Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ and the Peace that Passes Understanding: A Study of Philippians (6): Life = Christ, Death = Gain

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Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning June 3, 2007 Philippians 1:21 “Life = Christ, Death = Gain” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians , as we continue making our way through this great letter of the Apostle Paul. Now our passage today is Philippians 1:21, a passage that no doubt many of you have memorized and used as a life verse; but before we get to that passage I'd like you to allow your eyes to scan verses 12-20 to remind us what brought Paul to make this statement in Philippians 1:21 in the first place. In Philippians 1:12-20, Paul is giving a missionary report, but it's an unusual missionary report in that it has a pastoral purpose of ministering to the Philippians as they worry about the Apostle Paul. Paul is in…

What to Pray For One Another (2)

The Lord's Day Morning January 22, 2006 Ephesians 3:16b-19 “What to Pray For One Another (2)” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians 3. We've been looking at this prayer in Ephesians 3:14-19 for a number of weeks now. We spent the first message in this passage looking just at Paul's words of rationale as to why he was praying. You see those words, “For this reason I pray…for this reason I bow my knees to the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name…”; and from verse 14 all the way down to the first part of verse 16, the Apostle Paul gives us the context of this prayer. He explains his confidence in the abundance of God's riches and what God has done on their…

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, chapter one, as we continue our way through this last of Paul's letters. Paul is in prison. He is awaiting what will eventually be his death by execution for his fidelity to God, to Christ and to the gospel. And he is writing his beloved son in the Lord, Timothy–and this past Lord's Day you had…

A Spirit of Power, Love, and Discipline

The Lord's Day Morning February 13, 2005 II Timothy 1:1-7 “A Spirit of Power, Love, and Discipline” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Turn with me to II Timothy, chapter one. We have been working through the three pastoral letters of Paul — I Timothy, Titus, and now II Timothy — for some months now on Lord's Day mornings, on and off. We've taken them out of the order that they’re found in the Scripture. They move from I Timothy to II Timothy and Titus in your Bibles. We've taken…

The Ordinary Means of Grace

The Lord's Day Morning September 19, 2004 I Timothy 4:11-16 “The Ordinary Means of Grace” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to I Timothy, chapter four. We’re working through three letters written by Paul that have been called for a couple of hundred years now “the pastoral letters,” or the “pastoral epistles”: I Timothy, Titus, and II Timothy. Some of the last things that Paul ever said in his life to the church, they’re…

The Covenant of Grace Stands in Bold Contrast to the…

The Covenant of Grace Romans 5:15-17 If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans 5, and look at verse 15. As we do so let me remind you where we have been. We said last week in Romans 5:12, Paul is beginning a new section of the book of Romans. He is recapitulating for us. He is actually providing us the underlying principles, those things which under gird the argument that He has made from Romans, chapter 1, verse 18, all the way to Romans, chapter 5, verse 11. He’s…

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