Tolerance In Church And Society (Rom.14:1; Eph.4:15; Rev.2:20)

 

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 and 1 Chronicles 12:32.

  1. Tolerance by itself undermines both truth and love.
    • Eph.4:15. George Orwell hit the mark near the end of Nineteen Eighty-Four where Winston is told: ‘You must love Big Brother. It is not enough to obey him: you must love him.’ G. K.

David and the Kingly Line of the Messiah – The Death of Absalom

Peter Barnes | 2 Samuel 18:1-18

SERMON  NOTES
THE DEATH OF ABSALOM
2 Samuel 18:1-18

– Roger Ellsworth calls Absalom ‘one of the Bible’s most despicable characters’. Dale Ralph Davis writes of ‘The Sad Triumph’; John Woodhouse of ‘Where Love and Justice Do Not Meet’.

1. The wisdom not to

David and the Kingly Line of the Messiah – If No Justice, Then Revenge

Peter Barnes | 2 Samuel 13:20-39

SERMON  NOTES
IF NO JUSTICE, THEN REVENGE
2 Samuel 13:20-39

– Ps.94:1-12. Then justice and mercy will be seen together, but here David flounders.

1. Ineffectual justice makes for more injustice.

– 13:21; Lev.20:17; Eccles.8:11.

– also 13:30-39.

Why was David so ineffectual?

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David and the Kingly Line of the Messiah – Sin Has Consequences

Peter Barnes | 2 Samuel 12:7b-15

SERMON  NOTES
SIN HAS CONSEQUENCES
2 Samuel 12:1-15a; Romans 4:1-12

This chapter, together with Psalm 51 which flows from it, shows us that sin is no light matter. Bonhoeffer warned against cheap grace, and Dale Ralph Davis even writes of ‘the fury of grace’.…

The Last Night (John 13-17) – Another Helper Will Come

Peter Barnes | John 14:16-17

SERMON  NOTES
ANOTHER  HELPER  WILL  COME
(John 14:16-17;  see  Romans 8:1-11)

On  the  last  night,  Jesus  refers  to  the  Spirit  on  five  occasions  (cf.  14:16-17,  26;  15:26;  16:7-11,  12-15).

1.  The  Holy  Spirit  is  a  divine  Person  like  Jesus.

– 14:16-17.  The  ESV  has  ‘another  …