WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:06.200 Hey everyone, thanks for joining us today on Pastor Rick's 2 00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:07.120 Daily Hope. 3 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:08.359 This is the place. 4 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:12.039 Where Rick Warren brings you uplifting messages from God's Word 5 00:00:12.359 --> 00:00:15.759 every day to help you grow deeper in faith and 6 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:19.640 live a life with purpose. Today we're continuing in a 7 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:24.320 powerful series called Toolbox for Life. In this series, Rick 8 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:28.600 teaches us four essential skills that you need to succeed 9 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:32.759 wherever God has placed you, whether it's at home, at work, 10 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:36.520 at school, or in your community. These are tools that 11 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:41.799 every follower of Jesus absolutely needs. And right now, here's 12 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:45.240 Pastor Rick Warren with part one of a message called 13 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:48.439 Learning to Be Both Fast and Slow. 14 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:50.560 This weekend, I want us to look at the skill 15 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:51.799 of timing. 16 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:54.320 The title of the message is called learning to be 17 00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:56.920 Both Fast and Slow. 18 00:00:56.960 --> 00:00:58.600 And let me explain it a little bit. 19 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:03.719 Every great acomplishment ever in history has an element of 20 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:08.599 timing to it. When you're watching a football game and 21 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:14.400 you see a football player catch a beautiful pass, it's 22 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:17.319 only because they had worked out the timing between the 23 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:19.400 quarterback and the wide receiver. 24 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:21.000 And if that. 25 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:25.200 Timing is off, there's no reception. It's all a matter 26 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:28.680 of timing. Now, this is true in every area of life. 27 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:32.439 It's true in business. Any business investor will tell you 28 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:35.359 that timing is a large part of knowing when to buy, 29 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:38.519 knowing when to sell, knowing when to make a deal, 30 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:41.359 knowing when to merge, and knowing when not to merge, 31 00:01:41.359 --> 00:01:45.879 when to diversify. It's all a matter of timing. If 32 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:48.599 you are a singer, you have to know how to 33 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:51.359 sing the notes at the right time. If you're a musician, 34 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:54.400 you know how to have to keep time in the beat. 35 00:01:54.799 --> 00:01:58.560 If you are a speaker, you have to know good 36 00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:02.640 timing in the way you deliver the words. The secret 37 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:07.239 between a funny joke and a joke that bombs is 38 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:11.520 often a matter of timing. And if you have comedic timing, 39 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:14.080 you're just good at it, and if you don't, you 40 00:02:14.199 --> 00:02:18.639 suck at it. The key to being a great speaker 41 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:23.240 and creating tension in UH in a speech is. 42 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:33.199 Timing. Timing. Now uh, this is true in every area 43 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:33.719 of life. 44 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:37.080 This week, I was told that saddle Back once again 45 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:41.520 was named the most influential American church, this time by 46 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:45.319 news UH Newsmax magazine. It's We've been named it several 47 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:49.240 times and to a large degree, Saddleback's influence around the 48 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:51.479 world is simply because we're good at timing. 49 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:54.000 We call it walking in the spirit. 50 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:56.520 We watch what God is doing in the world and 51 00:02:56.560 --> 00:02:59.960 we say we're gonna get involved in that. I never 52 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:04.240 never pray God bless what I'm doing. Never I pray God, 53 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:07.960 help me to do what you're blessing. And I look 54 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:09.919 around the world and I see, Oh, God's doing that, 55 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:11.599 and God's doing that, and God's doing that. 56 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:13.080 I'd like to get in on that. 57 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:15.319 And then my prayer is, God, would you give me 58 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:17.159 the privilege of just being a part of what you 59 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:20.759 happen to be doing at this particular moment in history. 60 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:24.680 And so being sensitive to how God works in the 61 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:28.039 world is really a matter of timing. The Bible says 62 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:29.919 it like this, they're on the top of your outline 63 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:36.479 Ecclesiastes eight six. There is a right time, and there's 64 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:42.319 a right way to do everything. But we know so 65 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:48.319 little now that implies that timing. Doing the right time 66 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:50.840 that's timing, and doing it in the right way that's execution. 