052. Day and Night

The Paul Tripp Podcast

Paul Tripp Ministries, Inc.

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It's easy to smile in the light. But what do you do when the night comes? In this sermon, Paul David Tripp teaches from the honest and provocative Psalm 42. It's a psalm that is meant to alert Christians that the life of faith is not always one of celebration and joy.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author, Dr. Paul David Tripp,
0:08.3	connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.
0:12.4	Today, we'll continue listening to Paul preach through selected Psalms, and in this sermon,
0:17.4	Paul teaches from the honest and provocative Psalm 42.
0:22.9	It's a psalm that is meant to alert Christians that the life of faith is not always one of celebration and joy. Here's Paul
0:28.9	with a message titled Day and Night. Perhaps it's easy to smile in the light.
0:42.2	But what do you do when the night comes and it will come?
0:51.7	What do you do when trouble comes that you were unprepared for and that you do not understand?
1:02.0	What do in those moments when it seems like God is distant and the heavens are brass.
1:15.6	What do you do when you feel alone and under attack?
1:22.6	What do you do when it seems like no one knows and no one understands like
1:35.3	like faith flickers as if it's going to go out.
1:52.1	Turn in your order of worship, I believe it's to page 9 to Psalm 42.
1:59.7	This is a Psalm of spiritual struggle spiritual struggle, a psalm of the wrestling of the soul.
2:07.7	This is an honest and provocative psalm.
2:15.6	Perhaps it's in the bible to unsettle us it's in the bible to alert us that perhaps the life of faith
2:30.1	is not always one of celebration and joy.
2:39.6	Yes, this is part of the walk of faith.
2:48.7	Perhaps the Psalm was written during the Babylonian captivity.
2:50.5	It has a lot of that feel.
2:55.4	When God's people were separate from Jerusalem,
2:59.3	separate from the temple of God's presence.
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