Religion that God Actually Accepts
Radical with David Platt
David Platt
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
According to James 1:26–27, it’s entirely possible to practice a kind of religion that is acceptable to man but not to God. The danger of deception is real, and God graciously warns us against deception by telling us what true religion—the kind that pleases God—looks like in our speech, our care for the vulnerable, and our conduct. In this message, David Platt challenges us to put our faith into action, particularly as it involves caring for the vulnerable. This is not an option but an obligation. However, we don’t care for orphans and widows because we’re rescuers; we care for orphans and widows because we’re the rescued.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Radical with David Platt, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages from |
| 0:05.7 | pastor, author and teacher David Platt. |
| 0:10.3 | If you have a Bible and I hope you or somebody around you does that you can look on with let me invite you to open with me James chapter one feel free to use table of contents if you need to James chapter one and as returning I want to welcome those of you and French William and |
| 0:24.2 | Loudon and Arlington and Mocco. Well there's others online who are physically |
| 0:29.1 | unable to be with us today it's good to come together around God's word and here's the deal last week |
| 0:36.4 | we saw in James 1 19 to 25 that if we just hear this word from God when we gather together and we don't do it, |
| 0:48.0 | then we're deceiving or fooling ourselves. |
| 0:52.0 | And I don't want to be deceived or fold and I'm assuming you don't either. |
| 0:58.0 | So just to let you know where we're about to hear from God, he's about to tell us specifically to cure for orphans and widows. So before we |
| 1:09.2 | even hear what God is going to say to us, we need to say yes to whatever he's saying to us. |
| 1:18.3 | So we don't come to God's word thinking, let me hear what it says and then I'll decide |
| 1:22.1 | whether or not I'm going to do it. |
| 1:24.0 | No, not if you're a Christian. |
| 1:26.0 | So follower of Jesus has sacrificed the right to make the decisions in our lives. We do whatever God calls us to do because we trust God. |
| 1:38.0 | Whether we trust ourselves, we're confident, he loves us, he knows what is best best for us so it's not like a big sacrifice |
| 1:44.8 | to say to the god who made you I'll do whatever you call me to do and the god who loves you |
| 1:48.5 | and wants you to have life in that even if that leads us in ways we didn't see coming. So many of you have heard |
| 1:55.4 | me tell all the story about Heather and I being joyfully content with our four |
| 1:59.7 | children at that time on a day night and over dinner we hadn't even planned on talking about |
| 2:05.8 | adoption but the subjects of adoption came up and it was like God met us |
| 2:11.3 | there at the table in a way neither of us saw coming before we knew it Heather's crying |
| 2:17.4 | I'm like super self-conscious that the waiter and other people in the restaurant are thinking I'm the lamest husband taking my wife out |
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