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Bob George 0:29
Let’s go back to Ephesians for a minute. Chapter Four Ephesians four or beginning in verse one. As a prisoner for the Lord, then I urge you to live a life worthy of your calling that you’ve received. Again, just like it said, don’t be thinking more highly of yourself than you ought, it says, Be completely humble and gentle, be patient, bearing with one another in love. Now, what do you need to bear with one another in love for? Well, because, brother, we need bearing with one another. There are just a lot of things that that we do that each other don’t agree with. And so we bear it’s patience with one another realize, and we’re not alike, are not all alike. God didn’t make us to be all alike. And so learn to understand one another, make every effort to keep unity of the Spirit, through the bond of peace. It says, There is one body, that’s you and me, there is one Spirit, who’s that? The Holy Spirit of God. Just as you were called to one hope, when you were called, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God, and Father of all, who was overall and through all, and in all, some people say, Paul must have been a Texan with that, that in all, you all but. One hope, one spirit, one body, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God, one Father of all, it was overall and through all and in all. Now folks, if that is true. And we have one God, one Spirit, one baptism. And you see the divisiveness of a teaching, that would say that, first of all, you are born again on one day, and then receive the Spirit on another at another time. And when you do, you’re more spiritual than a person who hasn’t done that. Can you see the divisiveness of that kind of teaching? How many, how many times were you and I born again? What were you born again of? The Spirit. That’s why it’s called spiritual birth. So how could you be BORN AGAIN of the Spirit and then receive the Spirit later? And you tell me how you could do that? Now you see, folks, what people are trying for, and you will see that take place is somebody’s always looking for something more. And 9 times out of 10, what you’re looking for is something that will make me totally free of sin. It’s a sincere desire, isn’t it? I want something I want some experience that will be so great, like we see in the movies, where all of a sudden the light hits and and here we walk around like this, you know, I’ve just never think of another bad thought in the world. That sounds nice. But is that true? Any of you tried that and found it not to be true? Yeah, we have, there is no something else to seek. We have people who have been in this assembly listening to the truth of God’s word, and then get exposed to something else and out there seeking some other kind of experience in order to get deeper with God. Well, the only thing that’s going to happen to them is they’re going to fall flat on their face. In total disillusionment. Maybe that’s what we have to go through in order to die to self in order to come alive to God. But the fact of the matter is that if you’re seeking something more than what you’ve got, you don’t understand what you’ve got. It’s just that simple. When you have Jesus, how much do you have? All of it, there is nothing to add to Jesus. There is one body, there is one Spirit, not two. you were called the one hope to one Lord, one faith, one baptism. And that’s not water baptism. That’s the baptism of the Holy Spirit of God. At the time when you and I were baptized by the Spirit of God, not in the Spirit, by the Spirit, into the body of Christ. At the very moment of spiritual birth, the Spirit of God came to live within you at that moment placed you into him. That’s what’s that is what is called in the Scripture being baptized by the Spirit of God into the body of Christ.

