Gluttony: The Case of Achan

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In the Middle Ages, theologians said there are different forms of gluttony—that you can eat and drink excessively, sumptuously, daintily, or impulsively. Technically, gluttony means to eat and drink immoderately. But gluttony also tells us something about each of us. Gluttony is taking something good and then cramming it in until we’re sick of it. Our desires are disordered so that good and necessary things become cravings. Sin, in other words, makes us all addicted to something. We all crave something, and we do it in such a way that it is very, very bad for us. Let’s look at three things this Scripture teaches us about craving: 1) the depth of our craving, 2) the structure of our craving, and 3) the healing. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on March 5, 1995. Series: The Seven Deadly Sins. Scripture: Joshua 7:19-26, Hosea 2:13-15. 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.
0:05.7	Why is the world so broken?
0:07.5	And why are we capable of inflicting such harm even toward those we love?
0:11.9	People point to politics, poverty, or psychology, but none of these fully explain what we see in ourselves and in history.
0:19.4	This month on the podcast, Tim Keller is teaching from a series exploring the question,
0:24.0	What's wrong with us?
0:25.3	Showing us how the Bible's teaching on sin offers the only explanation deep enough to face the truth
0:31.1	in all its complexity, and the only hope powerful enough to transform us.
0:43.2	Thank you. hope powerful enough to transform us. Then Joshua said to Aiken, my son,
0:46.2	Give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, and give him the praise.
0:50.2	Tell me what you have done.
0:51.7	Do not hide it from me.
0:53.8	Aiken replied, it's true. I've sinned against the Lord, the God of Israel. This is what I have done.
1:00.7	When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, 200 shekels of silver and a wedge of gold weighing 50 shekels,
1:07.8	I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent with the silver underneath.
1:14.5	So Joshua sent messengers and they ran to the tent and there it was hidden in his tent
1:18.6	with the silver underneath.
1:21.0	They took the things from the tent, brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites, and spread
1:25.5	them out before the Lord.
1:29.1	Then Joshua, together with all Israel,
1:35.0	took Aiken, son of Zira, the silver, the robe, the gold wedge, his sons and daughters, his cattle,
1:41.0	kodonkeys and sheep, his tent, and all that he had, to the valley of Acour. And Joshua said,
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