Entrusted with the Gospel (1 Thessalonians 2:4)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

Christian, Bible, Baptist, Devotional, Spirituality, John Piper, Prayer, Bible Study, Religion & Spirituality, Louie Giglio, Christianity, David Platt, Pray, Radical

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🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Pray the Word on 1 Thessalonians 2:4, David Platt reminds us of God's great mercy to entrust us with the gospel.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:30.3	What a statement that God has seen fit for you and me to be entrusted with the gospel.
0:38.4	What a trust we have been given. Everyone who has the gospel described as approved by God
0:47.2	to be entrusted with the gospel, God help us to be faithful with this gospel trust you have given
0:55.7	to us. That alone like transforms the way I live today. We have the gospel entrusted to us by
1:02.8	the grace of God that he has seen fit to give it to us. God help us to be faithful with it and
1:09.2	then after that Paul writes so we speak not to please men but to please God who tests our hearts.
1:19.7	What a picture because we have been entrusted with the gospel. We speak in a way that is pleasing
1:28.0	to God not in a way that is people pleasing although in a Romans 15 kind of way we do want to
1:34.9	make it our aim to please brothers and sisters in Christ in a way that builds them up in Christ.
1:40.3	But ultimately to please God that are more than every word we say would be to please God so
1:49.8	much to pray according to here in V.S. 2 verse 4. God help us oh God we praise you for entrusting
1:59.6	us with the gospel. What a thought that you have seen fit by your grace certainly not by anything
2:07.2	in us by everything in you by your grace to entrust us with the good news of your love and
2:12.8	Jesus of reconciliation to you and restoration redemption in you God we praise you for entrusting
2:21.5	us with the gospel help us to be faithful with this trust you have given to us. Help us to faithfully
2:27.3	share the gospel today. Help us to faithfully share the gospel with people right around us with
2:33.6	people groups far from us as we pray all the time on this podcast God we pray in a world where
2:38.4	three plus a billion people have little to no knowledge of the gospel help us to be faithful to
2:44.4	share it with them to send out people to support workers brothers and sisters on the front lines
2:50.9	of unreached people groups sharing spreading the gospel help us to be faithful with this trust
2:56.4	you've given to us in our lives and our families in the church and then God help us to speak
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