Sermons from Providence Church

Suffering is an expected part of the Christian life whereby we are unified with Christ and validate our conversion as we mature into glory.

Those devoted to Christ may have doubts, but the proper response to the risen King is worship.

An expositional study of the Word of God.

Jesus is the king who responded with sorrow toward those whose short lived joy was based on a misunderstanding of how He would save the lost.

As Christians, we are God’s adopted children and heirs with Jesus.

Because of all God has done for Christians, we are indebted to Him to live holy lives for our good and His glory, showing that we are indeed Christians.

The life-giving Holy Spirit resides in believers, giving spiritual life, and He will resurrect them after physical death.

Christians have the Spirit and therefore a a new mindset, lifestyle, and relationship with God, such that practical righteousness ensues.

There is no condemnation for Christians because of what God has done, NOT because of what they have done; BUT,�Christians will thereafter do.

In this life, Christians will experience the war with indwelling sin until liberated by Christ and full sanctification.

The nature of the Christian struggle entails laboring against the enemy within, indwelling sin.

Paul uses his experience to communicate the Christian’s internal confusion regarding living out the Christian life.

Although God’s Law reveals sin, incites sin, and brings death, it is good as it is instrumental in helping one see the need for righteousness that only comes through Christ by faith.

Through union with Christ, New Covenant believers have been released from the law to serve God by the empowerment of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Christians have died to the law so that they may be united to Christ, a loving spouse who brings about fruit for God.

God’s people are differentiated by who they are and what they do, leading to sanctification and life eternal.

There is confidence to be had for God’s people that, despite present struggles, there awaits ultimate salvation and transformation as He will indeed do it. As such, His people should repent and trust in the Lord to live holy lives.

God gives the greatest gift, his Son that he might save his people from their sins.

God’s messengers inspire with good news of God’s faithful provision to His glory.

God has transformed His people into servants of righteousness and they should live out their true identity and not resort to former ways of sinful conformity to the world’s standards.

Being under grace, instead of law, does not mean we are under no obligations, but rather entails the freedom to serve God through obedience unto righteousness.

God’s people should reflect on His steadfast love as seen in the various manifestations throughout history and consequently give Him thanks.

Because Christians are dead to sin and alive to God, they must not let sin reign, but rather use their bodies as weapons of righteousness to serve King Jesus.

Paul’s first command in the book of Romans highlights the importance of Christians seeing themselves as God sees them (i.e., dead to sin and alive to God), so that they will live holy lives.

Being united with Christ liberates Christians from slavery to sin, so they can walk in the newness of life in sanctification.

Instead of sinning to glorify God’s grace, Christians must remember their status of being dead to sin, so that they can live new lives of holiness.

The importance of God’s Word is such that it is instrumental in God’s monergistic regeneration of His people unto saving faith.

God gave the Law to demonstrate His abounding grace to redeem His people.

Hosea’s relationship with Gomer reflects God’s faithfulness, in contrast to human unfaithfulness, to redeem His people, ultimately through His Son, Jesus the Christ.

Just as Adam brought death to all humanity, so Jesus brings life to all the redeemed.

As humanity’s representative, Adam sinned, imputing guilt that can only be overcome by what Christ did for His people.

Christians can have confidence in God to save them from the wrath of God, since He has reconciled them to Himself through Christ’s atonement.

Christ’s sacrifice for His people on the cross is not a demonstration of our worthiness, but a demonstration of God’s condescending, gracious love.

Christians can and should rejoicing in sufferings knowing that God uses them for the sanctification of His people.

Being justified by faith, Christians have peace with God and access to His glorious grace.

Abraham’s example shows us that we can have righteousness counted to us who believe.

Abraham is an example of righteousness via faith according to grace, so that we too would glorify God by faith alone in the person and work of Christ.

Abraham and his fellow heirs inherit the world not through law, but by faith.

Abraham is the father of all who believe and serves as an example of faithfulness following the righteousness that comes from faith apart from works.

Abraham serves as an example of justification by faith.

God’s plan of justification by grace alone through faith alone because of Christ alone excludes boasting since Christ is the one who secured it by His perfect obedience to God’s holy law.

Christ’s death vindicates God as just since the sins of His people are paid on the cross, satisfying God’s wrath, and Christ’s death facilitates God being the justifier of those who believe and thereby receive the righteousness of God by grace through faith.

Universal depravity brings universal condemnation which highlights the universal need for righteousness through faith in Christ.

Even though human unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness, He is justified in judgment.

It’s not merely having or knowing God’s standards of righteousness, but doing them, which highlights the need for righteousness through faith in Christ.

God’s impartial judgment is according to righteousness and works, so that all are without excuse and need the righteousness of God which only comes by grace alone through faith alone because of Christ alone.

God has revealed Himself in nature, so people are without excuse when they suppress that truth and fail to worship Him. God’s wrath against such sin is seen in Him giving them over to their own depravity.

Because of the power of God and the righteousness of God, we should be unashamed of the Gospel, by getting it right and getting it out.

In Paul’s addressing the church in Rome, we learn that Christians are those loved by God.