Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Thursday, August 15, 2019

We saw last time in Hebrews that Jesus is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted by sin; He sympathizes with our weaknesses and with that grace and mercy calls us to the throne of God to find help; and He invites us to fix our eyes on Himself when we are challenged to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles us since He was able to endure and has promised that both He and His power are in us to do the same.

There is a connection between Christ's suffering and our own, even though He only suffered undeservedly.

For us; temptation (Heb 2:18), weakness (Heb 4:15), and powerful sin (Heb 12:1), and no matter how mature and faithful we grow up to be, we are never perfectly and consistently sufficient to overcome.

Our repentance from certain categories of sin does...

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Wednesday August 14, 2019

In chapter three Paul attempts nothing less than giving us a complete philosophy for human history, which had never been attempted before. He came to know that angels were watching the church in order to gain wisdom on the purpose of God for mankind.

Eph 3:8 To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ,

Eph 3:9 and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things;

Eph 3:10 in order that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly...

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Tuesday August 13, 2019

When writing Ephesians, Paul does not mention much about himself. He is writing to many who may have never met him as the letter would be passed from place to place. He is writing not a personal word of encouragement, but an exposition of the Divine Purpose as he had come to know it - a word of large import for multitudes who needed what he knew it was his to give them.

The gospel has spread more than Paul could have imagined, and not only through his ministry, but through many others, and he gives thanks for it. For the churches at large, Paul sets out to accomplish an almost impossible task - to set down in writing what was the Divine Purposes for the ages. The problem is not Paul's understanding of it. The problem is the limits of human language. He begins the next section:

Eph 3:1 For this...

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Title: Ephesians- overview of 3:1-9; The Secret of the Ages, part 9 (The OT points to the perfection to come).

Eph 3:8 To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ,

Eph 3:9 and to bring to...

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Thursday, August 8, 2019

That the Jews did, for many centuries, look for a great King to arise in the line of David, who should establish a perfect kingdom of God upon earth, is beyond dispute.

Differences of opinion might exist regarding the time of His coming, or the signs of it, or the nature of His person, or the characteristics of His kingdom, but no Jew doubted that the Messiah would come and reign on earth.

Luk 2:25 And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; and this man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel; and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

Luk 2:26 And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.

Luk 2:27 And he came in the...

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Wednesday August 7, 2019

Prophecy in the Old Testament spoke of blessings to Israel and to Gentiles of a kingdom purely of righteousness.

Dan 7:13 "I kept looking in the night visions,

And behold, with the clouds of heaven

One like a Son of Man was coming,

And He came up to the Ancient of Days

And was presented before Him.

Dan 7:14 "And to Him was given dominion,

Glory and a kingdom,

That all the peoples, nations, and men of every language

Might serve Him.

His dominion is an everlasting dominion

Which will not pass away;

And His...

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Tuesday August 6, 2019

In Peter's second sermon on the occasion of healing the lame man in the Temple, his argument addressed to the Jews was to the effect that there was nothing new or unexpected in what they saw and heard. It was simply the fulfillment of prophecy.

Act 3:17 "And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did also.

Act 3:18 "But the things which God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ should suffer, He has thus fulfilled.

Act 3:19 "Repent therefore and return, that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;

Act 3:20 and that He may send Jesus, the Christ [Messiah] appointed for you,...

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Sunday August 4, 2019

The OT pointed beyond itself to the perfectness. That perfectness consists in the removal of all the evil which sin has wrought, in the restoration of man to God, and in the fulness of blessings which flows from fellowship between God and man.

This is the kingdom of God.

To announce it and to prepare for it, was the object of the OT.

This shows us that prophecy didn't only have a predictive element but a moral one. The same was true of the miracles performed, especially by Christ. They all had an ethical standard. The people were to prepare for the kingdom of God, which is precisely what all the prophets told them, the greatest of which was John the Baptist.

Israel hadn't had a prophet for over 400...

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Friday August 2, 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 3:14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,

Eph 3:15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name,

Eph 3:16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man,

The church-age, where so much could be seen that was dark prior to it, was not revealed in the OT.

Joh 1:9 There was the true light which, coming into the world,...

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Thursday August 1, 2019

Eph 3:1-10 The Secret of the Ages.

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

His prayer is interrupted.

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...

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