The Song of Creation

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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If you live in North America or Europe, the question almost everyone has in mind when they read Genesis 1 is “How?” They ask, “How did it happen? How long did it take?” But how questions aren’t as important as why questions. What you really need to know about this world is why did God make it? What is it for? Why do we feel the way we feel about it? How do we live in it? Let’s look at what Genesis teaches us about 1) how the world began, but most importantly, 2) why the world began. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on October 15, 2000. Series: Genesis – The Gospel According to God. Scripture: Genesis 1:1-8, 31. 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	The Book of Genesis is an ancient book that gets down to some of the most foundational questions we have.
0:09.0	We get answers to the big Y questions and the-for questions that have plagued us for centuries.
0:15.4	Join us today as Tim Keller preaches from the Book of Genesis. We just finished a series on who got is and what I want to do now is move into a new series not on his person but on his work
0:38.4	Not on who got is but what he does
0:48.0	We're gonna be looking at Genesis 1 to 11 over the next few weeks in which we look at what God does. And we're going to read this first passage. It's one of the most famous pieces of literature in the world.
0:56.0	Genesis 1, verses 1 to 8. And then I'll actually read, since I want to talk to you about the whole chapter, it's so familiar I don't have to read it all to you, but I will read the last verse as well.
1:07.0	In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty.
1:16.0	Darkness was over the surface of the deep and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
1:21.0	And God said, let there be light. God was
1:25.0	good and he said let there be light and there was light.
1:27.0	God saw that the light was good and he separated the light from the darkness.
1:31.0	God called the light day and the darkness he called night and there was evening and there was
1:36.1	morning the first day and God said let there be an expanse between the waters
1:41.7	to separate water from water so God made the expanse between the waters to separate water from water.
1:43.0	So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it and it was so.
1:48.0	God called the expanse sky and there was evening, there was morning the second day. God saw all that he had made
1:56.6	and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning the sixth day. This is God's word. Now one of the problems if you over the
2:10.3	last 150 years if you've lived either here in North America or in Europe.
2:17.0	The question that people always have had when they come to Genesis 1 that describes the world's beginning and the question almost everybody has in their mind right away is how
2:27.2	How did the world begin?
2:29.7	Yeah, how did it happen? How long did it take? Did it happen through evolution or not?
2:35.0	I mean that's right away the question everybody has.
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