Redeemer Presbyterian Church - Traverse City, MI

This Lord’s Day, we arrive at a new section of Romans in chapter 9. Here in this chapter, Paul switches gears to answer an implicit question: With all of these Gentiles coming to faith, what does that mean for national Israel? Has God abandoned one people for the sake of another? Paul uses the doctrine of election to show that it is not those who are descended form Abraham by blood only who are heirs of the promise. But it is those who are descendants of Abraham by faith. This passage also highlights the spiritual nature of the Christian faith, and teaches us about the distinction between the visible and invisible Church. View the entire service at https://www.youtube.com/@redeemertc Learn more about Redeemer at https://redeemertc.org

This Lord’s Day, we see the conclusion to all of Romans chapter 8. Paul roots our peace and our assurance in God’s work in Christ on our behalf. View the entire service at https://www.youtube.com/@redeemertc Learn more about Redeemer at https://redeemertc.org

This Lord’s Day, Paul puts our suffering as Christians into perspective. As we await the appointed day when we will receive in fullness our inheritance, we groan inwardly at the evil of this world and of ourselves. But God’s own Spirit groans with us, and translates our groaning into holy prayers. View the entire service at https://www.youtube.com/@redeemertc Learn more about Redeemer at https://redeemertc.org

This Lord’s Day, we continue to examine Romans 8. This week, we see the doctrine of adoption brought into focus. As we are transferred from Adam and the dominion of death to union with Christ and the dominion of the Spirit, so we learn that we have become co-heirs with Christ. All which the Lord Jesus Christ received by right, He shares with us by grace. View the entire service at https://www.youtube.com/@redeemertc Learn more about Redeemer at https://redeemertc.org

This Lord’s day, we arrive at the glory and comfort of Romans 8. As we begin this chapter, we see how the Christian’s new life and assurance is bound up - not in who they are or what they’ve done - but in who Christ is, and what He has done. View the entire service at https://www.youtube.com/@redeemertc Learn more about Redeemer at https://redeemertc.org

This Lord’s Day we arrive at Romans 7. This chapter is famous for Paul’s honest spiritual autobiography. He provides us readers with a brief glimpse into the state of his own sanctification. When we see the Apostle’s situation, we at once recognize it as familiar to ourselves. Just as we do, the apostle struggled mightily with sin this side of glory. The Lord willing, we will see 1.) why Christians continue to struggle with sin 2.) What do to about it.   View the entire service at https://www.youtube.com/@redeemertc Learn more about Redeemer at https://redeemertc.org

Last Lord’s Day, Paul began to address the antinomian response to the gospel. The antinomian response sees the gospel as a “get out of jail free card” which allows us to sin without consequence. However, this is not what the gospel is. Paul reminded us last week that the gospel provides a fundamental change to who we are: we are united to Christ in His resurrection life. Now, in the latter half of Chapter 6, Paul continues to tackle antinomianism. Now, he approaches our relationship with the Law. In Christ, we relate to the law differently. Specifically, we will see this Lord’s Day how in Christ we serve a new master. We are no longer enslaved to sin, but now bound to righteousness.   View the entire service at https://www.youtube.com/@redeemertc Learn more about Redeemer at https://redeemertc.org

This Lord’s Day, we arrive at Romans 6. This week we will look at the first 14 verses. In this chapter, Paul is dealing with an incorrect response to the gospel. We have already seen one incorrect response: Legalism (Romans 2-4). Now, Paul is dealing with the opposite issue: antinomianism. Antinomianism simply means “anti law”. It is a response of the gospel which says “If God forgives sins, then why not sin as much as possible, so God can forgive as much as possible?” or “If Jesus really did forgive me, it doesn’t matter what I do now”. We will see this week and next week how these two responses fail to understand the true nature of the gospel and its transformative new life.   View the entire service at https://www.youtube.com/@redeemertc Learn more about Redeemer at https://redeemertc.org

This Lord’s Day, we resume our series in Romans and consider 5:12-21. This passage famously contrasts Adam in the Garden with the Lord Jesus Christ. This passage teaches us the doctrine of the federal headship of both Adam and Christ and teaches us the nature of the imputation of Adam’s sin, and Christ’s righteousness. This passage is essential for the Christian to know who they are in Christ, and what we have received in Him. View the entire service at https://www.youtube.com/@redeemertc Learn more about Redeemer at https://redeemertc.org

Sermon delivered by visiting Reverend Shane Floyd View the entire service at https://www.youtube.com/@redeemertc Learn more about Redeemer at https://redeemertc.org

