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Speaker 1: Pastor Rick Warren. Today we continue in the series Essentials
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Speaker 1: your Life.
Speaker 2: The Internet is making millionaires of a lot of people
Speaker 2: very fast. If you had invested in a company called
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Speaker 2: you would have made a two hundred and seventeen percent
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Speaker 2: one quarter. If three months ago you had invested in
Speaker 2: a company called red Hat Incorporated, which is the Linux
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Speaker 2: in just three months five hundred and eighty five percent.
Speaker 2: And if you had invested just three months ago in
Speaker 2: a company called Internet Capital Group, your return on investment
Speaker 2: would have been an astounding six hundred and thirty two percent.
Speaker 2: Some of you saying I got the wrong broker, But
Speaker 2: today I don't want to talk to you about financial investments.
Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about something far more
Speaker 2: important than that, and that's your life. You can do
Speaker 2: three things with your life. You can waste your life,
Speaker 2: and of course there are many ways to do that.
Speaker 2: You can spend your life, and advertisers will give you
Speaker 2: many ways to do that. Or you can invest your life.
Speaker 2: And to invest your life means to use it in
Speaker 2: a way that outlasts it, to make a difference for eternity,
Speaker 2: to leave a legacy. Now, the Bible is very clear
Speaker 2: that you were created to make a contribution. You were
Speaker 2: not put on this earth just to be a consumer.
Speaker 2: You were put on this earth to be a contributor.
Speaker 2: And that contribution that you make with your life, with
Speaker 2: your talents, with your abilities, the Bible calls your ministry.
Speaker 2: We often think ministers is what pastors do, but ministry
Speaker 2: is for every person. When you take your talents, your abilities,
Speaker 2: and whatever you're good at and you use it to
Speaker 2: help other people unselfishly. God says that contribution of your
Speaker 2: life is called your ministry. Now, Jesus says that one
Speaker 2: day we're going to give an account for how we
Speaker 2: lived our lives and how we invested our lives. And
Speaker 2: in the story that Pastor Tom read in Matthew twenty five,
Speaker 2: you might open that passage again because we're going to
Speaker 2: look at it today. He tells us a story on
Speaker 2: how to prepare for the final exam of life when
Speaker 2: God evaluates how well you invested your life. And today
Speaker 2: I went from this story to draw seven principles of
Speaker 2: life investment, and so write these down. The first principle
Speaker 2: is the principle of ownership, and it's called it says this,
Speaker 2: everything I have really belongs to God. That's the first principle.
Speaker 2: Everything I have really belongs to God. God made it all,
Speaker 2: and God owns it all. It was here before you
Speaker 2: got here, it's going to be here after you leave
Speaker 2: this earth. Now, a lot of times we think that
Speaker 2: we own our things, but you really don't own anything.
Speaker 3: God owns it all.
Speaker 2: You just get to borrow it for sixty years, seventy years, eighty,
Speaker 2: maybe ninety years, and then you return it. You brought
Speaker 2: nothing into this world when you were born. You're taking
Speaker 2: nothing out of this world.
Speaker 3: When you leave it.
Speaker 2: So everything you have, cars, loans, ambitions, homes, everything you've
Speaker 2: got is really just on loan to you for the
Speaker 2: time that you were alive. Now, the Bible tells us
Speaker 2: that God made human beings to manage his resources on earth.
Speaker 2: You want to know why human beings are here. We're
Speaker 2: here to manage the environment, to manage the earth. And
Speaker 2: the nice thing about it is while we are managing it,
Speaker 2: we get to use it, we get to benefit from it.
Speaker 2: But we must never forget that we don't own it.
Speaker 2: Let's say you had a beach house and one day
Speaker 2: you came and said, Rick, I'm going on vacation for
Speaker 2: three months. I'd like to let you use my beach
Speaker 2: house as a beautiful view of the ocean, and I'd
Speaker 2: like somebody to kind of take care of it while
Speaker 2: I'm gone. And I said great, And they say, while
Speaker 2: I'm gone, Rick, I would like for you to do
Speaker 2: three things. I'd like for you to water the plants.
