Howdy, Pastor Mark Triscoll here. The latest book for my wife Grace and I

Win Your War is available for presale. It releases at the end of September. We're

gonna look at how God creates Satan counterfeits and how there is a spiritual

attack for your relationship with God, yourself, others, and the church,

superbiblical, super practical, pre-order today, Win Your War. Let's start with

this one assumption that we can all agree upon. Something is gone terribly wrong.

Something is gone terribly wrong. People are anxious, people are depressed, people

are angry, people are at war with one another, the culture in which we live is a

battlefield. And it doesn't matter how many wars we wage, how many elections we

hold, how many medications we prescribe, how many bodies we bury, how many

votes we cast, how many government programs we fund, how many savior, hero,

politicians, we trust in, nothing changes, it only gets worse. The world is

in decline, the myth of evolution has been disproven by history. Something has

gone terribly wrong. That's my thesis. Now what I want you to know is that the

problem is in this world. That means that the solution must come from another

world. In addition to all the problems that we see, we are incapable and

unable of diagnosing the problem of humanity and our own history,

personally, apart from understanding what I will call the problem behind the

problem or to say it another way, the war behind the wars. And so for you and I,

we are going to spend some time over this course of eight weeks and we're going

to open the word of God. There is no way to understand the world that God made

unless we open the word that God wrote. In this eight weeks, you will use the word

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