WEBVTT 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:04.719 In the name of love, we've all done some pretty 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:07.660 stupid things. I could tell some pretty embarrassing 00:00:07.660 --> 00:00:11.320 stories about in the name of love, I love someone, 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:14.439 and then I just did something absolutely idiotic. 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:17.219 Today, we're going to help you not make some 00:00:17.219 --> 00:00:22.500 of those very same mistakes. Stay with me. Welcome 00:00:22.500 --> 00:00:25.359 to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:27.899 Ingram. The mission of this daily program is 00:00:27.899 --> 00:00:30.179 to intentionally disciple Christians through 00:00:30.179 --> 00:00:32.039 the insightful Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:34.560 You know, it should go without saying that love 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:37.740 is the cornerstone of every relationship. However, 00:00:37.899 --> 00:00:41.119 today, as we continue our series, Spiritual Simplicity, 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:43.859 Chip reminds us that without proper boundaries 00:00:43.859 --> 00:00:47.159 and guardrails, love can actually be very damaging 00:00:47.159 --> 00:00:50.020 to us. If you're ready to learn how, then go 00:00:50.020 --> 00:00:52.759 again to 1 Corinthians chapter 13 in your Bible 00:00:52.759 --> 00:00:57.000 as we join Chip for today's talk. Has anyone 00:00:57.000 --> 00:00:59.899 noticed that each of the titles of the messages 00:00:59.899 --> 00:01:03.140 has been the title of a song? Have you picked 00:01:03.140 --> 00:01:05.400 that up? Right? You know, we had Tina Turner, 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:07.659 what's love got to do with it? All you need is 00:01:07.659 --> 00:01:14.620 love. And well, I'm kind of on a roll. So this 00:01:14.620 --> 00:01:16.040 is going to be the title of a song. And what 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:18.299 I love is that some of the songs I had to preface 00:01:18.299 --> 00:01:20.939 it with, like if you were born, you know, maybe 00:01:20.939 --> 00:01:23.180 you've heard this on an oldie station. The title 00:01:23.180 --> 00:01:28.260 of the song is actually, The most sung song by 00:01:28.260 --> 00:01:30.480 U2 in any of their concerts. It was one of their 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:33.359 early hits. It got to number three in the UK 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:36.340 charts and number five on the Dutch charts. And 00:01:36.340 --> 00:01:38.140 then it grew in its popularity. It's been on 00:01:38.140 --> 00:01:40.780 three different albums. It's of the, according 00:01:40.780 --> 00:01:42.900 to Rolling Stone, which is the authority on rock 00:01:42.900 --> 00:01:45.400 and roll, of all time best rock and roll songs, 00:01:45.620 --> 00:01:49.439 it's 388 out of 500. And according to VH1, out 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:52.680 of the top 100 songs ever, it's number 38. You 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:54.019 just didn't know I would know that kind of stuff, 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:57.260 did you? What's interesting about this song is 00:01:57.260 --> 00:02:00.599 apparently the melody and things, they were in 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:03.340 a jam session while they were in a studio in 00:02:03.340 --> 00:02:06.040 Hawaii, and later the lyrics came out. And the 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:10.240 lyrics are about a famous person, but if you 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:13.039 read the lyrics, I actually read the lyrics, 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:16.680 and if you try to figure out what this song is 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:19.819 about, it's almost impossible. In fact, I've 00:02:19.819 --> 00:02:22.460 got a quote here from Bono who says, You know, 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:24.439 when we started to put it on an album, the lyrics 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:27.000 are really sketchy. And when I read him, he says, 00:02:27.139 --> 00:02:29.539 what in the heck is this talking about? This 00:02:29.539 --> 00:02:32.280 is just a bunch of vowels thrown together that 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:35.360 don't make a lot of sense. Now, this is his own 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:38.659 comment on the lyrics. But the producers of the 00:02:38.659 --> 00:02:40.419 song said, you know what? That's really true. 00:02:40.539 --> 00:02:43.259 It doesn't make a lot of sense. But for non -English 00:02:43.259 --> 00:02:45.840 speakers, the different words that it has, it'll 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:49.289 be like an impressionistic painting. And so it's 00:02:49.289 --> 00:02:51.770 interesting. So here we have a song in the name 00:02:51.770 --> 00:02:54.590 of love that at the core of the lyrics, if you 00:02:54.590 --> 00:02:56.830 read the lyrics, they don't make a lot of sense. 00:02:58.229 --> 00:03:01.110 And you're thinking, okay, Chip, you really need 00:03:01.110 --> 00:03:03.330 to make the connection here soon about what this 00:03:03.330 --> 00:03:06.870 has to do with living simply. Here's what hit 00:03:06.870 --> 00:03:11.969 me. All of us in the name of love do things that 00:03:11.969 --> 00:03:14.810 don't make sense. I mean, in the name of love, 00:03:14.849 --> 00:03:18.490 sometimes we do very, very good things. But they 00:03:18.490 --> 00:03:20.770 just don't make sense. And so I came across, 00:03:20.849 --> 00:03:23.610 here's a little poem. If you'll get your notes 00:03:23.610 --> 00:03:26.569 out. On the very front, here's some things that 00:03:26.569 --> 00:03:28.389 in the name of love, and by the way, there's 00:03:28.389 --> 00:03:32.110 no criticism here. This is like genuine, sincere, 00:03:32.330 --> 00:03:34.889 in the name of love. I really want to do what's 00:03:34.889 --> 00:03:36.650 best. I really want to care for people. I want 00:03:36.650 --> 00:03:38.949 to be a good person. But in the name of love, 00:03:39.030 --> 00:03:41.349 we give and give and give some more, yet still 00:03:41.349 --> 00:03:44.069 feel guilty. for not giving more. In the name 00:03:44.069 --> 00:03:45.969 of love, we get up early and come home late, 00:03:46.090 --> 00:03:49.349 leaving little time or energy to relate. In the 00:03:49.349 --> 00:03:51.849 name of love, we're always on the go, but love 00:03:51.849 --> 00:03:54.590 requires the gear of slow. In the name of love, 00:03:54.669 --> 00:03:57.389 we start them early so they'll be a star, and 00:03:57.389 --> 00:03:59.729 then we spend our weekends in the car. In the 00:03:59.729 --> 00:04:01.889 name of love, we buy them computers and fancy 00:04:01.889 --> 00:04:04.870 phones, only discover they feel... all alone. 