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

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

All right we have been in the book of Genesis for a number of months,

and if you're new, we like to go through books of the Bible.

We just take every chapter, every verse,

and we assume that whatever is in the Bible would be God's assignment

for us to learn from and to invest in for that week. And this week we find ourselves

in Genesis chapter 34 and honestly this is the sermon I've been

dreading the most for the entire series. Knowing this one is coming for me

emotionally is complicated and difficult. We're going to answer this question, what hope

does God give to assault victims? I love teaching the Bible. I've been teaching the Bible

pretty much every week for about 26

years. This is my least favorite chapter I believe that I have ever taught in the

entire Bible. The first time I taught it I was a very young man and as

soon as I was done teaching I threw up. That's emotionally how much this chapter

troubles and bothers me and I look forward to the second coming of Jesus when this world is completely healed

and everyone and everything is completely healed and justice comes for all true victims.

Until then, chapters like Genesis 34 remind us very painfully

what sin has done to tragically infect and affect

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