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The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Real Marriage - Key #4 Becoming A Safe Person

The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Relationships are the most wonderful and awful, pleasant and painful part of life. In this sermon, Pastor Mark examines three kinds of people—evil, foolish, and wise. Which kind of person are you? Which kind of people are you in relationship with? How can you become a safe and wise person who has healthy, live-giving relationships with other safe and wise people? These issues are explored in great detail in a way that is both biblical and practical.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I should do this because I keep messing it up. This is like our 57th take.

0:08.0

Howdy, Pastor Mark Driska here with my wife and best friend Grace and I want to thank all of you through Mark Driscoll Ministries who give any amount to pray at any time or encourage with any email or social media post. We've got a brand new sermon series. Real Marriage

0:23.6

it's six keys to unlocking all of your relationships, including your marriage

0:27.5

that we're teaching right here at the trendy church. I'm preaching. We're

0:30.0

doing Q&A and we'll give it all the way through Mark Driscoll

0:33.2

or so thanks a bunch for helping us out.

0:35.8

In World War II there was such a traumatic and dramatic loss of life that there were a

0:40.5

large number of children who had no families and had no parents.

0:44.1

And as a result, the state stepped in and created institutions to housing to raise these children.

0:50.3

And by all record, they were nice.

0:53.2

Think safe environment, fresh air, clean water,

0:57.6

a nice bed to sleep in, you know, clean toys to play with,

1:01.6

a life-giving environment that included good food and medical care.

1:05.6

And what they quickly realized is that the children were not doing well.

1:09.5

Many of the children were underdeveloped, they weren't putting on weight weight their cognitive abilities were not keeping up with their age and in addition some of the children tragically even became sick and some died and it led to such a crisis and a concern that the UN was involved, the United Nations was invited in to examine what is the problem here, what is wrong with these children?

1:30.0

And you mothers will not be shocked by the findings.

1:33.5

They simply said, these children need human contact.

1:36.8

They need to be held.

1:38.2

They need to be talked to.

1:39.9

They needed to be coddled.

1:41.3

They needed to have their back rubbed in their head rub and need to be

1:44.4

snuggled up with a couple minutes every hour and a couple hours every day because without

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