There is a potential downside to becoming a very
spiritually disciplined Christian. I mean, it
can be hazardous to your health. And that's what
we want to cover today. Stay with me. Welcome
to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip
Ingram. The mission of this daily program is
to intentionally disciple Christians through
the insightful Bible teaching of Chip Ingram.
And were you intrigued by Chip's setup? Can being
a very spiritually disciplined person be bad
for us? That sounds like an obvious contradiction,
right? Well, today Chip's going to give us some
clarity as he picks up in his series, Balancing
Life's Demands. So if you're ready, go to Matthew
chapter 5 in your Bible as we dive right into
Chip's talk. I want you to try to remember exactly
where you were the last time you heard these
words. please take out a clean sheet of paper
and a number two pencil, put everything away,
clear your desk, number from one to 10, we're
having a pop quiz. Okay, now you can open your
eyes. And we, remember the feared pop quiz? That
was a tool of accountability, right? It was,
did you read the assignment? Are you on track?
Are you doing your work? And the way we will
enforce that is when you don't suspect it. And
I used to hate that. Please take everything off
your desk. My heart would sink. Number two pencil.
Well, I'm going to give you a pop quiz. And this
is a for real one, okay? So, I mean, don't think
like, oh, this is kind of a nice illustration.
No, no, no. You'll notice on your notes. It says,
to what degree, it's a biblical priorities pop
quiz, to what degree have you taken specific
steps in the following areas? And I told you
earlier that I had that moment with Prof. Hendricks
where he went over to the board and he told us,
remember, guys, God loves you right now as much
as he'll ever love you. The issue is, who do
you really wanna be? And then in big letters,
he wrote the word objectives. And then under
the words of that, he wrote. And then under that,
he wrote the word schedule. And then he wrote
discipline. And then he wrote accountability.
Now, as we take this pop quiz, some of you are
very intense. You're trying to be very deeply
honest. Would you be, you know, give yourself
a good grade, okay? Don't be too hard on yourself.
You'll notice, you know, there's a little box.
I actually want you to put a number in the box.
And so I'm going to give it. you know, the definition
on the quiz. And then if you say none, you know,
put a one. If you, well, a little, put a two.
If you started, you know, and you're kind of
doing okay or even making some progress, put
a three. If you're making some good progress,
and by the way, you know, some of you are so
hard on yourself. If you feel like... Like when
we get to accountability is, oh, I meet with
some people and I'm doing some things. Well,
give yourself a four. And then if you feel like
I am vigorously pursuing this, I mean, man, I
am intense in this area and I'm really trying
to do what God wants me to do, give yourself
a five. So have you got it? There's the scoring.
Question number one, students. Number two, pencil.
Objectives. Moving from vague ideas to specific
decisions about the kind of person I want to
become and what I want to accomplish. So, what
are you? Are you moving from kind of vague ideas
to some specific decisions that I want to be
this kind of person, and these are some things
I want to accomplish by God's grace in my life?
If you've never thought about it and really don't
care, give yourself a one. If you're vigorously
pursuing that and you've gone from some general
decisions to, hey, you know what? Even while
I've been here, I've gotten some clarity, then
write down a four or five. And the first number
that comes, go with it, okay? I mean, let's not
overanalyze this. I will be collecting the papers
later, however. No, I'm just kidding. Question
number two, priorities. This is about how you
spend your time, how you spend your money. The
order. Ordering my life in such a way that the
important and eternal are not forfeited by the
pressing and the urgent. It's that putting first
things first, keeping first things first. Where
are you at on that? None, little, started, doing
okay, making progress, vigorously pursuing. Put
down a number. Third, some of you are, I just
can't, am I really a three or is it a four? Just,
okay. Third is schedule. Determining specifically
how and when I will place the important and eternal
in my daily life. Things like, where and how
am I going to put time with God in my daily life?
