WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:06.559 Hello, everybody, Welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. This is 2 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:10.240 the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren. Hey, we're so 3 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:13.439 glad you're here with us today. We are continuing in 4 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:17.320 a series called Talking about Stuff That Matters Now. In 5 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:21.199 this series, Rick looks into the scriptures and he's unpacking 6 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:24.920 what it means to live in community, have real conversation 7 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:30.120 about what matters most, and face discouragement with courage and faith. 8 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:34.200 It's honest, hopeful. So stay tuned. You won't want to 9 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:37.039 miss a second. All right, let's jump in. This is 10 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:40.159 part one of a message called being a disciple in 11 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:41.359 the Digital Age. 12 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:46.320 If you have a smartphone, you hold in your hand 13 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:50.200 more power than NASA had when they put a man 14 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:54.119 on the moon. There's more power in one little cell 15 00:00:54.159 --> 00:01:00.320 phone than we had in existence when America put a 16 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:03.880 man on the moon. You have more technology in your hand. 17 00:01:04.359 --> 00:01:07.480 Let me show you what the first hard drive looked like. 18 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:08.439 Look up here on the screen. 19 00:01:09.239 --> 00:01:09.799 That was it. 20 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:16.519 That was five megabytes of storage. Not very portable, about 21 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:21.079 the size of two men, several thousand pounds. Now, that's 22 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:25.280 five megabytes in your phone right now. You have a 23 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:28.680 minimum even if you got a cheapy phone. You have 24 00:01:28.719 --> 00:01:33.879 a minimum of a thousand times that in your phone, 25 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:37.519 and you can buy ten thousand times that and put 26 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:40.640 it on your phone. You have no idea how much 27 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:45.120 power you have in your pocket. That's why in two 28 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:48.519 thousand and seven, Time magazine named the iPhone. 29 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:52.519 That's the year it came out. This the invention of 30 00:01:52.599 --> 00:01:53.040 the year. 31 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:58.560 Now since that's happened, it's been renamed because the cell phone, 32 00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:06.040 the smartphone, is by far the most behavior changing invention 33 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:10.120 in the history of mankind. Nothing else comes close, not 34 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:13.240 the wheel, not fire, not the steam. 35 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:14.520 Engine, not the automobile. 36 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:20.560 Nothing comes close to the power of this little invention. 37 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:24.080 Why because like with a car, you can do maybe 38 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:27.000 ten different things with a car, but with this, you 39 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:32.439 can do thousands of things with this, thousands, literally thousands 40 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:34.960 of things with this. You can have it direct you 41 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:39.639 to the right place with GPS, it's a travel device. 42 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:42.759 You can listen to music, obviously entertainment. You can check 43 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:45.879 your heart, you can do all kinds of studies on 44 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:50.639 your body. You literally can do thousands of things. When 45 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:54.439 they decided to put a computer in a phone, it 46 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:59.080 changed everything. Hundreds of thousands of people in the world 47 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:02.240 hundreds of millions of people in the world on a computer, 48 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:08.000 but billions own one of these, and that's their computer, 49 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:12.599 and it's the access to everything. Now, when this came out, 50 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:15.240 and it's only been a very short time, less than 51 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:20.120 a decade, that it really changed everything. Daily life and 52 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:24.360 daily habits radically were altered. You don't live the same 53 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:28.639 way you did before this came out. You know, before 54 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:34.080 the smartphone, people actually listened to a phone. Now we 55 00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:36.919 look at a phone. By the way, I'm taking a 56 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:37.719 picture of you right now. 57 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:41.919 There you go. I'll put that on Facebook. You'll all 58 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:42.680 be rock stars. 59 00:03:44.439 --> 00:03:48.479 Everybody looks at the phone instead of simply listening to it. 60 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:52.039 That's a major change in your behavior. In fact, we 61 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:55.759 look constantly at our phone. So let me show you 62 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:58.960 some images. We look at our phones while we're waiting. 63 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:03.360 You ever seen a picture like ever seeing that happen. 