Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the
Speaker 1: Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren. We're so excited that
Speaker 1: you've joined us today. As we continue in this powerful
Speaker 1: series how the Church meets your deepest needs, together, we're
Speaker 1: uncovering the joy and strength that comes from being a
Speaker 1: part of God's family. Well, let's get into it with
Speaker 1: the final part of a message called sharing your hope
Speaker 1: with others?
Speaker 2: Now, how do I share my hope? Let me give
Speaker 2: you some practical steps. I'll give you six practical steps. Okay,
Speaker 2: how do you share your hope?
Speaker 3: Number one?
Speaker 2: Real simple, write it down, live it, live it, Live
Speaker 2: your hope. Live a life of hope, long before you
Speaker 2: ever talk about it.
Speaker 3: Just live it.
Speaker 2: Verse Peter, Chapter two, verse twelve says this, we have
Speaker 2: such good lives among your unbelieving neighbors that they see
Speaker 2: circle that that they see the good things in you,
Speaker 2: the good things you do, and then they will honor.
Speaker 3: God by believing.
Speaker 2: Live in such a good way in front of your
Speaker 2: unbelieving neighbors.
Speaker 3: They see the good things you do, and.
Speaker 2: They will honor God by believing. What does that verse
Speaker 2: teach us that you need to be an audio visual believer.
Speaker 2: You gotta both walk the walk and talk the talk.
Speaker 2: You've got to be audio and you gotta be visual.
Speaker 2: You've got to live it in front of others. I
Speaker 2: told my staff the other day talking about our culture.
Speaker 2: If they like what they see, they will listen to
Speaker 2: what we say. If they like what they see, they
Speaker 2: will listen to what we say. So we start by sharing, Oh,
Speaker 2: by simply living hopeful lives. Now, this involves a lot
Speaker 2: of times just being nice to people. Why because you
Speaker 2: cannot win your enemies to Christ. You can only win
Speaker 2: your friends. They've got to become your friends before they
Speaker 2: can become christ friends. See, before people say is Jesus real?
Speaker 2: They want to know are you real? Before they want
Speaker 2: to know is the Bible legitimate? Can it be trusted?
Speaker 2: They want to know are you legitimate? Can you be trusted?
Speaker 2: Before they want to know is is everything that the
Speaker 2: scripture teaches credible? They want to know are you credible?
Speaker 2: So it just starts by being nice to people, building
Speaker 2: bridges of friendship. Outreach, evangelism, witnessing is simply you build
Speaker 2: a bridge of love between your heart and theirs, and
Speaker 2: Jesus walks cross.
Speaker 3: That's why.
Speaker 2: Romans twelve, verse thirteen says this two words practice hospitality.
Speaker 2: Romans twelve thirteen, practice hospitality. What is hospitality, Well, just
Speaker 2: making people feel welcomed and wanted. It means living your
Speaker 2: life in such a way. You invite them into your
Speaker 2: home home, you share meals with them, you have a
Speaker 2: barbecue with them, you go to a game with them,
Speaker 2: You live your life with them. I could give you
Speaker 2: so many illustrations. Do you know that in the first
Speaker 2: year of first two years of sadle Back Church, every
Speaker 2: Tuesday and every Thursday, we had people in our homes
Speaker 2: for two years. Kate cooked the same meal every week,
Speaker 2: so we didn't have to worry about what the buyer
Speaker 2: or the planning. It was all about having people in
Speaker 2: our home showing hospitality. And in the first two years
Speaker 2: of this church, every single person who came this church
Speaker 2: was invited to my home. And we did it for
Speaker 2: two years. Every single person got invited to a meal.
Speaker 2: This church was built on hospitality. The a in Saddleback's name,
Speaker 2: which is now All Nation Congregation used to be atmosphere
Speaker 2: of acceptance, which is the hospitality point of our values.
Speaker 2: Why because we didn't have an agent the word saddleback.
Speaker 2: So we called it atmosphere of acceptance. So you've got
Speaker 2: to live a life of hospitality and love in front
Speaker 2: of people, at a life of hope. Then number two,
Speaker 2: after you live it, learn it. You need to learn
Speaker 2: more about the hope that is within you. You know
Speaker 2: you've got hope, but you may have our time expressing it.
