WEBVTT 00:00:01.229 --> 00:00:04.190 The Bible says that we are more than conquerors 00:00:04.190 --> 00:00:07.429 in Jesus, but some days it surely doesn't feel 00:00:07.429 --> 00:00:11.449 that way. If your circumstances or some of the 00:00:11.449 --> 00:00:14.369 wrong that has been done to you has beaten you 00:00:14.369 --> 00:00:16.710 down and you've gotten to where you're convinced 00:00:16.710 --> 00:00:19.890 life isn't fair and you don't know how to get 00:00:19.890 --> 00:00:22.210 out from under that, well, stay with me. That's 00:00:22.210 --> 00:00:24.109 what we're going to talk about today. Don't go 00:00:24.109 --> 00:00:28.449 away. Thanks for listening to this edition of 00:00:28.449 --> 00:00:31.519 Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. We are an 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:33.799 international teaching and discipleship ministry 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:36.679 that encourages and equips Christians to live 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:39.039 like Christians. Well, in just a minute, we'll 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:41.560 wrap up our series, Get Out of Your Head, taught 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:44.640 by our guest speaker, Jenny Allen. Over the past 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:46.880 handful of programs, she's identified the most 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:49.600 prominent toxic thoughts that can poison our 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:52.600 minds and provided some scriptural remedies to 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:55.170 combat them. We hope you've learned a lot and 00:00:55.170 --> 00:00:58.030 been encouraged by this series from Jenny. And 00:00:58.030 --> 00:01:00.350 to help others learn and find encouragement too, 00:01:00.450 --> 00:01:02.829 take a minute after the message and share it 00:01:02.829 --> 00:01:05.090 with someone in your life. Now you can do that 00:01:05.090 --> 00:01:07.510 through the Chip Ingram app or wherever you listen 00:01:07.510 --> 00:01:10.590 to podcasts. Okay, here now is Jenny Allen to 00:01:10.590 --> 00:01:13.209 wrap up this series with her final message, The 00:01:13.209 --> 00:01:17.409 Antidote for Victimhood and Complacency. All 00:01:17.409 --> 00:01:20.730 right, guys, we are talking about something that 00:01:20.730 --> 00:01:24.030 can feel heavy, but I think is going to change 00:01:24.030 --> 00:01:27.750 your thinking and change your life because we 00:01:27.750 --> 00:01:30.269 have accidentally all become victims. And I'm 00:01:30.269 --> 00:01:32.370 telling you, you want to talk about something 00:01:32.370 --> 00:01:36.310 that robs joy. It is not believing we have responsibility 00:01:36.310 --> 00:01:39.430 over our lives, that we have authority or power 00:01:39.430 --> 00:01:41.510 over our lives. When we start to believe that 00:01:41.510 --> 00:01:44.879 we are victims to our... lives, to our circumstances, 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:48.819 to our thoughts, to our feelings, to our situations. 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:51.859 Oh my gosh, that is where we become paralyzed. 00:01:51.900 --> 00:01:56.900 We become defeated. We become sad, sad, sad. 00:01:57.260 --> 00:02:01.359 And so this one matters. It is absolutely rampant 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:04.420 in our culture to some degree. All of us have 00:02:04.420 --> 00:02:08.039 taken up this banner of victimhood in some way. 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:10.319 It might be in a relationship where you've been 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:12.960 wounded. It might be with a circumstance that 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:16.639 just feels so unfair. We have been owning this 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:20.520 idea that we are so wronged. And I say no more. 00:02:20.909 --> 00:02:23.210 No more. And the reason I say no more is because 00:02:23.210 --> 00:02:25.729 that is a miserable way to live. And it's not 00:02:25.729 --> 00:02:29.409 even true that God has given us so much authority 00:02:29.409 --> 00:02:33.229 and power over our circumstances, over our feelings, 00:02:33.389 --> 00:02:36.189 over our mind, over our attitudes about things 00:02:36.189 --> 00:02:38.990 that we can change. And we don't have to live 00:02:38.990 --> 00:02:41.590 like this. So let's talk about, first of all, 00:02:41.610 --> 00:02:43.430 there are real victims. I want to be super clear. 00:02:43.530 --> 00:02:46.310 I'm not saying that there are not real victims. 00:02:46.349 --> 00:02:48.610 My gosh, the news, you just have to watch it 00:02:48.610 --> 00:02:52.139 one minute and you see true atrocity. against 00:02:52.139 --> 00:02:55.020 mankind, like just things that your stomach can't 00:02:55.020 --> 00:02:58.300 even barely handle of the difficult circumstances 00:02:58.300 --> 00:03:01.080 so many of you are facing right now. It's unthinkable. 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:04.539 Some of you have been victimized to such an incredible 00:03:04.539 --> 00:03:06.919 level. And so I just want to say to all of you 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:08.620 that have been abused, to all of you that have 00:03:08.620 --> 00:03:12.159 been wounded and hurt by people, I am so, so 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:14.659 sorry. And no, I'm not saying that you aren't 00:03:14.659 --> 00:03:17.669 a victim. You are a victim. to a crime, to a 00:03:17.669 --> 00:03:20.270 perpetrator, to an action that was done against 00:03:20.270 --> 00:03:23.069 you, you are a victim. But what's interesting 00:03:23.069 --> 00:03:26.650 is as I've interviewed people that are victims, 00:03:26.750 --> 00:03:29.229 what I've found is that so many of them don't 00:03:29.229 --> 00:03:31.789 even like that word. They don't want to use that 00:03:31.789 --> 00:03:33.030 word about themselves because they don't want 00:03:33.030 --> 00:03:34.530 to give that much power to their perpetrator. 