Living in Light of Jesus’ Return: A Call to Sexual Purity

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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…

Things My Dad Taught Me Never to Talk About in Public

Wednesday Evening May 4, 2005 Leviticus 15:1-33 “Things My Dad Taught Me Never to Talk About in Public” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus 15. This is again one of the passages in the midst of the holiness code in Leviticus in which God is explaining to the children of Israel how He wants them to keep themselves pure and separate from the nations around them, and how He wants them to be clean before they come into His presence to worship; and if you have already glanced at this passage tonight or this week, you will have noted that again that it speaks about some very uncomfortably intimate and personal aspects of our bodies and our selves. And I want to remind you, as we prepare to hear God's word read, as…

God Gave Them Over (2)

Romans 1:26-27 God Gave Them Over (2) If you have your Bibles I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans, Chapter 1. The first seventeen verses of Romans are shot through with the gospel, even though to a large extent they are introductory. In the first seven verses Paul is giving greetings to the Roman churches. Even in the context of those verses he draws attention to the gospel in verses 11 through 15. He’s basically sharing the shape of his desire for coming to minister at Rome, and even in those words the gospel is present. In verses 16 and 17 he gives you a summarization of the gospel, the theme of the whole of the rest of his book; and he tells why he’s so excited about the gospel. Why the gospel just leaves him in wonder and bafflement when he thinks about it. And it’s almost…

The First Things (Creation) (8):The Ordinance of…

If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis, chapter 2. We have, for the last few weeks, been looking at the creation ordinances as they are recorded in chapters 1 and 2. We have outlined those ordinances in four parts. We've said that there are many legitimate ways to number the creation ordinances. Sometimes you hear three names. John Murray finds seven in his great book, Principles of Conduct. We've numbered them for the sake of convenience here, one through…

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