WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:07.919 Today on Daily Hope with Pastor Rick Warren, we continue in our riveting journey 2 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:13.880 through the series The Invisible War. In it will explore the unseen world of 3 00:00:13.960 --> 00:00:19.120 good and evil and see how it impacts our day to day existence. Join 4 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:25.879 us for eye opening biblical insights into the spiritual dimensions that influence our lives in 5 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:31.679 ways we never imagined. Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part two 6 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:37.640 of a message called making the Hard Changes in Me. Number two. The 7 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:42.240 next verse tells us the second requirement for personal change, and it's this change 8 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:49.640 requires making choices. Change requires making choices, and they've got to be good 9 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:53.840 choices, obviously. But what I'm saying here is that it's not enough just 10 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:57.799 to want a change. It's not enough to just desire to change. It's 11 00:00:57.799 --> 00:01:00.159 not even enough to just say I've got a dream of changing. I've got 12 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:03.519 a dream of being something else. Dreams are worthless unless you wake up and 13 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:08.200 actually act on them. So more than desire, more than dreaming, it 14 00:01:08.239 --> 00:01:14.719 takes a decision. You're not going to change until you choose to change. 15 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:18.640 A lot of people think about changing, they plan on changing, they want 16 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:21.640 to change. It's a someday I'll change, or when I get around to 17 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:26.640 it, I'll change, But they don't ever actually choose to change. You 18 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:30.519 see, it's not going to happen without intention. Let me put it this 19 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:36.040 way, how are you going to be different in six months? Are you 20 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:41.000 going to be emotionally stronger? Are you going to be mentally sharper? Are 21 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:45.359 you going to be physically healthier? Are you going to be spiritually deeper? 22 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:49.079 The answer is no, unless you choose to be that way, because it 23 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:53.719 isn't going to happen automatically. You're just not going to get healthier by accident 24 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:59.200 in any category of your life. A lot of times we think we're waiting 25 00:01:59.239 --> 00:02:01.560 on God to change. Just no, you're not waiting on God. God's 26 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:07.840 waiting on you, and it'll happen when you get intentional. Now, why 27 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:12.080 don't we make these choices because internally we don't think this way, but it's 28 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:16.840 we know it instinctively. There is no growth in your life without change, 29 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:23.280 and there is no change without loss. You got to let go of some 30 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:28.960 old stuff and there there is no loss without pain. It's like being a 31 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:34.120 trapeze artist in a circus. If you fly out on a trapeze bar and 32 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:37.520 you're out there over there, you know, you know, thousand feet up 33 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:39.439 from the ground, or however many hundreds feet it is. You've got to 34 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:43.240 let go of one bar and grab on to the other to get to the 35 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:46.080 other side. Now, if you think I'm going to swing out and I'm 36 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:50.319 going to grab onto the other bar without letting go of this one, what's 37 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:57.000 going to happen? Stuck in the middle with you and pretty soon you get 38 00:02:57.039 --> 00:03:00.680 tired and you let go and you're falling. Some of you are stuck in 39 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:05.479 the middle right now because you haven't learned how to let go. That's a 40 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:09.120 choice, and that's the second thing that God says you gotta do. Look 41 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:14.840 at this next verse, verse twenty two. He says, throw off. 42 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:19.159 That means get rid of, let go, throw off your old evil nature 43 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:23.159 and your former way of life, all those bad habits and patterns and defects, 44 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:25.840 which is written through and through full of lust and deception, all that 45 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:30.000 stuff where you've been telling yourself it's okay, but it's not okay because it's 46 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:34.159 really messing up your life. He says, throw off that old nature. 47 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:37.680 Now, we spent an entire message on this last week talking about your old 48 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:39.680 nature. And if you miss that message, you need to go back and 49 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:44.560 listen to all three in the series that we've built on so far. Each 50 00:03:44.639 --> 00:03:50.680 of your parents gave you twenty three thousand chromosomes. And because your parents were 51 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:53.759 imperfect, they gave you some of their imperfections. Have you noticed that? 52 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:59.879 Have you noticed the older you get, the more like your parents you get. 53 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:04.960 Okay, and so, and since we all came back from originally from 54 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:08.479 Adam and Eve, then what's gonna happen? It means from Adam and Eve 55 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:12.719 there has been a