Radio Broadcast Monday 02/06/2023

Join Bob George in this chapter by chapter exposition of the gospel of John. Realize why Christ, Himself, is REAL LIFE and how He personally offers hope in daily living that you may:

 

• Discover an abundant and meaningful life as a Christian.
• Overcome fear with His assurance that you have His eternal life.
• Experience joy during adversity.
• Apply God’s wisdom in decision making, no matter how big or small.
• Experience freedom as you walk by faith in His love and acceptance. 

 

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Announcer 0:12
Welcome to Classic Christianity Radio with Bob George Bob’s clear, timeless teachings on the complete forgiveness and unconditional love of Jesus Christ will transform your life as you learn about God’s amazing grace. Let’s join Bob as he teaches us from God’s Word.

Bob George 0:28
Before we began our teaching in the book of John, I’d like to do somewhat of a review for us in regard to just plain biblical interpretation. In Second Timothy 3:16, we’re told that all scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for teaching for correction for reproof, and for training in righteousness. Now you talk about all scripture, is all scripture given by inspiration of God? Absolutely. Now, are we talking about the King James translation? Or are we talking about the original manuscripts written in Greek? And in Hebrew? Which ones are we talking about? We’re talking about original manuscripts King James, New American Standard, all of the translations are translations off of the original Greek manuscript. If you were born in Germany, you would have a German translation that was translated off of original manuscript. If you were living in Japan, you would have a Japanese translation that was translated off of Greek manuscripts and Hebrew manuscripts as it relates to the Old Testament. Now, in the Old Testament, there was a there was something called the Septuagint. And the Septuagint, was a translation of Old Testament Hebrew into Greek. And the reason for that was because of the dominance of the Greek language, in those in those generations, the Greek language was prevalent all over the world, the known world at that time. And so translators translated from Hebrew into Greek called the Septuagint. Jesus quoted from the Septuagint, it was widely used by the time of Christ, of Christ appearing on this earth. So in essence, you had the Septuagint, which was the translation from Hebrew. And then the New Testament had to be written in Greek. And so there again, we have the entirety of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. That is the accurate Greek translations. As it relates to the Bible. Obviously, the New Testament is not a translation, whereas the Septuagint was a translation from Hebrew. Hebrew is not a distinct type of language. And therefore it was necessary to get that language into the language of the Greek, the Greek language because of how detailed that language actually is, and you get a very, very good translation into Septuagint of the Old Testament scriptures. Now, All scripture is given by inspiration of God. Is the Old Testament inspired by God, the original manuscripts? Absolutely. Is a New Testament inspired by God? Absolutely. How do we know Old Testament is inspired by God? if no other way Jesus testimony said that it was and if Jesus is God, and he said, The Word of God is true, than we can recognize the fact that it is true and everything in it is true, he did not correct anything in the Old Testament writings. I see nothing in the New Testament of its correcting anything at all. He said, it is true, the word of God is true. And we know it’s stressed with that.

