Speaker 1: Pastor Rick Warren often says, you were made by God
Speaker 1: and for God, and until you understand that, life will
Speaker 1: never make sense. Welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: In our series called God's Vision for the Rest of
Speaker 1: your Life, Rick continues in his effort to help you
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Speaker 1: for your life. Now, in just a few moments, we're
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Speaker 1: part of a message called learning to Live Wisely.
Speaker 3: Now there's a third key if you want to learn wisdom. First,
Speaker 3: every day I listen to God for a very short time.
Speaker 3: I just read the Bible or listen to the Bible
Speaker 3: connect that's the l Then I enlist some friends and
Speaker 3: get some wise people around me in my life for
Speaker 3: input that encourage me keep me going. The A stands
Speaker 3: for ask questions and accept correction. If you were going
Speaker 3: to be wise in life, you're gonna become a wise woman.
Speaker 3: If you're going to become a wise man, if you're
Speaker 3: gonna be known that guy's wise, you're gonna have to
Speaker 3: learn how to ask questions wise questions, and you're gonna
Speaker 3: have to learn how to accept correction. Look up here
Speaker 3: on the screen. The Bible says people's thoughts can be
Speaker 3: like a deep well, but someone with understanding can find
Speaker 3: the wisdom there where it's everybody's got something to teach you.
Speaker 3: Everybody has something to teach you, but it's like deep
Speaker 3: water in a well, and you've got to draw it
Speaker 3: out of them. How do you draw the wisdom out
Speaker 3: of every person? By learning to ask smart questions? I
Speaker 3: can teach you how to do this in the next
Speaker 3: six weeks. I can teach you how to ask smart questions.
Speaker 3: I have a list of them that I use myself,
Speaker 3: and as I've traveled all around the world, I can learn.
Speaker 3: You can learn from anybody if you know the right
Speaker 3: questions everybody's brilliant, just on different subjects, and everybody's ignorant.
Speaker 2: Just on different subjects.
Speaker 3: You know some things that I don't know, And if
Speaker 3: I had time to sit with you, you could teach me
Speaker 3: if I know the right questions to ask. I know
Speaker 3: some things you don't know, and if you knew the
Speaker 3: right questions, I can teach you some things you don't know.
Speaker 3: The person sitting next to you right now they know
Speaker 3: some things that neither of us know. You can learn
Speaker 3: from anybody if you know the right questions. And so
Speaker 3: asking questions and accepting correction is a key to wisdom.
Speaker 3: The Bible says, by the way, you know, as I've
Speaker 3: traveled around the world, I've talked to I've asked questions
Speaker 3: of taxicab drivers and prime ministers, and they both taught me.
Speaker 3: I've learned from from a hotel maids, and I've learned
Speaker 3: from presidents. Because you can learn from anybody if you
Speaker 3: ask questions. Proverbs eighteen fifteen says this, intelligent people are
Speaker 3: always open to new ideas. In fact, they look for them.
Speaker 3: That's a sign of intelligence that you look for new ideas.
Speaker 3: You're an entrepreneur, you're an innovator. You're always looking for
Speaker 3: a new idea. That's a sign of intelligence. But when
Speaker 3: you look for them, one of the keys is listening.
Speaker 3: If you don't listen, then you're not going to grow.
Speaker 3: One of the things I've learned is that I have
Speaker 3: never learned anything while I'm talking. If my mouth is moving,
Speaker 3: I'm not learning. I'm only learning when i'm listening. You
Speaker 3: don't learn when you're talking, You learn when you're listening.
Speaker 3: So you got to learn to listen.
Speaker 2: You know. I've done an.
Speaker 3: Awful lot of interviews ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, BBC, CNN,
Speaker 3: on and on and on, and what I've noticed is
Speaker 3: that the interview shows have changed. They're no longer about
Speaker 3: the guests. They're about the interviewer. And the whole goal
Speaker 3: is the interviewer wants to draw attention to himself. The
Speaker 3: interviewer wants to explain his or her opinions, and you're
Speaker 3: just the foil. I long for the old Larry King days.
