Cry out for Mercy (Matthew 20:29–31)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on Matthew 20:29–31, David Platt reflects on our need to cry out to the Lord amidst suffering.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:04.8	Matthew chapter 20 verses 29 through 31, and as they went out of Jericho, a great crowd followed
0:10.6	Jesus. In the hold, there were two blind men sitting by the roadside. When they heard that Jesus
0:15.3	was passing by, they cried out. Lord, have mercy on us, son of David, the crowd rebuked them,
0:21.3	telling them to be silent, but they cried out all the more. Lord, have mercy on us, son of David.
0:27.9	I love this passage, this picture of two blind men crying out on the side of the road,
0:35.0	have mercy on us, and even when a crowd of people rebukes them and tells them to be silent,
0:42.8	they cried out all the more. Lord, have mercy on us. This is the cry of God's people,
0:51.3	followers of Jesus throughout the ages in a world of suffering. We find ourselves crying out
0:58.0	for mercy in our own lives, on behalf of others' lives. I trust we all feel this, see this,
1:06.7	experience this cry for mercy. I think about my friend and brother, Clint Clifton, who is one
1:15.1	of the greatest husbands and dads and closest zealous church planters I've ever been around,
1:21.8	and just last week he died in a plane crash and is now with the Lord and just found myself crying
1:29.4	out in a fresh way for mercy in this world of suffering, for mercy over his precious wife,
1:35.7	Jennifer, over their incredible kids, over their church family, and over so many people who've
1:43.6	been impacted by his life. We hate suffering and death in this world. We long for the day when it
1:50.6	will be no more yet here in these moments. Don't we find ourselves crying out for mercy? That's just
1:57.2	one example. I think about all the different people who are listening to this and all the different
2:01.8	things you've experienced or are walking through right now in your life. Can we just cry out with
2:08.0	these blind men on the roadside? God have mercy. God, we pray for your help. We pray for your
2:14.7	strength and your peace and your comfort. We praise you for your hope. We praise you that mercy
2:21.5	is available in you. God, I pray and I'll lead others to pray right now for Jennifer and for the
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