The Problem of Materialism

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Jesus’ teaching about money here is triggered by an event: a Pharisee gets upset that Jesus didn’t wash his hands before he ate his food. The ceremonial washings of the Old Testament were visual aids for the idea that you need to approach God with a clean heart. But the Pharisees had turned religion into a matter of externalities. Jesus slams that whole idea. He refuses to emphasize the external over the internal, but he also refuses to pit the external against the internal. Instead, Jesus says true religion is living externally out of an inner reality. Jesus applies this to the issue of financial giving, teaching us three things about our attitude toward our possessions and our giving: 1) there’s an external aspect, 2) there’s an internal aspect, and 3) there’s a spiritual motor that energizes and drives both. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on November 14, 1993. Series: Modern Problems; Ancient Solutions. Scripture: Luke 11:37-42. 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	Many today have elevated skepticism to such an extent that belief in God can seem almost unimaginable.
0:12.0	But many of the human longings that characterize
0:15.1	the ancient world are still the same today. We all still desire meaning,
0:20.0	happiness, and a strong identity. Today Tim Keller is speaking on how the Christian faith can address the problems and satisfy the
0:27.6	longings of the modern heart. Every year we make a beeline around this time to some place in the scripture that talks about what God says our attitude toward
0:46.1	our money and our possessions ought to be.
0:49.5	That's really very easy because the Bible is that as filled with information and teaching about that subject
0:56.6	as it is about anything.
0:58.8	The Bible says considerable, a number of things about money.
1:05.0	Now what we're going to do today is we're going to look at what Jesus teaches about it in
1:08.4	Luke 11.
1:10.3	And the Luke 11, verse 37 to 42 is printed in your bulletin.
1:19.6	When Jesus had finished speaking,
1:22.0	a Pharisee invited him to eat with him, so he went and reclined at the table.
1:27.0	The Pharisee, noticing that Jesus did not first wash before the meal was surprised. Then the Lord said to him,
1:35.8	Now then you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you clean
1:41.8	the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
1:46.7	You foolish people did not the one who made the outside make the inside also, but give what is inside the dish to the poor and everything will be
1:56.2	clean for you.
1:57.2	Woe to you Pharisees because you give God a tenth of your mint and rue and all other kinds
2:02.2	of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the
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