Doctrine and Practice as Witness

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Doctrine and Practice as Witness

The Lord's Day Morning October 10, 2004 I Timothy 6:1-2 “Doctrine and Practice as Witness” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to I Timothy, chapter six. We’re working our way through the pastoral letters of Paul: I Timothy, II Timothy, and Titus; letters which Paul wrote to two faithful servants of the Lord ministering in local congregations of Christians. And he wrote these letters to these faithful servants of the Lord in order to show them what church was supposed to be like. He wanted to give them the priorities for healthy local church life and ministry. And we've seen various aspects of God's direction for local church life and ministry so far, as we've studied through the Book of I Timothy. Last week we looked at…

The Ordinary Means of Grace

The Lord's Day Morning September 19, 2004 I Timothy 4:11-16 “The Ordinary Means of Grace” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to I Timothy, chapter four. We’re working through three letters written by Paul that have been called for a couple of hundred years now “the pastoral letters,” or the “pastoral epistles”: I Timothy, Titus, and II Timothy. Some of the last things that Paul ever said in his life to the church, they’re written from a veteran pastor, an apostle, a missionary, church planter to a young man who has been his apostolic assistant in missions work, and to a man who is now pastoring a local congregation, facing all the challenges of not only ministering to the local congregation, but in a time of persecution…

Spiritual Discipline

The Lord's Day Morning September 5, 2004 I Timothy 4:6-8 Spiritual Discipline Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to I Timothy, chapter four, verse six. Last time we were together in I Timothy 4:1-5, Paul reminded us that in the latter days, those days that we are now living in, the time between the first and second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, in those latter days the church would struggle with false teaching, even in its very midst. And Paul warns Timothy, this young pastor, about that and the affect that it could have: the bad affect, the harmful affect it could have on the life of his congregation. Then, here in I Timothy 4:6-8, the passage we're going to read from God's word and study together today, Paul turns his…

The Law in the Christian Life

The Lord's Day Morning June 27, 2004 I Timothy 1:6-11“The Law in the Christian Life” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan If you have your Bibles, I invite you to turn with me to I Timothy, chapter one, and we’ll be looking at verses six through eleven today. We’re continuing to work through this book, which is the first of the Pastoral Epistles. It's written by an apostle who was a pastor, a missionary, and a church planter, to a young man who was a church planter and settled pastor in Ephesus.…

The Goal of Christian Ministry

The Lord's Day Morning June 20, 2004 I Timothy 1:3-5“The Goal of Christian Ministry” Turn with me to I Timothy, chapter one, and the third verse. I Timothy is a book about the church. If we ask the question “What is the Church supposed to be like?” this is one of the best books in the Bible to go to, to find the answer. Of course, its companion letters in the Pastoral Epistles, II Timothy and Titus, all address very specifically the questions of, “What the local church ought to…

Remembering, Building, Showing Mercy

Turn with me to the book of Jude, right at the end of your New Testament before the book of Revelation. We’re in the fourth of five studies in this book today. We’re in the meat, the heart, of Jude's argument. In Jude 3 and 4 he had told this congregation of Christians that he wanted to urge them to contend for the faith and to beware of false teachers. In verses 5-16, he expands on that warning against false teachers and brings a negative admonition to this local congregation and to all…

What Is a Christian?

May 9th, 2004 The Faith Once Delivered: Five Lessons in Jude: Jude 1-2 What is a Christian? If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to the book of Jude, right at the end of the New Testament, before the book of Revelation. Over the next five weeks we’ll have the opportunity to study the entirety of this little book of Jude in some detail. It's a unique book in many ways. It was written by a man who was a half-brother of Jesus Christ, our Savior, Jesus the Messiah. It…

Tension in the Church

3 John 1:9-15 Tension in the Church If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to 3 John. We come today to the last of our studies of the letters of 1, 2, and 3 John. We said the last time when we were together in this book that it's a letter short enough to be written on a single sheet of papyrus, but it packs a big punch for a short letter. It's a letter addressed from John. John calls himself “the elder.” He could have called himself “the apostle” but he refers…

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…

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