How Sin Makes Us Convicts

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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We’ve lost connection with part of what the Bible teaches about sin: that God gets angry at sin. And I’m here to tell you that losing that is a bad thing. In fact, I’ll go this far: you need an angry God. If you don’t believe in an angry God, a really angry God who hates sin and is going to punish it, you’re impoverishing yourself. You’re taking away all sorts of hope and humility and love. Isaiah 64 and 65 show us 1) God’s anger is not like our anger usually is, 2) you need an angry God if you’re going to live in hope, 3) you need an angry God if you’re going to live in humility, and 4) you need an angry God if you’re going to understand how loved you are. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on March 7, 1999. Series: What’s Really Wrong with the World. Scripture: Isaiah 64:1-9, 65:17-18. 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.
0:38.3	Thank you. only hope powerful enough to transform us.
0:52.3	Isaiah 64, verses 1 to 9, and then it skips on down near the latter part of this long passage, Isaiah 65, 17 to 18. So read 1 to 9 and 17 to 18.
0:59.2	O that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you,
1:05.1	as when the fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies,
1:12.8	and cause the nations to quake before you. For when you did awesome things that we did not expect,
1:18.6	you came down and the mountains trembled before you. Since ancient times no one has heard,
1:24.0	no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you,
1:30.6	who acts on behalf of those who wait for him. You come to the help of those who gladly do right,
1:36.7	who remember your ways, but when we continue to sin against them, you were angry. How then can
1:42.5	we be saved? All of us have become like one who is unclean,
1:47.3	and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags. We all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind,
1:53.4	our sins sweep us away. No one calls on your name, or strives to lay hold of you, for you have
1:58.2	hidden your face from us and made us waste away because of our
2:01.1	sins. Yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter. We are all the work of
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