#634 – Walk with the Wise (Proverbs 13:20)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 5 May 2019
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Let's pray to the end that we will be surrounded by wise companions who delight in God and His Word.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | Proverbs chapter 13 verse 20 |
| 0:08.0 | whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm. |
| 0:17.0 | What a good encouraging wise verse that we all need to hear and let it drive us to pray. |
| 0:30.0 | Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise with the companion of fools will suffer harm |
| 0:35.2 | Who we surround ourselves with most who influences us will have a huge effect on us. |
| 0:44.0 | Now that doesn't mean don't ever spend any time |
| 0:48.0 | with anybody who doesn't believe the Bible, |
| 0:50.0 | who is not a worshipper of God,'s not following Jesus. Like we want to spend time with people and we will through work and our neighborhoods, through exercise, whatever it might be that we participate in in the world like we are around |
| 1:04.4 | people who are not following Jesus and we want to be salt and light in the world |
| 1:08.8 | we want to be in real meaningful relationships where we're pointing others to God's love and showing God's love in those relationships at the same time |
| 1:18.1 | We need to evaluate in our lives who is influencing us most and if someone is influencing us who does not |
| 1:29.7 | have their hearts attuned to God, his word, his wisdom, then we need to be very, very cautious. |
| 1:40.5 | Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise we want to walk alongside wise people and remember this is not |
| 1:49.3 | Wisdom according to the world this is wisdom according to God and His word. Remember the beginning of wisdom is the fear of God. |
| 1:58.0 | So we want to walk with people who fear God. We want to be around people who revere God who follow, God, who worship, |
| 2:05.8 | God who know his word and try to live according to it by God's grace. |
| 2:10.5 | The Companion of Fools will suffer harm if we are not careful in the people who |
| 2:17.4 | influence us if our closest companions are people who are not fearing God, walking with God, |
| 2:26.3 | glorifying God, then that will not lead to good in our lives. |
| 2:32.2 | So God, we pray for wise companions. I pray for that for my life. |
| 2:39.0 | I pray for that for my wife, my kids. I pray for wise companions for them. I pray for that for each person |
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