Rowden Baptist Church

10/14/2026

Radical God
David Platt

The Christian life is about dying to self. It’s about giving up the right to determine the direction of our lives. Our God is our Lord, our Master, our King.

Many debate if we can know Jesus as Savior without knowing Him as Lord. This is a question of authority. Could someone trust in Christ for salvation yet not recognize His authority?

Jesus walked, talked, taught, and healed with power and authority. He didn’t need anyone to justify His teachings; He is the authority. But to religious leaders, that authority was threatening. If Jesus’ authority was from heaven, they had an obligation to obey.

If you recognize someone has authority, they have a claim on your life. Jesus knew they had ulterior motives.

To recognize the authority of Christ is to submit to the authority of Christ. There’s no Jesus except the Lord Jesus. To follow Jesus at all is to follow Him completely.

The Bible teaches us that God acts in His own interest.

At the beginning of earthly history, God’s purpose was to bless His people so that all people would glorify Him. At the end of history, God’s purpose will be fulfilled. Individuals from every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow down around His throne and sing praises to the One. This is the final, ultimate, glorious, guaranteed purpose of God.

God is seeking His own glory.

If we want to follow the radical God, then, we must have that desire in our hearts.

10/13/2026

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10/12/2026

Radical Vision
David Platt

If you ask a Christian what their mission is, hopefully they’ll respond with something like what Jesus said in Matthew 28:19-20: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations.”

Many fail to realize this is the Great Commission; not the New Commission.

Many operate under the assumption that there Is the Old Testament God who swallowed up the disobedient with fire. Then there’s the God of the New Testament, a God of love, mercy, and grace. That’s bad theology.

God is the same “yesterday, today, and forever” (Heb. 13:8). Theologians call It His immutability. Why do people change? Because we want to be better. If God had altered His character in the four hundred years between Malachi and Matthew, the implication is that He has been imperfect.

If God changed then, He might change again. If we think God in the New Testament was different from God in the Old Testament, we slander the perfection of God. We remove any sense of security that comes from knowing God never makes mistakes or is anything less than perfect.

But if the God of the Old Testament is the God of the New Testament, when Jesus commissioned His followers, He did so as an extension of what God had been doing in previous centuries.

The greatest blessing God gave to Abraham was the same blessing He gives to every child of Abraham today—Himself.

Jesus is the fulfillment of this centuries-old promise for God’s people, as well as the means by which God wants to bless all nations. Jesus is at the center of Genesis 12.

The same charge is for us today. We’ve been blessed to bless others.

That’s the core of the Great Commission.

10/11/2026

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10/10/2026

You are welcome to join us tomorrow for:

9:45am Bible Study
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10/09/2026

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10/07/2026

Radical Strategy
David Platt

Jesus stood on the mountain, ready to ascend into heaven, and gave His marching orders to the disciples:.

Jesus never intended to limit this invitation to the most effective, brilliant, or talented—whom we are prone to exalt. Rather, we are all called to make disciples.

If the disciples were to teach all nations to observe everything Jesus commanded, that included what Jesus commanded that day. Part of making disciples was to tell others to make disciples. Those disciples were to tell new disciples to make disciples, and on and on.

Unfortunately, today there is a divide between lay people and professional Christians. Where did we get the idea that some people are charged with the disciple-making while others are not?

It’s surprising when you think about the people to whom Jesus entrusted this mission. Fishers? Reformed tax collectors? A pr******te? It’s hardly the group church planters dream of today. Jesus didn’t seem worried, though. Perhaps because these “wrong” people were more ready for the mission than they realized.

During His ministry on earth, Jesus spent more time with 12 men than with everyone else put together. In John 17, when Jesus recounted His ministry before going to the cross, He didn’t mention the multitudes He’d preached to or the miracles He’d performed. They weren’t His primary focus. Instead, 40 times Jesus spoke to and about the men in whom He’d invested His life. They were His focus.

Jesus didn’t sit in a classroom; He shared His life. He walked and talked and ate with them, and taught them about the kingdom of God. We can do the same.

Instead of seeing ordinary activities as simply things to be done, follow Jesus’ example and start seeing them as opportunities to make disciples. Like you, if I’m not careful, disciple making fades into the background. Intentionality is vital to radical disciple-making

10/05/2026

Radical Focus
David Platt

Ask yourself this: Do you really believe the Bible?

Although an intellectual understanding of the Bible is important, belief isn’t measured by intellect; it’s measured by obedience.

We live in a culture always looking for the next thing, for the next stage, the next step, or the next advance. We’re obsessed with new.

God loves new also. He’s making all things new in Christ (see Rev. 21:5). But if we’re looking for new revelation from God, we’re going down the wrong path. God has given us all we need in His Word.

We’re never without revelation from God. We have His message in all its power, authority, and clarity. We simply have to trust the Word He’s already given.

In the epic battle between the Son of God and Satan, What did Jesus revert to? The Word of God.

Throughout the Gospels, you see Jesus’ commitment to and love for God’s Word. The Sermon on the Mount is full of references to the Old Testament. When He cleared the temple of the moneychangers, He quoted Isaiah 56. Even in His last moments as He was being tortured to death on the cross, He quoted Psalm 22.

If it was good enough for Jesus Christ, the Bible is good enough for us.

The Word of God is sufficient. Again, do we believe the Book? Do we have a radical focus on God’s Word? If we do, our lives will show it.

10/03/2026

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10/02/2026

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