David Platt (pastor) - Follow Me (2013)

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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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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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Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.

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I want to move from what we let go of to whom we hold on to. I want to explore not just the gravity of what we forsake in this world, but also the greatness of the one we follow in this world.

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The more Christ fulfills the cravings of our souls, the more he changes our taste capacities from the inside out. The more we walk with him, the more we want him. The more we taste of him, the more we enjoy him. And this transforms how we live and what we live for.

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By God's design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian's DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.

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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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If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.

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Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone.

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Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.

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The Bible clearly reminds us that left to ourselves, we would be lost forever.

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We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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