Speaker 1: Hello everybody, this is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining us today, and if you're brand new,
Speaker 1: welcome to the Daily Hope family. We hope you'll enjoy
Speaker 1: the teachings of Pastor Rick Warren right here. I'm so
Speaker 1: excited for all of you to learn about your shape.
Speaker 1: It might not be the shape you're thinking of right now.
Speaker 1: Rick loves to use acrostics and this one is shape
Speaker 1: your shape, your spiritual gifts, heart, abilities, personality and experiences.
Speaker 1: And one of the reasons I love this series and
Speaker 1: have shared it with so many friends is because Rick
Speaker 1: talks about the way God wired you and why you
Speaker 1: need not just know your shape, but how to use
Speaker 1: it to do the things that God designed.
Speaker 2: You to do.
Speaker 1: And now Rick shares with us part one of a
Speaker 1: message called employing your Experience.
Speaker 2: We've looked at five different ways that God wired you
Speaker 2: uniquely to fulfill your per life. We use the acrostic shape.
Speaker 2: He has gifted you with spiritual gifts s. What are
Speaker 2: you gifted to do? He has given you a heart,
Speaker 2: things you love to do, passions, interests. He's given you
Speaker 2: natural abilities that you have been good at since the
Speaker 2: moment you were born. He's given you a personality that's
Speaker 2: different than all the others. And you are unique, and
Speaker 2: there's nobody like you. And today we conclude with the
Speaker 2: experiences of life, and how God wants you to use
Speaker 2: the experiences of your life, good, bad and ugly for
Speaker 2: His glory and for your own good. Now, the most
Speaker 2: famous verse in the Bible about the experiences of life
Speaker 2: is Romans chapter eight, verse twenty eight. Is there at
Speaker 2: the top of your outline, Let me read it to you.
Speaker 2: We know that in all things God works for the
Speaker 2: good of those who love Him, who have been called
Speaker 2: according to His purpose. Now, this is one of the
Speaker 2: most famous verses of the Bible. It's also one of
Speaker 2: the misused, misabused, and misunderstood versus in the Bible. Let
Speaker 2: me tell you what it doesn't say. It doesn't say
Speaker 2: that all things work out the way I want them to.
Speaker 2: We know that's not true. It doesn't say that everything
Speaker 2: has a happy ending on Earth. It doesn't. We live
Speaker 2: in a broken planet. So what does it say. Well,
Speaker 2: let me take it apart phrase by phrase. First, we
Speaker 2: know not, we guess, we hope, we wish, we pray for,
Speaker 2: we want, we no, we know We know this for
Speaker 2: a fact of life, as sure as the sun's going
Speaker 2: to come up tomorrow morning. We know this for certain.
Speaker 2: What do we know? We know that in all things? Now,
Speaker 2: what's included in the word all? Huh Yeah. The original
Speaker 2: meaning of the Greek word all is all. Does that
Speaker 2: include your stupid mistakes? Yes? Does that include your dumb decisions? Yes?
Speaker 2: Does that include your failures yes? Does that include your
Speaker 2: sins yes? Does that include divorce and miscarriage and unemployment
Speaker 2: and everything else that happens in life yes, bankruptcy yes, cancer, Yes,
Speaker 2: everything is included in all. We know that in all
Speaker 2: things God fits it all onto His Planet's certainly not
Speaker 2: all good. There's a lot of bad in the world.
Speaker 2: There is evil in this world, and God is not
Speaker 2: the author of evil. And God grieves when he sees
Speaker 2: evil happening. But He's given us a free choice, and
Speaker 2: he will not force you or anybody else to do
Speaker 2: right without taking away your free will. We know that
Speaker 2: in all things God were works for the good of
Speaker 2: those who love him. He works for the good. There
Speaker 2: is a grand design behind everything in your life. There
Speaker 2: is a designer. Your life is not an accident. It
Speaker 2: is not fate. There is no luck in your life.
