Speaker 1: Hello, and thanks for joining us here on Pastor Rick's
Speaker 1: Daily Hope. Well today we continue in our series called
Speaker 1: God's Prescription for a Healthy Life. In it, Pastor Rick
Speaker 1: will show you how to improve your health physically, spiritually,
Speaker 1: relationally and emotionally by applying the five essentials needed for
Speaker 1: a more vibrant life. If you want to have what
Speaker 1: it takes to live out your calling in life, stay
Speaker 1: with us for this amazing series. Now, in just a
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Speaker 1: Plan DVD study Kit, a sixth session video based study
Speaker 1: by Rick Warren, doctor Daniel Aman, and doctor Mark Hyman.
Speaker 1: This out of the box approach to a healthy lifestyle
Speaker 1: is based on five essentials faith, food, fitness, focus and friends.
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Speaker 1: one of a message called winning with the Hand your debt.
Speaker 2: If you have a Bible, open to Psalm one thirty nine.
Speaker 2: When people are hurting, they need simple truth, not simplistic truth.
Speaker 2: It's not enough to tell somebody who is hurting, Jesus
Speaker 2: is the answer. Now, of course we know Jesus is
Speaker 2: the answer, but we must show how he is the answer.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense. It's not enough to just say pray,
Speaker 2: read your Bible, and go to church. You've got to
Speaker 2: help people know how to make changes in their lives. Now,
Speaker 2: the Bible says, there's nothing simple about you. You're very complex.
Speaker 2: You're multifaceted. You're not easy to understand. You're not easy
Speaker 2: to explain. There are many factors and there are many
Speaker 2: forces that create you. And so I'm one thirty nine,
Speaker 2: Verse fourteen, David says, thank you Lord for making me
Speaker 2: so wonderfully complex. Circle that on your outline. Wonderfully complex. Guys,
Speaker 2: if you're sitting next to your wife, whisper into her
Speaker 2: ear right now, honey, you are wonderfully complex. And then wives,
Speaker 2: you whisper back, you are amazingly simple. You know, men
Speaker 2: just have an on and off switch. Women they've got
Speaker 2: all these gauges and dials and buttons, and you know
Speaker 2: the procedures. Men it's just kind of on and off. Actually,
Speaker 2: the Bible says we're all wonderfully complex, and to become
Speaker 2: all that God intends for you to be, you have
Speaker 2: to look at every dimension of your life, not just one. Ecclesiastes,
Speaker 2: chapter seven, verse eighteen. I love this in the message paraphrase.
Speaker 2: A person who fears God deals responsibly with all of reality,
Speaker 2: not just a piece of it. If you're gonna be
Speaker 2: who God wants you to be, you're gonna have to
Speaker 2: look at every area of your life, every factor, every facet,
Speaker 2: every force in your life, and deal with all of
Speaker 2: them to be all God means for you to be.
Speaker 2: Now today I want us to look at this subject
Speaker 2: of being who God meant you to be, and I'm
Speaker 2: calling it winning the hand your delt because there are
Speaker 2: actually five factors in your life, not one, but five
Speaker 2: that influence your identity and who you are. If you
Speaker 2: remember the parable of the talent, Jesus said, the Master
Speaker 2: goes out and he gives one guy ten talents, and
Speaker 2: another guy five talents, and another guy one talent, and
Speaker 2: then he says, go off and make the most of
Speaker 2: what I've given you. You're not going to be responsible
Speaker 2: for talents you weren't given. You're not going to be
Speaker 2: judged by God for opportunities you didn't have. But God
Speaker 2: is going to judge you one day and evaluate your
Speaker 2: life on what you did with what you were given. Now,
Speaker 2: the point of the parable of the talents is, we
Speaker 2: don't get the same thing. We don't have the same talents.
Speaker 2: We don't have the same background, we don't have the
Speaker 2: same pains, we don't have the same problems, we don't
Speaker 2: have the same potential, we don't have the same anything
Speaker 2: except we're all loved by God. We are all unique,
Speaker 2: we are all different. But there are five factors that
Speaker 2: create your identity. You did not choose these factors. God
Speaker 2: dealt them to you. And just as you didn't choose
Speaker 2: your talents, you didn't choose the talents you didn't get.
Speaker 2: You didn't choose a lot of other things in your
Speaker 2: life that make you you. And so I want us
Speaker 2: to look at that today. Now, how many of you
Speaker 2: have ever played poker? Can I see your hands? All right? Good?
Speaker 2: I feel we've got a lot of sinners here. All right, good,
Speaker 2: I'm feeling a lot more comfortable now knowing that a
Speaker 2: lot of you played poker. In five cards stud poker,
Speaker 2: you have to play the cards you're dealt. You don't
Speaker 2: get to mix and match them. You don't get to say,
Speaker 2: I want to play his hand. You can only play
Speaker 2: the cards you are dealt. Now. In many ways, this
Speaker 2: is a metaphor in life. There are some things that
Speaker 2: you have been dealt in life. You didn't choose them.
