Such good words

Thank you for sharing all these sermons. They bless me everyday in every possible way. Intelligent and succinct.. Thank you Tim Keller!

I don't say Easter but I say Passover....Yes he is risen

@TinyFord1

Ай бұрын

Jews celebrate passover, Christians celebrate easter. So since you agree He is risen you can feel free to start calling it Easter like the disciples did all through the new testament.

Still good today :) What a great message and a great reminder!

As u believable as they knew it would sound, all the disciples and followers HAD to write and say what they saw - the risen Jesus in flesh and blood after his death. They were shocked too. They did not expect it. They didn’t even understand what it meant. But it happened and they couldn’t deny it. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Absolutely beautiful. Thank You Jesus. ❤️

Extraordinarily moving! Thank you more than you know!

Awesome as usual.

AMEN AND AMEN!

Thank you!!

This is one of the most powerful and important sermons you'll ever hear!

Thank you! So very encouraging.

16:55 ' For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.'' can someone please explain this to me, is this verse really saying that if I dont marry the girl of my dreams in this life, I never will, that I will infact miss out

@Virginia.Espinosa

5 ай бұрын

I was thinking of that verse too.

Luke chapter 24 verse 37 to 43 they were startled and frightened thinking they saw a ghost he said to them why are you troubled and why do doubts rise in your minds look at my hands and my feet it is I myself touch me and see a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see I have when he had said this he showed them his hands and feet and while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement he asked them do you have anything here to eat and they gave him a piece of broiled fish and he took it and ate it in their presence this is God's Word now I believe that this little text this little story is written especially for the average New Yorker today because the average New Yorker is actually comfortable with Easter comfortable with the message of Easter you see the disciples when they heard the real message of Easter they were look at all the words startled terrified see them troubled filled with doubts amazement disbelief joy not none of them the average New Yorker experiences none of them the average New Yorker says this it says well look first of all I love the Easter story I think it's a wonderful thing it's inspiring first of all it means that there's a there can be a new beginning after disaster that there's hope after darkness I they also would say I also believe many would say that after death there is life we go into the light so I just love the Easter story well this would say also I don't believe it literally I don't believe there was a real physical resurrection I think that that these stories morphed over the years the Christians had wonderful experiences of how Jesus Christ their teacher his spirit lives on and his teaching lives on and eventually over the years these stories came down of a physical resurrection I don't believe that but I loved the Easter story now I'm here to show you that the it's almost like Luke who gives us this passage it's almost like Luke anticipated that because this passage actually comes right out essentially and says if you spiritualize the resurrection if you say Jesus is just living on in spirit you'll have comfort but you won't have the truth because here's Jesus showing up and saying I am NOT spirit, I am NOT a ghost I am NOT a spirit. A spirit has not got flesh and bones like I do; touch me give me a fish let me eat. Spirits don't eat like this. The whole point of this passage is to come right up against the popular approach and say if you are comfortable with Easter if you're not terrified by it and just rapturously lift it into joy by it if you're just comfortable neither terrified nor filled with incredible joy it's because you have either spiritualized the message of Easter or you haven't thought out the message of Easter. the message of Easter is Jesus has his flesh and bones Jesus right now has his flesh and bones and Jesus says if you understand it the way the disciples understand it you'll be moved from absolute terror to incredible joy but you won't just be comfortable let me just show you three things if Jesus has his flesh and bones three things it teaches us what difference does it make these three things one thing for the mind it changes your thinking one thing for the life of the will it changes the way you live one thing for the heart it changes your feeling first of all for the mind if Jesus still has his flesh and bones that means he's Lord this is the terrifying part it means he's Lord Paul went to Athens and he began to preach we're told in Acts chapter 17 Paul went to Athens and he went up on the Mars Hill the Areopagus and he began that's what areopagus means the hill of Ares and up there was a council of philosophers and he began to speak to them he began to lecture them and they loved it for a good while because he came along and he said you know that I believe in one God and I believe in a God who cannot live in temples and I believe we all need this guy and they loved it. they said this is great god. because you know we're all searching for God and we're all through all the different religions we're searching and every religion tells us something about it gives us clues to how to find life and how to deal with our struggles and this is wonderful but then all of a sudden Paul gets to verse 30 and 31 of that chapter and he says this in his lecture he says the times of ignorance God overlooked but now he commands all men everywhere to repent because the world will be judged by the man he appointed to which he has given all assurance when he raised him from the dead and at that point the lectures over the philosophers got up