Speaker 2: One Peter, Chapter three, verse fifteen says this, always be
Speaker 2: ready to answer anyone who asks you to explain the
Speaker 2: reason for the hope that you have, but do it
Speaker 2: with gentleness and respect. Did you know that never in
Speaker 2: the Bible you told to share your faith. The Bible
Speaker 2: says share your hope. Never in the Bible are we
Speaker 2: commanded to share our faith. We are commanded to share
Speaker 2: our hope, and it says do it with gentleness and respect.
Speaker 2: Here's the third thing. You got to live it and
Speaker 2: you got to learn it. Here's number three. Apologize for
Speaker 2: not sharing sooner.
Speaker 3: Now let me explain this. What do you mean by that?
Speaker 2: Apologize for not explaining sooner?
Speaker 3: Okay, this in your mind?
Speaker 2: Do you have people in your life who are not
Speaker 2: believers and you've known him for a long long time,
Speaker 2: maybe five years, ten years, maybe even twenty years. You
Speaker 2: may have lived next to a neighbor forever and you've
Speaker 2: never talked to him about the Lord, and now you're
Speaker 2: kind of embarrassed because you've been neighbors so long and
Speaker 2: you've never talked to him about it, and now you
Speaker 2: feel awkward about bringing it up. How do you break
Speaker 2: the ice in talking to somebody about the Lord? Do
Speaker 2: you've known for some time and have never talked to
Speaker 2: him about it?
Speaker 3: Just apologize? Now, here's how I would do it.
Speaker 2: You go, let's say you've got a next door neighbor
Speaker 2: you've never talked about the Lord, never invited him church,
Speaker 2: and you go to him and you say, let's say
Speaker 2: his name's Joe. You say, Joe, I need to apologize
Speaker 2: to you. Now that's going to get their attention right
Speaker 2: off the bat. Okay, what have you done wrong? I
Speaker 2: need to apologize? And I said, well, what, sure?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know whatever. What do you need to apologize
Speaker 3: for it? Well?
Speaker 2: You know friends, I don't keep secrets from friends, and
Speaker 2: I consider you to be a close friend.
Speaker 3: You're a good friend.
Speaker 2: You've been a good neighbor for many years, and I've
Speaker 2: never talked to you about the most important thing in
Speaker 2: my life, and I'm really sorry. I'm embarrassed about it
Speaker 2: because honestly, I kind of thought that if I shared
Speaker 2: it with you, you'd think I was a nut or
Speaker 2: a kook or some goofy person. And I really thought
Speaker 2: that maybe you'd think less of me. And I know
Speaker 2: that's dumb, and I'm sorry. I should have thought more
Speaker 2: of our friendship. It's stronger than that. I know that,
Speaker 2: and so I ask you to forgive me. Now, the
Speaker 2: guy's dying to hear what you're going to say, and
Speaker 2: you say, you know what, I just need to tell
Speaker 2: you that the most important thing in my life is
Speaker 2: my friendship with God. I've learned how to have a
Speaker 2: relationship with God, and i'd love some time to talk
Speaker 2: to you about it and tell you about it. Well,
Speaker 2: now you've just opened the door.
Speaker 3: The apology.
Speaker 2: Evangelism is the way you start with somebody haven't talked
Speaker 2: to in a long time, you know. Proverbs chapter twelve,
Speaker 2: verse twenty six. It's very difficult verse to translate treat
Speaker 2: in different translations. It's all different ways, but I think
Speaker 2: that today's English version gets the closest the original meaning
Speaker 2: of the Hebrew and Proverbs twelve twenty six says this
Speaker 2: and the TeV the righteous person is a guide to
Speaker 2: his friends. The righteous person is a guide to his friends.
