Good to Great in God's Eyes - Make Great Sacrifices, Part 2
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🗓️ 31 December 2024
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Summary
Want to become great in God’s eyes? In this message, you’ll learn why sacrifice and greatness go hand in hand.
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 | Who is the greatest Christian that you know? |
| 0:04.7 | What motivates them? |
| 0:06.3 | What makes them tick? |
| 0:07.9 | What is it about their life that produced them being such a great Christian? |
| 0:13.0 | We're going to learn the answer to that question today. |
| 0:15.9 | Stay with you. |
| 0:26.1 | Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Inver. |
| 0:31.5 | Living on the Edge is an international teaching and discipleship ministry, focused on helping Christians live like Christians. |
| 0:34.0 | Well, in just a minute, Chip will pick up where he left off last time in his talk, Make Great Sacrifices, which is from our series, Good to Great in God's Eyes. |
| 0:42.3 | But before he gets going, let me encourage you to stick around after the teaching. |
| 0:46.3 | Chip will share some helpful application around this idea of sacrificing |
| 0:50.3 | and explain why it's a necessary quality of a mature Christ follower. |
| 0:54.8 | Don't miss it. |
| 0:56.0 | Okay, if you're ready, here's Chip with the second half of his vital talk. |
| 1:00.8 | Lessons from the life of Paul, Paul is going to say in Romans chapter 12, |
| 1:05.4 | therefore I urge you brothers, notice, what's the motivation? |
| 1:09.0 | In view of God's mercy, in view of all that he's done for you, in view of all of his love, what's the motivation in view of God's mercy in view of all that he's done for you in view of all of his love |
| 1:13.4 | what's he say to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice holy and pleasing to God this is your spiritual |
| 1:21.3 | act of worship would you circle the little phrase to offer it literally means to present the. The word when it's translated, it's called |
| 1:29.1 | the LXX, it means the 70, and they translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek. And this Greek word in all |
| 1:35.6 | the Old Testament is when the priest would present the offering at the altar. And see what the |
| 1:42.2 | Apostle Paul is saying, because he makes this great logical line romans chapter |
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