David Platt Quotes - Page 9

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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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• 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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• 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.

  David Platt

  Heart, Law, Evil

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

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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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• Disciple making also involves teaching people to obey all that Christ has commanded us. Now some might say, "Isn't that what preachers are supposed to do?" And in one sense, the answer to this question is yes. God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally. At the same time, he has commanded every follower of Jesus to teach his Word relationally.

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  Jesus, Teaching, People

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

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• What if the very reason we have breath is because we have been saved for a global mission? And what if anything less than passionate involvement in global mission is actually selling God short by frustrating the very purpose for which he created us?

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  What If, Purpose, Passionate

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• Craig Bellamy's got pace, but he's also rapid as well

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  Pace, Rapids, Wells

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• David has scored 62 goals in 148 games for Ipswich and those statistics tell me that he plays games and scores goals.
  (on David Johnson)

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  Games, Play, Goal

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• God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.

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  His Love, Merit, Follow Me

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

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• Give liberally. Go urgently. Live dangerously.

  David Platt

  Giving

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• When we realize that Jesus is the one who takes the initiative and invites us to follow him, everything changes-on multiple levels.

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  Jesus, Levels, Realizing

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.37, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• This extremely shocking and utterly revolutionary call is the essence of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus: we are not called to simply believe certain points or observe certain practices, but ultimately to cling to the person of Christ as life itself.

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  Jesus, Believe, Mean

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.54, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Clearly our greatest need is not more regulations in order to merit salvation.

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  Order, Needs, Regulation

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.56, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• A high view of God’s sovereignty fuels death-defying devotion to global missions. Maybe another way to put it, people, and more specifically pastors, who believe that God’s sovereign over all things will lead Christians to die for the sake of all peoples.

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  Christian, Believe, Views

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• Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven.

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  Perspective, Heaven, Tragedy

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• I can almost picture the disciples faces. "No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We'll never get on the list of fastest-growing movements if you keep asking them to eat you!

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  Encouraging, Blood, Asking

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• Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God; 'Light momentary affliction.'

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  Pain, Light, Church

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• Who God is and what Christ did have huge implications for who we are personally and what we desire sexually.

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  Desire, Who We Are, Who God Is

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• What drives passion for getting the gospel to all people is not guilt, it's glory.

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  Passion, People, Guilt

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• The boss says that games in hand are no good unless you turn them into points. What he's getting at is that games in hand aren't much good unless you turn them into points.

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  Hands, Games, Boss

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• We act, though, not under a utopian illusion that you or I or anyone or everyone together can rid this world of pain and suffering. That responsibility belongs to the resurrected Christ, and he will do it when he returns. But until that day, we do with an undivided heart whatever God calls us to do.

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  Pain, Responsibility, Heart

  Source: blog.vyrso.com

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• Some people think that if they will do certain things, they will somehow earn the favor of God, but this misses the whole point of Christianity and ironically devolves into a me-centered approach.

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  Thinking, People, Missing

  "A summons to lose your life". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. March 26, 2013.

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• I was immersed in comfortable Christianity. Years ago, I found myself living what seemed like the American church dream - pastoring a large church, living in a large house, and surrounded by all the comforts this world has to offer. But inside I had a sinking feeling that I was missing the point.

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  Dream, Sinking Feeling, Years

  Source: blog.vyrso.com

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