Love Obeys, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
There's a huge tension between God's sovereignty and our free will. Join Chip as he wrestles with this tension and finds answers in Philippians, Chapter 2, to the question: How do we "work out" what God has already "worked in"?
Two critical questions
- What can we expect from God?
- What does God expect from us?
Church history: Two views concerning God’s expectations
- J. CALVIN
- J. ARMINUS
God’s Word rejects both extremes and hold God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility in “biblical tension” and balance.
- Man’s responsibility -Philippians 2:12
- God’s sovereignty -Philippians 2:13
How do we “work out” what God has “worked in”?
- The command: Be a GRATEFUL servant! -Philippians 2:14
- The purpose: Be a GODLY servant! -Philippians 2:15a
- The result: Be a BOLD servant! -Philippians 2:15b-16a
- The motive: Be a JOYFUL servant! -Philippians 16b-18
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:14.6 | When's the last time when you were talking to God personally and intimately, |
| 0:20.0 | you thanked him for the great progress you're making |
| 0:22.4 | in your faith. I find people that no matter how much progress you make, you never feel like |
| 0:27.5 | you measure up. And behind that is the sense that God is down on you. How do we work out what God |
| 0:34.5 | has already worked in and be thankful for it. Stay with me. That's today. |
| 0:40.3 | What does God really expect from you? Today on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram tackles a |
| 0:45.8 | question that haunts many believers. We've heard the verses about working out our salvation |
| 0:50.8 | with fear and trembling. But what does that actually mean? Is God standing over |
| 0:55.8 | us with crossed arms disappointed when we fail? Or is something deeper going on? Through Philippians |
| 1:02.1 | Chapter 2, Chip reveals the beautiful balance between God's sovereign work in us and our |
| 1:07.0 | responsibility to respond. It's not about earning his favor. |
| 1:13.9 | It's about cooperating with what he's already begun. |
| 1:18.4 | Well, here's Chip Ingram with today's message, Love Obey's. |
| 1:23.0 | So the question I want to ask you is, what's your expectations of God? |
| 1:26.7 | What do you expect of him? |
| 1:44.1 | And are you ready to flip it over? you ever thought seriously about what god expects of you and just like our personal history shapes our expectations with one another history itself shapes our expectations depending depending on our backgrounds. |
| 1:49.3 | In the 16th century, John Calvin was a great, great theologian. |
| 1:55.2 | He had a very strong view of God and about his sovereignty and his power. |
| 1:58.9 | But it was pushed to extremes by some of his followers. And so about 80 or 90 years later, a fellow |
| 2:02.2 | named Jacob Arminius came along and he said, boy, you know, that's, we strayed beyond the |
| 2:07.7 | Bible. And so he began to teach some things. And so what you have is two basic camps. |
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