Groaning in the Spirit

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

If we’re going to be equipped for real life, we have to see how Christ actually prepares us to face the unavoidable brutalities of life. We’ve been looking at how faith in Christ concretely and profoundly changes us. And in Romans 8, we get to the subject of suffering. It’s absolutely crucial if we’re going to be equipped in any spiritual way for real life, to see how Christ helps us in our sufferings. This text gives us three things: 1) it gives us a warning about suffering, 2) it gives us three resources for suffering, and 3) it tells us how we can be sure those resources will work. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on December 10, 2006. Series: In Christ Jesus: How the Spirit Transforms Us. Scripture: Romans 8:13-27. 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.
0:05.8	Are you longing to see real change in your life, in your habits, your relationships, your heart?
0:11.8	Today, Tim Keller explores how lasting change actually happens in the life of a Christian
0:16.6	and why the gospel offers a radically different process of transformation than anything else.
0:29.3	The scripture is found in Romans 8, verses 13 through 27.
0:34.7	For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die, but if by the spirit you put to death the
0:41.1	misdeeds of the body, you will live, because those who are led by the spirit of God are sons of God.
0:47.9	For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you receive the spirit
0:52.9	of sonship. And by him we cry,
0:55.7	Abba, Father. The spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.
1:02.3	Now, if we are children, then we are heirs, heirs of God and co-hears with Christ.
1:07.9	If indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in His glory.
1:13.5	I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed
1:18.9	in us. The creation waits an eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.
1:25.1	For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the
1:29.9	will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its
1:35.3	bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole
1:41.8	creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
1:47.2	Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the spirit, grown inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
1:58.7	For in this hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is no hope at all,
2:04.2	who hopes for what he already has. But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
2:12.0	In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for,
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