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 would be better to be poor and live a righteous life than to have all the riches you

could imagine without God. In today's episode, we'll continue through Paul's Bible study all the riches you can imagine without God.

In today's episode, we'll continue through Paul's Bible study in the book of Proverbs

by looking at three more themes.

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In today's first theme,

Paul wants to look at the juxtaposition of the rich and the poor in Proverbs.

Well, one of the themes that is surely

all throughout the Proverbs is the theme of the rich and the poor.

The Proverbs says a lot about the life of the rich and the plight of the poor. It says a lot about the temptations of people who are rich. We sometimes think that there's all kinds of temptations in the life of a poor person,

maybe to doubt God, to get what they need in moral ways.

But the Proverbs really talks about the temptations

of the rich.

And it has a lot to say about the hardship of the poor.

But as the Proverbs is want to do, it approaches the subject of rich and poor in a radically different way.

It doesn't deny the reality of poverty.

It doesn't deny the seductiveness of riches.

But what the Proverbs does is confront us with a different kind of riches.

That the truly rich life is not found in your wealth.

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