Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

Have you searched and inquired carefully about your salvation?

In today's episode, we'll continue our sermon series from the archives, elect exiles from First Peter.

In this message, Paul explains how the process of investigative reporting on the story of your eternal destiny can keep you stable in times of trouble.

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Now here's Paul teaching from first peter.

Well I sat in a car on the Roosevelt expressway that had just been destroyed in an accident.

Trying to make sense out of my life.

Asking those questions that you ask in those moments.

I guess I was doing what we all do.

Somehow, some way everyone in this room is an investigative reporter.

You ask tough questions about your world.

Maybe you ask those in a moment of financial difficulty.

Maybe you ask those in a moment of physical sickness.

Maybe you ask those in a moment when you face the rejection of another person.

Maybe you've asked those when a dream dies. But you ask those

kinds of questions. It's human to do. You want to know, you want to understand that, that capacity

to ask questions, that desire to know, you want to understand, that capacity to ask questions, that desire to know, that desire

to have some kind of inward security, something that makes sense out of your life, you

will never escape that because it's part of who you are as a creature made in God's image.

And the way you answer those questions really does shape the way that you respond to life,

and shaping the way you respond to life really sets the direction of your life.

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