Speaker 2: Larry King.
Speaker 3: I didn't agree with everything, but you know what, Larry
Speaker 3: King he would ask a question and then he'd let
Speaker 3: you talk. And he realized that the interview people weren't
Speaker 3: going to listen, Larry King, they were going to listen
Speaker 3: to all of the different fascinating guests that he had
Speaker 3: and learning from them. Larry said in an interview show,
Speaker 3: if the host is talking fifty percent of the time,
Speaker 3: something is terribly wrong. The host listens the most, the
Speaker 3: host talks the least. The host sets up the question
Speaker 3: and then just listens. That's what a good TV host does.
Speaker 3: It's same thing is true in a small group. The
Speaker 3: host listens the most, the host talks the least. So
Speaker 3: if you're shy, you should ask to be the host
Speaker 3: of your small group. If you don't like to talk,
Speaker 3: you want to be the host. The host of a
Speaker 3: group is not the teacher. The host is the one
Speaker 3: who says, now the next question is, and you read it,
Speaker 3: and then you let everybody else talk and you don't
Speaker 3: not say anything.
Speaker 2: How cool is that?
Speaker 3: So the host listens the most, You're not the teacher,
Speaker 3: You're just listening. What I'm talking about is leadership. All
Speaker 3: leaders are learners. For thirty years, I've been training leaders
Speaker 3: around the world, business leaders, church leaders, government leaders in
Speaker 3: one hundred and sixty four countries. All leaders are learners.
Speaker 3: The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. Growing businesses
Speaker 3: require growing businessmen. The moment you stop growing your business
Speaker 3: stops growing. Growing families require growing parents. Growing churches require
Speaker 3: growing pastors. Anything that wants to grow, the leader has
Speaker 3: to be outgrowing it or the growth stops. Does that
Speaker 3: make sense? So all leaders are learners. I'm constantly learning.
Speaker 3: I learn from churches that are smaller than saddle back.
Speaker 3: I learned from churches that are larger than saddleback. I
Speaker 3: learn from people who agree with us. I learn from
Speaker 3: people who disagree with us. I learn from enemies. I
Speaker 3: learn from critics. That makes me wiser than my critics.
Speaker 3: Why Because I learned from them, so I know what
Speaker 3: I know. Then I learn what they know. All they
Speaker 3: know is what they know. They don't learn from me,
Speaker 3: But I learned from them. So it makes me smarter
Speaker 3: because I learn what I know, Plus I.
Speaker 2: Learn what they know.
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Speaker 1: You're listening to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope once again. Here's
Speaker 1: Pastor Rick Warren.
Speaker 2: Are and learn.
Speaker 3: How to learn wisdom is remember, remember, and reinforce what
Speaker 3: I learned. You can't just learn it. You got to
Speaker 3: remember it. And you can't just remember it, You've got
Speaker 3: to reinforce it because if you don't remember and reinforce it,
Speaker 3: you end up having to learn the same lesson over and.
Speaker 2: Over and over. Have you ever done that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you'd had to relearn the same lesson over and
Speaker 3: over and over and over because you may keep making
Speaker 3: the same stupid mistake because you don't remember and you
Speaker 3: don't reinforce, which, by the way, is why we hand
Speaker 3: out these little handout things every week. The United States
Speaker 3: Air Force says you forget ninety to ninety five percent
Speaker 3: of everything you hear within seventy two hours. That's the
Speaker 3: most depressing statistic possible for a pastor, because what it
Speaker 3: means is by Wednesday, you're good have forgotten everything I've
Speaker 3: just taught you. You're not gonna remember. Shoot, you don't
Speaker 3: remember what I said last week. I don't remember what
Speaker 3: I said last week, and I taught it five times.
Speaker 3: If you the shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory.
Speaker 3: So you can be sitting there looking all real spiritual,
Speaker 3: but if you're not writing down, it's just going whoo
Speaker 3: right through your mind in one air and out the other.
Speaker 2: We don't remember. You have to retain it to remember.
Speaker 3: It so you can review it, so you can apply it.
