Genesis #31 - What Hope Does God Give to Assault Victims?

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🗓️ 28 August 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In one of the toughest and most heart-wrenching stories in the book of Genesis, Pastor Mark preaches from chapter 34 on the defilement of Jacob's daughter, Dinah. As her dad did nothing to stop his daughter from being taken advantage of, Pastor Mark preaches on the importance of strong men and fathers in protecting their wives and children.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll Podcast.
0:04.2	For more content from my dad, Pastor Mark, senior pastor here at the Trinity Church in
0:07.9	Scottsdale, Arizona, visit realfabe.com where you'll find study guides to go along with
0:12.7	each sermon series as he preaches verse by verse 3 books of the Bible, daily devotions,
0:17.6	free e-books, and more.
0:19.2	Now grab your Bibles and get ready for today's sermon.
0:21.6	Alright, we have been in the book of Genesis for a number of months and if you're new,
0:26.6	you like to go through books of the Bible. We just take every chapter, every verse, and
0:31.1	we assume that whatever is in the Bible would be God's assignment for us to learn from
0:36.2	and to invest in for that week.
0:39.2	And this week we find ourselves in Genesis chapter 34 and honestly this is the sermon
0:45.5	I've been dreading the most for the entire series.
0:49.3	Knowing this one is coming for me emotionally is complicated and difficult.
0:53.5	We're going to answer this question. What hope does God give to assault victims?
0:59.3	I love teaching the Bible. I've been teaching the Bible pretty much every week for about
1:03.6	26 years.
1:05.9	This is my least favorite chapter I believe that I have ever taught in the entire Bible.
1:11.8	The first time I taught it I was a very young man and as soon as I was done teaching I threw
1:15.9	up. That's emotionally how much this chapter troubles and bothers me.
1:21.4	And I look forward to the second coming of Jesus when this world is completely healed
1:26.2	and everyone and everything is completely healed and justice comes for all true victims.
1:31.4	Until then chapters like Genesis 34 remind us very painfully what sin has done to tragically
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