Speaker 1: You know, we really live in a world that's full
Speaker 1: of competing beliefs and values and choices, and what you
Speaker 1: believe shapes how you live and ultimately who you become.
Speaker 1: But the good news is God hasn't left us to
Speaker 1: figure it all out alone.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: In fact, today, on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, we're going
Speaker 1: to continue our series Reframing Your Worldview, where Rick Warren
Speaker 1: unpacks powerful truths from God's Word to help you see
Speaker 1: life clearly and live it with confidence and purpose. And
Speaker 1: now let's get right to Pastor Rick with part one
Speaker 1: of a message called how Should I Live in this World?
Speaker 2: Your worldview is the way you look at the world.
Speaker 2: It's the beliefs that you base all of your decisions on.
Speaker 2: Your worldview is how you see life, how you see death,
Speaker 2: how you see yourself. Your worldview it's how you see
Speaker 2: God and others, and money and sex, and the past
Speaker 2: and the president and the future and every area of life.
Speaker 2: Everybody has a worldview, whether they realize it or not.
Speaker 2: It's often unclarified, it's often unspoken, but everybody has a worldview.
Speaker 2: Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is a worldview. It
Speaker 2: is a way of seeing the world, and actually there
Speaker 2: are seven major worldviews. We talked about that in the
Speaker 2: first week of the series. If you base your life
Speaker 2: on a faulty worldview, the results are disastrous because every
Speaker 2: idea has a consequence.
Speaker 3: Every idea has a consequence.
Speaker 2: Even the silly ideas of life waste your time, and
Speaker 2: that wastes your life. So there's a consequence to literally
Speaker 2: everything you do.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: In the first week, we talked about how it's not
Speaker 2: enough just to be sincere, and we talked about a
Speaker 2: number of different questions that why does it matter why
Speaker 2: I believe or what I believe? You can be sincere
Speaker 2: and be sincerely wrong. If I have a glass up
Speaker 2: here and it's filled with what I think is water,
Speaker 2: and I'm sincere about it, I can drink it. If
Speaker 2: it's poison, it'll still kill me. No matter how sincere
Speaker 2: I am. I made it on a false assumption. I
Speaker 2: based my decision on wrong or untrue data. So during
Speaker 2: this series we looked at five different questions. The first
Speaker 2: question was why does it matter what I believe as
Speaker 2: a major difference in your life? Then we looked the
Speaker 2: second week at how do I know what's true?
Speaker 3: And how do I know what's real?
Speaker 2: We looked at five signs of truth, the ka in
Speaker 2: our society, and five ways that you can know the
Speaker 2: truth that you can actually test it. Is this really true?
Speaker 2: Is this really real? Does it square with reality? Then
Speaker 2: the third week we looked at where did I come from?
Speaker 2: Which is a major implication in your worldview. The Bible
Speaker 2: says that God made it all, created everything. The Bible
Speaker 2: tells us that God thought of human beings first but
Speaker 2: made us last, and that you were uniquely made. You're
Speaker 2: not an accident, and you're made in God's image and
Speaker 2: God has.
Speaker 3: A plan and a purpose for your life.
Speaker 2: Then the next week we looked at how did the
Speaker 2: world get so messed up? And the fact is we
Speaker 2: live on a broken planet. And we looked at the
Speaker 2: reason for that, which is our own sinful choices. And
Speaker 2: the result is we live in a broken planet where
Speaker 2: nothing works correctly. Nothing's perfect, no marriage, no person, no help,
Speaker 2: nothing is perfect on this planet.
Speaker 3: We looked at why God.
Speaker 2: Is even allowing the broken planet to go on for
Speaker 2: a little bit longer than the rationale behind that.
Speaker 3: Then the next week we looked.
Speaker 2: At what's the solution, what's the solution to all of
Speaker 2: the problems in the world. And we looked at a
Speaker 2: number of the major different solutions that have been offered
Speaker 2: that have all failed, because, honestly, the heart of the
Speaker 2: problem is a problem in the heart.
Speaker 3: It's inside me.
Speaker 2: And you can't change the world by making a law.
