#472 – Save Us from Focus on Ourselves (Jeremiah 45:5)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 25 November 2018
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God, help us to live with urgency for others today that we may contend for the faith.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | Jeremiah chapter 45 verse 5 |
| 0:10.0 | and do you seek great things for yourself? |
| 0:13.0 | Seek them not. |
| 0:15.0 | For behold, I am brain disaster upon all flesh, declares the Lord. |
| 0:20.6 | But I will give you your life as a prize of war in all places to which you may go. |
| 0:26.7 | The context here is so humbling. |
| 0:30.9 | This is God speaking through Jeremiah to Baruch who was writing down this revelation, these |
| 0:40.4 | words from God through the Prophet |
| 0:43.1 | Jeremiah but the problem here is is |
| 0:47.1 | Baruk is thinking narrowly about himself and his own future |
| 0:52.3 | and do you seek great things for yourself in the midst of an entire nation going down? |
| 0:58.0 | His eyes are so focused on himself that he doesn't see the gravity and the weight of what is being prophesied here and |
| 1:07.5 | the effect of that on other people. So we see in this the selfishness here a picture oh it's so humbling because it's a picture of my own |
| 1:17.7 | selfishness and I'm gonna assume for a moment just in light of sinfulness your self is just how easy is it for us to be just concerned about ourselves even when think about |
| 1:30.7 | eternity and to think, okay, I know, I know I'm okay for eternity. |
| 1:36.0 | Like that's what matters most. |
| 1:38.0 | Which it matters, it totally matters. |
| 1:41.0 | I'm concerned about my eternity. You're concerned about |
| 1:44.2 | your eternity having eternal life. But we need to realize like it's not just about |
| 1:50.9 | us here. There are people all around us. |
| 1:54.0 | Their eternity is at stake too. I mean if we're not careful, we can be so focused on ourselves and the things in our lives |
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