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Speaker 1: of Pastor Rick Warren. Today we continue in a series
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Speaker 1: with the final part of a message called maintaining Harmony
Speaker 1: in my home, small group and Church.
Speaker 2: You know, social media has some advantages, but it also
Speaker 2: has a dark side that can spread division and hatred
Speaker 2: faster than anything we've ever known. And we've all seen
Speaker 2: well known people crash and burn from the instant response
Speaker 2: to something they posted. Stuff takes on a life of
Speaker 2: its own very fast on the Internet. So let me
Speaker 2: pause right here, because the Internet is causing a lot
Speaker 2: of conflict today and we're talking about how to resolve it.
Speaker 2: There are three big dangers you need to keep in
Speaker 2: mind if you use social media. Okay, let me just
Speaker 2: give you some guidance here as your pastor who loves you.
Speaker 2: If you want to minimize conflict and you're using social media,
Speaker 2: three things to remember. Number one, realize, never forget this.
Speaker 2: Realize this. No matter what you say, it's going to
Speaker 2: be misunderstood and misinterpreted by somebody. Just count on that.
Speaker 2: You can count on that if you put something out
Speaker 2: there that thousands or even millions might see, don't be
Speaker 2: surprised that they misunderstand it. They're likely to make a
Speaker 2: negative comment about it. They make a negative comment, it's
Speaker 2: going to travel faster and farther than anything positive you
Speaker 2: could possibly say. Second danger is that everything you post
Speaker 2: on the Internet, if you do that, becomes permanent, even
Speaker 2: if it's a lie, it becomes permanent, global, searchable, and repeatable.
Speaker 2: So before you post stuff, you need to say, do
Speaker 2: I want this to be permanent, searchable, global, and repeatable.
Speaker 2: Third danger, if you use social media is that if
Speaker 2: you don't apologize for something that people are offended by,
Speaker 2: or you correct it or challenge it immediately, you lose
Speaker 2: the battle in about an hour because the critics aren't
Speaker 2: going to wait for your clarification. Again, let me give
Speaker 2: you another personal example from mistakes that I've made. About
Speaker 2: ten years ago, there was an old television preacher who
Speaker 2: has now gone on to heaven, started telling people, quote,
Speaker 2: Rick Warren is creating a new religion, Islam with Christianity
Speaker 2: and it's called Chrislam. Some of you remember this, okay,
Speaker 2: about ten years ago he's Warren is creating new religion
Speaker 2: blending Islam and Christianity called is Krislam. I'd never even
Speaker 2: heard of such thing. Now, the idea was so ludicrous
Speaker 2: it was laughable. I made a mistake. What I did
Speaker 2: is I ignored it. That's who's going to believe that?
Speaker 2: Who's going to believe that? And you know they all
Speaker 2: know I believe Jesus is the only way. Jesus is
Speaker 2: the only way, the truth of the life. So I
Speaker 2: waited like four days before posting the correction, and by
Speaker 2: then it was too late. Jesus has settled with your
Speaker 2: adversaries quickly, but then it's too late. The lie had
Speaker 2: spread all around the globe, and even today, ten years later,
Speaker 2: it's still the lie that won't die. You can go
Speaker 2: on right now and type in Rick warn and Chryslam.
Speaker 2: You'll get all kinds of articles. I have been asked
Speaker 2: by this about this question all around the world, by
Speaker 2: reporters in India, by reporters in Africa, and little villages
Speaker 2: you've never heard of. I still ten years later, are you?
Speaker 2: Are you promoting Chris Loom? You know it's just spread
Speaker 2: all over Why because it's permanent, surgable. It's a lie,
Speaker 2: but it's never going to go away. And if you
Speaker 2: don't move quickly to correct something on the internet, people
Speaker 2: going to think it actually represents you. So when you've
Speaker 2: hurt somebody's feelings or you've offended someone, the best and
Speaker 2: quickest way to resolve it is to apologize and ask
Speaker 2: for forgiveness.
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Speaker 2: Now, I know what some of your thinking. You're thinking,
Speaker 2: you know, people just shouldn't be so sensitive. Well, that's
Speaker 2: not the christ like response. You need to remember a
Speaker 2: couple things. These are biblical principles. First, is this intent
Speaker 2: is never an excuse for impact. What I mean by that, well,
Speaker 2: saying well I didn't mean it that way is no excuse.