Speaker 2: To change the world, that doesn't work. You have to
Speaker 2: change people on the inside. And we looked at how
Speaker 2: God changes us on the inside, and how the five
Speaker 2: things that Jesus did on the cross are what changes
Speaker 2: us and they're the answers to the problems in our world. Now,
Speaker 2: based on all that we looked at, I want to
Speaker 2: come back and do this last final week on so what?
Speaker 2: And then in other words, how am I supposed to
Speaker 2: live in this world? Once I have a Christian world view?
Speaker 2: How do I turn my creeds into deeds? How do
Speaker 2: I have what I know affect what I do? How
Speaker 2: does my belief How do my beliefs change my behavior?
Speaker 2: In other words, what am I going to do about
Speaker 2: what I know? How should I live in this world?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Fortunately God sent us a model on how to live
Speaker 2: in this world. The very first verse there on your
Speaker 2: outline one John twenty six says this. Anyone who says
Speaker 2: he is a Christian should live as Christ did. Well, duh,
Speaker 2: it's kind of obvious, and yet we don't do it.
Speaker 2: We call ourselves followers of Christ, we call ourselves believers,
Speaker 2: we call ourselves Christians, but we don't always live the
Speaker 2: way Jesus did. Now the big question then, is, well,
Speaker 2: if I'm to be in the family of God, I'm
Speaker 2: to live as Jesus Christ did.
Speaker 3: How do you do that?
Speaker 2: What does it mean to live as Jesus did? Well,
Speaker 2: if you've ever wandered that question, you picked a good
Speaker 2: week to come to church, because I this week went
Speaker 2: through everything written about Jesus Christ in the Bible, read
Speaker 2: it all, and read every word that Jesus has said
Speaker 2: that's recorded, and summarized it for you tonight. It is
Speaker 2: summarized in ten mega truths, ten mega themes, ten values.
Speaker 2: Well I'm going to give you tonight is cliff notes
Speaker 2: on the life of Jesus Christ. This is the ten
Speaker 2: things that Jesus did in his life that he wants
Speaker 2: you to do in your life, which is how you
Speaker 2: should live in this world. And we're going to look
Speaker 2: at these ten truths, these ten values, and as we
Speaker 2: look at them.
Speaker 3: I think you'll probably be amazed.
Speaker 2: Just like I was, at how counterculture they are, how
Speaker 2: opposite of what the world says, Jesus says to do.
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ is the perfect model for living and not
Speaker 2: only showed us how to do it, he gave us
Speaker 2: specific instructions. One of the things that's unique about tonight's
Speaker 2: message is that every single verse on your outline is
Speaker 2: a direct quote from Jesus. If you had a read
Speaker 2: letter edition of the Bible where all the words of
Speaker 2: Jesus in read, this entire outline would be in read
Speaker 2: because they're all verses basically from Jesus Christ on what
Speaker 2: it means to live? Now, how do I learn to
Speaker 2: live like Jesus Christ? Well, you have to build certain
Speaker 2: values in your life, and here they are Number one,
Speaker 2: to live like Jesus means to live with discernment. To
Speaker 2: live with discernment, Now what that means is you evaluate things,
Speaker 2: You test things, you are discerning. You don't just automatically
Speaker 2: accept what somebody tells you.
Speaker 3: You check it out.
Speaker 2: You don't automatically accept the world's values. You're not sucked
Speaker 2: in by popular culture. And just because it's mentioned on
Speaker 2: some talk show, or it's on the cover of People magazine,
Speaker 2: or people think it's hip or cool or you know whatever,
Speaker 2: that it's okay. No, you check it out. You are discerning.
Speaker 2: You evaluate everything and you ask things like is this
Speaker 2: the truth? Does this square with reality? Is it God's
Speaker 2: world view? Or is it just the most passing fad.
Speaker 2: Paul once says in the Book of Romans, he says,
Speaker 2: don't become so comfortable with your culture that you fit
Speaker 2: in into it without even thinking.
Speaker 3: And that's what Jesus is saying here.
Speaker 2: He says, I want you to think about the kind
Speaker 2: of life you're living.
Speaker 3: You need to be discerning.
Speaker 2: Now, notice here Jesus in John chapter seven says this,
Speaker 2: don't be nitpickers, but use your head and heart to
Speaker 2: discern what is right, to test what is authentically true.
