#644 – Who Shall Ascend the Hill of the Lord? (Psalm 24:3–4)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 15 May 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In Christ we are made clean. Through His merits, we can draw near to the throne of God and ascend the hill of the Lord.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | Psalm chapter 24 verses 3 and 4 |
| 0:10.4 | who shall ascend the hill of the Lord and who shall stand in His holy place? |
| 0:16.0 | He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully. |
| 0:26.2 | What a powerful question and answer |
| 0:29.6 | in the heart of the Psalm. |
| 0:31.6 | I just feel the weight of that question, like who? of the |
| 0:33.4 | question like who can ascend the hill of the Lord? |
| 0:37.2 | Who can stand in his holy place? |
| 0:39.7 | Who can stand before the holy God of the universe? |
| 0:44.6 | Who is fit? |
| 0:46.4 | Who is able to come into his presence? |
| 0:51.5 | The answer is, he has clean hands and a pure heart. |
| 0:57.0 | And so think about this outward and inward. |
| 1:00.0 | An inward purity that plays out in outward cleanliness. |
| 1:07.5 | He has clean hands and a pure heart who does not lift up his soul to what is false the picture is a heart that is |
| 1:16.8 | lifted up to God alone. God alone on the throne of our heart God alone at the center of our heart, |
| 1:24.0 | at the center of our soul's desires and thoughts and affections and adoration. |
| 1:32.0 | He does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully. |
| 1:36.5 | Again you see there, the outward and the inner. So a heart, a soul that is lifted up to God alone and then a mouth that brings honor to |
| 1:46.0 | God alone who does not speak swear deceitfully. There's honesty and truthfulness and faithfulness and integrity flowing from this heart that is fixed on God. |
| 2:00.0 | So we read this and we think who among us fits that description? |
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