Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast

Title: Joshua and Judges: The allotment of the land, part 38 - Predestination - Beholding God's glory.

Announcements / opening prayer:

Joh 6:47 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life.

Joh 6:48 "I am the bread of life.

Joh 6:49 "Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

Joh 6:50 "This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.

Now you thought that Him coming from heaven was hard to take, hold on for this.

Joh 6:51 "I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever; and the bread also which I shall...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The allotment of the land, part 37 - Predestination - Beholding God's glory.

Announcements / opening prayer:

The Spirit gives life, the flesh profits nothing. This life is the very life that is Christ. It is the full glory of God.

Let's look at a scene that took place the day after our Lord fed the 5,000 and we will see the difference between death and life.

Joh 6:22 The next day the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other small boat there, except one, and that Jesus had not entered with His disciples into the boat, but that His disciples had gone away alone.

Joh 6:23 There came other small boats from Tiberias near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The allotment of the land, part 36 - Predestination - Beholding God's glory.

Announcements / opening prayer:

"Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people ... There is no king or queen bee distinguished from all others, by size or figure or beauty and variety of colors, in the human hive. No man has yet produced any revelation from heaven in his favor, any divine communication to govern his fellow men. Nature throws us all into the world equal and alike... The preservation of liberty depends upon the intellectual and moral character of the people. As long as knowledge and virtue are diffused generally among the body of a nation, it is impossible they should be enslaved... Ambition is one of the more ungovernable passions of the...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The allotment of the land, part 35 - Predestination - Beholding God's glory.

Announcements / opening prayer:

Glorified: The believer shares in God's glory, which is all the goodness that He is. It is to be shared in time through spiritual growth and will ultimately be shared in heaven.

Paul saw firsthand the victory over the enemies of the gospel.

2Co 2:14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in His triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.

2Co 2:15 For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;

2Co 2:16 to the one an aroma from death to death, to the...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The allotment of the land, part 34 - Predestination - Beholding God's glory.

Announcements / opening prayer:

Glorified: The believer shares in God's glory, which is all the goodness that He is. It is to be shared in time through spiritual growth and will ultimately be shared in heaven.

Paul saw firsthand the victory over the enemies of the gospel.

2Co 2:14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in His triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.

2Co 2:15 For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;

We reveal the glory of God in every place and God leads us in...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The allotment of the land, part 33 - Predestination - Beholding God's glory.

Announcements/opening prayer:

Glorified: The believer shares in God's glory, which is all the goodness that He is. It is to be shared in time through spiritual growth and will ultimately be shared in heaven.

Paul saw firsthand the victory over the enemies of the gospel.

2Co 2:14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in His triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.

2Co 2:15 For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;

The glory of God, the fragrance of Christ, flows amongst those who...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The allotment of the land, part 32 - Predestination - The five words that make up every Christian story.

Announcements / opening prayer:

In Rom 8:29-30, the glorious story of the saved is told in five words, "foreknew, predestined, called, justified, glorified."

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.

Justification - The believer is completely vindicated of all things against God by the Justice of God since through imputation at salvation, he was made...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The allotment of the land, part 31 - Predestination - The five words that make up every Christian story.

Announcements / opening prayer:

In Rom 8:29-30, the glorious story of the saved is told in five words, "foreknew, predestined, called, justified, glorified."

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;

Every chosen one responds to the call because God knew that they would. The call of common grace goes out to the world, but the specific call to be conformed into the image of His Son

Predestined: to fix a boundary beforehand. The Father worked out a way for each believer to execute His plan, purpose, and will...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The allotment of the land, part 30 - Predestination - The Lord runs to help. Man's problems are caused by man. Jos 14-17.

Announcements / opening prayer:

Christ restores to man the rulership and glory that he carelessly gave away, and in fact, gave him more than he lost.

Heb 2:18 For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted.

Verse 18 reveals why He can help us. He was tempted and He also suffered. He is able to come to the aid of those who suffer and are tempted.

The Greek verb [boetheo], translated "to come to the aid of" means "to run to help." When believers are in need He runs to help.

He...

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Title: Joshua and Judges: The allotment of the land, part 29 - Predestination - The Lord runs to help. Man's problems are caused by man. Jos 14-17.

Announcements/opening prayer:

We love because He first loved us, 1Jo4:19, means that our love for God and others rests solely on our being loved by God.

As we are accepted in Christ so we love God and find our entire being in Him and obey Him. As we are accepted unconditionally in Christ so we accept all others in the same love. Our love rests fully on our being loved by God.

1Co 8:1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies.

Such a person is greedy for knowledge like another may be greedy for wealth. Wealth with love looks...

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