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Classic Christianity – Book of Galatians P8 (08-13-24)

All Lost People Have a Law Unto Themselves

~ From God’s perspective, the Law, the 10 commandments, and everything of the do’s and don’ts regarding the Old Testament was for the Hebrew/Israelites only. Yet even the Gentiles had and have laws unto themselves. And the Apostle Paul clearly taught that in the book of Romans. And it is obvious to the most casual observer that people are “trying” to do what is right and Not do that which is wrong. They in their minds, their conscience is telling them of that which is right and that which is wrong. Yet even the Gentiles fail at their attempts to keep their own law, or any part of it. And we see that so-called “Christian churches” (and I do mean so-called because most are lost people in these places), for they are trying to obey laws and think that is going to make God like them more, or think that is going to make themselves righteous in the sight of God by law keeping. And when you explain to some people that the Law was only for the Hebrews, and that it was never for the Gentiles, and furthermore, Jesus fulfilled the law for us, so that we can be declared righteous in the sight of God through faith in Him, they either get upset with hearing Truth, or they go out of their way to justify their attempts to keep the law (whatever that law is to them). Some go so far as to declare someone will not be with Jesus when a person physically dies if they don’t get water baptized, or if they don’t tithe, or if they don’t worship on the Sabbath day (Saturday for them), or get divorced, or get remarried, or any of the hundreds of other laws that they have made up in the figments of their imagination. And they will even listen and promote false teachers that preach these lies to them, without so much as questioning anything, but are blindly following agents of Satan. For Satan wants you to believe the lie, that you can be a law keeper even after you are saved.

“All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous. Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. So they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending them on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.” Romans 2:12-16

Yet in spite of knowing that from the word of God, that Gentiles are Not under law, the Gentiles still bring the law onto themselves, and allow themselves to be placed in jail cells by religion of today. They would much rather try to be law keepers, than exercise faith in Jesus for having fulfilled the law for them. If a person is in Christ Jesus today, that is the end of the law for them. A person is free in Christ Jesus, and a person should recognize that. So, don’t allow yourselves to be placed back under the yoke of slavery no matter what. Stop listening to false teachers telling you do this or don’t do that in order for you to be with Jesus when you physically die. It’s one of the ways in which Satan keeps a child of God chained up. Break free of those chains today. For it is for freedom that Christ has set you FREE.

“For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.” Romans 10:4

Fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem, accompanied by Barnabas. I took Titus along also. I went in response to a revelation and set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I spoke privately to those recognized as leaders, for fear that I was running or had already run in vain. Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.

This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us. We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

But as for the highly esteemed—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism—those leaders added nothing to me. On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted to preach the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been to the circumcised. For the One who was at work in Peter’s apostleship to the circumcised was also at work in my apostleship to the Gentiles.

And recognizing the grace that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John—those reputed to be pillars—gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised. They only asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

When Cephas came to Antioch, however, I opposed him to his face, because he stood to be condemned. For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group. The other [Ἰουδαϊκῶς (Ioudaikōs) Judaeans] joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.

When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a [Ἰουδαϊκῶς (Ioudaikōs) Judaean], how can you compel the Gentiles to live like [Ἰουδαϊκῶς (Ioudaikōs) Judaeans]?”

We who are [Ἰουδαϊκῶς (Ioudaikōs) Judaean Hebrews] by birth and not Gentile “sinners” know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, does that make Christ a minister of sin? Certainly not! If I rebuild what I have already torn down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.

For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, Christ died for nothing. Galatians 2:1-24

Pray to God:

Do you really want to know the WHOLE Truth of what is going on today?

