Speaker 1: Hey everyone, thanks for joining us today on Pastor Rick's
Speaker 1: Daily Hope.
Speaker 2: This is the place.
Speaker 1: Where Rick Warren brings you uplifting messages from God's Word
Speaker 1: every day to help you grow deeper in faith and
Speaker 1: live a life with purpose. Today we're continuing in a
Speaker 1: powerful series called Toolbox for Life. In this series, Rick
Speaker 1: teaches us four essential skills that you need to succeed
Speaker 1: wherever God has placed you, whether it's at home, at work,
Speaker 1: at school, or in your community. These are tools that
Speaker 1: every follower of Jesus absolutely needs. So let's jump right
Speaker 1: in for part one of a message called knowing what
Speaker 1: Matters Most?
Speaker 2: Now, what would you think if I were to announce
Speaker 2: this weekend this I've just read an incredible self help book,
Speaker 2: and this book tells me that I can be anything
Speaker 2: that I want to be. If I just really desire
Speaker 2: it and work really hard, I can become anything I
Speaker 2: want to be. So this weekend, I'm leaving Saddleback Church
Speaker 2: to go become a ballerina on Broadway. How would you
Speaker 2: react to that? And if I said God told me
Speaker 2: that I'm going to be a ballerina on Broadway, you
Speaker 2: would say, Rick, what have you been smoking? Because it
Speaker 2: would be ludicrous for me to announce that I was
Speaker 2: going to become a ballerina on Broadway because I really
Speaker 2: really wanted to be it, and I was going to
Speaker 2: work really hard. It would be ludicrous for three reasons.
Speaker 2: Number one, I'm not shaped be a ballerina. Why are
Speaker 2: you laughing? I'm not big enough, I'm not shaped. I'm
Speaker 2: not gifted to be a ballerina. I really am not
Speaker 2: one of these people with good balance. I don't have
Speaker 2: good balance. I never have all my life, and it
Speaker 2: takes incredible physical balance to be a ballerina. I'm not gifted,
Speaker 2: I'm not talented. And the third thing is I've never
Speaker 2: learned the skills. So clearly this would be disastrous. Now,
Speaker 2: we do this all the time in other areas. I
Speaker 2: talk to people, says who say, I like to eat bagels,
Speaker 2: so I'm going to start a bagel shop. Just because
Speaker 2: you like pie, or because you can even bake a
Speaker 2: pie doesn't mean you should start a pie business. Those
Speaker 2: are two different animals. Just because you like, you admire,
Speaker 2: or you desire a certain career doesn't mean you should
Speaker 2: acquire that career. One of the keys to succeeding in
Speaker 2: life is you have to be skilled. Desire is not enough,
Speaker 2: dedication is not enough, prayer is not enough, working hard,
Speaker 2: all these things are part of it. But you've got
Speaker 2: to have the right skills and you could be the
Speaker 2: most sincere person in the world. And if you don't
Speaker 2: have the right life skills, you're gonna fail at life.
Speaker 2: And if you don't have the right work skills, you're
Speaker 2: gonna fail at work. If you don't have the right
Speaker 2: ministry skills, you'll fail in ministry. The Bible says skill,
Speaker 2: not dedication. Skill will bring success. Now, the good news
Speaker 2: is skills can be learned. And today we're gonna look
Speaker 2: at the second essential skill, and it is this knowing
Speaker 2: how to recognize what's important and what's not important. I
Speaker 2: can't tell you how important this skill is and how
Speaker 2: few people have it. To look at a situation that's important,
Speaker 2: that's not that matters, that doesn't matter, that's valuable, that's
Speaker 2: not valuable, this is crucial, that's not crucial. Leaders know
Speaker 2: what's important and they focus on that and they forget
Speaker 2: everything else. Successful people know what matters and don't worry
Speaker 2: about what doesn't matter. Paul says, this one thing I
Speaker 2: do not these forty things I dabble in. He is focused,
Speaker 2: He's laser focused. And you have to learn this skill
Speaker 2: in life to be successful at work and at home
Speaker 2: and in life, the skill of knowing what matters most. Now,
Speaker 2: have you noticed that you don't have time to do everything? Yeah,
Speaker 2: of course you have. You have noticed this in life.
