Peter Barnes | Psalm 16
SERMON NOTES
FULLNESS OF JOY IN THE RESURRECTION
Psalm 16; Acts 2:22-41
– joy in this life and the next.
1. Faith in God.
– 16:1-2; good definition of faith: to take refuge in God and know we have no good apart from Him
– …
Peter Barnes | 2 Corinthians 4:3-4
SERMON NOTES
THE DEVIL AND THE UNBELIEVER
(2 Corinthians 4:3-4)
– how to explain Acts 13:44-45; 14:19; 17:32; 19:8-9; and how to explain Paul himself before his conversion (Acts 8:1-3; 9:4-6, 10-19).
1. Unbelievers are blind and perishing.
– 4:3-4; this extends what Paul …
Peter Barnes | Psalm 6
SERMON NOTES
PRAYER IN THE DAY OF TROUBLE
Psalm 6; 2 Samuel 15:1-12
– Augustine of Hippo died reading the seven penitential Psalms. The context for David may be the rebellion of Absalom.
1. God chastens His people.
– 6:1-3, 6-7; see Heb.12:5-6
– Peter …
Peter Barnes | John 3:6; 1 Corinthians 15:22; 2 Corinthians 5:17
SERMON NOTES
A NEW CREATION
(John 3:6; 1 Cor.15:22; 2 Cor.5:17)
– there are two realms
1. Being in the flesh means …
(a) we cannot save ourselves.
– John 3:6; Adam improved is still Adam in sin and …
Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 52
SERMON NOTES
THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND YET HOPE
Jeremiah 52
– last words of Jeremiah in 51:64; Jer. 52 is possibly from Baruch; almost the same as 2 Kings 24:18-25:30.
1. God’s promises seem to be undone.
(a) the Davidic kingship is virtually destroyed…
Peter Barnes | 2 Samuel 11
SERMON NOTES
OVERCOME BY THE FLESH
(2 Samuel 11)
– Calvin says this should make our hair stand on end; it is the man after God’s own heart who falls (Acts 13:22).
1. Sin begins in the heart.
– 11:1-5; he probably should have …
Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 45
SERMON NOTES
SEEK NOT GREAT THINGS FOR YOURSELF
Jeremiah 45; Matthew 20:20-28
– Baruch was Jeremiah’s secretary and suffered with him (cf. 36:17-19; 43:1-3)
1. Faithfulness means more than success.
– 45:1-3; this is worse than Jeremiah’s laments in 15:18; 20:14-18
– Robert Morrison laboured …
Peter Barnes | Hebrews 11:24-26
SERMON NOTES
BEARING THE REPROACH OF CHRIST
(Hebrews 11:24-26)
– like Paul in Phil.3:7-8.
1. Faith puts Christ above all worldly honours, all sin, and all wealth.
– looked to Christ – read 11:26; John 8:56. Moses saw Christ as
(a) worth more than worldly …
Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 42-44
SERMON NOTES
LESSONS FROM HISTORY?
Jeremiah 42-44
– this takes place after Jerusalem was destroyed in 587 B.C. George Santaya: ‘Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it’; G. W. F. Hegel: ‘The only thing that history teaches is that men …
In the Lord’s Prayer, Christ tells us to pray that we will not be led into temptation. Temptation is something we have all experienced and will experience. It comes from outside us in the person of the devil and in the allurements of the world; and it comes from inside …
