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You Become Like What You Worship

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 97. We have been working our way through the Fourth Book of the Psalms, from Psalm 90 on our way to Psalm 106. For a number of weeks on Lord's Day mornings, we've said repeatedly that the Psalms show us the anatomy of all parts of the Christian soul. They express the whole range of Christian experience from gladness to despair, from worship to hopelessness. The Psalms give us the words to express the whole range of what we experience in life in this fallen world, even as believers in the living God. And when we got to Psalm 95, we observed that especially from Psalm 95 to about Psalm 100, repeatedly these Psalms teach us important aspects of what it means to worship. There are significant things that we learn…

Possessing the Land

Wednesday Evening April 23, 2008 Numbers 33:50-56 Numbers — With God in the Wilderness “Possessing the Land” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Numbers 33, as we continue to make our way through this, the fourth of the five books of Moses. When we conclude this passage tonight we will be within three chapters of the conclusion of this book, and it’s been a great journey indeed. When we were last together in Numbers, we were in a wilderness travel log in the first part of this very chapter. Numbers 33:1-49 gives us a succession of almost unpronounceable names and obscure place references, and we ask ourselves the question, “What can we possibly learn from this list of place names?” And we’re not the first persons to…

Capital Crimes and Consequences: Getting Radical in…

Wednesday Evening June 29, 2005 Leviticus 20:1-27 “Capital Crimes and Consequences: Getting Radical in Response to Sin” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus, chapter 20, as we continue our study through this code of holiness, the holiness code of the second half of the Book of Leviticus. And having come to the twentieth chapter, we have come to a passage again in which the penalties for specific sins are enumerated, indicating just how radically God was willing to deal with sin in the people of Israel. Let me point you back to chapter 19, and then let me outline chapter 20 for you briefly, and perhaps that will help you as we read what's a fairly long chapter together. Let me point you back to chapter 19 and just remind…

Examination For Assurance

The Lord's Day March 28th, 2004 1 John 5:13-21 Examination for Assurance If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to 1 John chapter 5. Today we come to the end of our study of 1 John. This is the epilogue of the book, from the 13th verse of this chapter to the end: John's final words, his parting words, an afterword to us in which he sums up some of the great emphases of this book. Now we've focused much on what John has said about three tests of genuine…

I Will Not Go Up in Your Midst

Exodus 33:1-11I Will Not Go in Your Midst If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 33. In Exodus, one of the great themes we have seen over and over, is that we are saved to worship. God not only brought His people out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, in order to enter into a fruitful land, but also to glorify and enjoy Him forever. This was at the heart of what He was doing. It's not an incidental. That wasn't a trick that Moses used to try…

The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn

The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn Exodus 11:1-10 If you’d take your Bibles and turn with me to Exodus, chapter 11, we come now to the final plague. Let's hear God's Word. “Now the Lord said to Moses, ‘One more plague I will bring on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that, he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will surely drive you out from here completely. Speak now in the hearing of the people, that each man asks from his neighbor, and each woman from her…

The Ninth Plague: Darkness

Exodus 10:21-29 The Ninth Plague: Darkness If you have your Bibles, I'd like to direct your attention to the end of Exodus, chapter 10, picking up in verse 21. Today we come to the penultimate plague of the next to the last of this series of ten plagues. We have seen three triads of plagues so far. The first three, the middle three, and now this, the end of the last three. There will be one more plague, but it's in a category all its own. We've been having hints all along that it may…

The Eighth Plague: Locusts

Eighth Plague the LocustsExodus 10:1-20 If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Exodus 10. We come tonight to the eighth of the ten plagues. As we do, you know that we are already in the last triad. There are three three’s in the plagues. Plagues one through three, four through six, and seven through nine bear certain similarities. And seem to be attached in three distinctive cycles. So this is the middle of the last cycle of plagues. We’ve already observed an…

The Sixth and Seventh Plagues: Boils and Hail

The Sixth and Seventh Plagues: Boils and HailExodus 9:8-35 If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with to Exodus, chapter 9. We’ve worked through the first five plagues now, and it may be good to pause and review some of themes we’ve seen so far. First of all, we’ve emphasized on a number of occasions that the plague represents God’s redemptive work of destruction. That is, as He works to redeem us from our enemies, from Satan and from sin from the power of the flesh and the…

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