Love Serves
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Did you know God wants you to be great? What does it take to be great in God's eyes? That's the topic in this message, as Chip continues his study of Philippians, Chapter 2. It's actually pretty simple - but it's not easy. Two words: Love serves.
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 | This is the Chip Ingram Sermon podcast, brought to you by Living on the Edge. |
| 0:06.8 | In this podcast, you'll hear Chip's teaching unedited and from beginning to end. |
| 0:12.9 | Here's Chip Ingram with today's message titled, Love Serves. |
| 0:17.2 | We tend to think about love as, you know, a romantic feeling or an emotion, and I'm all for those. |
| 0:23.2 | But the kind of love we're talking about requires a choice. |
| 0:27.0 | And there's some things that work against us being loving people. |
| 0:30.5 | And they're not necessarily bad, but they can distract us. |
| 0:33.5 | And I'd like you to think just right now, when was the first time just as back far as you can go |
| 0:38.7 | when you really thought to yourself, I want to be great at something? |
| 0:43.9 | I mean, something clicked and you just said, you know, I want to be a great musician, or I want |
| 0:48.0 | to be great in ballet, or I want to be a great student, or I remember I was, I think, 11 11 or 12 years old sixth grade going into seventh |
| 0:57.2 | grade and I went to a sports banquet and this coach was speaking and he kept talking about this |
| 1:02.7 | one five foot nine guard in a small school that led the nation in scoring and he talked about his |
| 1:10.0 | work ethic and all I can tell you is |
| 1:13.0 | something got birthed inside, and I thought, I want to be a great basketball player. And I was so |
| 1:19.6 | motivated because this guy's only five foot nine, and as I went into seventh grade, I was 411. |
| 1:25.9 | And I went out for the team, and the coach said, why don't you go out for |
| 1:28.8 | wrestling? We need someone in the 85 pound class weight. And basically, you're too short, you'll |
| 1:35.0 | never be a basketball player anyway. Well, to my personality, that's like, you know, pouring gasoline |
| 1:41.6 | on the fire. And I remember just going absolute kind of nutso and starting, you know, I started doing a bunch of drills. |
| 1:49.5 | And I started this ladder in my mind of first I'm going to make the team, then I'll get some playing time, |
| 1:55.3 | and then after I'll be a starter, and then I'll get prepared, and then I'll be a starter in the high school, |
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