Rick Warren - Being A Disciple In The Digital Age—Part One

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Hey, we're so glad you're here with us today.

We are continuing in a series called

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All right, let's jump in.

This is part one of a message called

being a disciple in the digital age.

If you have a smartphone, you hold in your hand

more power than NASA had when they put a man on the moon.

There's more power in one little cell phone

than we had in existence when America put a man on the moon.

You have more technology in your hand.

Let me show you what the first hard drive looked like.

Look up here on the screen.

That was it.

That was five megabytes of storage.

Not very portable, about the size of two men,

several thousand pounds.

Now, that's five megabytes.

In your phone right now, you have a minimum,

even if you got a cheapy phone.

You have a minimum of a thousand times that in your phone.

And you can buy 10,000 times that and put it on your phone.

You have no idea how much power you have in your pocket.

That's why in 2007, Time Magazine named the iPhone,

that's the year it came out this,

the invention of the year.

Now, since that's happened, it's been renamed

because the cell phone, the smartphone,

is by far the most behavior-changing invention

in the history of mankind.

Nothing else comes close, not the wheel, not fire,

not the steam engine, not the automobile.

Nothing comes close to the power of this little invention.

Why?

Because like with a car,

you can do maybe 10 different things with a car.

But with this, you can do thousands of things with this.

Thousands, literally thousands of things with this.

You can have it direct you to the right place with GPS.

It's a travel device.

You can listen to music, obviously entertainment.

You can check your heart.

You can do all kinds of studies on your body.

You literally can do thousands of things.

When they decided to put a computer in a phone,

it changed everything.

Hundreds of thousands of people in the world,

hundreds of millions of people in the world,

own a computer.

But billions own one of these.

And that's their computer.

And it's the access to everything.

Now, when this came out,

and it's only been a very short time,

less than a decade that it really changed everything,

daily life and daily habits radically were.

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Altered, you don't live the same way you did

before this came out.

You know, before the smartphone,

people actually listened to a phone.

Now we look at a phone.

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Everybody looks at the phone,

instead of simply listening to it.

That's a major change in your behavior.

In fact, we look constantly at our phones.

Let me show you some images.

We look at our phones while we're waiting.

You ever seen a picture like ever seen that happen?

It's everywhere.

Everybody's got their head down today.

They're all looking down while they're waiting.

We look at our phone when we're going to work.

Look at this.

Okay, now, let me, I put that picture up there

because an interesting story behind it.

I got this out of a Boston newspaper.

These guys are going to work on a train.

Elevated train, or I don't know what it was, subway.

And a guy walked in, pulled out a gun,

and nobody noticed.

He put it back in his pocket.

A few minutes later, he pulls it out again.

Nobody pays attention.

He puts it back in his pocket.

A few minutes later, he pulls it out a third time.

Nobody's paying attention.

He put it back in his pocket, gave up, and walked out.

Because they were so distracted by one of these.

We now look at these while we're eating.

Here's a typical family meal.

Family of four, they're all looking at four screens.

Right there, that's family fellowship in the 21st century.

Everybody's looking at their phone.

We constantly look at our phones while we're walking.

Have you ever seen this?

You know, it's kind of interesting now because of this one invite.

We are more familiar with the heads of people,

the top of their head, then we are their face.

Because people are walking around like this all the time,

so you recognize the top of their head

rather than their face.

Of course, we use these in the bathroom.

You don't get a picture of that.

But you know what I'm talking about, all right?

We even look at this screen while we're watching other screens.

Here's a family watching TV.

And they've all got, you know,

because you can't be bored during the commercials,

so we're all looking at our screens

while we're actually on the sofa watching TV.

And then, of course, even take them into the bedroom

and we watch in bed.

Now, this couple should be doing something else.

But they are, they're looking at their screens.

Now, the latest statistic,

this is the most recent statistic,

is that people check their phone every 12 minutes on average,

every 12 minutes.

