#720 – Righteous and Devout (Luke 2:25)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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God, give us grace to be faithful and patient and to worship You even in the midst of our waiting.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:04.0	Luke chapter 2 verse 25.
0:09.0	Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon and this man was righteous and devout
0:14.8	waiting for the consolation of Israel and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
0:20.5	What a great description. Don't you want these characteristics to
0:27.3	mark your life? What we see in Simeon here, righteous and devout. Righteous, living in accord with the right rules and laws and commands and statutes of God's word.
0:45.0	Aligning your life with the righteous God of the universe.
0:50.0	The God who alone knows and always does what is always right.
0:57.0	Don't you want your life to be a reflection of Him, his righteousness, his justice, his goodness.
1:05.0	Simmian was righteous and devout. He was committed, faithful. Faithful.
1:13.0	Don't you want that to be a characteristic in your life?
1:17.0	In your relationship with God?
1:20.0	Not the opposite of Faithful to be faithless.
1:23.8	Oh, God may it not be so.
1:26.6	No we want to be faithful, full of faith.
1:31.0	Committed, not just casually relating to God, but dedicated, devoted, devout, committed
1:40.0	in personal relationship with God for his purposes in the world. This man was
1:45.8	righteous and devout and he was waiting, waiting for the consolation of Israel.
1:52.0	He knew God's promises. waiting for the consolation of Israel.
1:53.1	He knew God's promises.
1:54.8	He had banked his life on God's promise,
1:57.8	and he was waiting to see its fulfillment.
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