WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:02.799 My dad's mato, and I heard him say it over 2 00:00:02.839 --> 00:00:05.080 and over grown up was I will do the best 3 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:09.119 I can with what I have for Jesus Christ today. 4 00:00:09.839 --> 00:00:10.320 I like that. 5 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:13.240 I'll do the best I can with what I have 6 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:16.199 for Jesus Christ today. I'm not waiting for everything to 7 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:20.120 fall in place. If I'm waiting for perfect environment, nothing's 8 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:22.440 ever going to get done. I'll do the best I 9 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:26.480 can with what I have. That's resourcefulness. 10 00:00:27.399 --> 00:00:27.600 You know. 11 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:33.000 Sometimes you meet people that right off the bat, they 12 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:38.000 just stand out in your mind, and it may be 13 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:42.159 because of an outstanding achievement or an outstanding talent or 14 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:51.479 giftedness or outstanding personality, but they're just extraordinary. They're unusual people. 15 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:55.119 We call these people remarkable people. You could think of 16 00:00:55.159 --> 00:00:57.920 them very easily. You go that person's remarkable, she's remarkable, 17 00:00:58.119 --> 00:01:01.960 He's remarkable. Things like them Now, all of us want 18 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:07.560 to live remarkable lives, and God wants you to live 19 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:09.519 a remarkable life. 20 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:12.560 That doesn't mean famous. Fame has nothing to do with it. 21 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:14.680 You can make an impact and most of the world 22 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:16.599 not even know who you are, but you have an 23 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:21.079 enormous impact on the world through your legacy, and you'll 24 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:23.560 never by the way, know your legacy. 25 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:24.319 On this earth. 26 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:28.239 You'll never know it because you don't know all the 27 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:30.640 people whose lives have been changed by people you touched 28 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:34.159 and they touched others, on and on and on. But 29 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:37.879 we want to live remarkable lives. And as parents, those 30 00:01:37.879 --> 00:01:41.359 two of you who are parents, we all want remarkable kids, 31 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:45.239 and we want remarkable grandkids, and we want them to 32 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:49.400 have an impact in lives. How many of you either 33 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:52.599 own a small business or you work for a business 34 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:57.159 that offers either a product or a service of some kind. 35 00:01:57.239 --> 00:01:59.760 Can I see your hands? Okay, yeah, that's a lot 36 00:01:59.799 --> 00:02:04.040 of it. You would you say it's easier to get 37 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:08.680 people's attention or harder to get people's attention. Today it's harder, 38 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:13.759 isn't it, because there's so much competition out there, with 39 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:16.120 all of the noise and all of the news and 40 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:18.360 all of the media and all social media and things 41 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:22.039 like that. How does your product, how does your business? 42 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:29.240 How does your service get attention? Well, the only thing 43 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:34.039 that really gets attention is that which is remarkable. For instance, 44 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:36.639 you know, you can have two restaurants right next to 45 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:39.159 each other, and one of them nobody's going to it 46 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:41.039 all and the other one, there's a line of people 47 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:44.400 waiting to get in and they're willing to wait up 48 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:46.000 to an hour to have a meal. 49 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:47.800 Why remarkable food? 50 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:54.319 Or a company creates a remarkable product and it just 51 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:59.000 goes like Gangbusters and its skyrockets. And why is it 52 00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:04.400 that some hotels and motels have people booking up a 53 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:07.199 long time in advance and others are empty lots of vacancies. 54 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:08.719 Remarkable service. 55 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:16.879 Now I've written on your outline a definition of remarkable. 56 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:22.599 Remarkable means exceptional, it means outstanding, it means uncommon, it 57 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:28.400 means worthy of attention. History human history is written primarily 58 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:32.039 by remarkable people. And you could easily make a list 59 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:35.000 of people you would think in different areas and arts 60 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:38.840 and entertainment and in government and in law and all 61 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:41.080 the different areas well, they were remarkable and they made 62 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:41.599 it made a. 63 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:42.840 Pretty big impact. 64 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:47.000 But I will say this to you, God wants you 65 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:49.919 to have a remarkable life. But the only way you'll 66 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:53.680 ever be able to live it is if you're willing. 67 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:54.039 To be different. 