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,

as we hear three more introductory segments about this book of wisdom.

In this first segment, Paul shows us that every proverb points us to paradise.

Well, every proverb points us to a paradise that is to come.

Every proverb is filled with longing and is meant to fill us with longing as well. The proverb paints two portraits for us very well.

The first portrait is of a world that no longer functions as God intended.

It's a world that's broken. It's a world where bad things happen. It's a world fraught with danger and temptation.

The Proverbs really presents to us what I would call a Romans 8 world. Romans 8 says that the whole

world groans waiting for redemption. You groan when you're in pain.

You groan when you're frustrated. You groan when you're hurting. You groan when things are not the way

they seem like they should be. We live in a world that's groaning, that

everywhere you look, things are broken. There's a song that I just love by Bob Dylan. Maybe it's

the most biblically rooted song he ever wrote.

It's called Everything's Broken.

And it's stanza after stanza of broken things.

And then there's one moment in the song

where he says, you feel like you're choking.

Everything is broken.

It's that frustration that we all face. Why does it

have to be this way? Maybe you say, this drives me crazy. Or why couldn't that work? Or why do we

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