What are biblical priorities in the midst of
busy lives? How do we create margin? How do we
get our lives in order? How do we get the things
that are out of control under control by the
Spirit of God? Today, we're going to talk about,
I think, maybe the most important truth about
how to take this from your head to your heart.
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How to Escape the Rat Race Forever. The issue
behind materialism at the core has nothing to
do with things or even money. It has to do with
faith. It has to do with trust. Do you trust
me? Do you trust me to come through for you?
Yes, in the material necessities. But do you
trust me to come through for you that you're
significant and valuable the way I made you?
Do you trust that if you would find my purpose
and my role for your life, that you don't have
to look like that, you don't have to live in
that zip code, you don't have to drive that,
you don't have to have so many people know you?
Can you trust me that if you do life my way,
the deepest things that you long for in your
heart, I'm going to give you because I'm good
and I love you? That's really what he's getting
to. So do not worry, saying, what are we gonna
eat? Or what shall we drink? Or what shall we
wear? And then, and then just, this is more than
a mild rebuke. For the pagans run after all these
things and your heavenly father knows what you
need, that you need them. Put a little line under
run after because he's gonna use a play on words.
It means to vigorously pursue. And that verse
that we like that's coming up that tells us how
to really arrange our. priorities where it says,
but seek ye first. The word seek, this word is
an intensive form of that. It's the same word.
The pagans are seeking, are running, are pursuing
after all these things. And his point is, is
that you don't look any different than the pagans.
Who's he talking to? Hey, Pete, you got to watch
out for James. John, listen up on this one. Hey,
these are his disciples and the crowd's overhearing.
These are issues that the faithful will struggle
with. He says, guys, I'm gonna leave and I'm
gonna cut out of here and there's a mission and
I am the Messiah and God has a plan for the world
and I love you and I'll take care of you and
there are things that really matter and eternity
really is real and there's a real, real heaven
and there's a real, real hell and I've chosen
you and this is the character and quality and
the rewards of a kingdom citizen and I want you
to be salt and light and live it out and I want
you to know that your righteousness has to exceed
that of the Pharisees because what I'm telling
you, it's issues of the heart. I mean, I'm telling
you guys, I came to give life to the world and
I want you to be the conduits of my grace. But
you know what? There's gonna be two motives.
You can play that game and you see it. There's
gonna be two treasures you're gonna have to decide
and it's gonna get down to how you look at life.
Are you gonna use ministry as a platform for
the same junk of people thinking highly of you
and impressing them and all the rest? Or are
you gonna have the singular eye, the single focus?
Because guys, I want you to know, I'm gonna check
out of here, and you're either gonna worship
me or you're gonna worship mammon. It's the Aramaic
word for possessions, property, and money. It's
just materialism. I wanna go back through and
make some observations of verse 24 through 27,
and then we'll come back to the solution where
it says, but seek first. Doesn't that sound like
a priority deal? His kingdom, that's where Christ's
rulership is reigning. where we're doing things
God way. He's the CEO of the universe. And you
say, ah, since you're running the whole world,
why don't you be the CEO of my life too? It's
really what he's saying. And you seek first his
agenda instead of your own. And you're seeking
first his righteousness so it's about character
development. What if every parent was as committed
to the character development of their kids as
they are how good they could be in all these
athletic teams and ballet and music and ah, na,
na, na, na, na, na. These are good, loving people
who just find themselves in a maze of activity
pulled with school activities here and here and
youth here and this here and this here and then
youth group here and the church does this and
this does this and this does this. And why? Well,
because my kids have to have the best and we
have to prepare them. Why? So they can get ahead.
Why? So they can get good jobs. Why? So they
can make a lot of money. Why? So they can be
happy. Wrong paradigm. Is that who's happy? Well,
all the other couples in the church are doing
it, and their kids are playing all the 17 sports.
And I guess, I mean, I don't want my little Missy
to miss out. I mean, you know? Now, is it wrong
to play youth sports? Of course not. But you
know what? What would happen if you started with,
we're going to have great times as a family.
