Radio Broadcast Tuesday 12/12/2023

Classic Christianity – Book of Hebrews P45 (12-12-23)

Pay Attention to Details, “As in the Days of Noah”

~ We are told to pay attention to the details in the word of God. Not only did Jesus speak of Noah and Lot being actual people, he also gave us clear instruction as to what to expect when he returns. Folks, it’s not a pretty sight. For don’t forget those outside the ark were swept away. Some of you might get a little squeamish on the details, but that is why we actually need to pay attention to the details. Jesus gave this information for us to be aware of. We are not to throw away specific verses that don’t make us feel good. Because that is the flesh talking. And Satan wants you to focus on the flesh. The flesh always wants to feel good, even when a person is in Christ Jesus, we sometimes want to dismiss the clear cut truth of the word of God. But the Holy Spirit wants each of us to pay attention to the details, and don’t trust any man’s interpenetration of the word of God, but on everything take it to the Holy Spirit is He is indeed alive living in you. For there is only one person that is the author of ALL Truth, and that is God himself.

We could go on on this subject a bit. Don’t forget we were all deceived by Satan. And many are still deceived by Satan and the world because we tend to trust the world’s teaching instead of God. All of us at one time or another have shared lies with our children. Most of us even have brought our children up in a “Christian” religious system, built on lies left and right. And it is coming to the attention of many truly born again the lies we were all taught and passed on to others. It’s time to tell it like it is. It’s time to stop listening to the lies of Satan and instead listen to the Holy Spirit teach you truth. And it doesn’t matter who the teacher was in the past, if there are lies of Satan in the teaching that the Holy Spirit points out, then listen closely to what He has to say to you.

For in these last days, people will draw to themselves what their itchy ears want to hear. They will not endure sound doctrine. It’s obvious to the most casual observer, but it is hidden from the minds of those that are perishing. Knowledge is increasing for those with ears to hear and eyes to see.

~ “But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” ^{Matthew 24:37-39}

~ “And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.” ^{Luke 26:30}

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~ “Now let’s take a look at another one. We have deals like Noah, Noah’s got an ark out there, some people out there looking for it. So okay. But let’s just see what Jesus had to say about that. In case anybody’s kind of wondering whether there was one. Jesus, now who is Jesus? God. So here’s what God had to say about that ark. As it was in the days of Noah, this is in Matthew 24:37 through 39 as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the date Noah entered the ark, they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them away. And that is how it’s gonna be at the coming of the Son of Man. Now, let me ask you a question. Do you think Jesus believed that there was Noah and an ark? You have a clue that maybe he might have believed that? Do you think that he would in any way, shape, or form used a correlation of such an important event as the second coming to some kind of a fairy tale? He correlated it to a human event, just as Noah was in an ark, that event took place. So is there another event that’s going to take place, and that is going to be that I God, I’m going to come back to this earth in the same way. And when I do come back, the condition of the world will be the same as it was in those days of Noah, where everyone was just having a ball and saying who needs God? He said, that’s when I’m coming back. In Luke, same thing, Luke 17:26 to 27, just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. In Second Peter, two, five, it said he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness and seven others. So when we’re talking about something like Noah and the ark, instead of it being some fairy tale, some nice kitty story that they can teach back in the kids department, we have to understand that if Jesus is God, and he said, There is then was an ark, and there was a Noah, then folks, there was an ark and there was Noah. If there wasn’t, he ceases to be God. So you see the question, was there an ark is answered by? What do you say about Jesus? And when people throw these things up as smoke screens, you don’t deal with the smoke screen, you go back to the author. You see people take books and this type of thing, and we make heroes out of books. See, and, and we go to school and study books. No one ever stops. Think who wrote this sucker? What was his character? What did he know? He didn’t hard to get a book out. The issue is, what’s the credibility of the author? Who is the author? What do they know? And when you start dealing into that, you wonder why you read the book. But when you’re dealing with the author of this book, you’re dealing with God. And so you’re not going to see any difference between God and His Word. So a person says, I don’t believe Noah was in an ark. Then they’re saying I don’t believe Jesus is God. So why would I want to prove to them that he was in an art by going and finding an ark? Do you think if you went and found an ark that the whole world is Oh, where’s Jesus? Let me believe in him. What you think they will say, what you, what do you think they’ll say if they find it? Yeah, show me something else. All right, found all kinds of things. You think people are going to be satisfied with that? Folks think about it for a minute as Jesus said if they didn’t come to him when he raised Lazarus from the dead Why do you think people are gonna come to him for somebody find some pieces of wood? That’s what Jesus said Did he not he said you you you people who have your faith in Moses, Moses wrote about me and if you don’t believe him, why do you think you’re gonna believe me? He wrote about me and we have this idea that all we have to do is to go into dig up some of these things and a whole world is gonna come to Jesus No, they’re not and so we’re out trying to prove and that’s okay I guess what you’re trying to prove there was an ark, if you prove there was one what would it matter if you didn’t come to Christ go before God Why do you deserve to be here? I believe there was an ark. Okay. So the people in it so when all relies upon does it not comes back to the question Who do you say that I am?” ~ Bob George

