Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

You live in a world where things are not the way they're supposed to be. Shalom has been shattered.

In today's episode, we will begin a four-part sermon series from the archives called Loving Your City.

In this first message, Paul teaches that there will be a day when Shalom is going to be restored once again.

In the meantime, your call to be active and compassionate ambassadors for Christ wherever you live.

To hear more sermons from Paul, visit

Paultrip.com slash sermons. Now here's Paul from Revelation 21.

There's a very interesting scene at the beginning of the movie Grand Canyon.

There's a high-powered lawyer who is driving with his Mercedes through the city in a rush,

and he gets in the middle of a traffic jam.

He's not the kind of guy who's going to wait in a traffic jam.

So he wheels his way out of the traffic jam,

looking for a faster route, probably pre-GPS days,

and finds himself in a very, very bad neighborhood,

predictably as often is the case with the way these, the drama of these

movies is written, his car breaks down. And he finds himself surrounded by a group of street

tufts, as the movie would call them.

And he is, it manages to call on his cell phone the tow truck man that he so desperately needs.

And that, that guy comes and, and he's a, he's a gentleman and he's upset at the way this

man is being intimidated by this street gang.

And he introduces them to a little bit of metaphysics, theology.

He looks around and he says, everything in this scene is not the way it's supposed to be.

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