Speaker 2: The good news is this, God doesn't expect you to
Speaker 2: do everything, and there are only a few things in
Speaker 2: life worth doing. In the first place. God hasn't called
Speaker 2: you to do everything in life. He's called you to
Speaker 2: do what He's called you to do. What you're gifted,
Speaker 2: what you're shaped. We're going to talk about that in
Speaker 2: future and what's important in life. Knowing what matters most
Speaker 2: is extremely important. Look at this first on the screen.
Speaker 2: One Corinthian six twelve says this, everything is permissible, but
Speaker 2: not everything is beneficial. What does that mean? You're free
Speaker 2: to do anything with your life. God isn't going to
Speaker 2: force you to do anything with your life. It's all permitted.
Speaker 2: You can waste your life, you can invest your life,
Speaker 2: you can spend your life. Everything's permissible, but not everything
Speaker 2: is beneficial. Some things in life are not necessarily wrong,
Speaker 2: they're not necessary, and oftentimes we give first class allegiance
Speaker 2: to second class causes, and those causes betray us. I
Speaker 2: talked to one time to a guy who said, I
Speaker 2: climbed the ladder of success, and when I got to
Speaker 2: the top, it was leaning against the wrong way. Not
Speaker 2: everything is worth doing, and so you can save yourself
Speaker 2: a lot of time, a lot of energy if you
Speaker 2: learn the skill of knowing what's important and what's not important,
Speaker 2: knowing what's valuable, what it's not valuable, what matters, and
Speaker 2: what doesn't matter. Selection is a key to success in
Speaker 2: life because you don't have time for everything, and selection,
Speaker 2: just like these other skills, is a skill that you
Speaker 2: can learn. The better you get at selection and prioritizing
Speaker 2: what matters in your life and what doesn't matter, the
Speaker 2: more effective you're going to be as a person, as
Speaker 2: a partner, as a parent, as a leader in life.
Speaker 2: You know, I thought, since we were talking about prioritization,
Speaker 2: I would show you a screenshot of the four folders
Speaker 2: on the top of my computer desktop. Can we put
Speaker 2: that picture up? This is my desktop and there are
Speaker 2: actually four folders on my desktop. Number one is things
Speaker 2: God wants me to do. Number two is things people
Speaker 2: I love need me to do, Third is things I
Speaker 2: want to do? And four is things everybody else wants
Speaker 2: me to do? Which of those four do you think
Speaker 2: has the most number four? Which is the least important
Speaker 2: number four? And that's when people say, can you write
Speaker 2: an endorsement for this book? Can you do this for me?
Speaker 2: They're not even people I know a lot of times,
Speaker 2: but they want me to do something. You have to
Speaker 2: know what does God want me to do? What are
Speaker 2: the people I love need me to do? What do
Speaker 2: I want to do? There's a legitimate part for that,
Speaker 2: and then what does everybody else want me to do?
Speaker 2: And God has not called you to fulfill everybody else's
Speaker 2: will for their life? Does that make sense? So what
Speaker 2: I want us to do this weekend is talk about
Speaker 2: how do you discover what matters and what doesn't matter,
Speaker 2: what's valuable and what's not valuable, what is important and
Speaker 2: what's not important? You see, every time you make it decision,
Speaker 2: what we're talking about here is clarifying your values. Every
Speaker 2: single time you make a decision, you are basing it
Speaker 2: on unspoken values. You have a grid in your mind.
Speaker 2: You've never even thought about this, most likely, but you
Speaker 2: have a set of values in your mind, and every
Speaker 2: time you make a decision, I'm going to do this
Speaker 2: and not do that. I'm going to buy this and
Speaker 2: not buy that. I'm going to spend my time and
Speaker 2: effort and energy on this and not on that. You
Speaker 2: were showing your hidden values. The problem is most people
Speaker 2: have never figured out what they are, where they came from,
Speaker 2: and whether they're valid or not. So really, the secret
Speaker 2: of success is clarifying your values. This is a skill.
