Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Title: Ruth: 3:1-9; a study on chesed - the substance of all things, God's glory.

Everyone who follows Christ will have great and rewarding relationships, challenging ones, and enemies. Think of the glory that was in the room when Christ stood in front of the Sanhedrin. Think of the glory that shown to each of those religious leaders. Think of the glory that shown to Pilate when he interviewed Christ. Think of the glory that Jesus shared with Peter, James, and John. Think of the glory that He shares with you.

The other person and the relationship are a gift from God which gives us the opportunity to grasp and see His glory in them and in the experience of the relationship.

Rom 16:3 Greet Prisca (Pree-skah) and Aquila (Akoo-lah), my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,...

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Title: Ruth: 3:1-9; a study on chesed - the substance of all things, God's glory.

The heavenly treasure that Christ instructed us to store up is directly associated with the glory of God in everything and everyone in our lives. The heavenly treasure is unseen to the natural eye while it is fully beheld by the spiritual retina.

The real inheritance in all things is the glory of God in them. Our spiritual eyes must be trained to see them and the flesh must be commanded to silence.

The flesh wars against the Spirit, but the Spirit wars against the flesh. One would think this battle to be very one sided, but the reason why the flesh can still overwhelm a life is because the...

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Title: Ruth: 3:1-9; a study on chesed - the substance of all things, God's glory.

Mat 6:19 "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

Mat 6:20 "But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal;

Mat 6:21 for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

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Title: Ruth: 3:1-9; a study on chesed - the substance of all things, God's glory.

Mat 6:19 "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

Mat 6:20 "But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal;

Mat 6:21 for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Mat 6:22 "The lamp of the body is the eye; if therefore your eye is clear [singular], your whole body will be full of light.

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Title: Ruth: 3:1-9; a study on chesed - the substance of all things, God's glory.

Mat 23:23 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

Mat 23:24 "You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

In our Lord's third use of the word eleos, the Greek equivalent of chesed, He points out the blindness of the Pharisees to the glory of God that was in the Law. Interesting that something that brought condemnation upon man could have the glory of God in it. The Law didn't save anyone. It could not justify a man. But it had the gospel in it and the condemnation was a way in which God could turn a...

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Title: Ruth: 3:1-9; a study on chesed - the substance of all things, God's glory.

We are looking at the third and last use of the word éleos (counterpart to the Hebrew word chesed) by our Lord.

Mat 23:23"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy [eleos] and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

Mat 23:24 "You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

Repeating:

Sin is our own desires and selfish urges that propel us to act for our own benefit at the expense of others. Chesed or mercy is the exact opposite of this and this is why it can only be found in Jesus Christ....

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Title: Ruth: 3:1-9; a study on chesed - our Lord's use of the word in reference to holy things.

We continue in His use of éleos by our Lord:

Mat 23:23"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy [eleos] and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

Mat 23:24 "You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

Just like the instructions in the Mosaic Law on the Sabbath, food restrictions, and here tithing, Israel under their self-imposed...

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Ruth: 3:1-9; a study on chesed - our Lord's use of the word in reference to holy things.

We continue in His use of éleos by our Lord:

Mat 12:1 At that time Jesus went on the Sabbath through the grainfields, and His disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat.

Mat 12:2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, "Behold, Your disciples do what is not lawful to do on a Sabbath."

The Lord does not begin a debate on the efficacy of Sabbath laws. There is always a greater principle in the balance that He addresses.

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Title: Ruth: 3:1-9; a study on chesed - our Lord's use of the word.

Mat 9:12 But when He heard this, He said, "It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.

Mat 9:13 "But go and learn what this means, 'I desire compassion [eleos], and not sacrifice, 'for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

The duty of keeping aloof from the polluted, in the sense of "having no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness," is obvious enough; but to understand this as prohibiting such contact with them as is necessary to their recovery, is to abuse it. This was what these pharisaical religionists did,...

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