What a blessed Pastor, I have most of his books and they were wonderful! I'm so happy for him to be with his beloved Savior, but he will be sorely missed!
For those of us with imperfect memories, we should listen to this 4 times a year (or more). Amazing how God has gifted, molded and used Tim Keller for the Glory of His Person and His Kingdom.
@@curiousgeorge555 Amazing! How do you know what this "god" is? I agree that it is a privilege to possess such special information, but if you can't share access to it, it kind of diminishes its value, doesn't it?
@@curiousgeorge555 *"How do you know who (not what) your mother is?"* That's pretty easy. Why would you ask such a silly question? We're not talking about such trivial matters as whether or not humans exist. You seem to have knowledge of something more unusual, which has never been confirmed. So how do you know of it? It's easy to give your flippant replies, but harder to substantiate your stunning claims. Why not give it a try?
I love that Dr. Keller challenges you to examine your own heart in his sermons. I had to re-examine my own salvation after realizing, I had such a shallow understanding of the gospel. That is a very sobering thought. I think too many churches today focus on the size of their church, rather than the hearts of their flock. You rarely hear of pastors saying to their congregation, "you're probably not a Christian if....". Only a pastor who truly loves people, could have the courage to confront Christians in such a loving way. My faith has grown deeper in Christ because of the Holy Spirit, and Dr. Keller's deep, deep insight into the gospel. I find incredible, soul changing treasures in every single one of his sermons. He is truly a blessing to the Christian world view.
Why listen to an apostate Preacher explain anything in a truthful way about our Lord Jesus Christ . Jesus gives you direct instructions on living your life. This man makes a living making statements about the Word of God that is mostly untrue, to people who are not reading the Scriptures themselves.
@@michaeldvorak8140 Perhaps his preaching inspires people to read for themselves. I know it has for me. Nothing wrong with listening to people elaborate about the Word. It isn’t a replacement for reading the Word, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a place.
Started listening to Tim Keller two years ago. There’s no one contemporary preacher or teacher today that so consistently delivers God’s word !#Priceless!
If modern churches would teach that the REAL reason we should love God ( because we love Him, not because of what he does for Me ), worship would be transformed. Alas, listen to the lyrics of much of what is called "contemporary Christian music" and you will hear a focus on the transactional: I love you Lord because... of what you can and will do for Me. We should be singing that we love you, Lord, for what you HAVE ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED for me, and FOR WHO YOU TRULY ARE.
“Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.” (John Owen, The Mortification of Sin) Tim's refrain of the Gospel [borrowed from Jack Miller], "I am more sinful than I can ever dare imagine, and yet more loved than I could ever hope for." is the basis for the freedom to change. The problem is that we do not live "on the extremes of this articulation of the Gospel." We live lukewarm Gospel lives... Ergo mostly neutered of our ability to change at deep, deep levels. God bless you, Tim Keller. A main mentor since arriving in NYC.
Liked what you said. Was thinking "consider trials pure joy." Things sure heat up in a hurry through trials ahaha I'm red hot now lol. Yep, big changes for sure. For my good? Yep. GB
THANK YOU PASTOR TIM KELLER FOR THIS SERMON AND HELP ME A LOT, APPRECIATE IT. AND I TRY TO AVOID READING OTHER COMMENTS ESPECIALLY THE ONE WHO THINK THEY ARE VERY SMART BEHIND THE KEYBOARD AND KNOW BETTER, WHICH IN MY OPINION THEY DON'T SO I RATHER ENJOY THIS SERMON AND LEARN FROM PASTOR KELLER. THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO.
Reading comments after videos like these increases my embrace of God seeing us, not in ourselves but in Jesus. The pridefullness, bickering, misunderstanding, emotionalism, unholy dissension among the saints is discouraging. And somehow, were all wrapped up in it. How God offers love and reconciliation to hearts as inclined and provoked to ugliness as ours is truly a mystery. As is expressed in our culture, en masse, we can tolerate almost nothing of perceived personal offense towards us, in the slightest degree. Yet God again and again holds back His Divine wrath to the spoiled heart that deserves it and put the fullness thereof on Himself, in Christ, who did not deserve it.
So well said and such a great reminder of how impoverished we are, even in our positional state of salvation. We have so very far to go in our salvation. Be ye holy as God is holy - that standard is unattainable without Christ and attained only in our glorification. It is a good reminder that I am not who I long to be even if I am better than I used to be. Thank you for wisdom from God.
