Jesus as King; The King of Hearts

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Jesus Christ carries out his office of King in two different ways. He carries it out spiritually in the hearts of his people, and he carries it out cosmically in history. We’re going to look now at the first of these: how Jesus Christ approaches the human heart. And 2 Corinthians 10 describes this approach in an interesting way. Let’s look at this passage to see 1) what it’s describing implicitly, and 2) what it’s describing explicitly. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on January 23, 1994. Series: Understanding Jesus. Scripture: 2 Corinthians 10:1–6. 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.
0:06.1	Who is Jesus?
0:07.7	The Bible says he's fully God, the creator of the universe, and at the same time, fully human.
0:14.3	Lose one of those and you lose Christianity.
0:17.1	Join us for today's podcast where Tim Keller explores the person and promises of Jesus Christ.
0:28.9	Second Corinthians 10, 1 to 6.
0:33.8	This is Paul speaking.
0:37.0	By the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you, I, Paul,
0:42.8	who am timid when face to face with you, but bold went away. I beg you that when I come,
0:49.5	I may not have to be as bold as I expect to be towards some people who think that we live by the standards
0:55.6	of this world. For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons
1:01.4	we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to
1:07.1	demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments in every pretension that sets itself up against
1:12.4	the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ,
1:18.5	and we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience once your obedience is complete.
1:25.0	And this is God's word. We've been talking about Jesus as prophet, priest, and king.
1:32.9	There's a place in Matthew 12 where Jesus says, the men of Nineveh will stand up in judgment and
1:38.5	condemn this generation, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold a greater than
1:44.0	Jonah is here.
1:45.4	And the queen of the south will rise up on the judgment day and condemn this generation,
1:49.5	for she came from the ends of the earth to Solomon, and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
1:56.9	That's a very dramatic statement.
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