Speaker 2: If you hurt somebody, doesn't matter what your intent was.
Speaker 2: You still hurt them. Doesn't matter what your intent is
Speaker 2: no excuse for impact. Other people don't get to decide
Speaker 2: what is hurtful to you. Other people don't get to
Speaker 2: decide what is painful to you, and you don't get
Speaker 2: to decide what is hurtful and painful and offensive to them.
Speaker 2: So just because you don't think it's offensive or hurtful
Speaker 2: and painful doesn't mean no. They get to decide, just
Speaker 2: like you decide what's hurts you. So we have to
Speaker 2: make work hard to make sure that our intent and
Speaker 2: our impact match as Christians. The other principle you need
Speaker 2: to remember is this God expects us to put the
Speaker 2: consideration of the dealings of others ahead of our own.
Speaker 2: Oh baby, there are a lot of scriptures on this one.
Speaker 2: Look at this verse Romans fifteen one to three says this.
Speaker 2: We can't just go ahead and do whatever pleases ourselves.
Speaker 2: We must be considered of the doubts and the fears
Speaker 2: of others who are offended. We should think of what's
Speaker 2: good for others and build them up by doing what
Speaker 2: pleases them, not ourselves them. For Christ did not please
Speaker 2: himself instead, he felt as a scripture tells us, when
Speaker 2: others insult you, it hurts me. You want to be
Speaker 2: like Christ, develop the attitude When my brothers and sisters
Speaker 2: get insulted, it hurts me. Okay, when you're insulted, I'm
Speaker 2: insulted because we're part of the body of Christ. Okay,
Speaker 2: we take offense for the offenses of others. We share
Speaker 2: their offenses. We don't get offended, but we are sensitive
Speaker 2: and we are empathetic when people are offended. Now, I
Speaker 2: reserve judgment until I know all the facts in the
Speaker 2: whole story. Second, I be sensitive and empathetic to what
Speaker 2: offends others. And I don't be a defensive I don't say, well,
Speaker 2: you're being too sensitive. I don't delay apologies. Here's the
Speaker 2: third principle for harmony in your home and your work,
Speaker 2: in our church, anywhere I limit my freedom out of love,
Speaker 2: limit my freedom out of love. Here's another do not
Speaker 2: let command Galatians five thirteen to sixteen. Do not let
Speaker 2: your freedom become an excuse for indulging your selfish nature.
Speaker 2: You say you got freedom to do a lot of stuff,
Speaker 2: but that doesn't mean you should just go around do
Speaker 2: whatever he please. He says, instead, let love make you
Speaker 2: serve each other. That's what we use freedom for freedom
Speaker 2: to love and serve each other. For the whole law
Speaker 2: of God can be summed up in this one command.
Speaker 2: Your neighbors, yourself. How come we keep coming back to
Speaker 2: this verse because it's the most important thing. But he says,
Speaker 2: if instead of showing love, you're always biting and devouring
Speaker 2: one another, watch out, you'll destroy each other. We looked
Speaker 2: at that verse last week, but it's one of the
Speaker 2: do not let verses, and it says, instead, live by
Speaker 2: following the spirit. And he said, and if you do that,
Speaker 2: you won't do what yourself centered nature craves. Okay, you're
Speaker 2: not going to be just pleasing yourself. You're going to
Speaker 2: be pleasing those around you. You're going to be taking
Speaker 2: care to not offend others. Romans fourteen, nineteen and twenty
Speaker 2: says this aim for harmony. Aim for harmony in the church.
Speaker 2: If he wants harmony in church, you wants it everywhere else.
Speaker 2: To aim for harmony in the church and build each
Speaker 2: other up. Don't let the eating of food destroy the
Speaker 2: work of God. Now, remember last week I mentioned that Rome.
Speaker 2: The church in Rome was having a conflict, and what
Speaker 2: they were fighting over was should you eat meat or
Speaker 2: should you be a vegetarian. It was a big fight
Speaker 2: and Paul had to even talk about it both in
Speaker 2: Rome and then also in Corinth. And he says this,
Speaker 2: All foods are all right to eat, but it's wrong
Speaker 2: to eat food that causes somebody else to sin. He says,
Speaker 2: it is better not to eat meat, or drink wine,
Speaker 2: or do anything that will cause your brother or sister
Speaker 2: to sin. What am I doing there? I'm limiting my
Speaker 2: freedom in love. Do I have the right to do
Speaker 2: those things? Yes, but I limit my freedom out of love.