So all scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for teaching. The New King James, or the King James translates that is profitable for doctrine. But no other translation translates it that way. And I believe there’s a reason for that is because doctrine and teaching are two different things. The Bible teaches you something. Your doctrine is, what does it mean. And you remember, we’ve talked about that, that you do not put your faith in what the Bible says, you put your faith in what the Bible means. Now, you wouldn’t know what it means if you didn’t know what it says but you can know what it says and not have a clue what it means. So the Bible says many, many things. Now the issue is what does it mean? And you see, you have all kinds of doctrines that are formed by different denomination and by different persuasions. You have as an example, Jehovah’s Witness, they can read what we’re going to read today it was the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God and say, but Jesus isn’t God. So what is their doctrine concerning the deity of Christ? that He is not God? The Mormons do not believe that Jesus is God outside of the fact they believe we’re all little gods. So Jesus was just one of us. Where did they get that out of the teaching? No, they got it out of teaching. But their interpretation as to what it means became something totally different, and basically fanned by the opinion of an individual. And so doctrine is what does this mean? And what does it mean to you? And to me? That’s doctrine. What is the conclusion? That, therefore is to what it is saying. So the Bible is profitable. And all scripture is profitable for teaching what it says. But what it means has to be taught by the Holy Spirit of God into our lives today. And if we do not depend upon the Spirit to teach us what it means, we are not going to know what it means. Do we know what it says? Absolutely. You can read it and know what it says. A computer knows what the Bible says. Anybody who reads it knows what it says the issue is, what does it mean? Now we’re told in the epistles, that no eye has seen, nor ear has heard, nor mind is conceived of those things that God has prepared for those who love Him. But it must be what? revealed by who? The Spirit. So the Spirit is the revealer of the meaning of the word of God. I could know what it says by reading it with my own intellect. But the meaning of it has to be revealed to me by the Spirit. That is why you can hear a gospel presentation for 90 years, and never apply it to your life. Because the Spirit hasn’t revealed to you yet, the meaning of that as it relates to you, not to the world. But to you. What does that mean to you, Jesus died for your sins, until you see that Jesus really died, or Jesus died for my sins, that cross has no meaning to you. It’s got a meaning as far as history is concerned, but it has no personal meaning to you until you see I had a need for him to die on that cross for the forgiveness of my sins, because I’m a sinner. And the Spirit of God has to be the revealer of that, to you and me. Now, folks, that’s the difference between doctrine and teaching. The Word of God is profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, and then a training of righteousness. So in essence, your doctrine, and the doctrine that you and I hold on to is a conclusion, a therefore, of the facts that you have read, and then the Spirit reveals the meaning of it to you.

We know, and I’ll give you an example of that, that the scripture says that we were all reconciled to God through the death of his Son. That’s reconciliation, our sins were taken away at the cross. Do we not know that? And yet, what does that mean? Now, if we knew what that meant, if our doctrine was, and we’re going to live by our doctrine, that that meant, It is finished. Is that what it means? Did Jesus say that’s what it meant? He said, it’s finished, he cried out from the cross. It’s finished. The sin issue has been dealt with once and for all and for how long? Forever. There is no more forgiveness to be executed on your behalf by God. Because without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness. And for him to forgive you for something you did today, he would have to die on a cross in order to do so if there was any more forgiveness to be executed on your behalf. Right or wrong? Now you and I know what that says. That’s when we were yet enemies we were past tense reconciled to God through the death of his Son, and that means it’s over, written off the books, reconciled your books. How much more having been reconciled (that being an accomplished fact), will we be saved by His life? Now I can read that and know what that says. But how many of us have ever learned what it means?

And you see if we knew what it is finished means, would we still be asking God to do what he said, I’ve done? Now, I want you to answer that question, would you’re not? If you’re going to walk by faith, and if your doctrine is a doctrine of faith, not a doctrine of feeling of feeling, but a doctrine of faith. Are you going to be asking God to do what he said, I’ve already done? Now answer that in your own heart. Are you going to be asking God to do what he said he’s already done? How many of you know, at least you’ve read that you’ve been justified by faith? Do you okay? Do you all know that? All right. Now, if you know that, then what does that mean? It means just as if you’d never sinned. God looks at you, just as if you never sinned. Now, do you believe that to be true? Do you believe that to be true? Is that internalized? Then that’s your doctrine. What is your doctrine? That Jesus took away my sins, never to see them, again. Is that true or not? Now, if you know you’re justified, would it be faith then to ask God as a born again, believer to justify you? Why would that not be faith? Because you’re asking to do what he has already accomplished on your behalf.

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Bob George 12:29
Folks, I know full well, there’s people sitting in here who knows what this Bible says, but have never internalized it, what it means. And until you come to grips with this is what the Bible says. And if this is what the Bible says, and this is what the Bible means. And that means that I was a sinner that had to have my sins taken away, and that my forgiveness is not dependent upon my ability to go to a priest, or to go through beads, or to First John one nine, or to go get rebaptised. But my forgiveness is because of Christ Jesus, it didn’t have anything to do with me at all. That’s my doctrine. And that is the doctrine that Paul proclaimed, they all got crucified for. Because people don’t want to hear that. So people know what it says, teaching. But what it means is doctrine. And you and I need to have doctrine. We can’t ignore doctrine.