00:04:05.129 --> 00:04:07.210 In the name of love, we celebrate their role 00:04:07.210 --> 00:04:09.870 on the traveling team and wonder later why at 00:04:09.870 --> 00:04:11.909 church they're rarely seen. And in the name of 00:04:11.909 --> 00:04:15.389 love, we make success what we reward, but show 00:04:15.389 --> 00:04:18.589 little passion for God's word. Now, if you went 00:04:18.589 --> 00:04:20.949 through that, what I can tell you is there's 00:04:20.949 --> 00:04:23.170 a lot of, you know, look at the first one. Isn't 00:04:23.170 --> 00:04:24.810 it good to be giving and generous? Well, yeah. 00:04:25.790 --> 00:04:27.829 And isn't it good to work hard, get up early? 00:04:27.930 --> 00:04:30.069 And if you have to stay late, yeah. Well, isn't 00:04:30.069 --> 00:04:32.050 it good to be on the go and be active? You don't 00:04:32.050 --> 00:04:33.829 be a couch potato, right? That's a good thing. 00:04:34.250 --> 00:04:36.550 Isn't it good that, you know, you start them, 00:04:36.569 --> 00:04:38.889 I guess, early and you want to develop their 00:04:38.889 --> 00:04:41.149 skills. And I mean, the motive is great there. 00:04:41.329 --> 00:04:43.629 And, you know, heck, I mean, don't you want your 00:04:43.629 --> 00:04:45.810 kids to have a computer and it's the age and 00:04:45.810 --> 00:04:47.889 they need to learn it and, you know, a phone 00:04:47.889 --> 00:04:51.670 to keep them safe. And see, there's a lot of 00:04:51.670 --> 00:04:54.009 really good things with a lot of really good 00:04:54.009 --> 00:04:57.779 motives. that if the means becomes the end or 00:04:57.779 --> 00:05:00.920 if there's a little shift over time, in the name 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:04.639 of love, in our minds and hearts and motives, 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:07.740 we often think we're doing some really good things 00:05:07.740 --> 00:05:13.060 that produce some really bad results. And that's 00:05:13.060 --> 00:05:15.519 the question I want to address this morning here 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:21.620 in part four. Why do so many good things? so 00:05:21.620 --> 00:05:26.019 often result in so many bad lives. And what we're 00:05:26.019 --> 00:05:28.100 gonna learn, we're gonna discuss today, you know, 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:30.699 in each of this, the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 00:05:30.699 --> 00:05:34.920 chapter 13, he's addressing a very high capacity, 00:05:35.379 --> 00:05:39.980 very gifted, very cosmopolitan, metropolitan 00:05:39.980 --> 00:05:44.339 church that is very immature, that is very selfish, 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:47.730 that has lots of conflict. and is very unloving. 00:05:47.769 --> 00:05:50.490 And so all of chapter 13 isn't some beautiful 00:05:50.490 --> 00:05:53.610 poem about love. He addresses how they hurt one 00:05:53.610 --> 00:05:55.850 another. He addresses how they deal with differences. 00:05:55.949 --> 00:05:58.629 He addresses, you know, this whole idea of what 00:05:58.629 --> 00:06:00.910 happens when you fail. And now he's going to 00:06:00.910 --> 00:06:05.250 talk to us about how love responds to misplaced 00:06:05.250 --> 00:06:09.509 priorities. I want to do a quick review before 00:06:09.509 --> 00:06:12.689 we talk about how love responds to misplaced 00:06:12.689 --> 00:06:15.660 priorities, because the whole issue, I mean, 00:06:15.660 --> 00:06:17.699 I'm getting emails from people that are so encouraging. 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:20.079 I got an email from a lady who said, I just want 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:22.360 you to know, I had a number of opportunities 00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:26.100 this week to absorb a blow when people hurt me 00:06:26.100 --> 00:06:29.000 and respond with a hug. I got email from someone 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:30.660 who said, you know something? I had a situation 00:06:30.660 --> 00:06:33.680 this week where all the circumstances kind of 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:36.500 look like, wow, really bad stuff happening. And 00:06:36.500 --> 00:06:39.959 I chose to believe the best about this person's 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:43.079 motives. And so let's do a quick review because 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:47.129 the issue isn't, someday, someway, that we try 00:06:47.129 --> 00:06:49.290 to be more loving. These are the kind of things 00:06:49.290 --> 00:06:52.410 we have to practice in real time. Situation number 00:06:52.410 --> 00:06:55.050 one is how does love respond to hurts? The truth 00:06:55.050 --> 00:06:57.829 is love is patient and kind. The practice we 00:06:57.829 --> 00:06:59.610 learned is when you're hurt, wounded, rejected, 00:06:59.670 --> 00:07:02.029 or ignored, love, remember the pillow, absorbs 00:07:02.029 --> 00:07:04.810 a blow. It's not fair. It hurts. You rejected. 00:07:05.410 --> 00:07:09.470 But then by God's grace, returns a hug. Situation 00:07:09.470 --> 00:07:11.629 number two is how love responds to differences. 00:07:12.970 --> 00:07:15.790 The text says love doesn't envy, doesn't boast. 