Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible
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Speaker 1: And today we're bringing our series called Awesome Relationships to
Speaker 1: a close. In this series, Rick Warren shares practical ways
Speaker 1: to help you take your relationships with family, friends, co workers,
Speaker 1: and even God from ordinary to extraordinary. This is a
Speaker 1: series you won't want to miss. And now let's get
Speaker 1: to past A Rick with the final part of a
Speaker 1: message called six Keys to Peace in Relationships.
Speaker 2: Number three. If I want to be wise, I won't
Speaker 2: minimize your feelings. I don't compromise my integrity. I don't
Speaker 2: antagonize your anger, push your hot buttons, and I don't
Speaker 2: minimize your feelings. Wisdom acknowledges your feelings and doesn't diminish them.
Speaker 2: See the typical reaction when we don't feel what other
Speaker 2: people feel, we do two things. Number One, we belittle them.
Speaker 2: If you had a brain, you would know that's just
Speaker 2: not true. And you who wouldn't feel that way, we belittle.
Speaker 2: That doesn't help. And the other thing, this is worse,
Speaker 2: is we play psychologists. Now. The reason you feel this
Speaker 2: way is because your father, Oh, okay, all right. You
Speaker 2: know you are not a psychologist, and you are condescending
Speaker 2: when you try to tell people why they feel the
Speaker 2: way they feel. You don't even know why you feel
Speaker 2: the way you feel. You can't figure out your own
Speaker 2: motives half the time. Why would you think you could
Speaker 2: figure out somebody else's The moment you start judging somebody
Speaker 2: else's motives, you're playing God and you're wrong. That's a
Speaker 2: battle you're going to lose. Don't play psychologists Privates fifteen
Speaker 2: four US as this in the Bible. Kind words bring life,
Speaker 2: but cruel words crush your spirit. You ever come home
Speaker 2: from a day of work and play the game my
Speaker 2: day was worse than your day? Well, I had this problem,
Speaker 2: you know, And you know your husband or your wife
Speaker 2: or your roommate tells you all about things, and instead
Speaker 2: of you sympathizing, empathizing and being considerate, you say you
Speaker 2: think you had problems. No, no, those are minor. Let
Speaker 2: me tell you what a real problem is. And you
Speaker 2: start telling your problem. Is that actually helping the relationship. No,
Speaker 2: it's foolish, it's not wise. The Bible says, wisdom is gentle,
Speaker 2: wisdom is considerate. Is it possible you both had a
Speaker 2: tough day. Yes, Is it possible that you could be
Speaker 2: considerate of their tough day without having to top it? Yes?
Speaker 2: What am I saying? I'm saying if you want to
Speaker 2: be wise, if you want to stop making the same
Speaker 2: stupid relational mistakes over and over and over, you need
Speaker 2: to stop minimizing other people's feelings. You need to let
Speaker 2: your girlfriend, your boyfriend, your spouse, your parents, your children, whoever.
Speaker 2: You need to let them feel what they feel without
Speaker 2: minimizing it. You need to let them feel tired when
Speaker 2: they're tired and not try to talk them out. You
Speaker 2: need to let them feel depressed when they're depressed and
Speaker 2: not try to talk them out of it. You need
Speaker 2: to let them feel angry or alone or scared. When
Speaker 2: they feel that way, friends offer kind words, not remedies.
Speaker 2: The other day, Kay was being interviewed and they asked
Speaker 2: her and said, do you wake up grumpy in the morning?
Speaker 2: She said, no, I usually let him sleep. She's considerate,
Speaker 2: she's considerate, she lets me sleep in some days. I
Speaker 2: don't believe in God before eleven am number four. Wisdom
Speaker 2: is willing to yield to others. Your tom is going
Speaker 2: to come and teach us on this fourth mark of wisdom.
Speaker 3: It's open to reason, it allows discussion, discussion. This Greek
Speaker 3: word eupathist, it's the only time in the whole Bible
Speaker 3: this word is used, and it's a great word for
Speaker 3: wisdom and relationships. It means you're not stubborn, you're not defensive. Now,
Speaker 3: how do you know that? How do you know if
Speaker 3: you have this kind of.
