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

win your war, is available for pre-sale. It releases at the end of September.

We're going to look at how God creates Satan counterfeits and how there is a spiritual

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

super practical, pre-order today, win your war.

Let's start with this one assumption that we can all agree upon.

Something has gone terribly wrong.

Something has goneibly 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 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,

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