Radio Broadcast Wednesday 01/24/2024

Classic Christianity – Book of Hebrews P58 (01-24-24)

Jesus Said it is Finished ~ Tetelestai!

~ Most don’t believe what Jesus said. Most ignore the details in the word of God. They don’t believe it is finished. Nor do they understand what is finished. To most, it is simply words written down that Jesus said, and there is no meaning to the very words of God. It means nothing to them, because they are still going to their confession booths and streaming down the aisles to get forgiveness, praying the 1 John 1:9 words thinking they are getting more forgiveness from God, all the while showing by their actions that they have NOT placed faith in Jesus at all. They simply pretend to know Jesus. They are acting and are hypocrites and spokespeople for Satan. They are being used as controlled opposition and sharing the lies of Satan and they keep placing Jesus back up the cross over and over again. And people place these liars on a pedestal today. We can see that everywhere. Folks that should know better are too scared to call them out, because they think we ought not to judge, when in fact the child of God is supposed to judge ALL things. And it’s not even a question of whether we are to judge or not, for Scripture tells us the spiritual child of God judges All things. It’s a statement of fact. “But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.” [1 Corinthians 2:15]. So quit using that statement that we ought not to judge. Satan loves it when he gets a person with something from the word of God, taken out of context, to silence people from the Truth. And make no mistake about it, most pastors, teachers and Internet personalities do NOT share the Truth of the Word of God.

Many have heard the Truth of this teaching over and over again, yet they have never truly repented. For if they had, the Holy Spirit would have been working in them to share the Truth of the word of God. Not just to give lip service to it, but actual facts. Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of Sins. And Jesus is never going to die on a cross again. It is finished! Forgiveness is complete. Rest in it. Shout it from the rooftops. God was in Christ Jesus and He is no longer counting your sins against you! Do you believe it? Have you exercised faith in that TRUTH?

There is so much more that the Holy Spirit wants to show us. But many are still babes in Christ Jesus, even after years and years of hearing Truth. But folks, time is short at hand. For in these last days much is happening that we need to be aware of. Wake up, and indeed the Holy Spirit is waking some up today. Ask for wisdom from God, and he will give it abundantly without finding fault in anyone. James 1:5

~ After this, Jesus, knowing that now all things had been accomplished, so that Scripture might be fulfilled, says, “I thirst.” A vessel full of sour wine had been set there. So having put on a stalk of hyssop a sponge filled with sour wine, they brought it to the mouth. Therefore when Jesus took the sour wine, He said “It has been finished.” And having bowed the head, He yielded up the spirit. ^{John 19:28-30}

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~ “You know what it boils down to folks is the fact. But I’m coming to the conclusion is we really don’t believe it. And I wonder how many people are sitting in a situation of never truly exercising, saving faith. If we’ve just given lip service to something, if we’ve never progressed very far beyond the season that we’re going into, and that’s a babe in a manger, and get all loosey goosey over a little baby in a manger. But never have a clue as to what that little baby came to do. That baby was born to die. And he died so that we could live. He had no other reason to die except that we could live. He didn’t die because he wanted to he died so that we who are dead could live. And he didn’t do that by a 99.9% cross. He did it by 100% Cross and if it wasn’t 100% it wasn’t any. Your 99.9% pure I’m sorry you’re not pure. You’re ivory soap, but you’re not pure. You either are 100% forgiven, or you’re nothing forgiven. The reason if we want to hang on to that is because of this pride in man that keeps saying, I want a piece of this action. I feel I’m a part of this, you know, watch me. And the attention that gets back on me and what I’m doing instead of him and what he’s doing. Now under the Old Covenant, and under the sacrificial systems, and under the practice of Hebrewism, it was a practice of here’s what you do you do this, I God will respond. That’s true. It was there. They weren’t making that up, it was there. But it was all changed at the cross. Because man couldn’t do it. In his heart. He could do it with his body, but he couldn’t do with his heart. He couldn’t come sincerely and do anything with his heart, just with his outward body. And so therefore, all of the attention is on me and what I’m doing or me and what I’m not doing. I heard a guy on the radio today on the thing of we have a new see this practice holiness, if I am practicing holiness, and I get holy, guess who’s gonna get the credit? Why me? Man, I made it I got myself holy, how am I practicing it? I just took care that. The attention comes on you and what you’re doing instead of him, and what he’s doing. And we have to understand folks that Christianity is Christ. In all, it’s all him. It’s none of us. Our only thing that God called us to do is to walk by faith in Him, the just, that’s you and me the ones who have been justified, shall walk by faith, in the one who justified.” ~ Bob George

