Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Title: Judges: Chap 2: The full knowledge of the Son of God is the path to maturity.

Announcements / opening prayer:

Eph 4:11 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,

Eph 4:12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;

Eph 4:13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge [epignosis - full knowledge] of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fulness of Christ.

"knowledge" - epignosis = full of deep knowledge. Since such knowledge is of a "way" and is "alive and powerful" it must be...

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Title: Judges: Chap 2: The full knowledge of the Son of God is the path to maturity.

Announcementsopening prayer:

God's plan is perfectly righteous, and though the believer is not, God through grace enabled the believer to walk in that plan.

Eph 4:1 I, therefore [after the doctrine of chaps 1-3], the prisoner of the Lord, entreat you [beseech or beg] to walk in a manner worthy [axios = same weight; experiential sanctification] of the calling with which you have been called,

Eph 4:2 with all humility [correct estimate of self - lowly] and gentleness [inward grace], with patience [makrothumia - towards others], showing forbearance [endurance, bearing up under pressure] to one another in love,

humility:...

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Title: Judges: Chap 2: The full knowledge of the Son of God is the path to maturity.

Announcements / opening prayer:

God's plan is perfectly righteous, and though the believer is not, God through grace enabled the believer to walk in that plan.

Eph 4:1 I, therefore [after the doctrine of chaps 1-3], the prisoner of the Lord, entreat you [beseech or beg] to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called,

"worthy" - avxi,wj[axios] = having the same weight as another thing. Christian experience should weigh as much as the professing of Christianity. We are to practice what we preach.

Eph 4:2 with all humility [correct estimate of self - lowly] and gentleness [inward grace], with...

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Title: Judges: Chap 2: How does a sinner mature in grace?

Announcements / opening prayer:

In the Mosaic law the blood of the animal only covered the sin, but it did not remove it, Heb 10:1-4. It did provide for forgiveness of sin and restoration to fellowship.

Heb 10:1 For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never by the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

Heb 10:2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?

Heb 10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year....

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Title: Judges: Chap 2: How does a sinner mature in grace?

Announcements / opening prayer:

The Law of Moses contained 613 commandments and being a conditional covenant, it provided blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, Exo 15:26.

613 commands is a sobering reality, but if one truly did love the Lord then these commands were a source of rejoicing and not a burden. All the commands in some way pointed towards the salvation on mankind through the Messiah as well as Israel's salvation and deliverance, they just had to be understood in this light, and when they were, they were a joy to fulfill.

Psa 119:18

Open my eyes, that I may behold

Wonderful things from Thy law.

Psa...

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Title: Judges: Chap 2: How does a sinner follow a righteous conditional covenant? Adjustment to God's plan in grace.

Announcements / opening prayer:

The Israelite could consider himself forgiven of an iniquity as he offered the proper sin offering, during which ritual he was to understand that another would bear the burden of his sin and to this the proper response was a contrite heart that was broken of all pride.

For this principle we examined Psa 51.

An Israelite could not consider himself forgiven, which in essence referred to his fellowship with God, if he simply went through the ritual of the sin offering with no regard to his obligation to God or fear of God.

Now, we must understand that forgiveness wasn't in the...

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Title: Judges: Chap 2: How does a sinner follow a righteous conditional covenant? Adjustment to God's plan in grace.

Announcements / opening prayer:

The Israelite could consider himself forgiven of an iniquity as he offered the proper sin offering, during which ritual he was to understand that another would bear the burden of his sin and to this the proper response was a contrite heart that was broken of all pride.

Psa 51:1 For the choir director. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

Psa 51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness [David doesn't diminish his act of sin. He had Uriah murdered], O God,

The God of my salvation;

Then my tongue will joyfully sing of...

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Title: Judges: Chap 2: Unconditional and conditional covenants.

Announcements / opening prayer:

Jdg 2:18 And when the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge and delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed and afflicted them.

Compassion/sympathy/pity: the power of putting oneself into another's place in such a manner as to feel what he feels; pain, suffering, joy, temptation, etc.

Israel eventually cried out to the Lord in anguish after years of oppression and the Lord was moved to compassion each time.

Jdg 2:19 But it came about when the judge died, that they would turn back and act more...

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Title: Judges: Chap 2: The obviousness of the blessing and the curse given to all generations.

Announcements / opening prayer:

What they did have:

The following judgments are threatened, not for single breaches of the law, but for contempt of all the laws, amounting to inward contempt of the divine commandments and a breach of the covenant - for presumptuous and obstinate rebellion, therefore, against God and His commandments.

Lev 26:14 'But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments,

Lev 26:15 if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

Lev 26:16 I, in turn,...

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Title: Judges: Chap 2: The obviousness of the blessing and the curse given to all generations.

Announcements / opening prayer:

Jdg 2:13 So they forsook the Lord and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

They worshipped as god the powers of nature. Creation was by the power of nature and therefore Nature is deified. The sensuousness of nature worship appeals to the corrupt nature while the spiritual worship of God in sanctification does not.

After all, why would something perfect and incorruptible like spirituality appeal to the corrupt nature? That shows us unequivocally that it is true.

Jdg 2:14 And the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He gave them into the hands of plunderers who plundered them; and He sold them into...

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