WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.520 --> 00:00:05.960 Welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. We are so glad 2 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:09.439 you're with us today. This is the Bible teaching ministry 3 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:13.880 of Rick Warren, and today we're bringing Rick's powerful series 4 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:17.679 called the Jesus Model to a close. In these lessons, 5 00:00:17.879 --> 00:00:20.839 Rick walks you step by step through the process of 6 00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:26.440 true Biblical discipleship, giving you practical tools to grow spiritually, 7 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:31.760 experience God's peace, live with greater purpose, and become more 8 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:35.560 like Jesus in every area of your life. Okay, and 9 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:38.439 let's join Rick right now for the final part of 10 00:00:38.479 --> 00:00:41.759 a message called growing a Heart like Jesus. 11 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:44.119 If you want to have a heart like Jesus, you 12 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:45.439 want to develop heart like Jesus. 13 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:47.039 This one's going to shock you even more. 14 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:50.159 Not only have to care what Jesus cares about, and 15 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:52.640 you have to be indifferent to what Jesus is indifferent about. 16 00:00:52.759 --> 00:00:57.240 Number three, you must get angry about what Jesus gets 17 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:04.159 angry about. You must get angry about what Jesus gets 18 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:07.599 angry about. You say, wait a minute, I thought anger 19 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:10.719 was a sin. Isn't it like a deadly sin? Well, 20 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:12.439 the wrong kind of anger is. But there's a right 21 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:14.599 and wrong anger. There's a good anger, and there's a 22 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:17.200 bad anger. There's a righteous anger, there's no unrighteous anger. 23 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:20.840 In fact, the Bible makes the difference in Ephesians four 24 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:24.799 to twenty six. It says, be angry without sinning. You 25 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:27.840 mean I can get angry without sinning. Yes, you can, 26 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:31.120 if it's the right kind. What's the difference between the 27 00:01:31.159 --> 00:01:33.439 right and the wrong kind of anger? The wrong kind 28 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:36.920 of anger is selfish anger, self sinnered anger. It's the 29 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:39.920 kind of anger that when I get angry, it's because 30 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:45.400 you've hurt me, you've frustrated me, or you've made me afraid. 31 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:50.560 That's the three sources of human anger. Frustration, hurt, and fear. 32 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:51.719 And if you make me. 33 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:54.599 Afraid, you scare me, I get angry. If you hurt me, 34 00:01:54.799 --> 00:02:00.000 I get angry if you if you confuse me, I'm confused. 35 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:02.000 I'm frustrated. Then I can get angry. 36 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:04.760 God says no, no, that's the illegitimate kind, because then it's 37 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:07.120 all about you, your wounded pride. 38 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:09.400 He said. 39 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:11.719 The right kind of anger is the anger that's based 40 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:17.039 in love, which says, I love, and therefore I'm angry 41 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:22.319 about this. When you see, for instance, two million young 42 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:26.000 girls who are sold in the sex slave trade every 43 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:30.159 year around the world. Somebody ought to get angry about that. 44 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:33.479 That's wrong. Somebody ought to get angry about it. When 45 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:36.479 we see people suffering when other people have so much, 46 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:41.280 somebody ought to get angry about that. When we see injustice, 47 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:46.439 when we see poverty, when we see prejudice, when we 48 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:49.120 see things aren't being fair, somebody ought to get angry 49 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:53.159 about that. See, a lot of people don't realize that 50 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:55.719 anger is not always a sin. God gets angry, and 51 00:02:55.719 --> 00:02:57.680 if anger is a sin, then God sins. 52 00:02:57.960 --> 00:02:59.879 But he doesn't. It's a righteous anger. 53 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:02.840 One day, I'm going to write a sermon I'm going 54 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:06.520 to deliver to you called What makes Jesus Mad. Maybe 55 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:10.960 i'll call it what Ticks Jesus Off, because there's actually 56 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:13.599 a chapter in the Bible where he really gets mad 57 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:17.840 at the religious leaders, the legalist, the fundamentalist, the bigots, 58 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:22.560 the phonies, the pharisees, the hypocrites, and he does a 59 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:24.840 series of woes and he says, woe to you for this, 60 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:27.199 and woe to you for that. He's really letting it him. 61 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:30.719 I mean, he's canning their hide and he really lets 62 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:34.960 it out. By the way, Jesus never got angry with unbelievers, 63 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:39.319 you know, people for their sin. 64 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:41.719 He got angry with religious. 