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Psalm 119 Not By Bread Alone – Forever Settled in…

The Lord's Day Evening April 7, 2013 Not By Bread Alone“Forever Settled in the Heavens”Psalm 119:89-96 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 119. We’re going to be looking at verses 89 to 96 tonight. And I would remind you, that as we looked at Psalm 119 verses 81 to 88 last week we said that, in a sense, we came to the low point of the psalm in those verses where the psalmist feels outmatched and hopeless, longing for salvation, persecuted by his enemies. And there's a sense in which this octave that we're studying tonight sees him begin to come out of that pit and it's based upon his confidence in the Word of God. This portion of the psalm, right towards the center of this alphabetically organized…

Psalm 119 Not By Bread Alone – Back to the First…

The Lord's Day Evening March 24, 2013 Not by Bread Alone “Back to the First Truths” Psalm 119:73-80 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 119. We’re looking at the tenth section of this psalm. Each of the eight stanzas begins with the Hebrew letter “yod” which you will remember from one of Jesus’ famous saying when He said that not a jot or a tittle of the law would fail; not a yodh, He was saying — the tiniest letter of the Hebrew alphabet. And each of the stanzas begins with that yodh tonight. But psalmist is again teaching us about the Christian life in this passage, and let's look to the Lord in prayer before we read and hear His Word. Our heavenly Father, we thank You that we…

While I am, I Praise

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 146, the first of the final hallelujahs of the Psalter. These psalms supply us with the substance of the praise that we will be giving to God forever. In that day, when we stand before Him for the first time to begin never-ending worship, none of us will say, “Lord, I wish the preacher had told me more about how to make money. Lord, I wish the preacher had told me more about how to be successful in this world.” But we’ll never ever regret every syllable we've learned about how to praise God, because we’ll be doing that forever. And the psalmist is so kind to end the Psalter preparing us for something that will never end — the praise of God. So let's look to Him in prayer before we read and hear Psalm…

Living in Light of Jesus’ Return: A Benediction…

The Lord's Day Morning August 19, 2012 “Living Life in Light of Jesus’ Return: A Benediction for Sanctification” 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to 1 Thessalonians chapter 5. We’re going to be looking at verses 23 and 24 together. You may want to look back at verse 22 because it will help you understand what Paul is doing in this passage. If we were to devote ourselves to verse 23 alone, you would…

All Peoples

If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Psalm 117. This very short psalm, one psalm removed from a very long psalm, is a jewel and quoted in the New Testament — quoted in the New Testament in a very, very important passage on a very, very important topic because it's succinctly explains something about the plan of God in history that is vitally important for all Christians to know but it was especially important for them to understand it in the days of the early…

Hymns of the Faith: Great is Thy Faithfulness

Hymns of the Faith “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” Lamentations 3:22, 23 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 Faith” brought to you by First Presbyterian Church. The minister of First Presbyterian Church is Dr. Ligon Duncan. Stay tuned for “Hymns of Faith.”…And now here with “Hymns of Faith” is Dr. Ligon Duncan. Dr. Duncan: Thank you, Bill Wymond.…

Spies in the Land

Wednesday Evening August 1, 2007 Numbers 13:1-33 “Spies in the Land” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III The spies are in the land and they discover giants, and it is dismaying to them. John Bunyan leads us to sing about that in that hymn, even as Moses leads us to lament the way the children of Israel responded to this particular challenge. This is one of those pivotal passages in the book of Numbers. As we’ve worked through this book together, coming to chapters 11 and 12 we have begun to see…

Numbered

Wednesday Evening January 10, 2007 Numbers 1:1-46 Numbered Dr. Ligon Duncan III I'd invite you to turn in your Bibles, if you have them, to the book of Numbers; and if you don't, there should be a sheet somewhere with the entire text of Numbers 1:1-54. I just want to remind you of a few things. Last week we said that Numbers may not be one of your favorite books; it may not be one of the books that you most recently read; you may not list it in your “Top Ten” list of favorite Bible…

We Will Tell the Next Generation

Amen. Please be seated. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 78 as we continue to work through the Third Book of the Psalms together. This is one of the longer Psalms in the Psalter, and in order to help us follow it, I'm going to break up our reading tonight as we work through it so that it doesn't run together. But the outline provided I hope will give you some sense of where Asaph is going in this particular Psalm. He begins with eight verses of…

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