Speaker 2: This principle of limiting my freedom out of love is
Speaker 2: one that God expects both you to practice, both with
Speaker 2: Christians and with non Christians. Let me show you two verses.
Speaker 2: First with Christians, First Corinthians ten twenty four, don't think
Speaker 2: only of your own good. Think of other Christians and
Speaker 2: what's best for them. So not just to think about
Speaker 2: what's best for me. I'm supposed to think about what's
Speaker 2: best for others in the Saddleback family, because that's my
Speaker 2: church family. First Corinthians ten thirty three says the same thing.
Speaker 2: With non believers, Paul says, I try to please everyone
Speaker 2: in everything I do. I don't just do what I
Speaker 2: like or what's best for me. I do what is
Speaker 2: best for them so that they may be saved. You
Speaker 2: don't want somebody to go to Hell because you offended
Speaker 2: them as a Christian. Now let's review if I want
Speaker 2: harmony in all of my relationships, in my small group,
Speaker 2: and my church and my home wherever. First, I reserve judgment.
Speaker 2: I don't make snap judgments. I don't jump to conclusions.
Speaker 2: When I hear something, I don't immediately assume the worst.
Speaker 2: I reserve judgment till I know all the facts in
Speaker 2: the whole story. Second, I'm sensitive and empathetic to what
Speaker 2: offends others. I don't go, well, you shouldn't be offended. No, No,
Speaker 2: I'm sensitive to what. I get to choose what offends
Speaker 2: me and tell you that hurt, and you get to
Speaker 2: choose and say to me, will that hurt? And I
Speaker 2: don't put it down. I don't demean it or dismiss it. Third,
Speaker 2: I limit my freedom out of love. And finally, fourth,
Speaker 2: always be humble and kind. That's the fourth christ Like
Speaker 2: principle for harmony anywhere you want, always, always, always, always,
Speaker 2: always be humble and be kind. Now there are a
Speaker 2: ton of do not let commands about this point, but
Speaker 2: let me just show you a few of them. Philippians
Speaker 2: two three. Do not let selfishness or pride be your guide. Instead,
Speaker 2: be humble, give more honor to others than to yourself.
Speaker 2: You know what I've discovered in this containment thing is
Speaker 2: that pressure when when we're in contained like, you can't
Speaker 2: do it everything you want to do. Pressure is an
Speaker 2: interesting thing. People respond differently to stress and differently to
Speaker 2: professor pressure. It's like a taking a bottle of toothpaste.
Speaker 2: If I put pressure on that bottle of tooth that
Speaker 2: tube of toothpaste, what's gonna come out? Well, you say toothpaste, court,
Speaker 2: that's what's gonna come out on a tube of toothpaste.
Speaker 2: Not necessarily it may say toothpaste on a label. But
Speaker 2: whatever is inside is what's gonna come out. And if
Speaker 2: somebody secretly filled that toothpaste tube with jello or olive
Speaker 2: oil or call you know, refried beans or baby food,
Speaker 2: when the pressure is on that toothpaste tube, whatever is
Speaker 2: inside is what's gonna come out. And that's true of you.
Speaker 2: It's true of me that when the pressure's on, what's
Speaker 2: gonna come out is what's really in your heart. It's
Speaker 2: going to spell out when you're under stress. As a pastor,
Speaker 2: of course, I deeal with thousands of people, and I
Speaker 2: want to tell you something I've learned that under stress,
Speaker 2: nice people become nicer and patient. People become more patient,
Speaker 2: but under stress, mean people become more mean when they're understressed,
Speaker 2: and bullies become bigger bullies and angry people become more
Speaker 2: angry and opinionated people become more opinionated. Whatever's inside of
Speaker 2: you is what's going to come out when you're under pressure.
Speaker 2: James Chapter two, Verse one says this, here's a verse another.
Speaker 2: Do not let verse Do not let class distinction enter
Speaker 2: into your faith in Jesus Christ. What does that mean?
