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Speaker 1: Pastor Rick Warren. Today we continue in the series Essentials
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Speaker 1: part one of a message called how to Tell God
Speaker 1: You Love Him.
Speaker 3: If somebody ask you to describe the Christian life in
Speaker 3: two words, what would you say? Somebody asked you, what
Speaker 3: does God really want from us more than anything else?
Speaker 2: What would you say?
Speaker 3: If you said moral devotion, if you said ethical behavior,
Speaker 3: if you said religious ritual, you would be wrong. Because
Speaker 3: the essence of the Christian life can be summed up
Speaker 3: in two words, love affair, love affair. God wants to
Speaker 3: have a love affair with you. The Bible says that
Speaker 3: you were created as an object of God's love.
Speaker 2: God made you to love you.
Speaker 3: He made you to be an object of his love,
Speaker 3: and God wants to have a relationship with you.
Speaker 2: Now that means that you were created for.
Speaker 3: The purpose of having a relationship, and as a result,
Speaker 3: the most important thing you can know in life is
Speaker 3: a God loves you, and the most important thing that
Speaker 3: you can do.
Speaker 2: In life is to love him back.
Speaker 3: Jesus said it like this in Matthew chapter twenty two.
Speaker 2: Let's read it aloud together.
Speaker 3: The Lord your God, with all your heart and with
Speaker 3: all your soul, and with all your mind. This is
Speaker 3: the first and greatest commandment.
Speaker 2: Nothing's more important. Now.
Speaker 3: If you do this, you have fulfilled your primary purpose
Speaker 3: in life. If you learn to love God and you
Speaker 3: let God love you, your life has fulfilled its meaning, its purpose.
Speaker 3: If you miss this part of your life, your life's
Speaker 3: a failure because you missed the very reason God created
Speaker 3: you and put you on earth for to love and
Speaker 3: be loved. Now, there's a term in the Bible for
Speaker 3: expressing love to God. And that term is called worship.
Speaker 3: We often think worship is a ritual or a routine
Speaker 3: or something you do in a church building. Worship simply
Speaker 3: means expressing love to God. Anytime you're expressing love to God,
Speaker 3: you're worshiping, whether you're by yourself in a small group,
Speaker 3: in a large crowd like.
Speaker 2: This, or wherever.
Speaker 3: When you express love to God in any way, you
Speaker 3: are worshiping. Now, you may have noticed that sometimes for
Speaker 3: some people it's hard to say I love you, especially
Speaker 3: for men. Sometimes we feel it, we just don't know
Speaker 3: how to get it out, how to say it, and
Speaker 3: so we don't know how to express our love to
Speaker 3: our children, to our wives, to our husbands, to our
Speaker 3: friends and neighbors and people we work with, or even
Speaker 3: to God. It's just kind of difficult. Why does that happen?
Speaker 3: Why is it sometimes hard to say I love you? Well,
Speaker 3: you may have been raised in a very non expressive
Speaker 3: home where there was love, or maybe there wasn't, but
Speaker 3: you just didn't talk about it that much. You didn't
Speaker 3: frequently say I love you, Or maybe you were taught
Speaker 3: to stuff your emotions and to push them down to
Speaker 3: hide your feelings. Maybe you have been hurt in the past,
Speaker 3: and you say, I don't want to get hurt again,
Speaker 3: so I'm not going to tell anybody.
Speaker 2: I love them or God.
Speaker 3: Or maybe you're resentful about hurts that have happened in
Speaker 3: your past, and so you say, well, I don't want
Speaker 3: to love God. Are there are things in my life
Speaker 3: don't like or maybe you just don't know how.
Speaker 2: To express your love for God.
Speaker 3: I would say to you, this is your day, because
Speaker 3: today we're going to talk about how to do that.
Speaker 3: Last night I saw on the internet a book called
Speaker 3: ten Thousand Ways to Say I Love You, and today
Speaker 3: we're going to cover all ten thousand. Actually, I've just
Speaker 3: kind of narrowed it down to six six ways to
Speaker 3: tell God you love him, and I'm going to encourage
Speaker 3: you to take a self test on each of these
Speaker 3: six ways to kind of evaluate yourself. Now here's my goal.
