Radio Broadcast Tuesday 02/07/2023

Classic Christianity – The Book of John P02 (02-07-23)

We Are Under the NEW Covenant of Grace Not the Old Covenant of the Law

~ “For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.” ^{Hebrews 9:15}

~ Thank God, He is NOT counting my sins against me!

~ “And we’re told in Hebrews. Let me just read, it’s hard to read when you’re in the wrong chapter, Hebrews 9:15, do you want to turn to it. For this reason He is the mediator of a New Covenant in order that since a death had taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of in eternal inheritance. For where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it. So what did Jesus have to do before he got usher in a New Covenant, a new agreement between God and man. Had to die. And when he died, he ushered in a New Covenant. Is that a covenant of the law or a covenant of grace? It’s a covenant of grace, where he says their sins and lawless acts, I will remember no more. And were these not have or will be, but have been forgiven, there’s no longer any what?, sacrifice or sins. Put aside your Day of Atonement, put aside your confession booth, there is no more forgiveness of sins. He has done it once. He’s done it for all. And by that one offering He has made forever, perfect or complete in the sight of God, all of you whom he has made holy.”

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Bob George 0:29
Folks, I know full well, there’s people sitting in here who knows what this Bible says, but have never internalized it, what it means. And until you come to grips with this is what the Bible says. And if this is what the Bible says, and this is what the Bible means. And that means that I was a sinner that had to have my sins taken away, and that my forgiveness is not dependent upon my ability to go to a priest, or to go through beads, or to First John one nine, or to go get rebaptised. But my forgiveness is because of Christ Jesus, it didn’t have anything to do with me at all. That’s my doctrine. And that is the doctrine that Paul proclaimed, they all got crucified for. Because people don’t want to hear that. So people know what it says, teaching. But what it means is doctrine. And you and I need to have doctrine. We can’t ignore doctrine.

I got people go around, say, Oh, just tell Jesus loves you. I will tell you folks that aren’t gonna get it. That isn’t gonna get because Jesus love for you did something for you. He took away the thing that kept you from God, and that’s sin, and He took it away at the cross. And He was raised from the dead so that you and I could have life in him. That’s doctrine.

So you’ve got second Timothy 3:16. All scripture is given by inspiration of God. Now I’ll asked another question, is all scripture applicable to you today? How come? And again, I see some people and we’ve been sitting here for years going, and others. Now, which is it? How many of you go kill a bull and goat to get your sins forgiven? Did they do that in the Old Testament? Are you doing it today? Then is all scripture applicable today? Unh-uh. And have any of you eat pork? Did they in the Old Testament? No. How come you’re eatin it today? Are we under an old dispensation or a new dispensation? And when did that New Covenant go into effect? Another thing guys to get into your head as strong as horseradish. When did it go into effect? On the day the Christ died, Hebrews nine.

And we’re told in Hebrews. Let me just read, it’s hard to read when you’re in the wrong chapter, Hebrews 9:15, do you want to turn to it. For this reason He is the mediator of a New Covenant in order that since a death had taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of in eternal inheritance. For where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it. So what did Jesus have to do before he got usher in a New Covenant, a new agreement between God and man. Had to die. And when he died, he ushered in a New Covenant. Is that a covenant of the law or a covenant of grace? It’s a covenant of grace, where he says their sins and lawless acts, I will remember no more. And were these not have or will be, but have been forgiven, there’s no longer any what?, sacrifice or sins. Put aside your Day of Atonement, put aside your confession booth, there is no more forgiveness of sins. He has done it once. He’s done it for all. And by that one offering He has made forever, perfect or complete in the sight of God, all of you whom he has made holy. Is that true or not? Now, do you know what that means? What does that mean? You have been made what? Holy. Now if God has made you holy, and we sing, Holy, Holy, Holy. If God has made you set apart, holy means sanctified, set apart, how set apart, are you? If God did it? Now, allow me to ask you another question. Have any of you improved upon God’s nature? You’re not going to improve upon what God has done, are you? So if he has done it and accomplished it, what is the only conclusion that you can come to? I have been made by God set apart once and for all. If he’s done something, can you improve on it? So how much sense does it make for us to go out and try to make ourselves more holy? And when we’re going out trying to make ourselves more holy, many times, by the way we dress or the way we look, or the way we act, or whatever it might be, and we’re trying to make ourselves that’s why we’re doing it is to make ourselves look more holy. What in essence, are we doing? What in essence, are we doing? You’re saying that he didn’t complete it, he didn’t finish it. That’s in essence or is that faith? That’s faith in you. But is it a faith in him? No. So guys, do you see how important it is to recognize the difference between what is taught and what teaching is? And what the conclusion is to what has been taught, called doctrine? Are we together on this guys, do we understand this? So all scripture is given by inspiration of God is profitable for teaching. What is it teaches when we study the Old Testament? How they lived prior to the cross. You know what the Old Testament is? It’s a book of man’s failure, and of God’s faithfulness. Great is thy faithfulness comes right out of the Old Testament great is thy faithfulness, in the midst of man fallen down and continually fallen down is the faithfulness of God. Do you believe that? How many of you believe that you can out sin God? How many have tried? Okay. You’re not going to out sin God. There is no man good enough to be accepted by God because of his works. And there’s no man bad enough to be rejected because of his. Is that truth or not? Now, what would be application of that? Well, if you’re sitting there thinking of out sinning, God, you’re wrong. You have an out sined God, I’ve gone too far have crossed the line. No, you haven’t. There is no line. There is no line. The issue is that at any time in a man’s life when he sees comes to his senses, and sees God, God will take him in to the family, adopting into the family.

