The Promise of the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31-34)

Peter Barnes: The Promise of the New Covenant, Jeremiah 31:31-34 (Sunday 17 May 2020 Evening Service, 6.00 a.m.)

– cited in full in Hebrews 8 – the longest citation from the Old Testament in the New Testament.

1. The Church is new Israel. – 31:31; Heb.8:7, 13. The promises to …

Some Studies in Jeremiah, the Weeping Prophet – Seek Not Great Things for Yourself

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  …

Some Studies in Jeremiah, the Weeping Prophet – Lessons from History?

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  …

Some Studies in Jeremiah, the Weeping Prophet – My Word Shall Never Pass Away

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

– …

Some Studies in Jeremiah, the Weeping Prophet – Is Anything Too Hard for the Lord?

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  …

Some Studies in Jeremiah, the Weeping Prophet – No Salvation Through a Phoney Repentance

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  …

Some Studies in Jeremiah, the Weeping Prophet – The New Covenant

Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 31:31-34

SERMON NOTES
THE  NEW  COVENANT
Jeremiah  31:31-34;  Hebrews 8:1-13

– prophecy  of  the  Messiah  in  23:5-6;  now  of  the  new  covenant  (31:31)

–  Judah  and  Israel  become  the  church  in  Hebrews 8;  this  is  a  covenant  of  grace  (Jer.31:32)

1.  It  promises  life  and  power 

Some Studies in Jeremiah, the Weeping Prophet – A Hope and a Future

Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 29

SERMON NOTES
A  HOPE  AND  A  FUTURE
Jeremiah  29:1-32;  Matthew 7:7-11

– three  exiles:  in  605 B.C.  (with  Daniel);  597 B.C.  (with  Ezekiel);  and  587 B.C.  (which  destroyed  Jerusalem).  This  letter  to  the  exiles  was  written  after  597 B.C.   Believers  live  as  exiles  (1 Pet.2:11).…