Bathed in Blessing

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We’re looking at an astonishing claim. In the New Testament, the word “blessing” doesn’t just mean what we mean by it today. It’s closer to shalom. It means every joy and every benefit your heart and soul needs and longs for. And in Ephesians 1:3, we’re told if you’re a Christian you have already been blessed (past tense) with every spiritual blessing there is. What in the world could that mean? Let’s look at the text with these questions: 1) How do we get every spiritual blessing? 2) What is every spiritual blessing? 3) Why can we have every spiritual blessing? and 4) How do you know you have every spiritual blessing? This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on October 2, 2011. Series: A Study of Ephesians: Who is the Church? Scripture: Ephesians 1:1-8. 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.
0:05.0	When we look at the Christian Church today, it's easy to see that there is polarization and disagreement between various groups and denominations.
0:13.0	Yet as Christians, we know the Bible calls us to unity.
0:17.0	How can the gospel bring us together?
0:19.0	Join us as Tim Keller preaches
0:21.0	through the Book of Ephesians, which is all about the church, and how Christians
0:25.2	can experience deep unity across divisive issues. Ephesians one. Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God to the Saints in Ephesus, the
0:47.1	faithful in Christ Jesus.
0:50.3	Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
0:56.0	Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1:00.0	who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
1:07.0	For he chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as
1:17.9	his sons through Jesus Christ in accordance with his pleasure and will to the praise of his glorious grace,
1:27.0	which he has freely given us in the one he loves.
1:31.0	In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins in accordance with
1:38.8	the riches of God's grace that he lavished on us.
1:45.0	This is the word of the Lord.
1:47.0	This week, for the next few weeks, for the next few months, we're going to be looking at the book of Ephesians, which is about the church. It's about who is the church.
2:01.0	And it was one of the very first long series and books of the Bible that we looked
2:06.8	at when Redeemer started. And it's time to get it out again and look at it in some depth so that we can have a better idea what God says the church is as we move forward in our life together here in the city.
2:22.0	And we start with this very first, starting
2:25.2	verse three all the way to verse 14 is in the Greek is one long sentence.
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