What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me? Quotes

“The more Christ fulfills the cravings of our souls, the more he changes our taste capacities from the inside out. The more we walk with him, the more we want him. The more we taste of him, the more we enjoy him. And this transforms how we live and what we live for.”
― David Platt, What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

“There is indescribable joy to be found, deep satisfaction to be felt, and an eternal purpose to be fulfilled in dying to ourselves and living for him.”
― David Platt, What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

“We pick and choose what we like and don’t like from Jesus’ teachings. In the end, we create a nice, non-offensive, politically correct, middle-class, American Jesus who looks just like us and thinks just like us. But Jesus is not customizable.”
― David Platt, What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

“Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.”
― David Platt, What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

“The clear message of the Bible is that there is nothing we can do to make our hearts clean before a holy God. We can work constantly, pray fervently, give extravagantly, and love sacrificially, but our hearts will still be stained by sin. This is why the Bible teaches that faith alone in Christ alone is the only way to salvation from sin. Faith is the anti-work. It’s the realization that there is nothing you can do but trust in what has been done for you in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Faith is the realization that God’s pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him. Instead, God’s pleasure in you will always be based upon Christ’s performance for you.”
― David Platt, What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

“Faith is the realization that God’s pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him. Instead, God’s pleasure in you will always be based upon Christ’s performance for you.”
― David Platt, What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

“But Jesus is not customizable. He has not left himself open to interpretation, adaptation, innovation, or alteration. He has revealed himself clearly through his Word, and we have no right to personalize him. Instead, he revolutionizes us.”
― David Platt, What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

“Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to [God] the Father except through me.” Peter, one of the four fishermen Jesus called, later said of Jesus, “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.” Jesus did not claim to be one dish on the buffet line of spirituality from which we can pick and choose the elements that best suit our taste. And if his claims are true, then his call demands everything, and we have no other choice—like those fishermen before us—but to drop everything and follow him.”
― David Platt, What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

“The way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds but by trusting Jesus to change our desires.”
― David Platt, What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

“Being a member of a church means realizing that we are responsible for helping the brothers and sisters around us to grow as disciples of Jesus. In the same way, they are responsible for helping us. We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that’s full of sin.”
― David Platt, What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

“Being a member of a church means so much more than standing next to someone else and singing some songs once a week. Being a member of a church means realizing that we are responsible for helping the brothers and sisters around us to grow as disciples of Jesus.”
― David Platt, What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

“Yet the penalty for sin is not determined by our measure of it. Instead, the penalty for sin is determined by the magnitude of the one sinned against.”
― David Platt, What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

“Disciple making also involves teaching people to obey all that Christ has commanded us. Now some might say, “Isn’t that what preachers are supposed to do?” And in one sense, the answer to this question is yes. God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally. At the same time, he has commanded every follower of Jesus to teach his Word relationally.”
― David Platt, What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

“Jesus came to live the life we could not live (that is, a life without sin) and to die the death that we, as sinners, deserve to die.”
― David Platt, What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

“At the cross of Christ, God shows the full expression of both his wrath and his love as Jesus is stricken, smitten, afflicted, wounded, crushed, and chastised for the sake of sinners. Does”
― David Platt, What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

“The driver believed that he would pay for his sin for a little while in hell, but then he would surely go to heaven after that. After all, he hadn’t done too many bad things. So Azeem said to him, “If I slapped you in the face, what would you do to me?” The driver replied, “I would throw you out of my taxi.” “If I went up to a random guy on the street and slapped him in the face, what would he do to me?” “He would probably call his friends and beat you up.” “What if I went up to a policeman and slapped him in the face? What would he do to me?” “You would be beat up for sure, and then thrown into jail.” “And what if I went to the king of this country and slapped him in the face? What would happen to me then?” The driver looked at Azeem and awkwardly”
― David Platt, What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

“This is what the Bible means when it says we are dead in sin. When Paul wrote to the Ephesian Christians and said, “You were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live,” he meant that they were completely dead. Not partially dead. Not almost dead. Not halfway dead. Not kind of dead. Completely dead.”
― David Platt, What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

“It is biblically, spiritually, and practically impossible to be a disciple of Christ apart from total devotion to a family of Christians.”
― David Platt, What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

“God raises up the church as a community of Christ-followers and says to all creation, “This is the bride and body of my Son, bought and purchased by his blood, to be my people and receive my power and enjoy my presence and declare my praise forever and ever.”
― David Platt, What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

“Disciples like Peter, Andrew, James, and John show us that the call to follow Jesus is not simply an invitation to pray a prayer; it is a summons to lose our lives.”
― David Platt, What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?