Speaker 2: And what you want to do. If your friends is somebody,
Speaker 2: you want to guide them in the right way. You
Speaker 2: care enough about them, you want to spend an eternity
Speaker 2: in heaven with you. You don't want to be separated
Speaker 2: from for them from eternity. And a righteous person is
Speaker 2: a guide to his friends. Another verse, Proverbs seventeen seventeen says,
Speaker 2: friends always show their love. And the most loving thing
Speaker 2: you can do is to show somebody how they can
Speaker 2: have their past forgiven, get a purpose for living, and
Speaker 2: get a home in heaven by opening their heart to
Speaker 2: the grint of God. Friends always show their love. It's
Speaker 2: unloving to not tell people the good news. All right,
Speaker 2: let me give you a fourth thing you can do.
Speaker 2: You can practice this week. You learn it, then you
Speaker 2: live it, then you apologize for not talking about it.
Speaker 2: Number four Listen first. Listen first, and by the way,
Speaker 2: ask questions. Write that down to you. Listen first and
Speaker 2: ask questions. You will always bring more people to Christ
Speaker 2: by listening to them than by talking to them. Why
Speaker 2: because everybody on this planet has a deep, deep hunger
Speaker 2: to be listened to, to be understood, to have their
Speaker 2: feelings validated, to not just blow it off, but to
Speaker 2: really listen. And very few people in this world care
Speaker 2: enough to actually listen to people, to their neighbors and friends.
Speaker 2: That's why people pay big money to go to counselors,
Speaker 2: because very few people car enough to actually listen to
Speaker 2: their friends. Your ear is a great tool.
Speaker 3: For showing love to someone. This is a huge tool.
Speaker 2: Proverbs eighteen, verse thirteen in today's English version says this,
Speaker 2: always listen before you answer. If you don't, you're being
Speaker 2: stupid and insulting. If you remember that verse early, we
Speaker 2: talked about it says always be ready to share your
Speaker 2: hope and always be ready to give an answer to
Speaker 2: people ask you about the hope that's in you. Well,
Speaker 2: the second part is always listen first before you share it.
Speaker 2: Always listen, and that's where you're gonna find the key
Speaker 2: to their heart. Proverbs twenty, verse five, today's English version
Speaker 2: says this, A person's thoughts are like water in a
Speaker 2: deep well, but somebody with insight could draw them out,
Speaker 2: can you that's a beautiful picture. A person's thoughts are
Speaker 2: like water in a deep well, but someone with insight
Speaker 2: could draw them out. How do you draw it out
Speaker 2: out of people? How do you find their hidden hurt?
Speaker 2: How do you find their deep need, unmet need, their
Speaker 2: felt need? By asking questions? The way you draw something
Speaker 2: out of people is by asking questions. And then after
Speaker 2: they've answered the questions, they will tell me more, and
Speaker 2: then ask it again, will tell me more, and what else,
Speaker 2: and you just keep letting them talk. You know a
Speaker 2: lot of people are worried that I've got to go
Speaker 2: out there and prove that God exists. No, you don't
Speaker 2: have to do that first place. Most people don't doubt
Speaker 2: God's existence. There are arguments out there, theological and teleological
Speaker 2: arguments for the existence of God. The cosmological argument, the
Speaker 2: teleological argument, the ontological argument, constant moral reproof.
Speaker 3: These are all things.
Speaker 2: If you go to seminary, you have to learn the
Speaker 2: arguments for the existence of God. Do you know what,
Speaker 2: most people couldn't care less. Again, they're living at the
Speaker 2: emotional level. It's not your job to prove God's exist
Speaker 2: It's your job to just show the grace of God
Speaker 2: to them. Now that goes in and along with my
Speaker 2: fifth suggestion, write this down, share your stories. Share your stories.
Speaker 2: You don't have to be going to the Bible for everything.
Speaker 2: Just share what's happened to you.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: This is called as you know, your testimony. In class
Speaker 2: four oh one, we teach you how to write out
Speaker 2: your testimony. But you notice I say share your stories plural,
Speaker 2: not share your story?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 2: Because you have many testimonies. A lot of people think
Speaker 2: they only have one testimony, the testimony of how they
Speaker 2: came to Christ, how they were saved. But has God
Speaker 2: ever helped you with a financial problem? Then you have
Speaker 2: a financial testimony. Has God ever helped you with a
Speaker 2: relational problem? Then you have a relational testimony? Or marriage testimony?
