Today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, we begin a series called Financial Fitness. In these

lessons we'll learn what God says about our finances and how to have true financial

freedom. In just a few minutes we're going to tell you about a tool you can use at home

to help you gain true financial freedom. It's called the Financial Fitness DVD and

we're book study kit by Pastor Rick Warren and you can take a sneak peek right now by

going to PastorRick.com or by texting the word daily to 800 600 5,000 4 while you listen

to today's message. Right now here's Pastor Rick Warren with part one of a message called

the Foundation of Financial Health. I'm really excited about this for a couple of reasons.

First we're going to study two of my favorite books of the Bible, the Book of Proverbs and

the Book of Ecclesiastes. They're in the Old Testament written by Solomon, the wisest

man who ever lived and I love these books and they are literally filled, chalk filled with

advice on how to get out of debt, how to stay out of debt, how to prosper, how to have

financial stability, how to save, spend, invest, not waste your money, make the most of it,

not have money work for you and not you work for money. A lot of principles, we're going

to be looking at the laws, the financial laws that are in the Bible in God's Word and

there are 20, 30 of these we're going to look at during this series. Now before we look

at Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, we start looking at these laws of financial freedom, laws of

financial fitness, laws of financial blessing in your life. I want us to look at first

what Jesus said about it. You see, Jesus talked more about money than he did Heaven or

Hell. Did you know that? He talked more about money than Heaven or Hell. Why? Because we

spend more time thinking about money than Heaven or Hell. We spend much of our time thinking

about how to get it, how to make it, how to save it, how to spend it, how to invest it,

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