The Compassion of God

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

4.8 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In some cultures or social locations, God isn’t seen as compassionate enough, because he allows terrible things to happen. In other cultures, he is seen as too compassionate and forgiving to people who have done terrible things. To fully understand the compassion of God, we have to look at what the Bible says about it. At the end of this famous story of Jonah, the word “compassion” shows up three times — what does it tell us about the compassion of God? This sermon will look at the compassion of God under three headings: 1) What is the compassion of God? 2) What is the compassion of Jesus? 3) What is the compassion of you and me? This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on May 29, 2011. Series: To Know the Living God – The Adequacy of God. Scripture: Jonah 4:1-11. 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	This is Gospel in Life.
0:04.0	How does knowing who God is shape our view of ourselves in the world around us?
0:08.5	Find out today on Gospel in Life as Tim Keller teaches us about the attributes of God.
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0:17.0	podcast.
0:18.0	Your response helps others discover and experience the life-giving truth and grace of the
0:23.0	Gospel, because the Gospel changes everything.
0:26.0	Now here's Dr. Keller with today's message.
0:31.0	Our scripture reading tonight comes from the book of Jonah, chapter 4, verses 1 through 11.
0:37.0	But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became angry.
0:42.0	He prayed to the Lord and said, please, Lord, was not this what I said while I was still
0:47.0	in my own country?
0:49.0	Therefore, in order to forestall this, I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious
0:54.0	and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness and one who relents concerning
1:02.0	calamity.
1:03.0	Therefore, now, Lord, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.
1:09.0	The Lord said, do you have good reason to be angry?
1:13.0	Then Jonah went out from the city and sat east of it.
1:17.0	There he made a shelter for himself and sat under it in the shade until he could see
1:21.0	what would happen in the city.
1:23.0	So the Lord God appointed a plant and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head
1:28.8	to deliver him from his discomfort.
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