Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible
Speaker 1: teaching ministry of Rick Warren. And today we're continuing with
Speaker 1: this powerful series called The Jesus Model. In this series,
Speaker 1: Rick will walk you step by step through the process
Speaker 1: of true Biblical discipleship.
Speaker 2: Rick's giving you practical tools.
Speaker 1: To grow spiritually, experience God's peace, live with greater purpose,
Speaker 1: and become more like Jesus in every area of your life.
Speaker 1: So let's hear what Rick has to share with us
Speaker 1: today in part one of a message called How Jesus
Speaker 1: Handled Stress.
Speaker 3: Good morning, everybody. You look good this weekend if you'll
Speaker 3: take out your message notes. We're in this series on
Speaker 3: the Jesus Model, and today we want to look at
Speaker 3: how Jesus handled Stress. Now, the long awaited fourth install
Speaker 3: of the Terminator film series came out on Thursday.
Speaker 2: This may not be a big deal to you, it's
Speaker 2: a big deal to me. Those of us.
Speaker 3: Who've watched this series were very eager to wait for
Speaker 3: the fourth installment of Terminator Salvation, and I think it
Speaker 3: made thirty million dollars in the first couple of days
Speaker 3: on a Thursday and a Friday.
Speaker 2: And I read this.
Speaker 3: Interview online about the movie Terminarator Salvation cuts to the chase,
Speaker 3: not wasting a speck of time getting into the nitty gritty.
Speaker 3: The year is twenty eighteen and most of humanity has
Speaker 3: been wiped out by a nuclear holocaust. A grown up
Speaker 3: John Connors and if you have watched this series, you
Speaker 3: know who John Connor is. A grown up John Connor
Speaker 3: is fighting with the resistance against the machine. Means John
Speaker 3: Connor's adult life is certainly purpose driven.
Speaker 2: I already loved the movie. I love it.
Speaker 3: I love I haven't even seen it and I love
Speaker 3: this movie. I like that phrase. I'll use it sometime.
Speaker 3: John Connor's adult life is certainly purpose driven. It's rebel
Speaker 3: with a cause. Has the weight of the world on
Speaker 3: his shoulders. Now, whenever we use this phrase the weight
Speaker 3: of the world on his shoulders, we mean somebody who's
Speaker 3: under enormous stress, somebody who is really feeling pressured by
Speaker 3: all of the stresses of life. But the truth is,
Speaker 3: there's only one person who's ever really carried the entire
Speaker 3: weight of the world on his shoulders.
Speaker 2: His name was Jesus, and that's what he came to do,
Speaker 2: to carry the weight of the world.
Speaker 3: On his shoulders. The Bible says this here on the
Speaker 3: screen first John two two. Jesus is the one who
Speaker 3: took God's wrath against our sins upon himself, carried all
Speaker 3: the weight of all of our sins on himself, and
Speaker 3: he brought us into fellowship with God. And he is
Speaker 3: the forgiveness for our sins. And not only ours, but
Speaker 3: all the worlds. The sins of all the world are
Speaker 3: finding forgiveness in Jesus Christ. Nobody carried greater stress in
Speaker 3: life than Jesus. He not only carried the weight of
Speaker 3: the world on the cross during his entire lifetime and
Speaker 3: particularly his ministry, he carried the weight of being the
Speaker 3: savior of the world. Now, there were constant demands on
Speaker 3: his life. There were constant requests. People wanted to see him,
Speaker 3: wanted to heal him. He had no privacy at all.
Speaker 3: There were people who are trying to trap him, there
Speaker 3: were people trying to kill him. He was under the
Speaker 3: expectations of many, many people. And nobody has probably ever
Speaker 3: experienced greater stress than Jesus did. Yet if you look
Speaker 3: at his life, he doesn't seem to be bothered by it.
