Hey everyone, welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren.

And today we're continuing with this powerful series called The Jesus Model.

In this series, Rick will walk you step by step through the process of true biblical discipleship.

Rick's giving 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. Right now, we're going into part two of a message called Helping Others Like Jesus.

There's another kind of blindness, and that's spiritual blindness. It's the worst of all.

And we're spiritual blindness is when we close our eyes to the goodness of God in our lives.

When we attribute all the good things in our lives to us and attribute all the bad things in our

lives to God, that's called

spiritual blindness. When you don't realize how much you've messed up, when you're not willing

to admit how much you need a Savior, how much you need God in your life, when you don't open

your heart to Christ, that's spiritual blindness.

God says, I still care about you.

And I came to open your eyes, to give you that new vision, that new insight.

And then the fifth group, Jesus said he came to help is the oppressed.

He said, I came to release the oppressed and proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.

And I'll explain that in a minute.

The oppressed, I call these people the kicked around.

And the oppressed are the people in life

who are kicked around in life.

By circumstances, they're put down,

they're played upon, they're taken advantage of,

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