64 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:07.919 It's everywhere. Everybody's got their head down today. They're all 65 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:11.680 looking down while they're waiting. We look at our phone 66 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:14.840 when we're going to work. Look at this. Okay, now, 67 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:17.519 there's interesting. I put that picture up there because there's 68 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:19.399 an interesting story behind it. I got this out of 69 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:22.439 a Boston newspaper. These guys are going to work on 70 00:04:22.439 --> 00:04:25.279 a train, elevated train or I don't know what it was, 71 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:30.120 subway And a guy walked in, pulled out a gun, 72 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:32.199 and nobody noticed. 73 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:35.519 He put it back in his pocket. 74 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:41.120 A few minutes later, he pulls it out again. Nobody 75 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:44.920 pays attention. He puts it back in his pocket. A 76 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:47.680 few minutes later, he pulls it out a third time. 77 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:51.879 Nobody's paying attention. He put it back in his pocket, 78 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:56.800 gave up and walked out because they were so distracted 79 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:02.519 by one of these. We now look at these while 80 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:07.120 we're eating. Here's a typical family meal, family of four. 81 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:11.399 They're all looking at four screens right there. That's family fellowship. 82 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:15.920 In the twenty first century, everybody's looking at their phone. 83 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:19.319 We constantly look at our phones while we're walking. Have 84 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:22.519 you ever seen this? You know, it's kind of interesting 85 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:26.800 now because of this one invite, we are more familiar 86 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:29.120 with the heads of people, the top of their head, 87 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:32.319 than we are their face, because people are walking around 88 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:34.279 like this all the time, so you recognize the top 89 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:39.040 of their head rather than their face. Of course, we 90 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:41.800 use these in the bathroom. You don't get a picture 91 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:46.680 of that but you know what I'm talking about, all right, 92 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:51.240 We even look at this screen while we're watching other screens. 93 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:55.199 Here's a family watching TV and they've all got you know, 94 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:57.480 because you can't be bored during the commercials, So we're 95 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:00.240 all looking at our screens while we're actually on the 96 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:04.480 sofa watching TV. And then of course even take them 97 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:07.600 into the bedroom and we watch in bed. Now, this 98 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:13.360 couple should be doing something else, but they are. They're 99 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:18.319 looking at their screens. Now. The latest statistic, this is 100 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:22.800 the most recent statistic, is that people check their phone 101 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:27.279 every twelve minutes, on average, every twelve minutes. That means 102 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:32.000 you look at this little screen eighty times a day, 103 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:36.439 if you're an average person, eighty times a day, and 104 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:39.439 that all that change has just happened in about a decade. 105 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:43.480 We have to talk about the implications and the power, 106 00:06:43.519 --> 00:06:46.879 both the upside and the downside of this in your 107 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:51.199 life now. Because everybody looks at their phone on an 108 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:55.480 average eighty times a day. Even famous ad personalities want 109 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:58.879 to get involved. Here's the Corona man. I don't always 110 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:01.399 look at my phone, but when I do, it's. 111 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:02.480 Because everybody else does. 112 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:06.000 And that's the most mysterious man in the world, if 113 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:07.160 you know who I'm talking about. 114 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:07.680 Now. 115 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:11.680 The other good news is that if you're painfully shy, 116 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:15.839 you're one of the people who's always worried about everybody 117 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:18.160 might be looking at you, and you're worried. 118 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:20.040 Is everybody looking at me? Right now? 119 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:23.439 Relax, nobody's looking at you. 120 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:24.279 Nobody's looking. 121 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:26.480 Do you remember years ago there was a song that 122 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:29.839 came out says you should dance like nobody's watching. Do 123 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:33.720 you remember that song, dance like nobody's watching. Well, here's 124 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:36.680 the truth. Dance like no one's watching because everyone is 125 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:40.240 on their phone, so no one is watching you. So 126 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:42.920 you can act like a total goofball. Nobody's going to 127 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:45.079 pay attention. A guy can pull a gun out and 128 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:50.360 you won't even notice. What is amazing, as I said, 129 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:53.879 is that all this changed happened in real literally just 130 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:57.240 a few years, in just a decade. 