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Speaker 1: with part two of a message called Ignoring the Naysayers.
Speaker 2: One time.
Speaker 3: Moses sent twelve spies in the spy out the Promised Land.
Speaker 3: Two of them came back with a positive fortsay, and
Speaker 3: we whipped these guys. God's prepared the place for us.
Speaker 3: We're ready. And ten of them came back with the
Speaker 3: negative report, said we can't do it. We're little weaklings.
Speaker 3: Were like insects in their eyes, and that's typical. The
Speaker 3: majority of people were against it, and they could have
Speaker 3: stayed out of the Promised Land. In fact, they did
Speaker 3: for another forty years because of a negative report. Because
Speaker 3: the majority was wrong God had already brought him out
Speaker 3: of Egypt. Don't you think he'd take him into Israel? Yes,
Speaker 3: but the majority said we can't do it, and the
Speaker 3: negativity spread around, and so we have first delay, and
Speaker 3: second we have discouragement. Now why had everybody given up
Speaker 3: in Israel? Because they were listening to the wrong voices?
Speaker 3: Verse sixteen says, for forty days, twice a day, morning
Speaker 3: and evening, this philistine giant is Goliath loudly berated the
Speaker 3: Israelite army. So every day they're hearing for forty days,
Speaker 3: morning and evening, You guys suck.
Speaker 2: You guys are weak. You guys are losers.
Speaker 3: You're never going to make You know what, If you
Speaker 3: listen to that long enough, you're gonna believe it. So
Speaker 3: here's my question, who are you listening to about your life?
Speaker 3: Are you listening to people who say you'll never amount
Speaker 3: to anything? You can't do it?
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 3: You may be listening to yourself. You lie to yourself
Speaker 3: all the time. Did you know that just because you
Speaker 3: say something to yourself doesn't mean it's true. A lot
Speaker 3: of times you say things are good when they're not.
Speaker 3: Lots of times you say they're bad. When when they're not.
Speaker 3: And so just because you tell yourself something doesn't mean
Speaker 3: it's true. What voices are you listening to? You need
Speaker 3: to be listening to God. If you listen to negative
Speaker 3: statements long enough, you're gonna become negative. You get paralyzed.
Speaker 3: And sometimes when you're in work, you're an officer in
Speaker 3: a project, and everybody says, this problem cannot be solved.
Speaker 2: What you need is.
Speaker 3: A fresh set of eyes and a fresh set of
Speaker 3: ears from the outside. And that's what happened when David,
Speaker 3: the little shepherd boy shows up on the scene. He
Speaker 3: hadn't been on the front line listening to this negativity
Speaker 3: every day, morning and evening, day after day, week after week,
Speaker 3: month after month. He wasn't infected with it. A new
Speaker 3: guy comes in that we can do this. I'll take
Speaker 3: this guy on. God's with me, God's with you. We
Speaker 3: can win this. It takes an outsider. The Bible says
Speaker 3: this in verse twenty three. As David talked with his
Speaker 3: brothers on the front line, they were fighting.
Speaker 2: He'd just gone to visit them.
Speaker 3: He saw Goliath start shouting his usual threats to Israel's army,
Speaker 3: and when the army heard Goliath. They all ran away
Speaker 3: in terror. If you don't get anything else, get this today.
Speaker 3: Don't hang around negative people. Your best friends should not
Speaker 3: be naysayers. If they are, they're not your best friend
Speaker 3: because they're holding you back through discouragement and delay. Now
Speaker 3: there's a third naysayer David had to deal with, and
Speaker 3: this actually was his own brother, his elder brother right down.
Speaker 3: A third kind of people is his brother questioned his
Speaker 3: motives and that was a hindrance. And they're gonna be
Speaker 3: people who question your motives. When you share a big dream,
Speaker 3: they just think you're on an ego trip. When you
Speaker 3: share a big goal, they just think you know you
Speaker 3: don't know what you're talking about. They don't know that
Speaker 3: you're trusting God. This is the barrier of disapproval. There's
Speaker 3: the barrier of delay, there's the barrier of discouragement, and
Speaker 3: there's the barrier of disapproval. Now, this is the one
Speaker 3: that hurts the most because we all want to be liked.
