Bold Proclamation (Luke 3:18)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on Luke 3:18, David Platt encourages us to passionately share the Gospel with people around us.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:05.7	Luke chapter three, verse 18. So with many other exhortations, he preached good news to the people.
0:12.6	Oh, there's so much here in this short verse describing the work, a labor of John the Baptist.
0:18.7	With many exhortations, he preached good news to the people. Well, one, make the connection with
0:24.9	Luke chapter two, verse 10, an angel pronouncing. I bring you good news of great joy to all the people.
0:31.6	And John is proclaiming good news to the people. Like this is what we do. This is what all who know
0:38.0	Jesus do. We preach, we proclaim good news. We have the greatest news in the world. We share it with
0:45.7	people. But the word I really want to camp out on and pray according to is when it says in Luke 318
0:51.6	with many other exhortations, he preached good news to the people, exhortations to exhort.
0:58.6	It's like a picture of encouragement with passion, encouragement with urging. I exhort you to do
1:06.5	this. I exhort you to believe this good news. John was saying I exhort you to repent of your
1:13.0	sin. I urge you with passion to do this. I encourage you with this good news. And I just wanted to
1:19.5	think about sharing the gospel in your life, where you go to school, where you go to work,
1:24.7	your neighborhood, your community, your city. I think if we're not careful, we can view sharing
1:30.0	the gospel as merely a matter of transferring information. Now, let me tell you about Jesus.
1:36.3	And as we've prayed in line of Mark 16, for example, we are tempted to be silent, not even
1:42.7	share that much, not even talk about Jesus. But even when we do talk about Jesus, to talk about
1:47.9	Him in terms of, okay, who he is, what he did on the cross, his resurrection from the dead.
1:53.2	But the question is, are we simply sharing information about Jesus? Are we exhorting people
2:00.7	to believe in Jesus? Are we passionately urging people to follow Jesus? There should be in our
2:08.8	conversations with non-Christians, a sense of exhortation, not just sharing the gospel as
2:15.9	information, but exhortation. Your eternity is dependent on this. Your life today is dependent
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