God's Boundaries for Abundant Living - Why We Have So Much and Enjoy it So Little, Part 2

Are you tired of chasing the wind?

I mean, you know, the next big thing. The car, the home, the marriage, the kids, the next big thing, the next big race, thinking that when you get it, then you'll really be content. Today, I want to give you three keys to genuine contentment and how to restore the joy in your soul.

Stay with me. Thanks for joining us for this Edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. Chip's our Bible teacher for this international discipleship ministry focused on helping Christians live like Christians. Is it really possible to enjoy life more by living with less?

Seems like a paradox, right? Well, today, Chip assures us it's absolutely possible, and it's actually the pathway to experiencing more peace and fulfillment. But before we begin, we hope our study in Exodus, chapter 20, has opened your eyes to the relevance and value of the Ten Commandments. And so to help others learn from this series as you have, would you take a minute after this message and share it with a friend or loved one?

You can do that through the Chip Ingram app or by sending them the free MP3s that you'll find at livingontheedge.org. But with all that said, here's Chip with part two of his message, Why We Have So Much and Enjoy It So Little. He begins by highlighting another issue that can steal our joy. It's worry. Ecclesiastes 5-12 says, A working man can get a good night's sleep, but a rich man has so much that he stays awake worrying.

Concern, anxiety, energy that goes simply into keeping stuff up. Had a good friend, he's a radiologist in California, and then he was over a pretty large group and became, you know, very well-to-do, did very well, and his daughter majored in Spanish. And he just thought, you know, I'd like to learn that. And went to the community college and took Spanish one, two, three, four, and then he said, you know, the only way to get it, I'm gonna immerse myself in the culture. And his daughter was a Spanish major and now a missionary.

And so he went to Central America for about six weeks, and with no one but speaking Spanish, lived in a home. And he came back, and he and I were hanging out doing something. And he said, you know, everyone says this when they come back, but he said, I'm flying back on the plane, and life was so simple. And he said, I came back realizing just how much stuff I have to take care of. You know, I got to write all these bills to all this stuff. There's a guy, a maintenance guy, who needs to come to do the pool. There's a maintenance guy on the two cars.

I got two cars, and I did get that little sports car, and I got to keep that thing up. And then, you know, the maintenance of doing life, the worry, if your mind is consumed and anxious about taking care of all the stuff, maybe you ought to simplify it. Maybe it's not worth it. Maybe more isn't better. And then isn't true, and you've been win-then, win-then, win-then, win-then.

Maybe you ought to just say now. I'm going to thank God for what I have and live a different way. The fourth evidence of covetousness is conflict. James 4 one says, what causes conflict and quarrels among you? Don't they come from the desires?

That's our word, lust, passions, that battle within you. If you've been in the corporate world, or I've seen it in the ministry world, when someone covets someone else's job, they start making innuendos. in the corporate world about how that guy doesn't really do a good job, or how she doesn't do a very good job, and they drop little things here. Why?

Because they want to move up, and the way to move up is to get rid of that person. So what happens? Conflict.

Or you don't have to go to the corporate world. Go to the average marriage. You realize the number one cause of divorce in the average marriage is centering around the issue of finances.

You know what? And it always reveals values. She wants this. He wants that.

Can't have it all. She wants to save some. She wants to spend some. She wants to save some. He wants to buy this. And then you get to the end of the month, and it reveals all kinds of pressures, differences of values, and you have quarrels and conflicts.

Why? Because of the desires. The passionate desires. We can't be a happy family if we don't have this. We can't have a happy family unless we live in this kind of house.

We can't be a happy couple unless we save so much money. And wherever they are, the conflict rises up. In fact, if you want to see the truth of this, just give it a shot. Let's get two toddlers and three cookies.

You don't have to learn this one. Give me any two toddlers, three cookies in the room, you will have a fight. Why? Because in our Adamic DNA, we covet. We want what someone else has. Test, I think, of friendship is when you hear something awesome and wonderful and great about a friend and your initial response is genuine joy. When you're both single and longing for a date and haven't had one, and then they get one with the guy that you think, wow, he's a great guy and he's a holy guy and all the rest, and your immediate response is not, why didn't he ask me instead of her? It's thank you, Lord. When someone that you're a friend with gets the promotion and is able to get the house and their priorities are in order, and you say, wow, that'll be great for you.

