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In this week's connecting clip of the week, Paul dives into the doctrine of creation and reminds

us of the deeply humbling implications of this theology.

This short excerpt is from a larger conversation between Paul Tripp and Shelby Abbott on the

Connecting podcast. To listen to the full episode, check out the Paul Tripp podcast, episode 255.

Now here's Paul on the Doctrine of Creation.

Okay. Now here's Paul on the Doctrine of Creation. Just think of something like the Doctrine of Creation.

The radical implications, the deeply convicting, deeply humbling, implications of the doctrine and creation,

I should be tracing those, I should be looking in that mirror for my entire existence, because they are so radically counterintuitive.

Because if God is creator and he is, it's one of the clear pronouncements of Scripture,

then two things come out of that concept of creating.

It's ownership and purpose.

I'm a painter by avocation.

When I'm done with a painting, I own it because I made it.

Now I may give it to somebody, I may sell it, but it belongs to me by product of my being its creator. And so if God is creator, he not only

owns me, he owns everything about me. I don't own my mentality. I don't own my spirituality. I don't own my

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