The Object of Faith

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The whole story of Moses and the leading out, the exodus, of the people of Israel out of Egypt and out of their slavery is all told in Hebrews 11 in just a couple of phrases. In the Passover’s ordinance of the death of a lamb and taking shelter under its blood, God gave the Israelites and anyone who wanted to read the Old Testament a clue to the meaning of the universe. Look at Jesus as Lamb, and a tremendous greatness of life will develop. This is the object of our faith. This is the thing we look at to become people of faith. From looking at Jesus as our Passover, Jesus as the Lamb of God, we get three lessons: 1) we see everybody deserves judgment, 2) Jesus’ death is a propitiation, and 3) the reason Jesus Christ was so weak as the Lamb was because his love was so strong. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on November 20, 1994. Series: The Nature of Faith. Scripture: Hebrews 11:27-29. 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.
0:05.5	While some might think that Christian faith is just a blind leap, a closer look shows us that it requires deep, rational thinking.
0:12.6	Join us all month as Tim Keller preaches on genuine faith, which requires both a deep conviction of the heart and a sound understanding of the mind.
0:28.8	The passage on which our teaching is based, we've been staying in the book of Hebrews,
0:35.0	and we're in chapter 11, and we're only going to read these three verses, but in
0:39.8	particular we're going to be centering on the middle of the three verses. Hebrews 11, verses 27 to
0:45.2	29, but especially verse 28. I'm talking about Moses now.
0:55.7	By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king's anger.
1:01.3	He persevered because he saw him who is invisible.
1:06.1	By faith, he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood so that the destroyer of the firstborn
1:13.5	would not touch the firstborn of Israel. By faith, the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry
1:21.0	land, but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned. This is God's word. By faith, Moses kept the Passover and the
1:33.8	sprinkling of blood so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn
1:40.2	of Israel. Now, this is a story in outline. It's amazing. It's very convicting for a minister
1:48.9	or a person who does a lot of public speaking of how you can put a whole story in a very,
1:53.5	very small amount of time, in a very small compact space. And the whole story of Moses and the leading out, the Exodus, the people of
2:06.2	Israel out of Egypt, out of their slavery is all told here in just a couple of phrases. And if we
2:12.8	use the outline of the phrases, we can get an overview and remind ourselves of the account itself, of what
2:19.2	happened, of what the event was that's being talked about here. Notice, first of all, it says,
2:26.3	God sent the destroyer of the firstborn. Now, what was that about? You see, over three, between
2:33.4	three and four thousand years ago,
2:37.3	the Israelites, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had settled in Egypt,
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