Every Spiritual Blessing (1)

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Every Spiritual Blessing (1)

The Lord's Day Morning July 3, 2005 Ephesians 1:3-14 “Every Spiritual Blessing” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to the Book of Ephesians, chapter one. We started a study of the Book of Ephesians, the letter of Paul to the Ephesian church, last week, looking at the greeting…at the salutation found in verses 1 and 2. And I want you to notice the rest of this chapter (from Ephesians 1:3 all the way down to verse 23) is prayer. We made that comment before. So much of the Book of Ephesians, so much of Paul's writing is taken up with prayer. Almost half of the Book of Ephesians is prayer. It's either Paul recounting a prayer that he has prayed, or maybe it's Paul outlining a prayer or requesting a prayer, or…

A Little Thick? Aaron’s Sons Sin Again

Wednesday Evening March 2, 2005 Leviticus 10:12-20 “A Little Thick? Aaron's Sons Sin Again” ” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus, chapter ten. And I want to go right back to the verses that we read the last time we were together in Leviticus, which was a couple of weeks ago. In February we looked at the tragic story of Nadab and Abihu, which covers the first eleven verses, and it would be good for us to go back and read those verses again, though our focus is going to be especially on verses 12-20 in this chapter. In a sense, this story is all of a piece, but there's so much to be said in both halves of the chapter that we've broken it in part for your consideration. But let me just remind you of the…

Declare His Glory

The Lord's Day Morning MISSIONS CONFERENCE February 20, 2005 Psalm 96:1-3 “Declare His Glory” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I invite you to turn with me to Psalm 96, and as you do so, let me just remind you again that Psalm 96 has been chosen by our Missions Conference Committee to provide us with the theme and theme verses of this year's Missions Conference, which comes from the second and third verses of Psalm 96, and it's a very appropriate psalm for use at the Missionary Conference; and so it's my privilege to expound it to you today. And there are a couple of things I'd like you to see about this psalm, and the first thing is simply this: it is a Messianic psalm. It is a psalm that points to the coming salvation of the Messiah, brought…

A Strange Tale of Nadab and Abihu

The Ordination of Priests Leviticus 10:1-11 Don't Mess with the Worship of God 1. God is to be approached as He has commanded II. God's ministers are to be radically devoted to His holiness and glory III. God's ministers are to discern the difference between holy and profane, and teach God's instruction

The Reason for Christian Stewardship

Psalm 100:3The Reasons of Christian StewardshipStewardship 2004 If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 100. You’ll want to be ready to follow with me through a number of passages today. Our commitment Sunday is on the first Sunday of November. That's when we traditionally make our commitments for the support of the church's work and worship for the year to come, and usually around that time we do some teaching on that subject. It's an important…

Let the Nations Be Glad: The Christian Experience of…

If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 67. We looked at this Psalm about two years ago at the time of the Missions Conference. You may not remember it but I do. The Missions Conference Committee had chosen the theme “Let the Nations Be Glad.” And they had done that in part based on John Piper's wonderful book called Let the Nations Be Glad: The Supremacy of God in Missions, which is maybe my favorite book on missions right now. In that book, in large measure,…

The Glory Cloud

First Presbyterian Church Wednesday Evening Worship May 21, 2003 Exodus 40:34 “The Glory Cloud” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Exodus, chapter 40…this is a fun section, though. This is a glorious section of Exodus 40. It's almost as if the Lord's rewarding you at the end of those long tedious descriptions from Exodus 35-39, and really into the middle of chapter 40, with this glorious spectacle. In Exodus 40 we have a view of the completion of the tabernacle, and of its consecration…

The Face of Moses

The Face of MosesExodus 34:29-35 I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 34. Tonight we come to the end of our study of the golden calf incident. These very last verses, these verses at the end of chapter 34, exalt the mediator Moses. Now this began in Exodus 32:1, “When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people assembled about Aaron and said to him, ‘Come, make us a God who will go before us.” They didn't think Moses was coming back so they…

Glorifying God

Glorifying GodExodus 34:10-28 If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 34 as we continue to work our way through this great book. We come to the end of a passage which forms the center of the book and focuses on the golden calf incident. Let's hear God's word. Then God said, “Behold, I am going to make a covenant. Before all your people I will perform miracles which have not been produced in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people…

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