Tempted, Tried and Never Failing

The Lord's Day Morning April 19, 2009 Communion Sunday Luke 4:1-13 “Tempted, Tried but Never Failing” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III CALL TO WORSHIP: O come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker, for He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the flock under His care. Let us worship Him. Our Lord and our God, we need You more than food. We love You more than life. We treasure You more than anything. We come today by the gospel; we come today by the cross; we come today by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, trusting in Him alone. Nothing in our hands we bring, simply to the cross we cling. We come to You in faith, looking for Your grace, looking for yourself. We want to know You, we want to commune with You, we want to fellowship with You. We want…

An Unwelcome Prophet

The Lord's Day Morning April 26, 2009 Luke 4:14-30 “An Unwelcome Prophet” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you’ll open your Bibles to the the Gospel of Luke, the fourth chapter. I remind you that when we were in this chapter last, we were looking at the temptation of the Lord Jesus Christ. We saw parallels between Adam's temptation in the garden and Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness. Adam was tempted once in the garden, failed immediately, and three curses followed against the serpent, against Eve, and against Adam. Here Jesus is tempted not in a garden in an unfallen world, but in a desolate wilderness — a desert in a fallen world filled with sin; He's tempted not once, not twice, but thrice–Adam once, Jesus three times. Jesus never failed. He passes every temptation,…

A Preacher with Power

The Lord's Day Evening May 3, 2009 Luke 4:31-44 “A Preacher with Power” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III I'd like to invite you to turn with me to Luke 4 as we continue our study of the Gospel of Luke. The whole service conspires together to help us understand the passage. We always try and take care to relate some of what we sing to the substance of what we're reading and preaching, but tonight the C125atechism question that you've already heard asked and answered and meditated upon actually goes right along with the main theme of this passage. Remember, the last time we were together in the Gospel of Luke, we saw Jesus having come out of the wilderness and the temptation by Satan and into Galilee preaching. And we saw an example of His preaching in His home synagogue. He was…

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