Speaker 1: Welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. We are so glad
Speaker 1: you're with us today. This is the Bible teaching ministry
Speaker 1: of Rick Warren, and today we're bringing Rick's powerful series
Speaker 1: called the Jesus Model to a close. In these lessons,
Speaker 1: Rick walks you step by step through the process of
Speaker 1: true Biblical discipleship, giving you practical tools to grow spiritually,
Speaker 1: experience God's peace, live with greater purpose, and become more
Speaker 1: like Jesus in every area of your life. Okay, and
Speaker 1: let's join Rick right now for the final part of
Speaker 1: a message called growing a Heart like Jesus.
Speaker 2: If you want to have a heart like Jesus, you
Speaker 2: want to develop heart like Jesus.
Speaker 3: This one's going to shock you even more.
Speaker 2: Not only have to care what Jesus cares about, and
Speaker 2: you have to be indifferent to what Jesus is indifferent about.
Speaker 2: Number three, you must get angry about what Jesus gets
Speaker 2: angry about. You must get angry about what Jesus gets
Speaker 2: angry about. You say, wait a minute, I thought anger
Speaker 2: was a sin. Isn't it like a deadly sin? Well,
Speaker 2: the wrong kind of anger is. But there's a right
Speaker 2: and wrong anger. There's a good anger, and there's a
Speaker 2: bad anger. There's a righteous anger, there's no unrighteous anger.
Speaker 2: In fact, the Bible makes the difference in Ephesians four
Speaker 2: to twenty six. It says, be angry without sinning. You
Speaker 2: mean I can get angry without sinning. Yes, you can,
Speaker 2: if it's the right kind. What's the difference between the
Speaker 2: right and the wrong kind of anger? The wrong kind
Speaker 2: of anger is selfish anger, self sinnered anger. It's the
Speaker 2: kind of anger that when I get angry, it's because
Speaker 2: you've hurt me, you've frustrated me, or you've made me afraid.
Speaker 2: That's the three sources of human anger. Frustration, hurt, and fear.
Speaker 3: And if you make me.
Speaker 2: Afraid, you scare me, I get angry. If you hurt me,
Speaker 2: I get angry if you if you confuse me, I'm confused.
Speaker 3: I'm frustrated. Then I can get angry.
Speaker 2: God says no, no, that's the illegitimate kind, because then it's
Speaker 2: all about you, your wounded pride.
Speaker 3: He said.
Speaker 2: The right kind of anger is the anger that's based
Speaker 2: in love, which says, I love, and therefore I'm angry
Speaker 2: about this. When you see, for instance, two million young
Speaker 2: girls who are sold in the sex slave trade every
Speaker 2: year around the world. Somebody ought to get angry about that.
Speaker 2: That's wrong. Somebody ought to get angry about it. When
Speaker 2: we see people suffering when other people have so much,
Speaker 2: somebody ought to get angry about that. When we see injustice,
Speaker 2: when we see poverty, when we see prejudice, when we
Speaker 2: see things aren't being fair, somebody ought to get angry
Speaker 2: about that. See, a lot of people don't realize that
Speaker 2: anger is not always a sin. God gets angry, and
Speaker 2: if anger is a sin, then God sins.
Speaker 3: But he doesn't. It's a righteous anger.
Speaker 2: One day, I'm going to write a sermon I'm going
Speaker 2: to deliver to you called What makes Jesus Mad. Maybe
Speaker 2: i'll call it what Ticks Jesus Off, because there's actually
Speaker 2: a chapter in the Bible where he really gets mad
Speaker 2: at the religious leaders, the legalist, the fundamentalist, the bigots,
Speaker 2: the phonies, the pharisees, the hypocrites, and he does a
Speaker 2: series of woes and he says, woe to you for this,
Speaker 2: and woe to you for that. He's really letting it him.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's canning their hide and he really lets
Speaker 2: it out. By the way, Jesus never got angry with unbelievers,
Speaker 2: you know, people for their sin.
Speaker 3: He got angry with religious.