68 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:57.280 If you want to be like everybody else, you're never 69 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:02.039 going to be remarkable. That that's the very definition of 70 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:06.439 remarkable is it's not common you are uncommon. To be 71 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:09.840 remarkable in life means you're not like other people. 72 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:12.400 And if you want children who are. 73 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:15.120 Remarkable children, you have to teach them how to not 74 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:17.240 care about being like everybody else. 75 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:24.839 That's not remarkable, that's just common. So the secret of. 76 00:04:24.879 --> 00:04:29.199 Remarkable people is that they're willing to do things that 77 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:31.839 the rest of us aren't willing to do. They're willing 78 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:35.639 to develop habits that are uncommon. They're willing to put 79 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:38.720 in extra hours that are uncommon. They're willing to make 80 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:40.759 effort that the rest of the world isn't. 81 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:41.160 Willing to make. 82 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:44.319 They're willing to pay a price in order to make 83 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:48.839 a remarkable difference that most people aren't willing to make. 84 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:53.279 And to learn this last week is interesting. I read 85 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:56.399 a fascinating study is in two different magazines, and I 86 00:04:56.399 --> 00:04:59.160 actually read it in two different magazines, in Harvard Business 87 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:02.959 Review and also in Forbes magazine of a study of 88 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:07.519 one thousand managers who felt quote stuck in their career. 89 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:09.959 They did this study of people. 90 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:13.279 I've been at the level I've at. I've been at 91 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:15.399 the level I'm at right now for a long time, 92 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:17.519 and I don't think I'm ever going to make any 93 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:19.759 more progress in my career. I don't think I'm going 94 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:23.600 to get any promotions. I am stuck in a dead 95 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:27.600 end career. And so then they went ahead and did 96 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:29.680 a study, and they interviewed the bosses, and they interviewed 97 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:33.480 the people, and they discovered that those people, ninety seven 98 00:05:33.560 --> 00:05:37.519 percent of them had either one or more of what 99 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:46.199 they called career limiting habits, career limiting habits. And they 100 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:50.759 made a list of the ten most common career limiting habits. 101 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:51.959 And even when people. 102 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:54.680 Knew that they had them, they don't change, even though 103 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:58.199 they know it's keeping them from actually growing and developing 104 00:05:58.639 --> 00:05:59.680 and making. 105 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:02.560 A greater fact of their life. 106 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:05.759 Today, we're going to look at how do you build 107 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:09.639 a remarkable life? And we're going to look at four 108 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:16.800 of the antidotes to these career limiting habits. Now, the 109 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:21.759 Bible is filled with examples of remarkable people. Deborah was 110 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:27.240 a remarkable person. Esther she was a remarkable person. Job 111 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:32.800 Jonah Nehemiah was a remarkable businessman, and on and on 112 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:35.079 and on. Some of the people in the Bible, they're famous, 113 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:38.319 some of you wouldn't know, but they all were pretty 114 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:41.759 remarkable in the way that they lived. One of them 115 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:43.759 that you have heard of if you've been around siddleback, 116 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:46.560 was a guy named Daniel who was taken as a 117 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:52.839 slave from Israel back to Babylon, which overcame Israel and 118 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:57.199 took the entire nation as slaves during the Babylonian Empire. 119 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:00.519 And the Bible says this notice on your outline, Daniel, 120 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:09.560 chapter six, verse three. Daniels so distinguished himself from all 121 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:14.879 the other leaders by his remarkable qualities, circle back his 122 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:19.160 remarkable qualities that the king, this is nebuican Azer, the 123 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:22.680 emperor of the Babylon Empire, plan to put him Daniel 124 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:25.120 in charge over the entire empire. 