Enduring Trials in Light of Jesus’ Return: Saved through Sanctification

Filter Resources:

Enduring Trials in Light of Jesus’ Return: Saved…

The Lord's Day Morning October 14, 2012 “Enduring Trials in Light of Jesus’ Return: Saved through Sanctification” 2 Thessalonians 2:13-15 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. We’re going to be looking at verses 13 to 15 together today. In the Christian life, there are certain truths that we need to grasp firmly and hang on to in order to live in the trials and the tribulations that we must endure. For all of us, the testimony is, on our way home to glory, we go “through many dangers, toils, and snares,” as John Newton reminds us in “Amazing Grace.” Well, the apostle Paul has talked about some of those dangers, toils, and snares — the times of tribulation, the man of lawlessness,…

Enduring Trials in Light of Jesus’ Return: What…

The Lord's Day Morning September 23, 2012 “Enduring Trials in Light of Jesus’ Return: What We Pray for You” 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to 2 Thessalonians chapter 1 verses 11 and 12. The apostle Paul often fills his letters with prayers that he prays for the congregation that he's writing, sometimes there are prayer requests that he asks them to pray for him and for the mission team that they’re supporting and that may be writing them, other times he actually exhorts them to prayer, and then there are prayer reports where he tells that congregation what he has been praying for them. The passage that we're reading today is a prayer report. Paul is telling the Thessalonians what…

Living in Light of Jesus’ Return: A Gospel…

The Lord's Day Morning May 27, 2012 “Living in Light of Jesus’ Return: A Gospel Attested by Conduct” 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn to Paul's letter to the Thessalonians, the first letter to the Thessalonians, chapter 2, and we're going to be looking at verses 1 to 12 this morning. I want to bring to your attention this aspect of what Paul is doing in chapters 2 and 3. Paul is defending his ministry to the Thessalonians church from charges that are being brought against him, maybe by the very people that caused him and his church planting team to have to leave town. They’re saying a whole variety of things trying to undermine his credibility to the Thessalonian Christians, and you can…

The Foremen Grumble Against Moses

The Foreman Grumble Against Moses Exodus 5:15-6:1 If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus, chapter 5. Last week we looked at Exodus 4:27 through 5:14, and we noted several themes there. In God's approaching Aaron, before Moses ever had to go find Aaron, and tell him that God was sending him on into Egypt, God provided tremendous providential encouragement to Moses. He showed Moses again that He would be with him, He would provide for him, every step of the way.…

The Establishment of a Covenant People The Promises of…

Genesis 12:1-9 The Promises of God (The Life of Abraham) — 1. The Call of Go If you would look with me at God's word in Genesis, chapter 12. We’re going to attend tonight to verses 1 through 9. We, of course, are beginning the life of Abraham at this juncture. We have seen the preface to this great book set forth in the first eleven chapters, and specifically from chapter 11, verse 27, which begins the book of Terah of which this part of the book of Genesis is a constituent. The book of…

Search the Site

Subscribe for Updates