Spiritual Simplicity - What's Love Got to Do With It?, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 21 August 2025
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Summary
Chip uncovers why a very specific attitude will destroy love and how you can avoid it.
Learning to love in “Real Time”
- Responding to Hurts:Truth: Love is patient and kind (1 Corinthians 13:4a).Practice: When hurt, love absorbs the blow and responds with kindness.
- Responding to Differences:Truth: Love does not envy or boast; it is not rude, self-seeking, easily angered, or does it keep a record of wrongs (1 Corinthians 13:4b-5).Practice: Celebrate differences and refuse to compare (1 Corinthians 12:12-31).
Comparison always leads to carnality.
- Envy (Compares UPWARD): Produces jealousy, anger, resentment, and bitterness (1 Corinthians 12:15-16).
- Solution: Believe God is good and has provided what's best for you. Admit and repent, ask God to use you, meditate on His goodness, and choose gratitude.
- Arrogance (Compares DOWNWARD): Produces pride, boasting, rudeness, and independence (1 Corinthians 12:21-22).
- Solution: Admit your needs and be vulnerable to receive God's goodness. Remember everything is from God, recall your humble beginnings, spend time with those who know your true self, and admit your needs.
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| 0:00.0 | There is one practice that is almost built into the human psyche that absolutely destroys relationships. |
| 0:10.0 | The moment I compare myself with another person, I go one of two directions. |
| 0:15.0 | I either feel inferior or superior, and neither of those responses helps me love them. |
| 0:21.9 | Today we're going to learn how to stop comparing and to really love people. |
| 0:30.5 | Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:34.8 | We are an international teaching and discipleship ministry that encourages and equips Christians |
| 0:40.3 | to live like Christians. |
| 0:42.2 | Well, in just a minute, we'll dive back into Chip's series, Spiritual Simplicity, by sharing |
| 0:46.8 | the second half of his talk, what's love got to do with it. |
| 0:50.3 | Today, Chip reminds us that godly love is powerful, but when we compare, whether through envy or pride, it can damage and even destroy love. |
| 0:59.3 | So let's learn how to avoid the trap of comparison. |
| 1:02.3 | Go in your Bible again to 1st Corinthians chapter 13 for the remainder of Chip's talk. |
| 1:08.1 | Here's what I want you, I mean, this is what we're going after. |
| 1:12.3 | This is the jugular. |
| 1:15.2 | You want to become more loving in real time. |
| 1:16.1 | Here's the issue. |
| 1:19.6 | Comparison always leads to carnality. |
| 1:25.3 | The moment you ever compare yourself with another person, it always produces carnality. |
| 1:28.3 | And if you're wondering what carnality is, it's just sin. |
| 1:36.1 | You're not loving. Because the moment you compare, there's only two directions to go. You start comparing and you go, hmm, I think that person's up here and I'm here. That's a lot nicer car. |
| 1:42.1 | They have more visible gifts. I'm single and they're |
| 1:44.8 | married and I wish I was married. Or it goes the other way. You know what? That person's not very |
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