Noah and The Reasons of Faith

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The Bible tells us faith begins with thinking. The Bible says faith requires and stimulates the profoundest thinking and reasoning. You cannot be a Christian without using your brain to its uttermost. Nowadays, we’re told by our culture from the time we’re very little that the big questions—what is real, what is right and wrong, and what we should be living for—are questions for the philosophers. We’re taught that the important things are standard of living, career, appearance, and psychological needs. Hebrews 11 shows us three aspects about faith: 1) that thinking leads to faith, 2) how thinking leads to faith, and 3) whythinking leads to faith. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on September 18, 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	While some might think that Christian faith is just a blind leap, a closer look shows us that it requires deep, rational thinking.
0:12.6	Join us all month as Tim Keller preaches on genuine faith, which requires both a deep conviction of the heart and a sound understanding of the mind.
0:30.8	Now, faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for.
0:40.8	By faith, we understand that the universe was formed at God's command so that what is seen was not
0:45.0	made out of what is visible. By faith, Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith,
0:50.4	he was commended as a righteous man when God spoke well of his offerings, and by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.
0:57.5	By faith, Enoch was taken from this life so that he did not experience death.
1:02.2	He could not be found because God had taken him away.
1:05.1	For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God, and without faith, it is impossible to please God, because anyone who
1:13.0	comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
1:18.7	By faith, Noah, when warned about things not seen in holy fear, built an ark to save his family.
1:24.4	By his faith, he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness
1:28.1	that comes by faith. This is God's word. The entire chapter 11 of the book of Hebrews in the New
1:39.1	Testament is all about faith, and we're looking at it all fall, because faith, Christian faith, is a multi-dimensional
1:47.0	thing. What is faith? What does it mean to believe? That's what we're looking at. And last week,
1:53.0	we mentioned that faith has three elements. Faith begins with understanding, which leads to conviction and completes itself in commitment.
2:06.8	Understanding, conviction, commitment.
2:09.5	Unless all three are present, it's not Christian faith.
2:13.2	Now, starting this week, we begin to look at each of those elements in turn, and today we're going to talk about the first one. Faith begins with understanding. It begins with thinking.
2:23.2	It begins with reasoning. And the two verses in this passage that tell us about this aspect
2:28.5	of faith are verse three and verse six. In verse three, we read, by faith, we understand that the universe was formed at God's
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