There are many voices today urging us to reimagine the church's purpose and mission.

And this makes sense if the church is merely man's invention, but if the church belongs to Jesus that he gets to set the agenda,

and we should want to know what he says.

Welcome to the Radical with David Platt podcast, the latest sermons from teacher, author, and pastor David Pla delivered weekly.

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Well in this message, Davidatt considers the institution and confession of the

church based on the words of Christ in Matthew chapter 16.

The one who bought the church with his own blood has given us the

privilege of knowing him and proclaiming his gospel. And we can be confident

because Christ has told us that not even death would stop him from building his church.

Here's David with a sermon titled, The Institution and Confession of the Church from Matthew

Chapter 16, 1 through 28.

If you have his word, and I hope you do, I invite you to open with me to Matthew

chapter 16.

Matthew chapter 16 and let me invite you to pull out

those notes you received and

worship guide and you came in.

Today we resume our journey through Jesus life in the book of Matthew. In the light of Easter, we've taken the last two weeks to jump ahead to Jesus' death and resurrection.

Now we're going to go back to where we left off in Matthew 15, picking up in Matthew

chapter 16. So let me remind you kind of where we were when we were studying Matthew

chapter 15. This was the night that we commissioned out, Christ Fellowship

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