WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.720 Hi, this is Pastor Rick Warren. You know, the Bible 2 00:00:02.759 --> 00:00:06.719 says that God's mercies are new every morning. That means 3 00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:10.480 every day you get a chance to start over, new day, 4 00:00:10.839 --> 00:00:14.640 new vision, new goals, new mercy. That's good news. We're 5 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:16.719 going to be talking about it all year here at 6 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:20.160 Daily Hope. So God bless you everybody. I'm glad you're 7 00:00:20.199 --> 00:00:23.039 listening today and stick with us through the whole year. 8 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:29.559 This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry 9 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:33.280 of Pastor Rick Warren. Today we continue in a series 10 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:38.640 called Transformed. In these lessons, Rick uncovers key principles found 11 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:39.719 in God's. 12 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:42.000 Word that will completely. 13 00:00:41.240 --> 00:00:45.119 Transform our lives from the inside out in every area 14 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:53.320 including spiritual, physical, mental, emotional, relational, financial, and vocational. Now, 15 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:56.240 if you can improve in any of these areas I 16 00:00:56.439 --> 00:00:59.799 just mentioned, stay with us, because in just a few 17 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:01.880 months moments, we're going to let you know how you 18 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:06.680 can have your very own Transformed study kit from Pastor Rick, 19 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:10.719 which includes a seven session DVD and workbook. You can 20 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:13.879 take a sneak peek right now by going to Pastororik 21 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:16.719 dot com while you listen, and if you want, you 22 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:20.599 can just text the word daily to eight hundred, six hundred, 23 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:24.319 five thousand and four to find out more. Right now, 24 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:27.400 here's Pastor Rick Warren with part two of a message 25 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:29.719 called From Stress to Blast. 26 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:35.040 You will spend one third of your life asleep. Now, 27 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:36.840 if God's only going to give you sixty eighty one 28 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:39.400 hundred years here on earth, why wouldn't he give you 29 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:42.519 one hundred percent of the time. Why would one third 30 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:47.680 of that time be wasted in sleep? Because God wants 31 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:52.000 you to learn the importance of rest. Rest is so important. 32 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:57.000 God rest. God modeled it when he created the whole universe. 33 00:01:57.040 --> 00:01:59.920 The Bible says that after he finished all creation, it says, 34 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:04.959 on the seventh day, God rested. Now, why did God rest? 35 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:08.280 He wasn't tired. God doesn't ever get tired. He was 36 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:13.120 modeling the importance of rest to your life. And he says, 37 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:16.360 every seventh day you rest. And he said, that's what 38 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:20.319 God did. He modeled it. Now, the Bible's filled with 39 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:26.560 instructions about rest, recreation, and relaxation. In fact, it's so important. 40 00:02:26.759 --> 00:02:30.919 God put it in the Big Ten. It's in the 41 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:36.560 ten Commandments, right up there with don't commit adultery and 42 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:41.000 don't murder and don't lie. 43 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:43.439 He says, every seventh day you take a day off. 44 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:50.439 Hello, that's how important a sabbath is in your life. 45 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:56.680 Jesus later said the Sabbath was made for man, not 46 00:02:56.919 --> 00:02:59.560 man for the Sabbath. In other words, God says, I 47 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:01.840 created this idea if you take a day off every 48 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:05.960 seven days for rest, recreation, worship, and restoration. He goes, 49 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:09.039 that's my idea. It's for your benefit. It's so you 50 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:13.759 don't burn out. And yet today, in our modern society, 51 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:16.319 people aren't doing that. Even on their day off, they're working. 52 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:18.159 And a lot of people, even if they go to 53 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:20.759 a church service, then they go home and they go 54 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:22.520 right back to work trying to get done all the 55 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:25.840 stuff they didn't get done during the work week. That's 56 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:29.560 not a sabbath. That's not a sabbath. Now, God says, 57 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:33.639 I want you to rest. Psalm twenty three, verse two 58 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:37.879 says this he makes me lie down. Circle the phrase 59 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:43.560 makes me He says, God makes me lie down? Has God, 60 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:46.960 I've had to make you lay down because you aren't 61 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:49.919 smart enough to obey what he says about rest and 62 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:52.680 take a day off every week. You know, sheep aren't 63 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:55.039 smart enough to rest when they get tired, so the 64 00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:58.439 shepherd has