Speaker 3: And that's why we do these things.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: The Bible says this about wisdom Proverbs twenty two. Listen
Speaker 3: and I'll teach you what the whys have said. Study
Speaker 3: their teachings, and you will be glad if you remember
Speaker 3: them and can quote them. Now, I want you to
Speaker 3: circle the four verbs in that In that sense, listen, study, remember,
Speaker 3: and quote. Those are marks of wisdom. Did you know
Speaker 3: that memorizing actually improves your brain power? Doesn't even matter
Speaker 3: what your memorize, it improves your brain. You could go
Speaker 3: memorize the phone directory, but memory is actually like an
Speaker 3: exercise for your mind. You get smarter when you attempt
Speaker 3: to memorize something. People said, well, I can't remember anything Oh, yes,
Speaker 3: you can. You remember what's important to you. You remember
Speaker 3: what you love, You remember what you what matters to you.
Speaker 3: For instance, a lot of people say, I can't memorize
Speaker 3: the Bible, but they can give you every baseball or
Speaker 3: football statistic for the last season. Or I can't remember
Speaker 3: the Bible, but they can quote all kinds of lyrics songs,
Speaker 3: popular songs. Or they can give you a recipe for something,
Speaker 3: or they can give you the stock market quotes, or
Speaker 3: they can give you statistics on something they care about.
Speaker 3: You remember what's important to you, and if the truth
Speaker 3: becomes important to you, you will remember it. You will remember,
Speaker 3: and you will rehearse it, and you will reinforce it,
Speaker 3: and you will review it in your life. Not only
Speaker 3: interesting studies have shown not only when you memorize something
Speaker 3: does it help you improve your memory. Memory helps you
Speaker 3: improve your memory, It actually helps every other area in
Speaker 3: your brain. The same time, synapses are developed and blood
Speaker 3: flows and your brain has a plasticity. That it's the
Speaker 3: opposite of Alzheimer's. When you stretch your brain, you Social
Speaker 3: relationships and memorizing are two things that actually are preventatives
Speaker 3: from Alzheimer's and other dementias in life, so you want
Speaker 3: to have that in your life. So in each weekend,
Speaker 3: we're gonna memorize together, and you'll not only be closer
Speaker 3: to God, but you'll have a healthier brain and your
Speaker 3: wife will thank you for that. Now, people say why
Speaker 3: should I memorize the Bible. I'll tell you why, because
Speaker 3: every time you need the Bible's truth, you don't have
Speaker 3: one near you. You go to work this week, somebody's
Speaker 3: going to criticize you and they're going to say something mean,
Speaker 3: and you're gonna feel discouraged.
Speaker 2: You need to be encouraged.
Speaker 3: There are thousands of verses in the Bible that would
Speaker 3: encourage you, but if you don't have it memorized, they
Speaker 3: can't come to mind. Well, I know somewhere in the
Speaker 3: Bible there's a verse that would encourage me. But if
Speaker 3: you've got it memorized, God can bring it to mind.
Speaker 2: Go pop.
Speaker 3: He brings to the mind and goes, oh wow, I'm
Speaker 3: not so discouraged anymore. Memorized verses are the best thing
Speaker 3: for overcoming temptation, because when you start to be tempted
Speaker 3: to be jealous, or you start to be tempted to
Speaker 3: be insecure, or you start to be tempted to lose
Speaker 3: your patience, or to get angry, or to lust, or
Speaker 3: any any kind of temptation in life. You start temptation
Speaker 3: to overeat or over exaggerat, or if you've got a verse,
Speaker 3: memorize for that, God could go boom and brings it
Speaker 3: to mind, and it helps you resist the temptation. Now,
Speaker 3: if you don't have anything in there, there's nothing for
Speaker 3: God to bring to mind, so it actually helps.
Speaker 2: You that way.
