Peter Barnes | Hosea 14:1-9
SERMON NOTES
GRACE FREELY OFFERED
Hosea 14:1-9; 1 Timothy 1:1-17
God almost uses the invitation system!
1. God calls on us to return to Him.
– 14:1-2; He tells us what to say!
– 14:3; no compassion in idolatry; repent (1 John 1:9) and offer …
Peter Barnes | Romans 2:12-16
SERMON NOTES
GOD’S LAW IN EVERY HEART
(Romans 2:12-16)
1. We are judged with or without God’s written law.
– 2:12, 16; ‘my gospel’ (v.16) includes bad news!
– this refers to Jews and Gentiles
2. What matters is not possessing God’s law but obeying …
Peter Barnes | Hosea 13:1-16
SERMON NOTES
THE DEATH OF A NATION
Hosea 13:1-16; 1 Corinthians 15:50-58
Edward Gibbon found five characteristics of the Roman Empire in its death throes:
(a) a mounting love of show and luxury;
(b) a widening gap between rich and poor;
(c) an obsession with …
Peter Barnes | Romans 2:9-11
SERMON NOTES
NO PARTIALITY WITH GOD
(Romans 2:9-11)
– John Chrysostom called Romans 1-2 ‘a most rueful shipwreck’. All are condemned by works, yet works give evidence of a true faith.
1. We will all know either trouble and distress forever or glory, honour and …
Recently, I was watching the evening news on television, and becoming increasingly irritated at the rot that was being passed off as newsworthy. Virtually all the news was gossip about celebrities. The antics of film stars and drunk footballers are hardly what make the real world go round. Celebrities, heroes …
Peter Barnes | Romans 2:6-8
SERMON NOTES
GOD’S JUDGMENT ACCORDING TO WORKS
(Romans 2:6-8)
– ‘Whatever happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas’. Not so, God judges all things.
1. We will be judged by our works.
– 2:6; often neglected by evangelicals who wonder how it fits in with justification …
Peter Barnes | Hosea 11:12-12:14
SERMON NOTES
JUDAH NO BETTER
Hosea 11:12-12:14; Revelation 2:1-7
– 11:12 may say Judah is unlike Israel (NKJV, ESV) or like Israel (NIV). The latter seems more likely in the light of 12:2.
1. We ought to learn from our history.
– 12:1-2; nobody pursues …
Peter Barnes | Romans 2:1-5
SERMON NOTES
WE JUDGE OURSELVES
(Romans 2:1-5)
– ‘Practise what you preach’ is something we all struggle with
– to Jews (Schreiner, Lloyd-Jones, etc), to moralists (F. F. Bruce) or to hypocrites (Calvin)? Paul is general – hence ‘O man’ in 2:1, 3. But he …
Peter Barnes | Hosea 11:1-11
SERMON NOTES
GOD’S HEART DIVIDED
Hosea 11:1-11; Luke 19:41-48
– God wears His heart on His sleeve, as it were.
1. God has treated Israel like a son.
– 11:1-4; see Ex.4:22-23; God had done everything for His son, but Israel had gone its own …
Peter Barnes | Romans 1:26-27
SERMON NOTES
THE APOSTASY OF THE HOMOSEXUAL CULTURE
(Romans 1:26-27)
– ancient Greek and Roman culture was infused with homosexuality. Julius Caesar, for example, was a homosexual.
1. Homosexuality is indecent.
– 1:26-27; Nero had two homosexual ‘marriages’
– Lev.18:22; 20:13
2. Homosexuality is unnatural.…