Speaker 2: You need to learn what is valuable to me and
Speaker 2: what is not valuable. Every time you make a decision,
Speaker 2: you reveal your values. My question is, do you know
Speaker 2: where your values came from? Are they how they work
Speaker 2: it out? Is your life working out with those values?
Speaker 2: Do you know where you pick them up? Are they
Speaker 2: working for you? Your value in life determine your stress,
Speaker 2: determine your success, and determine your salvation. Now you may
Speaker 2: not realize this, but your values could be causing stress
Speaker 2: in your life. Unclear values cause confusion. They cause confusion
Speaker 2: in your life. Conflicting values in your life cause tension.
Speaker 2: Unclear cause confusion. Conflicting values cause tension. False values create deception,
Speaker 2: and the wrong values create dysfunction. So it's extremely important.
Speaker 2: What I'm talking to you about this weekend is very
Speaker 2: vital to the rest of your life. Lasting success, and
Speaker 2: as your pastor, I want you to succeed in life.
Speaker 2: Lasting success is built on values that last, and a
Speaker 2: lot of the values that our world hasn't aren't lasting values.
Speaker 2: So what I want to do this weekend is give
Speaker 2: you four questions. I want you to write these questions
Speaker 2: down to evaluate your values. When we talk about evalue eight,
Speaker 2: you are valuing your values. Values you evaluate means to
Speaker 2: judge your own values. So let me give you four
Speaker 2: questions that are going to determine your values and your destiny.
Speaker 2: Number one, here's the first question you want to ask
Speaker 2: yourself in knowing what matters most? First question, who is
Speaker 2: going to be my authority? That's the fundamental question of life.
Speaker 2: Who is going to be my authority? In other words,
Speaker 2: where am I going to get my values? Now, there
Speaker 2: are a lot of different sources on which you can
Speaker 2: determine what values you're going to live by. Some of
Speaker 2: your values you pick up from your parents, some of
Speaker 2: them you pick up from peers. Some of your values
Speaker 2: you picked up at school. Some of your values you
Speaker 2: picked up from books and magazines and movies and television shows. Today,
Speaker 2: the number one source of values today in the generations
Speaker 2: growing up. You know what it is? The media. The
Speaker 2: media are determining the values of the next generation in
Speaker 2: the world today. That's the thing. Now you have to decide,
Speaker 2: you have to choose what's going to be the source
Speaker 2: of my values, because a poor source will give you
Speaker 2: poor values. The source determines the quality. Does this make
Speaker 2: sense where you get your I mean I could go
Speaker 2: down to, you know, a street corner in LA and
Speaker 2: learn my values from a drug pusher. They're not going
Speaker 2: to be very reliable values, but I could learn them.
Speaker 2: The source would determine the quality of my values. So
Speaker 2: the first then, if you want to succeed in life,
Speaker 2: you want to know what's important is you got to
Speaker 2: decide where you're going to get your values. And you
Speaker 2: have three options. Here are the three options. The first
Speaker 2: option in determining values is me myself. So write that
Speaker 2: down myself. You can just get your values from yourself
Speaker 2: and you can actually say, you know what, I'm going
Speaker 2: to depend on my gut to always know the right
Speaker 2: thing to do. And some people do this, They get
Speaker 2: all their values from within. I'm just going to depend
Speaker 2: on my gut to always know the right thing to do. Question,
Speaker 2: how's that working out for you? Are you hitting any
Speaker 2: dead ends? Are or are all your plans coming out
Speaker 2: exactly the way you plan them to be? Are all
Speaker 2: your dreams coming true because you're depending on you for
Speaker 2: your values? Have all your plans succeeded? The Bible says
Speaker 2: in Jeremiah eleven seventeen, verse nine, the human mind this
Speaker 2: is a God's word translation, the human mind is the
Speaker 2: most deceitful of all things. It is in no one
Speaker 2: can understand how deceitful it really is. Now, let's you
Speaker 2: circle the word deceitful because I want to give you
Speaker 2: the definition of that word. It says, the human mind
Speaker 2: is the most deceitful of all things. Nobody can understand
Speaker 2: how deceitful it is. What does deceitful mean? Well, let
Speaker 2: me give you definition. The word deceitful means to mislead
Speaker 2: in the wrong direction. That's Webster's definition. It means to
Speaker 2: mislead in the wrong direction. Does your mind ever do that?
