Speaker 1: Now, let me just say this to you. You can
Speaker 1: be expected to be tested in your success. Whatever level
Speaker 1: of success you have in life, God will test you.
Speaker 1: If you pass the test, you get more. If you don't,
Speaker 1: you get less. Jesus said it. It's taught all the
Speaker 1: way through Scripture A. Proverbs fourteen twenty one. You want
Speaker 1: to be happy, well, the Bible says this. If you
Speaker 1: want to be happy, be kind to the poor. It
Speaker 1: is a sin to despise anyone. You're walking down the street,
Speaker 1: you see a homeless person. They're sitting there hoping for
Speaker 1: a buck or something, and you just ignore them. It's
Speaker 1: a sin to despise anybody. If you want to be happy,
Speaker 1: be kind the poor. Look at this next verse, Proverbs
Speaker 1: fourteen thirty one. Whoever mistreats the poor insults their maker.
Speaker 1: God considers it a personal affront when you diss a
Speaker 1: homeless person. Whoever mistreats the poor. Let me go back
Speaker 1: that one. Whoever mistreats the poor insults the maker. But
Speaker 1: whoever is kind to the needy honors God. That's how
Speaker 1: you honor God. God says, you honor me when you
Speaker 1: honor the people I made Proverbs twenty one thirteen those
Speaker 1: who shut their ears to the cries of the poor
Speaker 1: will be ignored in their own time of need. This
Speaker 1: is what happens in small groups. When you care for
Speaker 1: other people in your small group in their need, they'll
Speaker 1: be there for you in your need. You're going to
Speaker 1: reput yourself you don't ever help anybody. Are you doing
Speaker 1: anything totally unselfish to help other people who couldn't possibly
Speaker 1: help you back? God says, that's like bank and goodwill
Speaker 1: in the bank of heaven. Let me show you another one.
Speaker 1: You want to be a leader Proverbs twenty nine fourteen.
Speaker 1: Love this in the message fair phrase. Leadership gains authority
Speaker 1: and respect when the voiceless poor are treated fairly. You
Speaker 1: want to be a leader in the community, leader at work,
Speaker 1: leader on a sports team, leader at school. Leadership and
Speaker 1: authority and respect comes when the voiceless poor are treated fairly.
Speaker 1: You know, most of you know this story that when
Speaker 1: I wrote the book Purpose Driven Life, it became a
Speaker 1: huge global success, far more than I could have ever imagined.
Speaker 1: It was the best selling book in the world for
Speaker 1: many years, like four or five years. It was number
Speaker 1: one in the New York Times for over three years.
Speaker 1: It's the most translated book in the world except for
Speaker 1: the Bible. It's in one hundred and thirty seven languages.
Speaker 1: And when that book became the best selling nonfiction hardback
Speaker 1: in American history, it brought in tons and tons of
Speaker 1: money to me. And it also brought in tons of
Speaker 1: tons of influence. And all of a sudden, I'm getting
Speaker 1: calls from people like Bill Gates and Jack Welch and
Speaker 1: the President of the United States and the head of
Speaker 1: the UN. And I'm getting asked to speak at Davos
Speaker 1: World Economic Forum and Ted and the UN and Congress.
Speaker 1: And I didn't want it to be this famous person,
Speaker 1: but the book kind of ruined that, you know. And
Speaker 1: and you know, all of a sudden enormous amounts of money,
Speaker 1: tens of millions of dollars start coming in, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden enormous amount of notoriety or fame. And
Speaker 1: I you know, when you write a book in the
Speaker 1: first sense of the book is it's not about you,
Speaker 1: then you know the money is not for you and
Speaker 1: the fame is not for you. So I'm gonna go, Okay, lord,
Speaker 1: what am I Obviously I know this money is not
Speaker 1: for me. What do you want to do with it.
