Join Bob George on this wonderful audio teaching experience as he teaches through the bible study, “A Closer Look at The word of God” Follow along with the written transcripts and the Word of God verses as presented from the Scriptures.
The Bible says of itself, “The Word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword.” It is vital to the Christian that we know beyond doubt that God’s Word is both valid and authoritative. This study guide will lead you to solid conclusions in that regard.
- Radio Broadcast Monday 02/08/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P1 (02-08-21) Synopsis How do you form convictions? Do you know what truth is? How do you know what is true and what is not true? What if I found out my convictions were based on a lie? Do you get truth by what some man says is true? But he could be lying to you. How would you know? Where ...
- Radio Broadcast Tuesday 02/09/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P2 (02-09-21) Synopsis Do you have a plumbline to gauge whether something is true? The word of God is the plumbline for truth, to gauge our lives so that we are not ensnared and trapped in error in our thinking but can submit to God and resist the lie and live in truth. The battle in the world today, as in ...
- Radio Broadcast Wednesday 02/10/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P3 (02-10-21) Synopsis You cannot separate the word of God from the person of Jesus Christ. If you will not or cannot believe the word of God is absolutely true, then how are you going to know if any of it is true, including truth about Christ Jesus. So how can we ever rest in salvation in the one who came ...
- Radio Broadcast Monday 02/15/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P4 (02-15-21) Synopsis Why is it that we are so slow of heart to believe? I know I was, and at times, I still struggle to trust Christ to provide for my daily needs. But God initiates His love to us. That is when our hearts become softened and He gets our attention. Have you ever asked that question, “Why would ...
- Radio Broadcast Tuesday 02/16/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P5 (02-16-21) Synopsis You cannot separate the word of God from the person of God. They are so intertwined. When God says something it is a total reflection of who He is. You cannot separate who He is from what He says. They are one and the same, unlike us. God is not like us. When someone asks us, “How are ...
- Radio Broadcast Wednesday 02/17/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P6 (02-17-21) Synopsis What conviction do you have that the scriptures are the word of God, are inerrant, and are applicable today as it was over 2000 years ago? Are the problems of man we face today in our lives, anxiety and depression, any different than back then, since the fall of mankind? Yes, we may have advanced technology that can ...
- Radio Broadcast Monday 02/22/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P7 (02-22-21) Synopsis We are studying A Closer Look at the Word of God. If you believe the bible is true, but your only understanding is to why you believe the bible is true is because you just believe it or the pastor said it, then you are on flimsy ground. If you do not believe the bible is true, then ...
- Radio Broadcast Tuesday 02/23/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P8 (02-23-21) Synopsis The word of God points to Jesus Christ. Inasmuch as Jesus is alive, His word is alive. You cannot separate those because when God says something, it is a total reflection of His being, unlike us. So God is living and God is active. He is alive and so God’s word is living and is active. The word of ...
- Radio Broadcast Wednesday 02/24/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P9 (02-24-21) Synopsis It is so vitally important to form convictions on what truth is, so that it changes the attitudes of your heart based on what is true, and ultimately shows in your behavior. How are these convictions formed? By what man says? Or by what the Spirit of God reveals to you through His word? But what if you ...
- Radio Broadcast Monday 03/01/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P10 (03-01-21) Synopsis When you read in the scriptures about all the different eyewitnesses of those who saw, heard and touched Jesus, what conclusions do you come to? You can only come to the conclusion that Jesus is either a nutcase, a liar, or an imposter, or He is indeed what He claimed to be, God in the flesh. If even ...
- Radio Broadcast Tuesday 03/02/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P11 (03-02-21) Synopsis It is so easy to assume someone is a believer. They go to church. They talk the talk. They pray. They sure act like one. They are even nice-sounding people. But the truth of the matter is the only person who really knows is the individual himself and God. But we can do ourselves or someone else a ...
- Radio Broadcast Wednesday 03/03/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P12 (03-03-21) Synopsis Once it is established in your mind that indeed the scriptures are the very words of God, and you know God is not a liar, then you can trust that whatever event God says happened, then it happened. The word of God has relevance to our lives and has more meaning than just confirming that some historical event ...
- Radio Broadcast Monday 03/08/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P13 (03-08-21) Synopsis What convinces you that Jonah was in a fish? Or that there was a big flood? When you read what is recorded that Jesus said about these events, and knowing that Jesus is God, what would you have to conclude? That God is either a liar, which it is impossible for God to lie, or that those events ...
- Radio Broadcast Tuesday 03/09/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P14 (03-09-21) Synopsis When we are talking about the validity of Old Testament events, which certainly adds to the validity of the Old Testament itself, it all gets back again to one simple question Jesus asked, “Who do you say that I am?” Because if Jesus is who He is, God, and He said there is a Sodom and a Gomorrah ...
- Radio Broadcast Wednesday 03/10/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P15 (03-10-21) Synopsis The purpose of this lesson is to enable you and me to realize that the book we hold in our hands, both old and new, is a book that was dictated out of the very heart of God Himself. As we read about what the prophets wrote down, realize that they were dictated to them by God. We ...
