Rico Tice

I'm gonna call Pete.

I'm gonna call Rico.

Secondly, look down again.

How were you converted? 2 Corinthians four, verse six.

How can, how can God be right and make you right when you're wrong? Answer, the gospel.

So here is a book, and in this book is everything I've ever done wrong.

Rico Tice, The Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, volume thirty-seven of many.

Here's this book, and I wonder if you can see every page is blank.

And I really rate it when you do it, um, when they watch the videos, and they kind of do the take home work, it kind of gets them into the Bible in between your sessions together.

Um, and I just think Rico Tice has done a great job.

The one thing of it is it's a little bit dated, and it's kind of, it's...

But I kind of just l- like call out that if, like I'll just go, "It's, oh, it's kind of dated." And you almost laugh a little bit at Rico.

And you give me brothers and sisters that love me and worthwhile things to do.

And one day, Lord, I will stand before you and you'll say, Rico Tice, it is good to see you.

You have been on my mind a very long time.

And I remember this in prayer.

T, think about such things.

Which is your weakness? Which one is most likely to cause you to drift away?

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Israel Elisha and we thought last week about how in the Bible story Elisha is foreshadowing Jesus here he is at that time God's appointed Savior and judge even his name Elisha means God saves just as Jesus name means God saves that's step two and without step two he can't be made clean she is the linchpin the messenger.

It's a bit like when we had Rico Tice, who developed Christianity Explored, the inquirer's course, here last year doing some training, and he pointed this out, that with the importance of a girl like this in the life of Naaman, when you think about your friends who are not yet Christians, who is the most important person they know? It's you.

You are the most important person in their life.

And Rico told the story of going around his street, around to the neighbors near Christmas time, taking them each a Christmas gift with his daughter.

And I could see that she'd become much more committed in her faith.

And I said, why is that? She said, Rico, in the midst of fearing that I would die and not be able to be a mother to my first son and not a wife to my husband and love my family, in the midst of worrying that my health was disintegrating but the baby I just had was going to die too, she said, in the midst of that, though I'm a very young Christian, the thing that worked was prayer.

She found, if we look down, she found that her heart was garrisoned.

That is the word guarded, garrisoned.

And God's supernatural gift of joy, Christian joy, will be a reality.

And that is the difference between human happiness and Christian joy.

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What is your price? What favourable circumstances do you require in your life in order to serve Christ? What conditions, and I'm afraid that one sees this quite often, what conditions have you put tacitly or explicitly to God in order for you to be a follower of his? Is it good health or popularity or a successful career or a happy marriage or children or financial security? What is your price?

Welcome to The Bible Explored with Rico Tice.

A series produced in partnership with Christianity Explored and Premier.

Rico has given his whole life to preaching the gospel, and his heart's desire is to enable others to do the same.

He places Christ at the centre of Christianity as he opens the Bible for us today.

You may know the vulgar old story of the dinner party at which the conversation of the guests turned to the hypothetical question, what would you do for a million pounds? One lady said with a wicked smile that she would do anything for a million pounds.

That is God's aim.

Is it ours?