Speaker 2: Now I'm saying here, I don't want you to be
Speaker 2: a cynic. I don't want you to be a skeptic.
Speaker 2: I don't want you to be a nitpicker, a legalistic
Speaker 2: crank who runs around talk about how everything's awful in
Speaker 2: the world. I don't want you just criticizing everything. But
Speaker 2: he says, I do expect you to use your brain
Speaker 2: God gave you a mind, and you are to use it,
Speaker 2: and you are to be discerning and not just automatically
Speaker 2: believe everything.
Speaker 3: That you hear or see or experience in life.
Speaker 2: He said, don't be a nitpicker, don't be a cynic,
Speaker 2: but use your mind.
Speaker 3: Let me give you an assignment sometime. I want you
Speaker 3: to go back.
Speaker 2: And read through the first four books of the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke,
Speaker 2: and John. Those are the books that tell the most
Speaker 2: about Jesus. And as you read those gospels, find out
Speaker 2: how many times Jesus uses the phrase watch out. It's
Speaker 2: one of his favorite phrases. Jesus says watch out, and
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna spoil all the fun for you, but
Speaker 2: he tells you a number of things to watch out for.
Speaker 2: For instance, did you know that Jesus says, watch out
Speaker 2: for people who can take into court just one of
Speaker 2: the things he says to watch out for. And if
Speaker 2: you watch out for the things Jesus says to watch
Speaker 2: out for, you're gonna be a lot wiser now. Depending
Speaker 2: on your translation, it may say beware, it may say
Speaker 2: be careful, it may say guard yourself. But he's just
Speaker 2: saying you need to be discerning. You don't just let
Speaker 2: things flow into your mind. The problem is we are
Speaker 2: bombarded now by media. You know, radio, tell uh, you know,
Speaker 2: Internet and iPods.
Speaker 3: And you know, on and on and on.
Speaker 2: We've got media around us, billboards and movies and everything
Speaker 2: is constantly hitting us. And after a while, you kind
Speaker 2: of let your guard down and you start letting stuff
Speaker 2: into your mind that you wouldn't even agree with, that
Speaker 2: you know is wrong, and you just let it in
Speaker 2: because there's so much media. For instance, have you ever
Speaker 2: found yourself singing a song with words that are the
Speaker 2: exact opposite of your values? It's got to catchy tune
Speaker 2: and you're you know, you're going, you know, well, I
Speaker 2: want to get drunk and sleep around tonight.
Speaker 3: I go, I'm a pastor. I probably shouldn't be singing that.
Speaker 3: You know, it's I got to.
Speaker 2: Catch you tune and you and what's happening, somebody's putting
Speaker 2: their worldview in my mind because it's got to catch
Speaker 2: you tune or you you know, today we have a
Speaker 2: thing called entertainment, and I just want or what's so
Speaker 2: entertaining about it? A lot of entertainment is watching people
Speaker 2: do do stuff that you know is wrong and you'd
Speaker 2: never do it yourself, you know, go sleep around with
Speaker 2: somebody else's husband or wife, or you know, get drunk
Speaker 2: and shoot up a bunch of people. Or we watch
Speaker 2: stuff all the time that you would never do yourself
Speaker 2: and call it entertainment. And so Jesus just says, you
Speaker 2: just need to be discerning and know what you're allowing
Speaker 2: in your mind. I mean, let's just take a little
Speaker 2: survey here of intelligence. How many of you believe everything
Speaker 2: you read in the newspaper?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I knew you were smart. How many of you believe.
Speaker 2: Everything you read in magazines, you hear on the radio,
Speaker 2: you watch on the TV, and you see it movies.
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: How many of you would say I believe everything God
Speaker 2: says is true?
Speaker 3: Okay, here's the question.
Speaker 2: Why do we spend more time listening, watching, and reading something.
Speaker 3: We don't believe than something we do. HM.