00:03:34.650 --> 00:03:36.750 They like the word survivor better because that 00:03:36.750 --> 00:03:38.949 puts the power in their court. They're saying, 00:03:38.990 --> 00:03:40.849 you know what? I survived you. I survived that 00:03:40.849 --> 00:03:43.349 attack. And I think what I've heard and learned 00:03:43.349 --> 00:03:46.259 from them is that Being a survivor puts the power 00:03:46.259 --> 00:03:48.919 back in their court and they want to be those 00:03:48.919 --> 00:03:51.780 that are not defined by the thing that happened 00:03:51.780 --> 00:03:54.360 to them. What I'm speaking to is the victimhood 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:58.900 mentality of all of us that continues to feel 00:03:58.900 --> 00:04:01.379 like we have been wronged and life isn't fair 00:04:01.379 --> 00:04:04.000 and it's us against the world. I'm going to use 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:07.349 a story about my son. As an example, when my 00:04:07.349 --> 00:04:08.969 son came home recently from fishing with some 00:04:08.969 --> 00:04:12.789 friends, he had this story of just, I mean, wow, 00:04:13.129 --> 00:04:15.909 it was bad. Like how he got treated, why it went 00:04:15.909 --> 00:04:18.889 down. I was like, wow, this is pretty bad. And 00:04:18.889 --> 00:04:20.470 then I was like, well, Cooper, what did you do 00:04:20.470 --> 00:04:24.730 to bring this on? And he said, well, you know, 00:04:24.829 --> 00:04:28.089 I mean. I mean, it wasn't fair, but I got mad 00:04:28.089 --> 00:04:29.769 because so -and -so said this, and then I threw 00:04:29.769 --> 00:04:31.610 his stuff in the lake. And I was like, well, 00:04:31.730 --> 00:04:34.709 okay, buddy, you know, not so much of a victim. 00:04:34.829 --> 00:04:36.769 And I think that's what I'm talking about is 00:04:36.769 --> 00:04:40.310 not true victims that have been completely sinned 00:04:40.310 --> 00:04:43.269 against and abused. I'm talking about the fact 00:04:43.269 --> 00:04:44.910 that we are moving in and out of relationships, 00:04:45.029 --> 00:04:47.829 in and out of circumstances where we continue 00:04:47.829 --> 00:04:51.449 to just go, woe is me. I am being wronged by 00:04:51.449 --> 00:04:54.220 the world when likely. We need to take some more 00:04:54.220 --> 00:04:56.839 responsibility for our own actions. And how have 00:04:56.839 --> 00:04:59.620 we contributed to this situation? Also, I'm talking 00:04:59.620 --> 00:05:02.420 about victimhood that steals the power of God 00:05:02.420 --> 00:05:04.819 from a situation where we begin to speak as if 00:05:04.819 --> 00:05:07.579 there's helplessness and hopelessness when God 00:05:07.579 --> 00:05:09.399 has said, I've made you more than conquerors. 00:05:09.579 --> 00:05:11.399 I've made you more than conquerors. And I've 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:13.480 equipped you, like Corinthians says, with divine 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:15.680 weapons to destroy strongholds. So we are not 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:18.660 victims. I'm talking about just our stubborn 00:05:18.660 --> 00:05:21.399 will. You know, I'm just talking to the stubborn 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:24.560 will in all of us that just says, poor me. We 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:27.899 have a poor me mentality. And what happens when 00:05:27.899 --> 00:05:30.339 we live in that? And even if we struggle with 00:05:30.339 --> 00:05:32.339 mental illness, even if we struggle with victimhood 00:05:32.339 --> 00:05:35.220 from real serious hurt and abuse and crimes, 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:37.560 we still can't live in that place of poor me 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:39.560 or we're gonna lose all our joy and we're not 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:41.060 gonna believe God for healing. We're not gonna 00:05:41.060 --> 00:05:43.379 believe God for a future and a hope. And so what 00:05:43.379 --> 00:05:46.120 I'm saying is we gotta shift that. So let's look 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:48.660 at the scriptures. 1 Thessalonians 5, 16 through 00:05:48.660 --> 00:05:51.199 18. Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:53.500 thanks in all circumstances, for this is the 00:05:53.500 --> 00:05:56.560 will of God in Christ Jesus for you. How does 00:05:56.560 --> 00:05:59.220 God say we change and shift our mindset from 00:05:59.220 --> 00:06:02.759 poor me to good God? And it is this. It is with 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:05.600 gratitude. It is with gratitude. It is with worship. 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:09.389 It is that we see the good in our lives. People 00:06:09.389 --> 00:06:11.889 that are grateful are happier. This is not mysterious 00:06:11.889 --> 00:06:14.389 science stuff. This is science though. In the 00:06:14.389 --> 00:06:16.769 studies that I looked at universally, people 00:06:16.769 --> 00:06:18.949 that just say things like thank you, they actually 00:06:18.949 --> 00:06:22.990 change their chemistry. They change the way that 00:06:22.990 --> 00:06:25.529 their bodies are working. Expressing gratitude 00:06:25.529 --> 00:06:28.009 caused subjects in the study that the National 00:06:28.009 --> 00:06:30.939 Institute of Health did. to increase dopamine 00:06:30.939 --> 00:06:33.980 hits, the reward transmitters actually send happy 00:06:33.980 --> 00:06:36.199 thoughts to your brain. Like this is something 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:39.060 that changes our chemistry. This isn't just something 00:06:39.060 --> 00:06:41.339 that God says to do because it's the right thing 00:06:41.339 --> 00:06:44.500 to do. God hardwired us to be grateful people. 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:47.439 Our model for this is Paul, right? I mean, he 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:50.540 was often in difficult circumstances and yet 00:06:50.540 --> 00:06:54.920 he had this ability to view his life within this 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:57.000 framework of eternity and with this framework 00:06:57.000 --> 00:07:00.350 of great hope and great joy. and great gratitude. 00:07:00.790 --> 00:07:03.769 If all Paul saw were his circumstances and his 00:07:03.769 --> 00:07:06.470 imprisonment, then he would have been despondent. 00:07:06.490 --> 00:07:08.449 But he didn't just see that. He actually saw 00:07:08.449 --> 00:07:10.870 the power of God to use him in the midst of those 00:07:10.870 --> 00:07:13.689 circumstances. He saw the power of God to use 00:07:13.689 --> 00:07:16.350 him in the midst of a generation by writing these 00:07:16.350 --> 00:07:19.189 letters to the churches. He saw the power of 00:07:19.189 --> 00:07:22.730 God to eventually rescue him and bring him home. 00:07:22.870 --> 00:07:25.430 So there was great hope in Paul that whatever 00:07:25.430 --> 00:07:27.569 his circumstances were, they were God -given. 