The Adultery Test

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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 so much. Well, it was about three days ago, friends, that it began to dawn upon me what I had done to myself and to you. And you’re scanning the passage tonight, and you’re asking yourself the question, “What kind of idiot would preach a sermon on the adultery test – on Valentine’s…

Sexual Immorality, Coarse Talk, Thanksgiving and the…

The Lord's Day Morning June 4, 2006 Ephesians 5:3-4 “Sexual Immorality, Coarse Talk, Thanksgiving, and the Glory of God” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter five. We’ll be looking at verses 3 and 4 today. Before we read this passage together — a passage that deals with the issue of sexual immorality, and contains Paul's exhortation to the Ephesians and to us as believers to be different from the world, to be distinct from the world in this whole arena of sexual immorality, both in terms of what we do, what we think about, what we view, and how we speak — I want to remind you of a couple of things. First of all, I want to remind you again that the Apostle Paul in this passage is not saying ‘Do…

The Character of the Kingdom, Part 1: The Kingdom and…

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew 19. Today we’re beginning a new study in the section of the gospel of Matthew. Jesus has been speaking to his disciples, in an extended series of lessons and a discourse in Matthew, chapter 18. Now, in Matthew 19, He’s left Galilee, He’s in the border regions of Judea just on the other side of the Jordan ministering to multitudes. Let’s hear God’s word in Matthew 19: “And it came about that when Jesus had finished these words, He departed from Galilee and came into the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. And great multitudes followed Him and He healed them there. And some Pharisees came to Him testing Him and saying, ‘Is it lawful to divorce his wife for any cause at all?’ And He answered…

God’s Law vs. Human Tradition: Part 3

Please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 5, as we continue our study of the Sermon on the Mount. We have said the last two weeks that from Matthew 5, verse 21, to Matthew 5, verse 48, Christ is applying the general principals that He taught in verses 17-20 to six specific issues in human relationships. Over and over we have said that Christ stresses in these passages that the law is spiritual. It is not merely external. It reaches to matters of the heart. And that our…

God’s Law vs. Human Tradition: Part 2

Please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 5. This passage we read this morning is one of those passage’s that reminds us why it’s good to preach through books of the Bible because preachers would like to skip passages like these. There are two reasons I’m encouraged coming to a passage like this today. The first one is these are the words of our Lord and I shall not stray to the right or the left of them and He did not say these words to us to wound us to death, to hurt us, but…

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