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With God in the Wilderness (28) Snakebit

The Lord’s Day Evening Numbers 21:1-9 With God in the Wilderness “Snakebit” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III The last time we were together in Numbers, we were looking at the overwhelmingly sad and moving passage found in Numbers 20. In the midst of arduous demands of leadership in the wilderness, Moses is going to suffer family bereavement in the loss of his sister, serious opposition and complaints from the people of God, intense frustration from their rebellious spirit, a loss of temper that leads to him displaying publicly a disrespect for God that costs him entry into the Promised Land; and then in Numbers 20 he experiences a second family bereavement in the death of his brother, Aaron, and the subsequent transfer of the high priesthood. By the way, as we reflect on what we studied…

Korah’s Rebellion

Wednesday Evening August 22, 2007 Numbers 16:1-50 “Korah’s Rebellion” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Here we see the some of the Levites coming to Moses and basically saying, ‘We want to be priests. We’re Levites, but we want to be priests.’ And they challenge Moses’ and Aaron’s leadership, and they defame them. You be on the lookout for how they do this, both those things — they challenge the leadership and they defame Moses and Aaron. Let’s hear God’s word. “Now Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men, and they rose up before Moses with a number of the people of Israel, two hundred fifty chiefs of the congregation, chosen from the assembly,…

Rebellion and Rebuke

Wednesday Evening August 8, 2007 Numbers 14:1-45 “Rebellion and Rebuke” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III …Numbers, chapter 14, we are in a section of the book in which we have repeatedly seen Israel grumble and rebel against the Lord. And if you’ll remember the passage that we quoted from the Apostle Paul in I Corinthians 10, this is precisely how he cites the activity of Israel in I Corinthians as a warning to the Corinthian Christians not to grumble. He cites the grumbling of the Israelites, and he cites incidents that occurred and are recorded in our books of Exodus and Numbers; and we are right in the middle of the grumbling in this book. The people grumbled in Numbers 11. The brother and sister of Moses grumbled in Numbers 12. The majority of the spies grumbled in Numbers 13, and now…

Murmuring in the House

Wednesday Evening July 18, 2007 Numbers 12:1-16 “Murmuring In the House” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, let me ask you to turn with me to Numbers 12. You will remember, back in Numbers 11 — and you might want to let your eyes fall on the first fifteen verses and the last four or five verses of Numbers 11, because in Numbers 11, we had two incidents which perfectly illustrate the concerns that the Apostle Paul spoke to the Corinthians about in I Corinthians 10:1-13, when…

Restore Us, O God

Please be seated. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 80 as we continue to make our way through the Third Book of the Psalms. Last week as we studied Psalm 79 together, we saw the lament of the Psalmist for the fall of Jerusalem and the Southern Kingdom with it. Tonight we move from that concern in Psalm 79 with the fall of Jerusalem back a couple of centuries in time, to the fall of Samaria in the late eighth century. And the theme of this Psalm is this repeated…

Brought Very Low

The Lord's Day Evening November 13, 2005 Psalm 79 “Brought Very Low” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. Please be seated. We’re in Psalm 79 as we continue to work our way through the Third Book of the Psalms. We read and worked through all too briefly a long Psalm last week. This is a short Psalm this week; a very poignant Psalm. Let me remind you of the circumstances in the context of this Psalm. Jerusalem has been destroyed. The Babylonians have visited destruction and desecration on the…

Saved From, By, For What?

The Lord's Day Morning October 16, 2005 Ephesians 2:8-10 “Saved From, By, For What?”” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Turn with me in your Bibles to the second chapter of Ephesians as we continue our study in this great book together. The last few weeks we've been looking at Ephesians chapter two, and in the very first verse we see Paul's diagnosis of all fallen humanity. That is, he estimates that we are dead in trespasses and sins, spiritually dead, alienated from God, justly under…

Dead in Sin

The Lord's Day Morning October 2, 2005 Ephesians 2:1-3 “Dead in Sin” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter two, as we continue to work our way through this great letter of the Apostle Paul. In Ephesians 2, having praised God in Ephesians 1 for the greatness of God's mercy to us in Jesus Christ, having interceded in the second half of Ephesians 1 to God to enlighten our eyes to appreciate, to understand, to come…

Immoral Sexual Behavior Condemned

Wednesday Evening June 1, 2005 Leviticus 18:1-30 “Immoral Sexual Behavior Condemned” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus, chapter eighteen. (Phil, we are working through the Book of Leviticus. This summer we're in the holiness code, so you can pray for me as you think of me Wednesday night after Wednesday night.) And we're in a hard passage, as Ed has already said. Let me outline this passage for you before we read it, and…

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