Radio Broadcast Tuesday 06/04/2024

Classic Christianity – Book of Hebrews P114 (06-04-24)

Listen to The Holy Spirit For Teaching Truth and Exposing Satan’s Lies

~ Today, we as a children of God (for all those in Christ Jesus are children of God), have the Holy Spirit living in us. He wants to teach you ALL Truth today. We live in a world that is upside down. Everything is directly against God. Even the teaching of most church pastors today are teaching the lies of Satan. And one of the biggest lies is that of ongoing forgiveness by God. Satan loves to make you think that you can get more forgiveness today from God simply by asking for it. And of course, it doesn’t stop there, it continues on with more lies on top of that big one. Anyone sitting in a building today, listening to a pastor teach lies, when they themselves know the TRUTH of the word of God on the finality of the cross, are being taught and brainwashed by Man instead of being taught by God on a weekly basis. They should get up and leave, or at the very least, call the pastor out on his false teaching of self righteousness. For that is what it is, a form of self righteousness, thinking that you can either keep yourself clean in front of God, or get yourself clean by thinking that you are somehow repenting of all your sins when you first receive Jesus. Got news for you, no one has ever repented of all of their sins, no one. That is another lie of Satan, the teaching of repenting from sins. And you know that people who believe this are hypocrites themselves. They act all holier-than-thou.

Details Matter in everything. Start paying attention to the details in the word of God. Don’t allow your mind to be polluted by the teaching of man and the things of this world, when you know the Truth of the word of God. Be a Truth Teller today. Let the Holy Spirit teach you ALL TRUTH. And allow the Holy Spirit to direct all your paths. If God wants you to speak, speak. If God wants you to remain quiet, remain quiet. But don’t wrongly think God wants you being taught lies on a weekly basis without so much as a mention of it. That is NOT faith. That is simply dumb thinking based on how your flesh feels about certain things. Don’t forget, our flesh has been programmed by the things of this world. It’s time to have our minds renewed completely by the word of God and stop listening to the flesh and polluting your mind.

So the question comes down to, Where are you going to park yourself to learn more about the grace of God? Is it in your current church setting that is teaching known lies? Or is going to be by being taught by the Holy Spirit? It’s your decision.

~ Hebrews 12:1-17

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons:

“My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord,
and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.

For the Lord disciplines the one He loves,
and He chastises every son He receives.”

Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?

Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness. No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.

Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees. Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.

Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many. See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright. For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He could find no ground for repentance, though he sought the blessing with tears.^{Hebrews 12:1-17}

Pray to God:

“Lord Jesus, teach me the truth of the world today and give me the wisdom to know the truth and identify the lies of the devil. Thank you God.”

~ “Now, he also equates that with Esau, which is kind of interesting, because we say what’s Esau have to do with all that? And he’s talking about who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son. And afterwards as you know, when he wanted to inherit a blessing, he was rejected and he could bring about no change of mind though he sought the blessing in tears. Now, let’s turn back to that story. Yeah, Genesis 25. Beginning in verse 19. It says, this is the account of Abraham’s son Isaac. Verse 21, said Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was barren and the Lord answered his prayer. And his wife, Rebecca became pregnant. And the babies jostled each other within her and she said, what is happening to me? Right, we’ve got a bunch of our staff wondering that right now, I think. So she went to inquire of the Lord the Lord said to her, Two nations are in your womb, the two peoples from within we’ll be separated one people will be stronger than the other and the older will serve the younger. You see, that’s out of sync as the way God made things. The younger always served the older in this particular case, he said no, the older is going to serve the younger. When it came time for her to give birth and they were twin boys in her womb. The first one came out was red and his whole body was like a hairy garment. He was a hairy kid. So they called him Esau. Which means hairy. Very original, the naming of the kids and after that his brother came out with his hand grasping Esau’s heel and he was named Jacob. And That word literally means grasping the heel or figuratively it means he’s a deceiver. Interesting isn’t it. Now Isaac was 60 years old when Rebecca gave birth to them. Now, when the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, the man of open country while Jacob was a quiet man, staying among the tents. And Isaac, the father. He had this taste for this wild game man, he was a macho guy. I mean, he was, if you were to see him today, he had been his pickup and his rifle in the back and his dog. I mean, he’s macho and you know, the candle Lone Star in the hand and driving along there, and all that kind of stuff. So he liked that outdoor stuff. And so he loved Esau because that was kind of guy he saw was he was an outdoors rugged guy. He also liked his pickup and the hunting and then the cowboy hat and beer and everything. But Rebecca, she loved Jacob. The mother loved Jacob. The father he liked Oh, hairy. He was rugged and tough, but this is Jacob he just kind of you know, he didn’t like that stuff, he liked staying at home, play music. He also seemed like to cook. So when, when Jacob was cooking some stew Esau came in from the open country famished and he said to Jacob, quick, let me have some of that ribs stew, I’m famished and that’s also why he was called Edom, because again was red. Now Jacob replied, first, sell me your birthright.”

