What are the signs that you've truly understood what it means to be saved by grace?

In 1 Corinthians 13, the Apostle Paul says, is possible to have impressive spiritual gifts

or live by high moral standards and still not know what it means to have salvation in Christ?

Today, on the Gospel and Life podcast, Tim Keller takes a closer look at this well-known

passage about love and shows us why living a good life isn't the same as living a life

transformed by the gospel.

I'm going to read it. We began looking at it next week, and for a period of time we're going to be studying it together.

1 Corinthians 13, awfully famous, maybe next to Lord's Prayer, 23rd Psalm, maybe the most famous passage of the scripture.

And Paul says, if I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging symbol. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries

and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am

nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not

love, I gain nothing. Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy. It does not boast. It is not

proud. It is not rude. it is not self-seeking.

It is not easily angered.

It keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails.

But where there are prophecies, they will cease.

Where there are tongues, they will be stilled.

Well, where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.

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