Piercing the Darkness - Our Hope: How God Works in History, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Do you feel like the whole world is spiraling out of control? Has that caused you to lose hope and be discouraged? In this program, Chip will remind us that there is an incredible reason for hope as long as we look to the right source. Join us as we study the life and ministry of Jesus and what His example teaches us about breaking through the darkness of our world.
Main Points 5 Realities of our world today:- We are living in a dark world locally, nationally, and globally.
- God’s story from beginning to end gives us a certain hope to pierce the darkness.
- Jesus’ “life” is the light and the darkness can never overcome it.
- God’s greatest work has always occurred in the darkest moments in human history.
- Jesus’ “life” (what He actually did) launched His Kingdom of light movement by starting small, dreaming big, and going deep.
- Surrender to the Father
- Separation from the world
- Sober self-assessment
- Serving in love
- Supernatural response to evil
- Surrender all
- Separate from the world
- Sober self-assessment
- Serve in love
- Supernatural response to evil
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 | Have you lost hope? Are you discouraged? Do you feel like the whole world is spiraling out of control? |
| 0:08.6 | Here's what I want you to know. There is great hope, but you have to know where to look for it. |
| 0:14.1 | That's today. Stay with me. |
| 0:17.8 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:21.7 | The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians through the Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. |
| 0:28.0 | And in just a minute, we'll kick off his latest series, Piercing the Darkness. |
| 0:32.2 | With the next handful of programs, Chip will take a step back and study the impact of Jesus' earthly ministry. |
| 0:38.3 | Join us as we look at the remarkable way Jesus broke through the dark, sinful, hopeless world |
| 0:43.3 | he lived in with truth and grace, and how we can apply what he taught to our lives now. |
| 0:49.3 | Well, there's a lot to get to, so here's Chip to kick off this series with his message, |
| 0:53.3 | Our Hope, How God Works |
| 0:55.3 | in History. |
| 0:57.7 | How do we pierce the darkness? We pierce it in our personal lives and in our homes and neighborhoods |
| 1:03.5 | in this city and beyond. And so we're not going to figure out who to blame about the darkness. |
| 1:10.5 | We're not going to complain about the darkness. |
| 1:12.9 | We're going to ask God to do something in us and then through us where we actually |
| 1:16.5 | we pierce it. |
| 1:19.2 | And so what I'm going to talk about today is our hope. |
| 1:22.5 | And part of piercing the darkness is getting perspective. |
| 1:26.2 | It's pretty easy to feel like things are really, |
| 1:29.1 | really, really dark, and there's maybe not a lot of hope when you look at circumstances. |
| 1:33.9 | In fact, let me ask you a few questions. Today, sitting here, how hopeful are you about the future |
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