Love’s Way With the Self
6/3/202637 min
This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on April 21, 1996. Series: Love: The Way to Grow Up. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13.
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[on-hold music playing] What are the signs that you've truly understood what it means to be saved by grace? In 1 Corinthians 13, the Apostle Paul says it's possible to have impressive spiritual gifts or live by high moral standards and still not know what it means to have salvation in Christ. Today, on the Gospel and Life Podcast, Tim Keller takes a closer look at this well-known passage about love and shows us why living a good life isn't the same as living a life transformed by the gospel.
Tim Keller· Guest0:31
[on-hold music playing] I'm gonna read it. We begin looking at it next week, and for a period of time, we're gonna be studying it together. 1 Corinthians 13, awfully famous, maybe next to Lord's Prayer, twenty-third Psalm, maybe the, the most famous passage of the scripture. And Paul says, "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,