Radio Broadcast Tuesday 08/01/2023

 

Join Bob George in this chapter by chapter exposition of the gospel of John. Available for download the complete series on the Book of John. Realize why Christ, Himself, is REAL LIFE and how He personally offers hope in daily living that you may:

 

• Discover an abundant and meaningful life as a Christian.
• Overcome fear with His assurance that you have His eternal life.
• Experience joy during adversity.
• Apply God’s wisdom in decision making, no matter how big or small.
• Experience freedom as you walk by faith in His love and acceptance. 

 

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Bob George 0:28
So he came and appeared to show us what righteousness is and was, and then went back to the Father, what for? The same reason as the Holy Spirit, you can’t have righteousness unless I send it to you. And I can’t send it to you until I go away. So just as the Holy Spirit cannot be sent to you and me until Jesus went away, so righteousness could not be imputed to you and me until he went away. And then he said, he’s going to convince the world wrong about judgment. And he said, in regard to judgment, the prince of this world already stands condemned, Satan has already condemned as far as God is concerned. And he says, I have so much more to say to you, but you can’t bear it right now. And guys, that is sometimes true in regard to our Bible reading, and then our Bible study. There are times, especially when you’re a brand new Christian, you’re not ready to take upon all of the depths of the Word of God, you’re still feeding on milk and you need to feed on milk. But guys, God never intended us to stay on milk. And so there’s a maturity process just like in your life, you matured as you aged. And as you got older and ran into my experiences, you mature and you can’t, you cannot rush that maturity. And so he’s saying to us that I’ve got more to say to you, but you can’t bear it right now. You’re not ready for it. You’re not ready for all these things yet. But when the Spirit of Truth, now remember what he was saying to his apostles, there they They had not yet been in dwelt by the Spirit had they? Pentecost had not come yet. So he’s saying, there’s more than I want to tell you, but you’re not able to understand it yet, because the Spirit of Truth has not come to live in you yet. You’re standing in front of, in essence, the God of truth, but you cannot comprehend it until the Spirit comes to live within you. And then you can comprehend it to remember what it says, that your eyes has not seen, your ear has not heard your mind is not conceived of those things that God has prepared for those who love Him. But it must be what? Revealed by who? The Spirit. So for you to understand the meaning of the word of God, the Spirit of God living in you has to reveal it to you. So obviously, until the Spirit of God came to live within the believers, and within the apostles, they were not prepared to understand the true meaning of the word of God. So he said, there’s more that I want to say to you, you’re not ready for it yet, because you’re not yet in dwelt by the source of understanding biblical truth. He’ll guide you into all truth when the Spirit comes. If you and I, and if you’re born again, the Spirit of God indwells you, you are indwelt by God.

Now guys, if we can’t get excited about that, there’s something wrong with our excitement button to realize that we have been indwelt by God Himself. And it says that we literally have the mind of Christ. Now, sometimes I don’t know about you, when I think what I can think I wonder where that mind went. But you see, I also have my mind, I’m indwelt by the Spirit, who is a person, he lives in me. And it says that I have the ability to participate in the divine nature that lives in me, that doesn’t mean that I’m always going to does it? It means I have a choice as to whether I’m going to participate in that truth, or I’m going to go astray. Because when you don’t participate in the truth, we just learned what do you do? Go astray. So I can participate, listening to my flesh, the old yucky flesh, and he’s convincing, he can teach you air as if it’s truth, and you’re gonna go astray, or you can participate in the divine nature that lives in you, and walk in the paths of righteousness. So he said, he’s gonna guide us, he’s there to guide us, that doesn’t mean we’re gonna allow Him to guide us. It just says he’s there to guide us when we allow Him, He will not force Himself upon you. He guides you as you allow him to do so. He won’t speak on his own. He will only speak what he hears from who? The Father just like Jesus said, I don’t do anything unless the Father tells me to do it. When the Holy Spirit indwells us we don’t do anything unless the Holy Spirit tells us to do it. And where did he hear what to do? From the Father the same deal. And he’ll tell you what is yet to come, which is why we have our prophecies today. He’ll bring glory to me. He’s gonna bring glory to Jesus. The purpose of the Holy Spirit is not to bring glory to the Holy Spirit. We’re not to be sitting around glorifying the Spirit. We’re not even to be glorifying the Father, the Spirit came to bring glory to Jesus, taking from what is mine, Jesus, and making it known to you, you and me and the disciples. All that belongs to the Father, he said his mine. And that’s why I said, the Spirit will take from what is mine, and make it known unto you. Everything that belongs to the Father belongs to Jesus. And everything that belongs to Jesus is revealed to the Spirit of God for the purpose of revealing that to you and me. In a little while, you’ll see me no more. And after a little while, you will see me. Now guy’s, Jesus came to this earth, to reveal truth to the lost, to reveal truth to those who did not have the truth. And to this day, we sit in this country, and in this world, with people all over the world thinking in totally different ways than what we were taught.

