Pursuing Joy (3 John 1:4)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 28 May 2022
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:04.2 | 3 John, verse 4, I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. |
| 0:12.9 | Yes, like memorize this verse, this picture of joy that's found in hearing that your children or hearing that other people that you love |
| 0:24.5 | are walking in the truth. D.A. Carson has a great quote in his devotional on this verse, |
| 0:31.6 | saying in a world where many Christians derive their deepest joy from advancement, ease, promotions, financial security, good health, |
| 0:40.3 | popularity, and a host of other things. It is delightful, not to say challenging, to hear |
| 0:45.1 | an apostle testify that nothing stirs his joy more than to hear that his children are walking |
| 0:52.3 | in line with the gospel. That tells us all we need to know of his heart and where we should find our pleasures to. |
| 0:59.9 | Is this where you find your pleasure in seeing other people whom you love? |
| 1:04.7 | Whether maybe your physical children, if you have physical children or spiritual children |
| 1:09.9 | or just people around you that you're sharing |
| 1:11.9 | life with, is your great joy found in hearing, seeing them walk in the truth. Oh, to live for this, |
| 1:22.5 | not to live for the pleasures of this world, but to live for the pleasure of seeing people |
| 1:27.3 | thrive in their relationship with God. To live for the pleasure of seeing people thrive in their |
| 1:28.7 | relationship with God. To live for that, to find our deepest joy in this. God help us to live for |
| 1:36.0 | this today. Help us to live for the people around us, to walk in the truth. Help us to spur them on |
| 1:42.4 | towards you in every way we can. Help us to pray toward that end. Help us to spur them on towards you in every way we can. Help us to pray toward |
| 1:45.3 | that end. Help us to encourage them with your word toward that end. In the spirit, God, help us to |
| 1:51.0 | build them up. God, we pray this for people all around us in our homes, in our churches, people we are |
| 1:57.5 | sharing life with that you would help us to live so that they might walk in the |
| 2:03.6 | truth, to give our lives toward that end, we pray. God, we long to see people who don't know you |
| 2:10.1 | walking in the truth. Help us to live toward that end. For our coworkers, our neighbors to walk in |
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