A Preacher’s Disobedience

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Spirituality

4.8 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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When we hear the word “sin,” we think we know what it means. But we don’t—not really. If we don’t understand sin, then Christianity makes no sense. But even more so, if we don’t understand sin, then the knowledge of God’s love and grace won’t really transform or heal us. So how do we find out what the Bible means by sin? By looking at Jonah, who’s said to be very religious, and seeing how he falls into terrible sin, we can then get a good idea of what sin is. In the story of Jonah, we see him doing four things. And each one of them tells us something about the real nature of sin. We see Jonah 1) running, 2) sleeping, 3) sinking, and 4) rising. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on October 26, 1997. Series: Pointers to Christ – Directional Signs in History. Scripture: Jonah 1:1-5, 2:1-10. Today's podcast is brought to you by Gospel in Life, the site for all sermons, books, study guides and resources from Timothy Keller and Redeemer Presbyterian Church. If you've enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to support the ongoing efforts of this ministry, you can do so by visiting https://gospelinlife.com/give and making a one-time or recurring donation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Gospel In Life.
0:03.6	Throughout the Bible, there are signs that point us to the Gospel.
0:06.8	Today, Tim Keller is looking at how we can discover them and what they teach us.
0:12.1	Some years ago, I, in my first, my only other church in a small southern town, a man came
0:15.8	to me who was in my church and he shook my hand and he said, I really want to thank you
0:19.7	because up until I met you, I thought preachers hardly ever sinned.
0:26.9	And I've cherished that fairly clumsy compliment because it doesn't sound very good, but
0:31.0	here's what he meant.
0:34.0	His understanding of sin had been totally revolutionized by the ministry there, basically.
0:39.9	He had understood, like most people, I think, I've understood, that basically sin was a
0:44.8	matter of the good people and the bad people, the good guys and the bad guys, and his understanding
0:48.8	of sin, which was kind of come from a small southern town, was first you have the bad people,
0:53.1	they used dirty words, they beat people up, they drink too much.
0:57.0	They sleep all around town, they don't go to church, and then there's the good people, then
1:00.0	there's the preachers and there's the people who don't break the rules and who come and
1:03.5	they're very good.
1:06.6	And what, now you know, we have backed away from that, I mean, that's the old conservative
1:11.7	culture and there's a lot of people who have reacted from that and they've created a liberal
1:15.0	culture and what they've done is they've taken the line between the good guys and the bad
1:18.4	guys and they've just done it like this.
1:20.6	They've moved at 90 degrees, so some of the things that used to be bad are good and some
1:23.9	of the things that used to be good are bad.
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