Radio Broadcast Monday 08/21/2023

 

Join Bob George in this chapter by chapter exposition of the gospel of John. Available for download the complete series on the Book 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
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Bob George 0:29
Let’s pick up where we left off last week where it was at the the cross. And we were, we were told that near the Cross stood Jesus mother, Mary, and his mother’s sister, Mary, the wife of Clovis, and Mary Magdalene. And when God when Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved referring there to the apostle John, standing nearby, he said to his mother, Dear woman, here’s your son. And to the disciple, here’s your mother. And from that time on, this disciple took Mary into his home, later knowing that all was completed, and so that the scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, I’m thirsty, and a jar of wine vinegar was there. So they soaked a sponge in it and put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant and lifted it to Jesus lips. And when he had received the drink, Jesus said, It is finished. And with that he bowed his head, and gave up his Spirit, father into thy hands, I come in my Spirit, and the body of Jesus died and the Spirit of Jesus lived on. It is finished. What did he mean by it is finished? Well, when you understand what Jesus came to do, and that was to give life to us, that he saw us in our condition of spiritual death as a result of Adam’s sin. We quite frankly, had nothing to do with our spiritual death, we were born dead spiritually as a result of the sin of Adam. When Adam died, we all died. And he saw that Satan had messed up his creation. And he developed a plan, the Godhead the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit developed a plan. Godhead, the Godhead that we worship today, develop the plan for redemption, that we’re going to do a plan to bring our people that I created back to life. But the life that I’m gonna give them is a life that cannot be destroyed. Because if Adam through his sin died, and Jesus when He took upon our sin died, then the only thing that could cause us to die is sin. And I have got to deal with what cause sin once and for all, in order to give my people a life called eternal life. And the plan was developed, I’m going to give them eternal life. In order to do that sin has to be taken away from the eyes of God. A lot of people will come down and confuse that that Jesus took away our sin, meaning we don’t sin anymore. Well, if you evidently have lost the earth, you’ve ever done left the world if you believe that. Do you all agree with that? Or was that a statement that you’re wondering about? Do any of you believe that we still sin? Just a few of you? Or do all of us believe that? Yeah. And if you don’t, I’ll interview your husband or your wife.

He took away sin from the eyes of God. In atonement, sin was covered from the eyes of man until the next time. But Jesus did something far greater than covering sin. That’s what atonement accomplished. He did something far greater than that, he took away the sin from the eyes of God. God looked down on the sacrifice of Christ Jesus, and saw that the blood of Jesus was of such consequence, that it was able to take away the sins of the entire world from his eyes, the entire world. And he cried, and he said, propitiation, that’s a big word has taken place, meaning I am totally satisfied. There’s nothing else to be done. That the blood of my Son was of such value that it was able to cover the sins and take away the sins of the entire world from my eyes. Precisely why Jesus said when I come back, and he is coming back, and he’s coming back to the place that he left Israel, on the Mount of Olives as he departed, he said, just as you see me depart, you will see me return to this very spot. And he is coming back. But he said, when I come back, I’m not coming back to bear sin, but to bring salvation for those who are waiting for me. And the reason that he isn’t coming back to bear sin, he’s already done that. And he isn’t gonna do it again, there is nothing else to do. When you cry out, it’s finished, it means there’s nothing else to do. It is done. It is finished. It is accomplished, it is paid in full. And that’s precisely what Jesus had to do at the cross. And when he cried out, it’s finished. I wonder sometimes what we’re thinking, when we say literally to Jesus, no, you didn’t finish it. Because there’s still sin that I need to get forgiven. Don’t we? There’s still sin, I’m not forgiven. Oh, God must. And we do that? No, I hope God forgives me how many times you ever said, Gee, I hope God can forgive me for that one. How many of you ever said that? In there? Now you see what are we doing when we say that? I don’t think many of you have ever say that today than understand the completeness of the cross. But at times in our life, we’ve said that, and then oh, God, please forgive me. Please forgive me, I promise I won’t do it again, then what happens? Next day, you do it again. And after a while, you come to the point where you say, I am convinced that God is absolutely sick of his stomach at me, probably has a big bottle of Pepto Bismol up there taking it every day by looking at what I’m doing. Because we have not finalized what he said it is finished. Sin from the eyes of God is gone. And he is dealing with humanity on the basis of only one thing. What did you do with the Jesus that I sent to the earth to take away your sin? What do you do with him? Did you ignore him? Call him in essence, a liar when he said it’s finished. Creating and continuing in your sacrificial systems in order to get yourself forgiven, continuing to go to the confession booth to get your priest to forgive you, continuing to walk around begging God to forgive you when he already has done so. And you call that faith??? That is not faith is presumption. And without faith, it’s impossible to please to please God. And yet we walk around saying, I am so pleasing to God because I keep short accounts with God. And man, every sin that I commit man, I confess that immediately and I get forgiven immediately, and we think we’re walking by faith. That’s not faith. That’s faith in you and what you’re doing. And quite frankly, it’s faith in your memory. Because what if you forgot one? And so we’re not walking by faith when we deny what Jesus came to do. Jesus came to take away the cause of death, and the cause of death is sin. And he took away the sins of the entire world, from the eyes of God. And that is precisely why it says there is now no condemnation awaiting you who belong to Christ Jesus. Do you believe that? There is no condemnation. Now again, what is the condemnation of God? Death there death doesn’t mess, God doesn’t mess around with paddlings. You here that God’s gonna take you the woodshed. How many of you ever been in the woodshed? God’s gonna get you. God’s gonna make you sick, God’s gonna break you God’s gonna do all these things if you keep on sinning. Is that true? No, it isn’t true. We deserve that. But if I got what I deserved from God, I’d go to hell. So it’s not the case of Do I deserve something, it’s the case of have I received what God provided for me in the in spite of being not because of me, but in spite of me.

