#476 – Don't Trust in Fleeting Things (Jeremiah 49:4)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Trusting in possessions or position in this world is a recipe for disaster. God help us not to boast in anything other than Christ.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:06.0	Jeremiah chapter 49 verse 4.
0:08.0	Why do you boast of your valleys, O faithless daughter, who trusted in her treasures, saying who will come
0:15.4	against me?
0:17.8	This verse is a powerful picture of pride in the heart.
0:25.0	Boasting about valleys, trusting in treasures of this world,
0:30.8	thinking who could come against me, thinking, who can come against me?
0:34.0	Thinking that having stuff in this world,
0:37.7	having position in this world,
0:40.4	makes one invincible in this world.
0:44.0	Oh, see the foolishness of trusting in possessions
0:51.0	and position even power in this world.
0:56.0	See the foolishness of trusting in any of these things.
1:00.8	Your possessions could be gone in an instant.
1:04.0	Your position in an instant.
1:06.0	Your power in an instant gone.
1:10.0	Don't boast in any of these things.
1:13.0	Don't think, all right, I'm set
1:16.0	because I have these things, because I'm in this role,
1:20.0	because I'm in this situation.
1:22.0	No, no, no, don't believe it.
1:24.0	That's a lie straight from the adversary.
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