Blessed or Cursed? Weal or Woe
The Lord's Day Morning September 13, 2009 Luke 6:20-26 “Blessed or Cursed? Weal or Woe” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles I would invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 6. We’re going to look at verses 20 to 26 today as we continue to work our way through this Gospel together. Last Lord's Day we looked at verses 12 to 23 and we said that in part, what Jesus was doing as He introduced the Beatitudes, these surprising words of blessing, because the kinds of things He lists in the category of blessedness are not the kinds of things we normally associate with blessedness: poverty, hunger, weeping, friendlessness, persecution. How can these things be blessed? And last Lord's Day we said in part, what Jesus is doing, is He is preparing His disciples for what…