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Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning October 28, 2007 Philippians 2:5-6 “The Ungrasped Equality of Christ” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians, chapter two. As the choir has been singing about a place of joy and peace and contentment, and delight and forgiveness and love, the Apostle Paul is telling us that the place that experiences that is the place which has, in Christ, embraced the mind of Christ. And of course his answer as to where that joy and peace and contentment is found is radically different than the answer that the world gives us. The world tells us that if we want to pursue and find that joy and peace and contentment which is the hope of Christians, then we're going to find it in self-expression and…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning October 21, 2007 Communion Sunday Philippians 2:5-6 “The Divinity of Christ” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians, chapter two. The last time we were together in this glorious letter, we were looking at Philippians 2:5-11, “The Song of Christ,” and what we outlined it. We said there was so much there that there was no way that we could do justice to this glorious hymn to the praise of the Lord Jesus Christ, but what we did want to do was recognize how Paul was using the Christ hymn as an example to spur us on to live the Christian life. I could just remind you we said there were three parts to this hymn, this song of Christ. If you look at verses 5-11, it breaks down something like this:…

Life In His Son

The Lord's Day March 21st, 2004 1 John 5:6-12 Life in His Son If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to 1 John chapter 5. We’re continuing in our study of 1 John today, and we're coming close to the end of the book. Now much of the book of 1 John has been about tests, three tests in particular that the Lord gives us whereby we may measure the genuineness of our profession. These three tests are doctrinal, moral, and relational or social. They’re doctrinal in the sense that one test of the genuineness of our profession is what we believe about Jesus Christ. They are moral in the sense that another test of the genuineness of our profession is whether we obey God's word and love and delight in obedience to the word of God. Yet another test is relational or…

The Test of Acknowledgement of Christ’s Humanity

The Test of Acknowledgement of Jesus as the Messiah come in the flesh 1 John 4:1-6 If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to 1 John chapter 4. As we've been looking through this book, we have seen John do three things repeatedly. First of all, in the first chapter of the book especially, John was concerned to make sure that we as Christians understood the relationship of sin and holiness in the Christian life. On the one hand, John wanted us to know that as believers we…

The Test of the Acknowledgment of Jesus as the Messiah

1 John 2:22 and 23 The Test of Acknowledgment of Jesus the Messiah Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to 1 John chapter 2 as we continue to work our way through this letter of the Apostle John to the church. As we've worked through this letter over the last several months, we have said that over and over John's concern is to show us what the marks of a true Christian are. What's the expression of true Christian faith in life? What does it look like? And…

The Word of Life Appeared to Us

1 John 1-4The Word of Life Appeared to Us I invite you to turn with me to 1 John, verses 1-4. Today we are beginning a new sermon series on the little books of 1, 2, and 3 John. Our focus is going to be on the Christian life. We want to consider how true Christians are manifested by what they believe and how they relate to one another in the world, and by how they live. We want to show how the Christian life is the outworking of the Triune life of God in us and is the expression of our being…

Putting Others First, As Jesus Did

Romans 15:1-6 Putting Others First, As Jesus Did Dr. Derek Thomas Turn with me if you would to Romans chapter 15 as we try and pick up in the exposition of Romans. Coming now this evening to chapter 15 and verses 1 through 6. Hear the word of God. “Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves. Each of us is to please his neighbor for his good, to his edification. For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, ‘ THE…

Christ Confounds with the Word of the Kingdom, Part 4:…

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Matthew, chapter 22. The last three weeks we have been looking at a series of exchanges between Jesus and the Jewish religious leaders of Israel in His time. And, if you'll reflect for a moment and pullback, look at the big picture, the exchanges that we've already seen here in Matthew 22, beginning in verse 15 and running down to verse 40, are still significant to every single one of us today. As a person moves through life,…

Jesus Preaches and Teaches

If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 9.  As we've studied Matthew chapter 5-9 together, we have stressed, over and again,  that Christ's word, His words of wisdom,  His teaching on the reality of the Christian life, is set side by side here with His deeds of power.  And so by word and deed, Matthew shows Him to be the Messiah,  the Son of the living God.  We have also said in our study of Matthew chapters 8 and 9, in particular,  that…

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