Godly Tears (Psalm 119:136)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on Psalm 119:136, David Platt reflects on the effect of others' sin and our reaction to it.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:05.7	Psalm chapter 119, verse 136,
0:08.5	My eyes shed streams of tears because people do not keep your law.
0:14.4	What a picture of the psalmist looking around and seeing people not keeping the law of God.
0:21.5	And it drives the psalmist to weep. My eyes shed streams of tears.
0:28.5	Not just get a little teary eyes.
0:30.2	Streams of tears flowing because God's law is not being kept.
0:36.0	Is this not convicting?
0:37.4	Do your eyes to my eyes shed streams of tears when we see God's law not being kept around us?
0:46.7	It's interesting, isn't it?
0:47.9	I think we are prone, at least in the church in my country and my culture.
0:53.5	I think we are prone to have an opposite reaction
0:57.4	when we see God's law not being obeyed.
1:01.4	We get mad, angry.
1:03.8	And I think there's a place for that a holy and righteous place.
1:08.5	In a Mark 11, Jesus turning over tables in the temple.
1:12.4	Kind of holy anger, but don't miss the picture you're in God's word.
1:16.7	And we also see this in Jesus, Luke 19,
1:19.2	when he looked out over the city of Jerusalem that was about to crucify him.
1:23.8	What did he do?
1:25.1	He wept.
1:25.6	The Psalmist here is saying,
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