to make them lay down. And if you're 65 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:00.159 not smart enough to get the rest you need and 66 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:04.560 take a day off every week for rest, your body 67 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:08.039 will make sure you do it. And God has wired 68 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:10.000 your body in such a way that if you don't 69 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:13.919 take time off, your body will make time off. Anybody 70 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:17.079 want to give a testimony on that. If you just 71 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:21.000 keep working, working, you're going to get sick. Because God 72 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:25.279 wired you to obey his commandments. Getting enough sleep is 73 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:28.759 essential to stress management. I want you to write this down. 74 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:34.519 My best requires rest. You are not wasting time when 75 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:38.839 you're relaxing. You're not wasting time when you're resting. It 76 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:41.000 is better to have loafed and lost than to have 77 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:48.600 never loafed at all. That's why God gave us a sabbath. 78 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:51.879 And here's the Sabbath Exodus thirty four to twenty one. 79 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:56.839 Six days are set aside for work. But every seventh 80 00:04:56.920 --> 00:05:02.160 day you must rest completely. Circle the word completely. You 81 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:07.079 must rest completely. Even during your seasons of plowing and harvest, 82 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:11.079 you must observe a Sabbath day of rest. Notice that 83 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:15.040 even in your busiest season, it's no excuse you may 84 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:17.319 be a tax accountant and it's April, you still have 85 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:18.240 to take a day off. 86 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:20.680 Okay. 87 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:24.759 I mean you may be a retailer and it's Christmas season, 88 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:28.040 you still have to take a day off. You may 89 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:30.879 be a farmer and it may be a harvest or 90 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:33.920 planting season. You still have to take a day off. Now, 91 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:37.600 what am I supposed to do on my Sabbath? Three things? 92 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:39.439 Write these down. Here's three things you're supposed to do 93 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:44.160 on your Sabbath. Number one, rest my body. You need 94 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:47.600 to rest your body physically. 95 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:48.120 Rest. 96 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:51.279 There's a biblical basis for a good Sunday afternoon nap, 97 00:05:51.560 --> 00:06:01.160 right there. Number two, just not when I'm speaking. Number two, 98 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:05.879 refocus my spirit. I rest my body on the Sabbath, 99 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:11.079 and I refocus my spirit. And what is that? That's worship. 100 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:13.920 It's what you're doing right now. You are refocusing your 101 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:17.560 spirit right now by coming to worship, and in corporate worship, 102 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:21.560 we recharge and refresh our spirit. And number three, I 103 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:26.560 am to recharge my emotions. Use the sabbath to recharge emotions. 104 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:30.160 That's what recreation does. It recharges your emotions. Now, different 105 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:33.199 things recharge different people, and we'll talk about that in 106 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:33.800 just a minute. 107 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:35.040 About how you. 108 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:37.680 Need beauty in your life, but you need you need 109 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:40.839 to do something that restores you and re energize. It 110 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:43.759 could be a hobby, it could be a sport. These 111 00:06:43.800 --> 00:06:46.319 are good things that God has given us as gifts 112 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:52.240 in order to recharge your emotions. You know, it doesn't 113 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:54.920 really matter which day is your Sabbath. In fact, the 114 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:57.240 Book of Colossians in the Bible says it doesn't matter 115 00:06:57.319 --> 00:06:59.240 which day you choose. You just need to choose to day. 116 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:02.079 My sabbath is not Sunday. Sunday is a workday for me, 117 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:06.519 by the way, so is Saturday. My sabbath is Monday. 118 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:10.759 And on Monday, I rest and I refocus and I 119 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:14.360 recharge and that's and I don't do any work on Monday. 120 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:16.480 That's my sabbath. And by the way, I don't call 121 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:18.040 it your day off, because if it's your day off, 122 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:20.519 you'll cheat on it. And you said, oh, I got 123 00:07:20.519 --> 00:07:21.920 all these things they need to do, I'll do this. 124 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:23.839 But if it's your sabbath, then you use it for 125 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:26.959 what God intended. He said, but I feel guilty when 126 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:32.199 I relax. Well, Jesus didn't. When you study jesus ministry, 127 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:34.680 he often took time off to relax. In fact, he'd 128 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:37.279 go out into an entire period of intensive ministry and 129 00:07:37.319 --> 00:07:39.360 then he'd say, guys, we need to come apart for 130 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:41.759 a while. We're going off to the mountains. We're going 131 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:43.879 off the desert. We got to come apart. And I 132 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:45.759 always say, if you don't come apart, you're going to 133 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:49.360 come apart. And he said, let's go off to the desert. 