Luminescence, Volume 2

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C. K. Barrett. Luminescence, Volume 2

LUMINESCENCE

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

SERMONS ON THE LETTERS OF PAUL1

“THE GOSPEL REVEALED”—Romans 1.16–17

‘THE ADVANTAGE OF THE JEW”—Romans 3.1–2

“JUSTIFICATION”—Romans 3.24

“FAITH AND WORKS: WESLEY AND LUTHER”—Romans 5.1–11

“EVOLUTION”—Romans 5.12–21

“ROMANS 7”—Romans 7.25

“NOTHING CAN SEPARATE US FROM GOD’S LOVE”—Romans 8.38–39

“GOD THAT HATH MERCY”—Romans 9.16

“I BELIEVE”—Romans 10.8–10

“CONFESS WITH THE MOUTH AND BELIEVE IN THE HEART”—Romans 10.9

“THE KINDNESS AND SEVERITY OF GOD”—Romans 11.22

“A LIVING SACRIFICE”—Romans 12. 1–2

“ST. AUGUSTINE”—Romans 13.12–14

“RIGHTEOUSNESS, PEACE AND JOY”—Romans 14.17

“PLEASING OURSELVES”—Romans 15.1–3

“CHRIST AS FOOLISHNESS AND OFFENSE”—1 Corinthians 1.23–24

“OF HIM ARE YE IN CHRIST JESUS”—1 Corinthians 1.30–3110

“CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED”—1 Corinthians 2.2

“WISDOM”—1 Corinthians 2.6

“ALL THINGS ARE YOURS”—1 Corinthians 3.21–23

“WHAT HAVE YOU THAT YOU DID NOT RECEIVE?”—1 Corinthians 4.7

“LET US KEEP THE FESTIVAL”—1 Corinthians 5.7,8

“AS IF NOT”—1 Corinthians 7.29–31

“ALL THINGS FOR THE SAKE OF THE GOSPEL”—1 Corinthians 9.23

“THE LORD’S SUPPER—AND OURS”—1 Corinthians 11.20–21

“BREAD AND CUP”—1 Corinthians 11.26

“GROWING UP”—1 Corinthians 13.11

“FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE”—1 Corinthians 13.13

“WITH THE SPIRIT AND THE MIND”—1 Corinthians 14.15

“THE VICTORY OF EASTER”—1 Corinthians 15.54–57

“GOD’S COMFORT—THE REFORMATION”—2 Corinthians 1.3–6

“THE SPIRIT—GUARANTEE, SEAL, AND EARNEST”—2 Corinthians 1.22–23

“WHO IS SUFFICIENT?”—2 Corinthians 2.16—3.5

“HE WAS MADE SIN”—2 Corinthians 5.21

“CLEANING THE INSIDE OF THE CHURCH”—2 Corinthians 6.14—7.1

“CHRIST’S POVERTY AND OUR WEALTH”—2 Corinthians 8.9

“THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL”—2 Corinthians 12.8–10

“THE HOLY TRINITY”—2 Corinthians 13.14

“PERPETUATING CHRISTMAS”—Galatians 4.4,19

“THE SCANDAL OF THE CROSS”—Galatians 5.11

“GLORYING IN THE CROSS”—Galatians 6.14–15

“THE MARKS OF JESUS”—Galatians 6.17

“SALVATION BY FAITH”—Ephesians 2.8

“WHAT THE CHURCH SAYS TO THOSE WITH PERSONAL FAITH”—Ephesians 3.14–19

“THE ARMOR OF GOD”—Ephesians 6.11–12

“THANK GOD FOR UNWORTHY PREACHERS”—Philippians 1.16–18

“ONE SPIRIT, ONE FAITH”—Philippians 1.27

“THE FELLOWSHIP OF HIS SUFFERINGS”—Philippians 3.10–11

“PRESSING ON TOWARDS THE GOAL”—Philippians 3.13–14

