Enduring Trials in Light of Jesus’ Return: You? Worthy of the Kingdom of God?

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Enduring Trials in Light of Jesus’ Return: You?…

The Lord's Day Morning September 16, 2012 “Enduring Trials in Light of Jesus’ Return: You? Worthy of the Kingdom of God?” 2 Thessalonians 1:5-10 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to 2 Thessalonians chapter 1. We’re going to be looking at verses 5 to 10. This is a passage about persecution and it's the passage from which the theme of our study of 2 Thessalonians is drawn. We have called this, “Enduring Trials in Light of Jesus’ Return” and that is exactly what Paul is talking about in this passage. And though persecution may be an alien thing to us, affliction and suffering for our belief in Christ and our testimony to Him, it is not a strange reality to many of our brothers and sisters in Christ around the…

Living in Light of Jesus’ Return: A Theif in the…

The Lord's Day Morning July 22, 2012 “Living Life in Light of Jesus’ Return: A Thief in the Night” 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 as we continue our way through this letter of the apostle Paul. As you’re turning there, let me remind you that at the end of 1 Thessalonians 4 and in these first verses of chapter 5, Paul is addressing specifically the issue of the return of Christ. We've said all along our theme in the study of this letter has been, “Living Life in Light of Jesus’ Return,” to everything that Paul has said to us, everything he's encouraged us with, everything he's exhorted us to do, has been in light of the coming of the Lord Jesus.…

Living in Light of Jesus’ Return: A Reason to be…

The Lord's Day Morning May 6, 2012 “Living Life in Light of Jesus’ Return: A Reason to be Thankful” 1 Thessalonians 1:1-4 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to 1 Thessalonians chapter 1. We’re going to be looking at the first four verses together today as we begin a journey in this wonderful letter. Do you remember what you were doing twenty years ago? I can remember some of the things I was doing twenty years ago. I was in my first year of marriage twenty years ago. I was working at the seminary. I was calling a guy in Belfast, Northern Ireland about once a month telling him that he really needed to move to Jackson and teach at RTS. His name was Derek Thomas; you may have heard of him. I can remember a lot of things…

What You Must Know About the Second Coming

The Lord's Day Morning March 13, 2011 “What You Must Know About the Second Coming”Luke 17:22-37 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke 17 as we continue to work our way through the gospel together. And I want you to note just a couple of things about this passage before we read it together. The first thing that I want you to notice as you look through it, we're going to be looking at verses 22 to 37, is that in some of…

The New Exodus

The Lord's Day Morning February 14, 2010 Luke 9:28-36 “The New Exodus” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III O give thanks unto the Lord for He is good. His steadfast love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Let us worship Him. Our Lord and our God we bow before You. We acknowledge you as the Creator of everything and the Ruler of the whole universe, but especially this day we come to You as the God of grace, for it's only by Your grace that we dare enter into Your presence and…

Joy to the World

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 98 as we continue to work our way through the Fourth Book of the Psalms — Psalms 90-106. We've said repeatedly that the Psalms show us the anatomy of all parts of the Christian soul and they provide us language with which the believer can express the whole range of Christian experience. No matter what situation you are in in life this morning, no matter how many different situations are represented in the room today,…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day March 23, 2008 Philippians 3:1-11 Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ and the Peace that Passes Understanding:A Study of Philippians “Knowing the Power of Christ's Resurrection” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your bibles, let me invite you to turn with me to Philippians chapter 3. We've been looking at this great letter of the apostle to the Philippians for many weeks now, and we have been especially concentrating on the center part of…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning May 13, 2007 Philippians 1:6 “He Finishes What He Starts” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians, chapter one. When we started our study of this book together, we noted that this was a book filled with thanksgiving and with joy, and we said that this started with thanksgiving and with joy. In fact, if you allow your eyes to look at verses 3-5, the passage we're going to read today in verse 6 is a…

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…

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