Hey, this is David Platt. I want to invite you to something I look forward to every year.

Secret Church. This night exists to help us identify with many of our brothers and sisters around the world who have no choice but to gather in secret,

often at great risk, just to open God's word. Once a year, over 50,000 believers around the world gather online

with one intention to study scripture for six hours, to be shaped by it, and to pray for our

persecuted brothers and sisters. This year, we'll study the life of Elijah. We'll pray specifically

for those who are suffering for their faith and will act together

to make Jesus known among the nations.

Early registration of the best rate is now open until February 17th.

Register at radical.net slash secret church.

Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

Exodus chapter 12, verse 13. The blood shall be assigned for you on the houses where you are.

And when I see the blood, I will pass over you and no plague will

befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. If you're familiar with this chapter, it's one of the

most important, well-known, pivotal chapters in all the Old Testament, as God brings his people out of

slavery in Egypt through the blood of a Passover lamb. As the people of God bring a lamb into their

home and care for it and then sacrifice that lamb

and put the blood of that lamb over their doorpost so that on the night when God executes

judgments, that's the word in Exodus chapter 12, verse 12, against sin in Egypt,

the people of God will be saved from those judgments, not by their own merit, not because

they're better than the Egyptians, but because of their trust in the blood

of this sacrifice that is over their doorposts.

And by being under the banner of that sacrifice, that blood, they will be saved, delivered

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