Speaker 2: People who wouldn't trust him, who claimed to follow him
Speaker 2: but didn't, who acted one way and did another, who
Speaker 2: put burdens on people that they themselves wouldn't hold up to,
Speaker 2: who tried to use a religion to make money, who
Speaker 2: profited personally from God's word with and made it a
Speaker 2: business instead of seeing it as a ministry. He got
Speaker 2: upset with religious people. In fact, twice he went to
Speaker 2: the temple, and the Bible says he cleansed the temple
Speaker 2: because they had turned the temple into a flea market,
Speaker 2: and they had made all these rules where you had
Speaker 2: to go sacrifice, and poor people would come and couldn't
Speaker 2: afford to buy an animal to be sacrificed, or a
Speaker 2: bird or whatever. And people out had set up these
Speaker 2: tables to sell these things, so that your forgiveness was
Speaker 2: based on you buying this stuff, and they jack up
Speaker 2: the price, and Jesus got ticked. And when they were
Speaker 2: walking through the temple and using it as a shortcut
Speaker 2: to get to the other side of town.
Speaker 3: He said, hold on time out.
Speaker 2: My house will be called the house of prayer. You've
Speaker 2: turned this thing into a dent of thieves. And Jesus
Speaker 2: gets out there and he falls off the handle. He
Speaker 2: starts throwing over the money changer's temple, the tables, and
Speaker 2: they're throwing stuff around.
Speaker 3: And cleaning the place out.
Speaker 2: Most of you don't have an image of Jesus throwing
Speaker 2: furniture in your mind. But he did. And that is
Speaker 2: not the image of gentle Jesus. Meek and mild, you see.
Speaker 3: Some of you.
Speaker 2: The only vision of Jesus you got is this sissy Jesus,
Speaker 2: who every little curl is in place, and there's no
Speaker 2: spot on this perfectly white robe. And he walks the
Speaker 2: hills of Jerusalem, skipping and picking flowers and talking about
Speaker 2: peace and love in a soft voice. No, Jesus was
Speaker 2: a man's man. Remember First he was a carpenter. He
Speaker 2: worked thirty years in the carpenter shop. He hung out
Speaker 2: with fishermen who weren't exactly you know, cultured people.
Speaker 3: And Jesus threw furniture.
Speaker 2: Why because there's some things in life you need to
Speaker 2: get mad at. When things are wrong, when things are evil,
Speaker 2: when things are unjust, are unfair. Let me give you
Speaker 2: a couple of things that Jesus gets mad about that.
Speaker 2: If you're gonna be used by God, you're gonna have
Speaker 2: to get mad about him too. There's gonna be some
Speaker 2: things in your life you're gonna have to get angry about.
Speaker 2: Number One, Jesus gets angry when the needs of children
Speaker 2: go unmet. Jesus gets angry when the needs of children
Speaker 2: go unmet.
Speaker 3: Very few instances.
Speaker 2: In the Bible made Jesus more upset than these instances
Speaker 2: with children. In Matthew Chen verse thirteen and fourteen, it
Speaker 2: says people brought children to Jesus hoping that he might
Speaker 2: touch them, in other words, just to bless these little ones.
Speaker 2: But the disciples scolded them. He said, get out of here,
Speaker 2: you guys. Shoot, get out.
Speaker 3: The Master doesn't want to see you guys. Get out
Speaker 3: of here.
Speaker 2: And it is pushing the people who brought their children
Speaker 2: away and pushing the children away. And it says when
Speaker 2: Jesus saw this, he was indignant, circle indignant. He gets
Speaker 2: ticked off, he's mad, and he said, don't you push
Speaker 2: these children away. Don't you ever get between them and me.
Speaker 2: These children are at the very center of life in
Speaker 2: the kingdom. When children are mistreated, misused, abused, uncared for,
Speaker 2: and their needs going met. God gets mad.
Speaker 3: Don't you? He said?
Speaker 2: These children are the kingdom of God. They are the
Speaker 2: kingdom of God. Look at this verse up here on
Speaker 2: the screen. Here's another verse where Jesus that anyone who
Speaker 2: causes the downfall of one of these little ones, you
Speaker 2: cause them to go astray and their needs aren't.
Speaker 3: Mad and they fall away.