Speaker 2: I'd like for you to feed the puppy, and i'd
Speaker 2: like for you to pick up the mail. Just kind
Speaker 2: of manage the house while I'm gone. But you can
Speaker 2: use it while I'm gone. I say great. So you
Speaker 2: go away for three months, you come back later three
Speaker 2: months time, and you're ready to move back in and
Speaker 2: I'm not ready to move out, and they say, well,
Speaker 2: we're ready to I said, oh no, I happen to
Speaker 2: like my bed now.
Speaker 3: Notice I said my.
Speaker 2: Bed, and I happened to park the car in my garage,
Speaker 2: and I like the view from my living room window.
Speaker 2: Now that it would be quite presumptuous for me to
Speaker 2: act like an owner when you had just loaned it
Speaker 2: to me. But we do this all the time with
Speaker 2: everything we've got. We act like it's my career, it's
Speaker 2: my family. It's my assets, it's my home, it's my car,
Speaker 2: and on and on, when really it all belongs to God.
Speaker 2: It's just on loan to you while you are alive. Now,
Speaker 2: Jesus made this principle in verse fourteen of Matthew twenty five.
Speaker 2: He tells the story and he says again, it will
Speaker 2: be like a man going on a journey, this master
Speaker 2: who called his servants and entrusted his property to them
Speaker 2: while he was gone, and noticed the word his property
Speaker 2: circle the word his because it's not the servants, it's
Speaker 2: the masters. Now listen, if you learn to accept this fact,
Speaker 2: this truth of life, that really everything you have belongs
Speaker 2: to God, not you, you're going to worry a whole
Speaker 2: lot less. Your worry will rapidly be reduced. Why because
Speaker 2: you don't worry about things that aren't yours.
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Speaker 3: When you get a ding in your car, you worry
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 2: Do you worry about the ding in your neighbor's car? No,
Speaker 2: When somebody else is having problems and their clothes don't fit,
Speaker 2: you don't worry about that.
Speaker 3: You just worry about your clothes that don't fit. Okay.
Speaker 2: And so if you realize, hey, this is all God's anyway,
Speaker 2: he gave it to me, he can take it back.
Speaker 2: In fact, he could replace it just like that. Then
Speaker 2: you worry a whole lot less because you're not trying
Speaker 2: to preserve what you've got. Principal number two is the
Speaker 2: principle of allocation, and that is that God has given
Speaker 2: me some unique talents. God has given me some unique talents.
Speaker 2: In fact, the word talent from the English language comes
Speaker 2: from this Bible story.
Speaker 3: Now, in the Bible, a talent was an amount of money.
Speaker 2: Specifically, it was about one thousand dollars, and this master
Speaker 2: has doles out multiple talents to different people sizeable and
Speaker 2: in those days. Today a talent simply means the natural
Speaker 2: abilities and gifts that God has given to me. Now,
Speaker 2: some of you have musical talents, some of you have
Speaker 2: mathematical talents, some of you have mechanical talents, some of
Speaker 2: you have business talents, some of you have leadership talents.
Speaker 2: Some of you are good with working with animals. Some
Speaker 2: of you are good at writing, or you're good at speaking,
Speaker 2: or you're good at cooking or In fact, scientists have
Speaker 2: discovered they're anywhere between six and eight hundred different talents.
Speaker 2: You probably have at least two hundred different talents, but
Speaker 2: the problem is you don't recognize them because they're just
Speaker 2: they come natural to you, but they are not natural
Speaker 2: to others. Some of you people can naturally organize things.
Speaker 2: That's a talent. Some of you don't have that talent. Okay,
Speaker 2: you're very unorganized. Some of you know how to make
Speaker 2: things neat real quickly, and others take you all day
Speaker 2: to make a room neat. You don't have that talent,
Speaker 2: so you don't realize many times the talents that you have. Now,
Speaker 2: in verse fifteen, it says to one he this represents
Speaker 2: God gave five talents of money to another, two talents
Speaker 2: into another, one talent, each according to his ability. Now
Speaker 2: I want you to notice two things. First, the amount
Speaker 2: differs with each individual. Somebody gets one talent, somebody gets
Speaker 2: two talents, somebody gets five. We have been taught all
Speaker 2: of our lives that all men are created equal. That
Speaker 2: is not true. We are created equal in our value
Speaker 2: to God and in our worth as human beings, but
Speaker 2: we are not equal in our talents, and we are
Speaker 2: certainly not equal in our opportunities and freedoms. You were
Speaker 2: given some privileges, some abilities, are some freedoms, and some
Speaker 2: opportunities that the rest of the world simply does not have.
