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. Cars weren't designed to drive on railroad tracks.

Trains weren't designed to travel through water. Boats don't have a tendency to do well

on a highway. In the same way, human beings weren't designed to live in a certain way, and when we

violate our design, bad things happen. Today, we'll continue through this series from Genesis as

Paul explores transformational truths about our life on earth. In this episode, Paul

teaches on three facets of our human identity. Here's Paul as we go back to the beginning.

It was one of the most bizarre experiences of my life. It's happened once. I'm sure it'll never

happen again. I was picking up my son on one of the platforms of one of the regional rail lines

here in Philadelphia. His train had dropped him off a few minutes earlier. And when I arrived

on the platform, he was pointing and yelling and in a panic.

Now, you've got to hear this. I looked down the tracks, and I saw a sight that I know for sure

I will never see again. Careening down the tracks was a bright red, mint condition,

1960s-era Ford Mustang. It was moving at a rather high rate of speed, scraping and

bumping and bouncing and sparking as it went. All of a sudden, one of the front wheels came flying

off the car, it turned a 90-degree angle, and crashed against the platform, actually wedging

itself beneath the train platform.

We were as stunned as two people could be, and we watched two people climb out of the car and over

the hood of the car and run off into the night. Now, here's the point of the story. In case you didn't get it,

cars weren't made for train tracks.

Trains weren't made to travel over water, and boats don't do well on highways.

So when you see someone attempting to drive a Mustang down railroad tracks, you know that they have gotten something very wrong.

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