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The Ends

If you have Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Psalm 73. Now we come to the Third Book of the Psalms beginning here in Psalm 73, and one of the things that you will notice is that in this Third Book of the Psalms, eleven of the Psalms bear the name “Asaph.” Asaph, as you remember, was one of the leaders of temple worship spoken about in the Book of Chronicles. This is a Levitical priest who had responsibility for leading the choirs in the services, and of course for composing music and text for that same purpose. Four of the songs in this section of the Book of the Psalms are by the “Sons of Korah”; again, part of that Levitical priesthood. And then there are other miscellaneous people who contribute songs in this section, but clearly this indicates that these songs,…

Blasphemy and an Eye for an Eye: The Lex Talionis

Wednesday Evening August 10, 2005 Leviticus 24:10-23 “Blasphemy and an Eye for an Eye: The Lex Talionis” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus, chapter 24. The last time we were together in this book, we were looking at the first nine verses of this chapter: Leviticus 24:1-9 — the instructions pertaining to the lamp and the bread in the sanctuary. And we said that one of the messages that the Lord was sending to His children, Israel, through the provision of the oil for the lamp to ever burn and for the bread to ever be before the Lord, was to say to them that the lights were on, and the food was on the table, and the Lord was providing for His people that they could come and fellowship with Him. Now, this whole section of…

A Prayer for the King: The Christian Experience of the…

Turn with me in your Bibles to Psalm 72. Let me just remind you that at the time of the response at the end of the service, after the benediction, that we’ll sing the last stanza of that arrangement of Psalm 72. You will have noticed that everything we've sung tonight, except for the word before the Children's Devotional, is related to Psalm 72. We sang at the beginning of the service, Hail to the Lord's Anointed, which is four stanzas of–I don't know, about twelve or thirteen stanzas of James Montgomery's great hymn based upon Psalm 72. Really, it's just a paraphrase or a rendering of Psalm 72. We love to sing James Montgomery hymns. We don't have as many of them in our hymnal as you would find in British evangelical churches. He was one of the great hymn…

When I’m 64

I'd invite you to turn with me to the Psalms, to the seventy-first Psalm, which is the penultimate psalm in the Second Book of the Psalms. This is a Psalm for old age. Now, don't take offense! I'm not setting an exact date on when old age is. It's looking older and older to me, as I grow older myself. This is a psalm of old age. This psalmist is looking back on a life in which he can testify to the fact that the Lord has been there for him since his birth. He cannot remember a…

Blessing God

I'd invite you to turn with me to Jude, right at the end of the New Testament, right before the book of Revelation, as we look one last time at this short letter. We've been in the book of Jude for the last four weeks, and now we're in the final two verses. And in those two verses, we come face-to-face with a doxology. Now we sing a doxology that goes something like this, “Praise God from whom all blessings flow.” That, you can see immediately, is a doxology. That is, it is a…

The Glory Cloud

First Presbyterian Church Wednesday Evening Worship May 21, 2003 Exodus 40:34 “The Glory Cloud” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Exodus, chapter 40…this is a fun section, though. This is a glorious section of Exodus 40. It's almost as if the Lord's rewarding you at the end of those long tedious descriptions from Exodus 35-39, and really into the middle of chapter 40, with this glorious spectacle. In Exodus 40 we have a view of the completion of the tabernacle, and of its consecration…

The Lord Passes By

Exodus 34:1-9The Lord Passes By If you have your Bibles, we are in Exodus 34, in the middle of the story of the golden calf and its aftermath, which runs from Exodus 32 to 34. It's ironic, isn't it, right smack in the middle of a section on worship, we have a story about idolatry. Of course, there's no mistake in that, that's precisely the pooint that Moses is making. Our hearts are idol factories, and even as God is giving instructions on worship while he's on the mountain,…

Does God Change His Mind?

Exodus 32:11-18Does God Change His Mind? Exodus, chapters 25 through 40, is a section that teaches Israel how to worship, how God is to be worshiped rightly, and in the middle, in chapter 32, we find this story about idolatry and infidelity to the living God. We've already noted that there are several huge themes that run throughout Exodus 32-34. First of all, this whole section highlights the person and importance of the Mediator. Without a Mediator, Israel would never have survived this…

Mobile Sanctuary

Exodus 27:1-21Mobile Church That brings us to Exodus 27. So if you have your Bibles look with me there. “Our Lord and our God teach us from Your word this night of Christ and of Your worship. We ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.” I want to point you to three things. Exodus 27 divides into three parts. Verses 1-8 describe the altar of sacrifice. That altar of sacrifice was called different things. For instance, in the very first verse of the next chapter, it's called the altar of bronze,…

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