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Pray the Word with David Platt

Pray for the Persecuted Church (Jeremiah 37:15)

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

🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Pray the Word on Jeremiah 37:15, David Platt prays for Christians who are being beaten and imprisoned for their faith.From unexpected olympic champion to martyr in China. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Eric Liddell’s win in the 1924 games.In Glory Road, Radical’s new narrative podcast, we’ll follow Liddell’s remarkable journey, and discover the current state of the gospel in the countries he knew best.Start listening to this 6 part series now everywhere you listen...

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From Olympic victory in Paris to missionary death in China.

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This year marks the 100th anniversary of Eric Little's famous win in the 1924 Olympic Games. In Glory Road, Radical's new narrative

0:16.8

podcast will follow Little's remarkable journey and will explore the

0:21.5

current state of the gospel in the countries he knew best.

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Start listening to this six-part series now, wherever you listen to podcasts.

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

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Jeremiah chapter 37 verse 15 and the officials were enraged at Jeremiah and they beat him and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the secretary for it had been made a prison.

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This is a pretty straightforward verse as Jeremiah proclaims God's word and as a result of

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obedience to God and faithful proclamation of His word. Jeremiah is beaten and imprisoned.

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It makes me think of Matthew chapter 10,

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which I was looking at just recently

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when Jesus told his disciples when he sent them out to proclaim his kingdom,

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you will be persecuted, you will be betrayed, you will be hated. We should not be surprised when challenges come in our lives as a result of us sharing the gospel. We need to be aware that that

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may be one of the biggest temptations for us not to share the gospel because things will get harder for us.

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things will change for us. But even still I think about the context where I live,

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followers of Jesus, yes, may pay a price in different ways for sharing

1:58.6

the gospel, but not the same kind of price that our brothers and sisters are paying for sharing the Gospel in

2:05.2

North Korea or Yemen or Somalia or many other places around the world where Christians would face the loss of their lives

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almost certainly in some circumstances if they share the gospel. So I want to lead us to pray for them

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and for their boldness, for Jeremiah like boldness and them

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and for us to pray for one another

2:32.0

wherever we live, that we would have Jeremiah like boldness to share the

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