Speaker 2: And most of the world would die to have the
Speaker 2: opportunity you have. So you got a leg up on civilization.
Speaker 2: You didn't ask for that, You didn't deserve it. You
Speaker 2: certainly didn't earn it. It was simply a gift of God.
Speaker 2: It was an ability that God gave you. But he
Speaker 2: gets something. But our talents differ. Some of you are
Speaker 2: one talent people, some of you are five, some of ten,
Speaker 2: twenty and whatever. But I want you to notice everybody
Speaker 2: gets something. There are no no talent people. He said, well,
Speaker 2: I don't have any talents. Oh yes, you do, you
Speaker 2: just haven't uncovered them yet. Now in Romans twelve to six,
Speaker 2: it says we have different gifts according to the grace
Speaker 2: given to circle.
Speaker 3: The word grace.
Speaker 2: A talent is something you don't deserve, So you can't
Speaker 2: brag about it because you didn't earn it. You didn't
Speaker 2: work for it. You might develop it, but it was
Speaker 2: simply a gift of God's grace. Tom's going to talk
Speaker 2: about the next one.
Speaker 5: The third principle, the principle of accountability, is that God
Speaker 5: expects me to use my talents. He gave him to me,
Speaker 5: gave him to us for a purpose. He wants us
Speaker 5: to make the most of the abilities that He's given
Speaker 5: into our lives.
Speaker 3: Have you thought about it this way? It says if
Speaker 3: God looked.
Speaker 5: At your life, looked at my life and decided, I'm
Speaker 5: going to make an investment in them, just like you
Speaker 5: would look for a fineinancial investment and think, you know what,
Speaker 5: here's something that's worth investing my heart earned money in.
Speaker 5: He looked at you and said you are a person
Speaker 5: that it's worth investing in. But when you make an investment,
Speaker 5: then what do you do? You sit back and excitedly
Speaker 5: watch for the return on that investment. And God does
Speaker 5: the same thing in our lives. He invests in our
Speaker 5: lives and then watches for what happens. This verse isn't
Speaker 5: in your outline, but you might write down the reference.
Speaker 5: Romans fourteen twelve. Romans fourteen twelve says each of us
Speaker 5: will give an account of himself to God.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 5: Every day we get to choose how we're going to
Speaker 5: live our lives. Every one of us we get to
Speaker 5: make that choice. But there will come a day in
Speaker 5: all of our lives where we explain to God the
Speaker 5: choices we've made about how we live our lives. Jesus
Speaker 5: reminded us in this story. See that verse in your
Speaker 5: outline in verse nineteen. After a long time, the master
Speaker 5: of those sermons returned and settled the accounts. Someday we're
Speaker 5: going to be audited by God, an audit of how
Speaker 5: you how you lived your life. Now, if you think
Speaker 5: you're nervous about an audit with it the irs, how
Speaker 5: about an audit.
Speaker 3: With the God.
Speaker 5: I mean, that is a scary kind of audit to
Speaker 5: think about. And yet the job of our church, the
Speaker 5: job of any church, is to get you ready for
Speaker 5: that final exam of life that Rick talked about earlier. Now,
Speaker 5: when you have a final exam, isn't it nice to
Speaker 5: know the question in advance. I want to give you
Speaker 5: the question in advance. Once you've settled the question of
Speaker 5: your relationship with Christ, which is the most important question
Speaker 5: in life, that you've trusted Him with your life, then
Speaker 5: the final exam question you might write it in with me,
Speaker 5: is God will ask me what did you do with
Speaker 5: what you were given? And our goal is to prepare
Speaker 5: you to answer that question so that you can stand
Speaker 5: before God and say I used my talents, I used
Speaker 5: them in a way that helped others, I used them
Speaker 5: in a way that.