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So folks, the word of God is not only to take in, but it’s to be used properly. And we it gets used and abused, unfortunately in Christendom. Now we’ve talked about and well backup for just a moment in regard to this whole thing of this word that we hold in our hand today. We’ve talked about before that the validity of whether this word is true and reliable and dependable is totally based upon the testimony of Christ Jesus himself. If Christ Jesus himself is truly who He claimed to be, and that is God, and I assume everyone sitting in here knows that and has a relationship with him. I hope if you don’t, I hope you will. But to know that Christ Jesus is ALIVE, He lives in you. And he is exactly who he claimed to be God because He did claim to be God. We we’ve we’ve covered that. His claims were throughout scripture of His deity. The Old Testament testified to His deity, the New Testament writers all have testified to His deity. So, if Christ indeed was not God, then He was a liar or an impostor, because those are the only options you have available to you. He was either a liar, who knew that he wasn’t God and claimed that he was he was a madman who thought he was God when He indeed he wasn’t. And anyone who wasn’t God and thought he was would be a madman, or he was God. And that’s just all the options you have available to you. And you got to take your pick of one of those three. But as CS Lewis says, let’s not come up with a patronizing nonsense about him being a good moral teacher, he did not leave that option open to us he never intended to. And a man claimed himself to be God is either a maniac, or an imposter, or he is God. That just that simple. So if we have come to Him for who He is God, then we have to go to God to see now what did God say then about this word, so I don’t need to go through an exegesis, I don’t need to go through a bunch of digging up. Dead Sea Scrolls, or whatever it is, although those certainly help some people. Because it just takes the original writings back closer to the days that they were originally written. But my testimony and my belief in the Word of God that has nothing to do with a dead sea scrolls being dug up, or have Noah’s Ark being found or not found I could care less. It is better. It is based and predicated upon the teaching of Jesus Christ. He said, Your word is truth. He said, I tell you the truth, this is God’s speaking that until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter nor the least stroke of the pen, will by any means disappear from the law until everything is accomplished, the whole thing has to get accomplished. And he accomplished it. He said, Heaven and earth will pass away but my words will never pass away. Never. Peter said, All men are like grass, all their glory is like the flowers in the field, The grass withers, the flowers fall. But the word of our God stands forever. And this was the word it says it was preached to you. So the validity of the Word of God rests totally upon the testimony of Jesus and his apostles, doesn’t it?