Speaker 2: You didn't choose your parents, you didn't choose when you
Speaker 2: were born, where you were born, how you were born.
Speaker 2: You didn't choose your race. You didn't choose your talents.
Speaker 2: You didn't choose the talents you don't have. There are
Speaker 2: a lot of things that make you you that you
Speaker 2: had no choice in it all. They're the hand you
Speaker 2: were dealt. But you got to play the hand you're dealt.
Speaker 2: And in many ways this is a metaphor for life,
Speaker 2: that life is like a hand of poker, that you
Speaker 2: got to play the hand your delt. Now, the Bible
Speaker 2: tells us a lot about the factors that we're given
Speaker 2: in life that make us us. In fact, the Bible
Speaker 2: tells us four facts about the factors of our lives.
Speaker 2: The first thing each of these cards represent, a thing
Speaker 2: that makes you you, is that every one of these
Speaker 2: cards is flawed, every one of these cards is marred
Speaker 2: by sin. Every one of these cards is imperfect. Because
Speaker 2: nothing is perfect on this planet. The Bible says nothing
Speaker 2: is perfect except God's word on this planet. Now, we've
Speaker 2: talked about this many times. Everything in the world is broken.
Speaker 2: The weather is broken. We have tornadoes, earthquakes, typhoons. God
Speaker 2: didn't plan for the Earth to be that way. It's
Speaker 2: broken by slynn. We know that the economy is broken.
Speaker 2: Anybody would agree with that, okay, And it doesn't work perfectly.
Speaker 2: We know your body does not work perfectly right. Things
Speaker 2: don't work the right way. Your body is broken. Nobody
Speaker 2: has a perfect body except me. We know that no
Speaker 2: relationship is perfect. That two imperfect people cannot create a
Speaker 2: perfect relationship. I've told you before. I married a sinner
Speaker 2: and k married a bigger one. So you can't have
Speaker 2: two imperfect people and have a perfect Really, nothing in
Speaker 2: your life will ever be perfect. If you expect perfection
Speaker 2: on earth, you're expecting heaven on earth, and you're going
Speaker 2: to be sorely disappointed. Friends, this is not heaven. This
Speaker 2: is Earth. Nothing works correctly here. Everything works correctly in heaven.
Speaker 2: In heaven, there is no sorrow, no sadness, no tears,
Speaker 2: no trials, no troubles, no pain, no pressure, no conflict.
Speaker 2: But this is not heaven. We are to pray Thy
Speaker 2: will be done on earth as it is in heaven,
Speaker 2: because it's done perfectly there, but not here. But this
Speaker 2: is not heaven. And so everything in your life, all
Speaker 2: of the factors that you've been dealt, have imperfections in them,
Speaker 2: and they're all marred by sin. Okay, that's the first
Speaker 2: thing we know. The second thing we know is that
Speaker 2: God sent Jesus as our savior to not only save
Speaker 2: us from our sin, to save us into heaven, to
Speaker 2: save us out of hell, but to save us from ourselves.
Speaker 2: He sent Jesus to transform the cards we've been given,
Speaker 2: to change the deck, to turn it into a winning hand.
Speaker 2: That's what it means to have Jesus as your savior,
Speaker 2: and we're going to talk about that today. The third
Speaker 2: thing that the Bible teaches is that one day you
Speaker 2: will give an account to God on how well you
Speaker 2: played your hand. And God isn't going to say, why
Speaker 2: didn't you play it like your brother did, or your
Speaker 2: mother or your sister or anybody else because you don't
Speaker 2: have the hand they were dealt. But God expects you
Speaker 2: to play the hand your dealt in life to the
Speaker 2: best of your ability and to make the most of
Speaker 2: what you've got, and you will give an account of
Speaker 2: it one day. But the good news and what I
Speaker 2: want us to look at today is the Bible tells
Speaker 2: us to how still how to still win the game
Speaker 2: with the hand you've been dealt. What we're going to
Speaker 2: do today is I'm going to use this metaphor to
Speaker 2: talk about the five things that influence your life that
Speaker 2: make you you, and then what God says to do
Speaker 2: with them to make sure you turn it into a
Speaker 2: winning hand.
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Speaker 4: The truth is most of us don't pay much attention
Speaker 4: to our health until something goes wrong. We put on
Speaker 4: a couple of pounds every year and think no big deal, right,
Speaker 4: But a few pounds over five or ten years really
Speaker 4: adds up, and it can even lead to major illnesses
Speaker 4: like diabetes and heart disease. That's why Pastor Rick work
Speaker 4: together with medical and fitness experts to create the Daniel
Speaker 4: Plan Study. The sixth Session DVD and workbook study kit
Speaker 4: from Rick Warren, doctor Daniel Aman, and doctor Mark Hyman
Speaker 4: is an out of the box approach to a healthy
Speaker 4: lifestyle based on five essentials faith, food, fitness, focus and friends.