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7

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, folks, think about it for a moment. Can you separate the law from the punishment of the law? If you do not have punishment for the law, the law is meaningless. Am I right or wrong? If there was no penalty for a violation of the law, you may as well not have the law. So if you’re under the law, you’re under the punishment of the law. Now, if you are lost, are you under the law and are you under the punishment of the law? Which is what? Death. When you are saved, you are freed from the law and the punishment of the law, so that you can walk alive in the newness of life, which is what? Christ, Jesus, Are we together? Now, how can you walk in both of those? I’m going to walk in grace, but I’m going to pull over a little law. Now, not a lot, Bob, but I do need the law of tithing, so let’s bring tithing over here, and we’ll just have a little tithing mixed in with the grace. What’d it say about that? A little leaven spoils what? The whole loaf. You bring one ounce of it in it? Even circumcision. Paul says, and you have voided Jesus. Do we see the principle? You bring in an ounce, it becomes a pound. Now that’s why there was no toleration at all in the heart of the apostle Paul, which means none in the heart of God for the commingling of law and grace, you’re either under the law dead or you’re under Grace alive. That’s why it says if you’re under the law, you’re under a curse. What is the curse of the law? Death. So if that’s where you want to be by your faith, be it unto you, but you’re dead as a hammer. So Paul is dealing with this. Now, if this was not important, why would he deal with it? Why would he deal with it? Why would he just, you know, come on, little little bit of stuff doesn’t hurt you. Why? Because the power of sin is where? In the law. And it says that, For sin shall no longer be your master, because you’re no longer under the law, but under what? Grace. Which means when you’re under the law, who’s your master? Sin.” ~ Bob George

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But we got formulas, don’t we? And we say, well, if you go to church and you tithe, that’s how you get justified through Christ. Because obviously Jesus is there. So there’s a lot of different ways in which we can seek to be justified by Christ. So he says, while we’re seeking to be justified in Christ, in other words, I’m there, but I’m seeking to be justified. It becomes evident that we ourselves are sinners. Now, how does that become evident while you’re seeking to be justified by by faith or justified in Christ? Could God reveal to you that you’re not saved? Absolutely. Say, man, you’re working at this. Are there people in a Christian like world that are working their way to God in the name of who? Christ. So what are they doing? They’re seeking to be justified through what they’re doing. Do? Are there people like that? I mean, think it through, folks. Have you ever been that way? Yo, if I go to church, I’ll make it. Then we think God may hopefully grades on the curve. I mean, there’s no such thing as one, one black mark as if he’s grading on the curve. So maybe if I can do more good than bad, I’ll get there. What are you doing? Seeking to be justified in Christ. I’m no longer trying to obey the law, but I got these things that I got to do, and it becomes evident that, hold on a minute. You’re a sinner. You’ve never been saved. Well, it says, Well, if that’s the case, well then does that mean that Jesus, that Christ, promotes sin? I mean, is he promoting this is seeking to be justified in Christ, and I see it. I’m a sinner. Does that mean he’s promoting my sinfulness? No, he doesn’t need to promote your sinfulness. The law does that. The law is the purpose of the law is to show you that you’re a sinner. The purpose of the law is to show you you’re dead. Jesus doesn’t do that. The law does that, and so he’s not promoting this. He said, Absolutely not. But if I rebuild what I destroyed. Now, what did Paul destroy? What did Jesus destroy? What did Jesus What did he they nailed to the cross? The law. If I rebuild the law after I’ve destroyed the law, then I’m going to prove I’m a law breaker. Because if I bring the law back as a child of God, I’m a law breaker. Why? Because you can’t keep it. Are you am I right or wrong on this, folks. How many of you as a Christian have ever brought the law back into your life? What did it prove to you? You’re a law breaker. It certainly didn’t prove that you’re good. And then we say, well, you come to Christ and he’ll, as we say in Texas, help you to obey the law. Well, you don’t need help. You know, he didn’t come to help you to obey the law. He came to show you you’re dead under the law so that you’ll walk in a newness of life, being led by the Spirit of God who lives in you, instead of by laws written on stone.

Now, folks, Paul wasn’t confused, neither is God, and God didn’t write something to confuse us. So when God says in His Word, you’re no longer under the law, if that meant well, they are under just part of the law, I think he’d have probably explained that rather than leave us in our confusion, wouldn’t you, but when the law is used, what does that mean? It means the Five Books of Moses called the Pentateuch, called the Law, singular law. So when he’s saying you’re no longer under the law, what does that mean? You’re no longer under the law of who? Moses. Now are the 10 Commandments included in the law? Are you under the law? Are you under the 10 Commandments? Not as a child of God. You’ve been freed from the demands of the law so that you could walk in a newness of life, no longer being led by the law that kills but by the Spirit that what? Gives life.

