Speaker 1: You know, we really live in a world that's full
Speaker 1: of competing beliefs and values and choices, and what you
Speaker 1: believe shapes how you live and ultimately who you become.
Speaker 1: But the good news is God hasn't left us to
Speaker 1: figure it all out alone.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: In fact, today, on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, we're going
Speaker 1: to continue our series Reframing Your Worldview, where Rick Warren
Speaker 1: unpacks powerful truths from God's Word to help you see
Speaker 1: life clearly and live it with confidence and purpose. Let's
Speaker 1: jump right in for part two of a message called
Speaker 1: how did the World get so Messed Up?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: This morning, I want to just quickly look at five
Speaker 2: dimensions of the damage that when sin entered the world,
Speaker 2: and when we continue to sin, we continue to blow it.
Speaker 2: It affects five areas. There are natural implications. There are
Speaker 2: physical implications, there are emotional implications, there are relational implications,
Speaker 2: and there are spiritual implications every time we blow it. Okay,
Speaker 2: so let's look at them. What are five results of
Speaker 2: living in a fallen world? Number one, there are natural
Speaker 2: disasters and deformities.
Speaker 3: Natural disasters and.
Speaker 2: Deformities nature doesn't always act in a rational way. It
Speaker 2: often acts in an irrational way, and there are national
Speaker 2: natural disasters. And when people ask why are their hurricanes
Speaker 2: and why are their droughts? And why are there earthquakes?
Speaker 2: And why are there tidal ways and all of these
Speaker 2: other different natural disasters, the answer is very simple. The
Speaker 2: planet is broken, it's fallen. This is not a perfect place.
Speaker 2: And the Bible says that very clearly that there are
Speaker 2: It's not perfect anymore. In fact, by tells us in
Speaker 2: Romans eight twenty, creation was condemned to lose its purpose.
Speaker 2: The original purpose of creation was to be in perfect
Speaker 2: harmony with Man and perfect harmony with God. It is not,
Speaker 2: and the elements are rough, and it can be very unkind.
Speaker 2: And so today creation doesn't always work the right way.
Speaker 3: The Bible says that it is.
Speaker 2: Look at the next verse, creation is confused, you know,
Speaker 2: when you look at things like how do animals get
Speaker 2: sometimes deformed or defected? And why sometimes are babies born
Speaker 2: with major defects and are major deformities, Well, it's because
Speaker 2: of sin. Sin in my own personal life could be
Speaker 2: I mean, in other words, if I'm a drug mom
Speaker 2: and I take crack cocaine and then I have a
Speaker 2: deformed baby.
Speaker 3: That's the result of sin. Or if I've got AIDS
Speaker 3: and then.
Speaker 2: I pass it on that baby didn't do anything wrong,
Speaker 2: but somebody did something wrong. Most likely they may, you know,
Speaker 2: somebody gave them the wrong blood transfusion, or they had
Speaker 2: sex with somebody who had AIDS or something. There was
Speaker 2: some somewhere back something went wrong. And even when you
Speaker 2: see things like Siamese twins that are born conjoined at
Speaker 2: the head, where did that come from? It's because we
Speaker 2: live on a broken planet. And the Bible says creation
Speaker 2: is confused. It's not a perfect place, and all of
Speaker 2: the environmental problems that we have in the world are
Speaker 2: a result of sin. There was no pollution in the
Speaker 2: garden of Eden, there was no raping of the landscape.
Speaker 3: There was no you know, not taking care of the planet.
Speaker 3: It was all because of sin.
Speaker 2: The problems of physical problems on this planet are result
Speaker 2: of evil.
Speaker 3: In the world.
Speaker 2: And the Bible tells us all of creation groans with
Speaker 2: pain Romans eight twenty two. Why it groans with pain
Speaker 2: because it knows it's not made for that way. It's
Speaker 2: made to be in harmony. And actually nature is quite
Speaker 2: harsh sometimes, so there are natural disasters and deformities. Second,
Speaker 2: there is physical decay and death in the world because
Speaker 2: we live in a fallen planet, physical decay and death.
Speaker 2: The Bible says this in second Corindians four sixteen. Our
Speaker 2: physical body is becoming older and weaker. Want to look
Speaker 2: at you and I can prove that. Okay, you don't
Speaker 2: have your youthful beauty, and our bodies are getting weaker
Speaker 2: and they're getting older. There are no perfect bodies. You
Speaker 2: can air brush them into perfection, but there are no
Speaker 2: perfect bodies.
Speaker 3: A lot of us have furniture, you know.
Speaker 2: Our chest drops into our drawers and things do. Not
Speaker 2: everything works right in your body.
Speaker 3: Have you figured that out? It just why Because we're
Speaker 3: in a fallen planet. Not everything works right.
