Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us here today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope,
Speaker 1: the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren. Today we
Speaker 1: continue in a series called the Seven Greatest Words of Love.
Speaker 1: There are seven words, in particular that Jesus spoke during
Speaker 1: his final hours on the Cross that hold the keys
Speaker 1: for finding fulfillment in your life, relationships, and even your career.
Speaker 1: Right now, here's Pastor Rick with part two of a
Speaker 1: message called the Word of Trust.
Speaker 2: When Jesus taught us to pray, he said, you're to
Speaker 2: pray like this our father who art in heaven. That
Speaker 2: blew everybody's mind, because up to this point, every faith,
Speaker 2: every religion, taught that God is distant. God is big,
Speaker 2: he's powerful, he's cosmic, he's mighty. He may be merciful,
Speaker 2: but you certainly don't call him father. But Jesus changed
Speaker 2: it all. He blew the stereotypes, and he said, when
Speaker 2: you talk to God, you talk to him like he's
Speaker 2: your daddy. In fact, the word he used in Aramic
Speaker 2: abba literally means daddy, papa. It's the first word every
Speaker 2: Middle East child learns. Abba dad, dad, papa. It's easy
Speaker 2: to say. And so Jesus told us when you pray,
Speaker 2: start with praying Father. And when Jesus is dying on
Speaker 2: the cross his last words there he starts with the
Speaker 2: word Father. Now the judgment period for sin is all over.
Speaker 2: He's now reconciled to God. He's not talking of some
Speaker 2: impersonal force, some uninterested, distant deity. He's talking to Father.
Speaker 2: The Bible says this John sixteen twenty eight. Jesus said,
Speaker 2: I came from the Father, and I entered the world,
Speaker 2: and now I'm leaving the world and I'm going back
Speaker 2: to the Father. So what do we know about God
Speaker 2: since he wants us to call him father. A lot
Speaker 2: of people have a problem with this because they had
Speaker 2: bad dads and their dad was distant, Their dad was demeaning,
Speaker 2: their dad was destructive, their dad was, you know, detached.
Speaker 2: Is that the way our father in heaven is No.
Speaker 2: The Bible tells us that God is a caring father.
Speaker 2: He's a consistent father. He's a close father, and he's
Speaker 2: a capable father. And he loves you more than you
Speaker 2: can even possibly imagine. The Bible says in Psalm one
Speaker 2: oh three, verse thirteen, as a father has compassion on
Speaker 2: his children. So the Lord that's God has compassion on
Speaker 2: those who honor him. I don't know what you're going
Speaker 2: through today. You may be having a financial crisis, a
Speaker 2: physical crisis, a conflict in your marriage. I don't care.
Speaker 2: I do care, but I mean, I don't know what
Speaker 2: you're going through. But I would say this, you have
Speaker 2: a heavenly Father in heaven who is close, caring, competent, capable,
Speaker 2: and consistent, and he cares. And if you're going through
Speaker 2: the dark days, you need to get your eyes off
Speaker 2: the pain and onto the Father Father. That God, who
Speaker 2: knows everything that's going in your life, sees everything that's
Speaker 2: going on in your life, cares about everything that's going
Speaker 2: on in your life, has the power to change everything
Speaker 2: in your life and will help you if you will
Speaker 2: trust him. I want you to write this down in
Speaker 2: your line. God loves me more than I do. That's
Speaker 2: probably a shock to some of you. God loves me
Speaker 2: more than I do. Did you know that you don't
Speaker 2: love yourself as much as God loves you. God loves
Speaker 2: you more than you love you because God is love.
Speaker 2: God is the essence of all love. It all came
Speaker 2: from Him. And no matter what you are facing right now,
Speaker 2: you need to say I have a father in heaven
Speaker 2: who loves me. That's how he starts. But he doesn't
Speaker 2: just love you. And here's the second thing you need
Speaker 2: to remember. It's in this sentence. Not only do I
Speaker 2: have a father in heaven who loves me? Number two,
Speaker 2: my father can be trusted. My father talking about in heaven,
Speaker 2: the God of Heaven, he can be trusted. Now, you
Speaker 2: may have had a physical father who couldn't be trusted,
Speaker 2: and inconsistent fathers produce insecure children. I talked to guy
Speaker 2: one time. He said, I didn't know from week to
Speaker 2: week whether my dad was gonna slug me or gonna
Speaker 2: hug me. I didn't know just whether he was drunk
Speaker 2: or not or whatever whatever mood he was in. Inconsistent
Speaker 2: fathers produced insecure children. But your heavenly father is not
Speaker 2: only one who loves you. He's one you can trust.
