Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Sunday December 6,2020

We have completed a study of Eph 1-3. We began our study of this book on Aug 16, 2018 - just about 500 hours of lessons. You guys do more study of the Scriptures than some seminary students.

Eph 1-3 shows us who are the believers in Christ, what they have become due to Christ's substitutionary, sacrificial, spiritual and physical death on the cross. Salvation is by faith.

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Thursday December 3, 2020

I wanted to add something to last night's presentation of the theology of Satan in the West and the restraint put upon it by the Holy Spirit and the influence of the church.

The first will be dedicated to how quickly the goodness of American society has changed in such a short time. And then second, to examine one further...

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Wednesday December 2,2020

America is approaching a very critical time. The truth must be spoken with confidence and boldness (not arrogance or anger) as well as gentleness by all in the body of Christ to whomever God allows or ordains. We need not fear. God the Holy Spirit is within us to empower and guide us.

After being called to the Sanhedrin and being ordered with threats not to speak of Jesus to the people, Peter and his companions joined the rest of their companions and they...

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Tuesday December 1, 2020

Common grace: the entire work of the Holy Spirit on behalf of the unsaved world - restraining [2Th 2:7] and revealing the gospel [Joh 16:8].

Efficacious grace: God...

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Sunday November 30,2020

Common grace: the entire work of the Holy Spirit on behalf of the unsaved world - restraining and revealing the gospel.

The work of the Holy Spirit revealing the gospel is an aspect of a larger program of God in dealing with a lost world.

It is vital that the Holy Spirit do both things: restrain the power of...

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Wednesday November 25,2020

In God we find what we don't expect and do that we hadn't planned. "Have not entered the heart of man."

On October 12, 1492 Columbus spotted land, one of the islands of...

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Title: Ephesians 4:4-6, One Spirit - Common Grace.

In the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, we would use the scripture to prove that He is a Person (has a personality and is not a force) and that He is God, or Deity. We would study His typology in the OT as well as His ministry in the OT (creation, revelation, inspiration, and ministry to man). We would study His relation to Christ (virgin birth, ministry to the life of Christ, Christ's sufferings and glorification). And then we would come to His works or ministries in the age of the church.

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Sunday November 22,2020

Luk 18:9-14

And He also told this parable to certain ones who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt: 10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer. 11 "The Pharisee stood and was praying thus to himself, 'God, I thank Thee that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax-gatherer. 12 'I fast...

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Thursday November 19, 2020

Luk 18:9-14

And He also told this parable to certain ones who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt: 10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer. 11 "The Pharisee stood and was praying thus to himself, 'God, I thank Thee that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax-gatherer. 12 'I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.' 13 "But the tax-gatherer, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, the sinner!' 14 "I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, but he who humbles himself shall be...

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Wednesday November 18,2020

Ray Kurzweil, entrepreneur and inventor, director of engineering at Google, predicts the rapid evolution of humanity through technology, with the end being the merging of biological and machine intelligences. Eventually, he predicts:

"The entire universe will become saturated with our intelligence." Ray Kurzweil The Singularity Is Near, 2005

Ray is in for a big surprise.

"Kurzweil promotes "the singularity" not only as allowing for the perfectibility of mankind - long a goal of theological speculation - but also as a step toward immortality, with our brain patterns imprinted as software and preserved permanently. This 'transhumanist' vision also reflects an almost obsessive concern to...

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