Speaker 3: We want people to approve of us, particularly.
Speaker 2: Our own family.
Speaker 3: We want our own family to think we're cool. And
Speaker 3: so when a relative, particularly a family member, thinks you're
Speaker 3: not cool, that's hurtful. You're always gonna have naysayers, and
Speaker 3: you may even have them in your closest relationships. Now
Speaker 3: here's an example, where's brother questions David's motives. David sees
Speaker 3: what's going on, and he sees this wath out there,
Speaker 3: and everybody's afraid to take him on. And in verse
Speaker 3: twenty eight, David asked, what's the reward for killing this guy?
Speaker 3: For killing this philistine? What's the reward for killing this
Speaker 3: philistine and ending this disgraceful abuse. Now, when David's older
Speaker 3: brother heard this, he heard David ask this question, he
Speaker 3: burned with anger at David.
Speaker 2: Okay, this guy's jealous.
Speaker 3: He didn't like his younger brother asking those questions about
Speaker 3: taking on Goliath, and his david older brother says, why.
Speaker 2: Are you even here anyway?
Speaker 3: Why aren't you taking care of your scrawny little flock
Speaker 3: of sheep, You cocky little brat. Then this sound like
Speaker 3: sibling rivalry, you cocky little brat. I know how conceited
Speaker 3: you are. Now let me ask you who's really the
Speaker 3: conceited one here? It's the older brother. I know how
Speaker 3: conceited you are. Now, what have I done? Said David?
Speaker 2: Can I even ask a question.
Speaker 3: Can't you hear the youngest person in the family saying that, now.
Speaker 2: What have I done? Now? What have I done?
Speaker 3: You know, all I did was ask a question, what's
Speaker 3: the reward for killing this guy? David's older brother questions
Speaker 3: David's motives. He treats him with disdain, He treats him
Speaker 3: with disgust, with disregard, he belittles him. I hate to
Speaker 3: tell you this, but sometimes there are family members in
Speaker 3: your family who don't want you to succeed at your dream.
Speaker 3: It upsets the apple cart, it changes the equation, It
Speaker 3: shakes up the system.
Speaker 2: Who's really conceded?
Speaker 3: Here the brother And by the way, people often misinterpret
Speaker 3: confidence in God as conceit. David has great confidence in God.
Speaker 3: His older brother does not. And when David goes, I'll
Speaker 3: take this guy on, David's all, the brother looks, you're nuts,
Speaker 3: You're just conceited, You're egotist, You're you're a conceited little brat.
Speaker 3: And people who don't hear God judge people who hear
Speaker 3: God as cocky and conceited, and they go, what do
Speaker 3: you think you are?
Speaker 2: Well, that's not it.
Speaker 3: I remember years ago when we bought the first piece
Speaker 3: of property for Saddleback Church. It was this property like
Speaker 3: Forest Campus. We know are going to have sixteen campuses,
Speaker 3: and this is one hundred and twenty acres and it's
Speaker 3: very expensive piece of property.
Speaker 2: And I remember.
Speaker 3: Rumors got out all over South Orange County that this
Speaker 3: little church, because we only had about a thousand people
Speaker 3: at that time, was going to go try to buy
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty acres. And so I would go
Speaker 3: around in South County while we were trying to get
Speaker 3: this property, and I would hear people in the barbershop
Speaker 3: and in the grocery store going, who do those people
Speaker 3: think they are? That saddle Backed church. They're going out
Speaker 3: there buying something. They're buying more land than Saddleback College.
Speaker 3: They're buying more land than Saddleback Hospital. Who does that
Speaker 3: church think they're they're gonna go buy? I don't know
Speaker 3: any church in California that is one hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: eight youre campus.
