This needs to go from my head to my heart. I have made so many mistakes in my life.

That line ",,you won't change, until you change what you worship", ouch; hurtin' good.

"Ancient culture was about self renunciation for the greater good of the community. Modern culture is about self assertion for oneself to be the greatest amongst the community."

"Bold and humble at once"

Performance based achievement is so exhausting and unreachable. I am trying daily to really accept my new identity through Christ.

In my opinion, Tim Keller is the most articulate preacher who explains ideological distinctions clearly.

"Your identity is received not achieved.  I am accepted in the beloved, then I perform."  Excellent.

God has gifted him with such a great wisdom, insight, and relevancy.

Jesus saved me, but also you saved my life!!

Thank you is all i can say. Even if Tim Keller is not with us anymore

Oddly enough just seconds before he referred to Star Trek The Next Generation I was remembering hearing the actress in that show - Marina Sirtis who played Councillor Troi say at a convention not to let anyone tell you who you are, you define who you are. I felt quite uncomfortable at that. I wanted to shout back, "No! God defines who I am and who we all are. Believe in Him and accept what He says about us!"

Blessed are they that mourn RIP Pastor Tim🙏

Soo good and accurate in expounding how Western culture differs from Asian cultures;  self-assertion vs self-sacrifice as the basis of identity!

Excellent explanation of the Identity in Christ 😊

I love Tim Keller's apologetics. His thought patterns are wonderfully geared towards modern day agnostics and he was wonderfully gifted by the Holy Spirit.

Love...."Identity is THE moral absolute."

My darkest times I'd gone through by watching his sermons and talks. Thanks, and God bless..❤

The praise of the praise worthy is above all reward. Only God can make me Whole. My identity relied in God almighty. The only worthy of all praise.

At around the 25-27 minute mark is where things start getting juicy. Because throughout the speech, I was getting frustrated. Being that I am a millennial and supposedly grew up in this culture, I can attest to Keller's articulation that, to summarize best as I can, the primary virtue is advertised as being "self-drive" or 'self-will." In a sense, the ontology of meaning in the secular world can be described as a transcendent or determined will in the face of stimuli. "You have a dream, you have to protect it," courtesy of The Pursuit of Happiness. Or, "when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful," courtesy of Eric Thomas.
We see as being noble the religion of self-assertion, self-drivenness and self-willingness. Asserting your will onto existence means that you exist under your own justification.
But there's an underlying issue with these things, as I've learned. All of these things are confounded by the self. They aren't methods for serving or getting tasks completed; they're ideologies. When their moral ends have been achieved, say, such as that they've produced benefits for the greater group, they actually become a liability to these ends, their own self-described "causes." To want to be a "life saver" as an identity factor can only really be contingent on there being lives to be saved; if, say, all the lives were saved, then your need to be a life saver would actually be a liability to the cause of saving lives; you would no longer be happy that the lives are saved.

It's funny the kind of wisdom that's in the Bible, because here's the second thing:
I've started thinking, what might be wrong with being so driven? Well, for one thing, anything you do and anything you include in your self-concept, your identity, gets contrasted to the outer world; it's a comparison to others. If you base your identity on your achieved ambitions, humble as you like to think you are, you distinguish yourself from others. Pastor Keller is a genius how he articulates this. He explains that any worldly identity, an identity based in virtue, a personally-achieved identity, forces you to be inferior to those who achieved that identity factor and sneer at those who didn't, which is very-quickly a zero-sum game. That is just what the secular culture teaches; you posit a value or a standard, set out to achieve that standard, and then judge yourself and others relative to that standard.

Enjoy listening to him. Very grateful that his teaching are still with us, though he is gone himself beyond.