We're going to really meet with God. My first
responsibility is I'm going to have fun and I'm
going to teach my kids. I mean, imagine the deep
relationship that occurs when three nights a
week I'm sitting in little stands feeling like
I'm being a good parent as my kids are running
around being yelled at by other parents who probably
don't know how to coach the sport anyway. And
then we have to hustle supper and then it's late
to do the homework. And you know what? He's out
there in that little uniform that I can't believe
they made us pay for that much. and you have
no relationship with him or her, and then you're
under pressure going home, and then they go to
bed, and then you get up early, and you do the
same thing again, and then your kids wake up,
and you took them to church every week. Some
of you even put them in a Christian school, and
you tried to model the life, and then, you know,
at 18, 19, after one year of college, they say,
man, I don't know what this Jesus church religious
stuff is, but I'm worn out, and I don't need
it or want it. And then we say, Lord. And see,
it's not bad stuff. The enemy of the best of
God's will is never bad stuff. You're smart people.
It's good stuff. Good is always the enemy of
the best. And to follow this passage, I'm telling
you, you'll get unpopular. You're not allowing
your kids to do three sports this time. You're
not allowing them to be in the play, do this,
do this, do this, do this, do this, and... I
mean, there's times I was the pastor. I would
say to my own kids, you're not going to that
youth activity. Dad, come on. No, you're the
pastor. I know I'm the pastor. I'm a dad first.
I remember the time in our church when, I mean,
it was so blowing and going in California in
so many different directions. And we unconsciously,
I mean, the fifth and sixth year, we had hundreds
here and hundreds in the junior high and hundreds,
you know, in the high school and this and this
and that. And I sat down one day, because I was
a parent, and I thought, what would it be like
as a really committed Christian? in our church.
Oh, they come to a service, you serve somewhere,
you're in a small group. Let's see, Tuesday night,
we're doing that dinner and the electives. And
then, my lands, if you had a kid here, you'd
have to be out this night and junior high has
dropped off here, high school's here. I remember
getting our whole staff together and saying,
man, we're the enemy. We're idiots. We have successful
programs that are killing families. And we pulled
it back and said, okay, high school, junior high,
fifth and sixth, and the family life counseling
ministry. You all get together and we ain't doing
anything unless whatever we do flows to build
healthy families instead of build our church
programs. And here's my point. You can see it
when I give it to you corporately like that.
That's what's happening to a lot of you. I mean,
who can argue with... You know, 150 fifth and
sixth graders studying God's word on this night
or, you know, 150 or 200 junior hires doing it
this night and then going on a retreat here and
then having an outreach over here and doing this
over here. The only problem is dad is not the
priest of his home. You know, he and his wife
are going, do you think we could get a vacation
from like everything? And they get tired. Don't
think of materialism as simply possessions and
do I love money and let's see, am I a shopaholic
or I'm a workaholic? At the heart of materialism
is believing that the material world, a condition
of the heart, it can be the concern for other
things. I've got a good buddy who is extremely
wealthy and very godly. And I remember he built
a nice house, paid cash for it, was at one point
in time in one of my ministries, chairman of
the elders, great buddy. We met on a regular
basis. And, you know, he did some other things.
And, you know, he had a nice pool over here and
this here and this here. And I remember meeting
with him one day and he said, yeah, I made a
decision. I'm tired of the upkeep of the stuff
I got. If you got a pool, you got to have a pool
guy. If you got a second house, you got to have
someone come clean it when you invite people
to stay. Then you got to go up there just often
enough to feel like you're worth the second house.