- Radio Broadcast Monday 03/15/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P16 (03-15-21) Synopsis As you read through chapter eleven in the book of Hebrews, you will read about several Old Testament people and events that happened during their lifetime. We read about these men of faith, some that conquered kingdoms and others that were conquered for the cause of Christ, some were strong and did great exploits whereas others were sawed ...
- Radio Broadcast Tuesday 03/16/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P17 (03-16-21) Synopsis We have been reading the testimony of the bible concerning itself. As you read through the pages, you cannot but help notice a divine author, the testimony of Jesus Himself, who is the living word who came down from heaven, who speaks into the hearts of men. You cannot separate the word of God from the person of ...
- Radio Broadcast Wednesday 03/17/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P18 (03-17-21) Synopsis As was prophesied through the prophet Jeremiah, and explained more thoroughly in the book of Hebrews, we live today under a new covenant. Jeremiah and Jesus both lived under an old covenant. While Jesus was on this earth, He lived under an old covenant while speaking about a new covenant to come. He initiated a new covenant, or ...
- Radio Broadcast Monday 03/22/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P19 (03-22-21) Synopsis Authority was given to the apostles, those who were with Jesus from the beginning, since the baptism of John, identifying Jesus of Nazareth as the promised Messiah, with Jesus at His death, burial and resurrection, and at His ascension back into heaven, with the promise to see Him again physically, in a period of time called the millennial ...
- Radio Broadcast Tuesday 03/23/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P20 (03-23-21) Synopsis In order to be an apostle, you had to be someone who was with Jesus in the beginning, a witness of His baptism, death, burial and resurrection and ascension into heaven. Those were the men Jesus called apostles and gave the authority to represent Him here on earth initially, with the proclamation of the gospel, and then to ...
- Radio Broadcast Wednesday 03/24/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P21 (03-24-21) Synopsis How do you respond to the word of God? As you read the word, from those who are eyewitnesses of the death, burial, resurrection and ascension of Jesus, or had an encounter with the risen Savior, how do you respond? Are they just words on a page? You can know what they say, but do you know what ...
- Radio Broadcast Monday 03/29/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P22 (03-29-21) Synopsis If you have ever seen someone come to know the Lord for the first time, and had the privilege to share about Jesus to them, family or friends, then you can tell about what joy and delight that is to see. Maybe you have never seen anyone in your family or even any friend come to the Lord, ...
- Radio Broadcast Tuesday 03/30/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P23 (03-30-21) Synopsis What does God look at? Does He not look at the attitudes of the heart? Are you humble and teachable, open to listening to the living and active word of God, and allow that word to renew your mind with truth? Is there a dependence on the Holy Spirit, for Him to live His life in and through ...
- Radio Broadcast Wednesday 03/31/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P24 (03-31-21) Synopsis There is one thing in Matthew that Jesus emphasized more than anything else. He said to not let any man deceive you? Are you growing in discernment? Have you discerned, first of all, that you are a child of God. One way to know that is to be intellectually honest with yourself, and ask, “What are the attitudes ...
- Radio Broadcast Monday 04/05/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P25 (04-05-21) Synopsis Can you spot a false teacher, or at least be alert to a red flag of the possibility of someone being a false teacher? Where do you look for truth to discern these things? The scriptures as written down through the prophets and the apostles, that we hold in our hands today. But first of all, you must ...
- Radio Broadcast Tuesday 04/06/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P26 (04-06-21) Synopsis The word of God we hold in our hands is the plumbline for truth. We have the evidence and testimony written down through those who were eyewitnesses, affirming that this message is of divine origin. This message came to us from God. Even the apostles testify of the apostle Paul’s writings were from God, and Paul himself testified ...
- Radio Broadcast Wednesday 04/07/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P27 (04-07-21) Synopsis In this life, it is sad when those you minister to the most hurt you the most. This happened to the apostle Paul, to Jesus, and still happens today. So how do we fight such things? Not by the weapons of this world. Not with envy, strife, or jealousy, or revenge. No, we fight with truth. Truth is ...
- Radio Broadcast Monday 04/12/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P28 (04-12-21) Synopsis So we are to avoid those who teach things contrary to sound doctrine of our Lord Jesus Christ. Instead, we are to rely on the Holy Spirit, who lives in us, to reveal truth to our innermost being, so we can walk in the newness of life. For it is for freedom that Christ set us free. You ...
- Radio Broadcast Tuesday 04/13/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P29 (04-13-21) Synopsis Is the bible relevant for today? Are there contradictions? What evidence do you have that it can be trusted, that it is the word of God, truth that will set us free? Have you found the bible to be useful for doctrine, correction, reproof and training in righteousness? We have heard the testimony of God concerning His word. We ...
- Radio Broadcast Wednesday 04/14/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P30 (04-14-21) Synopsis As we live in this world today, how much more are you aware of the increased evil in our day, than even what was observed in Bob George’s time here on earth? Are you surprised by it? Should you be? Was the world ever our friend? So how are you responding to the difficult trials and tribulations you ...
