#515 – Humility and Faithfulness (Numbers 12:3–8)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 6 January 2019
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Summary
The path to intimacy with God is paved by humility before Him. Let us pray that God will remove pride from us and that we will be found faithful in all that has been given to us.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | Numbers chapter 12 verses 3 through 8 |
| 0:10.0 | so this is a bit of a longer passage but I want you to listen to the description of Moses here. |
| 0:17.0 | First 3 says the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth. |
| 0:25.2 | And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, |
| 0:28.8 | Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting. |
| 0:31.8 | The three of them came out. And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and |
| 0:36.4 | stood at the entrance of the tent and called Aaron and Miriam and they both came forward and |
| 0:40.5 | he said, hear my words, |
| 0:43.0 | if there is a prophet among you, |
| 0:45.0 | I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision. |
| 0:48.0 | I speak with him in a dream. |
| 0:50.0 | Not so with my servant Moses. He is faithful in all my house. With him I speak mouth to mouth clearly and not in riddles and he beholds the form of the Lord. |
| 1:08.8 | Think about that description. Moses was very meek, this picture of humility in Moses before God, such that God would speak to Him, like mouth to mouth. |
| 1:27.0 | Face to face is the picture X-33 tells us, which we know is not actually like seeing God like no one can see God and |
| 1:38.8 | live in that sense but there is a picture of personal interaction here |
| 1:46.0 | because of Moses meekness and humility. |
| 1:52.0 | And you can't help but to think about Jesus saying blessed are the meek. |
| 1:58.9 | This is how to know God, not by exulting yourself, or by humbling yourself. |
| 2:05.2 | And then God says, he is faithful in all my house. |
| 2:11.5 | Meaning, he is faithful with the stewardship I have entrusted to him. |
| 2:18.0 | Oh don't you want God to say these things of you? I want God to say these things of me. |
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