#609 – Choose Life (Deuteronomy 30:15–20)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 10 April 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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God help us to choose life and to spread life for the glory of Jesus Christ. May we learn from the foolishness of those who have gone before us.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net. |
| 0:06.0 | Deuteronomy chapter 30 verses 15 through 20 |
| 0:10.6 | and this is a longer portion than we normally read but I just want you to hear |
| 0:15.4 | what God says to his people as they prepare to go into the promised land. |
| 0:20.4 | This is such a powerful charge that God gives to his people through Moses. |
| 0:29.0 | See I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. |
| 0:40.0 | If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, |
| 0:44.1 | by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, |
| 0:51.2 | then you shall live and multiply and the Lord your God will bless you |
| 0:57.2 | in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. But if your heart |
| 1:02.4 | turns away and you will not hear but are drawn away to worship other |
| 1:08.3 | gods and serve them I declare to you today that you shall surely perish. |
| 1:14.4 | You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. |
| 1:19.5 | I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death |
| 1:26.9 | blessing and curse therefore choose life that you and your offspring may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and |
| 1:37.5 | holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days that you may dwell in the land of the Lord swore to your |
| 1:44.5 | fathers to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob to give them. Oh is that not such a |
| 1:52.0 | powerful picture. God saying to his people, I want you to have life. I want you to |
| 2:00.5 | experience good. I've promised it to you and it is there for the taking so |
| 2:06.4 | take it follow me trust me love me pursue, enjoy my love for you, enjoy my pursuit of you, like this is what I'm holding |
| 2:17.4 | before you and at the same time know that if you don't choose that you will be choosing death. |
| 2:25.0 | You will be choosing to perish. |
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