Speaker 1: Friends, we live in a world full of competing beliefs, values,
Speaker 1: and choices. What you believe shapes how you live and
Speaker 1: ultimately who you become. The good news is God hasn't
Speaker 1: left us to figure it all out alone. Today, on
Speaker 1: Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, we bring our series Reframing your
Speaker 1: worldview to a close. In this series, Rick Warren unpacks
Speaker 1: powerful truths from God's Word to help you see life
Speaker 1: clearly and live it with confidence and purpose. So let's
Speaker 1: get started. Here's Rick with the final part of a
Speaker 1: message called how should I Live in this world?
Speaker 2: Now. These first five values that we looked at all
Speaker 2: had to do with your relationship directly to God. These
Speaker 2: second five values all have to do with your relationship
Speaker 2: to other people, so let's look at them. The sixth
Speaker 2: key to becoming and living like Jesus, living of jesus
Speaker 2: lifestyle is hospitality. You must learn to live with hospitality. Now,
Speaker 2: what's hospitality. It's just love in action. It's practical love.
Speaker 2: It's love with hands and feet on it. It's love
Speaker 2: that you can see in action. Jesus showed hospitality to everybody, everybody,
Speaker 2: and he expects his followers to do the same.
Speaker 3: Here's the problem. We don't know how to do it. Today.
Speaker 2: Hospitality is a lost art. People have very shallow relationships.
Speaker 2: They don't know how to show hospitality each other. They
Speaker 2: don't know how to care for each other. It's very
Speaker 2: possible for you to live a life with just acquaintances,
Speaker 2: to not really get close to anybody and show hospitality.
Speaker 2: Yesterday I was reading Time magazine and one of the
Speaker 2: articles in Time was called teaching doctors how to care.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: Well, that sounds a little odd, okay, And here is
Speaker 2: a quote. At Harvard and other medical schools across the country,
Speaker 2: educators are beginning, I mean beginning to realize that empathy
Speaker 2: is as valuable to a doctor as any clinical skill. Well, duh,
Speaker 2: have they never been a patient? I want I have
Speaker 2: a doctor.
Speaker 3: I want a doctor who cares.
Speaker 2: For me, who's kind, who empathizes, who just isn't a
Speaker 2: cold fish. I want somebody who shows hospitality. Now, I
Speaker 2: don't know if any of you get this, but anybody
Speaker 2: see the irony in this article teaching doctors to care?
Speaker 2: Wouldn't you figure that it's kind of ironic to train
Speaker 2: hospitals and how to be hospitable.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't you think that hospitals.
Speaker 2: Would be the place you show hospitalality.
Speaker 3: I mean it's the same word.
Speaker 2: Hospitals are supposed to be a place of hospitality, where
Speaker 2: they show practical care, practical love, and loving ways. You
Speaker 2: ever wondered why Saddleback Church is such a friendly church,
Speaker 2: such a warm church. The secret ingredient is our small groups.
Speaker 2: Over three thousand small groups. And one of the reasons
Speaker 2: we teach everybody should be in a small group is
Speaker 2: that's where you learn hospitality, in getting to know.
Speaker 3: People up close.
Speaker 2: And nobody teaches hospitality more so we build small groups
Speaker 2: that force.
Speaker 3: Us how to learn it.
Speaker 2: Because Jesus said, you're going to be my follower, you
Speaker 2: got to learn to be hospitable. And so we have
Speaker 2: over three thousand small group hosts and they open up
Speaker 2: their homes and show hospitality.
Speaker 3: Look at the next verse.
Speaker 2: Jesus said this, whatever you did for any of my people,
Speaker 2: no matter how unimportant they seemed, you did it for me.
Speaker 2: And when you failed to help any of my people,
Speaker 2: no matter how unimportant they seemed, you failed to do
Speaker 2: it for me. He says, These are the reasons we
Speaker 2: do hospitality. Why are we doing the peace plan all
Speaker 2: around the world. I mean, that's a lot of work.