Speaker 2: There is no karma, there is no random chance, there
Speaker 2: is no happenstance. There is a design behind your life.
Speaker 2: We know that in all things God is working for
Speaker 2: what for the good, even in the bad. Yes, for
Speaker 2: the good. He loves to bring good out of bad.
Speaker 2: He loves to turn crucifixions into resurrections. He loves to
Speaker 2: take the stupid mistakes of others and the ones we
Speaker 2: make ourselves, and somehow put them all together and bring good.
Speaker 2: We make mistakes, but God never makes a mistake. God
Speaker 2: works for the good of those who love him. Now,
Speaker 2: this is not a promise for everybody in the world.
Speaker 2: God is not working everything for the good for those
Speaker 2: who don't love him. If I'm thumbing my nose to God,
Speaker 2: I'm turning my back on God. I'm pretending I'm my
Speaker 2: own God. I don't need God. Everything's working for bad
Speaker 2: in my life. It's not working for good. God owes
Speaker 2: me nothing when I deny my creator his right to
Speaker 2: lead and direct my life. Since he made me, and
Speaker 2: I ignore his purpose and do my own thing. Everything
Speaker 2: is not working for good. In fact, it's working for bad.
Speaker 2: This is a promise for those who love God, who
Speaker 2: are called according to His purpose. And one of the
Speaker 2: reasons I worship God is because he is a God
Speaker 2: who can take the mess of my life and bring
Speaker 2: a message out of it. He can take the test
Speaker 2: in my life and create a testimony out of it.
Speaker 2: And he can take the crisis and he can show
Speaker 2: Christ through it. And he can take the bad things
Speaker 2: in my life and he can bring even good out
Speaker 2: of that. It is a mystery and a miracle to me.
Speaker 2: In a sense, it's not you know, I like chocolate
Speaker 2: chip cookies. In fact, I like them a lot. I
Speaker 2: like them so much I know how to make them.
Speaker 2: In fact, I don't even need a recipe. I've made them.
Speaker 2: I know how to make chocolate chips. And the amazing
Speaker 2: thing is I get in a little hurries sometimes and
Speaker 2: I want to eat the individual ingredients, and they taste
Speaker 2: like turdle spit. You ever eat a little you know, shortening,
Speaker 2: don't try raw eggs, bad salt and sugar by itself,
Speaker 2: bad baking, sowd up, bad chocolate chips good one out
Speaker 2: of six not bad? Okay? Somehow, though, when you mix
Speaker 2: five bad things with one good thing, and you stir
Speaker 2: them up together. It is so good you eat half
Speaker 2: the dough before you make the cookie. How is that
Speaker 2: five bad things in one good equal a really good mixture.
Speaker 2: And that's what God wants to do with your life.
Speaker 2: He wants to take bad, bad, bad, bad, bad bad
Speaker 2: good and turn you into missus Fields. And he's a
Speaker 2: pro at it. And today we're gonna look at how
Speaker 2: he does it. God does not want you to waste
Speaker 2: your experiences. So how do I keep from rate wasting
Speaker 2: the experiences that I've had in my life up to
Speaker 2: this point? Three things? Number one First, you must embrace
Speaker 2: your experiences. You must embrace them. You must embrace the
Speaker 2: experiences of your life, the good ones, the bad ones,
Speaker 2: the shameful ones, the right ones, the wrong ones, the
Speaker 2: happy and the sad ones, all of them. You've got
Speaker 2: to stop running from your past if God's going to
Speaker 2: use it for good in your life. Galatians Chapter three,
Speaker 2: Verse fources this, you have experienced many things where all
Speaker 2: those experiences wasted. I hope not. And as your pastor,
Speaker 2: I say to you, I hope not too. Don't run
Speaker 2: away from your past. The problem is because of pain,
Speaker 2: many people deny their past, ignore their past, discount their past,
Speaker 2: regret their past, resent the past, shoot, they revise their
Speaker 2: past and rewrite their past, and they make up little
Speaker 2: stories that aren't really the way it was because they're
Speaker 2: happier with their story than the pain of the past.
