WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:06.559 Hello, everybody, Welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. This is 2 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:09.160 the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren. 3 00:00:09.439 --> 00:00:11.839 Hey, we're so glad you're here with us today. 4 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:15.960 We are continuing in a series called Talking about Stuff 5 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:19.120 That Matters Now. In this series, Rick looks into the 6 00:00:19.160 --> 00:00:23.239 scriptures and he's unpacking what it means to live in community, 7 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:28.320 have real conversation about what matters most, and face discouragement 8 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:33.159 with courage and faith. It's honest, hopeful, So stay tuned. 9 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:35.920 You won't want to miss a second. All right, here's 10 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:39.159 part two of a message called being a Disciple in 11 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:40.439 the Digital Age. 12 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:42.799 Let me give you a third. Third hazard. 13 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:50.880 I can be drawn into unproductive arguments. Oh baby, this 14 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:54.759 is very very easy, particularly in social media. Have you 15 00:00:54.799 --> 00:00:59.079 ever heard somebody say something really outrageous and you got 16 00:00:59.119 --> 00:01:01.799 offended really quickly by it, and you thought, well, I 17 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:04.959 need to tell them off. I need to set them straight, 18 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:08.959 I need to respond, and you want every bone in 19 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:12.159 your body wants to just obliterate them because what they 20 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:17.560 just said, like, you don't know what I'm talking about. Okay, 21 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:21.879 You've read stuff online and you go, that is so wrong, 22 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:25.920 that's just not right. And they attack somebody I like 23 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:29.640 or love or whatever, And it's an easy way to 24 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:33.959 get drawn into an argument. I understand how you feel, 25 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:39.840 but don't don't respond when those arguments start up on 26 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:43.159 the Internet. Here's what the Bible says, Titus, chapter three, 27 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:45.959 verse nine. 28 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:47.040 Never. 29 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:55.840 That means never, never get involved in foolish controversies, useless arguments, 30 00:01:57.239 --> 00:02:01.640 disputes about your personal pedigree. That means you know, issues 31 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:05.239 about your family history, your ethnic background, your genealogy, that 32 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:08.840 kind of stuff. Don't get an argument over that, or 33 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:13.520 fights over interpreting God's law how you interpret it. Particularly, 34 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:17.000 all of these God says are useless and do not 35 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:22.319 help anyone. So it's pretty clearly don't get involved in 36 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:25.520 fights and arguments. That would apply to the internet too, 37 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:29.360 not just at the office. The fact is there are 38 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:33.400 people who live to hook you. There are trolls out 39 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:36.759 there who love that. There adrenaline goes up when they 40 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:39.199 hook somebody for a fight. They don't even care whether 41 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:42.879 what you believe. They just like to fight and they 42 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:46.199 like to argue, and you think we'll all set them straight, 43 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:48.680 but they're using motivated reasoning, which means no matter what 44 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:51.919 you say, it's not going to work, and finally you're 45 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:54.560 gonna after about I don't know how many times you 46 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:57.759 respond to them back and forth, you're finding this is 47 00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:00.439 real life. It's worthless, it's not going anywhere. They're not 48 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:03.319 going to change You're not going to change them. They 49 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:07.680 just like to fight. And if they throw something out 50 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:13.840 that's very you know, threatening or a provocative and they 51 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:16.520 throw that out and then you respond to it, they go, 52 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:18.039 I hooked a live one. 53 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:20.280 I'm going to reel them in now, and now. 54 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:22.879 They've got somebody to fight with because they don't really 55 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:27.199 feel alive unless they're mad. It's a problem. It's a 56 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:31.039 mental problem. They don't feel alive unless they're mad, and 57 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:33.360 they're going to just roll and hook you in. 58 00:03:33.879 --> 00:03:34.039 Here. 59 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:35.879 Let me show you some verses about this on the 60 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:40.639 screen Proverbs twenty six twenty one. Just as charcoal and 61 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:46.639 would keep a fire going, a troublemaker keeps an argument going. 62 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:48.639 They're not going to let you off the hook. They're 63 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:51.439 going to keep on arguing until you give up. They're 64 00:03:51.479 --> 00:03:53.919 not going to give up. So he says, don't do that. 65 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:56.919 What does God say to do with those kind of people? 