God’s New Family: An Exposition of Ephesians (XLVI) God’s Household Rules: Marriage and Family (1)

Filter Resources:

God’s New Family: An Exposition of Ephesians…

The Lord's Day Morning July 30, 2006 Ephesians 5:21 God's Household Rules: Marriage and Family (1)” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians 5. If you have the outline that was provided today for this message, you’ll also notice the outline of Ephesians 5:18-21. We’re going to go back today to verse 21, the last verse of the passage we studied together last week, because it is a transition verse from the section that we've been studying into this new section that deals with marriage and with family. The Apostle Paul has given one negative command and one positive command in Ephesians 5:18. You see them there in the outline as Roman numerals I and II: “Do not get drunk” is the negative command; the positive…

Divorce: Grounds, Prevention, Coping, Recovery

Divorce: Grounds, Prevention, Coping, Recovery Deuteronomy 24:1-4, Malachi 2:13-17 We are continuing our summer long series on marriage and the family, and today it is my task to speak to you on divorce. It would be impossible to talk about marriage and family in any kind of complete way without touching on this painful subject. The issue is ubiquitous, even in our congregation, but also in our culture. William Bennett, in his Index of Leading Cultural Indicators, says, “The United States has the highest divorce rate in the world. At present rates, approximately half of all U.S. marriages can be expected to end in divorce. Both co-habiting and remarried couples are more likely to break up in their subsequent marriages than couples in first marriages. Divorce has a tremendous impact on…

The Family Alter

Deuteronomy 6:4-9The Family AltarDr. Duncan Our subject today is family worship. It is a vital subject and I want to try and look at the whole issue of family religion with you for a moment, so that we can put family worship in context. Many Puritan sermons used to spend 40-60% of the message in application, and that's going to be the case today, although I won't do what one Puritan did, and put 68 points of application in the message. You can imagine the relief of the congregation when they arrived at, “And sixty-eighthly.” It won't be quite like that, but we’ll be taking a biblical principle and applying it fairly thoroughly. We’ll be referencing various passages of Scripture, so keep your Bibles open. I do want to mention, in passing, that there is a wonderful tape…

Fit to Be Tied: Roles, Rules and Responsibilities

Genesis 2:18-25/Ephesians 5:22Fit to be Tied: Roles, Rules and Responsibilities I'd like to invite you to turn with me in your Bibles to Ephesians, chapter 5. We’re continuing in a series that Derek Thomas is taking the main part of the load in. He began it last week with an excellent message setting forth some of the basic principles about marriage and family out of Genesis 1 especially. We’ll have an opportunity tonight to refer back to an important passage at the end of Genesis 2 but…

The Vengeance of the Sons of Jacob

Genesis 34:1-31 If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Genesis chapter 34. As we continue our study of the life of Jacob, we have not too long ago reviewed the well known passage in which Jacob wrestles with the Lord Himself in Genesis 32, verses 24-32, and we saw there Jacob emerge as a broken and a named and a blessed man. And we saw that as part of the whole work that God had been doing on Jacob from Genesis 30 all the way through 32, where God is preparing Jacob to…

A Taste of His Own Medicine

Genesis 29:21-35 A Taste of His Own Medicine If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis 29. You may actually want to keep open your hymnals to 558 because I want to come back to Psalm 1, and I want you to think about something that the Lord says in that Psalm that we've just sung. It pertains to Jacob. As we review the life of Jacob, you may ask yourself up to the point that we begin reading tonight is the Lord's word as set forth in Psalm 1 really coming true…

The Departure of Jacob

Genesis 28:1-9 The Departure of Jacob If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis 28. We’ll look at the first few verses of this great chapter in which Jacob begins his journey to northwest Mesopotamia, the area where his mother grew up. We've been studying the life of Jacob. This is the third of our studies in the life of Jacob. So far we have seen God's providence operating in strange and wonderful, mysterious ways. We first saw in Genesis 25, the…

The Life of Jacob (1): a Blessing Stolen

Genesis 27:1-29 A Blessing Stolen If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis, chapter 27. As you do so, I want to invite the Williams to join me at the front of the sanctuary after the service, and for all of you to come and give them the right hand of fellowship and express to them your support and prayer support for their ministry in Austria. Genesis 27. We have been for a number of weeks in the life of Isaac. And tonight we begin a new series in the life of Jacob.…

The Establishment of a Covenant People: The Covenant…

Genesis 24:28-67 A Wife for Isaac If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis, chapter 24 as we continue the story of the search for a wife for Isaac. Last month we began a new series of studies in Genesis, concentrating on the life and times of Isaac. Abraham is still alive, but as of Genesis 24, the focus turns to Isaac and his future. In fact, the passage we see tonight is very much of a transitional passage. It sets forth one of those turning points and the focus…

Search the Site

Subscribe for Updates