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David Platt Messages

Created to Work and Rest for the Glory of God

David Platt Messages

David Platt

Spirituality, Sermon, Christianity, Louie Giglio, Sermons, Prayer, Bible Study, Baptist, Christian, Radical, Bible, Pray, Religion & Spirituality, David Platt, John Piper

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Our entire lives are, in a sense, spent either working or resting. Sadly, though, we don’t often think of our working or our resting in light of God and His Word. We either overvalue our work or undervalue it; the same is true with our rest. In this sermon from Exodus 31, David Platt urges us to consider our work and our rest in light of God’s own character and actions. The God who finished His work of creation and then rested has made it possible for His people to work unto Him and to find r...

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Our entire lives are in a sense spent either working or resting.

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Sadly though, we don't often think of our working or our resting in light of God and His Word. We either overvalue our work or we undervalue

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it. The same is true with our rest. Welcome to the Radical with David Platt podcast, the

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On today's sermon from Exodus chapter 31 David Platt urges us to consider our work and

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our rest in light of God's own character and actions.

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The God who finished his work of creation

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and then rested has made it possible for His people

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to work unto him and to find rest in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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Well here's David with a sermon titled,

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Created to Work and Rest for the Glory of God from Exodus chapter 31.

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Today I want to take us in a direction

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that is totally different from what I

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had been thinking about this week.

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So over the course of our Bible reading the past few weeks,

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specifically in Exodus, we have seen God's command to rest on the Sabbath, no less than five different times.

1:25.0

And in various conversations with many of you, people have asked, like,

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what does that mean for us today?

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Because God seemed pretty serious about this back then

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So are we supposed to set aside a day for rest?

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