Finding God When You Need Him Most - Experiencing God When You've Blown it Big Time, Part 1

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

Living on the Edge

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Have you blown it - big time? Maybe you think God can never forgive you or love you again. If you’ve sinned and you know it’s wrong, but you don’t know where to go, join Chip as he unpacks Psalm 51 and shares how you can begin to experience God, even if you’ve really messed up.

Main Points Introduction: What all humans have in common is failure.

But with God. . . FAILURE IS NEVER FINAL!

A song of confession: Psalm 51

7 steps to spiritual recovery:

COME clean with God! - 2 Samuel 12:13
ASK God for forgiveness. - Psalm 51:1-2
OWN Responsibility for your sin. - Psalm 51:3-5
ACCEPT God’s forgiveness and cleansing. - Psalm 51:6-9
REQUEST a “fresh” work of grace! - Psalm 51:10-12
RESOLVE to use past failures for ministry. - Psalm 51:13-17
PRAY for “limited fall-out” from your folly.

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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 Living on the Edge

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0:00.0	Do you feel like you've blown it big time?
0:04.0	You know, maybe you've committed a huge sin or you think God could never love you or he'll
0:08.5	never forgive you?
0:10.0	What do you do when you've blown it big time?
0:12.6	Stay with me.
0:18.4	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 Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. And we're nearing the end of our series, Finding God When You Need Him Most. For the past several broadcasts, Chips taught us how to experience genuine closeness with God when we feel pressured
0:39.2	by anxiety, resentment, or feelings of worthlessness. And today he'll tackle an all too common
0:45.2	experience in our faith journey. So go on your Bible to Psalm chapter 51 as we joined Chip
0:50.5	with his talk, experiencing God when you've blown it big time.
0:55.0	Sometimes smart people do dumb things.
1:01.0	Sometimes wise people do foolish things.
1:07.0	And sometimes even godly people do sinful things.
1:14.4	But over and over in Scripture, we find that we are related to a God
1:19.3	who, although he will never, ever treat sin lightly,
1:25.9	understands that we're but dust, understands when we blow it big time,
1:31.8	and is willing to meet us in a way that is absolutely contrary to human logic, absolutely
1:38.4	contrary to what we know about anyone or anything else other than him. He wants to forgive. He wants to take even our worst
1:49.6	moments, even when we knew it was wrong, and reclaim us for himself. I want to just read a story.
1:59.0	This is one of the most godly men in all scripture.
2:01.8	His name is David.
2:03.6	David was where he wasn't supposed to be as well.
2:07.1	The scripture says that it was time for kings to go out to battle and he stayed home.
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