The Surpassing Greatness of His PowerFor the Church

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The Surpassing Greatness of His PowerFor the Church

The Lord's Day Morning September 25, 2005 Ephesians 1:19-23 The Surpassing Greatness of His Power….to the Church Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter one, as we continue making our way through this great letter of the Apostle Paul to the church at Ephesus and to you and me, because we know that every word is given by inspiration, and every word is profitable to equip us for every good work as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, Paul has been leading us in an intercessionary, petitionary prayer from verse 15. We've been studying this for a couple of weeks now, and we're going to look today at verses 19 through 23, but you’ll notice that verse 19 actually begins in the middle of a sentence so I need to…

Summing Up All Things In Christ

The Lord's Day Morning July 31, 2005 Ephesians 1:8-10 “Summing Up All Things In Christ” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter one, as we continue to work our way through this great prayer. We have said several times that this first prayer, from verse 3-14 of Ephesians 1, is a prayer of praise, or doxology. It is directed to God. It is about God. And we have also said that it is life re-orienting. Understanding this prayer not only would change the way we pray, but understanding the truth of this prayer spoken about God, to God, for His glory would change our lives. And we've stressed this in several ways. The truths of this passage are great. In Ephesians 1:3, for instance, the great truth that every…

Revelation and Benediction

The Lord's Day Morning June 26, 2005 Ephesians 1:1-2 “Revelation and Benediction” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to the Book of Ephesians, chapter one. John Mackay, who later became the president of Princeton Theological Seminary, when he was a fourteen-year-old boy in 1903, wandered out into the hills of the highlands of Scotland with his Bible in his hand, and read through the Book of Ephesians. It was a life-changing experience for him. He was gripped by the truth that he found in this book. Young people, I want to say to you, this reminds us that now is the time for you to do business with God. You don't wait until you go off to college, you don't wait until you get involved in the RUF group, or wait until you…

The Ordinary Means of Grace

The Lord's Day Morning September 19, 2004 I Timothy 4:11-16 “The Ordinary Means of Grace” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to I Timothy, chapter four. We’re working through three letters written by Paul that have been called for a couple of hundred years now “the pastoral letters,” or the “pastoral epistles”: I Timothy, Titus, and II Timothy. Some of the last things that Paul ever said in his life to the church, they’re…

Tension in the Church

3 John 1:9-15 Tension in the Church If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to 3 John. We come today to the last of our studies of the letters of 1, 2, and 3 John. We said the last time when we were together in this book that it's a letter short enough to be written on a single sheet of papyrus, but it packs a big punch for a short letter. It's a letter addressed from John. John calls himself “the elder.” He could have called himself “the apostle” but he refers…

Grace Reigns in Righteousness

Grace Reigns through Righteousness Romans 5:21 If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with to Romans, chapter 5. Before we hear the scripture this morning, I want to do two things. I want to remind you where Paul has come in his overall, and then I want to walk you through the five points of his argument that begin at the end of verse 20 and run through verse 21. You will remember that in Romans, chapter 1 and 2, Paul has told us about our predicament. He has told us about the fact…

Greetings from an Apostle

Romans 1:1-7Greetings from an Apostle If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 1, as we begin our study in this great what we could call the gospel of Paul to the Romans. And the book of Romans, as we have already mentioned this morning, has been used mightily by God over the course of church history. Many examples come to mind. One, more than 1500 years ago, a young man named Aurelius Augustan born in North Africa, swallowed up with a particular philosophy…

The Great Commission

If you have your Bibles I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew, chapter 28. Today, we finally come to the end of our study in the gospel of Matthew, and recently as we have reviewed Matthew, chapter 27 and 28, we have seen over and over this overarching theme on the providence of God. God’s providence in Jesus’ torture and persecution. God’s providence in Jesus’ death, His burial and now in His resurrection. And even in the passage we looked at last week, where Matthew basically…

The Life of Jacob (1): a Blessing Stolen

Genesis 27:1-29 A Blessing Stolen If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis, chapter 27. As you do so, I want to invite the Williams to join me at the front of the sanctuary after the service, and for all of you to come and give them the right hand of fellowship and express to them your support and prayer support for their ministry in Austria. Genesis 27. We have been for a number of weeks in the life of Isaac. And tonight we begin a new series in the life of Jacob.…

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