— “I had a young kid that I knew and the church that we were in, he was wild as a March hair. And grew up in the church, his mom was a church worker, and high visibility and everything else and, and this kid went down to, went down to school and man, he, he drank more booze, than I think that there was available and then everything that there was to do down there. And later on, I and can remember, this woman, she didn’t like what I was doing, because of competing, what what what she was doing, but she asked me if I would counsel with her son, and we did. And began to share with him about Christ. And it was within a number of weeks that this young man finally came to the Lord. Now he had thought he was Christian. He had walked aisles and everything, but he didn’t know the Lord from a spook. And so so he finally came to relationship with a living Christ. And I can remember him calling back one time and saying, Bob, I’m having real problem as to where I should, what I should do, should I go back to school where I was, or? Or should I go stay here? Or what should I, I don’t know what to do. And I see as all this confusion, I said to him, I said, I want to ask a question. Where do you think you could go and grow the most in the Lord? Not where, you get a better education or anything else? Where do you need to be in order to grow in your knowledge of the grace of God? Where would that be? Do you think it’s back where you were? Do you think you can grow? No, not hardly. And I said, Why don’t get by takes care of the decision, then. Doesn’t it? Do you think you can grow here? Oh, yeah. Yeah, this is where I could grow spiritually here. I said, I don’t know. I don’t know what the question is. He said, I don’t either. And that was his decision was where am I going to go where I can grow the most in the Lord Jesus. There’s your decision, not where I can make the most money, where I can grow the most in the Lord Jesus. And came, grew in the Lord Jesus Christ today is a young man that is dedicated in his own life to serving the Lord.” ~ Bob George

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I cannot comprehend as a man if I was living with somebody ever telling anybody about it, for the sake of the woman. I can’t imagine doing that. For the sake of respect for the woman itself. I wouldn’t want anyone to know that I was living with somebody because of what it would make her look like. We have come from so far. In this world today. We’ve come so far downwards. America used to be a leader looked at as a world leader. Well, we are again, we lead the world in crime. We lead the world in pornography production. We lead the world in AIDS. We lead the world in probably homosexual promiscuity. We lead the world a lot of things. And we have literally digressed and digressed and digress. And every bit of this, my friends started at the same place that sin started. And that was in the Garden of Eden, with man looking at the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and saying, God, I know more than you do. I know what’s right, and I know what’s wrong. You see today, what we’re interested in is not what is right and wrong. But that I have my rights because I’ve been wrong. That’s the whole emphasis. Everyone’s got rights. And the whole emphasis of the world is in special interest groups that have rights. And so all of a sudden, if you’d like to have sex a certain way you got rights. You sit there and say, What is going on here? What’s going on? What kind of an environment are we producing for our kids and their grandkids? What kind of a jungle are we creating, for our kids to grow up in? Where school teachers are scared to death to go to school. And they live in fear in classrooms are getting attacked and beat up or raped or whatever it might be in schools, where policemen are scared to go on their job. You say what kind of a world have we apart from God created? They take a look at it. And you’ll see. You see when the Bible says to to us, and again we is the problem with this, my friends is we have Christians have gone right along with this whole thing. And instead of us being set apart, we have brought in and integrated all of the philosophies of the world and become no different. And why he is saying to us to be set apart is because if we’re not set apart, how’s anyone going to know that there’s still a right and wrong? And so what he is he is saying to us here in the scripture that see to it that we’re that no one is sexually immoral. It’s saying set, you’re a child of God do things in proper order.

