Posts from 2013

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Jesus – Lord of Glory

by Thomas Provost

Recently I spoke at a funeral.  I was told that I had five minutes to speak – max.  After talking for about two minutes about the deceased, I related the reason for the hope that we can all have in the face of death.  The following is a gist of what I shared: I spoke about Jesus being […]

Free Children of the Heavenly Jerusalem

by Thomas Provost

GALATIANS Sunday December 1, 2013   Free Children of the Heavenly Jerusalem Galatians 4:21 – 5:1       II. Paul’s Gospel Defended from Experience and Scripture (3:1 – 4:11)                   4. The Folly of Reverting to the Law (4:8 – 11) III. A Call to Freedom from the Law and Freedom in the Spirit (4:12 […]

A Sheperd’s Heart For Freedom

by Thomas Provost

GALATIANS Sunday November 24, 2013   A Shepherd’s Heart For Freedom Galatians 4:8 – 4:20       II. Paul’s Gospel Defended from Experience and Scripture (3:1 – 4:11)                   4. The Folly of Reverting to the Law (4:8 – 11) III. A Call to Freedom from the Law and Freedom in the Spirit (4:12 – […]

Substituion Hymn

by Thomas Provost

The following hymn is taken from a hymnal from the 1800’s     Substitution “He was wounded for our transgressions.” Isaiah 53:5 #57 Gospel Hymns and Sacred Songs     O Christ, what burdens bowed Thy head! Our load was laid on Thee. Thou stoodest in the sinner’s stead, Didst bear all ill for me. […]

Reconciliation With God

by Thomas Provost

Reconciliation With God   “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:1).   From the Preface to “History Of The Reformation,” by J. H. MERLE D’AUBIGNE.  This book was published in its final form in 1872, the year of the author’s death.    […]

Faith’s Needy Cry For God

by Thomas Provost

GALATIANS Sunday October13, 2013   Faith’s Needy Cry For God Galatians 3:10 – 14      I. Introduction: Desertion from Paul’s Gospel Is Desertion from the Gospel (1:1 – 2:21) II. Paul’s Gospel Defended from Experience and Scripture (3:1 – 4:11)            A. Argument from Experience: Reception of Spirit by Means of Faith, Not Works […]

Early Protestants and Justification by Faith

by Thomas Provost

Early Protestants and Justification by Faith      At the time of the 16th century Reformation conversion meant a whole lot more to the first Protestants than it does for modern evangelicals.  Faith in Christ meant more than an “individual experience” or “personal testimony.”  I do not believe that any of us today can imagine […]

Martin Luther On “Saved From Wrath”

by Thomas Provost

Martin Luther On “Saved From Wrath”        In 1 Thessalonians 1:8b – 10 the Apostle Paul says “Therefore, we don’t need to say anything, for they themselves report what kind of reception we had from you: how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God and to wait […]

Reflections On Philippians 3

by Thomas Provost

“Reflections” From John Brown of Haddington Based on Philippians 3:1 – 21     “With great earnestness should professors (believers) guard against the seduction of false teachers, especially such as set up men’s own righteousness in the room of the justifying righteousness of Jesus Christ.  And ministers have need to repeat their warnings on this […]

God’s Sure And Eternal Word

by Thomas Provost

GOD’S SURE AND ETERNAL WORD Sunday, August 18, 2013       I.  Psalm 1   The introduction to Psalm 1, (from the NIV Study Bible, Zondervan Publishers). “…Godly wisdom here declares the final outcome of the two ‘ways’: ‘the way that sinners take’ (v.1) and ‘the way of the righteous’ (v. 6)…As part of […]