Kindness

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

4.8 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

How do you talk about kindness? Depending on the context, the Greek word can be translated as fitting, pleasing, honest, or compassionate. How do you talk about a word with that kind of lexical range? The answer is you can’t do it abstractly. You have to look at a kind of relationship that combines all those traits. The kind of relationship that combines them is friendship. And nothing is more humanizing and life-changing than friendship. John 15 is a unique passage about friendship. It tells us 1) the character or nature of friendship, 2) how you forge friendship, and 3) where you get the power for friendship. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on May 9, 2010. Series: The Real Signs of the Spirit. Scripture: John 15:6-15. 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.
0:05.2	The Bible says there's a world of difference between a willpower-driven heart and a
0:10.5	supernaturally changed one.
0:12.6	Today, Tim Keller is unpacking one of the fruit of the spirit, helping us see what it means
0:17.2	to move from trying to be good to truly changing from the inside out.
0:28.9	Tonight's scripture comes from John 15 verses 6 through 15.
0:35.5	If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers.
0:41.7	Such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
0:46.1	If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be given you.
0:52.8	This is to my father's glory that you bear much fruit
0:56.2	showing yourselves to be my disciples. As the father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my
1:04.7	love. If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love just as I have obeyed my father's commands and remain in his love.
1:13.0	I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
1:19.0	My command is this. Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this,
1:26.1	that he lay down his life for his friends you are my friends if you do what i
1:30.6	command i no longer call you servants because a servant does not know his master's business
1:36.5	instead i have called you friends for everything that i learned from my father i have made known to you
1:43.9	this is the word of the lord For everything that I learned from my father, I have made known to you.
1:45.3	This is the word of the Lord.
1:57.6	The marks of a supernaturally changed heart, a heart changed by the grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit,
2:05.1	are listed in the classic text, Galatians 5, verse 22 and 23,
2:11.7	which lists what's called they're the fruit of the spirit. And those traits are love, joy,
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