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Pray the Word with David Platt

Light to the Nations (Genesis 11:9)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Pray the Word on Genesis 11:9, David Platt prays for the translation of the Word to every language in the world.Explore more content from Radical.

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0:00.0

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

0:05.7

Genesis chapter 11, verse 9.

0:08.4

Therefore, its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth.

0:15.0

The Tower of Babel, the moment when people were scattered into different nations with different languages,

0:25.0

unable to communicate with each other.

0:28.1

And there's a ton we could talk about here.

0:31.5

But I just want you to think about the world we live in today with thousands and thousands of different languages today.

0:41.3

And Jesus has given us a command to make His Word known in all of them.

0:49.3

Among all the nations, the tribes, the peoples, the languages.

0:53.3

That's the picture that Revelation

0:56.0

chapter 5 and 7 give us around the throne and one day every nation, tribe people, and language,

1:02.5

every language will be singing praises to God through Jesus the Son. That's where all history is headed. But the reality is, as of now,

1:14.0

there are approximately 3,400 language groups with little or no access to the Bible. Over a thousand

1:23.9

of those groups don't even have a single verse of scripture and a language they best

1:30.7

understand in their heart language and you and i have the resources as the church today

1:40.0

not just financially but combined with the globalization of the world, with the development of

1:49.1

technologies, we have the opportunity to get God's word to all of them, at least a portion of

1:55.6

God's word, to all of them soon. Like we can be the first people in the history of the church to see the word of God

2:06.3

made known in all the languages of the world. Is that not amazing? Like this is attainable for us.

2:14.3

So, brother, sister, in Christ, let's do this. Let's all play our part in doing this.

2:23.1

You can find out more information about Bible translation and illuminations.bibyl.

2:29.7

There's many different organizations, ministries who are working together toward this end.

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