How To Find Faith
5/25/202640 min
This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on November 8, 1998. Series: Jesus – On Finding God. Scripture: Mark 5:21-43.
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Welcome to Gospel and Life. How do you find your true self? In our culture today, self-definition and self-expression are prized above all, but Jesus lays out a very different way to establish our identity. Today, Tim Keller explores how the gospel addresses our most profound questions about identity and purpose.
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Mark chapter 5, 21 to 43. This is a sandwich of two stories, two narratives of Jesus healing people. One in the middle, in the middle, the second story is in the middle of the first one. It's sandwiched between it. Mark 5, 21 to 43. When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. And then one of the synagogue rulers named Jairus came there. Seeing Jesus, he fell at his feet and pleaded earnestly with him. My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live. So Jesus went with him. A large crowd followed and pressed around him, and a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for 12 years. She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had. Yet instead of getting better, she grew