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Are You Sure About Jesus?

The Lord's Day Morning Luke 7:18-35 “Are You Sure About Jesus?” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 7. We’re going to be looking at verses 18 to the end of the chapter, verse 35, as we continue to make our way through the gospel of Luke together. Let me show you four parts to this passage before we read it. The first part you’ll see is in verses 18 to 20. John, in this passage, sends two disciples to ask Jesus a very important question. It's important for you to know that John is in prison. To say that he was discouraged is an understatement. He had said of Jesus many months before, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who comes to take away the sins of the world.” He had announced Jesus as the Messiah — He is the…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning April 20, 2008 Philippians 3:1-11 Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ and the Peace that Passes Understanding: A Study of Philippians “The Christian's Triple Gain” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians 3. As we look at this passage which speaks to us about the triple gain of Christians (that is, the triple blessing, the triple benefit that believers have in Jesus Christ), you’ll notice especially in verses 7-11 that Paul outlines for us what that triple gain is, and in the language of our catechism it is justification, sanctification, and glorification. Just open your hymnals and take a look at The Shorter Catechism (towards the back of the hymnal) and look at Questions…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning April 13, 2008 Communion Sunday Philippians 3:1-11 Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ and the Peace that Passes Understanding: A Study of Philippians “When Gain is Loss, and Loss Means Greater Gain” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III “O come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord, our maker; for He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the flock under His care.” Let us worship Him. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians 3. We’re again reading from Philippians 3:1-11. We've been looking at this passage for a few weeks now. In the first verse of Philippians 3 the Apostle Paul exhorts us to joy: not to a shallow joy, but to a deep joy; not to fake joy, but real joy; not to joy…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day March 23, 2008 Philippians 3:1-11 Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ and the Peace that Passes Understanding:A Study of Philippians “Knowing the Power of Christ's Resurrection” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your bibles, let me invite you to turn with me to Philippians chapter 3. We've been looking at this great letter of the apostle to the Philippians for many weeks now, and we have been especially concentrating on the center part of…

No One Like You

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 86, and you will notice as you turn to this Psalm that it is a Psalm of David. Now, there's nothing surprising about a Psalm of David. There is something unique about a Psalm of David in the Third Book of the Psalms. This is the only Psalm of David in the Third Book of the Psalms. The Psalms are divided into three books, and we've been studying this Third Book that takes us all the way to Psalm 89. This is the only…

Knowing God

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 76. We've already commented that Psalm 74 and 75 are tied together. Psalm 74 ends with a plea for God to rise up and defend His own cause (in the 22nd verse), and Psalm 75 contemplates the confidence of the believer at the very thought of the coming of God's judgment, whereas Psalm 76 contemplates that judgment at least in some measure as already having come. The Septuagint (or, the Greek translation of the Old…

Giving Thanks for Faith and Love

The Lord's Day Morning September 11, 2005 Ephesians 1:15-17 “Giving Thanks for Faith and Love” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter one. We resume our study of this great letter together. We have said several times that almost the whole of Ephesians 1 is prayer: verses 3-14 constitute a single prayer of adoration to God in which Paul blesses God for who He is and what He has done for us; verses 15-23, the…

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…

If You Love Me, Keep My Commandments

1 John 2:3-6 If you Love Me, Keep My Commandments If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to 1 John chapter 2. We’re going to be looking at verses 3-6 today as we continue to work our way through this great book of Scripture. Let's refresh our memory of what we've learned so far. In chapter 1, especially from verse 5 to the end of the chapter, John is responding to false teaching in the Christian congregation, especially regarding sin. The false teachers are…

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