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 this episode, Paul continues through his Bible study, the gospel one chapter at a time,

with the next four New Testament books, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, and James.

In this first segment, Paul summarizes the book of Titus, which he entitles,

where is hope to be found? Here's Paul.

Titus is about hope.

I would entitle Titus, where is hope to be found?

The foundation of this letter is a contrast.

It's a contrast between hope and human accomplishment and hope in God's grace

in Christ Jesus. Now, the fact of matter is, every human being hopes. Everything that we do in our

life is connected to some kind of hope.

Everybody hooks their hope to something.

Hope has an expectation placed in some kind of object.

That's what hope is.

It's an expectation placed in a person or a thing. And so

Paul is arguing there's only two pathways of hope, hope in human accomplishment or hope

in God's grace. The church he's addressed seen in creed

is plagued by two problems.

It's on one hand lawlessness

that's rule-free living

or legalism.

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