#677 – Christ, Our Shepherd and Security (Micah 5:4–5)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 17 June 2019
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
By God's grace, we dwell securely under the care of the Good Shepherd. May His name be made known to the ends of the earth.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | Micah chapter 5 verses 4 and 5 |
| 0:09.2 | and he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the Lord, and the majesty of the name of the Lord his God, and they shall dwell secure. |
| 0:19.0 | For now he shall be great to the ends of the earth, and he shall be |
| 0:25.0 | their peace. |
| 0:28.0 | Oh, which was, actually I had time to read more of this context here, but in Micah chapter 5, this is a prophecy, a promise of one to come from Bethlehem who would be ruler in Israel. It's a clear picture of Jesus, of the promise of Jesus to come |
| 0:50.0 | and listen in light of that reality to these words again from verse 4. |
| 0:55.4 | He shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the Lord. |
| 1:00.3 | In the majesty of the name of the Lord his God and they shall dwell secure. |
| 1:06.2 | For now he shall be great to the ends of the earth and he shall be their peace. Oh let's just pray these two verses in light of |
| 1:16.1 | the reality that these verses are pointing us to Jesus. Jesus we praise, as our good shepherd, our great shepherd who loves us as your sheep, |
| 1:31.5 | you lead us as your sheep, you guide us as your sheep, you guide us as your sheep. |
| 1:36.9 | We praise you for your care for us, we praise you for your protection of us, we praise you for your leadership of us. Oh God we praise you |
| 1:47.4 | for sending Jesus to be our shepherd and not just our shepherd but our security they shall dwell |
| 1:55.6 | secure Jesus you are our security our eternity is secure in you. We praise you. We don't know what's going to happen to us today or tomorrow, but we don't worry because you are our security. |
| 2:12.0 | You hold our lives in your hands. You have guaranteed us |
| 2:16.3 | eternal life. We don't have to fear death today or tomorrow or any day because we |
| 2:21.6 | have eternal life with you. There is nothing this world can do to us, |
| 2:26.4 | nothing man or woman can do to us to take that away. We dwell secure in you and we say with Micah chapter 5 verse 4 you shall be great to |
| 2:39.7 | the ends of the earth may the name of Jesus be great to the ends of the earth. May the name of Jesus be great to the ends of the earth. May the name of Jesus |
| 2:46.8 | be exalted to the ends of the earth. Use our lives to exalt your name to the ends of the earth |
| 2:52.0 | to all the peoples we pray for the Magwin |
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