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The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Galatians #8 - Law-Based vs. Grace-Based Relationships

The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

There are basically two kinds of relationships Christians have. One is law-based. Someone has fears that compel them to control other people and circumstances through making demands. The other is grace-based. The two people trust the Holy Spirit to work in and through each of them, focus on their unity around Jesus Christ, and give grace in secondary matters where they disagree.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Mark Dr. School Ministries podcast. To find more Bible teaching from

0:04.1

Pastor Mark visit mark, visit Mark Dr.org. Thank you for listening and being a part of

0:07.8

Mark Dr School Ministries. And remember, it's all about Jesus.

0:11.6

All right, this will be a fun one.

0:14.0

So I want to start by just giving a principle,

0:18.0

and that is that for human life to flourish,

0:22.0

it needs to be in the healthy environment that God

0:25.0

intended for. I'll give you some examples. So we live in a great universe and

0:29.6

world architected, finely tuned and designed by God to sustain our life.

0:35.0

The body that you and I inhabit, it's a complex wonder where God knit us together

0:41.0

in our mother's womb and he architected our body in such a way

0:44.8

that we can actually live life in the environment

0:48.2

that he created for us.

0:49.7

Before you came here, you were probably in your condo,

0:52.4

your home, your dorm, your apartment. The building you

0:56.2

were in had an architect. Somebody intentionally strategically designed that place for

1:02.4

human life. And you probably drove here in a car and that too was engineered.

1:07.0

Someone carefully or a team carefully engineered the process by which that vehicle could transport you safely.

1:15.0

My point is simply this, not only do we live in the world and in our body and in our home and in our car,

1:21.0

we live in our relationships.

1:23.0

And I think one of the most important things that we can learn is how to architect,

1:28.0

how to design, how to engineer our interpersonal relationships so that we can live together and be healthy.

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