Keith Simon
speaker
1,783 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6d ago
Keith Simon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
Like the smart, the beautiful, the talented, the hardworking, whoever is a cut above the rest.
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That's the way school works, or that's the way our careers work.
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That's the way a lot of parenting works.
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And if we're not careful, we assume that God's kingdom works the same way.
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We assume that God honors the good, the moral, and the religious.
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And we stop coming to God as desperate sinners begging for grace.
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Instead, we start coming to him as basically decent people.
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were doing pretty well.
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Not perfectly, but pretty well.
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Here's the test to see which kingdom you're actually living in.
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When you don't get what you want from God, when you don't get the health outcome or the grade or the kind of marriage you wanted, do you get testy?
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Do you get a little angry?
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Do you think, how come God didn't give me this?
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I I deserve this.
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The more we fix our eyes on what we deserve, the more disappointed we become.
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Deserving people are almost always the most disappointed people.
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Now picture the opposite.
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A desperate sinner, someone who knows that what they truly deserve is God's judgment.
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When that person sees that God sent his own son for them, when they see that they are the recipient of God's grace, that they do not deserve, they are astonished.
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And everything good in their life becomes this undeserved gift from a gracious God.
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