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Pray the Word with David Platt

#260 – Praying for People Groups (Genesis 10:5)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

Bible Study, Spirituality, Devotional, Bible, Christianity, Prayer, Christian, Religion & Spirituality, David Platt, John Piper, Pray, Louie Giglio, Baptist, Radical

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🗓️ 27 April 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

A day is coming when people from every tribe and tongue will surround the throne of God in praise. This drives our prayer.

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Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

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Genesis chapter 10 verse 5.

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From these, the Coast Land Peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their

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clans and their nations. So Genesis chapter 10 is really a list of all kinds of people.

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Its names and their descendants, generations of the sons of Noah,

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Shim, Ham, and J-Feth, and you see this picture even in the verse that we just read of peoples, languages,

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clans, nations, which we'll see more in Genesis Chapter 11, but we'll really see throughout the rest of the Bible,

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this picture of different people groups, different languages, different clans, different nations.

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And so from the very beginning here in the Bible, pretty close to the beginning,

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we're seeing this picture of a diversity of peoples in the world.

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And again, we'll see more in Genesis chapter 11

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about why that is, but we obviously see this

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in the world around us today, not just around the world in most of the places where we live.

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Like we see all kinds of different people groups, we hear different languages, we meet neighbors from different nations and even not just

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geopolitical nations like 200 or so United Nations today.

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No, we also see like different national groups,

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clans, people groups in those nations.

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So today I was praying for the Bondo Paraja people in India.

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So you think about India, there are all kinds of different people groups across India, and the Bondo Paraja people basically

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have a mixture of traditional faith and Hinduism so So they have a supreme deity, they worship,

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and yet they worship many other Hindu deities.

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And they participate in different ceremonies,

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