The Book of Acts tells the story of how God turned the world upside down through their earliest Christians and churches as they proclaimed God's Word in the power of the Spirit.

These followers of Jesus not only served one another, they served the world. In this message from the Book of Acts, David Platt reminds us that with the gospel as our foundation and motivation, followers of Christ today should live to make disciples and multiply churches to the glory of God.

Just as it was for the early disciples, the cost will be great, but the reward is more than worth it. This is the Radical with David Platt podcast. Here is David with a message titled, Disciple Making, Serve the World.

If you have a Bible and I hope you do, let me invite you to open with me to Acts chapter 17.

This is where we're going to start tonight. In the beginning of this year, we started a fast-paced journey through the Book of Acts that we come to a conclusion to tonight.

We have seen the gospel go from a small group of 120 people and spread throughout Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, literally on the way to the ends of the earth.

We have seen thousands and thousands and thousands of people saved. We have seen churches multiplied throughout the known world. This is an amazing story, isn't it?

And this is not, what I've been reading is not fiction, this is real. Stories, literally thousands and thousands and thousands of people coming to faith in Christ and church being multiplied throughout the known world.

What's really exciting is when you realize this story doesn't have a conclusion and that this story is intended to be our story.

Because it's not just the Book of Acts. It's church today. It's India. I shared a few stories from India a couple of weeks ago. Let me give you one more. Deepak, a pastor of a small house church in India.

And this small church meeting in a home, they get it. They understand they realize that all of them are, it's this basic. They realize they're all supposed to make disciples.

And so they start making disciples. And this one church has now multiplied into 93 different churches.

And along the way, one of these new believers, disciple makers, goes into a village where there's no gospel, no church. And goes into this village meets a woman named Conti at a well. It's John IV.

This woman at a well, who is a part of the Musahara people group, little bit about the Musahara, the Musahara are an untouchable people group. That's the word that's used in India to describe the lowest cast of people, the people that you just don't get near, that you don't rub shoulders with.

The Musahara, if you're born into the Musahara people group, you're born a servant. From the day you're born, you belong to an owner. To do grunge jobs, cleaning out toilets and such. The Musahara are not even allowed to live in the same village as their owners. They need to live in a separate village by themselves so that their owners won't have to rub shoulders with them.

And so Conti, a woman from the Musahara, she's getting water from a well. One of these disciple makers, followers of Christ, comes up to her, shares the gospel. She believes in Christ, receives the gospel, is saved.

She goes back to her separate village just for the Musahara. She shares the gospel. There's 70 of them, all 70 of them believe.

All of them, everyone who's of age able to believe on Christ, they all believe. And then, story doesn't end there. Their owner decides to send this group of 70 Musahara to another area for a bigger job that need to be work on where there's 190 Musahara and they need more.

And so, owner coincidentally happens to send these Musahara to a group of 190. None of them have ever heard the gospel. So, the 70 get there, start sharing the gospel. All 190 of them come to faith in Christ.

This gospel's good. It was good in Acts and it's good today. Story of Acts, story of today. I read this and I look at that in India.

And then, I'm confronted with the question. I want to ask the question, can that happen here? I can jealous. I'm zealous to see that happen here.

And so, here's what I want to do. So, we bring this picture to a conclusion.

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