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.

You were never designed to figure out life on your own.

You can think, analyze, and conceptualize, but only with the assistance of Revelation.

In today's episode, we continue through this old radio series on the Bible, and Paul

Tripp explains how God himself has provided us with Revelation.

Here's Paul.

Have you ever noticed that one of the ways we try to make sense out of life is by

organize it into categories? It sort of makes life smaller. It sort of makes life

understandable and organized. We say Spot is a dog. We say Martha is a girl. We say Sam is a politician. We say God is a spirit. We talk of things

being big or small or important or unimportant. We evaluate things as being trash or treasure,

although we don't always agree. We think of things as being healthy

or unhealthy. We consider some things to be true and some things to be false. We look at some

things as expensive and other things as cheap. We carry in our heads an endless encyclopedia

of organizational categories.

Spiritual, physical, male, female, dangerous, safe, hot, cold, biological, mechanical,

artistic, philosophical, political, environmental, emotional, illegal, illogical,

physiological, eastern, western, feminine, masculine, culture, barbaric, refined, primitive, polite, rude,

legal, practical, abstract, essential, luxurious, important, unimportant, old-fashioned, up-to-date,

cool, hot, embarrassing, irrational, wise, expensive, cheap, business, leisure, personal, communal, private, public, and the list goes on.

Without ever knowing it, without ever realizing that we're doing it, we organize everything in our

lives into the little boxes that we carry around in our brains.

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