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

Sin never sits still. It grows, spreads, and bears fruit, often in ways we never expect.

The Bible says, God is not mocked. For whatever one sows, that also will he reap.

Every choice plants a seed, and every seed eventually grows into a harvest.

In today's episode, we return to Paul's sermon series from the archives, David, a matter of the heart.

This week, we opened 2 Samuel 15, one of Scripture's most sobering

portraits of how sin's consequences unfold. To hear more sermons from Paul, visit paultrip.com

slash sermons. Now here's Paul with today's message.

Well, it was a moment of clarity, a moment that you and I have heard about that caused us to pay attention.

It was a clear moment when the consequences of the decisions that need to be made were clear.

The man's name was Sully Sullenberg,

the pilot of U.S. Airways Flight 1549.

Both engines now disabled, 155 lives in his hands.

Not much time to make a decision.

The consequences were heavy on this man,

and he made the right choice,

landing that plane in the strangest,

but safest of places, the Hudson River.

The consequences of your choices are not always that clear.

You and I have the ability to close our eyes to consequences, to deny their existence, to tell ourselves in moments when we are doing wrong that it will be okay, it will turn out all right. We needn't worry.

And we have a wonderful opportunity this evening in what is perhaps one of the saddest moments

in the Old Testament to think about the consequences of sin.

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