The Sons of David and The Son of David (2 Samuel 7:1-17)

Peter Barnes: The Sons of David and The Son of David, 2 Samuel 7:1-17 (Sunday 10 May 2020 Evening Service, 6.00 p.m.)

– the word ‘covenant’ is not used here, but it is used later of references to it – Psalm 89:3-4. God does not need a temple to dwell …

David and the Kingly Line of the Messiah – More Rebellion

Peter Barnes | 2 Samuel 20

SERMON  NOTES
MORE REBELLION
2 Samuel 20

– more rebellion, more violence, more instability, more struggles.

1. The wickedness of rebellion.

– 20:1-2. Blaise Pascal: ‘Civil wars are the greatest of evils.’ But this is more; this is a repudiation of God’s declared will …

David and the Kingly Line of the Messiah – The Death of Absalom

Peter Barnes | 2 Samuel 18:1-18

SERMON  NOTES
THE DEATH OF ABSALOM
2 Samuel 18:1-18

– Roger Ellsworth calls Absalom ‘one of the Bible’s most despicable characters’. Dale Ralph Davis writes of ‘The Sad Triumph’; John Woodhouse of ‘Where Love and Justice Do Not Meet’.

1. The wisdom not to