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With God In the Wilderness: Introduction

Wednesday Evening January 3, 2007 Numbers 1:1-4 “With God In the Wilderness: Introduction” Dr. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to the Book of Numbers. I would encourage you to bring your Bibles, though. I hope that over the course of our studies of the Book of Numbers you’ll get a good foundation, a good grasp, of this whole book, and that you’ll want to make notes along in your own Bible as we work through the book. Later on this evening I'm going to hand out a rough outline of where we're going in this book as a whole, as well as an overview outline of the larger book. But we’ll hand that out later in this evening. Here is a book, the fourth book of the Old Testament in terms of its literary order; the fourth book of the Old…

Numbered

Wednesday Evening January 10, 2007 Numbers 1:1-46 Numbered Dr. Ligon Duncan III I'd invite you to turn in your Bibles, if you have them, to the book of Numbers; and if you don't, there should be a sheet somewhere with the entire text of Numbers 1:1-54. I just want to remind you of a few things. Last week we said that Numbers may not be one of your favorite books; it may not be one of the books that you most recently read; you may not list it in your “Top Ten” list of favorite Bible books; you may wonder how a study of Numbers could possibly be helpful or relevant to those of us living in the twenty-first century, the dawn of a new millennium in the very different day and age. But last week we urged several reasons why we ought to appreciate this book. We said, yes, this is a…

Arranged

Wednesday Evening January 24, 2007 Numbers 2 “Arranged” Dr. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Numbers 2. Thank you. It’s not quite as long a passage as last week, but it’s a fairly long passage. Last week we were in Numbers 1, which gave us the numbering of the tribes; now in Numbers 2, we come to the arranging of the tribes. And we’ve said as we have come to the book of Numbers that this book, though it is filled with history that is unfamiliar to some, history that is suspected to be boring by others…we’ve said that Moses tells the stories of the history of God’s people in such a way in this book that these stories are electric, and they are filled with wisdom and with Christ for us. We also…

Priests, Duties, Firstborn

Wednesday Evening January 31, 2007 Numbers 3:1-51 “Priests, Duties, Firstborn” Dr. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Numbers, chapter 3. There should be a sheet somewhere near by you that has the text of that whole chapter. And there should also be an outline — at least, an outline that recounts what we have done so far, and also provides a diagram of the organization or the arrangement of the tribes and the priests which we read about last…

Priests and Duties (2)

First Presbyterian Church Wednesday Evening February 7, 2007 Numbers 4:1-49 “Priests and Duties (2)” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Please turn with me in your Bibles to Numbers 4, as we continue to work our way through this great book of the Old Testament.. We’ve been in Numbers for about four weeks. We spent the first week giving an introduction to the book and arguing why this book is so applicable, and frankly so exciting to study, for us today. The Apostle Paul in First Corinthians tells…

The Adultery Test

Wednesday Evening February 14, 2007 Numbers 5:11-31 “The Adultery Test” Dr. Ligon Duncan III I’m always so edified and instructed and encouraged by listening to you pray. The brother that prayed earlier,…I thought, “There’s a book title in that prayer: ‘We are in Christ, but I’m still in Jackson.’” You know, my life is hid in Christ, but I’m still in Jackson. There’s a whole sermon series and a book, maybe even a franchise in that one prayer. It says…

The Nazarites

Wednesday Evening February 28, 2007 Numbers 6:1-21 “The Nazarites” Dr. Ligon Duncan III This passage from Numbers 6 that we’re going to study tonight…and we’re not going to go through the whole chapter, because as some of you may know, maybe because you’ve read ahead, maybe because you remember the different contents of the books of the Bible and you know that Numbers 6 has a very important thing in it. Well, some of you know at the end of this passage is what is called…

The Total Blessing

Wednesday Evening March 21, 2007 Numbers 6:22-27 “The Total Blessing” Dr. Ligon Duncan III Fourth, appreciate the context of this. Before this blessing is given, the children of Israel are assembled, getting ready to leave on a dangerous journey across the desert. Many of them were going to die in the wilderness. They were going to be assaulted by enemies. They were going to face thirst and starvation. They were going to face division and dissention, and before they begin this arduous,…

Offerings of the Leaders

Wednesday Evening April 18, 2007 Numbers 7:1-89 “Offerings of the Leaders” Dr. Ligon Duncan III We’re in Numbers 7 tonight,. It’s been a month since we’ve been in the book of Numbers. Numbers 7 is the longest chapter in the Bible, with the exception of Psalm 119, if you want to count that as a chapter. So what I’ve done is I’ve provided you an outline on two sides of an 8 Ѕ x 14, with all the verses–all 89 verses of Numbers 7. And I’ve put some notes above…