The Duty of Man (Ecclesiastes 12:13)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Pray the Word on Ecclesiastes 12:13, David Platt encourages us to fulfill what we’re made for: to fear and obey God.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Madical. net. |
| 0:05.0 | Ecclesiasties chapter 12 verse 13 the end of the matter. |
| 0:09.0 | All has been heard. |
| 0:11.0 | Fear God and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man. |
| 0:18.1 | Wow what a conclusion to this book after all that the author of Ecclesiasties has walked through in this |
| 0:27.9 | world all the pleasures and pursuits of this world that are ultimately empty apart from God. |
| 0:35.0 | In the end, the conclusion is clear. |
| 0:37.0 | The end of the matter all's been heard. |
| 0:40.0 | It all boils down to this. |
| 0:42.0 | Fear God. It all boils down to this, fear God and keep his commandments. |
| 0:47.0 | This is the whole duty of man. |
| 0:51.0 | This is the whole purpose of a person's life and this is the key to meaning in life. |
| 0:58.8 | This is the key to purpose in life, to fear God, to live in awe of and worship of God, to know him, to walk with him, to keep his |
| 1:17.0 | commandments. This is what you are made for, this is what I am made for. And you think about it, this sounds |
| 1:25.8 | very similar to Jesus summarizing all the law by saying the first and greatest commandment is to love the Lord |
| 1:35.4 | your God with all your heart your soul your mind and your strength that's a |
| 1:39.6 | picture of fearing God walking with God, enjoying God, exalting God. |
| 1:47.0 | And the second commandment is like it to love your neighbor as yourself and all the ways he commands us. |
| 1:53.0 | And so I want to encourage you today as you think about your life. |
| 1:57.0 | Let's just pray Ecclesiasties 12 verse 13 that we would do what we are made to do today and tomorrow in the next day to fear |
| 2:09.3 | God and keep his commandments that this would be the summary of our lives. |
| 2:17.0 | Oh God, we praise you for making us for relationship with you. |
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