Speaker 4: Quality in your life?
Speaker 3: One of the main ways you know is how you listen.
Speaker 3: That's one of the main ways that you see this
Speaker 3: willingness to yield to others. The wiser you are, the
Speaker 3: better a listener you will be, and the more foolish
Speaker 3: you are, the less you will listen to others.
Speaker 4: I've got to admit I do a very.
Speaker 3: Unwise thing all the time in relationships.
Speaker 4: It's totally unwise.
Speaker 3: I tend to finish people's sentences for them.
Speaker 4: Anybody else do this.
Speaker 3: You know they're saying something and I want to move
Speaker 3: the conversation along, so I like say the end of
Speaker 3: the sentence. That's very unwise because I'm not letting them
Speaker 3: say what they want to say, and I may not
Speaker 3: hear really.
Speaker 4: What I I need to hear in that.
Speaker 3: So if you're wise, you realize it's foolish to cut
Speaker 3: people off. It's foolish to not let people have their say,
Speaker 3: it's foolish to jump to conclusions.
Speaker 4: So instead of.
Speaker 3: That, you want to be you want to be open
Speaker 3: to reason. You want to be willing to listen, you
Speaker 3: want to be willing to learn. Now, if I asked him,
Speaker 3: are you a reasonable person? I think most of us
Speaker 3: would say, yes, I'm reasonable. Let me ask you, how
Speaker 3: do you know you're reasonable?
Speaker 4: Because think about this.
Speaker 3: If you were unreasonable, you wouldn't know you were unreasonable
Speaker 3: because you are unreasonable. So how do you know if
Speaker 3: you're really a reasonable person.
Speaker 4: One of the ways that you know is do you
Speaker 4: listen to others?
Speaker 3: Let me tell you one of the main ways you
Speaker 3: know if you're a reasonable person. Can people you disagree
Speaker 3: with reason with you. If you have people in your life,
Speaker 3: you disagree with them, but they can reason with.
Speaker 4: You, you can talk through it.
Speaker 3: That's one of the ways that you know that you're
Speaker 3: a reasonable person. But a lot of us we have
Speaker 3: this attitude. Don't confuse me with the facts. My mind
Speaker 3: is made up. I want your opinion. I'll give it
Speaker 3: to you, we have this kind of an attitude, and
Speaker 3: so because of that, we're not wise in relationships. And
Speaker 3: because of that, we all.
Speaker 4: Struggle with this.
Speaker 3: We have this oversensitivity when it comes to talking to
Speaker 3: other people with other people's suggestions, because it's tough. Let's
Speaker 3: just admit it, it is tough to hear the suggestions
Speaker 3: of other people.
Speaker 4: You have to put yourself out there.
Speaker 3: Like that new pastor who said to his church first
Speaker 3: sermon he was preaching and he said, you know, I
Speaker 3: really want I really want your honest suggestions afterwards, So
Speaker 3: after the message, he was talking to one of the
Speaker 3: men in the church and he said, okay, give me
Speaker 3: your honest suggestions. And the guy said, well, honestly, Pastor,
Speaker 3: that sermon stunk.
Speaker 4: And the guy looked at him.
Speaker 3: And said he was trying to be reasonable. He said, well, okay,
Speaker 3: what exactly stunk about it? He really wanted to hear
Speaker 3: and he said, well, there were three things that stunk
Speaker 3: about it. First, you read it, Second, you read it poorly,
Speaker 3: and third it wasn't worth reading in the first place. Now,
Speaker 3: the next guy that came talk to the pastors trying
Speaker 3: to encourage him and said, dont worry about old Jim.
Speaker 4: He just repeats what everybody else says.
Speaker 3: So don't don't worry about don't worry about that at all.
Speaker 3: The tough thing about listening to other people and hearing
Speaker 3: their suggestions is you got to put yourself out there
Speaker 3: and it can hurt sometimes. But if you're going to
Speaker 3: be wise, in fact, write this in with me. If
Speaker 3: I want to be wise, I won't criticize your suggestions.
