What are the signs that you've truly understood what it means to be saved by grace?

In 1 Corinthians 13, the Apostle Paul says, is possible to have impressive spiritual gifts

or live by high moral standards and still not know what it means to have salvation in Christ?

Today, on the Gospel and Life podcast, Tim Keller takes a closer look at this well-known

passage about love and shows us why living a good life isn't the same as living a life

transformed by the gospel.

Every year after Easter, from Easter, the week after Easter till the onset of summer,

we choose a series of sermons that really talk about what it means to practically live a Christian life.

And we're going to be looking at the very famous passage of 1 Corinthians 13, the entire chapter. And we're going to look at that

for six weeks. And therefore, though I'm only going to be looking at verses 1 to 3 today, and that's all

that's printed there, I'm going to read you the whole passage, and it's extremely, extremely familiar, very

famous, probably next to the Lord's Prayer in the 23rd Psalm, maybe the third most famous

passage in the Bible. It's St. Paul's writing in the 13th chapter of the first epistle,

his first letter to the Corinthians, and he writes this,

if I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong

or a clanging symbol. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge,

and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all

I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud,

it is not rude, it is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered.

It keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

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