#768 – Religion That is Pure and Undefiled (James 1:27)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 16 September 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Lord, please do not let us neglect what you have declared to be pure and undefiled. Help us to take responsibility for caring for orphans and widows.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:07.0 | James chapter 1 verse 27 |
| 0:10.0 | religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this, to visit orphans and |
| 0:19.2 | widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. |
| 0:25.0 | What a statement! |
| 0:27.0 | Religion that is pure before God, that is acceptable before God, is not just sitting in a service singing songs, |
| 0:42.8 | studying God's word, |
| 0:45.0 | gathering together with the church, |
| 0:48.0 | going through a lot of the things we might picture |
| 0:52.0 | in the normal Christian life. No religion before God |
| 0:56.4 | our father that is pure and undefiled is visiting orphans and widows in their distress. |
| 1:06.0 | That's a powerful word to visit. |
| 1:08.0 | It's really fascinating. |
| 1:09.0 | When you look at it in the New Testament and a few times in the Old Testament Greek translation. It's not just to come to somebody |
| 1:16.2 | like visit them drop in and then leave. It's so much deeper than that. To visit someone in the language here, the New |
| 1:24.2 | Testament is to come to someone with a responsibility to care for them. Just |
| 1:30.1 | listen to a few other places. This word is used in the Bible. |
| 1:33.0 | Genesis chapter 50, verse 24. |
| 1:35.9 | Joseph said to his brothers, I'm about to die, |
| 1:38.5 | but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob. |
| 1:46.0 | Basically Joseph saying to his brothers, God is going to come and bring you into the land that he is promised to you. |
| 1:53.8 | He's going to not just visit and leave. |
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