#507 – Every Member is Gifted (Numbers 4:49)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 29 December 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Take comfort in the truth that every member of the body matters. You have been gifted for the building up of the church and the spread of the gospel.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:06.0	Numbers chapter 4 verse 49 according to the commandment of the Lord through
0:11.2	Moses they were listed each one with his task of serving or
0:15.6	caring. Thus they were listed by him as the Lord commanded Moses. I love this picture at the end of numbers chapter 4 this whole chapter is talking
0:26.6	about different people and different duties that God gives to them among his people unique responsibilities that different
0:37.0	people have by name, by family, by clan. It's a pretty powerful picture of what we see really later in the
0:45.6	new testament when I think about 1st Corinthians chapter 12 and in the church
0:50.0	the members of a body, every member being important, each member possessing different gifts,
0:57.0	different skills by God's grace, different opportunities to show God's grace. Not everybody is the same, but all
1:06.1	are working together for the building up of the body of Christ. That's what's
1:09.2	happening here in Numbers, Chapter 4, different people with different tasks, different duties, all working together.
1:16.7	No one person has it all.
1:18.9	It's this whole picture of a body of people working together.
1:23.2	And so I just want to encourage you, as you think about your life as a follower of Jesus,
1:30.6	you are gifted by the Holy Spirit with unique gifts, skills, a unique make-up for the building up of God's people, for the accomplishment of God's
1:47.2	mission in the world.
1:48.7	And I just want to encourage you, do not underestimate the part you have to play the duty the role the responsibility that God is given to you in his church and make the most of it. Do all that God calls you to do as a part of his body, as a part of his his people as a part specifically the local church
2:14.7	where you are a member where you are committed. God we pray for each of our lives help us help us to play our parts and never to minimize
2:28.5	those parts. God thank you thank you for giving all of us a part to play in the building up of your people
2:37.7	and the spread of your glory and the accomplishment of your mission. What a privilege that none of us deserves.
2:45.7	Not one of us deserves.
2:47.1	And all of the gifts you've given us,
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