Ministers and the People

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

If you want to be an agent of reconciliation and change and healing in the lives of others, Paul says something that applies to us all. Paul says the essence of his ministry was this: “become like me, for I became like you.” There are two sides to that sentence. Only by the power of God can you do both. But if you can do both, you can change people’s lives. Here’s what you need: 1) you need ministers, 2) you need the kind of ministers who understand the gospel, and 3) you need ministers who labor until Christ is formed in you. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on March 1, 1998. Series: Galatians: New Freedom, New Family. Scripture: Galatians 4:12-20. 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 and Life. Is being a Christian just about moral transformation or a pathway to the good life?
0:10.0	Tim Keller looks at the Book of Galatians to demonstrate how the Christian life is so much more than that.
0:15.2	It's about how Christ transforms us in a radical and life-changing way.
0:19.6	Throughout this month, Tim Keller will be teaching from the Book of Galatians
0:36.5	on which the teaching is based tonight would you turn to it?
0:39.7	We've been gone through the book of Galatians, which is Paul's letter to a group of churches
0:45.8	that he planted some years before, and we've been taking a, we've been going through it consecutively. Let me read you the passage we get to tonight.
1:05.0	Hmm. guess what? Confession of sins.
1:10.0	It's one thing to confess your sins, but it's great to get a chance to confess somebody else's sin.
1:16.0	And somebody printed the wrong passage.
1:21.0	So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to read to you from...
1:24.0	It's probably a punishment for confessing somebody else's sin.
1:32.0	What I want to do is I want to read from Galatians,
1:37.0	chapter 4 versus 12 to 20.
1:40.0	Just one little note, one little number of Galatians chapter 4 versus 12 to 20.
1:50.6	Goes like this, this is Paul talking to the Galatians. I plead with you, brethren, become like me, for I became like you.
2:00.0	You have done me no wrong. As you know, it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.
2:06.0	And even though my illness was a trial to you, you did not treat me with contempt or scorn.
2:11.0	Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus
2:16.6	himself.
2:17.6	What has happened to all your joy?
2:20.0	I can testify that if you could have done so you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
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