125 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:27.680 Are you kidding me? Wow? 126 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:31.639 A guy who starts off as a slave and has 127 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:34.199 taken hostage to a foreign country and he doesn't want 128 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:36.959 to be there, but he has so many remarkable qualities 129 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:39.879 in his life that the most powerful man in the world, 130 00:07:40.279 --> 00:07:43.240 King nebacan Azer the Babylon Empire, goes, I'm gonna put 131 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:45.399 that guy as number two, and he's going to be 132 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:48.560 in charge of my entire empire. I want to know 133 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:52.639 what those qualities were. Today, we're going to look at 134 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:56.399 four of the qualities that were in Daniel's life, and 135 00:07:56.439 --> 00:07:59.160 I want us to look at it from two different points. First, 136 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:01.720 in your own law life, these are things you can learn, 137 00:08:02.279 --> 00:08:05.160 These are things that you can develop, and the rest 138 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:07.199 of your life can be the best of your life 139 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:09.000 if you're willing to put in the effort now. If 140 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:10.959 you're not willing to put the effort, you can go 141 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:14.000 ahead and leave right now. Because no one about them 142 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:17.560 doesn't change you. They said in that study of those managers, 143 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:19.279 they knew some of the things they need to change, 144 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:23.319 they just didn't change them. But if you're willing to 145 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:25.959 put that effort in to make those changes and ask 146 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:28.360 God to give you the strength to make those changes, 147 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:30.680 the rest of your life could be the best of 148 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:31.120 your life. 149 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:33.120 And we're going to look at. 150 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:38.200 The antidotes for antidotes to for the big common things 151 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:41.240 that hold people back in life, keys to living a 152 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:43.720 remarkable life. But also because we've been in this series 153 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:46.000 on family, I want us to look at it. 154 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:47.639 How do you build them in your children? 155 00:08:49.320 --> 00:08:52.519 You want remarkable kids, you want them to succeed in 156 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:55.120 their life. Well, there's certain things that you can build 157 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:59.759 in their life. Four ours for a remarkable life. I've 158 00:08:59.799 --> 00:09:02.240 got grow them in my life. If I want remarkable kids, 159 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:03.480 I've got to build them into their lives. 160 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:04.320 Here there are number one. 161 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:08.200 If I want to build a remarkable life and a 162 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:14.600 remarkable career, I must learn to be respectful of everybody. 163 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:19.240 I must learn to be respectful to everyone. This is 164 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:23.960 the starting point. Respect is the foundation of a remarkable life. 165 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:27.759 Respecting others shows reverence for God. It shows humility in 166 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:29.320 the way you relate to other people. 167 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:32.559 He why have you got? 168 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:35.720 This is the number one quality and a remarkable life? 169 00:09:36.080 --> 00:09:40.480 Because today everybody's rude. 170 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:41.519 You won't to agree with that. 171 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:47.279 Is the world getting more respecting or more disrespectful? 172 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:49.759 Yeah? No, we're getting ruder. 173 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:55.480 The world is becoming more uncivil or incivil. And so 174 00:09:55.720 --> 00:09:58.679 the more rude the world gets, the more a person 175 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:03.639 who is respectable of everybody becomes remarkable. You stand out 176 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:07.240 like a bright star on a dark night. Now I've 177 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:10.440 given you a definition there on your outline, the definition 178 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:12.799 of respect or to be respectful. 179 00:10:12.840 --> 00:10:15.360 It means to appreciate. 180 00:10:14.639 --> 00:10:20.840 The uniqueness, value the worth, and affirm the dignity of 181 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:24.360 everyone because God made them. I want to read again, 182 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:28.279 because notice three qualities. Truly, to be respectful of everybody 183 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:31.840 means you appreciate their uniqueness because they're not like you. 184 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:36.039 Can you appreciate people who are not like you, You 185 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:40.240 value their worth and you affirm their dignity. Everyone because 186 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:44.759 God made them. You see, any time you disrespect anything 187 00:10:44.919 --> 00:10:47.360 God made, it's an insult to God. 188 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:49.000 As a limit. 189 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:52.240 I made them, I made that, I made you, and 190 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:54.240 I made them. You think I love you more than 191 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:57.000 I love them. You think you're more important than they are. 192 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:03.320 It's actually quite arrogant, egotistical, it's quite prideful. When we 193 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:08.159 don't respect other people. We're basically saying God, you goofed up, 194 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:11.600 you made a mistake, and you should have made everybody 195 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:15.600 like me, which I'm the standard of perfection here. Well, 196 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:17.960 that doesn't work. We all know you're not standard. I'm 197 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:22.799 not standard. Everybody is broken. It's arrogant. I told you, 198 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:27.679 it's the opposite of humility. Anytime I'm rude to you, 199 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:31.159 or anybody is rude to you, or anytime you're rude 200 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:35.240 to anybody else, you're revealing your ego. You think in 201 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:38.279 that moment that you don't need to be respectful. You 202 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:41.440 think if the clerk is a jerk, you still need 203 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:44.759 to be respectful. I'm not saying you have to prove 204 00:11:44.840 --> 00:11:45.480 of everything. 