Piercing the Darkness - Our Hope: How God Works in History, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
If you watch the nightly news or scroll through social media, you would think everything is hopeless and too terrible to fix. But in this program, Chip challenges that idea by looking at how God has worked throughout history and the ways He is active right now. Hear why, despite all the negativity and evil happening in our world, we can trust God and His plan of redemption.
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 | If you listen to the average newscast, you would think everything is terrible and dark and negative in the world. |
| 0:09.0 | But did you know that right now, 70,000 people are coming to Christ each and every day all across the world? |
| 0:17.0 | There is hope, and there's a way that he does it, and that's what we're going to talk about |
| 0:21.0 | today. |
| 0:22.1 | Stay with you. |
| 0:22.9 | Thanks for joining us for this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:31.4 | Chips are Bible teacher for this international teaching and discipleship ministry focused on helping |
| 0:36.5 | Christians live like Christians. |
| 0:38.9 | Today we're continuing our latest series, Piercing the Darkness, with the remainder of |
| 0:43.3 | Chip's Talk, Our Hope, How God Works in History. But before he gets going, let me encourage |
| 0:48.7 | you to use Chip's message notes while you listen. They include his brief outline and all |
| 0:53.7 | the supporting scripture he references. |
| 0:56.0 | To download these message notes, go to the broadcasts tab at Living on theedge.org, |
| 1:01.7 | app listeners tap fill in notes. Now last time Chip identified five realities are truths about our world. |
| 1:09.7 | So with that in mind, he begins today by reminding us of the type of person God has used |
| 1:14.6 | in the past and who he wants to use right now. |
| 1:17.6 | Well, let's dive in. |
| 1:20.6 | When Jesus decided to pierce the darkness and change not just world history, but I mean change everything. |
| 1:30.3 | He chose 12 very ordinary people. |
| 1:33.3 | And he chose them from backgrounds that they would never get along on their own. |
| 1:37.3 | And as you go through church history, I mean, whether it was a Martin Luther, |
| 1:43.3 | or whether it was a Deborah in the Old Testament or |
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