Now, he also equates that with Esau, which is kind of interesting, because we say what’s Esau have to do with all that? And he’s talking about who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son. And afterwards as you know, when he wanted to inherit a blessing, he was rejected and he could bring about no change of mind though he sought the blessing in tears. Now, let’s turn back to that story. Yeah, Genesis 25. Beginning in verse 19. It says, this is the account of Abraham’s son Isaac. Verse 21, said Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was barren and the Lord answered his prayer. And his wife, Rebecca became pregnant. And the babies jostled each other within her and she said, what is happening to me? Right, we’ve got a bunch of our staff wondering that right now, I think. So she went to inquire of the Lord the Lord said to her, Two nations are in your womb, the two peoples from within we’ll be separated one people will be stronger than the other and the older will serve the younger. You see, that’s out of sync as the way God made things. The younger always served the older in this particular case, he said no, the older is going to serve the younger. When it came time for her to give birth and they were twin boys in her womb. The first one came out was red and his whole body was like a hairy garment. He was a hairy kid. So they called him Esau. Which means hairy. Very original, the naming of the kids and after that his brother came out with his hand grasping Esau’s heel and he was named Jacob. And That word literally means grasping the heel or figuratively it means he’s a deceiver. Interesting isn’t it. Now Isaac was 60 years old when Rebecca gave birth to them. Now, when the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, the man of open country while Jacob was a quiet man, staying among the tents. And Isaac, the father. He had this taste for this wild game man, he was a macho guy. I mean, he was, if you were to see him today, he had been his pickup and his rifle in the back and his dog. I mean, he’s macho and you know, the candle Lone Star in the hand and driving along there, and all that kind of stuff. So he liked that outdoor stuff. And so he loved Esau because that was kind of guy he saw was he was an outdoors rugged guy. He also liked his pickup and the hunting and then the cowboy hat and beer and everything. But Rebecca, she loved Jacob. The mother loved Jacob. The father he liked Oh, hairy. He was rugged and tough, but this is Jacob he just kind of you know, he didn’t like that stuff, he liked staying at home, play music. He also seemed like to cook. So when, when Jacob was cooking some stew Esau came in from the open country famished and he said to Jacob, quick, let me have some of that ribs stew, I’m famished and that’s also why he was called Edom, because again was red. Now Jacob replied, first, sell me your birthright.

Now guys in the under the law of God. And under the Hebrew law, the First Born had two thirds of the birthright. In other words, when inheritance was passed on, two thirds of the inheritance was always passed on to the firstborn son, and then the rest to the rest. So he was to be the leader of the flock, it was a natural progression that the oldest son would take over when the father died. And he would be the supervisor and then when he died, it would be passed on and on. And so the birthright the natural birthright was to the older son. And, and Esau was the first one to come out. And then Jacob was hanging on to his heel that called the deceiver, which we’ll see in a minute. And so Jacob there who was cooking up the stew, he had the restaurant going, and he wasn’t gonna sell oh, Esau anything, he wasn’t gonna give him any food until he sold him his birthright. He said, first tell me your birthright. He is pretty conniving wasn’t he? And, and so here’s what we saw, say, Look, I’m about to die, if I don’t get some food, and I’m gonna, I’m gonna perish right here on the spot. And what good is the birthright to me? And so Jacob said, Well Swear to me first. In other words, make a commitment on that, swear on your word, that this is what you’re going to do. And so, you know, Esau man, he had no problem with him, he sworn an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob, for a bowl of soup. And so Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. And he ate it and drank and then he got up and left back, back after the woods and he’s going back out hunting. And so Esau that says, despised his birth right. Now, what did what did all Esau do there? Well, he sacrificed did he not? He sacrificed something that was his for some instant gratification. He, his deal was I don’t care what’s going to happen in the future. That’s irrelevant. I’m hungry right now. And so if I get some food what’s birthright mean to me inheritance, man, that’s way down the line. I want some food right now. Does that sound familiar? In other words, he took for granted what he had. And and, you know, that is such a typical thing for us, isn’t it? We take for granted what we have. We have a wonderful wife, a wonderful husband, we have kids. We take them for granted. The grass always looks greener over on the other side of the fence. And so, instead of living in appreciation for what we have, we’re always looking for something out there something that can give some instant gratification, without giving any thought at all as to what are the repercussions of this? What are the repercussions of it? You know when the scripture says to be quick to listen and slow to speak, you know why it says that? Because of the damage that we can do with what we speak. Isn’t it interesting that we go out and it takes our money and our time and our effort to build up a home and we can tear it down with our tongue. You can destroy an entire company with your tongue, you can destroy a family with your tongue. Has it entered your mind sometimes when you’re really want to say something. I mean, you’re really wanting to say something. And God says Shut up. And the reason he gave us one mouth and two ears is it said, Please use it proportionately. And do twice as much listening as you do talking. Because sometimes we need in our conversations to say is that that I’m about to say edifying, or is it tearing down? Which is it? Is it necessary for me to have to verbalize my viewpoint? Now that’s hard for us. It’s hard for me. And so but again, it’s what it’s what you’re talking about, is what I’m going to say worth tearing down my family for? Is what I’m going to say worth causing problems within my family? And our tongues can destroy more than we could ever dream in our lives. And that’s why James said it’s like a forest fire that we speak in a equates it with a forest fire that it can set a whole forest on fire by just what we say.

