#484 – Advent: The One True King (Judges 21:25)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 6 December 2018
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Summary
The people of God could not find a ruler who could satisfy their longings. Jesus Christ came as the King of kings whose ways are right and ultimately for our good. In Him our deepest needs are met.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | Judges chapter 21 verse 25 says in those days there was no king in Israel. |
| 0:12.0 | Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. |
| 0:16.6 | That's how the book of judges ends. No king. Everybody doing what's right in their own eyes, |
| 0:23.3 | and it is a hard book of the Bible to read, |
| 0:28.4 | to see the effects of no leader, specifically no leader who loves and worships and knows and is following |
| 0:39.5 | God and is leading people to follow God. As a result, everybody doing what's right in their own eyes, |
| 0:45.8 | which leads to all kinds of wrong, |
| 0:48.7 | all kinds of evil, just horrible evil |
| 0:51.5 | that we read about in judges this picture of man and |
| 0:57.1 | woman's depravity men and women left to their own sinfulness and judges. |
| 1:04.3 | 2125 just leaves us longing for a king. |
| 1:09.9 | And not just for any king. |
| 1:11.6 | We don't need a king who's evil like us we need a king who is |
| 1:16.4 | perfect who is right not just in his own eyes but is righteous in every way |
| 1:23.0 | that's the longing the book of judges leaves us with |
| 1:26.5 | and in this advent season we realize that this longing is met in Christ, that Jesus is the King we have longed for, |
| 1:40.5 | the King who is right in every way, righteous in all his ways, just and good and holy and loving and merciful and caring and compassionate and strong and wise all the things |
| 1:59.0 | we would want in a leader Jesus has. Do you realize that in your life right now? |
| 2:06.4 | You have in Jesus the leader whom your heart most wants, most needs, most desires, he is the perfect leader of your life, my life. |
| 2:22.0 | Oh, God help us to trust Jesus as he leads each of our lives, |
| 2:31.4 | Lord help us to listen to your word, to trust your word, to obey your word, |
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