Discovering the Gospel in Exodus - Tim Keller

In the second episode of the Gospel in Life series "Discovering the Gospel in Every Book of the Bible", Tim Keller looks at the book of Exodus.
Each episode from this series will highlight themes that point to the Gospel and help you discover the overarching narrative of God’s Word in every book - Christ coming into the world to save us from our sins and reconcile us to God the Father.
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South Korea! Do you know how I can get Pastor Tim Keller's sermons and audio books in Korean??? I have been looking for a way for my parents in Korea for a long time. God bless you!

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[@OliviaMukam]

Thank you for this mental framework : • 1. Story-line • 2. Principle • 3. The centrality and sufficiency of Jesus-Christ ! Saved by GRACE, first : then give laws to obey, second. For deep Intimacy and relationship. 3rd : We will always fall short of the law... there must be an atonement and a sacrifice to maintain us in the relationship: JESUS-CHRIST = The Answer... The Way, Truth, Life! The beauty of the GOSPEL. Thank you for communicating with so much clarity, boldness and simplicity 🙏🏽🙏🏽. Enjoy our LORD JESUS-CHRIST face to face, until we meet again 🙏🏽 ❤

[@mabelchiu2205]

Thank you for your notes, it helps

[@potapotapotapotapotapota]

Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

[@dennis9423]

John the Baptist uttered the proclamation, "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" only by pure inspiration. He could not have figured that out. Prior to that time, no one could forsee that Jesus was to be the ultimate sacrifice. Only John put the pieces together by the revelation of God. It was after the Resurrection did everyone else realize this great Truth. Thanks, Tim, for another chapter in the unfolding story of redemption. Keep 'em coming, please.

[@dw3403]

None of them knew. It is even written the Angels didn't know. Although when Peter rebuked him Jesus told him to get behind him Satan. So I think they thought he was going to be king (the Romans had abolished that). But they did not understand pentecost had to happen and that could only happen by the cross.

[@cindyajumbo]

What a lovely series. I'm falling more in love with the Word. God bless you Keller!

[@raquelcastro7241]

Thank you, Tim Keller, for helping us understand the living word of God. God bless you, God bless this ministry. Warm thoughts I send your way, Raquel 🙋🏻‍♀️🙏📖🐑🩷😌🫖🍵

[@petrossealexandremassango6813]

Amen

[@petrossealexandremassango6813]

Thank Tim Keller, I love even more Lord Jesus the true lamb who purifies with his sacrifices♥️🙏🙌

[@franbruno3110]

SO thankful for the gift of teaching Dr. Tim Keller was given by God

[@cecilleespiritu3554]

I look forward to these series. Tim Keller explains the word simply understandable. God bless you greatly

[@Rubberglass]

Wish you were on Jordan Peterson Exodus round table.

[@iquintani]

Thank you Dr Keller! May the Lord continue to give you strength to preach The Word

[@user-he1vp1nt2x]

Praise the Lord Jesus Christ. 🎉🎉🎉

[@ashathapamagar1969]

Listening from Nepal and i believe He is one of the fine theologian we have in our generation, Thank you for your media ministry.

[@irishemmanuelagpoon4561]

Another gem dropped in here!

[@danielchang1913]

Poweful teaching and inspiring me

[@PHILHAMILT0N]

Very helpful wide-eyed perspective on the Book of Exodus, thank you

[@austin316What]

amazing Dr Keller! May God continue to bless you sir.

[@pn558]

Always edifying listening to the coherent explanations and bringing my heart back to an unseen God, thank you.

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Thank you for your teaching

[@d.s.lpeiris6243]

So needed listening to these videos. Thank you and God Bless.

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So BLESSED listening to these videos...

[@graceonline320]

This is a very important series on youtube. So glad to have found this. It's also a great encouragement personally.

[@TheMALKERAZ]

Praying for you Tim! I pray for healing in Jesus name!

[@cashabea]

Beautiful Starts & ends with Him

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Thank you, brothers and sisters who are posting these videos! May God bless your ministry. You are blessing is in Brazil!

[@SS-cf7nq]

This is an amazing series!

[@TheAnbyrley]

Tim Keller is absolutely amazing 🤩

[@ijsegovi]

Muchas gracias por este video. Como dice el pastor Tim, la ley dada en la gracia no era suficiente para nuestra relación, se necesitaba el tabernáculo, el cordero, que es Jesús. Un gran saludo desde Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱

[@JasonLeonPike]

Thank you for this teaching.

[@joelowen3347]

So excited for this series. Thank you Tim for this free content!

[@paulsevers7740]

It is good to realise the spontaneous, 'one take' nature of these videos - since he mis-spoke and no editing corrected the mistake - sheep are not woolly BIPEDS! They have FOUR legs! Great word, very helpful.

