Peter Barnes | Judges 18
SERMON NOTES
SPREADING SPIRITUAL CORRUPTION
(Judges 18)
What happens when God’s people become spiritually corrupt?
1. There is warfare within the covenant community.
– 18:7, 16-19 – the Danites aim at a soft target – a contrast to Joshua and Caleb in Numbers 13-14
– …
Peter Barnes | Ezekiel 36:16-38
SERMON NOTES
THE PROMISE OF THE SPIRIT
Ezekiel 36:25-27; Romans 6:1-15
– Christopher Wright calls Ezekiel 36:24-30 ‘one of the most beautiful passages in the whole Bible’. It is parallel to Jer.31:31-34.
1. The promise of cleansing.
– 36:25; the Old Testament washings were invariably …
Peter Barnes | Judges 17
SERMON NOTES
RIGHT GOD, WRONG WORSHIP (Judges 17)
– probably early in the book of Judges (18:30; 30:27-28)
– spiritual decline, then moral decline, then political decline.
1. A light view of sin.
– 17:1-2; he steals a huge amount, his mother seems to keep …
Peter Barnes | Luke 24:13-35
SERMON NOTES
THE ROAD TO EMMAUS
Psalm 118; Luke 24:13-35
1. Our gloom when we do not grasp Christ’s resurrection.
– the two were despondent and downcast; they saw the cross as the end (unlike John 12:27-28a); can only confess Jesus as a prophet (v.19)…
Peter Barnes | 1 Timothy 1:15 …
Editorial
From the Newsletter of Revesby Presbyterian Church
April 2010
Rev Dr Peter Barnes
It is sometimes surprising how simple things can have an impact on us. Joni Eareckson Tada tells of how she went to visit Corrie ten Boom one spring day. Both women were disabled and in wheel …
Peter Barnes | Judges 16
SERMON NOTES
SAMSON’S REMARKABLE DEATH (Judges 16)
– an illustration of 1 Cor.10:12; 2 Tim.2:13
1. Christians can fail to learn from their own sin and God’s chastening.
– 16:1-3 – more sin
– 16:4-16 – he does not learn (cf. 14:16-17)
– like Abraham …
Peter Barnes | Ezekiel 34
SERMON NOTES
THE TRUE SHEPHERD
Ezekiel 34:1-31
1. Human shepherds fail.
– 34:1-10; read First and Second Kings!
– they looked after themselves (34:2-3, 8), they neglected the needy (34:4, 6), and they left the flock defenceless (34:8-9; see Matt.9:36)
2. The Lord is the …
