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 the final part of a message called

Rethinking the problem of sin.

Sin does long-term damage and we often think because I don't see the damage right away

that maybe there won't be any damage.

But it's like planting a seed.

If I plant a seed, I don't immediately see the sprout.

It takes weeks for the seed to sprout and push up through the ground.

And then it grows and it grows, it becomes a bush, and it might even become a tree and get really, really big.

But you plant in one season and you harvest in another.

And if I'm planting sin in one season, I'm going to harvest it. It just isn't in this season.

It's going to come out later and there are long-term

results it's kind of like this uh... let's say uh... you and i went to New York City and we went up on the top of the Empire State Building

and I happened to turn to you and I say, you know, I happened to not believe in the law of gravity.

And you go, well, Rick, it doesn't matter

whether you believe it or not, it's a law.

Whether you believe it or not isn't going to change it.

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