Our Faithful Deliverer (Isaiah 36:18–20)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on Isaiah 36:18–20, David Platt illustrates how the Lord is worthy of all of our trust.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:05.0	Isaiah chapter 36 verses 18 through 20.
0:08.0	Beware lest Hezakiah mislead you by saying,
0:12.0	the Lord will deliver us.
0:14.4	Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the King of
0:19.3	Assyria?
0:20.9	Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Separvine? Have they delivered
0:26.3	Samaria out of my hand? Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered their lands out of my hand that the Lord should deliver
0:35.1	Jerusalem out of my hand.
0:37.5	Ah, this is Old Testament trash talk. This is the Assyrians saying to the people of Jerusalem as they surround
0:49.8	the city about to overtake the city, at least they think, and they are
0:55.8	haunting the people of God, saying there is no God who can deliver people from our hands.
1:06.2	The Lord cannot deliver Jerusalem out of our hands.
1:11.4	No God in any nation can deliver his land out of the hand of the King of
1:17.0	Assyria. Now, I won't go into all the details of what happens after this but suffice to say this old
1:25.4	testament trash talk gets turned on its head and God strikes down the Assyrians who haunted him and his people in this way who thought
1:39.2	that they were sovereign over the nations when God alone the Lord alone is sovereign over the
1:47.6	nations. But the encouragement I want to give you from this passage is encouragement we see all throughout the
1:55.0	book of Isaiah and all throughout the Bible. God is worthy. He is absolutely, unequivocally, undoubtedly, unquestionably, unconditionally worthy of your trust.
2:17.7	And you may be tempted,
2:19.1	much like the people in Jerusalem
2:21.5	hearing these taunts were tempted to think, can God deliver us?
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