Yom Kippur: The Day of Atonement

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Yom Kippur: The Day of Atonement

Wednesday Evening May 11, 2005 Leviticus 16:1-34 “Yom Kippur: The Day of Atonement” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III This is an extraordinarily rich passage. It's a passage which deals with the Day of Atonement and the ritual that was required of the high priest before he engaged in the other rituals that were attendant upon the Day of Atonement. This was the yearly, the annual feast at which Israel gathered; and, despite all of these other sacrifices that we've learned about (and rituals that we've learned about) in Leviticus 1-15, this all-encompassing sin offering was offered up not only for the high priest, not only for the other priests of his household, but for the whole of Israel, because to draw near to a holy God required the covering of sin. Because Israel, though…

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 presence to worship; and if you have already glanced at this passage tonight or this week, you will have noted that again that it speaks about some very uncomfortably intimate and personal aspects of our bodies and our selves. And I want to remind you, as we prepare to hear God's word read, as…

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 priests. And we learned various things about the meaning of those sacrifices in Leviticus 1 to 7. Then we moved into the second section of the Book of Leviticus, in Leviticus 8 to 10. In that section the events surrounding the ordination and installation and inauguration of the Aaronic priesthood are…

Not Ashamed and Holding Fast

The Lord's Day Morning March 13, 2005 II Timothy 1:12-18 “Not Ashamed and Holding Fast” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. It's inspiring to think that Christians have been using those words for 900 years to express their praise to the Lord Jesus Christ, and that the words that we had the privilege to hear read and which we sung back to God have been used by believers for 3,000 years to express their praise to God. If you have your Bibles, I invite you to turn with me to II Timothy,…

Burnt Bread: The Grain Offering

The Lord's Day Evening November 21, 2004 Leviticus 6:19-23 “Burnt Bread: The Grain Offering” (2) Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus, chapter six, again; this time beginning in verse 19. You’ll want to allow your eyes to look back four verses over the passage that we considered last week when we first began to look again at the grain offering. And perhaps you’ll want to remember something of what we said when we looked at…

Priestly Pay: The Priest’s Portion of the Grain…

The Lord's Day Evening November 14, 2004 Leviticus 6:14-18 “Priestly Pay: the Priest's Portion of the Grain Offering” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus, chapter six. Tonight we will be looking again at what has been called the grain offering or the meal offering. We spent some time looking at this offering from the perspective of the basics required in this sacrifice to the Lord, especially from the perspective of the…

Keep the Fire Burning: The Burnt Offering

The Lord's Day Evening November 7, 2004 Leviticus 6:8-13 “Keep the Fire Burning: The Burnt Offering” The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus, chapter six. The last time we were together in Leviticus–at least, you and I–was back on October 17. Now, Derek was with you looking at that transition, the final offering described in that first section of Leviticus one through six, a passage that began in chapter five and…

Blessing God

I'd invite you to turn with me to Jude, right at the end of the New Testament, right before the book of Revelation, as we look one last time at this short letter. We've been in the book of Jude for the last four weeks, and now we're in the final two verses. And in those two verses, we come face-to-face with a doxology. Now we sing a doxology that goes something like this, “Praise God from whom all blessings flow.” That, you can see immediately, is a doxology. That is, it is a…

A Word of Assurance

1 John 2:12-14 A Word of Assurance Turn with me to 1John chapter 2, as we continue our study through this great book. Now, it's been almost a month since we've been together in 1 John, so we should perhaps remind ourselves of what we've seen so far. This book is a book about the Christian life. In fact, John tells us in this book that to live the Christian life is to experience a fellowship with the Triune God. Or to put it another way around: Those who fellowship with the Triune God…

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