Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

What if the Bible was never meant to just give you information, but to completely transform your heart and your life?

While we await the release of a new season of Paul's

five-minute Bible studies, today we're revisiting the very first episode, where he explains why

every believer desperately needs the Word of God and how Scripture is God's tool for personal

transformation. You can listen to the complete five-minute Bible study journey through the Old

and New Testaments at paul-trip.com slash Bible study, or by subscribing to the dedicated Paultrip five-minute Bible study journey through the Old and New Testaments at Paul tripp.com slash Bible study,

or by subscribing to the dedicated Paul Tripp 5 minute Bible study podcast channel linked in the show notes.

Now here's Paul, teaching from Isaiah 55.

You probably know me as the person who writes on marriage and parenting and other Christian life issues.

But the thing that really excites me, that gets me up in the morning, that motivates me to do what I do, is the Word of God.

I think of myself as a Bible teacher, that everything I write about

emerges from the study of God's Word. And so I'm excited to launch this journey with you. We call it the Gospel, one chapter at a time,

where we're going to trace the redemptive story through every book of the Bible.

The first time through we're going to do summaries of the various books in Scripture.

And then we'll go back and begin to look at the first chapter of every book of the Bible.

But before we begin that, I want to do some preparatory things that ask the question,

why do I need to study the Bible? What is the Bible actually about? What will the Bible do for me?

And then when we cover those things,

we'll then launch into the study

of the various books of Scripture.

I want to take you to a passage that really does

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