Pursuing Peace (Proverbs 20:3)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 7 June 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on Proverbs 20:3, David Platt calls us to honor God and others by wisely keeping aloof from quarrels. Explore more content from Radical.

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0:00.0	Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:06.5	Proverbs chapter 20, verse 3.
0:09.5	It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife.
0:15.7	But every fool will be quarreling.
0:19.7	This is one of many proverbs that warn against stoking strife,
0:27.7	fueling strife, seeking out strife, getting involved in strife and quarreling with others.
0:36.3	It's an honor for man to keep aloof from strife, to stay distant from strife, not to get
0:43.7	pulled into it, and every fool will be quarreling.
0:48.4	You want to see a fool look at those who are quarreling constantly.
1:00.4	I think about James chapter three, talking about wisdom from above and how wisdom from above soes a harvest of righteousness in peace by those who make peace.
1:07.4	Wisdom pursues, seeks out peace in a Romans 1218 kind of way, if possible, so far as it
1:16.8	depends on you, live peaceably with all.
1:20.4	Now, obviously, we live in a world of strife and quarreling, so there's a sense in which
1:25.9	it can't be avoided, and we're constantly tempted to be
1:29.2	pulled into it. But what Proverbs is teaching us here is that it's wisdom to stay aloof from strife.
1:37.5	It's wisdom to avoid quarreling. It's wisdom to pursue peace. And so we pray, God, help us to be wise in this way. Today,
1:51.7	we pray you to help us to keep aloof from strife, to not give ourselves over to quarreling.
1:59.7	God, when we are tempted to be drawn into strife or tempted to join in quarreling,
2:07.0	we pray that you would pull us back.
2:09.5	I think about all the influence of social media on polarization and divisiveness
2:16.7	and people making comments about this and that that just feels
2:21.9	like a lot of strife.
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