Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Wednesday May 6, 2020

Anticipating the attack of the Assyrians on Jerusalem, king Hezekiah got his engineers to divert one of the springs outside the wall to construct an underwater canal that would feed water to the city while hiding water from the invader. It was smart, but it was not what God demanded of His people.

Isa 22:11

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Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Life declines when its blessings refuse to bless. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. Despair comes when the blessings around you no longer bless. For the Christian blessings always abound, and for the world they are always there since God and His gospel are everywhere present, but when blessings no longer bless, despair creeps around the heart.

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Sunday May 3. 2020

Eph 3:14-21

For this reason, I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man; 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fulness of God.

20 Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, 21 to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever....

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Thursday, April 30, 2020

When Christ was born, God finally after millennia of promises turned His face towards the human race.

Joh 1:14-18

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 John bore witness of Him, and cried out, saying, "This was He of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has a...

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Wednesday April 29, 2020

I have just two more passages concerning the human spirit and then we can summarize what we have seen. Then we move on to the heart.

Man can have a proud spirit instead of patient, which leads to an angry spirit.

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Tuesday, April 28, 2020

"A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep." [G.K. Chesterton]

There is much about the human race that is difficult to understand. God makes clear in His testimony about us throughout our history, is our great capacity to be deceived. No matter what situation we face, whether it be at a personal level, or local, or national, or worldwide, God tells not to be surprised. Be a light to the world. Be spiritual. See more of Christ that you have not yet seen while you project what you have seen to the world around you. Satan is definitely working overtime right now. God is also working, but...

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Sunday April 26,2020

The inner man; soul, spirit, heart, and mind are to be unified under the will and purpose of God.

Heb 4:12

For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Soul, spirit, and heart have all the same characteristics, but their nuance: soul is the type of person, the spirit the passion for that type, and the heart the hidden type.

We continue to focus on the...

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Thursday April 23, 2020

Heb 4:12

For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Soul, spirit, and heart have all the same characteristics,...

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Wednesday April 22, 2020

The human spirit has the nuance of motivator, or the wind and breath that drives you.

If your feeling a bit frustrated by the "spirit" of much of the population of the world currently, I'll share with you something a just read in G.K Chesterton's The Everlasting Man, published in 1925: "It is necessary to say plainly that all this ignorance is simply covered by impudence....

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Tuesday April 21, 2020

The human spirit has the nuance of motivator, or the wind and breath that drives you.

The Holy Spirit is within us bearing witness to our human spirit that we are the children of God. Combining that truth with the nuance the Bible gives to the human spirit, we can conclude that the Holy Spirit is teaching us how to be driven children of God within the framework of the revelation of the word of God. The Holy Spirit's revelation within us to...

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