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.

Let's say 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 happen 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.

It's just like people say, well, I don't believe in God and I don't believe in the Ten Commandments.

It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not.

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