Temptation, Sin and Faith
The Lord's Day Morning January 23, 2011 “Temptation, Sin and Faith” Luke 17:1-6 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 17 as we continue our way through the gospel of Luke together. If you take a glance at these first six verses in Luke 17, I want to remind you that as we've worked our way through Luke 16, repeatedly Jesus has been dealing with a problem with both the Pharisees’ lives and their teaching. They are lovers of money and so the stories He has told in Luke 16, at least in part, are designed to hold up before their eyes that besetting sin which is encumbering them and keeping them from understanding God's Law in the way that they ought. And of course their very sin itself is leading astray…