If God left it up to us to carry out the church's mission, relying on our own strength and counting

on our own wisdom, we would be in serious trouble.

Quite simply, we cannot address sin, sickness, suffering, favoritism, and persecution on

our own.

Greatfully, though, the God we serve is sovereign over all things, and he ensures the advancement

of his kingdom through his people, the church.

In this message from Acts, chapter 9, verse 32, through chapter 12, verse 25, David

Platte exhorts us to see how the God who is sovereign over all the things has worked

for the spread of the gospel and the multiplication of the church.

The church today has no reason to fear or shrink back because we serve the God who holds

the whole world in his hands.

This is the radical with David Platte podcast.

Here is David with a message titled, the God who holds the whole world in his hands.

If you have a Bible, and I hope you do, let me invite you to open with me to Acts chapter

9.

We're going to get the end of Acts chapter 9 in just a second.

That song that we just sang really expresses the heart of how we're wanting to read through

the book of Acts, not just in our lives and our families, but as a church to say, here

we are, what blank check, whether or not you want us to sell a building, reorganize everything

about how we do church, whatever you want us to do, we will do it.

We want your glory in Birmingham and to the ends of the earth, so whatever.

Jonathan and I were together in Southeast Asia a few months ago, together on the largest

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