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Psalm 119

Psalm 119 Not By Bread Alone – The Lord is My…

The Lord's Day Evening March 10, 2013 Not By Bread Alone “The Lord is My Portion” Psalm 119:57-64 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 119. We just sang it in that metrical version from the RPCNA Psalter and we're going to read it now as we return again to this long psalm that teaches us much about the Christian life. And as you've already heard in Wiley's introduction tonight and in the introduction to Doyle's prayer, at the very outset of this psalm there is an assertion and the assertion is that the Lord is our portion. Now you know that that is not unique to Psalm 119 verse 57. You can go as far back in the Old Testament as the book of Deuteronomy and find that phrase that “the…

Psalm 119 Not By Bread Alone – It was Good to Be…

The Lord's Day Evening March 17, 2013 Not by Bread Alone “It was Good to be Afflicted?” Psalm 119:65-72 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, would you to turn with me to Psalm 119? We’re going to be looking, as Bill said, at verses 65 to 72. By the way, the choir sounded so good tonight and I know that many of you know that they went to New York and sang at the Astoria Community Church, one of the Redeemer branches, and also at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, and if you are a Facebook person you can actually go and type in your little search line for “First Pres Jackson Student Choir” and it will pop up to the page and you can see pictures of the choir tour and you can even see a video of their singing a song in the cathedral last Sunday…

Psalm 119 Not By Bread Alone – Back to the First…

The Lord's Day Evening March 24, 2013 Not by Bread Alone “Back to the First Truths” Psalm 119:73-80 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 looking at the tenth section of this psalm. Each of the eight stanzas begins with the Hebrew letter “yod” which you will remember from one of Jesus’ famous saying when He said that not a jot or a tittle of the law would fail; not a yodh, He was saying — the tiniest letter of the Hebrew alphabet. And each of the stanzas begins with that yodh tonight. But psalmist is again teaching us about the Christian life in this passage, and let's look to the Lord in prayer before we read and hear His Word. Our heavenly Father, we thank You that we…

Psalm 119 Not By Bread Alone – My Soul Longs for…

The Lord's Day Evening March 31, 2013 Not by Bread Alone“My Soul Longs for Your Salvation”Psalm 119:81-88 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 in verses 81 to 88 tonight. Spurgeon says of this passage, “This portion of the gigantic psalm sees the psalmist in extremis. He is in great need. His enemies have brought him to the lowest condition of anguish and depression, yet he is faithful to the…

Psalm 119 Not By Bread Alone – Forever Settled in…

The Lord's Day Evening April 7, 2013 Not By Bread Alone“Forever Settled in the Heavens”Psalm 119:89-96 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 verses 89 to 96 tonight. And I would remind you, that as we looked at Psalm 119 verses 81 to 88 last week we said that, in a sense, we came to the low point of the psalm in those verses where the psalmist feels outmatched and hopeless, longing for…

Psalm 119 Not By Bread Alone – How I Love Your…

The Lord's Day Evening April 28, 2013 Not by Bread Alone“How I Love Your Law”Psalm 119:97-104 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, turn with me to Psalm 119. We’re going to look at verse 97 through 104 tonight as we continue in our series, Not by Bread Alone. This section of Psalm 119 contains one of the most famous lines in the psalm, “How I love your law.” It's a theme that you find in a number of places in the Psalms, not the least familiar being in…

Psalm 119 Not By Bread Alone – Your Word Is a…

The Lord's Day Evening May 5, 2013 Not by Bread Alone“Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet”Psalm 119:105-112 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 119 again and we’ll be looking at verses 105 to 112. The psalmist is meditation on the Word of God, not simply on different aspects of the Word of God but different uses of the Word of God in the Christian life. And tonight in particular, he is concerned to think about how the…

Psalm 119 Not By Bread Alone – My Flesh Trembles…

The Lord's Day Evening May 12, 2013 Not by Bread Alone“My Flesh Trembles for Fear of You”Psalm 119:113-120 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 119.В We’re going to be looking at the stanza that runs from verses 113 to 120 tonight. And even though the word is not found in this passage, this passage is about idolatry.В This is the psalmist's meditation on how to fight against idolatry in his own heart.В Are any…

With My Whole Heart I Cry

Well we’re back in Psalm 119. You may have forgotten; I did! We were working on the sermon schedule and somebody said – I think it was Sean, he said, “Well Ligon, you need to finish the last four sections of Psalm 119.” I said, “I’ve already finished Psalm 119.” He said, “No you haven’t!” And I looked back and he was right! I hadn’t finished Psalm 119! And so we worked it into the schedule and I’m delighted that we have because this is a great psalm and…