#491 – Advent: The Reality of Restoration (Amos 9:11)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 13 December 2018
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
God is gradually conforming us more into the image of Christ. One day this rebuilding and repairing process will be complete. We will be free from sin and see God as He is.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net. |
| 0:06.0 | Amos chapter 9 verse 11. |
| 0:09.0 | God says in that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches and |
| 0:16.7 | raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old. |
| 0:24.0 | Listen to those verbs. |
| 0:25.9 | I will raise up. |
| 0:28.9 | I will repair. |
| 0:30.9 | I will rebuild. The whole picture here is the line of David, the throne of David, the kingdom of David, which obviously is much bigger than David in this advent season as we've seen all throughout God's word to remember |
| 0:46.9 | this is all pointing forward to Jesus the King from David's line who will make all of this a reality. All of these things |
| 0:57.8 | raising up, repairing, rebuilding. Do you ever look in your life and see a variety of broken pieces? |
| 1:08.8 | And you think about sin in your past and the effects of that sin and you just you feel |
| 1:19.1 | almost a shame over it or just regret or do you ever look around just in the world and just see |
| 1:28.9 | oh so much broken about broken. Think about broken relationships. Think about the effects of those broken |
| 1:37.9 | relationships that are hurt and the pain and it makes this advent promise all the more beautiful to read that God will one day |
| 1:48.9 | raise up, repair, and rebuild. |
| 1:55.0 | Just think about it. |
| 1:57.0 | God is doing this in one sense in our lives every single day. He is gradually daily restoring us to himself. He is daily |
| 2:12.0 | bringing us more into the image of Jesus, not the broken, sinful hearts that we have been saved from, but more and more and more hearts that love him |
| 2:24.0 | hearts that are glorifying him hearts that are obeying him |
| 2:28.0 | this is the Christian life we want that to grow more and more and more in us |
| 2:32.0 | we were being conformed into the image of Christ, |
| 2:34.1 | being repaired, rebuilt in the image of Christ. This is the Christian life and one day |
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