Speaker 2: By the end of this hour, I hope that you
Speaker 2: will feel loved by God more than you ever have
Speaker 2: in your life. And I hope that you will have.
Speaker 3: Learned to express love to God more than you ever
Speaker 3: have in your life, that you will have learned a
Speaker 3: deeper level of worship. And for some of you, I
Speaker 3: know that you're going to begin a relationship with Jesus
Speaker 3: Christ for the very first time this morning. Now, let's
Speaker 3: look at these six ways. The first way we can
Speaker 3: express our love to God is one that we're real
Speaker 3: good at here at saddleback, and that.
Speaker 2: Is by singing to him. By singing to him.
Speaker 3: Now, you've probably noticed that music and love go together
Speaker 3: because music comes from the heart. It's not something you
Speaker 3: do intellectually. It comes out of your soul, out of
Speaker 3: your emotions. And of course, there are many love songs
Speaker 3: in the world. There are, in fact, radio stations that
Speaker 3: are dedicated entirely just to the love song format. But
Speaker 3: did you know that more songs have been written about
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: Than any other.
Speaker 3: Topic in the world. Nothing even comes close in second place.
Speaker 3: Over the last two thousand years, there have been more
Speaker 3: love songs and songs written to Jesus Christ than any
Speaker 3: other subject. Christianity is a singing religion, a singing faith.
Speaker 3: Why because it's not about religion. It's about a love affair.
Speaker 3: It's about a relationship with God. That God loves you
Speaker 3: so much that he's sent us on the die, or
Speaker 3: he wants you to love him back. Now, so I'm
Speaker 3: one forty seven. Verse seven says, sing out your thanks
Speaker 3: to Him, sing praises to our God. Nothing will make
Speaker 3: you more aware of God's love and God's presence in
Speaker 3: your life than singing and praise. Now, I know somebody saying,
Speaker 3: but Rick, you don't understand I can't sing well. The
Speaker 3: Bible says, make a joyful noise.
Speaker 2: And I know all of you can do that.
Speaker 3: You go to football games, or you know somebody's getting
Speaker 3: married or something. You make a joyful noise, and so
Speaker 3: just let it out. You don't have to hit the
Speaker 3: right note. You just have to make a joyful noise.
Speaker 3: I know that there are some people who come to
Speaker 3: saddle Back intentionally late, and they say, you know, I'll
Speaker 3: miss the crowd going in, and.
Speaker 2: You know, I'll miss the warm up act, you.
Speaker 3: Know, all the preliminaries, because I'm coming for the main event.
Speaker 3: I'm coming for the teaching. That friend, is a big mistake.
Speaker 3: Big mistake, because you need principles for your head and
Speaker 3: you need music for your heart.
Speaker 2: You need to worship God.
Speaker 3: Music inspires, it refreshes, it rejuvenates, it revitalizes. Music and
Speaker 3: worship in praise to God has a healing element to it.
Speaker 3: If you're depressed, you need to sing the songs. In fact,
Speaker 3: I've noticed this. When I least feel like singing, that's
Speaker 3: when I need to do it the most. When I
Speaker 3: don't feel like participating in worship, when I don't feel
Speaker 3: like getting involved, when I wanted to stand still and
Speaker 3: be a spectator, that means my heart is cold and
Speaker 3: it needs to be warmed up, and so I need
Speaker 3: to get involved.
Speaker 2: And I need to let my mood be lifted by worship.
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Speaker 4: In the Bible, Jesus told us that in this world
Speaker 4: we will have trouble, but we should take heart because
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Speaker 3: Now, in each of these six ways of expressing love
Speaker 3: to God, I'm going to ask you to valuate yourself.
Speaker 3: So what about this first one here? How often do
Speaker 3: you sing your thanks and love to God? Do you
Speaker 3: do it on a daily basis? Do you do it regularly?
Speaker 3: Do you do it occasionally? Do you do it rarely?
Speaker 3: Why don't you check which one represents your current view?
