Speaker 1: Hi, this is Pastor Rick Warren. You know, the Bible
Speaker 1: says that God's mercies are new every morning. That means
Speaker 1: every day you get a chance to start over, new day,
Speaker 1: new vision, new goals, new mercy. That's good news. We're
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Speaker 2: This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry
Speaker 2: of Pastor Rick Warren. Today we continue in a series
Speaker 2: called Transformed. In these lessons, Rick uncovers key principles found
Speaker 2: in God's.
Speaker 3: Word that will completely.
Speaker 2: Transform our lives from the inside out in every area
Speaker 2: including spiritual, physical, mental, emotional, relational, financial, and vocational. Now,
Speaker 2: if you can improve in any of these areas I
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Speaker 2: here's Pastor Rick Warren with part two of a message
Speaker 2: called From Stress to Blast.
Speaker 1: You will spend one third of your life asleep. Now,
Speaker 1: if God's only going to give you sixty eighty one
Speaker 1: hundred years here on earth, why wouldn't he give you
Speaker 1: one hundred percent of the time. Why would one third
Speaker 1: of that time be wasted in sleep? Because God wants
Speaker 1: you to learn the importance of rest. Rest is so important.
Speaker 1: God rest. God modeled it when he created the whole universe.
Speaker 1: The Bible says that after he finished all creation, it says,
Speaker 1: on the seventh day, God rested. Now, why did God rest?
Speaker 1: He wasn't tired. God doesn't ever get tired. He was
Speaker 1: modeling the importance of rest to your life. And he says,
Speaker 1: every seventh day you rest. And he said, that's what
Speaker 1: God did. He modeled it. Now, the Bible's filled with
Speaker 1: instructions about rest, recreation, and relaxation. In fact, it's so important.
Speaker 1: God put it in the Big Ten. It's in the
Speaker 1: ten Commandments, right up there with don't commit adultery and
Speaker 1: don't murder and don't lie.
Speaker 3: He says, every seventh day you take a day off.
Speaker 1: Hello, that's how important a sabbath is in your life.
Speaker 1: Jesus later said the Sabbath was made for man, not
Speaker 1: man for the Sabbath. In other words, God says, I
Speaker 1: created this idea if you take a day off every
Speaker 1: seven days for rest, recreation, worship, and restoration. He goes,
Speaker 1: that's my idea. It's for your benefit. It's so you
Speaker 1: don't burn out. And yet today, in our modern society,
Speaker 1: people aren't doing that. Even on their day off, they're working.
Speaker 1: And a lot of people, even if they go to
Speaker 1: a church service, then they go home and they go
Speaker 1: right back to work trying to get done all the
Speaker 1: stuff they didn't get done during the work week. That's
Speaker 1: not a sabbath. That's not a sabbath. Now, God says,
Speaker 1: I want you to rest. Psalm twenty three, verse two
Speaker 1: says this he makes me lie down. Circle the phrase
Speaker 1: makes me He says, God makes me lie down? Has God,
Speaker 1: I've had to make you lay down because you aren't
Speaker 1: smart enough to obey what he says about rest and
Speaker 1: take a day off every week. You know, sheep aren't
Speaker 1: smart enough to rest when they get tired, so the
Speaker 1: shepherd has to make them lay down. And if you're
Speaker 1: not smart enough to get the rest you need and
Speaker 1: take a day off every week for rest, your body
Speaker 1: will make sure you do it. And God has wired
Speaker 1: your body in such a way that if you don't
Speaker 1: take time off, your body will make time off. Anybody
Speaker 1: want to give a testimony on that. If you just
Speaker 1: keep working, working, you're going to get sick. Because God
Speaker 1: wired you to obey his commandments. Getting enough sleep is
Speaker 1: essential to stress management. I want you to write this down.
Speaker 1: My best requires rest. You are not wasting time when
Speaker 1: you're relaxing. You're not wasting time when you're resting. It
Speaker 1: is better to have loafed and lost than to have
Speaker 1: never loafed at all. That's why God gave us a sabbath.
Speaker 1: And here's the Sabbath Exodus thirty four to twenty one.
Speaker 1: Six days are set aside for work. But every seventh
Speaker 1: day you must rest completely. Circle the word completely. You
Speaker 1: must rest completely. Even during your seasons of plowing and harvest,
Speaker 1: you must observe a Sabbath day of rest. Notice that
Speaker 1: even in your busiest season, it's no excuse you may
Speaker 1: be a tax accountant and it's April, you still have
Speaker 1: to take a day off.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: I mean you may be a retailer and it's Christmas season,
Speaker 1: you still have to take a day off. You may
Speaker 1: be a farmer and it may be a harvest or
Speaker 1: planting season. You still have to take a day off. Now,
Speaker 1: what am I supposed to do on my Sabbath? Three things?