Speaker 2: Who do they think they are?
Speaker 3: And the noise got so loud I actually had to
Speaker 3: address it, and one Sunday I got up and I said,
Speaker 3: you know, I know, you guys are hearing these rumors
Speaker 3: to the community, and they're asking the question, who do
Speaker 3: those people at saddleback.
Speaker 2: Think they are?
Speaker 3: I said, they're asking the wrong question. The question is
Speaker 3: not who do we think we are? The question is
Speaker 3: who do we think God is? All Right, you let
Speaker 3: the size of your God determine the size of your goal.
Speaker 3: If you only attempt in life what you can do
Speaker 3: in your own power, you're gonna have a puny little
Speaker 3: life because you can't accomplish much just by yourself. But
Speaker 3: if you let the size of your God determine the
Speaker 3: size of your goal, then you're going to have a
Speaker 3: big God.
Speaker 2: You're going to have a big goal.
Speaker 3: And you you only know a goal is from God
Speaker 3: when you can't do it in your own power. If
Speaker 3: your goal in life is something you're going to achieve
Speaker 3: on your own, it's not a goal from God. Because
Speaker 3: God will give you a goal that will so stretch
Speaker 3: you and grow you and deepen you and pull you
Speaker 3: and challenge your faith. It'll be so big you're bound
Speaker 3: to fail unless God bails you out. That's the kind
Speaker 3: of goals that God gives. And so you know, the
Speaker 3: people on the.
Speaker 2: Outside, they all those people are cocky.
Speaker 3: Listen, when God gives you a dream and it's really
Speaker 3: from God that others have attempted and maybe failed, that
Speaker 3: you will be misjudged, you will be misunderstood, you will
Speaker 3: be maligned, you will be called cocky or arrogant, or
Speaker 3: out of touch with re reality or whatever.
Speaker 2: But they haven't heard what God told you to do
Speaker 2: with your life. Now, by the.
Speaker 3: Way, when David asked this question, what's the reward for
Speaker 3: killing Goliath? He did actually find out the answer, and
Speaker 3: there were three rewards for anybody who would kill this giant.
Speaker 3: Number one, you would be given massive amounts of wealth
Speaker 3: and you would instantly become one of the wealthiest people
Speaker 3: in the nation of Israel. Second, you were given the
Speaker 3: king's daughter, Saul's daughter to Mary. And Third, this is
Speaker 3: the best of all, you were exempt from taxes the
Speaker 3: rest of your life.
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3: I would have gone after Goliath for that one, no
Speaker 3: taxes the rest of my life. Those were the three
Speaker 3: rewards for anybody who took on Goliath. But there was
Speaker 3: this brother who said, you're doing this out of ego.
Speaker 3: Now there was a fourth naysayer, And I want you
Speaker 3: to write this down because all four of these you
Speaker 3: have to deal with discouragement and disapproval and the fourth
Speaker 3: one is the experts.
Speaker 2: So write this down.
Speaker 3: The experts doubted his ability, and in your life there
Speaker 3: will be experts who doubt your ability. And David had
Speaker 3: never served in a war. He had no military training.
Speaker 3: He wasn't an army ranger, he wasn't a Navy seal,
Speaker 3: he wasn't adulta force, he wasn't special ops. He had
Speaker 3: no training at all as a professional warrior. The only
Speaker 3: thing he had is he had a little slingshot, and
Speaker 3: he knew how to use it real well. He once
Speaker 3: killed a bear and once killed a lion. These are
Speaker 3: in the days when there's a lot more animals, obviously
Speaker 3: in Israel, to protect the sheep. So he had killed
Speaker 3: things with his slingshot. But he had no professional training.
Speaker 3: And all the authorities and all the experts and all
Speaker 3: of the professionals said, this kid can't do it.
Speaker 2: He's a pipsqueak, he's an amateur. He can't do it.