Now, folks, think about it for a moment. Can you separate the law from the punishment of the law? If you do not have punishment for the law, the law is meaningless. Am I right or wrong? If there was no penalty for a violation of the law, you may as well not have the law. So if you’re under the law, you’re under the punishment of the law. Now, if you are lost, are you under the law and are you under the punishment of the law? Which is what? Death. When you are saved, you are freed from the law and the punishment of the law, so that you can walk alive in the newness of life, which is what? Christ, Jesus, Are we together? Now, how can you walk in both of those? I’m going to walk in grace, but I’m going to pull over a little law. Now, not a lot, Bob, but I do need the law of tithing, so let’s bring tithing over here, and we’ll just have a little tithing mixed in with the grace. What’d it say about that? A little leaven spoils what? The whole loaf. You bring one ounce of it in it? Even circumcision. Paul says, and you have voided Jesus. Do we see the principle? You bring in an ounce, it becomes a pound. Now that’s why there was no toleration at all in the heart of the apostle Paul, which means none in the heart of God for the commingling of law and grace, you’re either under the law dead or you’re under Grace alive. That’s why it says if you’re under the law, you’re under a curse. What is the curse of the law? Death. So if that’s where you want to be by your faith, be it unto you, but you’re dead as a hammer. So Paul is dealing with this. Now, if this was not important, why would he deal with it? Why would he deal with it? Why would he just, you know, come on, little little bit of stuff doesn’t hurt you. Why? Because the power of sin is where? In the law. And it says that, For sin shall no longer be your master, because you’re no longer under the law, but under what? Grace. Which means when you’re under the law, who’s your master? Sin.

So this is not something to mess around with, this is cut and dried stuff, black and white, you’re under the law or you’re under grace, but don’t commingle them, because it’s going to kill you. Now, if I rebuild here, I’ve been freed from the law. I’m now under grace, but now I rebuild the law system. In a grace system, I’m going to prove I’m a law breaker. How can you be a law breaker, unless you’re under the law? Now, if you’re under grace, can you be a law breaker? Not, unless you rebuilding what you destroyed. So you’re not a law breaker. What are you? Are you under grace? Where are your sins? Behind the back. What? Do you ever see him again? Is God dealing with you on the basis of sin and death anymore? No condemnation awaiting you who belong to Christ. Jesus, the law of the Spirit of Life, set me free from the law of sin and death. Do you ever sin? Well, what do you do with that? Just ignore it. Is that? What you do with it? Just ignore it. Say no big deal to me and I’m under the law. No, you’re under grace, aren’t you? Now, what does Grace say to you? Bob, you just acted like an idiot. That’s why I think today, sin, the best definition I know of sin is stupid. You are acting totally contrary. Your thinking is off, and Bob, you let your thinking go off and you’re going to be mastered by what you’re thinking because as a man thinks so is he. I live in you to renew that dumb head of yours, because if that head had a brain in it, it wouldn’t need renewed. And so I live in you to renew your mind. Now your mind is getting bombarded by every bit of garbage that’s in the world. Every time you turn on television, it’s bombarded. Every time you drive and see a billboard, it’s bombarded. And because of the world in which you live, and especially this information age that we live in today, there’s a lot of great information out there, and you can have access like that.

You need a continual dose of renewing of your mind every moment of the day. Now that doesn’t mean you sit and read your scriptures for 24 hours, but it means when you do absorb them so that you can meditate on what truth is, because once you have truth in you, it’s there. So I don’t need it in front of me anymore. It’s not that I don’t need a renewal of it, but it’s there and it’s also here and here. So now I can meditate on it. And that’s what he’s saying to us. You need to learn to meditate on the Word of God, on the truth of the Word of God, and what the Word of God is going to say, just like we’ve talked before in Ephesians, if you’ve been stealing, that’s one of the Big 10. But are they under the Big 10? No. So they’re not under the Big 10. If they were and said they’re stealing, what would the wages of that sin be? Death. So they’re not under that so what does he say to you if you’ve been stealing, cut it out. Go to work. God forbid, work with your hands and then take what you earn and help people in need with it. Now, when have you had your mind renewed when you go to work? Well, part of it. When have you had your mind renewed? When you quit stealing. Why? I don’t need to steal anymore. My father owns a cattle on 1000 hills. Can sell one anytime he wants to. He’s promised to give me everything I need for life and godliness. I don’t need to steal. Used to like to steal, but don’t need to steal. Why I’m a child of God. I’m being cared for by my heavenly Father. Now I’ve gone to work and made some money, Lord, see, how obedient I am? Said, No, there’s something else that you forgot. Bob, what’s that? Take some of the money you make and help people in need with it. Now, when I do all of that, have I completed the deal? Has that been complete? Yeah. Have I done what God said to do? Quit stealing, gone to work, work, and taken some of the money that I’ve earned and helped people in need with it, completed the action.

