Dealing with Doubts - Jesus, You, and the Fight for Human Rights, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that.” In this program, guest teacher, John Dickerson picks up in our series Dealing with Doubts. Join us as John looks at the ways that authentic followers of Jesus have opposed evil for centuries, and the inspiration it gives us to keep up that fight today.
Main Points
- Jesus claims to be the only LIGHT that can fully extinguish evil.
- Jesus’ claim to set the prisoners and oppressed free (Luke 4:16-18, 21)
- John 1:4-5, 9-10
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About Chip Ingram: 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.
About John Dickerson: John Dickerson is a prize-winning research journalist, a seminary-trained pastor, and a frequent commentator in national news outlets such as USA Today. Dickerson is the author of Hope of Nations, Jesus Skeptic and serves as the lead pastor of Connection Pointe Christian Church in the Indianapolis metro area.
About Living on the Edge: Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Nearly 250 years ago, Thomas Jefferson penned the famous phrase, |
| 0:06.0 | We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. |
| 0:11.0 | But where did that idea come from? |
| 0:14.0 | And how did that idea launch a little-known group in America to fight slavery |
| 0:20.0 | when the world was absolutely against them. |
| 0:23.3 | That's today. |
| 0:26.2 | Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:30.7 | We are an international teaching and discipleship ministry that motivates Christians to live like Christians. |
| 0:37.3 | We're grateful you've joined us today |
| 0:38.7 | as our guest teacher John Dickerson shares the second half of his talk, Jesus, you, and the |
| 0:44.1 | fight for human rights. But before we get going, if you want to go back and listen to the first |
| 0:48.8 | half of John's message or revisit any other part of our Dealing with Doubt series, |
| 0:55.4 | check out the Chip Ingram Map. |
| 1:01.2 | So if you're ready, John begins by describing how the equality and freedoms we enjoy today are the result of the Christians who fought for them throughout history. |
| 1:05.2 | Let's dive in. |
| 1:07.4 | As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. |
| 1:13.2 | That was the Quakers mantra. |
| 1:15.7 | We call it the golden rule today, and in modern English, it sounds more like this, |
| 1:20.5 | do unto others as you would have them do to you, or at an elementary level, |
| 1:25.9 | treat others the way you want to be treated. |
| 1:30.3 | That was their whole thesis. And the Quaker Christians within the United States started this spread |
| 1:35.3 | of people who could read the Bible for themselves, |
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