The Path to Addiction
The Mark Driscoll Podcast
Mark Driscoll
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Pastor Mark's first-ever book on manhood just released for order! It's 30 years in the making, and over 100 million people have viewed the “Act like a Man” series! Join the millions who have been inspired to punch life in the mouth and become the man God has created them to be.
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| 0:00.0 | And what's really interesting is brain science is finally caught up with a Bible. |
| 0:04.4 | What I love is the Bible's true and eventually the researchers catch up. |
| 0:08.8 | Like, oh my goodness, did you not? |
| 0:11.3 | Like recently it was NASA, kind of real frosting but NASA came out and they're like |
| 0:17.0 | Our telescopes have come to the conclusion that the world had a beginning. Yep. We know. Thanks for joining us |
| 0:27.0 | The Jews told us that thousands of years ago. Our book actually starts in the beginning. We could have saved you guys a ton of money on that telescope. But anyways, I just love it when science catches up with a Bible. |
| 0:33.4 | And what science and brain science is telling us now |
| 0:36.4 | is that literally as you chase pleasure, |
| 0:38.9 | you create a neural pathway. |
| 0:41.2 | It literally re-hard wires your brain. |
| 0:44.0 | Okay? This is what leads to the addiction cycle. |
| 0:48.0 | So what happens is your body is hardwired for pleasure and most people, |
| 0:54.1 | two things drive their decision-making. |
| 0:56.5 | I want to get away from pain and I want to get close to pleasure. |
| 1:00.6 | The problem with that is, you'll never become an adult. |
| 1:05.0 | How many of you you're married and sometimes you need to give up your pleasure |
| 1:11.0 | so that you can serve your spouse? How many of you are a parent? |
| 1:14.0 | And you're like, you know what? Being a parent has some painful moments and I |
| 1:19.2 | give up some pleasure for the pain. If you're going to love someone, if you're going to serve someone, if you're going to do something, accomplish something, you're going to be something. |
| 1:27.0 | At certain points you need to deny the pleasure, accept the pain so that you can be an adult. |
| 1:34.0 | An adult. |
| 1:35.0 | If you wake up every day and you're like, |
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