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sermon: Tim Keller - Getting Out (Exodus 14)
Getting Out - Tim Keller - TGC 2011 from The Gospel Coalition on Vimeo.
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repentance and confession
1 John:7-8
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
"If we believe that we have no need to confess, we have no sin that needs to be brought out before the Lord, if we’re not a sinner and other people are sinners, or if we’re a sinner but it’s kind of that ambiguous, airy way that we’re a sinner and there’s nothing specific in our life that you can point to, if you say there is no sin in you, what does He say? You’re deceiving yourself. You have an exalted version of yourself in your head that’s not reality. And this is what we do. We love to put big sins over here, we define small sins over here as if these sins really upset God, but He’s just okay with these small ones. So God doesn’t like this and this and this, but the fact that you’re still embarrassed of Him doesn’t bother Him or the fact that you’re unbelievably lazy in your pursuit of your relationship with Him doesn’t bother Him at all. We divide it into good sin and bad sin, God really struggles with these people, but He’s glad we’re on His team. The Bible says you’re self deceived, and it probably explains why you’re stagnant in your faith and maybe your faith has begun to retard."
God saves
Ephesians 2:1-5
1As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. 4But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.
"The first word in verse 4 makes us breath out a little bit. “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ” I love the way he words it because he says, “When did God show you mercy, and when did God lavish His love upon you? Not when you straightened yourself out, not when you started doing better, not when you stopped doing wrong but while you were dead in your trespasses. That’s when He showed you mercy. That’s when He loved you.” It’s the difference between morality driven religion and the gospel."
Matt Chandler, God Saves (read here, listen here)
idols
"Every culture, gender, class, city, field of work, etc., has its own idols. Idolatry is anything I look at and say, "If I have that, my life has value." Anything that is so central to your life that you feel you can't live without it is an idol. Idolatry is making a good thing an ultimate thing. Because Paul saw idols everywhere, he was a really effective preacher. Like Paul, we need to discern, expose, and destroy idols in order to preach the gospel."Tim Keller @ The gospel coalition 2009 conference. (read the notes here, or watch/listen to the full thing here)
Tim Keller also has a new book out on idolatry - Counterfeit Gods, see the video below for an introduction to the book (reading this on facebook and can't see the video? click "view original post" below)
birth of an idol
"Idolatry in your heart and in my heart starts with a desire. And the desire isn't inherently wicked or wrong. We have a desire to have a nice house. We have a desire to drive a nice car. Wehave a desire to have a relatively in shape body. We have a desire for our kids to excel in athletics. We have a desire that we have money in the bank. We have a desire that we're safe. And there is nothing wrong with any of those things, nothing. It is not wrong to want a nice house. It is not wrong or sinful. It is not wrong or sinful to want your kids to be safe. It is not wrong or sinful to want a little cash. It's not wrong or sinful to want things relatively easy. It's not wrong or sinful to want to be in shape or want to look good. It's just not. It starts with a desire.Matt Chandler - heart matters pt2
Think of it as this thing in the palm of our hands. It starts as a simple desire. And then over time, the hand begins to close and we say, “This is no longer negotiable.” And then all of a sudden, the nice house, the nice car, safety, our kid's athletic career, money in the pocket, in the bank, non-negotiable. And now, you have the birthing of an idol. And what ends up happening is we say, “God, do whatever You want...God be who You are, but don't touch this. Don't touch this. Don't touch work, because in work, I find achievement and I find self value. So, I'll do whatever You say, but I'm not quitting this job....Don't risk my kids. Do whatever You want, but I want my kids to be safe....Do whatever You want, but I want my neighborhood to be safe....Do whatever You want, but I want...” And what ends up happening is that hand closes and we say, “This is not longer negotiable.” And an idol has been born."
listen to the full sermon here, or read it here
god saves
Ephesians 2:1-5
1As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. 4But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.
"The first word in verse 4 makes us breath out a little bit. “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ” I love the way he words it because he says, “When did God show you mercy, and when did God lavish His love upon you? Not when you straightened yourself out, not when you started doing better, not when you stopped doing wrong but while you were dead in your trespasses. That’s when He showed you mercy. That’s when He loved
you.” It’s the difference between morality driven religion and the gospel."
