Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. This is
Speaker 1: the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren.
Speaker 2: Hey, we're so glad you're here with us today.
Speaker 1: We are continuing in a series called Talking about Stuff
Speaker 1: That Matters Now. In this series, Rick looks into the
Speaker 1: scriptures and he's unpacking what it means to live in community,
Speaker 1: have real conversation about what matters most, and face discouragement
Speaker 1: with courage and faith. It's honest, hopeful, So stay tuned.
Speaker 1: You won't want to miss a second. All right, here's
Speaker 1: part two of a message called being a Disciple in
Speaker 1: the Digital Age.
Speaker 2: Let me give you a third. Third hazard.
Speaker 3: I can be drawn into unproductive arguments. Oh baby, this
Speaker 3: is very very easy, particularly in social media. Have you
Speaker 3: ever heard somebody say something really outrageous and you got
Speaker 3: offended really quickly by it, and you thought, well, I
Speaker 3: need to tell them off. I need to set them straight,
Speaker 3: I need to respond, and you want every bone in
Speaker 3: your body wants to just obliterate them because what they
Speaker 3: just said, like, you don't know what I'm talking about. Okay,
Speaker 3: You've read stuff online and you go, that is so wrong,
Speaker 3: that's just not right. And they attack somebody I like
Speaker 3: or love or whatever, And it's an easy way to
Speaker 3: get drawn into an argument. I understand how you feel,
Speaker 3: but don't don't respond when those arguments start up on
Speaker 3: the Internet. Here's what the Bible says, Titus, chapter three,
Speaker 3: verse nine.
Speaker 2: Never.
Speaker 3: That means never, never get involved in foolish controversies, useless arguments,
Speaker 3: disputes about your personal pedigree. That means you know, issues
Speaker 3: about your family history, your ethnic background, your genealogy, that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff. Don't get an argument over that, or
Speaker 3: fights over interpreting God's law how you interpret it. Particularly,
Speaker 3: all of these God says are useless and do not
Speaker 3: help anyone. So it's pretty clearly don't get involved in
Speaker 3: fights and arguments. That would apply to the internet too,
Speaker 3: not just at the office. The fact is there are
Speaker 3: people who live to hook you. There are trolls out
Speaker 3: there who love that. There adrenaline goes up when they
Speaker 3: hook somebody for a fight. They don't even care whether
Speaker 3: what you believe. They just like to fight and they
Speaker 3: like to argue, and you think we'll all set them straight,
Speaker 3: but they're using motivated reasoning, which means no matter what
Speaker 3: you say, it's not going to work, and finally you're
Speaker 3: gonna after about I don't know how many times you
Speaker 3: respond to them back and forth, you're finding this is
Speaker 3: real life. It's worthless, it's not going anywhere. They're not
Speaker 3: going to change You're not going to change them. They
Speaker 3: just like to fight. And if they throw something out
Speaker 3: that's very you know, threatening or a provocative and they
Speaker 3: throw that out and then you respond to it, they go,
Speaker 3: I hooked a live one.
Speaker 2: I'm going to reel them in now, and now.
Speaker 3: They've got somebody to fight with because they don't really
Speaker 3: feel alive unless they're mad. It's a problem. It's a
Speaker 3: mental problem. They don't feel alive unless they're mad, and
Speaker 3: they're going to just roll and hook you in.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 3: Let me show you some verses about this on the
Speaker 3: screen Proverbs twenty six twenty one. Just as charcoal and
Speaker 3: would keep a fire going, a troublemaker keeps an argument going.
Speaker 3: They're not going to let you off the hook. They're
Speaker 3: going to keep on arguing until you give up. They're
Speaker 3: not going to give up. So he says, don't do that.
Speaker 3: What does God say to do with those kind of people?
Speaker 3: Here's what he says on the screen, Proverbs twenty six four.