Speaker 2: Has God ever helped you with dating? Then God, You've
Speaker 2: got a dating testimony. Has God ever helped you when
Speaker 2: you were going through a crisis or grief or you
Speaker 2: lost someone, or you were worried, or you were sick.
Speaker 2: You have hundreds of testimonyes. You know the power of
Speaker 2: a testimony is that you are the authority. You're not
Speaker 2: pointing to anybody else's people in today's age, you go, well,
Speaker 2: you said it, it's you are the authority on your life.
Speaker 2: Nobody's a better authority on your life than you.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: The Bible, of course, is filled the testimonies of people.
Speaker 2: One time Jesus healed the bland guy, and the Pharisees
Speaker 2: kind of came to him and tried to trap him
Speaker 2: with some theological questions and discussion, tried to pin him
Speaker 2: down in the identity of Jesus. And the guy was
Speaker 2: really smart and he just resorted back to his testimony.
Speaker 2: And he did that because when you have a testimony,
Speaker 2: you're the authority on it. And in John chapter nine,
Speaker 2: verse twenty five, when they come and say who do
Speaker 2: you think Jesus is, he goes, well, you know what.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you're going to argue about, but
Speaker 2: I do know this. I was blind, but now I
Speaker 2: can see that's a testimony.
Speaker 3: You have lots of.
Speaker 2: I was blind, but now I can see testimonies about parenting,
Speaker 2: about dieting, about sleeping well, about dealing with stress, about
Speaker 2: dealing with pressure, and all the other things in your life.
Speaker 2: You have hundreds of testimonies. Finally, let me give you
Speaker 2: one more suggestion, number six. Bring them to worship. This
Speaker 2: is one of the best ways that you can share
Speaker 2: your hope with people. Who are struggling without hope. Did
Speaker 2: you know that studies show that people come to Christ
Speaker 2: quicker when they do it in the context of a
Speaker 2: larger group of people rather than just buy one on one.
Speaker 2: So when you talk to your neighbor, your friend, your
Speaker 2: coworker about the Lord. But then you bring them to
Speaker 2: church and they walk into a service and they see
Speaker 2: a lot of other people, hundreds of people or maybe
Speaker 2: even thousands, who believe the same thing. That's called a
Speaker 2: corporate witness and has enormous emotional and spiritual power. And
Speaker 2: when people come and see other people together believing the
Speaker 2: same thing, it adds credibility to what you have shared
Speaker 2: with your friend. And your frame thinks. He looks around
Speaker 2: and he goes, Wow, there are a lot of people here
Speaker 2: who believe this. They couldn't all be crazy. I mean,
Speaker 2: they might doubt you, but they can't couldn't all be crazy.
Speaker 2: This is why Jesus wants us to bring people into
Speaker 2: his church family and actually bring him to worship services.
Speaker 2: In Luke chapter fourteen, verse twenty three, Jesus said this,
Speaker 2: go into the streets and everywhere else and invite anyone
Speaker 2: you find to come with you, so that my house
Speaker 2: will be full. Notice that God wants a full house.
Speaker 2: He wants a full house. He wants everybody saved. When
Speaker 2: was the last time you invited somebody to church? Care
Speaker 2: enough to bring somebody with you next weekend. You know
Speaker 2: when you do that, you're going to watch. You're going
Speaker 2: to see church from a whole different perspective when you
Speaker 2: sit next to somebody who's never been in the service
Speaker 2: before and you see all of the things that going.
Speaker 3: Now I get why we do this.
Speaker 2: Now, I see why we do this at Saddleback, and
Speaker 2: I have seen the reality of Psalm forty verse three
Speaker 2: happen thousands and thousands of times at saddle Back Church
Speaker 2: when people brought their friends to church. Psalm forty verse
Speaker 2: three says this, many people will see this what the
Speaker 2: service of worship, and they will worship him. Then they
Speaker 2: will trust the Lord. Notice that worship leads to outreach,
Speaker 2: worship leads to conversion. Then they will trust the Lord.
