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Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 45
SERMON NOTES
SEEK NOT GREAT THINGS FOR YOURSELF
Jeremiah 45; Matthew 20:20-28
– Baruch was Jeremiah’s secretary and suffered with him (cf. 36:17-19; 43:1-3)
1. Faithfulness means more than success.
– 45:1-3; this is worse than Jeremiah’s laments in 15:18; 20:14-18
– Robert Morrison laboured …
Peter Barnes | Hebrews 11:24-26
SERMON NOTES
BEARING THE REPROACH OF CHRIST
(Hebrews 11:24-26)
– like Paul in Phil.3:7-8.
1. Faith puts Christ above all worldly honours, all sin, and all wealth.
– looked to Christ – read 11:26; John 8:56. Moses saw Christ as
(a) worth more than worldly …
Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 42-44
SERMON NOTES
LESSONS FROM HISTORY?
Jeremiah 42-44
– this takes place after Jerusalem was destroyed in 587 B.C. George Santaya: ‘Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it’; G. W. F. Hegel: ‘The only thing that history teaches is that men …
Peter Barnes | John 16:33
SERMON NOTES
CHRIST HAS OVERCOME THE WORLD
(John 16:33)
– in the context of confusion and sorrow, and the disciples’ being scattered (16:32); verse 33 is virtually Jesus’ last word to the disciples before His crucifixion.
1. We must expect tribulation in the world.
– …
Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 36:1-32
SERMON NOTES
MY WORD SHALL NEVER PASS AWAY
Jeremiah 36:1-32
– in the Great Persecution of 303-311 the Roman emperors sought to destroy all copies of the Bible.
1. How we got the Bible.
– 36:1-8; God spoke to Jeremiah who spoke to Baruch
– …
Peter Barnes | 1 John 2:15-17
SERMON NOTES
DO NOT LOVE THE WORLD
(1 John 2:15-17)
– there is a right way to love the world (John 3:16; Ps.33:5), but not in its fallenness and sin.
1. It is impossible to love the world wrongly and be a Christian.
– …
Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 32:1-44
SERMON NOTES
IS ANYTHING TOO HARD FOR THE LORD?
Jeremiah 32:1-44
– Jeremiah is in prison (32:1-5)
1. Faith acts on God’s Word.
– 32:6-8; Cousin Hanamel has what Derek Kidner calls an ‘untimely proposition’.
– Livy says that Hannibal was outraged when he found …
Peter Barnes | Leviticus 18:1-30
SERMON NOTES
ISRAEL AND THE ABOMINATIONS OF CANAAN
(Leviticus 18:1-30)
1. Follow God’s Word, not the world.
– Gen.15:16; Lev.18:1-5; Rom.12:2; Lev. 18:24-30; for 18:5, Gordon Wenham translates: ‘He will enjoy life through them.’
2. No incest.
– 18:6-18. The sexual drive is like a …
Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 34:8-22
SERMON NOTES
NO SALVATION THROUGH A PHONEY REPENTANCE
Jeremiah 34:8-22; Deuteronomy 15:1-18
– probably Zedekiah reneged when the Egyptians gave him hope that the Babylonians would leave (Jer.37:5)
1. Justice and mercy in the Old Testament law on slavery.
– 34:8-10; very different to the …
Peter Barnes | Romans 16:25-27
SERMON NOTES
GLORY TO GOD THROUGH CHRIST
(Romans 16:25-27)
– one long sentence (although Paul has written longer!)
1. God is able to strengthen us.
– 16:25a; NKJV and NIV have ‘establish’ but it is more like ‘strengthen’ as in Rom.1:11
– God is able …