Speaker 1: Write these down. Here's three things you're supposed to do
Speaker 1: on your Sabbath. Number one, rest my body. You need
Speaker 1: to rest your body physically.
Speaker 3: Rest.
Speaker 1: There's a biblical basis for a good Sunday afternoon nap,
Speaker 1: right there. Number two, just not when I'm speaking. Number two,
Speaker 1: refocus my spirit. I rest my body on the Sabbath,
Speaker 1: and I refocus my spirit. And what is that? That's worship.
Speaker 1: It's what you're doing right now. You are refocusing your
Speaker 1: spirit right now by coming to worship, and in corporate worship,
Speaker 1: we recharge and refresh our spirit. And number three, I
Speaker 1: am to recharge my emotions. Use the sabbath to recharge emotions.
Speaker 1: That's what recreation does. It recharges your emotions. Now, different
Speaker 1: things recharge different people, and we'll talk about that in
Speaker 1: just a minute.
Speaker 3: About how you.
Speaker 1: Need beauty in your life, but you need you need
Speaker 1: to do something that restores you and re energize. It
Speaker 1: could be a hobby, it could be a sport. These
Speaker 1: are good things that God has given us as gifts
Speaker 1: in order to recharge your emotions. You know, it doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter which day is your Sabbath. In fact, the
Speaker 1: Book of Colossians in the Bible says it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: which day you choose. You just need to choose to day.
Speaker 1: My sabbath is not Sunday. Sunday is a workday for me,
Speaker 1: by the way, so is Saturday. My sabbath is Monday.
Speaker 1: And on Monday, I rest and I refocus and I
Speaker 1: recharge and that's and I don't do any work on Monday.
Speaker 1: That's my sabbath. And by the way, I don't call
Speaker 1: it your day off, because if it's your day off,
Speaker 1: you'll cheat on it. And you said, oh, I got
Speaker 1: all these things they need to do, I'll do this.
Speaker 1: But if it's your sabbath, then you use it for
Speaker 1: what God intended. He said, but I feel guilty when
Speaker 1: I relax. Well, Jesus didn't. When you study jesus ministry,
Speaker 1: he often took time off to relax. In fact, he'd
Speaker 1: go out into an entire period of intensive ministry and
Speaker 1: then he'd say, guys, we need to come apart for
Speaker 1: a while. We're going off to the mountains. We're going
Speaker 1: off the desert. We got to come apart. And I
Speaker 1: always say, if you don't come apart, you're going to
Speaker 1: come apart. And he said, let's go off to the desert.
Speaker 1: He goes out there where there's these springs and those
Speaker 1: those date palms, palms and springs and palm springs. There's
Speaker 1: a biblical basis for going to palms right there. Okay,
Speaker 1: he says, go off to the desert and we're gonna.
Speaker 3: Go relax for a while.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they didn't have a jacuzzi to sit in,
Speaker 1: but it would have been nice. But Jesus didn't feel
Speaker 1: guilty about it. Did you know that during the French
Speaker 1: Revolution they canceled the French government canceled the sabbath and
Speaker 1: said every day is going to.
Speaker 3: Be a workday.
Speaker 1: And after a couple of years they had to reinstate
Speaker 1: it because the health of the nation had crumbled. You
Speaker 1: need this in your life, you need a sabbath. I
Speaker 1: heard about a guy who said to his pastor. He said, Pastor,
Speaker 1: I tried to get a hold of you all day
Speaker 1: on Monday, and the pastor said, well, I'm sorry, it's
Speaker 1: my day off. And the man said, well, the devil
Speaker 1: never takes a day off, and he said yeah, and
Speaker 1: if I didn't, I'd be just like the devil. And
Speaker 1: some of you that's why you're so mean. You're not
Speaker 1: getting enough sleep, you're not getting enough rest, and you're
Speaker 1: a little devil because you're not taking the Sabbath.
Speaker 3: And the devil's not your model. Okay.
Speaker 1: Number three, I looked to God to meet on my needs.
Speaker 1: The Lord is my shepherd. I obey God's instructions about rest.
Speaker 1: He makes me lay down, lie down. Then number three,
Speaker 1: I recharge my soul with beauty. Beauty is an incredibly
Speaker 1: important thing in stress management. Ugliness stresses you out. Beauty inspires,
Speaker 1: Beauty encourages, Beauty motivates, Beauty stirs up positive emotions.
