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Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning September 16, 2007 Philippians 2:1-3 “Complete My Joy, With Humility” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Let me invite you to turn with me to Philippians, chapter two. We’ll be looking at verses 1, 2, and 3 today, especially concentrating on verse 3. We've been working through this letter for a number of weeks now…a number of months now. The center section of the letter begins in verse 27. Throughout this section the Apostle Paul is exhorting us to live the Christian life. He has especially impressed upon us the fact that we cannot experience the joy that God intends us to enjoy in the congregation of His people unless we are pursuing actively the living of the Christian life. We have said on a number of occasions now that the key to experiencing that…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning September 23, 2007 Philippians 2:1-4 “Complete My Joy, With Helpfulness” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians. And before we turn to Philippians 2:1-4, which we're going to read today, I'd like you to allow your eyes to look at verse 27; and then, allow them to fall on verse 1, the first phrase of verse 2; and then we’ll look at verses 2-4. I want to outline the passage again for you so that you’ll appreciate the flow of the apostle's argument here. Back in verse 27, the Apostle Paul has made this point: that we are to live a life that fits the gospel. That's what he means when he says that he is urging us to conduct ourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, and the…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning October 7, 2007 Philippians 2:5-11 “Song of Christ” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians, chapter two, verses five to eleven. This is one of the greatest passages in this great letter of the Philippians. It's one of the greatest passages in all of the writings of the Apostle Paul; indeed, it's one of the great passages in all of Scripture. We can hardly do justice to it. In fact, it will take us some weeks to even begin to scratch the surface of the depth and the richness of this passage, but what I want to do with you today is at least give you an overview and an outline of the significance and the flow of argument here in Philippians 2:5-11. It might help to begin with to outline the…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning October 21, 2007 Communion Sunday Philippians 2:5-6 “The Divinity of Christ” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians, chapter two. The last time we were together in this glorious letter, we were looking at Philippians 2:5-11, “The Song of Christ,” and what we outlined it. We said there was so much there that there was no way that we could do justice to this glorious hymn to the praise of the Lord…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning October 28, 2007 Philippians 2:5-6 “The Ungrasped Equality of Christ” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians, chapter two. As the choir has been singing about a place of joy and peace and contentment, and delight and forgiveness and love, the Apostle Paul is telling us that the place that experiences that is the place which has, in Christ, embraced the mind of Christ. And of course his answer as to…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning January 6, 2008 Philippians 2:7 “The Emptying of Christ” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians 2, as we continue our study…as we pick up our study in this great letter: Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ and the Peace that Passes Understanding…today, looking at the subject of the emptying of Christ. As you’re turning to Philippians 2, I do want to remind you that in the next…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning January 13, 2008 Communion Sunday Philippians 2:7-8 Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ and the Peace that Passes Understanding “The Humanity of Christ” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians 2, as we continue to work our way through this great letter of the Apostle Paul. Let me remind you that in Philippians 1:27- 28, the first major exhortation of this letter is given, and that…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning January 20, 2008 Philippians 2:8 Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ and the Peace that Passes Understanding: A Study of Philippians “The Obedience of the Death of Christ” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians 2. We’re going to be looking at verses 5-8 today. We've been studying this great letter for a number of weeks, and we have been in this section of this great letter…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning February 3, 2008 Philippians 2:9-11 Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ and the Peace that Passes Understanding: A Study of Philippians “The Exaltation of Christ” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians 2. It has been our joy over the last number of weeks working through this letter to pay very close attention to what some theologians and New Testament scholars call “the song of…