Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 6:14
SERMON NOTES
SIN IS NO LIGHT MATTER
Romans 5:1-11; Jeremiah 6:14
– many believe that there is nothing much wrong with people.
1. False prophets make the wrong diagnosis.
– 6:13-14; they heal the wound lightly, thinking it is only superficial; Jeremiah 5 says that it was deep.
– doctors before the time of Joseph Lister often spread infection. So do false prophets.
– Walt Whitman: ‘I celebrate myself’!
2. False prophets give a misplaced assurance.
– like Chamberlain in 1938 or Disraeli in 1878: ‘peace for our time’.
– 30:12-15
– Rom.5:1; 2 Cor.5:20-21
3. God takes sin so seriously that His Son died for sinners.
– see Gen.6:5-8; Lev.6:1-7
– Thomas Goodwin: ‘if thou wouldst see what sin is, go to mount Calvary’; note Matt.26:53; Mark 10:45; Matt.26:39; Isa.57:19-21