134 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:52.040 He goes out there where there's these springs and those 135 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:58.240 those date palms, palms and springs and palm springs. There's 136 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:01.360 a biblical basis for going to palms right there. Okay, 137 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:04.480 he says, go off to the desert and we're gonna. 138 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:05.360 Go relax for a while. 139 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:07.319 I'm sure they didn't have a jacuzzi to sit in, 140 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:10.240 but it would have been nice. But Jesus didn't feel 141 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:13.360 guilty about it. Did you know that during the French 142 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:18.000 Revolution they canceled the French government canceled the sabbath and 143 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:19.040 said every day is going to. 144 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:19.600 Be a workday. 145 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:21.439 And after a couple of years they had to reinstate 146 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:25.160 it because the health of the nation had crumbled. You 147 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:29.319 need this in your life, you need a sabbath. I 148 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:31.800 heard about a guy who said to his pastor. He said, Pastor, 149 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:33.639 I tried to get a hold of you all day 150 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:36.799 on Monday, and the pastor said, well, I'm sorry, it's 151 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:40.559 my day off. And the man said, well, the devil 152 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:42.679 never takes a day off, and he said yeah, and 153 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:47.000 if I didn't, I'd be just like the devil. And 154 00:08:47.159 --> 00:08:49.000 some of you that's why you're so mean. You're not 155 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:52.279 getting enough sleep, you're not getting enough rest, and you're 156 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:54.600 a little devil because you're not taking the Sabbath. 157 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:56.960 And the devil's not your model. Okay. 158 00:08:57.080 --> 00:09:00.440 Number three, I looked to God to meet on my needs. 159 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:04.759 The Lord is my shepherd. I obey God's instructions about rest. 160 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:08.559 He makes me lay down, lie down. Then number three, 161 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:14.000 I recharge my soul with beauty. Beauty is an incredibly 162 00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:20.559 important thing in stress management. Ugliness stresses you out. Beauty inspires, 163 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:26.039 Beauty encourages, Beauty motivates, Beauty stirs up positive emotions. 164 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:32.000 You're listening to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope Rip will be 165 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:34.879 back in just a moment with the rest of today's lesson. 166 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:38.399 You can sign up for Pastor Rick's free email devotional 167 00:09:38.600 --> 00:09:43.000 at Pastorick dot com. 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That's the third thing 196 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:39.080 you need to do. Recharge my soul with beauty. Beauty 197 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:44.639 is an incredibly important thing in stress management. Ugliness stresses 198 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:50.720 you out. Beauty inspires, Beauty encourages, Beauty motivates, Beauty stirs 199 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:56.279 up positive emotions. Have you ever thought about why God 200 00:11:56.360 --> 00:11:57.919 made the world so beautiful? 201 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:00.679 And you look at. 202 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:06.480 Sunrises and sunsets, beautiful flowers that are never even seen, 203 00:12:06.639 --> 00:12:09.080 and all of these sites around the world that many 204 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:10.320 people will humanize. 205 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:12.440 We'll see, but God created a world of beauty. 206 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:16.639 He could have made Earth just like the moon, just 207 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:19.279 a moonscape, or like Tattooine. 208 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:23.360 For those of you who don't know Star Wars. 209 00:12:23.159 --> 00:12:33.080 That's the desert planet that Luke was from Skywalker, and 210 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:34.960 he wanted to get off that planet really quick because 211 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:38.360 it's pretty ugly. Anybody should have go on about the gospel. 212 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:43.559 According to Scar Wars, he could have made it just 213 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:46.200 a desolate, dusty, gray planet. 214 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:46.519 No. 215 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:51.919 No, God created a planet with vibrant colors. Have you 216 00:12:51.960 --> 00:12:54.639 ever heard anybody say? I heard it the other day 217 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:56.879 when I was actually last summer, I was on vacation 218 00:12:56.960 --> 00:12:59.360 up in Yosemite. We were under some redwood trees, and 219 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:01.480 a man said to me, I feel so close to 220 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:02.399 God in nature. 