If you have a Bible and I hope you do, the beauty of the gospel, the God has saved us.

He's freed us from the power and the penalty of sin.

He's put us in Christ who's now our life.

So we've got to get to surrender our lives.

Our lives are yours and we're your servants.

It's not radical version of Christianity.

This is biblical Christian. This is what it means to be a follower of Christ. We don't call the shots. He calls the shots.

You're listening to the new Radical Together podcast with Teaching from David Platt.

Thanks for joining us for another episode of the Radical Together Podcast. If you haven't had a chance to listen to the previous episodes,

you can access the podcast archive through iTunes or by going

online to radical.net. Today David's messages from Matthew chapter 1 entitled

missions in Matthew 1. If you have a Bible and hope you do, let me invite you to find Matthew Chapter 1.

So one of my aims in this podcast is to show how global mission is not just a part of the Bible here

or there in this text or that text one of my aims is to show that global mission

is a driving passion behind all of the Bible.

From the first chapter to last chapter,

everywhere in between, beginning to end,

in the Bible, God is showing us his desire,

his passion to glorify himself in all nations.

And as a result, as we read through the Bible,

we need to understand the Bible in that backdrop.

And not just understand it that way but apply it accordingly so

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