#856 – He Came to Set Us Free (Psalm 102:18–22)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

We were in bondage to sin, but Christ graciously came to set us free from sin's penalty. He promises that we are being freed from sin's power and will one day be free even from sin's presence.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical dot net.
0:06.0	Psalm 102, 18 through 22.
0:10.0	Let this be recorded for a generation to come so that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord that he looked down from his holy height from heaven the Lord looked at the earth, to hear the groans of the prisoners,
0:26.0	to set free those who were doomed to die, that they may declare in Zion the name of the Lord, in Jerusalem his praise when peoples gather together
0:36.6	and kingdoms to worship the Lord.
0:39.7	Oh what a powerful picture of God's grace.
0:45.0	Just think about what these verses just said.
0:48.0	God has looked down from his holy height. From heaven the Lord looked at the earth at those who were in need, desperately in need.
1:02.0	God from his holy height has heard the groans of prisoners,
1:08.0	has set free those who were doomed to die.
1:13.0	What a picture of despair, of bondage, of hopelessness,
1:20.0	and God on high looks down and he hears and he sees and he sets free.
1:26.5	This is the gospel. This is what we celebrate at Christmas.
1:30.0	God from His Holyite has come to us in the person of Jesus.
1:35.0	He has taken on a robe of human flesh,
1:38.0	and he has lived among us.
1:40.0	He has died for us so that we might be free from sin, from bondage to sin, from bondage to death,
1:49.3	so that we might have life in him, praise be to God, who looked down from his holy height and did not leave
1:56.2	us alone in our need, but came to us in our need.
2:00.6	So we praise him.
2:02.3	That's the whole picture in verse 21 here that they may declare in
2:06.5	Zion the name of the Lord and in Jerusalem his praise when peoples gather together and
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