Peter Barnes | Romans 12:19-21
SERMON NOTES
OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD
(Romans 12:19-21)
We live in an increasingly angry and litigious society. Lloyd-Jones: ‘There is nothing worse than a quarrelling church, a church in dispute.’
1. We must leave vengeance to God.
– 12:19; see Deut.32:35.
– 1 Pet.2:23; 2 …
Peter Barnes | Romans 12:17-18
SERMON NOTES
LIVING PEACEABLY WITH ALL
(Romans 12:17-18)
Deals here mainly with responding to outsiders.
1. We are not to repay evil with evil.
– 12:17a; similar to 12:14, 19
– Prov.24:29; Luke 6:28-29; 1 Thess.5:15; 1 Pet.3:9
2. We ought to recognise that unbelievers …
Peter Barnes | Matthew 12:1-4
SERMON NOTES
JESUS AS LORD OF THE SABBATH, part 1
1 Samuel 21:1-9; Matthew 12:1-4
– Jesus and the Pharisees on Sabbath burdens (recall 11:28-30).
1. The deed in question.
– 12:1; this is allowed in Deut.23:24-25.
2. The Pharisees’ accusation.
– 12:2; Ex.34:21. In …
Peter Barnes | Romans 12:16
SERMON NOTES
HARMONIOUS HUMILITY
(Romans 12:16)
1. We are to strive for unity in thinking.
– this is a call to be of the same mind (NKJV), or to live in harmony and unity (NIV, ESV). Paul seems to be mainly speaking of thinking here …
Peter Barnes | Matthew 11:28-30
SERMON NOTES
CHRIST’S GRACIOUS INVITATION
Jeremiah 31:23-34; Matthew 11:28-30
– Thomas Cranmer called these ‘comfortable words’.
1. Christ is gentle and approachable.
– contrast to the Pharisees (Matt. 23:4). See too Acts 15:10; Gal.5:1. Paul knew of Christ’s gentleness (2 Cor.10:1). See 1 John 5:3. …
John Wenham once wrote that ‘Evil constitutes the biggest single argument against the existence of an almighty, loving God.’ The problem is not only the existence of evil but the origin of evil. How is it that God who is perfectly good made a world which He declared to be …
