Are You Willing to Lose Your Life Over A Word?

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David Platt

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🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

What did Jesus mean at the Last Supper when he said of the bread, “This is my body,” and of the cup, “This is my blood”? That may sound like a strange question, but it’s one that Christians before us have had to answer at the cost of their lives. The question of whether the bread and the wine actually become Christ’s physical body in the Lord’s Supper became one of the central issues of the Reformation nearly 500 years ago. At stake was the gospel of God’s grace. In this message from David Platt from Mark 14:22–31, we are faced with the question, “Are you willing to lose your life over one word?”

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0:00.0	You are listening to Radical with David Platte, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages from pastor, author and teacher David Platte.
0:09.0	If you have a Bible and I hope you or somebody around you does that you can look on with, let me invite you to open with me to Mark chapter 14.
0:17.0	Feel free to use Table of Contents. If you need to to find Mark 14 and as you're turning I want to welcome those of you in other locations around Metro DC
0:27.0	as well as some of you who are physically unable to gather with us today. Here's how I want to start.
0:33.0	I want to ask you a question. I'm going to put it up here on the screen. Here's the question.
0:37.0	Are you willing to lose your life over a word?
0:46.0	Would you be willing to lose your life? All that means to never see your family again in this world, friends, to lose everything you've built, to never breathe again?
1:03.0	Would you be willing to lose it all tomorrow for your belief in one word?
1:11.0	Because that one word represents truth that is more precious to you than anything else in this world.
1:20.0	I want to show you today a word in the Bible that has caused many lives.
1:26.0	And my sincere hope and prayer is that God would raise up in this church the kind of men and women and students, teenagers, boys and girls,
1:38.0	of all ages who would say, this word, this truth is more precious to me than anything else in this world.
1:47.0	And I would gladly lose my life for it.
1:50.0	And for those of you who may not yet be followers of Jesus, I pray that you will see today in this word truth that is so good, it's worth laying down your life for it.
2:04.0	So what's the word? Let's read Mark 14 verses 22 through 25.
2:10.0	And let me set the stage for this scene. So Jesus is eating his last supper with his disciples before he goes to the cross.
2:17.0	Right after this, on this night, he will be officially betrayed and arrested, falsely accused and tried.
2:26.0	And within about 12 hours from this meal, Jesus will be hanging on a cross.
2:32.0	And the Bible tells us, verse 22, as they were eating, Jesus took bread.
2:38.0	And after blessing it broke it and gave it to them and said, take, this is my body.
2:45.0	And he took a cup. And he'd given thanks, he gave it to them and they all drank of it.
2:50.0	And he said to them, this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.
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