Okay, let’s turn back to First Corinthians chapter 12. Let’s pick up in verse 12 there and then we’ll we’ll go back on that. Once again in First Corinthians the body is a unit. And though it’s made up of many parts, And though its parts are many, they form one body. Now, once again, who is that? What’s he talking about there? The body of who? Of Christ. Who is the head? The Lord Jesus. So it is with Christ, it’s going to tell us that now. For we were all baptized, placed into the Body of Christ by one Spirit. We were all baptized, by, see that one spirit into one body, who’s the body? Christ. Who did the placing of us into that? The Spirit of God. When did you do that? When you were born again, it isn’t the case that the Spirit comes to live in me today, and then places me into his body at another time. Otherwise, I couldn’t call myself a child of God, when I was born again. Whether Hebrew, Greek, slave or free, we were all given the one spirit to drink. So folks, what I want us to try to see there, see through this is, because there is teaching what the sincerity of it is, that is not up for you or me to, to, to decipher and determine. But the Bible is as clear as you could get on the fact. And it absolutely devastates your salvation if you believe that, or are taught that or believe that can’t, you can’t control what you’re taught, you can control what you believe. And that’s why I want you to get into the Word of God and to and to read it. I’m not the authority on this, the Spirit of God is. But to realize that there is the premise, there is no such thing, as in the Bible, talked about in the Bible, as a second or third or a fourth blessing. It is not there. There certainly could be the case of a person that has come to to Christ for forgiveness, totally was saved and later understood his life, and literally came into a saving knowledge of the life of Christ came into contact with the life of Christ. That’s when they were born again. But to be born again today, and then to a said, receive a spirit later. If you do receive a spirit later, I just got news, it is not the Holy Spirit. There is only ONE SPIRIT, as far as God is concerned, one baptism, one God, one Father of all, who is overall into all in all. And you and I were all given that one Spirit to drink. How many of us? All of us. Now guys, do you see, when Christ does something, do you see he does things and when he does, he creates unity, not division. There’s no division in that. If you’re in Christ, the Spirit of God lives in you, there is nothing more that’s going to happen. When you see an apple, little apple come out of the of the branch of an apple tree. It’s hard as a brick, if you ever noticed that. We used to take them back in Indiana and have rock fights with them. Or they were apple fights. It just clocks them on the head that made her day whether it’s hard as a brick now, was that a perfect apple? Wasn’t a pumpkin was it? It was an apple didn’t have everything he was going to get. Was there anything that God was going to add to that apple? No, it was perfect apple. Was it mature? No one material if it wasn’t edible, but it was perfect apple, the very moment that you became a Christian, God gave you everything that you’re going to ever get. It’s all there. Are you mature in that yet? Not necessarily. We’re growing in grace, we are growing in maturity, not to get something we don’t have. We got everything we’re gonna get when you’re in Christ. It says you are what? Complete. Now let me ask you a question. Can you add to completeness? Can you subtract from completeness? So when he says you’re complete, what’s the only conclusion you can come to? I’m complete. And in the Greek word means complete. Same word. Everything that you are ever going to get you get at spiritual birth. When a baby is born and grown new ears or new eyes or any of that type of stuff. He’s kind of stuck with what he’s got. Some of us that’s unfortunate, but it’s very true.

All right, Are we all together on that? Because again, the reason I’m camping on this, there’s a terrific amount of teaching that is to the contrary of that. I just don’t know where they find it out the Bible So I want us to understand that salvation is his business, there’s nothing for us to get puffed up over. It is his business, the faith that you and I even have, we live by his faith, not even our own. It’s the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. He placed us into the body of Christ, to live on this earth to represent him in this kingdom, you and I represent the kingdom of God, here on this earth. We are in spiritual warfare, we need to understand that there’s an enemy out there, and it’s the world and all you have to do is to listen to the philosophies of the world. That’s what is going on. And you’ll hear that. I did an interview yesterday, yesterday with, Friday with a gal that out of Georgia, outside of Atlanta that has a radio program there, and she also is a school teacher, telling me how excited she was about Classic Christianity and how what an impact it made on her life to understand her identity in Christ. And like she said, I do a lot of counseling, I’m a school counselor as well. And obviously, she said, I can’t tell those kids about Jesus. As she said, I’m going to a national convention out of California, and one of the things their going to do out there is to have an Indian to come in and dance and conjure up spirits for us. And we can talk about new age, and we can talk about Eastern mysticism. And we can talk about all those things. But we can’t talk about Jesus. And you say, what kind of a world is this? You cannot tell kids about a person who lives in combat Abe Lincoln, George Washington, Martin Luther King, you can go back as long as you want and tell them about people who have lived historical characters. But you can’t tell them about Jesus. Even as a historical character, you wouldn’t even have to present Him as God just present He was who He is. He’ll present Himself to us he is God.

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Bob George 13:13
Now that’s some world we live in isn’t it? And it took me to live in a world with a school systems that quite frankly, I think needs a total revolt against a school system that says that you can talk and conjure up spirits and talk about new age and talk about visualization. Teach visualization, a world that has gotten to the point where all you got to do is to get a kid that’s a little squirmy, and you got to put them on Ritalin and somebody determining how squirmy is squirmy. And the thing that gets me a since when did kids when were kids ever not squirmy? I wonder sometimes, who is it that setting the standard of behavior? Who is it that has set himself up to determine what is proper behavior and what is improper behavior? Who is it that has set himself up to determine what is normal and what isn’t normal? I want tell you something who does that, man. The only man that ever walked on the face of this earth from God’s vantage point that was normal was called Jesus. And they called him a wine biber and a glutton, crazy, demon possessed and ended up nailing him to across the only normal human being that ever walked on the face of this earth perceived by man. Is that normal? That shows you the qualification man has to analyze anything. And we set ourselves up in that category to try to analyze what is normal behavior, and how squirmy a kid ought to be and what his concentration span ought to be. I hear them say, he didn’t concentrate well, how old is he? Six. I mean, how many six and seven year old kids do you see, just don’t bother me, I’m concentrating on my mom. And sticking them on Ritalin in order to numb their brain so that by the time they’re 12, they’ll be dependent on drugs for everything. And we call that progress.