Where and how in the important relationships
that I have responsibility and I want to develop,
whether it's my kids or mentoring or a roommate,
where and how specifically are you going to put
in your schedule becoming the person, the being
that you know God wants you to? Where are you
at on that? Next is discipline. Doing what needs
to be done when it needs to be done. Choosing
to habitually delay gratification of short -term
pleasure in order to more fully enjoy long -term
success. How are you doing there? Final one is
accountability. Enlisting the support of those
who love me to help me keep my commitments to
God. Is there some people that you're enlisting
or you're already doing that? Where are you at
on that? One, two, three, four, or five? Write
it up. You got it? Good. Now, I want you to do
something that might be crazy, is put a line
under that, and I want you to add up those numbers.
Just add them up real quickly. Okay, there's
only one, two, three, four, five. It can't be
that hard. Just add them up. Some of you thought
I was kidding about the pop quiz. I wasn't. We're
about a little over halfway through this series
together, and so I thought we'd do a little evaluation.
If you added those up, and if you were... Your
total score was between a 5 and a 10. You have
heard but not acted at all. If your score is
between 11 and a 15, you begin to take some initial
steps toward what God wants you to be in, balancing
your life and biblical priorities. If your score
is between a 15 or a 20, Your life is actually
changing. It may not be as much as you would
like, but your life is changing. And if you scored
between a 20 and a 25, this message is for you.
I mean, you are vigorously, intensely pursuing.
I want to be this kind of person and my priorities
and my discipline, my schedule and accountability.
If you're between a 20 or a 25, I think God will
have a special word for all of us, but especially
for you. If some of you have struggled with kind
of keeping your commitments in the past, you
know, that last teaching we did on accountability,
I think will really help you. If, however, you
find yourself being one of those people who say,
you know something, I am really trying to be
all God wants me to be. And I am pretty intense
in pursuing him. And yet I have these waves of
guilt and I never know whether I'm doing enough.
And as I've processed some of this, I'm trying
to be real discerning, but I'm just not sure
that I think this message will be very helpful.
We're gonna look at two warnings from Jesus.
You'll notice even the title of this message
is personal discipline can be hazardous to your
health. Warning, flashing lights. Personal discipline.
And we talked about how important it is that
it's from the Spirit of God that we need to be
disciplined, right? Now it's time out before
you get too focused, too fired up. Personal discipline
can be hazardous to your spiritual health. There's
two great dangers in becoming a highly focused,
highly disciplined, authentic follower of Christ.
Danger number one is the danger of distortion.
Jesus warns. that we can easily distort the purpose
of spiritual activities. He was up on a mountain,
had prayed all night, according to Luke 6, and
he knew that he was going to turn over the ministry
to a select group of men, not a group of men
that most of us would have chosen. Most of them
blue -collar workers, exception of maybe one.
One was a former revolutionary, a couple guys
with anger management issues. One, a strong leader
with a very big mouth. One, a betrayer. One,
a crook. and he goes up into the mountain, and
it's very clear the parallel. He's going to,
even as Moses was the great Old Testament hero,
and as Moses laid out God's economy for the children
of Israel from the mountain, now Jesus, the rabbi,
the teacher, goes up into the mountain, and he
prays, and we will hear what's commonly called
the Sermon on the Mount, but what he's talking
to is to his disciples, and the crowd is overhearing.
And as the text opens up, it says he sits down,
which was when a rabbi was speaking authoritatively,
he would sit down and say, this is the way it
is. You'll notice that you have in your notes
Matthew chapter 5. And then in your notes, you
also see a structure or overview of Matthew chapter
5. The context is verses one and two. Now, when
he saw the crowds, he went up into the mountainside
and he sat down. His disciples came to him and
he began to teach them saying, obviously in our
time together, I can't go through all of this
in much detail, but I want you to see the structure.
Verses three through 12, he's going to say, the
reward and the character of true followers look
like this. And then in verses 13, Through 16,
he's going to say, when that kind of character
is lived out by the grace of God in relationship
with him, you are literally the salt and the
light of the world. He's saying, be worthy examples.
