#254 – The Grievance of God (Genesis 6:5–6)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 21 April 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

We all know the world is not as it should be, but sin and its effects are not just external. We are all plagued to the core and need a new heart.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:06.0	Genesis chapter 6 verses 5 and 6
0:10.0	the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intention of the
0:18.0	thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth and
0:26.6	it grieved him to his heart. There's so much that we could talk about in these two short verses, and they're so heavy.
0:36.4	Just think about a couple of these phrases,
0:39.6	that the wickedness of man was great in the earth.
0:44.0	I don't think anybody looks around the world
0:49.0	and doesn't realize this.
0:51.0	Like things are not as they should be when you see poverty like it is, when you
0:58.7	see oppression like it is, when you see pride in the lust for power, the way that plays out in all kinds of different ways when you see slavery, when you see sex trafficking, when you see wars, when you see wars when you see so many pictures of
1:17.2	sin around not just around the world but around our lives like right around us
1:22.3	like things are not the way they
1:24.0	should be that there is wickedness around us in this world and then to look
1:31.1	inside our own hearts like every intention of the thoughts of man's heart
1:36.3	was only evil continually.
1:38.7	Just to realize, okay, wickedness, evil, it's not just outside of me, it's inside of me that there are intentions in my heart.
1:46.4	Like I'm prone to prioritize myself over anybody else. I'm prone to think what's best for me. I'm prone
1:55.8	toward all these kinds of pictures of evil and wickedness like they're not just
2:01.1	outside of me as those are they're separate from me like they're they're in me in all
2:07.3	of us in different ways obviously looks different in different ones of our lives but
2:11.3	but there are intentions of our heart that are not good and
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