Articles

IMMORAL MORALISM

Editorial
From the Newsletter of Revesby Presbyterian Church
June 2009
Rev Dr Peter Barnes

The well-publicised rugby league scandal with regard to players involved in group sex has provided an insight into how modern secular Australia views issues of sexual morality. Almost all expressed some kind of outrage, either at …

Sermons

The Letter to the Ephesians – From Stealing to Honesty and Generosity

Peter Barnes | Ephesians 4:28

SERMON  NOTES
From  Stealing  to  Honesty  and  Generosity
(Ephesians   4:28)

– general  in  4:17-24,  and  more  specific  from  verse  25  onwards.

– John  Wesley:  1.  Gain  all  you  can;  2.  Save  all  you  can;  Give  all  you  can.

1. Put  off  stealing.

– Ps.37:21;  Tit.2:9-10;  …

Sermons

First John: Tests of True Faith – God is Light

Peter Barnes | 1 John 1:5-7

SERMON  NOTES
GOD  IS  LIGHT
Psalm  36;  1  John 1:5-2:2

Three  false  claims  –  in  1:6, 8, 10.  Robert  Yarbrough  calls  verse  5  ‘the  main  burden  of  the  Epistle’.

1. God  is  light.

– 1:5;  in  a  sense  this  comes  before  ‘God  is  love’  …

Sermons

The Letter to the Ephesians – Dealing with Anger

Peter Barnes | Ephesians 4:26-27

SERMON  NOTES
Dealing  with  Anger
(Ephesians   4:26-27)

– general  in  4:17-24,  and  more  specific  from  verse  25  onwards.

1. We  are  to  be  righteously  angry.

– anger  is  a  sin  in  Eph.4:31;  see  Prov.15:18;  Eccles.7:9;  James 1:19-20

– but  God  is  angry  (1 Kings 11:9;  …

Sermons

First John: Tests of True Faith – The Incarnate Word

Peter Barnes | 1 John 1:1-4

SERMON  NOTES
THE  INCARNATE  WORD
Deuteronomy  4:1-14;  1  John 1:1-10

– split  in  2:19,  hence  the  need  for  assurance  in  5:13.

(a)  the  doctrinal  test  (4:2)

(b)  the  relationships  test  (4:20-21)

(c)  the  obedience  test  (2:3-4)

1. Christ  is  the  God-man,  a  real  supernatural  …

Sermons

The Letter to the Ephesians – Put off Lying, Put on Truth

Peter Barnes | Ephesians 4:25

SERMON  NOTES
Put  Off  Falsehood,  Put  on  Truth
(Ephesians   4:25)

– general  in  4:17-24,  and  more  specific  from  verse  25  onwards.

1. Motives  for  putting  off  lying  and  putting  on  truth.

– ‘therefore’  in  verse  25  i.e.  it  is  looking  back  to  previous  verses.  This  …