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God’s New Family: An Exposition of…

The Lord's Day Evening October 15, 2006 Ephesians 6:13-17 “God's New Family: An Exposition of Ephesians (LVIII) The Full Armor of God (2): Spiritually Armed” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd ask you to turn again to Ephesians 6, as we continue to look at this section called “The Armor of God” especially from verses 10 down to verse 18; but really, we’ll use this as our subtitle or theme title for the rest of the book, to the very end of verse 24. Last week we began this new section. It's a very important and famous section of this book, and we concentrated on verses 10-12. In that passage we commented that though the Apostle Paul is well aware that we face a number of different kinds of challenges in the Christian life (our own sinfulness, the…

God’s New Family: An Exposition of…

The Lord's Day Evening October 8, 2006 Ephesians 6:10-12Our Struggle is Not Against Flesh and Blood Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. Please be seated. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians 6, and as you do so I would remind you that we've come to a new section — the final section of this book as we study it together. We've recently worked through a section that began in Ephesians 5:22 and stretched all the way to Ephesians 6:9, dealing with God's household rules pertaining to the relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, even householders and servants. And now in this final section, the Apostle Paul gives a stirring exhortation to the Ephesian Christians and to us, and it has to do with setting in context all that he…

Flee and Pursue

The Lord's Day Morning April 17, 2005 II Timothy 2:22-26 “Flee and Pursue” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to II Timothy, chapter two. As we've been working through this great book together, we've seen Paul in this chapter over and over give glorious directions, imperatives, to this young minister, Timothy. And we've seen that those directions are relevant to any age, any era of ministry. But we've also seen that these instructions for Timothy are not just for Timothy, and they’re not just for preachers, and they’re not just for elders; but they’re for the whole church–the whole of the people of God. Even when Paul is giving directions to Timothy, there is something for us to learn in those…

The Test of Righteousness

1 John 2:29-3:10The Test of Righteousness If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to 1 John chapter 2, as we continue to make our way through this great, short letter of John to the Church and to us. We've seen all along John giving us tests to show the marks of Christians. We have seen a doctrinal test, a test that pertains to the person of Jesus Christ: Does a person who professes to be a Christian embrace Jesus as the divine Son of God who existed in real, human form…

A Word of Assurance

1 John 2:12-14 A Word of Assurance Turn with me to 1John chapter 2, as we continue our study through this great book. Now, it's been almost a month since we've been together in 1 John, so we should perhaps remind ourselves of what we've seen so far. This book is a book about the Christian life. In fact, John tells us in this book that to live the Christian life is to experience a fellowship with the Triune God. Or to put it another way around: Those who fellowship with the Triune God…

The Two Ways of Righteousness

The Two Ways of Righteousness Romans 10:1-13 If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Romans chapter 10. We've been working our way through the book of Romans, and over the last number of weeks, have been in Romans chapter 9. At the end of Romans 9, beginning in verse 30 we really move into a new section of this part of the book of Romans. In Romans 9, 10, and 11 Paul is answering the question, “But what about Israel? Paul, you've said that your gospel of…

The Righteousness of God For Salvation

The Righteousness of God for Salvation Romans 9:1-5 If you have your bibles, I'd like to invite you to turn with me to Romans chapter 9. Today as we launch into a study of this great chapter a few preparatory remarks are in order. The first thing I want to say is this; this is a difficult passage. Don't let that put you off. It's not difficult to understand, it's just difficult to accept. What Paul says does not require a rocket scientist to understand in this passage, but it…

The Believer’s Struggle with Sin (1)

The Believer's Struggle with Sin (pt1) Romans 7:13-25 If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Romans 7. As we do so, let me just make three or four introductory remarks about this great passage. Paul, so far in Romans 7, especially in verses 7-12 has made it clear that the believer's attitude towards the law as a gauge of the vitality and reality of his faith and that the believer's view of the law has to have two parts. Every believer has to look at the law in…

Slaves of Righteousness

Slaves of Righteousness Romans 6:19-23 If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 6. Paul has made it very clear especially from Romans, chapter 3 to 5, that our justification is by God’s grace. In other words, the forgiveness that we have, the acceptance that we have with God, is the product of God’s work, not our own work. We don’t save ourselves, we don’t work our way back into God’s good graces by attempting to be as good as we possibly can be, we…

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