You are listening to Radical with David Platt, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages from

pastor, author, and teacher David Platt. If you have a Bible, and I hope that you or somebody around

you does that you can look on with or you can pull one out from around your seat. I'm going to

open me to Matthew Chapter 6. Feel free to use table of contents if you need to, Matthew 6.

And as returning, I want to welcome those of you and other locations of our church family across Metro, D.C., as well as others online, who are physically unable to be with us today.

If you're visiting with us especially, my name is David Platt.

I'm one of the pastors here. And whether you're a follower of Jesus from another church,

or you're maybe visiting with a friend or family member, or maybe just exploring Jesus on your own,

we want you to know you are always welcome here. And I am loving this journey that you're able to join in today as we're

walking as a church family through Jesus's sermon on the Mount. So last week we looked at the

Lord's Prayer and Mike's sermon on that was a fire on so many levels as he walked us through

just four reminders from the Lord's Prayer.

So if you didn't get to listen to that, I would encourage you to go back to listen to it,

especially in the week after the election.

And he mentioned that this week we'd be looking at the broader context that surrounds the Lord's Prayer,

which is Matthew chapter 6 versus 1 through 18. So that's what we're about to do. And this passage is so important

for our lives because it reveals, so listen to this, this passage reveals what is

most important in our lives.

That's what we're about to talk about in the next few minutes,

the most important part of our lives.

So here's how I want us to start

with a question I want you to think about,

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