And then he said, you know, we got, I love the
art, I love landscaping, but we got, you know,
I can't do it. We got a landscaping guy. He started
adding up how many hundreds of dollars a month
just to keep up all the nice stuff he had that
he graciously used and gave over and above. You
know, he just said, I'm just tired. My to -do
list is about all these things. Some of you have
things, and I've talked with some of you, and
it's like, I don't know how to get out of this,
and I get these cobwebs, and I do it for a couple
weeks, and there's a struggle, and you know,
you can't tweak it. Some of you need to, I mean,
you need to really pray, and don't write me and
blame me if you make a dumb decision, all right?
But you need to really, really pray. And then
you need to say, you know what? These relationships
that we feel guilty about that are going nowhere,
that we just out of expectation, you know something?
We're just not doing those anymore. And you know,
all these, some of these activities, some of
them quote religious activities because people
expect them and I've done this for 11 years.
Well, good, don't make it 12. Figure out what
God wants you to do. Get focused, simplify your
life, get a handle on your money, on your time
in alignment with what am I supposed to be and
what am I called to do? And then just cut some
stuff loose. I mean, just get out the old spiritual
butcher knife, slop, swap. I mean, I'm not doing
that anymore. And oh, you'll struggle and feel
guilty and good loving people. You can't do that.
Our program could never go on without you. You
are the source of our church program. The ladies
will never go on without you. Well, then you
got a bad program because we all thought they
could not go on without Jesus, right? So that's
what we need to talk about. Now, let me give
you the symptoms here. I think I had a small
tangential moment. I think it was a spirit -led
tangential moment. But I'll tell you, that last
three minutes wasn't in the notes. But I really
think it's where American culture is among believers.
And I just keep meeting people that I love. who
unconsciously are on this rat race. Did you notice
the title of this, by the way? How to Get Out
of the Rat Race Forever. I will guarantee it
will be painful. It'll be painful. You're not
gonna tweak a couple little things. It'll take
a gigantic, clear step of leading from God where
you look at your plate and you just take some
things off. That you assumed you always had to
do. And then you'll put some things on that will
be about storing up treasure forever. Friendships,
family. Are there any relationships that need
to be repaired? I mean, those are the things
that are going to matter. And what do we say?
Oh, we'd love to get together. We really can't.
There's a couple we really connect. We'd love
to be with them. And you look at your schedule
and, you know, three months from now. Well, then
just look at your schedule and start going, you
know, and people do this all the time in business.
Have you ever had someone call you and say, we're
really sorry. There was a tornado. We were supposed
to roof your house. We have to delay it for a
month. And so what do you do? No, you can't do
that. You come right now. What do we say? Oh,
okay. Right? You can say that. You know, we had
this on the calendar. No, no, keep your word.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not talking, you know,
you swear to your own hurt and change not. But
some of this stuff, the sort of social obligation
type stuff, you just start going through and
going, you know what? If it matters and you long
to do it and you're passionate about it and you
know God wants you to do it, let's do it. And
if it doesn't, then figure out how to wean it
where you get down to the basics. Because look
what Jesus says, the symptom of materialism,
anxiety is the mark of a life preoccupied with
material things. And if you have that pen handy,
you want to do a quick little Bible study, look
at verse 25, do not worry. Skip down to verse
27, you can underline that. Who of you by worrying?
Skip down to verse 28. Why do you worry? Underline
that. Skip down to verse 31. So do not worry.
Verse 34, therefore, just in case you missed
the first four or five do not worries. This is
Jesus. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow.
Well, I mean, we're just fixated on all the things
that might or could happen or what we've got
to do today in order to take care of tomorrow.
