Top 100 David Platt Quotes
#1. Yet the penalty for sin is not determined by our measure of it. Instead, the penalty for sin is determined by the magnitude of the one sinned against.
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#2. The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world.
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#3. 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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#4. No matter how many red Xs we write on our hands to end slavery, as long as these same hands are clicking on pornographic websites and scrolling through sexual pictures and videos, we are frauds to the core.
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#5. When Jesus comes to the earth in the New Testament, we are quickly introduced to him as an immigrant. Fleeing a brutal political situation in Bethlehem after he is born, Jesus' family travels to Egypt, where they live for years as sojourners in a foreign land.
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#6. 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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#7. Are We Going to die in our religion or are we going to die in our devotion?
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#8. We do not follow a health and wealth savior. We follow a homeless and wounded Savior.
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#9. Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of our need for his grace.
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#10. 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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#11. As Christ begins to live in us, everything begins to change about us.
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#12. the founders concluded, if God himself does not violate the religious freedom of man, then surely government shouldn't either.
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#13. No teachers (including Jesus) in the New Testament ever promise material wealth as a reward for obedience.
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#14. Accept him? Do we really think Jesus needs our acceptance? Don't we need him? Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.
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#15. We may have loved the god that we made up in our minds, but the God of the Bible, we hate.
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#16. BECAUSE SELF IS NO LONGER OUR GOD,
SAFETY IS NO LONGER OUR CONCERN.
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#17. 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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#18. Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly.
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#19. 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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#20. To be a disciple of Jesus is to make disciples of Jesus.
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#21. Most people are accusing God, asking, "How can you punish sinners? How can you let good people go to hell?" But the question the Bible asks is exactly the opposite: "God, how can you be just and still let guilty sinners into heaven?" And the only answer to that question is Jesus Christ.
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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. If you can trust God to save you for eternity, you can trust him to lead you for a lifetime.
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#25. We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.
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#26. As I looked at material and spiritual poverty in the world around me, including approximately 2 billion people who haven't even heard the gospel, I knew that I needed to make some major changes in my life.
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#27. My prayer is that people will see that following Jesus costs you everything you are and everything you have. And my prayer is that people will see that Jesus is worth it.
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#28. My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him.
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#29. God has given us his grace to extend his glory not just to areas of need here but to areas of need around the world. Not either here or there, but both here and there. In
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#30. What if followers of Christ stopped looking for work in places where the MOST number of Christians Christians lived and started looking for work places where the LEAST Christians lived?
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#31. Live today for what is going to matter 10 billion years from today.
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#32. We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.
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#33. If there is any truth in Scripture at all, this is true - that those who stubbornly refuse to submit to the gospel, and to love and obey Jesus Christ, incur at the Last Advent an infinite and irreparable loss. They will pass into a night on which no morning dawns.
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#34. Clearly our greatest need is not more regulations in order to merit salvation.
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#35. Radical obedience to Christ is not easy ... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.
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#36. We assume that our race simply deserves heaven, that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.
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#37. Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life.
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#38. Somewhere along the way we have subtly and tragically taken the costly command of Christ to go, baptize, and teach all nations and mutated it into a comfortable call for Christians to come, be baptized, and listen in one location.
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#39. Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God
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#40. Believing in the Jesus of the Bible makes life risky on a lot of levels because it is absolute surrender of every decision we make, every dollar we spend, our lives belong to another.
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#41. When we consider the promises of Christ, risking everything we are and everything we have for His sake is no longer a matter of sacrifice. It's just common sense.
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#42. The cross is where Jesus, God in the flesh, took the just punishment due sinners upon himself.
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#43. God delights in revealing Himself to you when you are bold enough to bother Him. In fact, I think He would say that the only thing that bothers Him is when you don't come to Him.
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#44. We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.
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#45. James 1:22 is the theme verse of the entire book of James. It says, But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
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#46. God involves us in his mission not because he needs us but because he loves us.
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#47. Slavery still exists. And now that I know it does, I have no choice but to do something about it. Further, now that you know it does, you have no choice but to do something about it.
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#48. The Word of God and the Spirit of God are enough for the people of God to enjoy and spread the worship of God.
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#49. The worst thing we can do for the needy is neglect them. The second worst thing we can do is subsidize them, helping people get through a day while ignoring how we can help people get through their lives.
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#50. What else am I going to do with my retirement? I just want to tell as many people about the gospel as I can." If
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#51. The sovereignty of God is the only foundation for worship in the midst of tragedy.
