#659 – Wholly Following Christ (1 Kings 11:6)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 30 May 2019
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Let's pray that God will help us not to let sin have a foothold in our lives. May we wholly follow Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | First Kings chapter 11 verse 6. |
| 0:08.8 | So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord as David |
| 0:16.2 | his father had done. Oh this is such a sad verse, a summary of Solomon's life and leadership that ends with such a sad legacy. |
| 0:32.3 | We see God blessing Solomon in so many ways. |
| 0:35.0 | And yet Solomon's heart turned away from God. |
| 0:40.0 | Toward sexual immorality, toward the possessions of this world, toward the fame and praise |
| 0:50.2 | of this world. |
| 0:52.2 | We see solemn and tempted in so many ways you and I are tempted today. |
| 0:56.8 | When it comes to sexual morality, when it comes to living for the possessions and praise of this world when it comes to turning away from God's ways. |
| 1:08.0 | See the description here. |
| 1:10.0 | Solomon did what was evil in the side of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord. |
| 1:15.0 | Like this verse just compels us to pray that God would help us to wholly follow him. |
| 1:21.0 | Let's just pray that right now. God, I don't presume to know what |
| 1:26.6 | everyone who's listening to this right now is tempted by in their lives right now. |
| 1:31.7 | God, I know various temptations I'm surrounded with right now. |
| 1:37.0 | In this world, God, we pray, we pray that would help us to to holy follow you like completely follow you |
| 1:45.6 | God we pray that you would not let sin get any kind of foothold in our lives |
| 1:50.3 | God we pray you would uncover any footholds where that is the case right now. |
| 1:55.8 | God, I pray, I pray that you would even bring to my heart and mind right now and as I finish |
| 2:01.5 | this podcast episode and others right now and it's this podcast episode |
| 2:07.4 | ends God please bring to our hearts and minds any and every way right now or |
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