Love, the Most Excellent Way

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Most of us know how to restrain a life. We start to get in trouble, so we change. But when the consequences go away, we snap back the way we were. Human nature without supernatural intervention is like a rubber ball that’s squished, but when the pressure is off, it snaps right back. The rubber ball was constrained. It wasn’t actually changed or reshaped. 1 Corinthians 13 is about how you actually change, about how you get a supernaturally changed heart. What is the supernaturally changed heart? Let’s take a look at 1) two things it is not and 2) what it is. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on May 1, 2016. Series: What We Are Becoming: Transforming Love. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13. 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.
0:06.1	True transformation isn't about adopting a set of rules.
0:09.7	It's about a heart changed by the gospel.
0:12.2	This month, Tim Keller explores how Christianity is not just an ethical system, but a supernatural transformation.
0:25.8	Thank you. but a supernatural transformation. This morning
0:26.7	scripture reading comes from 1 Corinthians
0:28.8	chapter 13
0:30.0	verses 1 through 13.
0:36.9	If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging symbol.
0:46.0	If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
0:57.2	If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,
1:04.1	but do not have love, I gain nothing.
1:08.2	Love is patient.
1:10.2	Love is kind. It does not envy. It does not boast. It is not proud. It does not
1:19.0	dishonor others. It is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs.
1:28.5	Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
1:33.6	It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
1:40.5	Love never fails.
1:42.9	But where there are prophecies, they will cease, where there are tongues
1:46.8	they will be stilled, where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
1:51.9	For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part
1:58.7	disappears.
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