00:07:15.949 --> 00:07:18.350 It's not rude. It's not self -seeking. It's not 00:07:18.350 --> 00:07:20.589 easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs. 00:07:20.589 --> 00:07:24.009 The practice is love celebrates differences. 00:07:24.370 --> 00:07:28.310 And remember the principle about loving? Love 00:07:28.310 --> 00:07:33.029 refuses to compare. Anytime you compare yourself 00:07:33.029 --> 00:07:36.490 with another person in any area, it always leads 00:07:36.490 --> 00:07:40.220 to carnality. You are who you are in the station 00:07:40.220 --> 00:07:42.920 you are in the season you're living by the grace 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:48.319 of God. If I compare upwardly, I'm prone to envy. 00:07:48.459 --> 00:07:51.220 If I compare downwardly, I'm prone to arrogance. 00:07:52.459 --> 00:07:55.759 Love chooses to do another, but celebrates. That's 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:57.540 where they're at. That's what they have. That's 00:07:57.540 --> 00:07:59.579 how they're made. That's their gifts. That's 00:07:59.579 --> 00:08:03.819 their season. Third situation is how does love 00:08:03.819 --> 00:08:06.699 respond to failure? The truth was verses six 00:08:06.699 --> 00:08:08.420 through eight. Love does not delight in evil, 00:08:08.500 --> 00:08:11.199 but rejoices in the truth. It always protects. 00:08:11.339 --> 00:08:13.019 It always trusts. It always hopes. It always 00:08:13.019 --> 00:08:16.600 perseveres. Love never fails. The practice is 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:19.319 love responds to failure, remember, with both 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:24.120 truth and grace. When people fail you, when your 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:26.600 mate fails you, when your best friend fails you, 00:08:26.620 --> 00:08:29.160 when people don't show up, when you fail other 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:32.850 people, When you fail God, love, this is how 00:08:32.850 --> 00:08:35.110 it responds. It doesn't put it under the rug. 00:08:35.129 --> 00:08:37.409 It doesn't act like it doesn't happen. It doesn't 00:08:37.409 --> 00:08:39.490 stuff it down. It doesn't pay him back later. 00:08:39.629 --> 00:08:42.570 Love responds with truth. This is the truth about 00:08:42.570 --> 00:08:45.250 that failure. It's very real. It was very painful 00:08:45.250 --> 00:08:48.169 and it was wrong. And it also responds with grace. 00:08:48.370 --> 00:08:52.009 And I still care about you. And I want to forgive 00:08:52.009 --> 00:08:56.080 you. And this can be made whole. And so we learned 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:59.279 that the practice of giving truth and grace was 00:08:59.279 --> 00:09:01.559 about bearing all things, believing all things, 00:09:01.740 --> 00:09:05.100 hoping all things, and enduring all things. Now 00:09:05.100 --> 00:09:07.360 the apostle Paul is going to address these Corinthians 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:10.629 because they are self -centered. They are more 00:09:10.629 --> 00:09:13.190 concerned about who does what and who has what. 00:09:13.470 --> 00:09:16.309 And their priorities in the church are absolutely 00:09:16.309 --> 00:09:19.309 out of whack. They are so into, in some cases, 00:09:19.429 --> 00:09:22.350 my needs that they're suing one another. They're 00:09:22.350 --> 00:09:25.250 so interested in being first and being out front 00:09:25.250 --> 00:09:27.649 that they're doing some spiritual practices and 00:09:27.649 --> 00:09:30.049 literally just dissing other people. They're 00:09:30.049 --> 00:09:33.529 in this deal where their priorities, they're 00:09:33.529 --> 00:09:36.110 exalting some of the gifts and exalting some 00:09:36.110 --> 00:09:37.870 of what... It's supposed to be in the church 00:09:37.870 --> 00:09:40.950 that God talks about, but they put it up here, 00:09:41.090 --> 00:09:43.610 and the things that really matter, they're totally 00:09:43.610 --> 00:09:47.250 neglecting. And so the Apostle Paul is going 00:09:47.250 --> 00:09:49.970 to write to him, situation number four, how does 00:09:49.970 --> 00:09:53.110 love respond to misplaced priorities? You can 00:09:53.110 --> 00:09:56.029 jot that in your notes if you would. And he answers, 00:09:56.090 --> 00:10:00.149 here's the truth. Love never fails. Where there 00:10:00.149 --> 00:10:01.990 are prophecies, they'll cease. Where there's 00:10:01.990 --> 00:10:03.710 tongues, they will be stilled. Where there's 00:10:03.710 --> 00:10:06.840 knowledge, it'll pass away. Then he gives us 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:09.659 the reason. For we know in part and we prophesy 00:10:09.659 --> 00:10:12.639 in part, but when the perfection comes, and put 00:10:12.639 --> 00:10:14.360 a circle around perfection, will you? We'll come 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:16.919 back and address that. When the perfection comes, 00:10:16.980 --> 00:10:20.139 the imperfect disappears. And now he gives us 00:10:20.139 --> 00:10:22.159 an illustration. He's going to give us some help 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:24.500 about how to get your priorities in order. He 00:10:24.500 --> 00:10:28.080 says, when I was a child, I talked like a child, 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:31.360 I thought like a child, and I reasoned like a 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:35.490 child. When I became a man, I put away childish 00:10:35.490 --> 00:10:37.850 things. In your notes, will you underline the 00:10:37.850 --> 00:10:41.929 word talked, underline the word think, and underline 00:10:41.929 --> 00:10:44.110 the word reasoned? There are three key verbs. 00:10:45.990 --> 00:10:49.350 Now we see, but a poor reflection as in a mirror, 00:10:49.490 --> 00:10:52.529 then we shall see face to face. Now I know in 00:10:52.529 --> 00:10:55.269 part, then I shall know fully, even as I'm fully 00:10:55.269 --> 00:11:00.190 known. And now these three remain, faith, hope, 00:11:00.409 --> 00:11:03.049 and love. But the greatest of these is love. 