Speaker 2: Next point, I mean, you got it right. I don't
Speaker 2: have to drill it in right, get it good. Live
Speaker 2: with discernment. The Bible says this. Look at that next verse.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, make sure that the light you think
Speaker 2: you have is not really darkness. See a lot of
Speaker 2: times you may be thinking, oh, I'm doing the right
Speaker 2: thing here, but you may be operating off the world's
Speaker 2: value system that's so been programmed into your mind through radio, television, movies,
Speaker 2: and books. You're brainwashed and you just automatically think, well,
Speaker 2: it's the right way to do it. And so he says,
Speaker 2: make sure that the light you think you have is
Speaker 2: not really darkness. Be discerning. Second thing, if you're going
Speaker 2: to live like Jesus Christ, you got to learn to
Speaker 2: live with integrity. With integrity. Now, what is integrity. Most
Speaker 2: people do not understand this word. In fact, if you
Speaker 2: ask them to give you a synonym, they say, well,
Speaker 2: integrity means being honest, it means telling the truth. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's part of it. Telling the truth is part of integrity.
Speaker 2: But integrity means a whole lot more than being honest.
Speaker 2: What integrity means is wholeness. Wholeness I mean it's all together.
Speaker 2: It comes from the word integral, integrated integer or integua.
Speaker 3: One unit in mathematics. It means it's all the whole.
Speaker 2: It's the opposite of compartmentalizing your life. What integrated or
Speaker 2: integrity means is your life is all the same that
Speaker 2: you don't act one way with one group of people,
Speaker 2: like this is how I act at church, and this
Speaker 2: is how I act with my you know, golfing buddies.
Speaker 2: This is how I act at work, and this is
Speaker 2: how I act at home, and this is how I
Speaker 2: act over here when nobody knows it's me, and you
Speaker 2: wear different masks and you fake it and you pretend
Speaker 2: and you play roles and you're a hypocrite. That is
Speaker 2: a lack of integrity. It's when you segment your life.
Speaker 2: You know, you can be honest and still lack integrity.
Speaker 2: Why because you could be an honest in one area
Speaker 2: and have another area of your life you're in total
Speaker 2: denial about.
Speaker 3: That's all you ripped messed up.
Speaker 2: And just because you're honest in one area doesn't mean
Speaker 2: you have integrity because that's involving every area of your life.
Speaker 2: You don't compartmentalize your life. You remember a few months
Speaker 2: ago we talked about the Titanic myth that before the Titanic,
Speaker 2: all of the boats made had one integrated hull. They
Speaker 2: were all, you know, one unit, and so that if
Speaker 2: a boat, our ship ran into an iceberg, it knocked
Speaker 2: a hole in it.
Speaker 3: The water came in and it sunk the ship.
Speaker 2: So the Cannick was supposedly unsinkable because they got this idea,
Speaker 2: we'll just compartmentalize the hole and we'll put it into segments.
Speaker 2: And therefore, if the ship happened to run into an iceberg,
Speaker 2: it could theoretically take on water in a certain number
Speaker 2: of compartments, but it wouldn't sink the ship. Now that
Speaker 2: sounds logical, But friends, a hole in the boat is
Speaker 2: a hole in the boat.
Speaker 3: Is a hole in the boat. It's going to sink eventually.
Speaker 2: It's like, let's say you and I are in a
Speaker 2: rowboat outfishing and I pull out, you know, a drill
Speaker 2: at my end, and I start drilling a hole in
Speaker 2: the boat.
Speaker 3: You go, what are you doing? I said, well, it's
Speaker 3: my end of the boat. I'm not hurting you. You know,
Speaker 3: this is not your you know, this is just my
Speaker 3: own thing. He said, Oh, he's going to sink the
Speaker 3: whole boat. A hole in the boat's going to sink
Speaker 3: the boat.
Speaker 2: And you may be saying, well, I'm drilling a hole
Speaker 2: right now, but it's not going to sink my family,
Speaker 2: or it's not going to sink my business.
Speaker 3: It's just one.
Speaker 2: Little segment of my life, you are dead wrong. And
Speaker 2: when you compartmentalize your life into you know, this is
Speaker 2: my reading life, and this is my secret life, and
Speaker 2: this is.
Speaker 3: My business life, you are setting.
Speaker 2: Yourself up for a lack of integrity because it's not
Speaker 2: all integrated.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: It's not easy to live a life of integrity today
Speaker 2: because everything in society teaches us to put our lives
Speaker 2: and segments pta over here, and this over there, and
Speaker 2: this over here. I saw it just this week, in
Speaker 2: two very extremes. I got up at four forty five
Speaker 2: in the morning to fly up to San Francisco, got.
