Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 2:1-3
SERMON NOTES
GROWING IN THE WORD
1 Peter 2:1-3
1. We must put off all evil.
– 2:1. Peter begins verse 1 with a ‘So’ (ESV) or ‘Therefore’ (NIV). This is the negative side of 1:22. For put off/put on pattern, see Rom.13:12; Eph.4:22, …
Peter Barnes | 2 Samuel 20
SERMON NOTES
MORE REBELLION
2 Samuel 20
– more rebellion, more violence, more instability, more struggles.
1. The wickedness of rebellion.
– 20:1-2. Blaise Pascal: ‘Civil wars are the greatest of evils.’ But this is more; this is a repudiation of God’s declared will …
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 1:22-25
SERMON NOTES
THE ABIDING WORD OF GOD
1 Peter 1:22-25
– love comes from holding to the truth – Eph.4:15.
1. What we believe directs what we do.
– 1:22. Robert Leighton says that this verse contains the ‘whole duties and frame of a …
C.S. Lewis once commented that there are some things that are so obvious that we often do not see them. That is probably something that every ageing male can relate to, but Lewis was referring to things like windows or grammar. True enough, for looking out of the window on …
Peter Barnes | 2 Samuel 19:9-43
SERMON NOTES
PICKING UP THE REINS AGAIN
2 Samuel 19:9-43
Recriminations are always an issue e.g. after World War II in Germany or after the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa.
1. Expedient mercy.
– 19:9-12. David needs to make a political appointment, which …
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 1:18-21
SERMON NOTES
REDEEMED FROM FUTILE WAYS
1 Peter 1:18-21
Peter writes of being redeemed or ransomed (ESV).
1. Redeemed from futile ways.
– 1:18a. We usually think, quite rightly, of being redeemed from the penalty for sin (Gal. 3:10 13). But Peter is speaking …
Peter Barnes | 2 Samuel 18:19-19:8
SERMON NOTES
DAVID’S GRIEF: PRESSING ON WHEN DEVASTATED
2 Samuel 18:19-19:8
David’s grief is so excessive that he came closer to doing more damage to his position as king than Absalom ever could.
1. David’s terrible grief.
– 18:19-33. Weeping is allowed; it is …
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 1:17
SERMON NOTES
CALLING UPON THE JUDGE IN FEAR
1 Peter 1:17
– Peter has been exhorting his readers to live as holy pilgrims in a hostile world, pointing to a number of motives: grace (1:13); the holiness of God (1:14-16); and the judgment of …
Peter Barnes | 2 Samuel 18:1-18
SERMON NOTES
THE DEATH OF ABSALOM
2 Samuel 18:1-18
– Roger Ellsworth calls Absalom ‘one of the Bible’s most despicable characters’. Dale Ralph Davis writes of ‘The Sad Triumph’; John Woodhouse of ‘Where Love and Justice Do Not Meet’.
1. The wisdom not to …
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 1:13-16
SERMON NOTES
A HEAVENLY INHERITANCE, A HOLY LIFE
1 Peter 1:13-16
– on the basis of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, Christians have in heaven an imperishable, undefiled and unfading inheritance. How then do we live?
1. Prepare your mind for …