I'm so excited for you. When someone has the success or makes the big sale, when your immediate reaction is, wow, that's great. I got a friend like that named Steve, and he's watched as we've been together, and we both came out of this little church of 35 people, and he started out as a defensive coordinator, the football coach in the town, and then later he came on staff, and we got to do the run together there in Texas, and then we did another 10, 11 years here, and just God started doing things in my life, and I think the person other than probably my wife and family that were more amazed and overjoyed genuinely about the blessing and success on my life with Steve, and then he really began to talk to me about, okay, hey, man, you got to protect yourself, and there's going to be new pressures, and he took on personally, I want you to be successful, and I mean, it's like, wow, this is awesome, and I'll never forget. We were on like three or four or five radio stations, and there was this one big one that, I mean, it was going to be outrageously expensive, and God did a miracle, and we ended up doing some things, and I think he was about four times as happy about that event than I was, and it was so humbling that I told you about when I was in California, and he turned to me because we used to go to elders meetings, and they always went to midnight, and back in the little Texas town, and there was only like 4,500 people. I mean, that was the metro area of Kaufman, Texas, and so the only thing open was 7-Eleven, and Steve and I would, after an elders meeting about 12 o'clock, we'd go to 7-Eleven and get, you know, those really rank burritos that you can put in a microwave, and we would put those thing in, get a Diet Coke, and sit outside next to the car, and talk about what God was doing, and we had breakfast, he said. God's done a lot since those burritos at 7-Eleven, hasn't he?

And he's now a senior pastor of a church that's growing and doing amazing things, but the test of friendship is do you rejoice when something great happens to a friend? And final symptom here is dissatisfaction. You will never be satisfied if you long to be rich, and I would add, or famous, or have a perfect life, or you fill it in. You will never get all you want. Success is always a moving target.

It's always a provision. Did you ever think about it that way? That when you're just never, ever, ever satisfied with what God has given you, that it's kind of contempt where God, well, you do this, and he does it, and you go, oh, that's nice, but this is what I want, and then he does it, and you go, well, God, that's not what, you know, we get to the point where I wonder if the Lord just sometimes crosses his arms and says, you know, why don't I just let you experience some not instead of some blessing? Because no matter what I do, all you want is more, because you've bought into the more is better, bigger is better. When I get this, then I'll be happy. Fatigue, debt, worry, conflict, dissatisfaction.

On a scale of one to ten, how you doing? How much of this could be behind, in your heart, behind maybe some issues you've been thinking about all week in the Ten Commandments? Could it be that some unresolved anger, some murderous thoughts are really because there's conflict toward someone because you want something and you can't get it? Could it be that you unconsciously lie or even steal because we found out we were all thieves because there's some desires and you can't get it, and the way you think you can get it is to take a shortcut or say something that's not true?

Could it be that God is no longer your God, but there is an idol because unconsciously you covet and you believe that this job or this person or this thing will really make you happy? Do you see where I'm going? Once you break the power of coveting in your life, the other nine commands begin to fall into place. Well, let's get to the positive side. You look a little depressed, and I'm feeling that way looking at your faces.

You're looking at me like, man, I thought the first nine were tough, and this is really, really. Well, you know what? There's good news, and the good news is that the reason God wants you not to covet is he has a desire for you to be content, and he has a desire for you to be pure, because purity produces peace and joy and love, and God wants you to experience that. And as long as there's this little motor inside, gotta have, gotta have, gotta have, gotta have, he's gotta have, he's gotta, as long as you have that, you'll never have peace. You'll never have joy.

You'll never be able to enjoy and love the people that are in front of you, because you'll always be thinking about what you really need that would really make you happy tomorrow or the next day or next year. I have learned, circle the word learned, will you? I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well-fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. That means that there was a day when the Apostle Paul woke up, and he thought more was better. There was a day when he, when then, when I'm a super-duper, super-duper Pharisee.

