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🗓️ 3 February 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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We should never keep our awe in God to ourselves. So how can we—especially ministry leaders—experience a depth of awe that overflows others?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ask Pastor John podcast. We're back with guest Paul David Tripp, the author
0:10.2	of the book awe. Why it matters for everything we think, say, and do. So this week we're
0:16.2	talking about awe and how it really does relate to everything in life specifically to our
0:21.4	spiritual growth and our Bible intake, our ministry aims and even to our news consumption,
0:27.5	our weight loss attempts, our anxieties, our parenting methods and our expectations for
0:33.3	marriage and romantic love. We must be seduced by God. As you said on Monday, he must capture
0:40.8	our hearts. This has ramifications for finding purpose and meaning in our lives as we saw
0:45.0	earlier. This is essential for getting honest about weight loss and the care of our bodies
0:50.8	as we saw yesterday. Today we turn now to talk about how to engender awe in God in others
0:58.5	as a leading aim of our ministry labors. Paul, how has your own ministry been shaped by this
1:06.2	reality and this calling? I love Psalm 145. I say in the book that Psalm 145 changed my life
1:18.1	and changed my ministry because one day reading through Psalm 145, I all of a sudden got my
1:28.0	calling. I think for the first time I understood what I've been called to do and it's just a phrase
1:34.9	that says, one generation shall commend your works to another and I thought there it is. My job
1:45.2	is to be used of God through the vehicle of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and the content of
1:52.4	Scripture to give people back their all of God again so that their hearts are now ruled by the
2:04.0	all of God. So that claim on their hearts then begins to redirect everything in their lives.
2:12.6	Materialism isn't first a money problem. Materialism is an all problem. If I'm not in all of God,
2:17.5	it's very, very possible for me to be all in all of physical things and spend myself into debt
2:23.6	as a result. Disobedience is not first a law problem. It's an all problem that leads to a law
2:30.9	problem. I mean, look at the 10 commandments. The first commands are about worship because if you
2:35.7	don't keep those commands, you won't be keeping the ones that follow. And so in giving people
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