Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining us today, and if you're brand new,
Speaker 1: welcome to the Daily Hope family. We hope you'll enjoy
Speaker 1: the teachings of Pastor Rick Warren right here. I'm so
Speaker 1: excited for all of you to learn about your shape.
Speaker 1: It might not be the shape you're thinking of right now.
Speaker 1: Rick loves to use acrostics and this one is shape
Speaker 1: your shape, your spiritual gifts, heart abilities, personality and experiences.
Speaker 1: And one of the reasons I love this series and
Speaker 1: have shared it with so many friends is because Rick
Speaker 1: talks about the way God wired you and why you
Speaker 1: need not just know your shape, but how to use
Speaker 1: it to do the things that God designed you to do.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get right to it. Here's Rick with
Speaker 1: part two of a message called Why God shaped you
Speaker 1: the way He did.
Speaker 2: Okay, so God made me unique. There's nobody else like me.
Speaker 3: I've got I'm shaped and I'm going to discover it
Speaker 3: over the next five or six weeks.
Speaker 2: Why should I even care? Oh? You should care.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of reasons your success or failure
Speaker 3: in life, your satisfaction or dissatisfaction in life and a
Speaker 3: lot of other things that depend upon it. But tonight
Speaker 3: is this introduction. Let me give you this four things
Speaker 3: real quickly. Why you have to care about your shape
Speaker 3: Number one because my shape reveals God's purpose for me.
Speaker 3: It reveals God's purpose for me. The way you find
Speaker 3: out what God wants you to do with your life is.
Speaker 2: To discover how He shaped you.
Speaker 3: And the better you understand that, the more clear what
Speaker 3: God wants you to do with your life will be.
Speaker 3: In architecture, they have a phrase that goes like this
Speaker 3: form follows function. All architects know this form follows function,
Speaker 3: And what that means is, tell me what you want
Speaker 3: the building to be used for, and then I'll tell
Speaker 3: you how to form it. Tell me what the function
Speaker 3: of it is, and then I'll tell you what to build.
Speaker 2: To build it.
Speaker 3: If you want the function to be a church, will
Speaker 3: you build it one way. If you want it to
Speaker 3: be a cafeteria, you build a building another way. If
Speaker 3: you want it to be a school or a theater,
Speaker 3: or a business or an office, then you build it
Speaker 3: every way. Tell me what the function is, what you're
Speaker 3: going to do in it, and then we will design
Speaker 3: it to fit that function.
Speaker 2: And that's how it works in architecture.
Speaker 3: But with human beings it's the exact opposite. In human beings,
Speaker 3: function follows form. Function follows form. In other words, figure
Speaker 3: out how God shaped me, and then I'll know what
Speaker 3: his purpose is for my life. Figure out how he
Speaker 3: formed me, and then I'll know his will for the
Speaker 3: rest of my life. If I figure out how He
Speaker 3: wired me up, that will give me a pretty good
Speaker 3: clue as to what he expects me to do, because
Speaker 3: God would not give me gifts and heart and ability
Speaker 3: and personality and experience in one area and then say, oh,
Speaker 3: by the way, we're gonna ignore all that, and I
Speaker 3: want you to do this over here that you hate
Speaker 3: to do and you're bad act. If you're good at something,
Speaker 3: it's a pretty good indication that's what God wants you
Speaker 3: to do. We're gonna look at this in great detail
Speaker 3: in the weeks ahead. But knowing how you're shaped gives
Speaker 3: you the direction of your life. That's why it's so
Speaker 3: important you need this series. God said this to Jeremiah
Speaker 3: in chapter one.
Speaker 2: Before I shaped you. There's that word again, Before I
Speaker 2: shaped you in the womb. I knew all.
Speaker 3: About you before you saw the light of day, I
Speaker 3: had holy.
Speaker 2: Plans for you. Would you circle that holy plans?
Speaker 3: God had holy plans for you before you were even born,
Speaker 3: before you came out of your before you saw the
Speaker 3: light of day. God said, I'd already had all these
Speaker 3: plans designed for you, he says to Jeremiah, a spokesman
Speaker 3: to the nations. That's what I had in mind for you.