131 00:07:57.399 --> 00:07:59.560 I have to share this with you. This is on 132 00:07:59.600 --> 00:07:59.959 the internet. 133 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:02.199 My kids asked what it was like growing up in 134 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:04.360 the eighties, so I took away their phone and turned 135 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:05.040 off the internet. 136 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:07.399 That's it. 137 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:13.879 That's the eighties, folks, all right, that's the eighties. This 138 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:18.279 church was started January nineteen eighty that's the eighties, no phone, 139 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:24.560 no Internet. That's how different it is now. If you're 140 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:28.439 going to spend that much time looking at this the 141 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:30.480 rest of your life, we need to deal with it 142 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:33.399 as a spiritual issue too. So I want us this 143 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:39.480 weekend to look at being a disciple in the digital age. 144 00:08:39.559 --> 00:08:41.279 How can I use this for good? And how can 145 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:45.360 I minimize the negative parts of it? Okay, and I 146 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:47.200 really want to do a couple things. First, I want 147 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:50.279 us to understand some of the downsides. I don't have 148 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:52.480 time to go into all the downsides, but some of 149 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:56.039 the downsides in this technological power that you hold, and 150 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:59.039 you actually carry it with you all the time, so 151 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:03.960 you actually carry with you a new source for old temptations. 152 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:07.600 The temptations have been around forever and ever and ever 153 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:10.840 new source for old temptations, but you carry it with 154 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:13.759 you in your purse or your pocket. And then I 155 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:17.559 want to look at five ways to use your smart 156 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:21.080 forum for the glory of God. So I want us 157 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:26.559 to begin by looking at the spiritual hazards of digital tools. 158 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:29.080 We all know what the upside. This is an amazing tool. 159 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:32.519 It gives you access to the entire world, to the 160 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:35.159 body of knowledge that's out there, and it's just it's 161 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:40.080 hard to explain, explain how powerful this tool is. But 162 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:43.080 there are spiritual downsites, and so let's look at the 163 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:49.919 spiritual hazards of digital tools. I'm talking about iPhones, iPods, smartphones, laptops, 164 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:53.519 any any device that connects you online to the internet. 165 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:57.159 All right, By the way, what is a hazard? Well, 166 00:09:57.159 --> 00:09:58.840 if you're a golfer, you know what a hazard is. 167 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:04.240 But a hazard is is a potential dangerous trap. If 168 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:06.879 you're walking through a minefield where they buried mines in 169 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:10.919 the ground, that's a hazardous field. And if you step 170 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:13.799 on a mine, it'll blow you up. By the way, 171 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:16.799 I like to keep you guys up to date, so 172 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:20.360 as your pastor if you're a golfer, the word hazard 173 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:23.360 is no longer acceptable after one hundred and fifty years at. 174 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:25.559 The golf course. You probably don't know this, but I do. 175 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:26.360 I'm going to tell you. 176 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:33.080 In January one, nineteen twenty nineteen, all of the powers 177 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:36.480 that be in golf, the PGA, LPGA, and all of 178 00:10:36.519 --> 00:10:39.960 the other golf associations that governing golf took the word 179 00:10:40.120 --> 00:10:43.679 hazard out of the official manual after one hundred and 180 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:46.879 fifty years, so they're no longer called hazards. Now in golf, 181 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:49.159 there are two kinds of hazards. There's water hazards and 182 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:53.279 there's sand trap hazards. But now sand trap hazards are 183 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:56.159 simply called bunkers. Everybody knows what that is, a bunker. 184 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:00.840 But water hazards are now going to be called penalty areas. 185 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:03.600 I'm not making this up. I just didn't want you 186 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:06.440 to be embarrassed the next time you played golf. Don't 187 00:11:06.519 --> 00:11:08.840 use that word because it's now out of date according 188 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:12.440 to the Official Rule Book of Golf. Some of you, 189 00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:16.519 that's all you needed here, Go home? Okay, Now I 190 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:20.720 said that you carry a new source of old temptation 191 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:24.799 in your pocket or in your purse all day long. 192 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:28.279 Let me just give you six hazards you need to 193 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:30.039 be aware of. Okay, write these down. We'll go through 194 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:34.039 them pretty quickly. Number one is it can waste my time. 195 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:38.559 I can waste time on my cell phone. Everybody agree 196 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:43.080 with that. Yeah, of course, time is your most precious commodity. 