I got people go around, say, Oh, just tell Jesus loves you. I will tell you folks that aren’t gonna get it. That isn’t gonna get because Jesus love for you did something for you. He took away the thing that kept you from God, and that’s sin, and He took it away at the cross. And He was raised from the dead so that you and I could have life in him. That’s doctrine.

So you’ve got second Timothy 3:16. All scripture is given by inspiration of God. Now I’ll asked another question, is all scripture applicable to you today? How come? And again, I see some people and we’ve been sitting here for years going, and others. Now, which is it? How many of you go kill a bull and goat to get your sins forgiven? Did they do that in the Old Testament? Are you doing it today? Then is all scripture applicable today? Unh-uh. And have any of you eat pork? Did they in the Old Testament? No. How come you’re eatin it today? Are we under an old dispensation or a new dispensation? And when did that New Covenant go into effect? Another thing guys to get into your head as strong as horseradish. When did it go into effect? On the day the Christ died, Hebrews nine.

And we’re told in Hebrews. Let me just read, it’s hard to read when you’re in the wrong chapter, Hebrews 9:15, do you want to turn to it. For this reason He is the mediator of a New Covenant in order that since a death had taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of in eternal inheritance. For where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it. So what did Jesus have to do before he got ushur in a New Covenant, a new agreement between God and man. Had to die. And when he died, he ushered in a New Covenant. Is that a covenant of the law or a covenant of grace? It’s a covenant of grace, where he says their sins and lawless acts, I will remember no more. And were these not have or will be, but have been forgiven, there’s no longer any what?, sacrifice or sins. Put aside your Day of Atonement, put aside your confession booth, there is no more forgiveness of sins. He has done it once. He’s done it for all. And by that one offering He has made forever, perfect or complete in the sight of God, all of you whom he has made holy. Is that true or not? Now, do you know what that means? What does that mean? You have been made what? Holy. Now if God has made you holy, and we sing, Holy, Holy, Holy. If God has made you set apart, holy means sanctified, set apart, how set apart, are you? If God did it? Now, allow me to ask you another question. Have any of you improved upon God’s nature? You’re not going to improve upon what God has done, are you? So if he has done it and accomplished it, what is the only conclusion that you can come to? I have been made by God set apart once and for all. If he’s done something, can you improve on it? So how much sense does it make for us to go out and try to make ourselves more holy? And when we’re going out trying to make ourselves more holy, many times, by the way we dress or the way we look, or the way we act, or whatever it might be, and we’re trying to make ourselves that’s why we’re doing it is to make ourselves look more holy. What in essence, are we doing? What in essence, are we doing? You’re saying that he didn’t complete it, he didn’t finish it. That’s in essence or is that faith? That’s faith in you. But is it a faith in him? No. So guys, do you see how important it is to recognize the difference between what is taught and what teaching is? And what the conclusion is to what has been taught, called doctrine? Are we together on this guys, do we understand this? So all scripture is given by inspiration of God is profitable for teaching. What is it teaches when we study the Old Testament? How they lived prior to the cross. You know what the Old Testament is? It’s a book of man’s failure, and of God’s faithfulness. Great is thy faithfulness comes right out of the Old Testament great is thy faithfulness, in the midst of man fallen down and continually fallen down is the faithfulness of God. Do you believe that? How many of you believe that you can out sin God? How many have tried? Okay. You’re not going to out sin God. There is no man good enough to be accepted by God because of his works. And there’s no man bad enough to be rejected because of his. Is that truth or not? Now, what would be application of that? Well, if you’re sitting there thinking of out sinning, God, you’re wrong. You have an out sined God, I’ve gone too far have crossed the line. No, you haven’t. There is no line. There is no line. The issue is that at any time in a man’s life when he sees comes to his senses, and sees God, God will take him in to the family, adopting into the family.