00:07:27.709 --> 00:07:30.470 And how could he twist them? Instead of being 00:07:30.470 --> 00:07:33.410 the victim in prison, even as an innocent man, 00:07:33.490 --> 00:07:36.129 how could he twist that circumstance and believe 00:07:36.129 --> 00:07:38.850 that he was in the exact right spot so that, 00:07:38.970 --> 00:07:42.089 Philippians says, that even the guards are seeing. 00:07:42.589 --> 00:07:44.810 the glory of God in him. Like this is what happened 00:07:44.810 --> 00:07:46.949 in prison is that guards were saved. Like he 00:07:46.949 --> 00:07:49.910 saw himself as a missionary, even in prison, 00:07:50.029 --> 00:07:52.730 even when he was so unjustly treated. I think 00:07:52.730 --> 00:07:55.470 this whole idea of living a life of gratitude 00:07:55.470 --> 00:07:57.689 instead of victimhood, it feels daunting. It 00:07:57.689 --> 00:08:00.589 feels like, how do I move into this? And I think 00:08:00.589 --> 00:08:02.310 the way that we've got to do it is one, we've 00:08:02.310 --> 00:08:04.850 got to believe in all of these situations that 00:08:04.850 --> 00:08:07.569 these supernatural, divinely powerful weapons 00:08:07.569 --> 00:08:10.029 that Corinthians talks about, that they're real, 00:08:10.170 --> 00:08:13.370 that we are actually fighting with real weapons, 00:08:13.470 --> 00:08:14.970 even though they're invisible, that gratitude 00:08:14.970 --> 00:08:18.949 is a weapon that slays darkness, that prayer 00:08:18.949 --> 00:08:21.910 is a weapon that slays darkness, that connection 00:08:21.910 --> 00:08:24.050 with other people and them fighting for us, it 00:08:24.050 --> 00:08:26.629 slays darkness. Time with God, it slays darkness. 00:08:26.769 --> 00:08:29.629 So we can't treat these like... oh, I'm just 00:08:29.629 --> 00:08:31.670 gonna say a prayer. It's like, no, I'm gonna 00:08:31.670 --> 00:08:33.549 fight the devil. You know, that's what we're 00:08:33.549 --> 00:08:35.669 doing with prayer. And so we've got to believe 00:08:35.669 --> 00:08:37.929 in these things that God is saying his power 00:08:37.929 --> 00:08:40.549 dwells in because it's supernatural fighting 00:08:40.549 --> 00:08:43.389 supernatural, right? And so what the enemy wants 00:08:43.389 --> 00:08:45.289 is for us to lay down and be impotent, to just 00:08:45.289 --> 00:08:47.149 not be able to do anything good, to just sit 00:08:47.149 --> 00:08:49.509 there and feel sorry for ourselves and be passive 00:08:49.509 --> 00:08:51.870 recipients of a hard life until we get to heaven 00:08:51.870 --> 00:08:54.870 because that is a sad state of affairs. The dangerous 00:08:54.870 --> 00:08:56.889 ones are the ones that get up, grab the sword 00:08:56.889 --> 00:09:00.139 and go fight. I mentioned my husband's grandfather, 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:02.580 who's in his 90s, that fought in World War II. 00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:04.340 He was dropped out of an airplane. His parachute 00:09:04.340 --> 00:09:06.419 didn't open. He crashes, blocks out. He's in 00:09:06.419 --> 00:09:08.399 a prisoner of war camp in Germany. I mean, it 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:12.100 was dark and horrible. He loses fingers. He's 00:09:12.100 --> 00:09:14.679 just this man that has everything stacked against 00:09:14.679 --> 00:09:16.980 him. And yet he's like, no, I'm going to go be 00:09:16.980 --> 00:09:18.740 a great husband. I'm going to build a great life. 00:09:18.820 --> 00:09:20.519 I'm going to obey God. I'm going to raise my 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:22.700 kids to love God. I'm going to be a good man. 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:25.539 And I watch his life and I go, okay, that is 00:09:25.539 --> 00:09:27.759 what it looks like. Like fighting the good fight 00:09:27.759 --> 00:09:31.519 is choosing delight and choosing joy and choosing 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:34.259 gratitude instead of choosing cynicism and victimhood. 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:36.120 This is what it looks like. We slay the darkness 00:09:36.120 --> 00:09:40.639 by choosing joy over choosing to pout our whole 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:43.120 lives because life wasn't fair. And I'm not saying 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:45.919 life hasn't been really unfair to you. Goodness 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:49.080 gracious. I'm saying that there is a God that's 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:51.919 bigger than it and that living as a victim to 00:09:51.919 --> 00:09:54.750 it is not an option for you. Like it is not a 00:09:54.750 --> 00:09:58.769 way to live. And being someone who sees the good 00:09:58.769 --> 00:10:00.490 through it. And I mean, this is something my 00:10:00.490 --> 00:10:02.389 sister could preach so much better than me because 00:10:02.389 --> 00:10:04.549 she has tasted darkness beyond anything I could 00:10:04.549 --> 00:10:07.350 ever imagine. She has tasted brokenness beyond 00:10:07.350 --> 00:10:09.830 anything I could ever imagine. But I watched 00:10:09.830 --> 00:10:12.590 her up close and I can tell you, she chose gratitude 00:10:12.590 --> 00:10:16.850 and God protected. her joy, protected her delight, 00:10:17.090 --> 00:10:19.250 protected her heart. And she still loves him. 00:10:19.370 --> 00:10:21.669 And she still loves those kids. And she's not 00:10:21.669 --> 00:10:26.049 bitter. And she's not angry. And it is just forgiveness 00:10:26.049 --> 00:10:28.049 is a better way to live. It's a better way to 00:10:28.049 --> 00:10:30.490 live. So we have a choice. We can center our 00:10:30.490 --> 00:10:32.750 thoughts on the certainty that no matter what 00:10:32.750 --> 00:10:35.549 comes, we are upheld securely by God's righteous 00:10:35.549 --> 00:10:38.269 right hand. So how does this actually flush itself 00:10:38.269 --> 00:10:40.580 out? One, I think we've got to see it in ourselves 00:10:40.580 --> 00:10:42.720 and we got to ask bold questions of our friends. 