Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. It's not natural to want the things of God.

Only a person inhabited by the spirit of God would desire his ways.

In today's episode, we'll finish this sermon series from 1 Corinthians. And today, Paul explains

the difference between the natural person and the spiritual person and the dangers that come

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Now here's Paul with this message from 1st Corinthians.

I don't know how much you think about it, but it's just not natural.

It's not natural to want to consume the Word of God. It's not natural to understand it.

It's not natural to gladly accept it. It's not natural to build your life on it.

It's simply not natural.

Whenever you hunger for the Word of God, whenever you want to receive it, whenever it makes sense to you,

whenever the gospel is a comfort or an encouragement or challenge or a conviction

or hope to you

something positively unnatural is taking place

inside of you

why do I think that's important? Because I am very concerned that we forget who we

are in Christ, that we forget what we've been given. I'm concerned that there may be a functional

identity amnesia in us.

But changes the way we think about ourselves, and in change the way we think about

ourselves, change the way that we live.

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