Love Serves, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
Living on the Edge
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 25 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.
The quest for greatness = UNIVERSAL!
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
- 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.
Following Jesus into greatness - 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
Conclusion: God wants you to be great!
- The acid test of greatness = LOVE
- The road to greatness = HUMILITY
- The opportunity for greatness = SERVING
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:14.2 | Who is the most authentically humble person that you know? |
| 0:18.0 | And what is it about that person's attitude? Their concern for others, |
| 0:22.8 | their approach to life that makes him so attractive. Here's the question, would you like to be like |
| 0:28.0 | that? I want to be like that. And today, we together can learn how. Stay with me. |
| 0:36.0 | Today on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram reveals the secret to authentic humility. |
| 0:41.5 | I'm Dave Drewie, and in our series Choosing Love, we're discovering that love isn't a feeling, it's a choice. |
| 0:47.9 | And today, Chip shows us how Jesus modeled perfect servitude. |
| 0:51.8 | No job too low, no recognition required, no thanks needed. |
| 0:56.3 | You'll learn why humility grows through obedience, not introspection, and you'll discover the |
| 1:01.6 | incredible rewards that come when you follow Christ's example of descending into greatness. |
| 1:07.4 | So grab your Bible and turn to Philippians chapter 2, verse 5. Here's Chip Ingram with today's |
| 1:12.9 | message, love serves. Notice humility flows from a specific mindset. Hear the command. Have this |
| 1:21.0 | attitude in yourselves, which was also in Christ Jesus, who although he existed in the form of God, |
| 1:27.3 | did not regard equality with God a thing |
| 1:29.2 | to be grasped. But he emptied himself, taking the form of a bond servant, and being made in the |
| 1:34.6 | likeness of men. When it says he emptied himself for Bible students, the word is conosis. Literally, |
| 1:41.2 | it means he made himself nothing. It's a sacrifice that's unbelievable and and what he's doing |
| 1:47.9 | is he's saying i was in the form the very essence of god i make myself nothing never ceasing in any way |
| 1:56.5 | relieving himself of any deity he's fully god fully, fully man, and then notice what it says. |
| 2:03.1 | Taking the form, the essential nature, not just of a servant, but of a bond servant. |
| 2:10.4 | A bond servant in Jewish and in Roman culture had no rights. |
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