Speaker 2: Whyt me just be a happy, little selfish church. Why
Speaker 2: are we doing partnering with other churches and equipping servant
Speaker 2: leaders and teaching management to leaders overseas and assisting the
Speaker 2: poor and caring for the sick and educating the next
Speaker 2: generation peacee Why.
Speaker 3: Are we doing that?
Speaker 2: Because the Peace plan is simply hospitality.
Speaker 3: It's just practical love.
Speaker 2: And Jesus said, if you're going to be like me,
Speaker 2: you're going to do that. Look at the next one, the.
Speaker 3: Seventh ingredient for living like Jesus. You want to live
Speaker 3: like Jesus.
Speaker 2: Civility, discernibility and take humility, simplicity, possibility, hospitality, and civility.
Speaker 3: This is how God wants you.
Speaker 2: To act for people who disagree with you. Now, sadly,
Speaker 2: civility has become, unfortunately a counter culture value in our society.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've noticed how uncivil our culture
Speaker 2: has become. People are just flat out rude today. You
Speaker 2: noticed that they're just rude. They're not polite to each other,
Speaker 2: they're not civil with each other. During the last election cycle,
Speaker 2: I decided to subscribe to eight political magazines, and I
Speaker 2: got four of them from the left, and I got
Speaker 2: four of them from the right. I subscribed to four
Speaker 2: liberal magazines and I subscribed to four conservative magazines because
Speaker 2: I just wanted to read their different take on the
Speaker 2: different issues. At the end of the year, I let
Speaker 2: all eight subscriptions drop. Why because they were just bickering
Speaker 2: and bad mouthing each other and not really dealing with
Speaker 2: the issues. They were just demonizing each other and partisan
Speaker 2: bickering and yelling and just name calling.
Speaker 3: And it wasn't really about the issues. It was just
Speaker 3: about how bad.
Speaker 2: The other team was with character part, you know, assassinations.
Speaker 3: Now, what's happening in America?
Speaker 2: As our nation becomes more pluralized, That means we have
Speaker 2: more people coming in from different perspectives, different places, different perspectives.
Speaker 2: The greater our differences become, and the more differences we have,
Speaker 2: the more divisive people are becoming. Of course, the media
Speaker 2: loves this. They like a fight. Have you noticed that,
Speaker 2: you know? On talk shows they like the people who
Speaker 2: yelled at each other.
Speaker 3: They like the violence.
Speaker 2: They don't ever you know, they don't ever have calm
Speaker 2: discussions except on public television, you know, But they want
Speaker 2: where people yell at each other and call each other
Speaker 2: names and assassinate each other's and give barbes and one liners,
Speaker 2: because that's good good therapy, our good theater.
Speaker 3: And as a result, the.
Speaker 2: Media just keeps whipping it up, and books that are
Speaker 2: designed to attack actually sell better than those that just
Speaker 2: present a good argument.
Speaker 3: I was in the home of a well known leader.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to mention which side this leader was on,
Speaker 2: and that person said to me, he said, the quickest
Speaker 2: way to raise money is get an enemy. He said,
Speaker 2: you can raise ten times the money against something as
Speaker 2: you can for something.
Speaker 3: I thought, that's pathetic.
Speaker 2: That is pathetic that we live in that kind of
Speaker 2: uncivil society. I was interviewed the other day, but somebody
Speaker 2: don't remember who it was, and they said, we keep
Speaker 2: hearing about this Second Reformation. What would you like to
Speaker 2: see happen in America? And I said, I'd like to
Speaker 2: see three things. Of credibility in the church, the restoration
Speaker 2: of responsibility in individual lives. It's purpose driven life, it's
Speaker 2: not about you. And the restoration of civility in our
Speaker 2: culture so that you can disagree without being disagreeable, that
Speaker 2: people still respect each other.