Speaker 2: Oh baby, oh baby, oh baby, Yes, it does. Your
Speaker 2: mind often leads you in the wrong direction. I don't
Speaker 2: know if you follow all these recent brain studies, but
Speaker 2: I read these technical reports or read articles magazines, read
Speaker 2: scientific journals on it, and in the last five years
Speaker 2: there have been enormous breakthroughs in understanding the brain. I
Speaker 2: think part of it was because Matthew struggled with mental illness.
Speaker 2: I've just always been interested in the brain. But in
Speaker 2: the last five years, study after study after study after
Speaker 2: study has proven that your perceptions are wrong more than
Speaker 2: their right. In life. Every single brain study is proving
Speaker 2: this that your brain lies to you. You get it
Speaker 2: wrong more often than you get it right. The way
Speaker 2: you perceive yourself, the way you perceive others, the way
Speaker 2: you perceive your relationships, the way you perceive your problems,
Speaker 2: the way you perceive the world. Study after study shows
Speaker 2: our brain isn't that good at getting it accurate. That
Speaker 2: just because you tell yourself something about a problem, about
Speaker 2: a person, about a relationship, about money, about anything, doesn't
Speaker 2: mean it's true, doesn't mean it's correct. You lie to
Speaker 2: yourself all the time. In fact, you like to yourself
Speaker 2: more than you like anybody else. Now this is not
Speaker 2: new news, because thousands of years ago that God said
Speaker 2: the human mind is the most deceitful of all things.
Speaker 2: It misleads us in the wrong direction. You say, but
Speaker 2: I saw it, I heard it. Well, you could have
Speaker 2: misheard it, and you could have mis seen it. Both
Speaker 2: your eyes and your ears lie. Any attorney can prove
Speaker 2: this by using multiple witnesses. You can have an accident
Speaker 2: take place, and you can have people on four different
Speaker 2: corners and they all see the accident, and they're going
Speaker 2: to tell you four different stories which one was right.
Speaker 2: We see what we think we see, We perceive what
Speaker 2: we think we perceive. We hear the stuff I'm telling
Speaker 2: you right now, what I'm saying, you're not actually even
Speaker 2: hearing it the way I'm saying it. You're hearing it
Speaker 2: the way you receive it. And so it's not highly
Speaker 2: reliable to base your values on yourself because you don't
Speaker 2: always see reality as it really is. Growing up, you
Speaker 2: were told things about you and you believed them. They
Speaker 2: weren't true, but you believed them. And you've told other
Speaker 2: people and people told you things that were about you
Speaker 2: that really weren't true, but you believed it, And so
Speaker 2: your perceptions are not always reality. You might say, I
Speaker 2: know what's causing my problem. Well, the fact is you
Speaker 2: probably don't. You need an authority bigger than yourself, because
Speaker 2: we all misjudge. We misjudge events, we misjudge pain, we
Speaker 2: misjudge people, we misjudge motives. In fact, you might want
Speaker 2: to write this down. My perceptions say more about me
Speaker 2: than others. My perceptions say more about me than others,
Speaker 2: because I have this grid in my mind and I
Speaker 2: see things the way I see it, which doesn't necessarily
Speaker 2: mean it's the truth. So if I build my life,
Speaker 2: but I'm the final authority of what's right and what's wrong,
Speaker 2: what's true and false, what's good and bad, what's valuable
Speaker 2: and being valuable, I'm on sinking sands. I got to
Speaker 2: have a source of authority outside myself. That's not enough
Speaker 2: because we all misjudge. The Bible says this, look here
Speaker 2: on the screen Proverb sixteen twenty five. There is a
Speaker 2: way that seems right to humans, but in the end
Speaker 2: it leads to death. A lot of plans that you've
Speaker 2: had were dead ends. A lot of plans I've had
Speaker 2: were dead ends. It seemed the right thing. So you
Speaker 2: can't just depend on your own gut. Your perceptions can
Speaker 2: lead to dead ends. What you need is the truth.
