We have been reminded yet again that we live in a creation which has been cursed (Rom.8:19-25). The devastating earthquake in Nepal on 25 April (2015) has had a sobering effect on us all as we have witnessed from afar first the loss of 8,000 lives, then a series of …
Peter Barnes | 1 Samuel 21:7-22:5
SERMON NOTES
A SAINT ON THE RUN
1 Samuel 21:7-22:5; Psalm 142
– this all illustrates Ps.37:23-24
1. Believers can act foolishly.
– 21:7-10. David lies, and then takes Goliath’s sword to Gath! (see 17:4)
– 21:11-15; not the sort of ditty to go …
Peter Barnes | John 16:1-4a
SERMON NOTES
Religious Zeal Opposed to Christ
John 15:18-16:4; Acts 4:1-22
– not all religions are the same, not even all monotheistic religions’ 1 Kings 18:21
1. Jesus forewarns us.
– 16:1; ‘so you will not be caught unawares’ (William Hendriksen)
– see 6:60-61
– …
Peter Barnes | 1 Samuel 21:1-6
SERMON NOTES
WHAT IS SIN?
1 Samuel 21:1-6
To know God, we need to know what sin is. It is breaking God’s law – 1 John 3:4. But it has layers to it – e.g. Rom.14:14.
1. The sin of lying.
– 21:1-2. Walter …
Peter Barnes | John 15:26-27
SERMON NOTES
The Witness of the Spirit and the Apostles
Joel 2:28-32; John 15:18-16:4
– union with Christ (15:1-11); love to His people (15:12-17); hatred from the world (15:18-25)
1. The Holy Spirit is a divine Person.
– 15:26; ‘Advocate’ is possibly the best word …
Peter Barnes | 1 Samuel 20:1-42
SERMON NOTES
A True Friend
1 Samuel 20:1-42
The subtitle of this chapter might be: ‘How to walk the tightrope of relationships’.
1. Being godly in trying circumstances.
– Jonathan seeks to be godly in the ambiguity and the fallenness of this world. Arthur …
Peter Barnes | John 15:18-25
SERMON NOTES
The Unreasonable Hostility of the World
Psalm 69:1-21; John 15:18-25
– James 4:4; 1 John 2:15; although we are not to initiate this (Rom.12:18)
1. The hatred of the world is inevitable.
– 15:18-21; see John 5:18; 7:7
– Charles Ross: ‘woe to …
Today the Christian has the sense of fighting on one front, then another opens up, and if one is not careful, one can devote all one’s energies to a series of battles and be weighed down by a foreboding that one is not really winning any significant wars. The fact …
