David Platt Quotes

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• It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.
• Do you believe that Jesus is worth abandoning everything for? Do you believe him enough to obey him and to follow him wherever he leads,…
• Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell.
• We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.
• God has made a way of salvation for the lost. Not a way, but the way. And this is the good news - the gospel.
• We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God.…
• The mega-strategy of Jesus: make disciples.
• Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.
• We do not have time to waste our lives coasting out casual, comfortable Christianity.
• Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.
• There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.
• Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone.
• Our greatest need is not to try harder. Our greatest need is a new heart.
• The primary reward of the gospel - God himself
• This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways…
• God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth
• Whereas disinfecting Christians involves isolating them and teaching them to be good, discipling Christians involves propelling Christians into the world to risk their lives for…
• 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…
• The way we use our money is a barometer of our present spiritual condition. Our neglect of the poor illustrates much about where our hearts…
• Real success is found in radical sacrifice. Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God. The purpose…

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