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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. Today we'll open our

Bibles to Psalm 53, where Paul shows us the ultimate pandemic we all contend

with, the foolishness of sin.

To hear more of these Bible studies, visit paultrip.com slash psalms.

Here's Paul Tripp with Psalm 53.

Psalm 53 is meant to confront all of us.

All of us forget God.

All of us have moments where we ignore his existence.

Music Well, as we look at Psalm 53, I want to warn you, I'm about to hurt your feelings.

It's a humbling Psalm to say the least.

I'm going to title this Psalm, The Ultimate Pandemic.

Psalm 53 is almost identical to Psalm 14, and that's important, because that's not an editorial error,

like, you know, the editor made a mistake and repeated a sound. That's divine intention. What Psalm 14 and

Psalm 53 talks about is so important that God says, I'm going to give a little bit of time

in between these two Psalms, and then I'm going to repeat it again because these people need to hear this.

What Psalm 53 discusses is the fool.

Now, here's what's so important to understand

about Psalm 14 and Psalm 53. when God discusses the fool,

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