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Pray the Word with David Platt

Kept from Sexual Immorality (Ephesians 5:3–5)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

Bible Study, Spirituality, Devotional, Bible, Christianity, Prayer, Christian, Religion & Spirituality, David Platt, John Piper, Pray, Louie Giglio, Baptist, Radical

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Pray the Word on Ephesians 5:3–5, David Platt prays that God would keep us from sexual immorality and covetousness. Explore more content from Radical.

Transcript

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Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

0:04.3

Ephesians chapter 5 verses 3 through 5,

0:07.6

but sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness

0:11.9

must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

0:16.9

Let there be no filthiness, nor foolish talk,

0:20.4

nor crude joking, which are out of place,

0:23.6

but instead let there be thanksgiving.

0:26.6

For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is

0:32.6

covetous, that is, an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

0:39.4

That's strong language.

0:41.2

Just at the very end there has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

0:46.4

All these things that were listed before that.

0:47.9

So that just shouts to us, run from all these things before this.

0:52.4

They all lead to destruction and death. They're all harmful

0:57.0

and hurtful. Sexual immorality. What the Bible describes is any and all sexual activity

1:03.5

outside of the covenant relationship between a husband and a wife in marriage, an impurity and covetousness that's described later

1:14.7

is idolatry, like wanting and desiring things in a way that is not glorifying to God,

1:23.7

wanting things you don't have, wanting things you don't have in a way that leads to lack of contentment in God,

1:32.0

as if those things could satisfy our soul.

1:35.6

If we had that, that's idolatry, the Bible says.

1:40.0

And then filthiness and foolish talk and crude joking.

1:45.6

Like let there be none of them, Ephesians 5.4 says.

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