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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 argument in this book. Now if you've read ahead, and I trust that you have, you have noticed that the subject matter in Ephesians 5:3-4, actually continues in Ephesians 5:5, 6, and 7, and actually beyond. So why am I saying that we have shifted into a new section? Because you will remember that…

Joy in God’s Great Reversals

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 75 as we continue our way through the Book of the Psalms. Last Lord's Day evening we were together in Psalm 74, and it was a Psalm that in part lifted up a plaintive cry to God to vindicate His oppressed people. It featured the Psalmist looking around him and seeing those who were arrogant, prideful, rejecters of God, prospering and even ruling cruelly over the people of God, and that Psalm ends with a cry to God in verse 22: “Do arise, O God, and plead Thine own cause; Remember how the foolish man reproaches Thee all day long. Do not forget the voice of Thine adversaries, the uproar of those who rise against Thee which ascends continually.” And so though, as we saw in our study of the Psalm, the Psalmist is fully…

Giving Thanks for Faith and Love

The Lord's Day Morning September 11, 2005 Ephesians 1:15-17 “Giving Thanks for Faith and Love” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter one. We resume our study of this great letter together. We have said several times that almost the whole of Ephesians 1 is prayer: verses 3-14 constitute a single prayer of adoration to God in which Paul blesses God for who He is and what He has done for us; verses 15-23, the remainder of the chapter, constitute together a single prayer of intercession in which God reports to the Ephesians and to you and me what is the desire of his heart as a pastor, as a shepherd appointed by the Lord Jesus Christ, to happen in the hearts and lives of the congregation. In this prayer he prays…

A Spirit of Power, Love, and Discipline

The Lord's Day Morning February 13, 2005 II Timothy 1:1-7 “A Spirit of Power, Love, and Discipline” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Turn with me to II Timothy, chapter one. We have been working through the three pastoral letters of Paul — I Timothy, Titus, and now II Timothy — for some months now on Lord's Day mornings, on and off. We've taken them out of the order that they’re found in the Scripture. They move from I Timothy to II Timothy and Titus in your Bibles. We've taken…

A Call to Prayer

The Lord's Day Morning July 25, 2004 I Timothy 2:1-7“A Call to Prayer” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to First Timothy, chapter two, as we continue to work through this great letter of Paul to a young pastor working in Ephesus, a church where Paul himself had ministered. In fact, he had laid the foundations for this congregation and he is giving to Timothy a whole host of priorities for a healthy church. He's telling us–in…

The Surprising Servant

The Lord's Day Morning July 4, 2004 I Timothy 1:12-14“The Surprising Servant” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to I Timothy, chapter one. We've been working our way through this book the last three weeks or so, and we come to I Timothy, chapter one, verse twelve today. I'd simply say, by way of preparation, that Paul has focused on the same themes throughout this letter so far. From the time he finished his salutation, in verses…

Let the Nations Be Glad: The Christian Experience of…

If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 67. We looked at this Psalm about two years ago at the time of the Missions Conference. You may not remember it but I do. The Missions Conference Committee had chosen the theme “Let the Nations Be Glad.” And they had done that in part based on John Piper's wonderful book called Let the Nations Be Glad: The Supremacy of God in Missions, which is maybe my favorite book on missions right now. In that book, in large measure,…

The Incomparable Christ – Exposition of…

Colossians 2:6-7The Incomparable Christ Please turn with me in your Bibles to Colossians 2, as we continue our study of Paul's letter. You will remember in our previous study, particularly in chapter 1 that we have emphasized Paul's focus on the person and work of Christ. There are people in Colossae who are teaching the Christians there that what they believe about Christ is fine, but if they really want to grow in the Christian faith, they need to move beyond Christ. They need to…

The Incomparable Christ – Exposition of…

Colossians 1:9-15The Incomparable Christ #3 Please turn with me in your Bibles to the book of Colossians, chapter 1. We continue our study in Paul's great Epistle to the Colossians. We will read beginning in verse 9 through verse 15, although we will concentrate on verses 9 through 14. Hear now the Word of God: (Colossians 1:9-15) And thus ends this reading of God's holy word, may He add his blessing to it. Let's look to him in prayer: Our Lord, we cheerfully acknowledge that this is…

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