Radio Broadcast Monday 12/04/2023

Classic Christianity – Book of Hebrews P41 (12-04-23)

Come Let Us Reason Together, The Sabbath Rest is For Today!

~ There are people that don’t believe the Sabbath rest is for them, and believe that only certain parts of the bible are written for the church. They think there are two different messages today. One message was for Hebrews, and another message was for Gentiles, as though there are two different means of salvation. Folks, it’s important to understand that there is only one means of salvation for both the Hebrews and the Gentiles, through faith in Jesus and Him alone. The Holy Spirit is telling us to enter a Sabbath rest for today. That is for today folks, not tomorrow, not for one group of people, vs another group of people, but for all the children of God. If a person thinks there are two different messages to two different groups of people, they will in effect throw away half the word of God, because they will say to themselves, “I’m not a Hebrew, therefore this must not apply to me.” And furthermore, they will not listen to the Holy Spirit today telling them to rest from their works. People want to pick and choose what they will listen to in the word of God. They will not listen to the Holy Spirit teach them TRUTH, but will simply raise up to themselves teachers of what their itching ears want to hear. Don’t fall for it. Paul was not just an apostle to the Gentiles as some are saying, but he was also an apostle to the sons of Israel. Paul was an apostle to BOTH. By the way, since the temple got destroyed in 70 AD, only God knows who are the True sons of Israel. And it is not the people over there that are pretending to be the ones today. Details matter in everything. Are you the people of God? If you are, then make every effort to enter into the Sabbath Rest.

~ But the Lord said to him, “Go, for this man is My vessel of choice to carry My name before the Gentiles, and also kings, and the sons of Israel. ^{Acts 9:15}

~ There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, e just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience. ^{Hebrews 4:9-11}

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~ “I don’t believe it’s accidental that as the author of the book of Hebrews was talking about the Sabbath rest, are being able to enter in to this rest that God called us to a rest where we are resting from our works just as God rested from His, a time where we can realize that as far as the forgiveness is, has been done, it is it is finished. That God was in Christ and it says, All of this was from God, all of it, you and I don’t have a thing to do with it. All of it is from God. For God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for you and me so that in him we could become the righteousness of God, that God was in Christ reconciling the world you unto Himself, not counting your sins against you. That’s a marvelous message. It’s a truth that God was in Christ, not counting your sins against you. Now, until we come to understand that there is absolutely no way that we can ever enter into a Sabbath rest. There’s no way that we can rejoice in the life that God has given to us if we’re not able to enter into that rest in regard for what he did for us at the at the cross, and to be able to be reconciled to God, God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, and therefore it says, Be reconciled. That’s the only thing you can do, just be reconciled. It’s been done. He’s taken it off of his accounts, receivables, you take it off, your accounts payable, be reconciled, it’s off his books, take it off of yours. And it to me when we see this, and to realize that this is a part of the Sabbath, rest, that we will never rest until we understand that fact. And then with this, he immediately goes into the Word of God. And immediately begins to deal with what the Word of God is all about. And he says, The Word of God is living. And it is active, and it’s sharper than any two edged sword. And it penetrates even to dividing the soul and the spirit, the joints and marrow and a judge’s the thoughts and the attitudes of the heart. And nothing at all creation is hidden from God’s sight. And so it’s talking about the fullness of this word of God and the fact that you and I will never be able to enter into this Sabbath rest, if we don’t have our confidence in the truth of the Word of God.” ~ Bob George

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I don’t believe it’s accidental that as the author of the book of Hebrews was talking about the Sabbath rest, are being able to enter in to this rest that God called us to a rest where we are resting from our works just as God rested from His, a time where we can realize that as far as the forgiveness is, has been done, it is it is finished. That God was in Christ and it says, All of this was from God, all of it, you and I don’t have a thing to do with it. All of it is from God. For God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for you and me so that in him we could become the righteousness of God, that God was in Christ reconciling the world you unto Himself, not counting your sins against you. That’s a marvelous message. It’s a truth that God was in Christ, not counting your sins against you. Now, until we come to understand that there is absolutely no way that we can ever enter into a Sabbath rest. There’s no way that we can rejoice in the life that God has given to us if we’re not able to enter into that rest in regard for what he did for us at the at the cross, and to be able to be reconciled to God, God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, and therefore it says, Be reconciled. That’s the only thing you can do, just be reconciled. It’s been done. He’s taken it off of his accounts, receivables, you take it off, your accounts payable, be reconciled, it’s off his books, take it off of yours. And it to me when we see this, and to realize that this is a part of the Sabbath, rest, that we will never rest until we understand that fact. And then with this, he immediately goes into the Word of God. And immediately begins to deal with what the Word of God is all about. And he says, The Word of God is living. And it is active, and it’s sharper than any two edged sword. And it penetrates even to dividing the soul and the spirit, the joints and marrow and a judge’s the thoughts and the attitudes of the heart. And nothing at all creation is hidden from God’s sight. And so it’s talking about the fullness of this word of God and the fact that you and I will never be able to enter into this Sabbath rest, if we don’t have our confidence in the truth of the Word of God.