This Lord’s Day we consider the opening verses of Romans 5. Here, Paul tells us the result of our justification by grace through faith: peace with God. And we will see that peace with God produces character and produces assurance. View the entire service at https://www.youtube.com/@redeemertc Learn more about Redeemer at https://redeemertc.org

This Lord’s Day we resume our series in the Book of Romans. We will be giving our attention to the entirety of Chapter 4. We remember that one of the chief issues that motivated Paul to write was division within the Church of Rome. A two-tiered system had come into existence. This week, we learn that the so-called “top tier” Christians were advocating for the necessity of circumcision to be saved. A form of this has existed within the church ever since: those who want to add works to the gracious gospel of faith. This week we will be challenged to examine what we might add to the gospel. We will then rejoice as we remember that “it depends on faith” (Romans 4:16). View the entire service at https://www.youtube.com/@redeemertc Learn more about Redeemer at https://redeemertc.org

He is risen! He is risen indeed! This Resurrection Sunday we will consider the resurrection scene from the Gospel of Luke. We will hear a call to repent and believe the Gospel - to believe that in Jesus our sins truly are forgiven, and that in Him death has been defeated. View the entire service at https://www.youtube.com/@redeemertc Learn more about Redeemer at https://redeemertc.org

This Lord’s Day, we pause in our series on Romans to consider the scene of Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem - the day remembered by the church as Palm Sunday. As we look at this passage together, we will see the importance of receiving Christ with rejoicing in our hearts. View the entire service at https://www.youtube.com/@redeemertc Learn more about Redeemer at https://redeemertc.org

Last Lord’s Day, Paul told us where righteousness was not to be found: within our obedience to the law (Rom. 3:20). Now, he tells us where righteousness is to be found: faith in the obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ on our behalf (Rom 3:22). As we were reminded that we can find our hope in only Jesus - now we are reminded that we only receive Jesus through faith alone. View the entire service at https://www.youtube.com/@redeemertc Learn more about Redeemer at https://redeemertc.org

This Lord’s Day as we continue in the Book of Romans, we arrive at chapter 3:1-20. In this passage, Paul continues to confront us as we live within the church. In Rome, a two-tiered system had developed within the church. There were those who considered themselves superior to other Christians because they had received the ordinance of circumcision. This week we will see that when we place our trust in anything outside of Christ, we are ultimately disappointed. Our hearts are satisfied by only Jesus. View the entire service at https://www.youtube.com/@redeemertc Learn more about Redeemer at https://redeemertc.org

This Lord’s Day, we give our attention to Romans 2. This passage challenges us. Last week, Paul put before our eyes all of the ways in which our denial of general revelation leads us into idolatry. We saw how the punishment for sin is more sin as God hands people over to darkened ways of thinking. Paul knew that as we read Romans 1, we might be tempted to condemn others while we congratulate ourselves. To prevent this, Paul provides us with Romans 2. This passage reminds us that sin is to be found within our own hearts, in our own actions. We will also see this week how holiness is impossible without humility. View the entire service at https://www.youtube.com/@redeemertc Learn more about Redeemer at https://redeemertc.org

This Lord’s Day, we give our attention to Romans 1:18-32. In this passage, Paul describes the wrath of God as it is revealed from heaven. He also reveals why God’s wrath is being revealed: after being given sufficient evidence of God’s existence in the natural world (verse 19-20), the human race has still chosen to worship the creation, rather than the Creator. And as we will see, the consequence for such idolatry is more idolatry. In this vicious cycle, only God Himself could be our Savior. And thanks be to God, He has saved us in Christ! View the entire service at https://www.youtube.com/@redeemertc Learn more about Redeemer at https://redeemertc.org

What do you think of when you consider the phrase “The power of God”? The Egyptian plagues? The splitting of the Red Sea? Maybe the great flood, the times fire fell from heaven, or the many miracles of the Bible? If you were to ask Paul what was the single greatest display of the power of God in history? He would have a quick answer for you: the gospel. This Lord’s Day we will seek to understand how God’s power is manifest in this gospel.   View the entire service at https://www.youtube.com/@redeemertc Learn more about Redeemer at https://redeemertc.org

This Lord’s Day, we begin a new series on the Book of Romans. In his preface to the Book of Romans, Martin Luther wrote, “The Letter of Romans is the truth of the chief part of the New Testament, and the purest gospel. It would be quite proper for a Christian, not only to know it by heart word for word, but also to study it daily, for it is the soul’s daily bread. It can never be read or meditated upon too much or too well. The more thoroughly it is treated, the more precious it becomes, and the better it tastes.” Let us be in prayer that our meditation upon Romans will yield the precious fruit of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. View the entire service at https://www.youtube.com/@redeemertc Learn more about Redeemer at https://redeemertc.org