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.

Human beings are always thinking.

Inside each of us is a deep desire for life to make sense.

In today's podcast, we'll listen to Paul teach on the origins of

what life was originally supposed to be as we listen to one of Paul's old radio broadcasts.

This broadcast is the second episode in a series called Survival Skills. If you miss the first part,

you can go back to podcast episode 59 to listen now.

Here's Paul with Know Where You Came From.

A little toddler just learning to talk runs to her mommy and says,

Mommy, Mommy, I thinked about what you just said.

And mommy says, no, no, dear.

It's not I think, it's I thought.

Now think about this for a moment.

This little encounter is amazingly human.

It's all about what human beings are actually like.

Here's this little girl who just with a desire to know and understand

and her God-given ability to learn has learned the distinct rules of human language.

She has learned that if you want to form a verb in the past tense, you generally add an ED to the present tense.

Now, what parent ever has that conversation with their child?

You know, about 18 months, you say, now, dear, you're going to want to conjugate the language in the past tense.

You don't have to do that because you've given birth to a child

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