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Psalm 119

How I Love Your Word, O Lord (2)

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 119. If you weren't here last Lord's Day evening we read all one hundred and seventy-six verses of Psalm 119. I was told by those who were clocking it that it took about twenty-four minutes to read the psalm out loud and then we just very briefly meditated on the overall content of that psalm. I also told the congregation then that I would be preparing a twenty-two week, and now it's twenty-three week, devotional guide to the psalm — not week, twenty-three day devotional guide to the psalm. The psalm is broken down according to letters of the Hebrew alphabet. We have twenty-six; Hebrew has twenty-two. So there is a section of eight verses for each of the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. If we were…

How I Love Your Word, O Lord

If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Psalm 119. We've been working through the fifth book of the Psalms, the longest book or section of the Psalms, for a number of weeks now, and for a couple of months the ministers have been asking me, and other friends have been asking me, “What are you going to do with Psalm 119?” Some have wondered, are you going to do a twenty-two week series on Psalm 119 where we take each section of the psalm, structured around the Hebrew alphabet. And that's very tempting to do. Some very long books have been written on Psalm 119. But I'm going to do something tonight that I am pretty sure that I've never heard before in the context of a worship service, and that is, I'm going to read the entirety of Psalm 119 as an…

Psalm 119 Not By Bread Alone – Blessed are Those…

The Lord's Day Evening January 6, 2013 “Not by Bread Alone Blessed are Those Who Walk in the Word” Psalm 119:1-8 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you do have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 119 as we begin a new series together in this wonderful psalm. Last year, as we were finishing our way through the fifth book of the Psalter that takes us from Psalm 107 all the way to Psalm 150, we came to Psalm 119 and I preached two sermons, sort of, on Psalm 119. If you’ll remember, I read Psalm 119 and it took about twenty-five minutes to read out loud and then I gave a very brief, sort of five or six minute, highpoint exposition, and then I came back and we looked at some more of the themes in Psalm 119 the next week without reading it all the way through.…

Psalm 119 Not By Bread Alone – How Do You Keep…

The Lord's Day Evening January 13, 2013 “Not By Bread Alone — How Do You Keep Your Way Pure?” Psalm 119:9-16 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd ask you to turn again to Psalm 119. Last Lord's Day Evening we began our journey through Psalm 119 in a series we're calling, “Not By Bread Alone,” that is, we're recognizing what Jesus did and what the psalmist did, that we live by the very Word of God. The theme in this section tonight is…

Psalm 119 Not By Bread Alone – Consumed with…

The Lord's Day Evening January 20, 2013 “Not By Bread Alone — Consumed with Longing…for God's Word” Psalm 119:17-24 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 119 as we continue our way in this study called, “Not By Bread Alone.” We’re going to be looking at verses 17 to 24 tonight and I'd like you to notice just a couple of things about this passage as we prepare to read it. One is the prayer form of the…

Psalm 119 Not By Bread Alone – Give Me Life.…

The Lord's Day Evening January 27, 2013 Not By Bread Alone “Give Me Life. Strengthen Me in Sorrow. Enlarge My Heart.” Psalm 119:25-32 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 119. We’re going to be looking at the fourth section of this alphabetical psalm, working its way through the letters of the Hebrew alphabet starting each of the stanzas of each of the sections with that particular letter of the Hebrew alphabet that…

Psalm 119 Not By Bread Alone – Give Me Life in…

The Lord's Day Evening February 3, 2013 Not By Bread Alone “Give Me Life in Your Ways, to the End, with a Whole Heart” Psalm 119:33-40 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me again to Psalm 119. We've come to the section that runs from verses 33 to 40 which picks up on some of the themes that we saw the last time but which features a series of petitions which actually offer us a clue to what is going on in this passage. He…

Psalm 119 Not By Bread Alone – According to Your…

The Lord's Day Evening February 10, 2013 Not by Bread Alone “According to Your Promise” Psalm 119:41-48 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 119. We’re going to be looking at the section which runs from verses 41 to 48 as we continue our way through this great psalm on the theme, “Not by Bread Alone.” And yet again we meet a passage here that teaches us how to live. How do you live the Christian life? Exactly how…

Psalm 119 Not By Bread Alone – My Comfort in My…

The Lord's Day Evening February 17, 2013 Not By Bread Alone “My Comfort in My Affliction” Psalm 119:49-56 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Psalm 119. We’ll be looking at verses 49 to 56 tonight. In the Christian life we are called upon to be comforted even in our affliction and to rejoice even in our sorrows. How do we do that? In the Old Testament, God's people had to learn how to sing the Lord's song in a…