Luke 9.51 – Jesus set his face to go to Jerusalem.
‘Divine grit marks these chapters.’ – R. Kent Hughes
Heb 12. 2 – Jesus knew the cost of the path he trod.
This story is recorded here that we might know and count the cost of following Jesus. That …
Peter Barnes: The New Covenant in Christs’ Blood, Luke 22:20 (Sunday 24 May 2020 Evening Service, 6.00)p.m.
The Passover meal was supposed to have had four cups, and Darrell Bock is one of a number of scholars who says that verse 20 refers to what is probably the Passover’s third …
Peter Barnes: ‘Some Mocked’, Luke 24:1-12; Acts 17:16-34 (12 April Sunday Morning)
– Paul emphasises the resurrection of Christ to the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers of Athens – Acts 17:18. ‘Some mocked’. 1. There have always been unbelievers who mock. – Acts 2:13; 2 Peter 3:3-4; 1 Cor.2:14. – The …
Peter Barnes | Luke 2:15-20
SERMON NOTES
RESPONDING TO THE PROCLAMATION
Luke 2:15-20
The key text is verse 11: the child will be born in the city of David (Bethlehem), and will be Saviour and Lord and Christ (Anointed One). But we will look at the response to this.
1. …
Peter Barnes | Micah 7:8-13
SERMON NOTES
GOD’S PEOPLE WILL ARISE
Micah 7:8-13
– a strange principle which drives the whole Bible – 2 Cor.4:9-10. Calvin: ‘Though heaven and earth should collapse, we will remain unscathed.’ Micah is prophesying the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians, and then the restoration …
Peter Barnes | 2 Samuel 12:1-7a
SERMON NOTES
SINNERS CONDEMN THEMSELVES
2 Samuel 12:1-15a; Luke 7:36-50
Spurgeon: ‘Sheep may fall into the mire; swine wallow in it.’
1. God pursues His people.
– 12:1. This was not Nathan’s idea to confront David, and it certainly was not David exercising his …
Peter Barnes | Revelation 1:17-18
SERMON NOTES
Meeting the King with the Keys
Luke 24:36-53; Revelation:1-20
1. Christ is robed in majesty.
– 1:17a; Christ is portrayed in a divine way; see Dan.7:9; Ezek.43:2
– we need to be brought low before we are lifted up (Dan.10:8-9)
2. Christ is …
Peter Barnes | Luke 1:31-35
SERMON NOTES
JESUS THE SON
Luke 1:26-38
1. The son of David.
– 1:32-33. See 2 Sam.7:12-16. Individual kings from the line of David would fail miserably, but one king would be forever.
– Isa.9:6-7; Luke 2:4; Matt.9:27.
…O come, strong Key of David, come/
Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 9:1
SERMON NOTES
THE WEEPING PROPHET
Luke 19:41-48; Jeremiah 8:18-9:11
– Jeremiah is deeply moved (8:18, 21; 9:1, 10)
1. Jeremiah mourns for the condition of Zion.
– 9:9-11; very different from Ps.48:1-3
– 8:21; Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s poem The Death of Moses:
…To punish sin and
Peter Barnes | Isaiah 61:1-3
SERMON NOTES
THE YEAR OF THE LORD’S FAVOUR
Isaiah 61:1-3; Luke 4:14-30
– Jesus is the one prophesied in Isaiah 61 (see Luke 4:21)
1. Here is the Spirit-anointed Servant.
– 61:1; see 11:1-2; 42:1
– the apostles pointed to Christ (2 Cor.4:5); Christ points …
