Speaker 1: You know, we really live in a world that's full
Speaker 1: of competing beliefs and values and choices, and what you
Speaker 1: believe shapes how you live and ultimately who you become.
Speaker 1: But the good news is God hasn't left us to
Speaker 1: figure it all out alone.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: In fact, today, on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, we're going
Speaker 1: to continue our series Reframing Your Worldview, where Rick Warren
Speaker 1: unpacks powerful truths from God's Word to help you see
Speaker 1: life clearly and live it with confidence and purpose. So
Speaker 1: let's get ready for Rick and part one of a
Speaker 1: message called how did the World get so Messed Up?
Speaker 2: Not everything in the world is good, Not.
Speaker 3: Everything in the world is happy, Not everything in the
Speaker 3: world is beautiful. In fact, real evil does exist in
Speaker 3: the world. You can pick up any kind of newspaper.
Speaker 3: You start going through it, you're going to find out
Speaker 3: that in the international section, you're going to find terrorism
Speaker 3: and war and genocide. You go through the national section,
Speaker 3: you're going to find political payoffs and lies and scams
Speaker 3: and churches set on fire. You go through the local section,
Speaker 3: you're going to find rapes and abuse and murder and arson.
Speaker 3: You go through the business section, you're going to find scandals.
Speaker 3: You're going to find fraud, graft, embezzlement. You go through
Speaker 3: the sports section, you'll find drug use, illegal gambling, adultery.
Speaker 3: You go through the entertainment section and find too many
Speaker 3: scandals and send to even mention. No rational person can
Speaker 3: really deny that evil, real evil exists in this world.
Speaker 3: Now we're in this series on Worldview, seeing the world
Speaker 3: and seeing my life as it really is we'd like
Speaker 3: it to be, but as it really is, and we're
Speaker 3: looking at six major questions. We've already looked at first week,
Speaker 3: does it really matter.
Speaker 2: What I believe?
Speaker 3: And we talked about the sincerity method. It's not enough
Speaker 3: to say well, as long as you're sincere, you can
Speaker 3: be sincerely wrong. And then the second week we looked
Speaker 3: at how do I know what's really true?
Speaker 2: I mean, what are that?
Speaker 3: And we looked at the five ways you can test
Speaker 3: something to know whether it's true or not. And then
Speaker 3: last week we looked at who am I and where
Speaker 3: did I come from? Today we're gonna look at this
Speaker 3: fourth question, how did the world get so messed up?
Speaker 3: If you'll take out your message notes, we're gonna look
Speaker 3: at four things I want us to look at the
Speaker 3: reason it got messed up, and then we're gonna look
Speaker 3: at the results.
Speaker 2: How what happened to the world.
Speaker 3: Then we're gonna look at God's rationale, why did God
Speaker 3: allow it to happen? And then finally your response, now,
Speaker 3: let's get right into it, into the red. How did
Speaker 3: the world get.
Speaker 2: So messed up?
Speaker 3: Well, the reason is is you might write it down,
Speaker 3: We've all sinned. We have all sinned, and when we sin,
Speaker 3: it brings evil into the world. Now what is sin, Well,
Speaker 3: sin is any attitude or any action against God.
Speaker 2: That's what it is.
Speaker 3: It's any attitude or any action against God. And when
Speaker 3: we do things that are against God or think things
Speaker 3: that are against God, it brings sin into the world
Speaker 3: and it creates evil. Now where did it all get started, Well,
Speaker 3: it started back for the very first couple, Adam and Eve,
Speaker 3: back in.
Speaker 2: The Garden of Eden. In fact, the Bible says this,
Speaker 2: look in your outline.
Speaker 3: Sin came into the world because of what one man did,
Speaker 3: that's Adam.
Speaker 2: And with sin came what death.
Speaker 3: There was no death prior to this, but he said
Speaker 3: it came into the world with sin, and it didn't
Speaker 3: just stop with Adam and Eve. We've all been culprits.
Speaker 3: To the next verse, let's read it aloud. There is
Speaker 3: not a single person in all the earth who is
Speaker 3: always good and never sins.
Speaker 2: Well, that's kind of a no brainer.