And so we have this whole thing where God came to free us from the condemnation of God. There is no condemnation, there is no more death for those of you who are in Christ Jesus. Why? Because the law of the Spirit of Life has set you free from the law of sin and death. You have crossed over from the law of sin and death, which you are under as a lost person, and crossed over into a new realm altogether called the realm of life. The law of the Spirit of Life has saved you from the law of sin and death, and you’re a free man and a free woman. Is that good news or isn’t? Now God had to do that. And that is precisely why he cried out from the cross, It is finished. That aspect of taking away the sins of the world from the eyes of God is done. Where was it done? At the cross. Now that to happen, we talked about that last week on what is called the day of preparation of the Hebrew holiday. The day of preparation was a day where the Hebrew people would go in and clean out all of the leaven in their home. They said even if there was a smell of leaven, from a past cooking, it had to be cleaned out of there on the day of preparation. It was a day of spring house, pap galore, where you cleaned out all of the leaven. It’s a picture of taking away the sins of the world, leaven is referred to as sin. It was a picture of on a holiday, taking all the leaven out of your house.

And Jesus died on that to take all of the sin away from you from the eyes of God. That day of preparation was on a Thursday, we talked about that last week. The next day is referred to and we’ll hit that as a day of preparation. The next day was referred to as a special Sabbath. And a special Sabbath. There were many Sabbath’s in Old Testament. We always think of the Sabbath is just the Friday to the Saturday or the Saturday. But that was us the Sabbath. But there were special Sabbath. And the day of the, the the day of preparation, the next day was called the special Sabbath, which was the first day of the Feast of the unleavened bread, celebrating that fact. And so you had his death, on preparation, the day of preparation. Now, what is the cross? Is the cross salvation? Or is the cross preparation for salvation? Which is it? Preparation. And isn’t it strange that he died on the day of preparation? It was what prepares you for salvation. The cross is preparatory necessary for salvation. What is salvation? Being raised from the dead. The day that you and I are raised from the dead, we are saved from the dead. And in order to do that, preparation had to take place. And the preparation was taking away the cause of death, which is what the cross accomplished on the day of preparation. So he died on Thursday. The next day was a special Sabbath, the first day of the feast of the Unleavened Bread. And the next day was the Sabbath. And all of those are talked about in the Scripture. And so Jesus didn’t die on Friday. He died on Thursday, and was in the, just as the belly of the whale nose in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights, so I will be in the same thing. He was in the ground three nights and three days, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and rose from the dead.

