God: "You Matter to Me"
Radical with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
As we think of the greatness of God and the massive number of people around the world, it’s easy to feel small and insignificant. Even Christians can start to feel as if God doesn’t know or care about the details of our lives. However, as David Platt points out in this message from Nehemiah 7, the God who redeems us knows everything about us—and he cares for us! Followers of Jesus can find their identity in Christ and take comfort that they are in a long line of believers who, over centuries, have been redeemed and preserved by God’s grace and steadfast love. This should compel us to live for God’s glory in the time and place in which he has placed us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners this is the last week to register for secret church 24 on Friday April 19th |
| 0:05.6 | Together we're gonna walk verse by verse of the story of redemption in the book of Ruth |
| 0:10.8 | Pray for the persecuted church in North Korea. You can register today by |
| 0:15.3 | visiting radical.net. |
| 0:20.0 | You are listening to Radical with David Platt, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages from |
| 0:25.0 | pastor, author, and teacher David Platt. |
| 0:29.0 | For those of you who are visiting or maybe you've missed recent weeks, the background here is a man named Nehemiah just an |
| 0:34.5 | ordinary guy among the people of God who were in exile who got a burdened to |
| 0:39.9 | rebuild the broken walls around the city of Jerusalem and he realized he could do |
| 0:44.9 | something about it. So he went to the Persian king at the risk of his life and he |
| 0:50.2 | asked for permission to travel to Jerusalem and rebuild the walls. |
| 0:54.6 | And the king gave him not just permission, but support. |
| 0:58.2 | He and I travel to Jerusalem, pulled everybody together, and over the course of 52 days despite all kinds of opposition |
| 1:04.9 | from inside and outside they rebuild the entire wall around Jerusalem. |
| 1:09.6 | That's what the end of Nehemiah 6 tells us that's where we were last week and then |
| 1:13.8 | Nehemiah seven says now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors |
| 1:19.6 | and the gatekeepers the singers and the Levites had been appointed, I gave my brother, Hennonite, and Hananaa, the governor of the castle, charge over Jerusalem, for he was a more faithful and God-fearing man than many. |
| 1:32.0 | And I said to them, let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot and |
| 1:36.9 | while they are still standing guard let them shut and bar the doors |
| 1:40.6 | appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their |
| 1:44.7 | guard posts and some in front of their own homes. The city was wide and large, but the people |
| 1:49.7 | within it were few and no houses had been rebuilt. Then my God put it into my art to assemble |
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