Radio Broadcast Tuesday 08/20/2024

Classic Christianity – Book of Galatians P11 (08-20-24)

Quit Being a Foolish “Christian” And Start Being a Child of God

~ The apostle Paul had to get down to brass tacks on the law and explain in detail to the Galatians what the law was for. Many people today ignore the book of Galatians, because typically one of two things, they like the law for themselves, or they don’t think the law has anything to do with the situation we are in today. Yet most still want the law posted everywhere (for example, the posting of the 10 Commandments), thinking that will make people obey the law. How foolish these people are today! The people of today are stupid, and that is what the word of God actually says. They are bewitched by Satan and his transformed ministers that pretend they are righteous in the sight of God based on what they do by pretending they are keeping laws.

Today when we tell people, that Jesus died for the sins of the whole world and God is Not counting any sins against anyone today, the people look at you as if you are crazy. Because hardly anyone is teaching the Truth of the word of God in regards to the finality of the cross. Instead they listen to what their itching ears want to hear. Forget about the foundation of the cross, that doesn’t mean anything to them, but they will go off on prophecy left and right, and yet most of the people that are teaching anything about prophecy today are not even children of God themselves. For they never have exercised faith in Jesus in the first place. They have believed in a different Jesus. And when you tell them the truth of “God was in Christ Jesus, reconciling the whole world unto Himself, and is no longer counting anyone’s sins against them,” it goes in one ear and out the other. Back to their confession booths they run, back to their masses, back to their asking for forgiveness over and over, thinking they can push God’s forgiveness vending machine buttons, because of their wrong interpretation of 1 John 1:9. And in their pride, they say to themselves, “look at me, I did a good job today, or this week of not sinning.” Yet they haven’t a clue what the Big sin really is. Unbelief in Jesus is the biggest of all sins today that needs to be repented of. People need to change their mind about ongoing forgiveness by God, and rest in the finished work of Jesus on the cross.

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

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now finishing in the flesh? Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing? Does God lavish His Spirit on you and work miracles among you because you practice the law, or because you hear and believe?

So also, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Understand, then, that those who have faith are sons of Abraham. The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.” So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.” Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.” The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.” He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended. The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ.

What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise. For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God freely granted it to Abraham through a promise.

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator. A mediator is unnecessary, however, for only one party; but God is one.

Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come from the law. But the Scripture pronounces all things confined by sin, so that by faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe.

Before this faith came, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise. Galatians 3:1-29

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.”

~ “And so when we see our condition, then he asked the question, Did God give you his Spirit and worked miracles among you because you observed the law? In other words, is God looking at what you’re doing and then responding to you? And there again, is the big fallacy in Christianity today, we think God. God is a responder to us. Instead of us being a responder to him. God is God. He is not responding to you. You are supposed to be responding to him. He is God Almighty. He is not there to be manipulated. And the Christian world, whether it’s the Prayer of Jabez or any of the rest of them, is out trying to find a way to manipulate God. If you do the formula, that’s all you need. There’s some buttons that need to be pushed that you haven’t learned yet. Now we learned that you could push A.C.T.S. and that would do it. So we’ve pushed A.C.T.S. and that didn’t do it. So now we’ve got the Prayer of Jabez, and all of that is is just writings on some obscure prayer back stuck back in the Old Testament that has no bearing at all on you and me today, and it’s become a best seller. And you say, how? Why? What is it? Have you read it? Doesn’t take you long, Increase my boundaries. Well, whoopee. Does that mean give me more kids? Some of you that have some kids hope, they hope that’s not what it means. Make my ministry bigger? Maybe your ministry isn’t supposed to be bigger, but it’s all me do for me, and we think that God is there to be manipulated. And folks, we have spiritual dyslexia, that God is not there to be manipulated. God has said, I’ve already given you everything that you need for life and godliness. Now, do you believe that? Well, if that’s true, then how much do you need?” ~ Bob George

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And so when we see our condition, then he asked the question, Did God give you his Spirit and worked miracles among you because you observed the law? In other words, is God looking at what you’re doing and then responding to you? And there again, is the big fallacy in Christianity today, we think God. God is a responder to us. Instead of us being a responder to him. God is God. He is not responding to you. You are supposed to be responding to him. He is God Almighty. He is not there to be manipulated. And the Christian world, whether it’s the Prayer of Jabez or any of the rest of them, is out trying to find a way to manipulate God. If you do the formula, that’s all you need. There’s some buttons that need to be pushed that you haven’t learned yet. Now we learned that you could push A.C.T.S. and that would do it. So we’ve pushed A.C.T.S. and that didn’t do it. So now we’ve got the Prayer of Jabez, and all of that is is just writings on some obscure prayer back stuck back in the Old Testament that has no bearing at all on you and me today, and it’s become a best seller. And you say, how? Why? What is it? Have you read it? Doesn’t take you long, Increase my boundaries. Well, whoopee. Does that mean give me more kids? Some of you that have some kids hope, they hope that’s not what it means. Make my ministry bigger? Maybe your ministry isn’t supposed to be bigger, but it’s all me do for me, and we think that God is there to be manipulated. And folks, we have spiritual dyslexia, that God is not there to be manipulated. God has said, I’ve already given you everything that you need for life and godliness. Now, do you believe that? Well, if that’s true, then how much do you need?

