Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Title: Joshua and Judges: The allotment of the land, part 48 - Predestination - God's glory.

Announcements / opening prayer:

2Co 3:1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

2Co 3:2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

2Co 3:3 being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts.

2Co 3:4 And such confidence we have through Christ toward God.

2Co 3:5 Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The allotment of the land, part 47 - Predestination - Liberty of God's glory.

Announcements / opening prayer:

2Co 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Conclusion to Christian liberty: The Christian is free to do, but what is he free from?

All true freedom has this double aspect. In slavery all doors are closed and the person is a slave to his place. But when freed from his place he is now not only free from the burdens of that place but is free to do things in realms where he has never walked. The door that held him in slavery is thrown open by Christ and he finds many other doors are now open. Will he follow Christ through them all?

The Christian is free from the bondage...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The allotment of the land, part 46 - Predestination - Liberty of God's glory.

Announcementsopening prayer:

1Co 9:19 For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, that I might win the more.

1Co 9:20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law, though not being myself under the Law, that I might win those who are under the Law;

1Co 9:21 to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, that I might win those who are without law.

1Co 9:22 To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The allotment of the land, part 45 - Predestination - Liberty of God's glory.

Announcements/opening prayer:

1Co 9:16 For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion; for woe is me if I do not preach the gospel.

1Co 9:17 For if I do this voluntarily [chose my ministry], I have a reward; but if against my will [God chose it for me], I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

1Co 9:18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may offer the gospel without charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

1Co 9:19 For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, that I might win the more.

If a believer thinks that...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The allotment of the land, part 44 - Predestination - Liberty of God's glory.

Announcementsopening prayer:

1Co 9:16 For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion; for woe is me if I do not preach the gospel.

1Co 9:17 For if I do this voluntarily [chose my ministry], I have a reward; but if against my will [God chose it for me], I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

1Co 9:18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may offer the gospel without charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

Paul's reward is to offer the gospel without charge. His motivation is the love of God for mankind and his love of the gospel itself since it is Christ...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The allotment of the land, part 43 - Predestination - Liberty of God's glory.

Announcementsopening prayer:

1Co 9:12 If others share the right over you, do we not more? [We ministered to your conversion and established your church] Nevertheless, we did not use this right, but we endure [protect or preserve by covering] all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

1Co 9:13 Do you not know that those who perform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share with the altar?

1Co 9:14 So also the Lord directed those who proclaim the gospel to get their living from the gospel.

1Co 9:15 But I have used none of these things. And I am...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The allotment of the land, part 42 - Predestination - Liberty of God's glory.

Announcements / opening prayer:

1Co 9:12 If others share the right over you, do we not more? [We ministered to your conversion and established your church] Nevertheless, we did not use this right, but we endure all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

Endure: stego = to protect or preserve by covering. We do no open for public view what we endure. Christian liberty is the freedom from all earthly burdens which makes the gospel unburdened.

Our freedom is from the chains of this world which make men fight passionately for what is owed them. Being chained to this world means that one has to demand earthly rights, but the heavenly creature cares nothing...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The allotment of the land, part 41 - Predestination - Liberty of God's glory.

Announcements / opening prayer:

Liberty is the fruit of the Spirit; love, peace, joy, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

For the Christian, this is liberty. It doesn't depend upon what nation he lives in or what time in history. It doesn't depend on whether he is prospering or unjustly suffering at the hands of evil men. It doesn't depend upon his physical, financial, or social condition. It depends upon the Spirit alone.

Take goodness for instance - agathosune: The word refers to that quality in a man who is ruled by and aims at what is good, namely, the quality of moral worth as defined by God.

Gal 5:13...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The allotment of the land, part 40 - Predestination - Liberty of God's glory.

Announcements / opening prayer:

2Co 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992).

In defining liberty: At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

The courts did the people of this nation a great disservice in rendering this definition in the record. It now used quite often in court cases. According to this, a person may define liberty in any way he sees fit. What if my concept of existence and human is labeled as wrong or hurtful by others? Do they have to acknowledge my concept as...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The allotment of the land, part 39 - Predestination - Beholding God's glory.

Announcements / opening prayer:

2Co 3:7 But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was,

2Co 3:8 how shall the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory?

2Co 3:9 For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness [justification] abound in glory.

2Co 3:10 For indeed what had glory, in this case has no glory on account of the glory that surpasses it.

2Co 3:11 For if that which fades away...

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