#754 – Life in His Name (John 20:31)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 2 September 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
We have been called to experience life in Christ. May God help us to wage war on any temptation to retreat into nominal Christianity. May our lives be dictated by Christ who is our life.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | John chapter 20 verse 31. |
| 0:10.0 | But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and |
| 0:17.9 | that by believing you may have life in his name. |
| 0:24.4 | Oh, this is kind of the summary verse |
| 0:28.3 | of the entire book of John, |
| 0:30.2 | and it is so encouraging when you think about what John has just said, |
| 0:37.5 | why he has written this book and what this means for our lives, for life. |
| 0:45.0 | John just said that I wrote all these things |
| 0:48.8 | so that people would believe Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, the Messiah, the one who has come to save us from our sins. |
| 0:57.5 | Believe, it's a key word all throughout the Gospel of John. |
| 1:02.0 | Believe, faith, when you think about... all throughout the gospel of John. Believe faith. |
| 1:04.0 | When you think about John 635, |
| 1:07.0 | I'm the bread of life, Jesus says, |
| 1:09.0 | he who comes to me will never go hungry. |
| 1:11.5 | He who believes in me will never thirst. This is not just |
| 1:14.6 | intellectual assent. This is trust in Jesus for satisfaction of your soul. |
| 1:23.0 | What we read about in John 4, |
| 1:25.0 | when it comes to this well in us, |
| 1:28.0 | springing up to eternal life, |
| 1:30.0 | this is what Jesus came to give us, |
| 1:32.0 | and that's why Jesus says that by believing I wrote this so that when you believe you would have life in his name. |
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