221 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:06.759 Well, of course you do. He created it. 222 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:12.440 Man was made to live in a garden, not in 223 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:15.960 a skyscraper. When God created man, he put him in 224 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:18.159 the garden of Eden. He didn't put him a skyscraper. 225 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:23.080 You weren't made to live in everything concrete. God made 226 00:13:23.159 --> 00:13:26.279 us to live in a garden, in a beautiful place. 227 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:32.919 Any of you remember Woodstock? You're really old if you 228 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:38.159 just raise your hand. Okay, really really old. Okay. There's 229 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:42.440 this rock concert many many years ago. Joni Mitchell wrote 230 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:45.080 a song about it called Woodstock, and it says, well, 231 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:47.399 I came upon a child of God. He was walking 232 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:49.559 along the road, and I said where you're going? He said, 233 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:52.120 I'm going up the Yazgres Farm for this rock and 234 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:52.799 roll band. 235 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:54.600 And there's a line in. 236 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:57.960 The course that says this, we are stardust, we are golden, 237 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:01.440 and we're caught in the devil's bar and we've got to. 238 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:02.799 Get back to the garden. 239 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:07.039 And it's a capital g she's talking about the garden 240 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:12.559 of Eden. We've come a long way from the Garden 241 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:13.720 of Eden on this planet. 242 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:17.000 People say I feel close to God in nature. Of 243 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:17.679 course you do. 244 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:24.120 It's God's beauty, and beauty inspires and beauty motivates. Notice 245 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:26.679 the next verse Psalm twenty three, verse two and three. 246 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:28.519 He makes me lie down? But where does he make 247 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:29.120 me lie down? 248 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:35.360 He makes me lie down in lush green meadows golf course. 249 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:39.679 And leaves me. 250 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:43.480 Beside calm, quiet waters. 251 00:14:44.519 --> 00:14:45.360 By the sandtrap. 252 00:14:47.799 --> 00:14:52.480 He restores my soul. Okay, he restores my soul. Now 253 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:55.679 it's no wonder. Psalm twenty three is the most beloved 254 00:14:55.720 --> 00:14:58.600 psalm because we can all visualize this one. When I 255 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:06.600 say think about lush, green meadows and a calm, quiet lake, you. 256 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:10.440 Relax just thinking about it. Okay. 257 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:13.919 If I say think about downtown LA, you get stressed out. 258 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:21.759 I say, think about meadows and calm waters and babbling brooks. 259 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:31.799 Nature refreshes because beauty inspires. Now you need beautiful scenes. 260 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:34.440 You need to see beautiful scenes, and you need to 261 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:37.240 hear beautiful sounds. In order to keep the stress down 262 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:39.759 in your life. You need to add beauty into your life. 263 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:41.679 Let me give you some suggestions. Write these down. 264 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:47.600 Number one, get outside every day. If you're not getting 265 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:50.879 outside every day, your stress level is going up. Even 266 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:54.320 if it's just your backyard, even if just walk around 267 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:57.639 the block, even if it's take your lunch outside. Walk 268 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:01.000 outside of the office and sit outside and look up 269 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:04.879 at a tree while you eat your sandwich. You need 270 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:08.879 to get in touch with God's creation. You need to 271 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:13.200 surround yourself with beauty. Get outside. Let me give you 272 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:20.759 a second suggestion. Start the day with God, not the media. 273 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:25.960 Before you read any text message, before you check your email, 274 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:31.080 before you turn on the radio to some talk radio 275 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:34.240 people screaming at each other, or before you turn on 276 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:37.600 the television for some morning show. You need to get 277 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:40.279 in touch with God first. The first seven minutes of 278 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:43.360 your day set your mood every day. So do you 279 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:45.720 want to start it with an alarm clock and then 280 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:48.120 the worst news of the day coming at you. No, 281 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:50.759 you don't really need to know all the bad news 282 00:16:50.759 --> 00:16:52.240 first thing when you get up, you don't need to 283 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:54.600 know that you need to turn on some praise music, 284 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:57.919 some worship music. You need to get in touch with God. 285 00:16:58.039 --> 00:17:00.159 You need to let the first five ten minutes of 286 