Pastor Joe Sugrue - Grace and Truth Podcast: Recent Episodes
Pastor Joe Sugrue
Grace and Truth Ministries is non-denominational, and Pastor Joseph P. Sugrue is dedicated to teaching the Word of God from the original languages.
Sunday February 9, 2025Introduction: Mat 10:7-8for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3117
Thursday February 6, 2025Mat 12:15-17Quiet victory: real power is when you can quietly accomplish something great. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3116
Wednesday February 5, 2025Are you loyal to anyone? What does loyalty mean?Websters: faithful to those persons, ideals, etc. that one is under obligation to defend, support, or be true...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3115
Sunday February 2, 2025Introduction: Main Idea: The supremacy of Christ means that you must bow your entire soul to Him. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3114
Thursday January 30, 2025Main idea: The childlike believer comes to Christ, takes His yoke / school upon him, and finds rest. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3113
Wednesday January 29, 2025Hook: [slide] Entrance requirements for best schools (4.2 GPA and 1580 SAT).Christ's school...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3112
Sunday January 26, 2025Some parts of childhood have to go. Other parts of childhood almost every adult loses but which should remain. Jesus is going to tell us today that the Father only reveals wisdom to children. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3111
Thursday January 23, 2025Jesus fulfilled the Law.Rom 8:1-4for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3110
Wednesday January 22, 2025Intro: The OT Scripture is an expertly crafted work pointing to a promised leader who never comes. It ends unfinished ...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3109
Sunday January 19, 2025Main Idea: Self-learners run into perplexity, but their doubt is an impulse to discovery.Intro: Next section of Matthew's Gospel (11-13)....for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3108
Thursday January 16, 2025Reward for fearless witness: Mat 10:32-33Confess (homologeo) or deny?...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3107
Wednesday January 15, 2025Hook: Should I fear God? Christ? Should I love them?Main Idea: Fear God and you will not fear anything...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3106
Sunday January 12, 2025Intro: Jefferson quote: "the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3105
Thursday January 9, 2025Main idea: Because the name of Christ is hated in the world, His messengers will be persecuted.Intro: Experience of the apostles in Acts....for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3104
Wednesday January 8, 2025Main idea: The character of the apostle makes him effective. Mission commission mentioned four times in the synoptics. God wants each of us and our church on the mission....for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3103
Sunday January 5, 2025Main idea: Jesus Christ sent the twelve only to Israel because they were God's covenant people. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3102
Thursday January 2, 2025Main Idea: People are weary and cast down when they don't have a Shepherd.Now, Jesus is going to send 12 chosen disciples on a mission, itinerant preaching tour, to do the same. Jesus...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3101
Sunday December 29, 2024Main Idea: The apostle had a mission to teach the gospel with sacrifice and suffering.Mat 10:1-4for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3100
Sunday December 22, 2024Main idea: Peace enters the world with Jesus and is offered to all who will know Him by faith. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3099
Thursday December 19, 2024Theme: Christ is the light that shows us the path of peace. Four ways of peace: 1) with God; 2) with others;...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3098
Wednesday December 18, 2024Intro: Praise and joy from seeing blessings from God, Luk 1:46-47. Luk...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3097
Sunday December 15, 2024There is nothing but rejoicing in the heart of Elizabeth for her "companion." for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3096
Thursday December 12, 2024Main idea: Theme: Being humble and depending on our Shepherd fills the heart with peace.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3095
Wednesday December 11, 2024Main idea: God turns the tables of power: the small and humble is clothed in glory. Mic...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3094
Sunday December 8, 2024Theme: The Lord has completely changed every believer and inspired in them love for Him. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3093
Thursday December 5, 2024"Micah's words, remembered in their shocking severity a hundred years later, deserve to be taken to heart by each generation of God's people. They challenge every attempt to misuse the service of God for one's own glory and profit. They are a dire warning against the complacency that can take God's love and reject his lordship. They are a passionate plea for consistency between creed and conduct. The Lord...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3092
Wednesday December 4, 2024Intro: Assyrian invasion of Israel and Judah (722-701 B.C.): The darkness has descended. The northern kingdom is gone. The...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3091
Sunday December 1, 2024Intro: Micah is going to identify false prophets. He accuses them of failing to preach judgment. This is something that the church has been guilty of. There will be judgment for those who refuse Christ. In Israel, the people are more than willing to hear that everything is going to be okay, that judgment is not from God....for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3090
Sunday November 24, 2024Judgment oracle: Address, Accusation, Judicial sentence, Conclusion. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3089
Thursday November 21, 2024Intro: A little history makes this passage pop.We need to first...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3088
Wednesday November 20, 2024The prophet: Micaiah is a sentence name, meaning Who is like Yah? He artfully inserts his name in the people's hymn of praise at the end of the book: for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3087
Sunday November 17, 2024Main idea: Christ is our shield. Do not ever depend on any other fortification. "The struggle going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets. By armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root it is a...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3086
Thursday November 14, 2024Main idea: We must have Christ's compassion for all the outcasts and downcasts. Application: for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3085
Wednesday November 13, 2024Main idea: Faith in an invitation by Christ into a relationship with Him. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3084
Sunday November 10, 2024Main idea: Jesus reaches the outcasts and the downcasts asking them to believe in Him, and He commissions us to do the same as Him. Jesus reached for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3083
Thursday November 7, 2024Main idea: Our lives in Christ are new and cannot mix with the old life.Jesus is going to use three illustrations, all related, to do the same thing. His...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3082
Wednesday November 6, 2024Intro: All religion seeks to answer the question: How can a man be just with God? This was especially true, and vigorously...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3081
Sunday November 3, 2024Mat 9:1-8; It's Not Your Fault, or Is It? Main Idea: Christ has removed our shame by grace....for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3080
Thursday October 31, 2024Main idea: Jesus has the authority to calm the sea and the soul. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3079
Wednesday October 30, 2024Main idea: To fully follow the Lord, the believer has to abandon his own will. He bids them to follow Him - to the land of the...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3078
Sunday October 27, 2024Main idea: His power was not used to subdue, but to show love that demands a response.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3077
Thursday October 24, 2024Main idea: Faith sees the unseen and counts on the impossible, according to God's will. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3076
Wednesday October 23, 2024Main idea: Know your real need to be cleansed from sin and then offer it to others. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3075
Sunday October 20, 2024Main idea: Following the Lord by obedience to His Word will allow you to see His next miraculous work. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3074
Thursday October 17, 2024Main theme: The key to doing what Christ says is in the Beatitudes. Mat 7:24-27for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3073
Wednesday October 16, 2024Main idea: The Golden Rule changes others and you into the mold of Christ. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3072
Sunday October 13, 2024Main idea: Jesus demands that we be genuine according to whom He has made us to be. God changed you...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3071
Thursday October 10, 2024Main idea: Keep asking, seeking, knocking is tenacity in life's journey on the way of Christ. Mat...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3070
Wednesday October 9, 2024Main idea: Jesus demands that we participate in establishing His design for our life or we will not experience it.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3069
Sunday October 6, 2024Main Idea: Asking God for virtue moves Him to design a way which the believer must seek on which there are many opportunities which the believer must choose to enter. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3068
Thursday October 3, 2024Are there holy things in your life that you are not enjoying? for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3067
Wednesday October 2, 2024Main idea: Do not judge and also see what is obvious and have the wisdom to discern the difference. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3066
Sunday September 29, 2024Idea: A believer should not judge any other but in love serve them like Christ. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3065
Thursday September 26, 2024Idea: Worry is fueled by the future and Jesus drains this power away. Intro:...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3064
Wednesday September 25, 2024Idea: Jesus teaches us how to focus on the good treasures of heaven when we start to become overwhelmed. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3063
September 22, 2024Main Idea: The believer is to walk by faith in this dangerous world without worry because God helps him daily. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3062
Thursday September 19, 2024Idea: The eye of desire is in every person and God gives us a choice to use it to seek light or darkness, while helping us to choose light. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3061
Wednesday September 18, 2024Main idea for today: God helps us to make the correct choice to store up treasure in heaven by instructing us of our future apart from this world. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3060
Sunday September 15, 2024Main idea: The disciple of Christ has the option to see the treasures of heaven, which will cause heaven to fill his heart and light to fill his body. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3059
Thursday September 12, 2024You and I engage with the reality of meaning, without the ritual. In our subject currently, the Lord is teaching on worship of God the Father by each of us personally. He mentions three things; giving, praying, and fasting. All of them, to...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3058
Wednesday September 11, 2024Intro: It is very, very difficult for a person to rid himself of the idea of self-preservation. It is a basic human instinct, or so we are told, and without it, the race would die out. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3057
Sunday September 8, 2024Christ has no accounting or bookkeeping in mind when He instructs us about forgiveness of others. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3056
Thursday September 5, 2024Intro: The Christian way of life is viewed in Scripture using the imagery of a journey. God does not drag you along this journey kicking and...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3055
Wednesday September 4, 2024In this prayer, after we have glorified His name by making it holy, after we have longed for His king, have lives in its way and shined it forth; and after we have done His will - we ask for today's bread (not concerned about tomorrow); we ask for (or seek) forgiveness of all our debt, and forgive all others - and yet we are not...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3054
Tuesday September 3, 2024Intro: Most people do not know that the debt they have to God is enormous. I wonder how many believers know that it is larger than can be counted - it is a multitude. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3053
Sunday September 1, 2024Intro: Believers, forgiven by means of the blood of Christ, are not suddenly exempt from the sin problem. We continue to sin. Are we to try and stop? Are we to just let it go and hope for the best? Are we to confess and move on? Are we to ask for forgiveness? What are we to do about our sin problem? Does Scripture tell us precisely, and if so, what will be the result of our obedience to...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3052
Thursday August 29, 2024We must desire to be supported in this life mainly for the purpose of doing God's desire. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3051
Wednesday August 28, 2024Title: Mat 6:11; There Is a Reason God Keeps You Alive. Idea: Right priorities lead us...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3050
Tuesday August 27, 2024Idea: The flesh tries many schemes to lessen the believer's commitment to the will of God. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3049
Sunday August 25, 2024 Idea: The Lord's prayer commits us to do His will and the process of conformity is long and, at times, painful. Intro: The first three petitions of the Lord's prayer phrased using third...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3048
Sunday August 18, 2024Heb 10:7"Then I said, 'Behold, I have come for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3047
Thursday August 15, 2024Intro: Why should we pray, "Your kingdom come?" Isn't the kingdom coming whether we pray for it or not? for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3046
Wednesday August 14, 2024Rejection of the kingdom and reasons for it - Mat 12. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3045
Tuesday August 13, 2024Idea: We pray for the kingdom to come because we know it is the only kingdom for mankind. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3044
Sunday August 11, 2024Idea: Praying to hallow the Father's name rewards us with the blessing of becoming like Him in character. Introduction: When God takes steps to make the family of Jacob, now in the millions (begun...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3043
Thursday August 8, 2024Idea: Christ added gave us a new name to call God - Father; and it is as holy as all His other names. Mat 6:9. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3042
Wednesday August 7, 2024 Idea: The real needs of all Christians are in heaven and it is there that they must seek them in prayer. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3041
Tuesday August 6, 2024Intro: Everyone at some time wonders, "Who am I? What am I doing here? What is the meaning of my life, if anything?" Often this reaches a debilitating level at the fountainhead of adulthood sometimes called mid-life. The old song, "I never promised you a rose garden," comes to mind, and with it, "Tiptoe through the tulips." Life was neither...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3040
Sunday August 4, 2024Title: Mat 6:5-9; Seeking, Finding, and Receiving All of Your Needs. Idea: God wants you to ask for your needs, of...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3039
Thursday August 1, 2024Main thrust: Proper prayer is exclusion unto God, realization of God, and confidence in God. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3038
Wednesday July 31, 2024Idea: Proper prayer to the Father is not seen by others nor admired by yourself and it will lead you to know Him deeper. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3037
Tuesday July 30, 2024Idea: Giving to others is a required worship of God that must be done for God's eyes only. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3036
Sunday July 28, 2024Preliminary considerations. First: You will not fulfill the commissions without the personal desire to know God, love God, and love all mankind. Agape love loves his enemies and therefore all. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3035
Thursday July 25, 2024Idea: God's reward of the conditioned heart in time is a guarantee of rewards in eternity and the Lord wants us to seek them. Mat 6:1-18 Worshiping God in proper spiritual disciplines will be rewarded in time and eternity. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3034
Wednesday July 24, 2024In Mat 6:1, Jesus is referring to the reward for proper worship of God. Forms of worship that are "doing" things. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3033
Tuesday July 23, 2024Intro: In present-day usage a reward is a gift given in recognition for some service rendered, either good or evil. The biblical usage is quite varied, including bribery, punishment, gift giving, and incentive for service. It includes the petty things that people seek and get (Mat 6:5) and the retribution to the wicked in the future (Psa 91:8). for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3032
Sunday July 21,2024Introduction: The apostles had to overcome the temptation to fall into manner of the hupokrites (the actors), for the Greeks were used to it, admired it, and it did grab their attention. They mocked those who lacked good delivery. Paul would have none of it. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3031
Thursday July 18, 2024Idea: The love of God expressed in you is not for the reason of turning your enemy into a friend, nor even for the salvation of others, but for the glory of God....for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3030
Wednesday July 17, 2024Idea: Faith and obedience are increased through various trials which God allows with the result that we love all others and worship God. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3029
Tuesday July 16, 2024Idea: Fulfilling the command to be perfect like God requires trust and complete obedience, and God tells us just how He is going to accomplish these in us. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3028
Sunday July 14, 20243+1 is a literary pattern found in significant places. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3027
Thursday July 11, 2024. Love your neighbor as yourself, for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3026
Wednesday July 10, 2024Introduction: We have to die to self. What does that mean?...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3025
Tuesday July 9, 2024Introduction: Laws of the land are necessary for society and the Christian is commanded by God to obey them. The OT law is legislation to control excesses - anger,...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3024
Sunday July 7, 2024Idea: The Christian is to extend God's love to all people (evil and good) and to leave all judgment to God. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3023
Sunday June 30, 2024Idea: God has made kingdom citizens in the self-centered old world to reveal King and kingdom by the King's way of selflessness. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3022
Thursday June 27, 2024Idea: Jesus removes vows so that are hearts will be so true so as to have no need of crutches. Introduction:for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3021
Wednesday June 26, 2024Mat 5:31-32Marriage is a gift from God so that man could experience covenant...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3020
Tuesday June 25, 2024Idea: Christ interprets the law in a way that shows us our need for circumcision of our hearts - the removal of sin. Intro: Samuel was sent to the house of Jesse to anoint...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3019
Sunday June 23, 2024Introduction: Can we imagine that in the commandment "You shall not commit adultery," is the solution to all human problems. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3018
Thursday, June 20, 2024Introduction. Wisdom is a gift from God. Wisdom only comes through an understanding of the Lord Jesus Christ....for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3017
Wednesday June 19th 2024Augustine [Imperfect pastor, Know It All, p. 103]"Anyone who thinks that he has understood the...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3016
Tuesday June 18, 2024Idea: Everything the believer does is to come from the core of his heart based on his true character. Intro:...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3015
Sunday June 16th, 2024Introduction: God's plans are for the mundane, quiet life.Jer 29:11 - learn how to live with one another in...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3014
Thursday June 13, 2024Mat 5:20Though a small minority, the Pharisees and Scribes were the paragons of spirituality and virtue in Israel. They had enormous influence on the thinking of the people....for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3013
Wednesday June 12, 2024Open: The difference in a life between hoping something will be completed and one in which the great task is finished. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3012
Tuesday June 11, 2024Idea: Christ gave the church commissions which focus entirely on people inside and outside the church. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3011
Sunday June 9, 2024Communion: King and kingdom were to come - Israel knew. Psa 89:3-4; Psa 2:7-9; 110:1-3.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3010
Sunday June 2, 2024Idea: The humanity of Christ had to fulfill the type of the King who the prophets saw in His greatness as preeminent to all else. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3009
Thursday May 30, 2024Idea: Jesus' fulfillment of the law on the cross fulfilled all ceremonial law and, for believers, all moral law by the Holy Spirit. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3008
Wednesday May 29, 2024Idea: Apart from its rituals, the Hebrew Bible is our guiding law. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3007
Tuesday May 28, 2024Idea: Christ fulfilled the entire Old Testament by which He has made us righteous in person and upright in practice. Mat...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3006
Sunday May 26, 2024Idea: The Old Testament is not annulled, but through Christ it is more alive in our hearts than ever. Mat 5:17-20for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3005
Thursday May 23, 2024Idea: The pure heart illumes Christ openly, genuinely and demands courage. Luk...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3004
Wednesday May 22, 2024Idea: The light of the world shines on the problem and the solution for people, no matter what it costs. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3003