That means you look at this little screen 80 times a day

if you're an average person, 80 times a day.

And that all that changes just happened in about a decade.

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Now, because everybody looks at their phone on an average,

80 times a day, even famous ad personalities

when they get involved, here's the corona man.

I don't always look at my phone,

but when I do is because everybody else does.

And that's the most mysterious man in the world

if you know who I'm talking about.

Now, the other good news is that if you're painfully shy,

you're one of the people who's always worried about

everybody might be looking at you,

and your word is everybody looking at me right now,

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Nobody's looking at you.

Nobody's looking.

Do you remember a year ago there was a song that came out

and says, you should dance like nobody's watching?

Do you remember that song?

Dance like nobody's watching?

Well, here's the truth.

Dance like no one's watching because everyone is on their phone

so no one is watching you.

So you can act like a total goofball.

Nobody's gonna pay attention.

A guy can pull a gun out and you won't even notice.

What is amazing, as I said, is that all this changed,

happened in really literally just a few years,

in just a decade.

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This is on the internet.

My kids asked what it was like growing up in the 80s.

So I took away their phone and turned off the internet.

That's it.

That's the 80s folks.

All right, that's the 80s.

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That's the 80s.

No phone, no internet.

That's how different it is.

Now, if you're gonna spend that much time looking at this

the rest of your life, we need to deal with it

as a spiritual issue too.

So what is this weekend to look at being a disciple

in the digital age?

How can I use this for good

and how can I minimize the negative parts of it, okay?

And I really wanna do a couple things.

First, I want us to understand some of the downsides.

I don't have time to go into all the downsides.

Some of the downsides in this technological power

that you hold and you actually carry it with you all the time.

So you actually carry with you a new source

for old temptations.

The temptations have been around forever and ever and ever.

New source for old temptations.

But you carry it with you in your purse or your pocket.

And then I want to look at five ways

to use your smart forum for the glory of God.

So I want us to begin by looking at

the spiritual hazards of digital tools.

We all know what the upside is.

This is an amazing tool.

It gives you access to the entire world,

to the body of knowledge that's out there.

And it's just, it's hard to explain how powerful this tool is.

But there are spiritual downsides.

And so let's look at the spiritual hazards of digital tools.

I'm talking about iPhones, iPods, smartphones, laptops,

any device that connects you online to the internet.

By the way, what is a hazard?

Well, if you're a golfer, you know what a hazard is.

But a hazard is a potential dangerous trap.

If you're walking through a minefield where they buried

mines in the ground, that's a hazardous field.

And if you step on a mine, it'll blow you up.

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So as your pastor, if you're a golfer,

the word hazard is no longer acceptable

after 150 years at the golf course.

You probably don't know this, but I do.

I'm going to tell you.

In January 1, 2019, all of the powers that be in golf,

the PGA, LPGA, and all of the other golf associations

that govern golf, took the word hazard out of the official manual

after 150 years.

So they're no longer called hazards.

Now, in golf, there are two kinds of hazards.

There's water hazards and there's sand trap hazards.

But now, sand trap hazards are simply called bunkers.

Everybody knows what that is, a bunker.

But water hazards are now going to be called penalty areas.

I'm not making this up.

I just didn't want you to be embarrassed

the next time you played golf.

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of golf.

Some of you that's all I needed to hear go home, okay?

Now I said that you carry a new source of old temptation

in your pocket or in your purse all day long.

Let me just give you six hazards you need to be aware of.

Okay, write these down.

We'll go through them pretty quickly.

Number one is it can waste my time.

I can waste time on my cell phone.

Everybody agree with that?

Yeah, of course.

Time is your most precious commodity.

You only have a limited amount of time.

If you are an average human being,

you will live 27,375 days.

27,375 days.

That's the average number of days a human being lives on earth.

If you're over 27 years of age,

you've already passed 10,000 days or behind you.

And the problem is you're not getting those back.

Time is your most precious resource

because you can't get it back.

