Peter Barnes | Gen.1:29-30; 9:3-4; Lev.11; Acts 10
SERMON NOTES
GOD AND FOOD LAWS
Gen.1:29-30; 9:3-4; Lev.11; Acts 10
The Bible is not a flat text-book of systematic theology, but an unfolding of God’s revelation through history.
1. Herbs in Paradise.
– Gen.1:29-30. Dogs ate lettuce, and cats did not …
Peter Barnes | Gen.9:3-6; Prov.12:10; Isa.11:6-9
SERMON NOTES
GOD AND ANIMAL LIFE
Gen.9:3-6; Prov.12:10; Isa.11:6-9
– there is a repeated claim today that human beings and animals are of equal worth.
1. We are created in God’s image; animals are not.
– Gen.1:27-28. Even after the Fall, that is true …
Peter Barnes | Genesis 33; 44:30-45:15
SERMON NOTES
DEALING WITH CHILDREN
Genesis 33; 44:30-45:15:4
– the book of Genesis is such a modern book.
1. Siblings grieve each other.
– 4:8; 21:8-9; 37:4.
– Jacob and Esau in 27:41-46. Sin has painful consequences even in this world.
2. Children grieve …
Peter Barnes | Genesis 35:22; 39:1-23
SERMON NOTES
WHEN TEMPTATION COMES
Genesis 35:22; 39:1-23; 1 Cor.6:12-20
Alexander Pope:
…Vice is a monster of so frightful mien
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Peter Barnes | Genesis 19:1-25; 34:1-31
SERMON NOTES
DESTROYING ALL BOUNDARIES
Genesis 19:1-25; 34:1-31
– Jonathan Edwards compared physical desire to a fire in a house: ‘very useful while kept in its place, but if left to take possession of the whole house, soon brings all to destruction.’
1. Sexual …
Peter Barnes | Genesis 23:1-20; 29:15-30:2
SERMON NOTES
TRIALS IN MARRIAGE
Genesis 11:30; 16:1-2; 23:1-2
– ‘for better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; in sickness and in health’.
1. Childlessness.
– Gen.1:28; then .3:16, and then Sarai in 11:30.
– Sarai handles it badly – 16:1-2. Jacob and Rachel …
Peter Barnes | Genesis 4:1; 9:20-27; 4:19
SERMON NOTES
BLESSING, SHAME, DISTORTIONS
Gen.4:1; 9:20-27; 4:19
– Before the Fall, sex was created good, and designed to be expressed within a heterosexual, monogamous, and lifelong union.
1. Some blessing still remains.
– 4:1; recall 3:15. Yet it is not only labour …
Peter Barnes | Genesis 2:18-25
SERMON NOTES
SEXUALITY BEFORE THE FALL
Genesis 1:28; 2:18-25; Matthew 19:1-12
– cohabitation before marriage has become the norm, where there is pornography readily available and widely used, and where a virgin is seen as someone who is anorexic. Yet this has not led to …
Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 5:1-31
SERMON NOTES
WORSE THAN SODOM
Genesis 18:22-33; Jeremiah 5:1-31
– the city of God is now ‘Jerusalem the brazen’ (Derek Kidner); worse than in Isa.1:9
– ten righteous persons would have saved Sodom (Gen.18:32), but there is not one in Jerusalem (Jer.5:1).
1. There was …
