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 foretells his death and

resurrection, he speaks some of the most famous words of his earthly ministry. Today, we're

going to continue through Paul's sermon series in the book of Mark, and in this message, Paul

examines why Jesus calls Peter Satan and what it means to take up our cross. If you've been

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

Well, it is the ultimate human disease.

It is the inescapable human dilemma.

Every human being leaves a trail of empirical evidence of this thing.

You cannot fight it.

You cannot escape it. You are powerless to defeat it.

This thing called sin. It leaves all of us guilty before God. All of us are rebels in some way. All of us demonstrate that we're fools. All of us step over God's boundaries again and again and again.

It's not just a matter of behavior, it's a matter of the deepest desires of my heart,

the deepest thoughts of my mind.

It's not just that I sin.

The reality is that I was born a sinner.

And because of that, there can be no credible Christianity without the epicenter of that Christianity being the cross of Jesus Christ.

Thank you. center of that Christianity being the cross of Jesus Christ. It's not enough to say that this is a wonderful system of moral principles.

If moral principles could rescue us, we'd all be rescued.

It's not enough to say that this is a wonderful system

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