#920 – Boast in the Lord (1 Corinthians 1:30–31)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 15 February 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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The only way we can stand before God is by boasting in what Christ has done in His death and resurrection.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical dot net.
0:06.7	First Corinthians chapter 1 verses 30 and 31
0:11.6	and because of him you are in Christ Jesus who became to us wisdom from God,
0:19.4	righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that as and in the Lord.
0:32.6	What a great close to this chapter.
0:35.8	This chapter that's just talked about the power of the cross to save us from our sins.
0:42.4	By God's grace, him calling us to himself. So when you put all this
0:47.0	together, when you think about salvation through the cross of Christ by the
0:51.7	calling of God in His Grace.
0:55.0	Do you have anything to boast about that you have done before God?
1:00.0	Do you have anything to boast about that you have done before God?
1:05.0	And the answer is clearly no.
1:10.0	Why am I a follower of Jesus, a saint, sanctified in Christ Jesus, 1st
1:19.3	Corinthians 1, 2, why have I seen in the cross salvation instead of folly or a stumbling block like so
1:30.9	many other people in the world see folly and stumbling like, why have I seen salvation?
1:36.1	Is it because I'm smarter? Is it because I'm better? It's because I'm richer or this or that. No, that's the whole point. Like leading up to this,
1:47.0	Paul just says over and over again, it's not because you're wiser than others, it's not because you're richer than others, it's not because you're richer than others it's not because you're have all these things
1:56.0	God's actually chosen the low and despised in the world it's because you don't
2:00.0	have these things he goes so far as to say like the only reason you and I who
2:07.0	have trusted in Jesus have found salvation in him are sanctified in him or
2:11.4	called Saints who we know that we're going to be held to the end,
2:15.8	guilt us on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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