197 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.440 You only have a limited amount of time. If you 198 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:51.600 are an average human being, you will live twenty seven thousand, 199 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:56.039 three hundred and seventy five days. Twenty seven three hundred 200 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:58.240 and seventy five days. That's the average number of days 201 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:02.519 a human being lives on earth. If you're over twenty 202 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:05.440 seven years of age, you've already passed ten thousand days 203 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:08.120 are behind you, and the problem is you're not getting 204 00:12:08.120 --> 00:12:08.679 those back. 205 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:09.840 Time is your. 206 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:13.200 Most precious resource because you can't get it back. You 207 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:14.120 can't get any. 208 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:14.360 More of it. 209 00:12:14.679 --> 00:12:16.840 You can always get more money, you can always get 210 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:18.159 more energy. There are a lot of things you can 211 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:20.559 get more of. You can create, but you can't create 212 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:22.440 more time. You have a certain number of days in 213 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:25.080 your life and that's it, and when you spend it, 214 00:12:25.080 --> 00:12:30.440 it's gone. So life management is really time management. If 215 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:32.559 you learn to manage your time, then you'll learn to 216 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:35.639 manage your life. Now, here's what the Bible says, Ephesions, 217 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:41.679 Chapter five, Verse fifteen and sixty. Be careful how you live. 218 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:48.720 Don't live foolishly. Instead live as wise people, making every 219 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:53.159 minute count because these are evil times. 220 00:12:53.320 --> 00:12:54.039 Now, notice it. 221 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:55.840 Says be careful how you live. You might circle that 222 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:58.159 word careful. We don't use the word careful like the 223 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:01.919 diad in Bible times. Today, care careful has an implication 224 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:06.639 of you're worried about something, be careful, watch out, don't 225 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:09.240 fall off, be careful as you walk down that area. 226 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:12.000 It has a This is not what it's saying here. 227 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:17.799 The opposite of careful is careless. Careless, he said. Don't 228 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:20.360 be careless with your life. Be careful, And that means 229 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:24.120 be intentional. Around here, we call it being purpose driven 230 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:28.320 with your time. That you're intentional, you're deliberate, you know 231 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:30.840 where you're going. You're not wasting your time. You're not 232 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:35.240 careless with your time. You're careful with your time. Now, 233 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:40.360 the latest stat on these smartphones is that in America, 234 00:13:40.679 --> 00:13:43.559 you spend, since you look at it, eighty times a day, 235 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:47.639 three point four hours a day looking at your screen, 236 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:51.320 at your phone three point four hours a day. That 237 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:55.200 adds up to twenty four total hours a week you're 238 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:58.559 looking at this thing. And what that means is, if 239 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:01.440 you are an average person, you live to an average age, 240 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:05.679 you will eventually spend eleven solid years of your life 241 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:12.679 looking at this eleven solid years looking at this screen. Now, 242 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:17.320 that means we need to talk because I'm interested in 243 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:22.440 you not wasting eleven hours or eleven years of your life. 244 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:24.960 And by the way, that doesn't include watching TV. That's 245 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:28.519 another screen. And that doesn't include video games that you 246 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:33.799 play that aren't online. That's just being online through your phone. 247 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:37.000 The Bible says this up here on the screen. First Corinthians, 248 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:41.200 Chapter ten, verse twenty three. Now you may say I'm 249 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:46.559 allowed to do anything, but not everything is helpful or beneficial. 250 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:52.440 A thing may be permissible, but not everything is constructive 251 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:56.120 and encourages growth. This is a Bible principle we need 252 00:14:56.159 --> 00:14:58.559 to apply here. What is it saying. It's saying some 253 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:06.919 things aren't necessary wrong, they're just unnecessary. They're not necessarily wrong, 254 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:10.639 they're just not necessary. It's not a sin for you 255 00:15:10.679 --> 00:15:14.720 to spend five hours watching cute kitty commercials on uh, 256 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:17.320 you know, on YouTube, but it might not be the 257 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:18.360 best use of your time. 258 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:22.919 It's not a sin. It's not evil. What can mean bad, nasty. 