Radio Broadcast Monday 10/02/2023

 

Join Bob George in this chapter by chapter exposition of the book of Hebrews. Available for download the complete series on the Book of Hebrews. The Book of Hebrews is key to understanding the New Covenant.

 

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We’re scared to death to see a man go through some trials and tribulations and scared to death to see people going through some hard times and depressed and all that we got to do something to help them right now. We’ve got to get them. Listen, my friends. Those are the things that get you to the end of yourself. We are interceding with pills and medication and council and everything else to say no I’m okay you’re okay. Instead of letting people get to the end of themselves. And there’s where they’re going to find the Lord Jesus Christ. Scared to death of suffering in any way, shape, or form, and yet the Bible says it’s those suffering that we build character. And the whole world is out to try to alleviate any kind of suffering. And in this world, Jesus said, You’re gonna suffer. Though he said, I can even turn that into a benefit for you. Because it’s through our suffering, that we get rid of our self sufficiency, and latch on to him, and Christ’s efficiency, isn’t it. There’s not a person that I know, that has not gone through the trials and tribulations who have come to know Christ, really knowing who would say, not saying that if I had to do it all again, in order to get to know Him the way I didn’t know him today, I’d go through it again. I heard that time and time again out in the prisons, that I came to Christ in this prison. And if I had to go and to be incarcerated again, in order to know today, what I know about my Jesus, I’ve voluntarily put myself back in prison to do. It’s through our trials and tribulations and hard times that we come to the end of ourselves, at the end of our self sufficiency. And the world and the counseling profession to a large degree is standing like a defensive end to intercept the pass of God. So that is never caught. And the touchdowns never made. We’ve become interceptors to try to intercede between the difficulty and the sufficiency by some man made way and means of making you duped in your mind into thinking I’m okay again. We do it with booze. We do it with drugs, or we can do it with mind altering anything. We can do it with sitting around thinking I’m okay because my faith is so big. I’m okay because I’m a Mormon. I’m okay because I’m a Baptist, I’m okay because I’m a Presbyterian and I’m okay. I’m okay. I’m okay. No, we’re not okay. Until we’re in Christ. In Him is life eternal.

Now, folks, Paul goes ahead to say, I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not something that man made up. I don’t want you to get any idea that what I’m preaching was originated by some man, some man didn’t sit around and dream this thing up. I did not receive it from any man. I didn’t get it from Peter. I didn’t get it from Paul or from from John. I didn’t get it. He said from any of the apostles, I got this message directly from God. He said, nor was I taught it from somebody, I didn’t go to Jay U to get a degree. I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ. The message that Paul said I preached to you, which is the fullness of the gospel, Christ alive in you your hope of glory. He said, I got it by direct revelation from Christ himself. That’s why folks, we have talked so many times about the fact that the gospel and the truth of the gospel was proclaimed by Jesus. It was ultimately explained by Paul. Peter, in his early teachings, you will never find in those early writings of the church, the message of Christ in you your hope of glory, it hadn’t been revealed yet. It didn’t mean that salvation was not occurred. But you see, you saw Peter and the early apostles preaching a prophecy, a return of the Messiah. Paul taught the mystery, the mystery of Christ alive in you your hope of glory. That’s why Paul didn’t go to Peter to get that message. He didn’t go to John to get it. He didn’t go to any of the apostles to get it. He said, What I have taught you was by direct revelation from Jesus Christ Himself.

So we have some credibility, don’t we? We have the credibility of the Word of God as it was revealed to the author in Hebrews. We know that the gospel that Paul preached was the gospel of salvation that was revealed in Christ Jesus. And now I’d like for us to take a look at another place here. If you’ll turn with me for just a moment. Excuse me, turn back to John with me, John 10. Then we’ll go to Luke. Oh, we’re getting back to when we try to get back for a moment with our minds a little bit on deception, getting our minds on false teaching. And as it relates to signs and wonders. So I want to kind of back up into that again. Chapter 10 Verse 40, I want us to see something here. Chapter 10, verse 40. We’re talking to see something here about John the Baptist.

When Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing in the early days, here he stayed, and many people came to him. And they said, here’s what they said, though John never performed a miraculous sign. John the Baptist. All the John said about this man was true. And in that place, many believed in Jesus. John the Baptist, never performed a miraculous sign. All he did was, speak the truth about Jesus. That’s all he ever did. Bless his heart poor thing. He just hadn’t been around, name it and claim it, I guess, I don’t know. But he just had never done that. Now. Well maybe John the Baptist was kind of a second rate citizen. Well, let’s turn back to Luke seven a minute and see what Jesus has to say about John the Baptist. Chapter seven. Let’s start in verse 18. John’s disciples told him about all these things, calling to have them he sent them to the Lord and asked, Are you the one who was to come? Or should we expect someone else? John the Baptist, was he wavering? He was in prison. Was he wavering with his faith? No, no, not at all. But here’s what you see in the Word of God, you see, proclaimed in prophecy, the reigning Messiah, and you see the suffering Messiah. And in looking at those two things, they’re hard to bring together a messiah riding in on a donkey, the rain the ruler, that doesn’t make any sense. You see the suffering Messiah, the reigning Messiah. It’s like looking at a mountain peak, you can look at a mountain peak from a distance, and those two peaks look like they’re right next to each other. As you get up close to him. You see there hundreds of miles away from each other. And so here you saw the reigning Messiah and the suffering Messiah previously thought of is the same guy at the same time at the same place. And suddenly you see the evidence of the suffering Messiah, but you don’t see much evidence of this reigning Messiah. So the question obviously comes out, hold on a minute, are there two of you? Or is there just one or what’s the story here? I see you as who you are the suffering Messiah, but I don’t see much raining going on. So when it came to Jesus that John the Baptist has sent us to ask Are you the one who is to come or should we expect someone else is there another one? Are you the same one? At this time, Jesus cured many you had diseases, sicknesses and evil spirits and he gave sight to many who are blind so replied to the messengers, go back and report to John what you’ve seen and heard. The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor. Bless it is a man who does not fall away on account of me. Say, what about this reiging Messiah? Well, he said, that is reigning. The deaf can hear the blind can see, and people are being saved.

Well, after John’s messengers left, Jesus began to speak to the crowd. He said this about John the Baptist. What did you go out in the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind? If not, what did you go out and see? A man dressed in fine clothes? No. Those who wear expensive clothes and indulge in luxury are in palaces. But what did you go out and see a prophet? Yes, I tell you in more than a prophet. This is the one whom it has written. I will send my messenger ahead of you and who will prepare your way before you. I tell you, among those men born of a woman, there is no one greater than John. And, yet the one who was least in the kingdom of God was greater than he. My friends, the Lord Jesus Christ was saying about this John the Baptist when you went out to see John a Baptist did you see or read somebody who was wishy washy who could be swayed back and forth every wave of doctrine? Indeed you did not. You saw a man strong as horseradish proclaiming the Lord Jesus Christ coming. You didn’t see a man vacillating back and forth. A little on this side of God one day and a little on this side of God the next you saw someone proclaiming him in all power of God. None other Jesus said like him. And yet it says John never performed a miraculous sign. Why was there none other like him? Because he wasn’t a reed, tossed to and fro. When vacillating back and forth in regard to truth. He knew truth and he stayed on the side of it. And no one could move him off. His glory, so to speak, was not in being a miracle man. Or someone who was healing people or performing miracles. He just proclaimed truth and God said there’s none other like him. There is none greater. And John the Baptist never performed a miracle. Never did a sign. never spoken tongues, just spoke to us. Well what about all these signs and wonders?

