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Platt Challenges Christians to be Faithful to the Gospel >
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David Platt, pastor of The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Ala., spoke to an overflowing chapel of students, faculty, staff and friends of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Platt said: “It is always an honor to be here, I praise God for what He is doing on this campus for the edification and exaltation of the Gospel among the nations.” “In one sense my heart is encouraged, particularly among younger evangelicals, as I sense opposition to injustice regarding the poor, orphaned and enslaved,” Platt said. “Yet at the same time, I am concerned by a lack of zeal on social issues that are just as, if not more important. These issues include abortion, sexual immorality and so called same sex marriage.” The aim of Platt’s sermon was to call the members and leaders of Christ’s church to a contrite, compassionate and courageous battle on the front lines of our culture with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Platt focused on the heart of his message from Genesis 1 through 3 and spoke about four biblical foundations and their cultural implications from the text. Found in Genesis 1, “God creates us as a demonstration of His glory. … Not natural selection but supernatural provision,” Platt said. This reveals that man is created in the image of God with the unique capacity to relate, know, walk and worship God. In Genesis 2, Platt said: “God designs us for the display of His gospel. Man and women were created with equal dignity, value and importance before God yet clearly designed with different roles. Both compliment
each other. … That through this [marriage] relationship it may show the world the relationship between Christ and the church,” said Platt. From Genesis 3, Platt shared how God judges us by His righteous law. “Questioning God’s Word leads to doubting God’s character,” Platt said. As mentioned in Romans 5, all have sinned, yet God seeks the guilty. The fourth foundation was: God pursues us with His redeeming love. “These four truths form the essence of the gospel,” Platt said. “Consider the massive ramifications of these truths applied to the battle fronts of our day,” Platt said. “So what do we do?” The first cultural implication based on first biblical foundation was on the topic of abortion. “We do not have a choice; we are constrained by the gospel to fight abortion as an assault on God’s creation and an affront to God’s glory. … We live in a country where 1 million babies are aborted each year. 3,000 everyday and one baby every 20 to 25 seconds. All over the world 130,000 abortions occur everyday. “I do not believe it is an overstatement to call abortion a modern holocaust. I believe that is an understatement, every month we surpass that number of people systematically slaughtered all over the world,” Platt said. “We must not hide from the reality of what is happening all around the country and all over the world.” “God is creating a person in His image in that womb. That gospel reality changes everything,” Platt said. “In reference to the second biblical truth, we flee sex-
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