Commenting on Romans 3:25-26, Robert Haldane said: ‘Mercy and justice are irreconcilable except in Christ.’ He was referring to the fact that at the cross, God set forth Christ as a propitiation for the sins of His people. Christ satisfied the justice of God and thereby enables God to be …
When certain kind of squid are frightened, they will emit an ink-like substance which confuses matters for their attackers. The more ink, the more confusion – rather like a newspaper. But we sinners do the same sort of thing. We are warned that ‘Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper’ …
Peter Barnes | Romans 3:9-20
SERMON NOTES
EVERYONE A SINNER
(Romans 3:9-20)
– Francis Schaeffer said that if he had an hour with an unbeliever, he would spend 45-50 minutes demonstrating that the unbeliever was morally dead.
1. All of us are sinners.
– 3:9; contrast to the John F. …
Ever since the creation was cursed in Genesis 3, there have been numerous sad illustrations of what it means to live in a fallen world. In 1665 London was ravaged by plague, but on 2 September 1666 in a bakery in Pudding Lane a fire broke out which ended out …
Recently, I was watching the evening news on television, and becoming increasingly irritated at the rot that was being passed off as newsworthy. Virtually all the news was gossip about celebrities. The antics of film stars and drunk footballers are hardly what make the real world go round. Celebrities, heroes …
Deception is something we hate but something we cannot avoid, for there is deception everywhere. When sin entered the world, Eve explained: ‘The serpent deceived me, and I ate’ (Gen.3:13). Satan is called ‘the deceiver of the whole world’ (Rev.12:9) – no more so than when people do not believe …
Review of Peter Jones, One or Two: Seeing a World of Difference, Escondido: Main Entry Editions, 2010.
Peter Jones, the director of truthXchange, has written a most incisive treatment and application of Romans 1. He considers, with good reason, that the two hottest issues today are Christian uniqueness and homosexuality. …
Christianity flies in the face of our natural thoughts and inclinations time and again. We are told to be holy, but then told that we are not; we are told to be strong, but then told that we are weak. Weakness so often seems to be the ally of sin. …
‘Who is the Real Jesus?’ Is he the second last of the prophets, pointing to Mohammed? Or is he the divine Redeemer who came to suffer, die, and rise from the dead, in order to save his people from their sins? On 23 October 2010 at the Wiley Park Muslim …
The Christian who holds to the Bible as God’s all-sufficient Word tends to have mixed feelings about a festival like Christmas. In the Old Testament there were three great feasts each year (Deut.16) – Passover (to celebrate Israel’s redemption from bondage in Egypt), Weeks (or Harvest or Pentecost, to celebrate …