Speaker 3: I won't criticize your suggestions. A wise person can learn
Speaker 3: from anybody.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 3: Even a broken clock is right twice a day. So
Speaker 3: people in your life, they're going to be right. And
Speaker 3: let me tell you something God does in my life
Speaker 3: and he's going to do in your life.
Speaker 4: To totally humble you.
Speaker 3: When it comes to listening to other people's suggestions. There
Speaker 3: are going to be people in your life, the most
Speaker 3: irritating people in your life that you drive me crazy,
Speaker 3: kind of people we're talking about. Sometimes they're going to
Speaker 3: have a good suggestion. That person in your family that
Speaker 3: they're wrong about everything else they're going to be right
Speaker 3: about something. That person at your office, that person at
Speaker 3: your school. It's the worst thing in the world when
Speaker 3: the very person that's driving you crazy has a good
Speaker 3: suggestion for your life. But let me ask you. Can
Speaker 3: you learn from them? Can you learn from anybody? Look
Speaker 3: at this next verse in the outline Proverbs eighteen fifteen.
Speaker 3: Intelligent people are always open to new ideas.
Speaker 4: In fact, they look for.
Speaker 3: Them anywhere and everywhere.
Speaker 4: You look for these new ideas. Now, what if people
Speaker 4: have a stupid idea?
Speaker 3: Will you do the same thing with their stupid idea
Speaker 3: that you do with your stupid ideas. If it's a
Speaker 3: good idea, you listen to it and you learn. If
Speaker 3: it's a stupid idea, then you.
Speaker 4: Ignore it and you forget it.
Speaker 3: Stop wasting your life trying to prove a stupid idea
Speaker 3: right or wrong. Just move on to the next good idea.
Speaker 3: If I'm wise, I'm open to suggestions. I won't criticize
Speaker 3: your suggestions.
Speaker 2: You know, I have spent much of my life hanging
Speaker 2: out with people I told disagree with so I could
Speaker 2: share the love of Jesus with them and help them
Speaker 2: come to know Christ, which means I've heard a lot
Speaker 2: of stupid ideas. I've sat in groups of people who
Speaker 2: share on me the stuff that's the most off the wall,
Speaker 2: crazy idea. What do you do. You just smile and
Speaker 2: you nod, and you don't interrupt, and you let them
Speaker 2: say their entire peace. Because what I've learned is if
Speaker 2: you let people say their entire piece, they'll let you
Speaker 2: say you're entire peace. And then I can come back
Speaker 2: and say, well, here's what I think, here's what I believe,
Speaker 2: here's what the Bible says, and be like, oh, well
Speaker 2: that makes sense. I've never thought about it that way.
Speaker 2: But if you try to interrupt them in advance, you
Speaker 2: try to take them down point by point, you are
Speaker 2: being a fool. It is foolish to try to take
Speaker 2: people down point by point. You just make them mad.
Speaker 2: Tom said, you just got a listen. You got to
Speaker 2: be open to reason. Now. Number five, the Bible says
Speaker 2: wisdom is full of mercy and good deeds. Circle that
Speaker 2: word mercy. If I'm gonna be wise, I'm going to
Speaker 2: maximize mercy. I'm going to major on mercy in my relationships.
Speaker 2: Full of mercy and good deeds. In other words, it's
Speaker 2: wise to show grace to people when they mess up,
Speaker 2: when they blow it, when they sin, when they fumble,
Speaker 2: when they flub up, when they have faults, when they fail.
Speaker 2: It's wise to show mercy when people show up. It's
Speaker 2: wise to cut people slack when they mess up. Let's
Speaker 2: just take it this way. Who is the wisest person
Speaker 2: in the universe? God? Who is the most merciful person
Speaker 2: in the universe? God? You think there's any little connection there? Yes,
Speaker 2: fools are judgmental. Wise people are merciful. Anytime I start
Speaker 2: judging you, I'm being foolish. Anytime I'm being merciful, I'm
Speaker 2: being like God. And that's wise. To give people the
Speaker 2: benefit of the doubt. It's wise to show grace, to
Speaker 2: show mercy, to be forgiving, to cut people some slack.
