Life of Moses: Learning the Hard Way

Peter Barnes: Exodus 2:11-25 (NO AUDIO)

(4 November 2018)

SERMON NOTES : LEARNING THE HARD WAY (Exodus 2:11-25)

Between verse 10 and verse 11 there is almost forty years, and between verse 11 and verse 25 there is another forty years. Acts 7:22.
1. Moses as a believer who sins.…

Isaiah: Forgiven & Fit For Service

Peter Barnes: Isaiah 6:6-8

(21 October 2018)

SERMON NOTES: FORGIVEN AND FIT FOR SERVICE (Isaiah 6:6-8)
Christ does not convert Isaiah here, but confirms him.

1. Cleansing from the altar.

– 6:6-7. Why was the fire taken from the altar? It is the language of the Old Testament sacrifices – …

Life of Moses: God’s Sovereign Care of Baby Moses

Peter Barnes: Exodus 2:1-10

(21 October 2018)

SERMON NOTES : GOD’S SOVEREIGN CARE OF BABY MOSES (Exodus 2:1-10)
The Nile River was meant to be the grave of every Hebrew baby boy (1:22); but for Moses it was the means whereby his life was saved (2:10).
1. Resisting the tyrant.…

Isaiah: Lord Most Holy & Prophet Most Lowly

Peter Barnes: Isaiah 6:1-5

(14 October 2018)

SERMON NOTES: LORD MOST HOLY AND PROPHET MOST LOWLY (Isaiah 6:1-5)
E. J. Young, Allan Harman and the NKJV say that this was Isaiah’s inaugural call. James Packer says that it was Isaiah’s conversion. Calvin is surely right in saying it is the …

Isaiah: Yet More Woes

Peter Barnes: Isaiah 5:21-30

(23 September 2018)

SERMON NOTES: YET MORE WOES! (Isaiah 5:21-30)

Isa.5:1, 7 leads to six woes and judgment.

1. Woe to the proud.

– 5:21. Pride is the problem, which Calvin says that it is ‘too common in all ages’.

– Prov.3:5-8; Jer.9:23-24. The problem is …

Life of Moses: Faithful Disobedience

Peter Barnes: Exodus 1:15-22 : NO AUDIO

(October 14 2018)

SERMON NOTES : FAITHFUL DISOBEDIENCE (Exodus 1:15-22)

In most forms of infanticide or sex-selection abortions, it is the female who is most at risk. There are millions of girls missing in China and India today for that reason. But here …

Life of Moses: Slaves in Egypt

Peter Barnes: Exodus 1:1-14

(23 September 2018)

SERMON NOTES : SLAVES IN EGYPT (Exodus 1:1-14)

Moses is mentioned nearly 700 times in Scripture. He was also the author of one Psalm: Psalm 90. He lived for 120 years: his first forty years in Pharaoh’s palace; his next forty years as …

Isaiah: Woe Upon Woe!

Peter Barnes: Isaiah 5:8-20

(16 September 2018)

SERMON NOTES: WOE UPON WOE! (Isaiah 5:8-20)

– 5:8-20 will look at the first four of six woes, before Isaiah sees himself as under a woe in the next chapter – 6:5.

1. Woe to greedy land-grabbers.

– 5:8-10. Israel was not set …

Repent & Believe

Peter Barnes: Acts 20:21

(16 September 2018)

SERMON NOTES : REPENT AND BELIEVE (Acts 20:21)

– William Perkins: ‘These words summarise the complete duty of a minister as a public angel or interpreter.’ Calvin: ‘repentance and faith are tied together in an unbreakable connexion.’

1. This testimony is to be …

Isaiah: Song of the Wasted Vineyard

Peter Barnes: Isaiah 5:-17 : NO AUDIO

(9 September 2018)

SERMON NOTES: SONG OF THE WASTED VINEYARD (Isaiah 5:1-7)

– Ps.80:8-16; Isa.27:2-6; Ezek.15:2-6; Luke 20:9-10, 15; John 15:1. Alec Motyer calls Isaiah 5 the ‘last, grimmest section of his preface’. It is almost introduced as a love song (5:1), but …