Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author, Dr. Paul David Tripp,

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In this episode of his Bible study, Paul summarizes four wisdom and poetry books from the Old Testament,

Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon. Here's Paul

Tripp on why he loves the Psalms. Before we look at our next study, I want to remind you of what we're

doing with these summaries of books of the Bible. We're not doing a historical summary. We're not even doing a content outline.

Our goal is to find the gospel thread that goes through every book of the Bible. Now here's what's

important to remember. The Bible is not a collection of stories or a theological outline or just a bunch of wisdom statements for everyday life.

The Bible is one story. Maybe the best way to say it is it's a theologically annotated story.

It's a story with God's application

and doctrinal notes.

And the one story is how God moves

to rescue foolish and rebellious people with the gift of a Redeemer.

That is the thread that unites every book of the Bible.

The Bible, with all of its various authors and all of its various periods of time,

tells us one story.

And what we're trying to do is find that story in every passage of the Word of God. Well, that brings us to the Psalms. As you've probably noticed,

I like to give these books of the Bible of subtitle, and I would title the Psalms, Honest Grace.

There's probably few portions of scripture that are better known than the Psalms,

because the Psalms portray for us a picture of a world that we're all familiar with.

It's a world where dark things happen.

It's a world where God confuses us.

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