[@adamanthony7465]

Wonderful instruction..thank you so much...such clarity.Niw I must fix the overdue in the home..before the warning of idle hands comes about ☺️🌻🕯️

[@P-CROZIER]

Amen and Amen, Thank You Lord Jesus for Grace, Love, Favour and Mercy to Bring me to You, Thank You Lord Jesus ❤ 🙏

[@philipbenjamin4720]

I will be watching every single one of the videos in this series. I am not a leader of a church but if I was I would also be seeking to make a series of either bible studies or videos like this which explain how every book in the bible points to Jesus and the cross. It’s a powerful way to put in place - for those who listen - the lowest level foundations for approaching the bible - an important way to fight back against biblical and theological illiteracy - ensuring that when people read the individual sentences and paragraphs of the bible that they have a structure to which they can attach what they read. 
This is my view about this series while personally coming to the conclusion that since even after correction Tim and TGC refuse to change direction from presenting the God who sacrifices himself so that all might come to him (Romans 5:18, Acts 10:34-35, 1 John 2:2) - this being absolutely primary in respect of God's character - as the one who creates most people only so he can pour out his anger on them - that this so maligns the heart of God that I cannot currently operate as if Tim and TGC are family. With BOTH of these things in mind I encourage people to listen/watch each of the videos in Tim’s series - but with your spiritual antenna raised and turned on. As proof of the need to do this let me address SOME of the things that Tim says here (as you will see I don’t disagree with everything in the video - but with one very important key thing - which relates to Calvinist non-Calvinist disagreements). Tim said that Exodus is notable in that it begins with God saving people - then giving them the law - and then finally the focus moves to the temple. He says that this is proof that salvation starts with God’s grace and then involves us becoming conformed in character to the righteousness that is imputed to us by grace. But this isn’t a fair summary of Exodus (or even an aware one - he could have addressed the issues I am about to raise - even if only to then disagree with the position I am about to put). As those who have read Exodus will know Tim has missed out a massively important point - the consequences of which cause God to be presented in a totally inappropriate light - namely that the Israelites are in captivity in Egypt for 450 years and God does absolutely nothing - while they suffer greatly at the hands of the Egyptians. And then when God acts it isn’t to save every sinner - both Israelite and Egyptian - but predominantly - from what we read - the Israelites. The obvious question is - what is God waiting for - and why only the Israelites? Now at this point I can imagine that many think they know what I will say next - but in fact while I disagree with Tim - you’re about to find out that I also disagree with an interpretation of Exodus which can be summarised as salvation by repentance. Our repentance is a necessary sign of our salvation - but that doesn’t mean that our repentance must PRECEDE our being forgiven. Here is proof that repentance preceding our being forgiven/saved cannot be correct teaching. The only place from which godly capacity and godly desire come is from God himself - and therefore there is no sense in which God is able to first give people the godly capacity and desire to repent without having united with them (his uniting with people being his acceptance of them - his forgiveness). This is something that I have failed to understand until fairly recently. Any theology - from the Calvinist or non-Calvinist - which suggests that the non-believer is given godly capacity and desire before being united with God - is wrong theology. This is one reason - one proof - for why Calvinist theology about conversion cannot be correct. The Calvinist believes in total depravity - that the inclination of the unregenerate sinner is towards sin in every thought, word, and deed (despite verses like Mark 12:34 in which Jesus specifically commends a man for his answer to his question while also expressly saying that he is not yet in the kingdom). For the unregenerate person to be converted the Calvinist must find a way to make two things compatible - and cannot - the belief that salvation must involve someone being transformed in order to enable them to have faith - and the fact that we access the fullness of grace only through faith (Romans 5:2). An impossible task. But so is believing that a sinner's faith makes them repentant before they are united with God. That's wrong too. So what then is correct - and how does it apply to the book of Exodus? The reason why God acts to save the Israelites while slaughtering the first born children of the Egyptians isn’t because God is a monster who arbitrarily picks some people to be saved before creation (an idea which doesn’t make sense when you think about it because if God is outside time his predestining people to be saved through a future event - and the future event - happen with no time between them - they must be the one decision - while not being able to be the one decision!) and creates other people - guilty in their heart or not - only so he could pour out his anger on them. It is because after 450 years they turn to God in faith. This 'turning to God' not being a work - because it is RECEIVING GOD. If the Israelites had not turned to God in faith for two million years God would have waited for two million years. Note that I didn’t say they repented - their first action is to have faith in God - although there is no means for anyone to have saving faith without first becoming aware that the thing about God that they must have faith in is that he is holy and just - and therefore is owed our lives whether or not we have sinned - though we all have. This faith of the Israelites is access to God’s undeserved presence - his grace - instead of faith being the result of the fullness of God’s grace (consistent with Romans 5:2) - God’s grace being his undeserved UNION with them - they are forgiven - right with God before they are delivered from the Egyptians - with this union with God being the ONLY means by which they can then be repentant. So repentance - while a necessary sign of authentic faith - doesn’t precede forgiveness - it follows it. It is sanctification - not justification. And so Exodus isn’t about grace leading to repentance - it is about faith leading to grace being given - that grace being union with God - that union with God bringing capacity and desire to repent - with authentic faith being a decision to trust in God even in the face of his holiness and justice - and the sin and therefore indebtedness these reveal in us - with no person able to have authentic faith in the absence of awareness of these things. There is absolutely no reason why Tim cannot mention other ways of understanding Exodus and other books - and explain why he doesn’t support them - as he makes these videos. But he won’t - and I suggest that this is a sign of his continuing refusal to create an appropriate truth seeking culture. But this doesn’t mean that it isn’t possible to get benefit from these videos - if one becomes and remains aware of the issues that will inevitably dictate how Tim and others will choose to interpret exactly how the bible’s books point to Christ. PS The idea that repentance follows union with God - that it follows forgiveness/being saved - does not contradict the holiness of God. Why not? Because contrary to popular understanding nowhere in the bible does it say that God hates all sin - only that he hates evil. There are three kinds of sin - the first two are the result of two judgements of God in response to the free, knowing, and wilful choice of each of us (we each sin like Adam and Eve sin) listed in Romans 1: 1. SIn which is weakness (Matt 26:41) 2. Sin which is ignorance (1 Tim 1:13) 3. Sin which is free, knowing, and wilful (evil doing) - (Eph 2:3, Romans 12:9, Psalm 5:5-6, Psalm 26:5). A person who is currently a sinner in the first two respects can be accepted by a holy God - because God's holiness is his abhorrence only for sin which is free, knowing, and wilful) and then repent due to God having united with them. However a person who is sinning in the third way - must cease sinning in that way before coming to God in faith - this coming to God being union with God - godly capacity and godly desire to no longer sin in any of the three ways.