Matt Chandler, God Saves (read here, listen here)
idols
"Every culture, gender, class, city, field of work, etc., has its own idols. Idolatry is anything I look at and say, "If I have that, my life has value." Anything that is so central to your life that you feel you can't live without it is an idol. Idolatry is making a good thing an ultimate thing. Because Paul saw idols everywhere, he was a really effective preacher. Like Paul, we need to discern, expose, and destroy idols in order to preach the gospel."Tim Keller @ The gospel coalition 2009 conference. (read the notes here, or watch/listen to the full thing here)
the gospel
"The gospel matters. Getting the gospel right matters. If you get the gospel wrong and you don’t distinguish between what the gospel is and what morality is, then what you’ve done at best is restrain the hearts of people, but you won’t see their hearts transformed. If you don’t get the gospel right, you will inoculate your people to Jesus."
Matt Chandler, A shepherd and his unregenerate sheep
read the full thing here
listen:
download the audio here
temptation
"... if the root issue of sin is pride or idolatry, here are the two great temptations that are sure to come your way.Matt Chandler, Temptations from within Read the full thing here, download it here, or listen below:
The first temptation is to take something other than God and make it ultimate. Now I don’t know what that thing is. For some it’s cocaine or black tar heroin ...[but] most of us are much more apt to make family ultimate than cocaine. So the first temptation that’s coming for all of us is to take something other than God and make it our ultimate and to pursue it and chase it and own it. This is idolatry. You make your family an idol, you can make your children an idol, you can make making money an idol. You can make anything an idol.
The second temptation that’s sure to come is around the idea of pride, and it works itself out in two ways. We don’t like the God of the Bible, so we make our own. Usually that’s us, we make ourselves god. We don’t talk like that. We don’t introduce ourselves as Yahweh... But there are those who operate like they are god... so they'll say things like " I just can’t believe that God would command that, that God would want that, that God would ask that of me.” ... Do you see what just happened there? They just went, “That God is inadequate for what I want. I’m going this way.” And so the second temptation that is sure to come is to create another god otherthan the one in the Bible. Maybe that’s us, maybe that’s a different version of this God...
These are the two great temptations. They’re coming for all of us."
weakness
2 Corinthians 12:8-10
7 To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
The audio below is quite long (52 mins) and is aimed at people planting churches, but a lot of the stuff he says, especially about the verses above, is applicable to any Christian and worth listening to...
Darrin Patrick, cultivating a culture of repentance (download here)
birth of an idol
"Idolatry in your heart and in my heart starts with a desire. And the desire isn't inherently wicked or wrong. We have a desire to have a nice house. We have a desire to drive a nice car. Wehave a desire to have a relatively in shape body. We have a desire for our kids to excel in athletics. We have a desire that we have money in the bank. We have a desire that we're safe. And there is nothing wrong with any of those things, nothing. It is not wrong to want a nice house. It is not wrong or sinful. It is not wrong or sinful to want your kids to be safe. It is not wrong or sinful to want a little cash. It's not wrong or sinful to want things relatively easy. It's not wrong or sinful to want to be in shape or want to look good. It's just not. It starts with a desire.Matt Chandler - heart matters pt2
Think of it as this thing in the palm of our hands. It starts as a simple desire. And then over time, the hand begins to close and we say, “This is no longer negotiable.” And then all of a sudden, the nice house, the nice car, safety, our kid's athletic career, money in the pocket, in the bank, non-negotiable. And now, you have the birthing of an idol. And what ends up happening is we say, “God, do whatever You want...God be who You are, but don't touch this. Don't touch this. Don't touch work, because in work, I find achievement and I find self value. So, I'll do whatever You say, but I'm not quitting this job....Don't risk my kids. Do whatever You want, but I want my kids to be safe....Do whatever You want, but I want my neighborhood to be safe....Do whatever You want, but I want...” And what ends up happening is that hand closes and we say, “This is not longer negotiable.” And an idol has been born."
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