Speaker 2: If we're in a perfect planet, there would be no
Speaker 2: need for doctors. But we live in a fallen world.
Speaker 2: You know, I kind of hesitate telling you this. But
Speaker 2: there's this guy who he went over here to the
Speaker 2: claim jumper about a year ago, and his single guy
Speaker 2: and he's sitting in a booth and a woman comes
Speaker 2: in as a single woman, and she sits in the
Speaker 2: booth right next to him, and she starts having a
Speaker 2: sneezing attack and as she's sneezing.
Speaker 3: I hate to tell you this, she's sneezing.
Speaker 2: Real hard and her glass eye popped out and the
Speaker 2: guy reaches over and he catches it before it hits
Speaker 2: the ground. That's a way to start a conversation. So
Speaker 2: he goes over and in that embarrassing moment, they start
Speaker 2: talking to each other and they actually laugh about it,
Speaker 2: and they actually end up going out on a date.
Speaker 3: A year later, they're married.
Speaker 2: They're married, and at the wedding, the pastor asked the
Speaker 2: woman said, well, what was it about this guy that
Speaker 2: really attracted you? And she said, well, you know, he
Speaker 2: just kind of caught my eye.
Speaker 3: Look at this verse up here on the screen.
Speaker 2: Our earthly bodies, which die and decay, are different from
Speaker 2: the bodies we're going to have in heaven, Thank God,
Speaker 2: for they will never die. The bodies we have now
Speaker 2: embarrass us. Anybody wants say amen on that. Okay, The
Speaker 2: bodies we have now embarrass us for they become sick
Speaker 2: and die, but they will be full of glory when
Speaker 2: we come back to life again in heaven. So the
Speaker 2: second problem is not only is the earth damage, but
Speaker 2: we'd damage physically by sin by defects, and that's why
Speaker 2: we have all these medical bills. We live in a
Speaker 2: fallen planet. In physics, they call this the law of entropy.
Speaker 2: And the law of entropy is that everything in the
Speaker 2: universe is continuously, irreversibly decaying.
Speaker 3: That's the law of entropy.
Speaker 2: That all matter is degrading, and that all energy is dispersing.
Speaker 2: They sinus have known this for years. It's dispersing into disorder.
Speaker 2: In other words, this world is winding down, it's decaying, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, totally contradicts the the you know, the
Speaker 2: second law of thermo dynamics, and the law of entropy
Speaker 2: totally discredits the law the theory of evolution, which says
Speaker 2: things are getting better, things are getting more complex, and
Speaker 2: they're getting improved. Well, it denies the second law thermodynamics. Now,
Speaker 2: not only do we have decay, but we have death
Speaker 2: in the world. And the Bible says this, everyone dies
Speaker 2: because all of us are related to Adam, the first man. Now,
Speaker 2: one of the reasons why we die is God doesn't
Speaker 2: want us hanging around on an imperfect planet. To live
Speaker 2: on a fallen planet for eternity, that would be hell.
Speaker 3: And God says, I didn't make.
Speaker 2: You to live in a place of imperfection forever. I
Speaker 2: made you to live in a place of perfection forever.
Speaker 2: So I want you to know me, choose to be
Speaker 2: in my family so you can live in that place forever.
Speaker 2: So one day God's going to shut down this earth
Speaker 2: because he is prepared a place that's perfect in eternity.
Speaker 2: The Bible says this, All creation anticipates the day when
Speaker 2: it will join God children in glorious freedom from death
Speaker 2: and decay.
Speaker 3: Says, even the world.
Speaker 2: Is looking for the Earth is looking. Nature's looking forward
Speaker 2: to that day. So we've got natural disasters, and we
Speaker 2: got physical decay and death. Number three, we have emotional
Speaker 2: distress and disappointment.
Speaker 3: Why do you get stressed out?
Speaker 2: Why do you get disappointed because you live on a
Speaker 2: fallen planet? You live in an imperfect world because evil
Speaker 2: exists and sin exists, and stress is the result of
Speaker 2: living in a damage, sinful world. And I don't know
Speaker 2: if you've noticed this or not, but most things don't
Speaker 2: live up to their hype. Most things are overrated and
Speaker 2: they're told like they're the next thing since slice bread,
Speaker 2: and that you know they're not all they're cracked up
Speaker 2: to beat and you go to an event and you
Speaker 2: go out, you go, is that all there is? Do
Speaker 2: you remember that song is Peggy Lee or Brindley? Anybody
Speaker 2: remember that song? Is that all they're? Those are all
Speaker 2: the old folks in the church.
Speaker 3: Okay, But you know it just doesn't it? Why? Because
Speaker 3: it doesn't last? You know.
Speaker 2: As a pastor, of course, I've worked with a lot
Speaker 2: of young couples who spend a year working on their
Speaker 2: wedding and it's like, where are we going to put
Speaker 2: the candies? And what kind of bag are the candies
Speaker 2: going to be in? And what color are the candies?