Speaker 2: Says one of these little ones, it would be better
Speaker 2: to be thrown into the sea with a giant millstone
Speaker 2: hung around his neck. So what are you really feeling, Jesus?
Speaker 2: He said, don't you ever dare hurt a child? And
Speaker 2: if you don't meet their needs, you go off and
Speaker 2: you build your career at to expense your kids. I'm
Speaker 2: ticked at you. You go off and build your reputation
Speaker 2: or have your fun and leave the kids in the
Speaker 2: lurch because you want to go have an affair or
Speaker 2: sometime you're in trouble. He said, you need to care
Speaker 2: about little kids. Why because Jesus said, they are the
Speaker 2: kingdom of God.
Speaker 3: These little ones are the future.
Speaker 2: If you have served in children's ministry at Saddleback in
Speaker 2: any time, or you served in student ministry in anytime,
Speaker 2: I'd like.
Speaker 3: You to just stand up so I could honor you
Speaker 3: and we could express our appreciation. Children are student ministry
Speaker 3: in anytime. Great, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: Oh there's another thing that makes Jesus mad, and that
Speaker 2: is when the suffering of others is ignored. When the
Speaker 2: suffering of others is ignored, and in Luke eleven forty six,
Speaker 2: Jesus says, woe to you, because you load down people
Speaker 2: with burdens they can hardly carry, and you, yourselves will
Speaker 2: not even lit the finger to help them. Half the
Speaker 2: world lives on less than two dollars a day, a
Speaker 2: billion people on one dollar a day.
Speaker 3: What are we doing to help them? Let's just go
Speaker 3: back to children for just a minute.
Speaker 2: You know, every single day, every twenty four hours, thirty
Speaker 2: thousand children are in the world die from preventable diseases.
Speaker 3: Thirty thousand a day.
Speaker 2: This is not like having aids or others. It's very
Speaker 2: preventable diseases. It's like measles, mumps, cough typhus, malaria, stuff
Speaker 2: nobody gets here in America, or at least dies from
Speaker 2: thirty thousand children.
Speaker 3: Do you know what the number one killer of children
Speaker 3: is in the world. It's diarrhea. You know where that
Speaker 3: comes from? Bad water? They just don't have clean drinking water.
Speaker 3: How simple is that?
Speaker 2: One thirty thousand children die every day from preventable diseases. Now,
Speaker 2: about three years ago, there were this big tsunami in
Speaker 2: Southeast Asia when two hundred and forty thousand people died.
Speaker 3: From that huge tidal wave.
Speaker 2: We all remember that, and the world opened up its
Speaker 2: arms and poured resources in there to help those poor people.
Speaker 2: But do you know that in the world we have
Speaker 2: a tsunami with children every eight days, two hundred and
Speaker 2: forty thousand children boom, they're gone. Why because we don't
Speaker 2: have people angry.
Speaker 3: Enough to say enough's enough. We're gonna stop this.
Speaker 2: We're not gonna go another year losing two hundred and
Speaker 2: forty thousand.
Speaker 3: Kids needlessly every week.
Speaker 2: It's unacceptable. But nothing's gonna happen. Do we get angry?
Speaker 2: Do you know that right here in Orange County we
Speaker 2: have about three thousand children awaiting foster care. They need
Speaker 2: to be put in a stable home because of abuse, violence, guns, drugs.
Speaker 3: And other things.
Speaker 2: Three thousand children they didn't to nothing of their own fault.
Speaker 2: You know, in our church we have four thousand small groups,
Speaker 2: and we've got them in every city's other California. If
Speaker 2: every small group on our church said we'll take responsibility
Speaker 2: for one foster children child, we wipe.
Speaker 3: That out one week, there wouldn't be a waiting list.
Speaker 2: But it's not gonna happen to We get angry about
Speaker 2: the suffering of others that is ignored, about the needs
Speaker 2: of children, that goes unmat and so when we talk
Speaker 2: about these things, it's not a matter of charity, it's.
Speaker 3: A matter of justice.
