Thanksgiving P3 – Bob George (11-24-23)
Thank Jesus For Everything
~ Our confession of faith means to thank Jesus for everything that he has done for us and for giving us life in Him too. Confession in Greek means to offer thanksgiving to God. When you are offering thanksgiving to God, you are agreeing with Him. You have accepted the fact that he forgave ALL your sins at the cross. You are accepting the fact that he rose from the dead. You are accepting the fact that the same Holy Spirit that gave Jesus life is the same Holy Spirit that gives you life. You are accepting the fact that Jesus now lives in you if you are in Christ Jesus and he is in you. You are accepting the fact that he wants to live his life in and through you. You are accepting the fact that you are the temple of God. You are accepting the fact that he has made you holy. You are accepting the fact that he will never leave you nor forsake you. All of that is our thanksgiving to God. So the greatest thing we can offer to God, is that which he himself made holy, our bodies. Let him live his life through you. And that occurs moment by moment of each and every day of our lives. A faith from first to last.
~ Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Romans 12:1
~ For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” Romans 1:17
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~ “We’re gonna be celebrating Thanksgiving. And guys, I hope that as we celebrate this season of Thanksgiving, that our minds go further than just the freedom that we have in America. Thank God for the freedom but it’s being threatened. Thank God, we’ve got freedom. But that’s not the freedom that you and I are rejoicing in. I am rejoicing in the fact that I’ve been made free in Christ, you’ve been set free by brothers, that says, don’t use your freedom to indulge the flesh. But use your freedom to serve one another and love to serve one another, to be thankful. So when Thanksgiving dinner is served, I trust that you’re not going to gobble up all the food before the rest of the people get there. To serve one another love. And that’s what that season is all about thanking God for this provision of grace that some will never take advantage of. But those of us that have, do you realize how privileged we are? How unbelievably privileged we are. We sometimes forget it. But guys, don’t forget it. It’s the privilege that God has given us a being able to say, God is my daddy. He’s the one I crawl up in his lap. And call him daddy. Father.” ~ Bob George
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Now in verse 12, and chapter five, it says, Therefore just as sin enter to the world by one man and death through sin, in this way, death came to all men because all sin, because before the law was given, so again, guys, what I’m getting at here is all through this book of Romans, it’s the law, the law, the law, and we had we ignore that. Sin is not taken into account when there is no law. Never nevertheless, reigned, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking the command, as did Adam, who was the pattern of the one to come. In other words, the wages of sin is death, whether you’re under the law or not under the law. Before the law came, even though there was no law, still, the wages of sin was death. And so what he’s saying here is, we’ve all died, all of us are born into this world dead spiritually. What keeps us dead? The law. And again, we have to see if you’ll go back over to verse 14, in chapter six, it says, The Law of their sin shall not be your master, because you’re not under the law, but under grace. So as long as you are under the law, sin is your master. Now, again, guys, we’re over here in law, land, and sin is your master. Why? Because you’re under the law. And if you’re under the law, what is the wages of sin under the law? Death. Now, that’s a problem in that. And God had to free these people. I’m just using these as examples, you understand, to free them from the consequence of sin, which is death, spiritual death, spiritual death, you have natural man, and you have spiritual man, you have natural birth, and you have spiritual birth, we’re talking about spiritual things. They had to be saved from the consequence of sin, which is death, by the gift of God, which is life eternal. They are under the reign of sin and death.
They have no choice. The things they want to do, they don’t do the things they don’t want to do. They do them anyway. You look into the mirror, as I did for 36 years. And Bob George, what in the world is this thing looking back at you? Who are you? What’s wrong with you? Why can’t you do and be the kind of person that God wants you to be? Because I was under the law. Now, did I know I was under the law? I didn’t know it was I didn’t pay attention to it. But it still was true. I was under a death penalty. I was still empty inside. I didn’t know it was because I was dead spiritually. But I sure knew I was empty spiritually, even though I went to church on Sunday and gave my dollar a week. If I felt generous that week. So you can play church over here. And you can be aware of your emptiness over here. Why? Because the Scripture tells us that the purpose of the law is to manifest your sinfulness and to show you that you are sinful and to show you that there is a consequence for sin called death, and you are dead spiritually and in need of spiritual life. That’s the purpose of the law. Not to use it as a standard of holiness because you cannot keep it but to show you your death. Death is final. It’s bad. There’s no spiritual life over here. I mean, you can play church, don’t get me wrong. You can play church, you can dress up and go to church every Sunday. You can you can give tithes offerings. You can play religion. In fact, that’s what Satan gets you to do. Satan says I sure the heck I’m not gonna teach you that you’re dead and there’s spiritual life available to you. So I’ll teach how to be religious. Teach you how to go to church, teach how to dress up, look good. Teach how to lie spiritually. I can teach you how to evangelize I can teach you anything. You can be taught anything but your dead. It’s not the case of how bad you are, or how good you are. It’s how dead you are. It’s all through the scripture, the wages of sin is what? Death. Sin shall not be your master, which means when you’re under the law, sin is your master. He’s your owner. You’re just like a slave with an owner, a mean one that takes you and manipulates us. coerces in every way, shape or form came just wanting to steal and destroy and kill. That’s Satan. That’s your land over there.