Then what do you do if you’ve already been given everything you need? Find out what he’s given you. And you don’t do that by praying. You do that by reading the scripture. That’s why I gave you two eyes and two ears and one mouth is to use it proportionately. And the way that I’m going to find out my inheritance is reading the will or listening to someone who is reading the will, and we’re trying to gain it through talking instead of listening, and we again have it in reverse. So he is saying to us, Were you born again by observing the law, or were you born again by listening to what God did for you at the cross and his resurrection, and entering into that by faith? Which one was it? Which one was it in your life? By entering into it by faith, Lord, You took away my sins at the cross, never to see them again. You were raised from the dead so that I too could be raised from the dead, and I accept your life into me by faith, and you’re born again. Any law unconnected in that? Anything that you did in that? No, it’s everything that he did. When he went to the cross did he consult with any of us? Would it be okay if I died for you? No. Salvation was like creation. He did not consult us. He just did it. And then after he did it, what’d he do? What’d he do after he created? Rested. What’d he do after salvation? Rested. And what did he say? Enter into it by faith. And so the Galatian church, just like our churches today have done what the Apostle Paul says is foolish, and so he’s admonishing us today, just like he was 2000 years ago. Did you were born again by observing the law or by believing what you heard now?

Now, he said, consider Abraham now he’s going to go back. He’s going to go back into Old Testament, truth. He believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness. Now, when you credit something to somebody, what does that mean? It’s credited to you, but it isn’t paid for yet. In other words, you got the furniture, but it’s on a credit card, so you’re enjoying the furniture, but it isn’t paid for yet. Abraham believed God and it was credited to him. I’m going to credit this to your account as righteousness. Understand then that those who believe now in Christ Jesus are children of Abraham. In other words, you’ve come out of the same family as Abraham. Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness. And to any of us today who believe God, it’s credited to them as righteousness. Now, the Scripture, it said, foresaw something, and what it foresaw was that God would justify the Gentiles by faith. Now here again, you’re dealing with this Hebrew and Gentile thing that we’ve been talking about quite a bit, but to the Hebrew, it was unthinkable that the Gentile would ever come to Christ. It was unthinkable that a Gentile could ever be anything except a heathen. And so the Scripture foresaw and pre announced that way back in the book of Genesis, that the Gentiles were going to come to Christ. Did the Hebrews believe that? No, I think they glossed over that one. There must have been a slight mistake there. We just kind of read that fast or talk louder with what we do in our contents, low. The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and he announced that gospel. So the gospel was announced way back in the book of Genesis, and that was that all nations will be blessed through you. Was that given to Abraham? That was a promise to Abraham. So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith, called the man of faith. Now, in contrast to that, all who rely upon observing the law are under a curse. Now, what do you mean relying on something? What are you relying on? All of those who rely on observing the law, relying on what? That you’re making yourself righteous through obedience to the law, right? Are we together? I’m relying on the fact that if I obey the law, God will bless me. I’m relying on the fact that if I will tithe, God will bless I’m relying on the fact that if I obey the law, God will increase my borders. I’m relying on something other than who? Jesus, anything except Jesus.

