Love Beyond Degree

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Rightly so, at Christmas, people who are suffering want to know, “Why should I be merry? What basis do I really have for joy?” The answer is that if Christmas really happened, if God really did open a cleft in the pitiless walls of this world, if he broke into our broken reality with his healing power, if he became a human being, then there are three solid bases for joy in any circumstance. If Christmas happened, then even in the deepest grief, you can feel these three things holding you up: 1) our bad things will turn out for good, 2) our most truly good things can never be taken away from us, and 3) our best things are yet to come. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on December 17, 2006. Series: In Christ Jesus: How the Spirit Transforms Us. Scripture: Romans 8:28-39. 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.
0:05.8	Are you longing to see real change in your life, in your habits, your relationships, your heart?
0:11.9	Today, Tim Keller explores how lasting change actually happens in the life of a Christian,
0:17.2	and why the gospel offers a radically different process of transformation than anything else.
0:29.2	The scripture passage for tonight is Romans 8, verses 28 through 39.
0:35.1	And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him,
0:40.9	who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew, he also predestined to be
0:48.2	conformed to the likeness of his son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
0:54.3	And those he predestined, he also called.
0:57.7	Those he called, he also justified.
1:00.4	And those he justified, he also glorified.
1:04.5	What then shall we say in response to this?
1:07.6	If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own son, but gave him up
1:14.5	for us all? How will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any
1:22.0	charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies, who is he that condemns. Christ Jesus, who died, more than that,
1:31.8	who was raised to life, is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall
1:38.8	separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship, or or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
1:50.0	As it is written, for your sake we face death all day long. We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
1:57.2	No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
2:02.8	For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor demons,
2:08.4	neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth,
2:13.4	nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ
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