Hey everybody, this is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren.

And today, we're launching a powerful series called The Jesus Model.

In these lessons, Rick's going to walk you step by step through the process of true biblical discipleship. He's going to give you practical tools to

grow spiritually, experience God's peace, live with greater purpose, and become more like Jesus in

every area of your life. And now here's part one of a message called Helping Others Like Jesus.

If you'll take out your message notes, I'm starting a new series today that I'm calling

the Jesus model. And in the last series that we did, we talked about how God puts you on this

planet to do five things. He wants you to practice on earth what you're going to do forever

in eternity. One of those things that God wants you to practice on earth what you're going to do forever in eternity.

One of those things that God wants you to do is learn how to serve him by serving other

people, and that's called ministry. Now, in the five things that God wants you to do here on

earth, and we're going to look at ministry today, he didn't just tell us what to do. Jesus gave

us a model, and he said, I'm going to send you a personal coach called the Holy Spirit, who will

live inside of you. So I'm not just telling you what to do. I'm going to model it for you,

and I'm going to do it through you. Now, the background of the text that we're looking at

today is that Jesus Christ obviously was born at Christmas time and at 30 years of age,

he began his public ministry. Now, he did that by being baptized. That's how he started.

Now, he had already, as a child, been dedicated or confirmed in the temple.

When he was just a baby, he was taken to the temple by his parents and dedicated and confirmed.

We do baby dedications here at Saddleback.

How many of you have been confirmed or dedicated?

Can I see your hands?

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