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Bob George 14:16
Now it says in verse 31, it was the day of preparation. And the next day was to be the special Sabbath. That’s what we just talked about. Got your day of preparation on Thursday. You have your special Sabbath, which was the first day of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread the next day. And because the Judeans did not want the body left on the cross during the Sabbath, which was the regular Sabbath day, they asked Pilate to have his legs broken and the bodies taken down and the soldiers therefore came and broke the legs and the first man who had been crucified with Jesus and then those of the other. But when they came to Jesus and found that he was on already dead, which was a miracle in and of itself. They didn’t break his legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus side with a spear beginning with a sudden flow of blood and water. And the man who saw it has given this testimony. That’s John. And his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth and he testifies, so that you may also believe. These things happen, so if the scripture would be fulfilled, Not one of his bones will be broken. And then as another scripture says, they look on the one whom they have pierced.

Now later, we’re told that Joseph of Eramathea, asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, because he feared the Judeans. With PIlate’s permission, he came and took the body away. Guys, we don’t understand the fear that these people had of the Judean leadership. Christ Jesus, first of all, they came from Galilee, which was a seedbed for resurrection. It was a place where all kinds of, of opposition to Orthodoxy was bred in that part of the country. So that didn’t make him real popular. He also came and, and was not a real friend of the Pharisees. Because the Pharisees were the ones whose job was to keep the law and make sure you kept the law and hope that you never found out that I don’t keep the law. They were the law keepers, they felt that the purpose of a Jew on the face of this earth was to preserve the law. That was their purpose. That was the only reason they were there was to preserve the law of Moses, diligent at that. And Jesus came up and said to them, in essence, you’re a white washed, sepulicar. Because you can’t keep the law and yet you command others to do so. Paul wrote that no man will ever be declared righteous in the sight of God through obedience to the law. So if you’re trying to obtain righteousness in the sight of God, God’s already told you, there’s no way you’re going to do that. No man will ever be declared righteous in the sight of God, no man will ever be justified in the sight of God through obedience to the law, so you can’t be justified, you can’t be declared righteous. And if the law could bring life, then Christ died for nothing. So the law can’t give you life. What was the purpose of the law? To show you that you’re a sinner so that you’ll turn to Christ for salvation. If you don’t see that you’re a sinner, what does the cross mean to you? If you don’t need total forgiveness? What benefit is the cross? If I if I think that I’m 50%, okay, then I only need a 50%, Jesus. And just think maybe one of these days you can get so good that you don’t need him at all. And so the law could do nothing for you, except show you what it came to do. And that is to show you you’re a sinner. How come? Jesus was headed to a cross to do what? Die for sinners. He didn’t need to come to die for the righteous if you thought you were but to die for sinners. And so Jesus had to get under the skin of people. People could say, well, I don’t commit adultery. And he says, Look, I’m telling you, if you look at a woman with lust in your heart, you’ve already committed adultery. You said, God doesn’t look on the outside, he looks on the inside, he knows what’s going on, in your My life under the skin. That’s why he said, Your whitewashed sepulicars. Because you’re all clean on the outside, you look pretty good. But on the inside, you’re dirty. The law says don’t kill I say if you’re angry at somebody you’ve already committed murder in your heart. If you’re capable of getting angry, you’re capable of killing. He got under our skin. And that made the Pharisees angry, because they wanted to be patted on the head for how well they kept the exterior of the law. And Jesus didn’t do that. And he said, You’re hypocrites. So he became an enemy of the Pharisees because of his attitude toward their attitude of the law. He also wasn’t very popular with the priests whose job was to keep the temple going, and to be sure that all of the the things that are done in the temple are done properly, including the sacrificial system. And Jesus said to them the chief priests who were a part of the Sadducees. You had the Pharisees and the Sadducees. And those chief priests, he said to them, tear down this temple and I’ll build it up in three days. That’s how much I think about it. And he said to his sacrificial system is going to be over, it’s going to be done, should there be no need for it. So he became an enemy of the chief priests, and the Sadducees because of his attitude toward the temple, and became an enemy of the Pharisees because of his attitude toward the law. So he wasn’t very popular by anybody. But these people have unbelievable control over the populace.