Sunday May 19, 2024Mat 5:14-16. Idea: Light shining that overcomes darkness have been the purpose of God for mankind from the beginning....for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3002
Thursday May 16, 2024Idea: The light of the world is us shining Christ in the domains of darkness.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3001
Wednesday May 15th 2024Idea: Being the light of the world means that you are the same source of the divine revelation as Jesus was. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3000
Tuesday May 14, 2024Idea: Using the image of salt, Jesus creates His heavenly community on earth. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2999
Sunday May 12th 2024Idea: The salt of the earth is a Christian who makes real, personal connections based upon God's covenant love. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2998
Thursday May 9, 2024Idea: The believer must resolve to rejoice and be happy, adjusting his heart accordingly, because Christ demands it. Mat 5:10-12, Christ commands us to...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2997
May 8th, 2024Idea: If the Christ-life in you is reproached for His sake, then you are blessed and rewarded. Mat 5:10-12....for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2996
Tuesday May 7, 2024Idea: People persecute those who differ and Satan inflames their proud jealousy. The Greek word translated "persecute" is applied to us, but not in its negative definition. It is like the...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2995
Sunday May 5, 2024We read, "Blessed are the peacemakers ..." and then "blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake." These lines are a precise description of the sinful world. People are at war, you call them together in the peace of Christ, and they in turn, turn their weapons on you. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2994
Thursday May 2, 2024Idea: To be called the son of God means that you have the characteristics of your Father. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2993
Wednesday May 1, 2024Idea: Making peace is to purposely initiate, which is called reconciliation.The making of peace is...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2992
Tuesday April 30, 2024Idea: Biblical peace is the harmony, well-being, and wholeness of people together. Mat 5:9for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2991
Sunday April 28, 2024Idea: In many circles, you can make the environment of the kingdom of Messiah: wholeness, well-being, satisfaction, peace, and...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2990
Thursday April 25, 2024Idea: God promises His eternal presence in a way that makes you seek it in time. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2989
Wednesday April 24, 2024Review. The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good (Luk 6:45)....for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2988
Tuesday April 23, 2024Idea: The Christian heart must be clean of ideas that allow living outside God's will without feeling conviction. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2987
April 21, 2024Idea: Taking a sober look at what you treasure will show you the invisible center of your being. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2986
Thursday April 18, 2024Mat 5:8"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2985
April 17, 2024Mat 5:7"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy."...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2984
Tuesday April 16, 2024Idea: The power to give mercy to all is knowing and trusting the reality of God's mercy to you. Introduction:...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2983
Sunday April 14, 2024Idea: Mercy overrules all rules. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2982
Thursday April 11, 2024There is only one source to the life of righteousness, Jesus Christ. He gives rivers of living water and promised that if we drink, we would never be thirsty again. But did He mean that our lives would be easy? for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2981
Wednesday April 10, 2024Idea: Those who thirst and hunger for righteousness are blessed to be able to do the Father's will now and finishing the race glorifying Christ. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2980
Tuesday April 9, 2024Hunger and thirst have a very real, physical meaning and memory for the poor listening at the time of Jesus. It also had for them and us a metaphorical meaning - deep desire, Gal 5:24. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2979
Sunday April 7, 2024Introduction: Righteousness (Greek dikaiosune) defined: Quality or characteristic of upright behavior along with juridical responsibility focusing on fairness and justice.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2978
Thursday April 4, 2024Introduction: What kind of a person do we get when we put the first three Beatitudes together? for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2977
Wednesday April 3, 2024Mat 5:1-5When Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain; and after He sat down,...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2976
Tuesday April 2, 2024Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Idea: A person's...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2975
Sunday March 31, 2024The kingdom of heaven is founded on love and peace. Zec 9:9.By the resurrection of Christ, all believers in Him are assured a place in His kingdom....for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2974
Thursday March 28, 2024Beatitudes are nothing that we can do ourselves. They are divinely made within our hearts comprising our character. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2973
Wednesday March 27, 2024Poor in spirit is the character and service of the good steward (slave) of Christ. For a steward...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2972
Sunday March 24, 20241) Introduction: Economic poor. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2971
Thursday March 21, 2024Introduction to the Beatitudes. There is no sense in studying this Sermon unless you agree that...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2970
Wednesday March 20, 2024Introduction:The Lord died to enable us to live the SOM. Tit 2:14....for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2969
Tuesday, March 19, 2024The Sermon on the Mount is taught to disciples: Mat 5:1-2, Who is...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2968
Sunday March 17, 2024Intro: God has a heart for the broken, but they must act upon His mercy. Jdg 2:1-3.The born-again believer has one calling, and that is to be an...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2967
Thursday March 14, 2024Mat 4:24-25Mat 4:12-25 is a summary of Galilee ministry - calling, teaching in their synagogues, and healing every malady. To what end? Changing everyone. The gift of eternal life...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2966
Wednesday March 13, 2024Introduction: Way; 2 ways from which to choose, is an old truth. Biblically, in the OT the metaphorical use of way means the way of life - way of God, way of good, way of evil,...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2965
Tuesday March 12, 2024Introduction. Fear of the Lord: Rom 3:17-18 in comparison of Luk 1:78-79 [Zacharias' prophecy] (quotes Isa 9:2) and adds "To guide our feet in the way of...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2964
Sunday March 10, 2024Introduction:In our first birth we receive the gift of bios, biological life; in the second birth we...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2963
March 7, 2024Introduction: The kingdom of heaven is a place (dominion) and a power (King). It is an activity (reign and rule and service) and it is communal. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2962
Wednesday March 6, 2024Mat 4:17From that time Jesus began to preach and say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2961
Tuesday March 5, 2024Idea: Christ went into the dark places in order to save those who sat in darkness (brutes, monsters, rebels, wretches) and to give them a kingdom of light. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2960
Sunday March 3, 2024Idea: The light of Christ dawned in the darkness to give sight and repentance for deliverance from death. Introduction:...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2959
Thursday February 29, 2024Idea: The Lord purposely and frequently went into the wilderness to be alone with God. Shouldn't we? Being with God in solitude and prayer must be based on the word of God. The spiritual infant needs the milk of the word more than anything, but once he has had enough milk, he must explore adult things with God.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2958
Wednesday February 28, 2024Probably all of us understand that Satan would attack our greatest weakness. Weaknesses are where we hunger. They are the things that we have become convinced will satisfy our hunger for joy, life, fulfillment, etc.; things that will scratch our itch. Over the years, we develop...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2957
Tuesday February 27, 2024Idea: Christ's temptations teach us how to seek and know God and get back to the source of our...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2956
Sunday February 25, 2024Idea: Only in worshiping God can man's needs be met. 1. Intro in four...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2955
Thursday February 15, 2024Mat 4:8-10Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory; 9 and he said to Him, "All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me." 10 Then Jesus said to him, "Go, Satan! For it is written, 'YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND SERVE HIM...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2954
Wednesday February 14, 2024Mat 4:8-10Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory; 9 and he said to Him, "All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me." 10 Then Jesus said to him, "Go, Satan! For it is written, 'YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND SERVE HIM...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2953
Tuesday February 13, 2024Introduction: Rebellion is to set yourself free from the will of God....for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2952
Sunday February 11, 2024Introduction: Satan knows nothing of the plan of redemption and what will actually build the kingdom of God. The devil only sees eschatology much like the Jews - Messiah comes, conquers the world,...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2951
Thursday February 8, 2024It is obvious that Satan is allowed to exploit his temporary power in many ways to the hurt of mankind. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2950
Wednesday February 7, 2024Today, as we continue in our study of Jesus' second trial, we will look at the source of Jesus' response. Idea: When...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2949
Tuesday February 6, 2024Mat 4:5-7Then the devil took Him into the holy city and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it is...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2948
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 4, 2024Mat 4:5-7Then the devil took Him into the holy city and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it is written,for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2947
Thursday February 1, 2024Idea: God leads us into testing in order to greatly increase our faith and endurance, and not sin. Jam...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2946
Wednesday January 31, 2024Idea: The weak are strong when they recognize humanity is weak and God's strength flows through those who trust and obey His will. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2945
Tuesday January 30, 2024Mat 4:1-4Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2944
Sunday January 28, 2024What is the meaning of life? What is human life really? These moments are used by...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2943
Thursday January 25, 2024Satan is a fallen angel, most Christians believe that he was the greatest of the angels as...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2942
Wednesday January 24, 2004Psa 12:6 The words of the Lord are pure words;As silver...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2940
Tuesday January 23, 2024The power of the Son of God Scripture - the word from the mouth of God....for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2939
Sunday January 21, 2024The Spirit leads Him. He is sensitive to the way that the Spirit wants Him to...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2938
Thursday January 18, 2024Col 1:9-12For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2937
Sunday January 14, 2024On several occasions in His word, God calls His readers into a courtroom scene. One of these occasions is in Isa 41. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2936
Thursday January 11, 2024Idea 1 (Mat 3:11-12): Jesus baptizes with the Holy Spirit in order to gather His grain into the barn (KOH).for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2935
Wednesday January 10, 2024Idea 1 (Mat 3:11-12): Jesus baptizes with the Holy Spirit in order to gather His grain into the barn (KOH).for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2934
Tuesday January 9, 2024Idea 1: Jesus baptizes with the Holy Spirit in order to gather His grain into the barn (KOH). for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2933
Sunday January 7, 2024Mat 3:11-12"As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2932
Thursday January 4, 2024The only fruit that is worthwhile in a life is the kind that God grows. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2931
Wednesday January 3, 2023Mat 3:7-10But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2930
Tuesday January 2, 2023In Matthew 1-3 we have a few kingdoms in view. Jesus' genealogy (in...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2929
Sunday December 24, 2023The biggest lie my culture told me was that matter was dead, along with God, and that humans could reason their way to freedom.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2928
Thursday December 21, 2023Theme: The baptism of the Holy Spirit was prophesied several times in the OT and always associated with the kingdom of heaven. Mat...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2927
Wednesday December 20, 2023Mat 3:7-10But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2926
Tuesday December 19, 2023Mat 3:7-10But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2925
Sunday December 17, 2023baptizo, "to baptize," [transliteration] primarily a form of bapto, "to dip."Came to mean...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2924
Wednesday December 13, 2023Theme: Temporary repentance is an arousal of emotions. Real repentance is a change of heart. Mat...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2923
Tuesday December 12, 2023Theme: Accepting and living in God's will for your life, will take any life and make it full of abundant, divine fruit which will bring great joy. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2922
Sunday December 10, 2023All things are new in Christ. People, universe. Something the world had never seen before. Isa 42:1"Behold, My Servant, whom I...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2921
Thursday December 7, 2023Mat 3:1-2Now in those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2920
Wednesday December 6, 2023 Change is a theme in the Gospels and so in our own spiritual lives. The main theme of chapter 3 is the coming of the...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2919
Tuesday December 5, 2023The main theme of chapter 3 is the coming of the King and the kingdom in which ritual (baptism with water) is going to change to reality, the baptism of the Holy Spirit. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2918
Sunday December 3, 2023Jer 3:19"Then I said,for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2917
Thursday November 30, 2023Mat 1-2 reveals to us that all mankind, except for the one born of a virgin, are sinners. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2916
Wednesday November 29, 2023Theme: God wants us to understand that we are poor in this world so that we will be like Him rather than not like Him. Mat 2:19-23for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2915
Tuesday November 28, 20235 prophecies in Mat 1-2 taken together. Chiastic structure:...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2914
Sunday November 26, 2023Theme: Jesus repeats the history of Israel, except fulfilling what they could not. He completely changes any believer so that he may also live out life as God intended it. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2913
Sunday November 19, 2023Theme: God would not abandon His rebellious son, and so He sent His perfect Son to save the prodigal. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2912
Thursday November 16, 2023Is mankind significant or insignificant? Theme: The real significance of...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2911
Wednesday November 15, 2023Theme: Enjoying the gift of God when surrounded by darkness, evil, sin, corruption, injustice, and hate. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2910
Tuesday November 14, 2023Many view Mat 1-2 as a myth. Myth - an untrue discourse which images the...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2909
Sunday November 12, 2023God wants us to pursue the truths of the unknowable identity of the Person of Christ. None of us are going to know the fulness of His identity, but in the pursuit of Him, there are aspects of eternal life that we will find in no other way. Theme: The identity of Christ in hypostatic union for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2908
Thursday November 9, 2023The beauty in the story is in moral character and humble recognition. Beauty is by God's definition the heart of the one who sees the Messiah....for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2907
Wednesday November 8, 2023Immanuel, the name that the many would give to Jesus Christ, means God with us. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2906
Tuesday November 7, 2023Intro: Matthew is structured on fulfillment of OT. Prophecy formulas in this first section (1-4)....for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2905
Sunday November 5, 2023Grace is not only the gift itself but also the manner in which it is conveyed. God's gifts often come in an unlikely or unexpected manner. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2904
Thursday November 2, 2023Mat 1:18-25Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child by...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2903
Wednesday November 1, 2023Theme: Joseph was declared a righteous man and proved it by his actions in the face of great adversity. Mat...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2902
Tuesday October 31, 2023God made promises long ago that the Savior of the world would be born in the line of certain people. I suppose this is one of the ways that was given to us to identify Him, though the people themselves, His ancestors, are far less than perfect, nor for many of them, remotely admirable. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2901
Sunday October 30, 2023Two main subjects are discussed by Matthew in the early chapters (1-4) of his Gospel - the birth of the King and the preparation of the King for His ministry and manifestation to Israel. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2900
Thursday October 26, 2023Our final structure is the simplest, but the least useful. I give it because I want to show that we can see several structures from...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2899
Wednesday October 25, 2023There are five long discourses (sermons) given by Christ in Matthew which stand out. Each one is completed by the formula, "When Jesus had finished these words" (7:28; 11:1; 13:53; 19:1; 26:1). for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2898
Tuesday October 24, 2023There are several ways that scholars have done good work in organizing the structure of the Gospel of Matthew. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2897
Sunday October 22, 2023What is a chiasm?...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2896
Thursday October 19, 2023Peace: Often used by God. NT -...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2895
Wednesday October 18, 2023If we asked a hundred Christians, "What does it mean to love God?" we would get a lot of answers. There certainly is not one right answer, but what every answer must have is that to love God all other loves, including self, have to be laid down before His throne. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2894
Tuesday October 17, 2023It is easy to get confused about how the Bible says we are dead and resurrected and even in heaven when nothing of that sort seems to have happened to us. What does it mean to be resurrected with Christ and not having yet died first? And what does that have to do with work? for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2893
Sunday October 15, 2023The advancing church faces pressure, problems, persecution, and tribulation from without and from...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2892
Thursday October 12, 20232Th 3:1-5Finally, brethren, pray for us that the word of the Lord will spread rapidly...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2891
Wednesday October 11, 2023Theme: God has given us the privilege and opportunity to give input into His decree for history (people and circumstances) and this is a part of prayer for others and ourselves. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2890
Tuesday October 10, 2023Paul and his fellow workers for the gospel were often the victims of wicked and evil men. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2889
Sunday October 8, 20232Th 3:1-5Finally, brethren, pray for us that the word of the Lord will spread rapidly and be glorified, just as it did also with you; 2 and that we will be rescued from perverse and evil men; for not all have...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2888
Thursday October 5, 2023C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity writes: "Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find on the of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2887
Wednesday October 4, 2023Theme: God's love is the most wonderful of human interactions. We can fool ourselves into thinking we love with God's love when we do not. We might love other things more than people, and if they are good things, the deception is even greater. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2886
October 3, 2023The love of Christ the Son and the Father will create in you an absorption for the action of divine love towards others. It will be like falling headlong into a deep pit from which there is no escape. The beginning of that fall will be the most fearful time of your life, but as you descend the same love of God will absorb you and all fear will be gone. This pit or crevasse is where God's love in you acts on behalf of others for their good in a...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2885
Sunday October 1, 20232Th 2:16-17Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace, 17 comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2884
Thursday September 28, 20232Th 2:13-15But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2883
September 13, 2023 Four lessons concerning the second coming of Christ. Two down, two to go.