66 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:00.000 Here's what he says on the screen, Proverbs twenty six four. 67 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:06.120 Or don't answer their foolish arguments, or you will become 68 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:10.199 as foolish as they are. You're gonna look as dumb 69 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:15.479 as they do. Just don't get hooked now. I highly 70 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:19.120 recommend that instead of worrying about what other people think, 71 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:22.959 whether they think it about you. What they think about 72 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:25.399 you is none of your business. What people think about 73 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:29.399 me is none of my business. Doesn't have any degree 74 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:34.680 of influence on my happiness. Don't be worrying about what 75 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:38.279 other people think. Instead, here's what you should be worrying about. 76 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:42.759 Matthew twelve thirty six. Jesus said, you can be sure 77 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:47.560 that on the judgment day you will have to give 78 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:52.920 an account to God of every careless word you have 79 00:04:53.040 --> 00:05:00.160 ever spoken. Oh, that includes one written in social media 80 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:02.959 and on the internet. One day you're going to give 81 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:07.480 an account of every foolish, useless, mean and what other 82 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:12.079 words that you use on the Internet or anywhere else. 83 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:13.319 You're gonna given account to God. 84 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:16.639 Now that autumn be enough to muzzle my mouth and 85 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:17.600 zip my lip. 86 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:20.800 But not only that. 87 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:23.759 Now you know this, whatever you say on the Internet 88 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:30.000 is permanent, global and searchable. It's never going away, which 89 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:31.360 is why you need to teach your. 90 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:32.839 Kids don't do that. 91 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:36.600 Don't say stuff on the internet thinking it's no big deal, 92 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:38.959 because when you're in the ninth grade or tenth grade, 93 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:40.839 you think, well, I can say that, and I'm just 94 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:44.399 mad at so and so, and then fifty years later 95 00:05:44.439 --> 00:05:46.199 they're going to pull it out in your Senate hearing. 96 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:52.800 It will come back and any employee you can look 97 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:57.040 up anything you've ever said on the internet. So it's 98 00:05:57.079 --> 00:05:59.000 not only going to be Not only is God keeping 99 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:02.800 a record, so is internet. And it's permanent, it's global 100 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:08.040 and searchable. So zip the lip. What causes us to 101 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:12.040 get hooked into those kind of arguments, Well, in a word, 102 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:12.759 it's ego. 103 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:14.360 It's ego. 104 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:18.800 When Cay and I got married many moons ago, the 105 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:21.480 first verse Bible verse, we memorized together. We memorize a 106 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:24.040 lot of scripture together. I would highly recommend you do 107 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:27.120 that with your spouse. Well, the first verse we memorize, 108 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:29.079 we memorize it on our honeymoon because we need it. 109 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:31.319 On our honeymoon. We were having conflict on our honeymoon, 110 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:37.040 and Proverbs thirteen ten says this pride always causes conflict. 111 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:43.519 Pride always causes conflict. Anywhere you find conflict, it's because 112 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:47.079 egos involved. I want what I want, what you want. 113 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:50.000 Neither of us want to back down when my pride 114 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:55.759 hits your pride. That's what's causing the conflict. A good 115 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:58.399 dose of humility is what you really need to do 116 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:02.439 before you go online. You pick up that phone, all right, 117 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:02.920 number four? 118 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:04.560 Let me give you another one. 119 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:10.480 Another hazard of a smartphone is I can be tempted 120 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:15.000 to compete and show off. I can be tempted to 121 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:19.839 compete and show off. Now, we always want to put 122 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:23.120 ourselves in the best light. We want everybody to think 123 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:25.600 our lives are perfect. We want everybody to think we've 124 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:29.480 got it all together. And what happened is this new 125 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:33.879 entity called social media is a place to show off. 126 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:35.439 That's what it is. 127 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:40.399 And when I go on social media, I always want 128 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:43.720 to put my best foot forward. You never post a 129 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:47.519 picture of yourself when you just got out of bed, okay, 130 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:50.600 and there's jewel coming down your cheek here and you 131 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:53.680 can smell the body odor on you, and you know 132 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:56.639 there's laundry over in the corner. No, no, no, it's 133 00:07:56.680 --> 00:07:58.319 my so called perfect life. 134 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:01.720 Instagram reported that over. 135 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:08.480 Half of the pictures posted on Instagram are photoshopped. They're correct, 136 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:09.800 they're they're not reality. 