205 00:11:45.639 --> 00:11:47.000 No. No, God doesn't. 206 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:49.679 Approve of everything I do, doesn't approve of everything you do, 207 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:51.600 or anybody else. 208 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:51.960 For that matter. 209 00:11:53.480 --> 00:11:56.480 There's an acceptance approval. He accepts us, he loves us, 210 00:11:56.759 --> 00:12:00.000 he values us. He says we have dignity even though 211 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:04.679 we're flawed, we're sinful, we're broken. They're both true and 212 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:10.759 so God looks to bless people who are respectful. If 213 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:14.600 you want God's blessing on your business, on your career, 214 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:18.600 on your family, on your friendships, on your relationship, whatever 215 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:21.840 you want God to bless, you need to be respectful 216 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:23.759 in every area of your life. 217 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:24.759 It's the foundation. 218 00:12:25.559 --> 00:12:29.639 There's so many promised promises that are given in the Bible. 219 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:32.919 Let's say that when you build this quality respectfulness, that 220 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:35.039 you will be blessed. Let me show you a couple. 221 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:40.759 Here's one Matthew twenty three, verse twelve. If you put 222 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:43.480 yourself above others so you don't feel like you have 223 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:47.279 to respect them, you'll be put down. If you put 224 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:49.960 yourself above others, you'll be put down. But if you 225 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:55.600 humble yourself, you will be honored by others. Study after 226 00:12:55.639 --> 00:12:58.639 study have shown that people are. Employees who are disrespectful 227 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:02.639 get stuck. They don't keep progressing in their career. They 228 00:13:02.679 --> 00:13:07.200 get stuck because people don't want to work with people 229 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:11.559 who are disrespectful. So God leaves no wiggle room about this. 230 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:14.639 Let me show you some verses one Peter to seventeen. 231 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:18.799 The Bible says, show real respect. 232 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:22.919 To people you like. Oh no, that's not what it says. 233 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:29.759 Show let's read it aloud together, show real respect to circle. 234 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:31.279 That to everyone. 235 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:35.320 Now, just in case you don't understand what the word 236 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:38.519 everyone means, which, by the way, I looked up that 237 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:40.919 word in the original Greek, and in the original Greek, 238 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:43.720 the word everyone means everyone. 239 00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:45.240 There's no exception. 240 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:48.159 But just in case you know, you think there's a 241 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:53.320 wiggle room, God thirty forty fifty times in scripture tells 242 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:55.639 us specific groups of people that. 243 00:13:55.639 --> 00:13:58.519 You must must. 244 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:01.720 Show respect to if you want God's blessing on your 245 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:05.080 life and on your career. There's ten different groups God 246 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:07.600 says you have to show respect to if you want 247 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:10.120 his blessing on your life. Number one, I must show 248 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:15.279 respect for God's name and word. I must show respect 249 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:17.840 for God's name and God's word. I can't be using 250 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:22.360 God's name as a cuss word or as an additive, 251 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:25.679 just like a uh uh oh God, God, Oh God. 252 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:30.360 You know, don't use God as an exclamation point. You 253 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:35.279 take his word and you take his name seriously. Second, 254 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:39.519 I must show respect to my parents. In the Ten Commandments, 255 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:41.399 one of the commandments is honor your father and mother. 256 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:44.200 And it's the only of the ten commandments that actually 257 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:46.360 has a promise with it, and it says, and if 258 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:49.399 you read these verses that I've written out here Ephesians six, three, 259 00:14:49.559 --> 00:14:53.159 two and three, that if you honor your father and mother, you'll. 260 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:54.480 Have a long life full of blessing. 261 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:57.360 It's the only promise of the ten commandments that has 262 00:14:57.360 --> 00:14:58.120 a promise with it. 263 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:01.679 Number three, show respect to my spouse. 264 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:07.679 If you are married to your husband, your wife, then 265 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:11.000 God expects you to show respect to your spouse. 