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 today's episode, Paul offers five thoughts on the current pandemic spreading across the globe and how it reminds him of the gospel.

Here's Paul with How This pandemic preaches the gospel.

Well, like most of you, I'm hunkered down here in my loft, not going outside, dishings myself from people.

It's particularly important for me

because I have a compromised immune system

and I am in the high risk category for this pandemic

that has spread across the globe.

Oh, hi, I'm Paul Tripp.

And, you know, as I've been here thinking and praying,

I've been more and more impressed how this pandemic preaches the gospel to us.

You know, first thing it does is it confronts the delusion of human independence and human self-sufficiency.

It's just taken a single virus to shut us down.

I live in Center City, Philadelphia.

It has become a ghost town.

Churches have been shut down, businesses have been shut down businesses have been shut down

families are separate from one another friends can't gather anymore

restaurants are closed down it's it's an amazing thing and it reminds us again

that we were created to be dependent dependent on the creator there is no

such thing as human independence or human self-sufficiency in fact it

reminds me that the progress the move of grace in our hearts and lives,

is not from dependence to independence, but from independence to greater dependence on God.

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