Speaker 2: You can trust him. And this is the word of
Speaker 2: the trust. And Jesus says, Father, I trust my spirit.
Speaker 2: I entrust my life into your care. That's why I
Speaker 2: call this the word of trust. Now, one of the
Speaker 2: greatest decisions you're gonna have to make in life is this,
Speaker 2: who are you going to trust? You got to make
Speaker 2: that decision. Who are you going to trust? Who are
Speaker 2: you going to trust with your life? Okay, let's just
Speaker 2: throw out some options and let's vote. How many would say,
Speaker 2: I think I'll trust Congress. No, I don't. I don't
Speaker 2: see any hands going up on that one. Okay, since
Speaker 2: they're in the bottom of the barrel right now with credibility.
Speaker 2: How about I think, uh, I'm gonna trust. How about
Speaker 2: the media. I think I'm gonna I'm gonna build my
Speaker 2: life on what the media says. How about I'm gonna
Speaker 2: trust my life to popular opinion? No, how about I'm
Speaker 2: gonna trust my life to my emotions. Oh that's a
Speaker 2: good one. How reliable are they? Your emotions lie to
Speaker 2: you all the time. You know. One of the simplest
Speaker 2: things that will help you be a lot happier is this,
Speaker 2: Realize you don't have to believe everything your mind tells you.
Speaker 2: Not everything you tell yourself is true. A lot of
Speaker 2: times you tell yourself things are worse off than they
Speaker 2: really are, and a lot of times you tell yourself
Speaker 2: they're better off than they really are. You don't you
Speaker 2: lie to yourself all the time, and your emotions lie
Speaker 2: to you all the time, so I would not highly
Speaker 2: recommend that who are you gonna trust with your life?
Speaker 2: I want to make a recommendation. I recommend that you
Speaker 2: put your trust into someone who A Knows everything, b
Speaker 2: will always put your interest first, and see will always
Speaker 2: tell you the truth even if it hurts. Now, there's
Speaker 2: one person who's always going to God because he's perfect,
Speaker 2: and I want to suggest that you always put your
Speaker 2: trust in him. Father, I in trust. I'm going to
Speaker 2: trust you with my life. I'm going through this dark
Speaker 2: period right now. I don't know which way I'm going.
Speaker 2: I don't know which way is up. I don't know
Speaker 2: where I'm going to be in the next five days,
Speaker 2: much less five months. But I'm going to trust my
Speaker 2: spirit into your care. So I'm thirty three. Verse four
Speaker 2: in the Bible says this, for every word of the
Speaker 2: Lord holds true, and everything he does is worthy of
Speaker 2: our trust. Friends, you can't say that about anybody. You
Speaker 2: can't say that about me, your pastor. I love you,
Speaker 2: but you can't trust everything I do because I'm a
Speaker 2: fallible human being. You can't trust any human being to
Speaker 2: always do the right thing, But you can't trust God.
Speaker 2: I saw a bumper sticker the other day and it
Speaker 2: said this, God said it. I believe it. That settles it. Okay, fine,
Speaker 2: I'm going to make a new bumper sticker that says
Speaker 2: God said it. That settles it, whether I believe it
Speaker 2: or not. Because truth is not based on whether I
Speaker 2: believe it or not. I could say I don't believe
Speaker 2: the moon's made a rock, It's still made a rock.
Speaker 2: I could say I believe the moon's made of cheese.
Speaker 2: Doesn't matter what I believe. What matters is the truth.
Speaker 2: God said it. That settles it, whether I believe it
Speaker 2: or not. I'm going to put my trust in your word.
Speaker 2: Now when Jesus says this, Father, I trust my spirit
Speaker 2: in your hands. This word in trust. In Greek, it's
Speaker 2: pariti themi pariti themi actually means to deposit. It's the
Speaker 2: word that they would use for a safety deposit box.
Speaker 2: You know what safety deposit boxes. You go to a bank,
Speaker 2: you read a box, and you put your most valuable
Speaker 2: property in that box for safekeeping. And in that safety
Speaker 2: deposit box, it's locked, it's safe, it's secure, and nobody's
Speaker 2: going to get at it. And you've made a deposit
Speaker 2: in that safety box that's what this word means to entrust.
Speaker 2: You say, God, I'm going to take my life. I'm
Speaker 2: going to take the good, the bad, and the in between,
Speaker 2: the ugly, the beautiful, every part, and I'm going to
Speaker 2: entrust it. I'm going to deposit it in your safety box,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to put my life, which is valuable
Speaker 2: there for your safe keeping. The point is this, whatever
Speaker 2: I give to God, I can trust him to take
Speaker 2: care of I can give stuff to other people and
Speaker 2: I can't always trust them to take care of it.