Speaker 3: I've never met anybody who's ever claimed to be perfect,
Speaker 3: not one.
Speaker 2: I don't measure up.
Speaker 3: To my own standards, much less God's a perfect God.
Speaker 3: I disappoint myself, I disappoint others much less not living
Speaker 3: up to a.
Speaker 2: Standard of perfection.
Speaker 3: So sin is a universal problem, one hundred percent. The
Speaker 3: Bible says, all have sin. That includes me, That includes you,
Speaker 3: It includes the pope, it includes everybody who's ever lived.
Speaker 2: All have sinned.
Speaker 3: The Bible says, there is none righteous, no, not one.
Speaker 3: The Bible says, there's not a just man upon the
Speaker 3: earth that doeth good and sinneth not. The Bible says,
Speaker 3: if we claim we have not sinned, we deceive ourselves,
Speaker 3: and the truth is not in us. In other words,
Speaker 3: if you say you've never sinned, it is lying, because
Speaker 3: the fact is all of us have had attitudes.
Speaker 2: And actions against God.
Speaker 3: Now you may not understand this, of known this, but
Speaker 3: there are actually three kinds of wrongdoing in the Bible.
Speaker 3: One is called sin, one is called transgressions, and one
Speaker 3: is called iniquity. What's the difference between sins and transaggressions
Speaker 3: and iniquities? Sin is actually an English term. It's actually
Speaker 3: an archery term. And it was an archery term. If
Speaker 3: you were out shooting a bow and arrow and you
Speaker 3: had a big, you know, target that you're shooting at,
Speaker 3: and if you shot it and the arrow fell short,
Speaker 3: it missed the mark. That is called sin. And sin
Speaker 3: literally just means falling short. It means missing the mark.
Speaker 3: You shoot an arrow toward the target and it doesn't
Speaker 3: even get there. It falls short. And that's why the
Speaker 3: Bible says in Romans three twenty three, all have sin
Speaker 3: and fallen short. I've got a friend who's a pastor
Speaker 3: in Texas, and he was talking about this first one time.
Speaker 3: He said, we've all fallen short. And he said, but
Speaker 3: thank God he forgives our falling shorts. I've had a
Speaker 3: few falling shorts.
Speaker 2: Too, so of both kinds.
Speaker 3: But the point here is that when we fail to
Speaker 3: meet God's purpose, if you don't fulfill God's purpose for
Speaker 3: your life, you're falling short.
Speaker 2: If there are.
Speaker 3: Things that God wants you to do with your life
Speaker 3: and you haven't done them, you're falling short. The Bible
Speaker 3: says we've all done this, we've all fallen short. That's
Speaker 3: called a sin. Now, the word transgressions the exact opposite.
Speaker 3: It means to go past it. It means to go
Speaker 3: not to fall short, but to go past. Transgression means
Speaker 3: you go past the law. It means it's a deliberate, intentional,
Speaker 3: willful decision to break the law.
Speaker 2: In other words, when.
Speaker 3: The law says you go sixty miles an hour and
Speaker 3: I go eighty or ninety, that's a transgression. I am
Speaker 3: intentional going past the law. You see the difference between
Speaker 3: sin and transgression. One's falling short and one is going past.
Speaker 3: And when I know that God says to do something,
Speaker 3: that said, I want to do.
Speaker 2: It anyway, that's not falling short.
Speaker 3: That's going past. God has said there are certain parameters
Speaker 3: in your life, and he says, I.
Speaker 2: Don't want you to do these things.
Speaker 3: And when I go past them and I break God's commandments,
Speaker 3: that's a transgression. And then the third one is the
Speaker 3: word iniquity, and iniquity actually talks about my heart.
Speaker 2: It's the attitude of my heart.
Speaker 3: It's the basic disposition to do my own thing, to wander.
Speaker 3: The Bible compares human beings often to sheep, because sheep
Speaker 3: are prone to wander, and the Bible says, all we,
Speaker 3: like sheep, have gone astray. We've each turned into his
Speaker 3: own way. In other words, everybody's done their own thing.
Speaker 3: God says I want you to do this, and well,
Speaker 3: I think I'll do that, and somebody says, I think
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do that, and someonell says we have a
Speaker 3: tendency to wander away from God. I will calls that iniquity.