Speaker 3: Or don't answer their foolish arguments, or you will become
Speaker 3: as foolish as they are. You're gonna look as dumb
Speaker 3: as they do. Just don't get hooked now. I highly
Speaker 3: recommend that instead of worrying about what other people think,
Speaker 3: whether they think it about you. What they think about
Speaker 3: you is none of your business. What people think about
Speaker 3: me is none of my business. Doesn't have any degree
Speaker 3: of influence on my happiness. Don't be worrying about what
Speaker 3: other people think. Instead, here's what you should be worrying about.
Speaker 3: Matthew twelve thirty six. Jesus said, you can be sure
Speaker 3: that on the judgment day you will have to give
Speaker 3: an account to God of every careless word you have
Speaker 3: ever spoken. Oh, that includes one written in social media
Speaker 3: and on the internet. One day you're going to give
Speaker 3: an account of every foolish, useless, mean and what other
Speaker 3: words that you use on the Internet or anywhere else.
Speaker 2: You're gonna given account to God.
Speaker 3: Now that autumn be enough to muzzle my mouth and
Speaker 3: zip my lip.
Speaker 2: But not only that.
Speaker 3: Now you know this, whatever you say on the Internet
Speaker 3: is permanent, global and searchable. It's never going away, which
Speaker 3: is why you need to teach your.
Speaker 2: Kids don't do that.
Speaker 3: Don't say stuff on the internet thinking it's no big deal,
Speaker 3: because when you're in the ninth grade or tenth grade,
Speaker 3: you think, well, I can say that, and I'm just
Speaker 3: mad at so and so, and then fifty years later
Speaker 3: they're going to pull it out in your Senate hearing.
Speaker 3: It will come back and any employee you can look
Speaker 3: up anything you've ever said on the internet. So it's
Speaker 3: not only going to be Not only is God keeping
Speaker 3: a record, so is internet. And it's permanent, it's global
Speaker 3: and searchable. So zip the lip. What causes us to
Speaker 3: get hooked into those kind of arguments, Well, in a word,
Speaker 3: it's ego.
Speaker 2: It's ego.
Speaker 3: When Cay and I got married many moons ago, the
Speaker 3: first verse Bible verse, we memorized together. We memorize a
Speaker 3: lot of scripture together. I would highly recommend you do
Speaker 3: that with your spouse. Well, the first verse we memorize,
Speaker 3: we memorize it on our honeymoon because we need it.
Speaker 3: On our honeymoon. We were having conflict on our honeymoon,
Speaker 3: and Proverbs thirteen ten says this pride always causes conflict.
Speaker 3: Pride always causes conflict. Anywhere you find conflict, it's because
Speaker 3: egos involved. I want what I want, what you want.
Speaker 3: Neither of us want to back down when my pride
Speaker 3: hits your pride. That's what's causing the conflict. A good
Speaker 3: dose of humility is what you really need to do
Speaker 3: before you go online. You pick up that phone, all right,
Speaker 3: number four?
Speaker 2: Let me give you another one.
Speaker 3: Another hazard of a smartphone is I can be tempted
Speaker 3: to compete and show off. I can be tempted to
Speaker 3: compete and show off. Now, we always want to put
Speaker 3: ourselves in the best light. We want everybody to think
Speaker 3: our lives are perfect. We want everybody to think we've
Speaker 3: got it all together. And what happened is this new
Speaker 3: entity called social media is a place to show off.
Speaker 2: That's what it is.
Speaker 3: And when I go on social media, I always want
Speaker 3: to put my best foot forward. You never post a
Speaker 3: picture of yourself when you just got out of bed, okay,
Speaker 3: and there's jewel coming down your cheek here and you
Speaker 3: can smell the body odor on you, and you know
Speaker 3: there's laundry over in the corner. No, no, no, it's
Speaker 3: my so called perfect life.
Speaker 2: Instagram reported that over.
Speaker 3: Half of the pictures posted on Instagram are photoshopped. They're correct,
Speaker 3: they're they're not reality.
Speaker 2: They they they are.
Speaker 3: I want everybody to look good, and so I want
Speaker 3: everybody to see how cool I am. I want everybody
Speaker 3: to see how smart I am. I want everybody to
Speaker 3: see how rich I am.