Speaker 3: And so when Kings all here's about David volunteering, this
Speaker 3: little shepherd boy, volunteering to take on a giant that
Speaker 3: everybody else has been afraid to take on. Saul calls
Speaker 3: him to his office and David says this verse thirty
Speaker 3: two in the Bible, David says to Saul, don't worry
Speaker 3: about a thing.
Speaker 2: David told the.
Speaker 3: King, I'll fight this philistine. Don't be ridiculous. Saul replied,
Speaker 3: there's no way that you, a shepherd boy, can go
Speaker 3: against this philistine, this giant. You're only a boy, and
Speaker 3: he's been a professional warrior all his life. Circle that
Speaker 3: word professional. He's saying, leave this matter to the experts. David,
Speaker 3: you are inexperienced. You should leave it to the pros.
Speaker 3: And I'm going to tell you this that in your
Speaker 3: life there will be people who will say that to you.
Speaker 2: You're not a pro at this.
Speaker 3: Why are you even trying to start this business, Why
Speaker 3: are you're even doing this hobby? Why are you trying
Speaker 3: to build this ministry? You're not a pro at this.
Speaker 3: Leave this to the experts. You're an amateur. I want
Speaker 3: to tell you, just like I said that the majority
Speaker 3: is often wrong. The experts are often wrong, not always right.
Speaker 3: I have here this is a copy of a very
Speaker 3: famous letter now in the publishing world. It was written
Speaker 3: to me by a publisher in the middle of two
Speaker 3: thousand and two, when I was writing the book Purpose
Speaker 3: Driven Life.
Speaker 2: And I had sent.
Speaker 3: The publisher the first draft of the book, and this
Speaker 3: publisher expert wrote back a three page letter on why
Speaker 3: this book would never, never, never sell a copy. For
Speaker 3: those who don't know, it became the best selling book
Speaker 3: in the world for four years. It became the best
Speaker 3: selling book in world history. Sixty two million Americans read
Speaker 3: The Purpose Driven Life. It's translated in one hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty seven languages. It's the most translated book in the
Speaker 3: world except for the Bible. But the expert said, nobody's going.
Speaker 2: To read this book.
Speaker 3: And then he gives me five reasons why purpose Driven
Speaker 3: Life would never never sell.
Speaker 2: And then this is the clincher. He says.
Speaker 3: His recommendation on page three is that I hire a
Speaker 3: freelance writer, a professional to rewrite the book. Well, I
Speaker 3: politely wrote back and said, thank you, I'll take it
Speaker 3: to another publisher. I believe this book could make history. Now,
Speaker 3: some people would say that's cocky. No no, no, God
Speaker 3: had told me to write the book. I'm not a
Speaker 3: professional writer. I'm a pastor. I've never taken a class
Speaker 3: on writing. I want to remind you that the arc
Speaker 3: Noah and the arc that saved. The world was built
Speaker 3: by amateurs. Professionals built the Titanic. I am an amateur.
Speaker 3: I'm an amateur pastor.
Speaker 2: You know what. I love the word amateur.
Speaker 3: I'm proud of why because amateur means it comes from
Speaker 3: the Greek the Latin word amour or amore.
Speaker 2: You know love.
Speaker 3: An amateur does it for the love a professionals paid
Speaker 3: to do it. I'm not paid to be pastor of
Speaker 3: this church. I do it for free. I don't take
Speaker 3: a salary. You know that I'm an amateur pastor. I
Speaker 3: do it for free. I do it out of love,
Speaker 3: not out of money. But the professionals are, the experts
Speaker 3: are often wrong, by the way I would. Before I
Speaker 3: go on, I want to mention how did David learn
Speaker 3: about Goliath? Since he was just a shepherd boy working
Speaker 3: back in the fields. His dad had held him back
Speaker 3: because he was willing to serve in small always. And
Speaker 3: God said, you've been faithful there, and I'm going to
Speaker 3: let you have a bigger opportunity.
