Safe in the Plan

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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No matter how long a sentence is, if you find the subject and the predicate, you can figure out the point of the sentence. In the original Greek, there are 202 words in this one sentence that spans from verse 3 to 14 of Ephesians 1. The subject of this great sentence is God and everything God is doing. And the predicate shows that everything God’s doing is happening toward an end. There is a plan for history, and Jesus is the point of the plan. Let’s take a look at these three things: 1) there’s a plan, 2) what’s in the plan, and 3) Jesus is the point of the plan. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on October 9, 2011. Series: A Study of Ephesians: Who is the Church? Scripture: Ephesians 1:8-11. 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.
0:05.0	How hopeful are you about the future of the Christian Church?
0:09.0	The Book of Ephesians gives us an incredibly inspiring vision for the church, showing how it has the capacity
0:15.5	to be a new humanity and a community of astonishing beauty.
0:19.8	Join us today as Tim Keller preaches from the Book of Ephesians.
0:30.0	The reading for today is taken from the book of Ephesians chapter 1
0:34.7	verses 8 through 11. With all wisdom and understanding he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good
0:46.5	pleasure, which he purposed in Christ. To be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment,
0:55.0	to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.
1:04.5	In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will.
1:17.8	This is the word of the Lord.
1:22.1	We've begun looking at the book of Ephesians. It's a book about the church and what the church ought to be.
1:30.0	And I think we mentioned last week that the book of Ephesians, I'm not sure if Leo mentioned this or not, but I may, I don't know if I did either, but where I was preaching. But the first first from verse 3 to 14 of the first chapter of
1:48.2	Ephesians is one long sentence in Greek and there's a there's two hundred and two words in that one sentence.
1:57.0	And there, no English translation feels, tries to make that one sentence so they've divided into shorter
2:05.8	sentences which is good but as you all know the the way to figure out what a
2:11.0	sentence means is to find the subject and the predicate.
2:15.0	No matter how long a sentence is, you've got all the modifying clauses,
2:21.0	you've got the prepositional phrases, find that subject and find that predicate and
2:25.5	especially the predicate and you figure out what the point of the sermon is.
2:29.5	So you realize that when you have the entire this 202 word sentence divided into
2:36.3	sub-sentences in the English translation you've got more than one
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