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, Paul continues through his Bible study,

the gospel one chapter at a time. And today, Paul finishes summarizing the minor prophets and the entire Old

Testament as we take a look at Zefaniah, Hegai, Zechariah, and Malachi. Now here's Paul with a summary

of the book of Zefaniah. Well, I like where Zefaniiah is positioned and I like its function.

Zephaniah's review. It's just, that's what it is. And we, you read through Zephaniah and you should be thankful for the rescuing power of divine repetition

that god god knows this that these these themes of redemption are not intuitive to us it's not our

normal way of thinking about ourselves.

It's, they're not a normal way of thinking about the world.

They're radical and counterintuitive,

mainly because the whole redemptive message is other centered rather than me centered.

My narrative often has me in the center and it's about my hopes, my dreams, my comfort, my ease.

I love me and have a wonderful plan for my life.

Versus this radical message that God has chosen us to be part of

something transcendent, part of something hugely bigger than us, namely relationship with

him. And so we need those themes repeated to us again and again and again.

Listen, you will never ever reach a point where it doesn't benefit you to hear the gospel again.

And you should never be bored when you hear the gospel again.

You should never be bored when God repeats those themes again

because it's so deeply counterintuitive for all of us. We need to be confronted with those truths moment by

moment by moment till our thoughts are really like God's thoughts. Well here's the

familiar themes in Zefaniah. It's the redemptive pattern that's depicted from the garden to revelation.

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