Welcome to Paul Tripp's Wednesday's Word podcast.

I'm Dalton, a member of the Paul Trip Ministries team.

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This week, we'll hear another poem from Paul celebrating the radical ways God intervenes

to rescue us from sin and darkness.

Here's this week's Wednesday's word.

Quote,

Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died,

but God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark,

end quote. Genesis 7, 2222 and 8.1. As you walk through God's great redemptive story, you see that it is a story

of fresh starts and new beginnings. What seems like the end of the story might actually be a new

beginning that lasts forever. The sin of Adam and Eve seems like the end of a very short story, but God promises that

a fresh start is coming. The global flood seems like the end of the earth, but God makes

a covenant with Noah and God's plan marches on. The enslavement of the children of Israel in Egypt

seems like the end of the people of God, but God exercises His power to give them freedom and a land of promise.

David's sins of adultery and murder seem like the end of David's line,

from which the Messiah was to come, but God forgives and restores his king.

The destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, along with the captivity of Judah,

seem like the end of God's people once again, but God leads a remnant back,

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