“THE DEATH OF CHRIST—RECONCILIATION”—Colossians 1.19–20

“CHRIST BLOTTING OUT THE BOND”—Colossians 2.13–18

“SEEK THE THINGS ABOVE”—Colossians 3.1

“TO SAVE SINNERS”—1 Timothy 1.15

“LIFE AND INCORRUPTION THROUGH THE GOSPEL”—2 Timothy 1.10

“THE IMPORTANCE OF THE BIBLE”—2 Timothy 3.15

“THE MINISTRY”—2 Timothy 4.5

“DEMAS”—2 Timothy 4.10

“AN ANCHOR FOR THE SOUL”—Hebrews 6.18–20

“THAT WE MIGHT BE FORGIVEN”—Hebrews 9.13–15

“FAITH, THE FUTURE, AND THE UNSEEN”—Hebrews 11.1

“LOOKING UNTO JESUS”—Hebrews 12.1–2

“THE FUTURE COME TRUE”—Hebrews 12.18–24

“THE KINGDOM THAT CANNOT BE SHAKEN”—Hebrews 12.28

“THE ABIDING CITY—OUTSIDE THE CAMP”—Hebrews 13.3–4

“JESUS CHRIST THE SAME”—Hebrews 13.8

“CORNERSTONE OR STUMBLING BLOCK?”—1 Peter 2.6–8

“ZEALOUS FOR THE GOOD”—1 Peter 3.13–16

“PETER’S PATTERN OF CHRISTIAN LIFE”—1 Peter 4.7–19

“MARRYING TO THE GLORY OF GOD”—1 Peter 4.8–11

“LOVE NOT THE WORLD”—1 John 2.15–17

“THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL”—1 John 3.8

“WE KNOW WE OUGHT”—1 John 3.16

“THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH AND THE SPIRIT OF ERROR”—1 John 4.1–6

“THE DANGER OF IDOLATRY”—1 John 5.21

“GIVING GLORY TO CHRIST”—Revelation 1.5–6

“I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK”—Revelation 3.20

“THE LAMB IN THE MIDST OF THE THRONE”—Revelation 5.6, 9

“SODOM AND EGYPT”—Revelation 11.8

“THE LORD REIGNETH” —REVELATION 19.6

“CALLED, CHOSEN, AND FAITHFUL”—Revelation 17.14

“CHRISTIAN WORK”—Genesis 3.17–19/Psalm 90.7

“ABRAHAM AND LOT”—Genesis 13.8–9

“HOLY GROUND”—Exodus 3.5

“THE FIRST COMMANDMENT”—Exodus 20.2–3

“THE PROPHETICAL OFFICE OF THE CHURCH”—Numbers 11.29

“NOT BY BREAD ALONE”—Deuteronomy 8.3

“BE STRONG AND VERY COURAGEOUS”—Joshua 1.1–9

“WHAT HAVE I LEFT?”—Judges 18.24

“I SHALL GO TO HIM”—2 Samuel 12.23

“FEARING THE LORD AND SERVING OTHER GODS”—2 Kings 17.33

“THOU MAYEST ADD THERETO”—1 Chronicles 22.14

“NEHEMIAH AND HIS GREAT WORK”—Nehemiah 6.3

“GIVING AND TAKING AWAY”—Job 1.21

“O THAT I KNEW WHERE I MIGHT FIND HIM”—Job 23.3

“GOD AND GUIDE FOREVER”—Psalm 48.14

“MERCY”—Psalm 51

“THE IRRELEVANCE OF TIME”—Psalm 90.4

“THE CUP OF SALVATION”—Psalm 116.12–14

“HE THAT KEEPETH ISRAEL SHALL NEITHER SLUMBER NOR SLEEP”—Psalm 121.4

“FLEEING FROM HIS SPIRIT”—Psalm 139.7–11

“THE GOD OF JACOB”—Psalm 146.5

“ACKNOWLEDGING GOD”—Proverbs 3.6

“OTHER LORDS AND THE ONE LORD”—Isaiah 26.13

“CAUSE THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL TO CEASE FROM BEFORE US”—Isaiah 30.10–11

