You're listening to David Platt Messages, a weekly podcast of sermons and messages of pastor,

author, and teacher David Platt. Today's episode is a rerun of one of our most listened to messages

of all time. All right, let's just be honest here. From the start, what we're talking about today

is crazy.

Why would any one of us leave the comforts of life here

and move to a remote village in Afghanistan,

or a 100% Muslim city in the Middle East,

or to an impoverished refugee camp in Bangladesh.

And these may sound like extreme examples, but they're not.

Like unreached people are unreached for a reason.

They're hard to reach.

They're difficult to reach.

Some situations they are dangerous to reach.

They've said before, all the easy ones are taken.

So why would you leave here to go there?

As a single, as a couple,

as a family with young kids or teenagers.

As a grandparent, with grandkids you want to spend time with.

As a retiree, like why would you spend your last year's there instead of here?

In order to answer that question, I want to flip the question, and I want to ask what happens if we don't go?

What happens if we stay here?

So we have said that over 2 billion people are in the red right now, people just like you and me, like singles, couples, moms, dads, kids, grandkids,

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