Now let’s take a look at another one. We have deals like Noah, Noah’s got an ark out there, some people out there looking for it. So okay. But let’s just see what Jesus had to say about that. In case anybody’s kind of wondering whether there was one. Jesus, now who is Jesus? God. So here’s what God had to say about that ark. As it was in the days of Noah, this is in Matthew 24:37 through 39 as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the date Noah entered the ark, they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them away. And that is how it’s gonna be at the coming of the Son of Man. Now, let me ask you a question. Do you think Jesus believed that there was Noah and an ark? You have a clue that maybe he might have believed that? Do you think that he would in any way, shape, or form used a correlation of such an important event as the second coming to some kind of a fairy tale? He correlated it to a human event, just as Noah was in an ark, that event took place. So is there another event that’s going to take place, and that is going to be that I God, I’m going to come back to this earth in the same way. And when I do come back, the condition of the world will be the same as it was in those days of Noah, where everyone was just having a ball and saying who needs God? He said, that’s when I’m coming back. In Luke, same thing, Luke 17:26 to 27, just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. In Second Peter, two, five, it said he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness and seven others. So when we’re talking about something like Noah and the ark, instead of it being some fairy tale, some nice kitty story that they can teach back in the kids department, we have to understand that if Jesus is God, and he said, There is then was an ark, and there was a Noah, then folks, there was an ark and there was Noah. If there wasn’t, he ceases to be God. So you see the question, was there an ark is answered by? What do you say about Jesus? And when people throw these things up as smoke screens, you don’t deal with the smoke screen, you go back to the author. You see people take books and this type of thing, and we make heroes out of books. See, and, and we go to school and study books. No one ever stops. Think who wrote this sucker? What was his character? What did he know? He didn’t hard to get a book out. The issue is, what’s the credibility of the author? Who is the author? What do they know? And when you start dealing into that, you wonder why you read the book. But when you’re dealing with the author of this book, you’re dealing with God. And so you’re not going to see any difference between God and His Word. So a person says, I don’t believe Noah was in an ark. Then they’re saying I don’t believe Jesus is God. So why would I want to prove to them that he was in an art by going and finding an ark? Do you think if you went and found an ark that the whole world is Oh, where’s Jesus? Let me believe in him. What you think they will say, what you, what do you think they’ll say if they find it? Yeah, show me something else. All right, found all kinds of things. You think people are going to be satisfied with that? Folks think about it for a minute as Jesus said if they didn’t come to him when he raised Lazarus from the dead Why do you think people are gonna come to him for somebody find some pieces of wood? That’s what Jesus said Did he not he said you you you people who have your faith in Moses, Moses wrote about me and if you don’t believe him, why do you think you’re gonna believe me? He wrote about me and we have this idea that all we have to do is to go into dig up some of these things and a whole world is gonna come to Jesus No, they’re not and so we’re out trying to prove and that’s okay I guess what you’re trying to prove there was an ark, if you prove there was one what would it matter if you didn’t come to Christ go before God Why do you deserve to be here? I believe there was an ark. Okay. So the people in it so when all relies upon does it not comes back to the question Who do you say that I am?

Well, what about another one that has been criticized Jonah and the whale Jonah and the fish we’ll just call it Jonah and the whale for because that’s what most people do. It’s literally interpreted Jonah and the big fish. Well, what Jesus had to say about that, well, he said, a wicked and adulterous generation asked for miraculous signs in that interesting thing. For a generation today that all you hear about are looking for signs. miraculous signs, give me another miraculous sign, Lord, let me go to another meetings, see somebody’s legs straighten. Let me go to another meeting and see somebody miraculous, give me some more miraculous signs. That’s all I want to do. I don’t want to hear the Word of God. I just want to go to a side show and see miraculous signs going on. You have entire ministries built around not teaching the Word of God just miraculous signs, just healing people just that’s all we do. Say why don’t you to go to the hospital where they’re sick. He said, You’re an adulterous generation. You’re not looking for me, you’re looking for a play thing out there. You’re looking for something else besides a reality with me, looking for a Christian Sideshow to go to someplace to get excited. Jump up and down. Instead of realizing that this Christian life is going to produce something more than excitement and greater than excitement, it’s going to produce something called love. Or anything exciting about that. It’s just quite miraculous. He said, You’re a wicked and adulterous generation. All you’re asking for is a miraculous sign. But he said, None will be given, none will be given except the sign of the prophet Jonah. I’ll tell you something, folks, the Lord cleared, pretty clear there. I’m not gonna give you any more signs. The next miracle I’m going to give you is going to be a resurrection from the dead. And if you don’t believe that you’re not going to believe anything. He said that none is going to be given except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish. So the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. And the men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemned it for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now one greater than Jonah is here. Luke 11, the crowds increased. Jesus said, this is a wicked generation. It asked for miraculous sign. It’s all I want, miraculous signs. Remember, when it talked about in the last days what it was going to be like? The days of Noah. It follows into the days of Jonah. It’s the same thing. World out chasing this, the religious world Chase and miraculous signs. Try to increase somebody’s faith with a miraculous sign. He said, My God, how much more of a miraculous sign do you need to get your faith increase? Then when I was raised from the dead? Just how much more signs do you need? How many more miracles do you need than when I was raised from the dead?

