Grounded In Grace

Grounded In Grace

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Grounded In Grace episodes

  • Confirming Your Calling (Part 5) | 2 Peter 1:6b-7
    Confirming Your Calling (Part 5) | 2 Peter 1:6b-7

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    Introduction . . .   
    I. Salvation's Sufficiency: The Believer's Inheritance (3-4)
    II. Salvation's Service: The Believer's Faithfulness (5-9)
        A. Faithfulness Demonstrated Through Seven Virtues (5-7)
            1. Moral Excellence (5)
            2. Knowledge (5)
            3.  Self control (6)
            4. Perseverance (hupomonē) (6)
                a. Eternal Security and Perseverance of the Saints
            5. Godliness (6)
            6. Brotherly kindness (7)
            7. Love (7)
    Conclusion . . .
    57 min
  • Confirming Your Calling (Part 4) | 2 Peter 1:5b-6a
    Confirming Your Calling (Part 4) | 2 Peter 1:5b-6a

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    Introduction: Themes of God’s Calling, Election, and Assurance of Salvation
    I. Salvation's Sufficiency: The Believer's Inheritance (3-4)
    II. Salvation's Service: The Believer's Faithfulness (5-9)
        A. Faithfulness Demonstrated Through Seven Virtues (5-7)
        * In your faith / faithfulness “supply” these virtues
            ** “Supply” = verb epichorēgeō (noun = chorēgos)
                *** 1st c. plays and the role of the chorēgos (“supplier”)
                *** Peter uses a literary device known as sorites . . .
            1. Moral Excellence (5)
            2. Knowledge (5)
            3.  Self control (6)
    Conclusion . . .

    57 min
  • Confirming Your Calling (Part 3) | 2 Peter 1:5a
    Confirming Your Calling (Part 3) | 2 Peter 1:5a

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    Introduction:
    I. Salvation's Sufficiency: The Believer's Inheritance (3-4)
         A. An Inheritance Granted by Grace (3a)
             1. What being graced with everything pertaining to life and godliness doesn’t mean:
    •                Life will be easy . . .
                •    We won't suffer emotionally . . . 
                •    We don't work at living the Christian life . . .
                •    We aren't resourceful . . .
            2. By God’s promises we escape the corruption that is in the world
    II. Salvation's Service: The Believer's Faithfulness (5-9)
        A. How the Passage Unfolds (cf. Colossians 1:29)                
        B. We Are to be Diligent in the Power of the Spirit
    Conclusion: Quote by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
    55 min
  • Confirming Your Calling (Part 2) | 2 Peter 1:3-4
    Confirming Your Calling (Part 2) | 2 Peter 1:3-4

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    Introduction: Truth Matters
    I. Salvation's Sufficiency: The Believer's Inheritance (3-4)
         A. An Inheritance Granted by Grace (3a)
            1. The challenge to apply truth to our lives (comes down to two things):
                a. Belief
                b. Discipline
        B. An Inheritance Gained Through a Knowledge of Christ (3)
        C. An Inheritance Grounded in God's Call (3b)
        D. An Inheritance Guaranteed  to Sanctify (4)
            1. This gift of our inheritance includes precious and great promises (4)
                a. Positively: We become partakers of the divine nature (4)   
                    (1) Union with Christ
                b. Negatively: We escape the world's corruption (4)
    Conclusion: Quote by John Piper
    55 min
  • Confirming Your Calling (Part 1) | 2 Peter 1:3a; 1 Peter 2:9
    Confirming Your Calling (Part 1) | 2 Peter 1:3a; 1 Peter 2:9

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    Introduction: Effectual Calling and Making that Calling Sure
    I. Salvation's Sufficiency: The Believer's Inheritance (3-4)
    II. Salvation's Service: The Believer's Fruitfulness (5-9)
    II. Salvation's Surety: The Believer's Security (10-11)
    I. Salvation's Sufficiency: The Believer's Inheritance (3-4)
         A. An Inheritance Granted by Grace (3a)
        B. An Inheritance Grounded in God's Call (3b)
            1. The External and Internal Call to Salvation
            2. A Look at 1 Peter 2:9 . . .
                a. Effectual calling and the Reformation
              b. Three things that are required for something to be a good work in God’s sight
                1. Must be true (biblical warrant)
                2. Done in faith
                3. Done to God’s glory
              c. Rightly defining “free will”
              d. God called us from “darkness to light”
    57 min
  • Fleeing Sin and Following Christ | 1 Timothy 6:11-12
    Fleeing Sin and Following Christ | 1 Timothy 6:11-12

