#451 – Delight in Him (Jeremiah 24:7)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 4 November 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

By God's grace we have been given a heart to know Him. May our relationship with God be marked not by religious duty, but by delighting in Him.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:06.0	Jeremiah chapter 24 verse 7.
0:09.0	I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord and they shall be my people and I will be their
0:16.7	God for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
0:22.3	Did you hear the emphasis there on the heart? This is God talking about how
0:26.2	he's going to restore his people after they've experienced exile and judgment because of their sin and he says he's going to give
0:35.6	them a heart to know him.
0:38.6	They're going to return to me with their whole heart.
0:41.7	God does not desire a people who relate to him merely on the basis of duty.
0:50.0	In other words, we have to follow him, we have to worship him, yet if we're not careful,
0:57.0	that's exactly what our Christianity can turn into.
1:01.0	Let me ask you a question question when you think about worship, you think about
1:05.0	prayer, when you think about following God's commands in all kinds of
1:09.6	different ways, when you think about reading the Bible, when you think about those things in your life,
1:14.4	do you think about them more as duty or more as delight? Because God has designed us
1:22.0	to experience delight in him.
1:24.8	Like our whole heart, we desire him in prayer.
1:28.3	We want to hear his word.
1:30.6	We want to worship him.
1:31.9	This is not something we have to do, this is something we want to do. We long to do.
1:35.0	Even obedience to, well just think of all his commands. We know that his commands are good.
1:41.0	They are good for us. They're glorifying to him, they're good for others so we
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