Peter Barnes | John 3:19, 5:44
SERMON NOTES
Barriers to Belief
John 3:1-21; John 5:31-47
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones claimed in 1931 that modern preaching was so innocuous that it did not even annoy people.
1. The light has come.
– 3:19; this is Christ (John 1:4, 9; 8:12)
– Eph.5:8-14
2. There is no conversion without repentance.
– 3:19-20; see Rom.1:18-19 on suppressing the truth
– ‘Faults in the life breed errors in the brain’ (William Cowper) e.g. Bertrand Russell, Sigmund Freud, H. G. Wells
– hence Ahab hated Micaiah in 1 Kings 22:5-8; Felix is wary of Paul in Acts 24:24-25
– John 11:46-53
3. There is no conversion without putting God before men.
– 5:44; 12:42-43
– Gal.1:10; Phil.3:8; Rom.2:29