Welcome to the Mark Driscoll podcast to find more Bible teaching from

Pastor Mark visit real faith.com. Thanks for listening and being a part of

real faith and remember it's all about Jesus. We're in Romans chapter 3, and in Romans 1 and 2,

Paul tells us that God's evaluation of the human condition

is that we are sinners, that we are fallen, that we are the problem, and we are not the solution. are you an example from my own life. Some years ago I wasn't doing well physically. I had

allergies and I was getting bloody noses and I couldn't sleep and I had heartburn and I

was just not well. I had a nervous eye twitch because I was stressed.

Everybody in the church thought I was flirting with him.

I wasn't.

I was just a little freaked out.

And what happened then was one of my kids

looked at Grace, who was in the third trimester

with one of our soon to be born children and looked at me and said daddy are you having a baby too?

And I was like no I'm having an ice cream baby. I need to make some lifestyle changes.

So I go to the doctor and the doctor says,

okay, you need heartburn medicine,

you sleep medicine, you need anxiety,

all of these medicines.

And so then you do the terrifying thing

where you look at the potential side effects and you're like it's worse than what I have the side effects are worse than what I have

So I go to another doctor who was kind of rude a bit direct and reminded me of myself so now I know what you feel like

this doctor said that well you know what your problem is I said what is that you are

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