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#52. Nothing is impossible for the people of God who trust in the power of God to accomplish the will of God.
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#53. Give liberally. Go urgently. Live dangerously.
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#54. God involves us in his missions not because He needs us, but because He loves us. And in His mercy He has invited us to be involved in His sovereign design for the spread of the gospel to the ends of the earth.
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#55. 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.
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#56. We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.
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#57. Were we created for something much greater than this?
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#58. Surely the greatest social injustice is that 2 billion people haven't heard of God's love in Christ.
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#59. At the cross of Christ, God shows the full expression of both his wrath and his love, as Jesus is stricken, smitten, afflicted, wounded, crushed, and chastised for the sake of sinners.
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#60. But Jesus is not customizable. He has not left himself open to interpretation, adaptation, innovation, or alteration. He has revealed himself clearly through his Word, and we have no right to personalize him. Instead, he revolutionizes us.
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#61. We learned that orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names. They are easier to ignore before you see their faces. It is easier to pretend they're not real before you hold them in your arms. But once you do, everything changes.
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#62. Our greatest need is not to try harder. Our greatest need is a new heart.
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#63. The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it's more than having a nice life.
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#64. God's ultimate concern is not to get you or me from point A to point B along the quickest, easiest, smoothest, clearest route possible. Instead, his ultimate concern is that you and I would know him deeply as we trust him more completely.
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#65. If we are going to accomplish the global purpose of God, it will not be primarily through giving our money, as important as that is. It will happen primarily through giving ourselvs. This is what the gospel represents and this is what the gospel requires.
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#66. As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation.
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#67. God grows the Church through holiness in Christians.
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#68. If there were 1,000 ways to God we would want 1,001.
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#69. What is it about God's Word that creates an hunger to hear more? And not just to hear the Word but to long for it, study it, memorize it, and follow it? What causes followers of Christ around the world literally to risk their lives in order to know it?
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#70. The price of our non-discipleshi p is high for those without Christ.
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#71. There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.
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#72. God's great love in Christ - Christians are compelled to willing, joyful, urgent, faith-driven, grace-saturated, God-glorifying work on behalf of the poor.
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#73. 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, even when the crowds in our culture - maybe even our churches - turn the other way?
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#74. 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. Nothing.
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#75. Clearly, people who claim to believe in Jesus are not assured eternity in heaven. On the contrary, only those who obey Jesus will enter his Kingdom.
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#76. God's design for taking the gospel to the world is a slow, intentional, simple process that involves every one of his people sacrificing every facet of their lives to multiply the life of Christ in others.
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#77. We will mulitply the gospel only when we allow others to get close enough to us to see the life of Christ in action.
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#78. Our great need is to fall before an almighty Father day and night and to plead for him to show his radical power in and through us, enabling us to accomplish for his glory what we could never imagine in our own strength.
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#79. Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They're hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken
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#80. Why make disciples? Because heaven and hell exist, and the end of the world is coming.
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#81. Spiritual deception is dangerous -and damning.
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#82. Far more important than looking and searching for God's will is simply knowing and trusting God.
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#83. Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die.
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#84. The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.
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#85. Their prayers were marked less by grandiose theological language and more by heartfelt praise and pleading.
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#86. 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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#87. If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all
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#88. Most of us really are not very concerned about the needs around us. Most Christians rarely share the gospel, and most Christians' schedules are not heavily weighted to feeding the hungry, helping the sick, and strengthening the church in the neediest places in our country.
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#89. I think the one thing that is abundantly clear from these statistics is that there are a whole lot of people in the world who think they are Christians but are not.
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#90. 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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#91. The goal of the disciple of Jesus, then, is not to answer the question, "What is God's will for my life?" The goal, instead, is to walk in God's will on a moment-by-moment, day-by-day basis.
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#92. As multitudes of babies are dismembered and destroyed daily, this is clearly an issue where the gospel requires us to counter culture.
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#94. 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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#95. 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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#96. The way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds, but by trusting Jesus to change our desires. Follow Me, pg. 111.
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#97. The Good News of Jesus spread not through extravagant preachers, but through everyday people whose lives had been transformed by the power of Christ.
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#98. Instead 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.
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#99. And what if Christ's call in our lives is not to comfort in our culture? What if Christ in us actually compels us to counter our culture?
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#100. I'm struck when I see Jesus simply, intentionally, systematically, patiently walking alongside twelve men. Jesus reminds me that disciples are not mass-produced. Disciples of Jesus - genuine, committed, self-sacrificing followers of Christ - are not made overnight.
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