I don’t know how many of you saw the Larry King program the other night. But on Larry King Live, there was a very interesting program. It was supposed to be a religion of a program about religion. On that program, they had an Evangelical pastor. They had a Catholic priest. Next to him was a Jewish rabbi. Next to him was a Muslim. And then they had a female atheist and a female mystic. All of them believed that they were right. What was also interesting about that was at the end of the program, somebody asked that, do you just believe what the way you were brought up? And they asked MacArthur and he said, Yeah, my dad was a pastor. So I believe, yeah, we believe the same thing. To the priest, why his family grew up Catholic. To the Jew, obviously grew up in Judaism, To the person practicing the following Mohammed, a he grew up in that religion. The atheist lady grew up in an unbelieving family. And the mystic blue grew up in a mystic family. All followed, what they were taught in their families. Now you can say, well, then that’s how you had come to a belief system. But the issue is, is that true that you just are going to follow what you were brought up with? Or Is there truth to follow? Now what is interesting about all of that, as I say all of them, Jesus said, The Holy Spirit came to reveal truth to us to set us free. All of them thought they had some kind of a truth. What was interesting is the lady atheist. She claimed that there was no physical evidence at all that Jesus Christ ever existed. She, she just denied everything. Now what the Bible calls her is a fool, because in order to claim yourself to be an atheist, and to claim that there is no God, is to claim that you must have total knowledge. Because you can only claim that there is no God, if you possess total knowledge, are we together on that? And if you were really smart, and let’s say you possess 20% of the total knowledge of the world, would it not be possible that God could exist in the 80% that you don’t possess? And so for a man to claim to be an atheist is intellectual suicide because you’re a fool if you think you possess total knowledge, that would be called a fool, an utter fool. And so she was a fool. And if I’d been on a panel I would have called her a fool, the other was a mistic, she didn’t deny the existence of Jesus, she just kind of felt everybody was Jesus. And, and, and it really doesn’t make any difference. Always remember a pastor that I had in La Habra, California, that his big thing was, it doesn’t matter whether Jesus was raised from the dead or not, or it doesn’t matter whether he was was born of a virgin or not it just a matter that it that he is, and I used to think, What in the world is he talking about? But that kind of nonsense of mystical thinking people just mystical and say what we need to do just love each other. And I felt like if you’re married, I’d like to interview your husband. How you got pull that off guys, this love each other, just everybody go around love and each other, it’s a good thought, just try to pull it off. Unless you’re indwelt by the source of love, you don’t have a Chinaman chance and you know where to love people with the love of God. Bob says were? Obviously doesn’t know Chinese. You have to understand the truth of that. That all of this mystical stuff, just an experience. God is not real. He’s just an experience comes from mystics. Then you had your, the person the follower of Mohammed, the Muslim faith, surprisingly enough. He believed in the virgin birth. I was shocked at that they Oh, yeah, we believe the virgin birth for sure. And they believe that Jesus was, was certainly sent by God, and that he was a good profit and a good man. But they certainly didn’t understand who he was as God. And again, I wonder what Jesus they had. Because if you say I believe in Jesus, how can you say I believe in Jesus, but I deny what Jesus taught when he said, He’s the only way to God. And so there’s a lot of contradiction there of people saying one thing out of one side of your mouth, but denying the existence of who you say you believe in by denying what he said about himself. He claimed himself to be God. And the only way to God they deny that. Then you had your Jewish man, the Jewish rabbi.

It was interesting while we were in Colorado, there were two girls there one from New Jersey, New Jersey, and the other from California. And the old the one from California, was the the younger sister and Jewish, and she had come to the Lord like 15 years ago. And what was quite interesting, and she would if she asked me a question, to see what I thought, and I said, Well, I think you’ll probably hear that in the lecture cover that in the lecture and understand that and her comment was, well, I already understand it. I just wondered what you thought and I thought, Well, okay, this will be interesting. That girl came to understand the truth of the finality of the cross and the reality of the resurrection, came to understand what what it is predestination, election, that’s what she was involved in. All of that cleared up like a bell. Her other sister is brand new Christian, as we talked one day, both of them Jewish, but one just excited as it could be about the things of Christ. But I thought it is an interesting comments that the one girl made, she said, you know, in our Jewish home, we did not believe in anything. He said, We didn’t know what to believe in. We didn’t know anything about Moses. We didn’t know anything about anything, which is quite frankly, the normal state for Jewish people in the country in the world today is they don’t know anything about their religion. They know about the Day of Atonement, they know about Passover, and they know what things they should celebrate. And that’s it. They don’t know much of anything else. They said, but the one thing we didn’t know, with a one thing we didn’t know is we don’t believe in Jesus. And I thought, boy, that’s I had never really I knew that. But I never really thought through that as carefully before. The one thing that we’re together on is we don’t believe in Jesus.

