Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Title: Doctrine of the New Covenant, part 3.

Paul relates the fulfillment of the blessing of the Abrahamic Covenant to all families in Gal 3.

Gal 3:1 You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

Col 2:8

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.

Gal 3:2 This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?

Gal 3:3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the...

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Title: Doctrine of the New Covenant, part 2.

Covenants made with Israel:

Abrahamic, Davidic, Palestinian - unconditional.

Mosaic - conditional.

New - supersedes Mosaic, unconditional.

In the one New Covenant view, the physical promises are limited to Jews only but the spiritual blessings were to be extended to the Gentiles, which the church is now enjoying.

Spiritual blessings of the NC: the indwelling Spirit; a new heart; law written on the heart; one way; the fear of God; the union and communion with God the Father; and, having sins forgiven to the point of no condemnation.

It is obvious that the NT saint is the recipient of these...

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Title: Names of God; part 45. Elohim in the Shema of Israel.

Deu 6:4 "Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!"

Deu 6:5 "And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might."

"All of your heart" means pure and singular devotion; to devote to God our whole body, mind, feelings, and desires; our future and our failures.

God demands that we do not split our loyalties between Him and anyone else, including ourselves. We must lose our lives in order to find the life that God has graciously...

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Title: Doctrine of the New Covenant.

Covenants made with Israel:

Abrahamic, Davidic, Palestinian - unconditional.

Mosaic - conditional.

New - supersedes Mosaic, unconditional.

Many dispensationalists believe that there are two new covenants, one for Israel and one for the church.

Other dispensationalists believe that there is only one New Covenant and not two.

In the one New Covenant view, the physical promises are limited to Jews only but the spiritual blessings were to be extended to the Gentiles, which the church is now enjoying.

It must be said straight out that this has nothing to do with...

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Names of God; part 44. Elohim in the Shema of Israel.

Yavah our Elohim is one.

Deu 6:4 "Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!"

You have heard this as Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheynu, Adonai echav. This is the Shema, the central prayer of the Jews. Around 300 BC the rabbis decided that the name was too holy to pronounce and from then on the Jews did not pronounce Yavah and inserted Adonai instead.

The word echav is interesting.

Echav (one) is a word universally used when a thing is in view which is compounded out of unified parts: 'evening and morning, one day,' or 'the two shall be one flesh."

Echav can imply a unity in diversity. Other examples are the...

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Title: Names of God; part 43. Elohim - our God the Highest, all powerful Creator.

The Bible opens with "Elohim."

Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

"In the beginning Elohim" is the foundation of all theology. God is unknowable except where He chooses to reveal Himself, and He is answerable to no one.

Gen 1:2 And the earth was [can be translated "became"] formless and void [used of judgment], and darkness [also used of judgment] was over the surface of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

Gen 1:3 Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.

This light is distinct from...

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Title: Names of God; part 42. Elohim - our God the Highest, all powerful Creator.

We now turn to the use of the name Elohim.

Elohim: occurring over 2500 times, it is the plural of Eloah of the root El which was used for "God" all throughout the Semitic world (Babylonian, Phoenician, Aramaic, Arabic, and Hebrew). Elohim is only used in Hebrew.

Some believe that the plural is used to denote unlimited greatness as in a plural of attributes and power. Others believe that it is a plural of majesty as in King of kings. The original belief, which has been held by most conservative members of the church is that the plural is used due to the existence of the three members of the Trinity, which are three persons in one God. The other theories are human inventions without Biblical proof or evidence, and so there is no reason to...

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Title: Names of God; part 41. Conclusion of Yavah and beginning of Elohim.

1Jo 3 and Rom 6 reveal to us the conduct of the good son in the house of the Lord. All sons are in the house, but not all sons willingly choose to follow the Master's way. Being a son in the house, with the banquet of goodness always in front of me and my cup always running over, having the seed of the divine within me, there is every propulsion to the life that is Christ.

Joh 8:34 Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.

"commits" - present participle of poieo = continually practice. Enmity towards the flesh, hatred towards sin, the desire to wage war against the flesh, the desire to live unto Him are all grace gifts....

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Title: Names of God; part 40. Conclusion of Yavah and beginning of Elohim.

1Jo 3:9 No one who is born of God practices sin [present active indicative of poieo], because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin [present infinitive], because he is born of God.

1Jo 3:10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice [present active participle of poieo] righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.

Added to the practice of the son in the house is the fact that he loves his brother with God's sacrificial love.

Righteousness or righteous living can easily become confused in the mind of the believer through the temptation of his own arrogance and become equivalent to self-righteousness....

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Title: Names of God; part 39. Being a son in the house of YHVH.

1Jo 3:1 See how great a love the Father has bestowed upon us [perfect tense: it is our permanent possession], that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

1Jo 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that, when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He is.

1Jo 3:3 And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

1Jo 3:4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

1Jo 3:5 And you know that He appeared in order to take away sins;...

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