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Stealing and Work, and the Glory of God

The Lord's Day Morning May 14, 2006 Ephesians 4:28 “Stealing and Work, and the Glory of God” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. As you take your Bibles and turn with me to Ephesians 4, I want to say I've had a number of very encouraging conversations during the course of this week. In fact, this study in this book, this chapter of Ephesians, has provoked more discussion with members of the congregation than any series I can remember in some time now. People have been deeply affected by working through this, and I'm appreciative of that, your sharing with me your thoughts and your input and your questions. It's been very, very uplifting and encouraging to me. And today we come to yet another one of these specific exhortations, and we may think that whereas truth-telling and…

Anger and the Glory of God

The Lord's Day Morning May 7, 2006 Ephesians 4:26-27 “Anger and the Glory of God” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter four, as we continue to work our way through this great letter of the Apostle Paul. Let me remind you that from Ephesians 4:17 to the end of the chapter, the Apostle Paul is pursuing essentially the same message, repeated and applied specifically to various areas of the Christian life. And the message is this: Christians, having been saved by the grace of God… Christians, having been made new creations through the finished work of Jesus Christ and the application of that work to us by the Holy Spirit, who has caused us to die to the old man and to live to the newness of life as new…

Truth, Anger, and Theft (1)(Bulletin) Lying and the…

The Lord's Day Morning April 30, 2006 Ephesians 4:25-28 “Lying and the Glory of God” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Please take your Bibles in hand, and turn with me to Ephesians 4. We’re continuing to work through this great passage together, and you’ll remember that last week the Apostle Paul was exhorting us not to live as if we were not Christians, not to live like the world, not to live like those who don't trust in Christ, not to live like those who have not cast themselves upon the mercy of the Lord, trusting in the promises of God that were gained for us and realized for us in the person and work of Jesus Christ, finished on the cross of Calvary and in His resurrection. He wants us not to live like the world. He wants us to live distinctively as Christians, and so he…

To God Be the Glory

The Lord's Day Morning February 5, 2006 Ephesians 3:20-21 “To God Be the Glory” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians 3 as we continue to work our way through this great prayer. I'd remind you of a couple of things. One is that this book begins with a doxology. We studied it in Ephesians 3:1-14, so the whole book begins with an ascription of praise to God, and this prayer that we've been studying for a number of…

Brought Very Low

The Lord's Day Evening November 13, 2005 Psalm 79 “Brought Very Low” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. Please be seated. We’re in Psalm 79 as we continue to work our way through the Third Book of the Psalms. We read and worked through all too briefly a long Psalm last week. This is a short Psalm this week; a very poignant Psalm. Let me remind you of the circumstances in the context of this Psalm. Jerusalem has been destroyed. The Babylonians have visited destruction and desecration on the…

But God

The Lord's Day MorningCOMMUNION SUNDAY October 9, 2005 Ephesians 2:4-7 “But God” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter 2, as we continue to study this great letter of the Apostle Paul to the Ephesian church, but to Christians everywhere because every word of Scripture is given by inspiration and every word of Scripture is profitable for our growth in grace and in righteousness. And so this word is a word from God…

Assured by the Spirit of Promise

The Lord's Day Morning August 14, 2005 Ephesians 1:13-14 “Assured by the Spirit of Promise” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter one, as we look again at this great prayer. While we were looking at Ephesians 1:10 and 11 and 12 last week, we noticed the Apostle Paul praising God that God in His mercy had made these Jewish Christians, of whom Paul was a part, His people. God's people belong to Him, and God has done…

Living to the Praise of His Glory

The Lord's Day Morning August 7, 2005 Ephesians 1:10-12 “Living to the Praise of His Glory” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III We have said in our study of Ephesians, chapter one, that just as much of the Book of Ephesians is made up of prayer — almost half of it — that the whole, almost, of the first chapter is made up of prayer. There are two great prayers in Ephesians, chapter one: from verses 3-14 there's a prayer of praise (or of doxology, or of adoration); in verses 15-23 there is a…

Predestined in Love

The Lord's Day Morning July 17, 2005 Ephesians 1:4-6 “Predestined in Love” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you will look at Ephesians 1:4, you will notice that the last words, probably, in your pew Bible translation, and certainly in my rendition of the New American Standard Version here, have the words In love as the first words of a sentence. Now, the reason is [that] in the King James this verse was read this way: “…that we should be holy and blameless before Him in love.” So the…

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