Enduring Trials in Light of Jesus’ Return: Double Benediction

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Enduring Trials in Light of Jesus’ Return: Double…

The Lord's Day Morning November 18, 2012 “Enduring Trials in Light of Jesus’ Return: Double Benediction” 2 Thessalonians 3:16-18 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to the second letter to the Thessalonians, chapter 3, and we're going to be looking at the final three verses of this letter. We've come to the end of our study of these two letters of Paul. You remember we said that 1 Thessalonians 1 was about living life in light of Jesus’ return and we've said that one of the big themes of 2 Thessalonians is enduring trials in light of Jesus’ return. And at the end of this letter, as Paul is speaking to a congregation that knew a lot about enduring trials, he is giving them a reason for their hope and a…

He Knows Me, and Still Loves Me

Turn in your Bibles if you have them, with me, to Psalm 139. I too have been looking forward to this psalm but also in some sense dreading it. It's hard to live up to Psalm 139. It's so exalted; it's very precious in our hearts. We just had a funeral here this last week and one of the verses out of this psalm was the family verse of that sister in the Lord who went home to heaven. Perhaps there are many of you who have a particular verse in Psalm 139 that speaks deeply to you, that's meant a great deal to you in the course of your Christian experience. A number of years ago, believe it or not it's been over fifty years ago now, an Anglican clergyman named J.B. Phillips who was a Cambridge scholar and translated the New Testament and wrote a number of books, wrote a…

Father, into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit

The Lord's Day Morning November 20, 2011 “Father, Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit” Luke 23:44-49 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 23 as we continue to make our way through the gospel of Luke. The last two times before this time we've been together we've been in a passage in which Jesus is on the cross. Luke gives us the first word of the cross in this passage and he gives us the last word of Jesus from the cross in the passage that we're studying. The very first word has to do with forgiveness, and therein Luke reminds us that Jesus is on the cross in order that our sins might be forgiven. That's illustrated, and we saw it last time we were together, in the story of the penitent thief…

Hymns of the Faith: Thou Who Wast Rich Beyond All…

Hymns of the Faith “Thou Who Wast Rich Beyond All Splendor” A Presentation of First Presbyterian ChurchJackson, MississippiWith Dr. Ligon Duncan, Dr. Derek Thomas, Dr. Bill Wymond Dr. Duncan: Thank you, Bill Wymond. Good morning, this is Ligon Duncan and Derek Thomas, good morning to you. Dr. Thomas: Good morning. Dr. Duncan: It's great to be with you two friends on Hymns of the Faith and we're looking at one of my favorite hymn texts in all of hymnody today. It may not be so…

Cloud and Trumpets

Wednesday Evening May 9, 2007 Numbers 9:15-10:10 “Cloud and Trumpets” Dr. Ligon Duncan III Tonight we will begin in Numbers 9 at verse 15, reading to the end of the chapter and then continuing on into Numbers 10, down to the tenth verse. The remaining verses that we’ll be looking at in Numbers 9 will describe for us the cloud that rested upon the tabernacle and which led the people in both the form of cloud in day and fire at night; and then, in chapter 10, a description of the trumpets…

Defiled

Wednesday Evening February 7, 2007 Numbers 5:1-11 “Defiled” Dr. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, turn with me to Numbers 5; and if you don't, there should be a sheet somewhere near you on one of the tables that has a copy of the whole of the chapter of Numbers 5. I want to say ahead of time that though I began today expecting to preach on this whole chapter, I'm only going to preach on the first ten verses, because the final verses of this chapter have so many complicating…

Arranged

Wednesday Evening January 24, 2007 Numbers 2 “Arranged” Dr. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Numbers 2. Thank you. It’s not quite as long a passage as last week, but it’s a fairly long passage. Last week we were in Numbers 1, which gave us the numbering of the tribes; now in Numbers 2, we come to the arranging of the tribes. And we’ve said as we have come to the book of Numbers that this book, though it is filled with…

Joy in God’s Great Reversals

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 75 as we continue our way through the Book of the Psalms. Last Lord's Day evening we were together in Psalm 74, and it was a Psalm that in part lifted up a plaintive cry to God to vindicate His oppressed people. It featured the Psalmist looking around him and seeing those who were arrogant, prideful, rejecters of God, prospering and even ruling cruelly over the people of God, and that Psalm ends with a cry to God in verse…

Oil and Loaves: An Everlasting Covenant

Wednesday Evening August 3, 2005 Leviticus 24:1-9 “An Everlasting Covenant” The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus, chapter 24, as we continue to work our way through this great book. We are on track, by the way, Lord willing, to finish Leviticus at the end of this month on Wednesday nights. By the 31st we should come to the final chapter of this book, in Leviticus 27, and then we will launch forth into the third book of…

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