We know that Jesus died to ransom people from every nation, tribe, tongue, and language.

But currently there are over 3 billion people who are considered unreached, which means that they have little or no

access to the gospel. And on top of that, many of these people are suffering physically

as well. Now in light of these realities how might the Lord be calling

us to address these urgent spiritual and physical needs? How might we leverage our lives for the sake of God's glory among all nations?

Well, these are the kinds of questions that Pastor David will urge us to answer in today's

episode of the Radical with David Platt podcast.

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radical dot net. So how can we leverage our lives for the sake of God's glory among all

nations? Let's turn to David now as he continues his series with this

message from surviving to thriving in the world from Revelation chapter 5 in

acts chapter 13.

If you have a Bible, I hope you or somebody around you does as you can look on with. Let me invite you to open with me to two places.

We're going to be in Acts Chapter 13 and then Revelation

Chapter 5. Acts 13, then Revelation 5. So we are at the end of this series on moving from surviving to thriving in our lives.

We've been using lemon trees as a simple picture of how when we do simple

significant things in our lives like prayer fasting meditating on God's word, spreading God's love in the world.

When we do these things, God has designed us to thrive.

When we neglect these things, then we wither.

So now we come to this last Sunday in this series,

and we've mentioned at different points this month

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