Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Thursday October 18, 2018

We continue to speak on the subject of faith...

Mature faith: believing and depending on God more often and in tougher situations.

Believing is believing. Believing and depending on God more frequently, which means in more situations and in tougher situations is what we would call mature or increased faith.

The Christian will find himself strong in faith and doubting his faith at different times. The solution to this is not removing all doubt as if it could be accomplished by force of human will. Faith is no more a function of self-will than it is of reason.

The flesh will tempt us until the day we die. The longer we walk in the plan of God the more clearly, we will see the weakness of the flesh and be convinced of its...

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Wednesday October 17, 2018

Ephesians; 1:3 - every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies, part 7.

Faith is the art of the worthless.

Faith is not reason.

Faith based on human reason will always die. Human reason, meaning the determination of a hypothesis without basis is divine revelation, is always flawed in some way. Some human hypotheses are better than others, some far better, but without the truth from God, they all eventually fail.

Faith based on...

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Sunday October 14, 2018

Ephesians; 1:3 - every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies, part 6.

Faith is the art of the worthless.

Faith is not reason.

Faith based on human reason will always die. Human reason, meaning the determination of a hypothesis without basis is divine revelation, is always flawed in some way. Some human hypotheses are better than others, some far better, but without the truth from God, they all eventually fail.

Faith based on divine revelation will withstand the gates of hell.

Life is far too short to wait on striving to live by faith in the spiritual...

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Friday October 12, 2018

Our current point:

Spiritual over material: faith is the function of the worthless and bankrupt toward the One who is all in all.

This had led us to explore the substance of faith. What is faith?

Faith is the art of the worthless.

Faith is not reason.

Faith based on human reason will always die. Human reason, meaning the determination of a hypothesis without basis is divine revelation, is always flawed in some way. Some human hypotheses are better than others, some far better, but without the truth from God, they eventually fail.

Faith based on divine revelation will withstand the gates of...

for full notes: http://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=1904

Thursday October 11, 2018

Spiritual over material: faith is the function of the worthless and bankrupt toward the One who is all in all.

This had led us to explore the substance of faith. What is faith?

Faith is the art of the worthless.

Faith is not reason.

I want to continue to explore how faith is not reason.

Someone may believe something through reason, but if put in the right situation, reason will go out the door and faith will fail.

At the end of the Cold War, in which America won, in 1992 Francis Fukuyama wrote what was considered a landmark book called The End of History and the Last Man in which he argued that history as we know it was over and...

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Wednesday October 10, 2018

Ephesians; 1:3 - every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies, part 4.

Spiritual over material: The NT tells us to give sacrificially, but not what, when, to whom, and how much.

Our Lord instructed us to love our enemies and to give to everyone who asks us. We are to do good and lend, expecting nothing in return. Can you imagine living this way without the spiritual blessings from the Father as the center of our lives. If we don't grab on to and love the spiritual blessings that come from the Father, from the heavenlies in Christ, then our lives will be miserable.

This explains why it is so difficult for most people...

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Tuesday October 9, 2018

Eph 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and who are faithful in Christ Jesus:

Eph 1:2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

"has blessed" - eulogeo (aorist active participle). Aorist refers to the Father blessing every believer before the foundation of the world (vs. 4).

God the Father is the only source of blessing. Material blessing is ultimately meaningless without His spiritual blessings.

On Sunday we saw the rich young...

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Sunday October 7, 2018

Title: Ephesians; 1:3 - every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies, part 2.

Eph 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and who are faithful in Christ Jesus:

Eph 1:2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

"has blessed" - eulogeo (aorist active participle). Aorist refers to the Father blessing every believer before the foundation of the world (vs. 4).

God the Father is...

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Friday October 5, 2018

Eph 1:1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and who are faithful in Christ Jesus:

Eph 1:2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

God is to be praised. He has bestowed on his people "in Christ" every spiritual blessing.

Whatever earthly or material blessing we possess at any given time, all of the spiritual blessings given to us are from one source, God the Father, and every one of them are unchangeable and eternally secure. Not one of them can be...

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Thursday October 4, 2018

It is the Father's will to bring all His grace to every man and establish peace with him.

"Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ," is the salutation of eight New Testament epistles.

2Th 2:16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace,

2Th 2:17 comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word.

God the Father is the Father of every believer and He constantly and forever gives His children grace, and between them there is always peace.

The fact that the same grace and peace are used of both God the Father and...

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