Balancing Life's Demands - How to Escape the Rat Race... Forever!, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 14 August 2025
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Summary
If there’s one thing we’ve learned, you can’t trust in material things to come through for you. Chip reveals how to rise above the daily grind and escape the rat race forever.
The root problem in priority living according to Jesus is MATERIALISM.
Matthew 6:1-18
- Two motives
- Two treasures
- Two eyes
- Two masters
Summary: Do not allow the pursuit of material things to thwart your spiritual development.
Question:
- How can we live in a material world without becoming materialistic? -Matthew 6:24-34
The symptom:
- Anxiety is the mark of a life preoccupied with material things.
The explanation: Stop your preoccupation with material things because...
- It's short-sighted –Matthew 6:25b
- It's illogical –Matthew 6:28-30
- It's unprofitable –Matthew 6:27
- It's disgraceful to God –Matthew 6:30-32
The promise:
- If you will pursue knowing Christ and making Him known as your first priority, He will meet all your material needs. -Matthew 6:33-34
Application: Questions to Ponder
- Are you "spending" or "investing" your life?
- Is your life making a significant difference in the lives of others?
- Do you live under "pressure" or under "priorities"?
- Do your time, talent, and treasure reflect that pursuing Christ and making Him known is your #1 priority?
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| 0:00.0 | You know, the great physicist Albert Einstein once said, |
| 0:06.0 | not everything that counts can be counted. |
| 0:10.0 | And not everything that can be counted counts. |
| 0:15.0 | Now, you might want to spin that in your mind a couple of times, |
| 0:18.0 | but what he's really saying is we spend a lot of time counting |
| 0:21.8 | things that don't really matter, and we don't count some things that matter most. |
| 0:27.6 | How do you get out of the rat race? That's today. |
| 0:34.9 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:39.3 | Our mission is to inspire Christians to be genuine followers of Jesus and to empower them to be active disciple makers in our world. |
| 0:47.3 | Thanks for being with us as we near the end of our series Balancing Life's Demands. |
| 0:51.3 | For these last couple of programs, Chip will focus on how we can stop wasting |
| 0:55.5 | our lives chasing one thing after another by uncovering God's plan for lasting contentment and |
| 1:01.7 | peace. So if you're ready, here's Chip with his talk, How to Escape the Rat Race Forever. Go in your |
| 1:07.9 | Bible to Matthew chapter 6. |
| 1:13.1 | I'd like to start with a little story. |
| 1:16.8 | It's kind of a, I don't know, I think it's a little bit of a funny story, but it comes out of the Midwest. |
| 1:17.5 | It may be even hypocrophal, so don't try and find this anywhere, but I think it's an old, old |
| 1:23.2 | story. |
| 1:24.3 | But the story goes like this. |
| 1:27.3 | There was a very strong Bible church, Bible teaching church, |
| 1:31.5 | and they had what they called years ago revival meetings. And so once a year, they would bring in a |
| 1:37.3 | great Bible teacher, and they had revival meetings. It was a very small town. It was up in the |
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