#737 – The Last Will be First (Matthew 19:30)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 16 August 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Don't buy into the ways of this world. Lay down the pursuits of this world and live as servants of the King, longing for the glory of Christ.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net.
0:04.6	Matthew chapter 19 verse 30 but many who are first will be last, and the last first.
0:15.8	A simple countercultural verse,
0:21.0	counterintuitive verse goes against the way we are wired in our flesh to think.
0:30.0	We are wired to think and we live in a world that promotes this kind of thinking.
0:36.5	Be first.
0:38.0	Get ahead.
0:39.8	Work to get ahead.
0:41.5	Promote yourself. Do whatever it takes to be out front. And yet Jesus
0:48.8	turns that totally on its head and says many who are first will be last.
0:56.2	And the last first.
0:59.4	He's just finished a conversation
1:01.7	with a rich young man who had everything this world has to offer.
1:08.0	Riches and all that goes with that, and Jesus makes clear that there's coming a major reversal. This man who was
1:19.0	unwilling to let go of his possessions to follow Jesus would one day realize that he had missed the entire point.
1:27.6	He had lived for what did not matter.
1:30.9	He had lived to be first in this world and he would be last in eternity.
1:37.2	We see this all over the Bible, that the way this world works will one day be turned on its head.
1:44.8	And so we find exhortations all throughout scripture.
1:48.8	Don't be deceived.
1:51.2	Don't buy into the ways of this world. Live differently.
1:57.0	Lay down your possessions. Lay down your life. Lay down your pride. Lay down the pursuits of this world, and live differently, live with humility,
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