Speaker 3: Here's what the Bible says proverbs for don't lose sight
Speaker 3: of my words. That means, memorize them, retain them, let
Speaker 3: them penetrate deep within your heart. If you put it
Speaker 3: in your mind, God can cause you to think about
Speaker 3: it seriously, for they bring life and radiant health to
Speaker 3: anyone who discovers their meaning. So you want radiant health,
Speaker 3: you want life. Then you need to fill your mind
Speaker 3: with the truth. Let it penetrate your heart so God
Speaker 3: can bring it to mind. That's the fourth thing we're
Speaker 3: gonna do. The fifth thing we're gonna do the next
Speaker 3: next week is the fifth thing on learning to be wise,
Speaker 3: and it is this The end is now do it.
Speaker 2: Now? Do it?
Speaker 3: Okay? I listen to the truth. I enlist friends to
Speaker 3: discuss the truth. I ask questions about the truth, I
Speaker 3: remember and reinforce the truth. And now I do the truth.
Speaker 3: You don't just talk about it. You gotta do it,
Speaker 3: because if you don't do it, you're not wise, no
Speaker 3: matter how much you know of the Bible.
Speaker 2: I mean, I told you last week because.
Speaker 3: Of my back surgery, and I was unable to do
Speaker 3: all the exercise, and I gained about ten pounds this fall,
Speaker 3: and I thought, you know, I'm gonna get this back off.
Speaker 3: I'm going to get these pounds back off. And so
Speaker 3: let's say I go home and I pull out one
Speaker 3: of my favorite diet and exercise books, and tomorrow I
Speaker 3: sit back in my lazy boy chair.
Speaker 2: To read the Word about die had.
Speaker 3: An exercise, and I get my Guacamolean chips, my ham sandwich,
Speaker 3: and my thirty six ouncer. Okay, and I'm reading, and
Speaker 3: I'm going, this is so inspiring.
Speaker 2: I love this.
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 2: Look, man, look at that guy. Look at the abs
Speaker 2: on that guy.
Speaker 3: I love that picture. Oh Man, that's me, oh man.
Speaker 3: And have a little more guacamole, you know. And that
Speaker 3: is such a good passage. I think I'm gonna underline
Speaker 3: that passage in the book. I'm gonna highlight it. In fact,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna write a little note out to the side
Speaker 3: and say this is good, and you know, and write
Speaker 3: out in fact this passage here on getting in shape.
Speaker 3: It's so good, I'm gonna memorize it. But if I
Speaker 3: stay in a lazy boy chair, it doesn't matter. I'm
Speaker 3: a fool. I'm fooling myself. I'm deceiving myself because I'm
Speaker 3: reading the word. I'm pract I'm listening to the word,
Speaker 3: but I'm not doing the word, and it's self deception.
Speaker 3: Here's what the Bible says. Look at the here in
Speaker 3: your outline, James, Chapter one. Don't deceive yourselves by just
Speaker 3: listening to the word. Instead, put it into practice. If
Speaker 3: you listen to the word but you don't put it
Speaker 3: into practice, you're like people who look in a mirror
Speaker 3: and see themselves, but once they walk away, they forget
Speaker 3: what they look like. But if you look closely into
Speaker 3: the perfect law that sets people free, that's the Bible.
Speaker 3: If you look closely at the Bible and you keep
Speaker 3: on paying attention to it, and you don't forget it,
Speaker 3: but you put it into practice, you will be blessed.
Speaker 3: Notice the blessing comes We're not reading from doing these
Speaker 3: other things. You will be blessed by God in what
Speaker 3: you do. I said it earlier. Wisdom is a choice.
Speaker 3: You can choose to be wise. Happiness is a choice.
Speaker 3: Being close to God is a choice. Being honest is
Speaker 3: a choice. So I just shared with you the five
Speaker 3: ways to become wise for the rest of your life. Question,
Speaker 3: are you going to do anything about it? Are you
Speaker 3: gonna now do it? Are you gonna do anything about it?
Speaker 2: He said no, that was a nice message. Let's go home.
Speaker 3: If you're not gonna do anything about what I just
Speaker 3: told you, I just wasted an hour of your life,
Speaker 3: and I just wasted my breath. God does not bless
Speaker 3: good intentions. God blesses wise choices, and God says, it's
Speaker 3: your move, it's your choice. Will you do the wise thing?