I thought it was quite interesting this week, as we’ve observed, President Reagan’s funeral through this week, it’s been a very touching time, very touching time for me watching it is very touching the other day of watching Michael Regan, the adopted son, who knows the Lord Jesus, and who testified about not the big guy upstairs, but about Jesus, and testified by name about Jesus, as the adopted son, and the regulars are still in the process. So you’ve got, we’ve got something we’ve been adopted into the family of God. Now in the Old Testament, do you realize that you can never turn back an adopted child? You can never give away an adopted child, once you adopted a child, it’s yours forever. And we’ve been adopted into the family of God. Is that a doctrine? Well, the statement is not doctrine. But do you believe it to be true? And would you stand today and say that I am an adopted child of God, and nothing can separate me from the love of God? Then it’s your doctrine. It’s your doctrine. You’ve applied it personally to your life.

Now, let’s get into what the Bible is talking about in regard to this person that we know of is Jesus. And one of the reasons that I wanted to go back to the book of John is to go back to Jesus, we’ve talked through doctrine, and we’ve talked through a lot of the book of Romans and this type of thing. I thought, it’s time to get back to just Jesus, and just to get refreshed in knowing him again. So let’s begin in John 1:1.

It’s interesting that in the first book of John, that it begins the same way as Genesis In the beginning, God, that’s Genesis. In the beginning, God, before all things were there was God. Who else is there? Or how is God formed? It says, In the beginning was the Word. And here’s what we know about the word. It was in the beginning. The Word was with God. And the Word was God. And He was with God in the beginning. Now, what do we know about the word through this? What do we know about that? Anybody? What? Well, we don’t know that yet. But we’re gonna we’re gonna we’ll get into that. But But again, just from this, now that we’re this is what the Bible says, see. Now, if you don’t read a further, you know what it says, don’t you? But if you didn’t know what you know, today, would you 100% know what that meant yet? If you didn’t know what this meant, by just reading this, would you know what it meant? Not necessarily. You’d know that in the beginning was the Word the Word was with God, and the Word was God, you say, Well, it’s kind of like, then there was God. And then somebody was with him. Isn’t that kind of what you would get if somebody was with him? And then he turns around, said, No, He is God. And you say what? He was with God, but He is God. Are we talking in human terms here, guys? I don’t think so. I don’t think so. He was with God in the beginning.

Now let’s go ahead through him, the word who was with God, and was God. So through him all things were made and without him, nothing was made. Now we’re identifying this, the word as a person, a him. So through him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made, in Him was life, and that life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. There came a man who was sent from God, his name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him, all men might believe. So the through this word all men my believe. He himself is not the light, John’s not the light, he came only as a witness to the light, the true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world. He was in the world. And though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, though to those who believed in his name, now, he not only is him but believed that his name, he’s now got a name, became the right gave the right to become a child of God. Now it’s saying, not a child born of natural descent, not a child born of mom and dad, nor of a human decision or a husband’s will, doesn’t say a woman’s will, husbands will, but born of God, in other words, not a baby that’s produced by mom and dad. It’s not talking about that. But a person born of God. So he’s telling us right now that there’s two births, isn’t there? There’s a physical birth that comes from mom and dad. And then there’s this birth, that comes from God, two births. Now we’re gonna learn something about the Word, the Word became, what? flesh, and dwelt and made his dwelling among us. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only who came from the Father full of grace, and truth.

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Listen to the Salvation message today!

Stand on the firmness of truth. Don’t keep going back and forth. Thank Him that the forgiveness issue is settled.

Let’s pray together:

• Lord Jesus,
• I thank you for taking away my sins on the cross,
• never ever to see them again.
• Having done that, I now thank you for giving me eternal life,
• through your resurrection.
• I now receive that life.
• And I am going stand in the fact that I am a child of the living God.
• In Jesus Holy name I pray.
• Amen

All believers are now brothers and sisters in Christ.

 

John 3:3
³ Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”

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