sinful tendency, a old nature than in all of us, 56 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:15.360 that we want to do what we're not supposed to do. And growing 57 00:04:15.399 --> 00:04:17.519 up you're told, now, don't touch that stove, it's hot, and 58 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:21.000 what do you do? It's like you see a sign that says wet paint, 59 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:27.360 don't touch. What do you want to do? You know? And 60 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:30.439 it's like when I was growing up, my mom would always say, no, 61 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:33.079 Ricky, I don't want to hear a peep out of you. Every 62 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:40.959 bone in my body wanted to go peep. Okay, Why that's the old 63 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:44.439 nature, the tendency to say, nobody's going to tell me what to do. 64 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:48.399 I'm my own boss, I'm my own God, and so we have 65 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:53.519 part of the defects come from you from three. Part of your defects car 66 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:57.279 biological. Some of them are sociological, and some of them are theological. 67 00:04:57.519 --> 00:05:00.040 Some of them are nature, and some of them are nurture. But some 68 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:02.759 of them come from circumstances, some of them come from choices, and some 69 00:05:02.839 --> 00:05:08.079 of them come from your chromosomes. Doesn't really matter where they come from. 70 00:05:08.199 --> 00:05:12.680 You need to deal with it, Okay, I want you to write this 71 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:23.279 down. Genetics explain my inclinations, but they don't excuse my sins. Genetics 72 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:30.199 explain my inclinations, but they don't excuse my sins. Just because I have 73 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:34.120 a natural inclination towards something doesn't mean I should do it, and doesn't mean 74 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:41.680 it's necessarily good. I can have all kinds of self destructive inclinations. In 75 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:45.360 fact, we all have those in our lives. For instance, I might 76 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:48.560 be born with a natural inclination to get angry. Some people, as youre 77 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:54.199 a lobbyists, have a harder time with anger than others. They're just born 78 00:05:54.279 --> 00:05:57.000 that way. They come out of the womb. Trump it on a cigar, 79 00:05:57.079 --> 00:06:00.560 saying I dare you. You know, okay, And some people are 80 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:05.360 just predisposed to get angry, and other people aren't. You have fears, 81 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:10.439 and you've got other problems. But let's say I've got a natural inclination to 82 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:15.279 get angry. That doesn't excuse me to just go abuse everybody verbally or physically. 83 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:21.480 There's no excuse for that. Some people are born naturally motivated and they're 84 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:25.399 ready to take on the world from day one, and other people aren't born 85 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:28.279 with a lot of motivation, and it's kind of like, let it happen. 86 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:31.639 And I may be born with a natural inclination to not really do a 87 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:35.560 whole lot, but that does not excuse me to do nothing with my life 88 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:43.160 and just be lazy. I may be born with a predisposition or a natural 89 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:48.279 inclination to be addicted to things. I might have an addictive personality and I 90 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:53.800 tend to get addicted to television or food, or drugs or alcohol or sex 91 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:58.240 or pornography. Or I might have a natural inclination and addictive personality. Some 92 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:00.920 people do, but that doesn't do not excuse me to go act it out 93 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:08.680 just because I have a tendency or a desire or an attraction or an affinity 94 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:15.519 or a predisposition does not mean that I should act on it. Now it 95 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:20.680 genetics explains my inclination. It does not excuse my acting out or my sense. 96 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:24.399 Now here's the good news, and we talked about it last week. 97 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:28.319 Once you become a believer, you have a new power in you that is 98 00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:32.279 greater than those old tendencies. And that power is the Holy Spirit. You 99 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:39.319 see in changing the defects in your life. God has a part and you 100 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:43.360 have a part. It's not all God and it's not all you. It's 101 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:46.639 kind of like growing up physically. Growing up physically, there are some things 102 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:50.199 you could do that would help you grow, like eat right, sleep right, 103 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:54.800 exercise, but there are some things that are totally out of your control. 