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God Help Us

The Lord's Day Evening January 8, 2006 Psalm 83 “God Help Us” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. Please be seated. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn to Psalm 83 as we continue to make our way through the Third Book of the Psalms. This Psalm is an imprecatory Psalm, and as we’ll see later on, it's, by the way, not the only imprecatory Psalm in this Third Book of the Psalms. When we were looking at Psalm 79 together, we noted also there an imprecatory Psalm. An imprecatory Psalm is when the Old Testament people of God prayed that God would judge and even curse His and their enemies. That is, they call down an imprecation. They pray against God's enemies and theirs as those two categories coincide. The enemies of God and His purposes, the enemies of the people…

The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn

The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn Exodus 11:1-10 If you’d take your Bibles and turn with me to Exodus, chapter 11, we come now to the final plague. Let's hear God's Word. “Now the Lord said to Moses, ‘One more plague I will bring on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that, he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will surely drive you out from here completely. Speak now in the hearing of the people, that each man asks from his neighbor, and each woman from her neighbor, for articles of silver and articles of gold. The Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Furthermore, the man Moses himself was greatly esteemed in the land of Egypt, both in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people. And Moses said, ‘Thus says the…

The Ninth Plague: Darkness

Exodus 10:21-29 The Ninth Plague: Darkness If you have your Bibles, I'd like to direct your attention to the end of Exodus, chapter 10, picking up in verse 21. Today we come to the penultimate plague of the next to the last of this series of ten plagues. We have seen three triads of plagues so far. The first three, the middle three, and now this, the end of the last three. There will be one more plague, but it's in a category all its own. We've been having hints all along that it may be coming, and we have a hint of it in this final, the third triad of plagues. It will become a reality as we move into Exodus chapter 11, as it is threatened, and then as it's implemented in Exodus, chapter 12. All along we have said that God has emphasized His sovereignty in His dealings with…

The Eighth Plague: Locusts

Eighth Plague the LocustsExodus 10:1-20 If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Exodus 10. We come tonight to the eighth of the ten plagues. As we do, you know that we are already in the last triad. There are three three’s in the plagues. Plagues one through three, four through six, and seven through nine bear certain similarities. And seem to be attached in three distinctive cycles. So this is the middle of the last cycle of plagues. We’ve already observed an…

The Sixth and Seventh Plagues: Boils and Hail

The Sixth and Seventh Plagues: Boils and HailExodus 9:8-35 If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with to Exodus, chapter 9. We’ve worked through the first five plagues now, and it may be good to pause and review some of themes we’ve seen so far. First of all, we’ve emphasized on a number of occasions that the plague represents God’s redemptive work of destruction. That is, as He works to redeem us from our enemies, from Satan and from sin from the power of the flesh and the…

The Fifth Plague: Death of Livestock

The Fifth Plague: Death of LivestockExodus 9:1-7 If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Exodus, chapter 9. We have studied the first four plagues now. After tonight we’ll be halfway home. And this is perhaps a good time to pause and review some of the great things that we have seen, and some trends that have already become evident. First of all, as you look at the plagues, you need to remember that the plagues manifest God’s redemptive work of destruction. When He comes…

The Third and Forth Plagues: Gnats and Flies

The Third and fourth Plagues: Knats and FliesExodus 8:16-32 If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Exodus, chapter 8, as we continue to work our way through the various plagues of Egypt. We’re going to look at two tonight, both having to do with insects of some sort, the third and the fourth plagues. We’ve seen a number of themes emerge already. The sovereignty of God is very clear throughout this passage. It is clearly fitting as we seethe God of Israel verses the Gods…

The Second Plague: Frogs

The Second Plague – FrogsExodus 8:1-15 If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Exodus 8. For the last couple of weeks, we have been looking at this cycle of plague accounts, which begins actually with the encounter in Exodus 7, verses 8 through 13 between Moses and the magicians or sorcerers of Egypt. In that particular encounter in which the staff of God, the rod of God given to Moses swallowed up the serpent stabs of the Egyptian magicians, we actually see a…

Moses, Aaron, and the Sorcerers

Moses, Aaron and the SorcerersExodus 7:8-13 If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Exodus, the 7th chapter, and as you turn toward Exodus 7, verse 8, you might want to sneak a peak back at Exodus 6:10, through 7:7 and remind yourself of what we studied last. It’s been a month since we’ve been in Exodus together, so let’s refresh our memories. In Exodus 6:10 through 7:7 the passage we last studied, we said that we were looking at a turning point in the Exodus story.…

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