Then, and he learned that that didn't work, and he got disillusioned, but he learned. As an early apostle, I bet there were days he got up and thought, if I can just preach more to more people and reach all the Gentiles then, and finally, he learned, I've learned to be content, that, you know, even though I'm in jail, and it doesn't make sense because I have this mission to reach the whole world, I'm gonna trust that God, I'm gonna get up every day, I'm gonna set the goals, I'm gonna pray, I'm gonna ask God for grace, and I'm gonna bust it, but Lord, you're in control, and I'm gonna be content where they have a little financially or a lot. I'm gonna be content whether I'm out on the trail preaching, teaching, or I don't know why you got me in this prison, because I'm not doing anything but writing a few letters.

I'm glad he was in prison, aren't you? But what he learned was there could be a guide chain next to him. You know, for this has turned out for my deliverance, your prayers and the provision of Christ Jesus, and I want you to know that although some people are preaching Christ from envy and strife, I'm here with the whole Praetorian Guard, and God is using it for his greater glory.

The word of God is going out like never before, and those believers here in the Philippian church are more bold than ever before because of my imprisonment. He says, I learned. I learned that just because circumstances aren't the way I want them, I've learned that just because I don't have as much as I'd like, I've learned that even when I have a lot, by the way, I'm learning. It takes as much grace and maybe more grace to be content when God gives you more than you ever dreamed than when you're really hurting, especially financially. To learn to receive and enjoy what God gives you and be generous with it, I think it often is even harder because, you know what, when you don't have anything, remember those early years, some of us in marriage and, you know, we were trying to find quarters in the back seat and we went 15 days in seminary and never ate any meat or didn't go to the grocery store and took $5 with 13 other couples and went to the farmer's market and we ate all vegetables and Teresa made bread from whole wheat flour.

I mean, we just, we lived on about $900, $800 a month. We were rich in faith. We believed God. Those were happy days.

They were hard but they were wonderful. We learned to be content. But I think sometimes it takes more grace as God has given many people in this room a lot. How do you know how much is enough? How do you learn to enjoy richly what He's given you but not let it cling to you? Well, let me give you three ways I think that you can do that. Number one, stop comparing yourself with others. This gets to the heart of it. You want to be content.

You want joy. You really want to stop coveting, okay? Stop comparing yourself with others. Apostle Paul says in St. Corinthians 10, 12, for we are not bold to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.

In fact, it's stronger than that. Without understanding, it's kind of like they're nuts. They're crazy. It's illogical.

It's irrational. Don't compare yourself with other people. Don't compare your house with their house, your body with their body, your car with their car, your abilities with their abilities, your girlfriend, boyfriend with their girlfriend, their boyfriend, your wife, your husband with their wife, their husband. Don't compare intelligence. Don't compare jobs. Don't compare social skills. Don't compare education. Don't compare spirituality. Don't compare looks.

Don't compare anything. And I love the look you're giving me it's like well. What do I do with all that free time in my brain? Because that's what we do We I mean we just were unconsciously experts at it right you walk in the mall Oh, can you believe that kid with the orange?

What's the orange here? Why would he if you're gonna wear three earrings you ought to move the ones? I can't believe that or do you see that guy over there? Yeah, you can kind of tell look at the kind of shoes He he thinks he's really cool. You know those kind of shoes, and that's or do you see that guy? Yeah, that dude's 40 years old. He's got muscles.

He's got muscles behind his ears. I mean whoo. What do you think about that? I don't know, but I win this other guy. Did you see his watch?

You didn't see it. Did you he's coming you know and we just we just do it You drive up to a stoplight and you look over What do you do you start comparing you walk into a Starbucks and you're in line? What do you do you start comparing you go to church you hear someone saying? What do you do if you're a musical you start comparing if you play an instrument if someone's up playing instrument? What do you do you start comparing I mean we compare we compare we compare we compare we compare We compare we compare when we do it. We are without understanding But he says I'm not bold to class or compare ourselves with some of those who come in themselves When you measure yourselves by themselves you're without understanding Now how about Wow that guy's probably worked out hard, and you know I admire.

He's really made the best of his body. You know I kind of Those aren't the shoes for me, but I admire that guy's courage to wear those in public You know or You know whenever possible why not you know why not walk through someone's house and admire it and say Lord This is wonderful. I have no idea you know people's hearts, but I'll tell you I'm so glad you gave them this you know I'm kind of glad they have a pool because we can swim in at any time And I don't have to do any of the upkeep Lord.

