Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Title: Ruth: Final chapter - opportunity and fulfillment.

Our stage opens at the city gate where legal transactions were concluded.

Rut 4:1 Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there, and behold, the close relative of whom Boaz spoke was passing by, so he said, "Turn aside, friend, sit down here." And he turned aside and sat down.

Rut 4:2 And he took ten men of the elders of the city and said, "Sit down here." So they sat down.

Rut 4:3 Then he said to the closest relative, "Naomi, who has come back from the land of Moab, has to sell the piece of land which...

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Title: Ruth: Final chapter - opportunity and fulfillment.

As chapter one centered on Naomi, so does chapter four. Ruth fades into the background and Boaz and Naomi take center stage.

At the start, this is about graciousness; the love of giving. It is about being gracious, exceedingly so. The Christian is just that kind of person as a new man, who is in Christ and rules with Him.

It is obvious that the rulership of Christ is not a tyranny. Our King is exceedingly gracious and we are like Him.

You and I must experience the life of graciousness. It is not enough to talk about how nice it...

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Friday April 20, 2018

Title: Ruth: 3:14-18 - exceeding generosity; Final chapter - opportunity and fulfillment.

Boaz puts himself under oath - "as the Lord lives." A man like him could never break such a vow.

Boaz is a man of his word. Vows were needed in a place of liars though Boaz is not one of them.

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Thursday April 19, 2018

Title: Ruth: 3:10-13; Delivered from "the lie", conclusion.

Eph 4:17 This I say therefore, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

Eph 4:18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

Eph 4:19 and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality, for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

Eph 4:20...

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Wednesday April 18, 2018

Ruth: 3:10-13; A community without lies. The God who cannot lie; the Christian who cannot lie.

Mat 13:1-2

On that day Jesus went out of the house, and was sitting by the sea. And great multitudes gathered to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat down, and the whole multitude was standing on the beach.

Eph 4:17 This I say therefore, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

Eph 4:18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded...

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Tuesday April 17, 2018

Title: Ruth: 3:10-13; A community without lies. The God who cannot lie; the Christian who cannot lie.

Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Rom 1:19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.

Rom 1:20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

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Sunday April 15, 2018

Title: Ruth: 3:10-13; A community without lies. The God who cannot lie; the Christian who cannot lie.

We completed Paul's appeal to the Athenians in Act 17. He revealed that God had been revealing Himself to every nation and people, and for them, as far as they got, they came to call Him an unknown god. He revealed that the times of ignorance had passed, not that man couldn't know of God before, Paul clearly stated, as he does in Rom 1, that God made Himself evident, rather, the wrath of God upon sin had been revealed and the salvation of men had been revealed in Christ Jesus to all men.

This brings us back to Rom 1 and Eph 4.

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Friday April 13, 2018

Title: Ruth: 3:10-13; A community without lies. The God who cannot lie; the Christian who cannot lie.

Tanak: acronym for Torah, Nevi'im (prophets), and Ketuvim (writings). It is the OT as originally put together.

The Old Testament is divided into three parts originally: The Torah, Nevi'im, and Ketuvim. Together they are called the Tanak.

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Title: Ruth: 3:10-13; A community without lies. The God who cannot lie; the Christian who cannot lie.

Eph 4: the life of the community of believers and a reminder of the old life of the old man in the world of darkness.

In our current passage in Eph 4, the apostle Paul is revealing the great life of the community of believers, who grow together, are knit together in love, serve one another, and build itself up in love. This is the gift of God to the community of believers, united by love and the ministry of God the Holy Spirit. Such a community speaks truth to one another, for they have nothing to hide, nothing to take from one another; only to give to one another.

It is a true community of...

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Ruth: 3:10-13; A community without lies. The God who cannot lie; the Christian who cannot lie.

By removing oaths, Christ abolishes all lies. The community of Christians are members of one another in Christ, born of the truth, and so only speak truth to one another.

The reason for our study in Eph 4 is this passage:

Eph 4:25 Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth, each one of you, with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

Yet the passage begins with "therefore" and so we must find what it is there for.

Eph...

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