How Much You Matter to God — Part 1
4/15/202625 min
Jesus came to seek and save those who are spiritually lost. To be spiritually lost isn't an insult; it actually implies value! In this message, Pastor Rick helps you understand how extraordinarily valuable you are to God.
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[upbeat music] Hello, and thanks for joining us today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. This is the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren, and today we're continuing in a series called The Miracle of Mercy. Rick will show us how God's mercy can lift your guilt, heal your wounds, and transform the way you live. Okay, here's part one of a message called How Much You Matter to God.
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Now, one of the purposes of The Miracle of Mercy series is to help you better understand what God is really like. Most people have poor misconceptions of God. They don't understand fully, deeply the mercy of God, that God always acts in mercy toward us. Every good thing in your life is because of the mercy of God. You wouldn't be alive if it weren't for the mercy of God. The talents, the gifts, the abilities you have are gifts of the mercy of God. The fact that, uh, uh, in all of the good things, the relationships that happen in your life, the fact that you're going to go to heaven one day is only due to the mercy of God. Without that, we would have nothing. Now, the Bible says in Titus chapter three, if you pull out your message notes, all the verses we're gonna look at this weekend are on, on your notes. Titus chapter three verse five says this, "Jesus saved us, not because of the good things that we did,