Discipline of Desire

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

4.8 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We have a tremendous hunger for spiritual experience. But how do we experience God? And how do we know we’re experiencing God? The Psalms are an amazing resource, because in the Psalms you have someone describing their experience of God from the inside. Psalm 63 shows us features of authentic Christian experience—and each feature is both a test and a discipline. Let’s look at the first feature: 1) the way you know you’ve found God is that you develop a spiritual appetite. In other words, the way you know you’re really moving toward God is you feel you’re too far from him. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on January 19, 1997. Series: Lessons in Drawing Near. Scripture: Psalm 63. 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	What does it mean to move from following a set of doctrines or ethics to actually having
0:06.0	God be a living presence in your life?
0:08.6	Today on Gospel and Life, Tim Keller is teaching on how we can experience God authentically
0:13.4	in a life-transforming way.
0:15.7	After you listen, we'd appreciate it if you would take time to rate and review the podcast.
0:19.6	Your rating and review will encourage others to listen so they can experience the joy and
0:24.6	beauty of the Gospel because the Gospel really does change everything.
0:28.7	Now, here's today's teaching from Dr. Keller.
0:31.5	It's a night whenever we have the Lord's Supper, the music, everything, the climax is not
0:37.4	the sermon on a night like this.
0:39.9	The climax is the table.
0:41.4	So let's get ready for the table.
0:44.3	And the way we're going to do it is we're going to look at Psalm 63.
0:49.4	I'll tell, let me read it to you.
0:51.8	And then I'll explain why what we're doing.
0:54.4	We'll be looking at this weekend next week.
0:58.0	How many of you will be here next week?
0:59.0	I don't know, but we do know that this Psalm is a great Psalm on drawing near to God.
1:07.0	Psalm 63.
1:09.0	Oh God, you are my God.
1:13.5	Ernestly I seek you.
1:16.2	My soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is
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