Speaker 3: And why don't you put a star by where you'd
Speaker 3: like to move to? You see, when you really think
Speaker 3: about what God has done in your life, when you
Speaker 3: really realize what He's done, you can't help yourself. It's
Speaker 3: about to bust out of you. You have to worship.
Speaker 3: There's a second way you can express love to God,
Speaker 3: and that's by talking to him.
Speaker 2: By just talking to him.
Speaker 3: Now, it took me a while, folks, I admit I'm
Speaker 3: a slow learner, but I finally figured out that this
Speaker 3: marriage thing is about communication. I know I'm a little dense,
Speaker 3: but I finally realized that the key ingredient in my
Speaker 3: marriage was talk. And I discovered that on the days
Speaker 3: that when I have deep soul communication with K I'm
Speaker 3: not talking about Hi, how are you? I love you,
Speaker 3: see you later, honey. I'm talking about deep soul communication.
Speaker 3: Our relationship grows. And on those days where we have
Speaker 3: little are none of that communication, our relationship decays. Because
Speaker 3: a relationship is never standing still. It's always either growing
Speaker 3: or decay. The same is true with God. On the
Speaker 3: days that you have deep, significant talk with God, your
Speaker 3: relationship grows. On the days you have little or no
Speaker 3: talk with God, your relationship decays.
Speaker 2: It's that simple.
Speaker 3: Now, when you really love somebody, you not just want
Speaker 3: to spend time with them, You want to talk with them.
Speaker 3: Do you remember when you first fell in love as
Speaker 3: a teenager and how your parents got upset that you
Speaker 3: were always on the phone.
Speaker 2: And you, you know, it's like you had a phone
Speaker 2: in your ear.
Speaker 3: You were, you know, just talk and talk and talk
Speaker 3: because you were getting to know that person. That's how
Speaker 3: you get to know them through communication. If you if
Speaker 3: your husband or your wife never ever talks to you,
Speaker 3: you have every reason to start wanting do they love me?
Speaker 2: That's why husbands listen, read my lips. Talk to your wife.
Speaker 3: She needs this like multiple vitamins, okay, a daily dose.
Speaker 3: Now what do you talk to God about? If you
Speaker 3: want to express love to God. What are you talk
Speaker 3: to him about anything? You'd talk to your best friend
Speaker 3: about everything, your hopes, your fears, your dreams, your anxieties,
Speaker 3: the things you're embarrassed about, the things you're proud of,
Speaker 3: the things you're ashamed of, your goals, your ambitions, your hurts,
Speaker 3: your cares, every part of your life. You come to
Speaker 3: God and you talk to God about it. The Bible
Speaker 3: says this in Someone sixteen. I love the Lord because
Speaker 3: he hears me and answers my prayers, because he bends
Speaker 3: down and listens. I will pray as long as I
Speaker 3: have breath. Now, if you don't feel close to God,
Speaker 3: and some of you don't, some of you have been
Speaker 3: believers for quite a long time, and you honestly have
Speaker 3: lost your spark. Your Christian life has become routine, dull, joyless, lifeless,
Speaker 3: and there's no real joy and sparked anymore. There's a
Speaker 3: simple remedy for that. Start talking to God again. You
Speaker 3: don't talk to him the way you used to talk
Speaker 3: to him. You don't talk to him as gut levels
Speaker 3: used to do. Now you got all these kind of
Speaker 3: these and thousand write little cliches that you repeat over
Speaker 3: and over and over, and you need to just talk
Speaker 3: to him more often.
Speaker 2: You see, prayer is not some duty that you have
Speaker 2: to do. It's a privilege that you get to do.
Speaker 3: You get to talk to the creator of the universe,
Speaker 3: and he has invited you, and he wants to.
Speaker 2: Talk with you. He wants to talk with you.
Speaker 3: So why don't you rate yourself on this one of
Speaker 3: expressing love to God? How often do I talk to
Speaker 3: God each day? Do I do it once a day,
Speaker 3: twice a day, ten times a day in morning, afternoon, evening?
Speaker 2: Do I do it regularly? Occasionally? Rarely?
