Children of the Light

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Christianity is not just a vitamin supplement. It doesn’t just come into your life and give you a little boost to live a better form of the life you’re living. It’s a sweeping revolution that affects every part of you. In Ephesians 5, we have a long passage on what it means to live the Christian life. And it’s not that we live in a certain way and, therefore, become Christians. It’s that we become Christians and, therefore, live in a certain way—because we’re saved not by what we do but by what Christ has done. In this passage, there are three important keys to understanding what it means to live the Christian life. It entails 1) knowing sin and walking in obedience, 2) knowing the time and walking in wisdom, and 3) knowing the Lord and walking in joy. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on January 8, 2012. Series: A Study of Ephesians: Who is the Church? Scripture: Ephesians 5:5–21. 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.
0:05.0	How hopeful are you about the future of the Christian Church?
0:09.0	The Book of Ephesians gives us an incredibly inspiring vision for the church, showing how it has the capacity
0:15.5	to be a new humanity and a community of astonishing beauty.
0:19.8	Join us today as Tim Keller preaches from the Book of Ephesians chapter 5
0:35.3	verses 5 through 21. For of this you can be sure. No immoral, impure, or greedy person, such a man is an
0:48.6	idolator, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
0:55.0	Let no one deceive you with empty words.
0:59.0	For because of such things, God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient.
1:05.0	Therefore, do not be partners with them.
1:08.0	For you are once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.
1:14.0	Live as children of light, for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness,
1:20.0	righteousness and truth.
1:22.0	And find out what pleases the Lord have nothing to do with
1:27.8	the fruitless deeds of darkness but rather expose them.
1:33.0	For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
1:38.0	But everything exposed by the light becomes visible.
1:44.0	For it is light that makes everything visible.
1:49.1	This is why it is said,
1:51.1	wake up a sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. Be very careful
1:58.8	then how you live, not as unwise, but as wise, making the most of every opportunity because the days are
2:07.7	evil.
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