Peter Barnes | Romans 6:1-4
SERMON NOTES
DIED TO SIN, RAISED WITH CHRIST
(Romans 6:1-4)
Be of sin the double cure,/ Cleanse me from its guilt and power (Augustus Toplady)
1. Grace is not lawlessness.
– 6:1-2a; people can twist Romans 5:20; see Jude 4; 2 Peter 3:15-16
– Calvin: …
Peter Barnes | Romans 5:15-21
SERMON NOTES
A SECOND ADAM TO THE RESCUE CAME
(Romans 5:15-21)
In Adam’s fall,/ We sinned all.
1. What Adam wrought.
(a) the offence or trespass or sin – 5:15-18. In verse 19 it is called disobedience. This comes from Genesis 2:16-17; 3:6.
John Donne: …
Peter Barnes | Romans 5:12-14
SERMON NOTES
ADAM TO MOSES
(Romans 5:12-14)
– like 1 Cor.15:22
1. Adam’s sin brought death.
– 5:12; the section is a bit rough as Paul picks up the sentence again in verse 18
– without the Fall, we cannot understand ourselves or the world…
Peter Barnes | Romans 5:9-11
SERMON NOTES
IF BLESSINGS THROUGH HIS DEATH, HOW MUCH MORE THROUGH HIS LIFE?
(Romans 5:9-11)
– Christ did not only come to acquit us from our guilt.
1. Salvation is more than simply justification.
– 5:9; Paul looks to the judgment (1 Thess.5:9)
– those …
Peter Barnes | Romans 5:6-10
SERMON NOTES
BLESSED SUBSTITUTION
(Romans 5:6-10)
1. Christ died at the right time.
– 5:6; see Mark 1:15; Gal.4:4; Eph.1:10.
– the new national curriculum has BCE and CE. But Christ is the true centre of all human history.
2. Christ died for the undeserving.…
Peter Barnes | Romans 5:3-5
SERMON NOTES
GOD’S LOVE THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT
(Romans 5:3-5)
– 2 Cor.4:17
1. We rejoice as we understand how God works in us.
– 5:3; this is even in suffering and struggle.
2. Suffering leads via perseverance and character to hope.
(a) suffering produces …
Peter Barnes | Romans 5:1-2
SERMON NOTES
PEACE, ACCESS, AND HOPE
(Romans 5:1-2)
– note the ‘therefore’ in 5:1, which links it back to Romans 1-4. Romans 5-8 are about hope (Thomas Schreiner); living (C. E. B. Cranfield); and assurance (Martyn Lloyd-Jones)
1. Peace with God.
– 5:1; many manuscripts …
Peter Barnes | Romans 4:23-25
SERMON NOTES
ABRAHAM’S FAITH AND MINE: RESURRECTION
(Romans 4:23-25)
– ‘Self-desperate, I believe’ (Charles Wesley)
1. Faith gives glory to God.
– 4:20; Calvin: ‘no greater honour can be given to God than by sealing His truth by our faith.’
– opposite to Rom.1:21-23; fulfilment …
Peter Barnes | Romans 4:17b-21
SERMON NOTES
ABRAHAM’S FAITH AND MINE: THE SEED TO COME
(Romans 4:17b-21)
Our faith is like Abraham’s (4:23-24a).
1. Faith rests on God’s hope against all human hope.
– 4:17b-19. In the words of Charles Wesley:
…In hope, against all human hope,
Self-desperate, I believe;
Peter Barnes | Romans 4:13-17a
SERMON NOTES
LAW AND PROMISE
(Romans 4:13-17a)
Thomas Boston on justification: ‘God the Father takes the pen, dips it in the blood of His Son, crosses the sinner’s accounts, and blots them out of His debt-book.’
1. God’s world-wide promises are fulfilled by faith.
– …