Do not worry about tomorrow. Why? For tomorrow
will worry about itself. Each day has enough
trouble of its own. The meaning of worry, I love
the Spanish word for worry. You know what it
is? Preocupado. It means to be preoccupied. See,
we always think of worries. I'm wringing my hands
and I'm so uptight about this. The Greek word
for worry has this idea of a divided mind, of
being torn in two different directions, of being
pulled in opposite directions. And the root problem
is lack of faith. See, I'm always hedging my
bets. You know, if this doesn't work out, I need
to do this relationship and this relationship,
and I need to do this and this, and I'm afraid
I'll miss out. How can you miss out if God is
good, God is sovereign, and you're listening
to him? The frantic pace of our life is you don't
want your kids to miss out, you don't want to
miss out, and since you don't clearly know the
way, you try to do more than God ever intended,
and then you blame God for how tired you are,
quote, doing his will. It's about faith. Stop
the preoccupation. Cleanse the calendar. Cleanse
the relationships. I mean, some of you have some
people that, you know what? If God was going
to use you to help them, they'd be helped by
now. I mean, how many times can you hear the
same thing? And the only reason you're meeting
with them is guilt. It's the only reason. It's
not being led by God. And you know what's amazing?
I still remember my dad was an alcoholic, and,
you know, they went through all this different
stuff, and he was a good functioning alcoholic.
And, you know, Ralph, you need to stop drinking
and this and this, and you're neglecting the
kids. I remember this was my mom. Ralph, Reb,
she never called him Ralph. She was a guidance
counselor, so she kind of knew her stuff, even
though we were a dysfunctional family. But she
was one awesome codependent, I'll tell you that.
I mean, really. And I remember when she came
out of her codependency, she said, Ralph, and
she took a beer bottle, and she goes, you can
have that, you can have me, and the kids. And
I was the last one out, my sister, so I'm in
pretty late high school. So she knows, you got
24 hours to make a decision, and you can do whatever
you want to do. She nagged him for 10 years.
She tried to help him for 10 years. She set a
boundary and decided, what do I need to do to
follow God? And guess what? In 24 hours, my dad
decided he'd quit drinking. Maybe some of those
people you're helping, maybe they need to hear,
you know something? I've done all I can do to
help you. Here's a card of a Christian counselor
that I've learned in our area. If you want to
keep talking to someone, maybe if you pay them.
We'll get better results. I can't help you. I
love you. I'll pray for you. I can't help you.
I can see I'm going to create chaos all over
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hear again as Chip. Notice the acid teff of materialism
is not how much I have or don't have, but my
preoccupation and concern over it. Did you get
that? I can be preoccupied and concerned over
all the tons of stuff that I do have, or I can
be preoccupied and concerned of what I don't
have and what I need. Either way, it's materialism.
The explanation, he says, stop your preoccupation
with material things. Why? Look at verse 25.
He says, because it's short -sighted. He says,
don't worry about your life, what you're going
to eat, what you're going to drink. He said,
there's more to life than things. And his motive
here is to protect us and our well -being. Material
things are unable to meet the deepest needs of
your life. If your kids get in Harvard, if they
have a 1500 on their SAT, if they have beautiful
little grandkids, if they get a great job, if
they drive a BMW, have a wonderful house, an
amazing driveway, and you can invite all your
friends and show pictures to everyone, if they
go into the ministry, if that's what you, and
some even go on the mission fields, and you finally
have your nest egg, if your 401k is protected
from all the subprime mortgage, and everything
is perfect, I will tell you, you will sit as
a desperately lonely person thinking, what happened?
You mean that didn't do it? No, and it never
will. That's the lie. That's the enemy. That's
a God. Now, as you walk with him, here's what
I'll tell you. He may let your kids get into
Harvard. Thank him. If they got 1 ,500 on their
SAT, I'd ask him for counsel personally. If he
supplies you with beautiful grandchildren and
children and blesses you financially, what you'll
find out if you're there is that it's more of
an overwhelming stewardship of what to do with
all that money than it is what you thought it
would be, like, ah, we finally made it. Because
the more you have, the better the maturity and
the faith that it requires. And so he says, don't
buy into materialism because it is short -sighted.
Second, he says, it's... It's illogical. His
application, look at the birds, look at the flowers.
I mean, aren't you more important than them?
Yes. So it's that classical argument. He says,
look, it's short -sighted. It's impractical.
At the end of the day, what is it that really
matters? What has value? If you wrote down the
top five memories in your life, what would you
write down? Let me get you started. Wedding day.