Speaker 3: Why don't you put a circle around what it is
Speaker 3: in the star by or an arrow by the one
Speaker 3: that where you'd like to go. You say, Rick, I'd
Speaker 3: like to have more prayer time with God. I'd like
Speaker 3: to talk to God more. I just don't have the time.
Speaker 2: Then you're too busy.
Speaker 3: You're too busy anyway, You'll never have the time. You
Speaker 3: must take the time to pray. There's a third way
Speaker 3: that you can express your love to God, and that
Speaker 3: is by.
Speaker 2: Listening to him.
Speaker 3: By listening to him, listening is one of the greatest
Speaker 3: gifts you can give to somebody. The gift of listening
Speaker 3: because we all want to be understood. We all want
Speaker 3: to be listened to. When you listen to someone, you
Speaker 3: are saying you matter to me. When I listen to
Speaker 3: my children, when I listen to my wife, when I
Speaker 3: listen to anybody, I'm saying I value what you have
Speaker 3: to say. I value your opinion, you are important to me.
Speaker 3: On the other end, when I don't listen to somebody,
Speaker 3: I'm basically saying you don't matter to me. You are
Speaker 3: not important to me. What you have to say I
Speaker 3: don't value. And so one of the ways you express
Speaker 3: love to anybody is by listening to them, and the
Speaker 3: same is true with God. Every time you listen to God,
Speaker 3: you're saying, God, you matter to me.
Speaker 2: God, I value what you have to say.
Speaker 3: Now, listen is the most misunderstood and a left off
Speaker 3: part of prayer. Most of us think that prayer is
Speaker 3: just talking to God. No, that's only fifty percent of prayer.
Speaker 3: The other fifty percent of prayer is shutting up and
Speaker 3: being quiet and letting God speak to us. Now, usually
Speaker 3: we're in too much of a hurry to do this.
Speaker 3: Well we do is say Hi, God, it's me. I
Speaker 3: got ten things I need for you today. I want
Speaker 3: you the five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, Thank you,
Speaker 3: good buddy, over and out ten.
Speaker 2: Four bye bye. And we don't stop, We don't wait,
Speaker 2: we don't listen, we don't.
Speaker 3: Say, oh God, do you have a few things to
Speaker 3: say to me? And we don't listen. Now, God is
Speaker 3: speaking to you all the time, you see me. Yes,
Speaker 3: God is speaking to you all the time, or at
Speaker 3: least he's trying to speak to you all the time.
Speaker 3: So well, I don't ever hear him because you're not listening.
Speaker 3: You don't ever take the time. You don't ever get quiet,
Speaker 3: You don't ever pause inived to day and say, by
Speaker 3: the way, God, you got anything you want to say.
Speaker 2: To me right now? You're so I'm busy. Your life
Speaker 2: is so full of noise.
Speaker 3: You always have a channel on a radio, TV, cell phone,
Speaker 3: something God couldn't get through because the lines are all busy.
Speaker 3: And you need to not just take time to talk
Speaker 3: to God, you need to take time to listen to God.
Speaker 3: And you stop and you pause because God is speaking.
Speaker 3: How does God speak to us? Well?
Speaker 2: Many ways.
Speaker 3: One he speaks to the Bible, his word. If you're
Speaker 3: not spending any time in this book. Obviously, He's not
Speaker 3: going to speak to you through this book if you're
Speaker 3: not reading it. Number two, He speaks to us through
Speaker 3: the experiences we go through in life.
Speaker 2: Everything that happens.
Speaker 3: To you, the good and the bad, the big and
Speaker 3: the little, the irritating, the unavoidable, the painful, all of
Speaker 3: those things. God is talking to you through everything that
Speaker 3: happens in your life. He said, well, I don't see
Speaker 3: what God's saying because you're not listening. You're not reading
Speaker 3: these principles in this book, and you're not being aware
Speaker 3: that God may be trying to tell you something through
Speaker 3: that irritation. God speaks to us through other people, through
Speaker 3: the advice of Christians and godly people who say, well
Speaker 3: what about this? And God oftens will speak to you
Speaker 3: through another person. God will speak to you through impressions.