00:10:42.820 --> 00:10:44.480 We need to ask our friends, like, do you see 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:46.519 me being a victim to my circumstances, to my 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:49.799 mind, to my emotions? Ask that question to people 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:52.419 that know you really well and be ready for the 00:10:52.419 --> 00:10:54.940 answer because honestly, this enemy that's fighting 00:10:54.940 --> 00:10:57.360 for us, people see it. And then we got to own 00:10:57.360 --> 00:10:59.120 that. And we got to say, okay, what does it look 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:01.320 like for me not to live as a victim to this? 00:11:01.419 --> 00:11:03.460 What does it look like for me to, with authority 00:11:03.460 --> 00:11:06.220 and with power, to trust God more and to hope 00:11:06.220 --> 00:11:09.419 more and to believe the truth about myself, to 00:11:09.419 --> 00:11:11.700 believe the truth about my future? And that's 00:11:11.700 --> 00:11:13.820 going to take war, right? We're at war. All of 00:11:13.820 --> 00:11:15.460 these situations, all these things, remember, 00:11:15.700 --> 00:11:18.460 these are enemies. They are coming for us and 00:11:18.460 --> 00:11:20.559 we've got to fight back. We can't just passively 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:22.539 get over this and like have a positive thought. 00:11:22.659 --> 00:11:24.220 We have to fight this in a bigger way than just 00:11:24.220 --> 00:11:26.629 changing our thinking. We have to actually go 00:11:26.629 --> 00:11:28.549 to war with it, go to war with these weapons. 00:11:28.750 --> 00:11:31.669 And I'm telling you, gratitude is one that helps 00:11:31.669 --> 00:11:33.870 this. When you are going through something where 00:11:33.870 --> 00:11:36.529 you feel beat up or you feel like backed in a 00:11:36.529 --> 00:11:38.850 corner, where you feel like helpless, hopeless, 00:11:39.009 --> 00:11:41.250 I want you to start noticing, noticing the good 00:11:41.250 --> 00:11:43.590 in people, noticing the good from God, noticing 00:11:43.590 --> 00:11:45.830 the good in your life. And all of a sudden it's 00:11:45.830 --> 00:11:48.429 like, oh, you know what? Everything is not going 00:11:48.429 --> 00:11:51.250 to hell in a handbasket. I actually see God advocating 00:11:51.250 --> 00:11:54.440 for me. I see good happening around me. I see 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:57.120 good in myself. I see myself being stronger than 00:11:57.120 --> 00:11:59.940 I was yesterday. I see myself getting up today 00:11:59.940 --> 00:12:02.000 and taking care of my kids when I didn't think 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:05.120 I could breathe. You start to notice those things 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:06.940 and you start to realize how strong you are, 00:12:07.019 --> 00:12:10.360 how strong God has made you, and how good He 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:13.000 has been to you and how much He's watching out 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:15.200 for you. It is a different way to live. It's 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:18.940 a supernaturally different way to live. You've 00:12:18.940 --> 00:12:20.960 been listening to author and speaker Jenny Allen 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:23.679 here on Living on the Edge. I'm Chip Ingram, 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:25.799 and Jenny is our guest speaker for the series 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:28.299 Get Out of Your Head. Today, she's been talking 00:12:28.299 --> 00:12:31.759 about the dangers of the victimhood mindset that's 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:34.500 gripped our generation. For the rest of today's 00:12:34.500 --> 00:12:37.039 program, she's going to highlight the seventh 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:40.600 and last toxic thought that threatens to steal 00:12:40.600 --> 00:12:45.000 our joy, complacency. Jenny continues today from 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:48.700 Galatians chapter 5. So let's look at the scriptures. 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:51.200 You, my brothers and sisters, are called to be 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:53.600 free, but do not use your freedom to indulge 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:56.600 the flesh, to be lazy, adding that myself, rather 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:59.340 serve one another humbly in love. And I'm adding 00:12:59.340 --> 00:13:01.960 to be lazy because I do believe it is a temptation 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:04.039 of our generation to check out, to numb out. 00:13:04.100 --> 00:13:06.440 It's all too much. We're bombarded with too many 00:13:06.440 --> 00:13:08.840 problems. What can we do about it? How do we 00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:12.159 even help? And we pull back and get online and 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:16.320 we zone out and we numb out and we get complacent. 00:13:16.649 --> 00:13:18.850 And I'm going to interchange the word lazy with 00:13:18.850 --> 00:13:21.190 this because I really believe that we need to 00:13:21.190 --> 00:13:23.070 hate this word. I think complacency sounds kind 00:13:23.070 --> 00:13:26.769 of neutral, but laziness, that's not okay. But 00:13:26.769 --> 00:13:28.909 the way the enemy's getting us to it is he's 00:13:28.909 --> 00:13:31.429 just overwhelming us to the point that we don't 00:13:31.429 --> 00:13:33.750 think we can participate in this big story because 00:13:33.750 --> 00:13:36.470 there's just too much to do. My husband always 00:13:36.470 --> 00:13:38.629 says the definition of leadership is taking initiative 00:13:38.629 --> 00:13:41.389 for the good of others. And so as we start to 00:13:41.389 --> 00:13:43.720 reject passivity, and we lean into the needs 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:46.899 around us, what happens to our minds is that 00:13:46.899 --> 00:13:48.919 they get set on the things of God. They get set 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:50.820 on other people and they get set on the things 00:13:50.820 --> 00:13:52.899 of God. I've talked about this before that Hebrews 00:13:52.899 --> 00:13:56.019 12 is... a theme passage for me, and I want to 00:13:56.019 --> 00:13:57.899 say something about it again, and that it says, 00:13:58.019 --> 00:14:00.220 we fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter 00:14:00.220 --> 00:14:03.039 of our faith. We throw off the sin and the weight 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:04.940 that so easily entangles us and run the race 00:14:04.940 --> 00:14:06.799 that's set before us. Didn't get the order right 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:08.399 on that, but it doesn't matter because what I 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:10.899 believe happens is that's happening simultaneously, 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:13.240 that all three of those things are happening 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:15.299 at the same time, that as we run the race that's 00:14:15.299 --> 00:14:17.600 set before us, we have to fix our eyes on Jesus 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:19.659 because we need him. And the sin and the weight 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:22.360 falls off of us because we've got a mission and 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:24.759 we're busy and we're tired and we're running 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:29.879 after God. And so that idea of mission and intentionality, 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:33.620 leading and loving well, that God's called us 00:14:33.620 --> 00:14:36.490 to, that idea of... doing it. It feels big to 00:14:36.490 --> 00:14:39.029 us. It feels unknowable to us. It feels like 00:14:39.029 --> 00:14:40.950 we're not equipped for it and we dismiss ourselves. 00:14:41.190 --> 00:14:43.370 But y 'all, as you get on the track and get off 00:14:43.370 --> 00:14:45.649 the sidelines and just start doing it, you cannot 00:14:45.649 --> 00:14:47.330 believe how much of your sin and weight falls 00:14:47.330 --> 00:14:49.330 off of you. You don't have time to think about 00:14:49.330 --> 00:14:50.870 yourself so much. You don't have time to think 00:14:50.870 --> 00:14:52.269 about your problems so much. You don't have time 00:14:52.269 --> 00:14:54.250 to be a victim. You don't have time to sit around 00:14:54.250 --> 00:14:56.090 and feel sorry for yourself, but you do have 00:14:56.090 --> 00:14:58.190 time for God because you need him, because you're 00:14:58.190 --> 00:15:00.950 actually taking risk. and you're nervous, and 00:15:00.950 --> 00:15:02.470 you don't know what's about to happen, and you're 00:15:02.470 --> 00:15:04.669 praying more, and you're asking God for miracles 00:15:04.669 --> 00:15:06.809 in your friends' lives, and you're praying for 00:15:06.809 --> 00:15:10.370 God to move around you. And so there's this movement 00:15:10.370 --> 00:15:14.690 in your life that is God -centered and God -propelled, 00:15:14.769 --> 00:15:18.350 but requires our initiative to participate. I 00:15:18.350 --> 00:15:21.590 love that God does this. I mean, ideally, if 00:15:21.590 --> 00:15:23.509 I'm God, I would just make everybody robots, 00:15:23.610 --> 00:15:25.450 like, you will participate in the movement of 00:15:25.450 --> 00:15:28.230 my work because... I want you all to do what 00:15:28.230 --> 00:15:29.990 I want you to do. But that's not how God built 00:15:29.990 --> 00:15:31.870 us. He built us with a choice. And we've talked 00:15:31.870 --> 00:15:33.950 about this a lot throughout this series, that 00:15:33.950 --> 00:15:36.509 we have a choice. We have a choice what we think 00:15:36.509 --> 00:15:38.049 about. We have a choice how we live. We have 00:15:38.049 --> 00:15:41.149 a choice in our perspective. And we have a choice 00:15:41.149 --> 00:15:43.450 when it comes to spending our lives for ourselves, 00:15:43.809 --> 00:15:47.190 selfishly, lazily, or we have a choice to spend 00:15:47.190 --> 00:15:49.110 our lives well for the glory of God and the good 00:15:49.110 --> 00:15:51.470 of people. And I'm telling you, it is the best. 00:15:51.789 --> 00:15:55.330 way to live. Science would tell you that subconsciously 00:15:55.330 --> 00:15:57.970 you want to please yourself. You want to take 00:15:57.970 --> 00:16:00.269 care of yourself. You want to feed every desire 00:16:00.269 --> 00:16:03.490 that you have, but that brains that actually 00:16:03.490 --> 00:16:05.750 don't do that, that serve others and that spend 00:16:05.750 --> 00:16:07.730 more of their time thinking about other people. 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:10.279 are the healthiest brains. Those are actually 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:13.019 the ones that are thriving. The science research 00:16:13.019 --> 00:16:15.720 that I did on this said consistently that serving 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:19.299 others reduces stress, that there's a deeper 00:16:19.299 --> 00:16:21.700 connection in your life to other people. People 00:16:21.700 --> 00:16:24.039 who live with purpose, they actually sleep better 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:26.100 and they live longer. Like this is physically 00:16:26.100 --> 00:16:30.379 affecting us. Our brains are made to serve other 00:16:30.379 --> 00:16:33.000 people. I really cannot sell this hard enough. 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:35.340 And the reason I mean it is because as you serve 00:16:35.340 --> 00:16:38.190 God and you get on board with his mission, So 00:16:38.190 --> 00:16:40.529 many things fall in their place. You are dependent 00:16:40.529 --> 00:16:44.049 on him. You are quick to ask for forgiveness 00:16:44.049 --> 00:16:46.309 so the mission isn't disrupted. I think in my 00:16:46.309 --> 00:16:48.409 own life, because I'm on mission, how many times 00:16:48.409 --> 00:16:51.490 I am lulled out of complacency just because a 00:16:51.490 --> 00:16:53.850 lot has been given to me and a lot is expected 00:16:53.850 --> 00:16:57.519 of me. Yes, in my flesh, like Galatians. I would 00:16:57.519 --> 00:16:59.500 like to use my freedom to serve my flesh. That 00:16:59.500 --> 00:17:01.940 sounds good on a lot of days, but the truth is 00:17:01.940 --> 00:17:04.019 I have a deadline. I have somebody that needs 00:17:04.019 --> 00:17:06.619 me. I have a meeting that is to serve an organization 00:17:06.619 --> 00:17:09.019 I care about. I have something that propels me 00:17:09.019 --> 00:17:11.460 out of bed and away from Netflix on a given day, 00:17:11.539 --> 00:17:13.779 and I'm so grateful for that. The times in my 00:17:13.779 --> 00:17:15.839 life where I've really, you know, taken too long 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:18.240 of a break, I start to get selfish, and I start 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:20.440 to just, you know what I do? You know what I 00:17:20.440 --> 00:17:24.200 do? I internet shop. That's what I do. I get 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:27.359 online and I start to shop. And do I need another 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:30.519 thing in my entire life? I really don't. And 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:32.319 I'll send stuff back. I'll just send it to my 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:35.019 house, try it on, send it back. I know. All the 00:17:35.019 --> 00:17:37.859 men are like, I know your type. You live in my 00:17:37.859 --> 00:17:41.539 house. I know. I know. We frustrate you. It's 00:17:41.539 --> 00:17:44.180 too easy. So what happens when I don't have enough 00:17:44.180 --> 00:17:46.779 to do? I get selfish. I get complacent. I get 00:17:46.779 --> 00:17:49.799 lazy. I get materialistic. I feed my flesh. My 00:17:49.799 --> 00:17:52.359 flesh grows. I feed the spirit. The spirit grows. 