How To Find Your Self
5/20/202649 min
This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on October 25, 1998. Series: Jesus – On Finding God. Scripture: Matthew 16:21-27.
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[gentle music] 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.
Tim Keller· Guest0:23
[gentle music] What we're doing for three or four weeks is we're looking at the places where Jesus talks about spiritual finding. I just simply looked in a concordance last spring, and I looked up a number of places where Jesus talks about, uh, how to find spiritual reality, how to find God, and we're gonna look at one of those right now. Matthew 16:21-27, "From that time on, Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 'Never, Lord,' he said, 'this shall never happen to you.' Jesus turned and said to Peter, 'Get behind me, Satan. You are a stumbling block to me. You do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.' And then Jesus said to the