In the Garden of Eden, if you eat of this, you will be like God. And I want to tell you, folks, we’ve never gotten very far away from that garden, and we want to be like God. And I want to be able to say to God, God, you watch my smoke, you just see how good I am. And then I’m going to, by faith, claim it. You’re going to bless me. What are you doing? Relying upon yourself to do something that will cause God to do something on your behalf. So what does it say about that? It says all who rely upon observing the law are under a curse. Now, is that good news? Now that ought to get your attention, shouldn’t it, folks? I mean, if someone walked up you and said, I put you under curse, you’d probably like to hit me in the head. Number one, it’d be a lie, but there are some people who believe that that somebody can put curses on you. He’s saying that anyone who relies upon observing the law for not just their salvation, but for their acceptance or for their blessing is under a curse. Why? For it is written Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do how much? Everything written in the book of the law. Do you guys know how much is written in the book of the law? Try reading the first five books of Moses. How much is written in the Book of the Law? A bunch, like eating shrimp, and bacon and all of the other dietary laws. What else is included in there folks, in the law? What’s the biggie included in there? The 10 Commandments. What did James say about the 10 Commandments? That if you missed one of them, you’ve missed them all. Now, is that good news if you’re under the law? Is that good news, folks? Well, how do you rationalize this then? How does the so called Christian world today teaching you’re under the law, you’re under the 10 Commandments, and probably to the majority of people that they’re teaching they are under the 10 Commandments, because the 10 Commandments are for the lost, but not for the saved? You, how do you rationalize this fact? How do you say I’m saved, but I’m under the law when it says you’re under a curse, because it’s written that if you under the under the law, that Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the book of the law? Now, what would that everything include? If you’re under the 10 Commandments, why would you say there’s a difference between ceremonial law and moral law? Does this say that there’s any difference in the two? Is there any place in the Scripture saying in the New Covenant, or any place then there’s a difference in the two? If you’re under the law, you’re under the law, the law is the Pentateuch, the first five books of Moses. If you’re under a part of it, you’re under all of it. So why are we nit picking and pulling over the laws we like and leaving the ones we don’t behind? Why don’t we bring a bull and goat in and sley em, not on Sunday, but on Saturday, why don’t we do that? I mean, that’s a part of the law. Why would we bring tithing over as an example and leave that behind? I’ll tell you why. Paul just told us why, we’re foolish, foolish, idiotic, moronic, Dallasites, we’ve been hypnotized cast an evil spell upon us. We used to see the meaning of Christ’s death as clearly as though we’d waved a place card in front of you. Have you gone mad? And that’s what he’s saying to the Christian world today. If he was here, that would be the message that he’d be given an NRB National Religious broadcaster meeting, not the ones that are given. Putting people under laws. Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the book of the law. That’s the law. Now, why is that true? What is the wages of sin under the law? How many sins do you have to commit for you to be dead? One. Well, just today or through your lifetime? Lifetime.

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And so, folks again, I’m just getting back to this thing. What can the law do for you? Kill you. Kill you. What did? What was the purpose of the law? To show you your dead. So that you would what? Turn to the only one who came to give you life. I came that you might have what? Life he isn’t talking about, just joyful times. I came to give you life because you’re dead and you don’t get life through the law. Now, again, same thing they accused Paul of. Are you saying? I love that. Are you saying? We get that on the radio. Are you trying to say? No, I’m not trying to say. I’m saying it. And that’s what you’re always getting. But why? We don’t understand the message you’re trying to say, should we should go on sinning so the grace can abound? Well, those questions get asked today. Same dumb questions get asked today that were asked 2000 years ago, why? Paul just explained it foolish. Don’t understand the fact that under the law, you’re a goner. Don’t understand the fact that of our total depravity, that we’re born into this world as a fallen creature. Don’t understand that. Don’t rejoice in the fact that God has pulled us out of darkness in the light that he’s pulled us out of this fallen condition into a brand new creature in Christ that we were born into this world as an old caterpillar crawled out on the ground, and he metamorphosized us into a butterfly that can fly, and we don’t appreciate that. We take it for granted. You. Because we’re used to playing religion instead of enjoying a new life.

And so he’s saying to us, Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the book of the law. Clearly. Look at this, folks. Clearly. He ought to say, clearly you ought to see this. No one is justified before God by the law. No one. How many of us have tried? Why? Because the righteous will live by faith. You become righteous in the sight of God when you put your faith in Jesus. The law is not based on faith. That ought to be another clue to us, the law is not based on faith. Do we realize that? If you’re under the law, you don’t need faith, don’t need faith, and without faith, what is it? Impossible to please God? Under the law, there is no faith, impossible to please God. People are in the law. Think they’re pleasing God. Again, do you hate the law? No law is good. It’s holy, it’s righteous. What’s wrong with it? When it flows through this old thing it kills me. Here’s the problem, the righteous, He says, will live by what? By faith. Faith in who? Faith in the one who made you righteous. Who is that? Jesus. And that’s why it says that we come to Christ, you and I are clothed in the righteousness of Christ Jesus. What does that mean? When God looks at you, what does he see? The righteousness of Christ Jesus. He doesn’t see you and me. He sees the righteousness of Christ, Jesus.

The law is not based on faith. On the contrary, who man who does these things will live by them. If you’re going to be under the law, live under it. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law. What is the curse of the law? What is it? Death. He redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. The curse of the law is death. He died for us. He took the punishment of the law on himself, entered into our spiritual death with us. Did he have to do that? No, He was sinless. He was God. He never was going to sin, but he chose to become sin in order to enter into my death with me, so that what? I could choose to enter into His resurrection with him, come alive with him. That’s the meaning of the resurrection. He came alive so that I could come alive. That’s a good identity. He came and identified with me in my death so that I could identify with him in his resurrection. So Christ redeemed us from the death coming from the law by becoming death for us, for it is written, Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree. Now, he redeemed us.