Speaker 3: Made an impact on the world.
Speaker 5: That's principle number four, one of the reasons we don't
Speaker 5: use our talents. As the principle of utilization in the
Speaker 5: back of your outline, it is wrong for me to
Speaker 5: bury what God gave me, to take what God has
Speaker 5: given and not use it for him. You notice in
Speaker 5: this story, the first person doubled his talents what he
Speaker 5: was given. The second person doubled their talents, but the
Speaker 5: third man buried his talents. He just took them and
Speaker 5: hid them. He was cautious. He was conservative. He said,
Speaker 5: I'm going to play it safe. He was the nothing ventured,
Speaker 5: nothing gain kind of a person.
Speaker 3: He just sat on it.
Speaker 5: And the master's reaction we read it earlier, he said,
Speaker 5: you wicked, lazy servant. Do you think he was a
Speaker 5: little upset with him. He looks at this servant and
Speaker 5: he says, you are wicked. You should have at least
Speaker 5: put it in the bank and we could have gotten
Speaker 5: the interest. Most of us when we heard the word wicked,
Speaker 5: we think, I think.
Speaker 3: Murder or rape or abuse.
Speaker 5: But look at what God calls wicked in this story.
Speaker 5: He says it is wicked to not use the talent
Speaker 5: that you were given to make a difference in this world,
Speaker 5: to never make a contribution, to to bury it, to
Speaker 5: put it out of sight and pretend it's not there.
Speaker 5: There's a couple of insights in this part of the passage.
Speaker 5: First of all, you can't please God by playing it safe.
Speaker 5: To use your talent, you have to risk without faith,
Speaker 5: it's impossible to please.
Speaker 3: God, the Bible says.
Speaker 5: And to take my talent and do nothing with it,
Speaker 5: afraid to risk it in any way is inexcusable. And
Speaker 5: then the second insight is God would rather have you
Speaker 5: try to serve it, make an attempt at least, and
Speaker 5: fail and fall flat on your face and do nothing
Speaker 5: at all. He calls this servant wicked, not because he
Speaker 5: lost the money, but because he was afraid to do
Speaker 5: anything at all with the money. Some of you, you
Speaker 5: look at your life and you have no joy in
Speaker 5: life day to day.
Speaker 3: There's no spark, there's not.
Speaker 5: That enthusiasm that you would really like to have. There
Speaker 5: Why one of the reasons that happened to our lives.
Speaker 5: As we start to play it safe, we start to
Speaker 5: sit on the sidelines of life. He becomes spectators afraid
Speaker 5: to contribute, not using our talents the way that God intended,
Speaker 5: living for ourselves, not involved in service to others. And
Speaker 5: the truth of the matter is, we're bored with life.
Speaker 5: It's time to get back into the game. It's time
Speaker 5: to move into ministry. Why is it that sometimes we
Speaker 5: find ourselves sitting on the sidelines.
Speaker 3: That's the fifth principle, and.
Speaker 2: That principle is the principle of motivation. And it goes
Speaker 2: like this, It is fear that keeps me from using
Speaker 2: my talent. Fear that keeps me from using my talent.
Speaker 2: In verse twenty five, the man who buried his talent said,
Speaker 2: I was afraid, and I went out and hid your
Speaker 2: talent in the ground. Circle the word afraid, and circle
Speaker 2: the word hid, and draw a line between them, because
Speaker 2: they always go together. What keeps you from developing your
Speaker 2: football potential?
Speaker 3: Fear?
Speaker 2: What keeps you from becoming all God wants you to be? Fear,
Speaker 2: What keeps you from from building your life a legacy
Speaker 2: that would last fraternity?
Speaker 3: Fear.
Speaker 2: Now, there are three kinds of fears that will keep
Speaker 2: you from developing your talents.
Speaker 3: You need to write these down.
Speaker 2: The first one is self doubt, self doubt is a
Speaker 2: fear that keeps most people locked into prison and keeps
Speaker 2: them from developing their potential. They say, well, I could
Speaker 2: never do that. I'm just not qualified. You have all
Speaker 2: these doubts about your talents, and honestly, what it is.
