Peter Barnes | Romans 3:9-20
SERMON NOTES
EVERYONE A SINNER
(Romans 3:9-20)
– Francis Schaeffer said that if he had an hour with an unbeliever, he would spend 45-50 minutes demonstrating that the unbeliever was morally dead.
1. All of us are sinners.
– 3:9; contrast to the John F. …
Peter Barnes | Daniel 10:10-11:4
SERMON NOTES
ANGELS IN HISTORY
Daniel 10:10-11:4; Luke 16:19-31
– there is a spiritual war (Ephesians 6:12)
1. There is a conflict between angels.
– Dan.10:10-14, 20-21; a little like C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia
– 1 Cor.10:20; Rev.12:7-10; hence 1 Kings 22:20-23
– …
Peter Barnes | Hebrews 1:1-14
SERMON NOTES
ANGELS AS MINISTERING SPIRITS
Psalm 91:1-16; Hebrews 1:1-14
– Christ says there are angels (Matt.22:30; 26:51-53). Not all angel stories are to be believed e.g. Joseph Smith and Moroni; and Muhammad and ‘Gabriel’ – note Gal.1:8.
– they are ministering spirits (Heb.1:14)
1. …
Peter Barnes | Romans 3:1-8
SERMON NOTES
ANY OBJECTIONS?
(Romans 3:1-8)
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones regards this as one of the most difficult sections in the whole of Scripture.
1. Is there any advantage in being in God’s covenant?
– 3:1-2; Jacob and Esau were both in the covenant but Jacob …
Peter Barnes | Ezekiel 28:11-19
SERMON NOTES
THE FALL OF SOME ANGELS
Ezekiel 28:11-19; Revelation 12:1-17
There are thousands upon thousands of angels (P.68:17; Rev.5:11). Roger Ellsworth says they are mentioned 273 times in the Bible. People often see them as kind and non-judgmental.
1. Angels are created beings.
– …
Ever since the creation was cursed in Genesis 3, there have been numerous sad illustrations of what it means to live in a fallen world. In 1665 London was ravaged by plague, but on 2 September 1666 in a bakery in Pudding Lane a fire broke out which ended out …
Peter Barnes | Romans 2:25-29
SERMON NOTES
TRUE CIRCUMCISION
(Romans 2:25-29)
– there is a Rabbinic saying from about A.D. 300 which declared that ‘At the last Abraham will sit at the entrance to Gehenna and will not let any circumcised man of Israel go down there.’ Israel identified with …
Peter Barnes | Romans 2:17-24
SERMON NOTES
ARE THE JEWS ANY BETTER?
(Romans 2:17-24)
– Sheldon Vanauken sad that the best argument against Christianity is Christians.
1. The Jews rely on the law.
– 2:17-22; he is not criticising the law as such (see 7:10, 12)
– but they misuse …