So the rabbi, now, if you go over to Israel today, Jesus is taught in the schools in Israel, more than we can’t do that here. But you can do it in Israel. But he’s taught no denial at all, unlike that of the atheist, no denial at all that he existed, that Jesus was a prophet. And he was a good man, and he was a prophet, and he’s done a lot of good things for the world. But as he said, but we deny that he’s the Messiah. And, and I certainly don’t believe that He is God. And incidentally, I wouldn’t believe Moses if he said he was God either.

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Bob George 14:42
And that was the comment. And I felt like saying, you know, what Jesus said to him is, you know, you say you believe in Moses, but you don’t believe in Moses because Moses wrote about me. And yet you refuse to come to me to have life. But that was the comment from the rabbi. which was a normal comment to expect is we believe Jesus was a good man, but we didn’t believe he was the Messiah. And we certainly didn’t believe he was God. And next to him, you had the the Catholic priest. And you talk about some gobbly gook coming out of the mouth. That here we believe in Jesus. But there’s many ways to God, there’s all kinds of ways that God the Muslim way and the Jewish way. And I thought to myself, Why are you sitting there with that? No wonder you got your collar on the wrong backwards as you’re going the wrong direction. How idiotic to stand there and say, I believe in Jesus who said, I’m the only way to God. And when you’ve seen me, you’ve seen the Father. And there’s no other name under heaven given among men whereby you must be saved. And you’re saying that’s the Jesus I believe in. But there’s many ways to God. Utter, just a woof. It’s all you can say that to somebody just has no guts to them at all. And then sitting next to him, was he Evan Jellicle. The evangelical emphasize the fact that Jesus claimed to be I am the way and I’m the truth, and I’m the Life and no man comes the Father but through me. But I thought for myself when I was listening to that, one of the problems that we run into, is we make those statements, but we don’t explain why Jesus is the only way we just kind of proclaim that he’s the only way we proclaim that there will come a time when every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord. But we don’t explain why that is so. There’s a reason why that is truth. And and the reason for it falls in what Jesus is talking about here, that who can forgive sin, except God alone? But you see, religion comes in this what was the other thing was very interesting about this program. It was supposed to be a program about religion, and the whole program was about Jesus, dividing religion, the divider, Jesus. See, Jesus said, I didn’t come to bring peace, I came to bring a sword. I came to divide truth from error. And when you follow me, you’re going to be on the side of truth and you don’t you’re gonna be on the side of error. Here’s the reason that only Jesus can take away the sins of the world and why he came to do what he did. The other thing that we’re running into is people saying, well, now we believe we people to people, we believe we Baptists, this is what we Baptists believe. Well whoop dee doo this what we Presbyterians believe, well, whoop dee doo, this will be Church of Christ believe. It doesn’t make a flip when any of us believe the issue is one of the Scriptures say. What I believe is of no importance at all. The issue is what does the Scripture say? Not what I believe it says, but what does the Scripture say?

Now the scripture says that man is born with a problem. It’s called spiritual death. The wages of sin is what? Death. But the gift of God is what? Life eternal. Man has a problem according to the Scriptures, not according to what I believe or the Baptist believe the Presbyterians are the Catholics. But according to the Word of God, man has a problem called spiritual death that entered into the world when Adam sinned, and on the day that you eat there are you will surely die and death is the absence of the life of God living in man. And now man has a problem. He’s devoid of God living in Him. And God living in the man is indispensable to the humanity of the man. Just as gasoline in a car is indispensable to the function of the car. Oil in a lamp is indispensable to the function of an oil lamp. Electricity in the light bulb is indispensable to the function of the light bulb. So God and the man is indispensable to the function of the man. You can’t function properly apart from God living in you because God created man in such a way that God in the man is indispensable to the humanity of the man. Not not a big issue at all. It’s just truth. That’s a problem. That problem had to be solved. That problem cannot be solved by practicing religion. Religion cannot bring life to the dead. Politics cannot bring life to the dead. Only a life could bring life to the dead and the only life available to the world was the resurrected life of Christ Jesus. There were men brought back from death to life. But there was only one man ever resurrected. His name is Jesus, resurrected from the dead unto eternal life, not brought back from the dead to die again. There are numerous people that that happened, but only one was resurrected. And that’s Jesus. And the reason that he was resurrected from the dead, was the only kind of life that I need is resurrected life. And where am I gonna get resurrected life? The same place that I’m gonna get righteousness from him the same place, I’m going to receive the Holy Spirit from him. There’s only everything that I possess is from Him.