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Bob George 0:28
We’ve sit around trying to figure out God, thank God got him all figured out. You can’t be more deceived than that. There’s no way to be any more to see than you and your finite mind and me and my finite mind thinking I got God figured out. That you see on television people in there, they got the book of Revelation all figured out, baloney. How do you figure out that kind of stuff. You’ll figure it out when it gets revealed. And not a moment before. You don’t have that anymore figured out then the Hebrews had it figured out what God was going to do through Jesus. That’s why they can’t figure it out even when he came. And it says that holy men wrote things they didn’t even know. They didn’t know what they were prophesying. They were just prophesied but they didn’t know what it was gonna be. And when he came, they didn’t recognize it. Because they had pre formed in their minds what it was going to be and when it didn’t agree with what they’re pre formed in our minds was they nailed Him to the cross, we can do the same things. We get so smart and intelligent, we think we got everything figured out. We don’t have anything figured out. The fact of the matter is, it’s all him. It’s all Jesus, and nothing else. It’s Christ Jesus, alive living in you and me. That is our only hope of ever being what God intended us to be. And this is what this whole book is about pointing us back to him, folks. To him. It was he, because of his submission, he learned, he became the eternal source of salvation.

Now, the writer is going to have to say, we have so much more to say about this. Say about what? About the total sufficiency of Christ. That’s so much more to say about this. But it’s hard to explain because you’re slow to learn. Why are we slow to learn? Because we go off chasing rabbits all the time. That’s why we’re slow to learn. Man, we’re out in left field all the time, we ought to be running around the bases. We’re out in the field, chasing rabbits out there. And it makes us slow to learn. We think we’re smart chasing rabbits, we’re not. Because we have our concentration on the wrong thing. There’s only one thing to be preoccupied with my friends, and that’s the Lord Jesus Christ. He’s the beginning. He’s the end, he’s the Alpha, he’s the Omega. He’s your life. When he who is your life appears you’ll appear with him. It’s all him. Nothing else, just him. So he said, there’s more but your hard, you’re slow to learn. In fact, by this time, you ought to be teachers, you ought to be teachers, God, you’ve studied so much. But you don’t even know what you’re teaching. You need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. What was the elementary truths of God’s word? What it was from the beginning, from the book of Genesis on, I’m going to send somebody who’s going to bruise the heel. It’s going to be your savior Jesus, from the book of Genesis on was a book pointing to Jesus. You need milk, not solid food. Anyone who lives on milk still being an infant is not acquainted with the teachings about righteousness. But solid foods for the mature, who by constant usage. You see this folks by constant usage? It doesn’t say by constant learning. It says by constant usage. How many times do we have to see this in our lives? Folks, how many times do we have to see this, that in our lives, that it does not mean a hill of beans to anybody? To have your head full of knowledge, and your heart full of bitterness? What good does it do to have your head full of information? When your heart is still hard as a brick? Doesn’t make any sense does it? You see you can sit around and be theologically right on and be dispositionally be off as you could possibly get. Our pride, our ego is something that is always raising its ugly head. And knowledge does what? Puffs up. And we sit around thinking we’re getting spiritual by sitting around nothing wrong with studying the Word of God. But we get we think we get spiritually sitting around hours upon hours upon hours, studying the Word of God and never put it into practice. We live isolated lives sometimes. We don’t want to get involved with people because we don’t particularly ever want them to really find out what we’re like. And as a result of this, we never put these things into practice. And what he’s saying is you cannot mature that way we think maturity is the gaining of knowledge. Maturity is putting what little you have and believing it acting upon it. What good would it do for God to teach you and me more if we haven’t applied what we already know? I mean, why are already known as 10 times more and I’m able to put into practice. Why would he by spirit want to teach me more when I’m not even putting into practice what I already know? And so he says as for solid foods for the mature who by constant usage have trained them selves to distinguish good from evil, through usage. And that is putting it into practice. And you know, when you put the Word of God into practice, you’ll suddenly find out what’s right and wrong, don’t you, because the consequences are there.

