The Gospel Demands Radical Sacrifice

Radical with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever come to Jesus on his terms? It seems that many professing Christians are ok with following Jesus so long as he can be thrown in the mix with other priorities rather than being the priority. In this message from Luke 14:26–35 by David Platt, we are urged to consider what it means to give Christ our supreme love and loyalty, and our very lives. Ultimately, following Christ shouldn’t be motivated by guilt or a desire to earn God’s favor—which we can’t do—but rather from a sincere a...

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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.
0:10.4	If you have a Bible, and I hope you do, then I invite you to open with me to Luke.
0:16.4	Chapter 14. It is good to have you back after last week.
0:33.4	I want to start by saying a couple of things based on last week.
0:41.0	One of the questions I've heard is what is David thinking?
0:49.0	Or what is David going to say?
0:52.4	And I want to remind you for the beginning of our time to go this morning
0:55.7	that it really doesn't matter what David is thinking
0:58.7	or what David is going to say.
1:04.1	My responsibility before you on a week by week basis
1:07.8	is not to expose what I'm thinking and what I want to say. My responsibility
1:13.6	is to expose before you what God is thinking and what God is saying to us. And to the extent to
1:19.9	which I do that clearly and accurately, then we've got something to listen to. If at any point I'd divert off of this word,
1:31.2	then I have no authority to stand in front of you.
1:33.5	So the picture is not about what David is saying
1:36.7	and what David has to say.
1:38.1	The question is, what is God thinking,
1:40.2	what is God saying to us?
1:42.5	And no matter what he says,
1:44.1	if he's saying it, we obey.
1:47.0	Because we're his people.
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