Speaker 3: He has an incredibly attractive balance to his life, he
Speaker 3: handles all the pressure with peace. In fact, we never
Speaker 3: have an example in the Bible of Jesus ever being
Speaker 3: in a hurry, even though he had the most important
Speaker 3: assignment in life. There's not one instance in the Bible
Speaker 3: where Jesus is said to be running anywhere. He was
Speaker 3: just always at peace. No matter what the world threw
Speaker 3: at him, he handled it with grace. I want to
Speaker 3: learn how to do that. I want to learn how
Speaker 3: to be at peace under pressure. I want to know
Speaker 3: the secrets of stress management. Now, the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 3: we've been looking at the life of Jesus as a
Speaker 3: model for our lives. How Jesus helped others and his
Speaker 3: ministry and how you can help others in your ministry,
Speaker 3: and following the model of Christ, how Jesus did his
Speaker 3: mission in the world, and what God gave as the
Speaker 3: assignment to each of us, and our mission in the world.
Speaker 3: And if you do those things, if you take serious
Speaker 3: about trying to become like Christ, you are going to
Speaker 3: experience stress and life count on it. So today I
Speaker 3: want us to pause and look at the seven secrets
Speaker 3: of stress management from the life of Jesus.
Speaker 2: And if you will do these things.
Speaker 3: I guarantee you that your stress is going to go
Speaker 3: down and your joy and fulfillment is going to go up.
Speaker 3: So if you ever needed to take notes, it's today.
Speaker 3: Now here's the first one. If you look at the
Speaker 3: life of Christ. The first secret the stress management is
Speaker 3: the principle of identification, and it's this know who you
Speaker 3: are that's the starting point. You got to know who
Speaker 3: you are because a confused identity causes stress, and culture
Speaker 3: tries to make you all kinds of things.
Speaker 2: And if you.
Speaker 3: Don't know who you are, other people will mold you
Speaker 3: into what they think you ought to be. Your parents,
Speaker 3: your partners, your peers, the professionals around you, everybody's going
Speaker 3: to try to make you somebody you're not. If you
Speaker 3: don't know who God made you to be, you are unique.
Speaker 3: And unless you settle this issue, you're going to be
Speaker 3: a target for stress. Now, Jesus had no doubt as
Speaker 3: to his identity. In fact, eighteen times in the Bible
Speaker 3: Jesus defines himself. He says I am, and then he
Speaker 3: fills in the blank. He says I am the Truth.
Speaker 3: He says I am the Way. One time he says
Speaker 3: I am the life, He says, I am the Son
Speaker 3: of God, I am sent from the one above. I
Speaker 3: am the door, I am the bread of life. I
Speaker 3: am the living water. Jesus knew exactly who he was.
Speaker 2: Do you.
Speaker 3: If you don't know your identity, you're going to tend
Speaker 3: to be dependent upon what other people say about you
Speaker 3: and on the identity of other people to find your identity.
Speaker 2: And when you.
Speaker 3: Need somebody else's label, somebody else's name to make you
Speaker 3: feel good about you, you got a problem. You don't
Speaker 3: need a hood ornament on your car to make you
Speaker 3: feel good. You don't need a certain brand of luggage
Speaker 3: or purse or anything else to prop up your identity
Speaker 3: if you know who you are. But if you don't
Speaker 3: know who you are, you're going to be looking at
Speaker 3: everybody else to define you. You And I'm cool because
Speaker 3: I wear Vans, or I'm cool because I wear Billibung,
Speaker 3: or I'm cool because whatever.
Speaker 2: You got to know who you are now.
Speaker 3: Stress happens when you try to be something you're not,
Speaker 3: and when your boyfriend or your girlfriend, or your parents
Speaker 3: or your spouse or something like that, your boss tries
Speaker 3: to mold you into somebody else. Most of us start
Speaker 3: off as originals. We all start off as originals, but
Speaker 3: we end up as carving copies as somebody else because
Speaker 3: we don't know who we are. When you don't know
Speaker 3: your identity, it causes enormous stress. What if I tried
Speaker 3: to sing like Rick mutchaut Oh, you laugh, because some
Speaker 3: of you have heard me sing, and it not only
Speaker 3: causes it would cause me stress to be like em,
Speaker 3: it would cause you stress having to listen to me. Now,
Speaker 3: there are two traps that keep you from knowing your identity.