And then after that, then he's gonna have to
tie it in because they've spent all their time
as little boys in the synagogue listening to
the Pharisees teach. And Moses is the great teacher.
And so now he needs to say, what am I saying?
And how does that tie in to what you've always
heard? And what they've always heard is not only
the Old Testament teaching, but there's the Mishnah.
And that was a oral tradition. that I think someone
has said there's about 614 or 13 commands in
the Old Testament, clear commands. Well, add
two or three more thousand that came out of this
oral teaching. I mean, they had commands about
how many steps you could take on the Sabbath,
about this, about, I mean, every detail of life.
A Pharisee would fast twice. a week. They would
tithe on their money. And Jesus would even say
later, you know, down to the kind of the herbs
and spices, they were legalistic down to the
minutia. And so Jesus is going to, I mean, he
is declaring himself and his message and his
followers. And then he's going to say, where
do I and my teaching fit with what you've heard
all your life with Moses? And he's going to make
a very radical statement in verse 20. And he's
going to talk about true righteousness. So have
you got the structure? So with that, just listen.
Let's listen first to the reward and character
of his followers. Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed
are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the
earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst
for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed
are the merciful for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall
see God. Blessed are the peacemakers for they
will be called the sons of God. Blessed are those
who are persecuted because of righteousness for
theirs is the kingdom of heaven. In fact, blessed
are you when people insult you and persecute
you falsely and say all kind of evil things against
you because of me. You see the role he's taking.
Rejoice and be glad because great is your reward
in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted
the prophets who were before you. And so he gives
a character quality, the poor in spirit, someone
who sees their need before God, and then he gives
the reward, the character quality of the reward,
the character quality of the reward. He says,
this is an authentic follower of mine. And then
he goes from that to... Impact. What's the role?
How do you live? You are. He doesn't say become.
He doesn't say do. You are the salt of the earth.
But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can
it be made salty again? It's no longer good for
anything except to be thrown out and trampled
by men. You are the light of the world. A city
set on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people
light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead,
they put it on its stand, and it gives light
to everyone in the house. In the same way, let
your light so shine before men that they may
see your good works and praise your Father who
is in heaven. And in their minds, when he said
good works, the good works that would immediately
come to their mind would be the good works of
the Pharisees. I mean, all the good works, all
the duties, all the rules, all the stuff. And
so he begins to build the structure, first of
the reward and character, then be worthy of examples.
And now we're gonna get to the part where you're
gonna really get in trouble if you're the Messiah.
He says, do not think, because who are you? Are
you the one? Shall we expect another? Even John
the Baptist was asking. He's a teacher like no
one else. He speaks with authority. The lame
walk, the blind see, the dead are raised. He
feeds 5 ,000. I mean, so where do you fit in
the economy of God? And he's gonna just lay it
out. Anyone who breaks the least of these commandments
and teaches others to do the same will be called
least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever practices
and teaches Did you notice the emphasis? Practices
and teaches. What's his problem with the Pharisees?
What's his problem with the religious culture?
It's duplicity. It's the problem we have today.
Everyone says, I'm born again. Everyone says,
I love Jesus. We just don't live that way. Anyone
who practices and teaches these commands would
be called great in the kingdom of God. For I
tell you, And this is the one where I mean their
jaws dropped. I tell you, unless your righteousness
surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers
of the law, you will certainly not enter the
kingdom of heaven. Now, can you imagine hearing
this sermon and to get to that part and going,
are you kidding? I mean, these guys are squeaky
clean, squeaky clean, squeaky clean. I mean,
they have these... things on their head and it
goes down their robes and the hundreds or thousands
of verses that they've memorized. They pray at
certain times. They give their money. They fast
twice a week. I mean, if righteousness is doing
the right things, I mean, these guys, and now
this new Messiah tells me, unless my righteousness
exceeds theirs, I can't even get in. Right about
now, I'm thinking, there's no hope for me. And
then Jesus begins to make the distinction between
external righteousness activities, spiritual
activities, good activities, doing the right
things, however, for the wrong reason. It's a
very silly illustration, but it helps me. Can
you imagine if someone, maybe it took many, many
years, and by just great... fortune. They were
able to build, I mean, the house of their dreams.