Speaker 2: I want to see how.
Speaker 3: Everybody, how happy, how fun I am, how perfect my
Speaker 3: marriage is, how brilliant my children are. And people are
Speaker 3: actually showing off through their kids and grandkids.
Speaker 2: Boy got quiet, and and look how loved we are.
Speaker 3: Look how loved I am.
Speaker 2: That's just showing off.
Speaker 3: And and because of that, the worst kind of showing off,
Speaker 3: you know what it is.
Speaker 2: God hates this more.
Speaker 3: Than anna kind spiritual showing off when you're trying to
Speaker 3: appear spiritual in front of them. It's called self righteous.
Speaker 3: It's the sin that Jesus hated in the Pharisees. He
Speaker 3: said this about the Pharisees, the religiously. Everything they do.
Speaker 2: Is for show.
Speaker 3: They pray for showy, they sing for show, they give
Speaker 3: their offerings to show off. He said, everything they do
Speaker 3: is for public consumption.
Speaker 2: And he and God hated that. He said, they're hypocrites.
Speaker 3: And so what happens today is people are using social
Speaker 3: media to show off their spirituality.
Speaker 2: Stop it.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you go, and let's just say I
Speaker 3: I go, and I say, I'm gonna I'm gonna take
Speaker 3: a picture of me having a quiet time and I'm
Speaker 3: going to spend time alone with God. And here I am,
Speaker 3: you know, trying to focus on God. And you know,
Speaker 3: a look at the scripture. I'm government, I'm in a back.
Speaker 3: I bet you never read a.
Speaker 2: Back, okay.
Speaker 3: And and I've underlined this verse that I remember. I
Speaker 3: got my little latte here and some beautiful sunset and
Speaker 3: my Bible and I'm looking so spiritual.
Speaker 2: Click.
Speaker 3: You can't do that, okay, that's just showing off, all right.
Speaker 3: I want you to write something down. Would you write
Speaker 3: this sentence down. I can't be in the moment trying.
Speaker 2: To capture the moment.
Speaker 3: I can't be in the moment while I'm trying to
Speaker 3: capture a moment. Please, as your pastor, I'm begging you
Speaker 3: to never take another shot of your quiet time.
Speaker 2: That's just showing off. And Jesus hates it.
Speaker 3: You ought to have a quiet time with God every day,
Speaker 3: but it ought to between you and God. You will
Speaker 3: never see a quiet time of me anywhere? Why Because
Speaker 3: if I'm focusing it, if all of a sudden, my
Speaker 3: quiet time, I'm taking a picture of it, I'm staging
Speaker 3: it for production. It's not real, it's not authentic. I'm
Speaker 3: not focusing on God. I'm focusing on I wonder if
Speaker 3: everybody's gonna like this on Instagram and all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: I've taken the wrong motivation for this. I can't be
Speaker 3: in the moment while trying to capture a moment. I
Speaker 3: want to show you a picture up here. Tell me
Speaker 3: which of these people is really enjoying the moment. It's
Speaker 3: all these pictures. Everybody's got their phone out trying to
Speaker 3: take a shot, and then there's this little old lady
Speaker 3: here with no camera, just smiling, enjoying. She's the one
Speaker 3: who's enjoying the moment. Everybody else is trying to capture
Speaker 3: the moment, and so she's the one who's fully there.
Speaker 3: This is one of my problems today is that now
Speaker 3: wedding photographers have taken over the weddings, and the whole
Speaker 3: thing's so stage. It's all about now. Please stand here,
Speaker 3: please do this, Please stand here. I understand the need
Speaker 3: for nice pictures, but we can't even have a moment
Speaker 3: because it's.
Speaker 2: All about the picture.
Speaker 3: And who's actually enjoying the moment, because it's all being staged.
Speaker 2: For somebody and something else.
Speaker 3: I can't be in the moment while trying to capture
Speaker 3: a moment.
