Speaker 1: This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry
Speaker 1: of Pastor Rick Warren. Today we continue with our series
Speaker 1: called Doing Business with God. In this series, Rick helps
Speaker 1: you understand why you work, what you should be working for,
Speaker 1: and how God can use you in your workplace. Right now,
Speaker 1: here's Pastor Rick with the final part of a message called.
Speaker 2: The purpose of Work. Now we come to the sixth purpose,
Speaker 2: which is the highest purpose of all. And this is
Speaker 2: the purpose not of identity or necessity, or charity or
Speaker 2: credibility or maturity. It is the purpose of eternity. And
Speaker 2: this is thinking long term about what your job's implication is.
Speaker 2: Eternity is I use my job to build God's kingdom.
Speaker 2: I use my job to build God's kingdom. You can
Speaker 2: use your work to bring glory to God. You can
Speaker 2: use your career to bring glory to God. You can
Speaker 2: use your skills, you can use your business. You can
Speaker 2: use your workplace to further God's kingdom. So how do
Speaker 2: I do that? Oh? There are lots of ways, lots
Speaker 2: of ways you can use your business to further God's kingdom.
Speaker 2: One way is to use the contacts that your businesses
Speaker 2: have to spread the good news and to tell other
Speaker 2: people about the good news to pass it on. This
Speaker 2: is why we have in the peace peace and assist
Speaker 2: the poor using business people to go out and teach
Speaker 2: businesses which will assist the poor to create jobs. Let
Speaker 2: me give you an example. While back, I got a
Speaker 2: call between the services of this guy named Eric Stamminger.
Speaker 2: He's a German guy calling from Germany. He said, my
Speaker 2: name is Eric Stammiger. I am the president and CEO
Speaker 2: of Adidas. You know what Adidas is, you know the
Speaker 2: shoes and all that. Actually it's called Adi Das in
Speaker 2: German because it's named after Adi Dossler, who is the founder.
Speaker 2: He said, my name is Eric Stanminger. I'm the CEO
Speaker 2: of Adi Das. He said, I have just finished reading
Speaker 2: Purpose Driven Life. It changed my life. I've given my
Speaker 2: life to Christ. I will come anywhere in the world
Speaker 2: to meet you. How soon can we meet? I said, Well,
Speaker 2: why don't you come to church next week? He said,
Speaker 2: I will. He said, I got to go to China.
Speaker 2: I got to close the deal in China. Then I
Speaker 2: got to go to Tokyo close the deal there. I'll
Speaker 2: be back over in California. I'll be there next Sunday.
Speaker 2: So the next Sunday, the president and CEO of Adidas
Speaker 2: came and came to church, and I went back and
Speaker 2: we sat down on a couple of chairs in the
Speaker 2: back and I said, so, mister Stamminger, tell me how
Speaker 2: can I help you. He said, well, I just need
Speaker 2: to know one thing I've read purpose Driven Life. It's
Speaker 2: changed my life. I'm a Christian. Now I want to
Speaker 2: know should I resign a CEO of Adidas and become
Speaker 2: a pastor? I said, let me show you how to
Speaker 2: use your job for the kingdom, how to be a
Speaker 2: kingdom builder, not just a wealth builder. I said, do
Speaker 2: you have an executive team at Adidas? He said yes,
Speaker 2: there are six of us. I said, are any of
Speaker 2: the others Christians? He said, well, actually two of them are.
Speaker 2: I said, you start meeting with those two and start
Speaker 2: praying for the other three. And your first ministry is
Speaker 2: to win your six coworkers to christ That's your first job.
Speaker 2: That's your first ministry to win the people close to you.
Speaker 2: Nobody else is as likely to win them as you are,
Speaker 2: So you start working on that. I said, number two,
Speaker 2: how many employees do you have an Adidas? I don't remember.
Speaker 2: I think he said twenty five thousand. I said, that's
Speaker 2: called the megachurch. I said, your congregation is bigger than
Speaker 2: most pastors will ever preach to. So you've got twenty
Speaker 2: five thousand members in your congregation, they're all employees. You
Speaker 2: start praying for them, you start being available to them,
Speaker 2: you start putting instituting good Christian principles in your business.
