Peter Barnes: Isaiah 7:10-16 (NO AUDIO)
(18 November 2018)
SERMON NOTES: THE COMING OF IMMANUEL (Isaiah 7:10-16)
Isaiah 7:1-25 deals with judgment, for Ahaz the king of Judah is trusting in Assyria to protect Judah from the forces of unbelieving Syria and apostate Israel (7:1-9). God’s word can harden as …
Peter Barnes: Isaiah 7:1-9
(11 November 2018)
SERMON NOTES: FIRM IN THE FAITH (Isaiah 7:1-9)
It is the year 735 B.C. or thereabouts, and times are troubled.
1. The sin of fearing the world.
– 7:1-2. Israel and Syria took it into their heads to confront the super power, and …
Peter Barnes: Isaiah 6:9-13 (NO AUDIO)
(4 November 2019)
SERMON NOTES: THE REMNANT IN HARD TIMES (Isaiah 6:9-13)
John Oswalt: ‘Almost all sermons on Isa. 6 conclude with v.8, probably because of the frankly disturbing character of the remainder of the chapter.’
1. Preaching the truth can harden hearers.
– …
Peter Barnes: Isaiah 6:6-8
(21 October 2018)
SERMON NOTES: FORGIVEN AND FIT FOR SERVICE (Isaiah 6:6-8)
Christ does not convert Isaiah here, but confirms him.
1. Cleansing from the altar.
– 6:6-7. Why was the fire taken from the altar? It is the language of the Old Testament sacrifices – …
Peter Barnes: Isaiah 6:1-5
(14 October 2018)
SERMON NOTES: LORD MOST HOLY AND PROPHET MOST LOWLY (Isaiah 6:1-5)
E. J. Young, Allan Harman and the NKJV say that this was Isaiah’s inaugural call. James Packer says that it was Isaiah’s conversion. Calvin is surely right in saying it is the …
Peter Barnes: Isaiah 5:8-20
(16 September 2018)
SERMON NOTES: WOE UPON WOE! (Isaiah 5:8-20)
– 5:8-20 will look at the first four of six woes, before Isaiah sees himself as under a woe in the next chapter – 6:5.
1. Woe to greedy land-grabbers.
– 5:8-10. Israel was not set …
Peter Barnes: Isaiah 5:-17 : NO AUDIO
(9 September 2018)
SERMON NOTES: SONG OF THE WASTED VINEYARD (Isaiah 5:1-7)
– Ps.80:8-16; Isa.27:2-6; Ezek.15:2-6; Luke 20:9-10, 15; John 15:1. Alec Motyer calls Isaiah 5 the ‘last, grimmest section of his preface’. It is almost introduced as a love song (5:1), but …
Peter Barnes: Isaiah 3:1-4:1
(26 August 2018)
SERMON NOTES: THE DISINTEGRATION OF ZION (Isaiah 3:1-4:1)
T. S. Eliot: The Church disowned, the tower overthrown,
the bells upturned, what have we to do
But stand with empty hands and palms upturned
in an age which advances progressively backwards?
William Butler Yeats: …
Peter Barnes: Isaiah 2:6-22
(19 August 2018)
SERMON NOTES: TRUST GOD, NOT MAN (Isaiah 2:6-22)
In these early chapters of Isaiah there is a contrast painted between Zion as it was, as it is, and the new Zion.
1. Sins that anger God.
– 2:6. ‘Striking the hands’ (ESV) is …
Peter Barnes: Isaiah 2:1-5
(5 August 2018)
SERMON NOTES: BLESSINGS FROM NEW ZION (Isaiah 2:1-5)
Isaiah has contrasted old and new Zion (1:21-31), and here he goes on to speak of the new Zion in greater detail. See Micah 4:1-3; Rev. 21:1-2. Isaiah saw the word – 2:1; see 1:1 …
