#547 – Praying for the Unreached (Genesis 9:7)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 7 February 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
God wants His grace and goodness to fill the earth. We must devote ourselves to getting God's gospel where Christ has not been proclaimed.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | Genesis chapter 9 verse 7 |
| 0:09.4 | and you be fruitful and multiply, |
| 0:13.0 | increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it. |
| 0:19.0 | I point this verse out in particular in light of the connection with Genesis 128. |
| 0:28.2 | When God said, after creating Adam and Eve, be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. |
| 0:35.2 | Now in Genesis chapter 9, like right after the flood and things are kind of starting over |
| 0:42.0 | with Noah and his family. |
| 0:43.7 | God says the exact same thing. |
| 0:46.7 | You be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth, multiply in it. |
| 0:52.0 | Again, God wants his grace, his goodness in his |
| 0:59.0 | image bearers to fill the earth. He wants human life to flourish on the earth, multiplying and |
| 1:07.5 | his blessing in the middle of all of that. This is just the goodness of God that he desires to fill the earth with his goodness, |
| 1:18.4 | with his blessing, with his grace. And in Genesis 1, we thought together on that day when we were looking at that passage, we prayed |
| 1:27.8 | together about how that is happening even today, how his grace and blessing flows throughout the earth as we make |
| 1:37.1 | disciples as we multiply the life of Christ, this renewed life in Jesus reconciled to God, we want to multiply across the |
| 1:47.0 | earth. |
| 1:48.0 | So I, I try on most days to pray for an unreached people group each day. |
| 1:54.4 | I oftentimes use the Joshua Project app toward that end. |
| 2:00.1 | And so today, the people group that's highlighted is the Fula Kunda people in Senegal. |
| 2:09.0 | The Fula Kunda people in Senegal are a Muslim people group, 1.8 million of them in Senegal. |
| 2:20.7 | They are classified as unreached by the gospel. They are only a few, like a |
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