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Tuesday September 12, 2023 Theme: The Messiah is a warrior who fears the Lord and as a result, is the greatest leader.
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Sunday September 10, 2023 Title: 2Th 2:1-12; Would You Like to See the Lord Today? Is it not odd that our Lord would leave us and sit at the Father's right hand in heaven during the entire age of the church?
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Thursday September 7, 2023 2Th 2:3-4 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2871
Wednesday September 6, 2023Title: 2Th 2:1-12; Satan Is Interested in Something Deeper Than Sin. Theme: The ongoing assault against the believer is not in getting him to sin, but to be deceived by...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2870
Tuesday August 5, 2023Theme: The mystery of lawlessness is works from a position of weakness, being held down by the Lord, but still able to rule the hearts of mankind. How do they do this if the Lord restrains them? for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2869
Sunday September 3, 2023Theme: The mystery of lawlessness is working to rule you in every way in which Christ alone should be your Lord. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2868
Thursday August 31, 2023Luk 12:32 "Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdomfor full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2867
Wednesday August 30, 2023 2 Thess 2, Being At Home in a Foreign Land.
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Tuesday August 29, 2023 The Bible often talks about foolishness in mankind. The Greek words used generally refer to being without thinking or without mind.
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Sunday August 27, 2023 Theme: Though clearly commanded to not be of the world or a friend to the world, Christians find themselves tempted to conform to the world from fear of persecution and mockery.
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Sunday August 20, 2023 Theme: The false christ, the beast, wants to take while the true Christ risks His very life to give.
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Thursday August 17, 2023 Neither the King nor the kingdom were in any way defeated by their rejection. Their realization on earth were only postponed to a second advent of Christ.
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Wednesday August 16, 2023 Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the back of the colt of a donkey, just as Zechariah prophesied. This event began the final week of His ministry. He would make a final offer of Himself to Israel, but they had already rejected Him.
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Tuesday August 15, 2023 Luk 4:5-8 And he led Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 And the devil said to Him, "I will give You all this domain and its glory; for... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2860
Sunday August 13, 2023 2 Thess 2, Look Up Without Falling In a Hole. Jesus left the temple for the last time. He said as He left:
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Thursday August 10, 2023 Characteristics of the Tribulation (not a comprehensive list): Known as... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2858
Wednesday August 9, 2023 2Th 2:1-4
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Tuesday August 8, 2023 2Th 2:1-4 Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2856
Suday August 6, 2023 The South Fork Dam broke on May 31 1889 and the huge reservoir that it was holding in place for the fishing and boating pleasure of the elite members of the Southfork Fishing and Hunting Club (Carnegie) sallied down the valley towards Johnstown. A wall of water and debris about 40 feet high, traveling between 15-40 mph, headed where geography and gravity could only take it. About 2,000 died, approximately 1 out of ten. The flood was indiscriminate. It killed horses, cows, pigs, cats, dogs, old men and women, middle aged, and the young.
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Thursday August 3, 2023 The first great purpose of the Tribulation is to prepare the nation of Israel for her Messiah.
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Wednesday August 2, 2023 Rapture Facts: The rapture (caught up of 1Th 4:17) is a certain truth.
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Tuesday August 1, 2023 Theme: Biblical data points to an imminent, pretribulational rapture which happens in a moment, transforms our body, meet the Lord in the air, and accompany Him into heaven.
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Sunday August 30, 2023 Theme: God reveals enough information about the future to give us a living hope and not enough to make predictions. Do you want you to sound good or God to sound good?
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Thursday July 27, 2023 The world is always looking for a hero or at least a leader. People need leaders, inspiring and heroic.... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2849
Wednesday July 26, 2023 2Th 1:11-12 To this end also we pray for you always, that our God will count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith with... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2848
Tuesday July 25, 2023 Theme: Because of the imminent return of the Lord, we live in time with the consistent hope of the city (our home) that is to come. Why do we strive to live... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2847
Sunday July 23, 2023 2Co 4:16-18 Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2846
Thursday July 20, 2023 The Lord Jesus is currently hidden in heaven. When He is revealed, history as the world knows it, is over and the age of the King will dawn. Theme: The uncovering of the Lord Jesus from heaven at His second coming will end the... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2845
Wednesday July 19, 2023 Theme: Vengeance is the Lord's at His return when He will recompense the deeds of mankind. It is very common for... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2844
Title: 2 Thess 1:5-10 The Lord Makes the Upside-Down Right Side Up. Tuesday July 18, 2023 In both places in the Thessalonian correspondence where the coming kingdom of God is... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2843
Sunday July 16, 2023 We see the suffering of the people of God and the cruelty, power, and arrogance of evil people and we see a world filled with injustice.
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Thursday July 13, 2023 Title: 2 Thess 1. Walking in God's Presence Without Having to Die. Athanasius: (297 -... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2841
Sunday July 9, 2023 Today we will see the promise of the Lord's judgment upon men when He returns to the earth and what exciting things He has given to the church, a group to whom He has given a new life that was never seen or heard of before.
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Thursday July 6, 2023 Theme: There is nothing more important in the age before Christ returns than bearing fruit.
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Wednesday July 5, 2023 Theme: The state of evil and sin in the world is a design by God. The believer is to live free and separate from it.
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Sunday July 2, 2023 At a service in Germany in 1968, Elizabeth Sherrill heard two speakers. The first was a man who had been a prisoner of a concentration camp. He had been brutalized and starved; his father and a brother had died in the camp. The man's faced and body told the story more eloquently than his words: pain-haunted eyes, shaking hands that could not forget.
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Thursday June 29, 2023 Paul states the crazy aspect of agape almost exclusively. John gives us a side of agape that we would expect - love of the brethren and God and not of the world. It's not that John and Paul don't show both, but their emphasis is definitely different.
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Wednesday June 28, 2023 The Exodus outlook goes from hope to despair over and over again. There is a... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2835
Tuesday June 27, 2023 Paul's hymn of love is within the context of spiritual gifts and is critical to it. Chapter 12 presents spiritual gifts in their God-given, hard-working, servant-living capacity. They are presented in their places in the body of Christ alongside the humility that is necessary for them to function in their role as servants. In Chapter 14 we read of the varied abuses of the spiritual gifts in Corinth, which abuses... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2834
Sunday June 25, 2023 The most important question for any person is not what they are going to do but what they are going to be. There is a kind who spontaneously does righteousness and divine love. There is another kind who has self in mind.
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Thursday June 22, 2023 1Co 13:4-6 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2832
Wednesday June 21, 2023 In both testaments fear of the Lord is linked with obedience. In the church, fear of the Lord is also linked with our salvation, and from this we are commanded to obey. The fear of the... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2831
Tuesday June 20, 2023 God's love is the love since it is the only original love. We would prefer it to be simple. We can see this in the fact that most of the population wants religion to be simple. Why? They don't really want it. Well, they want it about as much as they want a toaster. They want it to sit there on the counter, not taking up too much space, not making... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2830
Sunday June 18th, 2023 1Co 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind
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Thursday June 15, 2023 1Co 13:4-7 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2828
Wednesday June 14, 2023 What is valuable to the human race? 1Co... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2827
Sunday June 11, 2023 Theme: In 1Co 13:6, love rejoices with the truth. This shows us that with agape, we can learn the truth unhindered by any desire to protect self-interests. In agape love, we are free. Without God's agape love, all I do amounts to... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2826
Thursday June 8, 2023 Theme: Agape love is the ability for a believer to lay down their lives for the benefit of others while maintaining their holy virtue and integrity. Agape is primarily God's love. Whether we love God... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2825
Wednesday June 7, 2023 Theme: God creates believers as His new creation (His seed) who agape love instinctively and God must grow the seed to a mature experience of agape love. We cannot will love into existence. It has to be... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2824
Tuesday June 6, 2023 Theme: Love for the Lord Jesus Christ is the motivation of obedient faith. Main passage:
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Sunday June 4, 2023 Theme: Agape in the New Testament is almost entirely towards our neighbor and not towards God. The emphasis towards God is faith. In Paul there is surprising and startling change of emphasis in love towards... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2822
Thursday June 1, 2023We each have to know why the demands of agape love have been placed upon us as commandments. We must be clear at the start that the...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2821
Wednesday May 31, 2023Theme: God elects Paul at the height of his sin and makes him the highest proponent of divine agape love. God's love is spontaneous - It does not look for anything in man that might motivate...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2820
Tuesday May 30, 20232Th 1:3 We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the love of each one of you toward one another grows ever greater;for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2819
Sunday May 28, 2023Main passage: 2 Thess 1:3-4 We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the love of each one of you toward one another grows ever greater; 4 therefore, we ourselves speak proudly of you among the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2818
Thursday May 25, 2023Main passage: 2Th 1:3-4We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the love of each one of you toward one another grows ever greater; 4 therefore,...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2817
Wednesday May 24, 2023Main Scripture: 2 Th 1:3-4 We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the love of each one of you toward one another grows ever greater; 4 therefore, we ourselves speak proudly of you...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2816
Tuesday May 23, 2023Theme: We are to live by faith and it is to always be increasing by the endurance of obedience. Main passage: 2Th 1:3 We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the love of each one...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2815
We aplogize. There is no recording for this class. Sunday May 21, 2023Title: 2 Thess 1:1-12, Come Home to Your Family. Theme: Christ restored, beyond measure, our lost family and home. We endure for its fulfillment in time. Perseverance in life and in community....for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2814
May 18, 2023We need to be reminded of the superb nature of Jesus Christ. We need to be reminded of Him and what He did and who He made us to be. We need to be reminded of the stature or value of this world and the kingdom of God. We must be careful not to sleep and let the light of Christ shine upon us every day, being sanctified entirely.What is...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2813
May 17, 2023God is faithful to us. No one else is.Gen 3:4The serpent said to the woman, "You surely will not die!"for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2812
Tuesday May 16, 2023Main passage: 1Th 5:23-24Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2811
Sunday May14, 2023Main passage: 1Th 5:23-24Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2810
Thursday May 11, 2023These polite atheists wish to have their comfortable, stable, and secure lives even as they have removed any foundation on which they might build such a world. The nonexistence of God is not like the nonexistence of unicorns or centaurs. Nothing significant has been built on the supposition that those mythical creatures are real. To dispense with God, however, is to destroy the very foundations on which the whole world of functioning society depends. Without morality, society falls apart. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2809
Wednesday May 10, 2023Main passage: 1Th 5:23-24Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2808
Tuesday May 9, 2023Main passage: 1Th 5:19 Do not quench the SpiritTheme: The Holy Spirit is in you to make you like Christ as you follow Him through trust and obedience.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2807
Sunday May 7, 2023Main Passage: 1Th 5:19-22for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2806
Thursday May 4, 2023Theme: Like joy, real and lasting gratitude is only found in God alone. Main passage: for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2805
Wednesday May 3, 2023An ungrateful person is focusing on something that they are unhappy with. Grateful people appreciate their lives. They are also happy. They also want to thank the people that they appreciate, and at the top of that list is God, and so they pray a lot. Ungrateful people are grumpy, callous, and seem to think that God and others need to be doing something different....for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2804
Tuesday May 2, 2023Theme: A believer can find Christ. Happiness, gratitude, and a great prayer life only result from finding Christ. Main passage: for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2803
Sunday April 30, 2023Theme: God wants us to ask Him and thus express our true desires. Main passage: for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2802
Thursday April 27, 20231Th 5:12-22Theme: An attitude of love and thankfulness in the church will provide an environment for spiritual growth. The Day of the Lord is coming like a thief in the night. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2801
Wednesday April 26, 2023Main passage: 1Th 5:12-22But we request of you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you, and have charge over you in the Lord and give you instruction, 13 and that you esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Live in peace with one another. 14 And we urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all men. 15 See...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2800
Tuesday April 25, 2023 The church is the representation of God upon the earth until the Lord returns. It is vital that the church survive in its function, not just in its presence. Not every building that is called a church is functioning in the purpose for which God made the church.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2799
Sunday April 23, 2023Good leadership is absolutely necessary. It is also necessary to respond to good leadership in a positive way. Leaders need to understand the sacrificial and difficult aspects of the calling. Those under them must understand this too. Not so much the particulars of the leader's experience, but that several aspects of his ministry are difficult and sacrificial. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2798
Thursday April 20, 2023It is vital to the health of our spiritual lives that we are reminded of our certain salvation. This means our destiny in heaven as well as the love and providence of God in time. This means that as a born again believer I can live a purposeful and exciting life of goodness and faith, always with a happy outlook.There is a dire need of...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2797
Discover the tools and hard work needed to be a spiritual gardener who produces abundant fruit like Jesus, and overcomes life's cursed ground while bearing Christ's easy yoke. From Pastor Joseph Sugrue at Grace and Truth Ministries, comparing the toils of the soil with the toils of the spiritual life, and the fruits that emerge from both. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2795
Tuesday April 18, 2023Paul continues to encourage and comfort the Thessalonian believers. After encouraging their hope and comfort in 4:13-18 in what we pretribulational rapture folks would term the Rapture of the church, he now informs (reminds) them that the Lord will come like a thief. Theme: Paul reminds us of the coming of the Lord so...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2794
Sunday April 16, 2023Contact with the dead has been popular in all cultures. Concerning death: Not knowing means no hope which means...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2793
April 13, 2023 Theme (1Th 4:9-12):Love one another and abound in love more.We know what divine love is, do we not? Is love specific to a certain class of people, race, religion, creed,...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2792
Wednesday April 12,2023The will of God and the calling of God is our sanctification. Definition: sanctification is thinking and conducting ourselves according to God's will in everything. Sanctification comes from the same word from which we get saint, holy, and holiness....for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2791
Tuesday April 11, 2023Summary of 1Th 1-2. [It's been long enough for us to need a quick review of the book so far; chapters 1-2.]Paul's brief stay and ministry in Thessalonica was filled with persecution from the locals. Having to leave the new believers behind, most of them Gentiles now delivered from the pagan world, Paul was extremely concerned for them. Their pagan backgrounds were sources of...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2790
Sunday April 9, 2023Archegos is a title for Jesus that appears only four times in the New Testament. The significance of its use lies in the context of its use as well as its somewhat elusive definition. Archegos is closely related to ache, which is the title for Christ as the first,...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2789
Thursday April 6, 2023God works mighty power and joy within us even when danger lurks all around us. 1Th 2:13For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men,...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2788
April 5, 20231Th 2:13For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe. The word of God mixed with faith does its work. The work it does is to transform you, grow you in...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2787
