Your Plans, God’s Plans

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

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

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🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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You make or break your life on the basis of your choices. In Hebrew Scriptures, the word for guidance is usually derived from the word for rope because the ropes were the method of navigation for sailors. They used ropes to lower or move or raise the sails. Without them, they’d be blown totally off course. So the question is how do you get God’s guidance? How do you get God’s navigation, so that when you have all these choices, you know the right course to take? By looking at these proverbs we can see 1) the guidance God does, 2) the guidance God gives, and 3) the guidance God purchases for us. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on December 12, 2004. Series: Proverbs: True Wisdom for Living. Scripture: Proverbs 11:3; 12:5, 15; 15:22; 16:1-4, 9, 25, 33; 21:5; 27:1. 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. For many of the decisions we have to make in life, moral values
0:08.1	alone can't tell you what choices to make. You may be weighing several options in a decision and they all could be morally allowable.
0:16.0	So how do you choose the right one?
0:18.0	That's where God's wisdom is critical.
0:20.0	Today Tim Keller is speaking about how we can grow in using God's wisdom.
0:27.0	The scripture tonight is found all over the book of Proverbs and it's on page The them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity. The plans of the righteous
0:45.6	are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful. The way of a fool seems right to
0:51.2	him, but a wise man listens to advice. Plans fail for lack of counsel,
0:58.3	but with many advisors they succeed. To man belongs the plans with a heart, but from the Lord comes the reply of the tongue.
1:07.0	All a man's ways seem innocent to him, but motives are weighed by the Lord.
1:12.8	Commit to the Lord whatever you do,
1:14.6	and your plans will succeed.
1:16.7	The Lord works out everything for his own ends,
1:19.7	even the wicked for a day of disaster. In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord
1:26.0	determines his steps. There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. The lot is cast into the lap, but its
1:37.2	every decision is from the Lord. The plans of the diligent lead to profit as
1:41.8	surely as haste leads to poverty.
1:45.2	Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.
1:50.8	This is God's word. Okay, we're going to continue to look at Proverbs and at the subject of wisdom.
2:00.0	And each week we've said that wisdom is basically ability to make wise choices, right choices.
2:07.2	Our life is basically made, you make or break your life on the basis of your choices. Is this the right person to hire?
2:15.4	Is this the right career for you? Is this the right job for you? Is this the right, uh, is this the right
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