67 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:53.919 That both of those are skills, and we don't happen 68 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:56.120 to know those skills. So we're not very good at it, 69 00:03:56.280 --> 00:04:00.680 but it means that you can learn these things. Years ago, 70 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:03.759 when I wrote the book Purpose Driven Church back in 71 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:08.199 the nineties, the first chapter was called Surfing Spiritual Waves, 72 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:13.080 and I compared leadership to surfing because here in Southern California, 73 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:15.639 of course, we got a lot of surfers. I used 74 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:17.720 to have a board and it's very poor at surfing, 75 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:20.199 but had a lot of fun doing that it falling 76 00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:26.160 off the board. But surfers don't create waves. Surfers only 77 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:29.360 surf the waves that God makes. You've never seen a 78 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:31.759 surfer who said, oh, let's go create a wave, because 79 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:34.839 you can't create a wave. You just have to wait 80 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:38.720 for God to send one in. And surfing involves a 81 00:04:38.759 --> 00:04:41.720 lot of patients and you paddle out and then you 82 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:44.839 wait for that perfect wave to come. And then it's 83 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:48.000 actually harder than it looks because you've got to learn 84 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:50.160 how to surf the wave. You got to learn how 85 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:52.519 to balance on the wave, you got to learn how 86 00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:54.600 to get off the wave without wiping out. And it's 87 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:57.000 actually more skilled than a lot of people realize. But 88 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:00.079 no surfer has ever tried to create a wave. He 89 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:03.639 or she simply serfs the waves that God creates. And 90 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:05.319 that's what we've tried to do it so saddleback for 91 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:09.439 thirty five years. We don't try to create a waves 92 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:12.839 of God's working. We just say what is God doing? 93 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:15.639 And we move slow when God moves slow, and we 94 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:17.759 move fast when God moves fast. 95 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:19.800 I want to talk to you about that. 96 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:22.319 This weekend because it's a skill you must learn to 97 00:05:22.399 --> 00:05:26.680 succeed in your life. There is a rhythm to life. 98 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:30.240 There is a rhythm to love, and there is a 99 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:34.480 rhythm to leadership. And so sometimes you have to move 100 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:36.040 fast and sometimes you. 101 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:37.040 Have to move slow. 102 00:05:37.319 --> 00:05:40.839 Wise people know how to cooperate with those rhythms in life. 103 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:44.639 And as I said, that's often called walking in the spirit, 104 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:47.480 where you learn to sense when to go fast and 105 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:51.319 when to go slow. I was laughing that last week 106 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:53.920 when Pastor Tommy was teaching. Remember we talked about how 107 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:58.680 he hates to run. Remember that, and you know Tommy 108 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:00.759 don't run. And I laughed at all four services when 109 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:04.120 he said that. But the Bible actually does have a 110 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:07.319 lot to say about running. In fact, the Bible compares 111 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:13.160 your life to a race. And the Bible tells us 112 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:17.600 that Jesus had a sense of urgency about his life 113 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:20.279 in his ministry. In fact, about fifteen times in the 114 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:23.480 Bible the word Jesus and the word immediately are in 115 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:27.800 the same verse, and it says, and Jesus immediately did this. 116 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:32.000 Some people think Jesus was always slow, sometimes he was fast, 117 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:36.079 sometimes he was very fast. And immediately Jesus did this. 118 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:38.040 He me healed that person, and he went to this place, 119 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:40.519 and he confronted that person on and on and on, 120 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:44.439 and just as Jesus had a sense of urgency, so 121 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:46.199 did Paul. Let me show you some verses here on 122 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:49.399 the screen. The Bible says in one Timothy six', twelve 123 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:54.000 run hard and fast in the. Faith god wants you 124 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:56.800 to run. Hard god wants you to run fast in the. 125 00:06:56.839 --> 00:06:59.360 Faith that's the message prayer. Phrase then The bible, says 126 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:03.319 Verse grinding nine twenty, four run in such a way 127 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:06.000 as to get the. Prize AND i notice he doesn't say, 128 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:09.439 Walk he says. Run sometimes you need to go. Fast 129 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:13.000 and then the next verse says this Verse corinthians nine twenty, 130 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:18.560 SIX i run straight to the goal with purpose in every. 131 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:21.439 Step paul was purpose. Driven and then one more Verse 132 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:26.120 philippians three, TWELVE i run to. 133 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:30.839 WIN i run to. Win so, clearly. 