Neglecting so Great a Salvation

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Neglecting so Great a Salvation

The Lord's Day Morning January 20, 2013 “Better — Neglecting So Great a Salvation” Hebrews 2:1-4 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Hebrews chapter 2. We’re going to be looking at verses 1 to 4 this morning as we continue our way through this great letter together. Last week and the week before we were looking at Hebrews chapter 1 and we saw from the very beginning that Hebrews is a book about Jesus. You can't get out of the first three verses without seeing that this is a book focused on the person and work of Jesus. And over and over in this book there is a theme that Jesus is better, that He is greater, that He is more excellent than, that He is superior to. In fact, I had an interesting conversation with…

The New Exodus

The Lord's Day Morning February 14, 2010 Luke 9:28-36 “The New Exodus” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III O give thanks unto the Lord for He is good. His steadfast love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Let us worship Him. Our Lord and our God we bow before You. We acknowledge you as the Creator of everything and the Ruler of the whole universe, but especially this day we come to You as the God of grace, for it's only by Your grace that we dare enter into Your presence and call out to You, “Abba, Father.” For because of our sins we deserve to be far from You. We deserve to be cast out and condemned, judged and found lacking. And yet in the greatness of Your own love, You sent Your Son, Your only Son, the Beloved, the only Begotten, the Lord Jesus Christ, to die for…

Succession Plan

Wednesday Evening January 30, 2008 Numbers 27:12-23 Numbers — With God in the Wilderness: “Succession Plan” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Numbers 27. Last Wednesday night we were in Numbers 26, looking at a long list of the heads of families of the tribes of Israel; and these names were being listed not only for the purposes of selective service, but especially for the purpose of inheritance. And therein lies an irony with the passage we’re reading tonight. In Numbers 26, all the heads of families of the tribes of Israel are being numbered so that the land, which God had promised to Abraham and to his descendents, which the children of Israel were about to enter into, could be apportioned out appropriately to those…

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,…

Grumbling

Wednesday Evening June 6, 2007 Numbers 11:1-15 “Grumbling” Dr. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Numbers, chapter 11, and let me just remind you of one thing from last week together. You can take a look at Numbers 10:33-36, and just remember that at the end of Numbers 10, Moses is reminding you of how God visibly demonstrated and manifested His care for, His providence over, His protection of the children of Israel, and He did this in at least…

Lamps, Levites, and Retirement

Wednesday Evening April 25, 2007 Numbers 8:1-26 Lamps, Levites, and Retirement Dr. Ligon Duncan III I’d invite you to turn with me to Numbers 8. We have been working through Numbers for a number of weeks now. The last time we were together in Numbers, we were in the longest chapter in the Bible, Numbers 7; that runs to 89 verses. And we said that it describes a unique event in Israel’s history, a twelve-day event when gifts were brought to the tent of meeting–all of the gifts the…

The Tent of Meeting Set Up

First Presbyterian Church Wednesday Evening Worship May 14, 2003 Exodus 40:1-33 “The Tent of Meeting Set Up” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 40. We have come to the second to the last study in this great book that we've been looking at for a long time now–93 sermons ago we started the Book of Exodus, so persevere! You’re almost there! Now, let's look at Exodus 40 together. In Exodus 40:1-33, we are given a view of the…

The Face of Moses

The Face of MosesExodus 34:29-35 I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 34. Tonight we come to the end of our study of the golden calf incident. These very last verses, these verses at the end of chapter 34, exalt the mediator Moses. Now this began in Exodus 32:1, “When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people assembled about Aaron and said to him, ‘Come, make us a God who will go before us.” They didn't think Moses was coming back so they…

Glorifying God

Glorifying GodExodus 34:10-28 If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 34 as we continue to work our way through this great book. We come to the end of a passage which forms the center of the book and focuses on the golden calf incident. Let's hear God's word. Then God said, “Behold, I am going to make a covenant. Before all your people I will perform miracles which have not been produced in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people…

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