Speaker 2: God says, if you're in denial, you can't You can't
Speaker 2: use it for good, and I can't use it for
Speaker 2: good in your life. Would you write this on your outline?
Speaker 2: God can use every experience in my life for good.
Speaker 2: Every experience, the relational, the educational, the spiritual, the vocational,
Speaker 2: the painful, all of them, the ones you like and
Speaker 2: the ones you didn't like. He can use them all.
Speaker 2: But you've got to stop running from him. You have
Speaker 2: to embrace your experiences. And maybe your parents weren't that great,
Speaker 2: or maybe you weren't that hot in school, or maybe
Speaker 2: you weren't the football captain or the prom queen wealth.
Speaker 2: So what they're your experiences. Own them and God will
Speaker 2: use them for good in your life. In order to
Speaker 2: use them, you got to remember them, stop pushing them
Speaker 2: out of your mind. You got to remember them. And
Speaker 2: Jesus tells us this, and in fact, in the old
Speaker 2: Estima tells it too. In Deuteronomy eleven, verse two. It says,
Speaker 2: remember what you have learned about the Lord through your
Speaker 2: experiences with him. Now it says, remember what you have learned.
Speaker 2: It's saying the important thing is to remember the lessons.
Speaker 2: Remember the lessons. Now, how do you do that? Well,
Speaker 2: the best way to remember the lessons of your life,
Speaker 2: the experiences is to keep a journal. Now, I'm not
Speaker 2: talking about a diary. A diary is a list of
Speaker 2: what you did today. I went to the store and
Speaker 2: bought milk whipped. You do a journal, but you don't
Speaker 2: necessarily write in every day. It's just every time you
Speaker 2: have an important lesson, you write that one down because
Speaker 2: you don't want to forget it. And you go, oh, boy,
Speaker 2: that was painful. I had to learn that one the
Speaker 2: hard way. I don't want to forget that, and you
Speaker 2: write down the lesson. He says, remember what you've learned
Speaker 2: about me, and you want to keep a journal. This
Speaker 2: is one of my journals. I've been keeping a journal
Speaker 2: off and on now for well since I was in college.
Speaker 2: And I don't write in it every day or even
Speaker 2: every week. It's just when I get a lesson and go, oh,
Speaker 2: I don't want to forget that one. And I hear something,
Speaker 2: I learned something, I write it down, and then I
Speaker 2: go back and reread it. Now, why do you want
Speaker 2: to keep a journal on your experiences and the lessons
Speaker 2: you learn from them in life? Because hindsight is always
Speaker 2: twenty twenty. You understand your life looking back, not looking forward.
Speaker 2: Isn't that true? It makes a whole lot more sense
Speaker 2: looking backwards. In fact, Jesus said it. Notice this next verse,
Speaker 2: Jesus replied, you do not realize now what I am doing,
Speaker 2: but later you will understand. You almost never understand what
Speaker 2: God is doing in your life in the present. It
Speaker 2: is only looking back you go, oh, now, I see
Speaker 2: it now, I see what God was doing. He was
Speaker 2: doing this. I didn't see it at the time, but
Speaker 2: I see it now. Joseph was a man who in
Speaker 2: the Bible, everything in his life went wrong. For forty years.
Speaker 2: It was downhill. Nothing went right, including being thrown in
Speaker 2: jail for a rape that he did not even do.
Speaker 2: He had run from the woman and she falsely accused him.
Speaker 2: Everything went wrong in this poor guy's life for the
Speaker 2: first forty years, and yet later, looking back, when God
Speaker 2: had done a series of amazing things and raised him
Speaker 2: to second in command in Egypt, And during a famine
Speaker 2: he saved Israel and Egypt from starving to death. And
Speaker 2: when he was confronted with the brothers who had traded
Speaker 2: him into slavery years earlier, and told their dad, you
Speaker 2: know he just died. Sorry, he said this the next verse.
