Hey everyone, welcome to Pastor Rick Warren's Daily Hope.

Now, we're going to continue our series today called Building My Life on Values That Last.

And Rick will press on and show us how we benefit when we apply the biblical principles

of trust, self-control, balance, respect, forgiveness, moral purity, fairness, honesty, and love to our lives.

And now let's join Rick and listen in for the final part of a message called Showing Respect.

Jesus is watching you. He's watching you to see how you treat the people he died for.

Even the most despicable person and the most wrong lifestyle, Jesus still died for him.

And God wants to see how you're going to be.

Are you going to be gentle, not judgmental?

You're going to tell the truth

tactfully? Now, the greatest lab for this, folks, is the family. It's in the marriage. That's where

we're to learn the principles of respect. If you don't, it causes all kinds of problems in your

life. And some of you have had some bad relationships with your parents or with your husband or your

wife because of this.

And I want to say to you, it's never too late to get started.

I want you to listen to this story of CJ.

Would you give him a warm welcome?

Go, buddy. I would like to tell you about how God

to tell you about how God gave me a second chance on learning to love and respect my wife

after years of a relationship that had become almost nonexistent. It happened after I committed

my life to Christ the second time, and let me give you just a little background about that.

I grew up in an area of the country that was enduringly referred to as the Dust Bowl.

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