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Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning August 26, 2007 Philippians 1:29-30 (2) “The Gift of Suffering for Christ's Sake” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Now we're studying today from Philippians 1:29, the Apostle Paul's words that “it has been granted to us not only to believe, but also to suffer”. Let me just tell you ahead of time, we will only scratch the surface of this vitally important subject. I hope the message today is something of an hors d’oeuvre, something that will whet your appetite and give you a desire, a hunger actually, for more, so that you can learn more about what it means to join with Christ in the fellowship of His sufferings, and also so that you can understand more about the place of suffering in our lives as Christians. Two older writers, writers from 1600 years…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning August 19, 2007 Philippians 1:29-30 “Not Only to Believe, But to Suffer” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians, chapter one, verse 29. We've been working through Paul's letter to the Philippians, and we said when we came to verse 27 that we’d gotten to the central section of this book. It begins with a very important exhortation that we live in accordance with the gospel of Christ. In fact, if you look at Philippians 1:27, you’ll see Paul's words: “Conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ.” Paul's big point in that exhortation is that we are to live a life that fits the gospel. And what he does from this point (in verse 27) all the way to chapter…

God’s New Family: An Exposition of…

The Lord's Day Evening October 15, 2006 Ephesians 6:13-17 “God's New Family: An Exposition of Ephesians (LVIII) The Full Armor of God (2): Spiritually Armed” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd ask you to turn again to Ephesians 6, as we continue to look at this section called “The Armor of God” especially from verses 10 down to verse 18; but really, we’ll use this as our subtitle or theme title for the rest of the book, to the very end of verse 24. Last week we began this new section. It's a very important and famous section of this book, and we concentrated on verses 10-12. In that passage we commented that though the Apostle Paul is well aware that we face a number of different kinds of challenges in the Christian life (our own sinfulness, the…

One Body, Spirit, Hope, Lord, Faith, Baptism, God and…

The Lord's Day Morning March 26, 2006 Ephesians 4:4-6 “One Body, Spirit, Hope, Lord, Faith, Baptism, God and Father (3)” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians 4 as we continue to work our way through this great book…and we see God's kindness to us in knowing what we need before we know what we need. We've been looking at Paul's exhortation in Ephesians 4:1-3 to live out our calling as Christians by loving the…

One Body, Spirit, Hope, Lord, Faith, Baptism, God and…

The Lord's Day Morning March 19, 2006 Ephesians 4:4-6 “One Body, Spirit, Hope, Lord, Faith, Baptism, God and Father” (Pt. 2) Dr. J. Ligon Duncan II …For several months now, and starting in Ephesians 4 just a few weeks ago, we emphasized on a number of occasions that whereas in Ephesians 1-3 the Apostle Paul has described what God has done in bringing believing Jew and Gentile into one body in Jesus Christ, and that in chapters 4-6 he's now going to tell us how we ought to live…

One Body, Spirit, Hope, Lord, Faith, Baptism, God and…

The Lord's Day Morning March 12, 2006 Ephesians 4:4-6 “One Body, Spirit, Hope, Lord, Faith, Baptism, God and Father” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter four. I'm going to read verses 4-6 today, but we're only going to get through verse 4. Let me remind you again that in this book the Apostle Paul has spent three chapters telling us what we are in Jesus Christ. And this is important for the Apostle Paul,…

What to Pray For One Another (2)

The Lord's Day Morning January 22, 2006 Ephesians 3:16b-19 “What to Pray For One Another (2)” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians 3. We've been looking at this prayer in Ephesians 3:14-19 for a number of weeks now. We spent the first message in this passage looking just at Paul's words of rationale as to why he was praying. You see those words, “For this reason I pray…for this reason I bow my knees to the…

Giving Thanks for Faith and Love

The Lord's Day Morning September 11, 2005 Ephesians 1:15-17 “Giving Thanks for Faith and Love” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter one. We resume our study of this great letter together. We have said several times that almost the whole of Ephesians 1 is prayer: verses 3-14 constitute a single prayer of adoration to God in which Paul blesses God for who He is and what He has done for us; verses 15-23, the…

Continuing in the Truth of the Word

The Lord's Day Morning May 15, 2005 II Timothy 3:10-17 “Continuing in the Truth of the Word” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to II Timothy, chapter three, verse ten. Have you ever composed in your mind the last words that you were going to say to someone? Really–the last words. They were getting ready to depart this life; may have been a friend you’re going to see in the hospital, and you knew that this might be the last time…

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