Speaker 2: But that's one of the things that God says in
Speaker 2: this verse. I have a track record of faithfulness, and
Speaker 2: he says, I want you to make a deposit in
Speaker 2: the safety deposit box in heaven, and I want you
Speaker 2: to trust me with stuff. So here's the question. What
Speaker 2: do you need to entrust to your heavenly father. What
Speaker 2: do you need to trust or in trust to your
Speaker 2: heavenly Father. You say, well, I don't know. Well, let
Speaker 2: me give you a little hint. Anything you worry about
Speaker 2: that's what you need to intrust to your heavenly father.
Speaker 2: Anything you worry about, you worried about your health, you
Speaker 2: need to trust that to your heavenly Father. You worried
Speaker 2: about your future, you need to trust that to your
Speaker 2: everything Father. You worry about your marriage or getting married,
Speaker 2: or having a baby, or raising the kids, or a
Speaker 2: new job, you need to trust. Anything you worry about
Speaker 2: needs to be in trusted to your heavenly Father. I've
Speaker 2: told you this before. Worry is practical atheism. It's acting
Speaker 2: like there's no God, no heavenly Father who loves you
Speaker 2: and can be trusted. Every time you worry, it's a
Speaker 2: warning light you stop trusting God. It is an evidence
Speaker 2: of unbelief. It's a failure to trust. Now the most
Speaker 2: difficult time to trust God, of course, that's when you're
Speaker 2: in pain. Remember Jesus is on the cross. He's just
Speaker 2: had six hours of torture on the cross, and hours
Speaker 2: and hours of torture before that. He's an enormous pain,
Speaker 2: loss of blood, loss of sleep, no water, dehydrated, bleeding
Speaker 2: to death. And in his worst pain, he says, I
Speaker 2: intrust And that's when you're in pain that you need
Speaker 2: to trust the most. Paul knew this. Look the next verse,
Speaker 2: it's up here on the screen. Paul says, I'm suffering
Speaker 2: here in prison, but I'm not ashamed of it, for
Speaker 2: I know the one in whom I trust, and I
Speaker 2: am sure that's confident. I am sure that he is
Speaker 2: able to protect and keep. That means put in the
Speaker 2: same safety deposit box. I am sure that the one
Speaker 2: I trust in he's able to protect and keep what
Speaker 2: I've entrusted to him until the day of his return.
Speaker 2: That's what it means to trust God. God, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: trust you to do what I can't do. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: trust you. And the point is that he does the keeping. Now.
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes I talk to people and say, you know,
Speaker 2: I would follow Jesus Christ, but I don't know that
Speaker 2: I could be consistent. I'm afraid I would kind of
Speaker 2: flake out. I'm afraid that I'd get weak and I'd
Speaker 2: walk away. I'd like to be saved, I'd like to
Speaker 2: have experienced salvation in my life, but I'm not afraid
Speaker 2: that I can keep my commitment. Let me let you
Speaker 2: in an a little secret. You don't do the keeping.
Speaker 2: He does it. He does the keeping. You put your
Speaker 2: life in the safety deposit box. He turns the key,
Speaker 2: he keeps the saying. It is not your job to
Speaker 2: keep yourself saved. It is God's job to keep you saved,
Speaker 2: to keep to make sure that you make it to heaven.
Speaker 2: And God will save whatever I put in that safety
Speaker 2: deposit box. Now a lot of people think, well, you know,
Speaker 2: but what if I let go. I've told you this
Speaker 2: story before. One time we went to the Grand Canyon
Speaker 2: and the family we were there and Matthew and Joshua
Speaker 2: little boys, and we walked up to the edge and
Speaker 2: I grabbed a hold of both hands, and my boys
Speaker 2: were both they had this adventuresome spirit. I think they
Speaker 2: get it from their mother, but they were risk takers
Speaker 2: and they always wanted to get closer to the edge
Speaker 2: than I would want them to be. Now they're squirming
Speaker 2: and they let go of my hand. Do you think
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let go of theirs? Not a chance. Why?
Speaker 2: Because I am their loving and your heavenly Father holds
Speaker 2: onto your hand. Once you come to Christ and you say,
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, I'm putting my hand in your hand, I'm
Speaker 2: trusting you today, he grabs on. Now there are going
Speaker 2: to be times in your life you want to let go.
Speaker 2: God is not really convenient to believe in you right now.
Speaker 2: It's not really convenient to follow the word of God.
