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Praying to Our Father

The Lord's Day Morning January 8, 2006 Communion Sunday Ephesians 3:14-16a “Praying to Our Father” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians 3 as we continue to make our way through this great letter of the Apostle Paul. We’re going to be looking at verses 14-16 today, but I'd ask you to look at verse 1 first, because we've said all along that the Apostle Paul began this chapter getting ready to pray for the Ephesians. He had started off with the words, “For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles…” and then suddenly this long parenthesis comes from verse 2 through verse 13, in which he seeks to encourage these Ephesian Christians. They were discouraged by the…

Disaster!

If you have your Bibles, I'd like you to turn with me to II Kings 25, because II Kings 25 describes the circumstance that the Psalmist is praying to God about, is crying out to God about. The circumstance is the Babylonian destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, one of the most cataclysmic events in the history of Israel. If every Christian remembers the date of the death of Christ, surely two realities control the mind of the believing Hebrew. First of all, the Exodus was emblazoned upon the heart of every Hebrew believer. It was the great event of deliverance in the Old Testament. Over and over, the Psalms look at the present experience of the Hebrew in light of the Exodus, and we're going to find that happening in Psalm 74 tonight. The second grand reality that was controlling…

Praying With Paul

The Lord's Day Morning August 21, 2005 Ephesians 1:3-14 “Praying with Paul” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter one. For several weeks now we have been working through this prayer of praise in verses 3-14. We have parked on this prayer in part because we have said it is a life re-orienting prayer: that if we could understand what God is teaching us about Himself in this prayer of praise to Him, it would change our lives. And we've also said it would certainly change the way we pray. We have stayed so long in this passage, for one reason, because when we begin to look at verses 15 the next time we are together in this book, we will see the rest of Ephesians 1 (from verses 15-23) is a prayer of intercession;…

Abundant Grace

The Lord's Day Morning July 24, 2005 Ephesians 1:7-8 “Abundant Grace” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter one, as we continue to study through this great letter of the Apostle Paul; a letter which, of course, ultimately comes to us by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and is addressed to every Christian, because God's word is profitable and is designed for our discipleship, to equip us for every good work,…

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…

The Songs of Moses and Miriam

Exodus 15:1-21 The Songs of Moses and Miriam If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus chapter 15. Verses 1 through 18 of this great chapter record for us the song of Moses and the people of Israel. Verse 21 is ascribed to Miriam and the women folk of Israel who apparently sing an antiphonal response to Moses and the men. Collectively this whole song from verse 1 to 21 is known as the song at the sea. The Shirat ha-Yam or the Shirah to the ancient children of Israel.…

The Lord Overthrows the Egyptians

Exodus 14: 15-31The Lord Overthrows the Egyptians If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus 14. We’re in the middle of this chapter. Two weeks ago we began the journey out of Egypt with Israel. It's an exciting story and we've already seen a couple of turns. It begins in Exodus 13 in verse 17 down to verse 22. With great expectation, great excitement the people of God are being led, in God's providential kindness, not by the way of the sea, which would…

Because of What the Lord Did for Me

The Lord's Day Evening September 23, 2001 “Because of What the Lord Did for Me” Exodus 13:1-16 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Exodus chapter 13. Tonight we begin a twelve part study that will carry us through the grand events of the Exodus itself. Now during the summer we looked at some passages in Exodus 12 that covered the institution of the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. We will revisit that institution…

God is for Us, So Who is Against Us?

God Is For Us, So Who is Against Us? Romans 8:31-32 Please turn with me to Romans, chapter 8. When we come to Romans 8:31, we come to the culmination of Paul's argument in the first eight chapters of the book. From Romans 8:31 to 35 Paul will asked a series of four questions. And those four questions are meant to summarize the main arguments from the first eight chapters of the book. And so when he asks the question in verse 31, what shall we say then to these things, he's not simply…

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