266 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:13.440 And if you don't, by the way. 267 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:17.639 Guys, men, did you know that if you don't respect 268 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:20.279 your wife, the Bible says God will not hear your prayers. 269 00:15:21.480 --> 00:15:25.639 Uh oh, this is one verse you got to see. 270 00:15:25.879 --> 00:15:29.120 Let me put it on the screen. First, Peter, First, 271 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:33.279 Peter three, seven and eight. Okay, here's what it says. You, 272 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:38.720 husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat her with 273 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:44.639 understanding as you live together. She may be physically weaker 274 00:15:44.679 --> 00:15:48.399 than you are, but she is your equal partner in 275 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:53.080 God's gift of new life. And if you don't treat 276 00:15:53.120 --> 00:16:00.159 her as you should, your prayers will not be heard. Bam, 277 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:05.559 I'm sorry, honey, So you need to treat them. That's 278 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:07.919 out of the New Living Translation. Now, before you women 279 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:12.720 get cocky, I have a verse for you too. Ephesians 280 00:16:12.799 --> 00:16:15.159 five thirty three says this, and it starts with the 281 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:18.639 guys again again, I say again, okay. 282 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:20.440 Because we don't always learn it that well. 283 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:25.440 The husband must love his wife as a part of himself. 284 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:28.200 It's like love your neighbors yourself. You're to love your 285 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:30.919 wife as yourself. You know they're treating her with respect, 286 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:35.639 and the wife must see to it that she respects 287 00:16:35.639 --> 00:16:40.360 her husband, praising and honoring him. From the Living Bible, 288 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:43.720 all right. Number four, the Bible says that God expects 289 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:47.440 me to respect other church members in our church, family 290 00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:50.519 and pastors. The Bible says we're to treat each other 291 00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:53.480 as brothers and sisters. We are to outdo each other 292 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:56.039 and showing respect to each other. I'll be happy to 293 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:59.799 send you these verses Romans twelve ten, Hebrews thirteen seventeen. 294 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:03.080 But we're to respect each other in the family of God. 295 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:06.400 Number five. The Bible says that I'm expected to show 296 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:12.480 respect to older people. You've heard the phrase respect your elders, Well, 297 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:13.759 guess where it came from. 298 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:14.960 It's from the Bible. 299 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:18.680 God says that if you want his blessing, you must 300 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:24.880 respect the elderly in Leviticus nineteen thirty two. Number six, 301 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:27.000 I must show respect. 302 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:28.480 This may surprise you. 303 00:17:28.519 --> 00:17:33.559 To unbelievers, doesn't matter if they're an atheist or an agnostic, 304 00:17:34.279 --> 00:17:38.839 or some other religion, or no religion at all, secularist, whatever. 305 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:42.759 The Bible says, God expects me to show respect unbelievers 306 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:45.519 First Peter three fifteen and sixteen, and says, when you 307 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:47.880 share your hope with them, I always do it with 308 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:52.839 gentleness and respect. Number seven, I am to show specifically 309 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:57.640 respect to the poor. To the poor, the Bible says, 310 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:00.440 if you're unkind to the poor, you insult your creator. 311 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:03.200 But if you're kind to them, then you show respect 312 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:04.160 to God and you show. 313 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:04.680 Respect to them. 314 00:18:05.960 --> 00:18:08.359 And so somebody may not have as much money as 315 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:13.000 you do. You don't get any leeway in disrespecting them 316 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:15.720 because they can't afford what you can afford. 317 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:17.960 You have to show respect to the poor. 318 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:24.319 Number eight, I am to show respect to immigrants. Now 319 00:18:24.440 --> 00:18:27.640 this is one that's actually mentioned over and over. It's 320 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:31.039 not mentioned just one time. It's mentioned over and over. 321 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:35.039 I am to show respect to immigrants. In fact, let 322 00:18:35.119 --> 00:18:36.759 me show you this verse two, because this is a 323 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:40.880 hot button issue right now, particularly in the United States. 324 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:46.799 Leviticus nineteen thirty three and thirty four says this, you 325 00:18:46.920 --> 00:18:53.720 must never mistreat any foreigner who is living in your country. Instead, 326 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:58.319 you must treat them just as you treat your own citizens. 327 00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:02.359 I didn't say this, God did. God did. 328 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:08.799 Love foreigners as you love yourselves, because you remember that 329 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:12.720 your ancestors were foreigners at one time in a new country. 