Tuesday April 4, 2023Do not seek your own glory when performing God's work, or at least what you perceive as God's work. Flashing quickly on the pages of Scripture is a magician who lived in Samaria by the name of Simon. He wowed the people with his magic arts. His magic acts made him rich and renown and the people claimed that he was the Great Power of God, which title it seems he accepted gladly. When the gospel came to town by Philip, Simon the magician believed the gospel and was...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2786
Sunday April 2, 2023Title: 1 Thess 2:13-16; Palm Sunday and the subjects of God's kingdom. In the roles of gentle child, nursing mother, and guiding father, Paul and his toiled night and day. Not 24 hours a day, but did what was necessary when it was...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2785
Sunday March 26, 2023A family of love with Christ as the Head and the members loving and serving one another. God longs for this in the church. Theme of Thessalonians: Encouraging one another through divine love and service to walk in a manner worthy of God.Subtheme (chapter 2): Assisting the royal family to walk in a manner worthy...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2784
Thursday March 23, 2023Theme of Thessalonians: encouragement of believers to boldly live godly lives.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2783
Theme of Thessalonians: encouragement of believers to endure in godliness at all times, even when suffering. Today we're going to see in chapter 2 how the minister of the gospel endures, despite hardship. Paul makes an issue out of the fact that the gospel has to be taught, and the ones who do must behave in a way that is in harmony with the gospel's truths. In chapter one we saw the effect that the gospel had on both Paul and his team and the Thessalonians. The Thess. had works of faith, labor of love, and...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2782
Tuesday March 21, 2023Theme of Thessalonians (1 & 2): Encouragement for believers to live godly despite persecution and pain.As we study the book we will find the ways in which Paul does this. We never see in Paul or in any of the other writers what people think are encouraging but are only platitudes: "You can do it!" Nor...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2781
Sunday March 19, 2023The Rapture for all believers is going to be many things - amazing, exciting, unbelievable, glorious ... and also, a relief.Jesus coming to transfer His church to...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2780
Thursday March 16, 2023The theme of 1 Thessalonians: Encouragement for the church to live godly despite persecution.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2779
Wednesday March 15, 2023Themes by chapter: Who they are (brethren beloved of God), what they have (faith, love, hope, good works), and where they came from (paganism, idols).Paul begins as he does most of his letters with a salutation of grace and peace, then thanksgiving for them, and that he prays for them. You will see this opening in almost every one of Paul's letters.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2778
March 14, 2023The theme of Thessalonians (both 1 & 2) is the encouragement to live godly despite persecution and in light of our coming Lord. Act 17 shows us that Paul found many converts in...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2777
SUNDAY MARCH 12, 2023We've all heard of suffering for a noble cause. Which causes are noble in God's eyes, whose sufferings are legitimate and in fact good for us?Masada was the last stronghold of Jewish Zealots who revolted against Rome. According to Josephus, the 1,000 or so of them committed suicide before the Romans could capture them (73 A.D.). Their suffering was a waste. They were fighting the wrong enemy.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2776
March 9, 2023The theme of James is living out your faith with good works despite the pressure (trials) that come upon you.This is positive and not negative. We probably respond, at least initially, to this as a negative, meaning - negative commands of don't do this or that, negative exhortations of - you...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2775
Wednesday March 8, 2023Pray before you teach. Don't bury the opening. Get to the point and stay there.Whiskey Row fire of 1900 was started by a candle falling off its holder.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2774
Tuesday March 7, 2023James is writing to Christians who need to change [in the worst way]. James' theme, to live out your Christianity despite the pressure not to, is not being accepted by most [or so it seems].James' anticipates their response.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2773
Suday March 5, 2023Title: The Book of James: The mercy and grace of Sabbath rest.Jam 2:1-7My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. 2 For if a man comes into your...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2772
Thursday March 2, 2023Title: The Book of James: Does faith justify the life that claims it?A man is running for mayor of Portland (Oregon). Rail Gib says that he believes in fairness and fair laws. He says that he believes in law and...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2771
Wednesday March 1, 2023Title: The Book of James: This is a life and death matter.The opening of James' letter, his prologue, is in two sections. The first is our proper attitude towards suffering itself, and the second is our attitude towards God in these sufferings.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2770
Tuesday February 28, 2023Book of James:Author - James (half-brother of the Lord)Date - 35-45 A.D. (likely early in this range)for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2769
Sunday February 26, 2023"The Mirror of Erised is an ancient, ornate mirror in JK Rowling's Harry Potter series. According to Albus Dumbledore, it showed the "deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts." The name "Erised" was "desire" spelled backwards, as if reflected in a mirror. The happiest and most satisfied person in the world would look in the mirror and see a reflection of them, exactly as they were, for they would then have no one and nothing more to yearn or desire for that the mirror could ever show them. But of course, it was intrinsically inherent for human nature to desire something greater than one's own self. Men could waste away staring at it, seeing their desire fulfilled in the mirror, a...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2768
Wednesday February 22, 2023The believer needs motivation for total commitment.The reality of who you are in Christ is in the gospel.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2767
Sunday February 20,2023Long ago in England, a wise and just king ruled the land. His name was King Uther. Times were good and the people lived well. King Uther wanted a magician at court. And so he chose the famous Merlin the Magician. Merlin could see into the future. And he knew those good days were not going to last.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2766
Thursday February 16,2023Can you imagine being full and remaining full all the time without having to ever eat again? You would die of malnutrition. It would be the ultimate appetite suppression pill, bariatric surgery (make your stomach smaller), diet regimen. Now imagine this in your soul. The soul content or full all the time. Sounds like heaven. It is heaven. In time people might have moments that feel like it, maybe longer, and often they will long for it but it is probably the most elusive thing there is. True contentment, truly being full in the soul for long stretches of time. This is actually offered by God and it is free - well, it comes to those who have faith. God speaks of it in one of the most astounding sentences in the...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2765
Wednesday February 15,2023Ignatius was the bishop of Antioch and in 107 A.D., well over seventy years old (born around the time of Christ's death), the old bishop was condemned to death by imperial authorities. The persecution of Christians was not universal at the time. There were several factions in Antioch that Ignatius stood against as heretical, so we don't know who, but someone, probably associated with a competitor for his office of bishop, accused him to the authorities. He was arrested and shipped off to Rome. On the way he wrote seven letters which are among the most valuable documents for our knowledge of early...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2764
Tuesday February 14, 2023Michelangelo was a sculptor and not a painter. He despised painting. At the command of the newly elected Pope Julius II, Michelangelo came to Rome in 1505, he was turning thirty. Julius wished to build an enormous tomb for himself containing 45 life sized statues, to be constructed in a manner so grand that nothing like it would have existed since the burial of great men from ancient times. Julius thought Michelangelo was the man for the job.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2763
Sunday February 12, 2023People in the past thought Darwin's theory of evolution was a great breakthrough. Some still do.In Darwin's time and for decades after, people were looking at cells in microscopes that would be in museums today and that didn't have the magnification of what we can do today.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2762
Thursday February 9, 2023What happens once that vodka cranberry works its way through your bloodstream and hits the control center behind your eyes?We hear many...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2761
Wednesday February 8, 2023(video clip: "Filled")Mat 6:19-21for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2760
Tuesday February 7, 2023Imagine if you were a teenager and your parents trusted you. You matured enough that they weren't helicopter parents. They gave you your space and you made good decisions that pleased them. They even gave you the car keys.Do you know, that if you are a believer in...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2759
Sunday February 5, 2023Is this how the Holy Spirit leads us? Is this how the Holy Spirit makes us know what to do? Is this how we will know what to say?If this were true, our lives would always be spiritual. We would live life in a perfect video. Would you prefer...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2758
Thursday February 2, 2023In the survival show Alone, each person exists alone in a harsh environment for as long as they can. The latest season dropped the contestants in different locations in North Labrador. The season was called Alone Frozen. It got cold pretty fast and food was very scarce. Each contestant gets a satellite phone. All they have to do is push a button on that phone and the producers will come and get them out. When you're starving and cold in a shelter you made in the frozen forest of nowhere, one call gets you out.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2757
Maybe we should take the final petition in the Lord's Prayer, "Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil," and conclude that we should get away from the temptation altogether and get out of the world.Should we leave society and the people of the world and isolate ourselves in the wilderness?In the first two centuries of the...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2756
Tuesday January 31, 2023One of the ways that we can discover areas in life that are very dangerous to our spiritual lives is to see the major themes of the Scripture. It takes some doing. We have to read and digest and read and digest some more and then pray for insight, and with a humble and energetic mind, we will see main themes jump out. Some of these are easier to find than others, and the easier ones are those that entire epistles address. For instance, Colossians deals with the spiritual life in the midst of persecution and false doctrine. We come to know, therefore, that we have to be...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2755
Sunday January 29,2023Some three or four decades before the birth of Christ, Rome's first heated swimming pool was built on the Esquiline Hill. The location, just outside the city's ancient walls, was a prime one. In time it would become a showcase for some of the wealthiest people in the world: an immense expanse of luxury villas and parks. But there was a reason why the land beyond the Esquiline Gate had been left undeveloped for so long. For many centuries, from the very earliest days of Rome, it had been a place of the dead. When laborers first began work on the swimming...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2754
Thursday January 26, 2023The devil will never be proud of you. The world he rules will never celebrate your spiritual victories. He doesn't care and neither do they. Your spiritual growth only makes the devil hunger more to tear you down.Mat 6:13for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2753
Wednesday January 25,2023How do you feel about sin?In the film Grand Canyon, an immigration attorney breaks out of a traffic jam and attempts to bypass it. His route takes him along streets that seem progressively darker and more deserted. Then comes the predictable nightmare: his expensive car stalls on one of those alarming streets whose teenage guardians favor expensive guns and sneakers. The attorney does manage to phone for a tow truck, but before it arrives, five young street toughs surround his disabled car and threaten him with...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2752
Tuesday January 24, 2023The laws of God tell us how to get along. In fact, modern western society, swims in the waters of Christian laws of morality. Hundreds of years ago in Christian Europe laws were constructed for the state, which were based on the Bible, and from that biblical perspective came the idea that every human, rich or poor, has natural rights. The Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence state this idea as if it had always been.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2751
Sunday January 22,2023How many did you commit yesterday? Imagine if we were truly aware of all of them (sins of omission also), and we had one of those clickers that counts. You would check it every day and either rue the day or count it a good day. A good day would be, "Only 490 sins today! High five." A bad day, "987 sins!? What a terrible day this was." It's only just before noon.Who among us had the least? Come to the head of the class. Who had the most? You might as well come up...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2750
Thursday January 19, 2023Mat 6:9-13"Pray, then, in this way:'Our Father who is in heaven,for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2749
January 18,2023Paraphrasing something I heard pastor Greg Laurie teach last Sunday, "If your knowledge is not changing you it's not worth much."Col 2:20-22If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2748
Tuesday January 17, 2023Review:The first three petitions are adoration and praise of God.1. Praising the Person of...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2747
Wednesday January 4,2023A little over an hour ago an email came to me from Ariel Ministries (Arnold Fruchtenbaum) including their prayer list. The opening paragraph read:On a hillside outside of Capernaum, Yeshua taught His disciples and followers to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread" (Mt. 6:11). He also assured them that the heavenly Father knows their needs (Mt. 6:8, 32). Furthermore, He pointed to the heavenly Father as the One who...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2746
Tuesday January 3, 2023Mat 6:9-13"Pray, then, in this way:'Our Father who is in...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2745
Sunday December 25, 2022Every day we are to pray that God's will be done in our lives and it is our desire that it is done in all others as well.The will of God has two aspects that are important to us, and which are very closely related.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2744
Thursday December 22, 20222Pe 1:1-4 The reason for obedience to divine virtue.2Pe 1:1-5for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2743
Wednesday December 21,2022Mat 6:9-13"Pray, then, in this way:'Our Father who is in heaven,Hallowed be Your name.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2742
Tuesday December 20, 2022Mat 6:9-13"Pray, then, in this way:'Our Father who is in heaven,for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2741
Sunday December 18, 2022How many throughout the world are celebrating Christmas, but do not know Jesus Christ hardly at all? What child is this? In other words, who is this? And when you answer that, not only do you fall down and worship Him, you will find yourself longing to obey His truth. He is more than His truth. The truth without His worship is just being busy, and eventually, frustrated. We receive the truth, and while keeping it, move on to the greater - walking through life with Him.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2740
December 15, 2022Prayer is a life-long conversation of seeking God's holiness, of living like His kingdom is your only existence, and loving His will so as to always desire to obey it.Psa 27:4for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2739
Wednesday December 14,2022"Your kingdom come."The kingdom of God is the only true kingdom."The Lord is King, not borrowing this title from the kings of the earth, but having lent His own title to...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2738
Tuesday December 13, 2022Mat 6:9-13"Pray, then, in this way:'Our Father who is in heaven,for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2737
Sunday December 11,2022Mat 6:9-13"Pray, then, in this way:'Our Father who is in heaven,Hallowed be Your name.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2736
Thursday December 8, 2022[Summary of Marcus Dods on the Lord's Prayer] When the utmost skill and strength of the child have failed, he runs to his father, never doubting that with him is more skill and sufficient strength. We must not lower the Father to our level. We must seek His level, the words and lovely ways of heaven itself. If we cannot see a solution, we must never think that God sees none either. He sees as we cannot and nothing will be impossible with Him. Pray to "Our Father in heaven" and know that He sees clearly the...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2735
December 7, 2022Prayer is our life-long communication with God the Father. He is our Father in the real sense of that word. Our earthly fathers sired us. After that they may leave us or raise us, abuse us or love us or ignore us, but there is only one father of us.Just like there was never found a king in Israel who was up to the task of being the head of God's kingdom of men, not even David, so there has never been found a father who is truly worthy of the title. There are some very good ones, and...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2734
Tuesday December 6, 2022We must always avoid doing what we do to be seen by others.In instructing us about prayer, the Lord told us to shut out all others and to shut ourselves in with God and then concentrate on our relationship with Him.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2733
Sunday December 4,2022The Lord has given us His life so that we can live just as He lived.The night before the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus spent the entire night in prayer.Luk 6:12for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2732
Thursday December 1, 2022We've seen the context of the Lord's Prayer in Matthew, which immediate context is the Sermon on the Mount. In Matthew, Jesus' ministry begins with His message of "repent for the kingdom of God is at hand." Then, He calls some disciples to follow Him and they leave their old life behind and immediately do so. Matthew is emphasizing obedience, which is the necessary component of the Sermon on the Mount, which is the life and conduct of the blessed disciple of Christ who is not under the law, but has the law written on his heart because he...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2731
Wednesday November 30,2022 Isa 43:21 "The people whom I formed for Myself, Will declare My praise."
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November 29, 2022 Main idea: The Lord's great sermon is a command to love and live in the image of Christ. In the midst of it, the Lord shows us how to pray. His prayer is a framework by which we are to keep in consistent communication with God as we strive to learn to love God's great law.
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November 27, 2022 The flesh is always with you. You may wonder why you are regularly tempted to do and think that which is contrary to righteousness. There is nothing wrong with you, or rather, there is something very wrong with you, but the same wrong is wrong with everyone. We are all wretched men and women, but who have been saved and cleansed. We must learn that life for us does not consist in looking with disgust and depression at what is corrupt in us, but in purposefully grabbing hold of the righteousness that God has given us. It is the righteousness of heaven.