Now, folks, turn back with me for a minute to Second Timothy 3:16. Second Timothy 3:16. All scripture is God breathed. And is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. Thoroughly equipped by the word of God. And when you’re talking about for every good work, it didn’t talk about for going out and doing neat things for Jesus. That’s not the emphasis there. When you and I are equipped for every good work. It’s equipped for the work of the ministry, which is to believe on Him. And that and when we are believing in Him, the other thing he said is to love one another. So it equips you and me for the work that he gave us to do, and that is to love one another. And so the Word of God is useful for this. It’s useful for teaching it’s useful for rebuking, it’s useful for correcting and, and it is a training and righteousness as it says it is sharper than a two edged sword. It cuts it divides. It cuts truth from error. It comes out and cuts the thoughts of Satan away from the thoughts of God. In other words, it divides it so that your and I are able to see whether this thought is coming from Satan or whether this thought is coming from God. Whether this attitude that I have is coming from Satan, or whether this attitude is coming from God, because His ways are not our ways, and our ways are not His ways. We’re in conflict with one another. And we sit around and we gather, and it’s amazing to me how smart we think we are, with the limited, even experienced that we have. You stopped to think about it. Let’s say you’re 30 years old. Let’s say you’re 25 years old. How long have you been an adult even? I mean, think about it for 16 1718 years, just a kid. And yet we think we’re so smart. You, say what gives you the idea? Where did you get the information of how smart we are? Because we literally eliminate experience. And we think because we can go and get straight A’s someplace or straight B’s or C’s, or whatever it might be or just pass that that’s the sign of intelligence someplace down the line, we have nothing to base life on. And therefore we make the dumbest decisions you can ever make in your lifetime. Because we think we’re smart, because we’re thinking with our minds and our minds are limited in our experience, are they not? It’s like a person saying if I were president united states, I’d do it this way. Oh, come on, get off of it. If you were president united states, you’d have the facts. And you don’t know what your decision would be where we’ve constantly want to make decisions based upon limited input. And say, based on the input that I have, this would be how I would make a decision, but I don’t have all the input. Now I’ll tell you something, experience gives you that a lot of that input. And the longer you live, the more you see, the more you can discern right from wrong. And when someone’s going down a primrose path, it’s leading right to hell, and when someone has taken a path of righteousness, and you’ve had some experience to look back on, and to analyze and to see. And that, quite frankly, is why the Bible says to seek out the experience many times of people who’ve lived a while because the input of life is greater. It’s amazing. In this day and age we live where industry takes people when they’re 60, 65 years old, and put them out to pasture and said all through. All they’re doing is eliminating their wisdom. So that they can make more mistakes just coming up and coming up and coming up and coming up. So you just keep recreating the wheel through your life. The advice and the counsel of many, it says is worth much. And so we have to realize that the at the very best even with experience even with education, if you don’t have the wisdom of God, we have nothing. And it is the word of God then soaked into our minds soaked into our hearts that enables us to see right from wrong to see truth from error to divide, teach, rebuke correct training and righteousness. Now, folks, the flesh does not like to be taught the flesh does not like to be rebuked for sure. If you notice that jail if someone rebukes me this morning, you don’t like it at all flesh never does. It never likes to be corrected. You know if I’m wrong, just please correct me. I’m just an open door to correction. Do we? What’s our first response normally when someone corrects you? Justified and defend. It’s why I say I don’t know how defense attorneys ever got a job. We’re so good at it ourselves. Training in righteousness, flesh doesn’t want to be trained in righteousness. flesh wants to do its own thing. Doesn’t it. That’s all flesh wants to do. I want to do what I want to do when I want to do it. What is right? My way. What’s wrong? Yours. That’s the definition of right and wrong. If we don’t have the word of God, we have no foundation folks. We have no way to determine whether our attitudes and our thoughts are on a one way street to nowhere, or whether our attitudes and thoughts are in line with the Word of God. Now Jesus talked about that type of thing.

