Love One Another - How to Restore Others After Moral Failure, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 24 March 2025
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Summary
Have you blown it big time? Have you committed a sin that you think has put you on the sideline forever? According to Jesus, you have hope. Chip shares that no matter how far you have fallen, you can reset your boundaries, beginning today, and get back in the game.
Main Points
Two extremes!- Exhibit A: Passive Indifference
- Exhibit B: Painful Insensitivity
- Step 1: Private conference --Matthew 18:15
- Step 2: Small group confrontation --Matthew 18:16
- Step 3: Public disclosure Matthew 18:17a
- Step 4: Public exclusion --Matthew 18:17b
The Question: How do we restore those who have fallen?
The Answer: Galatians 6:1-2
What does Galatians 6:1-2 mean?
- The Situation: A fellow Christian is “caught” (overcome) by a sin.
- The Command: The spiritually mature are to restore this believer.
- The Method: Gentleness is to characterize our attitude and the process.
- The Warning: Restoration is a dangerous process even for the mature.
- The Summary: “Bearing one another’s burdens” involves the arduous task of confrontation, forgiveness, comfort, and loving fallen believers back to a position of fellowship and former fruitfulness. (see 2 Corinthians 2:5-11 & Luke 15:11-32)
- We will all “fall” to some degree at some time.
- We must resist our fears and insecurities that lead to passive indifference.
- We must resist our desire for justice and self-righteous tendencies that lead to painful insensitivity.
- We must restore, not “shoot our wounded.”
- How can we fail to do for another what Christ has done for us?
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you blown it big time? Have you committed a sin that you think has put you behind the eight ball forever? |
| 0:07.8 | Are you off course? Are you out of the will of God? I want you to know today that no matter how far you've fallen, you can be restored today and come back. Stay with me. Find out how. |
| 0:23.6 | Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. We are an international teaching and discipleship |
| 0:29.3 | ministry that encourages and equips Christians to live like Christians. Today we're sharing |
| 0:34.4 | part two of Chip's message, How to Restore Others After Moral Failure from our series, Love One Another. |
| 0:40.8 | Stay with us to learn why a compassionate helping hand is more healing than a condemning finger wag. |
| 0:46.8 | Be sure to stick around after this teaching as Chip offers some additional wisdom on how to love those who've fallen into sin. |
| 0:54.0 | So if you're ready, here's Chip |
| 0:55.4 | with his vital talk from Galatians chapter 6. The Apostle Paul in Galatians 319 uses the word |
| 1:03.6 | trespass instead of the word that's translated here for sin and they're different words. In 319 it |
| 1:09.0 | means God draws a line in the sand and says, |
| 1:11.7 | Thou shall not, and you say, you want to bet and you walk across it. I'll never forget, |
| 1:17.0 | best picture of this in my life. It was many, many years ago. I got a phone call. I had a |
| 1:21.7 | meeting downtown in Dallas. And a fellow was going to be at that meeting, and I mean, |
| 1:29.3 | in his voice was frantic. He said, you've got to come 45 minutes early. |
| 1:31.3 | I've got to talk to you. |
| 1:33.3 | And I didn't know. |
| 1:35.3 | Well, I said, he said, I can't talk on the phone. |
| 1:37.3 | I got to meet me there. |
| 1:38.3 | And see, it was a restaurant we're going to meet at, |
| 1:40.3 | and so I met him in the parking lot. |
| 1:41.3 | No one was there. I pulled in. He motioned. I got out of my car. |
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