Speaker 2: That's why the Bible says trust in the Lord with
Speaker 2: all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding,
Speaker 2: on your own perception, on how you think it's it
Speaker 2: is seen. So the first possible source, it's not very reliable,
Speaker 2: is all'll be the source of all my values, and
Speaker 2: I'll determine what reality is. The second source you write
Speaker 2: this one down as possible source is the world. And
Speaker 2: most of the time we get our values from the world.
Speaker 2: In other words, what does everybody else think is valuable?
Speaker 2: What does everybody else consider important? And if they consider important,
Speaker 2: it must be important to me. They consider it valuable,
Speaker 2: must be valuable to me. Now, first, John chapter two
Speaker 2: fifteen and sixteen says this, don't love what the world
Speaker 2: offers and values. Do not love what the world offers
Speaker 2: and values. Those who love the world don't have the
Speaker 2: Father's love in them. For what the world values, and
Speaker 2: it lists three things physical gratification. We see that greed, materialism,
Speaker 2: and prideful self centered lifestyles. What the world values does
Speaker 2: not come from the Father. Now, this verse shows us
Speaker 2: three of the world's values. You might write these down
Speaker 2: here if you're going to base your values on what
Speaker 2: the world says, what culture says, what pop culture says.
Speaker 2: Here's what you're gonna get. The first thing the world
Speaker 2: values is this looking good, looking good. The world values appearance.
Speaker 2: The world values appearance. It's why billions are spent on
Speaker 2: beauty aids and surgeries and clothes. But the truth is,
Speaker 2: most of us aren't part of the beautiful people. We're
Speaker 2: not as attractive as the superstars. We're just kind of
Speaker 2: average looking, and so the world doesn't value you or
Speaker 2: me like it values the beautiful people. You're probably not
Speaker 2: going to get your picture in People magazine, or us
Speaker 2: are on the cover of some beauty magazine, and the
Speaker 2: world says, because you're not that beautiful, you don't matter.
Speaker 2: You aren't as valuable as the prom queen, as a cheerleader,
Speaker 2: as the sexy starlet or the incredible hunk Rick Warren.
Speaker 2: So the world values appearance beauty, and the Bible says, no, no,
Speaker 2: that's not the important value. The second thing that the
Speaker 2: world values is not just looking good, but feeling good,
Speaker 2: feeling good, and of course that's pleasure, and that's sex.
Speaker 2: I don't have to convince you that sex dominates our society.
Speaker 2: Everybody agree with that. I mean, it is used to
Speaker 2: sell spark plugs and dishwashing soap and everything else. And
Speaker 2: you know, people taking a shower and they're shampooing, it's
Speaker 2: like they're having some kind of experience and you go whoo,
Speaker 2: you know. And sex is used literally to sell everything.
Speaker 2: Why because it's the second big value. I just want
Speaker 2: to have fun. And if you say what my number
Speaker 2: one goal in life is happiness, you've bought into the
Speaker 2: world's value system, which says that happiness feeling good is
Speaker 2: more important than doing things right or correct or anything else.
Speaker 2: You know, it's not by accident. In our culture today,
Speaker 2: our largest industry is entertainment. It's entertainment because we want
Speaker 2: to feel good. So the world system is looking good, appearance,
Speaker 2: feeling good, pleasure, and sex. And the third value of
Speaker 2: the world is having the goods. In other words, materialism, money, wealth, riches, prosperity.
Speaker 2: We are conspicuous about our consumption. People like to show
Speaker 2: it off. They want to show off their cars, show
Speaker 2: off their clothes, their homes, the jewelry, their front lawn,
Speaker 2: except in southern California, where we're ashamed of having a lawn.
Speaker 2: And we want to base our self worth on our
Speaker 2: net worth, and we think that our value is connected
Speaker 2: to our valuables. It isn't, but that's what the world
Speaker 2: teachess money, sex, power or passion, possession, position, sex, salary status.
