Mortification Through Joy

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

When I first embraced the Christian faith, there were a number of things in my life that profoundly needed changing. But nothing seemed to work until some Christian writers took me to Romans 6, 7 and 8. When I began to understand the teaching of these chapters, my life began to change. In this brief series, I’m sharing these teachings with you as we ask this question: how does faith in Christ actually lead to real change in one’s life? In Romans 8, we see that in Jesus, you get three things: 1) you get the freedom to know yourself, 2) you get a new method to change yourself, and 3) you get a new power to be yourself. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on December 3, 2006. Series: In Christ Jesus: How the Spirit Transforms Us. Scripture: Romans 8:1-13. 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.
0:29.3	The scripture reading tonight is found on page 9 of the bulletin, and it's Romans 8, 1 through 13.
0:37.6	There's therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
0:43.3	For the law of the spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
0:49.7	For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh could not do. By sending his own son in the
0:56.3	likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemns sin in the flesh in order that the righteous
1:01.8	requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the
1:07.8	spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh,
1:13.6	but those who live according to the spirit set their minds on the things of the spirit.
1:18.1	To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the spirit is life and peace.
1:23.6	For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law.
1:28.7	Indeed, it cannot.
1:30.5	Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
1:33.9	You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the spirit.
1:37.6	If, in fact, the spirit of God dwells in you.
1:40.8	Anyone who does not have the spirit of Christ does not belong to Him. But if Christ is in you,
1:46.2	although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the
1:51.7	spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from
1:56.9	the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit who dwells in you.
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