Forgive as God Forgives (Ephesians 4:31–32)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on Ephesians 4:31–32, David Platt calls Christians to forgive others as God has forgiven us. Explore more content from Radical.

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0:00.0	Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:04.3	Ephesians chapter 4, verses 31 and 32, let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander
0:16.1	be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted,
0:24.6	forgiving one another. As God and Christ forgave you. Those commands couldn't be any clearer,
0:32.6	could they? Let all bitterness be put away from you. Is there any bitterness in your heart and your mind?
0:42.3	I bring that before God and ask him to help you to put it away.
0:49.3	And the same with wrath and anger, clamor, and slander.
0:55.8	Put it away.
0:57.5	Put it away, along with all malice.
1:00.5	Instead, be kind to one another.
1:04.6	Tender-hearted.
1:06.8	Forgive one another.
1:08.9	Which is not always easy.
1:10.3	Usually we have, in a sense, reason is not always easy. Usually we have in a sense reason or justification
1:14.2	to be bitter or angry. And God says, forgive one another as God in Christ forgave you.
1:23.5	Like all of these things in the first verse in verse 31 are natural to us.
1:29.1	Bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, slander, malice.
1:32.7	Just look around in the world.
1:34.1	They're everywhere.
1:36.0	And sadly, you look around and even in the church, you see those things.
1:41.8	It should not be.
1:43.7	That's the whole message of Ephesians 4.
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