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Ephesians 5

Why Jesus Came at Christmas

Christmas Eve Family Carol Service December 24, 2012 “Why Did Jesus Come at Christmas Time?” Ephesians 5:2 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians chapter 5 verse 2, if you don't, there are pew Bibles in front of you and I'd invite you to open up and follow along. There's just one verse we're going to look at today and perhaps not a verse that you’re used to looking at, at Christmas time or associating with the incarnation of Christ. But I want to ask a specific question. I want to ask this especially to the young people who are here today and the youngest of you I hope will have conversations with your parents and perhaps uncles and aunts and grandparents and cousins over this particular question,…

Sexual Immorality, Coarse Talk, Thanksgiving and the…

The Lord's Day Morning June 4, 2006 Ephesians 5:3-4 “Sexual Immorality, Coarse Talk, Thanksgiving, and the Glory of God” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter five. We’ll be looking at verses 3 and 4 today. Before we read this passage together — a passage that deals with the issue of sexual immorality, and contains Paul's exhortation to the Ephesians and to us as believers to be different from the world, to be distinct from the world in this whole arena of sexual immorality, both in terms of what we do, what we think about, what we view, and how we speak — I want to remind you of a couple of things. First of all, I want to remind you again that the Apostle Paul in this passage is not saying ‘Do…

The New Walk (1): More Reasons Why (Sexual Immorality…

The Lord's Day Morning June 11, 2006 Ephesians 5:5-7 “The New Walk (1): More Reasons Why” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians 5, as we continue to work through this great book together. I would simply draw your attention to this: When we moved from Ephesians 5:4, the last verse that we studied last week, to Ephesians 5:5, the verse that we're going to begin studying this week, we moved into a new section of Paul's argument in this book. Now if you've read ahead, and I trust that you have, you have noticed that the subject matter in Ephesians 5:3-4, actually continues in Ephesians 5:5, 6, and 7, and actually beyond. So why am I saying that we have shifted into a new section? Because you will remember that…

The New Walk (2): More Reasons Why (Sexual Immonrality…

The Lord's Day Morning June 18, 2006 Ephesians 5:5-7 “The New Walk (2): More Reasons Why” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians 5 as we continue to work our way through this book. Let me just remind you that in Ephesians 4:17ff, the Apostle Paul begins a section of the book which we've been studying for a number of weeks, where he exhorts us to live distinctly as Christians, to be different from the world. And he says…

The New Walk (3): More Reasons Why Children of Light

The Lord's Day Morning July 9, 2006 Ephesians 5:8-14 “The New Walk (3): Children of Light” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians 5, as we continue our way through this great letter of the Apostle Paul — not just to the church of Ephesus, but to us, as all Scripture is given by inspiration and is profitable for our reproof and correction and training in righteousness. We've said that this whole section in Ephesians (from…

The New Walk (4): More Reasons Why – Wisdom

The Lord's Day Morning July 16, 2006 Ephesians 5:15-17 “The New Walk (4): More Reasons Why – Wisdom” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians 5 as we continue our way through this great letter of the Apostle Paul, not only to the Ephesian church, but to us. We've been looking at this section that stretches from Ephesians 5:5 all the way down to verse 21. We've said that throughout this passage Paul is concerned…

The New Walk (5): More Reasons Why – Filled With…

The Lord's Day Morning July 23, 2006 Ephesians 5:18-21 “The New Walk (5): More Reasons Why — Filled With the Spirit” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Please open your Bibles to Ephesians chapter five, as we continue through Paul's letter to Ephesus and to us. We've said since Ephesians 4:17 that it has been Paul's concern to exhort us to live distinctively as Christians in this world; not to be like the world, but rather to be in the world and not of it; to be distinct in our…

God’s New Family: An Exposition of Ephesians…

The Lord's Day Morning July 30, 2006 Ephesians 5:21 God's Household Rules: Marriage and Family (1)” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians 5. If you have the outline that was provided today for this message, you’ll also notice the outline of Ephesians 5:18-21. We’re going to go back today to verse 21, the last verse of the passage we studied together last week, because it is a transition verse from the section that…

Thinking and Living Biblically in a Gender-nuteral…

Thinking and Living Biblically in a Gender-neutral SocietyBiblical Manhood and Womanhood seriesFirst Presbyterian ChurchJackson, MSDr. J. Ligon Duncan Ephesians 5:22 How These Biblical Definitions of Manhood and Womanhood Apply in the Home and the Church If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Ephesians chapter 5. All summer long the view that we have been proponing in our study of biblical manhood and womanhood, we have called complimentarianism. And we have defined that…