#740 – Unworthy Servants (Luke 17:10)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 19 August 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
The posture of our lives should be one of realizing we are unworthy servants. May we humbly before our God be faithful to labor and toil in the duty God has graciously assigned us.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:05.6 | Luke chapter 17 verse 10. |
| 0:09.0 | So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say we are unworthy servants. |
| 0:16.3 | We have only done what was our duty. |
| 0:19.8 | I remember a particular moment in my life when God used this verse in a specific way to speak to my heart. |
| 0:31.0 | I've actually written a book along these lines that's coming out next |
| 0:36.3 | month called Something Needs to Change that takes readers on a journey that I've been on in the mountains of the Himalayas |
| 0:48.9 | where God has opened my eyes to urgent spiritual and physical need in ways that have rocked my life, my faith, my perspective on the future, on the church. |
| 1:09.2 | Pardon me would love to take multitudes of people |
| 1:12.0 | with me into those mountains. |
| 1:13.2 | That's just obviously not physically possible. |
| 1:16.0 | So this book is an attempt to bring that kind of journey to people. And so it's kind of shape is an eight-day journey and without giving away |
| 1:27.4 | everything in this something needs to change but there comes a point where as I was reading through the book of Luke after |
| 1:37.8 | seeing urgent spiritual and physical need day after day after day and wondering God what do you want me to do wrestling |
| 1:46.6 | through whether or not God wanted me to move into those mountains. |
| 1:51.3 | What needed to change in my life? I remember reading Luke Chapter 17, |
| 1:55.8 | verse 10 and this verse just brought me to my knees. |
| 2:01.8 | I physically I read it and I fell on my face. |
| 2:06.0 | So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, |
| 2:09.0 | say we are unworthy servants, |
| 2:11.0 | we have only done what was our duty. I just |
| 2:13.4 | remember falling on my face and saying God that's it. Like I just want to do my |
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