Now, what is salvation guys? Oh, you’ve sinned, you need your sins forgiven. You know, we’ve never gone beyond that. So you’ve sinned and you need your sins forgiven that salvation to this day? That is the major teaching in Christendom. That all you need is to get your sins forgiven. Why? Because basically, are you a good person. No, you’re dead. You’re a stinking corpse dead. I don’t care how nice you look. I don’t care what kind of spiritual perfume and deodorant you put on your dead. And we said, oh, no, no, no, no, I got to be politically correct. That’s not very nice to say about those sweet people. I mean there is some nice people. That’s, yeah, they’re dead. Yeah, they’re probably some nice corpses around, but they’re dead. And we have to understand this is what God had to come to do. Not just to take away your sins. Your sins are what caused your death. So if I didn’t take away what caused it, qhy would I give you life? Because if it didn’t take away what caused it, and it gave me a life, the next time you said you’d be dead again, I had to free you guys from that whole realm. Over here, the whole realm that you live in the whole realm of it, under the control, prisoner locked up until what? Faith in Christ should be revealed. Now guys, who in a world is going to be capable of taking you out of that state of death into life? Is Buddha gonna do it? Is Mohammed gonna do it? Is any man that you know gonna do it? These people that get up and say, Oh, well, this religion is their bull. Religion, all of it is junk, all of it, including the Christian religion, if that’s all you have is religion. It’s all what he says, dung compared to that of what? Knowing the only one whose life was capable of being laid down, totally taking away the sins of the whole world, not covering them, taking them away, and was raised from the dead, so that you and I could be raised from the dead. New citizenship.
As an example, you have, let’s say we have a map and of the United States. And at the lower end of that map, do we have that map? On the computer? On the yeah, there it is, on the southern end is Mexico, Northern end Canada. Now, let’s say that you were born in Mexico, and in Mexico, and again, these are just examples. In Mexico, it’s a tough life. You got a tyrant that’s your master and he reigns, does he not as long as you’re there he reigns. But one day somebody comes and comes and gets you, as we showed last week with James and his wife, and picks you up and moves you over to Graceland. You’re no longer over here. And that’s why it says you used to live there shall sin. If we if we died to sin, shall we live in it anymore? You don’t live there anymore. You don’t live under the sin principle. God, folks is not dealing with you as a born again, believer. And James, I wish you guys who just get up move again. Will you do that for me? In fact, let’s all of you move out of there. Let all of you who are born again, move out of there. And what I’m saying is you’re out all under the law. So when you move you’re moving out of the law. So get out of there. Empty that place out. You’re over here now. In Graceland, and I can see you better too. Now you got one couple back there that wants to stay dead. And if they want to stay dead, that’s their choice. But you’re dead under the law. And if you stay there You’re gonna go where you want to go. Because you don’t want to go to Graceland, you want to stay under the law dead. And you got a privilege, you got the right to do that. And you got a choice to do that. But to those who said, no, no, I want to live, I don’t want to live under that law kills me. I want to live under grace. I want to be led internally by the Spirit of God. And now they’re over here, brand new, brand new place, they’ve moved down to Mexico. And now they live in the United States. And in the United States, you can choose many, many places to live. That’s why they call it the United States is because it’s states that are united one to another. And even though different states can have different laws, they’re all under the one law called America, the United States of what? America. You are now children of the living God. You are now not a Baptist, or Presbyterian or Methodist, your identity isn’t where you park your body on Sundays or Saturdays. Your identity is who you are. You’ve been made into a new creation. You’re over here now. You’re no longer over there. Now, you say, Well, I can Can I go back? No, you can’t go back. You absolutely cannot go back any more than a caterpillar can go back or butterfly can go back to being a caterpillar. Okay, he’s a new creation. But you can visit close by. And that’s what a lot of Christians do. They say, Well, I know I can’t go back. I’m gonna sit on this aisle right over here. We’re Jean as close as I can get to the law but realizing that No, I’m not under it. But I’m close to it. Because it was my friend. Heaven forbid, heaven forbid.
