Considering the Great Love of God
6/15/202644 min
This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on September 10, 2000. Series: Four Ways to Live, Four Ways to Love. Scripture: Psalm 107:31-43.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[on-hold music] It's possible to believe in God and yet not understand who He really is. Scripture provides a multifaceted description of who God is: a father, a friend, a spouse, and a king. When we reduce Him to just one of these, we end up with a flattened, self-made version of God rather than the true God of the Bible. Today, on Gospel and Life, Tim Keller begins a new series exploring God's multidimensional character and how understanding His complexity can bring us into a deeper relationship with Him.
Tim Keller· Guest0:34
[on-hold music] The passage on which the teaching is based is Psalm one hundred and seven. The Psalm, this Psalm is a, is a whole. You can't just take a little piece out of it, uh, though I, uh, uh, we are leaving off part of it. [laughs] But you have to see the, the main structure of it, and it's a long piece, and it'll be easier to understand the structure if you have multiple readers. So we're gonna do something a little different than we usually do. And so, uh, we're gonna read Psalm one hundred and seven, verses one to thirty-one, and then the summary verse at the end, forty-three. "Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good. His love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say this, those He redeemed from the hand of the foe, those He gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north and south."
Speaker 11:26
"Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no way