The Experience of Hope

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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You might say that even though you believe in most of what the Bible says about the ultimate future, it hasn’t changed your life. You really don’t handle suffering or death or other things any differently than other people. Why would that be? The answer is because it’s not simply the doctrine of Christian hope, it’s not just the cognitive belief that changes us. It’s the experience of hope. Let’s look at 1) the promise of this experience, 2) the sources of this experience, and 3) how we get it. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on March 28, 2004. Series: Living in Hope. Scripture: Ephesians 3:14-21, 1 John 3:1-3. 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. The English word for hope can canode uncertainty, but the Christian
0:08.7	concept of hope is a life-changing joyous certainty of future with God. Today on Gospel
0:14.4	in Life, Tim Keller is teaching about Christian hope and how what we believe about the future
0:19.3	can transform our present reality.
0:22.9	The reading for today is taken from the Book of Ephesians chapter 3 verses 14 through
0:29.1	21 and 1 John chapter 3 verses 1 through 3.
0:38.4	For this reason, I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on
0:44.8	earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches, he may strengthen you
0:51.5	with power through his spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts
0:58.4	through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power
1:05.9	together with all the saints to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love
1:14.3	of Christ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the
1:21.2	measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than
1:29.2	all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory
1:36.6	in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever, Amen.
1:45.1	How great is the love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of
1:52.3	God, and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not
1:59.8	know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God and what we will be has not yet been
2:08.0	made known, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him
2:17.3	as he is. Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure. This
2:27.6	is the word of the Lord. We are doing a series on hope, and the reason we are doing a whole
2:35.2	series on the subject is because as we said last week, we tend to underestimate the power,
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