#1,037 – Turn and Trust (Matthew 4:17)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Father, help us from the moment we wake up in the morning to turn from sin and self and trust in You. May we be marked by a posture of repentance. Explore more content from Radical.

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0:00.0	Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:05.0	Matthew chapter 4, verse 17.
0:07.8	From that time, Jesus began to preach saying, repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
0:17.1	This is the central message that we see all throughout the Gospels.
0:25.1	It's summarized here in one short, simple verse.
0:30.0	Jesus came preaching, and what was he preaching?
0:33.2	First word, repent, turn.
0:43.1	This is the essence of Jesus' message to you, to me, to everyone on earth.
0:43.6	Turn.
0:45.7	Turn from your sin.
0:48.4	Turn from yourself.
1:00.4	Turn from all your attempts to earn your way to God, your attempts to find fulfillment, turn in all these ways from sin, self, from even your good deeds. I mean, what Jesus is preaching in many
1:06.9	ways and all throughout the Gospel of Matthew to religious people like turn from all your
1:13.1	attempts to try to earn the favor of God. Turn to God. Trust in God. Repent. Turn from sin yourself.
1:25.8	Your attempts to earn your way to God, and turn to him, for the kingdom of heaven
1:32.4	is at hand. Or some translations say, for the kingdom of heaven is near. In other words, the king
1:38.8	has come. Jesus is the king. We've already seen this in Matthew chapter 1, Matthew chapter 2, Matthew
1:45.8	chapter 3, Jesus is God in the flesh who has come face to face to say to men and women,
1:54.0	turn from your sin and yourself and trust in me to reconcile you to God, to save you from your sin, to bring you into the kingdom of God,
2:06.5	not by your works, but by my grace. Trust in me. Turn and trust. Turn and trust. This is the
2:14.5	beginning of the Christian life when you realize I need to do this.
2:19.6	I need to turn from my sin and turn for myself and trust in Jesus as Savior and Lord of my life.
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