65 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:45.759 People who wouldn't trust him, who claimed to follow him 66 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:49.000 but didn't, who acted one way and did another, who 67 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:51.840 put burdens on people that they themselves wouldn't hold up to, 68 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:55.120 who tried to use a religion to make money, who 69 00:03:55.280 --> 00:04:00.879 profited personally from God's word with and made it a 70 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:06.360 business instead of seeing it as a ministry. He got 71 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:10.280 upset with religious people. In fact, twice he went to 72 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:13.560 the temple, and the Bible says he cleansed the temple 73 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:17.160 because they had turned the temple into a flea market, 74 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:19.879 and they had made all these rules where you had 75 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:22.639 to go sacrifice, and poor people would come and couldn't 76 00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:26.639 afford to buy an animal to be sacrificed, or a 77 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:29.319 bird or whatever. And people out had set up these 78 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:32.639 tables to sell these things, so that your forgiveness was 79 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:34.959 based on you buying this stuff, and they jack up 80 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:38.800 the price, and Jesus got ticked. And when they were 81 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:41.240 walking through the temple and using it as a shortcut 82 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:43.000 to get to the other side of town. 83 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:44.519 He said, hold on time out. 84 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:47.839 My house will be called the house of prayer. You've 85 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:50.920 turned this thing into a dent of thieves. And Jesus 86 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:54.800 gets out there and he falls off the handle. He 87 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:58.839 starts throwing over the money changer's temple, the tables, and 88 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:00.800 they're throwing stuff around. 89 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:01.800 And cleaning the place out. 90 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:05.560 Most of you don't have an image of Jesus throwing 91 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:11.000 furniture in your mind. But he did. And that is 92 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:15.639 not the image of gentle Jesus. Meek and mild, you see. 93 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:15.879 Some of you. 94 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:19.199 The only vision of Jesus you got is this sissy Jesus, 95 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:24.000 who every little curl is in place, and there's no 96 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:27.680 spot on this perfectly white robe. And he walks the 97 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:32.600 hills of Jerusalem, skipping and picking flowers and talking about 98 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:38.319 peace and love in a soft voice. No, Jesus was 99 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:40.319 a man's man. Remember First he was a carpenter. He 100 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:42.920 worked thirty years in the carpenter shop. He hung out 101 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:46.839 with fishermen who weren't exactly you know, cultured people. 102 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:50.759 And Jesus threw furniture. 103 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:53.839 Why because there's some things in life you need to 104 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:57.759 get mad at. When things are wrong, when things are evil, 105 00:05:58.279 --> 00:06:03.000 when things are unjust, are unfair. Let me give you 106 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:05.160 a couple of things that Jesus gets mad about that. 107 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:07.439 If you're gonna be used by God, you're gonna have 108 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:09.439 to get mad about him too. There's gonna be some 109 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:11.360 things in your life you're gonna have to get angry about. 110 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:15.519 Number One, Jesus gets angry when the needs of children 111 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:21.879 go unmet. Jesus gets angry when the needs of children 112 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:24.160 go unmet. 113 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:27.279 Very few instances. 114 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:30.240 In the Bible made Jesus more upset than these instances 115 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:35.240 with children. In Matthew Chen verse thirteen and fourteen, it 116 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:40.279 says people brought children to Jesus hoping that he might 117 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:42.480 touch them, in other words, just to bless these little ones. 118 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:46.560 But the disciples scolded them. He said, get out of here, 119 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:48.120 you guys. Shoot, get out. 120 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:50.160 The Master doesn't want to see you guys. Get out 121 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:50.439 of here. 122 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:53.519 And it is pushing the people who brought their children 123 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:56.240 away and pushing the children away. And it says when 124 00:06:56.319 --> 00:07:01.319 Jesus saw this, he was indignant, circle indignant. He gets 125 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:04.959 ticked off, he's mad, and he said, don't you push 126 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:08.839 these children away. Don't you ever get between them and me. 127 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:13.399 These children are at the very center of life in 128 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:20.680 the kingdom. When children are mistreated, misused, abused, uncared for, 129 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:27.399 and their needs going met. God gets mad. 130 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:25.879 Don't you? He said? 131 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:30.560 These children are the kingdom of God. They are the 132 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:32.920 kingdom of God. Look at this verse up here on 133 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:36.199 the screen. Here's another verse where Jesus that anyone who 134 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:41.480 causes the downfall of one of these little ones, you 135 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:44.519 cause them to go astray and their needs aren't. 136 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:46.000 Mad and they fall away. 137 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:49.120 Says one of these little ones, it would be better 138 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:53.199 to be thrown into the sea with a giant millstone 139 00:07:53.360 --> 00:08:00.000 hung around his neck. So what are you really feeling, Jesus? 