Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Thursday October 31, 2019

We have been examining the way in which we tap into the power to God - wisdom/understanding, obedience, and the Holy Spirit within.

Eph 3:4 And by referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ,

Eph 3:5 which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

Eph 3:6 to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,

Eph 3:7 of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of God's grace which was given to me according to the working of His...

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Wednesday Oct. 30, 2019

Isa 26:1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

"We have a strong city;

He sets up walls and ramparts for security.

Isa 26:2 "Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter,

The one that remains faithful.

Isa 26:3 "The steadfast of mind Thou wilt keep in perfect peace,

Because he trusts in Thee.

Isa 26:4 "Trust in the Lord forever,

For in God the Lord, we have an everlasting Rock.

In vv. 1-4 the pilgrims arrive in the great day.

Isa 26:5 "For He has brought low those who dwell on high, the unassailable...

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Tuesday October 29, 2019

God's power is a gift to be used, and so it is grace. It is not forced into operation, which is bondage.

Free to use God's gifts is grace. Being forced to use them is not grace, but coercion. A grace gift can be accepted or rejected, anything else is not grace.

We must be wise from the word of God and understand what we've been called to do in the service of God. Despite the crookedness within us that tempts us, our nature of sin, and despite the perverse world that only seeks for self and knows nothing of love, despite all of that, we are made new men and lights to the world and we must hold fast the word of God, saying no to sin and yes to our duty as God's obedient children. And yet, with God,...

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Sunday October 27, 2019

Eph 3:4 And by referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ,

Eph 3:5 which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

Eph 3:6 to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,

Eph 3:7 of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of God's grace which was given to me according to the working of His power.

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2127

Friday October 24, 2019

In an interview with the Hoover Institute, Jimmy Lai, who is a leader of the protests in Hong Kong his final statement struck me. He was a stowaway on a boat as a child, making it to Hong Kong from mainland China. He began working for a month as a child and by the time he was in his 20's he owned his own business which he turned into a multi-million-dollar company. After the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, Mr. Lai went into publishing and started magazines intent on disseminating ideas on democracy. An assassination was made on his life in 2009, his house has been fire-bombed in 2015, pictures of his children have been posted so that they might be harassed, and the government has pressured businesses not to advertise in his magazines, lowering their revenue. Near the end of the interview he was asked, in light of all this trouble, which is only bound to get worse in Hong...

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Wednesday October 23, 2019

Eph 3:4 And by referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ,

Eph 3:5 which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

Eph 3:6 to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,

Eph 3:7 of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of God's grace which was given to me according to the working of His power.

Paul was made a minister of this wonderful gospel (good...

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Tuesday October 22, 2019

Adam gave himself the name Ish after seeing and naming Ishah. It was as if he could not give himself a proper name until he saw the one who was to complete him or fulfill him. In the same way, the Son of God gives Himself proper names after He "sees" those who will complete or fulfill Him - the believers of the human race.

Adam says Gen 2:23 "This is now bone of my bones,

And flesh of my flesh;

She shall be called Woman,

Because she was taken out of Man."

The Son of God became a man - bone of My bones, flesh of My flesh.

Heb 2:14-15

Since then the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise...

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Sunday October 20, 2019

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 which was given to me for you;

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Thursday October 17, 2019

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 which was given to me for you;

Eph 3:3 that by revelation there was made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief.

Eph 3:4 And by referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ,

Eph 3:5 which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

Eph 3:6 to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2122

Wednesday October 16, 2019

As with prophecy so also in the miracles there is a moral quality.

They do not point to a moral but have within their fabric moral quality.

The cleansing of this man from leprosy is an obvious indication that all men must be cleansed from sin if they are going to enter the kingdom of God and fellowship with its King, and only God can cleanse us. We can easily find the moral fabric of every miracle - casting out demons, healing blindness, deafness, lameness, leprosy, and even raising from the dead.

This is also true of prophecy. Every prophecy has a moral fabric to it. All of it points to Christ, so then it is not surprising since everything Christ did contained a moral...

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