Thank you very much. Yeah, you know well Why don't we admire and thank God and praise God and not judge motives and not put in? expectations not think we know what people's thinking and where their hearts are at or why they do what they do since we don't know Any of that and we're forbidden to judge. Why don't we just admire and say hey great in fact with all that free time I want to give you the next step beyond admiring is to rejoice and give thanks in what you do have Once you admire say God. I'm glad that guy by the way this works this really works I mean I've driven some really dumpy cars and got up next to some real nice cars and started down that path and When I stopped I've gone Lord. Thank you for this Chevy Nova Lord, thank you that even in Texas without air conditioning that it runs Lord, thank you that You know I never dreamed I'd get to go to seminary And I don't have money for a car, but you provided this one and Lord. Thank you, and you guess what? I'm not looking at that car anymore and Thank you. God that whenever you want me to get a better one. I'd appreciate it and Lord Thank you that if I ever get air conditioning.

I'll tell you what I'll be the most grateful cool. Dude. You've ever met Because after I get out of the car I feel like I need to change shirts in Texas in the summer, but thank you Lord See if you begin to rejoice and give thanks in what you do have it changes things I put a couple passages for you to meditate on and I suggest maybe some of these you write down on a three-by-five card And you just kind of make read them over at night and in the morning and and put a few to memory Ecclesiastes 519 says if God gives man wealth and property and lets him enjoy them He should be grateful and enjoy what he has worked for it is a gift from God I think we need to very clearly carefully teach and preach that it is a very Serious sin to be materialistic Because we rationalize it, but there's a balancing thing that needs to be taught when your priorities are in order When you're giving generously when your heart is free before God the Bible says God Chooses at times to give wealth and add no sorrow to it and Ecclesiastes says if God should choose You know what it wealth doesn't have the power to make you happy as Evidenced by many many many wealthy people and wealth doesn't have the power to make you sad But what it is it's a stewardship given from God if God would choose and you're thinking well Yeah, those wealthy people you are those wealthy people.

Okay. You do you live in America? You are wealthy people you drive a car you have a house you own a house. You're in the top 1% of the world You know what then what I find is we're so Self-conscious is we don't on the positive side if you drive a Lexus and your priorities are in order Enjoy it. Will you I hear Christians all the time? Apologizing instead of giving thanks for what God gave them if God gave you something nice and your priorities in order Just say yes the Lord the point, you know, I don't deserve this but the Lord has been so gracious Yeah, I mean, what do you think? Some guy was staring thinking these were weird shoes Like I warm in public, but I think they're really cool and the Lord gave them to me and I'm not just teasing but but but you know, we've got to get that balance where we Give thanks and enjoy what God has given you Notice it goes on to say do all things without grumbling or disputing that you may prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation Among whom you appear as lights in the world If you really want to know if you're coveting or not whether you whether you're genuinely thankful or not whether you're really Rejoicing or not.

Just listen to what comes out of your mouth And when it's I mean, it's amazing, isn't it? Instead of thanking God for the house I do have I complain about what's wrong about the house or I'm they're gonna be satisfied till we remodel the kitchen or until We do this and it's only has so many square feet We need more square feet and I like this car, but this is what I need and these clothes are okay But this is what I really need and you know, this school is okay But when I get to this school then, you know, it goes on and on and on Rejoice and thank God and focus on what you do have ask God what he wants you to do set goals develop strategies Pray be moving toward whatever he wants, but until he gives you something different It is the will of God today to say thank you for the wife You do have the husband you do have the limited health you do have the finances You do have the kids that you do have the heart for God that you do have the clothes that you do have the country that you do live in and You rejoice and you thank God for what you do have instead of focusing on what you don't have In fact as you look at that last verse on the page every time you do that You're right in the center of God's will for this is the will of God for you, right? What is it that you give thanks in all? Circumstances for this is God's will for you. It's a command give thanks in all circumstances circle the word all will you Do you know what the Greek word for all is?

