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Tim Keller | – Doing Justice and Mercy – Timothy Keller [Sermon]

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This sermon, from Tim Keller, is the fourth from Redeemer Presbyterian Church’s current series “Where We are Going: The City and the Mission”. It’s a series focused on Redeemer’s gospel based core values and is part of a special season at Redeemer called “Rise”. During this season, we’ll be making these sermons widely and freely available. Please visit http://rise.redeemer.com for more information, including daily devotionals.

This sermon was preached by Rev. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on March 20, 2016.

Series “Where We are Going: The City and the Mission”.

Scripture: Isaiah 58:1-14

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  1. I don't know that I've ever heard a better synopsis of what it means to be a Christian, especially not in a <45 min sermon, and especially not in a sermon on book of the Old Testament. This is an "instant classic" that should be shared and shared.

  2. Man Tim…fam this sermon right here. I've been listening to it and engaging with it. this is a powerful sermon man. I've been talking with real conservative believers but man….this right here is so much truth man.

    like legitimately this is what I was JUST saying to my father today. we as people for over 1000 yrs have been divided by Tribalism and you realize just how different the God of Israel is. and not even Israel got it. God chose Israel because they were the least! it says that in Exodus…and how often I miss it. being an Israelite in the heart is fulfilling the Gospel in the heart by seeing people the way God's people and treating people the way God treats peopld. the law, I'm starting to believe, is supposed to purify and cleanse the heart. it is not to make ourselves follow the law and then to understand why should we obey the Lord.

    we can't serve each other thru philosophy and other ways to try to get the true message of the Gospel. I think that's what I've learned over the years.

    in my spirit, this right sermon right here is amazing man.

  3. The institutional church's main focus should be the preaching of the Word (apologetic evangelism which TM does so well), and the right administration of the sacraments. Churches have got waylaid by Westernism's addiction to post-Marxism's 'social justice' programs. Note that Isaiah is talking about Israel's poor and oppressed not NYC's poor and oppressed, although Christians in politics and aid agencies are right to be concerned about them. (In saying this, I'm appealing to the notion of 'sphere sovereignty' promulgated by Abraham Kuyper an early 20th C Dutch prime minister.) Tim is right to preach about this matter of justice but it's not the job of an individual church qua church to take up the burden of societal justice; we have a society today that is differentiated into different areas of responsibility as any analysis of a Western society would make clear. It is the state's responsibility primarily and ours as citizens to be concern for justice. Instutional church and state should not be confused.

  9. I could never myself believe in God, if it were not for the cross. The only God I believe in is the One Nietzsche ridiculed as 'God on the cross.' In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it? I have entered many Buddhist temples in different Asian countries and stood respectfully before the statue of the Buddha, his legs crossed, arms folded, eyes closed, the ghost of a smile playing round his mouth, a remote look on his face, detached from the agonies of the world. But each time after a while I have had to turn away. And in imagination I have turned instead to that lonely, twisted, tortured figure on the cross, nails through hands and feet, back lacerated, limbs wrenched, brow bleeding from thorn-pricks, mouth dry and intolerably thirsty, plunged in Godforsaken darkness. That is the God for me! He laid aside his immunity to pain. He entered our world of flesh and blood, tears and death. He suffered for us. Our sufferings become more manageable in the light of his. There is still a question mark against human suffering, but over it we boldly stamp another mark, the cross that symbolizes divine suffering. 'The cross of Christ … is God’s only self-justification in such a world” as ours….' 'The other gods were strong; but thou wast weak; they rode, but thou didst stumble to a throne; But to our wounds only God’s wounds can speak, And not a god has wounds, but thou alone.

    John R.W. Stott

  11. Tim Keller is essentially taking the view St John Chrysostom took when he said "I beg you, remember this without fail, that not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth but theirs"(On Wealth and Poverty)

  12. I'm a fan of Keller's, but he is gravely mistaken on his definition of justice and conflates it with mercy and giving. I challenge you to look for yourselves at the verses he used and ask yourself if they were taken in context. He asserts that the directions such as Isaiah 58 were instructing Israel to what "justice" is while justice is only one of the things listed along with giving and acts of mercy. Some are blatant misrepresentations. It's embarrassing when he uses Leviticus 7 to say foreigners were treated equally as some sort of OT social justice triumph. The verse explicitly refers to capital punishment. So yes, foreigners were under the same law of execution. Then he ironically claims justice is all about special treatment for the oppressed. Like the false modern definition of justice, oppression in the Bible does not mean having more than other people, it is always portrayed as an active sin against people.

  15. I grew up outside of the city and this is so encouraging that more churches will be planted. Wonderful to see the future of NYC impacted by your ministry Pastor Keller. Praise our Lord on High! Hallelujah!

  16. How many people are oppressed in China? Do we Chinese Christians all help them or even to have a personal relationship with each one of them, no. A lot of people are poor but aren't poor in spirit. When I look at them. I don't know what to believe.

  26. This is a social justice gospel. T. K. picked verses out of context and again like the Pharisee in Jesus's day trying to construct a gospel based on "Doing" social justice. That is "Work". In a ironic way Jesus was trying to point out the hypocrisy of the Pharisee for trying to observe the law and live a pious life but inside is dead. Jesus fulfilled the justice by dying on the cross paying for our sins. Ironically, in China there are so many Christians under persecution. Where is T.K. seeking out to help them with justice?

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