Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In his second sermon on Isaiah 55, Paul will remind you that you are meant to fall in love

with the author of scripture, not just the ideas presented in the Word of God.

Here's Paul, preaching from the last six verses of Isaiah 55.

It was for me a moment of danger and grace.

I was 17 years old. I was 17 years old. It was the end of my senior of high school. I was invited to an end-of-the-year party at the home of the wealthiest kid in our

class.

I rode there with four or five of my friends,

arrived, went into the house,

and it was a scene of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

I stood in the living room and something welled up inside of me, something very powerful.

I was in that moment filled with fear.

I wasn't afraid of the situation. I wasn't afraid of the people there and what they would think of me. I was afraid of God. I was filled with a sense of the fear of God. And I knew that I should not be in that place.

I ran out the front door, not really having a plan,

realized that I was five miles from home, and that night walked home.

I remember that walk very well.

I remember as a 17-year-old walking step after step and saying again and again,

thank you, Jesus, thank you, Jesus.

Where did that fear come from?

Well, I reflected on my growing up.

My father was very faithful in reading to us every morning from God's Word.

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