Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life Confident in Love
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Apr 27, 2026 A sermon explores how Jesus offers personal knowledge of God, not just a vision. It unpacks what knowing God looks like, how Scripture and encounter with Christ make it possible, and why the cross enables relationship. Practical signs of genuine knowing are given, including prayer, lasting heart change, and sensing Scripture as alive.
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Knowing God Is Personal Not Informational
- Knowing God is deeper than church activity or doctrinal knowledge; Jesus warns Philip that being around him doesn't equal personal knowing.
- Keller contrasts informational knowing with personal knowing using Philip and Matthew 7:22 to show knowledge without relationship can exist even in active believers.
Use Jesus' Words As The Way To Meet God
- Hear and meditate on the words of Jesus because his words are not mere speech but effective action revealing the Father.
- Keller points to John 10:10 and Jesus' claim that 'the words I say to you...it is the Father living in me who is doing his work' as the mechanism for God working through Scripture.
Seeing Jesus Reveals The Father's Character
- Seeing Jesus means perceiving a unique combination of virtues that reveal his divine-human nature and point to the Father.
- Keller cites Jonathan Edwards: Jesus pairs majesty with humility, justice with mercy, boldness without harshness—an unearthly beauty you perceive in his words.
