#805 – Praying for the Persecuted (Acts 22:22)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 23 October 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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We have brothers and sisters all throughout the world who are suffering for following Jesus. As we pray for their boldness and continual dependence on Christ, let us also pray that we will be bold in sharing the good news of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:04.0 | Act chapter 22, |
| 0:08.0 | up to this word they listened to him. |
| 0:13.0 | Then they raised their voices and said, |
| 0:15.0 | Away with such a fellow from the earth, |
| 0:18.0 | for he should not be allowed to live. |
| 0:22.0 | Just let this soak in. This is Paul. to live. |
| 0:23.0 | Just let this soak in. |
| 0:24.1 | This is Paul as he's being persecuted, proclaiming the gospel, the good news about Jesus and |
| 0:30.9 | testifying to how Jesus had changed his life and when he speaks |
| 0:35.7 | about this about how Jesus changed his life and how Jesus called him to make his love known among all the nations of the earth and |
| 0:47.7 | after he shares this they shout out away with this man from the earth. |
| 0:56.2 | He should not be allowed to live. |
| 0:59.2 | In other words, kill this man. |
| 1:04.0 | So picture it. |
| 1:05.0 | Here's a man testifying to Jesus |
| 1:08.0 | and his glory among all the nations |
| 1:12.0 | and the world in this circumstance responds by saying |
| 1:16.0 | kill him. I read this and I cannot help to think about persecuted brothers and |
| 1:22.4 | sisters around the world for whom this is a reality right now. |
| 1:27.3 | And we have brothers and sisters in Christ who are testifying to Christ right now and and earth. They should not be allowed to live. And it might be in some circumstances foreign |
| 1:46.2 | governments saying that. So it might be a government says away with |
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