The Search for Happiness

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Have you in this modern world learned how to become happy and stay happy? I hope you don’t think that’s a trivial question. Because if you read the psychology books, the urban planning books, the biochemistry books, the political science books, they’re really about this problem: we’re not happy. How can we be happy? The Bible has always said the issues that make you happy or unhappy are profoundly cosmic and spiritual. In Psalm 1, we see 4 principles: 1) happiness is possible, 2) happiness is fundamental, not superficial, 3) happiness can never be found directly, and 4) happiness is something you choose. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on September 12, 1993. Series: Modern Problems; Ancient Solutions. Scripture: Psalm 1. 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. Our culture places so much faith in
0:07.8	empirical reason, technology, and personal experience that it's easy to
0:12.1	wonder to something as old as Christianity and personal experience that it's easy to wonder,
0:13.0	does something as old as Christianity
0:15.0	have any relevance to the problems of modern life?
0:18.2	This month, Tim Keller invites us
0:20.1	to consider how Christianity is more relevant than ever in offering answers to the deepest
0:25.5	longings of our hearts.
0:27.0	I'm going to read to you from the first Psalm, it's printed in your bulletin.
0:37.0	Psalm one. Blessed is the man who does not walk in the council of the wicked or stand in the
1:01.2	way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.
1:12.0	He is like a tree planted by streams of water which yields its
1:16.5	fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does he prospers, not so the wicked, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.
1:27.0	Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
1:32.0	For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the righteous. For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
1:34.0	but the way of the wicked will perish.
1:38.0	Pray with me for just a second. Lord may the words of my mouth and the meditation of all of our hearts be acceptable in
1:59.6	thy sight oh Lord our rock and our Redeemer. In Jesus in name we pray. Amen.
2:11.0	Now and until recently, most cultures put a lot of stock in its ancient traditions, it also put a lot of stock in its ancient traditions.
2:22.0	It also put a lot of value on its former and previous generations
2:27.8	and even its older folk because for many, many years all cultures believe that wisdom was something that was accumulated
2:35.8	over the ages and therefore cherished its ancient traditions. But we live in a modern age and the modern age is characterized by an unparalleled
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