You can't get any more of it.

You can always get more money.

You can always get more energy.

There are a lot of things you can get more of.

You can create, but you can't create more time.

You have a certain number of days in your life.

And that's it.

And when you spend it, it's gone.

So life management is really time management.

If you learn to manage your time,

then you'll learn to manage your life.

Now, here's what the Bible says.

Ephesians chapter 5, verse 15 to 60.

Be careful how you live.

Don't live foolishly.

Instead, live as wise people,

making every minute count

because these are evil times.

Now, notice it says, be careful how you live.

You might circle that word careful.

We don't use the word careful like they did in the Bible times.

Today, careful has an implication of your word about something.

Be careful.

Watch out.

Don't fall off.

Be careful as you walk down that area.

It has a, this is not what it's saying here.

The opposite of careful is careless, careless.

He's saying, don't be careless with your life.

Be careful and that means be intentional around here.

We call it being purpose driven with your time.

That you're intentional.

You're deliberate.

You know where you're going.

You're not wasting your time.

You're not careless with your time.

You're careful with your time.

Now, the latest stat on these smartphones

is that in America,

you spend, since you look at it 80 times a day,

3.4 hours a day looking at your screen, at your phone.

3.4 hours a day.

That adds up to 24 total hours a week.

You're looking at this thing.

And what that means is if you are an average person

and you live to an average age,

you will eventually spend 11 solid years of your life

looking at this.

11 solid years looking at this screen.

Now, that means we need to talk.

Because I'm interested in you not wasting 11 hours

or 11 years of your life.

And by the way, that doesn't include watching TV.

That's another screen.

And that doesn't include video games

that you play that aren't online.

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The Bible says this up here on the screen.

First Corinthians, chapter 10, verse 23.

Now, you may say, I'm allowed to do anything.

But not everything is helpful or beneficial.

A thing may be permissible,

but not everything is constructive

and encourages growth.

This is a Bible principle we need to apply here.

What is it saying?

It's saying, some things aren't necessarily wrong

to just unnecessary.

They're not necessarily wrong.

They're just not necessary.

It's not a sin for you to spend five hours

watching cute kitty commercials on YouTube.

But it might not be the best use of your time.

It's not a sin.

It's not evil, what can mean bad, nasty.

It's just like some things aren't necessarily wrong.

They're just not necessary.

And you need to say, is this worth me giving my life for?

I just gave my life scrolling through a bunch of clickbait.

How many of you, I wonder, have when you were dead tired,

instead of going to bed, you're sitting here,

scrolling through with your thumb, you're barely awake

and you're going to click, click, click.

Yeah, yeah, that was funny.

No, that wasn't.

Yeah, that was funny, you know, that wasn't.

You know, if evolution were true in 100 years,

everybody's going to have giant thumbs,

okay, because they're exercised.

So giant thumbs, big butts, little feet

because we don't walk anywhere anymore.

Okay, and they're just scrolling on.

We'll look very, very different, okay?

But how many times have you needed to go to bed

when you wasted it on, looking at stuff on the internet?

When really what you needed was sleep.

And then you paid for it the next day

because you spent a lot of time looking at stuff

that didn't matter.

The Bible says this on the screen.

Proverbs 12 verse 11.

Only a fool idols away his time.

So we know, I don't have to teach you on this one.

We all know it's easy to waste time on the internet, okay?

Let me give you a couple of others.

Number two, a second hazard is

I can be seduced by the world's values.

I can be seduced by what the world values,

the world's value system.

Because the internet and particularly social media

amplify stuff that is not important

and make it seem like it's really, really, really important.

And it's not.

The world and all the advertisers in it

are constantly telling you how to think,

what to buy, how to feel, what's cool,

what's not cool, what's hip, what's not hip.

The world is constantly shouting at you through the internet

and you're carrying it with you all day in your pocket.

Now that's not a temptation,

previous generations of followers of Christ

I did deal with because they weren't carrying it with it.

