Envy: The Case of Israel

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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There’s a sickness in us. We are cruel to each other in ways we cannot seem to heal. We have an inveterate kind of unhappiness in our hearts we can’t seem to put out. For the last hundred years, the reigning Western understanding of why we are so cruel and unhappy has been that it comes from outside of us, that it comes from conditions. But in the last few decades, the intelligentsia have increasingly admitted there’s something deeper than that. The Bible says the problem with human beings is not environmental—that there is a poison in us that’s called sin. And we need to understand the symptoms of that poisoning, the symptoms of sin. Let’s look today at 1) the symptom of envy, 2) the root cause, and 3) the antidote. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on February 26, 1995. Series: The Seven Deadly Sins. Scripture: Numbers 11:4-6. 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. Some people say the fundamental problem of the world is poverty.
0:09.4	Others say it's bad systems, poor education, or biology. But what if none of these can
0:14.7	fully explain the brokenness we see, both in the headlines and in our own hearts?
0:20.0	In today's teaching, Tim Keller looks at how the
0:22.7	Bible's teaching on sin gives us a deeply honest and yet incredibly hopeful view of the world.
0:35.2	The teaching this morning is based on a text that is printed in the bulletin.
0:38.7	It's a brief text.
0:41.2	Just give you a little background when we print such a brief text.
0:45.1	It's Numbers, Chapter 11, verses 4, 5, and 6.
0:49.2	This happens in the midst of a fairly long narrative that many of you are familiar with the broad contours of.
0:58.2	Israel, the Israelites, were the slave labor force of Egypt.
1:02.3	They were in Egypt, and they helped build under the lash the great pyramids and many of the great,
1:10.1	not the great pyramids necessarily, but the many great
1:13.1	works of architecture in ancient Egypt, but they were slaves.
1:18.8	They were cruelly oppressed.
1:20.9	They were beaten.
1:22.0	They were killed.
1:22.7	When they got too numerous, many of their children were slaughtered.
1:25.3	It was a terrible situation.
1:27.3	But God, through Moses, led them out through miraculous children were slaughtered. It was a terrible situation. But God, through Moses,
1:28.3	led them out through miraculous signs, passed through the Red Sea. But on their way to Canaan,
1:34.3	on their way to their promised land, they had to go through a wilderness, a desert. And in the desert,
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