Speaker 3: It is my natural disposition. It's the intentions of my heart.
Speaker 3: It can be jealousy, it can be anger, it can
Speaker 3: be envy, it can be lying, it can all those
Speaker 3: kind of it's the heart attitudes now in Psalms and
Speaker 3: actually here on the screen Psalm thirty two, you can
Speaker 3: see all three words used in the same verse. I
Speaker 3: acknowledge my sin. That's the falling short to you. I
Speaker 3: did not cover up my iniquity. That's my attitude to
Speaker 3: just do my own thing. And I confess my transgressions.
Speaker 3: That's going beyond breaking laws. And you forgive or forgave
Speaker 3: my guilt. Now, the question to me is why do
Speaker 3: we do this?
Speaker 2: Why do we choose to ignore God? Why do when.
Speaker 3: God made us, God loves us, God created us, We
Speaker 3: owe everything God. Why do we choose to ignore God
Speaker 3: and do our own thing?
Speaker 2: Why do you sin? Why do I sin? Well?
Speaker 3: The answers threefold. It's your nature, it's your nurture, and
Speaker 3: it's your culture. Nature, nurture and culture. The reasons we
Speaker 3: send first nature, The Bible says, because I'm a human being,
Speaker 3: I got a human nature, which I got from Adam
Speaker 3: the first men, and you inherited a natural tendency to
Speaker 3: do your own thing. Look at these verses up here
Speaker 3: on the screen. The Bible says Romans eighty seven. Your
Speaker 3: sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did
Speaker 3: obey God's laws and it never will. It's like a
Speaker 3: little kid who doesn't want to obey their parents. I
Speaker 3: want to do my own thing, Mommy, I say no, no.
Speaker 3: None of you ever had your children say no to you?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Who taught them to say no? Nobody did that one
Speaker 3: they learned that was in their nature. I want to
Speaker 3: do what I want to do. That's called human nature
Speaker 3: or sinful nature. It's a tendency to be self centered
Speaker 3: that when I walk into room, I don't naturally think
Speaker 3: about what you need.
Speaker 2: I think about what do they think of me? You
Speaker 2: do too, you.
Speaker 3: Walk in the room, you're not automatically talking to somebody,
Speaker 3: going how can.
Speaker 2: I meet this person's deepest needs. That's not automatically on
Speaker 2: your mind.
Speaker 3: What you usually think is what can I get out
Speaker 3: of them? Or what do they think of me? You're
Speaker 3: always focused on yourself, and that's nature. It's your nature,
Speaker 3: and the Bible tells us this in Jeremiah, the heart
Speaker 3: is deceitful above all things.
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 3: It means that you and I have an amazing ability
Speaker 3: to lie to ourselves and believe our own lies. And
Speaker 3: we can tell ourselves it's not really a problem when
Speaker 3: it is, and it's no big deal when it is
Speaker 3: a big deal, and it'll get over it when we're
Speaker 3: not going to get over it. We have an amazing ability.
Speaker 2: To lie to ourselves.
Speaker 3: You do and I do, And that's why we need
Speaker 3: other people in our lives. That's why we need the
Speaker 3: Bible to tell us the truth because we don't always
Speaker 3: see the truth. And just because your heart tells you
Speaker 3: to do something. Your heart can be lying to you.
Speaker 3: Just because your heart tells you to do something doesn't
Speaker 3: mean it's.
Speaker 2: The right thing.
Speaker 3: I've had murderers say, well, you know my heart told
Speaker 3: me to do it. Well, your heart could be wrong,
Speaker 3: and so we have this in our nature. Then the
Speaker 3: second thing is nurture. And the truth is you learned
Speaker 3: to send from the people around you. Also, in fact,
Speaker 3: you've got some good models grown up because.
Speaker 2: Did you figure this out? Your parents weren't perfect.
Speaker 3: Have you noticed that they weren't perfect, and so you
Speaker 3: picked up some of their imperfections. And depending on the
Speaker 3: kind of family you grow up in, you learn, for instance,
Speaker 3: either to stuff your anger and be manipulative or be
Speaker 3: a martyr, or you learned to blow up with your
Speaker 3: anger and explode. You tend to be either a skunk
Speaker 3: or a turtle. Turtles pull into the shell and then
Speaker 3: they manipulate.