Now let’s read this. Shall we go on sinning so the grace may increase? In other words, it says where the law is. Grace increases where sin increases, Grace increases all a more. So he said, well, then should we go on sinning? So this grace can increase? Said by no means you died to sin? You’re over here. You died where you lived. That’s sin and death over here. Guys, do you realize that God is no longer dealing with you on the basis of sin and death? Do you realize that he’s not dealing with you on the basis of sin? Not if you’re over here. You say, God, I did it again. He said did want again? Well, the sin that I committed yesterday, it’s been taken away. Well, the sin I’m gonna commit tomorrow, it’s been taken away. What do you come to me for? For the sin issue? I’ve dealt with it. I dealt with a 2000 years ago, I dealt with it at the cross. Your sins were judged. The verdict was guilty. The punishment was death. And I took it all. That’s why there’s none left for you. That’s why it says in the Bible, there is now no condemnation awaiting you who belong to Christ Jesus. Well, why is that there any condemnation awaiting you? I deserve some condemnation. He said, That’s not the issue. The issue is, I’ve dealt with it. And I dealt with it in the most harsh way that I knew. I crucified my Son. So that that blood that was shed for you could be put on you, and you could be identified with him and it’s through that identification. Be free from sin.
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What’s the reign? What control does that have over you? The wages of sin is what? Death not enter that anymore. So offer your parts of your body as instruments don’t offer as instruments of wickedness. But rather offer yourselves to God is those who have been brought from death to life and offer parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. Why? Look in your Bibles, folks, that’s where you’re going to find this. Verse 14, For sin shall not be your master because you’re not under law, but under grace, meaning that if you’re under the law, sin is your master. When you say, Well, I know a lot of people that are under the law, but they share a nice acting people, I don’t care how nice they act. It’s not the issue. The issue, the Bible says that if you’re under the law, sin is your master, you’re being mastered by someone other than who came to master you. And that’s God.
Well, the next question that is asked is what then? Shall we sin? Because we’re not under the law, but under grace? In other words, if we’re no longer under the law, why should I just live it up? I mean, should I just go do everything that I used to do when I was under the law? He said, Hold on a minute, it appears to me that the reason you’re over here is because when you were over there, you said darn miserable, that you couldn’t stand it. And you were crying out. If I remember correctly, you’re crying out for help. So why would you want to go back to where you were crying out from help? Why do you want to go back to live a lifestyle that makes you so miserable, that you wanted to be saved to begin with? And see it to a degree, that it’s almost a thing of insanity, where you know what you’re doing doesn’t work, but you do it anyway. There’s a case in which a little bit of temporary insanity is going on there. But you’re not under the law. What shall we say? Because we’re not under the law, but under grace that we should go on sinning? By no means. Now, here’s what he’s saying. Don’t you know that when you offer yourself to someone to obey Him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey, whether you’re a slave to sin, which leads to death, or obedience, which leads to righteousness. But thanks be to God, though you used to be slaves to sin. Now, what made you a slave to sin? You were without the Spirit of God living in you. Who was the old man? Me. Who’s the old man? Bob George, without the Spirit of God living in me. What makes me different than I was? God lives in me. I live in him. That’s what makes me different. So over here, I was a slave to sin. You wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you are intrusted. But you’ve been set free from sin, you’ve moved, you’ve moved, you’re no longer over there. You’re over here, you’ve moved, and you will become slaves to righteousness. Now, he said, I put this in human terms, because you’re weak in your natural selves.
