Motivated by Love for Others (1 Samuel 20:17)

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

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🗓️ 28 August 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on 1 Samuel 20:17, David Platt explains that our love for others should motivate us to share the gospel with them.

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0:00.0	Others pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:05.1	1 Samuel 20 verse 17.
0:08.4	And Jonathan made David swear again by his love for him.
0:12.5	For he loved him as he loved his own soul.
0:16.0	What a great picture of friendship in the Bible.
0:22.2	What a great description of love between friends.
0:27.4	He loved him as he loved his own soul.
0:31.8	Like, don't you want to be a friend like that to others?
0:37.3	Don't we all want to have friendships where we love like this and we are loved like this,
0:45.6	how meaningful it is to have someone else love us as they love their own soul?
0:53.4	Oh, just that phrase.
0:56.7	It makes me think about God's grace and people who have loved and cared for me in my life.
1:04.2	I have so many people to be thankful for and family, friends, brothers and sisters in the church.
1:12.6	Oh, my life is the fruit of people who loved and cared for me.
1:18.6	And I want others' lives to be the fruit of my love and care for them.
1:23.6	Don't we all want this?
1:25.0	We want to receive this.
1:26.5	We want to reflect this kind of love.
1:28.1	So let's pray for Samuel 2017.
1:30.8	God, we pray that you would help us to be friends like this.
1:35.8	Help us to love others as our own soul, just as you taught us, Jesus.
1:41.3	Second, commandment, after loving you with all our heart, soul, mind and strength is to love others as ourselves.
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