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Psalm 119 Not By Bread Alone – How Do You Keep…

The Lord's Day Evening January 13, 2013 “Not By Bread Alone — How Do You Keep Your Way Pure?” Psalm 119:9-16 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd ask you to turn again to Psalm 119. Last Lord's Day Evening we began our journey through Psalm 119 in a series we're calling, “Not By Bread Alone,” that is, we're recognizing what Jesus did and what the psalmist did, that we live by the very Word of God. The theme in this section tonight is very much sanctification. We live in sanctification as believers from the first nanoseconds of our conversion to the final time we close our eyes in this world. So we live most of the Christian life in sanctification and yet sanctification is not for the faint of heart. We saw serious and specific…

Living in Light of Jesus’ Return: A Call to…

We live in a confused and confusing world with regard to sexual practice and societal norms. If any of us in this room had gone to our grandparents and told them that a federal judge was going to rule in our time that gender was of no significance to the societal institution of marriage, I am almost certain among a number of horrified responses that our grandparents would have had, they would have thought that we would have lost our minds. And yet that's the world we live in, where we're not even sure how maleness and femaleness relate to marriage; we're not sure that they’re essential to marriage. We live in a confused and confusing society with regard to sexual practice and societal norms. And I think sometimes we look at that, especially those of us who can remember saner times, and…

The Adultery Test

Wednesday Evening February 14, 2007 Numbers 5:11-31 “The Adultery Test” Dr. Ligon Duncan III I’m always so edified and instructed and encouraged by listening to you pray. The brother that prayed earlier,…I thought, “There’s a book title in that prayer: ‘We are in Christ, but I’m still in Jackson.’” You know, my life is hid in Christ, but I’m still in Jackson. There’s a whole sermon series and a book, maybe even a franchise in that one prayer. It says so much. Well, it was about three days ago, friends, that it began to dawn upon me what I had done to myself and to you. And you’re scanning the passage tonight, and you’re asking yourself the question, “What kind of idiot would preach a sermon on the adultery test – on Valentine’s…

The New Walk (2): More Reasons Why (Sexual Immonrality…

The Lord's Day Morning June 18, 2006 Ephesians 5:5-7 “The New Walk (2): More Reasons Why” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians 5 as we continue to work our way through this book. Let me just remind you that in Ephesians 4:17ff, the Apostle Paul begins a section of the book which we've been studying for a number of weeks, where he exhorts us to live distinctly as Christians, to be different from the world. And he says…

The New Walk (1): More Reasons Why (Sexual Immorality…

The Lord's Day Morning June 11, 2006 Ephesians 5:5-7 “The New Walk (1): More Reasons Why” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians 5, as we continue to work through this great book together. I would simply draw your attention to this: When we moved from Ephesians 5:4, the last verse that we studied last week, to Ephesians 5:5, the verse that we're going to begin studying this week, we moved into a new section of Paul's…

Sexual Immorality, Coarse Talk, Thanksgiving and the…

The Lord's Day Morning June 4, 2006 Ephesians 5:3-4 “Sexual Immorality, Coarse Talk, Thanksgiving, and the Glory of God” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter five. We’ll be looking at verses 3 and 4 today. Before we read this passage together — a passage that deals with the issue of sexual immorality, and contains Paul's exhortation to the Ephesians and to us as believers to be different from the world, to…

Immoral Sexual Behavior Condemned

Wednesday Evening June 1, 2005 Leviticus 18:1-30 “Immoral Sexual Behavior Condemned” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus, chapter eighteen. (Phil, we are working through the Book of Leviticus. This summer we're in the holiness code, so you can pray for me as you think of me Wednesday night after Wednesday night.) And we're in a hard passage, as Ed has already said. Let me outline this passage for you before we read it, and…

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…

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