Speaker 2: God cuts me slack all the time, so I better
Speaker 2: cut it to somebody else. Everything you have in life
Speaker 2: is a sheer gift from God. Your next breath is
Speaker 2: because of the mercy of God. You wouldn't be alive
Speaker 2: if it weren't for the mercy of God. If it
Speaker 2: weren't for the grace of God, you wouldn't see, here, touch, smell,
Speaker 2: you wouldn't exist. Everything and I have and everything you
Speaker 2: have is because God is a merciful and gracious God.
Speaker 2: God doesn't give me what I deserve. He gives me
Speaker 2: what I need. If I got what I deserve, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't be standing here. If you got what you deserve,
Speaker 2: you wouldn't be alive. God doesn't give you what you deserve.
Speaker 2: He gives you what you need. That's mercy, and the
Speaker 2: Bible says that's wise. Wise people give people what they need,
Speaker 2: not what they deserve. That's mercy, and that's with So
Speaker 2: here's the fifth mark of wisdom in a relationship. If
Speaker 2: I want to be wise with my kids, my boyfriend,
Speaker 2: my girlfriend, my husband, my wife. If I want to
Speaker 2: be wise, I won't emphasize your mistakes because I am merciful.
Speaker 2: Wise people don't rub it in. Wise people are merciful.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you, how high do you rate
Speaker 2: on mercy? Do you jump on every fault or blunder
Speaker 2: you know, great mood klutso you know you're always picking
Speaker 2: at people, always pointing out their errors a mistake. Do
Speaker 2: you continually bring up the past and every little sin
Speaker 2: that your husband or your wife or your girlfriend or
Speaker 2: whoever has done you file it back so you can
Speaker 2: pull it out when you need to get a little leverage.
Speaker 2: Heard about a high school kid recently came home from
Speaker 2: school with a bad report card, and his dad blew
Speaker 2: a gasket. And next day he went back to school
Speaker 2: and his friend at school said, what did your dad think?
Speaker 2: Is that all my dad got? Historical? He said, don't
Speaker 2: you mean hysterically? He said, no, historical. He told me
Speaker 2: everything I've ever done wrong? Do you do that? You know?
Speaker 2: You let it all pile up, You let it all
Speaker 2: damn up, and then when somebody hits you at the
Speaker 2: wrong spot, you just blah, You let it all out.
Speaker 2: That is foolish, because wisdom is full of mercy, it's
Speaker 2: full of good deeds, the Bible says in Proverbs seventeen nine.
Speaker 2: Love forgets mistakes, nagging about them parts the best of friends.
Speaker 2: Now think of the person who's closest to you in
Speaker 2: your life. Right now, Okay, think of the person who's
Speaker 2: closest to you in your life. And even though you
Speaker 2: love them, there's some things they do that just flat
Speaker 2: out bug you. I mean it really bugs you. You
Speaker 2: know those things that really get you going. Let it go.
Speaker 2: Let it go. It is foolish to hold on to it.
Speaker 2: Let it go. There's so many things to love about him.
Speaker 2: Let it go. You're not God. Mike has been on
Speaker 2: staff in facilities for many, many years. And I happened
Speaker 2: to know that Sally and Mike had just had their
Speaker 2: fiftieth wedding anniversary, and Mike had kissed Sally and she
Speaker 2: was getting ready to drive off, and I walked over
Speaker 2: to Sally's car. She rolled wind of down and I said, congratulations,
Speaker 2: Sally on fifty years of marriage. I said, what is
Speaker 2: the secret of a fifty year lasting marriage? She looked
Speaker 2: at me, said, Pastor, I never tried to change him.
Speaker 2: She drove off, and I'm not making this up. This
Speaker 2: is the exact truth. And they had not colluded on this.
Speaker 2: I walked up to Mike. It was further on up
Speaker 2: the way, and I said, Mike, congratulations on fifty years
Speaker 2: of a marriage. I said, what's the secret of fifty
Speaker 2: years of marriage? He said, I never tried to change her.
Speaker 2: They had both said the exact same thing. Wisdom is
Speaker 2: full of mercy. Number six. The Bible says that wisdom
Speaker 2: is impartial and always sincere. Now, this is interesting. These
Speaker 2: two words in the Greek and the original Greek in
Speaker 2: the Bible are the words a di cretos and ano cretos.
