#788 – Ponder the Path of Your Feet (Proverbs 4:25–27)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 6 October 2019
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Summary
May God help us to refrain from flirting with sin. We are prone to wander at every turn, but let's wage war on sin and keep our feet moving forward on the path to which God has called us.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:04.0 | Proverbs chapter 4 verses 25 through 27 |
| 0:11.0 | Let your eyes look directly forward and your gaze be straight before you. |
| 0:16.7 | Ponder the path of your feet. Then all your ways will be sure. |
| 0:21.9 | Do not swerve to the right or to the left. |
| 0:25.5 | Turn your foot away from evil. |
| 0:30.8 | I love the single minded focus that is described here that I want in my life that we need in our lives. |
| 0:41.7 | You read earlier in this chapter where you're just exhorted. Don't |
| 0:46.6 | enter the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way of evil. Avoid it. Like do not go on it in other words don't even flirt with it |
| 0:55.8 | don't even step one foot in that direction and so the end of the chapter closes |
| 1:01.5 | with keep your eyes looking forward. |
| 1:04.0 | Let your gaze be straight before you, like ponder the path of your feet. |
| 1:08.0 | Don't swerve even a little bit to the right or to the left. |
| 1:12.0 | Turn your foot the opposite direction from evil. |
| 1:15.4 | Don't even let it turn slightly toward evil. |
| 1:18.8 | And you just think about, you think about our tendency, |
| 1:21.9 | my tendency to flirt with sin. |
| 1:25.0 | Like not outright to just jump into this path of evil, but maybe just a little bit in that direction a little here or |
| 1:35.2 | there just just a slight posture turn toward this center that temptation And the Bible says don't do it. Don't do it. |
| 1:45.9 | Keep your eyes forward. Like the pictures keep your eyes fixed on Christ and |
| 1:50.8 | Hebrews 12 got away. Look at Jesus. Keep your feet in pursuit of |
| 1:59.0 | his ways, his word. Like don't swerve a little bit to the right or a little to the left. Don't flirt with |
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