134 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:34.560 There's a many passages in scripture Where god, SAYS i 135 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:37.519 want you to go. Fast but there are also many 136 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:40.240 passages in scripture When god, SAYS i want you to go. 137 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:42.759 SLOW i want you to, WAIT i want you to, 138 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:44.920 DELAY i want you to not. MOVE i want you 139 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:47.279 to stand still and see the salvation of The. Lord 140 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:51.920 so learning the difference is a very important skill to 141 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:55.920 being effective at, life effective at, love and effective at. 142 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:00.600 Leadership knowing when to go fast and knowing when to go. 143 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:03.079 Slow and that's what we're going to look at this. 144 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:06.720 Weekend let's look first at what Does god want me 145 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:09.199 to do when he wants me to move? Fast when 146 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:12.279 does he want me to move with? Speed and now 147 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:15.160 this is not an exhaustive, list it's just a. REPRESENTATIVE 148 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:17.040 i could have given you a very very long list 149 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:21.079 many many, others but this is just representative of When 150 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:24.759 god wants you to move. Fast and because it's, That 151 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:27.319 i'm going to go through it very. Quickly so you 152 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:31.519 have to write fast number. ONE i should move fast 153 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:36.120 When god tells me to do. Something When god tells 154 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:39.159 me to do, SOMETHING i should move fast to do. It, 155 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:41.600 now The bible is filled with all kinds of life. 156 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:45.679 Instructions they're called the commands Of, god the decrees Of. 157 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:49.679 God they're called the precepts Of. God And god expects 158 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:51.120 us to obey his. 159 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:53.960 Commands how many of you are? Parents CAN i see your? 160 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:57.399 Hands what if your child came to you and you, 161 00:08:57.480 --> 00:08:59.320 SAID i want you to do, this AND i want 162 00:08:59.320 --> 00:08:59.759 you to obey. 163 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:03.879 Me the said i'll think about. It there would be. 164 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:07.879 Consequences but we do that To god all the. Time god, 165 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:10.360 SAYS i want you to Do i'll think about. It oh, 166 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:14.039 really SO i have the authority to Tell god i'll 167 00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:17.679 think about. It that's as much rebellion as it is 168 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:21.120 a child saying go to a. Parent when the creator 169 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:23.480 comes up with an, idea he expects us to do. 170 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:29.440 It every parent knows that delayed obedience is. Disobedience if 171 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:31.159 a child, says, well i'll do it WHEN i get 172 00:09:31.159 --> 00:09:32.360 around to, it that's not. 173 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:33.200 Obedience that's. 174 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:36.919 Disobedience The bible Says god wants us to move fast 175 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:39.600 when he tells us to do. SOMETHING a couple, Examples 176 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:44.200 mark one seventeen and. Eighteen jesus said to, them come follow. 177 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:50.600 Me So simon And andrew immediately left their. 178 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:53.240 Nets not the next, day not the next. Week immediate 179 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:55.519 left their nets and followed. Him what does it? Means 180 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:56.360 they left their. 181 00:09:56.519 --> 00:09:59.240 Job they walked away from their job when a guy 182 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:00.559 said to, them follow. 183 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:05.759 Me that's immediate. Obedience immediate, obedience. 184 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:08.559 The bible says In psalm one, nineteen verse, sixty without, 185 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:16.080 DELAY i hurry to. Obey i'll hurry to obey your. 186 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:20.919 Commands circle the word. Hurry we often think hurry in. 187 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:21.759 A negative term. 188 00:10:21.799 --> 00:10:26.879 Today it reminds us of, stress, problems, pressures and the 189 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:29.720 hurry and worry and. Bustle but hurry is always a 190 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:32.919 good word when it comes to. Obedience The bible, SAYS 191 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:35.240 i hurry to obey your. 192 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:36.159 Commands so my. 193 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:38.840 Question AS i start is to simply ask, you what 194 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:40.720 is it that you Know god's told you to do 195 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:44.519 and you haven't started doing it? Yet you know, it 196 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:47.279 and you're not doing. It god, SAYS i want you 197 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:49.080 to do it? Quickly what are you? 198 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:50.360 Waiting? On number? 