The Girl Nobody Wanted
5/15/202644 min
This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on October 11, 1998. Series: None. Scripture: Genesis 29:15-35.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[outro music] Welcome to the Gospel and Life Podcast. We're excited to share a special episode with you today. It's one of Tim Keller's most shared sermons, The Girl Nobody Wanted. In the Book of Genesis, Leah's life is shaped by disappointment and unmet longing, yet her story mirrors our own search for meaning. Why are we always so sure that the next thing, whether it be success, love, or recognition, will finally make us feel whole, only to find that the satisfaction never lasts? Today, Dr. Keller shows how the gospel rescues us from the weight of unfulfilled expectations, ultimately inviting us to find our true identity in Christ and His redeeming work on the cross.
Tim Keller· Guest0:44
[outro music] We just finished a series in the Old Testament of sermons and messages on how, uh, from the Old Testament, how we can search for God, how we do spiritual searching. And we're about to start a series of messages out of the teaching of Jesus Himself on how to do spiritual finding, and we're gonna look at all the places where Jesus talks about finding. But I'm gonna do something that I hardly ever do today, and what I'm going to do, uh, almost always, virtually always, maybe only twice in my life, I'm not gonna preach on the text that's been announced. Um,