137 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:10.800 They they they are. 138 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:14.240 I want everybody to look good, and so I want 139 00:08:14.279 --> 00:08:16.680 everybody to see how cool I am. I want everybody 140 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:18.920 to see how smart I am. I want everybody to 141 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:20.199 see how rich I am. 142 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:20.920 I want to see how. 143 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:24.560 Everybody, how happy, how fun I am, how perfect my 144 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:28.480 marriage is, how brilliant my children are. And people are 145 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:32.360 actually showing off through their kids and grandkids. 146 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:39.000 Boy got quiet, and and look how loved we are. 147 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:41.600 Look how loved I am. 148 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:43.279 That's just showing off. 149 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:48.960 And and because of that, the worst kind of showing off, 150 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:49.639 you know what it is. 151 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:51.159 God hates this more. 152 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:55.720 Than anna kind spiritual showing off when you're trying to 153 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:59.960 appear spiritual in front of them. It's called self righteous. 154 00:09:00.360 --> 00:09:04.360 It's the sin that Jesus hated in the Pharisees. He 155 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:09.080 said this about the Pharisees, the religiously. Everything they do. 156 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:10.120 Is for show. 157 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:15.840 They pray for showy, they sing for show, they give 158 00:09:15.879 --> 00:09:19.080 their offerings to show off. He said, everything they do 159 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:20.679 is for public consumption. 160 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:23.639 And he and God hated that. He said, they're hypocrites. 161 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:28.120 And so what happens today is people are using social 162 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:30.080 media to show off their spirituality. 163 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:30.840 Stop it. 164 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:35.200 I mean, if you go, and let's just say I 165 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:37.039 I go, and I say, I'm gonna I'm gonna take 166 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:39.600 a picture of me having a quiet time and I'm 167 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:41.960 going to spend time alone with God. And here I am, 168 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:47.440 you know, trying to focus on God. And you know, 169 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:50.639 a look at the scripture. I'm government, I'm in a back. 170 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:52.399 I bet you never read a. 171 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:53.879 Back, okay. 172 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:57.440 And and I've underlined this verse that I remember. I 173 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:00.279 got my little latte here and some beautiful sunset and 174 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:02.519 my Bible and I'm looking so spiritual. 175 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:03.440 Click. 176 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:10.679 You can't do that, okay, that's just showing off, all right. 177 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:12.759 I want you to write something down. Would you write 178 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:17.720 this sentence down. I can't be in the moment trying. 179 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:18.360 To capture the moment. 180 00:10:19.759 --> 00:10:24.200 I can't be in the moment while I'm trying to 181 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:29.759 capture a moment. Please, as your pastor, I'm begging you 182 00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:32.519 to never take another shot of your quiet time. 183 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:37.519 That's just showing off. And Jesus hates it. 184 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:40.679 You ought to have a quiet time with God every day, 185 00:10:40.679 --> 00:10:43.000 but it ought to between you and God. You will 186 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:46.519 never see a quiet time of me anywhere? Why Because 187 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:49.559 if I'm focusing it, if all of a sudden, my 188 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:52.440 quiet time, I'm taking a picture of it, I'm staging 189 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:56.720 it for production. It's not real, it's not authentic. I'm 190 00:10:56.759 --> 00:10:59.159 not focusing on God. I'm focusing on I wonder if 191 00:10:59.159 --> 00:11:02.960 everybody's gonna like this on Instagram and all of a sudden, 192 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:07.240 I've taken the wrong motivation for this. I can't be 193 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:10.799 in the moment while trying to capture a moment. I 194 00:11:10.840 --> 00:11:12.480 want to show you a picture up here. Tell me 195 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:16.240 which of these people is really enjoying the moment. It's 196 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:19.519 all these pictures. Everybody's got their phone out trying to 197 00:11:19.519 --> 00:11:21.679 take a shot, and then there's this little old lady 198 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:25.639 here with no camera, just smiling, enjoying. She's the one 199 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:29.720 who's enjoying the moment. Everybody else is trying to capture 200 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:33.320 the moment, and so she's the one who's fully there. 