The scale of the current refugee crisis is massive and to some it can seem like events are

spinning out of control and to others they simply aren't aware of this continuing crisis. But what if God is using these

tragedies to accomplish his global purposes? Welcome to the Radical with David

Platt podcast the latest sermons from teacher, author, and pastor David Platt delivered

weekly. As always, you can find thousands of more free resources at radical.net.

In today's sermon from Acts chapter 17,

David Platt encourages us to view the movements

of refugees around the world through the lens

of God's sovereignty and his redemptive purposes.

The nations may be closer than you think.

Here's David with a sermon titled,

The Mercy of God and the Movement of the Peoples,

from Acts Chapter 17. If you have a Bible, and I hope you do or somewhere around you does, you can look on it.

Let me invite you to open with me to Acts Chapter 17.

It is good to be back. 17. Acts chapter 17.

It is good to be back with you.

I've been looking so forward to being here today.

And not only in this room, obviously, with Loudoun, Prince William, and Montgomery County.

When I started studying this text in preparation for this weekend,

my plan was to preach the second half of Acts chapter 17. So verses 16 through 34,

it's kind of the next kind of segment in this series in acts. But the more I looked

at these verses, the more and then prayed through what

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