Holy Assemblies: Feasting to The Lord

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Holy Assemblies: Feasting to The Lord

Wednesday Evening June 20, 2005 Leviticus 23:1-44 “Holy Assemblies: Feasting to the Lord” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus 23, as we continue to work our way through the Book of Leviticus and see the gospel displayed in all its Old Testament glory. We've come to a passage that is about holy feasting. We see consecutive instructions given about the various feasts of Israel…about the people's observation of them. But before we read the passage together, let me just outline a few of the things that we see as part of its content. First of all, in verse 3 you see the instructions pertaining to the Sabbath Day, the seventh day rest that the people of God were not only to observe in their homes, but which they were…

The Lord Who Makes Us Holy

Wednesday Evening June 13, 2005 Leviticus 22:1-33 “The Lord Who Makes Us Holy” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus, chapter 22. We are continuing a section of the Book of Leviticus that again pertains to regulations regarding the rites of worship, and especially regulations that are directed to the priests. Many of these regulations, especially in the first nine verses of Leviticus 22, we've already seen before. These regulations have in different forms already been given to the people of God regarding their approach or non-approach to God in worship in the tabernacle. But here these are directed specifically to the priests, and in this passage we see not only standing instructions for those who worship the Lord, standing…

Every Spiritual Blessing (2)

The Lord's Day Morning July 10, 2005 Ephesians 1:3-4 “Every Spiritual Blessing (2): The Blessing of Divine Election” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter one. Last week we began our study of this glorious prayer in Ephesians 1, beginning in verse 3 and running all the way to verse 14. And as we did, we observed that the whole of Ephesians, chapter one, is a prayer. Ephesians 1:3-14 is a prayer of praise; Ephesians 1:15-23 is a prayer of intercession; Ephesians 1:3-14 gives adoration to God for who He is and what He has done. Ephesians 1:15-23 brings a request to the Lord that He would open our eyes to see the fullness of the blessings that He has given to us in satisfying and supplying all our needs, and so the…

The Moral Demands on the Ministry

Wednesday Evening June 22, 2005 Leviticus 21 “The Moral Demands on the Ministry” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Turn with me to Leviticus, chapter 21, as we continue to work our way through the Book of Leviticus. This is a passage in which God gives to the children of Israel, through Moses, instruction regarding the priests and the Levites that are going to serve in the tabernacle, and then, the temple. And we see something here of the moral demands (both the ceremonial and moral requirements) that…

Doing the Right Thing to Pagans and Strangers

Wednesday Evening June 8, 2005 Leviticus 19Doing the Right Thing to Pagans and Strangers J. Ligon Duncan If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus, chapter nineteen. This is one of the best-known chapters in the Book of Leviticus, in part because this is the chapter from which the New Testament gets the phrase “love your neighbor as yourself.” It's part of this final section of Leviticus that concerns the practice of holiness. It's telling believers in…

Things My Dad Taught Me Never to Talk About in Public

Wednesday Evening May 4, 2005 Leviticus 15:1-33 “Things My Dad Taught Me Never to Talk About in Public” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus 15. This is again one of the passages in the midst of the holiness code in Leviticus in which God is explaining to the children of Israel how He wants them to keep themselves pure and separate from the nations around them, and how He wants them to be clean before they come into His…

The South Sinai Diet

Wednesday Evening March 16, 2005 Leviticus 11:1-47 “The South Sinai Diet” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus, chapter eleven. We've been working through Leviticus for a number of months now, and as we looked at Leviticus 1 to 7 we saw the five great personal sacrifices described, both from the standpoint of those who were to offer the sacrifices and those who were to administer the offering of those sacrifices…the…

Blood on the Altar

The Lord's Day Evening January 2, 2005 Leviticus 7:1-10 “Blood on the Altar” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you’ll open your Bibles to Leviticus chapter one. If you’ll look at chapter one, for instance, we studied there the burnt offering, the offering that is called the holocaust, that is entirely consumed in the fire. And when we studied Leviticus 1, we saw that that offering taught us about the importance about right worship to God. God is clearly concerned how we worship Him, because…

Slain Before the Lord: The Sin Offering

The Lord's Day Evening November 28, 2004 Leviticus 6:24-30 “Slain Before the Lord: The Sin Offering” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus, chapter six. Last week we were looking at Leviticus 6:19-23, and at the priestly grain offering. And we saw several things in that passage of note. First of all, the emphasis on consecration: the way that Aaron and his sons were to express, to visibly manifest their consecration of the whole…

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