Priests, Duties, Firstborn

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Priests, Duties, Firstborn

Wednesday Evening January 31, 2007 Numbers 3:1-51 “Priests, Duties, Firstborn” Dr. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Numbers, chapter 3. There should be a sheet somewhere near by you that has the text of that whole chapter. And there should also be an outline — at least, an outline that recounts what we have done so far, and also provides a diagram of the organization or the arrangement of the tribes and the priests which we read about last week, as well as a numbering of those tribes. That’s something a little bit different, a little bit more detailed than we had on the chart last week. We’ve been in our study of the book of Numbers for three weeks already. We did an introduction and overview to the whole book. We looked at…

Blood on the Altar

The Lord's Day Evening January 2, 2005 Leviticus 7:1-10 “Blood on the Altar” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you’ll open your Bibles to Leviticus chapter one. If you’ll look at chapter one, for instance, we studied there the burnt offering, the offering that is called the holocaust, that is entirely consumed in the fire. And when we studied Leviticus 1, we saw that that offering taught us about the importance about right worship to God. God is clearly concerned how we worship Him, because He spends all this time telling us how it is to be done, how we ought to approach Him, how we are not to approach Him, what our attitude is to be in approaching Him. And we also said as we looked at chapter one, that this offering highlighted the principle that communion with God requires…

Dealing With Sin (2)

1 John 2:1-2Dealing With Sin (2) Turn with me to 1 John, and look at chapter 1 before we begin to look at chapter 2. If you don't have your Bibles, the pew Bible is available to you, and 1 John is towards the end of the New Testament right before the book of Revelation and before the book of Jude and, of course, 2nd and 3rd John, and so right towards the end of the Bible. We've been working through the book of 1 John, and we've said that in the end of chapter 1 of the book of 1 John, John is addressing some false teaching in the Christian Church about the issue of the place of sin in the Christian life. If you look at verses 6, 8 and 10 in 1 John 1, you will see him address three specific false teachings which are being noised abroad in the churches to which he is writing. They…

Preparations for Priests

Exodus 29:1-46Preparations for Priests We have been looking at this section of Exodus that runs from Exodus 24 through 40, with one interruption in 32, 33, and 34. This whole passage has to do with the right worship of God. Now you maybe wondering about that interruption, we’ll get there early next year God willing. And that interruption is about wrong worship. So the whole of the end of Exodus is about worship, both right and wrong. And so we find this series of connected chapters focusing on…

The Blood of the Covenant

Exodus 24:1-11The Glory Blood of the Covenant If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Exodus 24. During the summer on Wednesday evenings, we worked through the Book of the Covenant. Now, keep your finger at Exodus 24, and turn back to Exodus 20, and look at verse 22. The Book of the Covenant begins in that verse. The Book of the Covenant contains the applications and illustrations of how the Ten Commandments apply to the daily life of Israel as individuals and as a…

God is for Us, So Who is Against Us?

God Is For Us, So Who is Against Us? Romans 8:31-32 Please turn with me to Romans, chapter 8. When we come to Romans 8:31, we come to the culmination of Paul's argument in the first eight chapters of the book. From Romans 8:31 to 35 Paul will asked a series of four questions. And those four questions are meant to summarize the main arguments from the first eight chapters of the book. And so when he asks the question in verse 31, what shall we say then to these things, he's not simply…

The Lord’s Passover

The Lord's PassoverExodus 12:1-13 If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Exodus chapter 12. For the next two weeks, our attention will move away from the plagues, and even the final plague which was introduced last week, and we will focus instead on the institution of the Passover, which is described throughout Exodus 12. The bulk of this great chapter is devoted to this important Old Testament sacrament. Tonight we will be focusing on the first verses of Exodus 12.…

God, in the Gospel of His Son

Romans 3:21-26 (3) Atonement and Justification If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 3, as we continue to look at this great passage from Romans 3:21-26 in which Paul begins to set forth the good news. Over and over we’ve said in Romans 1 and 2, and the first part of Romans 3 from Romans 1:18 to Romans 3:20, that Paul has been establishing the good news, by explaining the bad news. He has told us that we are all in need, that we all stand condemned, that…

A Cup in the Sack

Genesis 44:1-34 A Cup in the Sack If you have Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Genesis 44, as we continue through our study of Joseph. We have noted throughout the over-arching theme of God's providence, not only does the Lord tell us in the story of Joseph, how Israel wound up in Egypt, not only does He tell us how God made this family of Jacob into a great nation in accordance with His promises to Abraham in Genesis 12 and 15 and 17, but God also shows us something of His…

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