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 today's episode, we continue through Paul's brand new Bible study, the gospel one proverb

at a time.

In this first segment, Paul reveals that every proverb leads you to Jesus and His cross.

Well, we've been going through some introductory principles for understanding Proverbs.

When I began this series, I said that I think Proverbs is one of the most referenced portions of the Word of God, but maybe one of the least fully understood.

So I thought these introductory principles were important.

Here's the next one.

Every proverb leads you to Jesus and his cross.

I simply am unable, just unable to read the Proverbs without thinking about the

incarnation of Jesus and his sacrifice on the cross. You may say, well, why? How do you get there

from the Proverbs? Well, it's really captured in a single

sentence in Proverbs 2215, which says, folly is bound up in the heart of a child. Now, think about this.

Think about the deep and important thing that that

sentence says, sin reduces all of us to fools. The proverbs is proposing that we're born into the world as fools and that's a shocking thing to

think about no one's born wise.

No one.

And it's not wrong parents to look at your child and be sobered by the understanding that you've given birth to a fool.

And Proverbs lets us know how destructive and damaging that foolishness is.

But this phrase says something else. It says that this foolishness is a heart problem. Now that

what that means is, foolishness is deeper than bad thinking and wrong behavior.

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