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Peter Barnes | Ezekiel 33
SERMON NOTES
WATCHMAN OR ENTERTAINER?
Ezekiel 33:1-33
Crunch time has come.
1. The Lord judges His own people.
– 33:21-29; the people in Jerusalem were bewildered, so God replies that He did it and He did because of their sins.
– 1 Peter 4:17
2. …
Peter Barnes | Judges 14
SERMON NOTES
WHEN I AM STRONG, THEN I AM WEAK
(Judges 14)
– reverse of 2 Cor.12:10
1. God’s overruling for good does not take away our responsibility for sin.
– 14:1-4; Andrew Fausset and Leon Wood both say that Samson understood, but that seems …
Peter Barnes | Ezekiel 25-32
SERMON NOTES
ORACLES AGAINST THE NATIONS
Ezekiel 25:1-17; Ezekiel 28:1-19
Ezekiel 25-32 is similar to Isa. 13-23; Jer.46-51; Amos 1:1-2:3. Ezekiel mentions seven major nations or cities. Babylonia is missing.
1. The Lord is the judge of all the earth.
– Gen.18:25; Ps.94:2
– He …
Peter Barnes | Ezekiel 24:15-27
SERMON NOTES
THE PROPHET BEREAVED
Ezekiel 24:15-27 ; Jeremiah 16:1-13
At first. Ezekiel might seem hard (3:7-9) compared to Jeremiah the weeping prophet (Jer.9:1).
1. Ezekiel’s delight in his wife.
– 24:15-16; God tests His people (Gen.22:1-2); Ezekiel is married, unlike Jeremiah (Jer.16:1-4), and happily …
Peter Barnes | Judges 13
SERMON NOTES
SAMSON’S REMARKABLE BIRTH
(Judges 13)
– 13:1 – rebellion and repression. Israel is even hostile to the thought of rescue (15:9-12)
1. God saves when we cannot.
– like the birth of Isaac, Samuel, and John the Baptist (cf. Luke 1:13-17, 66, 76-80); …
Peter Barnes | Judges 10:6-18
SERMON NOTES
JEPHTHAH: A FOOLISH VOW
(Judges 11:34-12:7)
– Simon Robinson: ‘This must be one of the most troubling passages in the Old Testament.’ Jephthah is saved (Heb.11:32).
1. Do not negotiate with God.
– 11:30-31; Jacob seems to start out with the same mentality …
Peter Barnes | Ezekiel 18
SERMON NOTES
WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SIN
Ezekiel 18 (p.597)
1. We must accept responsibility for our own sin.
– 18:1-3; Jer.31:27-30
– people blame their parents, their school, the environment, their friends.
– there is a collective responsibility (e.g. Ex.20:5; Josh.7:1, 14-15; Dan.9:1-19; see …
Peter Barnes | Judges 11:1-33
SERMON NOTES
JEPHTHAH: THE BIBLE’S ROBIN HOOD
(Judges 11:1-33)
– He is saved (Heb.11:32)
1. God chooses an outcast.
– 11:1-3; some say that these were just unimportant people who gathered around Jephthah the outcast, but they were probably more than adventurers (NIV); note 1 …
Peter Barnes | Ezekiel 16
SERMON NOTES
A HISTORY OF JERUSALEM
Ezekiel 16
– This is graphic and confronting
1. God loves the unlovely.
– 16:1-14; God finds Israel as an abandoned baby girl; exposure of infants and abortion are signs of a decadent culture
– God speaks the word …
Peter Barnes | Judges 10:6-18
SERMON NOTES
GOD REBUKES HIS PEOPLE
(Judges 10:6-18)
– something like 2:6-3:6 in explaining the cycles
1. Sin tends to spiral downwards.
– 10:6; like 3:12; 4:1; 6:1, only worse
– more than a drift (Heb.2:1)
2. Remorse is not the same as repentance.
– …
