Helping Each Other Hold Onto Hope

Radical with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Does faith sometimes feel like a struggle? Do you ever find that trusting God and obeying him in this fallen world is a fight? Due to our sin and the weakness of our flesh, all Christians are involved in a spiritual battle—it’s a battle to persevere in faith and hope. In this message from Hebrews 10:23, we’re reminded that God has not left us alone in the fight of faith. Not only has he given us his Spirit and his Word, but he has also given us one another—brothers and sisters in Christ. Chri...

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0:00.0	You are listening to David Platt Messages, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages from
0:05.5	pastor, author, and teacher David Platt.
0:08.5	I want to start with a confession.
0:11.4	Actually, two confessions.
0:13.0	But here's the first one.
0:15.5	Faith is a struggle for me in this world.
0:20.8	So I've mentioned this before in different ways, and I'm not sure how... struggle for me in this world.
0:23.2	So I've mentioned this before and in different ways, and I'm not sure how it feels for you to hear that
0:27.0	from a pastor or your pastor.
0:30.6	I don't know if that's surprising or discouraging
0:35.8	or encouraging or confusing or disappointing for a pastor who's been walking with
0:44.9	faith in jesus for over 40 years to say that but i actually find it encouraging when i open
0:52.6	the bible and i never see faith described as coasting down a hill
0:59.0	with the wind blowing through your hair,
1:01.0	as if it's all smooth and easy.
1:05.0	Because that's just not been my experience.
1:08.0	Instead, I see faith described over and over again as a fight, a struggle, a battle, even a war,
1:18.7	and I can identify with that.
1:22.4	And I'm guessing you probably can too.
1:26.7	If faith, if believing God,
1:31.0	and trusting God,
1:33.2	and being with God and obeying God
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