Balancing Life's Demands - How to Escape the Rat Race... Forever!, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 15 August 2025
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Summary
Chip wraps up this series with an important reminder of what it takes to be truly successful in your spiritual life, in your relationships, and in your finances.
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 | What are biblical priorities in the midst of busy lives? How do we create margin? How do we get our |
| 0:07.5 | lives in order? How do we get the things that are out of control, under control by the Spirit of God? |
| 0:13.4 | Today we're going to talk about, I think, maybe the most important truth about how to take this from |
| 0:18.6 | your head to your heart. |
| 0:26.2 | Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:32.6 | We are an international teaching and discipleship ministry that encourages and equips Christians to live like Christians. Well, today, Chip wraps up our series, Balancing Life's Demands. |
| 0:37.1 | Over the past several programs, we've discovered God's desire for us to live Well, today, Chip wraps up our series, Balancing Life's Demands. |
| 0:42.4 | Over the past several programs, we've discovered God's desire for us to live with peace, |
| 0:47.2 | purpose, and joy, and how we can actually experience a life like that. |
| 0:52.5 | So if you've missed any part of this series, catch up any time at Living on theedge.org or wherever you listen to podcasts. If you have a Bible, |
| 0:55.9 | go now to Matthew chapter 6 for the remainder of Chip's message, How to Escape the Rat |
| 1:01.1 | Race Forever. |
| 1:03.7 | The issue behind materialism at the core has nothing to do with things or even money. It has |
| 1:10.6 | to do with faith. It has to do with trust. |
| 1:13.3 | Do you trust me? Do you trust me to come through for you? Yes, in the material necessities. |
| 1:20.1 | But do you trust me to come through for you that you're significant and valuable the way I made you? |
| 1:26.7 | 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 |
| 1:45.5 | and I love you. That's really what he's getting to. So do not worry, saying, what are we going to |
| 1:52.1 | to eat or what shall we drink or what shall we wear? And then, and then just this is more than a |
| 1:57.6 | mild rebuke. For the pagans run after all all these things, and your Heavenly Father knows what you need, |
| 2:04.1 | that you need them. |
| 2:05.0 | Put a little line under run after, because he's going to use a play on words. |
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