This is Pastor Rick's Daily Home, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Well, today we continue with our series called The Keys to a Blessed Life.

In these lessons, Rick shares the practical steps found in Jesus' sermon on the Mount

that will help you live the hopeful and purpose-filled life God planned for you.

In just a few moments, we're going to tell you how you can go deeper in Pastor Rick's teaching

by getting his video-based Bible study for this series. You can find out more by going to

pastorrick.com or by texting the word daily to 800-600-5,000-4. That's the word daily to 800-600-5,000-4.

Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part two of a message called Why You Need to Stay Hungry.

God created heaven as a place for his children that he loves and he wants you to be with him forever

and ever and ever. God has long-range plans for your life. He wants you to be in heaven.

But he's not going to force you to go to heaven. And so God gives you the choice. You can spend your

life connected to him or disconnected to him. You can say, God, if you want to, you can rebel against

God. You can ignore God your entire life. You can pretend God doesn't exist. You can disobey

God. You can be apathetic toward God. And you know what God will say to you? Like Burger King,

have it your way. God never forces anybody to love him because it's not love if you're forced.

So God gives you the choice. And if you don't want to love God, I don't want to live for God. I want

to live my own life. God says, have it your way. Like Burger King. The only problem is one day you're

going to stand before God and God's going to say, you didn't connect with me on earth. You didn't

want to be close to me on earth. Why wouldn't the world want to be close to me now in eternity?

Have it your way. And you will be eternally separated from God. Why would anybody say, I want

to live my entire life separated from God? But when I die, I want to be in God's presence and love.

Really? In both cases, God will say simply have it your way. And if you don't go to heaven,

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