You are listening to Radical with David Platt, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages from pastor, author, and teacher David Platt.

If you have a Bible and I hope that you or somebody around you does, you can look on with, let me invite you to open me to James Chapter 1.

James Chapter 1 is where we're going to be primarily in our time in the Word this morning.

I want to start by doing a simple, relaxing exercise together. So on the count of three, I am going to invite you just to take a deep breath, like a nice, relaxing, calming breath in and out.

Sound good?

So just a very intentional.

What does it look like to just stop?

Like who doesn't want?

Just to stop and take a moment

and just breathe in and breathe out.

So let's do it together.

So three, two, one.

Breathe in and out. It's pretty simple. And pretty awesome at the same time.

So let me explain to you what just happened in that breath. You just took into your body about 25 sextillion

molecules of air. Sextillion. That's 25 with 21 zeros behind it. That's more molecules that

just pass through your nose than all the grains of sand on all the world's beaches.

Those air molecules were made up of many different elements, one of which is oxygen.

It's about 20% of the molecules you just breathe in.

Side note, thankfully you breathed in clean air.

If it had been filled with smoke, for example, your body would have immediately rejected it.

But thankfully it wasn't it? And the oxygen you needed came into your body, and here's how it got in you.

So your brain sent a message to your diaphragm and ribs telling them to contract,

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