Speaker 2: Skunks stink up the place.
Speaker 3: And by the way, I'll tell you this, skunks usually
Speaker 3: marry turtles. Okay, it's just the fact of life. But
Speaker 3: where did you get that?
Speaker 2: Well, your nature.
Speaker 3: Is to automatically get upset when you're offended, obviously, and
Speaker 3: then your nurture taught you which way to do it.
Speaker 3: So nature makes you a sinner, and nurture makes you
Speaker 3: a sinner. It makes me a sinner. Okay, nobody's perfect.
Speaker 3: And then the Bible tells us that bad on the screen,
Speaker 3: bad company corrupts good character. Have you ever seen a
Speaker 3: kid get with the wrong group in high school and
Speaker 3: go bad? Well, of course you have why because it's
Speaker 3: not just my nature to do wrong. It's when I
Speaker 3: get around other people. My nurture helps me do wrong.
Speaker 3: And other people tend to teach me to do wrong.
Speaker 3: And so I want to be cool, and I do
Speaker 3: that too, and so I learn anger, and I learn abuse,
Speaker 3: and I learn lying and things like that. Then the
Speaker 3: third thing that helps us to easiness and is culture.
Speaker 3: And culture, the Bible tells us, is always pulling us down.
Speaker 3: It's not pulling us up, it's pulling us down. Culture
Speaker 3: doesn't want to make you a better person. It wants
Speaker 3: to make you a selfish person. And all the advertisements said,
Speaker 3: you got to do it for yourself, You got to
Speaker 3: look out for number one. You got to do what's
Speaker 3: best for you, forget other people. Think about what's best
Speaker 3: for you. And sin and satan used culture to kind of,
Speaker 3: you know, get you to do the wrong things. And
Speaker 3: that's why the Bible says this in Romans twelve on
Speaker 3: the screen, don't copy the behavior or customs of this world.
Speaker 2: I love the Phillips paraphrase. It says, don't let the
Speaker 2: world squeeze you in its mold.
Speaker 3: Don't let the world squeeze you in its mold, try
Speaker 3: to dominate your life and so let God transform you instead.
Speaker 2: This is why we choose to sin now this morning.
Speaker 3: I'm not so interested in the fact that we blow it.
Speaker 2: We all do that.
Speaker 3: My question is what has it done to the world,
Speaker 3: Why does God allow it?
Speaker 2: And what should be my response?
Speaker 3: And that's what we're going to look at in today's message.
Speaker 2: But before we really get.
Speaker 3: Into it, there's another verse I want you to see
Speaker 3: since we're talking about sin in this particular Sunday. Here
Speaker 3: on the screen it says this, only those with clean
Speaker 3: hands and pure hearts will receive a blessing from the Lord. Now,
Speaker 3: I want your life to be blessed, and the Bible
Speaker 3: says the key to blessing is a clean hand and
Speaker 3: a pure heart. What does that mean? You've got to
Speaker 3: be perfect to be blessed. Oh no, if you had
Speaker 3: to be perfect to be blessed, nobody would ever get blessed.
Speaker 3: What it says is you have to have clean hands
Speaker 3: and a pure art. What's that mean is it means
Speaker 3: you've been washed. It means you've confessed. It means you've
Speaker 3: admitted to God. God, I blow it. God knows you're
Speaker 3: not going to be perfect. He just wants you to
Speaker 3: admit it. How did the world get so messed up? Well,
Speaker 3: it God messed up with Adam, and then we've all
Speaker 3: followed in his example. Every time I sin, it damages something,
Speaker 3: either me, another person, my relationship to God.
Speaker 2: The world, or something.
Speaker 3: Every time you do it does that too, And that's
Speaker 3: why God doesn't want us to do it. He knows
Speaker 3: the ways that our best. So the reason the world's
Speaker 3: in a mess is because we've all sinned. Okay, we
Speaker 3: got that one down. The question then is what's the result.
Speaker 3: And the result is this, you might write it down.
