David Platt (pastor) Quotes

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The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price. Following Jesus involves losing your life-and finding new life in him.

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God has made a way of salvation for the lost. Not a way, but the way. And this is the good news - the gospel.

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People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians

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To be a Christian is to be loved by God, pursued by God, and found by God.

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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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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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God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.

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

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God beckons storm clouds and they come. He tells the wind to blow and the rain to fall, and they obey immediately. He speaks to the mountains, 'You go there,' and He says to the seas, 'You stop here, and they do it. Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator...until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, 'No.

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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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Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ's pursuit of us.

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As long as you and I understand salvation as checking off a box to get to God, we will find ourselves in the meaningless sea of world religions that actually condemn the human race by exalting our supposed ability to get to God. On the other hand, when you and I realize that we are morally evil, dead in sin and deserving of God's wrath with no way out on our own, we begin to discover our desperation for Christ.

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And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us.

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As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr's death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr's death seems like normal obedience.

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Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.

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The message of biblical Christianity is 'God loves me so that I might make him- his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness- known among all nations.' Now God is the object of our faith, and Christianity centers around him. We are not the end of the gospel; God is'

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In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples.

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As Christ begins to live in us, everything begins to change about us.

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The gospel reveals the glory of God. According to God's Word, he is the sovereign Creator of all things.

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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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God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth

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This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

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Forgiveness is God's greatest gift because it meets our greatest need.

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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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Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life.

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Our greatest need is not to try harder. Our greatest need is a new heart.

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And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.

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Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die.

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The price is certainly high for people who don't know Christ and who live in a world where Christians shrink back from self-denying faith and settle into self-indulging faith. While Christians choose to spend their lives fulfilling the American dream instead of giving their lives to proclaiming the kingdom of God, literally billions in need of the Gospel remain in the dark

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