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And so when he’s talking, and we’re thinking along these lines, that that Esau’s problem was that he was looking for instant gratification. And we could look at that. And well that’s sexual instant gratification or that’s booze. Listen, there is instant gratification to speaking without thinking, makes you feel good. But it also tear somebody down. How encouraging Do you think it was to Jacob, to think that his father was so fond of Esau, and could have given a flip less about how good he cooks soup? You know, that’s what causes many times sibling rivalry is the fact that we begin to express an appreciation for one of the kids over and above the other. And it doesn’t take long for somebody to comprehend that maybe, you know, I’m kind of not in the best position sitting here may not be true, but it’s communicated. And I think you certainly see this in the in the case here, of this family we’re talking about that here was a father who liked the hunting and here was the son who liked all of these type of things, and that was kind of his favorite son. And all of a sudden Jacob was sitting there, wondering what to do with himself. We have to realize, guys that our tongue and what we say, can literally paralyze people. And that we need to ask God to renew our minds and to teach our minds truth. So that we can think before we speak. And to be able to say is what I’m about to say. edifying, encouraging, building up, or is what I’m about to say designed to tear down and destroy. You know, guys, when you’ve ruined your business or ruined your home, over what you’ve said to each other. And you’ll look back on those occasions and you see this thing that was out there just destroyed. It’s kind of like America. Oh, my God, what happened? I’ve never had anybody ever stand in front of me, that I was marrying with the idea that I hope I’m getting divorced someday. Everybody gets married with joy in their heart, anticipation in their heart that boy, this is it, this is going to be it. And you say what happens two years, five years later, what’s happened? Well, we’ve destroyed it with our tongue. Again, taken something and destroyed it with our tongue.

And so when, when we’re talking about these lessons that that God gives us, in this area of Esau, you see, instant gratification was more important than the big picture, the long term. And so he sacrificed the best for something good. You know, Good is the enemy of the Best. We have seen this, where a blessing is missing because of this. I see this in life. I see it in family, I see it in church. You see, you don’t have to have as an example. You don’t have to be a Christian, to have social programs going on. You don’t have to have a Christian to be able to organize a Mother’s Day out. You don’t have to be a Christian to have a potluck. You see, you can get all of that stuff out in the world that you want. The thing that can delineate is whether truth is coming to us or not. Because Christ alone is what TRUTH is. And we don’t sacrifice is we’ve talked to this about our own fellowship here. That we here are here because hopefully, of teaching truth. Because you’re sure not here for the social environment. And for all the programs that we have. And we’ll have sometimes person say Well, yeah, but you know, boy, what a marvelous youth program. Oh, really? Were you in it? Yeah. How did it do for you? You see. In other words, we’re looking for instant gratification for ourselves, for our kids for everything else instead of what is best. In this from God’s vantage point, what is best for us in this world. And you know, when it comes down to it, folks, it’s TRUTH. Being a baptist ain’t gonna do much for you when you’re in the backseat of the car. We are Presbyterian ain’t gonna do much for you when you’re a backseat of a car. Being a child and God might do something for you. But not something else. Singing in the choir isn’t gonna do much for you when you’re in that circumstance. Lord, should I go on well, your choir member arn’t you? See it isn’t gonna do much for you. Those are not the things that do anything for you. It’s that personal relationship with Christ. It’s understanding. I’m a child of living God, that’s got to do something for you. The only thing that’s going to be able to do anything for you and me is to say is what I’m about or thinking about doing consistent with who I am. It’s not that I can’t do it because I can and it’s not that God’s gonna zap me if I do because he won’t. It’s the issue is it consistent with who I am? Is it profitable for me to do so? And even more so is it profitable for my family or whoever else is involved for me to do so? In other words, are we thinking more highly of ourselves than we ought? Or are we thinking about others interest over and above those of our own. And that’s where an attitude of servitude comes in. In other words, if I’m going to serve you in love, then I’m going to have to be thinking about what’s best for your interest over and above mine. And so the attitude of Esau and the reason for the passage in the Scripture was that the attitude of Esau was grabbing on to instant gratification at the expense of what’s good for the long pull. Now, next week, when we come back to to study that together, we’re going to go into more detail about this blessing that was taking place and how Jacob deceived in order to get the blessing. And so we’re gonna look at two sides of this, what was Esau’s problem? And what was Jacob’s problem, because they both had a problem. But I hope that as we go through and see some of these stories that are given to us out of the scripture, that it will jar us to thinking in our own attitudes, in our own hearts, in our own actions with people. Am I looking out after other people’s interests over and above my own? Or am I merely thinking, selfishly? Are the decisions that I’m making in this life, are they long term in nature? Or are they merely short term in nature?

