David Platt Quotes - Page 8

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• Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly.

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  Possession

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.120, Multnomah

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• We have an incomprehensibly great God!

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• Accept Him? Do we really think Jesus needs our acceptance? Don't we need Him?

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  Jesus, Acceptance, Thinking

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.40, Multnomah

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• We have a master who deserves radical sacrifice.

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  Sacrifice, Masters, Radical

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• Caring for the poor is one natural overflow and a necessary evidence of the presence of Christ in our hearts. If there is no sign of caring for the poor in our lives, then there is reason to at least question whether Christ is in our hearts.

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  Heart, Caring, Christ

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• It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.

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  Inspirational, Adoption, Important

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• We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.

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  Book, Grace, Centering

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• The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don't like what we see of ourselves in the gospel, so we shrink back from it.

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  Hopelessness, Radical, Shrinks

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• We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.

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  Issues, Abortion, Needs

  Source: blog.vyrso.com

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• Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is.

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  Surrender, Evoke, Unconditional

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• And while we stand with conviction and courage, we must live with compassion. Amid a world with massive social needs around us, ranging from desperate poverty and orphan crises and millions of girls being trafficked for sex, to the degradation of marriage and the abortion of babies, we need to speak and act with selfless love on all of these issues.

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  Girl, Baby, Sex

  Source: blog.vyrso.com

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• Christianity is radically different from every other religion in the world.

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  Different, World, Christianity

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• Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.

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  Jesus, Surrender, Accepted

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• Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.

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  Senior, Cat, Computer

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• Despite the obvious qualifications of all of Jesse's other sons, God appoints the unlikely David to become the king of Israel.

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  Kings, Son, Israel

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.35, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.

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  World, Goodness, This World

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• The resources of heaven are ready and waiting for the people of God who desire to make much of him in this world

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  People, Waiting, Heaven

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• This is the reality about humanity. We are each born with an evil, God-hating heart. Genesis 8: 21 says that every inclination of man's heart is evil from childhood, and Jesus' words in Luke 11: 13 assume that we know we are evil.

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  Jesus, Hate, Heart

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• I wonder sometimes, though, if we intentionally or just unknowingly mask the beauty of God in the gospel by minimizing his various attributes.

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  Sometimes, Wonder, Mask

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• Superficial religion consists of merely believing certain truths and doing certain things....such superficial religion is rampant in the world today.

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  Believe, World, Today

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• In our evil we rebel against God. We take the law of God, written in his Word and on our hearts, and we disobey it.

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  Heart, Law, Evil

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.34, Multnomah

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• The journey begins, though, with understanding what it means to be a christian. To say you believe in Jesus apart from conversion in your life completely misses the essence of what it means to follow him. Do not be deceived.

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  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.24, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great.

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  Self, Culture, Achieve

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• God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally.

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  Encouraging, People, Church

  David Platt (2013). “What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?”, p.46, Tyndale House

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• One of my favorite sights is to look across a room packed with people with their Bibles in their laps, studying who God is and what God has said- after midnight.

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  Sight, People, Midnight

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