Speaker 4: The Daniel Plan Study gives individuals in small groups the
Speaker 4: encouragement and accountability needed to succeed. If you've been watching
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Speaker 1: Once again, here's rick.
Speaker 2: If you want us understand who you really are, you
Speaker 2: have to understand the five factors that make you you.
Speaker 2: And I am using this metaphor these five cards to
Speaker 2: represent this. Now. The first factor that makes you you
Speaker 2: is what I call chemistry, my chemistry. You might write
Speaker 2: that down. This is your chromosomes, it's your DNA, it's
Speaker 2: your genes, it's your hormones, it is your chemical makeup.
Speaker 2: At the most basic biological level, it's you and your body.
Speaker 2: Everything that happens to you in your life happens in
Speaker 2: your body, and your body is made up of chemicals. Now,
Speaker 2: some of you were born, for instance, with a hypersensitivity
Speaker 2: to pain, and you notice pain very very easily. You're
Speaker 2: the princess and the pee, and if something doesn't fit
Speaker 2: right or if you're right, you notice it immediately. It's
Speaker 2: not right or wrong. It's just the way you're wired.
Speaker 2: It's your chemistry. Others of you, you're born with a
Speaker 2: very high tolerance for pain. You know, I once cut
Speaker 2: the end off of a toe and I didn't notice
Speaker 2: it till the end of the day. It's like, where'd
Speaker 2: that toe go? I just it's not right or wrong.
Speaker 2: It's just the way I'm wired. Some of you were
Speaker 2: born with a low energy level. It's not right or wrong.
Speaker 2: It's just the way you were born. You're a low
Speaker 2: energy person. Others of you were born with the very
Speaker 2: high energy level. Every one of us have structural and
Speaker 2: chemical weaknesses in our bodies. Some of you have a
Speaker 2: predisposition to your back going out, just the way your
Speaker 2: body's wired. Some of us wear glasses. Some of us
Speaker 2: have weak eyesight. It's not right or wrong, it's just
Speaker 2: part of the way we're wired. Some of us are
Speaker 2: wired we don't hear as well. You know. I tell
Speaker 2: you about a year ago. I went to an ear
Speaker 2: doctor because I thought, I'm not hearing like I used
Speaker 2: to hear. And I thought, maybe it's too many rock
Speaker 2: concerts as a kid, or I still listen to music
Speaker 2: quite loud, and maybe I'm hurting my ear drums. So
Speaker 2: I went to an ear doctor and he put me
Speaker 2: in one of these booths, put the you know, ear
Speaker 2: phones on me, and said, you know, raise your hand
Speaker 2: when you hear this, and raise your hand when you
Speaker 2: hear this. And when I finished, I came out and
Speaker 2: the guy was laughing. The doctor was laughing. And I said,
Speaker 2: what are you laughing about? He said, Pastor Rick, the
Speaker 2: megahertz frequency you cannot hear is the exact tone of
Speaker 2: your wife's voice. I said, thank you, thank you. I now,
Speaker 2: honey up, It's not like I'm not listening. Now. All
Speaker 2: of us have biological and chemical deficiencies, and these create
Speaker 2: emotional problems. These create physical problems, These create mental problems
Speaker 2: in our lives. If you have low thyroid, you can
Speaker 2: exercise all you want, and you're still going to have
Speaker 2: not enough energy because your thyroid's low. You need to
Speaker 2: get a thyroid supplement. It's a physical chemical reaction. If
Speaker 2: you have calcium deficient see in your body, you're gonna
Speaker 2: have brittle bones, no matter how positively you think, you're
Speaker 2: gonna have brittle bones. If you are low on a
Speaker 2: hormone estrogen or testosterone, or you have an iron deficiency
Speaker 2: or any other chemical, it's going to affect you emotionally, mentally,
Speaker 2: it's going to affect you physically. You know. One of
Speaker 2: the ones I've been studying recently is the chemical oxytocin,
Speaker 2: which is the chemical that creates connection. It's the chemical
Speaker 2: that bonds you to other people. It's the relationship chemical
Speaker 2: that allows you to connect with others. If you are
Speaker 2: low on oxytocin, you have a difficult time connecting with others.
