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Pray the Word with David Platt

#366 – The King of Justice (Psalm 10:17–18)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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

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πŸ—“οΈ 11 August 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Let's pray that we will care for the afflicted in the way our Savior does.

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

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Psalm chapter 10 verses 17 and 18.

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Oh lord you hear the desire of the afflicted.

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You will strengthen their heart. You will incline your ear to do justice to the

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fatherless and the oppressed so that man who's of the earth may strike terror no more.

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What a beautiful, powerful couple of verses. As we see in this this Psalm it's basically just exalting

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God and his supremacy as king overall the verse right before this the Lord is king forever and ever the nations

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perish from his land.

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God is king God is sovereign God is ruler.

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Now the beauty in that is what comes right after it in verses 17 and 18.

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So the king ruler with all power and authority he hears the desire of the afflicted.

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I just think of that wasn't the case. What if God didn't hear the desire of the afflicted.

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What if God was like so many human pictures of power in the world

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that exult in power to the point where they put down the afflicted, where they oppress.

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God is the exact opposite. He is all powerful and yet he is merciful and yet he's loving and he hears the desire of the afflicted and not only does he hear them but he will use his power on their behalf you will

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strengthen their heart verse seventeen says you will incline your ear so hear this

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he listens and then he acts you will incline your ear, there's a listening, now here's the action, to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed.

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So that man who's of the earth may strike terror no more. God delights in doing justice to the fatherless. God

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the lights in doing justice to the oppressed. God delights in using his

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power on behalf of the afflicted, the fatherless, and the oppressed.

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All glory be to his name.

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God help us to be a reflection of his character.

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