Predestined in Love

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Predestined in Love

The Lord's Day Morning July 17, 2005 Ephesians 1:4-6 “Predestined in Love” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you will look at Ephesians 1:4, you will notice that the last words, probably, in your pew Bible translation, and certainly in my rendition of the New American Standard Version here, have the words In love as the first words of a sentence. Now, the reason is [that] in the King James this verse was read this way: “…that we should be holy and blameless before Him in love.” So the idea was that the way in which our holiness and blamelessness was going to be manifested was in our agape love. But almost all modern translations — or certainly, many of them — put the in love of verse 4 with verse 5, as the first two words of a new thought, and that's how we're going…

Every Spiritual Blessing (2)

The Lord's Day Morning July 10, 2005 Ephesians 1:3-4 “Every Spiritual Blessing (2): The Blessing of Divine Election” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter one. Last week we began our study of this glorious prayer in Ephesians 1, beginning in verse 3 and running all the way to verse 14. And as we did, we observed that the whole of Ephesians, chapter one, is a prayer. Ephesians 1:3-14 is a prayer of praise; Ephesians 1:15-23 is a prayer of intercession; Ephesians 1:3-14 gives adoration to God for who He is and what He has done. Ephesians 1:15-23 brings a request to the Lord that He would open our eyes to see the fullness of the blessings that He has given to us in satisfying and supplying all our needs, and so the…

Isn’t It Unfair for God to Choose Some and Not…

Isn't it Unfair for God to Choose Some and Not Others? Romans 9:14-18 If you have your Bibles with you I'd invite you to turn with me to Romans 9 as we continue through this great chapter. We are going to be looking at verses 14 to 18 today, but I'd ask you to look back at verses 1 through 13 and allow your eyes to scan it because I am going to remind you of a couple of things Paul has already said. It will help you understand the subject that he will introduce in verse 14 today. In verses 1 through 5, the Apostle made it clear that he had a heart of compassion for his own people. He was an Israelite of Israelites and even though his people in his own time had, by and large, turned their back on Jesus the Messiah and were rejecting the gospel that Paul was preaching, he makes…

The Blessings of the Curses

Please turn with me to Genesis, chapter 3. We’re continuing our study in the book of Genesis, those foundations of the faith that are set forth there. And last week we looked specifically at the account of Adam's fall in Genesis 3, verses 1 through 13, and we saw there in that account several important things about the nature of sin. For one thing we saw that sin in its essence is rebellion. It is lawlessness. It is rejection of and rebellion against God's good law. The order that He…

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