Turn back with me to Matthew chapter seven. Verse 24. Jesus said therefore, and folks is the context of here is the context of this is not in the blab it and grab it and the miracles and everything else that people are thinking is the Christian life today. As a matter of fact, he said, Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will the Father who is in heaven, Many will say to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name did us and you see my my word and knowledge? And you see me exercise and then then I come to you telling you what God wanted you to do all the time. Did you see me doing that? Walking up to people and say, I got a message from God for you. Is that popular today? Oh, yeah. Everybody’s got a message from God for you. I want to ask you something. Chuck, if you had it, with your two kids, you got Todd got Hank, if you want to tell Todd sent would you tell Hank to tell Todd? I don’t think so. I think you tell him direct wouldn’t you? He’s your son and I would too. If I were to tell Bob some I wouldn’t call Debbie and say Debbie would you tell Bob’s something, I got a word of knowledge for him. I’d call him direct. If God wants to say something to you, he’s perfectly capable of doing so. And he does not need me or someone else to verbalize his message to unless you’re not a child. And so you got people today walking around who like my friend said one time he asked God to come into his heart and he did now he’s gonna be God in everyone else’s heart walking around trying to play God and people’s life trying to impress people with their spirituality by pretending that they have a special revelation from God for you. And the answer to that is you better pray that God will tell me, because he’s perfectly capable of talking to me. So you have people walking around with that type of thing and saying that you see me prophesy in your name Lord in your name? People say how could these people be false because now they’re using Jesus name? Yeah, that’s true. What other name would you use? I come to you in the name of Satan? Be a little hard to deceive God kids that way so you say I come the name of Jesus. prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons. Boy demon driving them out man. Exorcism going on all over the place. Get those demons out there. We’re gonna make God man. We’re just gonna read not God mad we’re gonna make Satan mad boy, when they see us on this TV program, Satan’s gonna be mad. He scared death of us. You really think Satan is scared of us? How could someone with an IQ of about 900 be scared of someone with an IQ of minus six? Doesn’t the Bible teach that Satan is not afraid to you and me? He’s only afraid of one person who is that? The one that wiped him out on the cross Jesus. Don’t ever think that he’s afraid of you and me.

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And we walk around as the Bible says and hear people acting like they’re just ow man Satan is just scared death of me. No. Not at all. He’s scared to death of the one who redeemed me. But he isn’t fearful at all of me. I mean, I know a lot of guys that aren’t afraid of me, let alone Satan probably some girls too. So you see we’ve got a perversion. Why? Well, because we don’t know the word of God. That’s what he’s saying the word of God is sharper than a two edged sword. It divides truth from error. It says let your roots grow deeply into the Word of God so that you’re not tossed to and fro by every wave of doctrine. Because if you don’t have your foundation in the Word of God, then every hair brained idea that comes along is up for grabs. If someone came up to you right now and said, Hey, Jesus is out there in the field, came in there and made an announcement. Jesus is over across the street. How many of you would go? Good. Good. Anybody said that go you know why you’d go because you don’t have your roots in the Word of God. The Word of God very clearly says, If someone comes up and says Jesus is over here, Jesus is over there. Don’t go he isn’t there. Next time Jesus comes, everybody will see. It’s what’s called a zeal for God but not in accordance with knowledge.

We emphasize miracles and gifts, that excitement and negate the Word of God, so that you have no foundation. It’s what causes people to be unstable in all ways. And I don’t blame the people. I blame the teachers because teachers intentionally keep people spiritually ignorant, so that you can manipulate them with emotionalism. It’s the same thing I don’t know why we are so critical of denominations that told people don’t bother to bring your Bible you can’t read it anyway. It’s in Latin. Gotta read a Latin to hear by says I don’t know what that says, Guess he does. Nobody knows her Bible. Just do what I say. And we criticize that. What’s the difference between that and just sprinkling in some nice little Christian verbiage and then putting people on emotionalism trips, till there’s no route? I’m glad that no hands went up. When I said if somebody walked in the door and said, Jesus, what would a person do? Who walked to the door and said Jesus across the street? What would he be? It’d be a liar. It’d be an imposter. How do I know that? The Word of God, the Word of God, I don’t have a prejudice against somebody walking in there yelling that. But the Bible already speaks to the issue. If someone does that don’t go. He isn’t out there. Next time Jesus comes, We’ll, all see him. So he’s saying, well, board we prophesied your name, we drove out demons in your name. We perform miracles in your name, didn’t you see the miracles we performed? Man I waved my hands 16 people fell on the stage. Didn’t you see that? No God no one hope no one else did either. Then you see all these miracles?