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:07.539 Now, it is poetic. It is beautiful. It is on 00:11:07.539 --> 00:11:11.740 plaques everywhere in the world. It is said at 00:11:11.740 --> 00:11:16.100 weddings. It's said in kind of romantic settings. 00:11:16.539 --> 00:11:19.500 But you need to understand what he's addressing 00:11:19.500 --> 00:11:24.779 here is not sort of a foo -foo, ooey -gooey, 00:11:24.779 --> 00:11:27.779 how to feel about one another. He's correcting. 00:11:29.169 --> 00:11:32.029 misplaced priorities in a church, and he's giving 00:11:32.029 --> 00:11:36.070 them very clear guidelines about what's really 00:11:36.070 --> 00:11:38.649 important and how to get some of those things. 00:11:39.669 --> 00:11:41.389 I'm just going to assume the best of the Corinthians. 00:11:41.529 --> 00:11:43.750 I'm going to assume they really wanted to do 00:11:43.750 --> 00:11:46.549 the right thing. But just like in the name of 00:11:46.549 --> 00:11:48.330 love, we do things that are kind of silly and 00:11:48.330 --> 00:11:51.100 stupid and don't get us there, so did they. And 00:11:51.100 --> 00:11:54.820 so the practice here is love ruthlessly refuses 00:11:54.820 --> 00:11:58.720 to allow temporal good things to crowd out the 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:01.600 eternal best things. And when you put a box around, 00:12:01.820 --> 00:12:05.580 I mean, I chose these words very carefully. Ruthlessly 00:12:05.580 --> 00:12:09.539 refuses. Put a box around that phrase. And I 00:12:09.539 --> 00:12:11.299 want to give you a little warning. What we're 00:12:11.299 --> 00:12:13.580 going to talk about is where a lot of the rubber 00:12:13.580 --> 00:12:15.860 really meets the road. If you want to simplify 00:12:15.860 --> 00:12:19.419 your life. If you want to find yourself three 00:12:19.419 --> 00:12:21.840 months, three years, five years, 10 years down 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:24.179 from here and say to yourself, you know something? 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:27.320 I love God now like I never dreamed I could experience. 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:30.059 I have relationships like I never dreamed. There's 00:12:30.059 --> 00:12:32.159 issues in my family that have come together that 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:34.659 I never thought I would ever experience. A lot 00:12:34.659 --> 00:12:37.519 of it is going to come down to you hearing today 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:40.960 what God says to you and then you taking some 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:44.460 very specific. And I mean, there'll be radical 00:12:44.460 --> 00:12:47.340 steps. We will not talk about how to tweak your 00:12:47.340 --> 00:12:50.519 schedule and get five or 7 % more time to do 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:53.340 a few more important things. We're gonna talk 00:12:53.340 --> 00:12:55.899 about priorities that if you get serious about 00:12:55.899 --> 00:12:58.820 what God wants, you're gonna have to say to certain 00:12:58.820 --> 00:13:00.559 whole sections of your life, you know something, 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:03.799 that's been way up here. You know what, for a 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:06.940 season, I just need to stop doing that. I gotta 00:13:06.940 --> 00:13:10.000 get refocused at a new level about what really, 00:13:10.139 --> 00:13:18.500 really matters. Love ruthlessly. Ruthlessly. 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:20.980 That means, oh, I don't want, if I do that, she'll 00:13:20.980 --> 00:13:22.559 get mad at me. If I do that, I want to do that. 00:13:22.620 --> 00:13:23.940 Well, I get a lot of strokes out of that. Well, 00:13:23.980 --> 00:13:26.820 that's one of my hobbies and I really, and so 00:13:26.820 --> 00:13:30.059 you keep trying to tweak and what happens? Seven 00:13:30.059 --> 00:13:32.220 days later, you're as over -scheduled, over -demand, 00:13:32.220 --> 00:13:37.200 overwhelmed as you were two weeks before. You're 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:42.370 really smart people. If tweaking a little bit 00:13:42.370 --> 00:13:45.889 here or there was the solution, you would have 00:13:45.889 --> 00:13:48.970 solved this a long time ago. So let's look at, 00:13:49.009 --> 00:13:52.129 okay, God, help us. How do we ruthlessly refuse 00:13:52.129 --> 00:13:56.250 to allow? Notice it's not bad things. The things 00:13:56.250 --> 00:13:58.830 that eat you up, they're not bad things. They're 00:13:58.830 --> 00:14:02.409 temporal. They're really good things. But the 00:14:02.409 --> 00:14:05.649 good is always the enemy of the best. His thesis 00:14:05.649 --> 00:14:10.019 here is that love is supreme. Love is our number 00:14:10.019 --> 00:14:13.279 one priority. That phrase, love never fails, 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:16.340 it's kind of a hinge. And then it kind of opens 00:14:16.340 --> 00:14:19.659 the door to how love responds to misplaced priorities. 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:23.000 The word fails 70 different times in the New 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:25.759 Testament. It's translated, love never falls. 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:28.980 It means love will never be corrupted. Love will 00:14:28.980 --> 00:14:32.480 never cease. Love is permanent. Love lasts. He's 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:36.559 saying loving God and loving people is the number 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:39.549 one priority in your life. And see, what we've 00:14:39.549 --> 00:14:41.750 got to do is step back and say, okay, if someone 00:14:41.750 --> 00:14:45.049 picked up my schedule, if someone picked up where 00:14:45.049 --> 00:14:47.529 all my money went, if someone could pick up and 00:14:47.529 --> 00:14:50.470 read my mind about where my thoughts are when 00:14:50.470 --> 00:14:52.990 I didn't have something to do, would my thoughts 00:14:52.990 --> 00:14:56.769 and my time and my money and my energy and my 00:14:56.769 --> 00:14:59.990 actions tell the story that, wow, this person 00:14:59.990 --> 