I had a young kid that I knew and the church that we were in, he was wild as a March hair. And grew up in the church, his mom was a church worker, and high visibility and everything else and, and this kid went down to, went down to school and man, he, he drank more booze, than I think that there was available and then everything that there was to do down there. And later on, I and can remember, this woman, she didn’t like what I was doing, because of competing, what what what she was doing, but she asked me if I would counsel with her son, and we did. And began to share with him about Christ. And it was within a number of weeks that this young man finally came to the Lord. Now he had thought he was Christian. He had walked aisles and everything, but he didn’t know the Lord from a spook. And so so he finally came to relationship with a living Christ. And I can remember him calling back one time and saying, Bob, I’m having real problem as to where I should, what I should do, should I go back to school where I was, or? Or should I go stay here? Or what should I, I don’t know what to do. And I see as all this confusion, I said to him, I said, I want to ask a question. Where do you think you could go and grow the most in the Lord? Not where, you get a better education or anything else? Where do you need to be in order to grow in your knowledge of the grace of God? Where would that be? Do you think it’s back where you were? Do you think you can grow? No, not hardly. And I said, Why don’t get by takes care of the decision, then. Doesn’t it? Do you think you can grow here? Oh, yeah. Yeah, this is where I could grow spiritually here. I said, I don’t know. I don’t know what the question is. He said, I don’t either. And that was his decision was where am I going to go where I can grow the most in the Lord Jesus. There’s your decision, not where I can make the most money, where I can grow the most in the Lord Jesus. And came, grew in the Lord Jesus Christ today is a young man that is dedicated in his own life to serving the Lord.

So when we’re looking at life, again, we have that tendency to look for the immediate. And what God is saying is, wait a minute, take a look at the long haul. Don’t make your decisions based on immediate gratification. They’ll deceive you. Look at the long pole. Look at the long pole. Folks, those kinds of decisions been made in the government of this country. We wouldn’t have the billion dollar debts that we have, passing on to our kids. We wouldn’t have the special interest groups running the country, you wouldn’t have a country that started out as a fair haired kid in the gutter. Had those decisions been based upon what is best for the whole, instead of how can I have some immediate gratification. So let us learn from Esau and not sell our birth rights for a bowl of soup.

Let’s pray together. Father in this world that we live today, we it’s not that we don’t have opportunities we do. Each and every one of us have been afforded with different opportunities. We either latch on to them, or we let them go by many times, it’s just through our own laziness, neglect, whatever it might be, but we just don’t see the benefit of what’s going to happen. And so we make decisions based upon instant gratification. I understand that, Lord, our flesh is weak. It demands right now. It’s like Esau, I want some food right now. And it doesn’t matter what I need to get it. It’s all worth it. Father, I pray that as we learn these lessons that we’ll learn from them. And to be able to look at these examples and take a look at things in our life and say, am I ruining what could be in the future? In order for a little gratification right now? Am I tearing down a potential peaceful environment in order to get my way, or to use my words to tear someone down in order to build my viewpoints. And I pray Father, that your Spirit working in us will continue to embed in our hearts truth that will set us free. And of course when the Son has set us free, we shall be free indeed. And we thank you for what you taught us today in Christ’s name.

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