Hello and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Your mind is the greatest gift God has given you. That's why today we continue with a series

called Rethinking Your Life. In these lessons, Rick shares nine biblical pillars we need to reshape our minds so that we can

become more like Jesus Christ. But first, if you're ready to live the abundant life Jesus promises,

then you'll be excited to know that Pastor Rick created a brand new Bible study called

Rethinking Your Life.

This study will guide you into a deeper relationship with God,

allowing you to see your life through his eyes, apply his wisdom,

and step into a life of purpose and joy.

You can find out more by going to pastor rick.com or by just texting the word

hope to 800, 600,0004. Right now here's pastor rick with the final part of a message called

learning to think like jesus. To think like j Jesus means that I want to do God's will even when it's painful, even when it's difficult, even when it seems impossible.

That's what it means to have the mind of Christ.

Now, the supreme example of this, doing what God asked me to do, even when it's painful, is Jesus the night before he is going to the cross.

He is in the Garden of Gassimony, which is his favorite place to pray.

I've been to the Garden of Gassimini.

It's a grove of very, very old olive trees. Some of them right now, they're over a thousand years old, and they're still there, a thousand years old. And he would go to Gessimini and pray. That was his regular place. And the night before he's going to the cross, he's in agony, knowing the pain, emotionally, physically, spiritually, he's going to face the next day with all of the

six trials, three Roman, three Jewish trials, all the torture, all of the crown of thorns,

the being spit on, the being hit, beaten, scourged 40 times with a whip and then nailed to the cross.

He knows not just the physical pain, but the emotional pain and the

pain of carrying all the sins of the world, the guilt and shame of that. And in Gassimony,

Jesus says that he wants to do God's will, not his own, even if it's painful. In Mark

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