00:15:03.049 really loves God and really loves people? Or 00:15:03.049 --> 00:15:05.860 would it... They listen to my words and say, 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:09.259 this person says and thinks and actually is deluded 00:15:09.259 --> 00:15:11.620 into believing they really love God and really 00:15:11.620 --> 00:15:13.559 love people. But when you look at their time, 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:15.179 their money, their dreams, their schedule, and 00:15:15.179 --> 00:15:17.019 their energy, it looks like they really love 00:15:17.019 --> 00:15:20.759 themselves a lot. And they really have believed 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:22.720 a few lies. That's what he's dealing with that 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:25.720 church then. And that's what he's talking to 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:30.460 us about today. The contrast. He says love is 00:15:30.460 --> 00:15:32.639 supreme. Love's the number one priority. The 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:37.440 best of temporal things, the good, even spiritually 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:40.960 beneficial, powerful gifts are far less important 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:44.200 than love. I mean, isn't that exactly what he 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:47.340 says? Look at second half of verse eight. There's 00:15:47.340 --> 00:15:52.419 a big word. Love never fails, but, but, where 00:15:52.419 --> 00:15:55.840 there's prophecies, they'll cease. Where there's 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:57.720 tongues in and of themselves, they're gonna go 00:15:57.720 --> 00:16:00.330 away. Where there's knowledge, I mean, even the 00:16:00.330 --> 00:16:02.330 great mysteries of God. So the Apostle Paul, 00:16:02.509 --> 00:16:04.470 if you study this book carefully, remember he 00:16:04.470 --> 00:16:07.570 told him in chapter 12, prophecy is the most 00:16:07.570 --> 00:16:09.750 important of all the gifts. And now he comes 00:16:09.750 --> 00:16:11.149 back and says, you know, even that one's going 00:16:11.149 --> 00:16:13.649 away. The Corinthians believed that tongues was 00:16:13.649 --> 00:16:14.929 the most important gift. He goes, well, yours 00:16:14.929 --> 00:16:17.090 is going away. And they said, we would both agree 00:16:17.090 --> 00:16:19.090 that, I mean, knowledge, the very mystery and 00:16:19.090 --> 00:16:21.330 knowledge of life and God. He says, that's going 00:16:21.330 --> 00:16:25.720 to go away. And those are the things, those are 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:27.879 about ministry. Those are about the kingdom of 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:30.340 God. I mean, prophecy and tongues and knowledge. 00:16:30.500 --> 00:16:34.559 And he says, wait a second. Compared to love, 00:16:34.779 --> 00:16:39.759 they're not the number one priority. You're listening 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:42.759 to Living on the Edge. We'll return you to Chip's 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:45.200 message in just a minute. But let me quickly 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:47.759 share with you, God has called us to do incredible 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:50.779 ministry work all around the world. And when 00:16:50.779 --> 00:16:52.879 you partner with us financially, you're part 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:55.379 of what we do. So if you'd like to join us, go 00:16:55.379 --> 00:16:59.519 to livingontheedge .org. We appreciate you giving 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:02.340 whatever God leads you to give. Well, with that, 00:17:02.340 --> 00:17:05.619 here's Chip. The reason he gives us in verse 00:17:05.619 --> 00:17:08.740 9 and 10, the reason is because they don't last. 00:17:09.059 --> 00:17:11.359 They're temporal. Could you put a line under? 00:17:11.460 --> 00:17:14.930 They don't last. Because this is what he's trying 00:17:14.930 --> 00:17:16.930 to get into their mind and into their heart. 00:17:17.029 --> 00:17:19.009 He says, for we know in part, we prophesy in 00:17:19.009 --> 00:17:21.529 part, but when perfection comes, when the perfect 00:17:21.529 --> 00:17:23.849 comes, a lot of debate on this, but the clearest 00:17:23.849 --> 00:17:26.750 explanation, things are going to be completed 00:17:26.750 --> 00:17:31.569 when Jesus comes back. I mean, I don't mean the 00:17:31.569 --> 00:17:34.089 rapture. I don't mean when he comes back. I mean, 00:17:34.089 --> 00:17:37.289 when the second coming of Christ, when the absolute 00:17:37.289 --> 00:17:40.509 completion and perfection of all things gets 00:17:40.509 --> 00:17:44.349 sealed. There won't be any need for prophecy, 00:17:44.490 --> 00:17:46.650 won't be any need for tongues. The knowledge 00:17:46.650 --> 00:17:49.890 won't be in part, it'll be face to face. We're 00:17:49.890 --> 00:17:51.869 gonna know him fully just as we've been already 00:17:51.869 --> 00:17:56.529 fully known. And what he's saying is, look, you 00:17:56.529 --> 00:18:01.150 guys are so into and arguing about and stressed 00:18:01.150 --> 00:18:03.750 and pulled in all these directions about some 00:18:03.750 --> 00:18:06.450 very good things, but what prophecy and knowledge, 00:18:06.690 --> 00:18:10.029 all they have in common is they're temporal. 