I remember, when I was living out in Los Angeles, I stood out there like choking, where you can’t even breathe. When you take a deep breath, you chip your tooth. And you’re sitting out there in this place, and I looked around and my buddy, I said, it’s a lot of progress, isn’t it? Man, we’ve made a lot of progress. We used to out here used to be orange groves out here, if you could smell now you can’t even breathe, people walk around masks on her face a lot of progress. Man is really smart. We’ll just progress ourselves right into the point where you can’t even breathe anymore. So we’re the ones setting those standards when we’ve lost sight that God alone is the standard of truth, there is no standard of truth outside of God, He alone is it. And when man refuses to go to the Word of God to establish a standard of truth, we are left with nothing except. I will, I will establish it. And when you’re talking about human behavior, and establishing what is human behavior, right and wrong, remember who had was that killed the only normal person that ever walked on the face of this earth Jesus of Nazareth.

So it is talking here that we are one body. And we’ve been given one body, we are given the same Spirit to drink it is not for division, but it is for unity.

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Let’s conclude side one. Now please stop your consent, turn it over and continue with side two.

Bob George 17:26
Now let’s go back to chapter 12, to the beginning there and let’s read through that together as it relates to spiritual gifts, and especially through the abuse in the church of Corinth, in regard to this gift of languages. Now about spiritual gifts, brother, I want you I don’t want you to be ignorant. I know that some when that when you were pagans, somehow or another you were influenced and led astray by mute idols. So Paul is very suddenly reminding them where they came from. Therefore, I tell you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says Jesus be cursed. And no one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit. Now folks, that doesn’t mean that you if you were an actor couldn’t say Jesus Lord is Lord. But that’s what you have to be. It doesn’t mean that somebody couldn’t learn some vernacular in the church and hear it long enough. And maybe sometimes that Jesus is, Lord. How many of you remember when you first became a Christian? How many remember that? hHow many of you remember how hard it was to say the word Jesus Christ? Remember that? Now, you could say it in the gym. In a curse word. I said that many times. That wasn’t hard to say. You could say, The Good Lord. The good Lords gonna do that for me, the old Good lord. And you hear a lot of the good Lord, you know, you hear a lot of that one. And you’ll hear about God, know God, that God and God and God, but to say the name Jesus Christ, I will tell you a gag on it. You can’t say it. You can be in all kinds of situations, it almost sounds like you know, a Dracula deer with a cross or that type of thing. But I will tell you be in certain situations, and you hear the name Jesus Christ, and it’ll throw you off in a hurry. The name Jesus Christ has power to it, because it’s associated with God Himself, who was here on this earth, and you will remember that, and it’s only the Spirit of God who is alive living in us that enables you and me to freely be able to verbalize Jesus Christ, the Lord God, Jesus Christ. You don’t have the Spirit of God living in you, you try to communicate that and you’ll gag on it. Like I say, you use the big boy upstairs and the good Lord and God and all that not the word Jesus Christ, and for sure not the word that Jesus Christ is Lord. It takes a Spirit of God living in now said there are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.

There are different kinds of service. but the same Lord, there are different kinds of workings. But the same God works all works all of them in all men. Now to each one, the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. We talked about that last week, gifts are given for the common good of the body, to one there has given through the Spirit, the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge, by means of the same Spirit, To another faith, by the same Spirit, same Spirit that gave one faith gave another wisdom, same Spirit, good one wisdom gave another one faith gave somebody knowledge, to another gifts of healing, by that one Spirit, same Spirit. Do another distinguishing between spirits, in other words, distinguishing when a spirit is true, or whether it’s false. I’ve had people come up, you know, and I’ve got the gift of something. And I said, Good, I got the gift of discernment. And I think you’re a phony. You’re going to claim one mine as well claim them all.