You cannot get rid of sin simply by noticing and admitting that we have a certain sin. The only way for a christian to get rid of their sinful behaviors, is through the Holy Spirit. When you pray and allow the Holy Spirit to help you change, and make that sin unappealing to you, when the Holy Spirit gives you the strength to abstain from your addiction to the sin, only then can you begin to change for the better. It's impossible to do it on your own.
+iaJENKA This is true. I believe the Holy Spirit is at all times present in a believer. Tim Keller assumes the Holy Spirit to be present. Understanding is also necessary in our growing in Him.
Yes, but just like salvation, our first step is to acknowledge that we are sinners and separated from God. I believe what Pastor Keller is saying, is that if a christian is in denial about his/her sin, they have to first agree with God that the thing that the Holy Spirit is putting His finger on is a sin and also want God to change them.
Great insight into how to be a victor in Christ in this lifetime on earth. I speak from experience that a Christian can have overflowing joy and the peace that passes all understanding in spite of circumstances, past baggage, and the sin that wars within us. Never fear letting Christ bring our sins into the light. Through Christ we are more than conquerors. And the love affair we can have with Him is vibrant and amazing!
A quote from Ralph Spaulding Cushman: "Set us afire, Lord, Stir us, we pray! While the world perishes We go our way, Purposeless, passionless, Day after day. Set us afire, Lord, Stir us, we pray! Taken from: " A Pocket Prayer Book and Devotional Guide" c. 1941 The Upper Room, Nashville, TN
Pastor Tim Keller really breaks down the true Gospel of Jesus Christ according to the mystery given to Apostle Paul the Apostle of the gentiles for the dispensing of the Grace of God today. Especially the sermon on The Fruit of the SPIRIT!!!awesome, edifies the body of Christ.
@@listeningservantsministries. How do you know this? It seems to me that if such a thing existed, the discovery of a new form of intelligence would be worthy of a Nobel Prize. I look forward to your evidence for this incredible discovery!
@@chikkipop lets use a building as an example. you can see a building. but you don't see its creator. so, what if I said that there is no building standing there because I don't see the creator. you would say that's outrageous. your right. it would be. that building is just the same as the world. think of the trees, birds, sun, moon, stars, and so on and forth. you can see that they are there. but you don't see GOD.
Only spiritually blind and biblically ignorant people would give this sermon a dislike. Those who gave this a dislike has proven Tim Keller's points to be true. We are indeed blinded by our deep " crouching " sins and the only solution is true repentance! Thank you Lord for those who resist the truth of this sermon , you Lord, have an amazing way of convicting us and comforting us at the same time. THE DISLIKE OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH PROVES ITSELF TO BE CONSISTENT WITH IT'S VERY DEFINITION. True conviction means separation from self deception and biblical error! Holy Spirit continue to convict us and sanctify us towards Christlikeness.
I love listening to you Pastor Keller you really break it down and keep it real for us. And you can't help but re-examine your heart after hearing your messages, I want to think, I want to be sure and on the right path and your messages are so profound it goes right to the heart of the matter. Thank you Pastor and may God continue to bless you and your ministry it is reaching many hearts out here.
@Paulo Lopez Lopez None of us are righteous, none of us are good. I am no better, morally. I am not more righteous. I have my own sins I beg God will help me fight. But shame on you for using the name of The Lord to try and take money from people, you sick, manipulative, harmful person. Your health-and-wealth gospel is the cause of so much pain and suffering in the world. You are unbiblical, unjust, thieves and liars. I hope God will work in your heart, and that you will stop this farce that is this disgusting, destructive ploy.
The promiscuous guy was not unsaved, he was just in the process of sanctification. We're not saved once we're transformed from top to bottom, we're transformed from to bottom as a result of our salvation. All Christians are still out here, killing idols by the help of the Spirit, and he hadn't killed that one yet.
David prayed Show me if there are hidden sins in me. He did not want to sin against the Father.. I'm sorry Father I'm a sinner saved by Your Grace alone! Help me I need You every minute
Thank you. I am deeply blessed, this is profound. As I ask God to teach me abt Grace...and my daily bible reading is know on Galatians 4-5, and God lead me just now, to this preaching. Thank u Pastor. I am blessed, God bless you abundantly
True, feeling sorry about your sin because of the consequences and repenting your sin because you are being convicted by the Holy Spirit aren't the same.
