Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ and the Peace that Passes Understanding: A Study of Philippians (5): For the Greater Progress of the Gospel

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Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning May 27, 2007 Philippians 1:12-20 “For the Greater Progress of the Gospel” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians, chapter one, as we continue to study our way through this great letter. Let me ask you to look especially at verses 9-11, the last part of the passage we studied together last week. I do believe it has direct bearing on this new section that we're launching into today. We’re going to be looking at verses 12-20, but in verses 9-11, you see the prayer that Paul had prayed for the Philippians (the passage that we gave some attention to last week), and we see how it flows into logically the experience which Paul describes in verses 12-20. In verses 9-11, the Apostle Paul reports…

My tribulations on your behalf are for your glory

The Lord's Day Morning January 1, 2006 Ephesians 3:7-13 “My Tribulations on Your Behalf are for Your Glory” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III As we return to Ephesians in the New Year, and I couldn't have picked a better passage to start with. We’re going to concentrate especially on Ephesians 3:8-13 this morning, but I want you to remember what we saw when we studied Ephesians 3:1-6, in part because we said the Apostle Paul was “fixin’ to pray”, and he interrupts himself in Ephesians 3:1 before he “commences to pray” for you, to give you a word of encouragement. He knows that the Ephesian Christians are distressed about his imprisonment, the persecution that he is experiencing on behalf of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ because of his preaching of the gospel, and some…

Permanent Servant of Jesus

James 1:1Permanent Servant of Jesus If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to the book of James in the New Testament right after Hebrews as we begin a study of this great book together. I want to say a couple of things by way of introduction as we begin this study, and the first is to draw your attention to the author of this book. The author of the book of James is, in all likelihood, James who is the brother of our Lord, the one who moderated the first General Assembly of the Church as recorded in Acts chapter 15. There are a variety of reasons for believing this. One is the most prominent other James in the New Testament was James the brother of John, and as you may remember from Acts chapter 12, he was one of the first martyrs of the Church. Probably before the…

A Hardening for Mercy’s Sake

Romans 11:11-16 A Hardening for Mercy's Sake This chapter has been the occasion of many disputes and interpretation over the matter of God's dealing with Israel and the end times. There would be some who come to this chapter and say that this chapter predicts that Israel will come together as a nation in the end time, that there will be an almost or complete conversion of Israel as a nation state to God and that there will be a reign of one thousand years of that nation state on earth…

The Lord’s Plan

The Lord's PlanExodus 6:10-7:7 If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus, chapter 6. When we looked at Exodus, chapter 5, verses 15 through Exodus, chapter 6, verse 1, we saw that God's people responded to Moses’ and Aaron's announcement in a believing way. They worshiped God. But when Pharaoh immediately imposed heavier burdens upon the people, the people's hearts melted away. They not only turned their back on God's declarations and promises,…

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