It Depends on Who You Depend On - Part 3
6/4/202622 min
If you put your security in your bank account, your job, or your investments, it won't make you more secure—because you can still lose all those things. Pastor Rick explains through this message how you get God's blessing when you depend on his wealth and not your own.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope with Rick Warren. We are so glad you're here with us today. We're going to continue our series called The Keys to a Blessed Life. Now, in these messages, Rick walks through Jesus's Sermon on the Mount and shows us how to live a truly hopeful and purpose-filled life. And now, here's the final part of It Depends on Who You Depend On.
Rick Warren· Host0:26
Now, listen to me very closely. You're most like Christ, you're most like Jesus when you say nothing in the face of attack, in the face of unjust, unfair criticism, in the face of lies about you. You're most like Jesus when you say nothing and you remain silent and you just say, "I'm going to put this in the hands of God and let him be my defender and I'm going to try and myself and defend myself back." In 1 Peter 2.23, we talked about last week Jesus' crucifixion and his resurrection. It says, "When they hurled insults at him," Jesus, "he did not retaliate. When he suffered, he made no threats back. Instead, he entrusted himself to God to set things right." That means I depend on God to be my defender. You know, I told you last week that they did six trials for Jesus,