Speaker 3: And did you know that God had something in mind
Speaker 3: for you before you popped out of your mama?
Speaker 2: He did.
Speaker 3: God had something in mind for you. He already had
Speaker 3: decided what he wanted you to do with your life.
Speaker 2: Now here's the thing. God won't force you.
Speaker 3: To do his plan. You can waste your life. You
Speaker 3: can blow your life, you can use it on all
Speaker 3: kinds of personal self centered all kinds of things, and
Speaker 3: totally miss God's plan and purpose for your life. In fact,
Speaker 3: most people do. And that's the tragedy. And that's why
Speaker 3: they're so frustrated and why they're lonely, and why they
Speaker 3: worry and why they feel depressed, because they're trying to
Speaker 3: do their thing and be something that somebody else wants
Speaker 3: them to be, rather than what God wanted them to
Speaker 3: do and be what God I wanted them to be.
Speaker 2: God says, before you.
Speaker 3: Were even born, I had holy plans for you, and
Speaker 3: he had stuff in mind. Number two not only because
Speaker 3: it reveals God's purpose for you, because it equips me
Speaker 3: to serve him. The Bible says this in Isaiah forty nine.
Speaker 3: God formed me in my mother's womb to be his servant,
Speaker 3: and he commissioned me. God has a mission for you
Speaker 3: that he has commissioned you to do. God says, I
Speaker 3: shaped you to serve me, and I made you for
Speaker 3: a mission. I shaped you to serve me, and I
Speaker 3: made you for a mission. And if there's a life
Speaker 3: mission that God has for you that nobody else in
Speaker 3: this planet can do, nobody else may even know about it.
Speaker 3: But it's what God wants.
Speaker 2: You to do with your life.
Speaker 3: And maybe you've missed that mission, and maybe you've misserving God.
Speaker 3: And I'm saying, okay, let's start today. Let's make the
Speaker 3: rest of your life the best of your life. Let's
Speaker 3: don't blow it for all of your life. Let's just say, Okay,
Speaker 3: I messed up a few years, but now I'm going
Speaker 3: to shape, find my shape, observe God. Then I'm going
Speaker 3: to find my mission and do it and be what
Speaker 3: God made me to be and do what He made
Speaker 3: me to do. Now, God will never ask you to
Speaker 3: do anything in life that he hasn't already given you
Speaker 3: the ability to do. So you look at your abilities,
Speaker 3: you go, I'm good at that. That's what God wants.
Speaker 2: Me to do.
Speaker 3: The third thing, because life is a test. Life is
Speaker 3: a test. Now this is a big one. You need
Speaker 3: to know your shape because this is preparation for eternity.
Speaker 3: We talked about this so many times, that this life
Speaker 3: is preparation for the next life in heaven where you're
Speaker 3: going to spend trillions of years and on this side
Speaker 3: you're only going to spend eighty or one hundred years.
Speaker 3: And God says, this is a test. I'm testing to
Speaker 3: see you what you do with what you've been given
Speaker 3: on earth, and based on that, I will determine what
Speaker 3: I give you to do in heaven for eternity. One day,
Speaker 3: you're going to stand before God and he's going to ask.
Speaker 2: You two questions.
Speaker 3: Sometime within the next one hundred years, you're going to
Speaker 3: stand before God, and when you stand before him, he's
Speaker 3: going to give you the final exam. And my job
Speaker 3: as your pastor, who loves you, is to help you
Speaker 3: prepare for that exam. Fortunately, as God wants you to
Speaker 3: pass it, and He's already told us the answers. Now,
Speaker 3: the first question God's going to ask you is this,
Speaker 3: what did you do with my son Jesus Christ. He's
Speaker 3: not going to ask you were you Catholic or Baptist,
Speaker 3: or Buddhist or Jewish or Muslim, or he's not going
Speaker 3: to ask you what religion you are. He's going to say,
Speaker 3: what did you do with my son Jesus Christ. I
Speaker 3: send him to earth to be your savior, to die
Speaker 3: on the cross for you.
Speaker 2: Did you accept that.
