I Choose Love - Love Serves, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In our pursuit of greatness in God's eyes, we tend to imagine following Jesus into ever-increasing, upward levels of maturity. In this program, Chip poses the fascinating premise that we actually follow Jesus, descending into greatness.
How do we measure greatness?
- Power = Who and what we control
- Possessions = What and how much we own
- Position = Our rank in the pecking order
- Prestige = Who and how many “look up” to us
- Productivity = What and how much we accomplish
How do we obtain greatness?
- Two pathways to greatness: Ascending and descending
- True greatness defined = Philippians 2:3-4
How do you experience true greatness?
- One word = Humility (Humility is the channel through which the supernatural power of God’s love flows to heal our deepest hurts and restore our most important relationships.)
How to be authentically humble:
- Humility flows from a specific “mindset”. -Philippians 2:5
- We achieve true greatness when we embrace Christ’s “mindset” toward power and possessions. -Philippians 2:6
- We become truly great when we embrace Christ’s “mindset” toward position and prestige. -Philippians 2:7
- We become truly great when we embrace Christ’s “mindset” toward productivity. -Philippians 2:8
- We experience the reward of true greatness when we follow Christ’s example of servanthood. -Philippians 2:9-11
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| 0:00.0 | Who is the most authentically humble person that you know? |
| 0:05.6 | And what is it about that person's attitude, their concern for others, their approach to |
| 0:11.0 | life that makes them so attractive? |
| 0:13.6 | Here's the question, would you like to be like that? |
| 0:16.1 | I want to be like that. |
| 0:17.9 | And today, we together can learn how. |
| 0:20.8 | Stay with me. |
| 0:23.8 | Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Yves. |
| 0:29.9 | With Chip Ingram, Living on the Edge is an international teaching and discipleship ministry |
| 0:35.4 | focused on helping Christians live like Christians. |
| 0:38.8 | And I'm really eager for you to hear Chip's message today from a series I choose love. |
| 0:43.4 | They'll identify a clear path for us to follow to become great in God's eyes. |
| 0:48.4 | What's fascinating is these steps don't lead us toward more power, prestige or possessions. |
| 0:53.8 | So where do they lead? |
| 0:54.8 | Well, for that answer, here's Chip for part two of his talk, Love Serves from Philippians chapter two. |
| 1:02.2 | A bond servant in Jewish and in Roman culture had no rights. |
| 1:06.1 | You might have a number of servants in the house. |
| 1:08.4 | The bond servant is the guy that picks up the do-do. |
| 1:10.9 | He's the guy that empties the trash. |
| 1:12.7 | He's the guy that has zero rights, no anything anywhere at any time. |
| 1:18.5 | Could you just pause for a moment? |
| 1:22.7 | Could you imagine? |
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