You are listening to Radical with David Platt, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages from

pastor, author, and teacher David Platt.

You've got your Bibles and I hope you do.

I want to invite you to open with me to Matthew

chapter 28.

Before we jump into our time in God's word this morning, I want to, I want to give you a picture

to kind of keep in your mind as we launched into this study the

series on what it means to be a part of a church that's unstoppable. I remember

recently I was doing a camp conference type thing up in Tennessee and part of the week involved

whitewater rafting down the Ocoey River.

Just out of curiosity anybody ever been whitewater rafting before?

Okay, some of you have been, okay so of you have been a lot of you

have been okay well just in case you haven't basically the way whitewater rafting works is you've got

this raft a bow type thing and it's got room for about six people two in in the front and two in the middle and two in the back.

And then there's another guy who sits in the very back. He's the guide. And his whole responsibility

is to make sure that everybody lives through the experience. And so you like the guide.

It's good to have them there.

And we were getting on the Ocove River that day

and it was really high, and so we knew the water was gonna be really rough.

And so I decided the best place for me to be was right in the back with the guide and so

that's where I immediately went sat back there right next to him that way if I fall off he saves

my life very easily and so Heather and I got on and four others from this conference and we started rafting down the river and basically if you've been before you know what it's like the people in the front really have all the action.

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