Guard Against Complacency (Zephaniah 1:12)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on Zephaniah 1:12, David Platt warns us of the dangers of being complacent in the Christian life.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:05.7	Zephaniah chapter 1, verse 12.
0:08.3	At that time, I will search Jerusalem with lamps and I will punish the men who are complacent.
0:14.0	Those who say in their hearts,
0:15.8	the Lord will not do good nor will he do ill.
0:18.6	Wow, what a word.
0:20.0	What an indictment on men who are complacent.
0:23.9	People who say in their hearts.
0:26.3	The Lord won't do anything.
0:27.5	He's not going to do anything good.
0:28.8	He's not going to do anything ill.
0:30.4	They're sitting back complacent.
0:33.0	The word means self-satisfied, smug, unwurried, even self-righteous.
0:40.4	I just want to ask, is there a tendency toward complacency in you or me?
0:45.5	Is it possible for us to go throughout a day or many days,
0:50.4	just complacent, self-satisfied, smug, self-righteous, even not thinking about the grand reality?
0:59.4	Of one, the goodness of God,
1:01.6	in ways that overwhelm our hearts and ignite our affections for God.
1:06.6	And we don't want to be a complacent people.
1:08.9	We want to be a people who love God with all our heart and soul and mind and strength.
1:15.2	Complacency in this sense is the very opposite of the great commandment.
1:20.8	It's to have no feeling for God.
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