Welcome to Gospel in Life.

This month on our podcast, we're doing something a little different.

We've curated a collection of sermons and talks from across the 28 years that Tim Keller

preached at Redeemer Presbyterian Church.

The messages featured this month explore a range of topics that show us how the gospel affects every aspect of our lives, including vocation, friendship, and the mission of the church.

Because, as we believe, the gospel can change everything.

The scripture reading is from 2nd Peter, chapter 1, verse 3 through 11.

His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him, who called us by his own glory and goodness.

Through these, he has given us his very great and precious promises so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness, and to goodness, knowledge, and to knowledge, self-control, and to self-control,

and to perseverance, godliness, and to godliness, mutual affection, love. For if you possess

these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive

in your knowledge of our

Lord Jesus Christ. But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that

they have been cleansed from their past sins. Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort

to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble, and you will receive a rich welcome

into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

This is God's word.

Now, every branch of the Christian church teaches that when you put your faith in Jesus Christ,

you receive the Holy Spirit.

And on Pentecost Sunday, many churches in the world observed today as Pentecost Sunday,

it's very appropriate for us to be looking at a passage like this, even though the

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