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:05.559 your day be with the Lord, and that'll dramatically reduce 287 00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:11.480 your stress and improve your mood. Another suggestion number three, 288 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:17.240 intentionally put beauty around you, whether it's pieces of art 289 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:24.839 or music that inspires you, or something a craft, that 290 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:29.519 something that you know. I used to collect seashells, and 291 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:31.759 I collected them from all over the world, and I 292 00:17:31.799 --> 00:17:34.839 did it and I had had my library filled with 293 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:38.599 them because looking at those things simply inspired me to go, Wow, 294 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:42.680 that the intricacy of that nautilus, how God inspired that. 295 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:47.880 Looking at beauty lowers your stress level. Listening to beauty 296 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:50.720 lowers your stress level. So I highly recommend that you 297 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:56.000 either take up an instrument or or some kind of 298 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:59.640 art or craft to create beauty. You are most like 299 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:04.240 your creator when you're being creative, and so you need 300 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:05.279 art in your life. 301 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:06.039 You need beauty. 302 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:09.200 And by the way, art and music are two of 303 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:16.240 the greatest arguments against evolution. Why because they're totally unnecessary 304 00:18:16.279 --> 00:18:19.759 for human survival. And if the whole survival of the fittest 305 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:22.200 really works, then why in the world do we have 306 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:25.799 music and art in the world. Because you're more than 307 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:29.039 a body and God made you for worship. Did you 308 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:31.799 know more songs have been written about Jesus than any 309 00:18:31.799 --> 00:18:35.000 other subject in human history. Did you know more books 310 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:37.920 have been written about Jesus than in any other subject 311 00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:40.319 in human history. Do you know that more art has 312 00:18:40.359 --> 00:18:43.839 been created about the Bible and honor and glorify God 313 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:47.079 and Jesus than any other subject in history. Why God 314 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:50.039 gave us music and God gave us art for one reason, 315 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:54.000 to express emotion. That's the only purpose of it. You 316 00:18:54.039 --> 00:18:56.759 don't need it for physical survival, but you do need 317 00:18:56.799 --> 00:19:00.359 it to really live, to be who God made you 318 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:02.880 to be. So fill your life with art, and fill 319 00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:06.519 your life with music. You know, when I get stressed out, 320 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:08.480 I go home, I pick up a guitar and start 321 00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:12.039 playing a guitar, are sitting on piano, bang on the piano, ukulele, 322 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:17.799 doesn't matter, kazoo, you know whatever, just come and paper. 323 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:22.519 It's like last week you said, make a joyful noise 324 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:24.559 that don't have to be pretty, Just make a joyful noise. 325 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:31.160 Philippians four to eight says this, You'll do best by 326 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:35.079 filling your minds and meditating on things that are true 327 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:41.480 and noble and reputable, and authentic and compelling and gracious. 328 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:46.319 It sounds like television, doesn't it. No, it doesn't. That 329 00:19:46.440 --> 00:19:47.759 is not television. Okay. 330 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:49.880 You'll do best by filling your mind with things that 331 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:52.920 are true and noble and authentic, compelling, gracious, the best, 332 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:54.039 not the worst. 333 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:55.720 The beautiful, not the ugly. 334 00:19:57.319 --> 00:19:59.680 Now because of sin, there's a lot of ugliness in 335 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:02.240 the world. World, there are a lot of unpleasant things 336 00:20:02.240 --> 00:20:05.640 in the world. Whatever you give your attention to is 337 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:09.119 going to either raise or lower your stress. Some of 338 00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:12.480 you during fifty days transformation, you need to do a 339 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:15.599 fast on the news. I hate to tell you this, 340 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:17.759 but you could miss the news for the next fifty days, 341 00:20:17.759 --> 00:20:19.400 and I'm going to make one difference in the world. 342 00:20:24.680 --> 00:20:28.079 This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. We're so happy that 343 00:20:28.119 --> 00:20:31.359 you've chosen to study along with us today. If you'd 344 00:20:31.400 --> 00:20:34.759 like to receive Rix free daily devotional, just go to 345 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:38.480 pastorick dot com and sign up Right now. Rick will 346 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:41.359 be back to close out our time today. But first, 347 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:45.039 you know the world is shouting for our attention with 348 00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:50.279 answers to our relationship struggles, solutions to our financial troubles, 349 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:54.519 and explanations to our search for meaning. 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