Sermon
Why Does God Do Nothing?
By Tim Keller
Sermon
The Object of Faith
Tim Keller | November 20, 1994
Overview
The whole story of Moses and the leading out—the exodus of the people of Israel out of Egypt and out of their slavery—is all told in Hebrews 11 in just a couple of phrases.
In the Passover’s ordinance of the death of a lamb and taking shelter under its blood, God gave the Israelites and anyone who wanted to read the Old Testament a clue to the meaning of the universe. Look at Jesus as Lamb, and a tremendous greatness of life will develop. This is the object of our faith. This is the thing we look at to become people of faith.
From looking at Jesus as our Passover, Jesus as the Lamb of God, we get three lessons: 1) we see everybody deserves judgment, 2) Jesus’ death is a propitiation, and 3)
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