Speaker 1: I'll just give it away, But how do you want
Speaker 1: it to be given away? And you know, I'm a
Speaker 1: pretty simple guy. If I got a pair of jeans
Speaker 1: and a good T shirt, I'm happy. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't need a lot of bling. And so I began
Speaker 1: to pray through scripture, and God gave me two passages
Speaker 1: of scripture, one from the New Testament and what to
Speaker 1: do with the money, and one from the Old Testament
Speaker 1: on what to do with the The Fame of the
Speaker 1: Notoriety in First Corinthia. Paul says this, those who teach
Speaker 1: the Gospel should make a living by the Gospel. In
Speaker 1: other words, it's okay to pay your pastor, it's okay
Speaker 1: to pay a missionary, a priest, it's skate to pay
Speaker 1: people who serve God full time. That's fine, but Paul says,
Speaker 1: but I will not accept that right. I have the
Speaker 1: right to be paid for what I do. I will
Speaker 1: not accept that right because I want to serve the
Speaker 1: Gospel for free. So I'm a slave to no man.
Speaker 1: And when I read that, I thought, that's what I
Speaker 1: want to do. And so kay and I made five decisions,
Speaker 1: and what to do with the money. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: unexpected success. What are we going to do with the success,
Speaker 1: money and fame. What are we going to do with it? Well,
Speaker 1: we're going to use it to serve the poor. We're
Speaker 1: going to use it to help other people. And so
Speaker 1: we made five decisions. First, we said, we're not going
Speaker 1: to spend the money on us. I still live in
Speaker 1: the same house I've lived in twenty five years. I
Speaker 1: drive a sixteen year old Ford truck. I bought my
Speaker 1: watch at Walmart. Actually this one was given to me.
Speaker 1: It keeps the same time. Is your rolex doesn't go
Speaker 1: any faster or any slower? Okay, you know I paid
Speaker 1: fifteen bucks for it. Okay, I don't need a whole
Speaker 1: lot of things because I don't need things to prove
Speaker 1: my worth. So I said, I'm not We're not going
Speaker 1: to change our lifestyle one bit. Second, I stopped taking
Speaker 1: a salary from the church in two thousand and two. Third,
Speaker 1: I added up all the church had paid me in
Speaker 1: the previous twenty two years. Many of you know this,
Speaker 1: and I gave it all back. So I've now served
Speaker 1: this church free for thirty six years. I'm a volunteer pastor. Okay,
Speaker 1: so no nobody pays me to do this, okay, So
Speaker 1: those of you who volunteer in this church will welcome
Speaker 1: to the club. I'm a volunteer pastor, okay. In fact,
Speaker 1: I'm a full time volunteer, and when some of you retire,
Speaker 1: I expect you to volunteer full time. Okay, because I'm
Speaker 1: a volunteer pastor. You know, this is the difference between
Speaker 1: professional and amateur. A professional is paid to do good.
Speaker 1: Those of us are amateurs, were good for nothing. Actually,
Speaker 1: the word amateur comes from the word amore. You know
Speaker 1: what that is the word love. And an amateur does
Speaker 1: it out of love. The professional does it to be
Speaker 1: paid for it. I am not a professional pastor. I'm
Speaker 1: an amateur pastor. I do it because I love you
Speaker 1: and because I love Jesus. Nobody pays me to do this.
Speaker 1: And then we set up a foundation called Acts of
Speaker 1: Mercy to help the vulnerable and the poor and people
Speaker 1: with aids and children and widows and orphans and all
Speaker 1: kinds of things like that. And then the last thing,
Speaker 1: most of you know, okay, and I became reversed tithers.
Speaker 1: Now we'd been raising our tithe every year. We got
Speaker 1: married forty one years ago, when we got married, we
Speaker 1: gave ten percent to the Lord. The next year we
Speaker 1: gave eleven, next year we gave twelve. A third year
Speaker 1: of marriage, we raised at three percent, And every year
Speaker 1: we raised our tithe giving to away because I just
Speaker 1: wanted my heart to grow bigger. Every year, every time
Speaker 1: I give, it breaks the grip of materialism in my life.