Speaker 3: Even if they don't agree.
Speaker 2: Why do I want that, because Jesus said, blessed are
Speaker 2: the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.
Speaker 2: Not the people who create conflict and division, but the peacemakers,
Speaker 2: the bridged builders. In fact, Jesus said this, they're on
Speaker 2: your outline. You're blessed well. First look at the first
Speaker 2: verse Matthew seven twelve. In everything you'd do, or in
Speaker 2: everything do to others what you'd have them do to you. Now,
Speaker 2: this is one of the most famous quotes of Jesus.
Speaker 3: It's called the Golden Rule.
Speaker 2: You know this, do unto others as you would have
Speaker 2: them do unto you. The word for that is civility.
Speaker 2: Civility is just treating other people the way you'd like
Speaker 2: to be treated, even if you disagree with them, even
Speaker 2: if they're flat out dead wrong, even if they're fighting
Speaker 2: against you. You treat them the way you would like
Speaker 2: to be treated. That's civility. And the next verse, Jesus
Speaker 2: says this, you're blessed when you can show people how
Speaker 2: to cooperate instead of compete or fight. I want God's
Speaker 2: blessing on your life, So I want you to learn
Speaker 2: how to be civil toward people.
Speaker 3: God wants you to do that.
Speaker 2: Now, here's the eighth key, and it goes even a
Speaker 2: step beyond hospitality and civility.
Speaker 3: It's charity.
Speaker 2: If you want to be a Christian, you want to
Speaker 2: live like Jesus.
Speaker 3: You want to live his lifestyle, the.
Speaker 2: Jesus countercultural, radical lifestyle.
Speaker 3: You must learn to live with charity. Now.
Speaker 2: Charity is a big basket that holds a lot of
Speaker 2: other concepts like forgiveness and mercy, kindness, grace, graciousness, compassion.
Speaker 2: All these things are wrapped into the idea of charity
Speaker 2: showing love to people, and the Bible says that the
Speaker 2: greatest of these is love. Now because we have been
Speaker 2: shown grace by God. God says, I want you to
Speaker 2: be gracious.
Speaker 3: To other people.
Speaker 2: God says, if I have shown you grace, you ought
Speaker 2: to cut other people a little bit of slack. Okay,
Speaker 2: just don't make him toe the line so hard. Cut
Speaker 2: them a little slack. God says, I'm gracious to you.
Speaker 2: Why don't you be gracious to other people, give them
Speaker 2: a little grace on some things, and don't just beat
Speaker 2: him over the head with stuff. You see, God gives
Speaker 2: me the freedom to choose or reject him to love
Speaker 2: him or not love him. And if God gives me
Speaker 2: free choice, I ought to give it to everybody else,
Speaker 2: even if they make the wrong choice. I don't believe
Speaker 2: in a theocracy where you force everybody to believe one
Speaker 2: thing that's not real belief. Anyway, God gives me a
Speaker 2: free choice, and I how to give it to everybody
Speaker 2: else and show charity and show love. Now this is
Speaker 2: so counterculture because we live in a culture that says,
Speaker 2: you know, fight your enemies and love your love your friends.
Speaker 2: And yet Jesus says this in Matthew five. I'm telling you,
Speaker 2: Jesus say, I'm telling you to love your enemies. Now,
Speaker 2: let me be honest with you. I don't want to
Speaker 2: do that. I don't know about you, but I don't
Speaker 2: want to do that. I don't want to love my enemies.
Speaker 2: I really, I'm just being honest. I don't want to
Speaker 2: love my enemies. But Jesus said, if you're going to
Speaker 2: call yourself a Christian, you gotta you gotta do it.
Speaker 3: You gotta love your enemies.
Speaker 2: Look at the rest, let them bring out the best
Speaker 2: in you, not the worst. And somebody gives you a
Speaker 2: hard time, respond with the energies of prayer.
Speaker 3: If they put you.