Birth of a child, birth of a grandchild, a deep
friendship, times with your family, recovery
from cancer. How many of those are material?
Have you ever gone to, you know, after the funeral,
I've done lots of them, and you go to someone's
house, hang out, have a little food, and you
talk kind of about the person? Has any one of
you gone to one of those? And, you know, people
getting little tables and all the people have
made nice little food. And have you ever been
to one of those? And, you know, maybe a group
of guys sort of in the corner. Did that guy have
a nice car or what? I mean, you know, if I had
a 401k, in fact, he had a 5013B, a 401k. He was
capital B. He was 32 on Forbes list. Man, did
he look good, dad. Man, did you understand? Did
you know that? I've never heard that. The only
thing we talk about when people are gone is what?
Either how they modeled their relationship and
love for God and what they did in their relationships.
Period. Period. And the saddest funerals I've
ever been to have been with the kids who knew
the inside story. And funerals, people are the
biggest liars at funerals. Oh, my lands, you
know. Oh, Bob, he was da -da -da -da -da -da
-da -da. And the kids are going, ah. He wasn't
home. He was a jerk. He had anger management
issues. You know, he never talked to me, you
know. But I will tell you, when someone has lived
well and died well, actually, as hard as it is
to let go, it's sweet time. Man, it's sweet when
you see life. And you know what? Jesus said,
I'm trying to protect you. I mean, some of you,
if you could just relax. You relax and seek first
his kingdom and his righteousness, he might scare
you and just make you rich. And some of you will
wish later that he hadn't. But he just says,
don't buy the lie. This is really about a lie.
He says it's unprofitable, verse 27, right? Can
you add a single day by worrying or being preoccupied
by material things? All it produces is ulcers
and migraines. dysfunctional families and sleeplessness.
It's disgraceful. You know, he says, the pagans
run after this. When Christians live frantic,
preoccupied lives thinking that all those things
and what they can accomplish, we don't look any
different than the world. That little tract that
we give them, hey, why don't you come to our
church? We have 11 activities every week. Your
life can get as busy as ours. But we're doing
it for Jesus. The promise, if you will pursue
knowing Christ and making him known, verse 33,
as your first priority, he will meet all your
material needs. Run, seek, pursue after Christ,
knowing him and serving him, and let him tell
you what to do with your time. Let him tell you
which relationships to be in and which ones to
get out of. I mean, it's kind of funny, and I'm
poking fun because I find when I say really hard
things, if we poke fun, it's better to laugh
now and then cry privately. Because some of you,
if you start cleaning your relational network
and cleaning your calendar and cleaning your
garage and getting stuff out of storage, by the
way, why do we need all this storage? Do you
realize 30 years ago, that wasn't even an industry?
Why do we have all these garage sales? Because
I've got to get new stuff I don't need to impress
people who don't care, and I put it in the garage,
and I can't fit it in the garage, and I try and
sell it, and that's a hassle, and I try to eBay
it. Yeah, I don't know about that. And so I start,
but, you know, you don't want to lose it. So
you start, you know, cool. It's got to be temperature
controlled, you know. And I put it in storage,
and we've got people, we've got stuff, and then
we've got stuff, and then we've got stuff, and
then we've got stuff, and then we've got stuff.
Guess what? You know what your life is? Full
of stuff. It is stuff that ruins your relationship
with Christ, and stuff can't deliver. Make him,
run after him. Invest in people. Invest in God
and use things and money to extend love. And
God says, I will tell you what, I'll work out
a way that we can get those kids through school
and, you know, those house payments, we can work
those out. I'll help you with those. Use your
brains. Be wise. Make the good investments. I
came across an article I want to close with because
this really is a warning. It's an article about
California cover story. When Jim Smallridge went
to bed at his parents' house in rural San Diego
County late Saturday, he wasn't concerned about
wildfires. They were ravaging the Cleveland National
Forest 15 miles away, a distant glow in the night.