I thought it was quite interesting this week, as we’ve observed, President Reagan’s funeral through this week, it’s been a very touching time, very touching time for me watching it is very touching the other day of watching Michael Regan, the adopted son, who knows the Lord Jesus, and who testified about not the big guy upstairs, but about Jesus, and testified by name about Jesus, as the adopted son, and the regulars are still in the process. So you’ve got, we’ve got something we’ve been adopted into the family of God. Now in the Old Testament, do you realize that you can never turn back an adopted child? You can never give away an adopted child, once you adopted a child, it’s yours forever. And we’ve been adopted into the family of God. Is that a doctrine? Well, the statement is not doctrine. But do you believe it to be true? And would you stand today and say that I am an adopted child of God, and nothing can separate me from the love of God? Then it’s your doctrine. It’s your doctrine. You’ve applied it personally to your life.

Now, let’s get into what the Bible is talking about in regard to this person that we know of is Jesus. And one of the reasons that I wanted to go back to the book of John is to go back to Jesus, we’ve talked through doctrine, and we’ve talked through a lot of the book of Romans and this type of thing. I thought, it’s time to get back to just Jesus, and just to get refreshed in knowing him again. So let’s begin in John 1:1.

It’s interesting that in the first book of John, that it begins the same way as Genesis In the beginning, God, that’s Genesis. In the beginning, God, before all things were there was God. Who else is there? Or how is God formed? It says, In the beginning was the Word. And here’s what we know about the word. It was in the beginning. The Word was with God. And the Word was God. And He was with God in the beginning. Now, what do we know about the word through this? What do we know about that? Anybody? What? Well, we don’t know that yet. But we’re gonna we’re gonna we’ll get into that. But But again, just from this, now that we’re this is what the Bible says, see. Now, if you don’t read a further, you know what it says, don’t you? But if you didn’t know what you know, today, would you 100% know what that meant yet? If you didn’t know what this meant, by just reading this, would you know what it meant? Not necessarily. You’d know that in the beginning was the Word the Word was with God, and the Word was God, you say, Well, it’s kind of like, then there was God. And then somebody was with him. Isn’t that kind of what you would get if somebody was with him? And then he turns around, said, No, He is God. And you say what? He was with God, but He is God. Are we talking in human terms here, guys? I don’t think so. I don’t think so. He was with God in the beginning.

