Enduring Trials in Light of Jesus’ Return: Working Night and Day

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The Lord's Day Morning November 11, 2012 “Enduring Trials in Light of Jesus’ Return: Working Night and Day” 2 Thessalonians 3:6-15 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to 2 Thessalonians chapter 3, verses 6 to 15. You’ll see, if you’re using the pew Bible, a page number for that passage, as we continue our way through the book of 2 Thessalonians together. This is the penultimate message on this little letter, the second to the last sermon, God willing. Next week we’ll come to the final benediction in this letter, but today we come to a very interesting passage. It's a passage in which Paul is addressing a problem that we met in the first letter that he wrote to the Thessalonians. In fact, if you’ll keep your…

Saved From, By, For What?

The Lord's Day Morning October 16, 2005 Ephesians 2:8-10 “Saved From, By, For What?”” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Turn with me in your Bibles to the second chapter of Ephesians as we continue our study in this great book together. The last few weeks we've been looking at Ephesians chapter two, and in the very first verse we see Paul's diagnosis of all fallen humanity. That is, he estimates that we are dead in trespasses and sins, spiritually dead, alienated from God, justly under His judgment, following the urgings desirings of the world, the flesh, and under the dominion of Satan. And from that particular circumstance, from that situation of life, God has, in His rich mercy Paul says, in verses four to seven, made us alive, saved us by grace. And he pauses here in verses…

Faith Always Bears Fruit

James 2:14-26Faith Always Bears Fruit If you have your Bibles I would invite you to turn with me to James, chapter two, as we continue our way through this great little book together. The first week we were in James we looked at the first verse and the words of greetings and we said, even then, that the very language that James used in his greetings, language which recalls the Old Testament pilgrimage of Israel in the wilderness, prepared us to think about the trials of the Christian life. And sure enough, as we studied James:1, verses 2 through 18, we saw his focus on how the Christian ought to respond to trials. Then in James, chapter 1, verses 19 through 27, James seemed to change the topic a bit. He expressed concern about the possibility that a person could profess faith in Christ,…

The Parallels Between the Broken Covenant of Works and…

Romans 5:18-19 The Parallels Between the Broken Covenant of Works and the Covenant of Grace If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 5. We’re going to be looking at verses 18 and 19, but let me ask you to allow your eyes to roam back to verse 12, because you will remember that in verse 12 Paul began a sentence which he did not complete. There is a “just as” for which there is no “so also” in verse 12. In fact the apostle interrupted…

Faith and the Law

Faith and the Law Romans 4:13-15 If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 4, as we continue to study together through this glorious book. Our minds are very much on the incarnation just now. We’re singing about it. We’re listening to others sing about it. We’re reflecting on it, perhaps individually. And it’s important to realize that the incarnation itself proves that salvation is by grace, and not by our works. If salvation were by our law keeping,…

The Implication of Justification

The Implications of Justification Romans 3:27-31 (3) If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you turn with me to Romans, chapter 3. We come today to our last look at Romans 3:21-31, where Paul is setting forth his teaching of justification by grace through faith alone. Paul has made it very clear in Romans, chapters 1, 2, and 3 that God is a righteous God, and that He expects righteousness from His creatures, and that no one, absolutely no one apart from Christ is righteous. Neither Jew nor Greek,…

The Son of Man Will Judge (By Works!)

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew, chapter 25. We come today to the last of a series of studies in the Lord Jesus’ teachings on the end times in Matthew 24 and 25. It’s become very apparent in the last several passages that we’ve looked at that Jesus emphasizes that faithfulness it He way that we are prepared for His coming. But He also raises the possibility that there may be some people who think they are His disciples who are not, in fact, faithful. Of…

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