Noah and The Power of Faith

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Christian faith is more than thinking, because the Christian message, the gospel, is much more than an idea. It is not just an idea; it’s a power. The gospel bears fruit in you. It’s a living thing. But how does faith move from being an idea to being a power? You stop just believing in God and you start believing God. Noah shows us the way. Hebrews 11 shows us that Noah does three things that bring the power of faith into life: 1) he believes God, 2) he condemns the world, and 3) he hides in the ark. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on September 25, 1994. Series: The Nature of Faith. Scripture: Hebrews 11:1-7. 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.
0:05.5	How do you live a life of stability in a world full of uncertainty?
0:10.0	This month, Tim Keller is exploring the book of Hebrews
0:12.9	and looking at how genuine faith rooted in the work of Christ
0:16.8	empowers us to live with courage, hope, and poise, even in difficult circumstances.
0:31.2	The passage we've been looking at is printed in your bulletin.
0:34.1	It's Hebrews chapter 11, verses 1 to 7.
0:36.7	We've been looking at it for
0:37.6	three weeks now, and today we come to verse 7, and I'm only going to read, though you have
0:45.4	the entire passage in front of you, I hope. Just verse 7, because we're looking at the case
0:51.6	study of faith that we have in Noah.
0:56.0	Hebrews 11, verse 7.
0:58.3	By faith, Noah, when warned about things not yet seen in holy fear, built an ark to save his family,
1:08.9	by his faith, he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by
1:15.5	faith.
1:17.6	This is God's word.
1:20.2	And we've been seeing already this fall that faith starts with thinking.
1:31.8	Faith begins with thinking and understanding and reasoning. Faith is not, at first, a blind leap against thinking and against reasoning and
1:39.8	against understanding, not at all. We saw that in verse three of this passage, Christians are people who have
1:45.8	come to understand that God created the world, that the visible world came from the invisible,
1:50.8	supernatural, eternal world. And therefore, as we looked at this before, we see that we saw
1:56.6	that Christians have come to see, through their thinking, that the physical universe is not
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