Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

Have you ever seen someone perform a judo move?

I mean like watching a 90-pound woman completely flip a 200-pound man. It's amazing.

Even more amazing is what I call spiritual judo. It's when God takes the worst of our lives and flips

them to become the greatest opportunities for our growth and his glory. If you're facing some really

tough stuff today, stick around. God wants

to do some spiritual judo on your most challenging circumstances. The plan was to crush the

movement before it spread, scatter the believers, cut them off from each other, make them afraid.

But what Satan designed as the death of the early church

became the engine that drove the gospel into Samaria, into Africa, and toward the ends of the

earth. I'm Dave Drewie, and today on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram continues his series,

The Jesus Revolution, with the lesson on how God systematically dismantles the enemy's best tactics.

And later in today's program, Chip will be sharing about our mid-year match, a special giving

opportunity happening right now.

Well, stay close.

Well, now here's Chip with a message titled, Intimidate and Isolate.

And we take up the story in the beginning of chapter 8.

On that day, a great persecution broke out against the church at Jerusalem.

All except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.

Godly men buried Stephen and mourned for him deeply.

But Saul began to destroy the church, going from

house to house. He dragged them off and put them in jail. Those who had been scattered

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