And after the house was done, there was a little
brook, and so they needed to build a small little
bridge and then a driveway to get into it. And
then they invite you over. And the last thing
they worked on was the driveway. And there's,
you know, different kinds of stone and, you know,
the little white fence and landscaping. And they
bring you over and they say, look at this. Can
you believe this driveway? Look at this driveway.
You know where we got these stones? Look at this
driveway. Look at this driveway. And for like
two hours, they describe the driveway, the driveway,
the driveway, the driveway. And then afterwards
they say, well, it's been really great to have
you here. I'll see you later. What's the purpose
of a driveway? To get to the house. It's only
a means. What Jesus was saying and what he's
going to teach is the practices of good works
and religious activities are merely the driveway.
True righteousness is always a matter of the
heart. You're listening to Living on the Edge.
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now for the remainder of his message. true righteousness
is always an issue of relationship, not performance.
What he was saying to them is your righteousness
needs to exceed that of the Pharisees because
they've got all the external religious activity,
but their hearts, remember what he'd say? Your
lips profess this, but your hearts are far from
me. They weren't poor in spirit. They didn't
see their need. They weren't merciful. They weren't
pure in heart. They weren't seeing God. They
weren't being persecuted. They were persecuting
him. All the things about the character, did
you notice that every single thing of those be
attitudes, they were be, not do attitudes. There
were issues of who you are inside, who you are
that only God can see, who you are when no one's
looking, what's your motives, what matters. Jesus
says genuine righteousness is always a matter
of the heart. And then we're going to pick it
up and notice in your notes it says true righteousness.
And then he's going to take their oral commands.
And this phrase is going to be repeated and he's
going to apply it to murder and adultery and
divorce and oaths and retribution and enemies.
But he's going to say, you have heard it said.
And what he's going to say is, here's the external
righteousness. You've been taught since you were
little boys and little girls. But I say to you,
behind that external thing, this is the spirit.
This is God's heart. This is what he was always
after. The Pharisees, each one is gonna, you've
heard it said, the focus is external. Jesus will
say, no, no, the focus should be internal. The
Pharisees, it was always about doing. Jesus was
saying, no, no, no, no. It's really about being.
The Pharisees were. pounding people and making
people greater sinners than themselves. It was
about duty, duty, duty. Jesus said they missed
it. It's about devotion. The Pharisees would
say it's performance. Are you doing this? Are
you doing that? Are you doing this? Jesus said
performance, no one can be justified by the law.
It's about your relationship. On the Pharisees'
side, they manipulated and controlled people
with guilt. Jesus said, I want you to introduce
you to grace. They were focused on the letter
of the law. Jesus said, no, no, it's not the
letter. It's the spirit of the law. The letter
kills, the spirit gives life. Finally, Jesus
said, they've got it all in their head. I want
you to know that I'm looking for the pure in
heart. And so he applies it. And so, you know,
we can't go into it in great detail, but let
me give you a taste, okay? Let's just, let's
go through how he applied it. So he starts with
murder. Now remember, the context is your righteousness,
if you were listening to the sermon by Jesus,
it needs to be exceeding that of the most religious,
squeaky, clean, got it together, disciplined
folks that you could ever imagine. And so he
starts, he said, you have heard it said, to the
people long ago, do not murder. And anyone who
murders will be subject to judgment. But I tell
you that anyone who is angry with his brother
will be subject to judgment. Again, I say, if
anyone says to his brother, Raka, his aspiral
to the Sanhedrin, but anyone says to his brother,
you fool is in danger of the fire of hell. Therefore,
I say to you, If you were offering your gift
at the altar and there, remember, your brother
has something against you, leave your gift there
at the altar and go be reconciled to your brother.
Then come and present your offering. And then
he goes on and talks about settling matters.