Speaker 2: I said, would you like to influence other CEOs? I
Speaker 2: said yeah. I said, then you need to stay at
Speaker 2: a CEO, because you'll have far more influence on them
Speaker 2: as a CEO then as a pastor or missionary anybody else.
Speaker 2: I said, would you like to influence culture? He said, well, yes,
Speaker 2: of course I would. I said, then you've got to
Speaker 2: influence the culture makers if you want to influence culture,
Speaker 2: and the culture makers are musicians and athletes and celebrities
Speaker 2: and people in the media. I said, do you do
Speaker 2: celebrity endorsements? He said yes. I said, of course you do.
Speaker 2: And I said, the next time you do a celebrity endorsement,
Speaker 2: you bring that pro athlete in, you sit them down
Speaker 2: and you say, look, I'm not just your endorser. I'm
Speaker 2: not just your sponsor. You're going to make a lot
Speaker 2: of money off me. But I'm not just your sponsor.
Speaker 2: I want to be your friend. And here's my business card.
Speaker 2: And when you get in trouble, and when you have
Speaker 2: a need, please call me personally. And then you just
Speaker 2: wait because the problem will come. And celebrities have rovos.
Speaker 2: They're just more visible. And I said, they'll have a
Speaker 2: slump in their game, or they'll have a drug crisis,
Speaker 2: or a marriage crisis, or a health crisis, or an injury,
Speaker 2: or a financial crisis, or something will happen and they're
Speaker 2: going to need you. And when they come back to
Speaker 2: you and they ask for your help, then you can
Speaker 2: share Jesus with them. You do not move where you are,
Speaker 2: stay where you are and be that person. Does that
Speaker 2: makes sense. I know a number of Christian businessmen in
Speaker 2: Hong Kong been there many times who were concerned about
Speaker 2: mainland China because the churches were under persecution by the
Speaker 2: Communist government and they weren't always allowed the freedom. And
Speaker 2: so they decided, how can we be planning churches in
Speaker 2: China when some of the places we can't plant them.
Speaker 2: They'd just immediately be outlawed. So these businessmen began building
Speaker 2: factories in mainland China and putting churches in the factories.
Speaker 2: In today's globalized economy, the new missionaries are businessmen and businesswomen.
Speaker 2: If you are a businessman, there's not a country in
Speaker 2: the world who doesn't want to know what you're doing.
Speaker 2: They want to know about your distribution and your products,
Speaker 2: stuff like that. There are many countries they're not going
Speaker 2: to allow a pastor in, they're not going to allow
Speaker 2: a full time missionary in. But you, as a businessman
Speaker 2: or businesswoman, can go where nobody else can go. Business
Speaker 2: People are the missionaries for the great commission of the
Speaker 2: twenty first century. That is being a kingdom builder, not
Speaker 2: simply a wealth builder. You're using your business for the
Speaker 2: one thing that's going to outlast everything else, the Kingdom
Speaker 2: of God, the Church, God's family. Another way you can
Speaker 2: do it is by making money in your business and
Speaker 2: giving that for kingdom causes. And I know many businesses
Speaker 2: like that. One of them is hobby lobby. It is
Speaker 2: one of the most profitable businesses ROI return on investment
Speaker 2: in America, and because it's all built on Christian principles,
Speaker 2: they tie their money to help other things and God
Speaker 2: continues to bless that business. Bless that business. Bless that business,
Speaker 2: because they're using the profits for God's kingdom. The employees
Speaker 2: are better paid than anywhere else. I keep raised on.
Speaker 2: They're making great wages, and because the people at the
Speaker 2: top are generous, that blessing is on that business, and
Speaker 2: they keep going on and on. So I talk to
Speaker 2: the Greens about one of the projects we're working on,
Speaker 2: what we're calling the Final Frontier, which is one of
Speaker 2: our ten decade of Destiny goals. Twice in the New Testament,
Speaker 2: twice in the Book of Revelation, it says that in
Speaker 2: heaven one day there will be people from every tribe,
Speaker 2: every nation, and every language around the throne of God
Speaker 2: in heaven. I take that serious. That God wants people
Speaker 2: from every nation, every language, and every tribe. Somebody is
Speaker 2: going to be there in heaven. Here's the problem. There
Speaker 2: are three four hundred tribes in the world that have
Speaker 2: no Christian no Bible, and no church. So there's nobody
Speaker 2: going to be in heaven from that tribe. Yet somebody's
Speaker 2: got to get to that tribe. We call that the
Speaker 2: Final Frontier. And I began to enlist other churches to
Speaker 2: help us do this. And when I'd go out and speak,
Speaker 2: I'd encourage others, and people were signing commitment cards, and
Speaker 2: I was asking a church to adopt a people group.