Remember the days and maybe we’re still there. Remember the days when I thought I knew so much about the word and I was so studious, and I could tell everybody about very authoritative what I all of it meant, all of it. All of it. It didn’t make an ounce of difference to me that in my explanation that ran people off, made people mad, irritated them. My explanation for that is they’re just not as spiritual as I am. They obviously don’t understand as much as I do. Never entered your mind that our unloving spirit was not of God. And come to the conclusion all this stuff I’m learning and obviously doing me a hill of beans, a word good. What good does it do if your head’s full of knowledge? Again, and your heart is full of pride? And so he’s dealing with us here. And he’s talking about the fact that through usage, realizing it’s all Jesus, folks, do you realize that reduces us to nothingness? Do you realize that the reason that people want to hang on to religion, why we want to hang on from what he’s talking about here and the sacrificial system and what we want to hang on today? With our first John one nine type mentality, or what I’m out doing for God mentality? Do you realize what that is doing? It is keeping me in the action. It is prohibiting me from seeing what Jesus was trying to teach us all along. And that’s it’s all me, Bob, and none of you. Apart from me, you can do nothing. I’m the vine, you’re nothing but a Branch. Now, branch is in my plan, I plan on putting fruit hanging on that thing. I could have it hanging out on the vine if I wanted to, I chose to do it with a branch, and you’re a branch, but you’re a fruit hanger. And don’t think that you could ever produce fruit you can’t. Don’t think that you will, you won’t. I will produce it. If you will abide in me Who alone is your life, I will produce it in and through you, you will bear it it will look to others like you’re producing it which you will be bearing that fruit. But apart from that you can’t do anything. And man rebels against that, folks, our pride and our hearts. We rebel against that. And we say I want something to do with that. I want a part of this action. I want somebody to say I did some of this. And that’s why we rebel and recoil so much against total forgiveness. I cannot tell you folks, you’re maybe have learned some of you have been through it. The number of people just heard again of a guy back in Louisville, Bob was telling me about nice, sincere brother who goes back to his church and starts teaching the totality of forgiveness. That Christ meant that when he said it’s finished, kicked out of the church. Church out in Modesto, California big church out there in there. We went on a new radio station rode out and said take us off, you know, we’re not gonna be on they’re not same station, Bob George is on. How come? We teach that total forgiveness. What’s wrong with total forgiveness? I thought that’s what Jesus came to do. Didn’t you?

You know what it boils down to folks is the fact. But I’m coming to the conclusion is we really don’t believe it. And I wonder how many people are sitting in a situation of never truly exercising, saving faith. If we’ve just given lip service to something, if we’ve never progressed very far beyond the season that we’re going into, and that’s a babe in a manger, and get all loosey goosey over a little baby in a manger. But never have a clue as to what that little baby came to do. That baby was born to die. And he died so that we could live. He had no other reason to die except that we could live. He didn’t die because he wanted to he died so that we who are dead could live. And he didn’t do that by a 99.9% cross. He did it by 100% Cross and if it wasn’t 100% it wasn’t any. Your 99.9% pure I’m sorry you’re not pure. You’re ivory soap, but you’re not pure. You either are 100% forgiven, or you’re nothing forgiven. The reason if we want to hang on to that is because of this pride in man that keeps saying, I want a piece of this action. I feel I’m a part of this, you know, watch me. And the attention that gets back on me and what I’m doing instead of him and what he’s doing. Now under the Old Covenant, and under the sacrificial systems, and under the practice of Hebrewism, it was a practice of here’s what you do you do this, I God will respond. That’s true. It was there. They weren’t making that up, it was there. But it was all changed at the cross. Because man couldn’t do it. In his heart. He could do it with his body, but he couldn’t do with his heart. He couldn’t come sincerely and do anything with his heart, just with his outward body. And so therefore, all of the attention is on me and what I’m doing or me and what I’m not doing. I heard a guy on the radio today on the thing of we have a new see this practice holiness, if I am practicing holiness, and I get holy, guess who’s gonna get the credit? Why me? Man, I made it I got myself holy, how am I practicing it? I just took care that. The attention comes on you and what you’re doing instead of him, and what he’s doing. And we have to understand folks that Christianity is Christ. In all, it’s all him. It’s none of us. Our only thing that God called us to do is to walk by faith in Him, the just, that’s you and me the ones who have been justified, shall walk by faith, in the one who justified.