104 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:57.560 No matter how much you eat, sleep, and exercise. You didn't 105 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:01.600 get to choose how tall you're going to be. God shows that you didn't 106 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:07.480 choose your bone structure, and so part of your physical growth was God's responsibility, 107 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:13.639 and part of your physical growth was your responsibility. The same is true 108 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:18.079 with your spiritual growth. God has a part and you have a part in 109 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:22.560 your spiritual growth. Now notice this next verse. This explains Philippians, chapter 110 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:30.199 two. Continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it 111 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:35.200 is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good 112 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:39.759 purpose. Now, I want you to circle the phrases work out and work 113 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:43.240 in. This is the balance. There's a working out and there's a working 114 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:46.799 in. When there you want to make changes in your life. The working 115 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:52.039 out is your part and the working in is God's part. We are to 116 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:58.000 work out what God is working in in our lives. Now, I want 117 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:01.080 to explain this verse in details because I don't want you to misunderstand it. 118 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:07.279 Continue to work out your salvation. Notice it doesn't say continue to work for 119 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:13.639 your salvation. It says work out. Not for nowhere in the Bible are 120 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:20.120 you told to work for your salvation. You cannot earn your way to heaven. 121 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:22.960 You cannot buy your way into heaven. You cannot deserve your way into 122 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:26.240 heaven. It is a gift, and the Bible says the Ephesians two eight 123 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:31.840 to nine, for by grace God's gift we are saved through faith, and 124 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.759 even that is not of ourselves. It is the gift of God, not 125 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:41.120 of works. So nobody can brag about it. In other words, you 126 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:45.360 cannot work your way to heaven. You cannot earn your way to heaven. 127 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:48.039 The Bible says over and over it is a free gift. But once you 128 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:52.799 have received that gift that you did not earn, then you are to work 129 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:58.039 out your salvation, not work for, but work out. What does it 130 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:03.200 mean to work out? Have you ever done a workout? Some of you 131 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:07.799 obviously know, Okay, have you ever done? What do you do at 132 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:11.120 a workout? When you work out, you go to a gym. And 133 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:16.679 when you go to a gym, you don't go to invent muscle. You 134 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:22.720 go to develop the muscle God already gave you. You cannot create a bicep 135 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:26.080 out of nothing. But when you go and you work out in a gem, 136 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:31.360 you are developing the muscle God gave you. And when you work out 137 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:37.720 your salvation, you're not getting your salvation. You are developing. You're cultivating 138 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:41.720 your understanding the salvation God gave you. Does that make sense? Workout does 139 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:46.679 not mean work for. It means you develop what God has already given you. 140 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:52.120 My wife Kate loves to do jigsaw puzzles, and she'll buy one of 141 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:56.039 these thousand piece jug saw puzzle and she'll come home and about half the time 142 00:10:56.120 --> 00:11:01.000 she'll throw it out on the kitchen table and it's just a jump a mess. 143 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:03.720 And then her job, and she enjoys doing this, is to work 144 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:07.720 out the puzzle. Now, when you work out a puzzle, did you 145 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:13.639 create it? No, you're just putting it together. She doesn't create the 146 00:11:13.639 --> 00:11:18.399 pieces of the puzzle. She's not the puzzle creator. Working out a puzzle 147 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:22.039 means I'm taking all the pieces that were given to me by the creator of 148 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:24.360 the puzzle, and I'm putting together. And then when it's all done and 149 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:28.240 go, oh, look at that big picture. Isn't that beautiful? And 150 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:31.519 that's what working out your salvation means. Your many of you don't understand your 151 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:35.159 life is like a jumble of puzzle pieces, and you've got a pile of 152 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:37.039 and you go, I don't know what my life's supposed to look like. 153 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:41.000 I have no idea what my life. I just got this puzzle, the 154 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:45.440 pieces, and I got this piece and this piecet and and you start putting 155 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:48.480 them together. And when you get it all put together, by the end 156 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:52.039 of your life, oh that's the picture, that's the big picture. You 157 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:54.440 don't see the big picture. Yet. Now it helps in putting a puzzle 158 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:58.320 together to have a little picture on the cover so you can see what it's 159 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:03.320 supposed to look like. Right, this will give you a picture of your 160 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:07.279 life. And the more you read this book, the more you're going to 161 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:11.799 understand the pieces of the puzzle and what your life is to look like, 162 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:16.879 because it is to look like Jesus Christ in you. But you work it 163 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:20.159 out by putting the pieces of the puzzle together. Now, notice it says 164 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:28.120 work out your salvation with fear and trembling. What does that mean? Am 165 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:31.120 I supposed to be afraid