My Words Will Not Pass Away
The Lord's Day Morning July 24, 2011 “My Words Will Not Pass Away” Luke 21:25-38 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 21 as we continue to make our way through the gospel of Luke together. We’re going to be looking at verses 25 to the end of the chapter together today, and continuing on a passage in which Jesus has been addressing His disciples about events that are both near and far away. In this same passage, Jesus prepares His disciples for the tribulations and trials and persecutions that they are going to experience in the days leading up to and then surrounding the fall of Jerusalem. He's speaking about forty years ahead of those events. Forty years after Jesus speaks these words in AD 70,…