We owe Christ to the world—to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.
David PlattDisciple making is not a call for others to come to us to hear the gospel but a command for us to go to others to share the gospel.
David PlattInstead of imagining all the things we can accomplish, we ask God to do what only he can accomplish. Yes, we work, we plan, we organize, and we create, but we do it all while we fast, while we pray, and while we constantly confess our need for the provision of God.
David PlattIt is not that he needs to stop his sexual immorality to be saved. That would mean he would need to earn his salvation. No, he needs to trust in Christ, which will result in a changed heart with a desire to obey Christ in this area of his life.
David PlattIt is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.
David PlattWe assume that our race simply deserves heaven, that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.
David PlattIf we conclude that people can get to heaven apart from faith in Christ, then this would mean there is something else they can do to get to heaven. Such a conclusion would not only undercut the proven truth we saw in Romans; it would also be tantamount to saying to Jesus, "Thank you for what you did on the cross, but we could have gotten to God another way.
David Platt[...]not even dying a martyr's death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross.
David PlattWe will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or been more successful in the eyes of this world. Instead, we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship.
David PlattEverything 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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