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A Festival of 9 Lessons and Carols – He Will Be…

Wednesday Evening December 14, 2005 Luke 1:26-35 “He Will Be Great” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke, chapter one. There are outlines of the message tonight and if you don't have one, raise a hand and we’ll get you one. There are a couple in the back, OK?…Luke, chapter one, beginning in verse 26. This is an extraordinarily rich passage. This is the fifth of the Nine Lessons and Carols. We’ll do Lesson Six on Sunday morning, Lesson Seven next Wednesday night, Lesson Eight on Christmas Sunday morning, and Lesson Nine on Christmas Sunday evening. So we are right at the half-way point of these Nine Lessons and Carols from the King's College carol service; and the passage is, of course, the passage in which the angel Gabriel comes to make…

A Festival of 9 Lessons and Carols – -The Gosple…

A Festival of 9 Lessons & Carols The Lord's Day Evening December 11, 2005 Isaiah 11:1-9 “The Gospel According to Isaiah” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III We begin tonight exactly where Derek left off this morning. If you’ll remember the third “D” in the outline this morning, it was Dominion. And this passage picks up with dominion, but let me remind you of what Derek has already told us. From at least Isaiah 7 on for a number of chapters, the context is King Ahaz and his plan to rescue Judah from the opposition that has come from the combination of the King of Syria to the north and the King of Israel. And his plan is to go to Assyria (not to be confused with Syria). Assyria is the 800 pound gorilla on the block. Assyria is a great empire, and the idea is simply this: If…

A Festival of 9 Lessons and Carols – The Promised…

A Festival of 9 Lessons & Carols The Lord's Day Morning December 4, 2005 Genesis 3:8-19 “The Promised Seed” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis, chapter three. As I said before the service, today we begin a series of studies of the Lessons that are used with the Carol Service at King's College Chapel in Cambridge, England, and have been used every year since 1918; and which, for many years, at least in part have been used here at Christmastime for the Music of Christmas. These Lessons span the course of redemptive history: moving from the fall of Adam, his plunging the world into a state of sin and misery, through his original act of sin and rebellion and pride against God, to the consummation when the…

You Wouldn’t Listen

The Lord's Day Evening November 27, 2005 Psalm 81 “You Wouldn't Listen” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 81. This is a Psalm, as you have already noted perhaps from your own study or perhaps from a quick glance at the outline tonight, that is sung or based around the Feast of Booths, or Feast of Tabernacles. It's very appropriate with this season of year. It's a harvest Psalm of praise and worship to the living God. The…

What is the Mystery of Christ?

The Lord's Day Morning November 27, 2005 Ephesians 3:1-6 “What is the Mystery of Christ?” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter 3. Paul is about to return to prayer in this passage. We've seen throughout of study of this book how much of the letter of Paul to the Ephesians is filled with prayer: with prayer reports, with prayer requests, with outlines of prayer, with actual prayers that are lifted up in praise…

Restore Us, O God

Please be seated. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 80 as we continue to make our way through the Third Book of the Psalms. Last week as we studied Psalm 79 together, we saw the lament of the Psalmist for the fall of Jerusalem and the Southern Kingdom with it. Tonight we move from that concern in Psalm 79 with the fall of Jerusalem back a couple of centuries in time, to the fall of Samaria in the late eighth century. And the theme of this Psalm is this repeated…

No Longer Strangers and Aliens

The Lord's Day Morning November 20, 2005 Ephesians 2:19-22 “No Longer Strangers and Aliens” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter two, as we continue to work our way through this great book. I can remind you of where we were a couple of weeks ago, looking at Ephesians 2. In verses 11 and 12, the Apostle Paul, for at least the second time in Ephesians 2, reminds us of what we were like apart from Jesus Christ. In this…

Brought Very Low

The Lord's Day Evening November 13, 2005 Psalm 79 “Brought Very Low” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. Please be seated. We’re in Psalm 79 as we continue to work our way through the Third Book of the Psalms. We read and worked through all too briefly a long Psalm last week. This is a short Psalm this week; a very poignant Psalm. Let me remind you of the circumstances in the context of this Psalm. Jerusalem has been destroyed. The Babylonians have visited destruction and desecration on the…

He Is Our Peace

The Lord's Day Morning November 13, 2005 Ephesians 2:14-18 “He Is Our Peace” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter two. The last time we were together in this letter was on October 23, and we were in verses 11-13. Let me remind you of what Paul was telling us there. Paul was, for the second time in this chapter, reminding us of what we were like apart from Jesus Christ. He was giving us a reprise of “The Way We…

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