Peter Barnes | Romans 8:18
SERMON NOTES
COMPARING SUFFERING AND GLORY
(Romans 8:18)
– Andy and Jennifer Gill wrote Love Oliver, which tells of their son, Oliver, who lived for five months in 2010 after being born with cancer.
1. Sufferings cannot be compared to glory.
– 8:18 and …
Peter Barnes | Romans 8:17
SERMON NOTES
CHILDREN AND HEIRS
(Romans 8:17)
1. If we are children, we are heirs of God.
– not all children need be heirs but all Christians are heirs
– Eph.1:11; 1 Pet.1:3-4; there are probably different degrees of glory
2. We become fellow heirs …
Peter Barnes | Romans 8:15-16
SERMON NOTES
THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION
(Romans 8:15-16)
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones spends over 200 pages on these two verses!
1. We have not received a spirit of bondage.
– 8:15; Lloyd-Jones, Derek Thomas, and Origen see it as the Spirit of bondage who convicts of …
Peter Barnes | Romans 8:12-14
SERMON NOTES
DEBTORS TO THE SPIRIT
(Romans 8:12-14)
– John Owen preached a series at Oxford University on Romans 8:13
1. We are not debtors to the flesh.
– 8:12; the ‘therefore’ looks back to 8:5-11.
– Gal.6:8
2. By the Spirit, we are to …
Peter Barnes | Romans 8:9-11
SERMON NOTES
THE SPIRIT GIVES LIFE
(Romans 8:9-11)
– the Spirit in the Christian
1. The Spirit makes a person a Christian.
– 8:9-11; the Spirit of God is the Spirit of Christ; to have Christ is to have the Spirit (see Eph.3:16-17)
– John …
Peter Barnes | Romans 8:5-8
SERMON NOTES
IN THE FLESH OR IN THE SPIRIT?
(Romans 8:5-8)
– Robert Haldane: ‘All men belong either to the one or the other. They are either in the flesh or in the Spirit; in a state of nature or in a state of grace.’…
Peter Barnes | Romans 8:3-4
SERMON NOTES
GOD DOES WHAT WE CANNOT
(Romans 8:3-4)
– verse 1 is certainly to do with justification, but verse 4 describes the walk of the Christian i.e. it deals with sanctification
1. We are powerless in the flesh.
– 8:3; the law is weak …
Peter Barnes | Romans 8:1-2
SERMON NOTES
NO CONDEMNATION
(Romans 8:1-2)
– If Romans is the crown of the Bible, Romans 8 is the crown jewel. It especially deals with life in the Spirit. No condemnation (8:1) leads to no separation (8:39).
1. There is no condemnation in Christ.
– …
Peter Barnes | Romans 7:14-25
SERMON NOTES
MIND VERSUS FLESH! (part 3)
(Romans 7:14-25)
– It is a struggle all round.
1. The more we grow, the more we realise that we fall short.
– 7:18; Charles Wesley in 1738: ‘I never knew the energy of sin till now that …
Peter Barnes | Romans 7:14-25
SERMON NOTES
THE FIGHT CONTINUES! (part 2)
(Romans 7:14-25)
– We have seen that Paul struggles to understand and obey.
1. We must be realistic.
– if Paul struggled, we must expect to.
– even the Christian finds it easier to read the paper than …
