Radio Broadcast Wednesday 07/17/2024

Classic Christianity – Book of Hebrews P133 (07-17-24)

The Discipline of The Lord Remains On His Children For Our Good

~ As children of God (all those born again of the Spirit of God are His children), he is constantly teaching us about everything. And as we go through the tribulations of life, that is where the Holy Spirit is really teaching us to Trust in Jesus, the Faithful One of God. And there are other times, when the Lord has to correct each of us, for believing in the lies of Satan and the world. And it doesn’t seem very pleasant at the time, when God is rebuking us (training us) on our wrong thinking, and correcting us towards the TRUTH with His wisdom and understanding. That is all part of Him renewing our mind. And today, there is lots of wrong thinking going on, in regards to what Jesus did on the cross, and what He is doing in our lives today, that Satan doesn’t want you to know the Truth about any of that. So, Satan places a lot of roadblocks up, yet God promises if you seek, you will find TRUTH. “In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you. For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.” Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live? Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness. No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.” Hebrews 12:4-11

If you are not His child of God today, that is easy to correct. Place faith in Jesus, God in flesh, that He did indeed take away all your sins at the cross, and is no longer counting them against you, and He will send His Holy Spirit to live in you at this very moment in time.

~ Continue in brotherly love. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them.

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said:

“Never will I leave you,

never will I forsake you.”

So we say with confidence:

“The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.

What can man do to me?”

Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them. We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.

Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp. And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood. Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore. For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name. And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch over your souls as those who must give an account. To this end, allow them to lead with joy and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.

Pray for us; we are convinced that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in every way. And I especially urge you to pray that I may be restored to you soon.

Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

I urge you, brothers, to bear with my word of exhortation, for I have only written to you briefly.

Be aware that our brother Timothy has been released. If he arrives soon, I will come with him to see you.

Greet all your leaders and all the saints.

Those from Italy send you greetings.

Grace be with all of you.^{Hebrews 13:1-25}

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.”

~ “We live under God’s discipline. The discipline of God is discipleship. That’s where the word discipline comes from discipline discipleship. It’s a continual, ongoing discipling. He came go to the world and make disciples people who are being continually discipled by the Lord Jesus Christ, continually disciplined by what? The truth of His Word, the discipline that it takes when you’re going through the trials and tribulations of life to be able to say, Lord, this is part of the heat that’s going to equip me to be used not once, but over and over and over and over and over again, in the midst of the trials and the tribulations of life. It’s a discipline of life that from the Lord Jesus Christ, when He tells us to love one another. And we walk around on this earth, and many times we walk around as Christians, and we talk about the fact as to how we just understand this and how we understand that, and our heads are so smart and we’re so full of knowledge. And he’s saying, I don’t care how much knowledge you have, what I’m asking you, are you loving one another?” ~ Bob George

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We live under God’s discipline. The discipline of God is discipleship. That’s where the word discipline comes from discipline discipleship. It’s a continual, ongoing discipling. He came go to the world and make disciples people who are being continually discipled by the Lord Jesus Christ, continually disciplined by what? The truth of His Word, the discipline that it takes when you’re going through the trials and tribulations of life to be able to say, Lord, this is part of the heat that’s going to equip me to be used not once, but over and over and over and over and over again, in the midst of the trials and the tribulations of life. It’s a discipline of life that from the Lord Jesus Christ, when He tells us to love one another. And we walk around on this earth, and many times we walk around as Christians, and we talk about the fact as to how we just understand this and how we understand that, and our heads are so smart and we’re so full of knowledge. And he’s saying, I don’t care how much knowledge you have, what I’m asking you, are you loving one another?