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Let’s turn back to First Corinthians. First Corinthians 12. Now folks, what I’ve tried to do is this, to establish the fact that first of all, you’re going to see by God’s Spirit, through the author of the book of Hebrews of saying a very simple thing, and that is that gifts and wonders and signs were distributed in God’s knowledge as he chose to do so. Period. You’re also going to see as read on it every time that that not only occurred with Jesus, which we’ve just discussed, but every time it occurs with Paul, it was for a sign to an unbeliever and you’re going to see that spelled out very clearly. You’re also going to see and what I tried to establish is the fact that in the eyes of God, the greatest man who ever walked as far as a man of the flesh was a man by the name of John the Baptist, who never did a miracle. He just spoke truth about Jesus. That’s all he ever did. And Jesus considered him the greatest of all, the greatest man that ever walked. All he did was speak truth about Jesus. That is a far cry from today where we are bringing glory to people who are constantly thought of as being involved in signs and wonders and ignoring whether truth is being spoken. You see a sign and wonder that doesn’t verify truth that is done with a lie, might be a sign and wonder to you, but it isn’t brought about by God. Satan can duplicate any sign and wonder. And to me the truth odd the sign and wonder, is not by the sign and wonder. But it’s whether or not it verifies truth. We have people who will call in sometimes on a radio and ask questions, Bob, what about being slain in the Spirit? You got me. You got me. Where do you find that in the Bible? No place. No place. What in a world would we think God would be slaying people for? I mean, isn’t that a real picture of just a loving God, come down, let me slay you. Well, I saw it happen. Well, you may have seen something happened that didn’t come from God. You may have seen somebody hit somebody’s head fall backwards, but didn’t come from God.

My friends, if it isn’t in the Scripture, we have got to ignore it, I don’t care what atmosphere you do it in. I mean, because you dress something like that up in a place with stained glass windows with I don’t know where they came from, you know, find those and Bible either, but we got them stained glasses all over the place. And you gotta cross up there. And you’ve got this organ and, you know, if you got a place with an organ in it, that makes it spiritual. And, and, and you got a collection, it’s made that that’ll solidify it, and, and all of this kind of stuff. And so here you got in this religious setting, and then you do something, everybody assumes, well, this must be of God. It doesn’t have anything to do with God, I mean, John the Baptist wasn’t in any of those circumstances, either with Jesus, they taught under trees and out in the bushes. He didn’t have stained glass places to sit before in front of an order to verify their message. And so we have to be into a situation, my friends, where it says that the scripture let your roots go deeply into the Word of God so that you can do what? Spot error, because air will eat your lunch. You see, God isn’t trying to be narrow, narrow minded, he’s trying to help you and me to live on this earth. And to keep us from having to fall into pits when we don’t need to. And so this warnings to us. Because those things will eat your lunch sooner or later. People will come up with all kinds of stuff, you know, and say, well, this feels good. And after all, it’ll it feels good. And it helped for a while. And I don’t know how many of you people, I was telling some people the other day, I didn’t know very many knew much about that. But have you ever heard if your light bulb was flickering, please don’t try this at home, you can kind of put a penny up in there and screw it back. And it’ll kind of work did you? Susie it was that were we the only ones that know how to do those things. But I guess that back from Indiana, but that’ll work. It’ll make your light bulb work for a while also burn your house down if you leave it in there long enough. But he’ll sure make your light work for a while. And that’s exactly where we are in his Christian faith. We’re willing to burn her house down tomorrow in order to get a little more light today instead of replacing the fixture. And we’re much more content to go stick a penny in the socket than go buy a new socket, no, go buy a new fixture. And to equate that is we are willing to go to any man made tool that comes along to get a quick fix. Instead of going to Jesus Christ, who’s the new fixture for new live. And so we have to watch these things. And if it’s not in the Scripture, cast it away. What is being slain the spirit? I don’t know. It’s not in the Bible, cast away and forget it, someone’s doing it. Get out of there. You’re in a place that’s teaching lies. You want to go there and continue to be deceived. Have at it. That I’ll guarantee it you’re in a place that is teaching deception.