Now guys, he’s talking here to people who are Christians. And he said, You’re weak in your natural selves. So I’ll just What good do you think it does for you and me to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, and get ourselves all nicely cleansed up? He says, that ain’t gonna get it. Because you’re weak. So guys, do you think we’re ever going to grow in our knowledge of Christ to the point where we are sinless? Does anyone think that they will ultimately get to a point that’s what people who teach what progressive sanctification? That’s where if you just keep setting yourself apart, you’ll get to the point where you don’t even need Jesus anymore. How many of you in here are over 60? How many of you have been in the Lord say over 30 years? Over 60 and 30 years? How much better are you in your flesh? Well, I don’t cuss quite as much as they used to. And that’s about as good as you can do. Is I’m a little better and I used to be but I share I’m not what ought to be. Do you think shocks God? Do you think God looks down and say, Man, once you did that You shocked me? I didn’t know you were capable of that. Guys, do you realize that I don’t care whether you’ve been a Christian for a year or 100 years that you’re never going to get perfect except in His sight. Quit beating yourself up. Each and every one of us will have frailties until the day that we die. I tell people if you really want to get rid of this sin and you’re so concerned about pray for death, because that’s when it will happen. In the meantime, we live under what? The Grace and the mercy of God, wonderful grace of Jesus, greater than all my sin. That’s where we live. Always being grateful for the fact that God delivered me from there. over to here, that’s where I live. All people live a little differently. All people still have weaknesses. You we this is different than his years is different. Different weaknesses, different things, but we’re all alive in Christ. Is that good news guys? So he says, when you were slave to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness over here. You were absolutely free from righteousness. You were free, free from righteousness. And what benefit did you reap at that time from the things you’re now ashamed of?
Guys, so many times we fail to realize there’s repercussion. There’s repercussion to sin. You go out and you say, why would you teach a child that you’re better off just not to start drinking? Why? Because you could become an alcoholic. That’s why. And there’s one way to ensure in life that you’re never going to fall off of the ladder. You know what it is? Never get up on the ladder. To be you could turn into being controlled by something other than Jesus. You forfeit your body. And there’s guilt connected with that. And don’t tell me otherwise. There’s guilt connected with it. And so there’s repercussion with these, what benefit Did you reap at that time of these things, except the things you’re ashamed of? If you weren’t ashamed of you just pay I just did this last night, and I did this and it did this would be ashamed of. Those things result in death. But now that you have been freed from sin, and it becomes slaves to God, the benefits you reap leads to holiness. And the result is eternal life. For now, look at this guys, and then we’ll close the wages of sin is what? Death. But the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Again, transferred from the law, and its demands upon us, held prisoner by it, under the control of it. And God lifted you up and delivered you over into Graceland. You leave behind what killed you. Remember what Paul said, it’s through the law that I died to the law. Now, if you’re lost, you belong over here. Because the law hasn’t done its work yet. The law is not for the righteous, the law is for the unrighteous to show you your need for righteousness. Now, if you’re over here, then you’re free. But if you’re over here, you’re under it. So don’t, God didn’t abolish the law. Not for this, not for the lost. It’s as applicable today as it’s ever been. That’s why we have supposedly why used to be able to have them at the courthouse. Every law that we have in this land comes from those 10. It’s for the lost it’s to show you you’re a sinner, so that you’ll turn to Christ for your salvation. But guys, you’ve got to go free you cannot be free commingling these two, you cannot be free visiting over here getting as close to that realm as possible.
And the more legalistic that you are as a Christian, the more closer you are to that isleway can’t get over there, but you may as well be there because you’re dominated by it. dead to the law, alive to Christ. Anything wrong with the law guys? No, Paul said nothing wrong with the law. It’s holy and good. What’s the problem with the law? Well it flows through me. It does what? Kills you, doesn’t get you out of fellowship. doesn’t get you out of relationship. Doesn’t mean it Gods turned his back on you will get all that stuff. If God spins around up there like he’s on the top, it’s death. And in your own mind, if you hang into that law long enough, you will forget all about the fact that you’re living over here in Graceland. And law again will dominate your life. If you let it can’t I mean, it’s, you’re not under it. But in your mind, it could dominate you. So go free, go free. And let Jesus Christ lead you and guide you and direct you.
We’re gonna be celebrating Thanksgiving. And guys, I hope that as we celebrate this season of Thanksgiving, that our minds go further than just the freedom that we have in America. Thank God for the freedom but it’s being threatened. Thank God, we’ve got freedom. But that’s not the freedom that you and I are rejoicing in. I am rejoicing in the fact that I’ve been made free in Christ, you’ve been set free by brothers, that says, don’t use your freedom to indulge the flesh. But use your freedom to serve one another and love to serve one another, to be thankful. So when Thanksgiving dinner is served, I trust that you’re not going to gobble up all the food before the rest of the people get there. To serve one another love. And that’s what that season is all about thanking God for this provision of grace that some will never take advantage of. But those of us that have, do you realize how privileged we are? How unbelievably privileged we are. We sometimes forget it. But guys, don’t forget it. It’s the privilege that God has given us a being able to say, God is my daddy. He’s the one I crawl up in his lap. And call him daddy. Father.
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