Speaker 2: In the last two years, we've taken four hundred off
Speaker 2: that list. Used to be thirty eight hundred. It's now
Speaker 2: thirty four hundred. Can you imagine getting to heaven one
Speaker 2: day and you say, yeah, you know, my business it
Speaker 2: wasn't that big. But we helped fulfill the great commission.
Speaker 2: We helped raise the money by the stuff we sold
Speaker 2: to help get the Bible in the last translations and
Speaker 2: get churches in the last tribes that needed to be done.
Speaker 2: Let me show you some amazing promises and we'll close.
Speaker 2: They're on your outline. Matthew six thirty three is a
Speaker 2: good verse for businessmen. Jesus says, be concerned above everything
Speaker 2: else with the Kingdom of God, more than my business. Yeah,
Speaker 2: even than more than your business. Be concerned above everything
Speaker 2: else with the Kingdom of God and what He requires
Speaker 2: of you. And he God will provide you with all
Speaker 2: the other things. So what do you need more of? Well,
Speaker 2: I need more staff that goes into all the other things.
Speaker 2: I need more distribution that goes in all the other things.
Speaker 2: I need a smarter salesforce that goes in all the
Speaker 2: other things. I need an innovative idea for my business
Speaker 2: that goes in all the other things. Be concerned with
Speaker 2: God's kingdom and what it requires you. He will provide
Speaker 2: you with all the other things. Look at the next
Speaker 2: verse there on your outline. We know that the same
Speaker 2: God who raised Jesus will also raise us one day.
Speaker 2: That's in heaven. And as God's grace brings more and
Speaker 2: more people to Christ. In other words, as the kingdom
Speaker 2: is built, as it spread, as we build the Kingdom,
Speaker 2: as God's grace brings more and more people to Christ,
Speaker 2: there will be great thanksgiving and God will receive more
Speaker 2: and more glory. Kingdom builders reach one more for Jesus.
Speaker 2: Matthew six point twenty. Jesus said, store up for yourselves
Speaker 2: treasure in heaven. Circle the phrase for yourselves. Did you
Speaker 2: know that you can store up for yourselves treasure in heaven,
Speaker 2: not say to store up for God? God that needed
Speaker 2: God says, you can create a bank account in heaven
Speaker 2: that is eternal, pays the highest dividends and nobody can
Speaker 2: steal it. From you. You can store up for yourself
Speaker 2: treasure in heaven. That's the best investment you'll ever make.
Speaker 2: How do you do that by using your work and
Speaker 2: using your business to get people there? The only way
Speaker 2: you can in heaven is to invest in people who
Speaker 2: are going there. Your business isn't going to heaven, your
Speaker 2: car isn't going to heaven, your house isn't going to heaven.
Speaker 2: But people are. And when you invest in people getting
Speaker 2: them into heaven, you are storing up treasure in heaven
Speaker 2: to use for eternity. So here's the big question. I
Speaker 2: wrote it on your outline. Will I be a wealth
Speaker 2: builder or will I be a kingdom builder? You can
Speaker 2: use your work to build wealth. That's okay, nothing wrong
Speaker 2: with that. Trying to make a living, make a profit, fine,
Speaker 2: But it's short sighted. God says, don't just be a
Speaker 2: wealth builder, be a kingdom builder. Which of those are
Speaker 2: you going to circle? Will I be a wealth builder?
Speaker 2: Circle that? Or will I be a kingdom builder? Circle that? Now,
Speaker 2: let me close this. You don't realize how important your
Speaker 2: work is. You may think your work is I work
Speaker 2: at a Starbucks. You know, I work at a fast
Speaker 2: food place. I help clean in a certain place. I
Speaker 2: don't care what you do, whether you are a mother
Speaker 2: of preschoolers or you're the CEO of a corporation. Your
Speaker 2: work has far more significance than you realize because it
Speaker 2: wasn't meant for simply necessity. God says, I want to
Speaker 2: use your work, no matter what it is, for identity.