Speaker 3: Or did you just blow that off? Did you accept
Speaker 3: what I sent him to do, to give forgiveness, to
Speaker 3: give salvation, to give you a ticket to heaven. The
Speaker 3: answer is I accepted Jesus as your son. I accepted
Speaker 3: Jesus as my lord, as my savior. I accepted Jesus
Speaker 3: and what he did for me. I accepted his forgiveness,
Speaker 3: and I began to learn and trust him. That's the
Speaker 3: question that gets you into heaven. All the works on
Speaker 3: earth will do nothing in getting you into heaven. It's
Speaker 3: just that first question, What did you do with my son.
Speaker 3: The second question is not about salvation. It's about the
Speaker 3: stewardship of life. And that's the question, what did you
Speaker 3: do with what you were given? And that's the second
Speaker 3: great question, and that's going to determine not whether you
Speaker 3: get into heaven, but what you do after you get there.
Speaker 3: And Jesus told the number of stories in which he
Speaker 3: said that your rewards in heaven and your role in
Speaker 3: heaven and your responsibility in heaven will be based on
Speaker 3: what did you do with what you were given here?
Speaker 3: What did you do with the talent I gave you?
Speaker 3: What did you do with the freedom I gave you?
Speaker 3: What did you do with the health that I gave you?
Speaker 3: What did you do with the family that I gave you?
Speaker 3: What did you do with the relationships? What did you
Speaker 3: do with your network? What did you do with the
Speaker 3: education you were given? What did you do with your
Speaker 3: spiritual gift and your heart and your abilities? What did
Speaker 3: you do with the personality I gave you? And what
Speaker 3: did you do with the experiences I gave you? Did
Speaker 3: you just use them on yourself or did you just
Speaker 3: really learn to use it for my purposes? That is
Speaker 3: the question that this series is to help design, to
Speaker 3: help you prepare for.
Speaker 2: And God says this.
Speaker 3: He says, if you're faithful in what I gave you
Speaker 3: here on earth, and I didn't give you a whole
Speaker 3: lot here on earth.
Speaker 2: I didn't give you a lot of money. I didn't
Speaker 2: give you a lot of everything. You know.
Speaker 3: I gave you a little bit, okay, And I gave
Speaker 3: you talents. I didn't give you all the talent in
Speaker 3: the world, but I gave you a little bit. And
Speaker 3: I gave you some interest, and some abilities and some personality.
Speaker 3: If you're faithful in what little I gave you here
Speaker 3: on Earth, then I can trust you with greater roles,
Speaker 3: greater responsibilities, and greater rewards in heaven. But if you're
Speaker 3: not faithful in that little stuff, I can't trust you
Speaker 3: in heaven. This life is a test. God teaches it
Speaker 3: over and over and over in the Bible. Look at
Speaker 3: this one verse up on the screen. Jesus says this.
Speaker 3: From where he sits, God overlooks all of us on earth.
Speaker 2: This isn't Jesus's psalms.
Speaker 3: He has shaped each person in turn, and now he
Speaker 3: watches everything we do. Now not this, It says, God
Speaker 3: is watching everything you do. Do you remember that song,
Speaker 3: bet Middler. He's just saying, from a distance, God is
Speaker 3: watching us. Will you got it half right?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: God is watching, but he's not watching from a distance.
Speaker 3: He's right here.
Speaker 2: He's with you. If you're a believer, he's in you.
Speaker 2: He's up close and personal.
Speaker 3: He is intimately interested in every single detail of your life,
Speaker 3: even how many hairs wash out of your head and
Speaker 3: go into the shower drain each morning. God says, every
Speaker 3: hair in your head is numbered, and he knows when
Speaker 3: you've washed a few. Now, God is watching you here
Speaker 3: on earth. What is he watching to see what you
Speaker 3: do with your shape? And Jesus said this, look at
Speaker 3: the screen again. Whoever can be trusted with very little
Speaker 3: can also be trusted with much. And if you have
Speaker 3: not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, in other words,
Speaker 3: the stuff I give you here on the earth, who
Speaker 3: will trust you with true riches, true spiritual riches that
Speaker 3: go on forever and ever in eternity, He goes, If
Speaker 3: you haven't handled what I gave you on.
Speaker 2: Earth, what do you think I'm going to do with
Speaker 2: you in heaven?
