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Timothy Keller 阐述了基督教义中救赎的免费性并非意味着缺乏行善的动机。他认为，惧怕神惩罚是错误的动机，真正的动机源于对耶稣基督 costly love 的理解和领悟。这种理解会改变人们的生活方式，并对生活产生巨大影响。他进一步指出，接纳救赎后，人们会对社会公正产生新的关注，建立新的平等互爱的信仰社群，并获得永恒的名分。他详细解释了旧约圣经中“施行公义，行公正”的含义，强调人们应该将自身的一切视为属于社群，而非仅仅属于个人，这体现了社会公正的理念。他还批判了传统文化中对家庭和婚姻的过分强调，强调在基督教信仰社群中，单身人士和已婚人士的地位平等，这体现了信仰社群的包容性和平等性。最后，他以埃塞俄比亚太监的故事为例，说明耶稣的救赎消除了人们身份和背景的差异，使所有信徒在基督里获得新的身份和归属，从而获得永恒的名分。

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Exploring the misconception that free salvation leads to a lack of incentive for living a good life, and the counterargument that true motivation should come from understanding the costly love of Jesus.

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For some, when they hear that salvation is absolutely free, their first response is to say, “If I really believed that, then I wouldn’t have any incentive to live a good life.” 

To that, I would say, “If, when you lose all fear of being smacked by God, you lose all incentive to live a good life, then the only incentive you ever had was fear. You need a better incentive.” See, if you realize the implications of the costly love of Jesus, it’s going to change your whole life.

Isaiah 56 shows that when we receive salvation 1) it creates a new concern for living justly in the world, 2) it creates a new kind of community of believers who are absolutely equal before God and radically accepting of differences, and 3) we get an everlasting name that will never be cut off. 

This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on March 14, 2010. Series: The Songs of the Servant (from Isaiah). Scripture: Isaiah 56:1-8.

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