Radio Broadcast Monday 05/27/2024

Classic Christianity – Book of Hebrews P110 (05-27-24)

Discipline Your Mind as to What is God’s WAY, and What is Man’s way.

~ People would rather be taught by Man rather than God. We have seen that for ourselves. Most people would rather watch a movie, or watch Tell-a-Vision programming, or listen to music, anything else but reading the word of God and allowing the Holy Spirit to renew your mind with TRUTH. And here is the thing, only the true child of God has the Holy Spirit living in them. Only the Holy Spirit can teach you Truth, ALL TRUTH. And Jesus is the Truth. He is God in the flesh. He is the One who sent the Holy Spirit to draw all people to Himself. So today, when you hear the call of the Holy Spirit, open your heart up to Truth, do not close off your ears. There is only One way to God, and that is through Jesus Christ. Jesus is the answer to everything. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. And allow the Spirit of God to renew your mind in all Truth. The world is not what we have been told it is. Nothing is as it seems. Satan is god of this world, and is programming your mind by the things of this world. That is a fact. Trust in no man for All Truth. We have all been brainwashed from birth. And when the child of God, who is in Christ, we are told we have the mind of Christ Jesus living in us. And those of you who are in Christ, have been learning the truth of the world we live in today. For each of us who are in Christ can be taught directly by God himself. We don’t need to go to anyone else for Truth.

~ Hebrews 12:1-12

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons:

“My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord,
and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.

For the Lord disciplines the one He loves,
and He chastises every son He receives.”

Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?

Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness. No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.

Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees. Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed. ^{Hebrews 12:1-12}

Pray to God:

“Lord Jesus, teach me the truth of the world today and give me the wisdom to know the truth and identify the lies of the devil. Thank you God.”

~ “You see, again, the opposite of that is all we as Christians all we got to do is have enough faith and everything will just be taken care of why this body of mind will never be diseased whatever you ever wondered, how do you think you’re gonna die? And then the people teaching that are all wearing glasses like I am. You say isn’t your faith big enough to make you see give you a little 20:20? All I gotta do is move the retina about that far. So that’s all you have to do. What’s wrong with your faith? You see all of this comes from this preconceived notion that everything’s supposed to be okay. How can everything be okay in a fallen world? You tell me how everything’s gonna be okay in a world that is totally fallen? I had people say and I came from a dysfunctional family so who didn’t I mean, who didn’t? I’ll tell you who didn’t Adam and Eve, they blamed the snake.” ~ Bob George

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You see, again, the opposite of that is all we as Christians all we got to do is have enough faith and everything will just be taken care of why this body of mind will never be diseased whatever you ever wondered, how do you think you’re gonna die? And then the people teaching that are all wearing glasses like I am. You say isn’t your faith big enough to make you see give you a little 20:20? All I gotta do is move the retina about that far. So that’s all you have to do. What’s wrong with your faith? You see all of this comes from this preconceived notion that everything’s supposed to be okay. How can everything be okay in a fallen world? You tell me how everything’s gonna be okay in a world that is totally fallen? I had people say and I came from a dysfunctional family so who didn’t I mean, who didn’t? I’ll tell you who didn’t Adam and Eve, they blamed the snake.

Now all of a sudden now all of us, I guess, people apart 20 years ago didn’t have dysfunctional families. We just heard about those lately. And all of the other stuff that we come up with because there is this preconceived notion that everything’s supposed to be okay, in a fallen world that God says you’re gonna have tribulation. And so we have this concept of God, don’t we, that God’s brought about and so when we read all his stuff in his 11th chapter about facing jeers and flogging, why God brought that around just to just to strengthen you, he has tested these kids loving God that He is. Chained and put in prison, all loving God just stuck your out in there to build your faith in him. Is that true guys? Is that the God that you and I worship? I don’t think so. That’s the God that religion produces. But it’s not the God that created this universe. And so when we begin to believe that all the trials and tribulations that come your way, that’s God, and then we can’t rationalize that any other way, except to say, Well, yeah, but he’s gonna cause it to work together for good. He brought it about He broke my leg, but but he’s gonna fix it. It’s that kind of an attitude that gives us a perverted concept of who this God is, is to demonstrate His love toward you and me. And while we were yet sinners, he came to die for us. Quite a contrast. And so when you and I are facing trials and tribulations of life, where are they coming from? Well, sometimes they come from our own stupid desires, don’t they? You get down and and you say, Why doesn’t God stop something? Why didn’t God’s some Christian woman or girl, whoever it might be it in any you know, whether it’s a person who’s a Christian or non Christian gets raped, Rape is rape, doesn’t make a difference whether you’re Christian or non Christian. So how did God allow that to happen? Good question isn’t it. I saw on TV the other day, that baseball player that lost his arm, his whole shoulder and everything else, Barbara, Barbara Wawa asked him, You know, you believe in God and everything? How did God allow that to happen? He didn’t have an answer. And the best you can come up with, well, I guess it just strengthens my faith. In other words, God wacked it off. He didn’t want me play baseball anymore. Just whack that sucker off. That’s good. And play with all my face just getting straight, while his wife was having nervous breakdowns. Nervous breakdown over the fact what happened to her husband? I’ll guarantee you not but a nervous breakdown, overthinking the conflict between thinking God did that and why did he do it, but I’m gonna get it out for Jesus, that’ll give you a nervous breakdown. That’ll put you in a mental ward. Trying to figure that one out. As to how we talk about a God of love. We just whacked my arm off in order to get me to trust him more. And so I just love you so much, God. You got to be kidding.

