When you look at the casual and even dismissive attitude of many Christians toward

the church today, it's easy to forget that the church was God's idea.

He has designed it and he sent his son to purchase it with his own blood.

Today on Radical with David Platt will begin a series called Radical Restoration, where David

encourages us to put aside our own preferences in order to submit to where David's

to encourage us to put aside our own preferences in order to submit to God's priorities for his people.

David's sermon today is titled, Outside the Camp, because obedience to Christ

often takes us to difficult and dangerous places.

But as Hebrew 13 reminds us, we must be willing to go outside the camp and endure the world's

contempt and abuse.

Churches and all followers of Christ must decide whether they will live

with the short-lived pleasures of this world or the eternal pleasures of the world to come.

An interesting note about today's story. the Brickhills in Birmingham, Alabama was voting on whether or not they would appoint a young David

Platt as their lead pastor.

The vote was an overwhelming yes, and David would go on to shepherd that congregation in Birmingham for over eight years.

So here is a young David Platt

with a sermon titled, Outside the Camp,

from Hebrews, Chapter 13. Thank you. Would it be inappropriate for us to just vote and now? Now. If you got your If you got your Bibles, and I hope you do, I want to invite you to open them with

me to Hebrews.

Hebrews chapter 13, that's way in the back of your Bible.

If you're not familiar with where Hebrew is, kind of go to the end there, you'll find a book of

revelation, go about seven or eight books back to the left, and you'll find Hebrews.

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