Enduring Trials in Light of Jesus’ Return: Early Benediction

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Enduring Trials in Light of Jesus’ Return: Early…

The Lord's Day Morning October 21, 2012 “Enduring Trials in Light of Jesus’ Return: Early Benediction” 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, if you’ll look with me at the last two verses in that chapter. You will notice immediately it's just one sentence; these two verses comprise one sentence and that sentence is a benediction. Some scholars of early Christianity call these “wish prayers” because they have their roots in similar prayers of blessing or expression of wishes, desires to God for blessing in someone's life. That has its roots in the Judaism of the time. You would find pious Jewish people praying these “wish prayers” for one another. And…

Living in Light of Jesus’ Return: A Benediction…

The Lord's Day Morning August 19, 2012 “Living Life in Light of Jesus’ Return: A Benediction for Sanctification” 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to 1 Thessalonians chapter 5. We’re going to be looking at verses 23 and 24 together. You may want to look back at verse 22 because it will help you understand what Paul is doing in this passage. If we were to devote ourselves to verse 23 alone, you would find hidden in that little verse two very significant theological controversies that have occupied the attention of Christian theologians over the course of many centuries in the history of Christianity. In verse 23 you will see the phrase, “may God sanctify you completely,” or “entirely” and…

God’s New Family: An Exposition of Ephesians(LXI)…

The Lord's Day Evening November 12, 2006 Ephesians 6:21-24 “God's New Family: An Exposition of Ephesians (LXI) Conclusion: A Concern for Comfort and a Word of Blessing” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. Please be seated. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians 6:21. We come tonight to the end of our study of the Book of Ephesians. This is the sixty-first message that we have had in this wonderful book, and we have seen the Apostle Paul sketch out for us a big picture of God's purposes in this letter. He's done this by pulling back the curtain and showing us God's decree. In the very first chapter of the book he's reminded us that before the foundation of the world God had set His love upon His people. That's designed to remind…

Blessing God

I'd invite you to turn with me to Jude, right at the end of the New Testament, right before the book of Revelation, as we look one last time at this short letter. We've been in the book of Jude for the last four weeks, and now we're in the final two verses. And in those two verses, we come face-to-face with a doxology. Now we sing a doxology that goes something like this, “Praise God from whom all blessings flow.” That, you can see immediately, is a doxology. That is, it is a…

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