God Hears the Humble (2 Kings 22:11)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:04.3 | Second Kings chapter 22, verse 11. |
| 0:07.8 | When the king heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes. |
| 0:15.2 | I'm just going to stop right there. |
| 0:16.7 | I want you to get this picture in your mind. |
| 0:19.5 | It says King Josiah. |
| 0:21.5 | He hears God's word spoken. |
| 0:26.6 | And just hearing the words of God, he tears his clothes. |
| 0:32.3 | This is a picture of repentance, of sorrow, deep sorrow over sin, because he knows the people of God have not |
| 0:41.5 | been following this word. And so he is broken over it. He literally breaks his clothes. He begins |
| 0:50.1 | weeping. He's humbling himself before God because of conviction in his heart brought |
| 0:57.6 | about by the Word of God, confession in his life and among the people of God brought about |
| 1:03.3 | by the Word of God. |
| 1:05.9 | And we read later in verse 19 of this chapter how God says, your heart was penitent and because you humbled |
| 1:13.0 | yourself before me when you heard my word you've torn your clothes and wept before me |
| 1:19.2 | God says I have heard you have heard your cries God hears the cries of the humble |
| 1:25.6 | and the repentant and the broken and the convicted who hear |
| 1:30.9 | his word with a soft heart and reply with humble submission and confession and contrition. |
| 1:40.2 | So God, we pray that our hearts would be like Josiahs in this way. God, we pray that our hearts would be like Josiahs in this way. |
| 1:46.4 | God, we pray that when we hear your word, whether it's in a podcast episode like this, |
| 1:53.9 | whether it's when we open our Bibles to read it, and God help us to be faithful to do that. |
| 1:59.4 | We know that's part of the problem here in |
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