Beyond Intellection (John 2:23–25)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 12 March 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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In this episode of Pray the Word on John 2:23–25, David Platt explains what it means to have a relationship with our Lord.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:05.8 | John chapter 2 verses 23 through 25. Now when Jesus was in Jerusalem at the Passover feast, |
| 0:11.6 | many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. But Jesus on his part |
| 0:17.2 | did not entrust himself to them because he knew all people and needed no one to bear witness |
| 0:22.6 | about man. For he himself knew what was in man. Did you catch that? Verse 23 talks about how many |
| 0:29.6 | people were believing in Jesus name when they saw all these signs that he was doing. But |
| 0:34.7 | verse 24 says Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them because he knew what was in them. |
| 0:43.5 | In other words, there's a kind of belief that does not lead to relationship with Jesus. We know |
| 0:50.3 | this. James makes clear even demons believe in God, even demons believe in Jesus. They don't |
| 0:56.5 | have relationship with him. Like there is a level of belief of intellectual acknowledgement |
| 1:02.7 | and awareness that is not relationship with Jesus. And so I just want to encourage you to examine |
| 1:10.1 | your art today. Your mind and ask what kind of belief do you have? Just intellectual? Yes, |
| 1:16.8 | I believe these things about Jesus. I think about somebody a friend and I were sharing the gospel |
| 1:22.0 | with just hours ago and they knew a lot about Jesus. They grew up in a Catholic church knowing |
| 1:29.2 | about Jesus, but they didn't necessarily have a relationship with Jesus. And so we prayed together |
| 1:36.3 | along those lines and I just would ask you, do you have a relationship with Jesus where he has |
| 1:43.2 | entrusted himself to you, put his spirit in you so that you are walking with him? Do you have, |
| 1:50.8 | this is the question we've been asking in our church family and people have been responding, |
| 1:55.1 | do you have an intimate relationship with God through Jesus? And if the answer to that question |
| 2:00.3 | is not a resounding yes in your heart or maybe there was a time in your life when you would say |
| 2:06.1 | you did, but that was a long time ago and a lot has happened since then. I just want to encourage |
| 2:11.5 | you. Don't settle for belief that misses intimate relationship with Jesus. Oh God, I pray that over |
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