259 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:26.039 It's just like, some things aren't necessarily wrong, they're just 260 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:29.720 not necessary. You need to say, is this worth me 261 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:33.440 giving my life for? I just gave my life scrolling 262 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:37.320 through a bunch of clickbait. How many of you I 263 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:41.399 wonder have when you were dead tired? Instead of going 264 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:44.639 to bed, you're sitting here scrolling through with your thumb. 265 00:15:44.679 --> 00:15:48.240 You're barely awake and you're gonna click click click click. Yeah, yeah, 266 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:50.240 that was funny. No, that wasn't. Yeah, that was funny, No, 267 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:50.679 that wasn't. 268 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:53.919 You know, if evolution were true, in one hundred years, 269 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:58.000 everybody's gonna have giant thumbs, okay, because they're exercise so 270 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:01.960 giant thumbs, big butts, little feet, we don't walk anywhere anymore, okay, 271 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:05.360 and they're just scrolling on will look very very different. 272 00:16:05.399 --> 00:16:05.720 Okay. 273 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:08.960 But how many times have you needed to go to 274 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:11.120 bed and you wasted it on looking at stuff on 275 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:15.879 the internet when really what you needed was sleep, And 276 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:18.679 then you paid for it the next day because you 277 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:21.000 spent a lot of time looking at stuff that didn't matter. 278 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:24.120 The Bible says this on the screen Proverbs twelve, verse eleven. 279 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:29.759 Only a fool idols away his time. So we know 280 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:31.360 I don't have to teach you on this one. We 281 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:34.679 all know it's easy to waste time on the internet. Okay, 282 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:36.759 let me give you a couple of others. Number two. 283 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:41.279 A second hazard is I can be seduced by the 284 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:47.840 world's values. I can be seduced by what the world values. 285 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:54.000 The world's value system, because the Internet and particularly social media, 286 00:16:54.440 --> 00:16:58.000 amplify stuff that is not important and make it seem 287 00:16:58.039 --> 00:17:02.960 like it's really, really, really important, and it's not. The 288 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:06.680 world and all the advertisers in it are constantly telling 289 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:09.279 you how to think, what to buy, how to feel, 290 00:17:09.480 --> 00:17:12.519 what's cool, what's not cool, what's hip, what's not hip. 291 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:16.640 The world is constantly shouting at you through the Internet, 292 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:21.119 and you're carrying it with you all day in your pocket. Now, 293 00:17:21.160 --> 00:17:24.440 that's not a temptation Previous generations of followers of Christ 294 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:26.359 I had to deal with because they weren't carrying it 295 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:29.160 with it. But you've got your caring advertising with you 296 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:30.440 everywhere you go. 297 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:32.559 And the world's. 298 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:37.200 Value system of passion, possession and position or sex, salary 299 00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:41.440 and status. That's what the world's after. And if you 300 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:43.720 listen to it long enough, you start thinking, well, that 301 00:17:43.799 --> 00:17:49.079 must be right and that must be okay, and you 302 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:53.359 carry that voice with you. Whatever gets you gets your attention, 303 00:17:53.759 --> 00:17:55.559 And if you look at something long enough, you know 304 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:58.880 what's going to happen. You're gonna start copying it, and 305 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:01.519 you're gonna dress like that, You're gonna act like that, 306 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:03.920 you're gonna think like that, You're gonna feel like that 307 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:07.160 whatever you look at all the time, you're eventually gonna copy. 308 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:10.480 That's why the Bible says this in Romans twelve, verse two. 309 00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:18.240 Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world. But 310 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:23.839 let God transform you into a new person by changing 311 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:27.480 the way you think. Okay, he says, don't copy the 312 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:29.799 world's value says, what are the world's value system? 313 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:30.839 Look up here on the screen. 314 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:36.240 One John two fifteen to seventeen says this, do not 315 00:18:36.440 --> 00:18:41.920 love the world or anything in the world. If anyone 316 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:45.759 loves the world, the love of the Father is not 317 00:18:46.119 --> 00:18:46.480 in him. 318 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:48.039 Hang on here just a minut. 319 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:52.759 Let me stop the guy who wrote this John In 320 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:55.119 on one John two sixteen, he says, if anybody loves 321 00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:56.640 the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 322 00:18:56.799 --> 00:18:59.680 He's the same guy who wrote John three sixteen and 323 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:03.200 another book which says God so loved the world. Okay, 324 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:04.000 which is it? 325 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:05.559 I mean? Come on? 326 00:19:05.759 --> 00:19:08.359 In John three sixteen, John says God so loved the world, 327 00:19:08.599 --> 00:19:11.519 And in first John two sixteen he says, don't love 328 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:14.359 the world. Well, what am I supposed to do? Looks 329 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:18.640 like a contradiction. The answer is in the definition of 330 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:20.039 the word world. 