Speaker 2: You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good. Now,
Speaker 2: there are things in your life where people intended to
Speaker 2: hurt you and they meant it. They meant to hurt you,
Speaker 2: and I'm sorry, and they intended it for bad. But
Speaker 2: God is greater than your problem and your pain, and
Speaker 2: his purpose is far bigger than either of those, and
Speaker 2: he means it for good. So first you have to
Speaker 2: embrace your experiences and stop running from them. Okay, number two.
Speaker 2: You first, you embrace the experience. The second you extract
Speaker 2: the lessons. You pull the lessons out of the experience
Speaker 2: you've had. An unexamined experience is worthless. There are people
Speaker 2: who are fifty years old. They haven't lived fifty years,
Speaker 2: they've lived one year fifty times, and they're still making
Speaker 2: the same mistakes because they never stop and extract the
Speaker 2: lessons from what happened in this last year, and how
Speaker 2: can I do it differently based on what I did
Speaker 2: this last year? And then never pull it out. Second
Speaker 2: Corinthians thirteen, verse five says this, I let this in
Speaker 2: the amplified examine and test and evaluate your own selves
Speaker 2: to see whether you're holding to your faith. In other words,
Speaker 2: you've got to extract the lessons. Do you not realize
Speaker 2: by an ever increasing experience that Jesus Christ is in you?
Speaker 2: Haven't you figured out by now that you're never alone?
Speaker 2: That God is with you all the time, that no
Speaker 2: matter when you thought you were your most lonely, he
Speaker 2: was right there with you. Have you not figured out
Speaker 2: from your experiences yet that Jesus is with you and
Speaker 2: in you if you've invited him into your life. If
Speaker 2: you haven't, you're not keeping a record of where your
Speaker 2: life's headed. And you need to go back and examine
Speaker 2: and test and evaluate. What does that mean? You take
Speaker 2: some time to review the experiences of your life and
Speaker 2: what do you look for? You look for benefits, patterns
Speaker 2: and lessons. You look for benefits, What did I really
Speaker 2: enjoy in my life? And you go back and you
Speaker 2: don't just say, well, I really enjoyed that job. You go,
Speaker 2: what was it about that job that I really loved?
Speaker 2: That'll help you understand your shape. And you don't say
Speaker 2: I really like that class, You go, what exactly about
Speaker 2: that class did I like? That was so fulfilling to me?
Speaker 2: And you'll get little clues about where you should be
Speaker 2: headed with your life and the shape of where you
Speaker 2: should be. Don't examine your experiences, they have no value
Speaker 2: to you. You look for patterns, and particularly you want
Speaker 2: to look for patterns in your failure because when you failed,
Speaker 2: you do it the same way every time, and so
Speaker 2: you look at them. Now, where if I failed in
Speaker 2: the past, and you don't look at it to beat
Speaker 2: yourself up? Oh poor me? You do it so you
Speaker 2: can go, I want to be different. What are the
Speaker 2: patterns that I keep doing over and over and over?
Speaker 2: And as the old cliche goes, those who ignore history
Speaker 2: are doomed to repeat it. This is the problem with
Speaker 2: the Israelites. They were freed from four hundred years of slavery.
Speaker 2: They're coming to the Promised Land. They're crossing the Sinai Peninsula,
Speaker 2: and it takes them forty years. Why this trip should
Speaker 2: only taken four weeks? It took them forty years. Why
Speaker 2: because they've refused to learn the experiences the lessons that
Speaker 2: they needed to learn. And so God would give them
Speaker 2: a test and they'd blow it and they'd forget, so go, okay,
Speaker 2: one more lap around the desert, and then they'd have
Speaker 2: another test. Okay, one more lap around the desert. And
Speaker 2: they did it seven times, and it took them forty
Speaker 2: years to take something that should have never taken that long.