Speaker 2: Father?
Speaker 3: I want to thank you for everybody who's here today,
Speaker 3: those who are watching online, those in our venues, those
Speaker 3: in our campuses. Your word is very clear that you
Speaker 3: have blessed us with so many blessings, and you have
Speaker 3: promised so many benefits. It will simple we learn to
Speaker 3: be wise I pray that many people here today will
Speaker 3: not just listen, but will take these five.
Speaker 2: Steps to l ear in to be wise. If you've never.
Speaker 3: Opened your life to Jesus Christ, said, Jesus Christ, come
Speaker 3: into my life right now, make yourself real to me, say,
Speaker 3: I want to learn to love you and trust you.
Speaker 3: And I don't understand it all, but God, I want
Speaker 3: to begin a new relationship with you this new year.
Speaker 2: Father.
Speaker 3: For those who prayed this prayer, I commit as a pastor,
Speaker 3: and I commit this church to helping them and to
Speaker 3: helping each of us become wiser.
Speaker 2: In the days ahead.
Speaker 3: I pray that you'll protect them from distractions and disturbances
Speaker 3: and delays and difficulties, protect their hearts and minds from conflict.
Speaker 3: And I pray that together we may become wiser. We
Speaker 3: could experience all you want to experience, and that we
Speaker 3: would all experienced what on earth we're here for.
Speaker 2: Pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.
Speaker 3: Hi, everybody, this is Rick, and I hope you enjoyed
Speaker 3: today's broadcast. You know, if you just prayed that prayer
Speaker 3: for the very first time, or you just recommitted your
Speaker 3: life to Jesus again today, would you let me know
Speaker 3: about it. There's something real about sharing your commitment. So
Speaker 3: write me Rick at pastor Rick dot com and say, Rick,
Speaker 3: I prayed that prayer of commitment. I gave my life
Speaker 3: to Christ. And I'll send you some material that will
Speaker 3: help you on your journey with Jesus.
Speaker 2: And I'll also pray for you. God bless you.
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Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 3: I want to share with you a very special testimony
Speaker 3: from one of our listeners named Marquita, and thanks to
Speaker 3: Daily Hope and your support, she recently asked Jesus Christ
Speaker 3: to be the leader of her life. Here's a story. So,
Speaker 3: Pastor Rick, I wanted to let you know that I
Speaker 3: have prayed the prayer salvation that you included in the
Speaker 3: Deepening the Eyes of Faith message. I've been listening to
Speaker 3: your messages for years. In fact, my child wouldn't even
Speaker 3: be here today if it weren't for your words. You
Speaker 3: wrote there may be accidental parents, but there are no
Speaker 3: accidental children. Well, I've given birth to a beautiful baby girl,
Speaker 3: and she's the light of my life. In fact, it
Speaker 3: now hurts to remember a time that I was fighting
Speaker 3: to decide whether I was going to have her or not.
Speaker 3: But I repeated your words throughout my pregnancy. There are
Speaker 3: accidental parents, but they're no accidental children. And although I'm
Speaker 3: a single mom today, with the support of my family,
Speaker 3: we're thriving. I want to make sure that she grows
Speaker 3: up to find her purpose and to serve God. So
Speaker 3: thanks for renewing my faith in God. And as I
Speaker 3: still try to find and fulfill my purpose, please pray
Speaker 3: for me and my child. Wow, Marquita, you are so right.
Speaker 3: God does have a plan and a purpose for every
Speaker 3: single baby. There are no accidental babies. So I want
Speaker 3: to take a moment right now and just pray for
Speaker 3: you in this broadcast. Pray for you and for your daughter. Lord,
Speaker 3: I'm asking you right now to put your hand of protection,
Speaker 3: your hand of blessing, your hand of guidance on Marquita
Speaker 3: and her daughter. And I'm praying for both of them
Speaker 3: to know your purpose, to feel your presence, to discover
Speaker 3: your power, to live in your plan for.
Speaker 2: Each of their lives. In Jesus' name. Amen.
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