Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Thursday June 6, 2019

Eph 2:7-10 - Saved with an end in mind.

"You are saved!" cries the apostle; not forgetting that his readers have their battle to fight, and many hazards yet to run.

The objective truth Paul presents is that we are saved, raised, and seated with Christ in the heavenlies. This is also unfolded in the sister epistle to this one.

Col 3:1 If then you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

Col 3:2 Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.

Col 3:3 For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God....

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2050

Wednesday June 5, 2019

Eph 2:7-10 - Saved with an end in mind.

Eph 2:7 in order that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

Eph 2:9 not as a result of works, that no one should boast.

Eph 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

We are no longer slaves to sin and death. The Son of God has set us free and made us sons. We are in the...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2049

Tuesday June 4, 2019

Eph 2:7-10 - Saved with an end in mind.

Eph 2:7 in order that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

Eph 2:9 not as a result of works, that no one should boast.

Eph 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Grace is at the head of the sentence and so it is emphasized as the head or leader in God's work for your salvation. If grace is the band-leader, so to speak, then works and boasting find...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2048

Sunday June 02,2019

Eph 2:7-10 - Saved with an end in mind.

Eph 2:7 in order that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

Eph 2:9 not as a result of works, that no one should boast.

Eph 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Grace is at the head of the sentence and so it is emphasized as the head or leader in God's work for your salvation. If grace is the band-leader, so to speak, then works...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2047

Thursday May 30, 2019

Eph 2:7-10 - Saved with an end in mind.

There is an enormous, yawning chasm between man's idea of what he can achieve and the infinitely precious achievement that God has offered mankind. What human beings, independent of God, have been trying to achieve throughout their history is inadequate to the point of being farcical. What God achieved through love is of infinite value.

Over this chasm there lays, as it were, a cable-bridge, frail, swaying, but passable. It's not that God has made it hard to pass, in fact He has made it simple. The hard part for man is leaving behind the side he treads upon.

"This bridge, this reconciliation between the black despair of lying bound and gagged in the tiny dungeon of the ego, and soaring upwards into the white...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2046

Wednesday May 29, 2019

Eph 2:1-6 From death to life - the doctrines of salvation (soteriology).

Eph 2:1 And you were dead in your trespasses [false steps] and sins [missing marks],

Eph 2:2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.

Eph 2:3 Among them we too [Jews] all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

Eph 2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2045

Tuesday May 28, 2019

Eph 2:1-6 From death to life - the doctrines of salvation (soteriology).

Eph 2:1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2044

Sunday May 26, 2019

Memorial Day.

We have completed chapter one in six classes. Not bad. 1:3-14 explained the grace gifts of the Father to us, through Christ, in the past, present, and future. 1:15-19 was Paul's prayer that these gifts would be known and exploited to the maximum by us. 1:19-23 was the vehicle by which these gifts could be given to men, the resurrection, ascension, and session of our Lord. We now begin the doctrines of the church, starting at our new birth, our salvation from death to life.

Eph 2:1-6 From death to life - the doctrines of salvation (soteriology).

Eph 2:1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

Our death was the result...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2043

Thursday May 23, 2019

We have completed chapter one in six classes. Not bad. 1:3-14 explained the grace gifts of the Father to us, through Christ, in the past, present, and future. 1:15-19 was Paul's prayer that these gifts would be known and exploited to the maximum by us. 1:19-23 was the vehicle by which these gifts could be given to men, the resurrection, ascension, and session of our Lord. We now begin the doctrines of the church, starting at our new birth, our salvation from death to life.

Eph 2:1-6 From death to life - the doctrines of salvation (soteriology).

Eph 2:1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

Our death was the result of:

"trespasses" - paraptoma =...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2042

Wednesday May 22, 2019

Eph 1:19 and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might

Eph 1:20 which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,

Eph 1:21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion [all angelic creation], and every name that is named [all humanity], not only in this age, but also in the one to come.

Eph 1:22 And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church,

Eph 1:23 which is His body, the fulness of Him who fills all in...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2041