Speaker 2: This has been proven over and over. They did one
Speaker 2: study on prairie voles Voles prairie boles are these little
Speaker 2: hamsters in the Midwest, and they discovered that prairie voles
Speaker 2: are one of the few animals that actually mate for
Speaker 2: life besides human beings, they're monogamous for life. In fact,
Speaker 2: if their mate dies, they will not find another mate,
Speaker 2: and it is very unusual among animals. And so they
Speaker 2: studied prairie rolls and discovered that they're extremely high in oxytocin,
Speaker 2: that it connects them to each other. And when they
Speaker 2: lowered it in the prairie rowl, they became as frisky
Speaker 2: as rabbits. Okay, it was a chemical thing. Oxytocin is
Speaker 2: released in a mother when she nurses a baby. When
Speaker 2: a woman holds a baby to her breast, it releases
Speaker 2: oxytocin not only in the baby, but in the mother.
Speaker 2: And it is the bonding chemical that binds and bonds
Speaker 2: a mother to her baby. It's an amazing thing that
Speaker 2: God has created in our bodies. When a husband and
Speaker 2: wife make love. When they have sex, it releases oxytocin
Speaker 2: in both the husband and the wife, and it bonds
Speaker 2: them emotionally together. That was God's idea. That's why marriages
Speaker 2: that don't have sex aren't as close as those that do,
Speaker 2: because they're missing that chemical component that bonds you together.
Speaker 2: It's also a reason why God says don't have sex
Speaker 2: with anybody outside of marriage, because you're going to be
Speaker 2: bonding emotionally that person who's not your mate, and you're
Speaker 2: going to leave a piece of your heart there. And
Speaker 2: that's why rejection and unfaithfulness hurts so much, because sex
Speaker 2: is not simply a physical issue. It is an emotional
Speaker 2: and spiritual issue, and there's a chemical behind it too.
Speaker 2: They've even discovered that twenty minutes of petting a dog
Speaker 2: releases oxytocin in both the owner and the dog and
Speaker 2: bonds the owner and the dog together. It draws them closer. Now,
Speaker 2: if you don't have oxytocin in quantity in your body,
Speaker 2: you're going to have a difficult time connecting with people.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have a difficult time trusting people. It's simply
Speaker 2: part of your chemistry and it's the way you're why
Speaker 2: now I want you to write this down. No flaw,
Speaker 2: no flaw is sinful or shameful in my physical body,
Speaker 2: in my biology, in my chemistry, no flaw in me
Speaker 2: is shameful or sinful. It's just the way you're wired.
Speaker 2: You know. The last taboot today is mental illness. People
Speaker 2: don't want to talk about it as if that's some
Speaker 2: kind of bad thing. Mental illness is no different than
Speaker 2: physical illness or spiritual or emotional illness. It has a
Speaker 2: chemical basis, and mental illnesses no more need to be
Speaker 2: ashamed of than say, uh, cancer or emotional illness needs
Speaker 2: no more to be ashamed of than say, uh, you
Speaker 2: know you're you got a degenerative disk in your back.
Speaker 2: It's just part of who you are. That everything in
Speaker 2: our lives is broken, and there is a chemistry behind it.
Speaker 2: You know. The other day I bought a pair of
Speaker 2: genes and they were they're not these, but some other
Speaker 2: ones that were a little bit more distressed. And when
Speaker 2: I got them home, there was a little tag on
Speaker 2: them and it said this, these genes have intentional flaws
Speaker 2: in order to make them unique. I thought I'd like
Speaker 2: to put that tag on every person. Your genes, ge
Speaker 2: n ees have flaws in them to make you unique. Why,
Speaker 2: because you're not a carbon copy or a clone or
Speaker 2: mass produced anything. Any artist knows that, they'll often create
Speaker 2: a flaw in a picture, or in a vase or
Speaker 2: in a piece of pottery to say there's nothing else
Speaker 2: like this in the world. It has this unique flaw
Speaker 2: in it. I collect old bibles. Bibles that have printing
Speaker 2: mistakes in them are actually more valuable than those with
Speaker 2: no mistakes. They cost far much, far more as an antique.
Speaker 2: The flaw creates the uniqueness. Your genes have intention flaws
Speaker 2: to create your uniqueness, and your flaws are a part
Speaker 2: of your custom design. And God designed you, and he
Speaker 2: even uses those flaws for his purpose and his glory.
Speaker 2: The Bible calls them, Paul calls them my thorn in
Speaker 2: the flesh.
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Speaker 1: the truth is that most of us don't pay much
Speaker 1: attention to our health until something goes wrong. We put
Speaker 1: on a couple of pounds every year and think no
Speaker 1: big deal, right, But a few pounds over five or
Speaker 1: ten years can really add up. That's why Pastor Rick
Speaker 1: Warren has put together the Daniel Plan DVD Study Kit.
Speaker 1: This six session in video based study by Rick Warren,
Speaker 1: doctor Daniel Ahman and doctor Mark Hyman is an out
Speaker 1: of the box approach to a healthy lifestyle based on
Speaker 1: five essentials faith, food, fitness, focus and friends. The Daniel
Speaker 1: Planned Study Kit gives individuals the encouragement and accountability needed
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