Life of Moses: Learning the Hard Way

Peter Barnes: Exodus 2:11-25 (NO AUDIO)

(4 November 2018)

SERMON NOTES : LEARNING THE HARD WAY (Exodus 2:11-25)

Between verse 10 and verse 11 there is almost forty years, and between verse 11 and verse 25 there is another forty years. Acts 7:22.
1. Moses as a believer who sins.…

Isaiah: Forgiven & Fit For Service

Peter Barnes: Isaiah 6:6-8

(21 October 2018)

SERMON NOTES: FORGIVEN AND FIT FOR SERVICE (Isaiah 6:6-8)
Christ does not convert Isaiah here, but confirms him.

1. Cleansing from the altar.

– 6:6-7. Why was the fire taken from the altar? It is the language of the Old Testament sacrifices – …

Life of Moses: God’s Sovereign Care of Baby Moses

Peter Barnes: Exodus 2:1-10

(21 October 2018)

SERMON NOTES : GOD’S SOVEREIGN CARE OF BABY MOSES (Exodus 2:1-10)
The Nile River was meant to be the grave of every Hebrew baby boy (1:22); but for Moses it was the means whereby his life was saved (2:10).
1. Resisting the tyrant.…

Isaiah: Lord Most Holy & Prophet Most Lowly

Peter Barnes: Isaiah 6:1-5

(14 October 2018)

SERMON NOTES: LORD MOST HOLY AND PROPHET MOST LOWLY (Isaiah 6:1-5)
E. J. Young, Allan Harman and the NKJV say that this was Isaiah’s inaugural call. James Packer says that it was Isaiah’s conversion. Calvin is surely right in saying it is the …

Isaiah: Yet More Woes

Peter Barnes: Isaiah 5:21-30

(23 September 2018)

SERMON NOTES: YET MORE WOES! (Isaiah 5:21-30)

Isa.5:1, 7 leads to six woes and judgment.

1. Woe to the proud.

– 5:21. Pride is the problem, which Calvin says that it is ‘too common in all ages’.

– Prov.3:5-8; Jer.9:23-24. The problem is …

Life of Moses: Faithful Disobedience

Peter Barnes: Exodus 1:15-22 : NO AUDIO

(October 14 2018)

SERMON NOTES : FAITHFUL DISOBEDIENCE (Exodus 1:15-22)

In most forms of infanticide or sex-selection abortions, it is the female who is most at risk. There are millions of girls missing in China and India today for that reason. But here …

God and Caesar

Historians  invariably  speak  of  every  era  as  a  time  of  crisis,  and  the  Church’s  relationship  with  the  state  is  never  what  it  might  be  in  an  unfallen  world.  Tensions  are  clearly  increasing  in  the  modern  Western  world,  and,  for  that  matter,  in  many  parts  of  the  East  and  in  Africa  …

Banning the Holy Spirit and Chaining the Word

As  Western  societies  lurch  from  one  disastrous  fad  to  another,  there  have  been  increased  efforts  to  ban  what  are  called  gay  conversion  therapies.  Hollywood  has  naturally  offered  its  obligatory  contribution  with  the  movie  Boy  Erased,  Academia  chipped  in  with  a  report  from  La  Trobe  University  –  the  institution  that  birthed  …

Law: What Is Primary and What Is Secondary

Drawing  on  the  work  of  two  American  writers,  Jonathan  Haidt  and  Greg  Lukianoff,  Paul  Kelly  wrote  recently  of  ‘the  three  great  lies  corroding  Western  cultures’.  In  his  view,  these  are:  first,  that  disputes  today  are  a  battle  between  good  (defined  as  the  oppressed  victims)  and  evil  (defined  as  the  privileged  …

When there is nowhere else to go

There are times in life when it becomes obvious not only that the God who has revealed Himself in Christ is true, but that there is nowhere else to go. One such moment occurred for the apostles when many people who had been disciples of Jesus left Him because of …