You ready for this? I've done exhaustive research It's all It means everything it just means it means give thanks for all things Not the things you like not the things that are lined up the way you want give Thanks for all things. This isn't a high-five gliding, you know, I'm thankful that you know, my best friend just got cancer This is a willful from the heart saying Lord I don't understand why my best friend got cancer But I'm gonna choose to give thanks that because you are good and you were sovereign and you are faithful That you will work in this situation for good. Will you please deliver give the doctors wisdom heal my friend, but father I would I refuse to get bitter.

I refuse to get resentful. It is a fallen world I choose to thank you that you will bring good out of this. And so I thank you for this situation Now use me and help my friend God, I thank you this day for my family.

God. I thank you so much for the body that you gave me Yeah, I'm working on some things but thank you for the bod Lord Thank you for the education. You've granted me. Thank you for the abilities. You've granted me Thank you for the spiritual gifts. You've granted me Lord. Thank you for these opportunities that you've given me Lord Thank you for the friends that you brought into my life Lord Thank you for the opportunities that I never dreamed I would have and you start to rejoice and thank on those things It will kill coveting.

I mean it will take coveting right out at the knees and Guess what? You'll start to like yourself. You just thought to be grateful for who you are Because I don't know who those people are making up the styles And I don't know who the people are that decide who are like the ten Sexiest best-looking whatever on the front of People magazine, but I just don't think Jesus is the one picking them Just a thought I Don't think that's the standard and you know what personally I've decided I'm not gonna be brainwashed and I'm not gonna buy into it and I don't think that's how God looks at beauty I think man looks on the outward appearance. I think God looks on the heart I want to be thankful for what I do have I want to focus on what is real and what is true and what is noble and what is honorable and what is Praiseworthy and anything of excellence and I want to dwell on those things and when you do and when I do You know what your circumstances.

This is great your circumstances cannot change one iota You may not even lose the five pounds. You may not even get the promotion your circumstances cannot change at all But you are the product of your thinking and as a man or woman thinks in her heart so you become you begin to thank God for what you do have and Come up with a plan to deal with the issues that need to be addressed and your joy level With your circumstances not changing at all will just start to rise and rise and rise You know the interesting thing it'll give you the strength and the focus and the energy to deal with some of the things he struggled with One final way to be content and to kick coveting out of your life one stop comparing yourself with others to Rejoice and give thanks in what you do have and three share what I have to help others The key word is share share what I have to help others Paul writes to Timothy in first Timothy 6 17 to 19 Command those who are rich in this present world That's all of us in this room, and what's the command one not to be arrogant to? Don't put their hope and wealth which is so uncertain But three to put their hope in God who richly supplies us with everything for our enjoyment Command them to be to do good and to be rich in good deeds and to be generous and willing to share The apostle Paul says you want to be content look tell those people that have a lot Don't be arrogant.

Don't buy into the false belief that those things will satisfy Don't put your help. Hope and wealth why because it's so uncertain It's so uncertain the markets this way it can crash in a minute This is a warning because God loves us and cares for us. He says it's too uncertain But it says put your hope in God Put your hope in the one who gave the Ten Commandments put your hope in the Lord Jesus Why? Because he richly provides everything for your enjoyment. This is not a withholding God This is not a God that never wants to give you something nice or good or pleasant or even material He wants to give you all things to enjoy So what do you do when he gives you these things teach them to? Do good That's good works Take the stuff that God gives you and share it to be rich in good deeds and to be generous and willing to share Realize that everything you have is dropped into your hands. It doesn't belong to you It's his and he gets to pick whatever out of it at any time to share with other people Create a generous mindset where you realize your time your talent your energy your money your stuff your home your pool your car It's just vehicles to share and to help people and when you have that kind of mindset Here's the promise in this way the layup treasure for themselves, which is awesome Eternal impact as a firm foundation for the coming age so that they might take hold of the life that is truly life That's where we started you want to take hold of the life the rich life the abundant life the satisfied life the peace life The life filled with loving deep relationships.

