175 and Counting : The Disputed Gospel

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175 and Counting : The Disputed Gospel

The Lord's Day Morning April 15, 2012 “175 and Counting: The Disputed Gospel” Romans 5:8 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Romans chapter 5, and especially verse 8, although I'd like you to look from verse 6 to 10. We’re going to pick up three other phrases right around Romans 5:8 to help us in the study that we're going to this morning. Last week, when we were in 1 Corinthians 15, we saw Paul's phrase that he delivered to the Corinthians and to us as of first importance that Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture. This is an essential part of the Gospel declaration. It's the declaration about what Jesus is doing on the cross. Did you know that that is in dispute today, amongst not only…

Hymns of the Faith: O Sacred Head Now Wounded

Hymns of the Faith “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded” Isaiah 53 A Presentation of First Presbyterian Church Jackson, Mississippi With Dr. Ligon Duncan, Dr. Derek Thomas, and Dr. Bill Wymond Dr. Wymond: Good morning! This is “Hymns of the Faith,” brought to you by Jackson's First Presbyterian Church. The minister of the First Presbyterian Church is Dr. Ligon Duncan. Stay tuned for “Hymns of the Faith.”… Here with “Hymns of the Faith” is Dr. Ligon Duncan. Dr. Duncan: Thank you. And good morning, Bill Wymond, and good morning to you, Derek Thomas. Delighted to be with both of you dear brothers for “Hymns of the Faith,” and today we have a powerhouse hymn that we are going to be studying. Not only is the text and the music to this hymn profound and deeply moving; this hymn…

Christ Yields Up His Spirit

If you have Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew, chapter 27. The last time we were together in the gospel of Matthew we were looking specifically at verses 44 through 49 where Matthew recounts for us Jesus’ cry of abandonment, His cry of dereliction, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” Matthew points us to two cries from the cross. That first cry in reference to David’s words in Psalm 22, and then this second cry. Matthew doesn’t even tell us what Jesus said. He focuses our attention on these cries, these two cries of Christ, from the cross and then the events surrounding them, the supernatural, natural events, and then the reactive events of the crowds, the mobs, the soldiers and such who were around Him. And in so doing Matthew is giving us a theology of…

The Dereliction

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew, chapter 27. We have been working towards the crucifixion for some time now in our study of the gospel of Matthew. And all along during our studies in this particular chapter, Matthew, chapter 27, we have said that Matthew is recounting the death of Christ with a view to showing us the nature and the significance of Christ’s death. He’s wanting to show us what Christ endured for us, and then he’s wanting to show us what…

Jesus Mocked (by Gentiles, Jews and Thieves)

If you have your Bibles I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew 27. We’re going to look at verses 33 through 44. We’ve come today to the very brink of the abyss. In the last couple of weeks we have seen Matthew describe the sufferings of the trial and of the treatment from the Roman soldiers on His way to the cross. And today we come to the crucifixion itself. Matthew has been telling us this for a variety of reasons. For one thing, he’s been telling us this because it happened. I want…

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