Speaker 3: We live in a fallen world. Fallen world. The Bible
Speaker 3: calls it the fall. It is a broken planet. In
Speaker 3: other words, everything on this planet has been damaged, injured, spoiled,
Speaker 3: corrupted in some way by the entry of evil into
Speaker 3: the world, which was not here before sin, there was
Speaker 3: no evil in the world. It was a perfect place.
Speaker 3: God created it perfect. But we do live in a
Speaker 3: fallen world and a lot of people don't understand this,
Speaker 3: and that's why they ask this question all the time, why.
Speaker 2: Is this happening? Why is that happening?
Speaker 3: And when they ask that questions because they don't have
Speaker 3: the worldview, they don't understand. We live in a broken planet,
Speaker 3: we live in a fallen world, and that's why they
Speaker 3: ask all of well, why is this happening? What's because
Speaker 3: the world is not perfect, this is not heaven.
Speaker 1: You know, people are being transformed by these messages. In fact,
Speaker 1: here's Rick with a letter from one of our listeners.
Speaker 3: You know, no matter how bad things seem, you can
Speaker 3: always trust that God is active in your life, working
Speaker 3: things out for the good. While you are waiting. God
Speaker 3: is working. God always has your best interest at heart.
Speaker 3: He's a good God. Today, I want to give you
Speaker 3: an example from a note that I got from a
Speaker 3: young man, Tyler, who has seen how God is always
Speaker 3: there even when circumstances seemed to be their worst. Tyler
Speaker 3: wrote me said, you know, Rick, I haven't had a
Speaker 3: close relationship with Christ. But then several events occurred in
Speaker 3: my life all at once. First, my girlfriend broke up
Speaker 3: with me, and that was the biggest heartache that I
Speaker 3: could imagine for both of us. Then my friends left
Speaker 3: for college the same week, and third, my dad left
Speaker 3: for California to start a new job, leaving me in Ohio.
Speaker 3: All of this hit me at once, and I was
Speaker 3: a complete mess. But with guidance from others and realizing
Speaker 3: this was a scheduled appointment from God himself, I found
Speaker 3: Christ through your Daily Hope podcast and through prayer and
Speaker 3: in going to church, I finally found the joy in
Speaker 3: my life again.
Speaker 2: And I'm a changed person.
Speaker 3: Every day now, I listen to you, Rick, and I
Speaker 3: read my daily devotional, and I look at life with
Speaker 3: a whole new perspective. You know, before I was living
Speaker 3: for me, I wasn't living for God. But this journey
Speaker 3: has been so amazing. God is so good and the
Speaker 3: best part is that I can wake up every day
Speaker 3: knowing that He loves me and will listen to me,
Speaker 3: and that Jesus Christ will take my worries from me.
Speaker 3: I'm so thankful, Rick, that God woke me up and
Speaker 3: changed me into a better and healthier person that I
Speaker 3: am today. And I'm thankful for my savior, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: So God bless you well.
Speaker 3: Thanks Tyler, Thanks for writing that encouraging letter. You have
Speaker 3: experienced firsthand how much God cares for you, even in
Speaker 3: the smallest details of your life, and through this what
Speaker 3: was a very difficult season, he led you to Jesus,
Speaker 3: the greatest gift you could ever receive. So did you
Speaker 3: know that the Bible says in Luke fifteen, right now,
Speaker 3: all of Heaven is rejoicing because you're a part of
Speaker 3: God's family. The Bible says they have a party in
Speaker 3: heaven every time one and steps across the line. And
Speaker 3: what that means that you and I are now brothers.
Speaker 3: Did you know that we're brothers in Christ and your
Speaker 3: church family are your brothers and sisters here to walk
Speaker 3: alongside you. So, Tyler, welcome to the Family of God.
Speaker 3: And as you grow in your faith, staying connected with
Speaker 3: a strong church community is so so important. I want
Speaker 3: you to surround yourself with people who will encourage you
Speaker 3: in the Lord, who will pray for you, who will
Speaker 3: help you stay strong in your journey with Jesus and
Speaker 3: just watch and see how God moves in your life
Speaker 3: as you faithfully follow Him into your future. By the way,
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