It will never happen unless you break the power of coveting in your heart You want to take hold of the life? That's really life He says stop comparing with other people rejoice and give thanks for what you do have and Then come up with a systematic way to share what you have and bless others And I encourage you do it in little things Do it in little things Learn learn learn to share your time learn to share the place in the line learn to share your money learn to share your stuff Once you learn to do it little things It'll become just a way what you want is you want to get new glasses and the glasses are called Generosity and every situation you're not asking how much for me you're asking. I wonder how I could bless someone and Then here's the deal. I do not understand this at all Give and it will be given unto you Good measure press down shaken together running over back into your lap For in the same measure or amount that you give to others it will be Given unto you the divine paradox is the moment you stop coveting and start sharing and saying Life is a stewardship and you start giving away time and energy and resources this bizarre deal happens God pours it back into your lap and All the things that you were going after the peace and the joy and the encouragement and often the blessing God gives it to you He just gives it to you, but the way to get there is not coming You're listening to Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram and the message you just heard why we have so much and enjoy it So little is from our series God's boundaries for abundant living Chip will be back to share some insights from today's talk in just a minute whether you're religious or not We all know something about the Ten Commandments and may even be able to name a couple But do you know that they're just as important now as when God gave them to Moses through this study in Exodus chapter 20 Chip's been teaching how respecting our parents putting God first and keeping our word aren't just good ideas But the moral foundation for our faith We hope you got a fresher view of these boundaries and better grasped how they can lead to an abundant life Let me encourage you to go back and revisit any part of this series now You can do that by going to Living on the Edge org. That's Living on the Edge dot o RG Well, our Bible teacher Chip Ingram is with me now and he has a special word that he wanted to share with all of you Chip thanks so much Dave, you know summer is a time where you tend to get a little time off or You find a novel that you want to read and or maybe you want to grow spiritually and do a specific study And what I would tell you is this if there's one single book that I've had the privilege of writing That I would say if you have not read this this summer would be the time It's called the real God how he longs for you to see him You see what comes into your mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you Everything in my life in your life. It flows from our view of God and you know I've read some great theology and my experience over the years was as I read Tozer and JI Packard and these great Theologians the truth was there, but I didn't know how do you get it from your head to your heart? And so my book called the real God was my 20-plus years journey of taking this seven attributes There's far more but the seven major attributes and saying how do we take that from? Knowing God is good to believing he is good to knowing that he's just and in your heart of hearts be able to deal with The injustice and the struggles in the world Let me encourage you if you need a book to read to really realign your life in your walk with God It's called the real God how he longs for you to see him Dave Could you give me a little information about how they can get the book? Happy to chip to learn more about this resource visit special offers at Living on the Edge Dot org or the chip Ingram app through chips book He'll explore seven key attributes of God revealed in Scripture discover How knowing who God really is gives us purpose security and true joy in our lives So if you're ready to transform your view of God Check out the real God today by going to special offers at Living on the Edge dot Org or the chip Ingram app well with that here again is chip to share a few final thoughts from this message as We wrap up and close this entire series This might be a series that you need to review and let me encourage you in fact those of you that teach whether it's Sunday School or small group Bible study you can go online at Living on the Edge org and you can download the notes To every single one of these messages on the Ten Commandments and here's the deal These are the very words of God I mean the Bible is God's Word, but when God gave literally that the Old Testament calls it the ten words He boiled down to these boundaries these things about worshiping him and these truths about every Relationship relationship with your parents relationship with one another these are the boundaries These are the guardrails that God set forth at Sinai and there to give you an abundant life when you understand these boundaries especially filtered through the teachings of Jesus and Understand these are grace gifts for normal people like you and me and when you follow them by the power of the Holy Spirit As you do life and community These guardrails will keep you on a path and over and over in the Old Testament You know the wisest man in the world talks about the ways of God the path of God the wisdom of God The wisdom of God is understanding how God designed life to work and doing life his way. It's knowledge Understanding and then application at specific times in specific ways where you do life the way God designed it And what Jesus said he said I came that you might have life and you might have it abundantly These are God's boundaries for abundant living and I will tell you the average Christian can't even name the Ten Commandments Instead God wants you to name them know them and live them for your joy in his glory Let me encourage you be a student of God's Word Grasp the Ten Commandments see them as boundaries and then grow and experience the grace of God Great wordship as we close. I want to thank each of you who makes this program possible through your generous giving 100% of your gifts go directly to the ministry to help Christians live like Christians Now if you found this teaching helpful, but aren't yet on the team consider doing that today Sending a gift is easy. 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