#267 – Good News for the Nations (Genesis 17:6)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 4 May 2018
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:05.8 | Genesis chapter 17, verse 6. |
| 0:09.1 | I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, |
| 0:15.0 | and kings shall come from you. |
| 0:18.9 | This is such a great verse. |
| 0:20.3 | This is God making a promise to Abraham about how he |
| 0:24.7 | would be fruitful, how from him would come many nations, just like we saw in Genesis chapter 12, |
| 0:31.9 | verse three, God's blessing upon many nations and even kings coming from him, which we know Matthew in the very first |
| 0:42.1 | chapter in the New Testament makes clear that ultimately king Jesus would come from Abraham's |
| 0:48.8 | line. So there's so much in this verse. But I want to think specifically about this picture of nations |
| 0:57.3 | and the blessing of God spreading to the nations and just remind us of that picture in the world |
| 1:06.4 | today. |
| 1:06.9 | So today I was looking at the Shanghai Kazakhs in Western China. |
| 1:13.9 | This is a native Kazakh people spread in Western China specifically, among whom, |
| 1:21.3 | this is a people group among whom there are no believers right now. |
| 1:25.5 | Like no one that we know of knows the grace of Christ, |
| 1:33.2 | the love of Jesus in the gospel. |
| 1:37.0 | No one in this people group. |
| 1:40.1 | The Shanghai, Kazakhs in Western China, none of them |
| 1:43.8 | know how much God loves them that He has sent |
| 1:47.5 | His Son Jesus to die on the cross for them. None of them knows that King Jesus has come. |
| 1:53.3 | So here's a picture of a nation, a people group, a family, clan in the earth, where the blessing of God is not yet gone and i just want to lead us today |
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