Speaker 2: They're very similar words impartial, and sincere ad cretos a cretos.
Speaker 2: Let me explain it this way. The Greeks invented theater, comedies, tragedies.
Speaker 2: You know, all Plato, Socrates, Sophocles, all these guys wrote
Speaker 2: very famous plays. And in Greek plays, one guy would
Speaker 2: often be an actor and would play many parts. He'd
Speaker 2: come out wearing a mask, and he'd say his part,
Speaker 2: then he'd go back behind the stage, he'd get another mask.
Speaker 2: He'd come back out and he'd play somebody else's part,
Speaker 2: and then he'd go back behind the stage and he'd
Speaker 2: get another mask, and he'd come back out. He's playing
Speaker 2: many roles and wearing many masks. And the word in
Speaker 2: Greek for that person, he was called a hippocretos. We
Speaker 2: get the word hypocrite from it. It means he wears
Speaker 2: a mask. He's always acting a different role. Hippocretos, always
Speaker 2: playing a role, always wearing a mask. These words are
Speaker 2: the exact opposite adni cretos an it means impartial, and
Speaker 2: sincere it means you're genuine, you're without hypocrisy, you're the
Speaker 2: real deal. The word we would use today is the
Speaker 2: word authentic. Authentic. Now here's the sixth key. If I
Speaker 2: want to be wise in my relationships, I won't disguise
Speaker 2: my intentions. I won't wear a mask. I won't fake it,
Speaker 2: I won't pretend. I won't try to be somebody that
Speaker 2: i'm not. I won't lie to you. I won't cheat you.
Speaker 2: I won't trick you. I won't fake you out. I
Speaker 2: won't take advantage of you. I won't deliberately mislead you.
Speaker 2: The point is this, fools are fakes. Wise people are authentic.
Speaker 2: They're the real deal. They aren't phonies. They're genuine. They're authentic,
Speaker 2: they're warts and all. What you see is what you get. Now,
Speaker 2: there are two places today where people fake it more
Speaker 2: than anywhere else where. People are phony. They don't show
Speaker 2: their true seals more than anywhere else two places, online
Speaker 2: and on dates, they don't show their true sells. They're
Speaker 2: always trying to make themselves look better than they really are.
Speaker 2: Online and on dates. Psalm twelve, verse two. Look up
Speaker 2: here on the Bible says of Proverbs ten eighteen. The
Speaker 2: lips of a liar conceal hostility. And whoever spreads accusations
Speaker 2: as a fool, let me read your Psalm twelve to two.
Speaker 2: Everyone lies to his neighbor. Their flattering lips speak with deception.
Speaker 2: You know, dating actually sets up relationships to be phony,
Speaker 2: because dating in itself is an artificial relationship. You look
Speaker 2: your best, you act your best, you talk your best,
Speaker 2: you dress your best, shoot, you smell your best. On
Speaker 2: a date, it's not the real you. No, no, you're
Speaker 2: just super cool and you're not really real on dates.
Speaker 2: You know, no man would ever actually go to the
Speaker 2: opera except on a date. Okay, ladies, you just need
Speaker 2: to realize no man likes opera. Okay, okay, really. In fact,
Speaker 2: you laugh at things on dates that aren't even funny,
Speaker 2: as you know, somebody says it in your dates. I
Speaker 2: mean it was the stupidest thing you ever heard, but
Speaker 2: you laughed at it anyway. Okay, it is a phony,
Speaker 2: fake relationship. In fact, no place on the planet Earth
Speaker 2: is more inauthentic, more phony than a singles bar. I mean,
Speaker 2: it is the epitome of fake, phony, inauthentic relationships. Nowhere
Speaker 2: else on the planet can a total stranger come up
Speaker 2: to you and offer to buy you something? Can I
Speaker 2: buy you a drink? You don't even know me? I mean,
Speaker 2: were you in sears. The guy walks up and says,
Speaker 2: gotta give you a toaster. I mean, really, you're in
Speaker 2: Albertson's Care for a box of capt'n Crunch. You're kind
Speaker 2: of cute, you know, Gonna get you some pickles. It's
Speaker 2: so phony, it's so fake. If I'm honest, if I'm real,
Speaker 2: if I'm wise, I'm not going to disguise who I
Speaker 2: really am. Now, let's review how wise are you in
Speaker 2: your relationships? Do you ever compromise your integrity? That's not wise?