Speaker 2: Right now, it's not really convenient to be a follower
Speaker 2: Jesus Rist. I want to let go. You may want
Speaker 2: to let go. He's never letting go. He is able
Speaker 2: to keep what you've committed. He does the keeping. You
Speaker 2: just do the trusting. Now, while I'm on this, let
Speaker 2: me just cover a couple of special occasions people often
Speaker 2: ask about, and I don't ever get a chance to
Speaker 2: talk about it. People often ask me, well, what about
Speaker 2: babies and mentally, you know, ill or mentally incapacitated people
Speaker 2: who don't have the capacity to believe in Jesus Christ
Speaker 2: and can't commit themselves Christ. Where are they going to
Speaker 2: go to head? Where they're going to go when they die?
Speaker 2: The answer is, real quick, Heaven. They're going to heaven
Speaker 2: a baby. If a baby dies, or someone who's mentally
Speaker 2: incapacity to die, they immediately go to heaven. The Bible
Speaker 2: says so one sixteen, verse six. The Lord protects the
Speaker 2: simple hearted. One example, I could give you a lot
Speaker 2: of these. When King David's baby infant son died in
Speaker 2: Second Samuel, chapter one, he said, can I bring him
Speaker 2: back to me? Can I bring him back? In? The
Speaker 2: answers no, I will go to him someday, but he
Speaker 2: will not return to me. So if a baby or
Speaker 2: a child who has not learned the difference between right
Speaker 2: and wrong doesn't have the capacity except the salvation of
Speaker 2: God's grace immediately goes into the presence of Gods. That
Speaker 2: makes sense. Okay, so there's one. Here's another question. I'm
Speaker 2: often asked, what about people who were true believers and
Speaker 2: then later on in life stop believing. Are they gonna
Speaker 2: fall away? Are they gonna, you know, they kind of
Speaker 2: fall away from their faith? Here, what's gonna happen to
Speaker 2: those people? Maybe they go join a cult or something,
Speaker 2: and what happens to them. The answer is this, they
Speaker 2: do not lose heaven. They do lose some reward in heaven,
Speaker 2: they do not lose their salvation. Now, let me explain
Speaker 2: it this way. I was born into my dad and
Speaker 2: mother's family, and I was in that family, and I
Speaker 2: had great fellowship with them with joy and love, and
Speaker 2: had a great relationship with my parents. But let's say
Speaker 2: one day I had decided to become an international drug
Speaker 2: runner and I get involved in terrorism and acts of
Speaker 2: genocide and all kinds of things. The relationship would be strained,
Speaker 2: the fellowship would be broken. But I don't care if
Speaker 2: the fellowship is broken. I'm still their son. Nothing will
Speaker 2: ever make me not their son. If you have a
Speaker 2: child in your family, and your child love loves you
Speaker 2: and grows up and learns to love you, and one
Speaker 2: day they get mad at you, they walk out of
Speaker 2: the house by their own volition, they walk out of
Speaker 2: the house, They're still your child. They can't Once you're born,
Speaker 2: you can't be unborn. Once you're born again, you can't
Speaker 2: be unborn again. You are safe. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2: You are safe. You might lose the fellowship, and there
Speaker 2: might be strained fellowship between this and we're not talking
Speaker 2: to each other, But you're still my daughter. You're still
Speaker 2: my son. And the Bible says that, look at this
Speaker 2: verse tewod John Chapter one, verse seven eight. Many deceivers.
Speaker 2: There are people out there trying to mess everybody up
Speaker 2: all the time. Many deceivers who don't acknowledge Jesus as
Speaker 2: coming in the flesh have gone out into the world.
Speaker 2: So he said, you know not everything you hear out
Speaker 2: there's true. Watch out so that you don't lose what
Speaker 2: you have worked for. Circle The phrase worked for watch
Speaker 2: out that you don't lose what you have worked for, okay,
Speaker 2: but that you will be fully rewarded. Now question, do
Speaker 2: you work for your salvation? Huh No, So if you didn't,
Speaker 2: this is not what he's talking about here. He's not
Speaker 2: talking about salvation because you don't work for your salvation.
Speaker 2: You don't earn it. We've talked last week. It was
Speaker 2: all done for you. You don't work for it. It's
Speaker 2: all that. That's the difference between Christianity and every other religion.
