is enough for today and
this promise that verse right there is
why we're doing live your calling now
the next four weeks you don't want to
miss any week this is the most important
series I've ever done you want to miss
any week those next four
callings don't matter at all if you
don't get this first one cuz they all
flow out of love not out of Duty not out
of guilt not out of pressure but they
flow out of letting God love you being
loved so let me close
now first three things number one it's
not too late to get in a group if you're
not in a group I don't want you to miss
these six lectures that I videotaped I
don't want you to miss this discussion I
don't want you to miss the new stuff
I've written in uh in the book and if
you'll say I'll get a couple friends and
we'll go through this material the next
six weeks go out to the patio and we'll
get this for you it's not too late
because that's the heart of what we're
studying second if you missed the last
two weeks you need to register for live
your calling so I can send you all the
free stuff and it's most of you already
filled this out the last two weeks but
but if you were gone the last two weeks
you need to fill this out
and drop it in or drop it in the basket
at the close of service
third we're going to close with our
memory verse for the week it's the
second to last verse on your outline and
it is Romans 6:13 give yourself
completely to God since you have been
given new life that's pretty easy to
remember Romans 613 give yourself
completely to God for you have been
given since you've been given new life
let's say it aloud together Romans
613 give yourself completely to God
since you have been given new life and
where is that Romans 6:13 now you're
going to have to say it a whole bunch
this week to learn it one time won't
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