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The Total Blessing

Wednesday Evening March 21, 2007 Numbers 6:22-27 “The Total Blessing” Dr. Ligon Duncan III Fourth, appreciate the context of this. Before this blessing is given, the children of Israel are assembled, getting ready to leave on a dangerous journey across the desert. Many of them were going to die in the wilderness. They were going to be assaulted by enemies. They were going to face thirst and starvation. They were going to face division and dissention, and before they begin this arduous, dangerous, adventurous journey, God goes before them with a blessing, and nothing would have been more comforting to them than the guarantee of God’s sovereign blessing. That in and of itself plays into the whole story of Numbers, because over and over what will the people of God doubt in the…

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 word of blessing or praise or adoration directed towards God. And that's what we meet here, a word of blessing or adoration or praise directed to God. There's a difference between a doxology and a benediction. All of our services at First Presbyterian Church end with a benediction where…

Let the Nations Be Glad: The Christian Experience of…

If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 67. We looked at this Psalm about two years ago at the time of the Missions Conference. You may not remember it but I do. The Missions Conference Committee had chosen the theme “Let the Nations Be Glad.” And they had done that in part based on John Piper's wonderful book called Let the Nations Be Glad: The Supremacy of God in Missions, which is maybe my favorite book on missions right now. In that book, in large measure,…

What Is a Christian?

May 9th, 2004 The Faith Once Delivered: Five Lessons in Jude: Jude 1-2 What is a Christian? If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to the book of Jude, right at the end of the New Testament, before the book of Revelation. Over the next five weeks we’ll have the opportunity to study the entirety of this little book of Jude in some detail. It's a unique book in many ways. It was written by a man who was a half-brother of Jesus Christ, our Savior, Jesus the Messiah. It…

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…

I Will Not Go Up in Your Midst

Exodus 33:1-11I Will Not Go in Your Midst If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 33. In Exodus, one of the great themes we have seen over and over, is that we are saved to worship. God not only brought His people out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, in order to enter into a fruitful land, but also to glorify and enjoy Him forever. This was at the heart of what He was doing. It's not an incidental. That wasn't a trick that Moses used to try…

Loyalty to God

Exodus 23:20-33Loyalty to God If you have your Bibles, please open to Exodus chapter 23, beginning at verse 20, hear the word of God: “Behold, I am going to send an angel before you to guard you along the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. “Be on your guard before him and obey his voice; do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your transgression, since My name is in him. “But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will…

The Christian and Trails

James 1:2-18The Christian and Trials “Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of…

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