Now, folks, how many of you remember redemption stores? How many of you old enough to remember green stamps? All right, you remember those now, what’d you do with those green stamps? You went to a redemption store, didn’t you? And what’d you do with those worthless green stamps? Well, you turned them in and got a toaster. Now, those stamps are worthless. You couldn’t buy anything with them if you wanted to you didn’t go to the movie theater and hand them some green stamps. So it’s a redemption. What’d you do? Turn in something worthless and got something of value. What did Christ do for us? He redeemed us. We turned ourselves into him. I gave him everything that I was nothing, and he gave me everything that he is, and that’s everything the exchange of life. I gave him my sins. He gave me his righteousness. I gave him my death. He gave me his life. It’s an exchange of life. So don’t ever expect your life to change until you experience the exchange, the exchange of your life for his. So Paul could say the old man Paul’s dead. Nevertheless I live. Yet it’s not I, but it’s Christ who lives in me and the life that I live in his flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, the One who loved me and gave himself for me.

So he says he redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ, Jesus, so that by faith, we Gentiles too might receive the promise of the Spirit. Now was that news to the Hebrew? Of course it was. Did they like it? No, but it was truth. And that was the message that Paul God revealed to Paul, and Paul was the administrator of to the Gentile world. Now brothers he said, let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case, the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed.

Now let’s go back for a minute on this. No one can set aside or add to a human covenant. Now, what is a covenant? A covenant is a will. Now, if I have a will, can you add to it? Can you subtract from it? Can you set it aside, if it’s been duly established? When I die and you sit in the attorney’s office and you’re not in there, can you change it? Can you alter it? It has been duly established. What does that mean? It’s in concrete. And if I don’t give you the Cadillac, you’re not getting the Cadillac. And so he’s saying to us, is just as no one can set aside or add to your will, that’s what a covenant is. Is a will. We call it the testament is a will, the old will, the new will, the Old Covenant, the New Covenant all the same. So no one can set aside or add to a will that has been duly established. So it is in this case, the promises were spoken to Abraham and his what? Seed is seed plural or singular? If it was saying, if it was plural, what would it say? Seeds. Did it say Seeds? Said Seed. So we’re talking about a person, the Scripture does not say and to seeds, meaning many people. But it said to your seed, singular meaning one person who is what? Christ. So the promises that were given to Abraham were given to Abraham and to Jesus, his seed. Now what I mean is this, the law introduced 430 years after Abraham does not set aside the covenant that was previously established by God, and thus do away with the promise. So what he’s saying here is that this promise has not been set aside by the law that was introduced 430 years after the promise. It wasn’t set aside. In other words, when he added the law, he didn’t set aside the promise. For if the inheritance, if your inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on the promise. But God, in His grace, gave it to Abraham through a promise. Well, what then was the purpose of the law? We got it. What was the purpose? Isn’t it wonderful that that question was asked, what then was the purpose of all of this law? If the promise was given to Abraham 430, years before the law was introduced, and the law does not supersede the promise, what in the world was the purpose of it? Makes sense, doesn’t it? Well, he says, Okay, I’ll answer it. The law was added because of sins, transgressions, until. Now, when you have an until, what does that show you? What are two words you could use with an until, before and after. Thank you Ellen, before and after, until you got something before, until something else came along, you had an old Victrola, until CDs came along and something else would come along and replace those. It’s a contrast. So the purpose of the law was added because of sins until the seed, who’s the seed? Jesus.

Okay, so let’s read it. The law was added because of sins until Jesus, to whom the promise referred had come. The law was put into effect through angels, by a mediator, a mediator, however, does not represent just one party, but God is one. It represented two parties, God and man. But God is one. He’s the initiator. He’s the one who made the will and the promise. And so what he’s saying. Saying, here is, go back up here, he’s saying that the law was given until Jesus came. Are we all together on this? Until Jesus, for all of those years prior to Jesus, were they? Was that? Were they under the law? Well, then how were people saved back in those days? By faith in the promise. Promise hadn’t come yet, but they knew it would save by faith in the promise. Were they saved the same way we were, with spiritual regeneration, like we have? No way. No one was saved like we are today, until the day of what Pentecost. No one, prior to the day of Pentecost, was ever born again, of the Spirit permanently like we are. So we’re not only a new creation in comparison to who I was before I was saved. I’m a new creation on this side of Pentecost, in regard to all the other people that had ever been born in the world, we’re new creatures. The Spirit of God had never been given to a man ever before, until the day of Pentecost, that could not be destroyed, the Holy Spirit came upon Old Testament saints for divine service, and then left them. That’s why in David’s prayer, he prayed, Lord, don’t take your Holy Spirit from me. But the kind of salvation that we have today, which is eternal, was never in effect until the day of Pentecost. Now, what did he have to do before he could give you and me that life? What had to be done in order to give you and me eternal life? He had to deal eternally with the cause of death.

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