199 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:53.240 TWO i should move fast not only When god tells 200 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:55.879 me to do. SOMETHING i should move fast WHEN i 201 00:10:55.960 --> 00:11:00.320 need to ask or offer. Forgiveness now this is really 202 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:05.080 for your own, benefit because your body was not designed 203 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:06.200 to carry. 204 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:08.519 Guilt and. RESENTMENT i should. 205 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:11.759 Move quickly WHEN i need to ask forgiveness or offer. 206 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:17.840 Forgiveness we spend much of our lives abusing our bodies 207 00:11:17.879 --> 00:11:20.840 because of guilt over something we've done to, others and 208 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:23.240 over bitterness over something other people have done to. Us 209 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:25.639 doctors say you could clear out about fifty percent of 210 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:27.879 the people in hospitals today if they knew how to 211 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:29.960 get rid of guilt and, bitterness guilt and. 212 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:31.360 Resentment and what we. 213 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:35.480 Do is we crucify ourselves between two, crosses guilt and 214 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:38.519 resentment for the past and worry about the, future and 215 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:39.320 we mess. 216 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:41.960 Up today as a. Result god, says. 217 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:44.960 You should never carry, guilt or you should never carry. 218 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:47.679 Resentment it's like poison in your. Body you need to 219 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:51.120 deal with it. IMMEDIATELY i move. Fast The bible says 220 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:53.759 In matthew, five verse twenty two and twenty three is 221 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:56.399 from The sermon on The, Mount jesus, says if you're 222 00:11:56.399 --> 00:12:01.080 giving an offering at worship and you suddenly remember that 223 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:03.279 somebody is something against, you in other, words have got a. 224 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:04.759 Grudge or something against. 225 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:09.360 You leave your offering and go immediately circle that go 226 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:15.200 immediately to that person and be, reconciled then you can 227 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:18.120 come back to worship and offer your. Gift in other, 228 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:21.960 words don't ever use worship as an excuse to procrastinate 229 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:24.840 dealing with. Somebody now this is not rocket. Science WHEN 230 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:26.679 i say who is it you need to get right? 231 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:30.080 With you immediately know that person that you've had a 232 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:32.519 grudge against or they've had a grudge against, you and 233 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:35.039 there's been, strained there's been. Tension god, says why are 234 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:38.360 you carrying? THAT i never meant for your body to 235 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:40.559 carry that guilt OR i never meant for your body 236 00:12:40.600 --> 00:12:44.399 to carry that. Resentment who do you need to reconcile? 237 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:47.679 With you need to do it quickly the. Law every 238 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:51.360 day that you don't do, it you harm yourself, mentally, 239 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:55.960 spiritually and even. Physically number, THREE i should move fast 240 00:12:56.159 --> 00:13:00.759 WHEN i feel. Tempted The bible says that when, UNTEMPTED 241 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:05.039 i need to move quickly out of the tempting. Situation 242 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:06.720 Now i've talked to you about this. 243 00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:08.159 Before in. Detail we've studied. 244 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:12.639 Temptation that you need to have preventative strategies to keep 245 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:16.320 you from being, tempted and you need emergency strategies which 246 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:18.240 are kind of like the panic. Button when all of 247 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:21.639 a sudden you're tempted in a situation you didn't realize 248 00:13:21.799 --> 00:13:23.120 was going to come, up and all of a, sudden 249 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:25.960 you're there on a business, trip or there in front 250 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:28.399 of the, television or there in a hundred other, places 251 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:30.759 and you weren't expecting the. Temptation it came out of 252 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:33.159 the left, field and all of a, sudden you're just 253 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:35.840 overwhelmed with a desire to do something you know is 254 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:38.799 neither good for you nor good for, others and not 255 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:42.960 honoring To. God what do you do in those, Emergencies, 256 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:48.000 well The bible, says real, quickly, run it says, run 257 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:52.120 get away from the. Situation don't. Try when you are 258 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:55.279 in the moment of, temptation you're being, tempted and it 259 00:13:55.279 --> 00:13:59.080 could be a financial temptation to, cheat it could be 260 00:13:59.080 --> 00:14:02.120 a sexual, temptation it could be any kind of Tempt 261 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:05.000 there are thousands of temptations in that. 262 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:09.399 Moment never argue with the. Temptation you're gonna. 