Welcome to Gospel and Life.

How do you find your true self?

In our culture today, self-definition and self-expression are prized above all, but Jesus

lays out a very different way to establish our identity.

Today, Tim Keller explores how the gospel addresses our most profound questions about identity and purpose.

What we're doing for three or four weeks is we're looking at the places where Jesus talks about spiritual finding.

I just simply looked in a concordance last spring,

and I looked up a number of places where Jesus talks about how to find spiritual reality,

how to find God.

And we're going to look at one of those right now.

Matthew 16, 21 to 27.

From that time on, Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must

go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and teachers of the

law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

Never, Lord, he said, this shall never happen to you. Jesus turned and said to Peter,

get behind me, Satan. You are a stumbling block to me. You do not have in mind the things of God,

but the things of men.

And then Jesus said to the disciples, if anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take

up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever

loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world yet

forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give an exchange for his soul? For the son of man is going to come

in his father's glory with his angels and then he will reward each person according to what he's done.

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