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Bob George 14:08
That’s how we walk. You don’t walk by sight. You walk by Faith. You don’t walk by self effort. You walk by faith. And that’s what this whole book of Hebrews is about teaching us to walk my faith not in yourself. Not in your tradition. But an Him Who alone is faithful. Now it says let’s leave these elementary teachings then. Folks, let’s move on about Christ and go on to maturity. These elementary teachings about Christ, we shouldn’t have to keep going over these things over and over again. We shouldn’t have to keep going over the finality of the cross. You shouldn’t have to keep talking about that. It ought to be so much part of your life that it’s not even worth talking about. It’s just there. It is the case you have settled an issue. It’s finished, and I’m gonna walk in that fact that it’s finished. I’m not gonna be wondering anymore. Am I forgiven? Or aren’t I forgiven? I’m not gonna walk anymore with this thought, oh, God’s gonna get you for that. That’s impossible. I’m not gonna walk anymore when that thing bangs in your mind, boy, oh, God, you got this bony finger, it’s 40 feet long going around the corners pointing at you, you’re not gonna buy that anymore. That’s not there. It’s not truth, folks. Everybody likes to do that. Because I put you on a guilt trip and you feel bad, then when you feel bad, there’s only one thing to do. And that’s either get feeling worse, or say I’ll do better God. And so off we go other self effort to do better. That’s not it. It’s be able to realize, I don’t get forgiven, I am forgiven. I am forgiven forever. I live in forgiveness. And so to you, and that was not brought about by anything that you and I did. It was brought about totally by everything that he did. It’s all him. We had nothing to do with that. It’s all him. And we walk in this newness of life. That’s what is new about that life. there anything new about life, of getting forgiven yesterday and getting forgiven again tomorrow and getting forgiven again, tomorrow. There’s nothing new about that you could have gone back to the Old Testament days and got that. The newness of life is living knowing in the depths of your own heart knowing it. It’s finished. It’s done. It’s over. And you and I can walk in a newness of life as forgiven saints that have been created in the image of God for good works. Why do we deny that? Because we haven’t believed it. I think it’s the same thing John said they went out from among us because they were never a part of us. We don’t believe it. We don’t believe the finished work of the cross we look at the cross as something to cry over a man dying on it’s worthy of that and never get beyond it. We would like to see him and that’s what he’s talking about here. You’re making a public disgrace. We’d like to crucify him all over again, subjecting to public disgrace. That’s what we would like is it make us feel better. And we don’t see that in many instances, we’ve never come to saving faith. We’ve just played games we’ve we’ve done no more than an intellectual assent. I saw man dying on a cross he said he forgave my sins, praise God, thank hallelujah, I’m saved all over again. We never see beyond that. We keep streaming people down aisles to recommit your life and recommit your life and recommit your life. Why? Why do you keep coming? Because you’ve never believed to begin with. And that’s exactly what he’s talking about leaving these elementary teachings, it’s time to leave them or settle them or get off of them. Either believe Christ, go be a Buddhist or something else if you’re not gonna believe Christ. Go worship something else if we’re not going to believe him. So he said, It’s time to grow up and leave these elementary teachings about the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, of faith in God. To leave this stuff about instruction and baptisms. We don’t need that anymore. Laying on our hands totally irrelevant. resurrection of the dead, eternal judgment. It’s over. It’s been finished by Christ. It’s time to move on grow up.