Speaker 2: God's talking about the sin of prejudice, bias, racism. Don't
Speaker 2: let class distinction enter into your faith. He's in Prejudice
Speaker 2: is wrong. Now, prejudice is not a permanent idea. It's
Speaker 2: typically a momentary sin, and it's easily confessed and say
Speaker 2: I was wrong, that was sinful. You told a joke
Speaker 2: about some culture. Okay, you disadmit it. Romans twelve sixteen
Speaker 2: says this, give the same respect to everyone alike. Do
Speaker 2: you do that? You give respect to equal respect to
Speaker 2: everybody alike. Pay no regard to social standing. Be humble.
Speaker 2: This is what humility is all about. Be humble and
Speaker 2: meet people on their own terms, and don't think you
Speaker 2: know it all Proverbs three verse three, and the American
Speaker 2: Standard says this. Not only should we be humble, we
Speaker 2: have to be kind. Here's another. Do not let command.
Speaker 2: Do not let kindness and truth ever leave you. I mean,
Speaker 2: I have to be kind all the time. Yep. If
Speaker 2: you call yourself a Christian, do not let kindness and
Speaker 2: truth ever leave you. Wear them like a necklace. Okay,
Speaker 2: it's like you never leave it, and write them deep
Speaker 2: within your heart. Now, of course, the number one thing
Speaker 2: that humility will change in your life. When you are
Speaker 2: humble and when you are kind, and you really want
Speaker 2: more harmony in your relationships, you know what's going to change.
Speaker 2: First the way you talk, the words you use, and
Speaker 2: how you say it. That's what causes most conflict and
Speaker 2: arguments is the way you say it and what you
Speaker 2: say and how you say it. James three six. I
Speaker 2: love this in the message paints a pretty big picture.
Speaker 2: It says this, a careless or wrongly placed word out
Speaker 2: of your mouth can destroy. By our speech, we can
Speaker 2: turn harmony into chaos, Throw mud on a reputation, send
Speaker 2: the whole world up in smoke, and go up and
Speaker 2: smoke with it. And that smoke is from the pit
Speaker 2: of hell. Hah, that's pretty clear. James Ephesians four twenty
Speaker 2: nine says this, do not let any harmful words come
Speaker 2: out of your mouth, but only what is helpful for
Speaker 2: building up others according to their needs that it may
Speaker 2: benefit those who listen. In other words, I'm not supposed
Speaker 2: to talk about stuff that I want to talk about.
Speaker 2: I'm supposed to do stuff. Talk about stuff that builds
Speaker 2: you up, meets your needs, and only those things that
Speaker 2: build up, never anything that tears down. Do you think
Speaker 2: if we all practice that verse, we'd have a lot
Speaker 2: more harmony and a lot fewer explosions. Yeah, so le's review.
Speaker 2: I reserve judgment until I know all the facts. That'll
Speaker 2: spare a lot of conflict and explosion. Second, be sensitive
Speaker 2: and empathetic to what offends others. I don't get to
Speaker 2: choose what it hurts you, and I don't get to
Speaker 2: demean it and say, well, you shouldn't need The only
Speaker 2: proper response is to be humble and kind and confess. Third,
Speaker 2: I limit my freedom out of love. Finally, always be
Speaker 2: humble and kind. Now when I say these four things,
Speaker 2: these do not let commands. Do you know what they
Speaker 2: really are. They're just being christ Like, treating people the
Speaker 2: way God treats you. And if you do that, you'll
Speaker 2: have fewer explosions and more harmony. So let's work on
Speaker 2: these this week. Let me pray for you Father. May
Speaker 2: we take these principles and apply them in our lives.
Speaker 2: May we not just be hearers of the word, but
Speaker 2: doers of the word. Help us to review these principles
Speaker 2: and actually apply them and work on them this week.
Speaker 2: If you've never opened your life to Christ, say Jesus Christ,
Speaker 2: I need your power and love in my life. I
Speaker 2: need you to help me change and become the person
Speaker 2: you want me to be. And so I humbly say
Speaker 2: yes to you today. Help me to understand it. I
Speaker 2: want to learn to trust you and love you. Ask
Speaker 2: you to forgive all the things I've done wrong and
Speaker 2: make me a new person inside. I pray this humbly
Speaker 2: in your name. Amen. Hi everybody, this is Rick and
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