#345 – He Must Increase (John 3:30)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 21 July 2018

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Summary

We should pray that God will help us to want people to think less about us and only about Him. Let's long to live for the increase of Christ and the decrease of ourselves.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:06.0	John chapter 3 verse 30
0:09.0	He must increase but I must decrease.
0:13.4	These are John the Baptist words talking about Jesus.
0:17.2	This verse in particular has had a
0:20.5	formative effect influence on my life. Years ago somebody challenged me when I was young in my faith to have a life verse and this is the verse I chose.
0:35.9	And I chose it not because it's always true of my heart.
0:41.4	I chose it because I want it to be true of my heart, but here's the challenge.
0:44.8	So John the Baptist get a lot of attention.
0:48.3	He says, no, no, no.
0:49.8	I must decrease.
0:52.3	Jesus must increase.
0:54.0	And I look at my heart and I think,
0:57.0	so I'm just being a lot level honest with you here,
1:01.0	like I think I truly have a desire to see Jesus increase,
1:06.0	to see Jesus glorified.
1:10.0	But the problem is,
1:12.0	I don't usually have a desire to see myself decrease.
1:18.0	Like I want to see Jesus glorified and I kind of like the idea of myself increasing, certainly not above
1:26.0	him but increasing in the process. Like I like it when others think well of me and I don't want to decrease.
1:37.0	Like in my flesh and I know it's from my flesh like I want to increase.
1:42.0	And so John 330 just beckons me whenever I think about it, which is a lot.
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