of God? Am I supposed to be trembling at 166 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:33.360 God? I'm a believer? No, of course not. He's not being 167 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:37.919 saying to be afraid of God, but being afraid that you'll miss God's best, 168 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:41.240 be afraid that you don't take the time to put the puzzle together, 169 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:45.279 be afraid and tremble that you'd waste your life, that you could go your 170 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:48.600 entire life and never know God's purpose. He's saying, you need to take 171 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:54.240 this serious. You need to take your life serious, because you've only got 172 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:58.919 one life and it's going to have eternal implications. Whether you put the puzzle 173 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:03.879 together or not. And if you're so busy working on making an income and 174 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:07.200 working on being popular and working on and you're not working out your life and 175 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:13.440 you're not dealing with these defects and you're not growing spiritually, you're missing the 176 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:18.279 point you need to be working out and be afraid tremble that you might go 177 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:20.480 through life and waste your life. That's what you ought to be afraid of 178 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:26.679 that you didn't ever get to the point of understanding why am I here? 179 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:28.919 What on earth am I here? For? Now? It says while you're 180 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:33.679 doing the workout, it says God is working in you. You know that 181 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:37.679 word phrase working in You know what it is in Greek. It's the word 182 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:43.039 inner goths. It's the word we get energy from. Have you ever see 183 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:48.399 the advertisement where the inner gos bunny the energizer bunny. That's what this word 184 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:54.000 comes from. It says, God gives you the energy the inner gos he 185 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:56.919 works in He's putting energy in your life to change the things you could never 186 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:01.440 change. And notice what he says. It is God who works in you. 187 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:05.519 He's given you the energy to will and to act. Circle that on 188 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:09.080 your outline to will and act. God gives you two kinds of energy, 189 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:15.320 the desire and the power to will and to act. The answer to changing 190 00:14:15.399 --> 00:14:20.200 your life is not willpower. It's God giving you the will and the power. 191 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:22.919 The change in your life is not going to come from I'm just going 192 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:28.039 to force myself to be happy. Is going to happen. It's not willpower. 193 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:33.399 It's a matter of God giving you the will and the power to do 194 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:37.519 it. That leads us to the third change man, it's the next verse. 195 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:45.559 Verse twenty three tells us that change requires new thinking. Change in your 196 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:50.279 life requires new thinking. Now we've talked about this a lot, and we're 197 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:54.960 going to continue because the battle for sin in your life and the battle for 198 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:58.039 the defects in your life for you so you can kind of be a better 199 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:03.039 person, it's time to go go on. Always is a mental battle. 200 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:07.559 It starts in the mind. It's one or lost. There. Let's see, 201 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:13.559 how can I say this. You aren't what you think you are, 202 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:20.679 but what you think you are. You aren't what you think you are, 203 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:26.279 but what you think you are. The Bible says, as a man thinketh, 204 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:31.720 so is he? The Bible says, out of the issues heart are 205 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:35.879 the issues of life. That the way you think. We talked about this 206 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:39.960 many times. The way you think determines the way you feel, and the 207 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:43.960 way you feel determines the way you act. If you want to change the 208 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:46.159 way you act, you don't like the way you act in a crowd, 209 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:48.720 you know you act nervous, you act goofy, you don't know what to 210 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:52.759 say. And if you want to change the way you act, you've got 211 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:56.480 to change the way you feel. Because if you're acting nervous, it's because 212 00:15:56.519 --> 00:16:00.320 you feel nervous. But if you want to change the way you feel, 213 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:03.679 you've got to change the way you think. You can't focus on the feeling. 214 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:07.399 You can't fight a feeling, you can't force a feeling. But you 215 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:11.840 can change the way you feel by changing the way you think, because every 216 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:18.159 feeling is determined by a thought. Now, if you say I'm not acting 217 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:21.440 very loving to my wife because I don't feel very loving to my wife, 218 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:23.480 you need to change the way you think about your wife. And that is 219 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:27.320 a choice. You can't control your feelings, but you can control your thoughts. 