201 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:36.200 This is one of my problems today is that now 202 00:11:36.679 --> 00:11:41.000 wedding photographers have taken over the weddings, and the whole 203 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:43.759 thing's so stage. It's all about now. Please stand here, 204 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:46.279 please do this, Please stand here. I understand the need 205 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:49.919 for nice pictures, but we can't even have a moment 206 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:50.600 because it's. 207 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:51.879 All about the picture. 208 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:58.000 And who's actually enjoying the moment, because it's all being staged. 209 00:11:57.720 --> 00:11:59.519 For somebody and something else. 210 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:03.120 I can't be in the moment while trying to capture 211 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:03.480 a moment. 212 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:04.759 Now, Jesus has. 213 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:08.720 A lot to say about this, and he says in 214 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:12.320 Matthew chapter six, verse one, this is in the sermon 215 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:15.799 amount be careful. There's that word again. Don't be careless, 216 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:20.519 be careful, be careful. Don't do your acts of righteousness 217 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:26.879 publicly to be admired by others. If you do, you 218 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:30.519 will lose your reward from your father in heaven. 219 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:34.960 Wow. He said. 220 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:37.799 If I take what I've just done a good thing 221 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:40.960 and I posted on the internet, that's all the reward 222 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:44.480 I'm getting because I just lost it if I did 223 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:51.759 it in secret. In my lifetime, I've probably prayed with 224 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:56.519 almost every president in my lifetime. You will never ever 225 00:12:56.559 --> 00:13:00.399 see a picture of me praying with somebody, at least 226 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:01.720 some many important famous like that. 227 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:04.240 Because what does that do? 228 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:07.240 If I wanted to, I could post almost every day 229 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:09.320 a picture of me in a celebrity. 230 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:12.360 What does that do? Does that draw us closer. No, 231 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:15.240 it's like, who do you think you are? Well? Goody 232 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:15.679 for you? 233 00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:21.480 When you show off, it builds barriers, It doesn't build fellowship. 234 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:24.919 It doesn't draw you closer to anybody. It's like, well, 235 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:27.200 how come your life is so perfect in mine's not? 236 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:30.080 And you get to do exciting things and I don't. No, No, 237 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:32.279 If you want to draw people close to you, do 238 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:36.039 the opposite. Share the problems that Jesus is helping you 239 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:39.279 with and people go, oh, well, if God's helping Rick 240 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:40.960 with that problem, then maybe he could help me too. 241 00:13:42.159 --> 00:13:45.639 It's the exact opposite of what the world values and 242 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:48.480 what's being posted on their right. Now, let me show 243 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:52.840 you a few more verses one Corinthians four seven. Who 244 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:57.120 says you're better than others? What do you have that 245 00:13:57.279 --> 00:13:59.519 was not given to you, in other words, by God? 246 00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:03.399 And if it was given to you by God, why 247 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:06.200 do you brag as if you did not receive it 248 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:11.000 as a gift. Really, I can't brag about anything because 249 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:14.159 any good that's been happening in my life is because 250 00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:17.480 God did it in me, for me, through me, to me, 251 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:20.039 or you somebody else to do it with me or 252 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:23.039 to me or for me or through me. It's really 253 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:25.159 all God. The breath I'm breathing right now is a 254 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:27.759 gift of God. The heart that I have is a 255 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:29.919 gift of God. The brain that I have is a 256 00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:32.600 gift of God. The talent that I've used to do 257 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:34.360 something with my life is a gift of God. I 258 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:36.799 had nothing to do with it. It was just put 259 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:39.000 in me by God. So why in the world can 260 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:41.320 I be proud about it? Because it's just a gift, 261 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:45.399 And the same thing is true for you. The same 262 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:47.919 thing is true for you. So why we have no 263 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:51.879 real reason to brag except on the goodness of God. 264 00:14:53.080 --> 00:14:56.039 The Bible says this on the screen Galatians six'. Three 265 00:14:56.679 --> 00:15:00.360 if you think you're better than, others wh you really. 