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    Introduction:
    I. Flee From Sin (11a)
    II. Follow After Righteousness (11b)
        A. Righteousness
        B. Godliness
        C. Faith
        D. Love
        E. Perseverance
        F. Gentleness
    III. Fight for the Faith (12a)
    IV. Faithfully Live your Calling (12b)
        A. Know Your Calling
        B. Seize Eternal Life
        C. Remember Your Confession
    Concluding Quote by Puritan Thomas Brooks
    55 min
  • The Law's Expiration Date: Paul's Fifth Defense of Justification by Faith (Pt 2) | Galatians 3:23-25
    The Law's Expiration Date: Paul's Fifth Defense of Justification by Faith (Part 2) | Galatians 3:23-25

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    Introduction:
    I. The Purpose and Duration of the Law (3:19–25)
    Review . . . 
        A. The Law was Given on Account of Sin (3:19a)
        B. The Law was Given Until Christ (3:19b)
        C. The Law was Secondary to the Promise (3:19c-20)
        D. The Law was not Contrary to the Promises (3:21a)
        E. The Law Could not Give Life (3:21b)
        F. The Law Imprisons Everything Under Sin (3:22)
        G. The Law was a Temporary Guardian (3:23-25)
        1. The Law Imprisons
        2. The Law was a Temporary Paidagōgos (παιδαγωγὸs)
        3. We Are no Longer Under a Guardian
    Conclusion:
    54 min
  • The Law's Expiration Date: Paul's Fifth Defense of Justification by Faith (Pt 1) | Galatians 3:19-22
    The Law's Expiration Date: Paul's Fifth Defense of Justification by Faith (Part 1) | Galatians 3:19-22

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    Introduction: Establishing the Context . . . 
    I. The Purpose and Duration of the Law (3:19–25)
        A. The Law was Given on Account of Sin (3:19a)
            1. Different views as to the meaning of “added because of transgressions”
        B. The Law was Given Until Christ (3:19b)
            1. This speaks to the temporary nature of the Law (“until”)
        C. The Law was Secondary to the Promise (3:19c-20)
            1. That the Law was given through angels was common Jewish thought
            2. The “mediator” (Gk. mesitēs) Paul refers to is “Moses”
            3. The old covenant (mediated) versus the promise (“God is one”)
        D. The Law was not Contrary to the Promises (3:21a)
            1. The purpose of the Law differed from that of the Promises
        E. The Law Could not Give Life (3:21b)
            1. No “law” can produce life
        F. The Law Imprisons Everything Under Sin (3:22)
            1.  We again see the contrast between the Law and the Promise
        G. The Law was a Temporary Guardian (3:23-25)
    Conclusion: And Can It Be?
    51 min
  • The Priority of the Promise: Paul's Fourth Defense of Justification by Faith | Galatians 3:15-18
    The Priority of the Promise: Paul's Fourth Defense of Justification by Faith | Galatians 3:15-18

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    Introduction . . . 
    I. The Pattern of the Human Covenant (v. 15)
    Key word: A Fortiori 
    II. The Person of the Abrahamic Covenant (v. 16)
    Key word: Christ
    III. The Permanence of the Abrahamic Covenant (v. 17)
    Key word: Promise
    IV. The Priority of the Abrahamic Covenant (v. 18)
    Key word: Grace 
    Conclusion . . .
    48 min
  • Thoughts on the Month of June and Pride | Selected Scriptures
    Thoughts on the Month of June and Pride | Selected Scriptures

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    Introduction: The Month of June . . .
    I. What is Marriage? – A Look at Genesis 2
        A. Theological Purpose of Marriage: The Glory of God
        B. Societal Purpose of Marriage: Filling and Subduing the Earth
        C. Christological Purpose of Marriage: A Picture of Christ and the Church
    II. What Has Gone Wrong? – A Look at Romans 1
    III. What is the Answer? – A Look at 1 Corinthians 6
    Conclusion: Such were some of you . . . 
    55 min

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Grounded In Grace is the teaching ministry of Tony Bartolucci, Minister of Preaching at Christ Church of Clarkson, New York. He has an M.A. from Phoenix Seminary and is a doctoral candidate at…