Speaker 2: And they spend an entire year and then it's over
Speaker 2: in a couple hours. I've always thought if they spent
Speaker 2: that much time in preparing for the marriage instead of
Speaker 2: preparing for the wedding, we'd have stronger marriages and fewer divorces.
Speaker 2: I know, people say, oh, we don't have time for
Speaker 2: premarital counseling because we're too busy planning the wedding. I'll
Speaker 2: tell you, the wedding isn't going to last. The marriage
Speaker 2: is what you want to last. If you spend as
Speaker 2: much time on pre marriage counseling, you but you're married,
Speaker 2: you do far more for your relationship than what color
Speaker 2: are the candies. So in a fallen world, we get
Speaker 2: disappointed by events. They're just not all they're cracked up
Speaker 2: to be we imagined. How many of you, be honest,
Speaker 2: how many of you were ever disappointed by a prom?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, most of the men raise their hands. I
Speaker 3: just saw that, you know.
Speaker 2: Okay, how many you have ever gone to a big
Speaker 2: movie and then you walk down going what a waste?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Have any of you ever been distressed or disappointed by
Speaker 2: a vacation?
Speaker 3: You know? I think job was. I found this verse
Speaker 3: in the Bible. Here. It says here in Job six, p.
Speaker 2: Twenty they are distressed because they had been confident. Then
Speaker 2: they arrive only be disappointed. I think he's talking about Vegas. Okay,
Speaker 2: distressed because they'd been confident, you know, there's gonna be good, good, Oh,
Speaker 2: we're gonna really have fun.
Speaker 3: Then they arrive only to be disappointed.
Speaker 2: Now, if you are a perfectionist, you're going to live
Speaker 2: constantly with disappointment because there's nothing perfect in this world.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, there is nothing perfect in the world
Speaker 2: except truth.
Speaker 3: God's word is perfect.
Speaker 2: It's the only thing that's going to be perfect, so
Speaker 2: everything else is going.
Speaker 3: To disappoint you constantly. This is not heaven.
Speaker 2: And part of maturity and part of growing up is learning,
Speaker 2: and you have to teach us to your kids how
Speaker 2: to deal with disappointment and learning how to deal with failure,
Speaker 2: because you don't succeed in everything you.
Speaker 3: Do, and if kids don't learn how to.
Speaker 2: Fail, they are going to be warped in life. They
Speaker 2: have to learn how to fail good because nobody succeeds
Speaker 2: at everything, and it's a myth that you're going to
Speaker 2: succeed at everything, and you're gonna have to learn disappointment
Speaker 2: and how to deal with it, not just with your circumstances,
Speaker 2: but you're gonna have to learn how to deal with
Speaker 2: this appointment in yourself because you let yourself down a lot,
Speaker 2: and you finally come to the point, you know what,
Speaker 2: all of my dreams probably aren't going to be realized,
Speaker 2: and I'm not really as good as I think I am,
Speaker 2: and you start getting disappointed with yourself and a lot
Speaker 2: of guys go through midlife crisis on that. Paul says
Speaker 2: in Romans seven eighteen, I realized I don't have what
Speaker 2: it takes. I can will it, but I can't do it.
Speaker 2: And so we have to stop living in denial. And
Speaker 2: that's why I love the Bible, because the Bible says,
Speaker 2: have the sane estimate of yourself and your gifts. Know
Speaker 2: what you're good at. Your shaped to do some certain
Speaker 2: things well. Now other things you're not shaped to do well. Now,
Speaker 2: here's a fourth result of living in a fallen world,
Speaker 2: and it is relational distance and discord. And this is
Speaker 2: the one that really bothers us a lot. Relational distance
Speaker 2: and discord. Every marriage conflict you've had, or conflict with
Speaker 2: your brother or sister, your boyfriend or your girlfriend, or
Speaker 2: your parents, all of that can be boiled down to
Speaker 2: one word. Sin. Sin is in the bottom of every conflict,
Speaker 2: every marriage conflict.
Speaker 3: I want what I want, You want what you want.
Speaker 2: And when Adam and Eve sinned, it not only disconnected
Speaker 2: him from God, it disconnected themselves from each other. Before
Speaker 2: sin and evil entered the world, Adam and Eve had
Speaker 2: the only perfect relationship. They're in the Garden of Eden,
Speaker 2: place of perfection, by themselves, no in laws, no clothes,
Speaker 2: no kids, no misunderstanding. Adam looks at or says Eve
Speaker 2: you're the only woman in the world for me.
Speaker 3: And he meant it. He wasn't lying, He meant it.