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Wednesday November 23, 2022 Jesus praises / thanks the Father for revealing the truth about God to infants and not the wise (in the world). Mat 11:25
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Tuesday November 22, 2022 The Lord's Prayer: Initial thoughts from the context of Matthew. Matthew gives the fullest record of the Sermon on the Mount, which includes the Lord's prayer. It defined Jesus' position with regard to the Law, He came... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2726
Sunday November 20,2022 The Lord's Prayer: Initial thoughts from the context of Matthew. Type: Gospel. Matthew is most certainly the author. Written sometime between 50-70 AD. Matthew was a tax-collector residing in Capernaum whom Jesus told to follow Him and he did. Nothing is known of Matthew's exploits as an apostle. That, after preaching to his countrymen in Palestine, he went to the... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2725
November 17, 2022 The types of prayer can be broken down from three to many, depending on how picky we want to get. Thanks, confession, petition. Petition can be prayer for self and others (intercession). Thanksgiving can be praise and thanks; praise, adoration, and thanks ... There is a number of ways that we could break it down. For now, we'll go with three. Basic types of prayer:
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Wednesday November 16,2022 Prayer in the Psalms - guilt. Before any searching of the truth concerning confession, the complete forgiveness of God through Jesus Christ must be deeply entrenched in the foundation of our souls. Praise God for His indescribable gift.
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November 15, 2022 Prayer in the Psalms - guilt. A woman, who wore the appearance of sin (likely prostitute), came into the house of a Pharisee after she heard that Jesus was there. It would seem that all she wanted to do, even at the cost of great shame that would be heaped upon her, was to touch the Lord. Perhaps, after believing in Him as the Messiah, felt the need to throw herself into His light and be dealt whatever she had coming to... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2722
November 13, 2022 Many of the psalms are antiphony types. Antiphony literally means "other voice." We know songs like this, where the leader sings a line and the audience sings the next line on their own. There is a bit of this done in the Catholic mass, of which I fondly (or not so much) remember. The praise psalms are especially like this. There many psalms of praise throughout the Psalter, and the final five (146-150) all begin with "Praise the Lord" and repeat the phrase again and again. Psa 145, "A Psalm of Praise" seems to introduce these final praise psalms, and it is clearly, like them, antiphonic.
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Thursday November 10, 2022 We would likely be struck by how often the petition for life and good fortune is found in the Psalms. God desires good earthly things for us. We may pray for them.
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Wednesday November 9,2022 The psalms that speak of the gathering of God's people instruct them in the condition of their heart and paints that condition of the utmost importance when worshipping God. Psa 15 lists ten characteristics of righteousness that the worshipper must have to commune with the Lord and with one another.
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Tuesday November 8, 2022 Psa 27, 42, 46, 48, 63, 81, 84, 87, and others sing of the gatherings of Israel. Specifically, they speak of Jerusalem, the City of God, of the great festivals of the people of God, of the temple and the beautiful worship service. They did not, at least in the minds of the pious Jews,... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2718
Sunday November 6,2022 The Psalms contain the Messiah: pre-incarnate, birth, death, resurrection, session, return. Jesus told His disciples that Moses, the prophets, and the Psalms all spoke of Him. The Lord Jesus is the center and fulfillment of all of history, promises, and covenants. He is the reason for all things.
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Thursday November 3, 2022 Fruchtenbaum states, "The Book of Psalms could be summarized in a single sentence: "The Psalms are the poetic versions of the messages of the Law and the Prophets."
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Wednesday November 2, 2022 So far, from the Psalms, we have seen prayers based on God's creation, God's law, and now God's history. Psa 78, 105, 106 tell us about the history of the people of God on earth, about the unmerited electing grace and faithfulness of... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2715
Tuesday November 1, 2022 Psa 78, 105, 106 tell us about the history of the people of God on earth, about the electing grace and faithfulness of God and the unfaithfulness and the ingratitude of His people. All that God has done for His people, He will do for us.
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Sunday October 30,2022 The law of God is a frequent topic in the psalms. Psa 1, 19, 119 make the law of God the... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2713
Thursday October 27, 2022 What's the big idea of praying the Psalms? The Psalms teach us how to pray. It is God's prayer book. Praying The Psalms train us to respond to the riches of biblical truth, mature our emotions and personality, reorients our straying minds, breaks us of individuality, and warm our hearts towards God when they grow... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2712
Wednesday October 26,2022 God is the sole Creator, and many Psalms summon us to bring Him honor, praise, and thanksgiving, Psa 8; 19; 29; 104. There is no single Psalm that speaks only of creation. The creation is a picture of the power and the faithfulness of God, which He has demonstrated for us, which He revealed most of all in His Son.
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Tuesday October 25, 2022 We should not ask what our prayers, or the prayers of the Psalms, have to do with us, but what they have to do with Christ. All of life and history are centered on Christ, and so must our lives be.
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Sunday October 23,2022 Title: God's prayer book for us - The Psalms. 'I love your commands.' Psalm 119:47 CEV George MÜller was a man of great... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2709
Thursday October 20, 2022 Zoom cancelled tomorrow. Psa 2 Why are the nations in an uproar,
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Tuesday October 19, 2022 Psa 1 How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the path of sinners, Nor sit in the seat of... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2707
Tuesday October 18, 2022 General forms of prayer: adoration, confession, thanksgiving, intercession, and petition. If we desired, we could (biblically) break these down into a few more subcategories. Also, petition means to ask, so technically it is the same as intercession if you are asking for someone... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2706
Psalms 1 and 2 are the introduction to the entire collection of 150. Along with Psa 1, Psa 2 forms an introduction to the collection. Thus at the outset of the book we have one psalm focusing on the way of the righteous, and another psalm focusing on the victory of the Lord's anointed king over the nations. When... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2705
Thursday October 13, 2022 I want to first temper this lesson with the statement that I do not hold to the words or ways of men as having the authority of Scripture, no matter how great they are as thinkers of theologians. However, learning from others is very fruitful as long as they are communicating the truth from the Scripture. They bring to us years of learning and experience that we haven't invested and have learned the truth to a level of understanding that they can present it in their own way, a way (not a different truth) that we have perhaps not thought... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2704
Wednesday October 12,2022 Prayer is to the Father. Today, we want to further understand our Lord's incredible promise concerning prayer. Joh 16:23
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Tuesday October 11, 2022 Every believer in Christ is a royal priest in this age and so all of us are qualified to approach the throne of grace with confidence and boldness. Prayer is to the Father.
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Sunday October 9, 2022 From "The God Who Hears," by Bingham Hunter: During the early 1970s I worked with World Wide Pictures as an evangelist. I would accompany the films and explain the gospel message to those in attendance ... In our case the entire family was involved. After helping us set up and watching film showings for several... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2701
Thursday October 6,2022 Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in his last letter from prison what characterized all that he had written about Christianity, "a turning away from the phraseological to the real," an insistent realism. One writer says about this, "For him Christianity could never be merely intellectual theory, doctrine divorced from life, or mystical emotion, but always it must be responsible, obedient action, the discipleship of Christ in every situation of concrete everyday life, personal and public."
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Wednesday October 5,2022 Prayer is a means God uses to give us what He wants. As we mature spiritually and in prayer we will find that prayer was never a means of getting from God what we want, but a means that God used, and continues to use, to give us what He wants.
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October 4, 2022 As we discover more and more about God, the Trinity, we will find ourselves actually wanting to pray more often. But should we wait for that day? Does Paul tell us to pray continually after we have matured in Christ? Should we only pray when we feel like it; when we are inspired?
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Last time we looked at how papyrus was made and how scribes were necessary to use it well. I got to see a number of these. Pic of Bible Museum.
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Sunday September 25, 2022 Open: Papyrus Picture: plant and paper Made from the pith of the papyrus... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2696
September 22, 2022 (tonight's video only has the slides...) Prayer is both a communication and an encounter with God. One aspect of prayer is the discovery of God and ourselves. Prayer is a significant aspect of understanding Scripture.
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Wdnesday September 21,2022 We are still looking at some basic realities of prayer by seeing what it is and seeing how we should execute it. Prayer is both a communication and an encounter with God in the forms of adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication.
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Tuesday September 20, 2022 Prayer is both a communication and an encounter with God concerning many things. The Psalms help us to see the great variety of types of prayer. Today we're only going to look at two types in the Psalms. I just want you to start exploring your own prayers based on the Psalms.
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Sunday September 18,2022 When the Lord entered the Temple during His passion week, He drove out the merchandisers and money changers and said: "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a robbers' den" (Mar 11:17). The Temple was to be a place of prayer and worship of God. The same is true of the church. We come together for the purpose of learning about God, communicating with God, thanking Him, singing together to Him with joy in our... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2692
Thursday September 15, 2022 God in redemption finds us all more or less disintegrated personalities. Disintegration and loss of rational control are aspects of our sinful and fallen state. Trying to play God to ourselves, we are largely out of control to ourselves and also out of touch with ourselves, or at least with a great deal of ourselves, including most of what is central to our real selves.
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The Holy Spirit was given to us to proclaim the Person of Christ, described by Christ as the things which the Father has, Joh 16:15. The Spirit proclaims to us the meaning and truth of the word of God. We hear and see this proclamation if we chose to live holy godly lives.
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Tuesday September 13, 2022 The Holy Spirit proclaims to us the things of Christ, which are the things of the Father. When we hear and understand these things, we glorify the Son, which in essence means that to understand Him will always lead to worship Him. We note also, and very importantly, that the Holy Spirit speaks the word of God... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2689
The main theme of the ministry of the Holy Spirit is to proclaim to us the things of Christ, which are the things of the Father. Joh 16:14-15 "He shall glorify Me; for He shall take of Mine, and shall disclose it to you. 15 "All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said, that He takes of Mine, and will disclose it to... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2688
Thursday September 8, 2022 The main theme of the ministry of the Holy Spirit is to proclaim to us the things of Christ, which are the things of the Father. My revelation of the Person of Christ enlightens me, animates me, transforms me along with others as He stirs our sluggishness, sharpens our insight, soothes sour guilty consciences,... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2687
Wednesday September 7,2022 The night before Jesus died on our behalf, He promised us that He would send another Helper, God the Holy Spirit. Jesus Himself was the first Helper. Joh 14:16-17 "And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17 that is the Spirit of truth,... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2686
Tuesday September 6, 2022 On the night of His betrayal, Jesus said of the Holy Spirit: Joh 16:12-15 "I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes,... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2685
Sunday September 3,2022 Title: Eternal life lived is a life full of miracles. Eternal life lived is a life full of miracles. A miracle is a supernatural event or occurrence. Since the natural man is corrupt, for the new self to think and do things that are holy... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2684
Thursday September 1, 2022 If branches lack fruit, they are only fit to be burned, which is Jesus' way of stating our worth apart from Him. This will be the point of the message that Jesus will give to them all on the next day. They could all be the beneficiaries of His power to make bread, walk on water, calm storms, and even teach knowledge, but if they are not literally a part of Him, they can do nothing.
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August 30, 2022 Courage is the ability to, by faith, keep on thinking and doing God's will despite fatigue and disappointment. This is not all of what courage is, but a part of it. Courage manifests itself in many ways. It is a broader term than this, and included with this aspect of it are other virtues like perseverance, diligence, and forbearance.
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August 30, 2022 If you have the Son of God as your own, as stated by Paul so many times, you are "in Christ," or "in Him," then you have a treasure that is literally priceless and could only be described by someone who spent a lifetime trying to understand it from the Scriptures. Though that boat is surrounded by hunger, sickness, and dangerous... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2680
Tuesday August 30,2022 If you have the Son of God as your own, as stated by Paul so many times, you are "in Christ," or "in Him," then you have a treasure that is literally priceless and could only be described by someone who spent a lifetime trying to understand it from the Scriptures. Though that boat is surrounded by hunger, sickness, and dangerous storms, we need not fear, but rejoice, for the Son of God is here with... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2681
Sunday August 28,2022 Being satisfied with nothing else but having the Trinity. "We must beware then of looking with repugnance on what Christ calls us to, as if it were a superfluity that may reasonably be postponed to more urgent and essential demands; of as if He were introducing our nature to some region for which it was not originally intended, and exciting within us spurious and fanciful desires which are really alien to us... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2679
August 25, 2022 Benediction: Peace, love with faith, and grace with a final plea for divine love. This benediction reminds us that God's love is the chief of virtues. As Paul wrote in 1Co 13, if we have faith or knowledge or humanitarianism or courage, but we don't have love, we are nothing. The benediction is full of... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2678
Wednesday August 24,2022 Eph 6:21-24, Final greetings and benediction. Eph 6:21-22 But that you also may know about my circumstances, how I am doing, Tychicus [Tuxikós; too-xi-HOS], the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will amake everything known to you. 22 And I have sent him to you for this very purpose, so that... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2677
Tuesday August 23, 2022 Satan would love to convince us all that prayer is frivolous and that God is just going to do what He wants whether we pray or not. While it is true that we cannot answer the questions concerning God's sovereignty, we can know that prayer is effective. God is going to do all He purposes, while also including our prayers that submit to His will. Imagine... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2676
Sunday August 21,2022 Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through His word and His grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with Him. Eph 6:18-20 With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2675
Thursday August 18, 2022 Eph 6:18-20 With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints, 19 and pray on my... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2674
Wednesday August 17, 2022 Attitude in prayer: We must be humble before the holiness of God.
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Tuesday August 16, 2022 Let us read David's prayer in Psa 25. Notice the themes of sinner, humility, and fear of the Lord. Psa 25:4-15 Make me know Thy ways, O Lord;
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Sunday August 14,2022 Title: Ephesians 6:18; Truly seeking God and His life in prayer (and study, and living). Psa 55:22 Cast your burden upon the Lord, and He will sustain you;
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The Son of God humbled Himself under the will of the Father = obedience in everything. The Father then exalted Him. Php 2:1-11 If therefore there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, 2 make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2670
Wednesday August 10, 2022 Between the parable of the persistent widow and the parable of the pharisee and publican we find the word "faith." Both parables involve prayer. Luk 18:1
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Psa 47 For the choir director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. O Clap your hands, all peoples; Shout to God with the voice of joy.
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Thursday July 28, 2022 The parable of the persistent widow helps us to understand some important truths that will enable us not to get weary about prayer but to continue to persist in it. We must stress, before we leave this parable, that even if it looks like God has no more readiness to help you than this judge, that it seems that... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2667
Wednesday July 27, 2022 Eph 6:18 With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints, Alert - awake, watching.
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Tuesday July 26, 2022 We have before us and for the upcoming weeks, a doctrine, and every point of which, that can be immediately applied in each of our lives. I encourage you to apply what you learn right away, if you are not already. If we do not apply it now, while we are learning about prayer, after we are done it will soon be forgotten. But, if we have instilled the principles taught in the Scripture into our everyday lives, we will not forget, but continually live in it.
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Sunday July 24,2022 At the finish of Paul's doctrine of the armor of God, Paul adds to the Christian soldier, the need for alert prayer for all the saints. Eph 6:18 With all prayer and petition pray at all times [appointed time or season] in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2664
Thursday July 21, 2022 At the finish of Paul's doctrine of the armor of God, Paul adds to the Christian soldier, the need for alert prayer for all the saints. Eph 6:18
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Wednesday July 20,2022 At the finish of Paul's doctrine of the armor of God, Paul adds to the Christian soldier, the need for alert prayer for all the saints. Eph 2:17-18 And He came and preached peace to you who were far away, and peace to those who... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2662
Tuesday July 19, 2022 Pray at all times - "times" - kairos = appointed time, season. Eph 6:18-20
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Sunday July 17,2022 Title: Ephesians 6:10-17; Summary of the armor of God. God has allowed war to enter His universe. He has designed it so that mankind would be in the conflict, not aside it as spectators only. Most people, and I would venture, most Christians, are only faintly aware of this war.