263 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:15.720 Lose you're gonna lose because emotions take, over and emotions aren't. 264 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:18.519 Logical you can be logical all you, want and when you're. 265 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:22.159 Emotional on, something it just takes. Over that's Why. 266 00:14:21.960 --> 00:14:24.759 WHEN i was a youth pastor many years, ago AND 267 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:27.279 i used to tell, kids don't decide that you're going 268 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:30.600 to be sexually pure and save yourself from marriage in 269 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:32.720 the back seat of a. Car that's not when you, 270 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:37.000 decide because you've got to decide long before, that so 271 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:39.559 you don't end up. There because if you end up 272 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:42.200 in the backseat of a, car you're gonna move by your, 273 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:47.320 glands not your, plans and those hormones are gonna kick 274 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:52.039 in and you're just. Overwhelmed so The bible, says listen 275 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:55.840 when you are. Tempted it, says don't fight, it don't resist, 276 00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:57.279 it replace. 277 00:14:57.320 --> 00:14:57.480 It. 278 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:02.279 Run that's the simplest turn the. Channel get out of the. 279 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:05.879 Situation if you don't want to get, stung get away 280 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:06.159 from the. 281 00:15:06.200 --> 00:15:09.279 Bees if you're trying trying to SAY i. 282 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:12.720 Don't want to drink alcohol, anymore then you don't go 283 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:18.440 to bars for the. Pretzels you just don't put yourself 284 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:22.519 in those. Situations now here's what The bible. Says One 285 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:28.600 timothy six.' eleven run away from all evil Things one. 286 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:33.600 Corinthians ten run away from the worship. Of idols, YOU 287 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:35.320 say i don't worship. Any, idols oh you do all. 288 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:38.639 The time you idolize all kinds. Of stuff what's? An 289 00:15:38.679 --> 00:15:40.919 idol i'm not talking about A little god sitting on a. 290 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:43.759 Desk here an idol is anything you Put. Before god 291 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:46.399 your boat could be, an idol your job could be, 292 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:49.120 An idol your spouse could be, an idol your children 293 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:51.600 could be. An idol anything that you put first place 294 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:55.600 in your Life. Before god that's. Called idolatry they may, 295 00:15:55.639 --> 00:15:59.279 be good but they don't deserve To have god's role in. 296 00:15:59.320 --> 00:16:02.360 Your life anytime you take a person and you elevate 297 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:04.759 Them above god and their opinion matters to you More, 298 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:08.559 than god you've just made. An idol and so we 299 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:14.360 idolize things all. The Time the, bible says run from worship. 300 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:16.600 Of idols So the bible says In first, parenthieon six 301 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:21.559 run away from. Sexual sin so he's, saying here WHEN 302 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:24.240 do i move Fast when god tells me to, DO 303 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:27.399 something i do? It immediately WHEN do i move FAST 304 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:30.480 when i need to ask or? Offer forgiveness and WHEN 305 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:33.159 do i move Fast when i'm? FEELING tempted i need 306 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:35.600 to just get out of. The situation don't, fight it. 307 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:40.080 Flee it don't, resist it run, from it, replace it 308 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:41.080 turn your mind onto. 309 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:41.759 Something else. 310 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:45.960 Number Four the bible SAYS that i should move Fast 311 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:49.600 when i've made a Promise. To God when i've made 312 00:16:49.639 --> 00:16:53.320 a Promise, To god god expects me to, keep it 313 00:16:53.679 --> 00:16:56.360 and sooner rather. Than later now we've all made Promises 314 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:59.440 to god that we've forgotten or even gotten. Lazy About 315 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:03.480 the bible says This in, ecclesiastes five. 316 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:04.240 Verse four. 317 00:17:06.279 --> 00:17:10.519 When you make a Promise, to god keep it as quickly. 318 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:13.720 As possible, notice that in, OTHER words i should, move 319 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:14.960 fast keep. 320 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:17.000 It as quickly. As possible god. 321 00:17:16.839 --> 00:17:19.400 Is not happy with, foolish people and he says it's 322 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:21.240 foolish to make a promise and then not. Keep it 323 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:26.920 do what you promised. To do, so question what promise 324 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:29.920 do you need? To keep and you need to do it? 325 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:34.160 This week you need to do. It now maybe you made. 326 00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:36.599 A promise some of you made a promise to read Through, 327 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:39.240 the bible maybe even read it in, the ear and 328 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:42.039 you got bogged down and you just. Gave up or 329 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:44.680 you made a promise to invite somebody at church and 330 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:46.200 then you just kind of got lazy and didn't. Do 331 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:48.480 it he made a promise to yourself Or to god 332 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:52.880 that you were going to start. Serving somewhere we've all 333 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:55.200 made Promises. To god, god says if you make, A, 334 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:58.960 promise god. Fulfill it immediately keep it as quickly. As 335 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:02.480 Possible and i'll tell you a little Secret because i've 336 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:05.319 learned this from. Personal experience when you make a Promise 337 00:18:05.319 --> 00:18:09.799 to god and then you fulfill it before you said 338 00:18:09.799 --> 00:18:14.400 you would, Fulfill it god goes crazy. With blessing god 339 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:17.400 opens the floodgates of blessing in. Your life god says 340 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:21.680 THAT guy i can, depend on that guy, Is responsible 341 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:23.359 that guy is a person. 