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🗓️ 7 May 2024
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In this episode of Pray the Word on Isaiah 5:20, David Platt describes how to define good and evil according to God's Word.
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0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. |
0:03.4 | net. |
0:04.0 | Isaiah chapter 5 verse 20. |
0:08.0 | Woe to those who call evil good and good evil who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet, and sweet |
0:20.8 | for bitter. |
0:21.8 | What a powerful verse, describing the way the world redefines what God has said is good. What God has said is light. What God has said is sweet. And when I say the world, I |
0:39.9 | include us how we are prone to take what is good and call it evil and what's evil and |
0:47.2 | call it good. |
0:49.2 | And there are so many examples of this. |
0:52.1 | I think about praying through Song of Solomon recently, just marriage. |
0:59.3 | So many ways that the world has redefined marriage and loves in marriage in ways that do not |
1:12.0 | accord with God and His Word, |
1:16.1 | and how He's so beautifully created marriage |
1:21.2 | and created love in marriage. |
1:25.0 | And so that's just one example of so many where we are so confused |
1:31.0 | about what is good, what is light, what is sweet because of the way that the |
1:37.7 | world around us and our sinful nature in us is prone to call evil good and good evil to put |
1:44.9 | darkness for light and light for darkness to put bitter for sweet and sweet for |
1:48.4 | bitter. That's the language here in Isaiah 5 verse 20 and so I want to lead us to pray today |
1:55.3 | that God would give us his eyes |
1:58.7 | to see things according to his word, |
2:02.4 | not the world, and to. according to his word, |
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