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Speaker 5: Have you ever noticed that the world has ever changing
Speaker 5: so called answers to your relationship struggles, solutions to your
Speaker 5: financial troubles, and explanations to your search for meaning? But
Speaker 5: what the world offers often leaves us empty and searching
Speaker 5: for more. The good news is God's Word contains timeless
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Speaker 5: the inside out.
Speaker 6: That's why Pastor Rick created a very special Bible study
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Speaker 6: Biblical principles that will completely transform you by changing the
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Speaker 2: Once again, here's Rick.
Speaker 1: I look to God to meet all my needs. The
Speaker 1: Lord is my shepherd. I obey God's instructions about rest.
Speaker 1: He makes me lay down, lie down. Then number three,
Speaker 1: I recharge my soul with beauty. That's the third thing
Speaker 1: you need to do. Recharge my soul with beauty. Beauty
Speaker 1: is an incredibly important thing in stress management. Ugliness stresses
Speaker 1: you out. Beauty inspires, Beauty encourages, Beauty motivates, Beauty stirs
Speaker 1: up positive emotions. Have you ever thought about why God
Speaker 1: made the world so beautiful?
Speaker 3: And you look at.
Speaker 1: Sunrises and sunsets, beautiful flowers that are never even seen,
Speaker 1: and all of these sites around the world that many
Speaker 1: people will humanize.
Speaker 3: We'll see, but God created a world of beauty.
Speaker 1: He could have made Earth just like the moon, just
Speaker 1: a moonscape, or like Tattooine.
Speaker 3: For those of you who don't know Star Wars.
Speaker 1: That's the desert planet that Luke was from Skywalker, and
Speaker 1: he wanted to get off that planet really quick because
Speaker 1: it's pretty ugly. Anybody should have go on about the gospel.
Speaker 1: According to Scar Wars, he could have made it just
Speaker 1: a desolate, dusty, gray planet.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: No, God created a planet with vibrant colors. Have you
Speaker 1: ever heard anybody say? I heard it the other day
Speaker 1: when I was actually last summer, I was on vacation
Speaker 1: up in Yosemite. We were under some redwood trees, and
Speaker 1: a man said to me, I feel so close to
Speaker 1: God in nature.
Speaker 3: Well, of course you do. He created it.
Speaker 1: Man was made to live in a garden, not in
Speaker 1: a skyscraper. When God created man, he put him in
Speaker 1: the garden of Eden. He didn't put him a skyscraper.
Speaker 1: You weren't made to live in everything concrete. God made
Speaker 1: us to live in a garden, in a beautiful place.
Speaker 1: Any of you remember Woodstock? You're really old if you
Speaker 1: just raise your hand. Okay, really really old. Okay. There's
Speaker 1: this rock concert many many years ago. Joni Mitchell wrote
Speaker 1: a song about it called Woodstock, and it says, well,
Speaker 1: I came upon a child of God. He was walking
Speaker 1: along the road, and I said where you're going? He said,
Speaker 1: I'm going up the Yazgres Farm for this rock and
Speaker 1: roll band.
Speaker 3: And there's a line in.
Speaker 1: The course that says this, we are stardust, we are golden,
Speaker 1: and we're caught in the devil's bar and we've got to.
Speaker 3: Get back to the garden.
Speaker 1: And it's a capital g she's talking about the garden
Speaker 1: of Eden. We've come a long way from the Garden
Speaker 1: of Eden on this planet.
Speaker 3: People say I feel close to God in nature. Of
Speaker 3: course you do.
Speaker 1: It's God's beauty, and beauty inspires and beauty motivates. Notice
Speaker 1: the next verse Psalm twenty three, verse two and three.
Speaker 3: He makes me lie down? But where does he make
Speaker 3: me lie down?
Speaker 1: He makes me lie down in lush green meadows golf course.
Speaker 3: And leaves me.
Speaker 1: Beside calm, quiet waters.
Speaker 3: By the sandtrap.
Speaker 1: He restores my soul. Okay, he restores my soul. Now
Speaker 1: it's no wonder. Psalm twenty three is the most beloved
Speaker 1: psalm because we can all visualize this one. When I
Speaker 1: say think about lush, green meadows and a calm, quiet lake, you.
Speaker 3: Relax just thinking about it. Okay.
Speaker 1: If I say think about downtown LA, you get stressed out.
Speaker 1: I say, think about meadows and calm waters and babbling brooks.
Speaker 1: Nature refreshes because beauty inspires. Now you need beautiful scenes.
Speaker 1: You need to see beautiful scenes, and you need to
Speaker 1: hear beautiful sounds. In order to keep the stress down
Speaker 1: in your life. You need to add beauty into your life.
Speaker 3: Let me give you some suggestions. Write these down.