Speaker 3: Back at midnight. That night, I had meetings.
Speaker 2: With five different groups of CEOs in the city of
Speaker 2: San Francisco, a bunch of tech CEOs from the Silicon Valley,
Speaker 2: and a bunch of financial CEOs and different groups like that.
Speaker 2: But before I went and had those meetings with the CEOs,
Speaker 2: I went over to San Quentin to speak to the
Speaker 2: prisoners and to celebrate the completion of the first forty
Speaker 2: days of purpose at San Quentin Prison, and the inmates
Speaker 2: there that had completed it, we you know, signed all
Speaker 2: our books and you know, had a great time with them,
Speaker 2: and I met with a warden and they've allowed forty
Speaker 2: days of Purpose will be repeated every.
Speaker 3: Quarter, four times a year in San Quentin.
Speaker 2: Five thousand prisoners, over six hundred on death row, and
Speaker 2: we're going to do forty days of purpose there and
Speaker 2: they are going to allow a celebrate recovery into San
Speaker 2: Quentin prison.
Speaker 3: So it's a terrific thing.
Speaker 2: So I'm over here with you know, these these convicts,
Speaker 2: and then I finished that speaking to them, and I
Speaker 2: go over to meet with CEOs, and you know what
Speaker 2: I discovered. It doesn't matter whether you're a CEO or
Speaker 2: a convict, you still have to struggle with integrity. Doesn't
Speaker 2: matter if you're a professional or a prisoner, or you're
Speaker 2: an investor, or you're an inmate, you still got a
Speaker 2: struggle with this issue of bringing all your life into whole.
Speaker 3: Now, let me be clear, integrity is.
Speaker 2: Not if you have to be perfect have integrity.
Speaker 3: Who's gonna have it? Nobody?
Speaker 2: Because there are no perfect people on this planet. Nothing's
Speaker 2: perfect on Earth. So you don't have to be perfect
Speaker 2: to have integrity. You just have to be exactly what
Speaker 2: you appear to be. That I the way I talk
Speaker 2: with you is the way I talk with my kids,
Speaker 2: and the way I talk with my kids is the
Speaker 2: way I talk with my friends, and the way I
Speaker 2: talk with my friends is the way I talk with strangers.
Speaker 2: And I don't act different ways with different groups of people.
Speaker 2: You know, what you see is what you get. Now,
Speaker 2: here's what the Bible says. Jesus said in Luke eleven
Speaker 2: thirty six. If you are filled with light, in other words,
Speaker 2: you're not hiding anything with no dark parts. That means
Speaker 2: there are no corners of your life, no little segments
Speaker 2: that you said, okay, God, you can have every air
Speaker 2: of my life except this area my pornography, or my
Speaker 2: drug addiction, or my little relationship or whatever. If if
Speaker 2: you are filled with life with no dark parts, then
Speaker 2: your whole life circle, that whole life.
Speaker 3: Will be radiant. What's he's saying there.
Speaker 2: The result of integrity is illumination. He says, when you
Speaker 2: have integrity, you shine like a star in a dark world.
Speaker 2: And that's why God wants us to live with integrity.
Speaker 2: Look at the next verse. Jesus said, you are the
Speaker 2: world's salt to make it tolerable. And if you lose
Speaker 2: your flavor, what will happen to the world. God says
Speaker 2: Christians are to be salt in the world. Did you
Speaker 2: know there are two primary purposes for salt. One is
Speaker 2: as a preservative. It keeps things from rotting. That's why
Speaker 2: they put it on meat, salt pork and jerky and
Speaker 2: stuff keeps the meat from rotting. And the other is
Speaker 2: it's for seasoning, makes it taste better. Why does God
Speaker 2: leave Christians in the world once they become saved. Why
Speaker 2: didn't he just take them on to heaven. He leaves
Speaker 2: us here on this planet to be preservative. The world
Speaker 2: doesn't spoil, it doesn't go rotten, and he leaves us
Speaker 2: here for seasoning to make it taste better. And the
Speaker 2: only way you can do that is if you have integrity.
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