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Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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When people in the West were faced with the atrocities of World War II, the culture’s prevailing optimistic views of human nature were devastated. Two questions kept coming up: what’s wrong with us that we’re capable of this, and what are we going to do about it? Isaiah 52 to 53 was written to answer those same two questions. It was written to a nation facing exile, to people who were about to face captivity, atrocities, and prison. And it has maybe the most well-known answer in the Bible to the question about human evil: God is sending somebody, the servant of the Lord. In this passage, we learn 1) who he is, 2) why he came, and 3) what he did. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on February 28, 1999. Series: What’s Really Wrong with the World. Scripture: Isaiah 52:13-53:12. 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. Some people say the fundamental problem of the world is poverty.
0:08.8	Others say it's bad systems, poor education, or biology. But what if none of these can
0:14.7	fully explain the brokenness we see, both in the headlines and in our own hearts?
0:19.6	In today's teaching, Tim Keller looks at how
0:22.5	the Bible's teaching on sin gives us a deeply honest and yet incredibly hopeful view of the world.
0:35.1	I was reading Ezekiel recently, and Ezekiel got to, was with the exiles, and he was in a far-off land, and a lot of his fellow Jews were saying, how can we worship God in a strange land?
0:50.5	And he got this vision.
0:52.6	You read it, it's very, very strange, but the most important
0:55.0	thing about Ezekiel's vision is he sees God high and lifted up and he sees them on his throne,
0:59.7	but there's something different about Ezekiel's vision than Isaiah's vision or anybody else's
1:04.8	vision of the throne of God. If you look to the bottom of the throne, he found that God's throne
1:10.3	had wheels. It was a mobile God.
1:16.0	And it was God's way of saying, I can make you a home that you and I can dwell in absolutely
1:24.5	anywhere, absolutely anywhere.
1:29.3	So welcome home.
1:38.8	And let me read to you Isaiah 52, 13, verses from 13 down to the end of chapter 53, 5213.
1:43.8	C, my servant will act wisely.
1:47.5	He will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.
1:50.5	Just as there were many who were appalled at him,
1:53.6	his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness,
1:56.7	so will he sprinkle many nations.
1:59.4	And kings will shut their mouths because of him.
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