Together, For the Gospel

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Together, For the Gospel

The Lord's Day Morning February 18, 2007 Philippians 1:27 Missions Conference 2007Together, For 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. The verse that the Missions Conference Committee has chosen to base our Missions Conference Week theme upon is Philippians 1:27, specifically the phrase in which Paul calls us to “stand firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel.” And I'm delighted that our Missions Conference Committee has chosen this particular verse and this particular theme, for a variety of reasons. For one, it stresses the importance of our unity in this work. The Apostle Paul is clearly concerned in this passage about our being united together,…

The New Walk (4): More Reasons Why – Wisdom

The Lord's Day Morning July 16, 2006 Ephesians 5:15-17 “The New Walk (4): More Reasons Why – Wisdom” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians 5 as we continue our way through this great letter of the Apostle Paul, not only to the Ephesian church, but to us. We've been looking at this section that stretches from Ephesians 5:5 all the way down to verse 21. We've said that throughout this passage Paul is concerned to give us arguments, reasons, incentives, motivations to the living of the Christian life. God loves us very much, and He knows that we face many temptations, from without and from within: from the world, from the devil, and from the flesh. And because He loves us very much, He arms us with…

The Law in the Christian Life

The Lord's Day Morning June 27, 2004 I Timothy 1:6-11“The Law in the Christian Life” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan If you have your Bibles, I invite you to turn with me to I Timothy, chapter one, and we’ll be looking at verses six through eleven today. We’re continuing to work through this book, which is the first of the Pastoral Epistles. It's written by an apostle who was a pastor, a missionary, and a church planter, to a young man who was a church planter and settled pastor in Ephesus. He's writing in the context of a congregation that was troubled by false teachers. We learned that in verses three and four, although Paul has not told us what that false teaching is yet. He’ll tell us today, when we get to verses six through eleven. We also said that in this book, and in…

The Word of Life Appeared to Us

1 John 1-4The Word of Life Appeared to Us I invite you to turn with me to 1 John, verses 1-4. Today we are beginning a new sermon series on the little books of 1, 2, and 3 John. Our focus is going to be on the Christian life. We want to consider how true Christians are manifested by what they believe and how they relate to one another in the world, and by how they live. We want to show how the Christian life is the outworking of the Triune life of God in us and is the expression of our being…

Favoritism: A Contradiction of Christian Living

James 2:1-13Favoritism: A Contradiction of Christian Living Amen! If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to James chapter two as we continue to work our way through this great book together. We have looked at the first chapter together now, and it has become apparent to us that there are two grand themes that are being dealt with, two great topics that are being explored in the first chapter of James. In verses two through eighteen, James is dealing with the Christian and…

Faith Comes by Hearing

Romans 10:14-21 Faith Comes by Hearing If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Romans chapter 10. Last week we were in verses 1 through 13 and Paul went out of his way to stress the centrality of faith; we're not saved by our own works, we're not even saved by our own righteousness, we're saved by the righteousness of Christ. How do you get that righteousness? You call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. You trust Him, you confess with your mouth and with your…

Living in Christ

Living in Christ Romans 6:8-14 If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 6. As you do so, I want to remind you of a fact that may catch you off guard. For six and a half chapters, the apostle Paul has been writing to us about various things. If you notice, that not one time has he told you do anything. Isn’t it interesting that for six and half chapters, the apostle Paul hasn’t told us to do a single thing. Now, you may have been wanting that a little bit.…

Justification by Grace Through Faith (2)

Romans 3:21-26 (4) Justification by Grace Through Faith If you have your Bibles I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 3, verse 21. We’ll look at this section of Romans one more time. We’ve been working our way through the whole gospel, and we’ve paused, and we have tarried for three weeks, breaking apart Romans 3:21 through 26 into three parts. And today I’d like to perhaps pull it back together, summarize, focus on especially some of the terms which are unfamiliar to us to…

The Righteousness Which Comes by Faith (1)

Romans 3:21-26 The Righteousness which comes by Faith If you have your Bibles I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 3, verse 21 as we continue our study through this great book. Paul has spent the last two or more chapters making it very clear that all the world stands guilty before God. He has done this because if we do not understand, if we do not embrace the truth of the bad news, the good news makes no sense. It not only makes no sense, we can’t appropriate it unless we…

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