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Pray the Word with David Platt

#580 – The Root of Every Sin (Exodus 10:3)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

Bible Study, Spirituality, Devotional, Bible, Christianity, Prayer, Christian, Religion & Spirituality, David Platt, John Piper, Pray, Louie Giglio, Baptist, Radical

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🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Pride is on display when we sin against God. We think we know what is best. The antidote to sin is humility, so let us ask God for this.

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Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

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Exodus chapter 10 verse 3.

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So Moses and Aaron went into Pharaoh and said to him,

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thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews,

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How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me.

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Let my people go.

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That they may serve me.

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These verses, much like we have seen already in Pharaoh's life are a clear reminder that we need every one of us in our lives a posture of humility before God.

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And we need to pray for this.

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You think about it.

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Every time we sin, it is at its root a picture of pride. Sin is really at its root pride because it's us saying every time we

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sin. God I know what is better for me than you do. I desire this and even if you say

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it's not good I'm going to move forward with this desire in my heart or I say

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this even though it is against your word but I do it because I think it's going to work out better for me.

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Like every sinful thought, every sinful desire, every single sinful word, decision, deed, it's all pride.

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And so the antidote to sin is what? It's humility. It's God I trust you. And I have a desire

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for this but I'm gonna not pursue that desire because I trust you.

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But I want to make this decision over here,

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but I'm not gonna do that

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because I know that goes against your word

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and I trust you so what Exodus chapter 10

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verse just drives us to pray for and to pray for it continually is

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