00:18:10.490 --> 00:18:13.309 It's not that they don't matter at all. It's 00:18:13.309 --> 00:18:15.730 like helping your kids learn sports at an early 00:18:15.730 --> 00:18:18.049 age or wanting them to get into a good college 00:18:18.049 --> 00:18:20.670 or wanting to be upwardly mobile or getting some 00:18:20.670 --> 00:18:22.650 extra training or wanting to do well in your 00:18:22.650 --> 00:18:28.190 job. Those aren't bad things, are they? I mean, 00:18:28.230 --> 00:18:30.549 if you would walk through carefully later today 00:18:30.549 --> 00:18:33.029 the list of things that I put on the front page 00:18:33.029 --> 00:18:35.589 of your notes, every single one of those has 00:18:35.589 --> 00:18:39.109 a really good, isn't it good to be giving? Yeah, 00:18:39.150 --> 00:18:40.750 it's good to be giving, but if you give, give, 00:18:40.849 --> 00:18:43.650 give, give, give, give, and don't honor God and 00:18:43.650 --> 00:18:45.910 take some time to get renewed, then guess what? 00:18:45.930 --> 00:18:48.049 You just feel guilty and burned out. I mean, 00:18:48.069 --> 00:18:50.529 it's good to help your kids grow, but if your 00:18:50.529 --> 00:18:53.950 whole world is traveling around in minivans and 00:18:53.950 --> 00:18:56.549 SUVs and all your weekends are taken up helping 00:18:56.549 --> 00:18:58.470 your kids hit balls and kick balls and chase 00:18:58.470 --> 00:19:01.450 balls to where you're never together and connected 00:19:01.450 --> 00:19:05.019 from the heart. See, some good means, some very 00:19:05.019 --> 00:19:08.059 good things, but it's sort of a wash. So we're 00:19:08.059 --> 00:19:10.119 living in this world where, you know, you're 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:11.640 not a good dad if you don't do this. You're not 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:13.240 a good mom if you don't do that. I mean, you're 00:19:13.240 --> 00:19:14.599 never gonna make it as a single person unless 00:19:14.599 --> 00:19:16.559 you go here, go here, go here, do this, do this. 00:19:16.660 --> 00:19:18.400 I mean, you're not successful and significant 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:19.900 unless you have a bag that looks like this, a 00:19:19.900 --> 00:19:21.240 watch that looks like this, and a car that drives 00:19:21.240 --> 00:19:24.759 like that. You wanna make it or not? And you 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:28.599 gotta start asking, make what? So yeah, that's 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:32.130 right. So what do you wanna make? You want to 00:19:32.130 --> 00:19:34.490 make it big and go through a couple marriages? 00:19:35.549 --> 00:19:37.390 You want to make it big and have kids that don't 00:19:37.390 --> 00:19:40.029 know your name and don't care about you? You 00:19:40.029 --> 00:19:43.029 want to make it big and be successful? Some people, 00:19:43.130 --> 00:19:45.490 they do it in ministry. Every time the church 00:19:45.490 --> 00:19:47.170 doors are open, they're here and doing this and 00:19:47.170 --> 00:19:49.750 doing that. I was talking on the phone with a 00:19:49.750 --> 00:19:51.609 guy from another country last night that I'm 00:19:51.609 --> 00:19:54.150 going to do some ministry with in the future. 00:19:55.259 --> 00:19:57.059 We just got off the phone and I just said, can 00:19:57.059 --> 00:19:59.740 I just, you know, the guy's, he's a Harvard grad. 00:20:00.460 --> 00:20:02.940 He's got theology. He teaches in the seminaries 00:20:02.940 --> 00:20:05.720 in charge of this humongous, the administrative 00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:08.420 side of a church of about 75 ,000 in another 00:20:08.420 --> 00:20:10.819 country. And I said, just, is there one thing 00:20:10.819 --> 00:20:13.299 I could pray for you? He said, yeah, there is 00:20:13.299 --> 00:20:15.940 one thing. And I said, what is it? He goes, you 00:20:15.940 --> 00:20:18.880 know, I have three almost full -time jobs and 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:21.680 there's all this demand. And my wife's very understanding, 00:20:21.779 --> 00:20:24.410 but my daughter's eight. And she just doesn't 00:20:24.410 --> 00:20:26.730 understand very much. I said, well, what do you 00:20:26.730 --> 00:20:27.809 mean she doesn't understand? She goes, well, 00:20:27.809 --> 00:20:30.890 I just don't see her very often. I said, what 00:20:30.890 --> 00:20:32.450 do you mean you don't see her very often? I don't 00:20:32.450 --> 00:20:35.509 see her. I mean, I work 12 to 14 hour days and 00:20:35.509 --> 00:20:37.069 I'm gone early and I come home late. So I just 00:20:37.069 --> 00:20:39.089 don't get to see her very much. And this is a 00:20:39.089 --> 00:20:41.869 pastor. And I know that's not right. And it's 00:20:41.869 --> 00:20:45.549 always followed by this, but. And I said, you 00:20:45.549 --> 00:20:47.470 know, when I'm going to be in your country in 00:20:47.470 --> 00:20:49.490 the near future, and why don't you and I get 00:20:49.490 --> 00:20:52.170 some time? I've kind of lived where I was tempted 00:20:52.170 --> 00:20:53.569 and struggled with some of those things. I have 00:20:53.569 --> 00:20:56.650 four kids, and let's make that part of our little 00:20:56.650 --> 00:21:01.029 time together. Now, I didn't tell him, buddy, 00:21:01.170 --> 00:21:02.789 I'm going to build a little trust with you, and 00:21:02.789 --> 00:21:04.529 I'm going to spiritually kick your rear end as 00:21:04.529 --> 00:21:08.329 hard and as long as I can. And I'm going to look 00:21:08.329 --> 00:21:10.470 you in the eye and say, do you understand how 00:21:10.470 --> 00:21:14.440 good things, very good things, in the name of 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:17.140 love, produce some really bad lives? I'll tell 00:21:17.140 --> 00:21:19.539 you, he's going to have a little girl that doesn't 00:21:19.539 --> 00:21:22.480 like God, let alone love God, and will wonder 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:25.559 why the church or God took her daddy away from 00:21:25.559 --> 00:21:28.319 her. And some of you are going to have kids who 00:21:28.319 --> 00:21:30.660 wonder why the name of your company did that. 00:21:31.109 --> 00:21:34.130 or your drive did that, or golf did that, or 00:21:34.130 --> 00:21:36.410 your hobby did that, or the speed of your life 00:21:36.410 --> 00:21:39.410 did that, or how, just because your kids say, 00:21:39.490 --> 00:21:41.630 I want, I want, please, please, yeah, yeah, yeah, 00:21:41.730 --> 00:21:44.930 and you cave into them, guess what? You can give 00:21:44.930 --> 00:21:46.650 people what they want, but if you don't give 00:21:46.650 --> 00:21:48.869 them what they need, they like you for giving 00:21:48.869 --> 00:21:51.089 them what they want now, then they hate you later 00:21:51.089 --> 00:21:53.250 for not giving them what they need. That's the 00:21:53.250 --> 00:21:56.529 difference