He awoke a few hours later to find flames in
his parents' front yard. It was on us like that,
he said. Chasing us, says Smallridge, 42 years
old. I knew that if we didn't get out in a matter
of minutes, we'd be dead. Minutes, it turned
out, were all the residents of Lakeside had.
After frantically knocking on neighbors' doors,
Smallridge managed to escape with his son, Sean,
18, by driving their pickup truck through a 200
-foot -wide wall of flame that blocked the only
road out of the neighborhood. Now, imagine that.
It's here. We gotta go. Tell the neighbors. So
he tells the neighbors, son, get in the truck.
And who knows what's on the other side of it?
They come through the flames. Others weren't
quick enough, Smallridge recalls. They disregarded
his frantic warnings or they responded too casually.
Several wanted to save their televisions and
computers. They looked like they were packing
for a trip, he said. The ones who listened to
me and left the area immediately lived. The ones
who didn't died. Feels a little bit like God
speaking through Moses. I put before you today
a blessing and a curse. Choose life. It's not
about things or how much you have or don't have.
It is a condition of the heart that arrives and
starts first with motives. You discover it through
these two treasures. It gets to the core of two
I's, singular, or duplicity. And then it results
in two masters, either God or mammon. And the
only way to live in a materialistic world and
not be materialistic is what Jesus said. Seek
first his kingdom, his rule, his authority in
everything, in every situation. And his righteousness
is that's the primary goal to become like Jesus
and all. That's a pretty big word. All these
things will be added to you. That's why Paul
would say, don't fix your eyes on these things.
But then he said, richly enjoy all these things
that God gives you when they're gifts. You're
listening to Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.
And the message you just heard, how to escape
the rat race forever, is from our series, Balancing
Life's Demands. Chip will join us in studio to
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As we close today's message and finish this entire
series, I want to give you a game plan to move
on from here. You know, it's one thing to say
we're going to balance life's demands. We're
going to live by biblical priorities. And, you
know, we kind of get excited for a couple weeks,
and hopefully you've got some good information,
some good truth. But if I begin to ask you, like
I ask myself, some fundamental questions, we
realize that we've started something, and I want
to help you. Keep moving in the right direction.
When you start asking questions like, where are
you investing your life? Is God or mammon the
master of my soul? Am I living under pressure
or am I living under priorities? Does my time
and my talent and my treasure reflect the life
and following of Christ? Or does it reflect a
out -of -control, crazy life that I want to bring
into balance, but I don't know how? We've started
the journey, but let me give you three specific
suggestions to move on. Number one, if you're
kind of privately on this journey and realize.
You just need to process this individually. Let
me encourage you to get the MP3s and on your
commute to work, think about it, ponder it, listen
to it three, four times, download the notes for
free and fill in the things and use it as the
basis of your time with the Lord for the next
30 days or so. Go on a personal journey. Deep
inventory is the prerequisite for lasting change.
Second, do this with someone. You know, get the
small group resource and say, hey, Let's spend
the next 10 weeks together, you know, once a
week, and let's talk this over. Let's process
this. That will really begin to reinforce it.
And then finally, there's some of you that you're
saying to yourself, of course, I have struggles,
but I remember where I used to be. You want to
help some younger believers. Maybe you do it
in a class. Maybe you do it early before work.
But take some people that want to grow, that
have this need and say, I am willing to help
you. And you walk them through the series. Balancing
Life's Demands. Really, it's Jesus saying, this
is what it looks like to follow me in a high
-pressure, high -demand world. It's possible.
Go for it. Thanks, Chip. And if you'd like to
get more plugged in with any of the resources
Chip just mentioned, go to livingontheedge .org.
You can download Chip's message notes, check
out our small group studies, or go back and listen
to any part of this series. We want to help you
grow in your walk with Jesus. So visit livingontheedge
.org today. For Chip and the entire team, this
is Dave Drewy saying thanks for listening to
this edition of Living on the Edge.