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:56.440 And service feeds the spirit. Sacrifice feeds 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:58.319 the spirit. Now, I'm not talking about sacrifice 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:00.079 for the sake of sacrifice. I'm talking about 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:03.599 obedient, godly, risky sacrifice for the glory 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:07.039 of God. And guys, it is a... more difficult way 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:09.079 to live. It goes against your flesh and what 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:10.700 you want to do with your own freedom. But I'm 00:18:10.700 --> 00:18:12.720 telling you, it is how we were built to live 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:14.839 and we are not joyful and we are not free any 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:17.500 other way. You want your mind to be free, you 00:18:17.500 --> 00:18:20.119 go serve people and you get out from under the 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:22.960 idolatry of yourself. And I'm telling you. your 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:25.660 mind starts to shift. It is getting in the game. 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:27.299 It is not sitting on the sidelines with your 00:18:27.299 --> 00:18:29.900 arms crossed, being critical of everything happening 00:18:29.900 --> 00:18:31.819 on the field. It's actually getting in the game 00:18:31.819 --> 00:18:34.440 and serving God. Now, I know some of you are 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:36.240 processing, what does it look like to use my 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:37.779 gifts? I don't know what I'm good at. I don't 00:18:37.779 --> 00:18:39.539 know what God wants me to do. You know what? 00:18:39.700 --> 00:18:42.180 There is need right in front of you. And that 00:18:42.180 --> 00:18:45.039 need, you don't have to go find some mysterious 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:48.609 calling or a mission field. It's right. where 00:18:48.609 --> 00:18:51.349 you are. What is the need in your neighborhood? 00:18:51.609 --> 00:18:54.269 What is the need in your kids' friends' lives? 00:18:54.349 --> 00:18:56.769 What is the need in your kids? What is the need 00:18:56.769 --> 00:18:59.730 in your marriage? What is the need in your friends' 00:18:59.849 --> 00:19:02.069 lives? You look right in front of you and you 00:19:02.069 --> 00:19:05.430 meet need. It's a great way to live. And as we 00:19:05.430 --> 00:19:08.230 do it, and as we serve God, the supernatural 00:19:08.230 --> 00:19:13.029 power of service is that we are not so focused 00:19:13.029 --> 00:19:15.890 and fixated on ourselves. So we shift our gaze. 00:19:16.509 --> 00:19:18.470 And we see that there's a greater plan for our 00:19:18.470 --> 00:19:22.650 lives than building a comfortable life. And we 00:19:22.650 --> 00:19:25.309 interrupt the spiral of self and this pattern 00:19:25.309 --> 00:19:28.309 of complacency when we run the races set before 00:19:28.309 --> 00:19:31.369 us. This is how God designed us to live. I know 00:19:31.369 --> 00:19:33.230 all of us, we're coming to the end of this and 00:19:33.230 --> 00:19:35.150 you're going, oh no, I'm still thinking negative 00:19:35.150 --> 00:19:37.029 thoughts. You know what? You know what you're 00:19:37.029 --> 00:19:39.430 doing now that you didn't do before this? Is 00:19:39.430 --> 00:19:42.009 you're noticing your thoughts. So now you even 00:19:42.009 --> 00:19:43.509 know that you're having negative thoughts. You 00:19:43.509 --> 00:19:44.890 know that you're thinking about yourself too 00:19:44.890 --> 00:19:48.200 much. And prior to this, that wasn't your story. 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:50.619 We were just victims to our minds, victims to 00:19:50.619 --> 00:19:52.519 our thoughts. And what we can do when we notice 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:54.259 our thoughts, when we start to see these negative 00:19:54.259 --> 00:19:56.019 patterns in our life that maybe we didn't even 00:19:56.019 --> 00:19:58.160 know were there before, we can start to fight 00:19:58.160 --> 00:20:01.599 it. And we have these weapons, service, gratitude, 00:20:02.039 --> 00:20:05.299 stillness with God, connection, trust, delight. 00:20:05.500 --> 00:20:08.359 These are the weapons God has given us to fight 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:11.200 the enemies of our mind. And guess what? Y 'all, 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:14.950 God wins. These weapons are powerful enough to 00:20:14.950 --> 00:20:16.789 destroy strongholds. They are powerful enough 00:20:16.789 --> 00:20:19.190 to change our minds. The next verse in 2 Corinthians, 00:20:19.369 --> 00:20:21.250 when he talks about destroying strongholds, the 00:20:21.250 --> 00:20:23.210 next verse is, so we take every thought captive 00:20:23.210 --> 00:20:26.569 because we are no longer in bondage to the enemy 00:20:26.569 --> 00:20:29.630 of our mind. We don't have to submit to the enemy 00:20:29.630 --> 00:20:31.809 of our mind anymore. If we are children of God, 00:20:31.930 --> 00:20:34.470 we have power over it. And Paul knows this. So 00:20:34.470 --> 00:20:36.450 he says, so take that power and use it. Take 00:20:36.450 --> 00:20:38.490 this power and have authority over your thoughts. 