Submission: “Thy Kingdom, Thy Will”

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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I’ll say it consciously: this is our worst nightmare. More than anyone else in history, modern people believe we ought to have a good life and we ought to have some control over our lives. But Jesus says when you connect with God, you must pray, “Thy will be done.” This means the purpose of prayer is not that we would bend God’s will to meet ours, but that we melt and soften our will into God’s. The Bible says the way to find yourself and your happiness is never to seek yourself or your happiness but to seek God and his righteousness. In order to make it possible for us to do this, let’s look at what the Bible tells us about 1) where, 2) why, and 3) how to pray “Thy will be done.” This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on May 7, 1995. Series: The Lord’s Prayer 1995. Scripture: Matthew 6:9-15. 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. What we love shapes who we are. So if we want to change, we have to start
0:10.4	by changing what we love, what we're passionate about, what delights us. One of the primary ways we can
0:16.6	rearrange the things we love most comes through consistent and faithful prayer.
0:21.6	Join us today as Dr. Keller looks at how authentic prayer connects us with God and reshapes what we love.
0:35.1	The passage on which our teachings based this morning is found in your bullet, and it's printed out there.
0:43.1	We've been looking at the Lord's Prayer each week.
0:50.4	And actually, you just heard the Lord's Prayer sung, but as I was told in Britain,
0:55.3	if you know three languages, you're trilangual, if you know two languages, you're bilingual,
0:59.8	and if you know one language, you're an American.
1:02.2	So maybe we need to repeat it for you, Americans here.
1:08.1	Matthew 6.
1:21.3	This then is how you should pray. Our Father, in heaven, how it would be your name.
1:27.4	Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread, forgive us our debts,
1:29.2	as we also have forgiven our debtors, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the
1:34.4	evil one. For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your Heavenly Father will also
1:39.0	forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Heavenly Father will not forgive your sins.
1:47.6	Now, the reason we are looking at the Lord's Prayer in detail week after week here,
1:52.9	I give you two quick reasons, two quick reasons.
1:56.2	And depending on where you are in your own relationship with God and the faith and such matters,
2:03.0	one might be more telling than the other.
2:06.1	First of all, in the early part of the 20th century, we were told by the experts,
2:10.9	especially by Freud and even before that by Marx,
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