The Bridge to Prayer

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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We’re in a series on what we’re calling Christian practices or spiritual disciplines. You may have beliefs, but those beliefs don’t automatically produce a different character unless your beliefs are turned into actual changed character through spiritual disciplines, or Christian practices. Today we come to a very important spiritual discipline. It’s the subject of Psalm 1: meditating on the law of the Lord, the Scripture, to the point of delight. Psalm 1 says that meditating on the Scripture is what will bring blessedness—absolute well-being. The magnitude of that claim, and in some ways the simplicity of the claim, is easy to miss. Yet here, smack in the middle of the very introduction to the Psalter, we’re told that not just belief in God but meditating on the law of God, on the Scripture, is the key to blessedness. This is an extremely important, crucial part of what it means to be a Christian. There are three things I’d like to show you here: what meditation promises, how it’s practiced, and why it works. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on April 27, 2008. Series: Practicing The Christian Life. Scripture: Psalm 1:1-6. 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	As Christians, we can have strong beliefs, but do those beliefs actually result in changed
0:08.4	character? Today on Gospel and Life, Tim Keller teaches on how beliefs are turned into character
0:13.8	through daily practices, also known as Christian disciplines. After you listen, we'd appreciate it if
0:19.2	you would take time to rate and review the podcast. Your rating and review will encourage others to
0:24.4	listen so they can experience the joy and beauty of the Gospel because the Gospel changes everything.
0:30.4	Now here's today's teaching from Dr. Keller.
0:34.9	The scripture reading today is Psalm chapter 1, verses 1 through 6.
0:42.7	Blessed is the man who does not walk in the council of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners
0:48.2	or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day
0:58.5	and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water which yields its fruit in season and whose
1:06.0	leaf does not wither. Whatever he does, prospers. Not so the wicked, they are like chaff that the wind blows
1:16.7	away. Therefore, the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the
1:23.6	righteous. For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
1:32.2	This is the word of the Lord.
1:36.7	We're in a series on what we're calling Christian practices or spiritual disciplines.
1:42.2	You may have beliefs, but those beliefs don't automatically produce different character or change
1:48.5	character unless your beliefs are turned into actual change character through spiritual disciplines
1:55.2	or Christian practices. So you may believe God loves you. Not just believing God, you may actually
2:02.9	believe God loves you. That's a belief. But if you are as easily discouraged, as self-conscious,
2:10.9	as unhappy as everybody else, who doesn't believe in God or doesn't believe God loves them,
2:17.6	then it's because you haven't transformed, you haven't turned your belief into a changed life,
2:24.1	into actual change in the way which your heart works and your life works. So how do you do that
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