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

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This is the Bible Teaching Ministry of Rick Warren.

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

We are continuing in a series called Talking About Stuff That Matters.

Now in this series, Rick looks into the scriptures, and he's unpacking what it means to

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All right, here's part two of a message called being a disciple in the digital age.

Let me give you a third, third hazard.

I can be drawn into unproductive arguments.

Oh, baby.

This is very, very easy, particularly in social media.

Have you ever heard somebody say something really outrageous, and you got offended really

quickly by it, and you said, well, I need to tell them off.

I need to set them straight.

I need to respond, and you want every bone in your body wants to just obliterate them

because what they just said, like you don't know what I'm talking about.

Okay.

You've read stuff online, and you go, that is so wrong, that's just not right, and they

attack somebody I like or love or whatever, and it's an easy way to get drawn into an argument.

I understand how you feel, but don't.

Don't respond when those arguments start up on the internet.

Here's what the Bible says, Titus, chapter three, verse nine.

Never, that means never, never get involved in foolish controversies, useless arguments,

disputes about your personal pedigree, that means, you know, issues about your family

history, your ethnic background, your genealogy, that kind of stuff, don't get an argument

over that.

Or fights over interpreting God's law, how you interpret a particular, all of these,

God says, are useless and do not help anyone.

So it's pretty clearly, don't get involved in fights and arguments, that would apply to

the internet too, not just at the office.

The fact is there are people who live to hook you.

There are trolls out there who love, there are adrenaline goes up when they hook somebody

for a fight.

They don't even care what you believe, they just like to fight, and they like to argue.

And you think, well, I'll set them straight, but they're using motivated reasoning, which

means no matter what you say, it's not going to work.

And finally, after about, I don't know how many times you respond to them back and forth,

you find, this is worthless, they're not going anywhere, they're not going to change,

you're not going to change them.

They just like to fight.

And if they throw something out that's very, you know, threatening or provocative, and

they throw that out, and then you respond to it, they go, I hooked a live one, I'm going

to reel them in now, and now they've got somebody to fight with, because they don't

really feel alive unless they're mad.

It's a problem.

It's a mental problem.

They don't feel alive unless they're mad, and they're going to just roll and hook you

in.

Here, let me show you some verses about this on the screen, Proverbs 26, 21, just as charcoal

and wood, keep a fire going, a troublemaker keeps an argument going.

They're not going to let you off the hook.

They're going to keep on arguing until you give up.

They're not going to give up, so he says, don't do that.

What does God say to do with those kind of people?

Here's what he says on the screen.

Proverbs 26, 4, don't answer their foolish arguments, or you will become as foolish as they

are.

You're going to look as dumb as they do.

Just don't get hooked.

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You think about you, what they think about you is none of your business.

What people think about me is none of my business.

It doesn't have any degree of influence on my happiness.

Don't be worrying about what other people think.

Instead, here's what you should be worrying about.

Matthew 1236, Jesus said, you can be sure that on the judgment day, you can be sure

that you will have to give an account to God of every careless word you have ever spoken.

Uh-oh.

That includes one written in social media and on the Internet.

One day you're going to give an account of every foolish, useless, mean, and what other

words that you use on the Internet or anywhere else.

You're going to give an account to God.

Now that ought to be enough to muzzle my mouth and zip my lip.

But not only that now, you know this, whatever you say on the Internet is permanent, global

and searchable.

It's never going away.

Which is why you need to teach your kids.

Don't do that.

Don't say stuff on the Internet thinking, it's no big deal because when you're in the

ninth grade or tenth grade, you think, well, I can say that and I'm just mad at so-and-so

and then 50 years later they're going to pull it out on your Senate hearing.

It will come back and any employee can look up anything you've ever said on the Internet.

So it's not only going to be, not only is God keeping a record, so is the Internet.

And it's permanent, it's global, and searchable.

So zip the lip.

What causes us to get hooked into those kind of arguments?

Well, in a word, it's ego.

It's ego.

When K and I got married, many moons ago, the first verse, Bible verse we memorized together,

we memorized a lot of scripture together.

I would highly recommend you do that with your spouse.

Well, the first verse we memorized, we memorized it on our honeymoon because we needed on

our honeymoon and we were having conflict on our honeymoon and Proverbs 13, 10 says this,

pride always causes conflict.

Anywhere you find conflict is because ego is involved.

I want what I want, what you want, need to want to back down.

When my pride hits your pride, that's what's causing the conflict.

Now, a good dose of humility is what you really need to do before you go online and you pick up that phone.

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Did to compete and show off.

I can be tempted to compete and show off.

Now, we always want to put ourselves in the best light.

We want everybody to think our lives are perfect.

We want everybody to think we've got it all together.

And what happened is this new entity called social media is a place to show off.

That's what it is.

And when I go on social media, I always want to put my best foot forward.

You never put a post picture of yourself when you just got out of bed.

And there's jewel coming down your cheek here.

And you can smell the body odor on you.

And there's laundry over in the corner.

No, no, no.

It's my so-called perfect life.

Instagram reported that over half of the pictures posted on Instagram are photoshopped.

They're not reality.

I want everybody to look good.

And so I want everybody to see how cool I am.

I want everybody to see how smart I am.

I want everybody to see how rich I am.

I want to see how happy, how fun I am, how perfect my marriage is,

how brilliant my children are.

And people are actually showing off through their kids and grandkids.

Boy, it got quiet.

And look how loved we are.

Look how loved I am.

That's just showing off.

And because of that, the worst kind of showing off, you know what it is?

God hates this more than any kind.

Spiritual showing off.

When you're trying to appear spiritual in front of others.

It's called self-righteousness.

It's the sin that Jesus hated in the Pharisees.

He said this about the Pharisees.

The religion.

Everything they do is for show.

They pray for show.

They sing for show.

They give their offerings to show off.

He said everything they do is for public consumption.

And God hated that.

He said they're hypocrites.

And so what happens today is people are using social media to show off their spirituality.

Stop it.

I mean, if you go and let's just say I go and I say,

I'm going to take a picture of me having a quiet time.

And I'm going to spend time alone with God.

And here I am, you know, trying to focus on God.

Look at the scripture I'm covering.

I'm in a back.

I bet you've never read a back.

Okay.

And I've underlined this verse.

And I've got my little latte here.

It's a beautiful sunset and my Bible.

And I'm looking so spiritual.

Click.

You can't do that.

Okay.

That's just showing off.

All right.

I want you to write something down.

Would you write this sentence down?

I can't be in the moment trying to capture the moment.

I can't be in the moment while I'm trying to capture a moment.

Please, as your pastor, I'm begging you to never take another shot of your quiet time.

That's just showing off.

And Jesus hates it.

You ought to have a quiet time with God every day.

But it ought to between you and God.

You will never see a quiet time of me anywhere.

Why?

Because if I'm focusing, if all of a sudden my quiet time, I'm taking a picture of it.

I'm staging it for production.

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