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🗓️ 29 May 2024
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0:00.0 | You are listening to Radical with David Platt, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages from |
0:05.6 | pastor, author, and teacher David Platt. |
0:10.1 | Revelation 21 reminds every one of us in this room that this world is not our home. |
0:17.0 | This country is not our destination. |
0:20.0 | We're living for another country. |
0:22.0 | Paul says Philippian chapter 3 verse 20. We're living for another country. |
0:24.6 | Paul says Philippian chapter 3 verse 20 Our citizenship is in heaven and we await a savior from there the Lord Jesus Christ |
0:30.4 | Hebrews chapter 11 verse 13. We were strangers in exiles here looking for our homeland we desire a better |
0:37.1 | country that is a heavenly one we're looking forward to the city that has foundations |
0:42.0 | whose designer and builder is God. |
0:45.0 | And Revelation 21 captures our minds and our hearts with a vision of that city, of that country to come. |
0:52.0 | And when our eyes are fixed on that city, to come. |
0:52.6 | And when our eyes are fixed on that city, |
0:55.2 | that country, it changes how we live in this city and this country. |
0:59.6 | C.S. Lewis, once said, if you read history, |
1:01.8 | you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world |
1:04.4 | were just those who thought most of the next world. The apostles themselves who set afoot |
1:10.4 | the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, |
1:14.4 | the English evangelicals who abolished the slave trade, all left their mark on earth precisely |
1:20.4 | because their minds were occupied with heaven. |
1:24.1 | It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world |
1:27.5 | that they have become so ineffective in this one. |
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