140 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:05.680 He said, don't you ever dare hurt a child? And 141 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:08.040 if you don't meet their needs, you go off and 142 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:10.839 you build your career at to expense your kids. I'm 143 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:14.720 ticked at you. You go off and build your reputation 144 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:17.360 or have your fun and leave the kids in the 145 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:19.759 lurch because you want to go have an affair or 146 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:25.519 sometime you're in trouble. He said, you need to care 147 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:30.839 about little kids. Why because Jesus said, they are the 148 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:32.440 kingdom of God. 149 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:35.240 These little ones are the future. 150 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:40.879 If you have served in children's ministry at Saddleback in 151 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:44.440 any time, or you served in student ministry in anytime, 152 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:44.919 I'd like. 153 00:08:44.919 --> 00:08:46.759 You to just stand up so I could honor you 154 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:50.000 and we could express our appreciation. Children are student ministry 155 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:58.039 in anytime. Great, thank you, thank you. 156 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:04.840 Oh there's another thing that makes Jesus mad, and that 157 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:10.279 is when the suffering of others is ignored. When the 158 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:16.720 suffering of others is ignored, and in Luke eleven forty six, 159 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:20.960 Jesus says, woe to you, because you load down people 160 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:26.200 with burdens they can hardly carry, and you, yourselves will 161 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:29.919 not even lit the finger to help them. Half the 162 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:31.919 world lives on less than two dollars a day, a 163 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:33.600 billion people on one dollar a day. 164 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:36.960 What are we doing to help them? Let's just go 165 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:38.799 back to children for just a minute. 166 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:43.960 You know, every single day, every twenty four hours, thirty 167 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:49.200 thousand children are in the world die from preventable diseases. 168 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:51.039 Thirty thousand a day. 169 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:56.200 This is not like having aids or others. It's very 170 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:07.320 preventable diseases. It's like measles, mumps, cough typhus, malaria, stuff 171 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:11.399 nobody gets here in America, or at least dies from 172 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:12.799 thirty thousand children. 173 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:14.480 Do you know what the number one killer of children 174 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:18.360 is in the world. It's diarrhea. You know where that 175 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:23.159 comes from? Bad water? They just don't have clean drinking water. 176 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:24.879 How simple is that? 177 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:32.360 One thirty thousand children die every day from preventable diseases. Now, 178 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:34.519 about three years ago, there were this big tsunami in 179 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:39.000 Southeast Asia when two hundred and forty thousand people died. 180 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:40.440 From that huge tidal wave. 181 00:10:40.519 --> 00:10:42.759 We all remember that, and the world opened up its 182 00:10:42.919 --> 00:10:46.039 arms and poured resources in there to help those poor people. 183 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:48.159 But do you know that in the world we have 184 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:53.120 a tsunami with children every eight days, two hundred and 185 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:57.320 forty thousand children boom, they're gone. Why because we don't 186 00:10:57.360 --> 00:10:58.600 have people angry. 187 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:00.919 Enough to say enough's enough. We're gonna stop this. 188 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:04.360 We're not gonna go another year losing two hundred and 189 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:05.360 forty thousand. 190 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:07.720 Kids needlessly every week. 191 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:12.919 It's unacceptable. But nothing's gonna happen. Do we get angry? 192 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:16.159 Do you know that right here in Orange County we 193 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:21.120 have about three thousand children awaiting foster care. They need 194 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:30.039 to be put in a stable home because of abuse, violence, guns, drugs. 195 00:11:29.480 --> 00:11:30.320 And other things. 196 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:33.879 Three thousand children they didn't to nothing of their own fault. 