And there is a discipline of God to keep us loving one another. I want to ask you, how much love is it when we do not think the best of one another? What kind of a discipline are you allowing the Lord Jesus Christ in your life, when you are constantly in the process of thinking Ill of another person, when they don’t respond to you the way that you want them to respond. And therefore get touchy, because you got in mind how somebody ought to respond to you, and so because you got in mind how they ought to respond to and they don’t respond to you the way you want them to, whether you get mad, and you have people who do that, and we and that can happen right here, and it could happen my own life, and it can happen in your own life. I want to ask you, what kind of discipline is that that God is putting on us? Because the discipline of God is saying, check yourself out. How is your and my attitude matching up to First Corinthians 13? Is it patient with people, or are you impatient with people? Are you kind to people, or are you unkind to people? You see all of these type of things we have to match up. I can do and so can you right? We’re all in that situation. I can have some lousy responses. Can’t you have you ever noticed that, not about me, I mean about you, we can have some lousy responses. Is that, does that mean that you necessarily be sitting there wanting to be mean to somebody? You see, we read, you know what judging is. Judging isn’t judging the way somebody acted. Judging is their motive for the way they acted. That’s where it says, Don’t judge, lest you be judged. If somebody comes up and looks like that at you, just kind of I’m not judging them when I said you look like that at me, but I am judging you if I’m trying to figure out why you look like that at me, and that’s exactly how we function, isn’t it? We function judging another person’s motives. And that’s hard not to do, because you do see little patterns. I see people a lot of times, and you can almost spot it when you see people at one time are real friendly to you, and then all of a sudden they’re not very much very much much. They kind of look like a little funny. It’s probably because they’ve been talking about you. Ever notice when you’ve been gossiping about another person behind their back and then you see that person how you’re not quite as friendly as you used to be? Have you ever noticed that? That’s an absolute trend that you can see in people now, the problem is, is to forget about the trend. Because even though that may be true, if I say that’s a policy, I’m going to judge you when it may not be the case at all. And so we have to to allow the disciplines of God upon us constantly, and the discipline is continually in a process of teaching us truth about our own lousy attitudes and our own lousy responses to people, and to match it up against one plumb line. And that was the one thing that God called you and me to do, and that was what? Love one another.

That’s what Paul’s plea is at the end of this letter from day one, guys, I’ve laid out the plan of God before you. You’ve seen the unbelievable inheritance that you have in Christ, Jesus. I’ve laid out before you the Master Plan of God as it relates to you. And that same master plan of God and the same love that reached out to you individually is the same love that reached out to that enemy of yours over there, or that person over there that didn’t treat you quite the way that you thought they should, or that person over there that you’re mad at, or whatever it might be, the same love and grace of God that was given to you was given to them. That’s a disgusting thought sometimes. Especially if you don’t like somebody in name, until somebody tells you God loves them the same he does you. That’s very disgusting, but it’s true, and that’s what he is trying to say, is, may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant, not a temporary covenant, an eternal covenant, the one who brought back from the dead, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the shepherd of the sheep, who’s the sheep? Us. What are sheep? Dumbest animals on the face of the earth, and that ought to tell us a little something about us, and that’s why I need a shepherd, and that’s why you need a shepherd, because we’re dumb as a cluck. And without him, when he says, We can do nothing, that’s exactly what it means. And yet man wants to sit around and think he’s smart. Can’t get along with your wife, can’t get along with anyone else, but we’re smart. Well, if you’re so smart, how come you can’t get along with anybody? It’s like people sitting around, just smart, can’t make can’t make a living, but I’m really smart. Well, if you’re so smart, why can’t you make a living? It’s now the point where we get down to say, for goodness sakes, quit looking at ourselves, is whether we’re smart or whether we’re not smart, and to realize that the wisdom of God, an ounce of wisdom, is better than all of the knowledge that the world can conjure up. And if you have Christ, Jesus living in you, you got his wisdom living in you. And if I got him living in me, I got his wisdom living in me. And let’s draw upon that wisdom. Let’s draw upon that instead of what we think is so smart up here in this brain of ours, and his prayer then.

