Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Title: Judges 7. Gideon, part 35: Holding fast every opportunity.

Gideon needs to know and understand the natural state of the OT believer under the Law: full recognition of the power and majesty of Jehovah, complete faith, and humble worship.

So we return to Gideon. His heart is in the process of being changed into a full recognition of the power and majesty of Jehovah so that he will put his full faith in God and bow to the ground and worship God.

The first test, a voluntary release, eliminated the fearful. The second test of readiness eliminated the careless or immature.

Jdg 7:7 And the Lord said to Gideon, "I will deliver you with the 300 men who lapped and will give the Midianites into your hands; so let...

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Title: Judges 7. Gideon, part 34: Be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling.

We are just about to finish up our final verse in 2Pe 1, and so we will read through what we have studied over the last two weeks, which are eternal and wonderful for sure. We are extraordinary creatures in Christ.

2Pe 1:1 Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

2Pe 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the [epignosis] knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

2Pe 1:3 seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness [proper worship], through the true [epignosis] knowledge of Him who...

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Title: Judges 7. Gideon, part 33: The divine nature and supplying virtue.

2Pe 1:8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing [such a life is living and dynamic], they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

"are increasing": pleonazo = are superabounding. Every believer is given more than enough grace to supply more than enough virtue in his life.

If you fully believe who you are as a divine nature then you will be diligent in supplying Christ's characteristics and you will superabound in Christ's characteristics and so you will be fruitful in the full knowledge of Him. Superabound means to have more than enough of something. Phrases like, "I only have so much love to...

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Title: Judges 7. Gideon, part 32: The divine nature and supplying virtue.

2Pe 1:1 Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

2Pe 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge [epignosis = complete appropriation of all truth and unreserved acquiescence to God's will] of God and of Jesus our Lord;

2Pe 1:3 seeing that His divine power [saving mankind in Christ] has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.

2Pe 1:4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them...

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Title: Judges 7. Gideon, part 31: The divine nature and supplying virtue.

Announcements:

2Pe 1:1 Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

2Pe 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge [epignosis = complete appropriation of all truth and unreserved acquiescence to God's will] of God and of Jesus our Lord;

2Pe 1:3 seeing that His divine power [saving mankind in Christ] has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.

2Pe 1:4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent...

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Title: Judges 7. Gideon, part 30: The divine nature and supplying virtue.

Announcements:

2Pe 1:1 Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

2Pe 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge [epignosis = complete appropriation of all truth and unreserved acquiescence to God's will] of God and of Jesus our Lord;

2Pe 1:3 seeing that His divine power [saving mankind in Christ] has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.

2Pe 1:4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent...

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Title: Judges 7. Gideon, part 28: Properly directed worship.

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What does he mean when Peter entreats us to be diligent to make certain about our calling and election? I am challenged to believe why eyes cannot see, ears cannot hear, and what has never entered into the heart of man by his own calculation.

2Pe 1:1 Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

2Pe 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge [epignosis = complete appropriation of all truth and unreserved acquiescence to God's will] of God and of Jesus our Lord;

2Pe 1:3 seeing that His divine power...

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Title: Judges 7. Gideon, part 28: Why we ultimately do. Don't lose opportunities due to carelessness.

Announcements:

What does he mean when Peter entreats us to be diligent to make certain about our calling and election? I am challenged to believe why eyes cannot see, ears cannot hear, and what has never entered into the heart of man by his own calculation.

2Pe 1:1 Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

Think of yourself as a literal slave of Jesus Christ, bound to Him forever. The slave lays aside his own interest and serves His master.

If the Master went away...

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Title: Judges 7. Gideon, part 27: Why we ultimately do. Don't lose opportunities due to carelessness.

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Rom 8:28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

Rom 8:29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren;

Rom 8:30 and whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

Foreknown to believe, predestined to walk in Christ's manner, elected to have Christ's full inheritance, justified as perfectly righteous, glorified to share in all of...

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Title: Judges 7. Gideon, part 26: Why we ultimately do. Don't lose opportunities due to carelessness.

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An amazing revolution of transformation has happened to man. He has been elected in Christ and in His image. Each one of us must be who we are and stop entertaining who we are not.

Rom 8:28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

Rom 8:29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren;

Rom 8:30 and whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified,...

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