Speaker 2: You want to look for the lessons. Notice this next verse.
Speaker 2: The Bible says in Job thirty two seven, the longer
Speaker 2: you live read it with me, the wiser you become. Now, friends,
Speaker 2: that verse is a possibility, not a promise. I know
Speaker 2: a lot of people who are old who are dumb.
Speaker 2: So is wisdom does not automatically come with age. That's
Speaker 2: a possibility, not a promise. You see, maturity is when
Speaker 2: you extract meaning from the everyday experiences of life. That's
Speaker 2: what it means to be mature. You're able to look
Speaker 2: at the things in your life, the normal everyday things,
Speaker 2: and go, oh, I got that. Other people just go
Speaker 2: through life. Never ever, you're examining a Socrates says, the
Speaker 2: unexamined life and worth living. So treat every experience as
Speaker 2: in education. You go, what can I learn from this?
Speaker 2: And the amazing thing about the school of experience is
Speaker 2: two things. One, if you fail the test, it's okay.
Speaker 2: You get to take it over and over and over
Speaker 2: and over until you pass it. And the second thing
Speaker 2: about the school of experience is just about the time
Speaker 2: you think you've graduated, they add another course and you
Speaker 2: will be in that school the rest of your life.
Speaker 2: You embrace your experiences, you extract the lessons, and then
Speaker 2: number three, you employ them to help others. You employ
Speaker 2: them to help others. Now, when you finally realize that
Speaker 2: the purpose of your life is far greater than your
Speaker 2: own happiness, problems become a whole lot easier to handle.
Speaker 2: You just look at everything from a different perspective, and
Speaker 2: you're able to use the experiences of your life, good
Speaker 2: and bad, to help other people. Fall says Saint Paul
Speaker 2: and Philippians chapter one. He's writing to the people in
Speaker 2: the Greek city of Philippi, and he says this, I
Speaker 2: want you to know, my friends, that the things that
Speaker 2: have happened to me have actually really helped the progress
Speaker 2: of the gospel. He says, I want you guys to
Speaker 2: know that the things that have happened to me are
Speaker 2: actually they're beneficial for the ultimate goal sharing the good news.
Speaker 2: Now where is he when he's writing this, and what
Speaker 2: are the things that have happened to him? He has
Speaker 2: been captured, taken on ship to Rome, been in a shipwreck,
Speaker 2: been bitten by a snake, now thrown in prison in
Speaker 2: a dungeon, cuff to a twenty four hour Roman guard,
Speaker 2: and he's gone, Oh, the things that have happened to
Speaker 2: me have actually caused the good news to be spread further.
Speaker 2: It's spreading now all over Rome. That's a different perspective.
Speaker 2: He's not whining and crying and complaining that things aren't
Speaker 2: people won't make him happy. Oh, if it weren't for
Speaker 2: this poor centurion, I'd be happy. If I weren't in
Speaker 2: this prison, i'd be happy. No, he's saying, you know,
Speaker 2: I've got a bigger perspective. Now. The Bible teaches that
Speaker 2: God wants you to use your experiences in four ways.
Speaker 2: Number one, use them to minister to others. God says,
Speaker 2: I want you to use your experiences to minister to others.
Speaker 2: Now I don't have to spend a lot of time
Speaker 2: on this point because we've talked about it so often
Speaker 2: here and the key verses Second Corinthians, chapter one that
Speaker 2: says this in our trouble, God has comforted us, and
Speaker 2: this too is to help you, to show you from
Speaker 2: our personal experience, how God will tenderly comfort you when
Speaker 2: you undergo these same sufferings. He will give you the
Speaker 2: strength to endure. The point here is that God takes
Speaker 2: us through problems, comforts us, helps us, strengthens us in
Speaker 2: our problems, so then we can comfort, help and strengthen
Speaker 2: others when they go through the same thing. God blesses
Speaker 2: us to be a blessing to others. God helps us
Speaker 2: so we can help others. And every experience that you've
Speaker 2: gone through He wants to use in your life to
Speaker 2: help somebody else. He says, use your experiences, don't waste them.
