Peter Barnes | Romans 15:5-7
SERMON NOTES
UNITY TO GOD’S GLORY
(Romans 15:5-7)
1. Unity glorifies God.
– 15:5-7; see Phil.3:15-16 for how far Paul is prepared to go
– unity is not uniformity, for then Romans 14-15 would not need to have been written. Act of Uniformity in 1662 …
Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 6:14
SERMON NOTES
SIN IS NO LIGHT MATTER
Romans 5:1-11; Jeremiah 6:14
– many believe that there is nothing much wrong with people.
1. False prophets make the wrong diagnosis.
– 6:13-14; they heal the wound lightly, thinking it is only superficial; Jeremiah 5 says that …
Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 5:1-31
SERMON NOTES
WORSE THAN SODOM
Genesis 18:22-33; Jeremiah 5:1-31
– the city of God is now ‘Jerusalem the brazen’ (Derek Kidner); worse than in Isa.1:9
– ten righteous persons would have saved Sodom (Gen.18:32), but there is not one in Jerusalem (Jer.5:1).
1. There was …
Peter Barnes | Romans 15:4
SERMON NOTES
THE PURPOSE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
(Romans 15:4)
– Paul is explaining how he can appeal to Ps.69:9 in Rom.15:3.
1. The Old Testament is for instruction.
– 1 Cor.10:11; Paul expected the Greek Corinthians to know Numbers 25
2. The Old Testament …
People often marvelled at the words of Jesus. On one occasion the Jews said: ‘How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?’ (John 7:15) Even the officers had to report to the chief priests and Pharisees that they could not arrest Him because ‘No man …
