Hey everyone, welcome to Pastor Rick Warren's Daily Hope.

Now we're going to continue our series today called Building My Life on Values That Last.

And Rick will press on and show us how we benefit when we apply the biblical principles of trust,

self-control, balance, respect, forgiveness, moral purity, fairness, honesty, and love to our lives.

And now let's join Rick as he shares the final part of a message called Accepting

Responsibility.

The average American spends accepting responsibility.

The average American spends six hours a week in shopping related activities.

Some of you blow that statistic out of the water.

I know.

I've seen you, you know, when the going gets tough, the tough goes shopping.

You know?

And, uh, and yeah, it's interesting, by the way, that the more educated you are, the more you

shop.

So some of you go, see, honey, I'm smart, see, I'm really smart. I'm getting ready to go out on a little educational field trip

darling.

God says that's dumb if you're spending all your money and you're not saving anything.

Look at what it says. Let's read Proverbs 21-20 with great guilt.

Okay? Ready let's read it aloud.

The wise man saves for the future, but the foolish man spins

whatever he gets. Ouch. Spends whatever he gets.

Now you say, Rick, why are you making a big deal of this?

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