Speaker 2: Down, they persecute you for being a Christian, he says,
Speaker 2: he just pray for them.
Speaker 3: Now do you do this? Do you do this at work?
Speaker 2: You show charity when somebody irritates you at work.
Speaker 3: Or at school, or in your neighborhood.
Speaker 2: Somebody ticks you off, or you're at shopping and you
Speaker 2: get a clerk who's a jerk? Do they bring out
Speaker 2: the best in you or the worst in you? They
Speaker 2: make you do the right thing, or do you want
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 3: The wrong thing? God says, show him charity.
Speaker 2: Give them a little forgiveness, Give them a little slack,
Speaker 2: give them a little grace.
Speaker 3: Maybe they've had a tough day.
Speaker 2: You don't know what they've been going through, he says,
Speaker 2: give them a little peace of mind. Look at the
Speaker 2: next verse. Jesus says this, Do not judge and you'll
Speaker 2: not be judged. Do not condemn and you will not
Speaker 2: be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. Whoa He said,
Speaker 2: this is what I want you to do. I want
Speaker 2: you to don't. You're not here to judge the world.
Speaker 2: It's time for Christians to stop judging the world and
Speaker 2: start loving it.
Speaker 3: God so loved the world, and he says, I want
Speaker 3: you to love it. The people.
Speaker 2: Yes, we are in a battle of ideas, and there
Speaker 2: is a cultural battle going on over the values that
Speaker 2: we believe in. But even the people who disagree with you,
Speaker 2: they're not the enemy. They're the mission field. They are
Speaker 2: people that Jesus died for and he wants them to
Speaker 2: know his love as much as he wants you to
Speaker 2: know it. And all those people that you don't like
Speaker 2: because of what they believe and the things they're doing
Speaker 2: in our society, Jesus says, I love them this much too,
Speaker 2: and I expect you to love them, and I expect
Speaker 2: you to show charity to them. Now, then here's the
Speaker 2: ninth ingredient. If you're going to live like Jesus, you
Speaker 2: must live with generosity, hospitality, civility, charity, and now generosity.
Speaker 2: Why does God want us to learn generosity so we
Speaker 2: can be like him?
Speaker 3: God is generous, Scot so love that he gave.
Speaker 2: Every time I give, it makes me more like Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: Every time I give, my heart grows bigger. Every time
Speaker 2: I give, I break the grip of materialism in my life.
Speaker 2: I become less materialistic every time I give, because materialism
Speaker 2: is all about getting getting getting, So when I give,
Speaker 2: I win a spiritual victory. Every time I give, whether
Speaker 2: I feel anything or not, it's a spiritual victory in
Speaker 2: my life.
Speaker 3: Now, this church has learned.
Speaker 2: Generosity, you know, as I've learned generosity.
Speaker 3: You know that Kay and I are reversed. Tithers.
Speaker 2: We give away ninety percent and we live on ten percent.
Speaker 2: And I don't take a salary from Saddleback Church. But God,
Speaker 2: God says, you learn to give, and I will bless
Speaker 2: you back.
Speaker 3: Look at this next verse on your outline. I want
Speaker 3: you to see this verse.
Speaker 2: It says, use your worldly resources to benefit others and
Speaker 2: make friends. In this way, your generosity stores up for
Speaker 2: you a reward in heaven, a reward for you in heaven.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I used to not understand this verse because it looks
Speaker 2: like it says, God says, buy yourself some friends. Use
Speaker 2: your money to make friends and be like, hey, you
Speaker 2: be my friend to give you a hundred bucks. It's
Speaker 2: like make friends with kool aid. You know, Well, what
Speaker 2: does that mean? Well, when you go and you study
Speaker 2: the scripture, here's what that verse means. He says, take
Speaker 2: some of your money, not all of it. Take some
Speaker 2: of your money and use it to help people learn
Speaker 2: about Jesus and hear the good news, so that when
Speaker 2: they're saved, they're going to get to heaven. And when
Speaker 2: you get there, they'll welcome you as friends and say, hey,
Speaker 2: thank you because you spent some money to help build
Speaker 2: a church. I'm now in heaven because that church reached.
