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.

In today's episode, we're going to listen to the next three episodes of Paul's brand new Bible study in the Psalms.

In this first segment, Paul shows us how the Psalms are a great theology textbook.

Here's Paul.

Well, the sixth and final thing that I want to say about this introduction to the Psalms is that the Psalms are a theology textbook. At its core,

what is theology? Theology, in its essence, is the study of God. And I love the theology of the Psalms.

The Psalms are theologically rich and theologically deep.

The Psalms entertain for us some of the most significant theological questions.

Like I mentioned earlier, we will never ever reach the bottom of our understanding of the

theology of God because God's greatness is unsearchable.

You can dig and dig and dig and dig and dig and you will never

reach the bottom. I think that we'll be studying the character of God and our relationship to God

for all of eternity.

But the Psalms do more than just expose us to this rich and deep biblical theology.

The Psalms teach us how theology is meant to be done.

It's very interesting that there is no set of abstract concepts in the Psalms.

The Psalms are not distant.

They don't feel academic.

They're not impersonal. In fact, the opposite is the case.

The theology of the Psalms is deeply personal.

It's deeply relational.

Now, it's very clear that in the Psalms, you realize that theological belief is not just something you do with your brain.

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