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If You Love Me, Keep My Commandments

1 John 2:3-6 If you Love Me, Keep My Commandments If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to 1 John chapter 2. We’re going to be looking at verses 3-6 today as we continue to work our way through this great book of Scripture. Let's refresh our memory of what we've learned so far. In chapter 1, especially from verse 5 to the end of the chapter, John is responding to false teaching in the Christian congregation, especially regarding sin. The false teachers are teaching a number of incorrect things: they’re teaching that you can have saving fellowship with God and still live immorally; they’re teaching that once you become a Christian, you are a person who is without sin; and they’re teaching that once you become a Christian, you no longer, in fact, commit…

Moses’ Benediction

First Presbyterian Church Wednesday Evening Worship May 7, 2003 Exodus 39:32-43 “Moses’ Benediction” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III We've said over and over that one third of the Book of Exodus is devoted to the instructions regarding the building of the tabernacle and in the report of the carrying out of the building of the tabernacle. And we've also said over and over that the sheer volume of material on the tabernacle proves to us the importance of worship to God. If God didn't care about the worship of His people, He wouldn't have spent a third of this book filled with exciting adventures detailing information like what metal sockets were to be made out of, how large boxes that were to be placed in tents were to be, how many curtains were to cover the place where the…

Worldly Speaking and Christian Speaking

James 4:11-17Worldly Speaking and Christian Speaking If you have your bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to James chapter 4.As we've worked through this very practical book, we noted that in James 1: 26 & 27 James actually gives us a three-point key to some of the important topics that he addresses for the rest of the book. He deals with the issue of worldliness in that passage he also talks about our speech and about our care for those who are in need…Let's hear God's Word: 11Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But…

The Christian Attitude/The Wordly Attitude

James 4:6-10The Christian Attitude/The Worldly Attitude If you have your bibles I invite you to turn with me to James chapter 4. Since James began to talk about heavenly wisdom towards the end of James chapter 3 he has been slowly turning our attention to the issue of worldliness. Worldliness is a tremendous challenge. It's always a challenge for the Christian church, when the church dwells in a peaceful and prosperous setting and is in some measure identified with, and admired by, and takes…

That I May Dwell Among Them

Exodus 25. 1-40That I May Dwell Among Them Now if we were going to outline this passage together we would divide it into four parts. The introduction to the building of the tabernacle and of all its furnishings is in verses 1-9. There we have the call for costly gifts to build the tabernacle. The second part of the chapter is in verses 10-22 where we get the instructions for the ark of the testimony or the ark of the covenant. The third part of the chapter is in verses 23 — 30,where we get the…

Loyalty to God

Exodus 23:20-33Loyalty to God If you have your Bibles, please open to Exodus chapter 23, beginning at verse 20, hear the word of God: “Behold, I am going to send an angel before you to guard you along the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. “Be on your guard before him and obey his voice; do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your transgression, since My name is in him. “But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will…

Faith Always Bears Fruit

James 2:14-26Faith Always Bears Fruit If you have your Bibles I would invite you to turn with me to James, chapter two, as we continue our way through this great little book together. The first week we were in James we looked at the first verse and the words of greetings and we said, even then, that the very language that James used in his greetings, language which recalls the Old Testament pilgrimage of Israel in the wilderness, prepared us to think about the trials of the Christian life. And…

The Parties You Have to Go To

Exodus 23:10-19The Parties You Have to Go To If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus chapter 23. Tonight we come to the penultimate message in this series on the book of the covenant. We started all the way back in Exodus 20, immediately after the 10 commandments with that section beginning in verse 22 which is the formal beginning of the book of the covenant. At the beginning of chapter 21 we got into the laws of the book of the covenant. Tonight we study the last…

Favoritism: A Contradiction of Christian Living

James 2:1-13Favoritism: A Contradiction of Christian Living Amen! If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to James chapter two as we continue to work our way through this great book together. We have looked at the first chapter together now, and it has become apparent to us that there are two grand themes that are being dealt with, two great topics that are being explored in the first chapter of James. In verses two through eighteen, James is dealing with the Christian and…

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