The command was about don't commit murder. What's
behind murder? Murder is the last thing you do
when you have relational conflict that's unresolved.
And where does it start? It starts with anger.
It's when I'm angry. I mean, people don't like
have casually wonderful feelings and say, hey,
I think I'll kill you today. I mean, it starts
with a resentment and there's anger or a hurt
or injustice and the anger builds and it ends
up in the action of murder. And so Jesus says,
what's behind that is some relational issues.
And he's talking about the value of human relationships.
And so he takes it from murder to saying, we
don't have time to explain what he meant there,
but you fool, very strong word in that culture.
And then he goes, wait a second. In fact, if
you don't have something right with a brother,
hey, don't come here and give your offering with
God. This stuff that you've observed most of
your life, where there's hatred and the breakdown
of relationships, and yet people do their perfunctory
religion, he says, you've missed the heart of
God. Make things right with God. And did you
notice he didn't say, if you blew it. If you
are aware that there's a problem with your brother,
it may be his problem, it may be your problem,
maybe 50 -50, might be 90 -10, might be 99 %
them, 1 % you. He says, if you come before the
altar and there remember, your brother has something
against you. What's his point? Relational reconciliation
and human relationships are the heart of that
command. Well, he applies it to the next area.
And he's going to, instead of talking about murder,
he's going to talk about the sanctity of sex.
He says, you've heard it said, do not commit
adultery. But I say to you, anyone who looks
at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery
with her in his heart. If your right eye causes
you to sin, gouge it out. It's better for you
to lose one eye than to... from your body than
for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And
if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it
off. A hyperbole here. He's making a metaphor
to say the gravity of what you need to do. But
what's his point? You know, they got to the point
where, hey, you know, did you commit adultery
or not? Is it legal? I'll tell you what. Moses
gave a certificate of divorce. And at this point,
there were two schools of thought. But basically,
the average guy could say, you know what? She
doesn't look very pretty anymore. I don't want
her anymore. A woman had zero rights. You're
out, I'll get a new one. And Jesus said, wait
a second. It's not just the external behavior.
I'm telling you that when your loyalty moves
from the fidelity of a covenant marriage to even
mentally going to another person before God,
you've already missed. In fact, if you have a
problem, Be as drastic as you need to be. I mean,
if you gouge your right eye out, man, how many
of us could just lust with one eye? I could.
Right? I could be a left -eye luster, right?
Or if I cut off one hand, you know what he's
saying? He's saying in a figure of speech, be
as drastic as you need to be to deal with the
issue of the sanctity of sexuality. He goes to
the next area, which is having to do with divorce.
He says, it's been said among you that if anyone
divorces his wife, he must give her a certificate
of divorce. But I tell you, if anyone divorces
his wife except for marital infidelity, I've
just created a new word, I think, causes her
to become an adulteress. And again, it's the
sanctity of the family. It's not just the legality.
It's the covenant. It's what you committed to.
It's the relationship. He skips down to oaths.
Again, I say, you've heard it said from people
long ago, do not break your oath, but keep the
oaths that you've made to the Lord. But I say
to you, don't swear at all, either by heaven,
for that is God's throne, or the earth, for it's
his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it's the
city of the great God. And don't swear by your
head, for you can't make even one hair. Be white
or black. Simply let your yes be yes and your
no be no. Anything beyond that comes from the
evil one. And this was a time when they would
do business deals. They wouldn't have a lot of
written contracts. I swear by this, and I swear
by that, and I swear by this, I swear by that.
It had this whole system of swears. And Jesus
said, you know what? Here's the deal. Like, just
try integrity. If you say yes, I'll do it, you
do it. If you say no, Just mean it. Stop playing
these games and negotiating and trying to attempt
to work around kind of religious loopholes. Be
men and women of integrity from the heart. And
then he gets to retribution and, you know, that
classic eye for an eye, tooth for tooth. But
I say to you, do not resist evil person or resist
if someone strikes you. And by the way, the striking
here on the right cheek, most people are... are
right -handed. This is more of the offense. It's
the slapping. And then he says, if someone asks
you to go one mile, the Roman soldiers by law
could come to anyone and say, you carry this
for a mile. You carry my equipment for a mile.
