We Praise You for the Cross (2 Chronicles 36:15–16)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 31 December 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on 2 Chronicles 36:15–16, David Platt praises Jesus for what he has done for us on the cross.

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0:00.0	Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:04.0	I want to read two parts of Second Chronicles chapter 36 today and lead us to pray according to it.
0:11.0	First, Second Chronicles 36 verses 15 and 16.
0:15.0	The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by His messengers,
0:21.0	because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.
0:26.0	But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets,
0:34.0	until a wrath of the Lord rose against His people, until there was no remedy.
0:41.0	These verses are in many ways a summary of the story of Israel and Judah, the people of God, in the Old Testament.
0:50.0	God, having compassion on His people, on the place He had brought them to dwell among them.
0:57.0	But the people of God turning away from Him, sinning against Him, turning aside to all kinds of false gods,
1:06.0	idolatry and immorality, and the Lord persistently sending messengers to them with news of His grace and His love and His forgiveness,
1:17.0	and the people of God continually mocking those messengers and despising their words and scoffing at these prophets.
1:25.0	And the Lord in the end giving His people over to themselves, and their sin, this phrase, until there was no remedy,
1:34.0	like you've read, sent Chronicles 36, 15 and 16, and it just feels so hopeless, like you're longing for a remedy for the unfaithfulness in God's people.
1:45.0	And that leads to the second part of this chapter on our read, verses 22 and 23.
1:51.0	Now in the first year of Cyrus, King of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled,
1:58.0	the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, King of Persia, so he made a proclamation throughout all this kingdom and also put it in writing.
2:07.0	Thus says Cyrus, King of Persia, the Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth,
2:15.0	and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
2:19.0	Whoever is among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him, let him go up.
2:27.0	So there was no remedy, it seemed like no hope at the end of second Chronicles 36, 16, as God's people are sent into exile,
2:37.0	but years later, because God is faithful.
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