Speaker 3: He puts ideas in your mind, some great, good idea.
Speaker 3: Where do you think you got that idea? God put
Speaker 3: it there now, Not every idea you get us from God.
Speaker 3: When we get an idea from God, we call it
Speaker 3: an inspiration. When we get an idea from the devil,
Speaker 3: we call it a temptation. When we get an idea
Speaker 3: from ourselves, we just call it dumb. Now, you have
Speaker 3: some good ideas, you do because God gave you a
Speaker 3: brain to come up with good ideas. But how do
Speaker 3: you know if an impression is from God or not?
Speaker 3: You test it. The Bible says you're to test it.
Speaker 3: And we've talked in the past about six ways to
Speaker 3: test an impression or an.
Speaker 2: Idea from God.
Speaker 3: Did you know that the Bible says that hearing God's voice,
Speaker 3: being able to listen to God and hear God speak
Speaker 3: to you is the test of whether you're really a
Speaker 3: true believer or not, whether you're in the family or not,
Speaker 3: whether you're headed for heaven or not, whether you are
Speaker 3: in the flock of God. Jesus said this in John
Speaker 3: chapter ten. I am the good shepherd, and I know
Speaker 3: my own sheep, and they know me, and they listen
Speaker 3: to my voice. If you've never ever got an idea
Speaker 3: or an impression or heard from God in your life,
Speaker 3: you have every reason to wonder, do I really know God?
Speaker 3: Do I really have a relationship with Jesus Christ? Am
Speaker 3: I truly a believer? Have I stepped across the line yet?
Speaker 3: Because maybe you haven't. Because God is trying to speak
Speaker 3: to you and maybe you haven't made that relationship.
Speaker 2: Now here's the question. How often do I pause to
Speaker 2: listen to God each day?
Speaker 3: Do I do it in the morning, in the afternoon,
Speaker 3: in the evening, Do I do it hourly? Do I
Speaker 3: do it occasionally? Regularly? Rarely?
Speaker 2: Do I pause and just say? God? Is there anything
Speaker 2: you want to say to me about this?
Speaker 3: A decision you're working on, an event, you're getting ready
Speaker 3: to go to, somebody you're getting ready to talk with.
Speaker 3: Why don't you evaluate yourself on that. The fourth way
Speaker 3: you can express your love to God is by publicly
Speaker 3: identifying with him, by not being ashamed of him at work,
Speaker 3: at home, in your neighborhood, by not saying, I'm not
Speaker 3: going to let anybody know I'm a Christian. I'm not
Speaker 3: telling my neighbors, I'm not telling the people at work,
Speaker 3: I'm keeping it a secret. Then you don't really love God,
Speaker 3: because if you love somebody, you're not ashamed of them,
Speaker 3: you publicly identify with them. Can you imagine how do
Speaker 3: you think my wife would have felt if years ago,
Speaker 3: when we were dating, I said, honey, let's get married
Speaker 3: and we'll be committed to each other, but let's just
Speaker 3: keep it our little secret. Let's don't tell anybody about it.
Speaker 3: You know, I'll be committed to you, you be committed to me.
Speaker 3: But when we're in public, let's pretend like we don't
Speaker 3: know each other, and let's just act like total strangers.
Speaker 2: Won't that be great? She'd say, what kind of love
Speaker 2: is that? Buster? It didn't any kind of love.
Speaker 3: At all, because when you really love somebody, you're not
Speaker 3: ashamed of him. You say this is my husband, this
Speaker 3: is my wife. You take on a name and you
Speaker 3: say we are a family, and you identify with each other,
Speaker 3: and you can't say you love Jesus Christ and be
Speaker 3: ashamed of him at the same time.
Speaker 2: Jesus said it like this, Mark eight thirty eight.
Speaker 3: If anyone is ashamed of me and my teachings, then
Speaker 3: I will be ashamed of him when I come in
Speaker 3: with the glory.
Speaker 2: Of my father.
Speaker 3: Jesus said, if you are ashamed of me on earth,
Speaker 3: I'm going to be ashamed of you in heaven.
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