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. When Jesus returned to his hometown,

he was rejected by his family because they didn't believe he was who he said he was.

Today, we're going to continue through Paul's sermon series in the Book of Mark,

and in this message, Paul unpacks the reasons for belief and unbelief.

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Now, here's Paul with this message from the Gospel of Mark.

If you had to think what would be the three most important words for a human being to consider what would they be?

What would those three most important words be?

As a husband, I'm tempted to say, Loella is wonderful.

Very important for me to say, I should say that. But those aren't the three most

important words. The three most important words, probably, that you could ever speak, are Jesus

is God.

Because once you believe that, once you embrace the radical truth that this human being who

walked on earth, who you could hear, who you could touch, who you could see, was in fact

the Son of God, everything in your life changes, everything you think about what is you will

think about in a different way. It's impossible for your world to be the same. It will

rock you to your core. And if it doesn't, the question is, do you actually believe what you think

you believe.

It's really this issue.

Jesus is God that is all that Mark is about.

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