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How much more love do you need expressed to you than what was manifested at the cross? When I God who knew no sin became sin for you, so that you could become the righteousness of God in me. Just how much more love? Do you need expressed than that? How many more signs do you need to believe in me? You said it’s an adulterous, wicked generation. What were these wicked adulterous people doing? Playing religion. I mean, religious acting, singing religious songs, going to religious services, acting religious, talking religious, praying, religious. He said you’re wicked, you’re adulterous. I see what you’re doing on the outside. But your heart is cold to truth. All you’re looking for is signs. He said none will be given. I’m sorry, folks, I love you too much. I’m not going to give you any more signs. Any other signs, you see, you’re not going to be coming from me. There’ll be coming from somebody else. I’m giving you my side. It’s called raised from the dead. And he said, For just as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also the Son of Man will be in this generation The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment, and this generation will condemn it that repented the preaching of Jonah. Now one greater than John is here. So I want to ask you a question. Do you believe that Jesus believed in Jonah and the whale? Think so? Yeah, so when people say oh, do you believe you really don’t believe that? Jonah was swallowed by a whale? Do you? What do you think of Jesus? What’s that got to do with Jonah and the whale? Everything. Everything. What do you believe in Jesus? Do you think he’s God or not? If I could prove to you right now beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jonah was in a whale would you get on your knees right now and accept Christ? No. Well, I’m not going to bother to prove it to you then. Why would I want to deal with a peripheral issue and there’s a major one at hand. If you’re in Christ, and you believe Jesus is God and you read the Jesus said Jonah was in a whale, that settles that question. There isn’t any argument. You don’t need to sit around and study science on it. If he’s God if Jesus isn’t God, what in a world would I care whether Jonah was swallowed by a whale or whether Jonah swallowed a whale? What would it matter? In gonna help me get along my wife knowing Jonah was in a whale or out a one. If he didn’t God, why would people want to deal with that? It is irrelevant. If Jesus isn’t God, I don’t care whether Noah was in an ark, or whether he was on top of it or drowned? Who cares? If Jesus isn’t God, if he isn’t, God, you and I are still in our sins were to be pitied of all people. What good is it gonna do us to live on this earth with full knowledge that Jonah was in a whale and be lost? Smoke screens thrown up by the atheistic mind. And the people too smart to believe in the miraculous of Jesus.

