God's Works Displayed (John 9:1–3)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 19 March 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Pray the Word on John 9:1–3, David Platt shows us God’s sovereign plan for sickness and disability.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:30.9 | But I just want to point out the obvious and lead us to pray according to that which is |
| 0:36.1 | crystal clear in these verses when we see someone who is blind or who has a disability or special |
| 0:44.0 | need or even someone who is sick we definitely don't need to conclude somebody send to cause this |
| 0:51.4 | you know that person or that person's parents now we do see disastrous effects from |
| 0:56.9 | sin all over the Bible including physical effects from sin but we need to be really careful not |
| 1:03.6 | to conclude that this or that sickness or disability or special need is attributed to some sin |
| 1:11.6 | ultimately yes to the fact that there is sin in the world and we live in a fallen world where |
| 1:16.9 | creation is groaning for redemption and our bodies are longing for redemption and that plays out |
| 1:23.5 | in so many different ways I think about all the men and women and kids and just my church family |
| 1:29.7 | who have special needs or disabilities or even who are sick in ways that are not attributed |
| 1:37.2 | to someone's sin but Jesus said that the works of God might be displayed in him and you read |
| 1:44.4 | down in the rest of this chapter and you see an amazing story of Jesus giving this blind man sight |
| 1:51.6 | in a way that glorified God and I can absolutely testify to men and women and kids I know with |
| 2:00.1 | all of the above with disabilities or special needs or sickness where God is showing his glory |
| 2:09.0 | his goodness his love his wisdom his beauty his power in awesome ways in the middle of sickness |
| 2:18.8 | and the middle of special needs and the middle of disabilities and I'm not at all presuming that's |
| 2:24.3 | easy for anyone and any of these categories anyone who's listening to this who finds yourself |
| 2:31.0 | struggling physically in any particular way mentally in any particular way but to know and |
| 2:37.6 | believe that God is good and God will show his glory on behalf of those who trust in him and the |
| 2:46.4 | middle of disability in the middle of special need in the middle of sickness in ways far beyond |
| 2:52.4 | what anyone could imagine and one day Romans 8 our bodies for all who trust in Jesus will be |
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