Momentum - Learning to Overcome the Evil Aimed at You, Part 1
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🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Has someone wounded you? Perhaps someone you trusted, you loved, and respected? Are you struggling to get past the anger and bitterness? Chip looks at how to overcome the evil aimed at you and move on with your life.
Main PointsIn a fallen world, “the rock” of evil, injustice, and betrayal will happen to all of us sooner or later. - 1 Peter 4:12; 2 Timothy 3:12-13
- Joseph’s journey reveals how to overcome the evil aimed at you.
- Joseph’s secret to overcoming evil involved something he knew, something he did, and something he refused to do.
How do you overcome the evil aimed at you?
- Choose to forgive the person(s) who have hurt you.
- Begin praying daily for God to bless the person(s) who hurt you (30 days).
- Do one act of kindness this week for the person(s) who hurt you (if possible and if appropriate).
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 EdgeLiving 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 | Has someone you wounded you, betrayed you, done you wrong? |
| 0:05.0 | Maybe it was someone you loved, someone you trusted, someone you respected, |
| 0:09.0 | but they just did you wrong and there's anger and bitterness and you don't know what to do with it. |
| 0:15.0 | If that's where you find yourself today, we're going to talk about how to overcome the |
| 0:19.6 | evil that's aimed to you. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. We are a discipleship-driven ministry on a mission to encourage Christians everywhere to live like Christians. |
| 0:37.0 | And probably the hardest lesson in the Christian life is what Chip alluded to, repaying evil with good. When someone treats you horribly or stabs us in |
| 0:46.2 | the back, everything in us wants to get even. But today Chip's going to help us respond |
| 0:51.0 | to injustice differently by examining a Bible character whose godly |
| 0:55.3 | attitude in the face of tremendous betrayal and unfairness is worth |
| 0:59.3 | imitating. So if you're ready let's continue Chip series momentum with his talk learning how to overcome the evil aimed at you from Genesis chapter 37 |
| 1:09.6 | Two main characters in the new testament are Peter and Paul and Peter's ministry is primarily to the Jews and Paul is primarily to the Gentiles. |
| 1:18.0 | And Peter would write, Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you're suffering as though something |
| 1:24.9 | strange were happening to you. In other words when things are very painful |
| 1:28.1 | difficult evil, unjust in a fallen world like don't be surprised. |
| 1:32.6 | The Apostle Paul would take it one step farther in 2nd Timothy 3, 12 and 13. |
| 1:36.6 | He says in fact everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted and then notice this while evil men and imposters |
| 1:46.4 | will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. And the question I have for you as we get started this morning |
| 1:55.0 | is who has wounded or betrayed or abused or abandoned |
| 1:59.0 | or forsaken you or forgotten you or hurt you more than anyone else in the world. |
| 2:09.0 | If you had to just, you know, let's, you don't, |
| 2:11.0 | I'm not gonna ask you to share this, I'm not to ask you to write it down, but I am going to ask you to reach |
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