He said, I will tell them plainly. I never knew you. Away from Me. You evil doers. evil doers, evil doers. Or don’t you know, I was trying to be a good testimony for you? Why would you think I’d need your testimony for me? If Peter couldn’t blow it, neither can you. Why do we get the idea that somehow that we’ve got to go around and pretend in order to be a good testimony for God? I mean, do we think that our testimony is going to be more outstanding than a tree or a calf giving birth? Or a person giving birth to a baby? Or the sky? Or the uniqueness of the universe? Do you think our little testimony is going to be more impressive than that? And if people can look at that, and not come to Christ, why do you think they’re gonna look at you or me? And come to it? It’s the word of God that draws people to the Lord. Not my neat smile. He said, you’re an evil doer. Well, Lord, I was driving up demons in your name. I was performing miracles in your name evil doer. As hard as prophesied in your name, I was trying to get people to believe that in God because of you know, thinking that I can prophesy. Evil doer. Evil doer. Folks, do we realize that there are things going on? Do we understand that there are things going on today in the name of Christ in the multitudes that Christ is saying evil doer, do we understand that? Just because someone and we got that idea well, they’re doing some good.

Saw a fellow the other day talking about financing these ministries said, Well, you tell Yeah, this, this ministry is legalistic and, and boy, yeah, they are. They sure are. They’re legalistic. But they’re doing some good. They’re they’re doing good evangelism. I thought to myself about that, you know what that’d be like it but really like going into a slave plantation slave place. And saying, man, we’re going on a campaign we want all you people have all the babies you can. I mean, we’re going on a baby campaign, we want birth place. And boy, I tell you, we’re gonna have romantic movies, and we’re gonna do everything, we’re gonna get this place essential. You just can’t believe it. Because we want babies to be produced. We’re either we’re even going to have the four spiritual principles for producing babies. We’ll read it to you or whatever else it might be, well, we want babies produced. Babies. If, let’s say Would that make a sense go in and perpetuate babies to be what? Slaves. Oh, in other wors, I want more slaves. So let’s go in and perpetuate birth. So we’d have more slaves. That’s what is taking place many times in evangelism today. We’re going out trying to produce more slave babies for Jesus to get more people into the slave kingdom. So we can keep more people in bondage. The Lord Jesus Christ is saying evildoer. I didn’t call you to do those things. I wasn’t a miracle worker. I didn’t do one miracle unless the Father told me to do it. That’s what Jesus says, I didn’t for tell one word unless the Father told me to say it. I didn’t drive out one demon. I just replaced him with me. How do you exercise somebody? Get the right man in the wrong one goes out. That’s an exorcism. Get Christ in and the other one goes out. We’re out trying to do all of this showmanship stuff for God in order to impress people, all you’re doing is producing more people to stay in bondage. And he says you’re an evil doer. How do we know that folks? We got a prejudice against these things? Are we sitting there saying to ourselves, well, these people they just got prejudiced. You know, these Baptists and these Methodists that just the way that… Folks it doesn’t make a difference whether it’s Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, what it is, if it doesn’t match up to the Word of God discount it. Do we understand that? Throw it out.

And how are you going to know what the pitch if you don’t know the word of God? How are we going to know that God considers prophecy, demon casting out, miracles as an evildoer? If he’s not the one initiating, it’s evil. Anything done in the flesh is what? Flesh. Now, folks, we’d never know that because our minds will not pick up on that my mind says, that’s good. Some goods come to that in that right. Don’t we say? Well, some goods come into that. Hey, you didn’t Jesus didn’t say that. He said evildoer. You’re an evildoer. Remember, I said I don’t know who you are. I don’t know you. You never in my mind. You didn’t come to me for me. You came to me for miracles. You didn’t come unto me when you were laborious, heavy, ladden. You came for forgiveness. Here’s why your sins forgiven. You just wanted food to eat. You just wanted this. You just wanted miracles. You wanted a show deal. You didn’t come to me for me. I don’t know who you are. Like getting married. You get married for money? So you’re evil doer. I know it’s gonna be a shock to some people but you Marriage really should be because two people love each other. Isn’t that a shock? Love should be there. I love the person want to spend the rest of my life together, not that person do something for me. And yet there are many marriages today that start in volume and you see this type of thing going on. As I said, I never saw an old 60, 70 year old guy with a 25 year old girl on his arm out in Las Vegas when I used to go out there. I never saw one of those guys. He was a garbage collector. You’ll never see a good look and well built 25 year old on the arm of a 70 year old garbage collector. I’ll guarantee it. A millionaire but not a garbage collector. What I want him for? Money. What’s he want her for? Sex. Love, forget it, it’s not an issue. Do something for me. You can get in that relationship. But you won’t stay in that relationship. And that’ll come tumbling down sooner or later. Because where there’s not love, you don’t have anything. And love is not an ohsy gushy feeling. Love is an action given to us and correct First Corinthians. Love is patient. Love is kind it thinks of other people’s feelings. It’s long suffering. It doesn’t keep records of wrongs. It hopes the best trust the best. It’s those kind of actions that hold families and marriages together. Not what can they do for me?

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