We talked about creation, got the big deal and you got in your schools creationism, creationism? Why did that start? People don’t believe in Jesus. So you can go back into the Old Testament folks and say the Genesis account the Genesis account and that would all the arguments take place, the Scopes Trial and everything else? What a what a doe, Brian, get up, got up there and made a fool out of himself. Trying to talk about the Genesis story, the Genesis out in a shoe Genesis and where that’s proven, it’s proven by Jesus. Jesus is the one who was raised from the dead. He’s the one who came and proclaimed himself to be God. You don’t go back to Genesis to prove the Genesis story. You go to the one who was before all things that were created by Him and for Him. You don’t need to go back to the creation of the earth go back to the Creator. This man called Jesus who came to this earth claiming himself to be God, there’s the answer to that. Is Jesus who He claimed to be? Is he God or isn’t he? If he is all things were made for him, but all things were made by Him, nothing was made that was made. Is that true or not? If he is Jesus, that’s the testimony concerning it. So what about creation? Jesus said, Matthew 19, four, haven’t you replied? He said, haven’t you read that at the beginning, the Creator made them male and female. Don’t you know that? We got a collider going down there and were Waxahachie down there and government spending billions of dollars to try to determine what? T?he source of creation spend 10 bucks and give it to the government and saving some money. My Lord, where are we today? But what is that from? Man saying no. Oh he says I believe in God. Because you can go back into those and say where the earth was billions and billions and billions of years old and all that kind of stuff. That’s not the issue. What do you think Sagan of Jesus? That’s the issue? Who do you say that he is? That’s the issue. That’s what a man called Jesus of Nazareth came to this earth for walked on the face of this earth for 33 years, showed himself to be who he was, God hung on a cross died for the sins of man raised from the dead, so that that life that raised Him from the dead could be put in you and me and raised us from the dead. That’s the centrality of the Bible. That’s the issue Sagen not what you believe of the book of Genesis, but what do you say about Jesus? School teacher, that’s the issue.

People talk about getting the Bible back into schools and Bible back to school Bob back in schools what good or do to have a Bible back in the schools taught by an atheist? Man I had Bible taught when I was in school, it was boring thing around my life, hated it. Teach the Bible academically. It’s a spiritual book. It can’t even be understood what it means academically. It can’t even get its meaning in the church, let alone the school. What do you think of Jesus? The centrality of your in my very life. He is your life.

God said let us make man in our image. God created man in his own image. Peter said We deliberately forgot long ago by the word of God that heavens existed and the earth was formed out by water and by water. Hebrews by faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command so that what was seen was made out of what was not visible. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made without him, nothing was made that has been made. It said he rescued us. Colossians, 1:13 and 17, from the dominion of darkness brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created. things in heaven and earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities, all things were created by Him. And for him. He Jesus is before all things. and in Him all things hold together. Hebrews one, one through three in the past, God spoke to our fore fathers through the prophets at many times, and in various ways, and that’s how he spoke to them. But contrast folks, but in these last days, and that’s another thing going on. Everyone walk around thinking they’re prophets. I’m a prophet, I’ve got this No, you’re not. He spoke in days past through prophets, and at many times, and in various ways, but contrast. And these last days, he has spoken to us by his Son, not through prophets. Not in various ways, not at many times, but one time, through His Son, Jesus Christ, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe, He made it. The Son is the radiance of God’s glory, and the exact representation of his being sustaining all things by his powerful word. And after he had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. If Jesus is God, and he said that these events occurred, these events occurred again if he’s not God, whether or not these events occurred is totally irrelevant to your in my life. The authority of the New Testament in the past God spoke to our fore fathers, but in these last days, he spoken to us though he said, the authority of the Bible is any son. Now, folks, the same thing is true when it came to the apostles, Christ word was given then to the apostles. John said, Did he not I have much more to say to you more than you can bear but when he the spirit of truth now comes, He will guide you now into all truth. Who did you? What did Jesus say was the truth? The word, he said, I’m the truth. He said, My Word is true. So if the Spirit of God is going to come and guide you into all truth, what is he going to be pointing you to? Him through where you gonna learn about him? The Word of God, not through some experience, the word of God. Now, if the experience matches up with a word, praise God, if it doesn’t, what do you do with it? Your discount. He will not speak on his own, he will speak only what he hears, and he’ll tell you what is yet to come. He will bring the Holy Spirit of God He will bring not she, not it, He will bring me glory by taking from what is mine and making it known to you. The role of the Holy Spirit of God living in you and me is to take the things of the Lord Jesus Christ and make it known unto you. In John 14, he says all of this, I’ve spoken while I was still with you, but the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He The Holy Spirit will teach you all things. He’ll teach you all things, and will remind you of everything he said that I’ve said to you. John 15, you must testify for you have been with me from the beginning. I want you to know brothers that the gospel I preached in Galatians, Paul said is not something that man made up I did not receive it from any man nor was I taught it rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.

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