I Choose Hope - Pursuing Hope, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 4 April 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this program, Chip lays out three key takeaways regarding spiritual maturity - what it is not, what it is, and what we gain from it.
Introduction: Spirituality and the pursuit of hope
- For many, finding and experiencing lasting HOPE in external success, rewards, fame, and wealth have proved futile.
- For others, seeking lasting HOPE in a person or persons has proved painful and disappointing.
- As a result, the vast majority of people on the earth (all non-atheists) seek lasting HOPE via some pathway to spiritual development and maturity.
Question: How do we pursue HOPE in a world filled with pseudo-spirituality?
The Answer: Philippians 3:12-16
3 Takeaways concerning spiritual maturity:
- Spiritual maturity does not mean we are PERFECT (or will ever be in this life).Philippians 3:12
- Spiritual maturity does mean our lives are characterized by a PASSIONATE PURSUIT of knowing and becoming like Jesus. Philippians 3:13-14
- Spiritual maturity does mean our lives will exhibit significant SPIRITUAL PROGRESS within and without.Philippians 3:15-16
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| 0:00.0 | What happens inside of you when you mess up? |
| 0:06.0 | I mean a real personal failure. |
| 0:09.0 | Does it ruin everything? |
| 0:11.0 | Or do you just shrug it off and figure out it's not that big a deal? |
| 0:14.0 | Do you confess it and move on? |
| 0:17.0 | Or does it stay with you and wreck any possibility of joy or peace? |
| 0:22.0 | Well today we're going to talk about what it means to put our past behind us. |
| 0:26.0 | Don't go away. |
| 0:31.0 | Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chippengrim. |
| 0:35.0 | Living on the Edge is an international discipleship ministry, motivating Christians to live like Christians. |
| 0:41.0 | To date Chippengrim's up we left off last time in his series I Choose Hope |
| 0:45.0 | by sharing three specific lessons we need to learn about spiritual maturity. |
| 0:50.0 | In case you missed the first half of his message or any part of his study in Philippians chapter 3, |
| 0:55.0 | catch up through the Chippengrim app. |
| 0:57.0 | It's a great way to listen to Living on the Edge anytime. |
| 1:00.0 | Okay here's Chipp for the second part of his talk, Pursuing Hope. |
| 1:05.0 | What the Apostle Paul is doing is he's addressing two extremes. |
| 1:09.0 | There were two extremes about what it meant to be spiritually mature |
| 1:13.0 | and in very subtle ways he's addressed both of them. |
| 1:17.0 | On the one hand spiritual maturity is not compulsive perfectionism. |
| 1:22.0 | When the Judaizers and legalistic people came in you got to live up, you got to live up, |
| 1:26.0 | you got to live up, you got to live up. |
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