Speaker 1: Number one, get outside every day. If you're not getting
Speaker 1: outside every day, your stress level is going up. Even
Speaker 1: if it's just your backyard, even if just walk around
Speaker 1: the block, even if it's take your lunch outside. Walk
Speaker 1: outside of the office and sit outside and look up
Speaker 1: at a tree while you eat your sandwich. You need
Speaker 1: to get in touch with God's creation. You need to
Speaker 1: surround yourself with beauty. Get outside. Let me give you
Speaker 1: a second suggestion. Start the day with God, not the media.
Speaker 1: Before you read any text message, before you check your email,
Speaker 1: before you turn on the radio to some talk radio
Speaker 1: people screaming at each other, or before you turn on
Speaker 1: the television for some morning show. You need to get
Speaker 1: in touch with God first. The first seven minutes of
Speaker 1: your day set your mood every day. So do you
Speaker 1: want to start it with an alarm clock and then
Speaker 1: the worst news of the day coming at you. No,
Speaker 1: you don't really need to know all the bad news
Speaker 1: first thing when you get up, you don't need to
Speaker 1: know that you need to turn on some praise music,
Speaker 1: some worship music. You need to get in touch with God.
Speaker 1: You need to let the first five ten minutes of
Speaker 1: your day be with the Lord, and that'll dramatically reduce
Speaker 1: your stress and improve your mood. Another suggestion number three,
Speaker 1: intentionally put beauty around you, whether it's pieces of art
Speaker 1: or music that inspires you, or something a craft, that
Speaker 1: something that you know. I used to collect seashells, and
Speaker 1: I collected them from all over the world, and I
Speaker 1: did it and I had had my library filled with
Speaker 1: them because looking at those things simply inspired me to go, Wow,
Speaker 1: that the intricacy of that nautilus, how God inspired that.
Speaker 1: Looking at beauty lowers your stress level. Listening to beauty
Speaker 1: lowers your stress level. So I highly recommend that you
Speaker 1: either take up an instrument or or some kind of
Speaker 1: art or craft to create beauty. You are most like
Speaker 1: your creator when you're being creative, and so you need
Speaker 1: art in your life.
Speaker 3: You need beauty.
Speaker 1: And by the way, art and music are two of
Speaker 1: the greatest arguments against evolution. Why because they're totally unnecessary
Speaker 1: for human survival. And if the whole survival of the fittest
Speaker 1: really works, then why in the world do we have
Speaker 1: music and art in the world. Because you're more than
Speaker 1: a body and God made you for worship. Did you
Speaker 1: know more songs have been written about Jesus than any
Speaker 1: other subject in human history. Did you know more books
Speaker 1: have been written about Jesus than in any other subject
Speaker 1: in human history. Do you know that more art has
Speaker 1: been created about the Bible and honor and glorify God
Speaker 1: and Jesus than any other subject in history. Why God
Speaker 1: gave us music and God gave us art for one reason,
Speaker 1: to express emotion. That's the only purpose of it. You
Speaker 1: don't need it for physical survival, but you do need
Speaker 1: it to really live, to be who God made you
Speaker 1: to be. So fill your life with art, and fill
Speaker 1: your life with music. You know, when I get stressed out,
Speaker 1: I go home, I pick up a guitar and start
Speaker 1: playing a guitar, are sitting on piano, bang on the piano, ukulele,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, kazoo, you know whatever, just come and paper.
Speaker 1: It's like last week you said, make a joyful noise
Speaker 1: that don't have to be pretty, Just make a joyful noise.
Speaker 1: Philippians four to eight says this, You'll do best by
Speaker 1: filling your minds and meditating on things that are true
Speaker 1: and noble and reputable, and authentic and compelling and gracious.
Speaker 3: It sounds like television, doesn't it. No, it doesn't. That
Speaker 3: is not television. Okay.
Speaker 1: You'll do best by filling your mind with things that
Speaker 1: are true and noble and authentic, compelling, gracious, the best,
Speaker 1: not the worst.
Speaker 3: The beautiful, not the ugly.
Speaker 1: Now because of sin, there's a lot of ugliness in
Speaker 1: the world. World, there are a lot of unpleasant things
Speaker 1: in the world. Whatever you give your attention to is
Speaker 1: going to either raise or lower your stress. Some of
Speaker 1: you during fifty days transformation, you need to do a
Speaker 1: fast on the news. I hate to tell you this,
Speaker 1: but you could miss the news for the next fifty days,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to make one difference in the world.
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Speaker 2: you know the world is shouting for our attention with
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Speaker 2: promises leave us empty and searching for more. God's Word
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Speaker 2: from the inside out. That's why Pastor Rick has put
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