Speaker 2: When people who don't yet have a friendship with God,
Speaker 2: watch believers give thanks to God like in singing. It
Speaker 2: is a powerful witness. And this is why the first
Speaker 2: Church of Jerusalem actually grewed over one hundred thousand members
Speaker 2: in less than twenty years because the worship was there
Speaker 2: and everybody was bringing their friends to the temple. Acts two,
Speaker 2: verse forty seven says this, as they worshiped God, people
Speaker 2: in the community liked what they saw, and as a result,
Speaker 2: every day their number grew as God added.
Speaker 3: Those who were being saved.
Speaker 2: All right, now I've given you, you know, five or
Speaker 2: so reasons why you should have confidence, and six or
Speaker 2: so steps to just get going. Let me wrap this
Speaker 2: up by just concluding with why why do we do this?
Speaker 2: Why do we share our hope? Well, let me just
Speaker 2: give you three or four reasons real quick. Number one,
Speaker 2: everybody needs Jesus. The reason we share our hope is
Speaker 2: because everybody needs Jesus. You know, if I had the
Speaker 2: cure for cancer or AIDS or dementia and I didn't
Speaker 2: share it with everybody, that would be criminal. They should
Speaker 2: lock me up and put me in prison. If I
Speaker 2: knew how to cure people's cancer or AIDS or dementia
Speaker 2: or some other thing, it would be criminal if I
Speaker 2: didn't pass it on. We have something even better, how
Speaker 2: to have eternal life past forgiven purpose for living home
Speaker 2: in heaven, it would be criminal. To not share it
Speaker 2: with others. Look at this verse Matthew eleven twenty eight
Speaker 2: to thirty. Jesus says in the message para Freeze, are
Speaker 2: you tired?
Speaker 3: Are you worn out? Are you burned out on religion?
Speaker 3: Come to me?
Speaker 2: Get away with me and you'll recover your life and
Speaker 2: I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk
Speaker 2: with me, work with me. Watch how I do it.
Speaker 2: Jesus says, learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't
Speaker 2: lay anything heavy or ill fitting on you. Keep company
Speaker 2: with me, and you'll learn how to live freely and lightly.
Speaker 2: Who doesn't want that. It's not like you're trying to
Speaker 2: get people to eat cat food or something. You know,
Speaker 2: what most people reject is not true Christianity. What most
Speaker 2: people reject is a misconception of it. Jesus says, you
Speaker 2: got needs in your life, Come to me and I
Speaker 2: will meet that need. I will give you rest. So
Speaker 2: we do it because everybody needs Jesus. The second reason
Speaker 2: we do it is because Jesus commands us to do it.
Speaker 2: We looked at those commands at the very start that
Speaker 2: this church Saddleback exists because of his great commission to
Speaker 2: go make disciples, Mark chapter eight, verse thirty eight. He said,
Speaker 2: Jesus said this very very sobering verse. Look at this
Speaker 2: verse Mark eight thirty eight. Jesus says, if you're ashamed
Speaker 2: of me and my message in these sick and sinful days,
Speaker 2: I will be ashamed of you when I return in glory.
Speaker 3: Whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2: We do this because God commands us to do it.
Speaker 2: Do you care more about what people think than about
Speaker 2: what God thinks? Are you more worried about your reputation
Speaker 2: than their salvation? Are you ashamed of Jesus?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe if you're ashamed of Jesus, maybe you
Speaker 2: don't really have.
Speaker 3: A friendship with him. Yet you need to get to
Speaker 3: know him.
Speaker 2: Jesus commands us to share our hope. Third reason we
Speaker 2: share our hope is because we're grateful to God and
Speaker 2: we love people Sewod Corinthians five point fourteen. The Bible
Speaker 2: says Christ's love compels us. Christ love compels us because
Speaker 2: we know that He died for all. We are motivated
Speaker 2: by love. People ask me what motivates you rick year
Speaker 2: after year after year at Saddleback Church. I love Jesus
Speaker 2: Christ with all my heart, and I love people, and
Speaker 2: that compels us. You know, there's a point where Jesus
Speaker 2: one time is up on a hill and he looks
Speaker 2: out the whole city of Jerusalem, and in passionate cry,
Speaker 2: he says, Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how I would have gathered
Speaker 2: you as a hen gathers her chicks under her brood,
Speaker 2: but you would not have me.