Speaker 3: Me, and so I want to thank you.
Speaker 2: I will be forever, eternally grateful for you. I'm your
Speaker 2: friend forever, not a friend for life. I'm a friend forever.
Speaker 2: He's just saying, use some of your money to invest
Speaker 2: in helping others. And I want you to circle the phrase,
Speaker 2: use that word use, and then write this on your outline.
Speaker 3: Money is a tool. Money is a tool.
Speaker 2: People say, Oh, doesn't the Bible say money is the
Speaker 2: root of all evil?
Speaker 3: No, it does not. It does not say that.
Speaker 2: It says the love of money is the root of
Speaker 2: all evil. The love of money. Why money is to
Speaker 2: be look up here for this minute. Money is to
Speaker 2: be used. People are to be loved. That's the right priority.
Speaker 2: Use money love people. Now, when you get that reversed,
Speaker 2: you're in trouble because when you start loving money, you're
Speaker 2: gonna use people. You love money, You're gonna use people.
Speaker 2: You're gonna step over them, trample them, take advantage of them,
Speaker 2: to rip them off, to get more money. Money is
Speaker 2: to be used. People are to be loved. Don't ever
Speaker 2: reverse that. He says, I want you to learn to
Speaker 2: be generous like me. In fact, there are more promises
Speaker 2: in the Bible about generosity than anything else in the Bible.
Speaker 3: More promises. Look at this next, here's just one of them.
Speaker 3: Jesus says, this.
Speaker 2: Give, and it will be given to you. For the
Speaker 2: measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.
Speaker 2: God says, you get to choose how much I bless
Speaker 2: your life. Whatever measure you use, I'll measured back to you.
Speaker 2: I've been playing this game with God for thirty years.
Speaker 2: God says, let's see who can give the most, You
Speaker 2: or me? Rick and I have lost every year for
Speaker 2: thirty years. And I keep up in it, every year,
Speaker 2: up in it, every year, up and every year. You know,
Speaker 2: I started at ten percent thirty years ago, and I
Speaker 2: cannot outgive God.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: If you're not given, you need to start giving, not
Speaker 2: because the church needs it, but because you need it,
Speaker 2: you need it in your heart. Now let's get to
Speaker 2: the last one, number ten. The tenth way that you
Speaker 2: become like Jesus is to live with priority. Live with priority.
Speaker 2: That means know what's first. First things first. Jesus was
Speaker 2: a man who was purpose driven. He knew his purpose
Speaker 2: that he lived with priorities. The earliest statement we have
Speaker 2: in Jesus is when he's twelve years old and he
Speaker 2: says this, I must be about my father's business. At
Speaker 2: age twelve, he already knew his life plan.
Speaker 3: He was focused, he was purposed.
Speaker 2: At the end of his life, he says, it is finished.
Speaker 2: That's the bookends of a successful life. I would like,
Speaker 2: as your pastor to help you live a successful life.
Speaker 2: I'd like to help you get to the end of
Speaker 2: your life and say I did it. I used my
Speaker 2: life the way God wanted me. I got up to
Speaker 2: a little rocky start, but I used the rest of
Speaker 2: my life the way God wanted me to use it.
Speaker 2: And I put him first. And notice what Jesus said
Speaker 2: in Luke twelve. Only people who don't know God are
Speaker 2: always worrying.
Speaker 3: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: It means that when I worry, I'm acting like an atheist.
Speaker 2: Worry is practical atheism. It's saying, I don't really believe
Speaker 2: God's going to take care of me. I don't believe
Speaker 2: I have a heavenly father. I'm acting like an orphan.
Speaker 3: He says this.
