The Search for Transcendence

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

There is a thirst in the human heart that will not be denied. It cannot be denied. That thirst is for transcendence. Transcendence is intimacy with the infinite. Psalm 63 is about the search for transcendence. It says there is irreducible knowledge, there is terrible thirst, and there’s only one resolution for it. Psalm 63 tells us 1) the human heart needs transcendence and 2) how the human heart can find transcendence. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on September 26, 1993. Series: Modern Problems; Ancient Solutions. Scripture: Psalm 63. 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. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory because
0:38.0	your love is better than life my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live and in your name I will lift up my hands.
0:48.0	My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods.
0:51.0	With singing lips my mouth will praise you. On my bed I remember
0:56.2	you. I think of you through the watches of the night because you are my help by singing the
1:01.5	shadow of your wings. My soul clings to you. Your right hand
1:05.9	upholds me. They who seek my life will be destroyed. They will go down to the depths of the earth.
1:13.0	They will be given over to the sword to become food for jackals.
1:17.0	But the king will rejoice in God.
1:19.0	All who swear by God's name will praise him,
1:22.0	while the mouths of liars will be silenced. This is God's
1:26.5	word. This is God's word. This Psalm is about the search for transcendence, the thirst for transcendence that every human heart experiences.
1:40.0	The first Megatrans book talked about this. It talked about the fact that science and technology
1:47.0	which tried to reduce everything to commodity, which tried to explain everything and reduce everything to natural causes and natural
1:57.0	components had created a kind of spiritual desert, the book said, a dry and weary land.
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