Speaker 1: Every time I give, my heart grows bigger. Every time
Speaker 1: I give, I become more like Jesus. I want to
Speaker 1: be like Jesus. And so on years it was very
Speaker 1: tight financially and the cupboards were bare, we would still
Speaker 1: raise our giving like a quarter of a percent, And
Speaker 1: on years I'd get a raise, or we'd have a
Speaker 1: windfall or something, and we'd raise it four or five percent.
Speaker 1: Most of you know that today, can I give away
Speaker 1: ninety one percent and live on nine? I've played this
Speaker 1: game with God for now, you know, forty one years.
Speaker 1: God says, you give to me, and I'll give to you,
Speaker 1: and we'll see who wins. And I've lost that for
Speaker 1: forty one years. I dare you to try that one.
Speaker 1: That was actually the easy part. What do you do
Speaker 1: with all that money? Just give it away and it's
Speaker 1: been so much fun just giving it away, so we did.
Speaker 1: We just gave it all away. The second thing, though,
Speaker 1: was what do you do with the fame, the attention.
Speaker 1: This is the thing that you get when you the
Speaker 1: more successful you become. And I was reading for that
Speaker 1: and I came up on Psalm seventy two. Psalm seventy
Speaker 1: two is a prayer by Solomon, the son of David,
Speaker 1: who was the king of Israel at that time. He's
Speaker 1: the most powerful man in the world in Israel, he
Speaker 1: is the king of the United Kingdom. It's apex of power.
Speaker 1: He's the wisest man in the world, and he's the
Speaker 1: wealthiest man in the world. And in Psalm seventy two,
Speaker 1: it's his prayer for more influence. When you read this prayer,
Speaker 1: it sounds so self centered because in this prayer Psalm
Speaker 1: seventy two, Solomon says this, God, I want you to
Speaker 1: make me more successful than I already am. I want
Speaker 1: you to make me famous. I want you to spread
Speaker 1: the fame of my name to every nation. I want
Speaker 1: everybody to know who I am. I want you to
Speaker 1: give me more influence, more power, more visibility. It sounds
Speaker 1: totally self centered. Until you read the motivation. And then
Speaker 1: he says, so that here's the motivation, So that the
Speaker 1: king may support the widow and orphan, The king may
Speaker 1: release the oppressed, the king may help the poor. That
Speaker 1: the King may care for the sick. That the King
Speaker 1: may you know, help those who are in prison and oppressed.
Speaker 1: That the King may be the defender of the immigrant
Speaker 1: and the foreigner. Today he's mentioning all the people have
Speaker 1: marginalized in society, and he's saying, you know, today he say,
Speaker 1: so that I can help the mentally ill and the handicapped,
Speaker 1: and the aged, and the elderly, and all the people
Speaker 1: that we want to push off to the side of society.
Speaker 1: And in that passage, I remember tears were coming down
Speaker 1: my face as I read that passage, God said to me,
Speaker 1: the purpose of influence is to speak up for those
Speaker 1: who have no influence.
Speaker 2: If you want to live a life full of purpose
Speaker 2: and joy, then you need to transform the way you think.
Speaker 2: And to help you do this, Pastor It created a
Speaker 2: brand new set of scripture cards with fifty two hand
Speaker 2: selected verses from his series Rethinking Your Life. These verses
Speaker 2: will guide you into a deeper understanding of your purpose
Speaker 2: and faith, and you'll find yourself gaining the strength to
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Speaker 1: God did not give you success, so you can be
Speaker 1: a fat cat and prideful and buy an island and
Speaker 1: you know, have drinks with little umbrellas in them. God
Speaker 1: gives you success not for your benefit, but for the
Speaker 1: benefit of others. And when you understand that, God will
Speaker 1: give you more. And if you're faithful and little, then
Speaker 1: you'll be faithful and much. I know some people hear
Speaker 1: that story and say, well, yeah, Rick, if God gave
Speaker 1: me millions of dollars, I'd give millions away too. No,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't, because you're not doing it now. I had
Speaker 1: a track record of being generous when I didn't have
Speaker 1: the money. I had a thirty six year track record
Speaker 1: on that. And the fact is, you know why God
Speaker 1: made that let me be the author of the best
Speaker 1: selling book in American history. He knew what I'd do
Speaker 1: with the money. He knew he could tryrust me with
Speaker 1: the money, that it wasn't going to use it on me,
Speaker 1: and that the first sentence would be, it's not about you.
