854. God's Sovereignty and Godly Communication | Paul Tripp's Wednesday's Word

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🗓️ 21 May 2025

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This week, Paul demonstrates how our communication reflects whether our hearts are resting in God's sovereignty or striving for our own control.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Paul Tripp's Wednesday's Word podcast. I'm Dalton, a member of the Paul Tripp
0:07.6	Ministries team. Join me each week as I read aloud Paul's popular Wednesday's word devotional.
0:12.4	You can subscribe to our email list to receive this devotional straight to your inbox each week,
0:16.8	or you can read online at paultrip.com slash Wednesday or on Facebook, Instagram, and the Paul
0:22.7	Trip app. This week, Paul demonstrates how our communication reflects whether our hearts are
0:28.0	resting in God's sovereignty or striving for our own control. Here's this week's Wednesday's
0:33.5	work.
0:48.3	What is your favorite passage in scripture that captures the glorious doctrine of the sovereignty of God?
0:49.7	There are many, but I'll vote for Romans 11, 33 through 36.
0:57.9	Quote, oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable are his ways. For who has
1:04.3	known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor, or who has given a gift to him that he might
1:09.6	be repaid. For from him and through him and to him
1:13.1	are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. End quote. By the way, we're still in our Wednesday's
1:19.6	word series on communication. I haven't changed the subject to the doctrine of the sovereignty of God.
1:24.9	What's the connection? I am deeply persuaded that a life of godly communication is rooted in a personal recognition of God. What's the connection? I am deeply persuaded that a life of godly communication
1:29.3	is rooted in a personal recognition of and submission to the sovereignty of God. Only when I submit
1:35.8	to the rule of God, who has a perfect plan and is in complete control, will I begin to live and speak
1:41.7	as he is purposed. Remember what we covered last week in James
1:45.2	4. An idolatrous heart produces words that serve the idols that grip us, which are often
1:50.4	destructive and hurtful to others who stand in the way of our idols. And how do we break that
1:55.5	idolatry? Submit to God, James 4. 7. It's only when we submit to the sovereignty of God that our idolatry of heart will be broken.
2:04.8	Here alone will my words be freed from being the tools of my agenda, my attempts at control, and my glory-seeking.
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