00:20:38.549 --> 00:20:40.890 Take this power and quit being so selfish and 00:20:40.890 --> 00:20:43.500 complacent and go change the world. Like that's 00:20:43.500 --> 00:20:46.039 what God wants for us. He has a plan for us to 00:20:46.039 --> 00:20:49.400 shift our circumstances and our mind so that 00:20:49.400 --> 00:20:52.019 we can shift our world. And that is contagious. 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:55.059 A healthy mind is contagious, just like a toxic 00:20:55.059 --> 00:20:57.839 one is contagious. A healthy mind is contagious. 00:20:57.960 --> 00:21:00.119 When you get around somebody whose mind is fixed 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:03.000 on Christ, whose mind loves and serves intentionally 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:05.799 other people, those people, you want to be around 00:21:05.799 --> 00:21:07.920 them. You want to be like them and you want to 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:10.240 be around them. My grandmother was this way, 00:21:10.259 --> 00:21:12.220 actually both my grandmothers, but specifically 00:21:12.220 --> 00:21:14.279 my mom's mom. I just remember she didn't talk 00:21:14.279 --> 00:21:17.240 about God a lot, but she loved him. And she just 00:21:17.240 --> 00:21:20.940 lived so content. And she lived focused on whoever 00:21:20.940 --> 00:21:23.400 was in front of her. You were her hero when you 00:21:23.400 --> 00:21:25.279 were in her presence. You were her hero. She 00:21:25.279 --> 00:21:27.960 believed in you. She fought for you. She wanted 00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:32.000 you to know that she loved you. She was a steady 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:35.460 force and picture of a healthy mind. And the 00:21:35.460 --> 00:21:37.789 woman was disciplined. I mean, she had her same 00:21:37.789 --> 00:21:40.549 things every day. She gardened, she cooked, my 00:21:40.549 --> 00:21:42.869 granddad gardened. They had a simple, steady 00:21:42.869 --> 00:21:46.230 routine and they kept their minds focused on 00:21:46.230 --> 00:21:47.890 the people that mattered and the things that 00:21:47.890 --> 00:21:50.410 mattered. And they loved God and they showed 00:21:50.410 --> 00:21:52.289 that in their actions and the ways that they 00:21:52.289 --> 00:21:54.029 love people. And guys, that's what this life 00:21:54.029 --> 00:21:56.490 looks like. It looks like faithful, steady obedience, 00:21:56.910 --> 00:21:59.509 our minds fixed on Christ, loving other people. 00:21:59.609 --> 00:22:02.190 And as we do, the world changes a little bit 00:22:02.190 --> 00:22:04.910 by a little bit. And you want to live a life 00:22:04.910 --> 00:22:06.470 like this that's contagious. You want a mind 00:22:06.470 --> 00:22:09.309 like this that is healthy. The power of God is 00:22:09.309 --> 00:22:11.690 within you. You are not left alone as an orphan. 00:22:11.829 --> 00:22:14.130 He has given us a counselor. He has given us 00:22:14.130 --> 00:22:17.569 himself in the form of the Spirit. And that Spirit, 00:22:17.750 --> 00:22:20.450 if you follow Christ, is accessible to you. And 00:22:20.450 --> 00:22:24.049 it is powerful. And so we are not left alone 00:22:24.049 --> 00:22:27.170 to figure this out. I am telling you, He loves 00:22:27.170 --> 00:22:29.190 you. And He's fighting for you. And He's with 00:22:29.190 --> 00:22:31.970 you. And he wants to see you take greater strides 00:22:31.970 --> 00:22:37.750 for his kingdom and for his glory. This is Living 00:22:37.750 --> 00:22:40.230 on the Edge with Chip Ingram. And you've been 00:22:40.230 --> 00:22:42.509 listening to our guest teacher, Jenny Allen's 00:22:42.509 --> 00:22:45.150 series, Get Out of Your Head. Chip will join 00:22:45.150 --> 00:22:47.710 us in studio in just a minute to share his application 00:22:47.710 --> 00:22:50.630 for today's message, The Antidote for Victimhood 00:22:50.630 --> 00:22:53.970 and Complacency. Let me ask you, what drives 00:22:53.970 --> 00:22:56.519 your thought life? What influences the way you 00:22:56.519 --> 00:22:59.519 think? Is it anxiety, loneliness, insecurity? 00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:03.480 Whatever it is, do you feel trapped by it? Like, 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:06.000 no matter how hard you try, your mind drifts 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:08.819 back to these harmful patterns. Well, in this 00:23:08.819 --> 00:23:11.180 series, author and speaker Jenny Allen called 00:23:11.180 --> 00:23:14.160 out seven toxic thoughts that derail our connection 00:23:14.160 --> 00:23:17.859 to God. We pray you discovered the powerful antidotes 00:23:17.859 --> 00:23:20.380 God's given us to break free from these dangerous 00:23:20.380 --> 00:23:32.900 mindsets. That's living on the edge. And if you're 00:23:32.900 --> 00:23:35.559 wanting to do a deeper study on this topic, let 00:23:35.559 --> 00:23:37.900 me encourage you to get Jenny's book, Get Out 00:23:37.900 --> 00:23:41.400 of Your Head. For complete details, go to livingontheedge 00:23:41.400 --> 00:23:47.779 .org or call us at 888 -333 -6003. That's 888 00:23:47.779 --> 00:23:53.720 -333 -6003 or livingontheedge .org. App listeners 00:23:53.720 --> 00:23:57.319 tap special offers. Well, Chip's with me in studio 00:23:57.319 --> 00:24:00.900 now. And Chip, Jenny spent the last half of today's 00:24:00.900 --> 00:24:04.099 message talking about complacency and how it's 00:24:04.099 --> 00:24:06.920 polluting Christianity. Take a minute, if you 00:24:06.920 --> 00:24:09.059 would, and talk about how pervasive this problem 00:24:09.059 --> 00:24:11.279 is and what Living on the Edge is doing about 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:14.680 it. I'd be glad to, Dave. We've got millions 00:24:14.680 --> 00:24:17.519 of people going to church, going through the 00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:21.180 motions, many of them sincere but ignorant about 00:24:21.180 --> 00:24:24.420 the gospel, about truth. Their lives don't change. 00:24:24.619 --> 00:24:27.240 We have a whole generation of young people saying, 00:24:27.400 --> 00:24:30.660 you can have your Jesus and your churchianity 00:24:30.660 --> 00:24:33.299 and I'm out of here because they don't see reality. 