Now Paul wants to talk now in chapter 12, about spiritual gifts. And that’s a very interesting subject and a good subject. But before he starts again, he says brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. That gives you an idea of what he thinks about the people. The Corinthians came out of an unbelievable pagan background. In the chapter before 12, before he talks about spiritual gifts, he was admonished exam to keep from getting drunk at the Lord’s Supper. So that gives you an idea of the Corinthians. Now, he never ceased to call them saints, because that’s who they were. But they were acting like idiots. And they were having to suffer and some of them were gorging themselves over there and getting drunk before the rest of the people came. So the rest by the time they got ready for him, some had passed out, gorged sick, everything else just like you do when you gorge yourself too much, you drink too much. You get sick, throw up, pass out and everything else. So that’s what you came to for the Lord’s Supper. Came here expect to see some great fellowship. And here’s the people bombed out of their mind over there, and nothing left for you. He did. So that’s the that’s the character of the Corinthians. That’s what you were dealing with. They had pagan worship, they had temple prostitution, there, it was a seaport city, and everything went. it was a Calumet City and Las Vegas, and Reno and, and New Orleans, all batched into one place. It was a sinful city. And in that Christ, Paul went with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Now, thank God, he looks on our hearts and not our habits. So there was still a lot of pretty crummy habits those people had. And so Paul addresses them, because along with this grace came pride. In other words, as they begin to understand the grace of God without the fullness of Christ Himself, why then pride sets in. And so these Corinthians were very prideful about the fact that, hey, we’re, you know, we’re in Christ, and I can go do anything I want to. Well, it’s true, you can, but not very profitable. And that’s what Paul is saying to us. So he’s approaching the Corinthians very subtly, like a meat cleaver. I want to remind you when I first came to you, I don’t want you to be stupid and ignorant. And you know that when you were pagans, before I got to you somehow or other you are influenced and led astray by mute idols. So I want you to remember, I want to remind you where you were coming from when I first came to you. You were ignorant, and you were worshipping dumb idols. So before you get too smart, I want to remind you, where you came from. Therefore, I tell you, so what’s the therefore therefore? Because you used to be dumb, you haven’t progressed along the way yet. And because of where you used to be, and you haven’t gone very much further than that. I want to tell you something. No one speaking by the Spirit of God says, Jesus be cursed. And no one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit. Now, he said, there’s different kinds of gifts. But the same Spirit. Why would you have to say there’s different kinds of gifts, but the same by the same Spirit, that same Spirit? Well because back then, as people are doing today, they’re saying, if you have the Spirit, you’re going to have this specific gift. And, if you don’t have this gift, you don’t have the Spirit. Sound familiar? Sure, going on today. So I will tell you sound there’s all kinds of gifts, but there’s only one Spirit. So it’s a little hard to say that if you have this gift, you got the Spirit, because you have the Spirit, you might have all kinds of different gifts. But none of them are gonna be the same one. There are different kinds of service that you may be sent to, but only one Lord. There are different kinds of workings but the same God works all of them in all men. So you got different works, that God uniquely will send you to, you have different kinds of workings, you have different kinds of service. All of them are varied according to what God wants you to do. And don’t look that because I’m doing this specific service that that makes me more spiritual than you who are not. Or because I’m doing this kind of work that makes me more spiritual than you I’m more spiritual in you because I’m up here teaching and here’s their listing at the bunch of garbage if you’re, if you’re in Christ, your spiritual and if you’re not your natural, and they’re in any big service, super saints around, just sent the different functions, that’s all different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. Now to each one, the manifestation of the Spirit is given for common good. In other words, if you’re going to see a manifestation of the Spirit of God, in other words, showing the Spirit of God working through those gifts, then the goal of those gifts is for the common good of the body. So if a gift is given, it’s not for me, it’s for you. So if I had as an example, the gift of teaching. I’m not supposed to be sitting around in my little room by myself with a microphone teaching myself. And glorying over how wonderful that sounds. But the benefit of the gift of teaching is for the body, if you have the gift of giving, it isn’t so that you can give yourself gifts. If you have the gift of giving it is so that you can utilize that gift for the benefit of the body. Chuck talked about that earlier, I wish we would pray more for that the gift of giving. You cannot keep something alive unless the body in its total is participating. And it is ludicrous to expect a certain percent to be carrying the load of everyone instead of everyone sharing in the load.

And if the body of Christ is going to enjoy the things in the body, then we all need to participate. Regardless of the amount that’s not the issue. But everyone participating. That’s giving. And that’s what givings all about. Not hoarding, giving according to your ability, joyfully, and without compulsion. That’s the standard of giving in the New Testament, not tithing. And so if your gift is that it’s for the benefit of the body, who does that benefit? The body. So that so that one group isn’t having to pull a load of everybody, everyone’s participating. The same thing we’re talking about the Lord’s Supper, don’t come in one group eat up everything so if there’s none left, in the same token, don’t let the one group down there and finance everything for the rest of the people. Everyone should participate in the Lord’s Supper everyone should participate in the giving of a body of Christ. And if we’re not, we need to understand ask ourselves if we really understand what the grace of God is all about.

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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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