Speaker 3: You might write these down Copying and comparing, Copying and comparing,
Speaker 3: copying and comparing. When you don't know your identity, you
Speaker 3: end up copying everybody else. And it's so funny you
Speaker 3: you flip channels on TV and you see these reality
Speaker 3: shows which are there's nothing real about them because on
Speaker 3: a reality show, everybody is pretending to be happy and
Speaker 3: they're not. Nothing is sadder than to see a bunch
Speaker 3: of people sitting at a bar trying to pretend they're happy.
Speaker 3: Nothing is sadder than a bunch of people at a
Speaker 3: cocktail party trying to pretend that everything's great in their
Speaker 3: life when it's not, and copying other people doesn't work,
Speaker 3: and neither does comparing. Now, comparing is the favorite indoor
Speaker 3: sport of Americans. We compare everything. We compare clothes, we
Speaker 3: compare hairdews, we compare jobs, salaries, cars, we compare homes,
Speaker 3: we compare front yards, we compare children. And God says,
Speaker 3: that's stupid, because God made you to be you. Nobody's
Speaker 3: like you in the whole world. You're a unique thumbprint,
Speaker 3: I print, voice print, footprint. Nobody's like you. God never
Speaker 3: makes clones, God never makes copies.
Speaker 2: You're it.
Speaker 3: So God says, I want you to accept your strengths,
Speaker 3: and I want you to accept your weaknesses. That's called,
Speaker 3: by the way, humility. Humility is not denying your strengths
Speaker 3: and oh I'm no good, Yes you are. You're good
Speaker 3: at a lot of things. We're all a bundle of
Speaker 3: strengths and weaknesses. Humility is not denying your strengths. Humility
Speaker 3: is being honest about your weaknesses because you have both.
Speaker 3: When you learn your identity, you're less dependent upon the
Speaker 3: approval of others. You're less dependent upon the identity of others,
Speaker 3: and you're more stress resistant.
Speaker 2: Know who you are.
Speaker 3: Second principle, by the way, look at that verse where
Speaker 3: Jesus said in John eight eighteen, I testify on my
Speaker 3: own behalf. What is Jesus saying there? He said, I
Speaker 3: don't need other people's opinions to prop me up. I
Speaker 3: don't need other people to validate that I'm worthwhile, And
Speaker 3: you don't either. You see, God likes you, and if
Speaker 3: if you like you, if other people don't like you,
Speaker 3: that's their problem. You are made by God. You're not
Speaker 3: an accident. You were made for a purpose. You're deeply loved.
Speaker 3: You're deeply falling and flawed, but you're deeply loved and
Speaker 3: Jesus died for you. That shows how much you're worth.
Speaker 3: Know your identity. Number two is the principle of motivation,
Speaker 3: and that is know what you're living for, Know who
Speaker 3: or what you're living for.
Speaker 2: Now. If you don't know.
Speaker 3: That again, you're going to fall into stress because mixed
Speaker 3: motivation causes enormous stress in our lives. Mixed motivation causes
Speaker 3: you to try to be all things to all people
Speaker 3: and try to please everybody. Now, the truth is you
Speaker 3: can't please everybody.
Speaker 2: Just about the.
Speaker 3: Time you get crowd A please, you know what happens
Speaker 3: crowd B gets ticked off at you, and about the
Speaker 3: time you get crowd be upset, happy and pleased with it.
Speaker 3: Crowda gets mad at you. One minute, you're a hero,
Speaker 3: in the next minute you're a zero. You need to
Speaker 3: realize you can't please everybody, you know. As a pastor,
Speaker 3: I have learned that I am always disappointing somebody. It's
Speaker 3: one of the costs of leadership. Leaders are always disappointing people.
Speaker 3: It's very possible in America to be the most admired
Speaker 3: person and the most hated person at the same time.
Speaker 3: Just ask any president, because you cannot please everybody. In fact,
Speaker 3: even God can't please everybody. Today they'll be baseball games
Speaker 3: played all over America and both sides are praying to
Speaker 3: God their team will win. Fifty are going to be
Speaker 3: disappointed today. Okay, somebody's praying for rain, somebody's praying for snow,
Speaker 3: and somebody's praying for it to be sunny. How does
Speaker 3: God please? Is there anything God can't do? Yes, let
Speaker 3: me tell you something God can do. He can't please everybody.