Speaker 2: Jesus said, your father knows what you need, but put
Speaker 2: God's work first.
Speaker 3: That's priority.
Speaker 2: Put God's work first, and these other things will be
Speaker 2: yours as well. All the other things in your life,
Speaker 2: your career life, and your education, and your friendships, and
Speaker 2: your romance and your finances and all they're all good.
Speaker 2: They're all from God. But he says, you put me first.
Speaker 2: If you're a Christian, God's number one. He comes first
Speaker 2: in your life. Everything else is second place. God's number one.
Speaker 2: And he says, when you put in number one, everything
Speaker 2: else will come into focus. God will help you with that.
Speaker 2: You ever talk to somebody says, oh, I'm just trying
Speaker 2: to find myself. Well, I hate to tell them, but
Speaker 2: they're not ever going to find it unless they do
Speaker 2: what the next verse says. Jesus said this if your
Speaker 2: first concern, in other words, that's your priority. If your
Speaker 2: first concern is to look after yourself, you'll never find yourself.
Speaker 2: But if you forget about yourself and you look to me,
Speaker 2: you'll find both yourself and me. The most countercultural statement
Speaker 2: in today's world is the first sentence of the purpose
Speaker 2: driven life.
Speaker 3: It's not about you.
Speaker 2: Because everything in society says, oh, it's all about you.
Speaker 2: All of the advertisements say, it's all about you. Have
Speaker 2: it your way, we do it all for you. You
Speaker 2: deserve or break the day, obey your thirst.
Speaker 3: You're good enough. It's all about you.
Speaker 2: It teaches self centeredness, and yet God says the only
Speaker 2: way you're ever going to find yourself is by forgetting
Speaker 2: yourself and start focusing on God. And then you'll not
Speaker 2: only figure out God, you'll figure out you. That's what
Speaker 2: it means to live like Jesus. That's about our heads.
Speaker 2: Would you pray this prayer in your heart, Dear God.
Speaker 2: I want to live with discernment.
Speaker 3: I don't want to be a cynic or skeptic, but
Speaker 3: I want to use my brain and.
Speaker 2: To not just automatically accept what other people say is
Speaker 2: the truth.
Speaker 3: I want to live with integrity.
Speaker 2: There's no dark parts in my life, no compartmentalization. But
Speaker 2: I want my whole life to be your life and
Speaker 2: I want to learn to live with humility depending on you.
Speaker 2: Forgive me for the times I get stressed out when
Speaker 2: I try to control things and I don't trust you.
Speaker 2: Help me to come to you and to give up
Speaker 2: control and to learn to trust. Help me to live
Speaker 2: a life of simplicity, to not worry about all the
Speaker 2: stuff and piling it up, but to realize life isn't
Speaker 2: about things, It's about time and relationships. Help me to
Speaker 2: see the possibilities. Help me to believe you for great
Speaker 2: things in my life, that all things are possible. Help
Speaker 2: me to see the possibilities in my marriage, or my kids,
Speaker 2: or my family, or my job, my boyfriend and girlfriend.
Speaker 3: Are.
Speaker 2: Any area of my life. Help me to have faith
Speaker 2: and Lord, teach me hospitality. To remember that what I
Speaker 2: do for other people, it's just like doing it for you.
Speaker 2: And the people who I disagree with or disagree with
Speaker 2: me or put me down, help me to treat them
Speaker 2: with civility. To do to other people what I'd like
Speaker 2: to be done to me. Let other people bring out
Speaker 2: the best in me, not the worst. Help me to
Speaker 2: be forgiving and to show grace and cut people some slack,
Speaker 2: and help me to be generous. That I can be
Speaker 2: like you, Lord, because you've been so generous with me.
Speaker 2: Help me to stop rewards in heaven, not here on earth,
Speaker 2: and help me to live with priority, to put first
Speaker 2: things first. I want you to be first in my life.
Speaker 3: I pray this in your name. Amen.
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