I Choose Joy - Understanding the Power of Hope, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Someone has rightly said, adversity either makes us or breaks us. What makes the difference? The answer is a simple four letter word. Chip tells us what that word is and how it can help us rise above the most difficult circumstances in our lives and experience joy!
Main Points
KEY #3: Hope
- Where's my hope? -Philippians 1:18b-26
Paul's perspective facing death = joy
- Reason #1: His deliverance is certain.
- Reason #2: His source of joy is unshakeable.
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| 0:00.0 | It has been said that we can live a few weeks without food, a few days without water, but only a few minutes without hope. |
| 0:10.0 | We all have something or someone that sustains us and gives us hope. |
| 0:16.0 | Here's my question. Where's your hope? |
| 0:19.0 | We're going to talk today about a hope that can never let you |
| 0:22.5 | down. Stay with me. Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:30.6 | We are an international teaching and discipleship ministry that motivates Christians to live like Christians. |
| 0:37.8 | And in just a minute, we'll continue our series, I Choose Joy, based in Philippians chapter |
| 0:42.8 | one. |
| 0:44.1 | Last time Chip shared the story of a close friend who faced unimaginable adversities. |
| 0:49.5 | Yet through everything he experienced, his faith in God empowered him to endure anyway. |
| 0:54.7 | In this program, Chip builds off that inspiring testimony by highlighting the three ways God |
| 1:00.1 | delivered people throughout the Bible and how those truths apply to us today. |
| 1:05.1 | So grab your Bible and notes as we join Chip for part two of his message, |
| 1:09.2 | Understanding the Power of hope. |
| 1:12.6 | Deliverance number one, he delivers us out |
| 1:15.5 | of the adversity or the difficulty. |
| 1:18.1 | Number two is he delivers us through them. |
| 1:22.0 | Jot down 2 Corinthians chapter 12, verses 9 and 10. |
| 1:26.1 | This is what Paul is experiencing. He tells us that he had this |
| 1:30.9 | amazing experience and so that he wouldn't get proud. He was given a thorn in his flesh. Everyone |
| 1:37.0 | postulates and guesses. Is it malaria? Is it an eye disease? We don't know what it is, |
| 1:41.9 | but all we know is that there was a bad back situation |
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