Camels, Needles, and Riches

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Jesus said an awful lot of hard things. And in the story of the rich young ruler, Jesus says two hard things: he says our understanding of riches and our understanding of moral goodness are wrong. The rich young ruler is not only rich, but he’s also a man of exquisite moral character. Yet, Jesus sends him away. Jesus turns our common notions about wealth and goodness on top of their heads and he gives us new ones—ones that are explosively in contradiction with what the world thinks, but ones that, if we obey them, have the power of God exploding in our midst. Let’s look at these two principles. Jesus tells us 1) something new about wealth and 2) something new about moral goodness. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on June 3, 1992. Series: Hard Sayings of Jesus (1993). Scripture: Mark 10:23. 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.
0:04.0	This may sound strange at first, but in many ways Jesus is an upside down Savior.
0:08.8	He came not in strength, but in weakness.
0:11.3	He came not to gain power, but to give away power.
0:14.6	As a teacher then, he spoke in a way that turned people's expectations on their heads, calling
0:19.6	people to lose their lives to gain them, to die to themselves so they can truly live.
0:25.0	Some of his teachings can be difficult to understand or accept.
0:28.6	Today Tim Keller is teaching through one of the hard sayings of Jesus, showing us that
0:32.9	while Christ's teachings aren't always easy, they provide the answers to having a meaningful
0:37.9	life and a relationship with him.
0:40.5	After you listen, please take a few seconds to rate and review our podcast.
0:44.1	Your review can help others to discover our podcast and experience the hope of the gospel.
0:49.3	Now here's today's teaching from Dr. Keller.
0:52.6	Let's not move into Ephesians, how about that?
1:00.3	For January, in January in June, we like to take the pastors like to take a theological
1:07.8	theme and divide it up and preach on it, and it's typical in the church calendar after
1:14.6	Christmas to study the ministry and the teachings of Jesus.
1:19.9	This was a great teacher and he had an awful lot of things to say which were hard.
1:24.8	There's a number of places where his disciples say, master, this is a hard saying.
1:30.7	What we're going to look at at both morning and evening services, kind of as a break, is
1:35.6	to look at a couple of these hard sayings each week, every morning and every evening.
1:40.8	Now I actually have smuggled two hard sayings in this particular story, this particular account,
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