between parents and kids. Picture 00:21:56.529 --> 00:21:59.009 that. helped me with this was a guy named Jim 00:21:59.009 --> 00:22:01.509 Dethmer gave a message that really helped me. 00:22:01.509 --> 00:22:03.089 And he had an illustration that I'd like to just 00:22:03.089 --> 00:22:06.029 steal. Because, you know, there's part of this 00:22:06.029 --> 00:22:09.269 theological when you say, what do you mean? They'll 00:22:09.269 --> 00:22:11.549 fade away. They don't matter. It's not like those 00:22:11.549 --> 00:22:13.609 good things you're doing don't matter. It's not 00:22:13.609 --> 00:22:16.230 like ministry doesn't matter. So what's it mean? 00:22:17.250 --> 00:22:20.069 What's the picture? And I love the illustration 00:22:20.069 --> 00:22:22.150 he gave. He said, imagine that we were having 00:22:22.150 --> 00:22:24.150 a big party, everyone in the church, big party, 00:22:24.210 --> 00:22:26.269 all the services coming together. And, you know, 00:22:26.289 --> 00:22:28.849 we rent a park and, I mean, we're going to have 00:22:28.849 --> 00:22:31.049 ice cream and we're going to have food and a 00:22:31.049 --> 00:22:32.650 barbecue and we're going to celebrate. There's 00:22:32.650 --> 00:22:34.990 going to be great music. And so we get like four 00:22:34.990 --> 00:22:37.589 or five of our best artists. And we want you 00:22:37.589 --> 00:22:40.349 to create a sculpture that, I mean, gives glory 00:22:40.349 --> 00:22:43.509 to God, that just magnifies the artistic talent 00:22:43.509 --> 00:22:45.589 and ability that you have. And here's this big 00:22:45.589 --> 00:22:47.809 room. It's about, you know, 30 feet by 40 feet. 00:22:47.880 --> 00:22:50.720 and this big block of ice. And you know, they're 00:22:50.720 --> 00:22:54.460 in there with chainsaws. And so they work for 00:22:54.460 --> 00:22:56.700 weeks and then they put it on these rollers and 00:22:56.700 --> 00:22:59.039 we're thousands of us and we're having music 00:22:59.039 --> 00:23:02.079 and here it is, this beautiful fountain and it's 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:04.279 out in 100 degrees and who knows, maybe we could 00:23:04.279 --> 00:23:05.920 have chocolate coming out of it or something. 00:23:05.980 --> 00:23:08.380 But you know, there's swans and I mean, it's 00:23:08.380 --> 00:23:11.480 just an amazing deal, right? And you know, we 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:14.769 stop and all of us are going, wow. What can you 00:23:14.769 --> 00:23:17.289 believe? Man, unbelievable. Do you see? That 00:23:17.289 --> 00:23:20.509 is the most amazing. How do they do that with 00:23:20.509 --> 00:23:22.170 ice, right? You know, we're all just like this. 00:23:23.369 --> 00:23:28.450 Three hours later, the party's over. What they 00:23:28.450 --> 00:23:31.089 did was wonderful. Their energy was wonderful. 00:23:31.509 --> 00:23:35.130 We appreciated it. But three to four hours later, 00:23:35.289 --> 00:23:38.309 some of us are volunteering, cleaning up the 00:23:38.309 --> 00:23:42.170 chairs. We're picking up the paper. The swan 00:23:42.170 --> 00:23:47.440 only has one arm. The thing's melting. By dusk, 00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:51.500 a handful of us are just cleaning up. And where 00:23:51.500 --> 00:23:55.440 that beautiful ice sculpture used to be, there's 00:23:55.440 --> 00:23:59.140 just puddles of water. See, it's not that what 00:23:59.140 --> 00:24:02.119 you are doing or what I'm doing doesn't have 00:24:02.119 --> 00:24:05.180 any value. It's that it doesn't have any value 00:24:05.180 --> 00:24:08.740 that lasts. And there's some of us that'll stand 00:24:08.740 --> 00:24:10.440 before the judgment seat of Christ. And I just 00:24:10.440 --> 00:24:12.759 say this from God's loving heart to you as a 00:24:12.759 --> 00:24:15.509 warning. And you will spend your time and your 00:24:15.509 --> 00:24:20.029 energy doing very good things that you think 00:24:20.029 --> 00:24:22.549 with all your heart are in the name of love in 00:24:22.549 --> 00:24:26.069 your relationships, in your families, and in 00:24:26.069 --> 00:24:28.970 your work. And you'll get near the end of your 00:24:28.970 --> 00:24:32.930 life or worse by the time if you have a family 00:24:32.930 --> 00:24:35.569 where your kids are grown. And what you'll look 00:24:35.569 --> 00:24:41.329 back on is just pools of water that have no significance, 00:24:41.589 --> 00:24:44.539 that are going nowhere. and you wish you could 00:24:44.539 --> 00:24:50.880 turn back the clock. Before we even go on in 00:24:50.880 --> 00:24:53.539 today's broadcast, I just want to stop and I 00:24:53.539 --> 00:24:57.640 want to ask you, what aspect of your life is 00:24:57.640 --> 00:25:00.660 like the ice sculpture? I mean, it's not that 00:25:00.660 --> 00:25:02.700 it's not beautiful. It's not that it's not something 00:25:02.700 --> 00:25:05.720 that looks pretty cool or takes a lot of energy 00:25:05.720 --> 00:25:08.990 and effort, but it doesn't last. And you know, 00:25:09.009 --> 00:25:11.630 sometimes God brings us some emergencies, some 00:25:11.630 --> 00:25:14.809 things to jolt our life, because we're talking 00:25:14.809 --> 00:25:17.589 about how love responds to misplaced priorities. 00:25:17.950 --> 00:25:20.130 And we all have them to one degree or another. 00:25:20.630 --> 00:25:23.930 And after many years of being a pastor, I have 00:25:23.930 --> 00:25:27.210 a pretty good rhythm of my life in terms of priorities 00:25:27.210 --> 00:25:29.809 and when I study and what I do. But I'm like 00:25:29.809 --> 00:25:31.990 everybody else. You know, you get tired and you 00:25:31.990 --> 00:25:33.950 slip into patterns where you watch a little too 00:25:33.950 --> 00:25:36.829 much TV or, you know, kind of go into a little 00:25:36.829 --> 00:25:38.930 denial and spend a little more time on a hobby 00:25:38.930 --> 00:25:42.069 doing this or that. And it was interesting. As 00:25:42.069 --> 00:25:45.309 soon as I found my wife had breast cancer, it 00:25:45.309 --> 00:25:48.650 was like I know I needed to simplify. and not 00:25:48.650 --> 00:25:52.009 stop doing things that were wrong. But I just 00:25:52.009 --> 00:25:53.869 knew, you know, for this season, I just don't 00:25:53.869 --> 00:25:56.430 want to watch any TV. For this season, I decided 00:25:56.430 --> 00:25:58.190 to, you know, I have my devotions in the morning. 