How to Change

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

4.8 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Through faith in Christ, through the gospel, through the Holy Spirit, you can experience lasting, deep, radical, permanent change. If you’re going to make such changes, you need to understand the nature of Christian change. You have to understand the nature of it, the pattern of it, and the process of it. Galatians 5 shows us that Christian change is 1) gradual, 2) inevitable, 3) internal, and 4) symmetrical. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on April 19, 1998. Series: Galatians: New Freedom, New Family. Scripture: Galatians 5:16-18,22-25. 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	Are you seeking to change something in your life but find yourself falling into the same habits?
0:07.6	Is there any hope for lasting change? This month Tim Keller is preaching through the book of Galatians, which is all about how Christians can experience true transformation in Christ, and how our issues are not solved by our good works, but by allowing the Gospel to transform every area of our lives.
0:26.5	After you listen, we invite you to go online to Gospel inLife.com and sign up for our email
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0:34.6	Gospel quarterly journal with articles that feature how the gospel is changing
0:38.9	hearts, lives and communities as well as highlighting other gospel-centered resources.
0:44.0	Subscribe today at GospelonLife.com.
0:47.0	I'm going to read from passage chapter 5, 16 to 18, and then 23 to 25. See that?
1:02.4	The passage we began looking at last week. We're going to complete this week.
1:08.5	So I say, live by the spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.
1:16.0	For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the spirit and the spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other so that you do not do what you want.
1:27.0	But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under law.
1:32.0	But the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace patience
1:37.1	kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self-control against Against such things there is no law.
1:44.5	Those who belong to Jesus Christ
1:46.0	have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.
1:49.8	Since we live by the Spirit,
1:51.6	let us keep in step with the spirit. This is God's word.
1:57.0	Now this is a great passage on change, how to, through faith in Christ, through the gospel, through the Holy Spirit,
2:07.0	experience lasting deep, radical, permanent change.
2:15.0	And I really don't think there's any other place except
2:18.0	Ephesians four and five that's parallel to this.
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