Now let’s go ahead through him, the word who was with God, and was God. So through him all things were made and without him, nothing was made. Now we’re identifying this, the word as a person, a him. So through him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made, in Him was life, and that life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. There came a man who was sent from God, his name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him, all men might believe. So the through this word all men my believe. He himself is not the light, John’s not the light, he came only as a witness to the light, the true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world. He was in the world. And though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, though to those who believed in his name, now, he not only is him but believed that his name, he’s now got a name, became the right gave the right to become a child of God. Now it’s saying, not a child born of natural descent, not a child born of mom and dad, nor of a human decision or a husband’s will, doesn’t say a woman’s will, husbands will, but born of God, in other words, not a baby that’s produced by mom and dad. It’s not talking about that. But a person born of God. So he’s telling us right now that there’s two births, isn’t there? There’s a physical birth that comes from mom and dad. And then there’s this birth, that comes from God, two births. Now we’re gonna learn something about the Word, the Word became, what? flesh, and dwelt and made his dwelling among us. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only who came from the Father full of grace, and truth.

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Bob George 15:09
John testifies concerning him, he cries out saying, this is he of whom I said, He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me. Now I couldn’t be talking about physical age because John was born before Jesus. From the fullness of His grace, we have all received one blessing after another for the law was given through Moses. grace and truth came through now he’s got a name, guys, who is it? Jesus Christ, in the beginning, was the word. We could also substitute because we now, now again, this is where doctrine is coming in. Do you all agree? Who the word is? Is Jesus, he’s now been identified the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us. There’s no one else that did that. That’s Jesus. So you could literally go back if you wanted to, in the beginning was Jesus. And Jesus was with God, and Jesus was God. Now, what do we know now about Jesus? He’s what? Yeah, but God is with God. What do we know now? God was with God. What do we know now about God? There’s a plurality, do we not? There must be a plurality someplace down the line. Remember, in Genesis, Let us make man in our image? Who’s the our? Let us go and confuse their language. Who’s the US? There’s a plurality? Did the Old Testament saints understand that? No. Did they know what it said? Was their scripture profitable for teaching what it said? Did they have a clue what it meant? No, did not know what it meant. But they knew what it said. You see the again the difference between teaching and doctrine. And knowing what something means. So Jesus, it’s declared to be God, and yet it declares He was with God. Now there again, is where the teaching or the doctrine of the Trinity came from, that you and I ascribe to today, we are also taught in a scripture where it says that the Holy Spirit was identified as God. Remember what what Peter said to Ananias and Sapphira, you have not only lied to man, but you’ve lied to God, you lied to the Holy Spirit identified the Holy Spirit is God. So you’ve got a declaration in the Bible, of Jesus declaring himself to be God, the Father declaring Jesus are declaring himself to be God and the Holy Spirit declaring himself to be God. In the Scripture, you will have where Jesus said, I will raise myself from the dead and other place that says, God raised Him from the dead and other place that said, The Father raised Him from the dead. Now that being said, the Holy Spirit raised Him from the dead. He wasn’t raised four times was he? There all talking about God. You’re talking about the Trinity, the three in one. Now, the confusion that we run into with this is we forget, we fail to realize or to comprehend that God is Spirit, and you must worship Him in spirit and in truth. So what is the spirit look like? We don’t have a clue what’s a wind look like? He’s just said, you know where it comes from knows where it going. But you don’t have a clue. It looks like you can see the effects of but you don’t know what it looks like. It’s the same thing. We don’t know what spirit looks like, and so quit putting flesh and blood on it. The Spirit God exists as God the Father, God, the Son, and God, the Holy Spirit, all three and yet says there’s only one God. And again, those are statements. What is doctrine? That the three are one. It’s not a one plus one plus one equals three, but a one times one times one equals one. Are we together? That’s where the doctrine of the Trinity came from.