Speaker 3: This is a test, and so it's very important that
Speaker 3: you know your shape. The fourth reason is because it
Speaker 3: shows God's glory. When you use your shape and you
Speaker 3: do what God made you to do, it not only
Speaker 3: feels good to you, it makes God smile.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Irenaeus was a great Christian leader in the first century.
Speaker 3: He gave a very famous quote and he said this,
Speaker 3: the glory of God is a human being fully alive.
Speaker 3: He said, the glory of God is a human being,
Speaker 3: fully alive. He says, you know what makes God smile
Speaker 3: when he looks down and he sees the guy using
Speaker 3: the talents that God gave and he goes, that's my boy.
Speaker 3: I made him to be a salesman. I made him
Speaker 3: to be an accountant. I made him to be a
Speaker 3: WWF wrestler. I made him you know, I wired him
Speaker 3: to be an athlete. I wired him to be an entrepreneur.
Speaker 3: And he's doing what I made him to do. That's
Speaker 3: my boy.
Speaker 2: And he looks down and he says, look at that woman.
Speaker 3: I made her to do this or this or this
Speaker 3: or this or this or this, and she's doing it.
Speaker 3: That makes me happy because I'm the creator and that's
Speaker 3: what I wired her.
Speaker 2: To do and to be, and she's doing it. And
Speaker 2: it makes me smile.
Speaker 3: You see, anytime something fulfills the purpose it was intended
Speaker 3: to fulfill, it brings glory to God. How does a
Speaker 3: pencil bring glory to God by being a pencil by
Speaker 3: doing what it's intended?
Speaker 2: Pencils are made for writing.
Speaker 3: And when a pencil is used for the act that
Speaker 3: was intended, then it brings glory to God. Now, if
Speaker 3: you use a pencil to get ear racks out of
Speaker 3: your ear, that is a misuse and abuse. That does
Speaker 3: not bring glory to God. Okay uh, how does a
Speaker 3: knife bring glory to God? A knife is to be used.
Speaker 3: Its intended purpose is to cut. Now, when you take
Speaker 3: a knife and you try to use it for something
Speaker 3: else like screwing in a screw as a screwdriver, then
Speaker 3: you are abusing that knife.
Speaker 2: What am I saying?
Speaker 3: Everything you have in your life is a total gift
Speaker 3: from God, everything, and it can be either used or
Speaker 3: it can be abused. Every gift of God can be
Speaker 3: a used or misused and abused. Sex When sex is
Speaker 3: used the way God intended between a husband and a wife,
Speaker 3: that brings glory to God. God goes, They're doing what
Speaker 3: I made him to do. But sex can also be
Speaker 3: misused and abused, and it dishonors God. Money can be
Speaker 3: used to bring honor to God when it's used wisely.
Speaker 3: When money is misused or abused, it brings dishonor to God.
Speaker 2: Time time can be used to honor God.
Speaker 3: Or can be misused and abused, and we abuse our
Speaker 3: time and waste it, and it doesn't bring honor to God.
Speaker 3: Everything in life can be used or abused. It's all
Speaker 3: a different God, and it's all good, but it's used
Speaker 3: or abused. And God says, I'm testing you to see
Speaker 3: what you're doing with what I gave you. And there
Speaker 3: are eternal consequences on everything you do, eternal consequences rewards, roles,
Speaker 3: and responsibilities. So he says, I want you to bring
Speaker 3: me glory. Now, what about people? When people fulfill their purpose,
Speaker 3: they bring glory to God.
Speaker 2: But here's the problem.
Speaker 3: As human beings, we don't think like God, and we
Speaker 3: think only really bright people and really beautiful people are
Speaker 3: important and they're worth a lot. But those of us
Speaker 3: who aren't bright and aren't important, we're not worth a lot.
Speaker 3: You're dead wrong. Where does it say that in the Bible?
Speaker 3: Does it say that God loves some people more than others,
Speaker 3: or that Gods a summer worth more than others.
Speaker 2: No, whether you're.
Speaker 3: Contributing in some giant way, or contributing in some little way,
Speaker 3: or you're sick and even can't even contribute.
Speaker 2: At all, you have the same value in God's ns.
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