A Prime Minister’s Forgiveness

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The story of Joseph tells us something awfully basic, and yet probably all of us will recognize that the problems in our lives are due to a lack of orientation to this thing that’s so basic. This story tells us God is a God both of truth and of love—equally, together. And what does he want for us? He wants us to forgive the way he forgave us. To see this, we need to look at the very end of a very long story that goes from Genesis 37 all the way to Genesis 50. This is the end of the story, and in many ways it looks back and recaps the rest of the story. We’re going to ask two questions about the narrative: 1) Why did Joseph weep? 2) What did Joseph say? This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on September 28, 1997. Series: Pointers to Christ – Directional Signs in History. Scripture: Genesis 50:15-21. 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. This month we're looking at directional signposts
0:06.4	through history that point us to Christ. All through the Old Testament from
0:10.8	Genesis to Jonah, you see signs that point us to Jesus. Listen now to today's
0:15.6	teaching from Tim Keller on pointers to Christ. The passage on which the
0:21.4	teaching is based this morning, it's Genesis chapter 50, verses 15 to 21. When
0:32.4	Joseph's brothers saw that their father Jacob was dead, they said, what if
0:42.2	Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to
0:48.4	him. So they sent word to Joseph saying, your father left these instructions
0:53.0	before he died. This is what you are to say to Joseph. I ask you to forgive your
0:58.4	brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly. Now
1:02.6	please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father and when
1:07.7	their message came to him, Joseph wept. His brothers then came and threw themselves
1:14.5	down before him. Where are your slaves? They said, but Joseph said to them, don't be
1:19.8	afraid. Am I in the place of God? You intended to harm me, but God intended it for
1:27.3	good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. So then don't
1:32.8	be afraid. I will provide for you and for your children and he assured them and
1:40.8	spoke kindly to them. This is God's Word. Now this is probably the first sermon
1:50.7	series ever based on a quote out of Mademoiselle magazine. Because in the
1:57.2	beginning of September, my wife brought me something I referred to a couple
2:00.7	weeks ago. It's a great, very interesting article by Naomi Woolf and basically
2:05.6	her thesis was this. She says, you know, there is a lot more very educated,
2:09.6	very savvy, supposedly secular, members of the cultural elite who are searching
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