Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Tuesday November 20, 2018

3) Passages where election is applied to believers in this age:

3e. The elect endure all things for the sake of one another, which pleases God.

2Ti 2:1 You therefore [referring to Paul's call to faithfulness in chapter 1], my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Faithfulness is a result of really being sold-out for new nature and new position as God's elected person in Christ.

2Ti 1:6 And for this reason I remind you to kindle afresh [Vines: keep in full flame; Robertson: keep blazing] the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

2Ti 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of...

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Sunday November 18, 2018

3) Passages where election is applied to believers in this age:

3a. The elect are to reveal the emptiness of human desire for life without God, 1Co 1:27-29.

3b. Worldly status has no bearing on this position, Jam 2:5.

3c. Our election freely gives us all things. God will always be for us and His love will never separate from us, Rom 8:31-39.

3d. Election is to Christ's love, Col 3:12-13.

Only the elect can love with Christ's love.

3e. The elect endure all things for the sake of one another, which pleases...

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Friday November 11, 2018

H.A. Ironside: "You notice in verse 3 he uses the double title, "The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." It is God who purposes it this way, it is God who plans, it was God who chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world; and notice, it is not that He chose the church as such, but He chose every individual who was to be a member of that church, to be one with Christ for eternity. You say, "I don't understand that." I don't either. Whenever I come to consider a subject like this, God's electing grace and predestinating love, I remind myself that the Word says, "My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts higher than your thoughts (Isa...

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Thursday, November 15, 2018

When asked to explain election, says H.A. Ironside, a colored brother once said, "Well, it's this way, the Lord done voted for my salvation; the devil done voted for my damnation; and I done voted with the Lord, and so we got into the majority."

Therefore, because you are elect, because you have your inheritance in Christ, because you live resurrected, because you have a love fulfilled relationship with the Christ ... be holy as He is holy, 1Pe 1:1-21.

Our current point 2 is discovering the purpose for which we have been elected. We have been elected to life, the only life there really is, the life of Christ. All other life is meaningless and destined for judgement and the second death. Christ is the life and His life is the light of men. The elect do not remain in...

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Wednesday November 14, 2018

Ephesians; 1:4 - Election of church age believer, part 5.

2) Election is the call to sanctification or living the life of Christ.

2a. Election is for you to experience the life that is Christ; full of love, joy, and peace, and to understand that living as that creature is now your only option. In faith, get cracking!

2b. God chose you for Himself. Don't get bogged down on "why." Just rejoice in the intimate, special tenderness of it.

2Th 2:13 But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord,...

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Tuesday November 13, 2018

Doctrine of Election: 1) definition for church:

Election definition for church age believer: God the Father chooses or elects believers to the life of Christ.

We have noted that the verb "elected" is in the middle voice, which means that the proper translation into English is that He elected us for Himself.

We must leave aside the seeming paradox of our free-will, meaning that we freely chose Him in faith at gospel hearing, and the Sovereign will of God, meaning that He chose us for Himself before the foundation of the world, and we must enjoy the tenderness and blessing given to us through God the Father choosing us for Himself.

Moses reminded the people of the whole Law, the covenant...

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Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Title: Ephesians; 1:4 - Election, part 3.

Doctrine of Election: 1) definition for church:

Election definition for church age believer: God the Father chooses or elects believers to the life of Christ.

The simple word choose becomes incredibly profound when one understands the life of Christ.

Mar 8:27 And Jesus went out, along with His disciples, to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way He questioned His disciples, saying to them, "Who do people say that I am?"

Mar 8:28 And they told Him, saying, "John the Baptist; and others say Elijah; but others, one of the prophets."

Mar 8:29...

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Tuesday November 6, 2018

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 (In love) He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will,

Doctrine of Election: 1) definition for church:

Election definition for church age believer: God the Father chooses or elects believers to the life of Christ.

The basic definition to election is to choose. The questions concerning the conditions...

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Sunday November 4, 2018

Title: Ephesians; 1:4 - Election, part 1.

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

Though spiritual, the blessings are tangible. Election, predestination, adoption, wisdom, redemption, etc. are all spiritual and are a reality of life, used in life, and real in terms of promise and elevated happiness.

Heavenly and spiritual do not mean merely ethereal, unknown, invisible, etc. It is source and type: heaven and Christ.

It is not merely that the blessings with which God blessed us are blessings having their origin in heaven..., but that they are blessings which have their seat where God Himself is and where...

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Friday November 2, 2018

The spiritual blessings in the heavenlies have been brought to earth and offered to all men through the person of Jesus Christ. Heaven has come to earth, sing hallelujah (praise you Yah!).

The reality of our heavenly possession will be revealed quite openly later on, until then, hold them and treasure them in your heart, no matter how ugly the world around you may get.

Rev 19:1 "Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God;

Rev 19:2 because His judgments are true and righteous; for He has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her immorality, and He has avenged the blood of His bond-servants on her."

Rev 19:3 And a second time they said, "Hallelujah! Her smoke...

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