Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. My richest gain, I count but loss,

and poor contempt on all my pride. It's often difficult to keep or truly matters at the

center of our lives. In today's episode, we continue a sermon series from the archives in the book

of James. Paul challenges us to reflect on where we find our deepest satisfaction and how we measure

true richness. To hear more sermons from Paul, visit paultrip.com slash sermons.

Now here's Paul, teaching from James Wall.

My richest gain, I count but loss and poor contempt on all my pride.

Let those words echo in your mind and your heart a little bit this evening.

My richest gain, I count but loss and poor contempt on all my pride. It is so hard for us to keep what is

important, important in our lives. It's so hard for us to keep what is important in our lives. It's so hard for us to keep what is important, important in our lives.

Things that weren't designed to be as important as they become rise in levels of important

to us while things that are important descend into unimportance.

That's a struggle for all of us.

When you first come to Christ, you have a powerful and penetrating sense of the thing that is

important in life.

You are filled with an amazing sense of your need.

And it's like God has opened the curtains of the universe and you finally get it. You finally understand what life is about. You finally understand what's worth living for. You finally

understand the deep privilege that can only be found in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.

But sadly, we don't stay there.

Those things become familiar to us.

They become regular.

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