Does all sin require punishment or does all sin require sacrifice? Do we want to stop sinning just because we don't want to grieve the One we love, or do we also have a growing, all-consuming desire to be closer to God, to have more of Him, to be sanctified, to be holy as He is holy, to be transformed into His image?
The bible says it the love of Christ that brings repentance. Most believers do not know the depth of His love. When you love someone generally you do not want to displease them.
What is the sermon he's referring to that he says you need to understand what he meant in that sermon to better understand this sermon...? Why Is this not one of the 106 comments /questions on this video
Jesus is the only one who can get the stain out! Lord pour out your Spirits on those seeking to know you and fill them with desire to love you more than for what you do.
I think you are right on in most of your talk in regard to loving the Lord and in all of your examples of heartfelt agape love. Then an interesting thing happens following your examples of the sexually promiscuous man that changed at the bible study and in fact you felt that he never really changeover instead exchanged one misbehavior for another. The fact that you use that example is interesting in itself and that it becomes the point of going off track into error. Anyway then you really lose the whole accurate theme of loving God and go to human effort to kill the sin. I say that if we continue on fully in God's path that he has given us to love so much that the Holy Spirit is in fact our Redeamer by in filling us with love so great that sin.loses its power. The Holy Spirit has been given to us for this purpose. It is not our Herculean effort that brings us fully and deeply to God. Rather it is God Himself, the I Am that brings us to Him.
23:50 learn how to convict yourself with your joys... Vision of God, of His Love, becomes love for Him, and I don't want to betray that, i want to please Him. Before just ...trying harder. For vanity, for control-by-moral-superiority, moral status....
Before the throne of God above I have a strong and perfect plea A great High Priest whose name is love Who ever lives and pleads for me My name is graven on His hands My name is written on His heart I know that while in heav'n He stands No tongue can bid me thence depart No tongue can bid me thence depart When Satan tempts me to despair And tells me of the guilt within Upward I look and see Him there Who made an end to all my sin Because the sinless Savior died My sinful soul is counted free For God the Just is satisfied To look on Him and pardon me To look on Him and pardon me Behold Him there, the risen Lamb My perfect, spotless Righteousness The great unchangeable I Am The King of glory and of grace One with Himself, I cannot die My soul is purchased by His blood My life is hid with Christ on high With Christ my Savior and my God One with Himself, I cannot die My soul is purchased by His blood My life is hid with Christ on high With Christ my Savior and my God With Christ my Savior and my God
I'm sorry, I love Keller and he made a lot of great points here BUT this whole idea of "convicting yourself" does not jive with scriptural truth. "it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose." Phil 2:13
I can't understand what he said (32:39-48) "I am only hear to say don't be afraid to get back into the muck...use grace on it...the more you see your sin, the more his grace and that's how you change deeply."What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Romans 6:1-3
+Rijo Jacob Abraham I understood it as 'don't be afraid to recognise all your sin - no matter how bad, then apply the grace of the gospel (like he did with the earlier examples of pride, irritability, anxiety). the more you recognise/admit your sin, the more you're able to see the depths of his grace. And that's the key to change' (1John 1:8-9; Tit. 2:11-12). Hope that helps.
I think he meant, 'don't be afraid to get back into the muck of examining and dealing with and confessing your own sin.' It is a dirty and painful business, looking into the patterns and process of your own sinful nature, but there are times in every Christian's life that it has to be done. This is how we cooperate with the sanctification that began at the Cross. He is NOT urging that we get back into the 'muck' of sinful attitudes and behavior.
He makes some good points. Mainly we do need to get rid of the root and really repent deeply and find our identity in Jesus. However there are a few things I think that should be looked at and thought about. 1 The disciples did not rejoice that the demons were subject to their name but to Jesus’ name. Yet he did make a good point about not finding our salvation in those. 2 however the demons kept being subject to the authority of Jesus’ name. That never changed. 3. It seems unfair for a wife to say “do you love me?” And just expect I love you because I love you. Honestly did she pick the guy just because she loves him for no reason? No. They picked each other for certain reasons. However in God’s love we stay committed to their value in Christ. They are made in God’s image and even if they change and start treating us wrong we are still called to love them for their sake.
If only they preached sin in new covenant grace-based churches. Strangely and grievously, they do not want their congregations to "sin-conscious" , whatever that means, and enter into a long phase of denial of the existence of private sins and hang-ups in their lives.
