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. The book of Proverbs

paints a portrait of a life that's pleasing to the Lord. And this life that Proverbs describes

grows most bountifully

in the soil of humility. 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,

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With today's first theme, Paul addresses humility.

Well, one of the dominant underlying themes of Proverbs,

humility, I would say it this way,

it's a core underlying, transcendent theme of Proverbs.

Although Proverbs doesn't discuss humility on every page. It's on every page. Because the life described in

Proverbs, the portrait of the way we are meant to live in fear of the Lord, that whole, that way

grows in the soil of humility. Humility is the soil in which this rich,

beautiful life of wisdom grows. Fear of the Lord is the key to wisdom. And what is that fear about?

It's it's about submission, a humble sense of need,

willingness to consider and confess. It's about God's honor. It's about worship of him, living in

awe of him. It's about a willing and joyful dependency. I have to say it again

that in that way Proverbs fits with the move of Scripture. Listen, the move of God's grace is not moving

us from dependence to independence, but from independence to a greater willing and joyful dependence on God

and the instruments that God puts in our life.

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