Peter Barnes | Romans 4:9-12
SERMON NOTES
WHEN WAS ABRAHAM JUSTIFIED?
(Romans 4:9-12)
– What is the relationship between faith and circumcision? Or, to us, faith and baptism?
1. Abraham was justified before he was circumcised.
– 4:9-10; Abraham received the promise in Genesis 12:1-4 at 75; this was confirmed …
Peter Barnes | Romans 4:6-8
SERMON NOTES
DAVID JUSTIFIED BY FAITH
(Romans 4:6-8)
– Abraham was the father of faith (4:11-12, 16) but David was the father (ancestor) of the Messiah
1. David is saved as Abraham was – by the righteousness of Another.
– 4:6 begins with ‘just as’ …
Peter Barnes | Romans 4:1-5
SERMON NOTES
ABRAHAM JUSTIFIED BY FAITH
(Romans 4:1-5)
– Abraham was justified the same way as New Testament Christians
1. We have an alien righteousness.
– 4:1-3; the Book of Jubilees in the second century B.C. said that ‘Abraham was perfect in all his deeds …
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Peter Barnes | Romans 3:27-31
SERMON NOTES
RESULTS OF JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH
(Romans 3:27-31)
– verse 27 begins with a ‘then’ or ‘accordingly’.
1. We have no ground for boasting.
– 3:27-28; Luke 18:9; Eph.8-9
– Calvin: ‘faith receives all from God, …
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Peter Barnes | Romans 3:25-26
SERMON NOTES
GOD IS JUST AND THE JUSTIFIER
(Romans 3:25-26)
– C. S. Lewis never tried to explain: ‘Christ died for sinners.’ But Paul does. It is propitiation because otherwise we cannot see God and live (Exodus …
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Peter Barnes | Romans 3:24-25a
SERMON NOTES
THE COURT, THE SLAVE MARKET, AND THE TEMPLE
(Romans 3:24-25a)
– Romans 3:21-26 is the heart of the epistle to the Romans, and in many ways the heart of the Bible.
1. Justified in the …
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Peter Barnes | Romans 3:21-23
SERMON NOTES
A NEW RIGHTEOUSNESS
(Romans 3:21-23)
– Romans 3:21-26 is the heart of the epistle to the Romans, and in many ways the heart of the Bible.
1. This righteousness of God is apart from the …
Peter Barnes | Romans 3:9-20
SERMON NOTES
EVERYONE A SINNER
(Romans 3:9-20)
– Francis Schaeffer said that if he had an hour with an unbeliever, he would spend 45-50 minutes demonstrating that the unbeliever was morally dead.
1. All of us are sinners.
– 3:9; contrast to the John F. …
Peter Barnes | Romans 3:1-8
SERMON NOTES
ANY OBJECTIONS?
(Romans 3:1-8)
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones regards this as one of the most difficult sections in the whole of Scripture.
1. Is there any advantage in being in God’s covenant?
– 3:1-2; Jacob and Esau were both in the covenant but Jacob …
Peter Barnes | Romans 2:25-29
SERMON NOTES
TRUE CIRCUMCISION
(Romans 2:25-29)
– there is a Rabbinic saying from about A.D. 300 which declared that ‘At the last Abraham will sit at the entrance to Gehenna and will not let any circumcised man of Israel go down there.’ Israel identified with …
