Today on Daily Hope with Pastor Rick Warren, we continue in our riveting journey through the series The Invisible War.

In it, we'll explore the unseen world of good and evil and see how it impacts our day-to-day existence.

Join us for eye-opening biblical insights into the spiritual dimensions that influence our lives in ways

we never imagined. Right now here's Pastor Rick Warren with the final part of a message called,

Why is life in this world so hard?

Number four, the fourth damage is in relationships

and sin results in relational distance and discord.

Relational distance and discord.

In other words, you have conflict with people.

In a perfect environment where there is no sin,

you're not going to have any conflict.

But in a marriage where you take one person who's imperfect

and another person who's imperfect, two imperfect people cannot make a perfect

relationship. It is impossible. One sinner marrying another sinner cannot create a perfect

relationship.

Guys, you married a center and she married a bigger one.

And so you're not going to have a perfect relationship. You're going to have problems in any relationship.

Now Solomon mentions this too. He says, you know what? In Ecclesiastics, he said, I've looked out and I've been watching people in the world. You know what I've discovered? They're not nice to each other. People don't treat each other kindly. People misuse each other. People abuse each other, people misuse each other, people abuse each other, people lie to each other,

people fake each other out, people are phoning in their relationships, people wear masks,

they cover up, they abuse, they take advantage of each other, and all of these things

and they hurt each other, sometimes intentionally unintentionally, why?

Because nothing works on this planet, because sin broke it all.

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