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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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🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Do you understand what your heart is really like? In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus is saying that the reason we’re inauthentic or hiding from other people is because we’re actually being inauthentic with ourselves, hiding from ourselves. We’re deeply uncomfortable with the reality of our own hearts. Jesus wouldn’t mention hypocrisy in the Sermon on the Mount unless he thought it was a pervasive issue, something we’re all struggling with. Jesus says this is the way we are, that there’s a real problem and the human heart desperately wants to get into image management. Let’s look at how Jesus shows us 1) two manifestations of hypocrisy, 2) how you can’t stand to see what’s in your own heart, 3) how you know the plank in your own heart is huge, and 4) how to remove the plank from your heart. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on April 18, 1999. Series: The Mount; Life in the Kingdom. Scripture: Luke 6:39-49. 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.
0:04.9	What does it really mean to live in a way that reflects God's kingdom?
0:08.9	For many of us, the kingdom can feel like an abstract idea.
0:12.9	But in today's teaching from the Sermon on the Mount,
0:15.5	Tim Keller shows how Christ offers us practical guidance
0:18.6	for living out a compelling vision of a new kind of community
0:21.9	shaped by grace.
0:29.2	In your bulletin, you've got a passage printed out on which the teaching is going to be based.
0:36.7	We're looking at the sermon on the mount. I'm going to read
0:39.5	the next section, which is Luke chapter 6, verses 39 to 49. He also told them this parable.
0:54.2	Can a blind man lead a blind man?
0:56.6	Will they not both fall into a pit?
0:59.4	A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.
1:05.0	Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
1:10.3	How can you say to your brother, brother, let me take the speck out of your eye when you fail
1:16.3	yourself to see the plank in your own eye, you hypocrite. First take the plank out of your
1:21.6	eye and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. No good tree
1:26.0	bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good
1:28.5	fruit. Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People don't pick figs from thorn bushes or grapes from
1:33.8	briars. The good man brings good things out of the good stored in his heart. Evil man brings
1:38.0	evil things out of the evil store up in his heart, for out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks why do you call me lord lord and do not do what
1:45.7	i say i will show you what he is like who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice
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