197 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:39.600 You know, in our church we have four thousand small groups, 198 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:42.600 and we've got them in every city's other California. If 199 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:45.519 every small group on our church said we'll take responsibility 200 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:48.320 for one foster children child, we wipe. 201 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:51.080 That out one week, there wouldn't be a waiting list. 202 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:54.600 But it's not gonna happen to We get angry about 203 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:57.960 the suffering of others that is ignored, about the needs 204 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:00.720 of children, that goes unmat and so when we talk 205 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:04.799 about these things, it's not a matter of charity, it's. 206 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:06.080 A matter of justice. 207 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:10.039 God is not just a god of charity. God is love, 208 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:12.360 but God is also a just God. That's why sin 209 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:15.519 has to be punished, and God says, when this isn't fair, 210 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:19.480 it needs to be made right. So we have to 211 00:12:19.559 --> 00:12:23.320 care about justice in the world, and that means sometimes 212 00:12:23.559 --> 00:12:28.480 getting angry out of love. If somebody tried to hurt 213 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:32.240 or rape my wife, I'd get angry. If somebody tried 214 00:12:32.279 --> 00:12:36.600 to hurt or abuse my children and grandchildren, I'd get angry. 215 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:40.039 Why it is my God assigned responsibility as a husband 216 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:43.639 and his father to protect my wife and children and grandchildren. 217 00:12:44.759 --> 00:12:47.440 That's my job. I am to protect them according to 218 00:12:47.480 --> 00:12:51.159 God's word. And there are some things in life that 219 00:12:51.240 --> 00:12:53.879 if you don't get angry, it means you're not very loving. 220 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:56.000 It means you're apathetic. 221 00:12:56.679 --> 00:13:02.120 It means you don't understand justice. God is looking for 222 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:05.720 people to use and he doesn't care how little talent 223 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:08.279 you've got. He doesn't care what you've done in the past, 224 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:10.240 how much you've blown it, you screwed it up, you 225 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:12.919 messed up, things you've been ashamed of. 226 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:14.840 He says, where's your heart? Now? 227 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:19.120 God's looking at the heart. And if you say, use me, 228 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:24.200 God will make you a world changer. Now we've got 229 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:28.000 to care about what Jesus cares about. We couldn't care 230 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:31.120 less about what Jesus doesn't care about, be indifferent to it. 231 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:34.399 We've got to get angry about the things that are 232 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:37.960 worthy of getting angry about. But then that's got to 233 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:39.679 move into action. And the fourth thing we have to 234 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:43.840 do is we have to sacrifice for what Jesus sacrificed. 235 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:49.559 Jesus said, I didn't come to be served. I didn't 236 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:52.120 come to live a selfish life. I came to serve 237 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:54.879 and to give my life as a sacrifice as. 238 00:13:54.759 --> 00:13:59.080 A ransom for many. Now here's the amazing thing. 239 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:03.639 If you will make the switch from living for yourself 240 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:08.159 to living for Jesus Christ and his agenda, your happiness 241 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:10.159 meter is going to go off the record. 242 00:14:10.600 --> 00:14:12.320 It's going to go way into the red zone. 243 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:16.600 Why because God has wired the universe that the more 244 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:22.639 we become like him, giving, generous, unselfish, the happier we get. 245 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:25.120 There are two kinds of people in life. They are 246 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:29.159 takers and givers. And everybody knows takers are miserable. They 247 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:31.799 live these little selfish clod of a life, and they're 248 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:34.679 never satisfied, and they're always angry, they're always uptight and 249 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:35.840 always irritated. 250 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:36.240 With everybody else. 251 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:38.919 And then they're givers who walk around living life to 252 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:41.720 the fullest, understanding the meaning of life, full of happiness. 253 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:45.840 You live for yourself, you're miserable, you give your life away. 254 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:47.840 You're happy. You see. 255 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:51.480 Real self esteem does not come from what the world 256 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:54.440 tells you. You want to feel good about you, You 257 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:57.279 want to like you, You want to feel your life matters, 258 00:14:57.399 --> 00:14:59.559 that your life is important, and you want to feel 259 00:14:59.559 --> 00:15:04.679 good about out yourself. Nothing wrong with that, it's how 260 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:07.960 you try to fulfill it. You will never find self 261 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:12.840 esteem through status symbols doesn't work. You will never find 262 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:15.960 self esteem through salary, because somebody will always make more 263 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:19.159 than you do. You will never find self esteem feeling 264 00:15:19.159 --> 00:15:24.480 good about yourself through multiple sexual partners. Self esteem does 265 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:27.519 not come from status, sex, or salary. 