Submitting Our Lives to God (1 Kings 20:28)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 17 October 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:04.6 | 1 Kings chapter 20, verse 28, |
| 0:07.8 | and a man of God came near and said to the king of Israel, |
| 0:11.3 | Thus says the Lord, |
| 0:13.2 | Because the Syrians have said, |
| 0:15.5 | The Lord is a God of the hills, |
| 0:17.1 | but he is not a God of the valleys. |
| 0:19.5 | Therefore, I will give all this great multitude into your |
| 0:22.4 | hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord. So basically, the scene here is the people of God are |
| 0:32.4 | facing battle with the Syrians. And the Syrians say that the Lord, Yahweh, the God of the people of Israel, |
| 0:42.3 | may be a God of the hills, but he's not a God of the valleys. |
| 0:47.3 | And as a result, God says, I will show the Syrians in this story that I am God over all and I will give them into your hand |
| 0:58.4 | and you and they will know that I am the Lord who reigns sovereign over all. |
| 1:06.0 | And there's a lot we could say about this story, but I want to lead us to pray and lie to the big |
| 1:14.1 | picture purpose of God in this story that we see yet again. |
| 1:21.4 | In God's word, God makes clear that He will be exalted as Lord over all the nations, that His name will be worshipped as supreme, |
| 1:41.7 | as the authoritative Lord over hills and valleys, over nations and tribes, |
| 1:50.6 | over peoples and lands, that God is the Lord of all. |
| 1:56.5 | When you get to the end of the Bible, Revelation chapter 7 depicts every nation, tribe, |
| 2:02.7 | and tongue, gathered around the throne, singing, salvation belongs to the Lord. |
| 2:10.1 | Praise, honor, and glory belong to the Lord. |
| 2:14.0 | What is Philippians 2, 9 through 11, say, one day every knee will bow and every tongue |
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