Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Wednesday March 20, 2019

The mystery of Christology is great, and so many people destroy it by making Christ out to be someone that He is not. God the Son, the Son of Man; He who is before all things, He who was born of a virgin; He who created all things, He who subjected Himself to death; He who is the firstborn of all creation, He who is the firstborn from the dead; He who is all present, He who emptied Himself; He who sits at the right hand of God, He who indwells every member of His body - are all aspects wrapped up in one person - the Lord Jesus Christ. In the end of human history when all enemies have been defeated by Him, the last of which is death, He subjects the entire kingdom to the Father, and then subjects Himself to the Father so that God may be all in all. This is the one you are in union with and this is the one that you have been elected to be...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2000

Tuesday March 19, 2019

The elect are the lights of the world. Our culture is becoming more and more secularized. Secularization is when the truth of the Bible is cast to the sidelines of society and is considered biased and unprofitable and even dangerous when questions that lie at the heart of human existence are considered. When a core question is need of a solution, the statesman, the lawyer, the professor, the doctor, and the philosopher are all asked for their opinion and are all considered unbiased and helpful, but the pastor or the theologian is not asked, for he is considered biased and wrong before he even opens his mouth. That is secularization.

Marketers of sensation achieve great wealth by poisoning the minds of a society's youth. They work to use sensation in order to trap young minds and lock into their memory banks ideas that will haunt them the rest of...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=1999

Sunday March 17, 2019

Phi 2:5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,

Seven steps down: Col 1:19 For it was the Father's good pleasure for all the fulness to dwell in Him,

Col 1:20 and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

Phi 2:6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, (1)

Phi 2:7 but emptied Himself (2), taking the form of a bond-servant (3), and being made in the likeness of men (4).

Phi 2:8 And being found in appearance as a man, He...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=1998

Friday March 15, 2019

Col 1:9 For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Col 1:10 so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Col 1:11 strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously

Col 1:12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

Col 1:13 For He delivered us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=1997

Thursday March 14, 2019

Col 1:9 For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Col 1:10 so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Col 1:11 strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously

Col 1:12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

Col 1:13 For He delivered us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=1996

Wednesday March 13, 2019

Ephesians; 1:4 - Elected to be blameless. The church presented blameless - Col 1:22.

Back to our main passage: Elected so that we may be blameless.

Jer 9:23 Thus says the Lord, "Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches;

Jer 9:24 but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things," declares the Lord.

Col 1:9 For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=1995

Tuesday March 12, 2019

Col 1:9 For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge [epignosis = full knowledge] of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Col 1:9 For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Col 1:10 so that [because you are filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding] you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Col 1:11 strengthened with all power, according to...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=1994

Sunday March 10, 2019

Col 1:9 For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge [epignosis = full knowledge] of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Col 1:9 For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Col 1:10 so that [because you are filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding] you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Col 1:11 strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might [better: "the might of His glory"], for the...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=1993

Friday March 8, 2019

Col 1:9 For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge [epignosis = full knowledge] of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

One can never underestimate the knowledge of the Lord and its understanding.

Hos 6:3, 6

So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord ... For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice, And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

The use of epignosis is not so much all the knowledge, because no one ever reaches all the knowledge of Christ. Epignosis can refer to full knowledge that results in maturity (Eph 4:13). Here, as...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=1992

Wednesday March 6, 2019

Ephesians; 1:4 - Elected to be blameless. The church presented blameless - Col 1:22

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...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=1991