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Thursday July 14, 2022 "If ever a myth had become fact, had been incarnated, it would be just like this (the Gospels). Myths were like it in one way. Histories were like it in another. But nothing was simply like it. And no person was like the Person it depicted; as real, as recognizable as Plato's Socrates ..., yet also numinous, lit by a light from beyond the world, a god. But if a god - we are no longer polytheists - then not a god, but God. Here and here only in all time the myth must become fact; the Word, flesh; God, Man. This is not "a... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2659
Wednesday July 13,2022 A reminder of the first two temptations (remember the principles that you can). Mat 4:1-7 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry. 3 And the tempter came and said to Him, "If You... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2658
Tuesday July 12, 2022 Jesus shows Satan's false interpretation of Scripture with another Scripture. Two truths cannot be inconsistent. Scripture must be interpreted by Scripture. One truth cannot be inconsistent with another.
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Sunday July 10,2022 Mat 4:5-11 Then the devil took Him into the holy city; and he had Him stand on the pinnacle [Greek: "little wing" - impossible to tell which part of the temple this means] of the temple, 6 and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God throw Yourself down; for it is written,
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Thursday July 7, 2022 Amidst the tragedy that is fallen human life in a fallen world, God gave mankind the ability to be happy with whatever he has, if he will fear God and keep His commandments. "It is imperative to enjoy life, because that is the way to remember your Creator, that is, to do His will. The brevity of one's active life, which is itself also a... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2655
Wednesday July 6,2022 Ephesians 6:17; Overcoming the temptation to alter God's will and timing and enjoying life. Mat 4:5-11 Then the devil took Him into the holy city; and he had Him stand on the pinnacle [Greek: "little wing" - impossible to tell which part of the temple this means] of the temple, 6... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2654
Tuesday July 5, 2022 Mat 4:5-11 Then the devil took Him into the holy city; and he had Him stand on the pinnacle [Greek: "little wing" - impossible to tell which part of the temple this means] of the temple, 6 and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God throw Yourself down; for it is written,
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Sunday July 3,2022 Intro: Independence Day. [Declaration of Independence] When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2652
Thursday June 30, 2022 Devil (Greek) accuser or slanderer. Satan (vs. 10; Hebrew) adversary or opponent. He is given the title "tempter" (from a Greek verb "to test"), so we could better look at him as a "tester".
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Wednesday June 29,2022 Satan is not interesting in testing us. His temptations are always with malicious intent to destroy life. Destroying life in a believer while he or she remains alive. This taken alone makes us feel like we are alone. The great foe of God is... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2650
Title: Ephesians 6:17; The Lord Jesus meets temptation. Tuesday June 28, 2022 Jesus mightily wielded the sword of the Spirit in the wilderness, Mat 4:1-11; Luk 4:1-13.
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Sunday June 26,2022 The Lord Jesus using the sword of the Spirit The gifts given by the Holy Spirit to the believer will be the same as was given to the Lord. I don't mean our particular spiritual gift that is given for our individual ministries in the body of Christ, but gifts in general, though they are far from ordinary. In Isa 11:1-2 it is prophesied that the Spirit would rest on the Messiah and He would be to Him the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2648
Thursday June 23, 2022 Sword of the Spirit: defense - protecting ourselves and others against the seduction of the enemy. Falsehoods are not much good at deceiving unless they are plausible and palatable. The whole point of our armor and strength is to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. This is much like... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2647
Wednesday June 22,2022 Title: Ephesians 6:17; The sword of the Spirit - diligence in living right. We will not skillfully and easily wield the sword of the Spirit if we are not diligent in the pursuit of God's person (truth, peace, unity, rest, righteousness, election, self-control).
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Tuesday June 21, 2022 We are too easily pleased. We don't crave too much. We don't crave enough. God is offering us infinite joy in Him, and to get us sheeples to see it, He will withhold certain things, but He will not stop us from craving them - that, we must stop ourselves. God allowed Israel to hunger in the wilderness so that they would see that "man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God."
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Sunday June 19, 2022 Sword of the Spirit: Gospel, defense, testimony, teaching, reproof, and correction properly used under the will of the HS. The sword of the Spirit: defense - resisting temptation.
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Thursday June 16, 2022 Sword of the Spirit: Gospel, defense, testimony, teaching, reproof, and correction properly used under the will of the HS. Last... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2643
Wednesday June 15, 2022 Sword of the Spirit: Gospel, defense, testimony, teaching, reproof, and correction properly used under the will of the HS. How does God see us wearing His armor? What is God's vision for us in this text? What are we to accomplish with God's armor in His eyes?
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Tuesday June 14, 2022 Eph 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
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Sunday June 12, 2022 Love wisdom. It is better than wealth, and if you love it, you will accept its correction with joy in the pursuit of more of it. Joy, therefore, begets hope; the hope and confidence that more wisdom awaits you and life will be lived in the eternal counsel of divine purpose. "Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God" (Col 3:2-3). The word of God, in this way, will change our perspective from earth to heaven - beholding the glory of God in time.
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Thursday June 9, 2022 Heb 4:8-13 For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that. 9 There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 10 For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. 11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall through following the same example of disobedience.... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2639
Wednesday June 8, 2022 Discerning the fear of the Lord and discovering the knowledge of God will only materialize within if you seek wisdom as you would a hidden treasure (Pro 2). Pro 2:1-5 My son, if you will receive my sayings,
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Title: Ephesians 6:17; The Sword of the Spirit - defined. Tuesday June 7, 2022 The sword of the Spirit which is the word of God - the skillful use of the word of God under the guidance of the HS, precisely in the manner of God's will.
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Eph 6:10-17 Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. 11 Put on the full armor of God, that you may be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore, take up the full armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. 14 Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2636
Thursday June 2, 2022 Christ is to be in our conscious mind our constant companion - remembered and loved and followed. Christ said that if anyone loves Him they would keep His commands and He and the Father would make their home with him (Joh 14:23). Would we like to walk through life in the home of the Father... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2635
Wednesday June 1, 2022 The word and the Holy Spirit. The sword that Paul chooses is the machaira which is the Roman short sword and not the long sword. This small sword was the crucial offensive weapon in close combat.
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Tuesday May 31, 2022 We will continue to look into the role of the word of God as God speaking specifically to each one of us in real time. God has led me to speak about the purpose of the word of God in pointing us to see God Himself, so we are not necessarily looking at a doctrine, but the reason for all doctrines. From here we will then focus on the doctrine of the sword of the Spirit, which will complete our doctrine of the armor of God. The next and last doctrine in the Book of Ephesians is prayer, but before we tackle that, I want to examine the ministry of the Holy Spirit... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2633
Sunday May 29,2022 The Origins of Memorial Day Three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, the head of an organization of Union veterans - the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) - established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. Maj. Gen. John A. Logan declared it should be May 30. It is believed the date was chosen because flowers would be in bloom all over the country.
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Thursday May 26,2022 The Bible will never be a living book to us until we are convinced that God is articulate now in His world to anyone who has ears to hear. We must believe that the words on the pages of the Bible are for us - every one of them, Old Testament and New. God is vocal to every life. One attempt at a definition of faith is that it is "the gaze of a soul upon a saving God." [AW Tozer]
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Tuesday May 24, 2022 The spiritual life can be analyzed or enjoyed, but not both at the same moment. Its ultimate design is to be enjoyed. The spiritual life is enjoyed when it is lived in real time with real experience of God Himself. However, we rightly enter Bible class and analyze it and read our Bible's and... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2630
Sunday May 22,2022 God's word is wonderful and infinitely powerful because it is God's expression of Himself to mankind. Today we will examine the preciousness and wonder as well as the infinite power of the word of God.
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Wednesday May 18,2022 The sword that Paul chooses is the machaira which is the Roman short sword and not the long sword. This small sword was the crucial offensive weapon in close combat. Eph 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2628
Tuesday May 17, 2022 The equipment of Christ's soldier is complete; and he is arrayed in the full armor of light. He needs now to take the sword. I start in 5:7 because it describes our walk as we wear the full armor.
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Sunday MAY 15, 2022 "Believers exercise their convictions as a soldier moves his shield to prevent enemy weapons from killing him. The believer's task is to use what is given by God and watch as the enemy's fierce attack is brought to nothing through the surpassing power of God's armor." [Lynn Cohick, The Letter to the Ephesians, p. 422]
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Thursday May 12, 2022 God is not going to stop the flaming missiles. They are going to hit us. God wants us strong in this world so that we can reveal Him and actually enjoy doing just that. Paul wanted his churches to be strong in truth and righteousness. It is imperative for their survival and good impact. Today's emphasis on limiting free speech,... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2625
Wednesday May 11, 2022 Title: Ephesians 6:13-17; Faith in the faithfulness of God. I see the greatest danger to the church not being the threat of its extinction, but its failure to impact the world with truth and righteousness and the gospel.
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Tuesday May 10, 2022 The church is obviously in a dangerous place - the world. In every generation the church has been persecuted, and so the church needs protection and God provides it. However, we are not to just sit back and watch the world go by, waiting for God to do something miraculous. We are to always wait for God, but while we wait, we are to do. 1Th 1:5
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Sunday May 8, 2022 Title: Ephesians 6:13-17; Rather than stop the missiles, God gave us His shield. "We are made in the image of God. We have an inbuilt... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2622
Thursday May 5, 2022 The first three pieces of the full armor of God were truth, righteousness, and the readiness of the gospel of peace. Truth must be known and lived and then we have girded our loins with it. Righteousness is God's righteousness received and lived and then we will wear it like a breastplate. Truth and righteousness experienced will give us a love for the gospel that we come to realize gave us heaven itself without cost. Hence we will love the gospel and we will love the people of the world who have, as of yet, failed to believe it - then we will be... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2621
We have noted Satan's attacks against the messenger of the gospel. He tries to shame the messenger, make him fear the opinions of others, ruin his reputation, and in some cases try to intimidate him with material and physical harm. Jesus promised the disciples that the powerful in the world would lay their hands on theme and persecute them for His name's sake. He didn't tell them to hide, but rather said that it would lead to an opportunity for their testimony. Satan also attacks the message, which is his attack against the listeners. He infiltrates societies with false... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2620
Tuesday May 3, 2022 Eph 6:14-15 Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation [readiness] of the gospel of peace;
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Sunday May 1,2022 Eph 6:14-15 Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; "preparation" - hetoimasia = prepared or ready. The believer with a grasp of the... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2618
Thursday April 28, 2022 Eph 6:14-15 Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
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Wednesday April 27,2022 Wearing His armor, having His righteousness and life, we have been so blessed to be like Him, and it is our choice to do so in the face of great evil (the devil). Truth and righteousness are intimately related. If we don't know from the truth what God's righteousness really is, then we are hopeless to practice it. Faithfulness is loyalty and obedience, which is righteousness in practice, especially when... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2616
Sunday April 24,2022 Title: Ephesians 6:13-17; The belt of truth and breastplate of righteousness make for a warrior-poet eager to save others. The belt of truth and breastplate of righteousness make for a warrior-poet eager to save others. The wise and righteous... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2615
Thursday April 21, 2022 The purpose of the armor of God is the same as God's strength in us, to stand firm. Four times in this passage does Paul tell us to stand. This fourfold emphasis on the need to stand or withstand shows that the apostle's concern is for Christian stability. Wobbly Christians who have no firm foothold in Christ are an easy prey for the devil.
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Wednesday April 20,2022 The armor of God. Rom 3:21-26
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Tuesday April 19, 2022 Eph 6:10-13 Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. 11 Put on the full armor of God, that you may be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2612
Sunday April 17,2022 The pinnacle of the Book of Romans is 5:12-21. The entire book, all 16 chapters, is about this one idea. The idea is developed in several ways, but the theme runs throughout, the righteousness of God has been given to men. Rom 5:12-21
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Thursday April 14, 2022 Our true enemy being spiritual in nature (not of this world) means that they seek to influence the very fiber of our inner beings with a darkness that sweeps down on the very light that is in us and threatening its extinction in our life. Not that our new life in Christ can be taken from us; it cannot. That life is ours forever, but its outworking, our experience of its light and beauty and power can be extinguished.
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Wednesday April 13,2022 After studying the concept of standing firm and fighting the good fight, we return to Eph 6 and begin vs. 12 and onward. It will be very important for us to remember vs. 10-11 since those two sentences contain the main idea of the passage. Everything that now follows supports that main idea of standing firm against the schemes of the devil while being strong in the Lord and having put on God's full armor. The real enemy are spiritual and they seek to quench our spiritual lives, not our... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2609
Tuesday April 12, 2022 The noun "fight" is agon, and it is also used in several places that help us to understand our subject. It means to be in a contest or conflict, and the Bible tells us that whether we like it or not, we are in a fight. "Don't be surprised by the fiery ordeal among you that has come upon you for your testing" (1Pe 4:12).
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Sunday April 10,2022 So, we will see in these passages that reveal the "fight" that it is very much in harmony with standing firm. 1Ti 6:11-16 But flee from these things [false doctrines, speculations, the contention they cause, and the love of money], you man of God; and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith,... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2607
Thursday April 7, 2022 Mat 12:10 And behold, there was a man with a withered hand. And they questioned Him, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" - in order that they might accuse Him.
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Wednesday April 6,2022 The background of the words for fight and fighting (outside of Joh 18:36) are not war, but the Olympic games of that time, which then and now demands a lot of personal development, discipline, and self-control. First off, Christ earned the complete victory already. And second, He accomplished it by letting the enemy nail Him to a cross.
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Tuesday April 5, 2022 Standing firm vs. fight the good fight of faith. A careful examination (and we should always think and carefully examine) of the passages in the NT about these terms will show us that they are not in contrast to one another, but rather support one another. Fighting (striving, contending) in the... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2604
Sunday April 3,2022 The royal priests stand firm and fight like their High Priest. Our kingdom is not of this world. In 1Pe 2, Peter establishes who we are as priests and where we serve (God's eternal holy temple promised thousands of years ago). 1Pe... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2603
Thursday March 31, 2022 Today's psalm in the Bible reading poetically sums up our study of late. "Lord of Hosts" - Lord of the Armies
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Wednesday March 30,2022 Standing firm requires complete dependence and fidelity to God and His way. A divided heart cannot stand. Mat 12:22-26 Then there was brought to Him a demon-possessed man who was blind and dumb, and He healed him, so that the dumb man spoke and saw. 23 And all the multitudes were amazed,... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2601
Tuesday March 29, 2022 We have studied "be strong" and "put on" and now we move to "stand firm" (the main idea). Eph 6:10-11
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Sunday March 27, 2022 Hannah had an antagonist who tried over and over to shame her and belittle her, and for a while it worked (1Sa 1). Hannah's antagonist was her husband's other wife Peninnah who had children while Hannah did not. 1Sa... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2599
Thursday March 24, 2022 To put on the armor of God is to put on the armor of light, to put on Christ, to put on the virtuous heart, and to put on the new self. This cannot be done without simultaneously putting off the old self with its lusts and sins. Therefore, success in the spiritual life isn't a procedure but a desire from a conscience that has become convinced through the word of God and its application.
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The verb "put on" is used in reference to the Holy Spirit (Luk 24:49); armor of light (Rom 13:12); Christ (Rom 13:14; Gal 3:27); new self (Eph 4:24; Col 3:10); virtuous heart (Col 3:12); breastplate of faith and love and helmet of salvation (1Th 5:8). "Put on TLJC" is contrasted with an immoral life and associated with making no provision for the flesh (Rom 13:8-14).
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Tuesday March 22, 2022 The verb "put on" is used in reference to the Holy Spirit (Luk 24:49); armor of light (Rom 13:12); Christ (Rom 13:14; Gal 3:27); new self (Eph 4:24; Col 3:10); virtuous heart (Col 3:12); breastplate of faith and love and helmet of salvation (1Th 5:8).
