Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Sunday December 8, 2019

The purpose of God is to make men of the type of the God/Man/King, and that God would do so in the age of the church was a mystery.

Eph 3:1 For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles -

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Thursday December 5, 2019

In the history of Christianity, many have attempted to alter the new type of man, this new man, in order to fit our own desires for the old man. Consider the Corinthians, who held strong to some of the aspects of this man and ignored the others. They embraced the new man's eternal and his forgiveness, and they rejected all the things that made up his holiness. They rejoiced in their eternal life and their forgiveness, while they participated in strife, jealousy, division, selfishness, greed, judgment, vengeance, disorder, fear, drunkenness, and fornication.

As I read other literature than our main topic, and come across something insightful and helpful to us, I find that I'd rather share it now than wait and chance forgetting it. As it turns out, this passage is associated with out topic. Joe Aldrich writes of the leaven of legalism,...

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Wednesday December 4, 2019

In his book Secrets to Inner Beauty, Joe Aldrich writes: "Just for the fun of it, let's write a want add to see if we get any recruits for servanthood.

Wanted: Men and women who will share their lives with a man named Jesus. He will be a permanent guest, and will expect to be waited upon. Your responsibility will be to see that He every need is met.

1. When He is tired, you will see to it that provisions are made for His rest and relaxation. It will involve washing His feet frequently.

2. When He needs encouragement, you will be sensitive and provide it.

3. ...

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Tuesday December 3, 2019

God's purpose for the world was centered on mankind. Earth and the universe, the creation recorded for us in Gen 1-2, was only the stage for mankind. This is further seen beyond a doubt in that God became a man.

But what was God's purpose for mankind? God is very clear about this.

God's purpose in everything, all history of the universe, was to make man of a certain type - the image of God.

The Son of God comes into the world and reveals God, but in so doing, He also reveals what man is to be. He dies in order to give anyone who will put their faith in Him that very life.

What is the type of man that God has purposed? He is eternal, righteous, holy, blameless, just, wise, understanding, insanely rich...

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Sunday December 1, 2019

Eph 3:11 This was in accordance with the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord,

Eph 3:1-13 is full of echoes of the earlier part of the epistle. Almost every great phrase has its counterpart in the first two chapters: - the mystery made known by revelation; revealed by the Spirit to the apostles and prophets; the inheritance, the body, the promise, in which the Gentiles have their share in Christ; the grace of God, and the working of His power; the dispensation of the grace, and the mystery; the heavenly region; the purpose of eternity; the free access to God.

Eph 3:1 For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles -

Eph 3:2 if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace...

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Wednesday November 27, 2019

The cross is the power of God. We only yield our lives to God when we see that He yielded His for us in the Person of Christ.

Again, Christ and all that He represents is the power and wisdom of God. He gives us the power to yield our entire lives to Him. We simply have to make the decision to do it, applying the word of God, the truth, to every aspect of our lives.

1Co 1:23 but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block, and to Gentiles foolishness,

1Co 1:24 but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

1Co 1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the...

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Tuesday November 26, 2019

Is your love for the Lord enough that you want nothing more than to be like Him?

1Co 10:23 All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things edify.

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Sunday November 24, 2019

Title: Ephesians- overview of 3:1-9; tapping into the power of God, part 21.

Where are we?

Eph 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

Eph 1:4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love

Eph 1:5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will,

Eph 1:6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

All believers have been blessed immeasurably. Paul...

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Thursday November 21, 2019

Is there any bounty, hopefulness, goodness, and real wealth to human life? When man's eyes are opened to the things freely given him by God.

1Co 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God,

1Co 2:13 which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual [thoughts] with spiritual [words].

Truth carries with it always a self-evidencing power. The possessor of truth always knows he has it because truth bears witness of itself and produces its unique fruit.

1Co 2:14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit...

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Wednesday November 20, 2019

Some have concluded that it was easy for Christ and therefore unfair. He was God, without sin, in the know, a spiritual and moral genius; so then, they conclude, we cannot identify with Him, neither worship Him. But they miss something when they say that. The Son of God as the Man Jesus Christ has shown us how life works in a man. If He did not find some things easier (not all things) and therefore do them perfectly, how could he show us? The parent holds the child's hand as he shows the child how to form letters and numbers. It would be silly for the child to complain that it was unfair, that the parent knew how to do it.

Rom 12:1 I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is...

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