Now, I want to ask you a question. Are there people who do not believe that? Do those people know what the Bible says? Do they know that the Bible is profitable for teaching? Yeah. But what they understand in the teaching is not what you and I understand. Now, which is true. My understanding, or the Word of God? Do you think that God meant what he said and said what he meant? God didn’t just say something with no meaning to it. He has meaning to a doesn’t he. He wants us to know what it means and he says the only way that you can know what it means is If I reveal what it means, remember when it says no man knows what another man is thinking except the Spirit of God that lives in him. I don’t have a clue what you’re thinking right now, probably a good thing was. And you can do that you can sit there and talk to somebody and look at you just shake their head not hear a word you say just numb. And that’s true. I don’t know what you’re thinking, except your spirit knows what you’re thinking. It goes on to say in the same way, identically the same way. No one knows what God is thinking except his Spirit. Now you say, Hold on a minute. If I don’t know what Jim’s thinking, only a spirit knows what he’s thinking that way. I don’t know what he’s thinking. And in the same way, gonna be God’s Spirit knows what he’s thinking, how am I going to know what God’s thinking? And it goes ahead, say, keep reading. God didn’t give you a spirit of the world. He gave us a Spirit, His own Spirit so that we can know and comprehend those things that God has free to give you. So God gave you His Spirit living in you, so that you and I can comprehend what the Spirit is teaching, and what the meaning is of the Word of God that we hold in our hands today. And there is no other way for us to understand the meaning apart from the Spirit of God revealing it to you. Now, what are some of the substitutes for that? Bob, what do you believe? Well, I believe that that’s what I believe. Billy, what do you believe? I believe that’s what I believe. Baptists, what do you believe? I believe this, that’s what I believe. Presbyterians, what do you believe that I believe I believe that’s what I believe. You don’t believe anything, you just believe what someone else believe. And folks want to hear there, no grandchildren and God’s economy. There’s only children, there aren’t any grandkids. And God does not want you to believe what the Baptists believe or what People to People believe or what Bob believes, or Billy believes, or anyone else, he wants you to believe what you believe. And he says, the only way that you’re going to have your confidence in what you believe is when you allow the Spirit of God who lives in you to teach you the meaning of this word. And apply it personally to your life walking out of here, strong as horseradish saying, brother, this is what the Spirit of God has taught me about God, and about me. And I can say no is seen or ears can see. There is no intellect that can replace the revelation of the Spirit.

God said there are people who would pay all kinds of things to know what you know. And you know, that’s true, you’ve got guys with more degrees than a thermometer, that don’t have a clue what you know, or the wisdom that you have because of dependency upon the Spirit of God living in you to reveal the meaning of his word to you. And so we are possessed by something of such a magnitude that we can’t even get our arms around. He’s called the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of God indwells you and it says that we literally have the mind of Christ living in us, we have the divine nature of Christ living in as an it says we have the ability to participate in that divine nature. Now, can I also participate in my fleshly nature? Anybody do that, if I have ever done it? see your hands. Yeah, we’ve all done, okay. Is that a choice. I can choose to listen to my flesh. And every time I do, I’m going to be in trouble. Or I can choose to listen to the Spirit of God who lives in me and to participate in that divine nature that lives in me and participate in that listen to yield to it. Or I can listen to my flesh. Paul says there’s a war that’s going on between the flesh and the spirit, conflict with each other all the time. But he said the only way to conquer the desires of the flesh is by learning how to walk in truth in the Spirit. The only way.

So, John testified. This is the one who comes after me. He’s greater than I am. From the fullness of His grace, we have all received one blessing after another for the law was given through Moses and grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Now folks I ask another question, because all these are important to know. Was their law before Moses? Was there their law before Moses, where’s one example where law was? In the Garden of Eden. Of all these trees, you can eat anything you want? said the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and that the day you eat thereof, you’ll surely die. There was law and there was punishment, you cannot separate the law from the punishment of the law. So there was law in the Garden of Eden was there also grace in the Garden of Eden. And that’s where God clothed them with his own clothing, not the ones that Adam and Eve it’s sowed fig leaves together.

But the law, the law that was given to Moses, for the people of Israel, came through Moses. And the grace of God in its fullness, fully recognizable now came through Christ Jesus, our Lord. And there’s a dividing line between the law and grace that we live in today. Now, we’re told that no one has ever seen God, but God, the One and Only who was at the father’s side, now, there again, that’s Jesus. And how is he identified here, as God, the One and Only who is at the father’s side. Now there again, you’re hearing about God and now you hear God the Father has made him known. Now, this was John’s testimony, testimony when the Hebrews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levi’s to ask him who he was. And he did not fail to confess but confess freely, I am not the Christ now of Christ is the Greek word for Messiah. And so he is saying, I am not the Messiah. I’m not the Christ, I’m not the Messiah. So they ask him, then who are you? Are you Elijah? He said, No, I’m not. Are you a prophet? That No. And finally, they said, Well, who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us the Pharisees and the Sadducees. What do you say about yourself? John replied, in the words of Isaiah the prophet, I’m a voice of the one calling in the wilderness or in the desert, make straight the way of the Lord.

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