And so people are constantly asking that question, aren’t they? Well, you say, how do these other kinds of things happen? How do the trials and tribulations of life happen? I’ll tell you say, Why didn’t God stop it? Well, there’s a way he could stop it, you have another flood. So if you’d like to start building your boat, and ask him to start another flood, so he could annihilate the entire world as he did one time, why that’s one way that he could stop sin in the world, except for the ones he saved. So you say, Do you want him to do something? Okay, he can do that one. Now, how many of you would say I want to vote for that? I’m not sure who’s going to be getting the ark. But I want to take my chance. And especially I want to take my chance because I think I’m pretty righteous. And I’m sure God would pick me. Any of you like to gamble with that one? That’s worse than a lottery. You see, when God gave man a free will. And folks, when we’re talking about this thing of free will, it’s not some stupid theological issue that people want to debate over. Free will, is free will. And when God gave man a will, which he did, with a total capacity of exercising it, that is the only way that he could ever stop sin in this world is to take away the free will of man and make robots out of us, then you’d never see one ounce of sin in this world. Had he not given Adam and Eve a Free Will had he just said to Adam and Eve, you’re just a little robot sitting down there, do you think Adam would have eaten the the fruit off of the tree? Well, of course not, he would have been a robot, he wouldn’t have eaten off of it at all. And we would have never had sin entered in the world, we would also never have had the capacity as a human being of loving God. You see, my television set can be functionally pleasing to me. In other words, I can turn it on a nice color picture comes out and you can be entertained by it. So it could be functionally pleasing. But there’s no moral pleasing to it at all. In other words, I can’t say Oh, I love the TV that loves me back. We just gotta love relationship with each other. My car when it’s functioning, and has gas in it, can be functionally pleasing to me. But it’s not morally pleasing. I’m not in love with it, and for sure, it’s not in love with me. And so when God gave man which he gave man a will to choose, there was a gamble with that. And the gamble was, as Adam made, that, he will choose not to believe God. When God said, do not eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, in other words, you cannot determine man right from wrong, good from evil. That is my job as God now all the rest of the trees in his garden, you need another you talk about freedom, folks, that is a ton of freedom. But the one thing you can’t do is to choose right from wrong, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t mean you can’t choose right from wrong, I’ve given you that option to do so. But it means when you do, you’re not going to make any decisions that are worth anything. In other words, I created you MAN to be in dependency upon the Father. And when you’re in dependency upon me for your life, just like that fine $20,000 automobile or whatever it is, is totally dependent upon just you know, $1.20 Gasoline a gallon in it to function. So man that has finally made is totally dependent upon God living in him to function according to the intelligent purpose which I created you. And so it isn’t that you don’t have the right to choose to be without gasoline, or to choose to be a light bulb, but I don’t want to electricity in me, it’s not that you don’t have the right to do that. But you’re never gonna see the light coming out of that thing until you plug into the electricity and you’re not going to see your car run until you put gasoline in it. But I do give you the right to choose, a very, very important part of God and to deny that is to deny God’s creation.

Now, I’ll give you another thing isn’t going to hack off some people. But I’m used to that. People come in, we got this big deal going on today. Are you pro choice? Are you pro life? No I’m both. How in a world could you be a Christian and not be pro choice? When God gave you a choice? To say I’m not pro choice is to say I’m against God. God gave you a choice. Did he not? I’m also pro life. We have counseled I don’t know how many hundreds of girls pregnant out of wedlock and everything else never had a one get an abortion. Never told one they couldn’t. How come? I’m not God. God didn’t even tell them they couldn’t. Is it permissible? Yes. Is it profitable? Probably not. That’s a choice. Now with the law comes along and passes a law and says something is illegal. What is our choice? To obey it or not to obey it. When I choose not to obey the law of the land where I’m going to end up? Well in that in that isolation deal in there reading the Bible again. I’ll probably be telling me to obey the government. If the government ever came along and passed a law that you had to have an abortion, or you had to do this, you’d see me on the street. You see we get all full of self righteousness. And we get all full of causes. And we forget the truth of the Word of God that says, I created you man with a choice. And it doesn’t make any difference what the law says. You’re as a child of God going to look at something, is profitable? Is it profitable? In case people haven’t figured out if they’d like to get to the root of that problem ought to be picketing, adultery, and fornication. In case you haven’t figured out, that’s what causes pregnancy in and out of wedlock.

