Some truths are so important that they're worth giving our lives for.

The Gospel certainly fits in this category, which is why the reformers were willing to die to make

sure that the good news of Christ was proclaimed faithfully according to God's word.

Welcome to the Radical with David Platt podcast, the latest

sermons from teacher, author, and pastor David Platt delivered weekly. As

always, you can find thousands of more free resources over at our website radical.net.

In today's message David Platt urges us to learn from the example of the reformers.

Their deaths several centuries ago should give us an eternal perspective on how we live our lives today.

Here's David Platt with a powerful message originally delivered at the 2016 together for the Gospel Conference

titled Martyrdom and Mission, why reformers died in their day, how we must live in ours.

If you have your Bible, hope you do, invite you to open with me to Psalm Chapter 51. And while you're turning there, let me just say how honored, humbled, overwhelmed I am just to be at this conference.

As Mark mentioned, I was here 10 years ago.

I had just become a pastor for the first time and I sat over there in the Gald House

hotel listening to Mark Devber preached from 1st Corinthians chapter 4 on the

weight of pastoral ministry and I felt it.

I listened to John MacArthur talk about 40 years

of gospel ministry and I thought,

it's 14 years longer than I've been alive. I listen to John Piper, preach a sermon on exposition.

And I thought I'm not even sure if I've ever actually preached a biblical sermon.

I'm going to pastors.

So needless to say, I never could have imagined the friendship that you brothers would invite me into,

and I am deeply grateful and totally undeserving of your invitation.

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