Speaker 2: Now, Jesus has.
Speaker 3: A lot to say about this, and he says in
Speaker 3: Matthew chapter six, verse one, this is in the sermon
Speaker 3: amount be careful. There's that word again. Don't be careless,
Speaker 3: be careful, be careful. Don't do your acts of righteousness
Speaker 3: publicly to be admired by others. If you do, you
Speaker 3: will lose your reward from your father in heaven.
Speaker 2: Wow. He said.
Speaker 3: If I take what I've just done a good thing
Speaker 3: and I posted on the internet, that's all the reward
Speaker 3: I'm getting because I just lost it if I did
Speaker 3: it in secret. In my lifetime, I've probably prayed with
Speaker 3: almost every president in my lifetime. You will never ever
Speaker 3: see a picture of me praying with somebody, at least
Speaker 3: some many important famous like that.
Speaker 2: Because what does that do?
Speaker 3: If I wanted to, I could post almost every day
Speaker 3: a picture of me in a celebrity.
Speaker 2: What does that do? Does that draw us closer. No,
Speaker 2: it's like, who do you think you are? Well? Goody
Speaker 2: for you?
Speaker 3: When you show off, it builds barriers, It doesn't build fellowship.
Speaker 3: It doesn't draw you closer to anybody. It's like, well,
Speaker 3: how come your life is so perfect in mine's not?
Speaker 3: And you get to do exciting things and I don't. No, No,
Speaker 3: If you want to draw people close to you, do
Speaker 3: the opposite. Share the problems that Jesus is helping you
Speaker 3: with and people go, oh, well, if God's helping Rick
Speaker 3: with that problem, then maybe he could help me too.
Speaker 3: It's the exact opposite of what the world values and
Speaker 3: what's being posted on their right. Now, let me show
Speaker 3: you a few more verses one Corinthians four seven. Who
Speaker 3: says you're better than others? What do you have that
Speaker 3: was not given to you, in other words, by God?
Speaker 3: And if it was given to you by God, why
Speaker 3: do you brag as if you did not receive it
Speaker 3: as a gift. Really, I can't brag about anything because
Speaker 3: any good that's been happening in my life is because
Speaker 3: God did it in me, for me, through me, to me,
Speaker 3: or you somebody else to do it with me or
Speaker 3: to me or for me or through me. It's really
Speaker 3: all God. The breath I'm breathing right now is a
Speaker 3: gift of God. The heart that I have is a
Speaker 3: gift of God. The brain that I have is a
Speaker 3: gift of God. The talent that I've used to do
Speaker 3: something with my life is a gift of God. I
Speaker 3: had nothing to do with it. It was just put
Speaker 3: in me by God. So why in the world can
Speaker 3: I be proud about it? Because it's just a gift,
Speaker 3: And the same thing is true for you. The same
Speaker 3: thing is true for you. So why we have no
Speaker 3: real reason to brag except on the goodness of God.
Speaker 3: The Bible says this on the screen Galatians six'. Three
Speaker 3: if you think you're better than, others wh you really.
Speaker 3: Aren't you're just deceiving. Yourself and one more, verse The
Speaker 3: bible says One's peter five. Six so be content with
Speaker 3: who you are and don't put on.
Speaker 2: Airs what does that? Mean don't show off.
Speaker 3: On the, internet don't put on, airs don't pretend you're
Speaker 3: somebody you're. Not be content with who you, are don't
Speaker 3: put on. Airs just be the real. You god's strong
Speaker 3: hand is on, you and he'll promote you at the right.
Speaker 3: Time now see that word. PROMOTE a lot of people
Speaker 3: are using, internet particularly social, media to promote. Themselves see
Speaker 3: how COOL i, Am see how SMART i, Am see
Speaker 3: how ATTRACTIVE i, Am see my pretty new. Clothes and
Speaker 3: they're using themselves to promote, themselves thinking that they have
Speaker 3: to promote. Themselves, friends you don't have to know the key.
Speaker 3: Men if you know the man.
