Be Strong and Courageous - I Will Not Run and Hide!: What to Do When Evil Triumphs, Part 1

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

Living on the Edge

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In most beloved classic stories, good conquers evil, the hero beats the villain, and justice prevails. However, the narrative is quite different in reality. In this program, Chip asks: What do you do when evil repeatedly wins or gains the upper hand? He will delve into this critical issue, sharing uplifting biblical insights that will empower you to face injustice and suffering head-on.

Main Points

Rhetorical question in Psalm 11: “When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

Declarative statement: I will not run and hide.

Question: When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do? --Psalm 11:3

Answer: Psalm 11:4-6

In the midst of falling foundations: 1. God is in control | 2. God is looking and observing what is going on |
What can the righteous do? 1. Look up | 2. Repent | 3. Make a difference |

Reason: Psalm 11:7

No matter what happens we can have hope in our eternal security.

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Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.

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0:00.0	There's good guys and there's bad guys, but if you watch enough movies, in the end, the good guys win.
0:08.7	But what do we do when evil appears to be winning or when it's actually winning?
0:15.9	That's what we're going to learn. Stay with me.
0:25.6	Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians through the
0:30.7	Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. Thanks for being with us as we're a little over halfway through
0:35.2	his latest series be strong and courageous
0:37.7	psalms to strengthen your faith and conquer your fear we hope you've learned a lot
0:42.7	from this series so far and to help others learn as you have would you take a
0:46.6	minute after this message and share it with a friend or loved one and you can do
0:50.4	that through the chip ingram map or by sending them the free MP3s that
0:54.3	you'll find at Living on the Edge.org.
0:57.9	And thanks for spreading the word about how Chip's teaching is impacting you.
1:02.0	Today we're going to learn how to biblically respond to the wickedness of our world.
1:06.3	So let's join Chip in Psalm chapter 11 for his message, I will not run and hide, what to do when evil triumphs.
1:14.1	You know, sometimes a rhetorical question can really say a lot more than big, bold statements or lots of
1:21.9	information. You know, a question that just kind of hangs in the air and you say to yourself,
1:27.5	wow, either I've never thought about that or, man, that's a big question I don't have a good answer to.
1:33.7	One of the classic rhetorical questions that's raised in all of the Psalms, in fact, of all of Scripture, is in Psalm 11.
1:41.7	It goes like this. When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous
1:46.3	do? The word here foundations will learn a minute is pillars. In fact, it's a very formal word.
1:52.2	It has the idea when the civil authorities or when a society or when the laws of a culture
1:59.3	are no longer enforced and it crumbles.
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