Speaker 1: One of the verses that God showed me when I
Speaker 1: was having to go, because it scared me to death.
Speaker 1: I said, I know what success does to people. A
Speaker 1: lot of money, a lot of fame can ruin you
Speaker 1: very quickly. And one of the verses God gave me
Speaker 1: this verse on the screen Proverbs thirty one to eight
Speaker 1: and nine. Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves.
Speaker 1: Insure justice for those who are perishing. By the way,
Speaker 1: that would include the unborn, because they can't speak for themselves,
Speaker 1: and they are certainly perishing. Speak up for those who
Speaker 1: can't speak for themselves. Insure justice for those who are perishing. Yes,
Speaker 1: speak up for the poor and the helpless, and see
Speaker 1: that they get justice. So we are to repent. Change
Speaker 1: your attitude, and we are to serve the poor. This
Speaker 1: is the warning that God gives to nebucan Ezer. He
Speaker 1: totally ignores it. And so the third thing that happens
Speaker 1: right down, the third problem is we put off doing
Speaker 1: what we know is right. And this is the third
Speaker 1: reason that Nebeknezer fell, and it's going to be the
Speaker 1: third reason that you might fall in your success if
Speaker 1: you don't hear the warning. We put off doing what
Speaker 1: we know is right. We procrastinate, we postpone, we delay,
Speaker 1: we defer, we dawdle. Daniel four verse twenty eight says
Speaker 1: this after he had had this dream interpreted twelve months later.
Speaker 1: Oh wait a minute, twelve months later, what's he been
Speaker 1: doing for the last year? God says, you're gonna lose
Speaker 1: your kingdom and you're gonna lose your mind if you
Speaker 1: don't change. Let me ask you that personally, if God
Speaker 1: warned you, The truth is he has warned you. It's
Speaker 1: right here in this book, and he says, if you'll
Speaker 1: do these things, I'm gonna bless you and you're going
Speaker 1: to succeed in life. If you don't do that these things,
Speaker 1: you're gonna fail. You're gonna hit the wall. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have dead ends, delays, difficulties, and things are not gonna
Speaker 1: go the way you wanted to go. There's a way
Speaker 1: that seems right into a man, but the ends thereof
Speaker 1: are the ways of death. So we put off doing
Speaker 1: what we know is right. He knew what to do,
Speaker 1: and it says here, twelve months later, because he hadn't
Speaker 1: done anything, all of what nebukin Ezra dreamed did actually
Speaker 1: happen to him. He lost it all. He's taking a
Speaker 1: walk on a flat roof of his royal palace in Babylon,
Speaker 1: and as he took looked out across the city and
Speaker 1: I'm sure it was quite magnificent the skyline, he boasted
Speaker 1: to himself. He's talking. I'm sure he's going. Man Neby,
Speaker 1: you know, he calls himself Nebby, Nebbe. You are the man,
Speaker 1: You're the dude. You're number one. You You, I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody wants to be you. You know, gotta be a
Speaker 1: good look. And he's so hard to see he is
Speaker 1: that you are the man. And as the words were
Speaker 1: still on his lips, a voice came from heaven. This
Speaker 1: is what God declares to you, decrees to you, Kingdom,
Speaker 1: your powers being taken away. You're no longer the ruler
Speaker 1: of this kingdom. You're going to be deposed from the palace,
Speaker 1: ostracized by everyone, forced to live with the wild animals.
