Anatomy of Sin (Part 1)

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In Jeremiah, the people of Israel were calling out and saying, “What’s wrong with us? Why are things falling apart?” And God came through and said, “Let me tell you what’s wrong.” In Jeremiah 2, we have the first sermon by the prophet Jeremiah to the people of Israel. It’s a sermon to show them why their lives are falling apart, why their culture is falling apart, why their psyches are falling apart, why their families are falling apart. And it’s a sermon on sin. There are three things that we learn from this passage about the nature of sin: 1) sin is denial, 2) sin is a disposition, and 3) there is a solution. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on January 22, 1995. Series: The Seven Deadly Sins. Scripture: Jeremiah 2:2-13, 19. 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.
0:05.1	You don't have to look far to see that something's deeply wrong with our world and with us.
0:10.7	But is there an answer that gets to the root of why?
0:14.5	In today's message, Tim Keller explores the human condition through stories in the Bible,
0:19.4	uncovering what Scripture says about sin and why
0:22.5	it's the only explanation deep enough to face the truth about ourselves.
0:34.1	The teaching this morning is based on this passage in Jeremiah.
0:40.2	I'm going to read chapter 2 and what's printed there, verses 2 to 13 and verse 19.
0:46.2	Jeremiah is one of the last prophets that God sent to the people of Judah before their nation and culture collapsed completely.
0:55.5	They were invaded.
0:56.8	They were carried away into exile.
0:58.9	And the book of Jeremiah is a series of sermons from God, in a sense, to the people
1:05.2	through the prophet Jeremiah.
1:07.3	And this is the first of all the great sermons in which Jeremiah is trying to show the people of Judah, what's wrong with them, why their lives are falling apart, why their cultures falling apart, why their psyches are falling apart, why their families are falling apart.
1:21.9	Let me read, beginning here at the top, verse two, I remember the devotion of your your youth how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the desert through a land not sown
1:33.9	israel was holy to the lord the first fruits of his harvest all who devoured her were held guilty and disaster overtook them declares the lord
1:43.4	hear the word of the lord o house of jac, all you clans of the House of Israel.
1:48.6	This is what the Lord says.
1:50.7	What fault did your fathers find in me that they strayed so far from me?
1:55.0	They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves.
1:58.6	They did not ask, where is the Lord who brought us up out of Egypt and led us
2:03.4	through the barren wilderness, through a land of deserts and rifts, a land of draught and darkness,
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