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Bob George 19:12
Quit acting like babies. And he said it’s impossible for those who once been enlightened. Who have tasted the heavenly gift. Every one of these things are tasting, enlightened, shared, but never consumed. What I’m talking about, tasted the goodness of the Word of God. The powers of the cutting edge says impossible if they fall away to be brought back to repentance. How come you can’t be brought back to repentance? You’ve never repented. Never change your mind to begin with. When playing games, spiritual games, chasing toys, books, that’s what you’re seeing all over. And the more I see See it, the more evidence it is. You see these ministries falling one after another after another after another. And that’s exactly what the Bible says if you don’t judge yourself with your own actions, I’ll guarantee you Barbara Wawa will or somebody like her. The world is now having to judge the Christian world because the Christian world was too stupid to judge themselves. And we’ve latched on to all kinds of teaching. And we’ve latched on to this name it and claim it junk and prosperity gospel which is out of the pit of hell, by men as it says of perverted minds. And we follow them, like dumb sheep. By the 1000s. Stand up and tell somebody about the finality of the cross. Kick you out of the church. Tell somebody I got some Jordan water. In this little vial, you send some money in, millions of dollars sent, for some water out of Dallas tap. And what if it was from Jordan? I mean, is that something that’s supposed to do something for you, man, you could go and drink the Jordan River? No, the only thing that it will do for you is drown you.

We prefer to believe lies than the believe Truth. The human heart would rather be deceived. We like magic better than we do reality. Stand up and worship actors. As all your actors, actors, actors, what are you doing when you’re acting? Playing a part. Is it real? No, no. It’s an act. And we worship at their feet. We would rather worship at the feet of someone acting a part, than to worship at the feet of the one who did the part. That’s Jesus. Jesus didn’t come to act. He came to finalize.

And that’s what he’s saying here. We’ve tasted, you can’t fall away and urban repented to you’d never change your mind. To your loss. It says there crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace. In other words, bring him back. Folks, if you’re not totally forgiven, if you are in Christ to die, if you’re in Christ, Christ is in you. There’s only one way that occurred. And that was by faith. There’s only one way that you and I were saved, one way only. And that was a point in time. And I don’t know when that was in your life, I happen to know what it was in mine. But that is not important if I’m if I didn’t know, I didn’t I didn’t know when I was born the first time. But I do know I was. But there was a point in time in history in your life, from the time you were born to this very moment. When you reached out by faith and said, Lord Jesus, I believe you. I believe that you died for my sins. I believe you were raised from the dead. And I believe that you want to give your life to me. I’m a mess. I can’t do it. I can’t live up to the righteous requirements of the law. I cannot make myself holy in your sight. I cannot make myself good enough to one of these days, die and come into Your presence. I can’t do that. I can’t stop these stupid habits that I’ve got. I don’t know how to cut out this pride of mine that is inside of me. I don’t know how to do that. And the Lord says come unto me Bob, if you labor and are heavy laden come unto me and I’ll give you rest and peace for your soul. I am the source of eternal salvation. There is no other source. If you want salvation, come to me. And by faith we reach out and say, Lord Jesus, come into my heart. Thank you for forgiving my sins, come into my heart, and be my Lord and my Savior. And to any person on the face of this earth, black or white, slave or free, Hebrew or Gentile. The Lord Jesus Christ, in answer to his promise comes to live inside of us, giving us his life forever, as the source of eternal salvation, and we’re saved. Now to any person who is in Christ today. You are a forgiven, saint. Forgiven saved. As I said, not something you’re going to get. You have now received the source of eternal salvation that included total forgiveness. Now, if you’re not going to believe that, then what are you going to believe about Jesus? If I can’t believe that he forgave me totally how in the world can I believe he rose from the dead? I mean, how you gonna believe that? If I cannot come to grips with the finality of the cross, how in the world could I ever come to grips with the reality of the resurrection? And issue is in many instances we haven’t. We’ve just been given lip service to an event that occurred an intellectual assent to a belief. Yes, I believe a guy named Jesus died on a cross. But do we know why? And we had come to grips with the why and the wherefore that Christ came not to save a group of people, not just to save a nation, that’s byproducts. He came to give us a Son. He came to give us, Jesus.

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