Speaker 2: Who holds the.
Speaker 3: Keys and if you are a child Of, god you're
Speaker 3: a son Of god or a daughter Of. God it,
Speaker 3: says he'll promote you at the right, time when he
Speaker 3: knows you're, ready and he can put you at the
Speaker 3: front of the line any, moment far more than ten
Speaker 3: years of self promotion on the. Internet so stop. It
Speaker 3: god says you can. Choose either you can promote yourself
Speaker 3: or let me do. It who do you think will
Speaker 3: do a better. Job i'm inviting you to change the
Speaker 3: way you look at social. Media let me give you two.
Speaker 3: More number. Five the fifth hazard IS i can get
Speaker 3: addicted to the approval of. OTHERS i can get addicted
Speaker 3: to the approval of. Others, now what is it that
Speaker 3: makes social media so? ADDICTING i have to go back in.
Speaker 3: CHECK i have to go back in. CHECK i have
Speaker 3: to go back in check this eighty times a day
Speaker 3: thing of looking at your. Phone eighty people aren't phoning
Speaker 3: you every. Day so what are you doing looking at
Speaker 3: your phone eighty times a? Day, well if it's social,
Speaker 3: media here's the science behind why it's so. Addicting everybody
Speaker 3: wants the approval of. Others we desperately need and desperately
Speaker 3: want the approval of.
Speaker 2: Others we all want to be.
Speaker 3: Liked so when you post something on The, internet then
Speaker 3: you're anxiously waiting is anybody gonna like? It is anybody gonna?
Speaker 3: Like and so you're waiting with baited, breath is anybody
Speaker 3: gonna like? This and all of a sudden you get
Speaker 3: a ding and you gotta like, You, OH i gotta,
Speaker 3: LIKE i gotta. Like and what happens is in your
Speaker 3: brain it releases. Dopamine and then a few minutes later
Speaker 3: you get another.
Speaker 2: Ding OH i got another like ding, DING i got two,
Speaker 2: MUCH i got four. Likes they like, me they like,
Speaker 2: me they really like.
Speaker 3: Me ding ding ding ding, ding and dopamine is going
Speaker 3: off in your. Brain it's the exact same thing that
Speaker 3: when the give a rat, cocaine it'll keep going, back going,
Speaker 3: back going back for, another hit. Another it's a scientific
Speaker 3: biological fact that when you get a, like it releases
Speaker 3: dopamine in your, brain.
Speaker 2: And that can become. Addicting and all of a, sudden
Speaker 2: you got whoa look at nine people like.
Speaker 3: Me you, know they don't know, you they maybe out
Speaker 3: of even speak your, language they may be a. Bot
Speaker 3: but that you got nine likes right, there and you
Speaker 3: then feel good about, yourself and that creates uh.
Speaker 2: Uh here's the problem with.
Speaker 3: This when we do, this we get more interested in
Speaker 3: the opinions of people we don't know than the people around,
Speaker 3: us and we ignore the people around us while we're
Speaker 3: busy looking at the.
Speaker 2: Screen let me show you a couple of.
Speaker 3: Cartoons here's a woman with HER i guess her husband or,
Speaker 3: boyfriend and she, says do you mind IF i strap
Speaker 3: your phone to my foot SO i can pretend you're
Speaker 3: looking at me WHEN i. Talk ouch ouch, yeah. Okay
Speaker 3: and then here's another. One cell phones bring you closer
Speaker 3: to a person far from, you but it takes you
Speaker 3: away from the ones sitting next to. You that's a
Speaker 3: profound spiritual. Truth Cell phones bring you closer to a
Speaker 3: person far from, you but it takes you away from
Speaker 3: the ones sitting next to, You and you can be
Speaker 3: sitting at a table with everybody in your family and
Speaker 3: you're more interested in what a visitor or a stranger
Speaker 3: is thinking and saying than the people who are around.
Speaker 2: You that's.
Speaker 3: Problem and if you're going to spend eleven years of
Speaker 3: your life doing, that that's not going to be very
Speaker 3: good on your. Relationships all, right let me show you some.