- Radio Broadcast Monday 04/19/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P31 (04-19-21) Synopsis As you research about how the bible came to be, you marvel at how it came together. People from forty different walks of life, across several continents, across a vast span of time, yet all the books we know as the bible today, have one consistent theme. They all point to the person of Jesus Christ, from Genesis, ...
- Radio Broadcast Tuesday 04/20/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P32 (04-20-21) Synopsis With the word of God, and the Spirit of God living in us, knowing the totality of the cross, the reality of the resurrection, and the fullness of what Christ did for us in all of that, regardless of whatever shortcomings there are in translations, you can know the meaning of the scriptures, and so much difficulty in ...
- Radio Broadcast Wednesday 04/21/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P33 (04-21-21) Synopsis What is the effect of the word of God on men? When you read the word of God, how is it different from reading another book, one that is written by men? The word of God is God’s word to men to change lives, to set men free. You cannot separate the word of God from the person ...
- Radio Broadcast Monday 04/26/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P34 (04-26-21) Synopsis So what does the word of God do for us? It teaches us, corrects us, reproves us, trains us. It can be likened to a yg teenager learning to drive a car. You get back on the road when you are corrected. The word is like that in correcting our way of thinking, by renewing our mind on ...
- Radio Broadcast Tuesday 04/27/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P35 (04-27-21) Synopsis The bible is a unique book and it answers life’s most important questions. Who is God and what is He like? What does He expect from us? Who are we? Why are we here? It answers those age-old questions. In the word of God, you will also find the elements necessary to live above circumstances instead of being ...
- Radio Broadcast Wednesday 04/28/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P36 (04-28-21) Synopsis The word of God is living and active. In the word of God is the words of good news, the gospel of salvation. It speaks of an Old Covenant, a law of sin and death, that has since been replaced by a New Covenant with man, whereby sins and lawless acts will be remembered no more. So the word ...
- Radio Broadcast Monday 05/03/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P37 (05-03-21) Synopsis Let us learn what it means to build on a new foundation. That also means we need to destroy the old foundation, whatever it is made of, denominational sand, New Age thinking, worldly thinking, whatever it might be, and replace that foundation with the bedrock of Jesus Christ. As an analogy, you can liken that to erasing a ...
- Radio Broadcast Tuesday 05/04/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P38 (05-04-21) Synopsis How can mortal man know God? Who can know the thoughts of God, the one who created all there is, who spoke the world and the universe into existence, and who created us? What is it about mankind that we ponder things of eternity, asking questions such as “Why am I here?”, “Where am I going when I ...
- Radio Broadcast Wednesday 05/05/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P39 (05-05-21) Synopsis In this world it seems things are constantly changing, and almost instantaneously. We have election fraud, a so-called C pandemic, an earthquake here and there, a tornado, or some other disaster, and a war about to break out in a moment’s notice. And we have a push for all people to just get along, regardless of whatever you ...
- Radio Broadcast Monday 05/10/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P40 (05-10-21) Synopsis The one thing people are looking for is unconditional love and acceptance. We cannot give that to someone else, not in the energy of our flesh. So much marital strife is because one spouse has unrealistic expectations on another, expecting their partner to provide what he or she is unable to provide. Yet, the Lord Jesus Christ commands ...
- Radio Broadcast Tuesday 05/11/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P41 (05-11-21) Synopsis Have you thought about what it means to apply God’s word, to obey His commands? What kind of commands were given to the Jews under an Old Covenant system. They had the ten commandments. How well did they do in obeying them? What about us, who never had the law to begin with, but we try to obey ...
- Radio Broadcast Wednesday 05/12/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P42 (05-12-21) Synopsis The renewing of our mind is what will be going on in us until the day we meet the Lord. He reminds us to keep our mind on whatever is good, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent and praiseworthy. As we tend to drift toward anxiety, getting our minds flooded with all kinds of thoughts on a daily basis, it ...
- Radio Broadcast Monday 05/17/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P43 (05-17-21) Synopsis In this world, we will have trials and tribulations. Jesus told us that in His word. Now, we have learned that His word is living and active, and if you are a child of God, He is living in you. The Spirit will guide you into all truth. And if you are not yet a child of God, ...
- Radio Broadcast Tuesday 05/18/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P44 (05-18-21) Synopsis As we ponder over understanding the word of God in regards to interacting with other people, we have this wisdom from God in dealing with anxiety and worry and also dealing with a critical spirit toward others. What is our tendency when others do not think like us? Do we want to just write them off and have ...
- Radio Broadcast Wednesday 05/19/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P45 (05-19-21) Synopsis As we are looking at the application of the word of God in our lives, we ask ourselves, “How do we do this?” Do we obey because it is a command of God, and therefore, we must do it? If the law says, do not steal, then should I not steal? The law is holy, righteous and good, ...
- Radio Broadcast Monday 05/24/2021Classic Christianity - A Closer Look at The Word of God P46 (05-24-21) Synopsis We are children of God, but children have to grow. And as long as we are on this earth, we continually have a need for our mind to be renewed, because we have sin-indwelling flesh. That is what keeps us dependent on God, and Jesus said He has overcome the world, and that same Spirit that overcame the ...