And basically what he says is, you know your
pride and your rights, and when you get offended,
well, they did that to me. I'm going to do that
to him. He said, you know something? There's
some law. How about grace? How about we show
the world how different and wonderful God is?
Let's give people what they don't deserve. So
a Roman soldier says, okay, I command you now
in the name of the emperor and the Roman government,
you must carry my equipment by law for one mile.
And then they had markers. There's the mile.
And you look up and say, hey, do you mind if
I go one more? And that soldier goes, what? Says,
that's a kingdom citizen. You see the heart?
See the difference? Then finally, he said, you
have heard it said, love your neighbor and hate
your enemies. But I tell you, love your enemies.
And then listen to this, pray for those who persecute
you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven.
And the idea of sons, especially in Hebrew culture,
it has family likeness is the idea. You'll be
like your Father in heaven. He causes the sun
to rise on the evil and the good. He sends rain
on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you
love those who love you, duh, you know, what
reward is that? I mean, don't tax collectors
and sinners do that? And so he makes this point.
He says, I want you to demonstrate to the Romans
mercy, I mean grace. And then now he says, what
do you do to your enemies? You don't give them
what they deserve. Grace is giving people something
they don't deserve. Mercy is withholding what
people do deserve. And so when your enemies do,
he says, I want you to withhold what you would
normally give them, and I want you to overcome.
evil with good. You'll never be more like your
Heavenly Father than when you love people who
have wounded and hurt and abused and betrayed
you. This is Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram,
and you've been listening to part one of Chip's
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Well, here again is Chip to share some application
for what we heard today. You know, Jesus shocked
the people he was talking to when he told them
what it looked like to be an authentic follower
of Christ. When he framed the world from, you
have heard it said, and all those external righteousness
and discipline and performance and religiosity,
he threw out the window. His surgeon skill went
to the very heart of the matter. It's about something
inside that God is looking for. And as he walked
through these various issues of murder and adultery
and divorce and oaths and retribution, and then
he gets to this one about enemies. And I got
to tell you, I can only imagine sitting in the
crowd, someone shaking their head saying, you
don't understand. You certainly don't mean I'm
to forgive that person and release that person
who's hurt me. I mean, they're my enemy. I mean,
think of what they've done to me in the past.
And yet they hear his voice and he says to them,
just like he's saying to us, if you're thinking
of that ex -mate, if you're thinking of that
ex -boss, if you're thinking that the child who's
betrayed you or the parent that abused you or
the person that ripped you off financially who
said they were a Christian, what he's saying
is you need to be set free. I want you to forgive
your enemy. I want you to release them. I want
you to learn in my power to love them. And you
may just say, God, I just can't, or I don't know
how. What I want you to know first is you need
to make the decision, Lord, I'm willing. I want
to do what you want me to do, but I don't know
how. And second, I would say that as you pray
that earnestly and sincerely, there's a place
that we can take you to get some help. I did
an entire message that will teach you very specifically
how to overcome the evil that's aimed at you.
It's the Apostle Paul taking this very core text
and he explains in detail what to do and how
to do it. And I want you to know that as you
take by faith the steps that God will show you,
you will be free because good is more powerful
than evil. Thanks, Chip. And the teaching he
just mentioned, How to Overcome the Evil Aimed
at You, is the last message in our popular series,
True Spirituality. Go to specialoffersatlivingontheedge
.org or the Chip Ingram app to listen to that
specific program or the entire teaching from
Romans chapter 12. Again, visit specialoffersatlivingontheedge
.org or the Chip Ingram app to learn more. Well,
thanks for listening to this edition of Living
on the Edge with Chip Ingram. Next time, we'll
continue Chip's series, Balancing Life's Demands.
I'm Dave Drewy, and I hope you'll join us then.