00:24:33.559 --> 00:24:37.079 And Living on the Edge has been called to declare 00:24:37.079 --> 00:24:41.059 war on religious activity that doesn't align 00:24:41.059 --> 00:24:44.160 with the Jesus of the New Testament. but we can't 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:47.039 do it without you. I grew up in that environment, 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:49.720 and I turned away from God, and I just praise 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:52.599 God that he brought people into my life that 00:24:52.599 --> 00:24:56.180 clearly explained the gospel, but as importantly, 00:24:56.440 --> 00:24:59.539 they lived it out, and they lived it out in real 00:24:59.539 --> 00:25:02.460 life and loved me and cared for me, and they 00:25:02.460 --> 00:25:06.319 were holy, and they weren't weird. God longs 00:25:06.319 --> 00:25:09.470 to do that in our day. And the message of Living 00:25:09.470 --> 00:25:12.089 on the Edge is helping Christians live like Christians. 00:25:12.329 --> 00:25:14.549 We do it through teaching. We create resources. 00:25:15.029 --> 00:25:17.930 But it requires a team. And for us to do it moving 00:25:17.930 --> 00:25:20.509 toward the future, as God has opened more and 00:25:20.509 --> 00:25:23.569 more doors, I simply tell you, I need your help. 00:25:23.769 --> 00:25:26.710 Would you prayerfully consider partnering with 00:25:26.710 --> 00:25:29.170 us today and kind of move that good intention? 00:25:29.470 --> 00:25:31.789 You thought about it. I ought to help him out. 00:25:31.970 --> 00:25:34.789 Yeah, I already decided in my head I would. But 00:25:34.789 --> 00:25:37.440 the fact is you haven't acted on it yet. Act 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:40.420 on it today. Let's make a difference. Thanks, 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:43.019 Chip. If partnering with Living on the Edge is 00:25:43.019 --> 00:25:45.480 an idea that makes sense to you, we'd love to 00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:48.359 have you join us. Helping Christians live like 00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:50.779 Christians will change the world we live in. 00:25:50.900 --> 00:25:56.180 To give a gift, call us at 888 -333 -6003. That's 00:25:56.180 --> 00:26:01.180 888 -333 -6003. Or if you prefer to give online, 00:26:01.460 --> 00:26:05.809 go to livingontheedge .org. That's livingontheedge 00:26:05.809 --> 00:26:09.990 .org. App listeners, tap Donate. And thank you 00:26:09.990 --> 00:26:12.750 for partnering with us. Now here's Chip with 00:26:12.750 --> 00:26:14.650 a few final thoughts for you to think about. 00:26:14.990 --> 00:26:17.630 As we wrap up today's message and the entire 00:26:17.630 --> 00:26:20.829 series by Jenny Allen, entitled Get Out of Your 00:26:20.829 --> 00:26:24.329 Head, I'd like to do a brief review. And as I 00:26:24.329 --> 00:26:27.390 walk through these very slowly, I'd like you 00:26:27.390 --> 00:26:29.849 to be thinking about which one of these toxic 00:26:29.849 --> 00:26:33.230 thoughts that you need to address. You maybe 00:26:33.230 --> 00:26:35.269 heard it earlier, but you think, you know, I 00:26:35.269 --> 00:26:37.990 need to come up with a plan to really address 00:26:37.990 --> 00:26:40.789 it. Listen carefully. Toxic thought, number one, 00:26:40.970 --> 00:26:45.730 noise. Number two, isolation. Number three, anxiety. 00:26:46.369 --> 00:26:50.670 Number four, cynicism. Number five, pride. Number 00:26:50.670 --> 00:26:54.170 six, victimhood. And number seven, complacency. 00:26:54.809 --> 00:26:57.210 You know, we all struggle with those things. 00:26:57.589 --> 00:27:00.450 I love Jenny's teaching. I love her passion. 00:27:01.130 --> 00:27:03.490 And I love that she develops these fully in her 00:27:03.490 --> 00:27:06.569 book entitled Get Out of Your Head. And just 00:27:06.569 --> 00:27:09.549 so that you don't miss the answers, the antidotes, 00:27:09.609 --> 00:27:13.049 she didn't leave us with, hey, try hard. She 00:27:13.049 --> 00:27:15.829 said, here's the antidotes. It's silence. It's 00:27:15.829 --> 00:27:20.329 connection. It's trust. It's delight. It's humility. 00:27:20.809 --> 00:27:24.950 It's gratitude and intentionality. The overall 00:27:24.950 --> 00:27:28.029 message, I mean, the take -home point is to take 00:27:28.029 --> 00:27:31.299 every thought captive. to the obedience of Christ. 00:27:32.099 --> 00:27:35.319 What I've learned over these years is that we 00:27:35.319 --> 00:27:38.200 are a product of our thought life. I mean, if 00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:40.079 you would want to do a very quick Bible study, 00:27:40.259 --> 00:27:44.579 just look up passages that have the mind. Colossians 00:27:44.579 --> 00:27:47.640 chapter 3, the first four verses, or Romans 8, 00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:51.019 verses 5 through 8, or Proverbs 23, colon 7. 00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:55.240 I mean, all of them talk about your thinking. 00:27:56.019 --> 00:27:59.200 You are the product of your thinking. And we 00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:02.299 have to replace the false and the lies and the 00:28:02.299 --> 00:28:05.180 toxic with the truth. And then we have to believe 00:28:05.180 --> 00:28:09.019 that truth and put it into practice. And what 00:28:09.019 --> 00:28:11.700 I love about having Jenny Allen on our broadcast 00:28:11.700 --> 00:28:14.859 was the opportunity for us at Living on the Edge 00:28:14.859 --> 00:28:17.880 to hear God's Word through another voice, through 00:28:17.880 --> 00:28:21.339 another lens, through the lens of a woman that's 00:28:21.339 --> 00:28:23.740 grown up differently than me or some of our other 00:28:23.740 --> 00:28:26.579 speakers, the lens of a woman who's reaching 00:28:26.579 --> 00:28:29.180 and touching and helping other women. The lens 00:28:29.180 --> 00:28:31.539 of a woman that walks humbly with God, that believes 00:28:31.539 --> 00:28:34.200 in the authority of Scripture, and is practical, 00:28:34.420 --> 00:28:37.960 is passionate, and I think has helped us get 00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:41.039 out of our own heads and take every thought captive 00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:43.900 to the obedience of Christ. Great encouragement, 00:28:43.980 --> 00:28:46.680 Chip. 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Search for Living 00:29:06.700 --> 00:29:10.779 on the Edge with Chip Ingram today on Apple Podcasts, 00:29:10.779 --> 00:29:13.480 Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. 00:29:14.099 --> 00:29:16.680 Well, from all of us here, I'm Dave Drewy, thanking 00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:18.940 you for listening to this edition of Living on 00:29:18.940 --> 00:29:21.500 the Edge, and I hope you'll join us again next 00:29:21.500 --> 00:29:21.759 time.