Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

You live in a world where things are not the way they're supposed to be. Shalom has been shattered.

But there will be a day when Shalom is going to be restored once again.

In today's episode, we're going to listen to Paul Tripp preach a sermon from Revelation 21,

from a series he did called Loving Your City. Here's Paul with the sermon, Urban Renewal.

There's a very interesting scene at the beginning of the movie Grand Canyon.

There's a high-powered lawyer who is driving with his Mercedes through the city in a rush,

and he gets in the middle of a traffic jam. He's not the kind of guy who's going to wait

in a traffic jam. So he wheels his way out of the traffic jam, looking for a faster route,

probably pre-GPS days, and finds himself in a very, very bad neighborhood, predictably as often is the case with

the way the drama of these movies is written, his car breaks down.

And he finds himself surrounded by a group of street tufts, as the movie would call them.

And he is, it manages to call on his cell phone the tow truck man that he so desperately needs.

And that guy comes and he's a gentleman and he's upset at the way

this man is being intimidated by this street gang. And he introduces them to a little bit of

metaphysics, theology. He looks around and he says, everything in this scene is not the way

it's supposed to be. I'm not supposed to have to ask you guys permission to do my job. And this man

is not supposed to wait with his car in fear that you will rip him off.

This is not the way things were meant to be.

What an amazing summary of the world that you and I live in. We live in a world where you could

stand on any corner, in any situation, in any relationship, in any circumstance, and somehow,

some ways say, this is not the way it was meant to be. We live in a broken world. And you see that brokenness in

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