220 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:32.399 And if you change your thoughts and you start thinking loving thoughts towards your 221 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:37.080 husband, towards your spouse toward whoever. It's going to change the way you 222 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:41.080 feel, and that's going to change the way you act. Now, this 223 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:45.000 is what the Bible says in verse twenty three. There must be a spiritual 224 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:52.960 renewal of your thoughts and attitudes. You're not going to change until your thoughts 225 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:57.799 change, until your attitudes change. This is why a daily quiet time is 226 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:03.600 important. Every day you need to spend four or five ten minutes at least 227 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:07.039 where you get along with God for five minutes and you sit down and you 228 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:10.279 be quiet, and you open the Bible and you read the Bible a little 229 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:11.920 bit, and you talk to God about whatever's on your mind. That's called 230 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:15.759 prayer. You listen to God through the Bible. You talk to God in 231 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:18.079 prayer. You just be quiet. You say God, is there anything you 232 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:22.319 want to say to me? That is the spiritual renewal in your mind. 233 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:26.839 If you're not doing that, you're not going to have the power to change. 234 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:30.319 Now. You know what a change of mind is called in Scripture. 235 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:34.599 You know what the theological term is. It is the word repentance. To 236 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:38.400 repent literally means to change your mind. Now, a lot of people think 237 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:41.599 repent is a bad word. No, No, it's a good word. 238 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:45.119 It's a positive word. People think repentance is this guy trying to scare people, 239 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:48.759 you know, out of hell into heaven. There's a guy with a 240 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:51.960 long beard holding a sign on the street corner saying that you know, the 241 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:55.680 end of the world is coming. Repent. He's got on a sandwich board 242 00:17:55.720 --> 00:18:00.680 that says, you know, you know, repent, turn or burn, 243 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:06.359 You're going to die and fry while we go to the sky. No, 244 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:11.720 that's not repents. The word repent actually is the Greek word meta noya meta 245 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:15.759 noia means to change your mind. That's what it means, to change your 246 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:22.599 mind. It means a mental you turn. And it means when I repented, 247 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:26.480 I changed my mind. I turned from life from death to life. 248 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:33.119 I churned from sin to forgiveness. I turned from guilt to peace of mind. 249 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:38.039 I returned from pressure to joy. I turned from hell to heaven return. 250 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:45.400 I turned from my way to God's way. I turned from stress to 251 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:49.640 confidence. It was the most positive change in my life. When I repented, 252 00:18:51.039 --> 00:18:52.799 I would have done it years sooner if I knew what it involved. 253 00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:56.839 It wasn't something I regretted doing repented. It was the greatest decision in my 254 00:18:56.920 --> 00:19:03.559 life. I turned from regret to share peace of mind and forgiveness. And 255 00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:08.000 when I repented, I changed my mind about everything. I changed my mind 256 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:11.799 about me. I changed the way I saw God. He's not mad at 257 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:15.759 me, He's mad about me. I changed the way I saw life. 258 00:19:15.799 --> 00:19:18.440 I changed the way I think about money. I changed the way I think 259 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:22.160 about heaven and hell. I changed the way I think about sex. I 260 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:26.359 changed the way I think about the problems I face in life. I changed 261 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:30.640 the way I think about other people. I changed the way I think about 262 00:19:30.039 --> 00:19:33.839 everything in life, my parents, my past, my present, my future. 263 00:19:34.440 --> 00:19:38.720 That is what it means to repent a mental U turn. How many 264 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:41.680 of you have a GPS in your car? Okay, A bunch of you 265 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:45.160 do, all right. Some of you you've got ones that speak aloud. 266 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:51.200 Mine does. And if I'm out there and I make a defective turn, 267 00:19:52.359 --> 00:19:57.200 it will often tell me make a U turn as quickly as possible. Now, 268 00:19:57.720 --> 00:20:03.599 the thisisdom shows up in my life on how quickly I make a U 269 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:07.440 turn. And when God says to you, a penny's saying, I want 270 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:11.599 you to make a U turn as quickly as possible, You're headed down the 271 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:12.640 wrong track. You're going the wrong way. It's not going to take you 272 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:18.039 where you want to go. It says you've got to change the way you're 273 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:22.079 thinking, and you've got to fill your mind with the truth, not the 274 00:20:22.160 --> 00:20:26.440 lies. Now, why is this important to learn to think in new ways? 275 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:30.599 You even have to think in new ways about your defects. Would you 276 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:36.559 write this down? Defects are often strengths being misused. That's