David Platt Quotes

God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.

We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.

Live today for what is going to matter 10 billion years from today.

It is impossible to be a follower of Christ while denying, disregarding, discrediting, and disbelieving the words of Christ.

In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples.

God's revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.

Why make disciples? Because heaven and hell exist, and the end of the world is coming.

To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God's presence, and you deserved nothing but God's wrath.

The very first word out of Jesus; mouth in is ministry in the New Testament is clear: repent.

I want to move from what we let go of to whom we hold on to. I want to explore not just the gravity of what we forsake in this world, but also the greatness of the one we follow in this world.

The Word of God and the Spirit of God are enough for the people of God to enjoy and spread the worship of God.

I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.

The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.

Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone.

Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.

So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.

Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of our need for his grace.

God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth

[...]there is no injustice in God. The injustice lies in Christians who possess the gospel and refuse to give their lives to making it known among those who haven't heard.

He (Jesus) came so that we might receive new life through supernatural regeneration.

Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.

The sovereignty of God is the only foundation for worship in the midst of tragedy.

The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom.

It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.

Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with human merit and absolutely everything to do with divine mercy.

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift because it meets our greatest need.

BECAUSE SELF IS NO LONGER OUR GOD, SAFETY IS NO LONGER OUR CONCERN.

Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.

If there were 1,000 ways to God we would want 1,001.

Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life.

Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They're hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken

Christianity does not start with an invitation we offer to Jesus, but with an invitation Jesus offers to us.

Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die.

The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers

God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.

Believing in the Jesus of the Bible makes life risky on a lot of levels because it is absolute surrender of every decision we make, every dollar we spend, our lives belong to another.

God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.

Surely the greatest social injustice is that 2 billion people haven't heard of God's love in Christ.

The Bible clearly reminds us that left to ourselves, we would be lost forever.

There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.

And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us.

We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.

Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is.

That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.

Our greatest need is not to try harder. Our greatest need is a new heart.

We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.

The primary reward of the gospel - God himself

We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.

The gospel beckons our sin-sick souls to simple trust in Christ, the only One who is truly radical enough.

The price of our non-discipleshi p is high for those without Christ.