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Sunday March 20,2022 Faith can see what sight often doesn't. We must have good eyes. Jdg 6:11-16 Then the angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press in order to save it from the Midianites. 12 And the angel of the... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2595
Thursday March 17, 2022 Imperative 1: Be strong (6:10) Imperative 2: Put on (6:11) / take up (6:13) Imperative 3: Stand firm
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Wednesday March 16,2022 Continue to learn knowledge and wisdom, believe the promises of God, and live a life faithful to the service of God and others and you will be strong in the Lord and in His mighty strength. Our power is fully tied to the Lord's power. His power made for His victory over all that usurped God and crushed the results of that rebellion, namely, sin and death.
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Tuesday March 15, 2022 Someone said that the Bible starts with a garden and ends with a city and there is a cross in between - an oversimplification, but one of the better ones. The passages that we have studied in reference to strength concern being faithful, but not faithful at any one moment, but consistently. It is a mindset based on the truth that as sons and daughters to God we have an obligation to be faithful in all things,... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2592
Sunday March 13,2022 Open: the psalms poetically reveal the sovereignty of the Lord over all the nations (one among many things). God is patient, but no one is going to get away from His judgment, either through Christ, or standing for themselves. Psa 2:1-3:1
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Thursday March 10, 2022 Only in the Lord are righteousness and strength (Isa 45:24). Isa 45:22-25 "Turn to Me, and... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2590
Wednesday March 9,2022 I came across this wonderful statement today. "God threatens terrible things if we will not be happy." [Jeremy Taylor] Psa 37:4
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Tuesday March 8, 2022 Why should we be strong in a world where Satan schemes against mankind and God's church? How do we stand firm against the schemes of the devil? We are strong in God's mighty power and we put on the full armor of God.
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What we've seen of Eph 6:10-20 so far. We've done some preliminary work in our passage. We've seen that a certain type of power from God was released to believers when the risen Lord sat at the right hand of the Father.
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Thursday March 3, 2022 God could bless us in spite of our attitude and conscience, and in many ways He does, but the Lord tells us to love Him, fear Him, and cling to Him (Deu 10-11). Is He desperate for worship like a tinpot dictator? Or does He want us to actually see Him and understand? He has made us in His image, giving us the ability to reason, comprehend the unseen, and anyone who has truly seen God for who His will tell you that it is the best thing, and most beautiful and rewarding, to... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2586
Wednesday March 2, 2022 The idea of being excited for battle with take up two classes. We left off last time with the weapons of our warfare. 2Co 10:3-5
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Tuesday March 1, 2022 Eph 6:11 (Y'all) Put on the full armor of God The full armor is "of God." It is God's own armor (Isa 11:5; 52:7; 59:17).
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Sunday February 27, 2022 We strive to fulfill the standard of life that God has made, graciously given, and set for us. We do this despite our own reflection of weakness that too often lowers our countenance to the point of despair. There is a reason why we don't quit and know in our hearts that we will never give up the good fight. We belong to Christ, the Victor and our Savior, and He will never quit on us. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is courage to continue that counts." [Winston... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2583
Thursday February 24, 2022 Our current passage is the final part of the body of Paul's letter to the Ephesians. Since chapter 4 Paul has described the wonder and privilege of life in Christ and has implored us to live in a manner worthy of it. From 4:17 he has been urging us to no longer live in a pagan lifestyle and to live in the light in our thoughts, speech, conduct, and... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2582
Wednesday February 23,2022 The best, and perhaps only, way to get your eyes off of people and their sins (purposeful and weakness) is to put your eyes on Christ. Your eyes will be upon Him for all eternity in heaven, we should start doing this now. Successfully standing firm cannot be accomplished in any other way than Jesus' way. Every legitimate desire can only be fulfilled in Christ.
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Tuesday February 22,2022 The world in which we live out our Christian lives is not neutral territory but a battleground. Eph 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2580
Sunday February 20,2022 First, I want us to know that we possess the very armor of God. God has a belt about His waste, Isa 11:5. Isa 11:4-5
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Thursday February 17, 2022 Paul's epistle to a close with a final section and his concluding greetings. Paul's final doctrine concerning the life of the new self is the spiritual warfare we find ourselves in.
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Wednesday February 16,2022 The life that is exceeding, abundantly, beyond all that we could ask or think is the only form of legitimate self-interest. The reward to this life is wonderful, like heaven is wonderful. It is not selfish to want heaven in your life, since in contrary to human selfishness, heaven is a selfless place. Living in a manner worthy of our calling demands being convinced of who we are in Christ and how fitting and necessary is the... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2577
Tuesday February 15, 2022 We are still wrapping up this section in Ephesians that reveals the life of the new self. It is a walk worthy of the calling. We have sufficiently overviewed and clarified everything from 4:1 to slaves and masters in 6:5-9. We're adding some finishing touches. Last time we saw the power of sin compared... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2576
Sunday February 13,2022 From Cornelius Plantinga's book Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 1978 commencement address at Harvard University, a defining moment in the twentieth-century culture wars, condemned Western godlessness, materialism, and consequent superficiality. The West has thrown away God, said Solzhenitsyn, as well as the accountabilities and depths of purpose that used to be attached to belief in God; it has substituted for these weighty things faddish variations on the pursuit of freedom and happiness. Any return to greatness must begin with a reappraisal of the goal of human life, a recognition of its spiritual nature, and the recovery of a sense of responsibility to God and for... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2575
Thursday February 10, 2022 How do we live in a worthy manner of our calling when we're prisoners of some kind of suffering? Paul's and Peter's commandments to slaves answers this question. In our last two classes we have documented the lamented life of a slave in the... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2574
Wednesday Fbruary 9,2022 Every role, both authority and subordinates, have a role of subordination to one another in the way of Christ. The parents are to be careful not to discourage their children or provoke them to anger. The masters and slaves have the same Master, the Lord Jesus Christ and masters must be careful not to threaten their slaves. In Christ's new humanity, the roles remained but everyone was made equal, not in society, or even in the home, but in Him while they submitted in their various... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2573
Tuesday February 8.2022 The new humanity is elevated to heaven spiritually, though he may not see any earthly promotion. This includes earthly slavery, which we could argue is man's lowest place or at least among the lowest, and to be clear, Paul is referring to a person being owned by another person. Slavery is not condoned in the Bible. In the NT it is clearly revealed as wrong, but it is acknowledged as being a part of the world's kingdoms. Christ did not come into the world to overturn kingdoms.... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2572
Sunday February 6,2022 Our main idea remains: walk in a manner worthy of your calling, and the idea behind that is that Christ through His death and resurrection has made all things new. Christ has made all things new, which things can only be entered by faith - individuals, church, marriage, family, and work.
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Thursday February 3, 2022 Our main idea remains: walk in a manner worthy of your calling, and the idea behind that is that Christ through His death and resurrection has made all things new. Christ has made all things new, which things can only be entered by faith - a family with wise, divinely loving parents, and... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2570
Wednesday February 2,2022 The main idea: The redemption of Christ is aimed at removing the results of sin and of the fall in every way. The true pattern of marriage is Christ and the church and not the Garden of Eden. If we based our hope on the Garden of Eden then we might imagine that in our marriages and homes that we can create something perfect - a perfect environment with two perfect people who are perfectly in love. We definitely strive for perfection, but we also know that it is not... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2569
Tuesday February 1, 2022 The main idea: The redemption of Christ is aimed at removing the results of sin and of the fall in every way. In our study of Eph 4-6 we have seen that Paul's main theme is walking or living in a divine way. God made every believer the new humanity, or "new man" as Paul puts... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2568
Sunday January 30, 2022 Why humanity? Humankind was made, is made in the image (model, idol, or copy) of God, and so they are to reflect God. We were made to reflect God. We fell but remained in God's image. We didn't reflect Him, at least most did not, and those who did struggled greatly with personal sin.
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Thursday January 27, 2022 "What is the theme which has run right through chapter 4 and spilled over into chapter 5? These chapters are a stirring summons to the unity and purity of the church; but they are more than that. Their theme is the integration of Christian experience (what we are), Christian theology (what we believe), and Christian ethics (how we behave). They emphasize that being, thought, and action belong together." [John Stott]
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Wednesday January 26,2022 We are summarizing the final three chapters of Ephesians. We have seen that in this letter Paul teaches us the way of life of the new humanity in Christ, both individually and as member of the body of Christ. Paul uses exhortations, commands, and warnings. "Nowhere does the apostle say so much of 'the will of God' in regard to the dispensation of grace as He does in this epistle." [G.G. Findlay, The Epistle to the... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2565
Tuesday January 25, 2022 Paul gives us a map through a mine field with a mature believer and a mature church on the other side. A big part of this exhortation is the warning that there exist many things that oppose our growth and our walk with the Lord and our service and unity with one... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2564
Sunday January 23.2022 This section is a bio of the maturing believer and a description of his church. It is also a description of the schemes of the enemy that wants to destroy both. But who is this believer in Christ? He is blessed with all spiritual blessings in Christ. He is elected before the foundation of the world. He was predestined to adoption into God's family by the kind intention of God's will. Therefore he is forgiven of all sin. To him is made known the mystery of God's will. He... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2563
Thursday January 20, 2022 The prize, the upward call, is being like Christ. The reward is a life exceeding, abundantly beyond what could be thought and imagined as well as reward in eternity (JSOC). Man was created in the image of God and in God's likeness, Gen 1:26. Man was blessed (all blessing comes from God)... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2562
Wednesday January 19,2022 Eph 4:14-16 As a result, we are no longer to be children [spiritual infants], tossed here and there by waves, and carried about [twirled around] by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming [method of getting believers off the right path and onto a wrong one]; 15 but speaking the truth [living and being the truth] in love, we are to grow up in all aspects [things] into Him, who is the head, even Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, being [continually] fitted and held together [fitly joined and knit... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2561
Tuesday January 18, 2022 We must grow up in time in order to experience God's love, joy, and peace in our marriages, families, churches, and communities. Only in time is there an enemy who has made war against it. God did not create and plan human history without a grand design. Man is at the center and... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2560
SUNDAY JANUARY 16, 2022 Title: Ephesians 4:15-16 -The body is fitted together by the Head and made for growing up and attaining shalom. The spiritual gifts are for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ until we all attain the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God to a mature man.
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Thursday January 13, 2022 Last time we read Paul's disclosure of the malady that arrests the church's growth, which was spiritual immature Christians who believe false doctrines and lies from teachers who with trickery spread propaganda for the wrong path. These tricksters and hacks have a method from which to dupe the unknowing and infantile.
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Wednesday January 12.2022 Eph 4:1-13 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, entreat you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing forbearance to one another in love, 3 being diligent [making every effort] to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. 7 But to each one of... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2557
Tuesday January 11, 2022 There has long been a phenomenon that we call tribalism. The word comes from the Latin term tribus which simply means "three." The Romans looked at their history and saw that there were three different ethnic groups that fought with one another and eliminated any hope a peaceful society and economy. They called the idea of identifying with one clan over another as tribus. In modern times, tribalism is the idea that people will identify with others who look like them or behave like them while rejecting others who are different. It must be... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2556
Sunday January 9,2022 Eph 4:11-13 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fulness of Christ.
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Thursday January 6, 2022 Eph 4:11-13 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 12 for the... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2554
Wednesday, January 5. 2022 These verses unfold to us three main conceptions: 1) The goal of the church's life (vs. 13).
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Tuesday, January 4, 2022 Eph 4:1-6 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, entreat you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing forbearance to one another in love, 3... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2552
Sunday January 2. 2022 [I ran a planetarium for a summer when I was in college. It was one of the coolest experiences of my life... I'm going to read you these wonderful passages from the Psalms because you and I in the Salem OR area are going to have to imagine it. We're getting 2 inches of rain today. If you're listening and have clear skies, and find yourself up after midnight, find the Big Dipper, look just below it, and be patient. Think of our Creator Father, Son, and Spirit and be patient, just like They instruct us. It's legit to make a wish, as long as it is His will. For us in OR, the meteors will be there in the heavens, like our Lord Jesus, but we won't see them or Him.]
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Thursday December 23, 2021 Just a couple of more things to say about the gift of exhortation and we'll move on and complete the story of spiritual gifts. Listen and know that you are on your way to losing yourself in Christ. It's going to take time, a long time, and others are going to help you along the way. Be patient and find the path of enjoying the ride even though you are not quite what you need to be to fulfill all that God has blessed you with.
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Wednesday December 22,2021 "The conduct of the Christian is to be determined by the fact that he is in Christ. "If anyone is in Christ he is a new creation" (2Co 5:17). That must set its mark on all of his life, on all that he does or allows. But to be in Christ is to be a member of the body of Christ. A member without connection with the body would be nothing. It is a member only in relation to the body and its other members. It has its existence only by the fact that it is incorporated in the body and has its special function therein." [Anders Nygren, Commentary on Romans]
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Tuesday December 21, 2021 Summary of all the remaining spiritual gifts: What we will do is look at brief descriptions of the spiritual gifts that are thought by most theologians and writers from our camp to be permanent for the church. We will not be delving into the gifts that we believe to be... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2548
Sunday December 19,2021 When Jesus was born, Israel had not had a king for some 580 years. The last one, Zedekiah, was the worst of them all. David was the best. None of them were even close to being perfect in holiness. To Mary, in Bethlehem, the one true King of all was born. Prophecy shows a victorious King and a suffering Servant: 2 Messiahs or 1?
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Thursday December 16, 2021 Love of God leads a believer to honor all that is of God and from God. Isa 44:24-25 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, and... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2546
Wednesday December 15,2021 The believer is made by God to give God his all and his best. God will not help us in any other endeavor. As His own, made priests for Christ's perfect, righteous kingdom, we don't owe Him as if we should try to pay Him back, rather, we have entered into a life that only loves righteousness, through the narrow gate on to the new and living road (Heb 10:19-20). We offer all because that is the way of our life in Him,... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2545
Tuesday December 14,2021 Mal 1:6 "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?' says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, 'How have we despised Thy name?'" Notice how these... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2544
Sunday December 12,2021 As we briefly summarize the permanent spiritual gifts, I want to remind you that all of them are for the one purpose of edifying or building up the body of Christ, and so serving God. Spiritual gifts are for the purpose of building up the body of Christ in the service of God. We are to give God our very best.
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Thursday, December 9, 2021 The Greek word for teacher is didaskalos, and this word, translated "good teacher," is a compound kalodidaskalos. Kalos is an adjective that means "good." There is another compound of didaskalos that is the opposite of kalodidaskalos. Good teacher: kalodidaskalos False... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2542
Wednesday December 8,2021 Last time we saw in Tit 2:3 that older women were to teach what is good and encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible [sophron = sober minded, temperate], pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, and all so that the word of God may not be dishonored. That is a lot to teach, and it would take more than one lesson or chat. And it is not only for older women, but all of us have opportunity to teach others about the virtue of God in... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2541
Tuesday December 7, 2021 Sound teaching from good teachers is the way towards wisdom and righteousness. Fortresses of lies crumble before the truth. In the introduction to the Book of Proverbs, chapters 1-9, wisdom (Hebrew: chokmah) speaks in chapter 8. Let's look at a portion.
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Sunday December 5,2021 Title: Ephesians 4:7-16: Spiritual gifts -pastor teacher, part 11. Eph 4:11 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,
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Thursday, December 2, 2021 Despite our sinfulness and ignorance as believers, the Lord waits for us as He calls to us through experiences and even discipline. We do the same thing with our kids. It takes them a long time to get it, and some never do, but we wait on them, all the while instructing, warning, training, disciplining, knowing that it will take a while for them to see it for themselves. Parents or guardians do this imperfectly, but God does it perfectly.