a new way 277 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:42.400 of thinking. My defects are often my strengths being misused. You've probably never 278 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:47.160 thought of that, But that's a repentance, that's a change of mind. 279 00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:52.799 My defects are often the strengths God gave me being misused. For instance, 280 00:20:52.920 --> 00:20:57.640 maybe God gave you a strength of discernment, and you've got a phony meter 281 00:20:57.720 --> 00:21:02.759 in your brain that can smell out of fake, just like that. And 282 00:21:02.839 --> 00:21:06.440 you know when you get around some poser and your phony meter go ding. 283 00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:10.480 This guy's a fake, this girl's a fake. You know, by the 284 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:15.279 way, the only people that posers impress are other posers, because everybody else 285 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:21.319 can see through it. But maybe you have a natural discernment. That's a 286 00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:25.279 good thing. But if you don't know how to use it correctly incorrectly use 287 00:21:25.519 --> 00:21:30.839 You'll get judgmental, you'll be critical, you'll be tempted to judge other people 288 00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:37.240 all the time. It's a good quality being misused. Maybe you have a 289 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:42.200 strengthen detail and you're detail oriented, and you could see details and you notice 290 00:21:42.200 --> 00:21:47.119 things that other people. Thank God, we have detailed people in the world. 291 00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:48.799 I'm not one of them, but thank God. I mean, if 292 00:21:48.839 --> 00:21:52.119 I'm having brain surgery, I want that surgeon to be a detailed person. 293 00:21:53.079 --> 00:21:55.880 I don't want to go, oh, what's that piece, I'll forget it, 294 00:21:55.920 --> 00:21:59.640 throw it over there. You know, we don't need that part, 295 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:02.039 you know, just cram it back there in the corner. You know. 296 00:22:02.359 --> 00:22:07.680 I want my brain surgeon to be as detailed as possible. Okay, But 297 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:11.480 if you're a detailed person and you misuse that, God givin get, you're 298 00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:15.839 gonna become picky. You're gonna become finicky, You're going to be unpleasable, 299 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:22.759 and you are difficult to live with because you're a detailed person. On the 300 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:26.720 other hand, you may be a big picture person, and thank God for 301 00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:30.799 big picture people. We need people who can see the big picture, people 302 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:34.039 who can look three, five, ten years ahead. I'm a big picture 303 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:37.640 kind of person, and I'm always trying to think ahead for you because some 304 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:41.759 of you aren't. And if you're a big picture person, that's a good 305 00:22:41.799 --> 00:22:48.319 thing. But if you don't understand the weakness behind that, you will overlook 306 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:53.279 people because you're always looking at the picture. Now, God loves to put 307 00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:59.680 opposites together and watch the sparks fly, so detail people always marry big picture 308 00:22:59.720 --> 00:23:04.559 people. You know, as I've said many times, when people before marriage, 309 00:23:04.559 --> 00:23:11.119 opposites a tract, and then after marriage, opposites attack, and all 310 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:14.720 those things that you thought were so cool about your spouse now irritates you to 311 00:23:14.799 --> 00:23:18.319 death. And before you got married, you go, man, how does 312 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:22.160 she think like that? That is so cute? You know, I've never 313 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:26.880 you know, what attracted you to your boyfriend or your girlfriend is they're different 314 00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:30.200 from you. It is the differences that attract you. Go wow, I've 315 00:23:30.200 --> 00:23:33.960 never seen anybody who thinks that way. It's just so fascinating. Now six 316 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:36.720 months into the relationship, you're going, could you pee a little bit more 317 00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:41.720 like me? I mean, that's irritating now. And so maybe you're an 318 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:48.559 amiable person. That's your natural giftedness and you're you know, you're like nobody 319 00:23:48.599 --> 00:23:51.319 bugs you. It's easy to get along with you. You can just go 320 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:55.640 along to get along. You're very amiable. But if you use that incorrectly, 321 00:23:55.799 --> 00:23:59.480 you're gonna let people walk all over you, and you're gonna be a 322 00:23:59.519 --> 00:24:03.720 doormat. And it actually becomes a defect. A strength can become a defect. 323 00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:07.759 So you got to change the way you think. Philippians two, verse 324 00:24:07.799 --> 00:24:15.680 five says this, let the same mind an attitude be in you, which 325 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:26.319 was in Christ Jesus. You're listening to Pastor Rick's Daily Home. We're so 326 00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:32.319 happy you've chosen to study along with us today. Why is everything in life 327 00:24:32.400 --> 00:24:36.799 so hard? Why does the right thing often feel like a battle. It's 328 00:24:36.880 --> 00:24:41.680 because every day there's a spiritual war raging all around you. Here's Pastor Rick 329 00:24:41.799 --> 00:24:45.920 to tell you more. You know, we all face temptations every day. 330 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:52.200 It's a spiritual battle that takes place inside us, and it makes us vulnerable, 331 00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:56.680 particularly if we don't know how to fight it. To overcome temptation is 332 00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:02.480 absolutely essential that you know the tact that Satan uses to trip us up, 333 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:07.599 and it's vital to learn the biblical defenses that God gives us. 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