Mercy, Not Sacrifice – Timothy Keller [Sermon]

Tim Keller sermons via Gospel in Life: This sermon looks at the account of Matthew the tax collector coming to faith in Jesus Christ. To be called to faith in Jesus means to be called away from something toward something else— there’s a negative and a positive element. To come to Christ means that old foundations have to be broken up, and that includes your approach to religion. How do we know we’ve moved away from “religion” and toward true Christianity? 1) We must understand that religion is a way of dividing the world into “good” people and “bad” people. 2) We must see that Jesus gives us the true standard. 3) We must observe the way we deal with moral failure.

This sermon was preached by Rev. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on September 17, 1995.

Scripture: Matthew 9:9-17, Philippians 3, Hosea 6:6

[doyouseeitnow]

Wow... I remember thinking to myself and telling my wife either the devil was coming for me or God was calling me. I'm glad it was the God calling me.. this Christian walk has not been easy but I wouldn't turn back or change anything about it. I LOVE YOU JESUS CHRIST.

[danielaionescu]

Thank you Tim Keller!One of the best preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!May God bless you!🙏

[christinayslas]

Thank you Tim Keller for ur love for Jesus to encourage people with ur sermons.

[leahdiggs]

Thank God and His goodness, for you to be able to teach sound doctrine and make it applicable to our lives all these years.
God is Faithful and on time.

[annabelle]

Once again, Rev. Timothy Keller hits the truth, deep. This sermon is quite old from 1995 but still relevant to the modern world. Christians and atheists believe we are better and judging, religious, thinking we deserve better. We try to do better and we try hard. We ask for more and more blessings. All churches do. We need this. Mercy. What this is.

[potapotapotapotapotapota]

Timothy Keller is one of the only preachers I know who has a complete grasp of God's mercy and justice as illustrated in the sermon on the mount. Most other "Christians" lose sight of the cross and put the focus on themselves and their performance, ruining other people's faith, making them doubt their salvation and the love of God through their grandstanding. Stay away from these people. The Gosepl in Life series will change your life as it has mine.

[celenecranenburgh]

Yes...thank you for your teaching, Dr Keller. It's gone midnight here on Tuesday night in...the old country (England)...in 2022. And the grave is still empty. Coz JESUS IS ALIVE.
That changes EVERYTHING.
Xxx

[rdgrade]

this is the reason why Tim and kathy are so important to the mix.

[rainking]

This was a soul-quaking sermon. Deep gratitude for God's brilliance, as reflected by Tim. I take issue with his closing call to find and shoot the pharisee in us, though. I feel called to apply mercy and understanding with my inner Pharisees. Wishing you well, dear reader.

[mnp]

Love this message, full of integrity in the content and delivery!

[purpleswan]

If I don't choose God but God chooses me, what part do I play?
If I choose, I can also unchoose. How can one be sure on a daily basis they are saved?

[rhondarockhound]

I have felt I’ve been squished my whole life. I thought there was something wrong with me, because I feel so thirsty. Give me more Lord. Not stuff, but I want you in me. I want to be free. But I’m so weak and the more I study scripture the more questions I have. And I’m scared to reach out to others. I force myself to do it, but I don’t see a lot of successes. I heard someone say that doing what Jesus asks us does not always looks like success. 30 years of teaching in elementary public school, my administrators are making me teach middle school, hoping I will retire early. My last year has been spent being hated by my students. Should I give up? I feel like I’ve been given more than I can handle.
I don’t see that I helped any of my anxiety ridden students. Before this I felt called to youth ministry. What am I going to learn from this?

[J_bird]

I love your sermons and here I’m stumped: Why doesn’t God call everyone?

[kimmanning]

"Sexual harassment is a big sin."

[jms]

All this teaching but hiw would it ever be possible to oay god back? Its miserable to try to be perfect. Its miserable to be constantly introspective and wonder if you offended god cause youre not always wanting to think about him. I spent most of my life seeking god

[nickvoutsas]

You have it so hopelessly wrong. We are not saved by grace alone, if we were then we would not have the free will to choose God. We stumble, we sin, we forgive, we repent, we chose to be baptised with holy oil and water, we chose to be born again, we chose to give to the needy, you don't understand God needed us to love him and without free will we cannot choose. Free will is our 1st step towards God and God's salvation is his grace poured out on us.

[heidirajnauth]

is there a direct link to the other 2 parts of this series? I heard Tim mention that they would be looking at this for the next few weeks

[PolSKNAzi]

I think you mean "mere, " not "mayor." You are dealing with excellent preaching, you need to pay better attention before writing nonsense which will confuse young believers.

[Lady_Aylar]

Awesome sermon but a pharise is not a synonym for hypocrisy aka religiosity sir, It's a school of Jewishish thought. Yashua and Saul were both pharisees aswell . Also it's insulting for israslities who listen to ex pagans fallowing The Jewish religion and Messiah to utter such antisemitism . It would be nice to refer to hypocrisy as hypocrisy instead of demonising a nation or school of Jewish thought that your actually following by adhering to the new testament 😅

[nickvoutsas]

Religion by definition is the belief in God, if we were to give a clearer definition of religion from a Christian perspective it would encompass the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Unfortunately New age Christian churches have vandalised the meaning and have used the word religion as a synonym for one who is devoid of the gifts of the Holy Spirit dogmatically following rituals. Not only has this myopic view allowed modern Christian's to condemn traditional Christian churches but has resulted in a tearing down of the holy sacraments passed down through tradition. Imagine if the sacrament of receiving Holy Communion lost it's value ? The Holy sacrament of marriage has already been lost de voiding of any meaning. Before the books of the New Testament Christianity was based purely on the word passes down through tradition. In fact your Bible is based on the early father's of so called the traditional church who selected the books of your bible.