Speaker 2: Let me show your verse. Look up here on the screen. First.
Speaker 3: Samuel seventeen says this, David's father said to David, take
Speaker 3: this bread to your brothers on the front line and
Speaker 3: take this cheese to their commander. That's how he ended
Speaker 3: up going up to the battle scene seeing Goliath, goes, oh,
Speaker 3: I'll take that guy on. He wouldn't have seen him
Speaker 3: if he hadn't been able to had been saying his
Speaker 3: dad said, take this bread and take this cheese.
Speaker 2: Now, here's the moral of the story.
Speaker 3: Before you get to David and to fighting Goliath, you
Speaker 3: may have to serve some cheese and crackers.
Speaker 2: Are you willing to do that or that beneath you?
Speaker 3: God looks for people who are willing to do the
Speaker 3: little things before he gives them the big things. God
Speaker 3: looks for people who are willing to do the insignificant
Speaker 3: ministry before he gives them the heroic ministry.
Speaker 2: Are you willing to.
Speaker 3: Serve cheese and crackers? Or you just want to go
Speaker 3: take on goal? David proved faithful even in the little
Speaker 3: things of life. Are you faithful? Have you been proven
Speaker 3: faithful in the little things of life? Do you do
Speaker 3: the little things that nobody else sees that shows your
Speaker 3: faithfulness to God? And God says, I'm going to let
Speaker 3: you take on Goliath. So he did that. I will
Speaker 3: tell you this, I've learned this from personal experience. Small
Speaker 3: kindnesses often open the door to bigger and better opportunities.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you just be kind to somebody out of just
Speaker 3: being kind, and it opens the door to bigger, wider
Speaker 3: It puts you in the right place at the right time,
Speaker 3: And that's what happened with Goliath and David. Now, how
Speaker 3: do you handle the naysayers in your life? There are
Speaker 3: four things you need to do. This is a skill
Speaker 3: you have to learn if you're ever going to be
Speaker 3: a leader. So let me give these to you. Write
Speaker 3: these down four things that David did, the skills of
Speaker 3: leadership on how to handle the naysayers in your life,
Speaker 3: whether it's a parent or a brother, or the crowd
Speaker 3: or the experts, whether it's delay or doubt, or discouragement
Speaker 3: or disappointment or disapproval, whatever. Here's the first thing the
Speaker 3: naysayers in your life. Number one, remember they are not God.
Speaker 3: They may be good people, they may love you, they
Speaker 3: may be great people, but they're not God, and so
Speaker 3: don't treat their opinion like it's God's opinion. Remember they
Speaker 3: are not God. The people who are negative in your life.
Speaker 3: Proverbs twenty nine, Verse twenty.
Speaker 2: Five says this.
Speaker 3: The fear of human opinion disables, but trusting in God
Speaker 3: protects you from that. I love that the message. Some
Speaker 3: of you are disabled and don't know it. You have
Speaker 3: a disability. You know what your disability is. You are
Speaker 3: addicted to the approval of others, and that's your disability.
Speaker 3: The fear of human opinion disables, but trusting in God
Speaker 3: protects you from that. When you trust in God, you
Speaker 3: don't worry about the opinion of other people. Today's English
Speaker 3: version says it's dangerous to be concerned with what other
Speaker 3: people think of you. What other people think of you
Speaker 3: is none of your business. What other people think of
Speaker 3: you as none of your business. You shouldn't care about
Speaker 3: what other people. You should only care about what God
Speaker 3: thinks of you. And if you care about what other
Speaker 3: people think of you, you'll get paralyzed. You'll won't attempt things.
Speaker 3: Some of you have been locked in a prison of
Speaker 3: self made fear, and my job as your pastors to
Speaker 3: open that door, help you break the chain, help you
Speaker 3: get out and become who God wanted you be. To
Speaker 3: go after that dream, you'll get sidetracked from God's purpose
Speaker 3: for your life.
Speaker 2: If you're living for somebody else's purpose.
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