And the reason that we needed a shepherd is because we’re sheep. And he says, I want to equip you for every good, for doing His will, and that he may work in us what is pleasing to Him work in us, the fact that Jesus Christ is faithful, and that’s what this book is about, the faithfulness of God. And folks we’ve talked about when Jesus left us, he said one thing to one another. He said, Learn to love one another. And that doesn’t mean that we don’t make mistakes, does it? And it doesn’t mean that sometimes we do what’s right and sometimes we do what’s wrong. But in fact, a love is what’s able to go back and say, I’m sorry. Love is what’s able to go back and say, instead of thinking, What’s wrong with you is say, first of all, Lord, search my heart to see if there’s something wrong with me.

I remember a friend of mine, Howard ball, who was on Crusade staff with me. And I remember Howard telling the story after he came to Christ, he was, like a lot of us, very excited about the things of the Lord. And you kind of go out to attack those that you love the most and try to get them saved. And that’s not unusual. I mean, after all, this is a loved one that you happen to know is lost, and so you don’t want them lost, and so out should go. And he did that with his father. And his father was a farmer in Iowa and a very independent type of a person. And he talked about the fact that, as he shared constantly with his dad, that his dad finally came and said, Howard, that’s it. I hate to say this, because you’re my son, but if you bring this subject up to me one more time, I’m never going to see you again. I’m sick and tired of hearing about it. You see many times when we go back to our loved ones what they are hearing, you say, because communication is not what you say, but it’s what you hear, what they are hearing, you say is, you didn’t raise me properly. It was the same type of thing. When I went back to my parents and and told them, said, What do you mean you’re saved? Why we had you in church, why we took you to church every Sunday and we had you baptized and we had that? What do you mean? What do you mean, you’re you’re saved.

Because they weren’t hearing that I was saved. What they were hearing was that they didn’t raise me properly. They did the best that they knew how to do. They didn’t know what salvation was. They’d never been taught it. So they did the best they could do, and that was just get me in church, and that they thought that was about as good as they could do, too. Sit in church, and if you could get yourself dunked, why then maybe that was good too. And so as I said, I was dunked more than a flower and water, but it didn’t do anything with regard to salvation. But that’s what they hear. And so what Howard’s dad was hearing was, we didn’t raise you properly. Howard went back, and as he said, Lord, what’s wrong with dad? What’s wrong with dad? Why can’t he hear what’s wrong with dad? And God said, What’s wrong with you? In other words, before you start dealing with Dad. Let’s deal with you. And as he said, he asked the question, Howard, when was the last time that you ever told your dad that you loved him? Really loved him? And Howard said he thought back and it hadn’t been since he was probably a little kid of 12 or 13 years of age, God said, why don’t you go tell him you love him. And Howard went back to his dad one day and sat down and said, Dad, I want to tell you something. If I could have picked all the fathers of the world and would have had my choice, you would have been the one I picked. And dad, I hadn’t told you when I was a little kid, but didn’t mean I don’t, but I just haven’t told you, but I want you to know that I love you more than any person on the face of this earth, and it’s because of that love for you, that it just breaks my heart, that you will not listen to the most important thing that has ever happened in my life. And his dad stepped back and said, Howard, tell me about it, and accepted the Lord Jesus Christ that day into his heart as his Lord and Savior. And spent the rest of his life. He was 80 years old, and that occurred, and spent the rest of his life out, going up and down the farm roads of Iowa, sharing the good news of Christ with people. We’re so quick to say, what’s wrong with them, aren’t we, instead of looking at our own hearts and saying, Hold on a minute, is there something here in this heart that you want to do to me, not to them, but to me? Love, how we doing, in our patience, in our kindness to one another? We’re a part of the body. We’re told that he’s the head, we’re the body.