Speaker 2: This is what the world values. This is what every
Speaker 2: advertisement promotes. Now here's the problem. Since you're constantly bombarded
Speaker 2: by the media with these three values about appearance. You
Speaker 2: got to look good, you got to feel good, and
Speaker 2: you got to have the goods. Even Christians get seduced
Speaker 2: by those values, and all of a sudden, we think
Speaker 2: that's the whole purpose of life, to look good, to
Speaker 2: feel good, and have the goods. And that is not
Speaker 2: at all what God puts you on this planet for. Now,
Speaker 2: there's a third possible soul for your values, and of
Speaker 2: course that's God, particularly God's word. And God's word is
Speaker 2: a far more objective, truthful, not you know, give and
Speaker 2: sway to your perceptions or the world's opinions. God's word
Speaker 2: Jesus said it like this, and John eight, if you
Speaker 2: continue in my word, you will know the truth, and
Speaker 2: the truth will make you free. Now what does God
Speaker 2: say about these values? Well, I just thought i'd quickly
Speaker 2: give these verses to you. What does God say about
Speaker 2: appearance and beauty? For Samuel six sixteen seven, The Lord
Speaker 2: does not look at the things man looks at. Man
Speaker 2: looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at what.
Speaker 2: God doesn't care about your appearance. He doesn't care about
Speaker 2: your parents. God, it's not about appearance, he says. It's
Speaker 2: not about making pleasure your highest value Hebrews eleven twenty five.
Speaker 2: The pleasures of sin only last for a short time.
Speaker 2: They ain't going to last. Yeah, it's fun that you
Speaker 2: have your kicks, but they'll be the kickbacks. And God says,
Speaker 2: it's not about wealth, it's not about materialism Luke twelve fifteen.
Speaker 2: Jesus says real life is not measured by how much
Speaker 2: we own. In other words, the greatest things in life
Speaker 2: aren't things. So the first question I need to ask
Speaker 2: is who's gonna be my authority myself? That's pretty shaky
Speaker 2: the world. That's just the opinion of other people. Or
Speaker 2: is it gonna be God's word? Now? The second question
Speaker 2: you want to ask is this, what's going to last
Speaker 2: the longest? What's going to last the longest? This is
Speaker 2: an important question. To ask, if you're trying to decide
Speaker 2: what you're gonna build your values on, what's going to
Speaker 2: be important and if you want to know what matters
Speaker 2: most of what doesn't matter, you need to invest your
Speaker 2: life in something that's going to last the longest. Now,
Speaker 2: let me be on us with you. We rarely, we
Speaker 2: rarely evaluate our values or question our perceptions until we
Speaker 2: hit a crisis. And when we hit a crisis, and
Speaker 2: when we're in deep, deep, deep, deep pain, then we
Speaker 2: just start going, is this really what life's all about?
Speaker 2: Living for appearance, feeling good, having the goods, looking good? No, no, no,
Speaker 2: it's got to be more than that. When you're in pain,
Speaker 2: you start to saying, well, maybe my perceptions aren't correct
Speaker 2: and maybe my values aren't right. See what happens is
Speaker 2: we typically cruise through life like this, never stopping to
Speaker 2: ask the tough questions about our life until we hit
Speaker 2: the pain. We don't change when we see the light.
Speaker 2: We change when we feel the heat. And when we
Speaker 2: hit the crisis, then we start saying, is this a
Speaker 2: dead end I'm walking down? Is where is this headed?
Speaker 2: Am I seeing things correctly? Am I deceiving myself? When
Speaker 2: things are going great. We don't even ask those questions,
Speaker 2: But when you get fired from your job, or you
Speaker 2: go through a divorce, or a loved one dies, or
Speaker 2: you have a health crisis, all of a sudden, these
Speaker 2: values questions become real. Am I really seeing things correctly?
Speaker 2: Am I listening to what the world says? Or am
Speaker 2: I listening to what God says?
Speaker 1: Such a great message from Pastor Rick today, and I
Speaker 1: hope you were just as encouraged as I was. You know,
Speaker 1: the truth is, desire and determination alone aren't enough to
Speaker 1: succeed in life. So many people already work so hard,
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