But you've got, you're carrying advertising with you

everywhere you go.

And the world's value system of passion, possession,

and position, or sex, salary, and status.

That's what the world's after.

And if you listen to it long enough,

you start thinking, well, that must be right.

And that must be okay.

And you carry that voice with you.

Whatever gets you gets your attention.

And if you look at something long enough,

you know what's going to happen?

You're going to start copying it.

And you're going to dress like that.

Now you're going to act like that.

You're going to think like that.

You're going to feel like that.

Whatever you look at all the time,

you're eventually going to copy.

That's why the Bible says this in Romans 12 verse 2.

Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world.

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Okay, he says, don't copy the world's values.

What are the world's value system?

Look up here on the screen.

First John 2, 15 to 17 says this.

Do not love the world or anything in the world.

If anyone loves the world, the love of the father is not in him.

Now, hang on here, just a minute.

Let me stop.

The guy who wrote this, John, in first John 2, 16, he says,

if anybody loves the world, the love of the father is not in him.

He's the same guy who wrote John 3, 16 in another book,

which says, God so loved the world.

Okay, which is it?

I mean, come on.

In John 3, 16, John says God so loved the world.

And in first John 2, 16, he says, don't love the world.

Well, what am I supposed to do?

Looks like a contradiction.

The answer is in the definition of the word world.

In John 3, 16, where it says God so loved the world,

he's talking about the people of the world.

We are to love the people of the world,

because they were created in the image of God.

They have dignity.

We are to love every person.

In first John 2, 15 to 17, he says, don't love the value system of the world.

So the Bible says we are to love the people in the world,

but we are to hate the world's value system,

because it's anti-God.

Love the people, hate the value system.

The problem is, we do the exact opposite.

We hate the people, and we love the value system.

We are as materialistic as everybody else.

We're as interested in sex and pleasure,

and living for fun, and making that the highest goal of life.

We're as interested in status and salary,

and sex, and popularity, and possessions, and power,

as everybody else is.

We get it backwards.

Now look at that verse again.

Don't love the world or anything in the world.

If anyone loves the world, the love of the father is not in him.

For what the world values, and the world has three big values.

The lust for constant pleasure, that's called hedonism,

the greed for more things, that's called materialism,

and the prideful positioning to appear important.

That's called secularism, or humanism, which says, I am God.

I'll be my own God.

I don't need God.

I'm more important.

He says of these three things, none of these things come from your father.

The world, and what it values, is going to pass away.

But whoever does the will of God lives forever.

So you have to choose.

I'm going to go with God's value system,

or I'm going to go with the world's value system.

The temptation to have more, the temptation to feel more,

the temptation to be more, all of these kind of things that happen.

He says, if you're hearing people shout at you all the time,

that you got to be popular, and you got to be beautiful,

and you got to be successful, and you got to be rich for you to have any value.

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That's a lie.

It's a lie.

It's the world's value system that only the wealthiest matter.

Only the most beautiful matter.

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That means you don't matter.

Because you're not in any of those categories.

But that's what the world is constantly teaching.

You got to be thin and beautiful and sexy and rich.

Otherwise, your life sucks.

That's the world's value system.

They are wrong.

But you're hearing it all the time and you're carrying it with you

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If I see it enough, I start thinking, well, it must be okay.

And what this does is this desensitizes me to sin.

It desensitizes me to say, well, if everybody's doing it,

it must be okay.

It must be all right.

James 4 verse 4 in the Bible says this.

Don't you know that to be a friend of the world

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you make yourself God's enemy.

I didn't say that.

God does.

You said you've got to choose.

Do you want to be a people pleaser?

Or do you want to be a God pleaser?

I highly recommend that you decide from this day forward

you're not going to be a people pleaser anymore.

You're going to be a God pleaser.

Because if you're a God pleaser,

it will always be the right thing to do.

And actually, there will be some good people who like that.

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