Peter Barnes: Matthew 18:10-14
(8 October 2017)
SERMON NOTES: GOD CARES FOR HIS LITTLE ONES (Matthew 18:10-14)
The parable about the shepherd with the 100 sheep, and one going astray is found in Luke 15:1-7 and in Matthew 18:12-14. In Luke 15 it deals with conversion more than backsliding whereas …
Peter Barnes: 1 Thessalonians 5:25-28
(1 October 2017)
SERMON NOTES: PRAYING, GREETING, READING (1 Thessalonians 5:25-28)
Sanctification, or growing in holiness, is often, as B. B. Warfield says, ‘a slow process’, but it should be a real and energetic process.
– 5:25; these Thessalonian Christians, who …
Peter Barnes: 1 Thessalonians 5:22-24
SERMON NOTES: GROWING IN GRACE (1 Thessalonians 5:22-24)
H. Auden was an atheist when he met the novelist Charles Williams, and he recorded that he felt ‘for the first time in my life … in the presence of personal sanctity’.
Peter Barnes : Matthew 18:5,6
SERMON NOTES: JUDGMENT FOR LEADING A LITTLE ONE ASTRAY (Matthew 18:5-6)
– Jesus uses the word for ‘child’ in verse 5, and ‘little ones’ (‘micro ones’) in verse 6. Most of the scholars (R. T. France, Don Carson, Craig Keener) say that the child is …
Peter Barnes: 1 Thessalonians 5:19-21
SERMON NOTES: DISCERNMENT WITHOUT QUENCHING (1 Thessalonians 5:19-21)
Peter Barnes: 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
SERMON NOTES: REJOICING, PRAYING, GIVING THANKS (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18)
Notice the ‘all’ language in each of the three verses. In all things, we are to be a people who rejoice, who pray, and who give thanks.
– 5:16. Paul was a rejoicing man …
Peter Barnes: Matthew 18:1-4
SERMON NOTES: GREATNESS IS BEING CHILD-LIKE (Matthew 18:1-4)
Matthew’s Gospel is based on five lengthy discourses (chapters 5-7; 10; 13; 18; 24-25), each of which leads into a saying such as ‘When Jesus had finished saying these things …’ (7:28-29; 11:1; 13:53; 19:1; 26:1-2). In Matthew …
Peter Barnes: 1 Thessalonians 5:14,15
SERMON NOTES: RELATING TOGETHER (1 Thessalonians 5:14-15)
– John Chrysostom says that Paul is writing to leaders, but Paul actually says that Christians are to admonish each other (5:14a). Larry Crabb: ‘We tend to relate to one another with the hidden purpose of maintaining our …
Peter Barnes: Genesis 1:27
SERMON NOTES: TRANSGENDER (Genesis 1:27)
– I never thought this was an issue. But there is a quite a large Anglican church is Sydney which has something like ten transgender people amongst its members. Chaz Bono: ‘There is a gender in your brain and a gender …
Peter Barnes: 1 Thessalonians 5:12,13
SERMON NOTES: ELDER-CONGREGATIONAL RELATIONS (1 Thessalonians 5:12-13)
Calvin: ‘This admonition is very necessary.’ It is directed mainly at the congregation but also the elders (see Acts 14:23. John Stott is right to say that the Bible opposes both clericalism and anti-clericalism.
(a) work …