00:25:58.430 --> 00:26:00.329 For this season, I decided, you know, before 00:26:00.329 --> 00:26:02.450 I go to bed, I'm just going to read through the 00:26:02.450 --> 00:26:05.910 Gospels. I need to draw near to God. I need to 00:26:05.910 --> 00:26:09.250 purify and clarify. And I believe that's what 00:26:09.250 --> 00:26:12.180 God's saying to some of you. So let me ask you, 00:26:12.220 --> 00:26:15.619 how much time goes into hobbies? How much time 00:26:15.619 --> 00:26:18.839 is pursuing more money and more work? And what's 00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:20.940 that going to look like later? Or how many of 00:26:20.940 --> 00:26:23.200 you are just, I mean, overdosed on how good you're 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:25.299 going to be at this sport or that sport or your 00:26:25.299 --> 00:26:28.559 SAT scores or what school that you go into? Not 00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:31.299 sinful or bad or in and of itself, but what does 00:26:31.299 --> 00:26:34.119 that produce in the long haul if it consumes 00:26:34.119 --> 00:26:36.940 your heart and your life? I mean, how much time 00:26:36.940 --> 00:26:40.619 goes into fantasy football and passing on YouTube 00:26:40.619 --> 00:26:43.559 funny things to other people? How much of our 00:26:43.559 --> 00:26:47.859 life just is consumed with playing and eating 00:26:47.859 --> 00:26:51.319 and watching and not asking the big question, 00:26:51.500 --> 00:26:55.339 why am I here? What am I to accomplish? Am I 00:26:55.339 --> 00:26:58.019 rightly aligned with God? Do I have peace in 00:26:58.019 --> 00:27:02.680 my heart? And am I loving people around me? The 00:27:02.680 --> 00:27:06.579 word amuse means a means against and muse means 00:27:06.579 --> 00:27:11.279 to think. Amusement means to not think. And as 00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:13.680 someone has rightly said in our culture, we're 00:27:13.680 --> 00:27:16.839 amusing ourselves to death. Let me encourage 00:27:16.839 --> 00:27:20.259 you to take stock today to evaluate where your 00:27:20.259 --> 00:27:24.400 priorities are and then make one specific step 00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:27.220 toward clearing the decks for some extra time 00:27:27.220 --> 00:27:30.079 with God to get some clarity from Him. Thanks 00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:32.119 for the reminder, Chip. And if you're looking 00:27:32.119 --> 00:27:34.799 for practical help to recommit your life to Jesus, 00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:38.240 let me recommend Chip's book, True Spirituality, 00:27:38.319 --> 00:27:41.140 Becoming a Romans 12 Christian. Through this 00:27:41.140 --> 00:27:43.140 resource, he'll walk you through how to become 00:27:43.140 --> 00:27:46.059 a genuine follower of Christ. Order your copy 00:27:46.059 --> 00:27:50.400 of True Spirituality by going to specialoffersatlivingontheedge 00:27:50.400 --> 00:27:53.720 .org. Maybe even get two for you and a friend 00:27:53.720 --> 00:27:56.059 to study together. We want to help you grow in 00:27:56.059 --> 00:27:58.680 your walk with Jesus, and this tool will help. 00:27:59.049 --> 00:28:01.269 Well, Chip's still with me. And Chip, many of 00:28:01.269 --> 00:28:03.630 those listening right now wholeheartedly believe 00:28:03.630 --> 00:28:05.710 in the work and mission of living on the edge 00:28:05.710 --> 00:28:08.309 and are considering becoming a financial partner, 00:28:08.390 --> 00:28:10.569 but haven't yet because they think their gift 00:28:10.569 --> 00:28:13.029 is too small or won't make that big a difference. 00:28:13.250 --> 00:28:15.670 What would you say to them? Dave, you know, a 00:28:15.670 --> 00:28:18.029 lot of people think that, but the fact of the 00:28:18.029 --> 00:28:21.859 matter. It's not just a person giving, say, $10 00:28:21.859 --> 00:28:25.500 or $25 or $30 or $50 or whatever they think seems 00:28:25.500 --> 00:28:28.799 to be insignificant with the huge needs that 00:28:28.799 --> 00:28:30.480 there are to help people here and around the 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:33.960 world. It's the combined efforts. I mean, think 00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:36.779 right at this moment. I mean, over a million 00:28:36.779 --> 00:28:39.220 people are going to list on a radio broadcast, 00:28:39.519 --> 00:28:42.579 a podcast, or on the app. I mean, a million people. 00:28:42.700 --> 00:28:46.980 If just a few thousand, say if 10 ,000 gave $10 00:28:46.980 --> 00:28:50.250 a month. Can you imagine what we could do here 00:28:50.250 --> 00:28:53.069 and around the world? So I just want to encourage 00:28:53.069 --> 00:28:55.960 some of you who... just don't feel like you have 00:28:55.960 --> 00:28:57.980 enough to give or it wouldn't make much of a 00:28:57.980 --> 00:29:01.259 difference, would you pray and say, Lord, I will 00:29:01.259 --> 00:29:03.759 just give whatever you would lead me to give? 00:29:03.900 --> 00:29:06.559 And could you know when you do that, it's a lot 00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:09.079 like the widow's mite. God will honor it, and 00:29:09.079 --> 00:29:11.740 we'd be very grateful. Thanks, Chip. 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And if you're 00:29:53.700 --> 00:29:56.349 always on the go... Download a handful and listen 00:29:56.349 --> 00:29:58.789 to them at your own pace. Let us help you grow 00:29:58.789 --> 00:30:01.609 your faith. Search for Living on the Edge with 00:30:01.609 --> 00:30:04.930 Chip Ingram today on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, 00:30:05.190 --> 00:30:08.170 or wherever you listen to podcasts. Well, coming 00:30:08.170 --> 00:30:10.450 up on the next edition of Living on the Edge, 00:30:10.470 --> 00:30:13.329 we'll continue Chip's series, Spiritual Simplicity. 00:30:13.589 --> 00:30:16.750 So I hope you'll join us. But until then, I'm 00:30:16.750 --> 00:30:18.190 Dave Drewy. Thanks for listening.