330 00:19:13.680 --> 00:19:16.000 And I am the Lord your God. 331 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:18.599 I don't have time to go into this, but the 332 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:23.079 Bible very clearly God gets mad. He gets ticked off 333 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:30.400 when we don't show foreigners or immigrants respect. Number nine. 334 00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:32.119 These are getting harder. 335 00:19:32.440 --> 00:19:35.640 Number nine. I am to show respect to my opponents, 336 00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:37.839 to enemies, to. 337 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:41.880 People who attack you or maybe persecute you, or maybe 338 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:46.079 try to put you down or plan for your defeat. 339 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:51.240 It's easy to show respect to people you like. It's 340 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:55.279 hard to show respect to people you dislike, or people 341 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:59.920 who have a different political persuasion or different religious persuasions. 342 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:04.200 Do you show respect to people who violently disagree with you. 343 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:07.960 That's a mark of a Christian. Here's what Jesus said. 344 00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:10.720 These are the words of Christ himself. Matthew five forty 345 00:20:10.759 --> 00:20:12.839 four to forty seven. I'm want to read this one 346 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:13.279 to you two. 347 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:14.240 Jesus said. 348 00:20:14.279 --> 00:20:17.720 You've heard it said, love your enemies and hate your 349 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:22.640 love your neighbor, and hate your enemies. But I tell you, 350 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:24.920 and he said, no, not love your neighbor and hate 351 00:20:24.920 --> 00:20:28.960 your enemies. I tell you, love your enemies and pray 352 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:33.000 for those who persecute you. In this way, you show 353 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:37.039 that you are the children of your heavenly father, your 354 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:37.640 father in heaven. 355 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:39.839 It shows your follower of Christ. You're in the family. 356 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:43.000 If you only love those who love you, do you 357 00:20:43.079 --> 00:20:43.880 deserve a reward? 358 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:44.599 Obviously? 359 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:50.079 No, are you doing anything remarkable? Notice there's that word remarkable. 360 00:20:50.119 --> 00:20:53.599 Are you doing anything remarkable if you only welcome your friends? 361 00:20:54.359 --> 00:20:59.519 He answers, Obviously not everybody does that. In God's word translation, 362 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:04.000 So we are how do you be a remarkable person 363 00:21:04.319 --> 00:21:07.960 when when they are attacking you you give nothing but 364 00:21:08.039 --> 00:21:11.759 love back. When they're disrespectful to you, you are respectful 365 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:15.000 to them. He said, that's how you know you really 366 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:17.240 have been saved, that you're in the family of God. 367 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:22.359 And then number ten, this one's hard too. Sometimes I 368 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:28.160 am to show respect to government leaders. Oh really, really, 369 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:29.480 even the opposite party. 370 00:21:29.599 --> 00:21:30.039 Whatever. 371 00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:34.680 The Bible tells us over and over that we are 372 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:39.000 to respect the position even when people are not doing 373 00:21:39.039 --> 00:21:43.640 respectful things. Now, it's not rocket science. This first quality, 374 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:46.279 the foundational quality of just treating everybody with this frict 375 00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:49.079 treating everybody with dignity, even people you disagree with, and 376 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:54.759 even people who are not respectful to you. It's pretty simple, 377 00:21:54.839 --> 00:21:57.680 and kids don't have to learn one hundred different rules. 378 00:21:57.799 --> 00:21:59.599 They just need to have to learn one rule. It's 379 00:21:59.599 --> 00:22:03.200 called the Golden rule, and the golden rules. The next 380 00:22:03.279 --> 00:22:07.200 verse on your outline where Jesus said in Matthew seven twelve, 381 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:10.119 this is the famous golden rule of Jesus. In everything 382 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:14.400 you do do to others what you would want them 383 00:22:14.440 --> 00:22:18.240 to do to you. This sums up all the law 384 00:22:18.400 --> 00:22:20.359 and the prophecy. He said the whole Bible summed up 385 00:22:20.359 --> 00:22:23.880 in this treat people the way you'd like to be treated. Well, 386 00:22:23.920 --> 00:22:29.480 that's not rocket science. A little child can learn how 387 00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:31.720 do I want to be treated? That's the way I 388 00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:35.440 treat others. And if I learn that one rule, treat other. 389 00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:37.359 People the way I'd like to be treated, then I 390 00:22:37.400 --> 00:22:39.519 am going to be respectful. 391 00:22:40.200 --> 00:22:43.000 That makes sense. All right, Let's go to the second one. 392 00:22:44.119 --> 00:22:48.119 The second are in a remarkable life. If I want 393 00:22:48.119 --> 00:22:52.200 to build a remarkable life and a remarkable career, second 394 00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:53.640 thing I would have to learn is not just how 395 00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:56.319 to show respect. I'm going to have to learn to 396 00:22:56.400 --> 00:23:02.960 be reliable reliable, because if you're not reliable, nobody's going 397 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:05.559 to trust you. And if nobody trusts you, you can't 398 00:23:05.599 --> 00:23:07.920 do business with them, you can't lead them, you can't 399 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:10.519 have any impact in their life. Now, in the Bible, 400 00:23:10.759 --> 00:23:14.359 the word reliable is not used that often because it's 401 00:23:14.359 --> 00:23:18.359