Speaker 2: God is not just a god of charity. God is love,
Speaker 2: but God is also a just God. That's why sin
Speaker 2: has to be punished, and God says, when this isn't fair,
Speaker 2: it needs to be made right. So we have to
Speaker 2: care about justice in the world, and that means sometimes
Speaker 2: getting angry out of love. If somebody tried to hurt
Speaker 2: or rape my wife, I'd get angry. If somebody tried
Speaker 2: to hurt or abuse my children and grandchildren, I'd get angry.
Speaker 2: Why it is my God assigned responsibility as a husband
Speaker 2: and his father to protect my wife and children and grandchildren.
Speaker 2: That's my job. I am to protect them according to
Speaker 2: God's word. And there are some things in life that
Speaker 2: if you don't get angry, it means you're not very loving.
Speaker 3: It means you're apathetic.
Speaker 2: It means you don't understand justice. God is looking for
Speaker 2: people to use and he doesn't care how little talent
Speaker 2: you've got. He doesn't care what you've done in the past,
Speaker 2: how much you've blown it, you screwed it up, you
Speaker 2: messed up, things you've been ashamed of.
Speaker 3: He says, where's your heart? Now?
Speaker 2: God's looking at the heart. And if you say, use me,
Speaker 2: God will make you a world changer. Now we've got
Speaker 2: to care about what Jesus cares about. We couldn't care
Speaker 2: less about what Jesus doesn't care about, be indifferent to it.
Speaker 2: We've got to get angry about the things that are
Speaker 2: worthy of getting angry about. But then that's got to
Speaker 2: move into action. And the fourth thing we have to
Speaker 2: do is we have to sacrifice for what Jesus sacrificed.
Speaker 2: Jesus said, I didn't come to be served. I didn't
Speaker 2: come to live a selfish life. I came to serve
Speaker 2: and to give my life as a sacrifice as.
Speaker 3: A ransom for many. Now here's the amazing thing.
Speaker 2: If you will make the switch from living for yourself
Speaker 2: to living for Jesus Christ and his agenda, your happiness
Speaker 2: meter is going to go off the record.
Speaker 3: It's going to go way into the red zone.
Speaker 2: Why because God has wired the universe that the more
Speaker 2: we become like him, giving, generous, unselfish, the happier we get.
Speaker 2: There are two kinds of people in life. They are
Speaker 2: takers and givers. And everybody knows takers are miserable. They
Speaker 2: live these little selfish clod of a life, and they're
Speaker 2: never satisfied, and they're always angry, they're always uptight and
Speaker 2: always irritated.
Speaker 3: With everybody else.
Speaker 2: And then they're givers who walk around living life to
Speaker 2: the fullest, understanding the meaning of life, full of happiness.
Speaker 3: You live for yourself, you're miserable, you give your life away.
Speaker 3: You're happy. You see.
Speaker 2: Real self esteem does not come from what the world
Speaker 2: tells you. You want to feel good about you, You
Speaker 2: want to like you, You want to feel your life matters,
Speaker 2: that your life is important, and you want to feel
Speaker 2: good about out yourself. Nothing wrong with that, it's how
Speaker 2: you try to fulfill it. You will never find self
Speaker 2: esteem through status symbols doesn't work. You will never find
Speaker 2: self esteem through salary, because somebody will always make more
Speaker 2: than you do. You will never find self esteem feeling
Speaker 2: good about yourself through multiple sexual partners. Self esteem does
Speaker 2: not come from status, sex, or salary.
Speaker 3: It comes from service.
Speaker 2: It comes from sacrificing yourself for something greater than you.
Speaker 2: Sacrificial service. Jesus said it like this, Mark eight. If
Speaker 2: you try to keep your life for yourself, you will
Speaker 2: lose it. You lose the meaning of it, you lose
Speaker 2: the purpose of it, you lose the joy of it.
Speaker 3: You waste your life.
Speaker 2: But if you give up your life, in other words,
Speaker 2: you sacrifice it for something greater than yourself. For if
Speaker 2: you give up your life for my sake, for Jesus,
Speaker 2: and for the sake of the Good News, go everywhere
Speaker 2: to everyone, you will find true life. Now, this is
Speaker 2: what the Peace Plan that we've been doing for five
Speaker 2: years is all about. The Peace Plan is not our plan.
