#1,108 – Speaking with His Authority (John 7:16)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 21 August 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Lord, give us grace to proclaim Your Word. May we humbly submit to Your authority and teach others to obey all that You have commanded.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical dot net. |
| 0:04.3 | John chapter 7 verse 16 |
| 0:08.1 | so Jesus answered them |
| 0:10.0 | my teaching is not mine but his who sent me. |
| 0:16.7 | Now that begins a whole dialogue at the temple |
| 0:21.2 | with all kinds of people who are listening to Jesus talk, some who are receiving |
| 0:26.5 | what he is saying, some who are rejecting what he is saying, but the key is from the very |
| 0:31.5 | beginning he says, |
| 0:33.0 | my teaching is not mine, but his who's sent me. |
| 0:36.8 | It's another one of these pictures in the Gospel of John |
| 0:39.7 | where we see the son, Jesus in relationship to God the Father and how Jesus's words, his teaching, are a reflection of the Father of God. And as I read this, obviously there are so much here about the uniqueness of Jesus, |
| 0:59.8 | about how the words of Jesus are the words of the Father and how that ties in, even how we understand |
| 1:07.1 | the whole Bible. |
| 1:08.5 | The whole Bible is the revelation of God that we can legitimately call the Bible the word of Christ, not just |
| 1:16.0 | the that which is in red letters in some Bible translations but everything |
| 1:20.5 | all Testament New Testament is the word of God because the word of God Everything all |
| 1:25.0 | inspired by the New Testament is the word of God, the Father, the word of God, the Son, are the same. |
| 1:28.0 | All inspired by the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:31.0 | Again, there's so much there when it comes to the mystery of the Trinity but what |
| 1:35.3 | I want to encourage you with even as if I'm encouraged reading John Chapter 7 |
| 1:41.8 | verse 16 is that to the extent to which we are, you and I are, |
| 1:48.0 | teaching what Jesus has said, speaking what Jesus has said, then we speak with his authority, with the very authority |
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