It’s strange how the 10 commandments deal isn’t it with Thou shalt not kill, and also Thou shalt not commit adultery. And we don’t do anything with adultery. But we sure are anxious on that killing. To God, is there any difference between one commandment and the other? Sin have a numerical value on it, does it or doesn’t it? No, it does not As a matter of fact, did you not say that looking at a woman’s lust in your heart is the same as adultery? And did he not say that anger is the same as murder? And the people out there representing God beating up people angry, mean and saying I’m doing God’s will come on, folks. The best thing that I’ve seen on that subject, I didn’t mean to get off on it. But it needs to be talked about, are the commercials that are coming out put out by the Arthur DeMoss Foundation. They are phenomenal commercials because they’re using persuasion. And that’s what needs to be done as a Christian to persuade. What is that? The discipline of God. That’s what discipline is all about. discipline your mind as to what is God’s way, and what is man’s way.

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So you see when we’re dealing with these things, and again, it becomes very, you know, it becomes one of those deals to us because we get so wrapped up in these things because many times our whole identity is tied up in it. The fact of the matter is that in the final analysis, what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul? What is the emphasis of the Christian it’s to go out and to proclaim who him is to be preoccupied with eternal life. Now when he’s talking there, and we’re talking about this idea of God is God bragging about these things and we’re talking about you know, God caused some little girl to get pregnant out of wedlock. No, God cause some guy to rape somebody No, no, who did that? Who’s to get the blame on that? If you’re gonna blame somebody? Satan. Who gets the blame for it? God. When we talk some of these days, oh, what a glorious day it’s gonna be absent from the body, to be present with the Lord, in order to go out and see this God, who’s absolutely put you through a wringer in order to get you to trust him, just hardly wait to see. Now folks, this is what this whole deal is talking about in the Scripture, it’s talking about, that there is a discipline. And it’s always for our good so that we may share in His holiness, in other words, in his being set apart, and we’re set apart by how we think in our hearts. And again, we have the right to choose that don’t we folks? Do you have a right do you choose right from wrong in your lives? I mean, how many of you choose sometimes right from wrong? Do we do that? Or don’t we? Yeah. And God gave us that choice. Now, if you’re talking about the last person, does he have a choice of being born into this world lost? No, that’s his condition. Does he have a choice to remain that way? Yes. Does he have a choice to change, change directions? Sure he has, and God gives to every person on the face of this earth, that opportunity. Every person on the face of this earth, there is not a soul on the face of this earth that has ever been without testimony of God concerning himself not a one. And man chooses whether I want to believe God or whether I don’t want to so when those questions come up, how could God why doesn’t God stop all is why doesn’t God Why didn’t God stop all of the the Germans and the Nazis rather from from from killing all the Jews? Why those are the Apple of his eye, them and tillted. Why didn’t they? Why didn’t? Why didn’t they why and you share that? And you play all that game say? Well, how again, how could he have stopped that? Flood? Fire? Destruction of the earth? Did man have a freewill? Did Hitler have one? Yes, he did what he choose? Chose to play God. And that choice to be God, instead of letting God be God, is what brought about the annihilation of not only the Jews, incidentally, but millions of other people.

I was reading a book the other day, with Amy working on her book, statistics that there were 20 million Ukrainians killed during that period of time. 20 million, 6 million Jews 20 million Ukrainians. Europeans. Say why wouldn’t Why wouldn’t it stop? Well, if God wanted to make a bunch of robots, he could have stopped that. Will be stopped someday? When? When he returns, when he returns. In the meantime, he said to man that I’ve given you because I love you a choice to come to me and to follow me. Or to follow your own instincts, your own desires of the flesh, to follow your own ego, or to follow me. Are there repercussions to deciding to follow your own ego and your own flesh and your own pride? You better believe it. It not only destroys nations, it destroys families, and it destroys individuals as well. So are there repercussions to our choices? Yes. Is God bringing those about? No. Just natural repercussions. Mean if you decided to take to fly back, take a trip on some of these cheap airlines and you’re about 20000 feet up in the air and decide to what take a little walk on those clouds. Do you think God’s gonna zap you to the ground? No gravity is gravity is gonna get you. God didn’t zap you, you made a real dumb choice.