they stopped that everything was over and here's the reason why because they realized at this point suddenly they got very uncomfortable because Paul was saying the search is over if JesusChrist was raised from the dead., their times of ignorance was over, everybody was looking everybody was groping everybody was looking around and hoping that they could find life in God in some way but this search is over he's here time for decision the philosophers knew that the resurrection meant that Christianity was claiming something for its founder that no other religion ever even came close to comparably to claim now somebody says why the resurrection that makes Jesus unique. don't other religions have stories of heroes being resurrected doesn't the Bible have other people who were resurrected didn't Elijah raise the widow's son in the Old Testament didn't Lazarus rise from the dead so why would Jesus resurrection suddenly make him unique and his religion unique and the answer is this nobody was ever raised like Jesus. look at Lazarus they had to roll the stone away so he could get out they had to untangle him they had a member they had to take off his grave clothes so he could speak so he could move but Jesus burial cloths are lying there in the tomb completely wrapped and folded because the body had just passed through and one of the reasons why the disciples are so terrified right here in verse 37 it says they were terrified not just because they saw Jesus but because the doors were locked he came through the wall and they began to see the reason that the stone was rolled away on Jesus tomb on Easter Sunday morning was not so Jesus could get out. did you think that's what it was you did you thought that's what it was now so we could get in it's so Mary and the disciples could get in he didn't need that why because Jesus was not raised like anyone else Lazarus death lost its grip on Lazarus okay death lost its grip but Lazarus rose to die again but Jesus Christ broke the hands and the teeth of death he broke the bars of death he destroyed death the death of death in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ that's what the Bible teaches and therefore now what we see is Jesus coming through a wall what's that mean it means that Jesus Christ now lives in a whole new realm around beyond decay around beyond decay and disintegration and death and time and space and he even Jesus is showing us that he is not like any other founder he is the firstborn from the dead he is the son of God and he has broken through death and that's the reason why st. John when he meets Jesus near the end of his life he writes the account of it in Revelation chapter 1 and there John says this I fell at his feet as though dead and then he placed his right hand on me and he said do not be afraid I am the living one I was dead and behold I am Alive for evermore and I hold the keys of death you see Jesus Christ was not just resuscitated he didn't die to rise again he didn't rise to die again excuse me he died and he rose Trenton over the grave he broke the bands of death he broke death in half and as a result he says I'm the living one I hold the keys to life now what does that mean for the Philosopher's what does that mean for you and me it means the search is over the day of repentance is here because every other religion and every other philosopher and every other religious leader was pointing this is the way to life but Jesus Christ shows up and says I am the life I am NOT another teacher pointing with clues that you can use on your search for life I am the life to which all the clues point that's the reason why when Martha comes up to Jesus and says Lord if you had been here my brother Lazarus would not have died why couldn't you have been here now we have to wait to see him for the resurrection at the end of time and Jesus looks at her and says I am the resurrection and the life wherever I am there's resurrection I'm not a teacher pointing to the resurrection I am the resurrection to which all teachers Point and therefore don't search repent this is the reason why the resurrection is so in-your-face this is the reason why it is it is such an outrage today and this is the reason why people like to spiritualize it away because of it happened physically that's where we are see I find one of the most ayran one great irony is the people who most hate Pat answers live in the most Pat answer of all the average person says well everybody's got their own religion everybody's searching out for God everybody's trying everybody's got part of the truth and who knows who's got the truth you know why that's a pat answer because as long as we're all searching and who knows who could possibly be right and everybody's got the different religion or philosophy what that means is I can sort of say I'm still a spiritual seeker but I can live anyway I want today because who knows who's got the truth but if Jesus Christ says I'm not the pointer to the truth I am the truth I'm not appointed to the life I am the life I hold the keys to death I have destroyed death and the only way you will ever get past it is through me that means the search is done the day of decision is now that's the reason why Paul says the resurrection means God

We’ll get new souls? Is that biblical? I’ve never heard that before.

@anitajohnson2913

3 жыл бұрын

Your heart is reset when you believe that Jesus is your sacrifice for your sins . You are not only forgiven and have everlasting life you will immediately feel a transformation in how you pursue career, ambition, comfort, security, status etc . You will pursue them but it will not be the most important thing in the world. Just believe Jesus was the lamb who died in your place

Tim is what Jordan Peterson should be if he would only discard his humanism.

@st.mephisto8564

Жыл бұрын

Tim is what Jordan Peterson would be without any knowledge of evolutionary biology, psychology and philosophy.