Counter Culture: A Biblical View of the Refugee Crisis
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David Platt
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🗓️ 30 January 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you have the Bible and hope you do, the beauty of the gospel is the God has saved us. |
| 0:08.0 | He's freed us from the power and the penalty of sin. |
| 0:12.0 | He's put us in Christ who's now our life. |
| 0:14.5 | So we've got to get to surrender our lives. |
| 0:17.7 | Our lives are yours and we're your servants. |
| 0:20.3 | It's not radical version of Christianity. |
| 0:22.4 | This is biblical Christianity. It's what it means to be a follower of Christ. |
| 0:25.0 | We don't call the shots. He calls the shots. |
| 0:28.0 | The Radical Together Podcast with Teaching from David Platt. |
| 0:40.0 | Today in light of the outbreak of concern regarding the recent presidential executive order, we're breaking away from our originally scheduled sermon to hopefully offer some timely |
| 0:45.3 | biblical insight into the complex refugee and immigration issues that we face today. |
| 0:50.9 | The number of people displaced, put in danger, or forced from their homes right now is historically |
| 0:56.4 | unprecedented. In Syria alone, half of the population that's 11 million people have either |
| 1:01.3 | been displaced or killed. |
| 1:03.6 | Many people are divided over what to do with refugees and the issue is undoubtedly complex. |
| 1:09.5 | President Donald Trump's recent executive order entitled Protect Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry |
| 1:15.8 | into the United States has reignited the debate. |
| 1:19.1 | Regardless of your view of this particular executive order, as followers of Christ, we have an obligation to minister to refugees for these individuals |
| 1:27.4 | are made in God's image and many are in desperate need of the gospel. |
| 1:31.7 | We pray that today's sermon offers you timely and biblical |
| 1:34.9 | insight into the complex refugee and immigration issues we face today. Here's |
| 1:40.3 | David with a sermon entitled A Biblical View of the Refugee Crisis from |
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