“COMFORT YE”—Isaiah 40.1–2

“O THOU THAT TELLEST . . .”—Isaiah 40.9–11

“THEY THAT WAIT ON THE LORD”—Isaiah 40.27–31

“GOD AND HIS WITNESSES”—Isaiah 43.12

“I BELIEVE IN GOD THE CREATOR”—Isaiah 44.6–8

“CARRYING OR CARRIED?”—Isaiah 46.4

“VANGUARD AND REARWARD”—Isaiah 52.12

“TAKING OUR SICKNESSES”—Isaiah 53.4

“THANKSGIVING”—Isaiah 54.10

“SEEKING THE LORD”—Isaiah 55.6

“THE FOUNTAINS AND THE CISTERNS”—Jeremiah 2.13

“GLORYING IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD”—Jeremiah 9.23–24

“JEREMIAH’S NEW COVENANT”—Jeremiah 31.33–34

“EZEKIEL’S HOPE”—Ezekiel 11.17–20

“EZEKIEL’S PARABLE OF THE VINE”—Ezekiel 15

“BUT IF NOT . . .”—Daniel 3.18

“DANIEL AND THE LIONS”—Daniel 6.5–26

“HOSEA”—Hosea 1 and 3

“THE CORN, THE WINE, AND THE OIL”—Hosea 2.8

“COME TO BETHEL AND TRANSGRESS”—Amos 4.4

“HAGGAI AND THE TEMPLE”—Haggai 1.4

“REJOICE GREATLY”—Zechariah 9.9

“IN A TIME OF CHANGE”—Malachi 3.6

APPENDIX A: WARTIME CHILDREN’S ADDRESSES

APPENDIX B: AN OT SERMON SERIES ON THE CROSS

“THE CROSS OF MOSES”—Exodus 32.31–33

“THE CROSS OF THE SERVANT”—Isaiah 53.4–6

“THE CROSS OF JEREMIAH”—Jeremiah 12.5

“THE CROSS OF JOB”—Job 28.12

APPENDIX C: THE UNQUENCHABLE FIRE: C. K. BARRETT THE PREACHER AND HIS PREACHING

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The Sermons of C.K. and Fred Barrett

—Volume Two—

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Wesley, who in the Preface to his notes on Revelation found in his Notes on the New Testament, (which Kingsley certainly knew and used), offered something of a disclaimer as follows: “It is scarce possible for any that either love or fear God not to feel their hearts extremely affected in seriously reading either the beginning or the latter part of the Revelation. These, it is evident, we cannot consider too much; but the intermediate parts I did not study at all for many years; as utterly despairing of understanding them, after the fruitless attempts of so many wise and good men: and perhaps I should have lived and died in this sentiment, had I not seen the works of the great Bengelius. But these revived my hopes of understanding even the prophecies of this book; at least many of them in some good degree: for perhaps some will not be opened but in eternity. Let us, however, bless God for the measure of light we may enjoy, and improve it to his glory. The following notes are mostly those of that excellent man; a few of which are taken from his Gnornon Novi Testamenti, but far more from his Ekklarte Offenbarung, which is a full and regular comment on the Revelation. Every part of this I do not undertake to defend. But none should condemn him without reading his proofs at large.”8 As I say, CKB was in good company in being somewhat puzzled by Revelation and due to his practical bent, not keen to deal with apocalyptic texts he found obscure.

A further feature of Kingsley’s preaching is his striving to be as crystal clear and plain in his speech as humanly possible, so that as many people as possible will catch his meaning. This, I would surmise, he got from reading a lot of John Wesley who was constantly talking about a “plain account” of this or that, or “plain speech” as opposed to the sometimes verbose and tedious speech used by Anglican preachers of the eighteenth century to show off their learning. Clearly, Kingsley doesn’t like preaching that reflects a person overcome with the exuberance of his own verbosity, too in love with his own words and the sound of his own voice. He also frequently mentions his own dislike of over-emoting not merely in the pulpit, but in the Christian life, stressing “faith seeking understanding” (Anselm) rather than pursuing certain sorts of peak religious experiences. In fact, at one juncture in these sermons, he candidly admits that emotive religious exuberance frightened him a bit,9 and here again he sounds like Wesley who finds it necessary to parse out “good enthusiasm” for the faith from mere sentimentality and emoting. Wesley it will be remembered talked about religious zeal tempered by “the spirit of a sound mind.”

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