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Does your hand like your other hand? Is your hand like all your body, or does it just like the hand? You see, is it patient with each other? Are we envious of each other? Are we boastful because we know more than somebody else. Are we proud? So proud that we can’t say I was wrong? You realize those are about the three hardest words in the world, in the world, to say “I was wrong,” what we normally say for I was probably wrong, which is like not saying anything at all. So you don’t know that’s probably wrong, not sure, but probably, but to be able to say no, I was wrong. I judged you rather. I judged you. I was wrong. Easily angered. You know, people take pride in being a hot head. Can’t we think that’s macho, and if I can get really angry somebody, boy, that’s just, I just made my day, folks, that’s a mind of a lost person, not a saved person. I’m not saying you can’t do that as a saved person, because you can. I’m saying that’s how you think when you’re lost. I’ll guarantee you that. I spent 36 years like that, and I couldn’t wait to go home and tell Amy how I just tongue lashed somebody just Zorro with the tongue that day, yeah, just came, just absolute, just as proud of myself as to how I just Zorroed them, just proud of myself with it. And if I could just insult somebody real good, I had my day had been made. That’s the mind of a lost person, not a saved person, but a lost person. And we get proud of the fact is, as the fact that I’m a hot head, I get mad easily. Isn’t it amazing, folks, isn’t it amazing how we say we understand this grace of God that he was trying to teach us in the Book of Hebrews. But in practical experience, I wonder if we really do understand, if we really have come to the conclusion that it is truly all of Jesus and none of me, till it isn’t just a theology, it has become a reality. We say, we make statements about ourselves. We say, well, and we’ll have people do that.

People just say, I’m just I’m just a worrier. Well, what, if I walk up and said I’m just an adulter. From God’s vanished boys, what’s the difference? What’s the difference? You tell me, what’s the difference? Without faith, what is it? Impossible, Please, God, can you be having faith and be worried at same time? Can you when you’re worried about something, where’s God, down here? Where are you up there? If I’m worried about something, that means that what? Well, if I, if I’m the ones got to worry about it, then guess who it is. It’s going to have to solve it, because I’m sure not counting on him to solve it, because I was counting on him to solve it, would need to be worrying about it, right? So the fact that I’m worrying about it shows me that I’m the one who has now put him down here and me up there, and I’m worrying about it because I’m the one who has to solve it. And I want to tell you, if you’re the one that has to solve it, you ought to be worried. But that’s the root of worry. Now, what is that? It’s not trusting the Lord. But see, that’s not as bad as one of the filthy five and the Dirty Dozen. You see, we say we believe God, but do we believe that looking with a person with lust in your heart is the same as if committing adultery? Do we really believe that? I don’t think so. You see, it’s lip service that we give to truth. It hasn’t hit home yet. We’re still playing religion because it hasn’t hit home. And that’s what this book of Hebrews is trying to tell us. This is an eternal an eternal covenant, an eternal covenant, saying your sins and lawless acts, I will remember no more the sin issue has been dealt with. And when I looked at sin, I didn’t look at just the manifestation. I looked at what sin is, and that’s unbelief, and all of you have fallen short of the glory of God. Each and every one of us, All have sinned. There’s none righteous. No, not one. And yet we stand as if we are righteous because of what we don’t do, and don’t give one clue as to what we do do. And that’s what this book of Hebrews is about. Are we worry warts? And if we are, that’s we’re not saying this in order to beat ourselves to death. Now we’re worried about being a worrywart. The issue is, worry is not going to stop by stopping to worry. You’re not going to quit worrying by thinking, How do I quit worrying? Worry is going to be eliminated when you understand he is faithful. Worry is eliminated when you understand that God is at work in you to will and to do of His good pleasure, and that he is going to equip you and me with everything good in doing His will and work in us that which is pleasing to Him. I’ll work the faith into you as you understand I am faithful. That’s what the book of Hebrews was written for, to understand the faithfulness of God. Why? So I can walk free, free from what? Free from worry, free from stress, free from thinking it’s up to me to pull this thing off, because we can’t. He told us that all along, apart from me, you can do. How much? Nothing, nothing.