And so the only solution to spiritual death is spiritual life. And the only life available to me is the resurrected life of Christ Jesus. That’s why he was raised from the dead. He wasn’t raised from the dead to prove that He was God, or raised from the dead to show us that he was better than us. He was raised from the dead for a purpose. And the purpose was to give life to you and me. If I am born into this world, dead spiritually, then the only thing I need as a dead man is life. Buddha can’t give me life. He’s dead. Mohammed can’t bring me life, he’s dead. The Pope can’t bring me life, he’s dead. I can’t bring you live. Billy Graham can’t bring your life. No one can bring you life, except the resurrected life of Christ Jesus. The empty tomb is the the center point of what we call Christianity. The empty tomb is what divided believers from unbelievers that Jesus was raised from the dead. The Jews brought in people to lie as to what happened with that empty tomb, that people came and stole him. You’ve had all kinds of theories about what happened at the empty tomb. But there’s only one explanation for the stone being rolled back, and the grave clothes there and him gone. That’s resurrection. And the purpose of that resurrected life was to give life to you and me. That is not religion. That is a practical issue, that if I am going to be functioning according to the way that God intended me to function, that I would have to have that life living in me, to restore in me what I had lost in Adam, that being the Spirit of God living in me. Only one man could do that. And his name is Jesus. There’s only one man that could prepare the way for that to occur, because in order to give me eternal life, the cause of spiritual death had to be taken away eternally. What is the cause of spiritual death? Sin. What caused the Spirit of God to depart from Adam’s sin? What caused the Spirit of God to depart from Jesus a sin whose sin? Mine and yours. So what’s the only thing could cause the Spirit of God to depart from you and me? Sin. Why is that an impossibility? Because of the cross where He took away the sins of the entire world. So the eternal value of the cross is what enabled him to give you and me eternal life. Which is what salvation is I came that they might have what? Life and have it abundantly. I am the way I am the truth. I am the life. I’m the resurrection and the life. And whosoever believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever lives and believes in me will what? Never die. never die. Do you believe this? The answer to that is some do and some don’t. You have some that say, Jesus, I like part of that. But I don’t like all of it. I like the fact that you say that you’re the way and the truth, and the life but I don’t believe that you’re the only way and the truth in life. I think that we all kind of have our own way to get there. And we Catholics have our way to get there and you Protestants have your way and the Buddhists have their way and Muslims that there’s all kinds of ways to God and folks that is utter nonsense that is deceiving people into believing something that will send them to hell. Because the only sin that you will ever be asked in Jesus, the only thing you’ll ever be asked from God is what did you do with my Son? Did you reject the Son of God who came to cure your problem of a of death? By going to a religion that can do nothing for you, except paralyze you? Or did you accept Him as your Lord and Savior? Did you go to your priest to get forgiveness? Or did you go to Jesus to get forgiveness? Because you can’t go to both of them? Or did you just go direct thinking that you’re a priest of some kind? You have to make up your mind which way you’re gonna go? Are you going to believe Jesus? Are you going to believe religion? The only purpose of religion is focused upon what I’m doing, to please God. True Christianity was what God did to make you pleasing to God. He made you whole, you can’t make yourself whole. He gave you life. You can’t give yourself life. He took away your sins. You can’t take away your sins. It was all him. And it’s none of us. It never has been any of us. It always was him. And so you have your Catholic that waters down good. It’s not just a Catholic, we got Protestants all over the place watered down the gospel. So it’s just a person that does not stand firm and what Jesus said, whether you have a Jewish person who has denied Jesus back then and to this day, like the girl said, The only thing we do know is we don’t believe in Jesus. Or whether you have the Muslim who kind of goes by the Johnny Come Lately religion and believes that Mohammed had something to say that was more important than what Jesus had to say. Or whether you’re a mystic, just say that make a difference what truth is just kind of love each other and kind of walk around with glassy eyes. Or whether you’re the atheist, who’s a fool in the sight of God. The issue is, are you going to come to truth? Or are you going to continue living in your error?

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Listen to the Salvation message today!

Stand on the firmness of truth. Don’t keep going back and forth. Thank Him that the forgiveness issue is settled.

Let’s pray together:

• Lord Jesus,
• I thank you for taking away my sins on the cross,
• never ever to see them again.
• Having done that, I now thank you for giving me eternal life,
• through your resurrection.
• I now receive that life.
• And I am going stand in the fact that I am a child of the living God.
• In Jesus Holy name I pray.
• Amen

All believers are now brothers and sisters in Christ.

 

 

John 3:3
³ Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”

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