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Wednesday December 1,2021 Title: Ephesians 4:7-16: Spiritual gifts -pastor teacher, part 9. As we conclude our study on Joh 10:1-18, we should summarize this wonderful and important passage. The context of the "I am the good Shepherd passage is the healing of the man born blind who the Pharisees sent out from the flock of Israel, over which they were bad shepherds. Jesus sought out the healed man after his excommunication and became his Shepherd. Jesus called him by asking him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man," and the man walked through the door (Jesus is the door)... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2537
Title: Ephesians 4:7-16: Spiritual gifts -pastor teacher, part 8. Tuesday November 30, 2021 After healing the blind beggar, Jesus then becomes his Shepherd, protecting him from the harsh jealousy of the Pharisees.
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Sunday November 28,2021 After healing the blind beggar, Jesus then becomes his Shepherd, protecting him from the harsh jealousy of the Pharisees. Joh 10:7-9 Jesus therefore said to them again, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am [ego eimi = emphasizing Himself] the door of the sheep. 8 "All who came before Me are... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2535
Wednesday November 24, 2021 We are closing our doctrine of the gift of pastor or shepherd with Joh 10:1-18, where the Lord speaks of Himself as the good Shepherd. The pastor/shepherd teacher is to imitate Jesus Christ. We have been careful to see the passage in light of its context, the healing of the man born blind, as well as its... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2534
Tuesday November 23, 2021 We are closing our doctrine of the gift of pastor or shepherd with Joh 10:1-18, where the Lord speaks of Himself as the good Shepherd. The pastor/shepherd teacher is to imitate Jesus Christ. This passage is the Lord's teaching directly after he heals the man born blind. The Pharisees sent out the... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2533
Sunday November 21, 2021 The great Shepherd is promised to Israel in the Messianic age. Eze 37:24
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Thursday November 18, 2021 Pastor is the English transliteration of the Latin pastore which is the Latin translation of poimen which means shepherd. David was called to be the ruler of Israel, but in telling him this, God first told David to shepherd God's people, making shepherd parallel with ruler. This is an important truth... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2531
Wednesday November 17, 2021 Pastor-teacher (shepherd and teacher). Poimeno (pastor) from a root meaning to protect, and didaskalos means teacher. Pastor is a shepherd.
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Tuesday November 16, 2021 Pastor-teacher (shepherd and teacher). Poimeno (pastor) from a root meaning to protect, and didaskalos means teacher. I'd like to start and end this doctrine of the pastor or shepherd with the Great Shepherd whom all are to mimic, the Lord Jesus.
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Sunday November 14, 2021 What keeps a man healthy? Your circumstances in the world do not matter a lick here. It brings the soul great joy to know that joy is always low hanging fruit, ready to grasp. "The world is a jungle of tyranny."
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Title: Ephesians 4:7-16: Spiritual gifts - evangelist, part 4. The fact that all in the body of Christ are given at least one spiritual gift means that we have an inescapable responsibility to one another. This and several other things that reveal that what we do will inevitably affect others, reveals to us that our life is not our own.
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Wednesday November 10, 2021 Evangelist "evangelists" - euaggelistas = a messenger of good news, preacher of the gospel. (verb: euaggelizo - to bring, proclaim the gospel) In each of these gifts we will show the Lord's own function in... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2526
Tuesday November 9, 2021 Eph 4:12-13: gifts are for pointing towards "equipping" = making mature or fit. For entering into service, edification of others, unity, full knowledge of Christ, perfect maturity, and the stature of Christ. Eph 4:12-13
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Sunday November 7,2021 Let's read our current section in its entirety. Eph 4:1 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, entreat you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called,
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Thursday November 4,2021 I hastily closed 1Co 14 in our last meeting due to time. But I think we gleaned the main point of that chapter. It is really a part of chapters 12-14 in which spiritual gifts and divine love are taught by Paul and then used as a spotlight upon their own conduct in Corinth in two large areas: their use of spiritual gifts (particularly prophecy and tongues) and the method of their actual church meetings. Paul stated chapter 14 with the command to vigorously pursue love, and that because the Corinthians had choses the wrong side in the conflict of glorification of God or self.
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Wednesday November 3,2021 Prophets: this gift was receiving truth by direct revelation from God, which truth would later become written Scripture. 1Co 14:37-38 If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that the things which I write to you are the Lord's commandment. 38 But if anyone... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2522
1Co 12:1-3 1Co 12:1-3 Now concerning spiritual gifts [pneumatikon - spiritual (neuter: gifts, things, matters; or masculine: spiritual people], brethren, I do not want you to be unaware. 2 You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to the dumb idols, however you were led. 3 Therefore I make known to you, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is accursed"; and no one can say, "Jesus... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2521
Sunday October 31, 2021 Prophets: this gift was receiving truth by direct revelation from God. 1Co 12:28 And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, various kinds of tongues.
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Thursday October 28, 2021 Another parallel to apostles (sent ones) besides Moses and Aaron who were sent to Pharoah, are the OT prophets sent to Israel. Both the apostle and OT prophet spoke for God; both warned of judgment upon sin; both delivered their message as from God; both dealt with contemporaneous events as... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2519
Wednesday October 27,2021 The gift of apostle. Apostles were the true freedom fighters. To the apostles, especially Paul, the spiritual liberty of the church was more important than their personal popularity or security. That's why the adage, "Land of the free and home of the... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2518
Tuesday October 26,2021 The gift of apostle. Apostolos - literally "one sent forth" (apo = from; stello = to send). 1Co 3:10-11
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Sunday October 24,2021 Apostolos - literally "one sent forth" (apo = from; stello = to send). Used for Christ (Heb 3:1) We noted that the title was used for Christ and that Christ Himself said that He was sent by the Father using the verb apostello.
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Title: Ephesians 4:7-16; Spiritual gifts - the leaders (conclusion); apostles. Thursday October 21, 2021 We have begun to look at church leadership in reference to spiritual gifts. In the age of the church, apostles and prophets ceased to be gifts after the apostolic age. The permanent leadership gifts are evangelist, pastor-teacher, and deacon. We... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2515
Wednesday October 20,2021 Leadership: pastor-teacher, minister (deacon: diakonos), and "elder" and "overseer. It should be noted at the start that spiritual gifts are not limited to sex or a particular age group. Before you say, "Wait, women can't be pastors," it is true that they cannot hold the office of pastor, for they, according to Paul, should not exercise authority over a man in the church. But the Bible does not exclusively tell us that a woman cannot have a gift of... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2514
Tuesday October 19,2021 Eph 4:11-16 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fulness of Christ.
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Sunday October 17,2021 Eph 4-6: Living the Christian life in experience. What it looks like. Walk in a manner worthy of your election, blessing, unity, work, service, love for one another, walking in the new self (righteousness and holiness of the truth), no falsehood in our dealings with one another, righteous anger, giving to those in need, edifying one another, being kind, sympathetic, and forgiving, putting aside all malice, anger and slander, imitate God and walk in love, don't let immorality,... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2512
Thursday October 14, 2021 Not long ago, I tended to think that it was best not to consider it and just do the work that you find to do and you will discover it, or something about it. I still partially hold to that view, as agonizing over identifying a gift doesn't seem healthy, nor the idea that the area of the gift is the only area that one can work in. Those are some of the dangerous aspects of searching for it. But, I've modified my view after some more study, after seeing a different aspect of it.
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Wednesday October 13,2021 By Christ's removal from earth through the ascension, His work was not to be stopped, but to pass into a higher stage - the church gifted with powers. Christ didn't come to earth to show off His divine power and from that loft judge men. He came to save us and to show us what a new spiritual life would be.
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Tuesaday 12,2021 Title: Ephesians 4:7-16; Spiritual gifts - the continuation of Christ's works throughout the age, part 2. "What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man's spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has even been greater than its idea of God." [A. W. Tozer,... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2509
Sunday October 10,2021 All that God gives remains His own and returns to Him again. Our life, our gifts, remain God's and they can only be properly used in His service. Since He has at His command all the power in the universe, the Lord God omnipotent can do anything as easily as anything else. All His acts are done without effort. He expends no energy that must be replenished. His self-sufficiency makes it unnecessary for Him to look outside of Himself for a renewal of strength. All the power required to do all that... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2508
Thursday October 7, 2021 In our last lecture we saw the truth that transcendent, infinite, almighty God cannot give anything away, but that all things come from Him and always belong to Him. God is the only self-existent One, all others, whether a cockroach or an archangel, are creatures. Because all things are Gods, then all things must return to Him. Unbelievers will be judged, but we are focusing on God's gifts to His believers.
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Spiritual gifts are for edifying the church; promoting the spiritual growth of the individual and the church. From the beginning when Adam needed a helpmate and throughout the Bible, no one could go it alone. Loving God and loving your neighbor has always been the hard and fast rule to success in the life of humanity.
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Title: Ephesians 4:7-16; Spiritual gifts - purpose of edification. Life is short. There is no time to lose. "Because God's nature is infinite, everything that flows out of it is infinite also. We poor human creatures are constantly being frustrated by limitations imposed upon us from without and within. The days of the... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2505
Sunday October 3,2021 Title: Ephesians 4:7-16; Spiritual gifts, part 2. Eph 4:11-13 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; 13 until we all attain to the... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2504
Thursday September 30, 2021 Eph 4:11-13 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2503
Wednesday, September 29, 2021 "the fulness of Christ" - every part of our conscience, our lives, our conduct, our passion, our wisdom, etc., are in accordance with Him. He fulfilled all the prophecy about His incarnation, from the virgin birth to His suffering and death. But the promises or covenants that... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2502
Tuesday September 28, 2021 Addendums: Clarifying reading the Bible on your own: this can be problematic or very beneficial. It is beneficial when a person believes in its authority, sufficiency, necessity, and inerrancy. When such a believer comes across difficult passages or seeming contradictions, they know that there is a solution and will humbly explore it. When a person doesn't believe in the authority and inerrancy of scripture, problem passages and seeming contradictions become a source of criticism and doubt. The issue when reading the Bible on your own is commitment to what it is... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2501
Sunday September 26,2021 Gen 19:24-28 Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven, 25 and He overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. 26 But his wife, from behind him, looked back; and she became a pillar of salt.
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Thursday September 23, 2021 Paul writes in Eph 4:9-10 (Now this expression, "He ascended," what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.)
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Wednesday September 22, 2021 Eph 4:9-10 (Now this expression, "He ascended," what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.)
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Tuesday September 21, 2021 Paul prayed for the Colossians to joyously thank the Father for their opportunity to bear fruit in every good work. Col 1:9-12
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Sunday, September 19, 2021 Work and service in obedience to God should give peace and joy. The work itself is the reward. If we are grudgingly working in the hope of future reward, or if we expect that the work is loathsome and the joy only comes after the work is done, we are missing the mark. The way of life, the conduct, the character and virtue of the life of Christ are the whole of that life. Did Christ not love doing what He did during the incarnation? Did He despise the incarnation, but put up with it, waiting for the resurrection to experience any joy? God always... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2496
Thursday September 16, 2021 A word of caution as we are once again pressed by the word of God into a life of work and service to others. It is to be a life of joy and fulfillment and peace and gratitude and love. What I'm saying, what God is saying, is that it is to be fun. We must avoid compulsion and duty. The work is... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2495
Wednesday, September 15 2021 The only use of charisma outside of Paul is in 1Pe 4:10. Let's read it in context. 1Pe 4:1-11 Therefore,... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2494
Tuesday September 14, 2021 Eph 4:7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift. Paul... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2493
Sunday, September 12, 2021 Eph 4:1-10 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, entreat you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing forbearance to one another in love, 3 being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as also... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2492
Thursday September 9, 2021 We've touched on the seeming conundrum of the sovereignty of a God of goodness and love with the existence of a world containing much sin, evil, and suffering. As one good commentator puts it:
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Wednesday September 8,2021 We can discover some of the complexity of the question of a perfectly good God and a world suffering with sin, evil, natural disaster, sickness, and death when we understand that God became a man. Hope is injected into a suffering world when we find the Son God suffering on a cross, reconciling the world to Himself.
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Tuesday September 7, 2021 Our exegetical, scriptural study of Ephesians has paused for a concept study of the fear of God and the method of wisdom. A scriptural study is a verse-by-verse exegetical means of learning an entire passage and applying the science of hermeneutics to arrive at its correct translation and... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2489
Sunday September 5,2021 Phi 2:5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, Phi 2:12-16 So then, my beloved, just as you have always... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2488
Thursday September 2, 2021 Fear of God is fear of being fake, of being sinful when delivered from sin, of being ungodly when imputed with His righteousness, of being wicked, disobedient, and unfaithful when made alive in Christ through divine rebirth. Some Christians live sinful lives and think confession alone solves the problem of... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2487
Wednesday September 1,2021 Written by CS Lewis in 1948. Very applicable to today: "How are we to live in an atomic age?' I am tempted to reply: 'Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2486
Tuesday August 31, 2021 Drawing near to God has a recognizable difference in way of life. God must influence us for good. The opening paragraph of Jam 4 clearly reveals this truth.
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Tuesday August 24, 2021 Drawing near to God has a recognizable difference in way of life. God must influence us for good. We must be careful not to mistake intense emotion for nearness to God. It is the inner man that walks with God in life, and that walk will manifest a cleanliness and purity of life, joyfully and... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2484
Sunday August 22,2021 We have begun a study of wisdom so that when we return to Eph 4 to see the gifts Christ has given us we will know the way and manner to use those gifts. Our approach to the study of wisdom has led us to see the things that make for wisdom - the fear of the Lord, drawing near to God, faith, and uprightness. Whenever you seek out something with God, He shows you the only way. There is no use trying to find your own way to it. Only He knows... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2483
Thursday, August 19, 2021 When you feel that you are starting to take yourself a bit too seriously, memorize, or remember: Psa 39:4-5 Lord, make... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2482
Wednesday August 18,2021 Reading Psa 37 this morning, I thought it was very appropriate to our current historical situation. Psa 37:1-19 Do not fret because of evildoers,
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Tuesday August 17, 2021 The fear of God is not drawing away from the unknown, but a search for intimacy with Him, while being small, insignificant, and humble. We have returned to the subject of fearing the Lord for a brief time. I have been deeply influenced by the multiple passages where God tells His people not to... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2480
Sunday August 15,2021 Fear of the Lord in Proverbs: Produces knowledge (3) Turns from evil (4) Gives wisdom (2)
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Sunday August 8,2021 Eph 4:7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift. In his commentary on Ephesians, G. G. Findlay writes:
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Thursday August 5, 2021 Having wisdom is vital for mankind to successfully exist in a society in this world. The amount of divine morality that an unbeliever can know is vital to his living in a certain harmony and prosperity in his own societies. When things happen, as they have in the modern West that many people throw off God's definition of good and evil (say in marriage and criminal/civil law) and their only overriding desire is for inner personal happiness and a sense of psychological well-being, they may like to think they believe in good and bad, but these concepts are unhitched from God and merely reflect personal preference. No society can sustain itself if that view is too prevalent.
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Wednesday August 4, 2021 As Christ's sheep, He said that we would know His voice. He said that eternal life was knowing God (Joh 17:3). "We must know enough about God to trust Him, and know Him deeply enough to hold nothing back from Him and for Him." [Tim Anderson, Into His Presence]
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Tuesday August 3, 2021 Wisdom literature: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Job, are designed to help us cope with our everyday lives. Day-to-day we walk in the realm of marriage, sexuality, work, friendship, money, gathering needs, etc. and they are all important to us. Why is God always faithful, even in the little things? Why does God have... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2475
Sunday August 1,2021 Lesson: Wisdom literature, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Job are designed to help us cope wisely with our day-to-day lives. They apply to the details of our character that can fluctuate day to day. One might look at their life over a period... for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2474
Thursday July 29, 2021 Moses, the prophets, the wisdom writers, and all the NT writers were true spiritual partners sharing the same Lord, same image, same faith, hope, doctrines of man, and doctrines of God, speaking with the same authority, and making similar religious and ethical demands on their hearers. In short, they drank from the same spiritual well.
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