Speaker 1: And immediately it all happened. He lost his kingdom and
Speaker 1: he lost his mind. He literally went insane. History confirms
Speaker 1: us that there was a period of time. Now we
Speaker 1: don't actually know how long he was in this loss
Speaker 1: where he lost his mind, lost his kingdom, because the
Speaker 1: Bible says you're going to lose it for seven periods,
Speaker 1: and some scholars think that means seven seasons, which would
Speaker 1: have been a little bit less than two years, and
Speaker 1: some people think it means seven years, which would have
Speaker 1: been a long time. But it wasn't like a month
Speaker 1: or two. He has a major CEO burnout, and it's
Speaker 1: public and it's embarrassing, and the guy who is the
Speaker 1: most powerful man in the world is now drooling on
Speaker 1: himself and acting like an animal in the desert and
Speaker 1: can't even make sense. That's humbly, that's humiliating. He's out
Speaker 1: of touch with reality, becomes a fool, he's unreasonably he
Speaker 1: acts like an animal. By the way, you haven't ever
Speaker 1: seen it like this. But have you ever seen a
Speaker 1: friend who all of a sudden decides to not do
Speaker 1: what God wants him to do and they walk off
Speaker 1: a cliff and do something self destructive And you're going,
Speaker 1: what in the world have you lost your mind?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, tell me you're gonna leave your wife
Speaker 1: and kids for her? Or have you lost your mind?
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, you're gonna leave your husband and you're
Speaker 1: gonna break up your marriage for that guy? Have you
Speaker 1: lost your mind? People do this all the time, self
Speaker 1: destructive behavior because they're running from God. And so his
Speaker 1: life just collapses in a very public and humiliating way,
Speaker 1: and we see it all the time. In fact, the
Speaker 1: news love to cover this kind of stuff. But God
Speaker 1: has mercy on Nebucanezer. And after this period of humiliation,
Speaker 1: whether it's two and a half years or a couple
Speaker 1: years or seven years, we don't know, he restored his mind.
Speaker 1: And I want you to see now the steps that
Speaker 1: Nehemiah took back to sanity. This is the road to recovery.
Speaker 1: And he did three things. When you have a major
Speaker 1: failure in your life, you need to do these exact
Speaker 1: three things. He looked up, he woke up, and he
Speaker 1: spoke up. Let's look at the first number one. Write
Speaker 1: this down. Three steps to recovery after failure. First, look
Speaker 1: up to God. Look up to God. And the Bible
Speaker 1: says in Daniel four, verse thirty four, at this time,
Speaker 1: after this time past, you know when he had lost
Speaker 1: his mind, I Nebuicanzer. He's given the testimony. This chapter
Speaker 1: is his testimony. I nebuican Azer looked up to heaven
Speaker 1: and my sanity returned. Literally, it says in the Hebrews,
Speaker 1: he lifted up his eyes to heaven. Do you need
Speaker 1: to do that today? Some of you've never taken this
Speaker 1: first step. You're in a heap of trouble right now.
Speaker 1: You're in a mess. You're in a mess in your life.
Speaker 1: It's going the wrong way. But you're looking at everything
Speaker 1: else and everybody else to solve it. You're look into
Speaker 1: other people. You're looking to the government, or you're looking
Speaker 1: to yourself. You expect your husband or your wife to
Speaker 1: solve it. Whatever. You're in a mess, you need to
Speaker 1: look up to God. You need to get your eyes
Speaker 1: on Heaven. Refocus on God, not be looking at anything
Speaker 1: and everybody else. Now, by the way, sometimes God has
Speaker 1: to lay you flat on your back to get you
Speaker 1: to look up. I hope he doesn't have to do
Speaker 1: that to you. Just do this now, look up to God.
Speaker 1: The second thing he did is he woke up. Here's
Speaker 1: the second step. Wake up to God's greatness and start worshiping.
Speaker 1: Wake up to God's greatness, not your own greatness, but
Speaker 1: God's greatness, and start worshiping him. Worshiping it just means
Speaker 1: focus on God. When you focus on God's greatness, that's
Speaker 1: called worship. You wake up to God's greatness and you
Speaker 1: start worshiping. You get your focus off yourself, off your problem,
Speaker 1: off your humiliation, and you get your focus back on God.
Speaker 1: How do you do that when you start worshiping again?