And so they were fearful, just like Nicodemus had to go to Jesus at night and say, I know that you must have come from God, no one could do all the miracles you do unless you came from God. And Jesus just looked intently into the eyes of Nicodemus and said, Nicodemus, you must be born again. That you’re born physically. But now you have to be born spiritually. And the Bible tells us First came the natural, that’s physical birth, and then came the spiritual, that’s spiritual birth. You were never alive spiritually, before you were alive physically. Now there are some Johnny come lately is to teach it you are floating around up there in a spirit, and needed a body to live in. But that’s nonsense, according to the Word of God. That you have to first be born physically. And that’s what he said, unless a man is born of the water. Now, some people come along. So that’s baptism. Come on, guys. How can you be born a baptism? You’re born in a sack of water. And he explains that and yet we go out to all of these harebrained ideas about what born in the water is, he explains it, that we’re just flesh is flesh. You’re born out of your mother’s womb, in a sack of water, that’s called flesh. And now you have to be born of the Spirit, you got to have a natural birth, then you have to have a spiritual birth, and the natural comes first and then the spiritual. And so they were afraid of these things. They were afraid of these things. Nicodemus, you know, here I am a Hebrew, I’m doing all these things. You said it’s not going to make an ounce of difference. You gotta be born again. You mean all my deeds aren’t gonna get me to heaven? No, remember the passage of the Hebrews? You’re telling me that the Hebrews or the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have obtained it? And yet we who have followed the law have not? Said Yep, you got it. Why? Well, because you pursued it not by faith, but by works. You’re not gonna get a place by your works got in impressed with our works. I don’t think God was sitting up in heaven. yesterday said ooh, you see all the people that seminar? You see how many radio stations I own? Don’t you know that I got a church with 20,000 members in it? He said big deal. I’m not interested in your works. I’m interested in your heart. You can speak in the tongues of men and angels. You don’t have love, you don’t have anything. Allow your body to be burned at the stake. You don’t have love. It doesn’t have any meaning to it at all. I’m not looking at your outward I’m looking at your inward but the Judeans were looking at the outward. So they were fearful. And so with Pilat’s permission, he came in he took the body away Joseph of air mithya took the body away and he was accompanied by Nicodemus, the one who came to Jesus at night. And the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes and about 75 pounds of materials to bury him in.

So taking Jesus body, the two of them, wrapped it with the spices, in strips of linen. And this was in accordance with the Hebrew burial commission customs, so he was wrapped in 75 pounds of material. Think that would be a little hard to get out of whouldn’t you? At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden. For those of you who have been with us to Israel, and those of you that hopefully will go with us when we go next year, you will see that garden there’s no question at all in my mind as to where that is. He was crucified outside of the city in a place called Golgotha. The big stone is there where you see the eye, the eye sockets, and the nose just looks like a face of the skull. And right behind that is the Garden of Gethsemane. And it’s a garden. That’s where the tomb is. It’s got water all the way through it. It was a beautiful garden. It still is. And there was a tomb in there that had never been opened, never been laid in. And so at the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid. Now, because it was the Hebrew day of preparation back to that Jewish day of preparation, and since the tomb was nearby, they lead you they laid Jesus there.

Now early on the first day of the week, while that was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. And guys, if you ever see the way those stones were, they are huge. And they were rolled down into a hole, where to get them out of there would take the strength of a number of men to do so. She came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one that Jesus loved, who’s John and said, they’ve taken the Lord out of the tomb. And we don’t know where they’ve put him. Her first thought was someone stole the Lord. So Peter and the other disciples started for the tomb. And I guess John just had to say this, both were running but the other disciple out ran Peter, got to the tomb first, probably is a little proud of his speed. And he bent over and looked at the strips of linen line there but he didn’t go in. He got there first but he did go in. And Peter who is behind him and arrived and man, he goes right in and open ballsy Peter, he just went right into the tomb, and He saw the strips of linen lying there, as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus head. All of this was in this wrapping 75 pounds that would harden in three days, would hardened, and yet I believe it was there, as if someone was in it, but no one was in it. The cloth was folded up by itself separate from the linen. Finally, the other disciple who had reached the tomb first, John went inside. And he saw and he believed, what did he believe? That Jesus will surely raise from the dead just as he had said he was.

Announcer 27:16
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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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