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. The book of Proverbs provides a wonderful

application for how to love your neighbor. It does so by connecting our love of neighbor with our tongues

and our hearts. In today's episode, we'll continue through Paul's Bible study in the book of

Proverbs by looking at three more themes. If you've been enjoying the Paul Tripp podcast, would you consider

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Now here's Paul, sharing today's first theme from Proverbs.

It's been good to spend time in Proverbs.

It's been good to look at these themes.

It's been good for my heart.

It's been convicting and yet

gloriously comforting. And I just want to encourage you again, don't hold these themes intellectually.

Stand before them as if they're a mirror. You don't have to be afraid of anything that the Proverbs will reveal because there's nothing that could be known, revealed about you

that hasn't been covered by the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Stand

before that mirror, unafraid, confess what you see. Well the next theme is love of neighbor. You just don't have to read long in

the Proverbs to see that every Proverbs is rooted in one of the two great commands. Let me

say that again. Every proverb is rooted in the two great commands.

If you took the two great commands as columns on a piece of paper, you could write every

proverb under one of those two columns.

Proverbs is a practical application in every area of life of what it means to love God and love your neighbor.

In fact, you could argue if it just take the second great command that Proverbs is a wonderful

unpacking, a wonderful portrait of that command to love my

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