Righteous before God (Luke 1:6–7)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 14 February 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Pray the Word on Luke 1:6–7, David Platt provides a sobering picture of how faith navigates life’s hardships.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:05.7 | Luke chapter 1 verses 6 and 7. And they were both righteous before God, |
| 0:10.4 | walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord. But they had no child, |
| 0:15.3 | because Elizabeth was barren and both were advanced in years. So these verses are describing |
| 0:20.3 | Elizabeth and Zechariah, a wife and husband, who listened to the description in verse 6. They were |
| 0:26.1 | both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord. |
| 0:33.3 | What a description. Don't you want that to be the description of your life righteous before God? |
| 0:39.4 | Like just that. Oh God may it be so, and walking blamelessly in all his commands and statutes. |
| 0:46.2 | Then you get to verse 7 and says, but they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren and both |
| 0:51.0 | were advanced in years. So they were older with no children. Elizabeth barren, I just immediately |
| 0:57.4 | think about the journey of infertility that my wife Heather and I walked for what seemed like |
| 1:04.0 | so long. But it was not as many years as Elizabeth and Zechariah. And I know so many couples who |
| 1:12.4 | have walked through that journey. And some who are walking through that journey right now, |
| 1:17.9 | I'm sure there are some listening to this who have walked or are walking that road. All right, |
| 1:23.7 | I would even include single brothers and sisters who long to be married, long for children through |
| 1:30.4 | marriage. And regardless the end is the same, God's not providing children in the way you long for, |
| 1:37.6 | whether in singleness or in barrenness and marriage. And I just want to pray specifically over |
| 1:45.2 | couples like that is over couples who are walking through infertility and over singles who |
| 1:51.8 | long for marriage and children who God is not provided in that way yet. And I just want to |
| 1:58.0 | encourage you in light of verse 6. That's why I read both verse 6 and 7. So this picture of |
| 2:04.0 | barrenness in verse 7 is accompanied by this picture of fruitfulness in verse 6. They were both |
| 2:11.0 | righteous before God, walking blamelessly in his commandments and statutes. I just want to pray, |
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