Now folks, when you’re going through trials and tribulations and so many of the trials and tribulations that we go through in life we bring on ourselves, don’t we, just their own choices. Is that fun to hear that words of discipline the admonishment from God when He rebukes you, what’s your rebuke? He is telling you’re stupid. I mean, we don’t get up in the morning said, Oh, here I am God, I could hardly wait for those words. Come unto me and let me tell you how dumb you are, you know, do you like to be rebuked? You know, I can hardly waith to get up and can hardly wait to see Amy so she’ll rebuke me. We don’t like rebuke. So it never seems pleasant at the time. But it says, Don’t lose heart, I’m teaching you something. I’m teaching you something. If Christians spent more time out trying to influence people to Christ, instead of stopping their behavior, you wouldn’t be seeing the problems we have today. Would we? And so the discipline of God is coming down saying to us some times, what are you wasting your energy on? Well, I’m trying to get a president elected. I asked you again, what are you wasting your energy on? I was watching very briefly yesterday, they talked about the Democratic Convention, and they showed the one from 1962. And the speech that McGovern was making doesn’t sound any different in wonder making today, same garbage, same stuff, how we’re going to take America just make it wonderful. And I’m gonna do this and I’m gonna do this and I’m gonna do this and I’m gonna do this. I like I say, I’ve lived through 10 presidents, I think I haven’t seen any difference in any of them. And we’ll find the Christian world getting a meshed in that stuff. And out trying to get all these people elected and how wonderful it’s going to be if we can get Perot in or how wonderful it’s going to be if we can get Bush back, or how wonderful it’s going to be it just so wonderful. Is that the solution to this problem and this world? No. Here today, gone tomorrow, lie today, lie Come on. No difference. The only thing that’s going to impact and change the world is the only thing can impact and change you. How much you think your life is going to be changed. If Perot gets elected, or bush gets reelected, or Clinton gets elected, just how much you think it’s gonna change your personal life? Well, that how much thing is gonna change America. The only thing that’s going to change you is a relationship with the living God, and the only thing that’s going to change this country is your relationship with a living God. And you and I have an unbelievable privilege of sitting in this room, and leaving this room and going into the marketplaces of life where we work and play and, and everything else. And to be able to be available to the living God to proclaim the truth that God was in Christ reconciling you unto himself, and not counting your sins against you. That’s what causes people to get screwed up, is a perverted concept of God. Now with this, he’s saying to us therefore, and again, we see in verse 12, therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and your weak knees, and make level paths for your feet so that the lane may not be disabled. In other words, man, we get knocked down, we’re lame but not disabled, and rather healed. And that is not talking about getting your leg extended.

You’re talking about the fact that in the midst of the trials and tribulations that are brought on by the world, by the choices of man, by disease that entered into this world which Satan brought into effect, by all of the things that are taking place in this world, they’re bombarding against our humanity itself, and has made a perversion of what God meant humanity to be against all of those things. It says, strengthen yourself, strengthen those arms, and your weak knees and make a path level path for your feet. So the lame may not be disabled, but rather, to be healed. is always talking about strengthening yourself by being strong in the Lord, keeping your eyes upon Jesus, the author and perfecter of your faith, not getting off and all the harebrained solutions of the world. But to be able to realize there’s only one solution to the world and that is Christ Jesus our Lord. And there is no other. We’ve tried and tried and tried. I thought to myself, and I don’t get me wrong, I love America. I’m privileged that I was brought up in a country where I am free to a degree. But I look at all the countries of the world and you don’t have to travel very long around the world until when you come home. You’re anxious to kiss the ground of this country, you don’t have to live in too many or go to too many places in the world to realize that as far as the world is concerned, this is the best. And this is the best. And you got to say, Brother I know who’s in control this place. If this is the best you can do, Satan, it isn’t much.

Now is there for saying in the midst of a world that is in turmoil, make every effort to live in peace with all men. Do all men want to live in peace with you? No, not even women. No, don’t want to live in peace. Want to get my way. All we like sheep have gone astray. Each and every one of us want to do what? Well our own thing. So how to word you got to live in peace even in your own home and you got two people and do their own thing? Mean that’s civil war, isn’t it. So you see there is an attitude that God has to pour into us that as far as I personally am concerned, I want to be a peacemaker. I’m not there to create turmoil. I’m there to create peace. I want to be a peace maker. Now I can’t be a peacemaker if all I want is my own way. If the only thing I’m living for is to get what I want, when I want it, and at what time I want it. There is no such thing as a peacemaker, who all they’re thinking about is themselves. That’s not a peacemaker.

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