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 John 1.3, where we will study the creator of all things.

As we continue, the gospel one sign at a time, our year-long study in the Gospel of John.

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

Here's Paul Tripp on the Creator.

God the Father carried out his creative purpose through the creation activity of the sun,

but the sun was not created.

Let your mind be blown here for a minute.

It's good for you to you for a moment about the danger of familiarity.

You know, if you're familiar with Jesus, it's a wonderful thing. It means God has visited you by grace and opened your mind and opened your heart. But familiarity is a dangerous

thing. You know, imagine you're driving every day to work, and the very first day you take that drive on your first day of work, you're driving down a road with 200-year-old beautiful trees.

And you're just amazed at the beauty of these trees and the glory of God and creation.

But six weeks later, you're pounding on your dash saying the traffic drives you crazy

and you haven't noticed a tree in three weeks.

That's what familiarity does to us.

We quit looking, we quit thinking, we quit hearing.

And so it's important to keep going back to these places where Jesus is so powerfully described to us.

The next thing that John says is as mind-blowing as his declaration

that Jesus was with and is God.

John wants us to know that the very first chapters of the Bible,

there in Genesis, are about Jesus. That Jesus is the character,

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