To another, the gift of speaking a different types of tongues languages, to still another interpretation of tongues, languages. All of these work of one and the same Spirit. He gives them to each one, just as who determines? He determines. Now you see folks that you have in this day and age, and not trampling on any gift that God may have given anybody. But can you see how idiotic it is if God’s given you a gift to go out and try to market it to somebody else? Who gave it to you? Oh, God, then leave it alone. You don’t go out and teach somebody your gift, or market it or tell somebody if you don’t have that specific gift I have, you’re not spiritual as I am. There’s the damage. There’s the damage. And that has happened, quite frankly, with the gift of tongues. That what has happened is we have taken off on that. I remember talking to Malcolm Smith, one time he said he was among the group that said in New York, when they coined the name charismatic, they knew they couldn’t get Pentecostal into evangelical churches. They knew they couldn’t get it into Catholic churches, they knew they couldn’t get it into there. So they said, let’s come up with a name that we could get it in all over the place. And so they came up with a name charismatic, nobody could argue with it. But he said when that little c became a capital C and only took one year for it to occur, and that says that that’s when I dropped out. In other words, we made gifts, replaced Christ. And we started talking about gifts we gathered around our centrality was not around Christ, it was around our gifts. And you had that and you had people who were thought were dear brothers in Christ who acted like they liked you always wanted to promote you into a gift. And if you didn’t want to do it, brother, it was as cold as eyes. I’ve seen people have just grinning eyes is beaming at me and me. And I’d say some truth to them and turn around. And it looks like I’m staring in the face of the devil and walk away, angry, shouting every obscenity that you can imagine. I’ve seen it all in regard to what goes on, in the name of Christ.

Now, he is saying to us that, that there are different gifts. And, and each one of the gifts that are given are given by God, just as He determines to give it. So you can’t go out and promote what God gives you. Are we together all that? Do we understand the heresy of that type of a mentality that says you come in I’m going to teach you to speak in tongues. Or it’d be like we say, we’re going to have a meeting, I’m going to teach you to teach, and then I’m going to teach you how to give and I’m going to tell I’m gonna have deals on that. And we’re gonna sit around, we’re gonna make you we’re gonna throw the money out on the table and teach how to give and all and all that type of thing. God is the one who puts it in you, and he’s the one that’s going to put a through you and if he doesn’t do it, it’s man made. I don’t care who does it. It’s man made and it’s of the devil. So gifts, not that you’re discouraging or diminishing any gifts. It’s the abuse of the gifts that is dividing the body of Christ. And quite frankly, makes you recoil against it. Somebody comes up to me and says I have to speak in tongues to be spiritual, or to be saved. You’re not dealing with my joy. I had a guy one time saying you can’t take my joy away from me. said Yeah, but you’re trying to take my salvation away from it. I’d rather have my salvation and be a little less joyful than I would to lose my joy. And instead of my salvation. You don’t, you don’t understand what you’re doing. When you’re telling somebody that if you’re not speaking in tongues or in a gift that you’re not saved, you’re destroying a person’s salvation. Now, there’s another thing it says, if you’re not doing a specific gift, and basically speaking in tongues or whatever it might be that you’re not as spiritual as someone else, then how could Paul then talk about people who were speaking in tongues being a noisy gong and a clanging cymbal? Because he said, you could be speaking in the tongues of men or angels. And if you don’t have love, you’re a noisy gong and a clanging cymbal, that means you could be doing it but God calls you an old clanging cymbal and a noisy gong. So don’t ever think that that is has anything to do with being spirit in the spirit. Another thing that you will see come up is people talk about I’m a spirit filled Christian. Are you really? What minute? Do you know what be spirit filled means? It means to be controlled by. It would be like saying, I’m controlled with a Spirit. Only if you are then you’re controlled by what? What does it mean to be controlled with the Spirit? It means to be controlled with the love of God. It tells you in the book of Ephesians exactly what it means to know the height and depth and breadth and width of the love of God and to know this love that surpasses knowledge so that you will be filled to the measure with the fullness of God, how could you be filled with the major the fullness of God and not be filled to Spirit? Could you? Of course not how come? No because the Spirit is God.

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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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