Guard Against Evil (Matthew 12:43–45)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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In this episode of Pray the Word on Matthew 12:43–45, David Platt reminds us of the reality of the spiritual warfare waging in and around us.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:04.8 | Matthew chapter 12, verses 43 through 45. |
| 0:08.3 | When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, |
| 0:14.0 | but finds none. Then it says, I will return to my house from which I came, and when it comes, |
| 0:19.4 | it finds the house empty, swept, and put an order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other |
| 0:24.6 | spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there. And the last state of that person |
| 0:30.4 | is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation? There's a lot we could talk |
| 0:37.4 | about with this passage from Jesus, but the big picture truth that I would encourage us with today, |
| 0:46.0 | and I want to lead us to pray according to today is the reality that evil when unrestrained |
| 0:54.1 | multiplies. Said again, evil when unrestrained multiplies. And we don't guard ourselves against |
| 1:03.4 | evil when we allow for evil to gain a foothold in our minds, our hearts, our lives in the church, |
| 1:13.8 | in the world. And we don't work by God's grace to restrain it. And I emphasize by God's grace, |
| 1:21.6 | because it is only God's merciful hand that keeps us from evil and keeps evil from multiplying |
| 1:31.6 | even more evil unrestrained multiplies. So guard your heart and your mind today from sin and evil |
| 1:42.1 | and temptation. Do not take a break today at any point from spiritual battle against wickedness |
| 1:50.2 | in your own heart and life. And as you pray for others in your life as you intercede for other |
| 1:56.9 | people for your church for the world around you for the nations will pray at a moment for the |
| 2:02.0 | IMAQ people of Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iran. We pray for the restraining of evil. We pray |
| 2:12.4 | that God would buy his grace, keep evil from multiplying. So God, we pray that knowing that we are |
| 2:21.1 | in a spiritual battle got to help us to see with spiritual eyes today, that there are spiritual |
| 2:28.8 | forces of evil at work in the heavenly realms that want to destroy us, to want to destroy our |
| 2:36.0 | families, our marriages, children, parents, spiritual forces of evil at work in the world that want |
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