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Revelation and Benediction

The Lord's Day Morning June 26, 2005 Ephesians 1:1-2 “Revelation and Benediction” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to the Book of Ephesians, chapter one. John Mackay, who later became the president of Princeton Theological Seminary, when he was a fourteen-year-old boy in 1903, wandered out into the hills of the highlands of Scotland with his Bible in his hand, and read through the Book of Ephesians. It was a life-changing experience for him. He was gripped by the truth that he found in this book. Young people, I want to say to you, this reminds us that now is the time for you to do business with God. You don't wait until you go off to college, you don't wait until you get involved in the RUF group, or wait until you…

Every Spiritual Blessing (1)

The Lord's Day Morning July 3, 2005 Ephesians 1:3-14 “Every Spiritual Blessing” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to the Book of Ephesians, chapter one. We started a study of the Book of Ephesians, the letter of Paul to the Ephesian church, last week, looking at the greeting…at the salutation found in verses 1 and 2. And I want you to notice the rest of this chapter (from Ephesians 1:3 all the way down to verse 23) is prayer. We made that comment before. So much of the Book of Ephesians, so much of Paul's writing is taken up with prayer. Almost half of the Book of Ephesians is prayer. It's either Paul recounting a prayer that he has prayed, or maybe it's Paul outlining a prayer or requesting a prayer, or…

Praying With Paul

The Lord's Day Morning August 21, 2005 Ephesians 1:3-14 “Praying with Paul” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter one. For several weeks now we have been working through this prayer of praise in verses 3-14. We have parked on this prayer in part because we have said it is a life re-orienting prayer: that if we could understand what God is teaching us about Himself in this prayer of praise to Him, it would change our lives. And we've also said it would certainly change the way we pray. We have stayed so long in this passage, for one reason, because when we begin to look at verses 15 the next time we are together in this book, we will see the rest of Ephesians 1 (from verses 15-23) is a prayer of intercession;…

Every Spiritual Blessing (2)

The Lord's Day Morning July 10, 2005 Ephesians 1:3-4 “Every Spiritual Blessing (2): The Blessing of Divine Election” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter one. Last week we began our study of this glorious prayer in Ephesians 1, beginning in verse 3 and running all the way to verse 14. And as we did, we observed that the whole of Ephesians, chapter one, is a prayer. Ephesians 1:3-14 is a prayer of praise; Ephesians…

Predestined in Love

The Lord's Day Morning July 17, 2005 Ephesians 1:4-6 “Predestined in Love” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you will look at Ephesians 1:4, you will notice that the last words, probably, in your pew Bible translation, and certainly in my rendition of the New American Standard Version here, have the words In love as the first words of a sentence. Now, the reason is [that] in the King James this verse was read this way: “…that we should be holy and blameless before Him in love.” So the…

Abundant Grace

The Lord's Day Morning July 24, 2005 Ephesians 1:7-8 “Abundant Grace” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter one, as we continue to study through this great letter of the Apostle Paul; a letter which, of course, ultimately comes to us by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and is addressed to every Christian, because God's word is profitable and is designed for our discipleship, to equip us for every good work,…

Summing Up All Things In Christ

The Lord's Day Morning July 31, 2005 Ephesians 1:8-10 “Summing Up All Things In Christ” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter one, as we continue to work our way through this great prayer. We have said several times that this first prayer, from verse 3-14 of Ephesians 1, is a prayer of praise, or doxology. It is directed to God. It is about God. And we have also said that it is life re-orienting. Understanding this…

Living to the Praise of His Glory

The Lord's Day Morning August 7, 2005 Ephesians 1:10-12 “Living to the Praise of His Glory” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III We have said in our study of Ephesians, chapter one, that just as much of the Book of Ephesians is made up of prayer — almost half of it — that the whole, almost, of the first chapter is made up of prayer. There are two great prayers in Ephesians, chapter one: from verses 3-14 there's a prayer of praise (or of doxology, or of adoration); in verses 15-23 there is a…

I Believe inthe Holy Ghost

I Believe in the Holy GhostEphesians 1:13-14 If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians 1:13-14. We arrive now at the third part of the Apostles’ Creed as we continue to work through this great Christian confession of faith. This part of the Creed gives us the completion of our profession of the Trinity. We began with “I believe in God the Father Almighty,” and immediately went to “I believe in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord.” Then, a long explanation…