[@marianacabral8649]

So goood! Thank you so much for this video!!!

[@MerBlack]

Thank you, Pastor Keller!

[@MichaelHasebroock]

Very well done, love the gospel/Jesus reference with the Lamb of God.

[@haichengli6216]

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[@scotthart7307]

Wish you would reach out to Jordon Peterson. He believes in the God of exedous but I'm not sure if believes in the Christ of exedous.

[@Rubberglass]

I just posted the same thing!

[@joeis4ever]

Where is the rest of the series…!!!!?!!❤😊

[@giovannaalencardeoliveira4578]

Guys, in the first video Tim said that there are many books that try to do that, I mean, to reveal Jesus in the Scriptures, but I don't know any books about it, can you please recommend me one? I'm asking that because I love reading and I think I learn more when I read, but of course I'm gonna watch Tim's videos.

[@sherwintitus7999]

Check out Alec Motyer, Edmund Clowney, and Christopher JH Wright's books on Jesus in the OT. Keller was heavily influenced by Motyer and Clowney. God bless!

[@giovannaalencardeoliveira4578]

@@sherwintitus7999 thanks a million!

[@duaneh237]

The Bible Code: Finding Jesus in Every Book of the Bible by O. S. Hawkins is one I've found helpful. It's concise and helpful!

[@giovannaalencardeoliveira4578]

@@duaneh237 thanks a bunch!!

[@michaelmakinster1043]

They're actually quadrupeds but we do get the point.

[@diazz98]

it would be great if it was in spanish 😐

[@2Uahoj]

The problem with the "faith alone" argument is that it is not Biblical. As St. Augustine wrote: 'Christ does not choose to "save us" without our own cooperation.' So good works - as St. James also points out - are essential. As Jesus said: "let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven" (Mat.5: 16).

[@alkimball7052]

Indeed, good works are essential. BUT as St. James points out they are to actively demonstrate an already living and saving faith that is by grace alone. Good works are evidence of already existing faith. St. Paul agrees with that in Ephesians 2:8-10. Salvation by grace in order to do the good works prepared in advance for true believers to do. To add anything to the "It is finished" work of Christ might be to say that His perfect life and substitutionary death for those who truly believe is not enough to save. Eternal life is a gift of God. The faith to receive it is a gift of God. Living out that saving faith is the cooperative effort.

[@2Uahoj]

@@alkimball7052 Not really. There are many people of real faith who do not have many good works, and many people of no faith at all who have an abundance of good works. Life is not as simple as you make it out to be. .

[@alkimball7052]

@@2Uahoj I agree that there are people of real faith who have few good works. St. Paul writes about them in I Corinthians 3:12-15. They will still be saved by grace, but only as one escaping from the fire. I also agree that many people of no faith at all have good works (insofar as they are helpful in this world). However, the author of Hebrews teaches that without faith it is impossible to please God. And St. Paul teaches that whatever is not of faith is sin. I agree that life is not simple. It is also true that the Gospel is clear. Eternal life is from the Lord - only given as a gift by His grace alone; and is received by faith alone (faith which is a gift from God as well). Good works are the necessary result of true faith. They are the evidence of true faith but in no way a source of salvation. It is my hope that you have cast yourself on God's mercy by faith in the sinless life of Jesus and his atoning sacrifice alone for the forgiveness of your sins. I would very much encourage you to continue in your good works! But not as an addition to the perfect (complete) work of Jesus on your behalf.

[@2Uahoj]

@@alkimball7052 The Bible never once says we are saved by "faith alone." That was an insertion by Luther. In fact the Bible says the opposite: "We are not saved by faith alone." Further, Paul says "love" is greater than faith. So, very probably many loving nonbelievers are going to the kingdom much faster than the so-called faithful.

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@@2UahojRead John 14:6 in the Bible and you will find your answer there as to whether those without Christ can ever go to be with Him forever.

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