Speaker 2: Every other religion is a due and they'll have their
Speaker 2: list of dos and don'ts. Christianity says, done has already
Speaker 2: been done for you on the Cross by Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: He did what we can't do. So he's not talking
Speaker 2: about that. He's saying the rewards that you're going to
Speaker 2: have in heaven, he could lose some of those. Let
Speaker 2: me ask you, this one's very personal to me. What
Speaker 2: about believers who commit suicide okay and in a moment
Speaker 2: take their own life. And the answer is, if they
Speaker 2: were a true believer, they're going to heaven. They're going
Speaker 2: to heaven. We'll say, isn't suicide and unpardonable sin? The
Speaker 2: answer is no, it is not, it is not. In fact,
Speaker 2: the Bible says there's only one sin that is unforgivable,
Speaker 2: only one in the entire and it isn't suicide, by
Speaker 2: the way. In fact, some of the greatest saints in
Speaker 2: history in the Bible were suicidal. Some of them were
Speaker 2: very depressed and despair. Some wished at low points that
Speaker 2: they'd never been born. David in the Bible, Jeremiah in
Speaker 2: the Bible, Job and the Bible also that I wish
Speaker 2: that I had never been born. That's pretty depressed. And
Speaker 2: they were great believers. And there were three people in
Speaker 2: the Bible actually asked God to kill them, to take
Speaker 2: their lives. Moses asked God to take his life. Elijah
Speaker 2: asked God to take his life. Jonah asked God to
Speaker 2: take his life. That's pretty depressed, he said, God, just
Speaker 2: kill me, Just kill me. If you feel that much
Speaker 2: in despair, you feel that depressed, do not carry it
Speaker 2: by yourself. It's not a sin to be sick. It's
Speaker 2: not a sin to feel depressed. The Bible says there's
Speaker 2: only one unforgivable sin, only one. It's called blasphemy against
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit. What does that mean? What does blasphem
Speaker 2: against Holy Spirit. It means rejecting God's grace and rejecting
Speaker 2: Christ all the way up to death. It means to
Speaker 2: die rejecting Christ. So let me put your mind at ease,
Speaker 2: because some of you think, have I ever committed the
Speaker 2: unpardonable sin, the unforgivable sin? You wonder about that? Okay?
Speaker 2: Number One, if you've ever worried that you committed the sin,
Speaker 2: you haven't because if you had, you wouldn't worry about it. Okay,
Speaker 2: So if you worry I've done the one unforgivable sin,
Speaker 2: you ain't done it. For end. Sorry, the fact that
Speaker 2: you're worried about it, you're concerned about it, means you
Speaker 2: still have a conscience. So if you've ever worried about it,
Speaker 2: you haven't done it. Second thing is, if you're alive,
Speaker 2: you haven't committed the sin because you can only commit
Speaker 2: it by dying rejecting Christ. So if you're alive, you
Speaker 2: cannot commit the sin. You can only commit it by dying,
Speaker 2: saying forget you God, and I croak and I die.
Speaker 2: Does that ease up anybody's mind a little bit? Here? Okay?
Speaker 2: You can't. You can't do it without dying. No. Number Three,
Speaker 2: let's go to the third great news. When I'm going
Speaker 2: through dark days, I have a father in heaven who
Speaker 2: loves me. And when I'm going through dark days, to
Speaker 2: remind myself that I have a father in heaven who
Speaker 2: can be trusted. He doesn't just love me. I can
Speaker 2: trust him with every air of my life. And I
Speaker 2: shouldn't worry. I should commit it and trust everything I'm
Speaker 2: worried about to him. Number Three, my father is taking
Speaker 2: care of things I can't see. This is the third
Speaker 2: thing we learned from this passage is that my father
Speaker 2: in heaven is taking care of the things that I
Speaker 2: can't see. We only see the physical things in life.
Speaker 2: We only see the material things in life, but we
Speaker 2: know that there's a lot of things going on in
Speaker 2: life we can't see. Just because you can't see it
Speaker 2: doesn't mean it's not real. It's as real. It's what
Speaker 2: you see. You're what you see is limited by your
Speaker 2: eyeball and your brain. We know, for instance, right now,
Speaker 2: there are radio waves and television waves running through this
Speaker 2: building and actually going through your body. You can't see them.
Speaker 2: But if you turn on a radio, turn on a TV,
Speaker 2: and tune in you can get the picture. They're there,
Speaker 2: They're in this air right now. There are all kinds
Speaker 2: of radio and television waves going through the air right now.
Speaker 2: You cannot see them. Just because you cannot see them
Speaker 2: does not make them false. There's far more to life
Speaker 2: than just the material. There's far more to life than
Speaker 2: just the physical. In fact, the things that are going
Speaker 2: to last are not material. All the material stuff. This
Speaker 2: chair is not gonna last one day. It'll fall apart
Speaker 2: because all material things, according to second law thermodynamics, deteriorate.
Speaker 2: This building will want day deteriorate, the trees will deteriorate,
Speaker 2: and your body is deteriorating. Hate to tell you that,
Speaker 2: but the physical is not getting better. Anybody want to
Speaker 2: go a testimony of that right now?
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