Speaker 2: And I mean they're having one good time. And Adam
Speaker 2: and Eve had soul and a see heart to heart,
Speaker 2: not just sex, but man, they understood each other. They
Speaker 2: were soulmates. It's like, you know, I just know exactly
Speaker 2: what you're thinking. And today we're going I have no
Speaker 2: idea what she's thinking. What in the world is she thinking,
Speaker 2: What in the world is he thinking? You know, I
Speaker 2: read about it or heard about a psychological study this
Speaker 2: week that they put censors on male human beings and
Speaker 2: they measured what phrases created the greatest stress in their lives.
Speaker 3: I'm not making this up. This is not a joke. No,
Speaker 3: my eye fell out.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and uh, this is really true. They studied
Speaker 2: what causes chemical reactions and a male body, and the
Speaker 2: single phrase that creates the greatest source of stress in
Speaker 2: the male anatomy is this phrase, honey, we need to talk.
Speaker 3: I'm not making that up. Honey.
Speaker 2: We need all kinds of physiological things, and it's not
Speaker 2: in doorphins that go off in a male body when honey,
Speaker 2: we need to talk, is said, why because we have
Speaker 2: relational distance and discord, and the intimacy that Adam and
Speaker 2: Eve had when there was no sin was replaced by
Speaker 2: fear and hiding and distrust and shame, and every relationship
Speaker 2: has had to deal with those ever since. In fact,
Speaker 2: the Bible says this in Genesis three. They suddenly felt
Speaker 2: shame at their nakedness, so they strung together fig leaves
Speaker 2: together to cover themselves up. And people, men and women
Speaker 2: have been covering up ever since. And I'm not just
Speaker 2: talking about clothes, but we cover ourselves up emotionally, and
Speaker 2: we don't let people get close to us, so we
Speaker 2: don't let people see the real us, and we hide
Speaker 2: from each other. In fact, Adam did the two things
Speaker 2: that every human being does, every man and every woman
Speaker 2: in relationships. He hid and he blamed when he sinned.
Speaker 2: And God came to him, and God.
Speaker 3: Says, where are you Adam?
Speaker 2: Of course he knew exactly where he was, and Adam goes,
Speaker 2: I was afraid, so I hid, as if you can
Speaker 2: hide from God. I was afraid and I hid. What
Speaker 2: are you hiding in your life? I was afraid and
Speaker 2: I hid. I didn't let you see the real me.
Speaker 2: And then he said, And then not only did he hide,
Speaker 2: he blamed. He said, well, it's the woman that you
Speaker 2: gave me that got me into this mess. And we've
Speaker 2: been blaming each other for our problems ever since, hiding
Speaker 2: and hurling, hiding and hurling, hiding and hurling. We hide
Speaker 2: our own weaknesses and we hurl blame at other people
Speaker 2: all the time, and it creates shame and fear and distrust,
Speaker 2: and then we we cover ourselves up with fig leaves.
Speaker 2: My question you this morning would be what's your fig leaf?
Speaker 2: What's your fig leaf? What do you use to cover
Speaker 2: up the real you? I know some people who use
Speaker 2: humor and they make a joke out of everything because
Speaker 2: they don't want anybody to get close to their real emotions.
Speaker 2: And they're they're the joker. They don't let any everything's
Speaker 2: a joke. And other people they play the martyr role,
Speaker 2: and other people build a wall or a shell around them.
Speaker 2: And I'm not going to ever let anybody hurt me again.
Speaker 3: Where does that come from?
Speaker 2: It comes from sin, which created evil, which created a
Speaker 2: fallen planet.
Speaker 3: We live in a fallen world.
Speaker 2: And sin makes us defensive and distant and demanding, you know,
Speaker 2: And we can joke about well, men are from Mars
Speaker 2: and women are from Venus, and we don't know what
Speaker 2: we're thinking. But the truth is, no doubt some of
Speaker 2: you right now are in major pain right now, and
Speaker 2: I'm sorry you're in major pain relationship. Why because of sin?
Speaker 2: That's why. Because sin damages everything it touches. Now, there's
Speaker 2: a fifth area, and it's spiritual discontent and darkness. Spiritual
Speaker 2: discontent and darkness. Sin leaves a hole in your heart
Speaker 2: that nothing can satisfy. I believe it was Pascal who
Speaker 2: said there's a God shaped hole in our heart. We
Speaker 2: try to fill it with everything else, money, sex, power, popularity,
Speaker 2: but nothing. It's like putting a square in a round hole.
Speaker 2: It doesn't fit. God can only feel that emptiness in
Speaker 2: your heart. Saint Augustine said, thou hast made us for thyself, Lord,
Speaker 2: and our hearts are restless until they find themselves. Indeed,
Speaker 2: and so we go around unsatisfied, searching, unfulfilled, because we
Speaker 2: don't know what we're missing. What we're missing is the
Speaker 2: relationship with God that is broken by sinning.
Speaker 3: We need to get reconnected.
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