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Peter Barnes | Romans 2:17-24
SERMON NOTES
ARE THE JEWS ANY BETTER?
(Romans 2:17-24)
– Sheldon Vanauken sad that the best argument against Christianity is Christians.
1. The Jews rely on the law.
– 2:17-22; he is not criticising the law as such (see 7:10, 12)
– but they misuse …
Peter Barnes | Hosea 14:1-9
SERMON NOTES
GRACE FREELY OFFERED
Hosea 14:1-9; 1 Timothy 1:1-17
God almost uses the invitation system!
1. God calls on us to return to Him.
– 14:1-2; He tells us what to say!
– 14:3; no compassion in idolatry; repent (1 John 1:9) and offer …
Peter Barnes | Romans 2:12-16
SERMON NOTES
GOD’S LAW IN EVERY HEART
(Romans 2:12-16)
1. We are judged with or without God’s written law.
– 2:12, 16; ‘my gospel’ (v.16) includes bad news!
– this refers to Jews and Gentiles
2. What matters is not possessing God’s law but obeying …
Peter Barnes | Hosea 13:1-16
SERMON NOTES
THE DEATH OF A NATION
Hosea 13:1-16; 1 Corinthians 15:50-58
Edward Gibbon found five characteristics of the Roman Empire in its death throes:
(a) a mounting love of show and luxury;
(b) a widening gap between rich and poor;
(c) an obsession with …
Peter Barnes | Romans 2:9-11
SERMON NOTES
NO PARTIALITY WITH GOD
(Romans 2:9-11)
– John Chrysostom called Romans 1-2 ‘a most rueful shipwreck’. All are condemned by works, yet works give evidence of a true faith.
1. We will all know either trouble and distress forever or glory, honour and …
Peter Barnes | Romans 2:6-8
SERMON NOTES
GOD’S JUDGMENT ACCORDING TO WORKS
(Romans 2:6-8)
– ‘Whatever happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas’. Not so, God judges all things.
1. We will be judged by our works.
– 2:6; often neglected by evangelicals who wonder how it fits in with justification …
Peter Barnes | Hosea 11:12-12:14
SERMON NOTES
JUDAH NO BETTER
Hosea 11:12-12:14; Revelation 2:1-7
– 11:12 may say Judah is unlike Israel (NKJV, ESV) or like Israel (NIV). The latter seems more likely in the light of 12:2.
1. We ought to learn from our history.
– 12:1-2; nobody pursues …
Peter Barnes | Romans 2:1-5
SERMON NOTES
WE JUDGE OURSELVES
(Romans 2:1-5)
– ‘Practise what you preach’ is something we all struggle with
– to Jews (Schreiner, Lloyd-Jones, etc), to moralists (F. F. Bruce) or to hypocrites (Calvin)? Paul is general – hence ‘O man’ in 2:1, 3. But he …
Peter Barnes | Hosea 11:1-11
SERMON NOTES
GOD’S HEART DIVIDED
Hosea 11:1-11; Luke 19:41-48
– God wears His heart on His sleeve, as it were.
1. God has treated Israel like a son.
– 11:1-4; see Ex.4:22-23; God had done everything for His son, but Israel had gone its own …
Peter Barnes | Romans 1:26-27
SERMON NOTES
THE APOSTASY OF THE HOMOSEXUAL CULTURE
(Romans 1:26-27)
– ancient Greek and Roman culture was infused with homosexuality. Julius Caesar, for example, was a homosexual.
1. Homosexuality is indecent.
– 1:26-27; Nero had two homosexual ‘marriages’
– Lev.18:22; 20:13
2. Homosexuality is unnatural.…
