Running From God

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The book of Jonah is really one of the best possible places to get an overview of what the Christian message is about. This passage is about sin. But it doesn’t actually ever use the word sin. And yet, not only does it profoundly map out the real nature of sin, it gives us an understanding of sin that goes deeper than what you’d think the definition of sin is. It’s one thing to believe in sin. It’s another thing to understand it and understand your own heart. We’re going to take a look at four features in the narrative, and each one is going to tell us something about sin. The four features we see are in verse 1. We see the coming word. “The word of the LORD came …” In verse 3, we see the running man. In verse 5, we see the deathly sleep. And lastly, we see the stormy hope. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on September 9, 2001. Series: The Church in the City. 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.
0:32.0	The word of the Lord came to Jonah's son of Amitai. Go to the great city of Nineveh and
0:37.2	preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me. But Jonah ran away from the
0:43.2	Lord and headed for Tarsish. He went down to Japa where he found a ship bound for that port.
0:49.3	After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarsish to flee from the Lord.
0:54.0	Then the Lord sent a great wind on the sea and such a violent storm arose that the ship
0:59.6	threatened to break up. All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own God,
1:05.6	and they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone below deck
1:11.6	where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep. The captain went to him and said,
1:16.4	how can you sleep? Get up and call on your God. Maybe he will take notice of us and we will not
1:22.0	perish. Then the sailors said to each other, come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible
1:28.8	for this calamity. They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah. So they asked him, tell us,
1:35.6	who was responsible for making all this trouble for us? What do you do? Where do you come from?
1:41.6	What is your country? From what people are you? He answered, I am a Hebrew and I worship the Lord,
1:48.4	the God of heaven who made the sea and the land, this terrified them, and they asked,
1:54.8	what have you done? They knew he was running away from the Lord because he had already told them so.
2:03.8	The book of Jonah, which we are going to look at for a number of weeks, is a small but
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