Providence Reformed Sunday Mornings Broadcast

Providence Reformed Sunday Mornings Broadcast

by Providence Reformed Baptist Church

Christianity Relationships

Season 5

Sunday Sermon | Paul's Faithfulness and Our Unchanging God | 2 Corinthians | Part 3

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians 1:12-2:4. This letter is about Paul’s unashamed commitment to the gospel as revealed in scripture. The Corinthian church was not a mature church. They were acting like they didn’t receive the gospel but germinated it on their own. They exalted strength and were attracted to flashy and contemporary ideas. Paul is trying to get them to understand that the strength of Christ is revealed in the weakness of man. This church has committed themselves to what is temporal and seen and Paul is trying to draw their attention back to what is eternal and unseen. We are inclined to be drawn to today or tomorrow and forget that all we do is of urgent importance against the last day. Every decision we make needs to be made in light of eternity. He’s not calling into question their redemption but urging them to reframe in a way shaped by the gospel.

Sunday Sermon | The Life Cycle of Encouragement | 2 Corinthians | Part 2

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians 1:1-11. One of the keywords in the first chapter of 2 Corinthians is “comfort”. But this isn’t comfort as we typically think but rather more of a sense of “encouragement”. Part of the issue in 2 Corinthians is the inclination to “clip-short” the promises of God. Paul is drawing their attention to what it is the Lord has set in front of them for their own good and the salvation of others - the comfort, or encouragement, to go on with the gospel and be strengthened by the comfort God gives them amidst their afflictions.

Sunday Sermon | The Weight of Glory | 2 Corinthians | Part 1

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner begins a new preaching series on 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18. Paul describes heaven as the eternal weight of glory. The Corinthians underestimated the unseen, spiritual, and eternal, preferring the seen, physical, and temporal, and did not embrace the renewal of the inner man. The renewing of our inner selves begins at redemption but that is just a start. Redemption is not a static condition that ends with justification. Spiritual discipline, however, is necessary for growth, not affections that are directed at physical, earthy, temporal things. There’s a tendency to think heavenly glory is a continuation of earthly glory. But what leads to heavenly glory is earthly affliction; the crown follows the cross. The final end of the continuum of earthly commitment to Christ and the accompanying difficulties is heavenly glory.

Sunday Sermon | The Glory of God Being Worshipped Among the Nations

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner preaches on Psalm 67. Psalm 67 draws our attention to the fullness of God’s kingdom. If there is to be a kingdom of priests with access to a holy God, there must be a gospel that comes and sweeps into all the nations. We can lose sight of God’s grand and glorious purposes in all He does in our lives. Psalm 67 is a Westminister Catechism question 1 psalm. It answers the question of why are we here and what are we doing - what is our chief end? We should ask ourselves: How do the things I do fit into God’s grand purpose?

Sunday Sermon | Stewarding Singleness in the Church

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner preaches on stewarding singleness in the church. 1 Corinthians 7:6-40. A situation that is true of all of us on occasion and will ultimately be true of all of us permanently, is that of being single. Marriage to a human being is always temporary. Our permanent state is marriage to Christ. When the scriptures speak of being single, it’s important to think of the permanent relationship we will have with the Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful living is the time between “one big thing” and the next. The occasion of singleness can be used to invest in the things of God and His people or to be dead while you live.

Sunday Sermon | The Establishment of New Testament Ministry | John | Part 34

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner concludes the series on the Gospel of John. John 21:15-19. In this gospel, Jesus asks a series of questions, the last being to Peter: “Do you love me?”. Jesus and the apostles never proposed that people question whether or not God loves them. The clear message of the Bible regarding God’s love is summarized with finality in John 3:16. We are often concerned about God’s love for us but this was settled at the cross. The most important question in the scriptures isn’t if God loves us, that has been established. The most important question is: “Do I love Christ?”

Easter Sunday Sermon | Understanding the Resurrection of Christ | John | Part 33

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on the Gospel of John. John 20:8-10. John 20 draws our attention to understanding the resurrection. One reason it was so difficult for the Israelites to understand the resurrection was God’s people never saw a slain animal rise from the dead. The women that were at the cross of Jesus and ran to the tomb, were satisfied with the crucifixion, with the idea that the Lord Jesus Christ had been stricken for their sins. They had a level of understanding of the words, “It is finished”, and embraced that idea. However, they didn’t understand the resurrection. In becoming a child of the King, we have to continually study how to cast off the old and embrace that which is new. Mary Magdalene didn’t understand the resurrection but she refers to Jesus as “Lord” and longs to be with Him. She loved Christ and understood He was directly related to her own spiritual life. The disciples didn’t understand the scripture that said He must rise from the dead. They didn’t understand the breadth of His resurrection and what it meant for them. As we contemplate and meditate on the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, there is much more than His simply dying. Christ was raised from the dead by the Father, just as with us. In a spiritual sense, the redeemed are made new, in unity with the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Sunday Sermon | The Glory of Christ and the Love of God | John | Part 32

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on the Gospel of John. John 19:30. One thing that is profoundly important as we consider the cross, is the glory of God. The cross reveals to us how a heart is changed. The answers to all our questions on how a heart is changed, how one is justified, and how one is sanctified have directly to do with the glory of the cross of Christ. Our affections change when we look at Christ on the cross and consider His love for us. The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. This was also Jesus’ purpose. The grand purpose of God is His own glory. Can it be that the humble emptying of Christ in giving Himself as an atonement for sin is in fact also His glory?

Sunday Sermon | The Humiliation of Christ, the King of Kings | John | Part 31

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on the Gospel of John. John 18:33-38. What we see in chapter 18 is the humiliation of the King of Kings. Every part of what occurs is by His design. Pilate, the regional governor, has the confidence to call the King of Kings to speak with Him. The Lord Jesus submits, declaring He is a King but His kingdom is not of this world. Jesus so debased Himself that the people around Him had the confidence to treat Him like a lowly man and brought Him to Pilate out of envy, never submitting to Him. Jesus has continually said our priority should be the spiritual; seek first His kingdom.

Sunday Sermon | Serving Our David | Guest Pastor Mark Chanski

Please join us as guest Pastor Mark Chanski, Coordinator of RBNet, preaches from 2 Samuel. 2 Samuel 23:13-17. The deep loyalty of King David’s devoted subjects is supremely displayed in various exploits of David’s mighty men who exhibited their allegiance to him with their military feats. We can exposit and apply these verses to discover if we, ourselves, are mighty men of our king, the Lord Jesus Christ.

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