Sexual Immorality, Coarse Talk, Thanksgiving and the Glory of God (Sexual Immorality #1)

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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 be distinct from the world in this whole arena of sexual immorality, both in terms of what we do, what we think about, what we view, and how we speak — I want to remind you of a couple of things. First of all, I want to remind you again that the Apostle Paul in this passage is not saying ‘Do…

Talk, Edification, the Holy Spirit, and the Glory of…

The Lord's Day Morning May 21, 2006 Ephesians 4:29-30 “Talk, Edification, the Holy Spirit, 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 4. In this whole passage from Ephesians 4:17, running all the way to Ephesians 5:4, Paul is calling us to live like Christians: to live out the grace of God in our lives, and, in so doing, to promote the unity that God has created in the body, and indeed, to promote His glory in our witness to the world. And the Apostle Paul has made much in this book, especially in chapter two, of the fact that God has brought a very diverse people into His church. In the Ephesian church there were Jews and Gentiles; there were slave and former slave, and free; there were barbarians…

Empty Talkers

The Lord's Day Morning January 2, 2005 Titus 1:10-16 “Empty Talkers” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Titus, chapter one. Today we return to our study of Paul's pastoral letters to Timothy and Titus. You will have already noticed that we're not studying them in canonical order–we're not studying them in the order that they’re found in the Bible: I and II Timothy and Titus are the order that they’re found in the Bible. We’re studying them in the chronological order, the order in which they were written. I Timothy was written first and then Titus, and then finally, II Timothy, which is Paul's last letter before he was martyred for his service and love and discipleship to Jesus Christ. Well, we've been…

Worldly Speaking and Christian Speaking

James 4:11-17Worldly Speaking and Christian Speaking If you have your bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to James chapter 4.As we've worked through this very practical book, we noted that in James 1: 26 & 27 James actually gives us a three-point key to some of the important topics that he addresses for the rest of the book. He deals with the issue of worldliness in that passage he also talks about our speech and about our care for those who are in need…Let's hear God's…

Talk Burns

James 3:3-12 Talk Burns If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to James chapter 3 as we continue our studies in the book of James. James 1 verses 1-18 deals with the subject of trials, and especially how the Christian is to respond to trials. James 1:19-27 identifies for us true Christianity, distinguishing it from false or simply claimed Christianity. And, in fact, James gives us several tests to look for in that passage which we'll consider a little bit later on. In…

Warning to Aspiring Teachers

James 3:1-2Warning to Aspiring Teachers If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to James chapter 3 as we continue through this book. In the very first chapter James spoke of trials and how the Christian would respond to them. How God uses those trials. In the end of James, chapter 1, he talked about how to tell the difference between someone who professes to be a Christian but who is not, and someone who professes to be a Christian and is, in fact, a disciple of the Lord…

All Are Under Sin

Romans 3:9-18 All Are Under Sin If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 3, as we continue to work our way through this glorious letter of the apostle Paul to the church in Rome, but by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to all of us, because all Scripture is given by inspiration and is profitable for all those of us who are believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, as we have looked through the first eight verses of Romans, chapter 3, we have come into contact…

The Incomparable Christ – Exposition of…

Colossians 3:5-17The Incomparable Christ Please turn with me in your Bibles to Colossians, chapter 3. We’ll begin in verse 5. You’ll remember that Paul has been stressing throughout this book that believers are complete in Christ. In chapter 1 he focuses on the supremacy and the sufficiency of Christ Himself. And he says if the believer will understand who Christ is and what He has done, much of the Christian life will fall into place. In chapter 2, we saw him give warnings against five…

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