With God in the Wilderness (25) Levites’ Duties and Priestly Portion

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With God in the Wilderness (25) Levites’ Duties…

The Lord’s Day Evening Numbers 18:1-32 “Levites’ Duties and Priestly Portion” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. Please be seated. If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Numbers, chapter 18. For those of you who haven’t been with us on Wednesday nights working through this great book, we have called this series “With God in the Wilderness,” and we’ve chosen that title because the name of this book in the Hebrew Bible is “In the Wilderness” — a considerably more tantalizing name than Numbers! And we also said that that picture of the people of God being with Him in the wilderness is not unlike the picture of our Christian pilgrimage with God in this world, for we are not yet home. We’re not home with the Lord yet. We’re in the…

Aaron’s Rod Blossoming

Wednesday Evening August 29, 2007 Numbers 17:1-13 “Aaron’s Rod Blossoming” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Numbers 17, as we continue to make our way through this book together. I’ve been able to say this over and over the last few weeks because of the material that we’ve been in, but all the way from chapter 11 to chapter 16 has been a story of Israel grumbling and complaining and murmuring and rebelling against Moses and Aaron–and ultimately, of course, against the Lord. The Lord says that explicitly in the passage tonight. Moses and Aaron are discouraged at the rebellions against them, but the Lord says, ‘Brothers, it’s not against you that they are rebelling; it’s Me that they’re rebelling…

Elders and Quail

Wednesday Evening June 20, 2007 Numbers 11:16-30 “Elders and Quail” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Numbers, chapter eleven. Tonight we’re going to be looking at verses 16-30. Now, to God’s word. If you have your Bibles, let me ask you to cast your eyes back earlier in the chapter (Numbers 11), because the last time we were together in Numbers, back at the first Wednesday night of June a couple of weeks ago, we were looking at Numbers 11:1-15. And it’s a passage that is a living illustration of what Paul was talking about in I Corinthians 10. In verses 1-3 of Numbers 11 we see the complaint of the people against God; in verses 4-6 we see the influence of this rabble that’s amongst the people of God…

The Lord Who Makes Us Holy

Wednesday Evening June 13, 2005 Leviticus 22:1-33 “The Lord Who Makes Us Holy” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus, chapter 22. We are continuing a section of the Book of Leviticus that again pertains to regulations regarding the rites of worship, and especially regulations that are directed to the priests. Many of these regulations, especially in the first nine verses of Leviticus 22, we've already seen before. These…

The Moral Demands on the Ministry

Wednesday Evening June 22, 2005 Leviticus 21 “The Moral Demands on the Ministry” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Turn with me to Leviticus, chapter 21, as we continue to work our way through the Book of Leviticus. This is a passage in which God gives to the children of Israel, through Moses, instruction regarding the priests and the Levites that are going to serve in the tabernacle, and then, the temple. And we see something here of the moral demands (both the ceremonial and moral requirements) that…

Finishing the Race

The Lord's Day Morning June 5, 2005 II Timothy 4:5-8 “Finishing the Race” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to II Timothy, chapter four. We’re coming today towards the end of our study of the pastoral letters and of II Timothy. Next Lord's Day, God willing, Derek Thomas will be taking us through II Timothy 4:9-22, a passage in which Paul is relating personal greetings and expressing personal concerns. At first glance it can look…

Preach the Word

The Lord's Day Morning May 29, 2005 II Timothy 4:1-4“Preach the Word” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to II Timothy, chapter four. Last week we were in II Timothy 3, and looking especially at those glorious verses in which the Apostle Paul describes the nature, the character of Scripture as divinely inspired, as God-breathed, as profitable for reproof and correction, and training in righteousness; as sufficient for equipping us for the…

Flee and Pursue

The Lord's Day Morning April 17, 2005 II Timothy 2:22-26 “Flee and Pursue” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to II Timothy, chapter two. As we've been working through this great book together, we've seen Paul in this chapter over and over give glorious directions, imperatives, to this young minister, Timothy. And we've seen that those directions are relevant to any age, any era of ministry. But we've also seen that…

The Result of the Resurrection

The Lord's Day Morning March 27, 2005 EASTER SUNDAY II Timothy 2:10-13 “The Result of the Resurrection” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to II Timothy, chapter two. Last week as we were looking at II Timothy 2, verses 1-9, we came to verse 8, a passage in which Paul makes a glorious declaration about the resurrection as a central part of his gospel. That's something that Paul repeats on numerous occasions. Tonight Derek Thomas…

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