#789 – Living in a Battlefield (2 Corinthians 4:4–6)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 7 October 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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So often in the Christian life, we can live day by day being silent while the battle rages around us. Let's engage in the battle by preaching Christ. May we speak the gospel today.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:04.0 | 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verses 4 through 6. |
| 0:11.0 | In their case, the God of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them |
| 0:18.4 | from seeing the light of the Gospel of the Glory of Christ, who is the image of God. For what we proclaim as not |
| 0:26.0 | ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. |
| 0:33.0 | For God, who said let light shine out of darkness, |
| 0:38.0 | has shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. |
| 0:46.9 | I love the picture we have in these three verses. |
| 0:53.0 | So just think about what we just read. |
| 0:57.0 | Verse 4 in 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 talks about |
| 1:01.0 | that God of this world is blinding the minds of unbelievers to keep them |
| 1:06.0 | from seeing the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ. |
| 1:09.0 | So when you think about unbelievers right around you, when you think about unbelievers around the world, when we pray for unbelievers right around you when you think about unbelievers around the world when we |
| 1:14.0 | pray for unreached people groups like the Bogara people in Sudan 600,000 of |
| 1:19.2 | them a Muslim people group that has little to no knowledge of the gospel, the God of this world, |
| 1:24.4 | little G God of this world, the devil's blinding minds. He's doing it among the Bhagarin |
| 1:30.3 | Sudan and he's doing it in the cubicle in the office next to you, |
| 1:35.0 | in the house next to you, in the hearts and lives of people right around you. |
| 1:40.0 | So there's a little gee God in this world |
| 1:41.0 | is blinding the minds of unbelievers. |
| 1:43.2 | That's verse 4. |
| 1:44.2 | Verse 6 says God who said let light shine out of darkness is shining in our hearts |
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