Welcome to Gospel in Life. Some people say the fundamental problem of the world is poverty.

Others say it's bad systems, poor education, or biology. But what if none of these can fully explain the brokenness we see,

both in the headlines and in our own hearts? In today's teaching, Tim Keller looks at how the Bible's teaching on sin gives us a deeply

honest and yet incredibly hopeful view of the world.

Turn to a part of your bulletin where you have the passage on which the scripture is,

a scripture passage of which the teacher is based. And we're starting this week a new series,

and it's on sin. There's nothing more fundamentally relevant and practical than to understand an answer, the answer to the fundamental human question.

What's wrong with us?

If you're trying to raise a family or run a corporation, or if you have political or community involvement, in fact, anything you do in this life, you need to have a working theory of an

answer to that question. What's wrong with us? Why the selfishness, the cruelty, the corruption,

the crime, the racism, the injustice? Why? Where does it come from? Now, the Bible's answer is ancient and it's profound,

and that is sin in the human heart. One of the reasons why it's so widely rejected, I believe,

is actually because what's not understood is that the biblical understanding and doctrine of sin

is multidimensional. All of us understand or remember or think

they understand what the Bible says about sin. We say, yes, we know what the Bible says about sin.

Sin is breaking God's law and therefore we're guilty and condemned. Yes, I know what the Bible says,

but that's only one. In fact, that's the last of the aspects of sin that we're

going to look at in this series. I think one of the reasons why sin as an answer to the

reasons to the problems of our life tends to be widely overlooked by people is because we

don't understand the multidimensionality, how nuanced, how rich,

see, how multi-perspectival the biblical teaching on sin is.

We're going to look at the first of those dimensions today, and we're going to read a passage

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