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.

We live in a world obsessed with pleasure, finding pleasure, enjoying pleasure, and maintaining

pleasure at any cost.

In today's episode, we'll listen to the first session from Paul's conference, Sex and Money,

pleasures that leave you empty and grace that satisfies.

In this conference, Paul examines the insanity of our culture and helps us understand what God has to say about pleasure in his word.

For more from this conference, visit Paultrip.com slash sex and money.

Here's Paul with Session 1.

Why sex and money?

Why these two topics of all the things that I could give myself to write, why, sex, and money?

Well, the answer to that question is really in three words

that I want to start with this evening,

that I really do think capture why these topics are important for us. The first word is the word

insanity. In case you don't know it, we've gone crazy when it comes to these two areas. You don't have to look very far

to see the utter sexual and money insanity of Western culture. I was with my youngest son some years ago in Old Navy.

You know Old Navy is not a radical store.

And I was buying him khakis, and I looked across the aisle, and there was the little girls

department, and on a rack that had the numbers five, six, that was the size, young little

girls were micro mini skirts and halter tops. I was immediately filled with rage. I thought,

how crazy is this? How if you dress a girl, little girl this way,

is she ever going to have a balanced sense

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