You may have heard someone described as being so heavenly-minded that they are no earthly good.

However, this is a far cry from the way the Bible describes the transforming effect of the Gospel.

Happy Advent season and welcome to the Radical with David Platt

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In today's message from 1st Peter chapter 3

David Platt points out the ways that God's people ought to be distinct from the world

based on God's work in and through them.

Our eternal hope radically changes the way we love and relate to one another.

Today's sermon is about love, hope, and perseverance.

So here's David with a sermon title,

Christmas Hope creates radical love,

from 1st Peter, chapter 3, versus 8th through 12.

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 1 Peter Chapter 3.

1st Peter, chapter 3, I love God's word and how it speaks so clearly and powerfully

to where we are in our lives. Written two, in some cases 3,000 years ago.

So before we dive into it though,

I want to mention a couple of things.

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