Speaker 3: It's the fear of failure.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid that if I try to use my talent,
Speaker 2: I'll fail and then I'll be embarrassed. You remember when
Speaker 2: you were in school and the teacher would ask a
Speaker 2: question and you would want to raise your hand, but
Speaker 2: you were afraid to raise your hand because it might
Speaker 2: be the wrong thing.
Speaker 3: How many can remember that?
Speaker 2: See some of you're afraid right now to raise your hand,
Speaker 2: so afraid I might call on you something. Let me
Speaker 2: tell you something. I have learned this from experience. Fear
Speaker 2: is not fatal. I mean, failure is not fatal. It
Speaker 2: is never fatal. In fact, act, the fear of failure
Speaker 2: is far worse than fear itself. Fear of failure limits you.
Speaker 2: Failure is actually a good thing. It is a good
Speaker 2: thing because failure is how you learn what doesn't work.
Speaker 2: The only way you're ever going to become a success
Speaker 2: in life is through failure. By failing you find out
Speaker 2: what doesn't work. I have failed thousands and thousands of times,
Speaker 2: and so have you. And that's how you learn, that's
Speaker 2: how you grow. It is an education. I tell my
Speaker 2: staff all the time, I want every staff member at
Speaker 2: Saddleback Church making at least one major failure a week,
Speaker 2: because if you're not failing, you're not trying anything new.
Speaker 2: And if you're not trying anything new, you're not growing. Now,
Speaker 2: I don't want to make in the same failure every week.
Speaker 2: That is a no no. That means they're not learning,
Speaker 2: they're not growing. But the only way you grow is
Speaker 2: through failure. So I am right now, as your pastor,
Speaker 2: telling you this week, I want.
Speaker 3: You to go out and fail, all right.
Speaker 2: Fail as a parent, fail as a partner, fail as
Speaker 2: a professional. Why Because the next week you'll be a
Speaker 2: better parent, you'll be a better partner, you'll be a
Speaker 2: better professional. It's by learning through the failure. So don't
Speaker 2: let self doubt keep you. I'd rather attempt to do
Speaker 2: something great and fail than attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Speaker 2: Number two is self consciousness. That's the second fear, and
Speaker 2: the self consciousness comes up when let's say you're good
Speaker 2: at dancing, but you become self conscious about it, or
Speaker 2: you're good at singing, but you become self conscious about it.
Speaker 2: And really behind that fear is worrying what will other
Speaker 2: people think? Now, if you worry about what other people
Speaker 2: think in life, you may as well go ahead and
Speaker 2: dig your grave right now, get in it and cover up,
Speaker 2: because you're already dead. Because you're going to learn real
Speaker 2: soon in life that you can't please everybody.
Speaker 3: Is that true? And so you can't worry about what
Speaker 3: other people think.
Speaker 2: The Bible says in Proverbs twenty nine to twenty five,
Speaker 2: the fear of man is a snare.
Speaker 3: It is a trap.
Speaker 2: It's what keeps you from developing because you worry what
Speaker 2: will other people think. The moment you put out your shingle,
Speaker 2: somebody's going to throw rocks at it. The moment you
Speaker 2: attempt anything in life, somebody's going to criticize it. Every
Speaker 2: time we've done anything great here at this church, there
Speaker 2: have always been critics.
Speaker 3: Always.
Speaker 2: When we decided to buy this land, there were people saying,
Speaker 2: who do you think you are church buying? You know,
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty acres, and there were critics of that.
Speaker 2: And then when we decided to build a tent and
Speaker 2: put up a tendency. Why are you spending money on
Speaker 2: a tent? And people were critical of that. And then
Speaker 2: when we decided to build this building and said we
Speaker 2: should stay in the tent, we shouldn't, you know, we
Speaker 2: shouldn't move into this building. And you know, now we're
Speaker 2: building the Ministry Center. Actually heard some of the other
Speaker 2: days saying why are we putting up all these beautiful trees.
Speaker 2: You know what, if you worry about what other people think,
Speaker 2: nothing will ever get done in your life. You just
Speaker 2: have to do what God tells you to do, and
Speaker 2: that's all you're accountable for. You are not accountable to
Speaker 2: please everybody else.
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