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Please open your Bibles to Psalm 103. We've been working our way through the Fourth Book of the Psalms, and this morning and evening we will look at the great 103rd Psalm, one of the most beloved Psalms in all of the Psalter. This morning we’ll look at it especially as a way of preparing for coming to the Lord's Table, and so in doing so we will look only at verses 8-18. Understanding and experiencing God's grace engenders gratitude in our hearts, and that leads us to thanksgiving and praise. The psalmist here is thankful for God's grace, but he wants to spell that out. He wants to be specific about that, and so if you’ll look at verses 8-18, you’ll notice that he is specific about the way that God has manifested His grace to him by designating seven things in…

The Resolutions of a Godly Leader

If you have Bibles, please open to the beginning at the Fifth Book of the Psalms. The Fifth Book of the Psalms begins at Psalm 107, but if you look at Psalm 101 all the way to Psalm 110, you will find parallels. And, as you’re opening your Bibles to Psalm 101, you may want to flip over to Psalm 110, for instance, and see both of these Psalms have to do with a king. And then if you look at Psalm 102 and Psalm 109, you’ll see that they have parallel themes and so on. So this is a little book of Psalms within the larger book of the Psalms, that overlaps two books of the Psalms! So there are all sorts of wonderful, intricate ways of laying out the Psalms that enlighten and illumine us to certain aspects that are being taught to us in these great passages of Scripture. As you look at Psalm…

He Answered, Forgave, and Avenged

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 99 as we continue to make our way through the Fourth Book of the Psalms. The Fourth Book of the Psalms runs from Psalm 90-106. This section of Psalms that we've been studying for the last few Sundays (Psalms 95-100) all focus on worship. And if you've turned to Psalm 99, you can take a peek back to Psalm 98. As we were looking at this Psalm last week, we commented that it teaches us four lessons about public worship. First of all, we commented on the direction of the Psalm. Primarily, Psalm 98 is singing about God, and we made a few comments about that. First of all, we reminded ourselves that even in a hymn or a song when we're singing about God, we're singing to God about God. But we also said that in…

Joy to the World

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 98 as we continue to work our way through the Fourth Book of the Psalms — Psalms 90-106. We've said repeatedly that the Psalms show us the anatomy of all parts of the Christian soul and they provide us language with which the believer can express the whole range of Christian experience. No matter what situation you are in in life this morning, no matter how many different situations are represented in the room today,…

Moses’ Psalm

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to the Psalms, to the Fourth Book of the Psalms, to the very first Psalm in the Fourth Book of the Psalms, Psalm 90. The Fourth Book of the Psalms runs from Psalm 90 to Psalm 106, and we’re going to be studying these books together, and today we are going to be in Moses’ Psalm: “The Prayer of Moses, the Man of God.” What should it feel like to be a Christian? What does a true believer experience in his or her life with God in this…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning May 11, 2008 Philippians 3:17-4:1 Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ and the Peace that Passes Understanding: A Study of Philippians “Two Ways to Live” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III I'd like to invite you all to have a subversive Mother's Day. What I mean by that is that we live in a culture that does not value motherhood, and it doesn't believe in a biblical view of male/female role relationships. And I would invite you to subvert that in…

Balaam’s Ass

The Lord’s Day Evening November 11, 2007 Numbers 22:22-40 “Balaam’s Ass” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. Please be seated. We began our study in the story of Balak and Balaam and Israel last Lord’s Day evening. It is a dramatic story. It is the story of God’s sovereign care over His people. Even as their enemies seek to avail themselves of supernatural powers to bring down curse and destruction on the people of God, God manifests His sovereignty. What’s the…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning May 13, 2007 Philippians 1:6 “He Finishes What He Starts” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians, chapter one. When we started our study of this book together, we noted that this was a book filled with thanksgiving and with joy, and we said that this started with thanksgiving and with joy. In fact, if you allow your eyes to look at verses 3-5, the passage we're going to read today in verse 6 is a…

Passover

Wednesday Evening May 2, 2007 Numbers 9:1-14 “Passover” Dr. Ligon Duncan III I’d invite you to turn with me to Numbers, chapter nine. If you don’t have your Bibles with you, I believe that the text of tonight’s message is in the bulletin, and you can follow along there. A couple of weeks ago we were in the longest chapter in the Bible (that is, if you don’t count Psalm 119), Numbers 7, running to 89 verses; and we read all of those verses as we worked our way through…

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Grace

The Resolutions of a Godly Leader

He Answered, Forgave, and Avenged

Joy to the World

Moses’ Psalm

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

Balaam’s Ass

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

Passover