The Danger of Secret Sin (Job 24:14–15)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 24 February 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:04.0 | Job chapter 24, verses 14 and 15, |
| 0:08.0 | The murderer rises before it is light, |
| 0:12.0 | that he may kill the poor and needy, |
| 0:14.0 | and in the night he is like a thief. |
| 0:17.0 | The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, no saying no I will see me and he veils his face so in the |
| 0:27.6 | middle of this chapter Job 24 Job is talking about how the wicked perform their sinful evil actions in darkness where it seems like no one will know or no one will |
| 0:44.2 | see what they do and here's a lot that we could talk about when it comes to why jove is wrestling |
| 0:52.4 | with this specifically because, specifically because of, |
| 0:54.9 | specifically because of these accusations of wickedness from these so-called friends of his. |
| 1:03.5 | But I want to lead us to pray, according to this biblical reality that Job is expressing here that sin evil wickedness attempts to thrive in darkness, |
| 1:21.5 | in secret, in apparent security. |
| 1:25.6 | I just think of numerous conversations I've had recently with, with people |
| 1:33.2 | where I just keep coming back to this biblical truth, like sin thrives in secret. Evil thrives |
| 1:43.1 | in secret, in darkness darkness and the reminder for every single one of us in our lives to beware of |
| 1:55.4 | secret sin which is really not secret at all. God knows, right? |
| 2:02.8 | God sees all things. |
| 2:03.7 | Who are we? |
| 2:07.8 | We're so foolish to think that we are hiding anything from God. |
| 2:12.6 | He knows all of our thoughts, all of our desires, |
| 2:23.1 | all of our words, even said underneath our breath, all of our motivations. Think about reading 1st Corinthians 4 not long ago. He knows the purposes of our heart and these things that |
| 2:30.7 | are hidden will one day be disclosed. |
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