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Why Christ Gifted the Church

The Lord's Day Morning April 9, 2006Communion Sunday Ephesians 4:11-13 “Why Christ Gifted the Church” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Please open your Bibles to Ephesians, chapter four, as we continue working our way through this great letter of the Apostle Paul to the church of Ephesus, and to us, since “all Scripture is given by inspiration and is profitable for our reproof and correction, and training in righteousness.” We have described this discussion of church unity that has dominated the verses of Ephesians 4 several times, and in the outline that I've provided for you this morning I've tried to refresh your mind as to where we have been. Last week we looked at Ephesians 4:7-13 where Paul emphasized the diversity of gifts in the body. Whereas in Ephesians 4:1-6 the focus…

One Body, Spirit, Hope, Lord, Faith, Baptism, God and…

The Lord's Day Morning March 26, 2006 Ephesians 4:4-6 “One Body, Spirit, Hope, Lord, Faith, Baptism, God and Father (3)” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians 4 as we continue to work our way through this great book…and we see God's kindness to us in knowing what we need before we know what we need. We've been looking at Paul's exhortation in Ephesians 4:1-3 to live out our calling as Christians by loving the family of God and by pursuing peace with our fellow Christians, our fellow brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ, especially in the local congregation, and I want to encourage you that the Apostle Paul knows how difficult that is. It's one thing , isn't it, to love someone that…

One Body, Spirit, Hope, Lord, Faith, Baptism, God and…

The Lord's Day Morning March 19, 2006 Ephesians 4:4-6 “One Body, Spirit, Hope, Lord, Faith, Baptism, God and Father” (Pt. 2) Dr. J. Ligon Duncan II …For several months now, and starting in Ephesians 4 just a few weeks ago, we emphasized on a number of occasions that whereas in Ephesians 1-3 the Apostle Paul has described what God has done in bringing believing Jew and Gentile into one body in Jesus Christ, and that in chapters 4-6 he's now going to tell us how we ought to live in that one body; so that the first three chapters of Ephesians are about the indicative (what God has done and what we in fact are in Jesus Christ) and the second three chapters, chapters 4-6, are about the imperative (or what we ought to do because we are God's people in Jesus Christ). So…

One Body, Spirit, Hope, Lord, Faith, Baptism, God and…

The Lord's Day Morning March 12, 2006 Ephesians 4:4-6 “One Body, Spirit, Hope, Lord, Faith, Baptism, God and Father” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter four. I'm going to read verses 4-6 today, but we're only going to get through verse 4. Let me remind you again that in this book the Apostle Paul has spent three chapters telling us what we are in Jesus Christ. And this is important for the Apostle Paul,…

The Surpassing Greatness of His PowerFor the Church

The Lord's Day Morning September 25, 2005 Ephesians 1:19-23 The Surpassing Greatness of His Power….to the Church Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter one, as we continue making our way through this great letter of the Apostle Paul to the church at Ephesus and to you and me, because we know that every word is given by inspiration, and every word is profitable to equip us for every good work as believers in the Lord Jesus…

Set Apart for Service: Moses Ordains the Priests

Wednesday Evening January 19, 2005 Leviticus 8:1-36 “Set Apart for Service: Moses Ordains the Priests” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Leviticus, chapter eight. We’re going to read the whole of this chapter tonight, but because this chapter is not only lengthy but filled with very specific regulations for the consecration, for the anointment, for the ordination of the priests of Israel, what I think I’ll do is break the chapter up…

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…

Caring for the Church

The Lord's Day Morning September 29, 2004 I Timothy 5:1-16 “Caring for the Church” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to First Timothy, chapter five. We've been working through this book of First Timothy as part of a larger study of three letters often called “the Pastoral Epistles”: I Timothy, II Timothy, and Titus. We've noted how throughout this letter the Apostle Paul not only gives wise advice and counsel from an old,…

The Latter Times

The Lord's Day Morning August 29, 2004 I Timothy 4:1-5 “The Latter Times” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to I Timothy 4, and as you do so, allow your eyes to sneak a peek back just a few verses to I Timothy 3:14-16, where we were last week. That declaration in I Timothy 3:14-16 is a climactic declaration about the church: the nature of the church, especially the nature of the local church and the way God has ordained to use the local…

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