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Peter Barnes: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
SERMON NOTES: GRIEF WITH HOPE (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)
Some became confused when a Christian died before the second coming. From their conversion, they knew about the second coming – 1:9-10. Paul is wanting to clarify more than correct. Hence we have the problem (5:13); the …
Peter Barnes: Genesis 49:29-50:14
Sermon Notes: DEATH: THE WEEPING AND THE PROMISES
(Genesis 49:29-50:14)
– here he comes to die, be embalmed, and then be taken back to Canaan for burial.
1. Believers grieve too.
– 49:29-33; 50:1-3. Is it wrong to mourn? Of course not! – Eccles.3:1, 4. When …
Peter Barnes: Genesis 49:8-12
SERMON NOTES: LAST WORDS OF JACOB THE PROPHET (Genesis 49:8-12)
Jacob speaks as a prophet (49:1-2). Behind this prophecy is God Himself – 49:18, 24-26. He saves, He is mighty, He is the Shepherd of Israel, the Stone of Israel, He will help and bless …
Peter Barnes: Trusting in the World to Come (Genesis 47:28-48:22)
SERMON NOTES: TRUSTING IN THE WORLD TO COME (Genesis 47:28-48:22)
Jacob is approaching the end of his earthly life, as a stranger in a strange land.
– 47:29-31; Heb.11:21. This is not nationalism nor is it sentimentality. …
Daniel Wood – James 2:18-26
Sermon Notes: True Faith Works
Opposing the opponent of true faith (vv. 18-20)
Examples of true faith: faith-with-works (vv. 21-25)
Abraham (Genesis ch. 15; ch. 22)
“Justify” cf. Matthew 11:19
Rahab (cf. Joshua ch. 2; 6:25)
Faith without works is dead (v. 26) …
Peter Barnes: Genesis 46:1-47:12
SERMON NOTES: LIFE’S JOYS AND TRIALS (Genesis 46:1-47:12)
After more than twenty years, Jacob is to make his way to Egypt to gather enough provisions to survive the seven year famine, and, more vitally, for the reunion with his long-lost son, Joseph.
Peter Barnes: Genesis 37:3-4, 31-35; 42:38; 45:25-28
SERMON NOTES: JACOB AS A PARENT (Genesis 37:3-4, 31-35; 42:38; 45:25-28)
Roger Ellsworth: ‘With the sole exception of Job, no one in the Old Testament experienced more sorrow than Jacob.’ Jeremiah might argue against that. Unlike Job and Jeremiah, Jacob brings so many …
Peter Barnes: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-5
SERMON NOTES: SANCTIFIED SEX Part 1 (1 Thessalonians 4:1-5)
– Paul deals with sanctification in sexual ethics in verses 1-8, then brotherly love in verses 9-12.
– 4:1-3a. The tone here is friendly but it is also authoritative. Paul …
Peter Barnes: Genesis 35
SERMON NOTES: ‘O GOD OF BETHEL’ (Genesis 35)
Jacob is called back to Bethel where he first met God – read 28:12, 19; 35:1. Bethel was south of Shechem but higher in elevation. Philip Doddridge prays to the God of Bethel:
Through each perplexing path of …
Peter Barnes: 1 Thessalonians 3:11-13
SERMON NOTES: PRAYING FOR CHRIST’S PEOPLE (1 Thessalonians 3:11-13)
– two prayers or two prayer-wishes. One is very specific, concerning Paul’s desire to return to Thessalonica – read 3:11. The other is more general, and concerns the spiritual growth of the Thessalonian Christians.