Speaker 3: Scriptures galatians, one verse. Ten paul, says AM i trying
Speaker 3: to win the approval of people or the approval Of?
Speaker 3: God AM i trying to be a pop people?
Speaker 2: Pleaser?
Speaker 3: No IF i were still trying to please, PEOPLE i
Speaker 3: would not be the servant Of.
Speaker 2: CHRIST i just talked about. This you gotta.
Speaker 3: Choose AM i going to be A god pleaser or
Speaker 3: a people? PLEASER a couple of other Scriptures James chapter,
Speaker 3: Two verse, One dear, friends don't let public opinion influence
Speaker 3: how you live out our Glorious christ originated. Faith they
Speaker 3: don't have anything to do with your. Faith so don't
Speaker 3: let public opinion decide what you. Believe don't let public
Speaker 3: opinion decide how you. Act don't let public opinion decide
Speaker 3: how you, feel because they're heading in the wrong direction.
Speaker 3: Anyway one More ecclesiastes, seven verse twenty. One don't pay
Speaker 3: attention to everything people, Say, oh time, out we need
Speaker 3: to tattoo that.
Speaker 2: On our arms right down.
Speaker 3: There if you're hold your phone like, this tattoo it
Speaker 3: here on the. Inside don't pay attention to what everybody. Says,
Speaker 3: okay The bible says, this put don't pay attention to
Speaker 3: everything people. Say that means you can't pay attention everything
Speaker 3: on social media or anything. Else or you may hear
Speaker 3: someone insulting, you for you know that you've insulted others many.
Speaker 3: Times and he, says you, know what you give, out
Speaker 3: you're going to get back what you, Sew you're going to.
Speaker 3: Read and he, goes you, know at some point you're
Speaker 3: going to say you've said, stuff and so somebody's gonna
Speaker 3: say something about, you.
Speaker 2: And then it's going to ruin your. Day don't pay
Speaker 2: attention to everything people.
Speaker 3: Say god says that.
Speaker 1: That was such an encouraging message From Pastor. Rick and
Speaker 1: now to encourage us, more Here's rick with a letter
Speaker 1: from one of our.
Speaker 3: Listeners, friends you are so essential to this ministry Of Daily,
Speaker 3: hope your, prayers your support help us reach more and
Speaker 3: more people around the. WORLD i was really blessed today
Speaker 3: WHEN i read this note From edward and he talks
Speaker 3: about how he's learning From Daily hope while he's working
Speaker 3: with inner city kids right here In. America he wrote,
Speaker 3: This Dear Pastor, Rick i'm a middle school, teacher and
Speaker 3: it's a real challenge every morning waking up and coming
Speaker 3: to my school to.
Speaker 2: TEACH i teach you the school.
Speaker 3: Where one hundred percent of our students need financial help
Speaker 3: just to eat. Lunch in other, words it's in a
Speaker 3: very poor section.
Speaker 2: Of a, city he.
Speaker 3: SAYS i listen to Your Daily hope message during my
Speaker 3: break AND i usually give my students bits and pieces of.
Speaker 3: It TODAY i told them to think about what they
Speaker 3: can do for others if they truly want to be.
Speaker 3: Happy Pastor, rick thank you for making Your Daily hope messages.
Speaker 3: Free i'm able to keep listening to them UNTIL i
Speaker 3: really understand what you're teaching. Well, edward you are making
Speaker 3: a real. DIFFERENCE i am so proud of you for
Speaker 3: working with those inner city. Students you're giving them a
Speaker 3: message of hope and healing and, help and you're helping
Speaker 3: them to understand how that by giving their lives a
Speaker 3: way to help other, people they bring new meaning and
Speaker 3: significance to their own. Lives And i'm Praying edward that
Speaker 3: today you'll be, encouraged not just, today but every day
Speaker 3: as you go to, school knowing that what you do
Speaker 3: is making a difference in students' lives for, Eternity god bless.
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