Love One Another - How to Lift Up Those Who are Down, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 13 March 2025
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Summary
God is good! But life is hard, isn’t it? Let’s be honest. Sometimes life is just plain difficult. It isn’t fair and, in short order, you can find yourself in a world of hurt. How do you rise above those circumstances? Join Chip as he encourages us how to lift up those who are down.
Main Points
Sometimes the only difference between success and failure is a simple word of encouragement!
What is encouragement?
- Meaning of the word:
- Use in the New Testament:
- Use in the Old Testament:
Summary: We are to aid, help, support, and intercede for each other by means of comforting in affliction, strengthening in faith, and motivating toward righteousness. In short, encouragement (building up others) is taking the truth of Scripture by life and word in the context of meaningful and caring relationships, to restore perspective and, thereby, provide hope which carries us through affliction and above complacency.
Why is encouragement so important?
- Because God commands it. --1 Thessalonians 5:11
- Because sin is deceitful. --Hebrews 3:13
- Because spiritual growth requires it. --1 Thessalonians 3:2
- Because we lose perspective so easily. --2 Corinthians 7:3-7
- Hebrews10:19-25
- Since we have access into God’s presence. --Hebrews 10:19
- Since we never go into God’s presence alone. --Hebrews 10:21
- “Let us draw near…” Biblical encouragement restores perspective. --Hebrews 10:22
- “Let us hold fast…” Biblical encouragement promotes endurance. --Hebrews 10:23
- “Let us stimulate one another…” Biblical encouragement inspires spiritual growth. --Hebrews 10:24
- By stimulating one another to Christ-like attitudes and actions in relationships.
- By refusing to allow one another to “drift” from regular attendance at worship or small group times.
- By reminding one another of the certainty and accountability involved in Christ’s return.
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About Chip Ingram
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 Edge
Living 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 | God is good, but life is hard, isn't it? |
| 0:05.0 | How do you rise above those circumstances? |
| 0:07.0 | I'll tell you how. |
| 0:08.0 | It takes a thing called encouragement. |
| 0:11.0 | And today we're going to discover together how to bring encouragement into one another's lives |
| 0:17.0 | and to bring hope and healing to those in pain. Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:25.6 | Our mission is to inspire Christians to be genuine followers of Jesus and to empower them to be active disciple makers in our world. |
| 0:33.6 | Thanks for joining us as we continue our series Love One Another. And today, Chip will give us a |
| 0:39.9 | challenging reminder that amidst all the chaos and demands of everyday life, there are people who are |
| 0:45.9 | struggling and desperately need some encouragement. So why don't you settle in with your Bible? |
| 0:51.2 | We'll be in Hebrews chapter 10. Chip begins his talk how to lift up |
| 0:55.6 | those who are down what did Jesus say and we know that Jesus said a lot but we know that the number |
| 1:02.6 | one thing he said the very last night on the earth was love one another how the way I loved you so love one another. And he said when we love one another, |
| 1:16.0 | when we sacrificeally, unconditionally love each other the way he loved us. He said the whole |
| 1:23.8 | world, the whole world will know that we're his followers. How do you specifically |
| 1:30.1 | do that? This wasn't some, you know, milky, sort of, you know, yeah, you know, syrupy, love each |
| 1:36.3 | other. This isn't the real fabric of life. He wants us to love each other in concrete, tangible, |
| 1:42.9 | clear, waves from the heart. |
| 1:44.4 | This wasn't a mushy sentimentalism. |
| 1:46.7 | This wasn't a romantic notion of love. |
| 1:48.9 | This was love where you accept people that are hard to accept, |
| 1:52.0 | where you encourage one another, honor one another, forgive one another. |
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