Speaker 3: Only a fool would try to do what God can't do.
Speaker 3: So you have this myth in your mind. If I
Speaker 3: could just get everybody to love me, i'd be happy.
Speaker 3: It ain't gonna happen. You're never gonna get everybody to
Speaker 3: love you. And some of you are still trying to
Speaker 3: get the people approval of people from fifty years ago,
Speaker 3: maybe your parents, maybe your brother, your sister, maybe a teacher,
Speaker 3: maybe a coach, and maybe even that person has died,
Speaker 3: and you're still in your mind trying to say, I'm
Speaker 3: going to prove to them that I'm somebody, that I'm significant,
Speaker 3: that my life matters. Listen, if you haven't got their
Speaker 3: approval by now, you're not gonna get it.
Speaker 2: But the truth is this.
Speaker 3: You don't need it. You don't need it to be happy.
Speaker 3: Happiness is a choice.
Speaker 2: You were as happy as you choose to be. You
Speaker 2: choose to be.
Speaker 3: Happy, and it isn't dependent upon anybody else. If you
Speaker 3: let other people determine your happiness, you're letting them control you,
Speaker 3: and that's not very smart. Motivation is know who you're
Speaker 3: living for now. Look at what Jesus says in John five,
Speaker 3: verse thirty. He says, I'm not trying to do what
Speaker 3: I want, but only what my father who sent me wants.
Speaker 3: He says, I'm not trying to please myself. I'm not
Speaker 3: out to win a popularity contest. I'm just trying to
Speaker 3: live for an audience of one that simplifies life. I
Speaker 3: just want to do what God put me on earth
Speaker 3: to do. And if you will do these two things,
Speaker 3: know who you are. I'm created by God and He
Speaker 3: loves me. And know who you're trying to please. I'm
Speaker 3: trying to live for God. I'm not trying to live
Speaker 3: for the approval of the crowd. I'm not trying to
Speaker 3: live for the approval of culture. I'm not trying to
Speaker 3: live for the approval of other people around me. I'm
Speaker 3: trying to live for God. Number one, It'll always be
Speaker 3: the right thing to do. And number two, it simplifies
Speaker 3: your life.
Speaker 2: And what does that do? It reduces the stress.
Speaker 3: You run around trying to please this first than trying
Speaker 3: to please that person, and trying to please this person
Speaker 3: trying to please that person, you're gonna live in constant stress.
Speaker 3: Does that make sense? You have to simplify your life,
Speaker 3: and if you simplify it by knowing who you are
Speaker 3: and who you're living for, it simplifies it. Jesus said
Speaker 3: this in John eight twenty nine. I always do those
Speaker 3: things that are pleasing to him. In other words, he's
Speaker 3: only trying to please one person, and he never lets
Speaker 3: approval or rejection control him. He lives for an audience
Speaker 3: of one. In fact, Jesus says this, no one can
Speaker 3: serve two masters. No one can serve two masters. The
Speaker 3: moment you get one person please, the other one's gonna
Speaker 3: be upset. So we love to blame other people for
Speaker 3: our stress. We love to blame people say I have
Speaker 3: to do this, I must do this, I've got to
Speaker 3: do this, I should do this. Nobody's forcing you to
Speaker 3: do anything. Would you write this down? No one can
Speaker 3: pressure me without my permission. No one can pressure me
Speaker 3: without my permission. You're not a victim. If you're being
Speaker 3: pressured by somebody, it's because you're choosing to allow their
Speaker 3: approval or rejection to control you.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, if.
Speaker 3: You want to learn to be stress free, like Jesus,
Speaker 3: know who you are, identification, know who you're living for.
Speaker 3: That's motivation. Then he comes to number three, and the
Speaker 3: third thing that Jesus showed us how to do was
Speaker 3: the principle of vocation, and that is know you're calling,
Speaker 3: know you're calling know what God has called you to do,
Speaker 3: Know your purpose, know your niche in life, and don't
Speaker 3: worry about what's not your niche in life.
