Good to Great in God's Eyes - Make Great Sacrifices, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 30 December 2024
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Summary
Chip continues this series with a topic that most of us rarely think about. And yet, it is one of the most important keys to cultivating an intimate walk with God. Join Chip as he shares how making great sacrifices is the gateway to greatness with God.
Main Points Introduction: Pondering the Power of “Sacrifice”Great sacrifices, even in movies, art, music, or athletics produce a profound and almost inexplicable emotional and spiritual response.
- We admire those who make great sacrifices.
- We enshrine those who make great sacrifices.
- We honor those who make great sacrifices.
- We reward those who make great sacrifices.
- We seek to emulate those who make great sacrifices.
Why? – What is this mystical union and soul connection we subconsciously make when we witness a great sacrifice for a noble cause, or a personal relationship?
Answer – Sacrifice is the clearest and greatest evidence of the extent of one’s love and devotion toward a person, a cause, or a thing. --John 15:13- In short, sacrifice is “the arrow” that points toward who or what we worship (ascribe worth, importance, value to).
- Lessons from Leviticus: Chapters 1-10
- Lessons from the life of Abraham: Genesis 22
- Lessons from the teachings of Jesus: Luke 14:25-35
- Lessons from the Apostle Paul: Romans 12:1
- They grasp God’s unconditional love.
- They embrace God’s relational economy.
- They trust God’s eternal goodness.
- They recognize God’s sovereign ownership.
- Have you surrendered your whole life to Christ as a living and holy sacrifice?
- Are you growing in loving God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength?
- Where there is great love there will always be great sacrifices.
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 EdgeLiving 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 | Can you remember the last time you got to observe someone, make a great sacrifice? |
| 0:08.0 | I'll never forget the day I saw a young woman empty her bank account so someone else could |
| 0:13.8 | have a surgery to save their life, and it inspired me to the depth of my soul. |
| 0:19.0 | Today we're going to learn about the power and the joy of making |
| 0:22.4 | great sacrifices. Stay with me. Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:30.0 | The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians through the Bible teaching |
| 0:35.2 | of Chip Ingram. Thanks for joining us as we continue Chip's insightful series, |
| 0:39.5 | Good to Great in God's eyes, |
| 0:41.5 | learning the profound practices that can make us great followers of Jesus. |
| 0:46.0 | And today he'll teach about a habit that may be a bit scary to some, |
| 0:49.4 | but is essential to a healthy relationship with our Heavenly Father. |
| 0:53.2 | So if you're ready, go to the Gospel of John |
| 0:55.0 | Chapter 15 as we join Chip for his talk. |
| 0:58.0 | Great Christians make great sacrifices, but don't let that word sort of, oh boy, |
| 1:05.0 | you know, your human nature just says the word sacrifice and yuck go together. |
| 1:10.0 | But I want to help change that by the grace of God. |
| 1:13.9 | Let's look at what sacrifice is. |
| 1:15.6 | Definition, it's the act of giving up, destroying or permitting injury to, or foregoing |
| 1:21.6 | something valued for the sake of something having more pressing claim. |
| 1:27.1 | That's Webster's. I like that. It's giving up. It's being willing to be injured. |
| 1:31.3 | It's doing whatever it takes, but it's for the sake of something that is more important, |
| 1:38.3 | that has a higher claim. I was in China and one of our world teachers, |
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