The REAL Reason God Has Rules
The Mark Driscoll Podcast
Mark Driscoll
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2024
⏱️ 38 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 | Let me ask you a question. What if all of these restraints and constraints that God provides to keep us from slipping from total to utter depravity were removed and eradicated? |
| 0:11.0 | So imagine you couldn't die. You're immortal like God |
| 0:13.8 | originally created us. No death. So nothing you could do would take your life. No |
| 0:19.5 | fear of death. Now imagine that there was no law, no police, no soldiers, no courts, no judges, no |
| 0:28.9 | lawyers, no prisons, no consequences. Now imagine you could have unlimited power and money. You could do |
| 0:38.6 | whatever you want. Question, would you do some bad things? |
| 0:45.0 | Oh God. |
| 0:47.0 | Everybody's like, I don't know. |
| 0:49.0 | Yeah, you do. |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah, you too. |
| 0:52.0 | Right? How many of you, if you could kill a few people? |
| 0:57.0 | Oh, Pastor Mark, I never thought about that. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, wow, Lord. |
| 1:05.8 | Oh, that's, no, okay, see? |
| 1:08.8 | Even if you have a name or a face, you're guilty, okay, I'm just telling you how many of you if you could |
| 1:15.3 | get revenge on them you're like I would watch Liam Neesa movies and do it that's |
| 1:21.6 | what I do to them. I torture them. How many of you |
| 1:26.8 | would do some horrible things? See we've all got a shadow side and even if we know |
| 1:31.8 | Jesus there's still some lingering flesh in us and if it |
| 1:38.5 | weren't for the constraints and restraints of God's |
| 1:45.0 | that doesn't mean that we're good. It means that we're bad and that God is good and that God's goodness |
| 1:47.0 | restrains our badness. Therefore we don't take credit for it, we give God glory |
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