Speaker 3: Can you hear the verse that the passion had, Oh,
Speaker 3: Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem.
Speaker 2: I have prayed that prayer so many times as I've
Speaker 2: been up on a hill, saying, Oh, saddle back Valley,
Speaker 2: saddle back Valley, how much I would have gathered you
Speaker 2: to bring you the good news? And then as we
Speaker 2: expanded Orange County, Southern California, Oh, Southern California, Southern California,
Speaker 2: how much I would have gathered you together and shared
Speaker 2: with you the good news of Christ if you just listen.
Speaker 2: And now I with campuses around the world, I say, oh, world,
Speaker 2: how I plead and beg for you to listen to
Speaker 2: the good News of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3: We do it out of love.
Speaker 2: Finally, the Bible says that you will be rewarded in
Speaker 2: heaven that when you share your hope with others, you
Speaker 2: will be rewarded in heaven. Proverbs eleven, verse thirty says
Speaker 2: this good people give life to others like a fruit
Speaker 2: bearing tree, and those who save souls are wise. Do
Speaker 2: you want to be wise save souls? You want to
Speaker 2: bear fruit, You want to be a tree of life.
Speaker 2: You want to leave a legacy. The way you leave
Speaker 2: a legacy is by sharing the good news of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, for since we were restored to friendship
Speaker 2: with God by the death of his son while we
Speaker 2: were still as enemies, we will certainly be delivered from
Speaker 2: eternal punishment by his life.
Speaker 3: Romans five ten.
Speaker 2: What a great promise you will be rewarded in eternity
Speaker 2: for the people you brought with you. Is anybody going
Speaker 2: to be in heaven because of you? Let me close
Speaker 2: in prayer. The Bible says that God wants us to
Speaker 2: be witnesses.
Speaker 3: But a lot of times.
Speaker 2: We're what I call Arctic river Christians. We're frozen at
Speaker 2: the mouth and we don't say anything, and we hold back.
Speaker 2: But Jesus says, if you're not fishing, you're not following.
Speaker 2: So let me encourage you to write now in your mind.
Speaker 2: I want everybody to think of one person. Think of
Speaker 2: a name of somebody who you love who doesn't know
Speaker 2: Jesus yet. Okay, think of a name as somebody who
Speaker 2: love it doesn't know Jesus yet. And I'm going to
Speaker 2: ask you to ask God to give you the privilege
Speaker 2: of bringing that person into the Family of God in
Speaker 2: the next year, in the next three hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: five days. Would you do that right now? It could
Speaker 2: be your greatest legacy that somebody's going to be in
Speaker 2: heaven because of you. Let me pray for you, and
Speaker 2: then I'll lead you in a prayer. Father, you know
Speaker 2: everybody who's watching this video online and at all of
Speaker 2: our campuses, and I know that you've called us to
Speaker 2: make disciples, to be a witness, to share our hope,
Speaker 2: to not hold back, to be ambassadors for Christ and Lord.
Speaker 2: If we don't do it, we're disobedient. We're not following
Speaker 2: your will. And so I pray that this message today
Speaker 2: will motivate each of us to get serious about the
Speaker 2: people in our lives that we love who still don't
Speaker 2: know you, neighbors, friends, co workers, people we meet in
Speaker 2: social settings. Now you pray, say, Dear God, I want
Speaker 2: you to use me to bring somebody to you. Just
Speaker 2: pray that, say, Dear God, I want you to use
Speaker 2: me to bring somebody to you in the next year.
Speaker 2: Help me to remember that your Holy Spirit is with
Speaker 2: me and I have the truth and they just have excuses.
Speaker 2: Help me to remember that everybody has the same longings
Speaker 2: and the same questions, and that you are the answer
Speaker 2: to those, and that everybody needs Jesus, give me the
Speaker 2: love that I need to care enough to share your
Speaker 2: good news with those around me, to invite people to church,
Speaker 2: to share a word of testimony, to share how You've
Speaker 2: changed my life, and maybe even to apologize to someone
Speaker 2: that I haven't talked to about it that I've known
Speaker 2: for a long time. And I humbly ask for your
Speaker 2: help this week in Jesus' name.
Speaker 3: Amen.
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