My Joy is Gone (Jeremiah 8:18)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 12 July 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Jeremiah 8:18, Pastor David Platt grieves for God's people who are under the judgment of God.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:04.1 | Jeremiah chapter 8 verse 18, my joy is gone, grief is upon me, my heart is sick within me. |
| 0:12.4 | This is one of those verses in the book of Jeremiah where we see Jeremiah's heart as a reflection |
| 0:19.4 | of God's heart for the people of God. Jeremiah is looking out at the people who are under God's |
| 0:27.1 | judgment and he says, my joy is gone, grief is upon me, my heart is sick within me. He is |
| 0:34.3 | grieving for God's people who are under God's judgment and I read this first and I just ask |
| 0:40.4 | in my own life and I would ask you like, are you grieved over sin in your own life? Does it |
| 0:48.4 | grieve you when you sin? Because your heart sick over sin that you see in your own life and then |
| 0:56.6 | to ask the question, are you grieved over sin that you see around you? Are you grieved over sin |
| 1:03.6 | and others? Does it make your heart sick in ways that lead you to do what Jeremiah did to proclaim |
| 1:10.8 | God's word to proclaim God's judgment on sin and God's grace and mercy for those who repent? |
| 1:19.3 | Oh God, help us to grieve over what grieves you. We pray for sick hearts in this way. |
| 1:27.5 | According to your word in Jeremiah 8, 18, God, we pray that you would make our hearts like yours |
| 1:33.6 | in ways that we do grieve over sin in our lives. God, help us to hate sin more and more and more |
| 1:40.4 | every day to not be casual with it, to hate it, to grieve over it before you honestly are |
| 1:48.5 | hearts to be sick over it. And God, we pray that as we look at a world of sin and sinners around |
| 1:55.8 | us, you would help us to grieve over this. You would help us to grieve rightly that our hearts |
| 2:02.0 | would be sick over sin around us that we wouldn't be comfortable in it or desensitize to it. |
| 2:09.7 | God, that you would give us hearts like your hearts. Help us to mourn and grieve and pray |
| 2:16.0 | over sin and over sinners who need your grace and need your mercy. Help us to have that level of |
| 2:22.3 | compassion that we see in your Son that we see in Jesus, our Savior who wept over the city of |
| 2:28.6 | Jerusalem, went to the cross to die for their sin. God, help us to weep over sin and sinners |
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