Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life Born Again
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Feb 25, 2026 A sermon explores how trials either purify or harden a person. It examines holiness as the means to process suffering rightly. The talk explains new birth as a decisive, supernatural transformation that undergirds holy living. Listeners are urged to examine whether they have experienced this radical inner change.
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How Suffering Shapes Character
- Suffering's effect depends on internal character, not circumstances.
- Timothy Keller compares people to clay and wax under the same sun to show internal structure determines softening or hardening.
Holiness Enables Redemptive Suffering
- Holiness is the key internal structure that allows suffering to refine rather than crush you.
- Keller links being holy to the ability to process trials so they ennoble rather than embitter you.
New Birth as First Cause
- The new birth is the foundational cause enabling holiness and proper processing of suffering.
- Keller emphasizes nothing Peter says applies unless a person is born again, making it the first cause.
