The Search for Substance

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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A plant without roots is at best a tumbleweed. Is a tumbleweed freer than an oak tree? Yeah, it’s free to be blown about forever. There is what the Bible calls a rootlessness and a weightlessness about our society right now. Many of the problems you face today are that you’ve been affected deeply by this weightlessness we experience in our culture and society. The roots of this rootlessness were addressed long ago in Psalm 1, which tells us 1) the diagnosis of rootlessness and 2) the prescription for rootlessness. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on September 19, 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.
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. A scripture reading this morning again is found in the first
0:38.5	psalm and it's printed in your bulletin and we're going to read the entirety of that first
0:45.6	poem. Just six verses.
0:48.8	Psalm one. Psal 1. Blessed is the man who does not walk in the Council of the Wicked or stand in the
1:00.6	way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But as the light is in the law of
1:06.3	the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. It's like a tree planted by water, streams of water which yields its fruit in season
1:18.9	and whose leaf does not
1:24.1	with her, but he does, it prospers. Not so the wicked, they are like shaft, but the wind blows away,
1:28.5	therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
1:31.8	nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous for the
1:35.4	Lord watches over the way of the righteous but the way of the wicked will perish.
1:43.0	This is God's word.
1:46.0	In the 1970s, in the 1950s, 60s or in the 70s, from 1955 to 1975, we passed through in this country one of the eras in which there was the most economic growth.
2:10.0	There was a fast optimism for the time of those things that we will probably never see again. And during those 20
2:25.0	20 years, the teenage suicide rate in this country
2:28.0	went up 300%.
2:30.0	And all the social commentators agreed that that was very significant and none of them could agree on what it was significant of.
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