266 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:29.360 It comes from service. 267 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:33.960 It comes from sacrificing yourself for something greater than you. 268 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:40.200 Sacrificial service. Jesus said it like this, Mark eight. If 269 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:43.279 you try to keep your life for yourself, you will 270 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:46.240 lose it. You lose the meaning of it, you lose 271 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:48.320 the purpose of it, you lose the joy of it. 272 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:49.879 You waste your life. 273 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:53.360 But if you give up your life, in other words, 274 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:56.720 you sacrifice it for something greater than yourself. For if 275 00:15:56.759 --> 00:16:00.440 you give up your life for my sake, for Jesus, 276 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:04.480 and for the sake of the Good News, go everywhere 277 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:11.399 to everyone, you will find true life. Now, this is 278 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:13.720 what the Peace Plan that we've been doing for five 279 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:17.039 years is all about. The Peace Plan is not our plan. 280 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:20.799 It's the Jesus Plan. It's the five things Jesus did 281 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:22.399 when he was here on earth. We just call it 282 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:25.960 peace plan. When Jesus was here on earth, he did 283 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:30.279 five things in giving himself away, besides dying on the cross. Obviously, 284 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:33.039 as our savior. You can't do that, but you can 285 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:36.440 do these five things that he modeled. First, he went 286 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:38.720 out and he helped people get right with God and 287 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:43.200 write with each other. He said, build a bridge to God. Actually, 288 00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:44.799 God build a bridge to you through Christ. 289 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:46.000 You don't build that bridge. 290 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:49.600 And then you build a bridge to other people. He says, 291 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:53.159 make peace with God, make peace with others. That's called reconciliation. 292 00:16:54.200 --> 00:16:56.240 And the Bible says God has given us the ministry 293 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:59.399 of reconciliation. That means helping people get to know and 294 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:01.360 have peace with God and get to know and have 295 00:17:01.480 --> 00:17:02.480 peace with other people. 296 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:05.200 Promote reconciliation. That's the pee and peace. 297 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:08.240 And then he equipped leaders because everything rises or falls 298 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:12.119 on leadership. And he trained twelve disciples, and then he 299 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:14.359 trained seventy two more and we talked about how he 300 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:17.680 trained them. You can do that. Everybody is a leader, 301 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:20.599 just in different ways. You're a leader in your family, 302 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:23.240 you're a leader with your friends. The leadership is just influence, 303 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:27.519 and we can teach you how to teach leadership, how 304 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:31.519 to teach purpose driven life. And then he assisted the 305 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:34.599 Poor Jesus first sermon. We covered that in this series 306 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:38.079 where the very first sermon in his hometown. He says, 307 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:39.880 the first since spirit of the Lord has spawned me 308 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:43.000 to preach good news to the poor. Does God have favorites? Yes, 309 00:17:43.079 --> 00:17:45.920 he loves the poor. And God says, I've blessed you 310 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:47.839 to be a blessing to others. What are you doing 311 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:50.279 for the poor? I'm watching to see what you're going 312 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:53.240 to do with all I've given you. And then Jesus 313 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:55.960 cared for the sick, and the Bible says Jesus went 314 00:17:56.000 --> 00:18:00.880 into every village preaching, teaching, and healing. Of his ministry 315 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:03.960 was preaching, that's sharing the good news. One third of 316 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:07.279 his ministry was teaching. That's education. He was a teacher, 317 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:09.240 And one third of his ministry was health care. 318 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:10.000 He was a healer. 319 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:13.640 I mentioned this last week. That's the reason why you 320 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:16.599 go in almost any country, first school and the first 321 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:20.960 hospitals are almost always started by Christian missionaries, because our 322 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:24.160 faith is a preaching, teaching, healing faith. Jesus taught us 323 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:26.559 he's not just cared about the soul. He cares about 324 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:30.039 the mind, education, he cares about the body, health care, 325 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:34.720 and he cares about the spirit salvation. And that's what 326 00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:38.480 we teach. That's what Saddleback's all about. Preaching, teaching, and healing. 