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David Platt Messages

Divorce and Discipleship

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

🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In a culture with a decidedly unbiblical view of marriage and divorce, Jesus’s words in Matthew 19:1–12 may sound extreme. However, since God designed marriage for His glory and for our good, we would be wise to listen to Him. Gratefully, God’s grace in the gospel is sufficient for those who have fallen short when it comes to His design for marriage. In this message, David Platt looks at Jesus’s teaching on marriage and divorce, as well as Christ’s related comments on discipleship and singlen...

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In a culture with a decidedly unbiblical view of marriage in divorce, Jesus's words in

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Matthew 19-1-12 may sound extreme.

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However, since God designed marriage for his glory and for our good,

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we would be wise to listen to Him. And gratefully God's grace in the gospel

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is sufficient for those who have fallen short when it comes

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to his design for marriage.

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Welcome to the Radical with David Platt podcast.

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The latest sermons from teacher, author, and pastor David Platt delivered weekly.

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And as always you can find thousands of more Gospel center resources at our website

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Radical.net.

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But in today's message David Platt looks at Jesus's teaching on marriage and divorce

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as well as Jesus's related comments on discipleship and singleness as

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followers of Christ the entirety of our lives including our approach to marriage and divorce is to be lived under his lordship.

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So here's David with a sermon titled divorce and discipleship from Matthew chapter 19.

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His word and I hope you do. I invite you to open with me to

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Matthew chapter 19 and let me invite you to pull out those notes that you

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received in the worship guide when you came in.

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Notes that I will go ahead and let you know we're not even gonna get close to getting through.

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So unless something different happens than what happened this morning.

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There's no way we're going to get all the way through Matthew 19 today.

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This text, this chapter, is just loaded with practical application for our lives.

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Hits on issues, this chapter hits on issues that we could come for weeks, if not months,

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