Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Friday April 19, 2019

Christ is the first fruits and the sons of God are His harvest. They are also sons of light and the first-fruits of the Holy Spirit.

The body of Christ is the first to have the gifts of the indwelling Spirit (baptism, indwelling, sealing, teaching, empowering, gift, filling) and so we are the first fruits of the Spirit.

Rom 8:12 So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh -

Rom 8:13 for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Rom 8:14 For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Rom 8:15...

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Thursday April 18, 2019

Christ is the first fruits and the sons of God are His harvest. They are also sons of light and the first-fruits of the Holy Spirit.

Rom 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.

Rom 8:23 And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.

The body of Christ is the first to have the gifts of the indwelling Spirit (baptism, indwelling, sealing, teaching, empowering, gift, filling) and so we are the first fruits of the Spirit.

1Co 15:20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the...

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Wednesday April 17, 2019

I read an astonishing article this morning.

Seventy percent of Russian respondents told the Levada Center in 2019 that Stalin played a positive role for Russia. Stalin's previous record approval rating stood at 54 percent in 2016.

A record low of 19 percent viewed Stalin's role negatively, down from 32 percent in 2016.

"Stalin begins to be perceived as a symbol of justice and an alternative to the current government, deemed unfair, cruel and not caring about people," Academy of Sciences sociologist Leonty Byzov was quoted as saying by the RBC...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2018

Tuesday April 16, 2019

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 1:6a to the praise of the glory of His grace,

Proorizo is always used as God determining from eternity (1Co 2:7 - reveal mystery wisdom), decreeing to do something (Act 4:28 - life of Christ), foreordaining things or persons (Rom 8:29 - believers), or appointing someone beforehand (Eph 1:5)....

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Sunday April 14th, 2019

The solution to envy is obviously not sin and laziness. Peter ("we left everything for You") changed and so must we. It is our motive that needs changing if it is trending towards calculation.

The solution is also not about pretending lowliness or humility. He didn't say all the first would be last; He said many of the first would be last. We are to do the labor that God has foreordained for us to do, whether it is very much and noticed by many, or whether it seems like little and noticed by hardly no one. We will all find the work that God has prepared beforehand if we humbly seek His will in study and prayer. Study God's will and pray every day, "Your will be done."

The ethical note of...

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Friday April 12, 2019

Proorizo used in: Eph 1:5, 11; 1Co 2:7; Act 4:28 (of our Lord); Rom 8:29,30.

In Rom 8:29, all the predestined will be conformed to the image of Christ. Some strive for that maturity in time. Some Christians seem not to. None of us will be as conformed to Him as we will be in heaven.

By Peter's question, "What then will there be for us?" we understand that there is a danger for the sons in the Lord's kingdom seeking to be like the King, may obtain an attitude of thinking he is something of a mercenary; that he is due a particular wage for his work.

Especially in light of knowing that those who do not currently strive to be like the King will be conformed to His image, there may be even more motivation to expect a certain wage - and...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2015

Thursday April 11, 2019

Proorizo used in: Eph 1:5, 11; 1Co 2:7; Act 4:28 (of our Lord); Rom 8:29,30.

We will investigate our Lord's predestination and summarize all of them again later on.

Rom 8:29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren;

Rom 8:30 and whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

We have been predestined to be conformed to the image of Christ and every son will be so conformed in heaven.

All believers may know on the authority of God that it is settled forever, that some day we will...

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Wednesday April 10, 2019

Eph 1:3-14 constitute the most sustained and perfect act of praise that is found in the apostle's letters.

It is as though a door were suddenly opened in heaven; it shuts behind us, and earthly tumult dies away.

In Galatians and Romans the thought of salvation by Christ breaks through Jewish limits and spreads itself over the field of history; in Colossians and Ephesians, the idea of life in Christ overleaps the barriers of time and human existence, and brings all things in the heavens and on earth under the sway of the life of Christ breathing within man.

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

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Thy kingdom come.

The kingdom of God is the only true kingdom.

"The Lord is King, not borrowing this title from the kings of the earth, but having lent His own title to them; and not the name only, but having so ordered, that all true rule and government upon earth, with its righteous laws, its stable ordinances, its punishment and grace, its majesty and its terror, should tell of Him and of His kingdom which ruleth over all - so that 'kingdom of God' is not in fact a figurative expression, but most literal: it is rather the earthly kingdoms and the earthly kings that are figures and shadows of the true." [Dean Trench, Notes on the Parables]

Because this is true, people have been able to survive on this planet. If it were not true, Cain and his descendants would have...

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Prescott Conference 2019

Saturday March 6, 2019 AM

No matter what comes of this relationship, it will not change. We are His sons and daughters and He is our Father. Whatever comes from the Father, the relationship is satisfying to our hearts.

Our very natures are bound to God through the person of Christ. No other relationship in life is like it. Other relationships may help us understand it; but while it is only considered under earthly figures, we are in danger of forgetting that underneath there lies the substantial reality of our sonship to God.

It is the sort of Fatherhood that a man finds and ceases to be homeless and a wanderer, a fugitive, a vagabond upon the face of the earth - ceases to be a mere withered leaf borne helpless on the wind, who origin none cares to trace, and whose destiny none turns to see. The son who prays "Our...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2010