#778 – Dependence on God's Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:11)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 26 September 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
We need the Holy Spirit to open our eyes to the truth of God's Word. May we be desperate for God's Spirit.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net. |
| 0:07.0 | 1st Corinthians chapter 2 verse 11. |
| 0:10.0 | For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person which is in him. |
| 0:15.4 | So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the spirit of God. |
| 0:29.3 | It's a pretty simple principle, reality, represented in this short verse that the spirit of a person knows the thoughts of a person. |
| 0:35.0 | Who else knows someone's thoughts better than the spirit of that person? |
| 0:40.0 | So with God, who knows the thoughts of God, the spirit of God? |
| 0:47.0 | Therefore, so put this together, if we want to know God, if we want to know how God thinks, how God works, how God acts his ways, then we must know his |
| 1:02.1 | spirit. We must be in step with, in tune with the spirit of God. |
| 1:09.7 | And this is where, and it's such a beautiful passage here in 1st |
| 1:13.4 | Corinthians chapter 2, just the necessity of the spirit on display. |
| 1:19.2 | At the beginning of this chapter in the |
| 1:25.0 | chapter in the proclamation of the word that when the word is proclaimed rightly, the spirit of God will show its power |
| 1:29.0 | in such a way that men will come to know God |
| 1:32.0 | and put their faith in God, not in men. |
| 1:35.0 | So we will put our faith in God when the spirit of God opens our eyes to His word, |
| 1:42.0 | and that's exactly what the rest of this chapter goes on to talk |
| 1:45.1 | about how we need the spirit of God to know God to know his thoughts his his truth, his ways. |
| 1:54.0 | So this is where we need to remember then |
| 1:57.8 | that a relationship with God is not a mechanical or even natural relationship. |
| 2:07.0 | This is super natural. |
| 2:10.0 | If we're going to know God, then we are dependent, desperate for the spirit of God to help us know |
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