266 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:05.720 Aren't you're just deceiving. Yourself and one more, verse The 267 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:12.159 bible says One's peter five. Six so be content with 268 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:15.440 who you are and don't put on. 269 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:17.879 Airs what does that? Mean don't show off. 270 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:23.000 On the, internet don't put on, airs don't pretend you're 271 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:26.080 somebody you're. Not be content with who you, are don't 272 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:29.320 put on. Airs just be the real. You god's strong 273 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:34.039 hand is on, you and he'll promote you at the right. 274 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:37.639 Time now see that word. PROMOTE a lot of people 275 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:42.879 are using, internet particularly social, media to promote. Themselves see 276 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:46.639 how COOL i, Am see how SMART i, Am see 277 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:50.240 how ATTRACTIVE i, Am see my pretty new. Clothes and 278 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:54.320 they're using themselves to promote, themselves thinking that they have 279 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:58.919 to promote. Themselves, friends you don't have to know the key. 280 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:00.519 Men if you know the man. 281 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:00.960 Who holds the. 282 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:07.240 Keys and if you are a child Of, god you're 283 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:10.240 a son Of god or a daughter Of. God it, 284 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:12.480 says he'll promote you at the right, time when he 285 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:15.600 knows you're, ready and he can put you at the 286 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:19.080 front of the line any, moment far more than ten 287 00:16:19.159 --> 00:16:23.720 years of self promotion on the. Internet so stop. It 288 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.000 god says you can. Choose either you can promote yourself 289 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:30.279 or let me do. It who do you think will 290 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:34.399 do a better. Job i'm inviting you to change the 291 00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:38.360 way you look at social. Media let me give you two. 292 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:42.960 More number. Five the fifth hazard IS i can get 293 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:47.440 addicted to the approval of. OTHERS i can get addicted 294 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:52.159 to the approval of. Others, now what is it that 295 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:56.360 makes social media so? ADDICTING i have to go back in. 296 00:16:56.440 --> 00:16:57.840 CHECK i have to go back in. CHECK i have 297 00:16:57.879 --> 00:17:00.639 to go back in check this eighty times a day 298 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:03.960 thing of looking at your. Phone eighty people aren't phoning 299 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:06.400 you every. Day so what are you doing looking at 300 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:10.160 your phone eighty times a? Day, well if it's social, 301 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:16.440 media here's the science behind why it's so. Addicting everybody 302 00:17:16.599 --> 00:17:20.960 wants the approval of. Others we desperately need and desperately 303 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:22.359 want the approval of. 304 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:23.440 Others we all want to be. 305 00:17:23.640 --> 00:17:27.960 Liked so when you post something on The, internet then 306 00:17:28.119 --> 00:17:32.799 you're anxiously waiting is anybody gonna like? It is anybody gonna? 307 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:35.160 Like and so you're waiting with baited, breath is anybody 308 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:37.359 gonna like? This and all of a sudden you get 309 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:39.880 a ding and you gotta like, You, OH i gotta, 310 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:42.319 LIKE i gotta. Like and what happens is in your 311 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:46.680 brain it releases. Dopamine and then a few minutes later 312 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:47.240 you get another. 313 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:49.559 Ding OH i got another like ding, DING i got two, 314 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:52.440 MUCH i got four. Likes they like, me they like, 315 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:53.240 me they really like. 316 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:56.240 Me ding ding ding ding, ding and dopamine is going 317 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:59.680 off in your. Brain it's the exact same thing that 318 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:03.119 when the give a rat, cocaine it'll keep going, back going, 319 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:06.759 back going back for, another hit. Another it's a scientific 320 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:10.880 biological fact that when you get a, like it releases 321 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:12.759 dopamine in your, brain. 