Balancing Life's Demands - Warning: Personal Discipline Can be Hazardous to Your Health, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 12 August 2025
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Summary
In this message, Chip reveals the danger of becoming too disciplined in both your personal and spiritual life. He shares how to recognize the warning signs of an out-of-balance spiritual life.
To what degree have you taken specific steps in the following areas? (1=none; 2=little; 3=started & doing okay; 4=making good progress; 5=vigorously pursuing)
- Objectives: Moving from vague ideas to specific decisions about the kind of person I want to become and what I want to accomplish.
- Priorities: Ordering my life in such a way that the important and eternal are not forfeited by the "pressing" and the "urgent."
- Schedule: Determining specifically how and when I will place the important and eternal in my daily life.
- Discipline: Doing what needs to be done when it needs to be done.
- Accountability: Enlisting the support of those who love me to help me keep my commitments to God.
Jesus' Warning #1: In our pursuit of "seeking first" His righteousness there is the danger of DISTORTION.
Application of Matthew 5:20 to...
- Murder –5:21-26
- Adultery –5:27-30
- Divorce –5:31-32
- Oaths –5:33-37
- Retribution –5:38-41
- Enemies –5:43-48
Jesus' Warning #2: In our pursuit of "seeking first" His righteousness there is also the danger of DECEPTION. -Matthew 6:1-18
- Giving: Key Issue = MOTIVE -Matthew 6:1-4
- Prayer: Key Issue = DISCERNMENT -Matthew 6:5-8
- Fasting: Key Issue = PERSPECTIVE -Matthew 6:16-18
Application: SECRECY is God's method of keeping our motives pure.
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| 0:00.0 | There is a potential downside to becoming a very spiritually disciplined Christian. |
| 0:08.1 | I mean, it can be hazardous to your health. |
| 0:10.8 | And that's what we want to cover today. |
| 0:12.5 | Stay with me. |
| 0:17.7 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:21.8 | The mission of this daily program is to intentionally disciple Christians through the insightful |
| 0:26.8 | Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. |
| 0:29.0 | And were you intrigued by Chip Setup? |
| 0:31.1 | Can being a very spiritually disciplined person be bad for us? |
| 0:35.4 | That sounds like an obvious contradiction, right? Well, today, Chip's |
| 0:38.8 | going to give us some clarity as he picks up in his series balancing life's demands. So if |
| 0:43.3 | you're ready, go to Matthew Chapter 5 in your Bible as we dive right into Chip's talk. |
| 0:49.0 | I want you try to remember exactly where you were the last time you heard these words. |
| 0:56.0 | Please take out a clean sheet of paper and a number two pencil. |
| 1:01.0 | Put everything away, clear your desk. |
| 1:05.0 | Number from one to ten were having a pop quiz. |
| 1:10.0 | Okay, now you can open your eyes. |
| 1:13.8 | And we, remember the feared pop quiz? |
| 1:17.2 | That was a tool of accountability, right? |
| 1:19.8 | It was, did you read the assignment? |
| 1:22.2 | Are you on track? |
| 1:23.3 | Are you doing your work? |
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