Welcome to Gospel in Life.

Christianity isn't just a spiritual practice or set of moral teachings.

At its heart, it's the person of Jesus actively pursuing us.

In today's teaching, Tim Keller unpacks how Jesus actively seeks us, reveals truth to us, and calls us to himself.

We've been looking all month at aspects of who Jesus is, and today we're going to look at

what it means to say Jesus is a king.

And the subject, by the way, just to remind you, this subject, I mean, I've already preached this sermon once, and I think I probably scare a few more snakes out of the bushes

than I actually kill in the process of the sermon.

So it might be a good day to follow me downstairs, as we usually do

after the four o'clock service, to the East Lounge, after the service, after the postlude,

and we have questions and answers. So surely I'm going to, you know, scare out a couple of snakes that,

at least to your satisfaction, I don't really nail in the course of the sermon.

So jot your questions down, think about it, and come on down, and we'll have questions

and answers afterwards. But for now, Ephesians 1, and we read,

And he made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ

to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment, to bring all things

in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ. In him, we also were chosen, having

been predestined according to the plan of him, who works out everything

in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ,

might be for the praise of his glory. This is God's word. If you were to take a person out of the heart of the South American rainforest had never

been anywhere else and put him down in the middle of Times Square, it would look chaotic

and crazy to him.

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