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Tim Keller 在这章信息中探讨了约拿的故事，指出约拿书是理解罪的深度和上帝恩典的极度丰富的最佳章节之一。他认为，即使是先知约拿，也对上帝的恩典缺乏理解，导致他深陷恐惧和偏见。Keller 强调，我们最严重的问题源于对上帝恩典真谛的无知，只有理解上帝的恩典，才能真正认识到自己的罪，并获得真正的自由和喜乐。他解释了恩典的含义：恩典是上帝对不配之人施予的无义务的恩惠，是宇宙级的款待，上帝接纳我们进入祂的家中，满足我们的需要。Keller 提出，接受恩典的方式是理解恩典的本质：我们不配得，而上帝也没有义务给予。他指出，三种人：对罪的认识不足以理解恩典；对上帝怜悯的认识不足以理解恩典；同时认识到罪的深度和上帝怜悯的高度而被改变。Keller 进一步解释了如何认识到罪的深度，以及如何看到上帝恩典的高度。他指出，自以为义、宗教活动和“宠爱的罪”都可能是阻碍恩典的偶像。打破偶像，上帝的爱和恩典就会充满力量。他强调，上帝的恩典不是廉价的，而是建立在耶稣基督的牺牲之上的。耶稣基督的牺牲使我们得救，上帝的爱不是冷漠，而是愤怒于邪恶，并为之提供救赎。接受恩典需要承认罪的深度和信靠耶稣基督为代赎。上帝恩典临在的标志：外在是消除对罪人的偏见和愤世嫉俗；内在是充满喜乐和自由。上帝的恩典是平等的，对所有的人都有效。真正理解上帝恩典的人会对他人充满希望，而不是愤世嫉俗。理解上帝恩典的人会充满喜乐和自由，不再担忧自己的表现。救恩完全出于上帝，而不是我们自己的努力。

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This chapter explores the concept of God's grace, defining it as favor granted to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver, and discussing its cosmic hospitality and undeserved nature.

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If it’s true that Jonah, a person who got direct revelation from God, can be blind to grace to the point where it distorts his very life, it’s even more likely that all of us, to one degree or another, are also blind to it.    Here is the thesis: our most severe problems are caused by our lack of understanding of the true depths of the meaning of God’s grace. Grace. The deepest secrets you ever need to learn in your life are locked up in there.    So let’s ask this passage questions: 1) what is the grace of God? 2) how do you receive the grace of God? and 3) how do you know you have received the grace of God?

This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on August 12, 1990. Series: Jonah. Scripture: Jonah 2:1-10.

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