Speaker 2: Do you antagonize other people's anger and push their buttons
Speaker 2: intentionally just to get even dumb? Not wise? Do you
Speaker 2: minimize feelings you shouldn't feel that way. Do you criticize suggestions,
Speaker 2: that's a dumb idea. Do you disguise your attention friends
Speaker 2: as your pastor who loves you? If you don't wise up,
Speaker 2: if you don't wise up, if you don't learn some
Speaker 2: godly wisdom, you're going to go through your entire life
Speaker 2: making the same relational mistakes over and over and over
Speaker 2: and over, and you're not going to get what you
Speaker 2: want out of that relationship. A intimate, satisfying, soul satisfying
Speaker 2: relationship that God intended for you to have. How do
Speaker 2: I get the wisdom to stop making foolish mistakes in relationships? Well,
Speaker 2: there's only two places you get wisdom. You don't get
Speaker 2: it from college. You don't get it from online blogs.
Speaker 2: You don't get it from TV shows. You get wisdom
Speaker 2: from knowing God and doing what he says to do,
Speaker 2: doing his word. Knowing God and doing his word, you
Speaker 2: can get intelligence, you can get facts, you can get information,
Speaker 2: you can get smart, you can get technical skills from
Speaker 2: going to school. But you don't get wisdom from going
Speaker 2: to school. You get wisdom from knowing God and doing
Speaker 2: what he says to do, because He is the source
Speaker 2: of all wisdom. But you're not going to know the
Speaker 2: word of God until you know the Lord of God.
Speaker 2: Two verses look up here on the screen, So I'm
Speaker 2: one eleven Verse ten. Respect for the Lord is the
Speaker 2: beginning of wisdom. You want wisdom in your relationship, you
Speaker 2: got to start with the relationship to the Lord. And
Speaker 2: the Bible says in Colossians chapter two, Jesus is the
Speaker 2: key that opens all the hidden treasures of God's wisdom
Speaker 2: and knowledge. You got to get to know Jesus. I
Speaker 2: got a letter a while back where a guy told me, said, Rick,
Speaker 2: all my relationships constantly fell apart until I met Jesus
Speaker 2: and I began to learn the wisdom he gave me.
Speaker 2: Have you met Jesus. That's bower heads Father. I thank
Speaker 2: you for your word that you want us to be
Speaker 2: wise not foolish in our relationships. And I pray that
Speaker 2: even today everyone here will make a commitment to be
Speaker 2: with us for these six weeks as we talk about
Speaker 2: how to strengthen our good relationships, how to heal our
Speaker 2: bad ones, how to deal with the crazy man makers
Speaker 2: in our lives. The Lord today we start with us.
Speaker 2: Why don't you pray this prayer? Dear Jesus, Help me
Speaker 2: to not compromise my integrity. Help me not to antagonize
Speaker 2: people's anger. Help me not to minimize people's feelings. Help
Speaker 2: me not to criticize people's suggestions or emphasize their mistakes.
Speaker 2: Help me not to disguise who I really am. Help
Speaker 2: me to be authentic and real and genuine. Say God,
Speaker 2: I need your wisdom. I want to know you Jesus Christ,
Speaker 2: and I want to do your word. If you've never
Speaker 2: invited Christ in our life, say Jesus Christ, come into
Speaker 2: my heart and life right now and take control of
Speaker 2: my life. I want to learn to trust you and
Speaker 2: love you in your and then I pray Amen. You know,
Speaker 2: if you just prayed that prayer for the very first time,
Speaker 2: or you just recommitted your life to Jesus again today,
Speaker 2: would you let me know about it. There's something real
Speaker 2: about sharing your commitment. So write me Rick at pastor
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Speaker 2: of commitment. I gave my life to Christ. And I'll
Speaker 2: send you some material that will help you on your
Speaker 2: journey with Jesus. And I'll also pray for you. God
Speaker 2: bless you. Wow.
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