Speaker 1: If in the past you used to read your Bible
Speaker 1: a little bit every day, or try to pray every
Speaker 1: day and read the Bible, that's called the quiet time.
Speaker 1: You need to do that with regularity. You need to
Speaker 1: develop that habit and start focusing worshiping on God every day.
Speaker 1: If you've been inconsistent in your small group, or you
Speaker 1: haven't been in a small group for a while, you
Speaker 1: need to get in a small group again. You need
Speaker 1: to start going every week and be consistent worshiping God.
Speaker 1: You see in good times you start backing off. Go Hey,
Speaker 1: I don't need to go to church this week. I'll
Speaker 1: go once a month. That's cool. You know now that
Speaker 1: we got money, let's buy a boat, our cabin or
Speaker 1: a condo or an RV and we'll spend three weeks
Speaker 1: playing and once a month we'll go to church. Really,
Speaker 1: is there anything more important in your life than worshiping
Speaker 1: God and hearing from Him on a regular basis. If
Speaker 1: you know something that will help your life more than
Speaker 1: going to worship God, stand up and tell us right now,
Speaker 1: because I'll go do it with you, because I'm not
Speaker 1: going to waste my life. Just tell us no getting
Speaker 1: in touch with God every week in worship. You need
Speaker 1: you know when the doors are open at a church,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be there. Why Because I've often wondered
Speaker 1: what if that was the week God wanted to speak
Speaker 1: to me that was going to turn the direction of
Speaker 1: my life, build the career that I never even imagined.
Speaker 1: And if I didn't go that week, I missed it.
Speaker 1: I missed it. I don't want to miss what God
Speaker 1: says to me. Some of you need to make the recommitment.
Speaker 1: To be at worship every single week, not like once
Speaker 1: a month or every two weeks or whatever I do.
Speaker 1: It's more important for me to hear from God than
Speaker 1: to hear from television or hear from anything else going
Speaker 1: on in life. So I wake up to God's greatness
Speaker 1: and I start worshiping again, and I'm there and I
Speaker 1: worship God all the time. Verse thirty four, nebuchan Ezra says,
Speaker 1: my sanity returned and I praised and worshiped the most high,
Speaker 1: that's God, and I honored the one who lives forever.
Speaker 1: This is the second step to recovery. My sanity returned
Speaker 1: when I started praising and worshiping and you know, being
Speaker 1: grateful for the things God has done in my life. Now,
Speaker 1: I want you to write this down. I don't know
Speaker 1: what bad thing you're going through right now, but I
Speaker 1: will tell you this. We get better. We get better
Speaker 1: when we replace pride with We get better in any
Speaker 1: area of our lives when we replace pride in ourselves
Speaker 1: with praise to God. Now, let me say it again,
Speaker 1: every time things are going good in your life, this
Speaker 1: is as much a test as the bad times, as
Speaker 1: the delays, the difficulties, and the suffering and the pain.
Speaker 1: Every time things are going good in your life, God's
Speaker 1: going to go Are they going to become prideful? Are
Speaker 1: they going to become praiseful? Are they going to just think, Hey,
Speaker 1: look how cool we are I am, or look how
Speaker 1: cool God is. I would not have any of this
Speaker 1: if it weren't for God. Friends, if you're having trouble
Speaker 1: staying consistent in your Bible study and quiet time, one
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Speaker 1: exactly what one of my listeners has done. Marla wrote me,
Speaker 1: and she says that getting daily Hope devotionals have helped
Speaker 1: deepen her relationship with the Lord and helped her be
Speaker 1: more consistent. Marla writes this, Hello, Pastor Rick, I've been
Speaker 1: a Christian all my life, but I felt lost for
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Speaker 2: If you want to live a life full of purpose
Speaker 2: and joy, then you need to transform the way you think.
Speaker 2: And to help you do this, Pastor Rick created a
Speaker 2: brand new set of scripture cards with fifty two hand
Speaker 2: selected verses from his series Rethinking Your Life. These verses
Speaker 2: will guide you into a deeper understanding of your purpose
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