You see anything in there about you are out of fellowship with God? See anything about that in there? Now, if it isn’t there, why do we have it there? You have sinned, and you’re out of fellowship with God. You got a black mark, and you need to get it erased. Isn’t that in that what’s taught and so how do you do that? Well, you got to confess your sins to God, and then that erases the black mark so you can go steal again. Go back next week, steal again, confess your sins, erase the black mark. You can just keep that up forever. Go to mass, go to whatever it might be, do it as long as you want to. Is there anything about renewing your mind and that kind of a theology? No, it’s just being diligent to confess your sin. And that’s why everything is you got unconfessed sin in your life. Doesn’t matter your sin, that’s okay just confess it. Just be sure you don’t have unconfessed sin in your life. It’s okay to have sin there, just not unconfessed sin. And so you got the Catholics that they’re Catholic at your confession booth every week, and you got the Protestants at their first John one nine every day. And God sitting up in heaven saying, Do you people have a brain in your head? Did you not hear me say from the cross? It is finished.

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Do you not know that no man will ever be justified in the sight of God through obedience to the law, but only by faith in Jesus Christ. And faith in Jesus Christ isn’t that I’m going to continue to forgive you. Faith in Jesus Christ is that I’ve forgiven you. You are a forgiven person. The moment you step out of Adam into Christ, and Christ steps out of heaven into you, you’re a forgiven person, just like you’re a saved person. And the only thing that you can do to that is say thank you. There’s only one response that I have. When did your Lord, Jesus Christ, cries out and says, Bob, I took that away at the cross. You say, thank you. Now, Lord, I can enter into His presence, calling him Abba Father and receiving mercy in my time of need and to receive instruction. So he’s in the business of instruction now, the Holy Spirit of God instructing our minds, teaching our minds truth.

So if I rebuild this law in my grace system, I’m going to prove nothing except the fact that I’m a law breaker. For through the law, I died to the law. That’s a great passage of scripture. Through the law I died. What does that mean? When I saw that I couldn’t do it, I died. That’s what Paul said. Sin, seizing the opportunity stirred up every kind of covetous desire, and I died. And so he’s saying that for through the law, I died. Now, when I died, what did I die to? The thing that killed me, the law. So through the law, I died, and when I died, I died to the law. That’s the picture of submersion, of baptism, which we again pervert by sprinkling and hosing people down and everything else that doesn’t show the picture. Baptism is a picture. It’s not a way and means of salvation. It’s a picture of salvation. What is it a picture of? What are you born under? The law. You die. When you die, you normally get buried, so you and the law die. Then you’re raised in the newness of life. What do you leave in the water, in the grave? The law, the thing that killed you through the law I died. When I died, I died to the law, raised in the newness of life to be led now by the Spirit living in Me, not by the law that is dead. Are we together on this? So it is through the law that I died to the law. How come? So that I might live to God? Now, what does that also tell us? Are you living to God under the law? You’re living under the law. You can’t have two masters. You’re either going to be mastered by the law or by God. But it says very clearly that I died to the law so that I might live for God. And you’ve got people who say, Oh, they’re under the law, but they’re living for God. Nonsense. They’re living for themselves to do what? Seeking to be justified by the law. And you can’t live for God under the law. You can live in fear of God under the law. Perfect love casts away all fear. Fear has to do with punishment or man who fears cannot be perfected in love. Why? Because under the law, there’s nothing to do except fear. Because under the law, what if I missed one? What if my memory wasn’t too good that day? What if I die and I got some sins that I forgot to confess? Then people come along and say, Oh, Grace. Cover that. So it’s a memory system. There is no way to go into death without fear under the law. I hope to God I did enough. I hope to God I was good enough. I hope I went to church enough. I hope I read my Bible enough. I hope I prayed enough. I hope whatever I had to do, I did enough of it to get there. What a horrible way to go to your death bed. And all of us are going to go to our death bed someday. And when we do, we’re either going to be looking forward to seeing Jesus. Oh well, I’m not going to know where I’m going to see him, or not. I just hope. I hope, a hope. And so what he is saying that is, through the law, I died to the thing that killed me, and I died to it.

Now let’s go the next one. I, in most translations say, am crucified with Christ, and I no longer live but Christ lives in me and the life I live in, the body I live by faith, in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God. I’m not going to set aside the grace of God to follow the traditions of my fathers, the law. And the reason is for if righteousness could be gained through the law, then Christ died for nothing, and you who are wanting to rebuild what we destroyed, are saying, Jesus, your death didn’t mean anything to me.

