12 Aug 2025 06:10
Balancing Life's Demands - Warning: Personal Discipline Can be Hazardous to Your Health, Part 1
In this message, Chip reveals the danger of becoming too disciplined in both your personal and spiritual life. He shares how to recognize the warning signs of an out-of-balance spiritual life.
To what degree have you taken specific steps in the following areas? (1=none; 2=little; 3=started & doing okay; 4=making good progress; 5=vigorously pursuing)
- Objectives: Moving from vague ideas to specific decisions about the kind of person I want to become and what I want to accomplish.
- Priorities: Ordering my life in such a way that the important and eternal are not forfeited by the "pressing" and the "urgent."
- Schedule: Determining specifically how and when I will place the important and eternal in my daily life.
- Discipline: Doing what needs to be done when it needs to be done.
- Accountability: Enlisting the support of those who love me to help me keep my commitments to God.
Jesus' Warning #1: In our pursuit of "seeking first" His righteousness there is the danger of DISTORTION.
Application of Matthew 5:20 to...
- Murder –5:21-26
- Adultery –5:27-30
- Divorce –5:31-32
- Oaths –5:33-37
- Retribution –5:38-41
- Enemies –5:43-48
Jesus' Warning #2: In our pursuit of "seeking first" His righteousness there is also the danger of DECEPTION. -Matthew 6:1-18
- Giving: Key Issue = MOTIVE -Matthew 6:1-4
- Prayer: Key Issue = DISCERNMENT -Matthew 6:5-8
- Fasting: Key Issue = PERSPECTIVE -Matthew 6:16-18
Application: SECRECY is God's method of keeping our motives pure.
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