Speaker 2: Know your calling. Now.
Speaker 3: The word vocation we use for your job, for your career.
Speaker 3: We talk about vocational training, training people for a particular
Speaker 3: skill or or job or whatever like that. The word
Speaker 3: vocation comes from the Latin word vosay or voice.
Speaker 2: It's like vocal a vocalist.
Speaker 3: A vocation comes from the word to call out a voice.
Speaker 3: It means what has God called me to do?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: Everybody is called by God. Did you know that you
Speaker 3: have a vocation? God puts you on this earth to
Speaker 3: fulfill a certain job, a certain task. I am called
Speaker 3: to be a pastor.
Speaker 2: But other people are.
Speaker 3: Called to be other things, and no vocation is more
Speaker 3: important than any other one. You may be called to
Speaker 3: be a truck driver. You may be called to be
Speaker 3: an accountant. You may be called to be a mom
Speaker 3: at home. You may be called to be an underseas
Speaker 3: water explorer. You may be called the close deals. You
Speaker 3: may be called the paint or write or make music.
Speaker 3: You may be called the cook. You may be called
Speaker 3: to whatever you're calling is, that's your ministry. You see
Speaker 3: a lot of people think, oh Rick is called the ministry.
Speaker 3: Tom is called the ministry. No, you're called the ministry.
Speaker 3: A non ministering believer is a contradiction. Everybody is called
Speaker 3: in the ministry not to be a pastor. My ministry
Speaker 3: is being a pastor. Your ministry may be being a coach.
Speaker 3: Your ministry may be closing deals. Your ministry may be
Speaker 3: organizing things. But it's when you take what God shaped
Speaker 3: you to do and you use it for His glory.
Speaker 3: That's your ministry. How do you know what.
Speaker 2: Your calling is in life?
Speaker 3: You look at your shape shape We talk about this
Speaker 3: all the time.
Speaker 2: Your spiritual gifts. What am I gifted to do? Your heart?
Speaker 3: What do I love to do? What are my desires?
Speaker 3: A your abilities, pe, your personality, your experience? Why would
Speaker 3: God shape you to do something and then not have
Speaker 3: you do it. Some people think, well, if I really
Speaker 3: want to do something in life, certainly God wouldn't want that.
Speaker 3: What kind of God do you serve? Where do you
Speaker 3: think you got your desires? Your desires come from God.
Speaker 3: And if God wired you to be athletic, then you
Speaker 3: ought to do athletics. And if God wired you to
Speaker 3: be musical. You ought to do music to the glory
Speaker 3: of God. And if God wired you to work with
Speaker 3: numbers and do you know, figure out things in mathematics,
Speaker 3: you ought to do it. And if God wired you
Speaker 3: to be good at mechanical or woodworking or with your hands,
Speaker 3: you ought to do it. Your desires help determine your calling.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 3: You know why I know I'm not called to be
Speaker 3: an opera singer because I'm not shaped for it. Well,
Speaker 3: I'm fat like some of them. But on the other hand,
Speaker 3: I don't have the spiritual gift, the heart, the ability
Speaker 3: of personality, or the experience.
Speaker 2: So you look at your shape.
Speaker 3: And you go, Okay, what am I? What am I
Speaker 3: gifted to do? What do I love to do? What
Speaker 3: is my ability? Is my personality and my experience, And that's.
Speaker 2: Your calling and you're calling.
Speaker 3: You are called by God to do what you do,
Speaker 3: just like I'm called by God.
Speaker 2: To be a pastor.
Speaker 3: And so you have to just figure that out and
Speaker 3: that everybody is a minister.
Speaker 2: Get it good.
Speaker 1: What a great message from Pastor Rick today. There's something
Speaker 1: I always take away from his message. Here's Rick to
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Speaker 3: Jesus told his disciples that they should live their lives
Speaker 3: according to five specific purposes. He said, you've got to
Speaker 3: love God with all your heart. That's worship, and love
Speaker 3: your neighbors yourself. That's ministry. That's called the Great Commandment.
Speaker 3: And then Jesus said, go make disciples. That's evangelism. Baptize
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