What Makes Angels Rejoice?

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What Makes Angels Rejoice?

The Lord's Day Morning December 12, 2010 Luke 15:1-10 “What Makes Angels Rejoice?” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke 15. We’re going to be looking at the first ten verses together this morning. In Luke 15, Jesus tells three stories. The first of those three stories you’ll see in verses 4 to 6, the second of those three stories you’ll see in verses 8 and 9, and the third of those three stories you’ll see in verses 11 to 32. There is a connection. We’re going to be looking at the first of the two stories today. We’ll look at the third story next Lord's Day, God willing, but there is a connection and I want you to notice it. The first story is the story of a lost sheep. The second story is the story of a lost…

He Called. He Gave. He Sent

The Lord's Day Morning January 3, 2010 Luke 9:1-9 “He called. He gave. He sent.” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III We’re looking at a passage in which Jesus commissions His disciples to preach the circuit, a short preaching assignment in the villages and towns in the area in which they presently found themselves. As we look at this passage I do want you to keep your eyes out for three or four things. In verses 1 and 2, you see Jesus call His disciples and engift His disciples and send His disciples. I especially want you to be thinking about the phrases, “He called, He gave, and He sent.” Those should remind you of some things you've heard before in the Old Testament when God called Israel out of Egypt and gave to them promises and blessings and commands and sent them into the land…

What True Happiness Looks Like, and What Looks Like…

The Lord's Day Morning September 20, 2009 Luke 6:20-26 “What True Happiness Looks Like, and What Looks Like True Happiness, But Isn't” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 6 as we continue to work our way through this gospel and as we double back to a very important passage in Luke. It's from the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus begins with four words of blessing and four words of warning and woe. This is Luke's truncated version of the Beatitudes. It begins with four blessings and follows with four words of woe and warning. And if you look at the blessings and the warnings in parallel, you learn a little bit about what Jesus is exactly getting at, because the blessings are mirrored exactly in the…

His Name Is John

The Lord's Day Morning January 11, 2009 Luke 1:57-66 “His Name Is John” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke, chapter one, as we continue to make our way through the Gospel of Luke together. The last time we were with Zechariah, he had literally been struck dumb. He was mute because he struggled to get his head and heart around the promise of the angel to him that he was going to be a father at an advanced age, and that his…

He Remembers His Covenant

I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 105 as we continue our way through the Fourth Book of the Psalms. This psalm is another in a train of psalms of praise. It's a long psalm, but it's outlined fairly simply. The first six verses contain a call to praise God for His wondrous works for His chosen people, and nine different verbs will be used to exhort us to worship God, will instruct us what it means to worship God in those first six verses. The second part of the psalm is found in…

Cheerful?

The Lord's Day Morning November 2, 2008 Stewardship Commitment Sunday II Corinthians 9:7b-9 “Cheerful?” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Dr. Duncan: Lord, Thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another; before the mountains were brought forth or ever the earth and the world were made, Thou art God, from everlasting to everlasting, to everlasting. I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. I will sing of the lovingkindness of the Lord forever. Let us worship…

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,…

Content in Every Situation

The Lord's Day Morning June 1, 2008 Philippians 4:10-20 Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ and the Peace that Passes Understanding: A Study of Philippians “Content in Every Situation” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Now let me invite you to take your Bibles in hand and turn with me to Philippians 4, as we have drawn almost to the end of this great letter. The amazing passage that we are going to read today contains three of the most well-known and beloved phrases or sentences…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning May 18, 2008 Philippians 4:2-7 Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ and the Peace that Passes Understanding: A Study of Philippians “The Shalom of God” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians 4:2, as we continue to work our way through this great book together. Have you ever wished that your name was in a Bible book? Well, if you did, you probably wanted your name mentioned like…

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