Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Prescott Conference 2020

Class 4: Sunday Morning, September 6, 2020

The Tears of the Penitent, Psa 32, 51, 6

Adversity had taught David self-restraint, had braced his soul, had driven him to grasp firmly the hand of God. He had prosperity for nearly 20 years. Gratitude had followed deliverance, and the sunshine after the rain had brought out the fragrance of devotion and the blossoms of glad songs.

A good man such as David, especially at his age, seldom falls so low, unless perhaps there has been previous, perhaps unconscious, relaxation of the girded loins.

We can scarcely conceive of such a temptation conquering him unless there was a previous decay of his spiritual...

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Prescott Conference 2020

Class 2: Saturday Morning, September 5, 2020

Youth and Exile

We know nothing of David's childhood beyond what we may imply by imagining a youngest son of several who was unloved by his brothers and unregarded by his father; who was likely ignored, given menial work, and in his teens lived a solitary life as a shepherd in the Judean wilderness. We also discover that through whoever were his teachers, he learned the law and loved it, learned the harp and was exceptional at it, and somehow learned war and was a fine warrior.

The ignored, unloved, solitary boy did not let his situation do...

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Prescott Conference 2020

Class 3: Saturday Night, September 5, 2020

Psalms:

Youth - 8, 19, 29, 23

Exile:

Surround House - 59

Nob - 52

Gath - 56

Hills of Judah - 54

Engedi - 7, 57, 142

Ziklag - 31

Ziklag: Psa 31 - God gives rest after a long "winter."

To this period of comparative security one psalm has been supposed to belong - 31.

Psa...

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Prescott Conference 2020

Class 1: Friday Night, September 4, 2020

Reference: "The Life of David as Reflected in the Psalms" by Alexander Maclaren, 1888.

Summary of David's life and the psalms that garnished it.

First, why did God give us David's life in so much detail compared to others? God could have recorded anything He wanted in the scripture, but He highlights certain people. David is highlighted and is arguably, of all the OT people, the greatest type of Christ.

The things in the OT were written, or recorded, for our instruction.

ROM 15:4

For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have...

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Tuesday September 1, 2020

It is vital to know the truth of Rom 5:12-21, for from it comes the victory to live the life given; explained in chapters 6-8. To not know it is to live a weak Christian life of partial obedience in which one is defeated in many spheres.

Following the wonderful news of Rom 5, that we are made alive in Christ, severed from our old relationship to Adam, made righteous to eternal life in Christ, justified, made new to reign in life, we do not have to question our position in Christ because we still find sin in our lives. Rom 6 tells us that we are still capable of sin.

Yet also, being what we are following Rom 5, we are not to be complacent about sin, nor are we in any way to concede defeat to it. We are to be in practice what God has made us to be, and to that truth Paul is sure to instruct us in...

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Sunday August 30,2020

Quench (sbennumi - put out like a fire) the Spirit - not following the commands.

The Holy Spirit empowers us like an inner furnace when we obey by faith.

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Sunday August 23, 2020

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Wednesday August 19, 2020

He who is filled to the fullness of God is a poor sinner like the rest of us, who is believing the abundance of grace.

All of us, though born in Adam: condemned, sinners, under the penalty of death, are to be filled with the love of God and the gifts of God. There is not some exceptional kind of man that walks in holiness.

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