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Radical with David Platt

David Platt

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

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🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We don’t usually think of boasting as a good thing. Drawing attention to our talents, wealth, status, etc., is often a sign of sinful pride. However, there is something we should boast in as followers of Christ—the cross. In this message from Galatians 6:11–18, David Platt gives us five reasons we have to boast based on Christ’s death on the cross. Justification by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone means boasting in the cross alone.

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0:00.0	We don't usually think of boasting as a good thing, drawing attention to our talents, wealth,
0:04.8	and status is often a sign of sinful pride. However, there is something we should boast in as
0:10.7	followers of Christ, the Cross. In this message from Galatians chapter 6, verses 11-18,
0:17.2	David Platt gives us five reasons we have to boast based on Christ's death on the cross,
0:22.3	justification by grace alone through faith alone, and Christ alone means boasting in the Cross alone.
0:29.5	This is the Radical with David Platt podcast. Here is David with a message titled
0:34.3	free to boast. She has a Bible, and I hope you do. I invite you to open with me to Galatians chapter 6.
0:47.8	This weekend our teenagers were involved in intensive study of the word,
0:56.4	intentional service around Birmingham in a variety of different ways, and some of them are here
1:02.4	tonight. Many of them are probably sleeping tonight as a result of long weekend, but I want to start
1:09.7	tonight by addressing particularly students who are here, whether they're junior high, high school,
1:17.7	or college students, and a lot of the emphasis that's been going on in our faith family this weekend.
1:23.0	Specifically, I want to share with you what a preacher shared with me based on this text when I
1:32.9	was a college student that had a profound impact on my life. It's kind of a long quote,
1:40.8	but I really can't improve on these words. The preacher's name was John Piper and he was preaching
1:47.9	on Galatians chapter 6, verse 14, and he started by saying this. He said, you don't have to know a lot
1:55.4	of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world, but you do have to know a few
2:02.5	great things that matter and to be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make
2:10.4	a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things,
2:16.4	but have been mastered by a few great things. If you want your life to count, if you want the ripple
2:25.1	effect of the pebbles you drop to become waves that reach the ends of the earth and roll on for
2:29.6	centuries into eternity, you don't have to have a high IQ. You don't have to have good looks or riches.
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