322 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:17.440 And that can become. Addicting and all of a, sudden 323 00:18:17.480 --> 00:18:20.119 you got whoa look at nine people like. 324 00:18:20.200 --> 00:18:23.960 Me you, know they don't know, you they maybe out 325 00:18:23.960 --> 00:18:26.839 of even speak your, language they may be a. Bot 326 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:30.799 but that you got nine likes right, there and you 327 00:18:31.039 --> 00:18:35.640 then feel good about, yourself and that creates uh. 328 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:37.039 Uh here's the problem with. 329 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:42.119 This when we do, this we get more interested in 330 00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:45.759 the opinions of people we don't know than the people around, 331 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:49.880 us and we ignore the people around us while we're 332 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:51.200 busy looking at the. 333 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:53.240 Screen let me show you a couple of. 334 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:56.359 Cartoons here's a woman with HER i guess her husband or, 335 00:18:56.359 --> 00:18:58.960 boyfriend and she, says do you mind IF i strap 336 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:02.519 your phone to my foot SO i can pretend you're 337 00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:09.000 looking at me WHEN i. Talk ouch ouch, yeah. Okay 338 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:12.319 and then here's another. One cell phones bring you closer 339 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:15.960 to a person far from, you but it takes you 340 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:19.240 away from the ones sitting next to. You that's a 341 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:24.720 profound spiritual. Truth Cell phones bring you closer to a 342 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:28.480 person far from, you but it takes you away from 343 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:30.400 the ones sitting next to, You and you can be 344 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:32.599 sitting at a table with everybody in your family and 345 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:35.440 you're more interested in what a visitor or a stranger 346 00:19:35.720 --> 00:19:38.039 is thinking and saying than the people who are around. 347 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:39.519 You that's. 348 00:19:39.640 --> 00:19:42.200 Problem and if you're going to spend eleven years of 349 00:19:42.240 --> 00:19:44.319 your life doing, that that's not going to be very 350 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:50.039 good on your. Relationships all, right let me show you some. 351 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:54.319 Scriptures galatians, one verse. Ten paul, says AM i trying 352 00:19:54.359 --> 00:19:57.599 to win the approval of people or the approval Of? 353 00:19:57.640 --> 00:20:00.920 God AM i trying to be a pop people? 354 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:01.519 Pleaser? 355 00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:05.599 No IF i were still trying to please, PEOPLE i 356 00:20:05.640 --> 00:20:07.200 would not be the servant Of. 357 00:20:07.279 --> 00:20:09.440 CHRIST i just talked about. This you gotta. 358 00:20:09.480 --> 00:20:11.200 Choose AM i going to be A god pleaser or 359 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:14.799 a people? PLEASER a couple of other Scriptures James chapter, 360 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:21.000 Two verse, One dear, friends don't let public opinion influence 361 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:26.319 how you live out our Glorious christ originated. Faith they 362 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:28.759 don't have anything to do with your. Faith so don't 363 00:20:28.839 --> 00:20:32.640 let public opinion decide what you. Believe don't let public 364 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:36.480 opinion decide how you. Act don't let public opinion decide 365 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:39.920 how you, feel because they're heading in the wrong direction. 366 00:20:40.119 --> 00:20:45.680 Anyway one More ecclesiastes, seven verse twenty. One don't pay 367 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:50.279 attention to everything people, Say, oh time, out we need 368 00:20:50.279 --> 00:20:51.119 to tattoo that. 369 00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:52.960 On our arms right down. 370 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:55.240 There if you're hold your phone like, this tattoo it 371 00:20:55.240 --> 00:20:58.480 here on the. Inside don't pay attention to what everybody. Says, 372 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:02.440 okay The bible says, this put don't pay attention to 373 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:06.759 everything people. Say that means you can't pay attention everything 374 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:10.240 on social media or anything. Else or you may hear 375 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:13.759 someone insulting, you for you know that you've insulted others many. 376 00:21:13.759 --> 00:21:16.319 Times and he, says you, know what you give, out 377 00:21:16.359 --> 00:21:18.119 you're going to get back what you, Sew you're going to. 378 00:21:18.200 --> 00:21:20.440 Read and he, goes you, know at some point you're 379 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:22.720 going to say you've said, stuff and so somebody's gonna 380 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:23.440 say something about, you. 381 00:21:23.400 --> 00:21:25.400 And then it's going to ruin your. Day don't pay 382 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:27.400 attention to everything people. 383 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:40.880 Say god says that. 384 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:38.039 That was such an encouraging message From Pastor. Rick and 385 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:40.920 now to encourage us, more Here's rick with a letter 386 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:41.680 from one of our. 387 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:46.119 Listeners, friends you are so essential to this ministry Of Daily, 388 00:21:46.160 --> 00:21:49.599 hope your, prayers your support help us reach more and 389 00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:52.640 more people around the. WORLD i was really blessed today 390 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:55.440 WHEN i read this note From edward and he talks 391 00:21:55.480 --> 00:21:59.079 about how he's learning From Daily hope while he's working 392 00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:01.720 with inner city kids right here In. America he wrote, 393 00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:05.400 This Dear Pastor, Rick i'm a middle school, teacher and 394 00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:07.759 it's a real challenge every morning waking up and coming 395 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:08.440 to my school to. 396 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:10.480 TEACH i teach you the school. 397 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:14.039 Where one hundred percent of our students need financial help 398 00:22:14.240 --> 00:22:16.559 just to eat. Lunch in other, words it's in a 399 00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:18.279 very poor section. 400 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:19.119 Of a, city he. 401 00:22:19.160 --> 00:22:21.279