2 Corinthians 10:3-5 and 1 Chronicles 12:32. The problem is no longer not enough laws but too many, and of the wrong kind.

1. Sin has enslaved us.
   • Isa.61:1; John 8:32-36. We are born in sin, born in bondage. Rousseau’s Social Contract: ‘Man is born free, and everywhere he is

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 and 1 Chronicles 12:32. Augustine: ‘A weeping man is better than a happy worm.’ Happiness will not stand on its own two feet. Compare a bitter woman in a wheelchair at last week’s anti-euthanasia rally to Joni Eareckson: ‘I’d rather be in this chair, knowing Him, …

• 2 Cor.10:3-5 and 1 Chron.12:32.
• 1 Kings 22:8, 13-17. Today, it is often not that people miss the target but that there is no target to miss.

1. The very concept of truth is denied.
   • Rosaria Butterfield mentioned that Jill’s hands were large, so a student accused Rosaria of hate

Verses 43-45  have  led  to  much  debate.  Bishop  Westcott  says  that  ‘his  own  country’  refers  to  Judea,  but  Ryle  is  probably  right  that  it  refers  to  Nazareth.  Jesus  utters  what  seems  to  have  been  some  kind  of  proverb  (cf.  Matt. 13:57;  Luke 4:24;  Mark 6:4).  This  is  the  second  sign  …

The  disciples  are  scratching  their  heads,  but  many  Samaritans  come  to  faith  in  Jesus  as  the  Christ.

1.  We  should  always  want  to  know  more  of  Christ.

– 4:28-29,  39-40.  Thomas  Chalmers  called  this  ‘the  expulsive  power  of  a  new  affection’.  The  Samaritan  woman  may  not  know  much  at  this  …