Runaway Believer

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The book of Jonah is a very simple story. It’s a book about a man running away from God and about God pursuing him, and as a result of that, this book is one of the most concrete ways to learn what the Bible means by sin and grace. Almost everybody is familiar with the words sin and grace, but what they actually mean is another thing. Essentially (as concretely as you can put it), sin is running away from God and grace is God’s effort to pursue and to intercept self-destructive behavior. That’s it. Sin and grace. Running and chasing. In this passage, we’re going to see, first of all, Jonah is called to do something. Second, Jonah runs away from it. And third, we’ll see how God pursues him. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on July 22, 1990. Series: Jonah. Scripture: Jonah 1:1-10. 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	Thanks for listening to Gospel in Life. Today Tim Keller is taking us through a series
0:07.2	on the Book of Jonah, a story about much more than the reluctant prophet being swallowed
0:12.1	by a great fish. And you may be surprised at how profoundly it speaks to the issues we
0:16.8	face today. After you listen, we'd love it if you'd rate and review the podcast. It will
0:21.6	encourage others to listen so they can experience the life-changing message of the gospel,
0:26.1	because the gospel changes everything. Now here's today's teaching from Dr. Keller.
0:33.1	The Book of Jonah, as we saw by reading all the way to verse 10, is a very simple story. It's a
0:40.0	book about a man running away from God and about God pursuing him. And as a result of that, the book
0:47.9	of Jonah is one of the very most concrete ways to learn what the Bible means by sin and grace.
0:56.5	You see, those words, sin and grace, almost everybody is familiar with, but what they actually
1:02.0	mean is another thing. And here it is, essentially, as concretely as you can put it, sin is running
1:09.4	away from God. And grace is God's effort to pursue and to intercept self-destructive behavior.
1:19.6	That's it. Running and chasing. Sin and grace, got that? That's as simple, that's as concrete as
1:28.0	it can be made. Running and chasing. Sin and grace. Now, what we're going to have to see, as we look
1:37.9	at this, is that in a place like New York City, almost everybody can relate to Jonah.
1:44.3	I would say, you look around our congregation on any given Sunday and everybody looks relatively
1:52.3	like New York, everybody looks different. We all look very different from each other. And yet,
1:57.3	I say there's two fundamental kind of divisions. Some of you have a religious background.
2:03.3	Some of you don't. Some of you have been far away, running away as much as you possibly
2:11.2	can from religion. You may have come to New York, and you may have said, I'm trying to get away from
2:17.2	my family's constraints. I'm trying to get away from my culture's constraints. I want to come
2:20.9	to a city with fewer taboos, with more freedom, more toleration. But I've talked to a lot of people
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