Hello, this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll podcast.

For more content from my dad, Pastor Mark, senior pastor here at the Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona,

visit real faith.com, where you'll find study guides to go along with each sermon series as he

preaches verse by verse through books of the Bible, daily devotions, free ebooks

and more. Now grab your Bibles and get ready for today's sermon.

All right let me pray before we jump into this one. It's going to be a little different.

Father God, pray against the enemy of servants,

their works and effects.

God, I pray for the right tone to my message I pray for ears to hear I pray for

digital favor to the nations because tonight God we decide who lives and who dies and so' name, we consecrate this time and this place

to our great God and Savior who came into human history

through the womb of his mother Mary, who was poor,

who was rural, who was unmarried, who was young, and was a candidate to terminate.

But instead, she gave birth to the one who would be the Savior of the world.

And so Jesus, we want to come and

honor you and I pray that you would allow me to teach well and that you would

send the Holy Spirit so that what I say would be an echo of the Father's

heart in Jesus good name. Amen. So it's an honor to see

you men. Thank you for joining us and thank you for joining us online and what I

usually do is I preach your books in the Bible and then I do a lecture for the men and last week I felt inclined to go ahead and to talk in advance of my sermon.

I was like, Father, why would you have me to do that?

And then this week I realized why.

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