Speaker 2: I want you to express your talents through that. I
Speaker 2: want you to use it for maturity. I want you
Speaker 2: to let it make you a more stronger and a
Speaker 2: more mature and a more patient Christian. I want to
Speaker 2: use it for credibility. I want you to use your
Speaker 2: platform to influence the people you come in contact with
Speaker 2: for the good news and the gospel. I want you
Speaker 2: to use it for charity. I want you to figure
Speaker 2: out how to live on a little bit less so
Speaker 2: you can give a little bit more so you're storing
Speaker 2: up treasure in heaven. If you're behind on your tithe,
Speaker 2: you get caught up on that. But you learn to
Speaker 2: be generous. And I want you to be a kingdom builder,
Speaker 2: not just a wild builder. I want you to have
Speaker 2: a priority in your life. You can waste your life,
Speaker 2: you can spend your life, or you can invest your life.
Speaker 2: And the best use of your life is to invest
Speaker 2: it in the King of God because it's the only thing.
Speaker 2: It's going to last forever. One day, God is going
Speaker 2: to do an audit on your work. Did you know
Speaker 2: that You're going to have a job interview? One day,
Speaker 2: God's going to do an assessment on your work, last
Speaker 2: versa on your outline. It is going to come a
Speaker 2: time of testing at the judgment day to see what
Speaker 2: kind of work each builder is done. Where you're a
Speaker 2: wealth builder or were you a kingdom builder. Everyone's work
Speaker 2: will be put through the fire that means mine and
Speaker 2: yours to see whether or not it keeps its value.
Speaker 2: What's the value identity, maturity, credibility, charity, priority, eternity. Everyone's
Speaker 2: work will be put through the fire to see whether
Speaker 2: or not it keeps its value. If the work survives
Speaker 2: the fire, that person will receive a reward. But if
Speaker 2: the work is burned up, the builder will suffer a
Speaker 2: great loss. The builders themselves will be saved, but like
Speaker 2: someone escaping a fire. In other words, this has nothing
Speaker 2: to do with salvation. You're in heaven, but you're going
Speaker 2: to lose reward. So here's the question. Have you had
Speaker 2: a shallow conception of your work. You just thought ought
Speaker 2: just get money, put food on the table. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: far more significant than that. Are you ready to step
Speaker 2: up to all six of God's purposes for your work?
Speaker 2: Will you become a purpose driven businessman with these six purposes?
Speaker 2: Will you become a purpose driven business woman? Will you
Speaker 2: become a purpose driven owner operator? Will you become a
Speaker 2: purpose driven employee? Will you become a purpose driven professional?
Speaker 2: Will you say, God, I'm going to give you my
Speaker 2: work for not just one, but for all six of
Speaker 2: the purposes that you planned for my work to be.
Speaker 2: That's power heads. As I pray, follow me in this prayer, Father,
Speaker 2: I realize that while I'm at work, you're working on me,
Speaker 2: and I want you to use my job for all
Speaker 2: six purposes in my life. Please use my job to
Speaker 2: express what you made me to be. Help me in
Speaker 2: this series to find the right job for my shape.
Speaker 2: Use my career to develop my character. I want to
Speaker 2: use my job as a platform to bring people to you,
Speaker 2: to share the good news. I want to use my
Speaker 2: job to be able to help others financially and to
Speaker 2: give to others. I want to use my job to
Speaker 2: help further your kingdom, and I want to use my
Speaker 2: job to prepare to serve your purposes in eternity. I
Speaker 2: want to be a kingdom builder. Please use this series
Speaker 2: to help me succeed in my work, and I will
Speaker 2: honor you with my life, with my time, with my
Speaker 2: tithe and by giving my best, knowing that I'm really
Speaker 2: working for you. If you've never invited Christ in your life,
Speaker 2: said Jesus, Christ, become the CEO of my life. Become
Speaker 2: the manager of my life, the president, the chairman of
Speaker 2: the board. Jesus be the director of my life. I
Speaker 2: want to be under new management and I want to
Speaker 2: follow you from this day forward in your name. I
Speaker 2: pray Amen. Hi everybody, this is Rick, and I hope
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