Speaker 2: Use them how by helping somebody else who's about to
Speaker 2: go through or is going through what you've already been through.
Speaker 2: Who can better help someone going through cancer than somebody
Speaker 2: who's been through cancer. Who can help somebody dealing with
Speaker 2: an addiction to pornography or medicines or drugs, or a
Speaker 2: million other things than somebody who's been addicted to pornography
Speaker 2: or drugs or a million other things. Who can better
Speaker 2: help someone deal with the pain of a divorce than
Speaker 2: someone who's been there know what it's like. Who can
Speaker 2: help someone deal with the problem of rejection and adultery
Speaker 2: than somebody who experienced the problem of rejection and adultery.
Speaker 2: Who can better help the parents of a special need
Speaker 2: child than parents who had a special need child, And
Speaker 2: who could better help parents who had a kid who
Speaker 2: went off the deep end than somebody whose son or
Speaker 2: daughter went off the deep end. Who can better help
Speaker 2: someone in the loss of a loved one than someone
Speaker 2: who says I just lost my loved one last year.
Speaker 2: And who could better help somebody with aids than someone
Speaker 2: who's got aids. God never waste the hurt. I've said
Speaker 2: that a thousand times in this church. He never wastes
Speaker 2: the hurt. And he doesn't want you to waste your hurts.
Speaker 2: He wants to use them to benefit and bless other people.
Speaker 2: And the thing that you're most embarrassed about, that you
Speaker 2: most regret, that injustice, that prejudice, that hurt, that wound,
Speaker 2: that sin, that mistake, The thing you'd like to keep
Speaker 2: in the closet and would say, you know, that's over.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to think about it. That's not my
Speaker 2: life anymore. That very thing can become your greatest ministry.
Speaker 2: You always help people more through your weaknesses than your strengths.
Speaker 2: When you come and you try to help somebody with
Speaker 2: your strengths, they're going, well, whooped you do? You're just
Speaker 2: good at it, big deal, you're talented. There so what,
Speaker 2: I'll never be like you. But when you come and
Speaker 2: you say, you know what, been there done that? I
Speaker 2: remember how embarrassed, how shocked, how afraid I felt with
Speaker 2: that bankruptcy or that situation, and then you begin to
Speaker 2: help other people with it. Who could better help someone
Speaker 2: who's been raped than somebody who went through a rape.
Speaker 2: Nobody else could even understand what that's like, an abuse,
Speaker 2: a rape, an incest, or anything else. You know what,
Speaker 2: if you don't use your experience, it's wasted. All you
Speaker 2: get out of it is pain. That's not what God
Speaker 2: wants you to get out of it. Where was God
Speaker 2: when that happened? He was grieving too, and he could
Speaker 2: have taken away the free will of every one of us,
Speaker 2: But that would have made us not human, we would
Speaker 2: have been puppets. And there's a lot of things that
Speaker 2: happen on this planet that God hates. He hates it,
Speaker 2: he hates evil, and he weeps. But if you just
Speaker 2: refuse to deal with it and let God use it
Speaker 2: and bring good out of it, all you get out
Speaker 2: of it is pain and God, oh no, don't waste
Speaker 2: your hurt. Don't waste your hurt. Embrace your experiences, extract
Speaker 2: the lessons and use them help others. Employ them to
Speaker 2: help others by ministering, first of all, out of the
Speaker 2: very things that you think you'd like to forget now.
Speaker 2: The second way God wants you to use your experiences
Speaker 2: is use them to motivate others. You minister to people
Speaker 2: in their pain. You motivate others when they're discouraged, when
Speaker 2: they're down. And your experiences can be inspirational to many
Speaker 2: people because you have been things, through things, and been
Speaker 2: through places that they have not yet gone through, and
Speaker 2: you can motivate them.
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