A Different King (John 6:15)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Pray the Word on John 6:15, David Platt explains how Jesus neglected earthly pursuits to do the Father's will.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:05.6 | John 6, verse 15, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force to make him |
| 0:11.7 | king. Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself. What a picture of a crowd who's ready |
| 0:18.0 | to make Jesus king and he turned away from it. He withdraws from them. He gets as far away from |
| 0:25.1 | them as possible. He goes to the mountain by himself to be with the Father because he knows |
| 0:31.5 | that God has not called him to be king in this way. He knows that the Father is calling him to |
| 0:37.4 | become king in a very different way, a way that will lead to a cruel death on a cross. And so he |
| 0:44.0 | goes aside to be with the Father. I see this in Jesus' life and then I think about my life and |
| 0:50.6 | I want to encourage you to think about your life. There are all kinds of pursuits this world |
| 0:55.8 | may put before you that are not from God. And it takes discipline for you or me for anyone to come |
| 1:04.0 | aside and be with God and make sure we're following His plans and His pursuits for our lives. |
| 1:11.6 | All of us can be tempted and pulled away from God's plans and God's purposes for our life by |
| 1:18.7 | the praise and accolades and agendas of others for our lives. And it's necessary for us to have |
| 1:27.1 | time alone with God to filter everything this world offers us through the lens of God is this |
| 1:35.2 | what you are calling me to. Otherwise we will all be swept away in all kinds of worldly agendas. |
| 1:43.2 | By worldly praise and accolades and we will find ourselves living for purposes that are not |
| 1:49.8 | from God. So God we pray that in every one of our lives we would prioritize time alone with you. |
| 1:57.8 | Just being with you, meditating on your word, hearing from you, inquiring of you. I think about |
| 2:03.8 | that phrase that we see all throughout the Bible, especially the Old Testament when kings inquired |
| 2:10.0 | of you that led to blessing when they did not inquire of you and they just went along with what |
| 2:14.7 | they thought was best or what others thought was best or what the world might say was best that |
| 2:20.3 | always led to destruction. So God we pray that you would help each of us to rightly and wisely |
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