Now, folks, I want to deal a little bit here with verse 20 and verse 20. Verse 20 and verse 20. I am, or have been crucified with Christ. What does that mean? Well, we have some dear brothers in Christ, and a lot of people who kind of attribute this type of thing to I love in the Lord, but I just don’t think they’re right. In interpretation, you have people who say that eternal life is like a circle, a non ending circle, and in that non ending circle, you’ve got the cross back there 2000 years ago. You’ve got seated in the heavenlies up here someplace, and we’re on that circle. So what I am crucified with Christ means that you zoom back there, because God is not limited by time, and you literally were on the cross with Jesus. They call that exchange life sometimes. Well, there’s only one problem with that, unless you’re a Mormon, that would be impossible, because how could I have been back there when I was not here yet? Unless I was in the spirit form. Now that’s what Mormons believe, that your little spirit thing’s up there, and that’s why you got to have a bunch of babies, so that you got a body to live in, so you’re always alive, but then you get a body to live in down here, and then you can elevate yourself up to being God. So in other words, that’s pre existence before you were here. Anybody believe that? So, in essence, what you’re dealing with, if I was back there before I was here, why then I had pre existence. I don’t believe that, do you? So to say that I was crucified with Christ means I was hanging on the cross with him. If I was hanging on the cross, what was he doing there? Because if I was hanging on the cross, I was getting what I deserved. And so you’ve got a lot of that teaching that goes on, and there’s no substance to it, in my opinion, at all out of this one verse, I am or I have been. So when did you come into existence? When you were born physically, the breath of God was breathed into you, and you became alive spiritually. You had a human spirit, a body and a soul, but you were separated from the life of God. You were born that way, in Adam, separated from the life of God. Was I in existence prior to that time? No, not at all. So some people say, Well, what do you do with this thing about then you’re seated in the heavenlies with Christ, Jesus? Well, I’m here, so if he wants to see me seated there in the future, that’s fine, but He didn’t see anything about me prior to the time I was here. So you, you have to, you have to bring some sense to this whole thing that I was not in existence, and I was not pre existent in all ways. I came into existence physically and spiritually at the time of my physical birth. Are we together on that? And from that point on, it’s all in the mind of God.

So you say, Well, I don’t Okay. I’m not going to go along with that, with that teaching that I was back there. So he said, Well, what does this mean? I have been crucified. I am crucified with Christ. Well, God gave me an example of that which you’ve seen in my books, but I think it’s worthy of repeating, of the time that our grandson was being born, and I was very interested in what was going on inside of my daughter, and she’s married to a doctor, and so I sat down with John and said, John, are you telling me that that little baby is in a sack of water? Yeah that’s right. I was totally surrounded by water, yeah, living in a sack of water. Any of you were you ever living in a sack of water? Yeah, for nine months in a sack of water. Well, my response to that was, John, people don’t live in water. Fish live in water. Is Debbie going to have a bass? And so we were assured that wasn’t going to take place. They said, well, then John, how does that baby breathe? You can’t breathe in water. Well, because Debbie breathes. Well. How does that baby eat? Well, because Debbie eats. Yes. And how does that baby live? Well, because Debbie lives. And I got to thinking about that, and I thought, you know, if you could talk to that little fella, he would say, I am crucified, nevertheless I live yet not I, but mom lives in me and the life that I live in this womb. I lived by faith in mom, the one who loved me and gave herself for me, and I came to understand the truth that that baby is on a totally different support system than its own. Isn’t it? That baby is on its mother’s support system in the womb, isn’t it? And if the mother goes, the baby goes, and so that baby can say, I’m dead, yet I’m alive. I’m dead as far as being able to live on my own, but yet I’m alive because mom is alive, living through me, in me and through me. And so you say, yeah, in and of myself, I am dead, but in Christ, I am alive. And I thought, What a marvelous thing it was for God to give us that physical example of a spiritual truth, because when we are in Christ, we’re on a different support system. We’re on his we’ve been plugged into his umbilical cord. We are fed by him. We are instructed by him. We are led by Him, so that we can say, in and of myself, I’m dead, and yet I’m alive because of Christ who lives in me and the life that I live now I live by faith in the living Jesus who lives in and through me, the one who loved me and gave himself for me. I’m on a different support system than my own. Is that true or not guys?

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