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Peter Barnes | Judges 18
SERMON NOTES
SPREADING SPIRITUAL CORRUPTION
(Judges 18)
What happens when God’s people become spiritually corrupt?
1. There is warfare within the covenant community.
– 18:7, 16-19 – the Danites aim at a soft target – a contrast to Joshua and Caleb in Numbers 13-14
– …
Peter Barnes | Ezekiel 36:16-38
SERMON NOTES
THE PROMISE OF THE SPIRIT
Ezekiel 36:25-27; Romans 6:1-15
– Christopher Wright calls Ezekiel 36:24-30 ‘one of the most beautiful passages in the whole Bible’. It is parallel to Jer.31:31-34.
1. The promise of cleansing.
– 36:25; the Old Testament washings were invariably …
Peter Barnes | Judges 17
SERMON NOTES
RIGHT GOD, WRONG WORSHIP (Judges 17)
– probably early in the book of Judges (18:30; 30:27-28)
– spiritual decline, then moral decline, then political decline.
1. A light view of sin.
– 17:1-2; he steals a huge amount, his mother seems to keep …
Peter Barnes | Luke 24:13-35
SERMON NOTES
THE ROAD TO EMMAUS
Psalm 118; Luke 24:13-35
1. Our gloom when we do not grasp Christ’s resurrection.
– the two were despondent and downcast; they saw the cross as the end (unlike John 12:27-28a); can only confess Jesus as a prophet (v.19)…
Peter Barnes | 1 Timothy 1:15 …
Peter Barnes | Judges 16
SERMON NOTES
SAMSON’S REMARKABLE DEATH (Judges 16)
– an illustration of 1 Cor.10:12; 2 Tim.2:13
1. Christians can fail to learn from their own sin and God’s chastening.
– 16:1-3 – more sin
– 16:4-16 – he does not learn (cf. 14:16-17)
– like Abraham …
Peter Barnes | Ezekiel 34
SERMON NOTES
THE TRUE SHEPHERD
Ezekiel 34:1-31
1. Human shepherds fail.
– 34:1-10; read First and Second Kings!
– they looked after themselves (34:2-3, 8), they neglected the needy (34:4, 6), and they left the flock defenceless (34:8-9; see Matt.9:36)
2. The Lord is the …
Peter Barnes | Judges 15
SERMON NOTES
THE ONE-MAN ARMY (Judges 15)
– after the explosion in 14:19-20, Samson wants to take up with his wife again.
1. The sin of a spirit of vengeance.
– 15:3, 4-6, 7, 11, 8, 14-17
– he seems a long way from 2 …