Speaker 2: It's the Jesus Plan. It's the five things Jesus did
Speaker 2: when he was here on earth. We just call it
Speaker 2: peace plan. When Jesus was here on earth, he did
Speaker 2: five things in giving himself away, besides dying on the cross. Obviously,
Speaker 2: as our savior. You can't do that, but you can
Speaker 2: do these five things that he modeled. First, he went
Speaker 2: out and he helped people get right with God and
Speaker 2: write with each other. He said, build a bridge to God. Actually,
Speaker 2: God build a bridge to you through Christ.
Speaker 3: You don't build that bridge.
Speaker 2: And then you build a bridge to other people. He says,
Speaker 2: make peace with God, make peace with others. That's called reconciliation.
Speaker 2: And the Bible says God has given us the ministry
Speaker 2: of reconciliation. That means helping people get to know and
Speaker 2: have peace with God and get to know and have
Speaker 2: peace with other people.
Speaker 3: Promote reconciliation. That's the pee and peace.
Speaker 2: And then he equipped leaders because everything rises or falls
Speaker 2: on leadership. And he trained twelve disciples, and then he
Speaker 2: trained seventy two more and we talked about how he
Speaker 2: trained them. You can do that. Everybody is a leader,
Speaker 2: just in different ways. You're a leader in your family,
Speaker 2: you're a leader with your friends. The leadership is just influence,
Speaker 2: and we can teach you how to teach leadership, how
Speaker 2: to teach purpose driven life. And then he assisted the
Speaker 2: Poor Jesus first sermon. We covered that in this series
Speaker 2: where the very first sermon in his hometown. He says,
Speaker 2: the first since spirit of the Lord has spawned me
Speaker 2: to preach good news to the poor. Does God have favorites? Yes,
Speaker 2: he loves the poor. And God says, I've blessed you
Speaker 2: to be a blessing to others. What are you doing
Speaker 2: for the poor? I'm watching to see what you're going
Speaker 2: to do with all I've given you. And then Jesus
Speaker 2: cared for the sick, and the Bible says Jesus went
Speaker 2: into every village preaching, teaching, and healing. Of his ministry
Speaker 2: was preaching, that's sharing the good news. One third of
Speaker 2: his ministry was teaching. That's education. He was a teacher,
Speaker 2: And one third of his ministry was health care.
Speaker 3: He was a healer.
Speaker 2: I mentioned this last week. That's the reason why you
Speaker 2: go in almost any country, first school and the first
Speaker 2: hospitals are almost always started by Christian missionaries, because our
Speaker 2: faith is a preaching, teaching, healing faith. Jesus taught us
Speaker 2: he's not just cared about the soul. He cares about
Speaker 2: the mind, education, he cares about the body, health care,
Speaker 2: and he cares about the spirit salvation. And that's what
Speaker 2: we teach. That's what Saddleback's all about. Preaching, teaching, and healing.
Speaker 2: Jesus is our teacher, our savior, and our healer. So
Speaker 2: we value education, we value health care, and we value
Speaker 2: salvation because God cares about it all.
Speaker 3: Body, mind, and spirit. And then he educated the young
Speaker 3: and we just looked at those passages said let the
Speaker 3: young people come to me. They are the kingdom of God.
Speaker 2: And he wanted them to grow up because ignorance is
Speaker 2: a prison that keeps people from becoming all God wants
Speaker 2: them to be. You want to leave a legacy. You
Speaker 2: want your life to count. You want to make a
Speaker 2: difference with your life. You want people to know that
Speaker 2: what you did mattered than just your lifetime.
Speaker 3: Do what Jesus did. Peace.
Speaker 2: I wish I had time to tell you stories from India,
Speaker 2: from Guatemala, from Argentina. I wish I had time to
Speaker 2: tell you stories of the Peace Plan in all the
Speaker 2: different churches that we're working in around the world. Did
Speaker 2: you know that in Psalm chapter two, verse eight, there's
Speaker 2: a verse It's an amazing promise where God says this.
Speaker 2: He says, if you'll just ask me, I will use
Speaker 2: you to change the world. That's all you got it
Speaker 2: is ask, He says, If you'll ask me, I will
Speaker 2: actually use you to change entire nations.
Speaker 3: Look at the verse. It's here on the screen, he says.
