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Healing and Forgiving

The Lord's Day Morning May 17, 2009 Baptism Sunday Luke 5:12-26 “Healing and Forgiving” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Dr. Duncan: As we prepare to worship, let me invite you to take your hymnals in hand and turn to No. 34. Our opening hymn is going to be The God of Abraham Praise, and it's a perfect hymn for Baptism Sunday because it reminds us of the covenant of grace made with Abraham, which the Apostle Paul says is fulfilled in Jesus Christ. And so it's perfect for a service in which we will worship by both the preaching of the word and by the view of baptism as a sacrament, or means of grace. Please note also in the course of the service that after the baptism you will join the choir in singing the two stanzas of Hymn 213 that are printed in your bulletin. Now if you’re a…

He Came for Sinners

The Lord's Day Morning May 24, 2009 Luke 5:27-39 “He Came for Sinners” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bible, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke 5:27-39, as we continue our way through the Gospel of Luke. The story that we're going to read this morning is all of a piece. It presses to one great point, but I want you to see three parts in it before we read it so that you can appreciate what Luke is laying out for you under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. The first part of this story is the conversion of a person that you know. In this story he's called Levi; you know him by another name, but his conversion story and the call of Jesus to him is reported in the first part of the story we're going to read today. Then the second part of the story…

Lord of the Sabbath

The Lord's Day Morning May 31, 2009 Luke 6:1-11 “Lord of the Sabbath” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Turn with me to Luke 6, as we continue our way through the Gospel of Luke. This is a passage in which one of the familiar encounters between Jesus and the Pharisees occurs. Over and over in the Gospels we find places where the Pharisees criticize Jesus’ and the disciples’ practice of the observance of the Sabbath Day. You know that the Sabbath command was a distinctive mark and sign of Israel. In Exodus, God told the children of Israel that the Sabbath was one thing that was going to set them apart from the nations. It had been given to them in the Ten Commandments as a blessing. You remember the children of Israel were a nation of slaves, and that meant that they had lived in forced…

Poor, Hungry, Weeping, Hated Rejectedand Blessed!

The Lord's Day Morning September 6, 2009 Luke 6:12-23 “Poor, Hungry, Weeping, Hated, Rejected…and Blessed!” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 6. We continue now our study in the Gospel of Luke that we began a number of months ago. We left off in Luke 6:1-11, a passage in which the Lord Jesus is teaching us about the Lord's Day, and today we pick up in a passage in Luke 6:12, in which Jesus is gathering His larger circle of…

Blessed or Cursed? Weal or Woe

The Lord's Day Morning September 13, 2009 Luke 6:20-26 “Blessed or Cursed? Weal or Woe” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles I would invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 6. We’re going to look at verses 20 to 26 today as we continue to work our way through this Gospel together. Last Lord's Day we looked at verses 12 to 23 and we said that in part, what Jesus was doing as He introduced the Beatitudes, these surprising words of blessing, because the kinds of things…

What True Happiness Looks Like, and What Looks Like…

The Lord's Day Morning September 20, 2009 Luke 6:20-26 “What True Happiness Looks Like, and What Looks Like True Happiness, But Isn't” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 6 as we continue to work our way through this gospel and as we double back to a very important passage in Luke. It's from the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus begins with four words of blessing and four words of warning and woe. This is…

Loving Those Who Don’t Love You

The Lord's Day Morning September 27, 2009 Luke 6: 27-36 “Loving Those Who Don't Love You” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you’ll remember throughout Luke chapter 6, from the time Jesus called twelve disciples to follow Him, He is clearly sending the signal that He is creating the people of God anew. And just like Moses gathered twelve tribes and Joshua led twelve tribes into the Promised Land, so also Jesus has twelve disciples in this new Israel that He is bringing about. As we looked…

Judge Not?

The Lord's Day Morning October 4, 2009 Luke 6:37-38 “Judge Not?” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 6 as we continue our way through the gospel of Luke together. We’re going to be reading from verses 37 and 38 today, but I want to go back up to verse 27 so that you have the context. In this whole passage, Jesus is teaching us how to love those who either don't love us at all or who haven't loved us well. And so…

You Are What You Do

The Lord's Day Morning October 11, 2009 Luke 6:39-49 “You Are What You Do” Dr J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 6. We’re going to be looking at verses 39 to the end of the chapter as we continue our way through the gospel of Luke. These are Jesus’ words at the end of Luke's recounting of the Sermon on the Mount. These are the stirring words of exhortation and challenge that Matthew also records at some greater length in…