How Are Sinners Justified? (Acts 13:38-39)

 

This is part of Paul’s sermon in the synagogue in Antioch in Pisidia in modern Turkey (not Antioch in Syria). The ESV uses the word ‘freed’ which is probably all right (David Peterson thinks so), but it is actually the word for ‘justified’.

  1. Neither the ceremonial nor the moral

Good Friday 2011 – A Bitter Exchange

Peter Barnes | Matthew 27:15-26

SERMON  NOTES
A  Bitter  Exchange
Matthew 27:15-26

Martin  Luther  wrote  of  the  ‘sweet  exchange’  where  Christ  dies  for  sinners.  This  is  the  bitter  exchange  where  a  murderous  criminal  is  released  and  the  Son of  God  put  to  death.  ‘Bar’  means  ‘son  of’;  ‘Abba’  means  ‘father’  …