Look at our spirits, folks sometimes look at how we perceive things. You see, all of this is a part of this discipline of God. All of it is a part of the discipline of God, which is saying, How is the way you’re thinking about this match up with the truth of how you should think about that as a child of God. How does it match up? How does it match up? You hold resentment in your heart toward anybody? How does that match up with the word of God? How does it match up? Does it or doesn’t it? Do you hold unforgiveness in your heart toward anyone? How does that match up with the word of God? How does it match up? It doesn’t, does it? These are all attitudes, folks, all attitudes of the heart that God has to deal with lovingly, kindly, sweetly, gently, but firmly, a gentle heat. Do you know how most of us approach life? We hit the 500 degrees. Now we know that 1500 is what’s going to make us chip proof we hit the 500 degrees. And says, Brother, I am out here. You’ve just seen last of me. I don’t want to go through that pressure. I don’t want to go through those trials. I don’t want to go through those tribulations. I am out of here instead of realizing stick in there because you’re going to get 500 more degrees on you, and after that, 500 more, but I want to tell you something. At the end of that process, you’re going to be chip proof and able to be used over and over and over and over again. It is the very thing that Paul says in Corinthians. Praise be to God, the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, who comforts us in all of our problems, so that we, in turn, can comfort others with the same comfort that we received from him. When? When we were going through our pit experience, When we were going through our trial and tribulation, we came to the end of our own sufficiency, and we drew upon Christ, and he was faithful. And I learned something. He’s faithful. How did Paul write? I am convinced that nothing can separate you from the love of God. Why? Because he had been through about everything that could, and he found out nothing did. Trials didn’t, tribulation didn’t, nakedness didn’t, the sword didn’t. Nothing could separate him from the love of God. To be able to come to a conclusion, I am convinced of something. And folks, there is the issue of the Christian life. I’m convinced of something. Have we formed that attitude? I am convinced of something, not just out here in this dinky theology, but if your theology hasn’t brought you and me to the point of conclusion that theology isn’t worth a flip, and all we do is to have our heads full of theology with not an ounce of reality. Conclusion, I am convinced. I am convinced that nothing can separate me from the love of God. Nothing.

Are you convinced today? Nothing can separate you from the love of God. I am convinced that I live under an eternal covenant from the Lord Jesus Christ. I am convinced that there is no more sacrifice for sins. I’m convinced of that it’s in bedrock. I don’t need the theology anymore. The theology has done its work. It convinced me that nothing can separate me from the love of God. It has convinced me that there is no sin that is not behind the back of God. Never to see it again. I am convinced to that. Why am I convinced of that? The Bible tells me I am under an eternal covenant. Folks, do you realize that the reason in most of our lives that we still struggle with this forgiveness issue is because we’ve been struggling with the forgiveness issue? Now here’s what I mean is we’ve been taking the doctrine of forgiveness and putting it over here, just out there, isolated by itself, with no comprehension of all at how it fit into the huge plan of God. And so because we got it out here as a little doctrinal issue, the doctrine of forgiveness out here and not seeing how forgiveness fit into the completion of the work of God under the under the new covenant that we’re in today. So in as much as it’s just a little doctrine out here, well, we sit there and nitpick it from this angle, and we come up with the fact, well, that’s forensic forgiveness. We got Quincy involved in it, forensic forgiveness and personal forgiveness and parental forgiveness, and that’s judicial forgiveness, but this is parental forgiveness, and then come up with this harebrained idea that people do that absolutely is turning my stomach anymore because of understanding what the covenant did and what it cost Jesus to put this New Covenant into effect. When people come up and say, Well, now you know, when my son, if he does something wrong, why? He’s got to come to me to get forgiveness. So I read now I realize judicially now he is forgiven, but he needs to get his feet washed, and then we drag in that foot washing illustration, as if that had something to do with forgiveness. That has something to do with an attitude of servitude. It has to do totally with an attitude that of, I am God and came and washed your feet. What do you think you ought to be doing with one another? In other words, there should be no job that is too low in order to serve one another in love. That’s the attitude. Don’t ever think of yourself more highly than yourself than you ought. That there’s anything that is above your doing the job of a foot washing servant and a slave was the lowest job, the lowest on the totem pole. And the Lord Jesus Christ, God Himself, stripped himself and initiated to go and to wash the feet of His apostles. And said, Go, do likewise. No servant is greater than his master, and if I did this to you, go do likewise. Had nothing to do with forgiveness. And people come up with that harebrained idea, and in so doing, negate the cross of Jesus Christ.

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