331 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:20.839 In John three p. 332 00:19:20.960 --> 00:19:23.559 Sixteen, where it says God so loved the world, he's 333 00:19:23.599 --> 00:19:27.079 talking about the people of the world. We are to 334 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:29.039 love the people of the world because they were created 335 00:19:29.079 --> 00:19:31.039 in the image of God. They have dignity. We are 336 00:19:31.039 --> 00:19:35.480 to love every person. In one John two fifteen to seventeen, 337 00:19:35.599 --> 00:19:38.559 he's saying, don't love the value system of the world. 338 00:19:39.599 --> 00:19:42.079 So the Bible says we are to love the people 339 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:45.359 in the world, but we are to hate the world's 340 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:49.680 value system because it's anti God. Love the people, hate 341 00:19:49.759 --> 00:19:53.200 the value system. The problem is we do the exact opposite. 342 00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:56.759 We hate the people and we love the value system. 343 00:19:57.000 --> 00:20:01.039 We are as materialistic as everybody else, interested in sex 344 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:05.799 and pleasure and living for fun and living making. 345 00:20:05.559 --> 00:20:06.759 That the highest goal of life. 346 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:10.240 We're as interested in status and salary and sex and 347 00:20:10.279 --> 00:20:14.759 popularity and possessions and power as everybody else is. We 348 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:17.880 get it backwards. Now look at that verse again. Don't 349 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:20.839 love the world or anything in the world. If anyone 350 00:20:20.920 --> 00:20:24.039 loves the world, the love of the Father is not 351 00:20:24.559 --> 00:20:27.240 in him for what the world values. 352 00:20:27.279 --> 00:20:28.839 And the world has three big values. 353 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:34.480 The lust for constant pleasure that's called hedonism, the greed 354 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:39.480 for more things, that's called materialism, and the prideful positioning 355 00:20:39.839 --> 00:20:43.799 to appear important that's called secularism or humanism. It says, 356 00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:45.559 I am God, I'll be my own God. 357 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:47.440 I don't need God. I'm more important. 358 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:51.039 He says, of these three things, none of these things 359 00:20:51.119 --> 00:20:55.680 come from your father. The world and what it values 360 00:20:56.240 --> 00:20:59.559 is going to pass away. But whoever does the will 361 00:20:59.559 --> 00:21:03.799 of God that lives forever. So you gotta choose. I'm 362 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:06.079 gonna go with God's value system or am I gonna 363 00:21:06.119 --> 00:21:10.200 go with the world's value system of you know, the 364 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:14.119 temptation to have more, the temptation to feel more, the temptation. 365 00:21:13.799 --> 00:21:16.319 To be more, all of these kind of things that happen. 366 00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:17.480 He says. 367 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:20.039 If you're hearing people shout at you all the time 368 00:21:20.519 --> 00:21:22.480 that you got to be popular, and you got to 369 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:25.079 be beautiful, and you've got to be successful, and you 370 00:21:25.160 --> 00:21:28.400 got to be rich for you to have any value. 371 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:31.799 That's a lie. It's a lie. 372 00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:34.799 It's the world's value system that only the wealthiest matter, 373 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:37.960 only the most beautiful matter, Only those who are having 374 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:41.559 the most fun matter. That means you don't matter because 375 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:44.240 you're not in any of those categories. But that's what 376 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:46.920 the world is constantly teaching you got to be thin 377 00:21:47.319 --> 00:21:51.440 and beautiful and sexy and rich, otherwise your life sucks. 378 00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:54.200 That's the world's value system. 379 00:21:54.359 --> 00:21:56.880 They are wrong, but you're hearing it all the time, 380 00:21:56.920 --> 00:21:59.559 and you're carrying it with you in your pocket, and 381 00:21:59.599 --> 00:22:03.480 you're reading on social media and things like that. If 382 00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:05.480 I see it enough, I start thinking, well, it must 383 00:22:05.480 --> 00:22:09.079 be okay. And what what what this does is this 384 00:22:09.279 --> 00:22:14.400 desensitizes me to sin. It desensitizes me to say, well, 385 00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:17.559 if everybody's doing it must be okay, it must be 386 00:22:17.599 --> 00:22:20.359 all right James four, verse four, And the Bible says this. 387 00:22:20.839 --> 00:22:23.960 Don't you know that to be a friend of the 388 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:28.839 world is to be hostile to God. If you if 389 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:32.000 your aim is to be popular with the world, you 390 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:36.240 make yourself God's enemy. I didn't say that God does. 391 00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:38.240 He says, you've got to choose. Do you want to 392 00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:42.079 be a people pleaser or do you want to be 393 00:22:42.119 --> 00:22:46.319 a God pleaser. I highly recommend that you decide from 394 00:22:46.319 --> 00:22:48.720 this day forward, you're not going to be a people 395 00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:52.799 pleaser anymore. You're going to be a God pleaser. Because 396 00:22:52.839 --> 00:22:54.839 if you're a God pleaser, it will always be the 397 00:22:54.920 --> 00:22:56.960 right thing to do. And Actually there will be some 398 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:58.240 good people who like that. 399 00:23:04.440 --> 00:23:07.680 Wow, such a great message today and every day. Thanks 400 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:11.319 Pastor Rick. Hey, do you know someone who's graduating this year? 401 00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:15.559