Speaker 3: Only ask, Just to ask. God says, and I'll give you.
Speaker 2: The nations as your inheritance and the ends of the
Speaker 2: earth as your possessions. You'll go everywhere to everyone. Saddleback
Speaker 2: is the church that has decided to take that verse series,
Speaker 2: And so we're asking. We start asking a group of
Speaker 2: people years ago saying, God give us the whole world.
Speaker 2: Let us reach out to every nation, and I invite
Speaker 2: you to join us.
Speaker 3: That's powerheads.
Speaker 2: Dear Jesus Christ, I love you so much, and if
Speaker 2: you never did anything else for me, I owe you
Speaker 2: the rest of my life. And I want you to know,
Speaker 2: whether anybody else says yes or not, today I'm in.
Speaker 3: I am all yours. I'm saying, use me.
Speaker 2: I want to be used whenever, wherever, however, in any
Speaker 2: way you want. And I want you to change my
Speaker 2: heart to be more and more like Jesus every day.
Speaker 2: I want to care about what Jesus cares about, and
Speaker 2: he cares about everybody in the world, even the people
Speaker 2: we don't like.
Speaker 3: Or agree with. Help me to be loving to everybody.
Speaker 2: And I want to love the Church, Lord, the way
Speaker 2: you do your family, your flock, your bride, your body
Speaker 2: that you died for. Forgive me for times I've used
Speaker 2: the church and not loved it. Lord, helped me to
Speaker 2: be indifferent to the things that you're indifferent to, to
Speaker 2: not care about what the world thinks is so important
Speaker 2: but isn't even going to last till next week. I'm
Speaker 2: going to keep my eyes on the thing that matter most.
Speaker 2: And God, help me to be angry about what I
Speaker 2: should be angry about. When I see prejudice, when I
Speaker 2: see injustice, when I see little children hurt, abused, misused
Speaker 2: or unloved, when I see talent wasted and poor people
Speaker 2: caught in a trap. When we see suffering people in
Speaker 2: refugee camps, people who want it education but can't afford it.
Speaker 2: Help me to get angry about the evil that's in
Speaker 2: the world, and then move me in love to sacrifice
Speaker 2: whatever it takes in time and money and energy and reputation.
Speaker 3: Thy will be done in my life.
Speaker 2: If that prayer represents your prayer, you just now say
Speaker 2: me too, God, what Rick has prayed me too? Lord,
Speaker 2: we look forward to the next eighteen months and what
Speaker 2: You're going to do in our church, and I look
Speaker 2: forward to the exciting miracles and blessings that will happen
Speaker 2: in lives and families and homes as we become more
Speaker 2: and more.
Speaker 3: Totally dedicated to You. In your name, I pray Amen.
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 listeners.
Speaker 2: You know, I really like to end these broadcasts by
Speaker 2: reading some of the letters that come in from you.
Speaker 2: They always encourage me, and I think when I read
Speaker 2: and they encourage you. This one's from a woman named Joy.
Speaker 2: She says, thank you so much Pastor Rick for the
Speaker 2: daily Hope devotional messages that are emailed to me. They
Speaker 2: helped me get through tough times. She said, I feel
Speaker 2: like I didn't have the right to question God, but
Speaker 2: I wondered why He was letting me expo all these things.
Speaker 2: But now through these devotionals, I look on what's happening
Speaker 2: as a challenge for my betterment. And I may not
Speaker 2: know all of God's reasons in this moment, but I
Speaker 2: believe that God will not let me down, and instead
Speaker 2: I believe He'll guide me in the right path where
Speaker 2: his help, his guidance, his forgiveness, and his blessings and
Speaker 2: his prayers are always abundant.
Speaker 3: Thank you signed Joy. Well, thank you Joy.
Speaker 2: I'm encouraged by your faith, and I know other people
Speaker 2: will be too who hear this letter. You know we
Speaker 2: can always trust that God's in control even when we
Speaker 2: don't understand why things are happening. And it blesses me
Speaker 2: when I hear people like you finding hope. That's the
Speaker 2: whole purpose of this program. Thanks for listening today and
Speaker 2: join me next time as we continue looking in God's
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