It's all too common for Christians and for churches to seek to know God and to make him known apart from relying on his spirit.

However, relying on external regulations and human abilities is empty and ultimately

damning. 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 today's sermon plus thousands of more free resources over at our website

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In this featured sermon today, originally delivered on March 16, 2008, David Platt reminds us that

God's people should be desperate for the Holy Spirit's presence and power.

Greatfully, in His grace, God freely gives his spirit to those who put their trust in Jesus.

Here's David with a sermon titled Unvealing His Glory.

2 Corinthians, Chapter 3, verse 7 through 18.

If you have a Bible, and I hope you do, let me invite you to open with me to Exodus Chapter 34.

Some of those times were not planned tonight, and so we've cut into the pastor's preaching time. And so we're going to just put your seatbelts on and we're going to fly through some things tonight.

You pull out those notes from your worship guide and we've got a lot of things that I

want us to see in God's word.

In fact, while you're turning to Exodus 34, back in the Old Testament, I want you to also find with me, kind of Mark

Exodus 34 and then go find 2 Corinthians chapter 3 as well. So Exodus 34 and

2 Corinthians chapter 3.

And mark them both.

We're going to be looking at them both tonight.

While you're turning there, at the beginning of this year, about two Sundays in, God began to take us as a church in a different

direction than we, or at least I had planned.

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