342 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:27.759 Of integrity he she keeps, her word they keep. 343 00:18:27.880 --> 00:18:31.559 Their promise and there's almost Nothing that god won't do 344 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:37.480 for the person who shows integrity. And responsibility AND so 345 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:40.039 i would, encourage you whatever promise should Make, to god 346 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:44.920 try to fulfill it before it's. Actually due now another 347 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:47.680 Way that god wants. Another Time when god wants you 348 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:49.759 to move fast, as this write. It DOWN when i 349 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:53.160 have the opportunity to, DO good i should. 350 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:55.720 Move fast Every. 351 00:18:55.519 --> 00:19:00.559 Day god gives you little opportunities to show kindness to people, 352 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:04.599 around you and he's watching to see if you're going 353 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:08.079 to be self centered and oblivious to the people who are, around 354 00:19:08.039 --> 00:19:10.920 you or you're actually going to notice the people who 355 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:13.319 need a word. OF encouragement i need a pat on, 356 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:16.640 the back maybe need an errand or, a loan or 357 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:21.079 a babysitter or some practical means. Of Help and, god 358 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:21.960 says this is. 359 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:23.240 A test and. 360 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:29.240 If you want to learn how to move in the Spirit, 361 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:31.559 of god you've got to learn how to move fast 362 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:33.720 when you have an opportunity to. Do good here's What 363 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:38.519 the Bible says proverbs three. Twenty seven do not withhold 364 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:44.119 good from those who deserve it while it is in 365 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:46.559 your power. To act you're not going to have that, 366 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:50.720 Opportunity forever so, just nike just. Do it you know 367 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:54.240 there are people in your life that you've. Thought, About 368 00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:56.480 oh i'd like to do that for, my Neighbors or 369 00:19:56.480 --> 00:19:58.799 i'd like to do something kind for that person, at 370 00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:01.599 Work or i'd like to help that person down, the 371 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:04.440 Street or i'd like and you you have all of the, 372 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:07.079 best intentions but you don't do anything. 373 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:07.359 About. 374 00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:10.119 It now we make all kinds, of excuses and one 375 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:13.039 of the most famous ones, is this when things. 376 00:20:13.079 --> 00:20:15.359 Settled down you ever heard? 377 00:20:15.359 --> 00:20:19.920 That one when things, settle Down then i'm gonna do. 378 00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:23.200 THIS thing i hate to tell. You this it's not gonna. 379 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:24.240 Settle down. 380 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:28.599 Your life is never going to. Settle down it's. A 381 00:20:28.599 --> 00:20:31.599 myth it's never gonna. Settle down if you're gonna do 382 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:34.359 any good with, your life you better do it now 383 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:37.920 while you got, the chance because you're not gonna get 384 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:40.559 a better chance than. Right now look at this verse 385 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:43.559 on The screen ecclesiastes eleven. To four if you wait for, 386 00:20:43.640 --> 00:20:47.240 perfect conditions you will never get. Anything done anybody agree with? 387 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:50.599 THAT verse i wanna give. A, testimony yeah if you 388 00:20:50.680 --> 00:20:54.200 wait for, perfect conditions you never get. Anything done everything 389 00:20:54.279 --> 00:20:56.519 that's done in life that's good has to be done in. 390 00:20:56.599 --> 00:21:01.400 Imperfect conditions making that meal for, a neighbor or doing 391 00:21:01.440 --> 00:21:04.440 something kind for. Somebody else we make all these. Excuses 392 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:06.960 now the reason for doing, it now The reason god 393 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:09.920 says to do, it fast is because you're not. Guaranteed 394 00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:15.039 tomorrow i'm not and. You're not jesus said it like 395 00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:18.400 This in. John nine all of us must quickly carry 396 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:21.839 out the tasks circle the. Word quickly all of us 397 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:26.039 must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us By the 398 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:28.759 father who sent me he's Talking, About, god God. The 399 00:21:28.799 --> 00:21:32.240 father we miss quickly carry out. The task god has 400 00:21:32.279 --> 00:21:34.440 some assigned task for you to do with, your life 401 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:36.640