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. Right now, here's Pastor Rick with part one of a message called

Rethinking the problem of sin. I want to begin with a question. If I were to ask you,

what's the biggest problem in your life right now?

You might say, well, Rick, I'm under some financial pressure, or I've got a strain in a relationship,

having a little bit of conflict, or I'm dealing with some tight deadlines I've got to deal with,

or I've got opposition, or I've got competition.

You might give me a list of different problems that you have in your life, but that's not

your biggest problem. The truth is your biggest problem is you. And I am my biggest problem.

You cause yourself more problems than anybody else does, and so do I. And you do

it by the way you think. Because when you don't think correctly, it causes you to feel incorrectly.

And when you feel incorrectly, you tend to make bad choices. And that causes all kinds of problems

in your life. The problems, all kinds of problems in your life.

The problems, most of the problems in your life are caused by the way you think.

You see, you talk to yourself all the time.

You're doing it right now.

While I'm talking to you, you're going, I wonder if what Rick's going to say today is going to be interesting.

And you talk to yourself all of the time.

Not everything you tell yourself is the truth. The Bible says the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked.

Who can know it? In other words, I've said this to you many times. You lie to yourself.

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