Jesus Came to Light Up Your Life - Part 1
Pastor Rick's Daily Hope
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🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Before you were born, God planned a purpose for your life. He wants you to know and live out your purpose—and that's why he came at Christmas! Pastor Rick teaches in this message why we need Jesus to light up our minds with truth so that we can know his purpose.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren. |
| 0:07.7 | Today we continue in our Christmas series called Jesus Came to Light Up Your Life. |
| 0:13.8 | In these messages, Rick shares how Jesus came to earth to enlighten and transform us. |
| 0:20.5 | But before we get started, we want to let you know that very generous friends of the |
| 0:25.2 | ministry are offering a $100,000 matching grant. |
| 0:29.7 | That means every dollar you give right now to help Daily Hope share the hope of Jesus |
| 0:34.5 | around the world will be matched up to $100,000, making your gift go twice |
| 0:41.2 | as far. You can find out more by going to pastor rick.com or by texting the word hope to 800, 600, |
| 0:50.0 | 500, 5,0004. Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part one of a message called Jesus |
| 0:57.2 | came to light up your life. You know, one of the things I love about Christmas season is all the |
| 1:03.8 | lights. It's just so amazing. Christmas lights up the world in the darkest season. You know, in the |
| 1:10.4 | northern hemisphere, in December, you know, we had our winter solstice just two days ago, a couple days ago on Tuesday, which was the longest night of the year in the shortest day. |
| 1:20.7 | And when everything gets darkest, all of a sudden the world lights up. |
| 1:25.8 | And I love this, because first the lights come on in all of the stores, then it comes on in all of a sudden the world lights up. And I love this because first the lights come on in all of the stores, |
| 1:29.1 | then it comes on in all of the cities, and then all of the houses put up their lights. Last night |
| 1:34.6 | the Warren got theirs up. We're a little behind, but we got it up. Christmas lights up the world. |
| 1:40.7 | Did you know that light is a major theme of the Bible? The Bible says, God is light, |
| 1:46.3 | and in him is no darkness at all. The Bible says the first act of creation was, let there be |
| 1:51.9 | light. Yeah. And Jesus said, I am the light of the world. And on Christmas, the very first Christmas, |
| 2:00.4 | light played a major role. The angels |
| 2:02.2 | put on a spectacular light show for the shepherds when they announced, behold, born this |
| 2:09.0 | day in the city of David is the Savior, Christ the Lord. And when the wise man followed the star, |
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