327 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:42.000 Jesus is our teacher, our savior, and our healer. So 328 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:46.359 we value education, we value health care, and we value 329 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:49.799 salvation because God cares about it all. 330 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:54.279 Body, mind, and spirit. And then he educated the young 331 00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:56.960 and we just looked at those passages said let the 332 00:18:57.039 --> 00:18:59.279 young people come to me. They are the kingdom of God. 333 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:04.240 And he wanted them to grow up because ignorance is 334 00:19:04.279 --> 00:19:06.720 a prison that keeps people from becoming all God wants 335 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:10.000 them to be. You want to leave a legacy. You 336 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:11.920 want your life to count. You want to make a 337 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:15.400 difference with your life. You want people to know that 338 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:17.559 what you did mattered than just your lifetime. 339 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:19.640 Do what Jesus did. Peace. 340 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:25.359 I wish I had time to tell you stories from India, 341 00:19:25.640 --> 00:19:29.079 from Guatemala, from Argentina. I wish I had time to 342 00:19:29.160 --> 00:19:32.119 tell you stories of the Peace Plan in all the 343 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:36.319 different churches that we're working in around the world. Did 344 00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:38.759 you know that in Psalm chapter two, verse eight, there's 345 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:41.319 a verse It's an amazing promise where God says this. 346 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:45.920 He says, if you'll just ask me, I will use 347 00:19:45.960 --> 00:19:49.160 you to change the world. That's all you got it 348 00:19:49.240 --> 00:19:52.319 is ask, He says, If you'll ask me, I will 349 00:19:52.359 --> 00:19:54.880 actually use you to change entire nations. 350 00:19:56.359 --> 00:19:58.640 Look at the verse. It's here on the screen, he says. 351 00:19:58.759 --> 00:20:03.079 Only ask, Just to ask. God says, and I'll give you. 352 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:07.880 The nations as your inheritance and the ends of the 353 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:14.400 earth as your possessions. You'll go everywhere to everyone. Saddleback 354 00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:18.599 is the church that has decided to take that verse series, 355 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:22.400 And so we're asking. We start asking a group of 356 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:25.759 people years ago saying, God give us the whole world. 357 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:30.240 Let us reach out to every nation, and I invite 358 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:31.640 you to join us. 359 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:37.759 That's powerheads. 360 00:20:39.079 --> 00:20:43.480 Dear Jesus Christ, I love you so much, and if 361 00:20:43.519 --> 00:20:45.720 you never did anything else for me, I owe you 362 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:50.119 the rest of my life. And I want you to know, 363 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:54.519 whether anybody else says yes or not, today I'm in. 364 00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:59.960 I am all yours. I'm saying, use me. 365 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:04.960 I want to be used whenever, wherever, however, in any 366 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:09.079 way you want. And I want you to change my 367 00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:13.799 heart to be more and more like Jesus every day. 368 00:21:15.039 --> 00:21:20.640 I want to care about what Jesus cares about, and 369 00:21:20.680 --> 00:21:23.240 he cares about everybody in the world, even the people 370 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:23.880 we don't like. 371 00:21:24.039 --> 00:21:28.680 Or agree with. Help me to be loving to everybody. 372 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:33.519 And I want to love the Church, Lord, the way 373 00:21:33.559 --> 00:21:37.640 you do your family, your flock, your bride, your body 374 00:21:38.279 --> 00:21:41.720 that you died for. Forgive me for times I've used 375 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:47.759 the church and not loved it. Lord, helped me to 376 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:52.279 be indifferent to the things that you're indifferent to, to 377 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:55.720 not care about what the world thinks is so important 378 00:21:55.720 --> 00:21:58.599 but isn't even going to last till next week. I'm 379 00:21:58.640 --> 00:22:02.400 going to keep my eyes on the thing that matter most. 380 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:07.920 And God, help me to be angry about what I 381 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:12.599 should be angry about. When I see prejudice, when I 382 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:18.799 see injustice, when I see little children hurt, abused, misused 383 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:23.240 or unloved, when I see talent wasted and poor people 384 00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:27.640 caught in a trap. When we see suffering people in 385 00:22:27.720 --> 00:22:34.240 refugee camps, people who want it education but can't afford it. 386 00:22:34.359 --> 00:22:37.680 Help me to get angry about the evil that's in 387 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:46.279 the world, and then move me in love to sacrifice 388 00:22:46.440 --> 00:22:50.279 whatever it takes in time and money and energy and reputation. 389 00:22:51.880 --> 00:22:56.640 Thy will be done in my life. 390 00:22:56.880 --> 00:23:00.599 If that prayer represents your prayer, you just now say 391 00:23:00.759 --> 00:23:07.720 me too, God, what Rick has prayed me too? Lord, 392 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:10.480 we look forward to the next eighteen months and what 393 00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:12.279 You're going to do in our church, and I look 394 00:23:12.319 --> 00:23:15.720 forward to the exciting miracles and blessings that will happen 395 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:19.039 in lives and families and homes as we become more 396 00:23:19.079 --> 00:23:19.720 and more. 397 00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:23.160 Totally dedicated to You. In your name, I pray Amen. 398 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:33.000 That was such an encouraging message from Pastor Rick. And 399 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:36.039 now to encourage us more, here's Rick with a letter 400 00:23:36.160 --> 00:23:37.480 from one of our listeners. 401 00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:40.599