Radio Broadcast Wednesday 09/27/2023

 

Join Bob George in this chapter by chapter exposition of the book of Hebrews. Available for download the complete series on the Book of Hebrews. The Book of Hebrews is key to understanding the New Covenant.

 

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Now let’s see what Paul has to say in regard to the truth that we can also believe the author of Hebrews, but let’s take a look at Paul. Turn with me to Galatians for a moment. Look of Galatians chapter one. Another author, the apostle Paul, chapter one, verse six, I’m astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and returning to a different gospel, which is really no gospel at all. Evidently, some people are throwing you into confusion and they’re trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you. Let him be eternally condemned. That’s pretty severe, isn’t it. As we have already said, and I say again, if anybody and when he said, anybody, he said, me included, Paul, if I or an angel, I don’t care who it is, comes along and preaches a gospel different than the one we preached to you let them forever be accursed. And if anyone is preaching to you a gospel other than than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned. Said, am I trying to win the approval of men?

No, the approval man says, what’s a little bit hurt? You know, there’s many ways to God, folks. I mean, just a lot of ways. And that gospel is a little little narrowminded over there. Let’s, let’s expand on a little bit. That’s what man says, Let’s compromise, because it sounds so narrow that Jesus is the only way to God. That sounds awfully narrow. After all, there’s a lot of neat, Buddhaist’s around. There’s a lot of funny people that worship Mohammed. And there’s a lot of people who worship Moses. And you know, after all law, nice people around good people. We talked about that. Jesus said, None of us are good. We say they’re good people. And so let’s not be narrow about this thing. Now, you just don’t get much criticism with that. I mean, that everybody’s all good isn’t that wonderful, broad minded man. Bless his little heart. He’s so sweet and loving. It’s just unbelievable. He just so loving, you’re just loving people riding the hell Am I trying to please man, Paul said, if I still tried to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ. Because Christ himself didn’t please man. Christ didn’t come to please man. He came to get men, not only out of hell into heaven, but to get himself out of heaven back into man. He didn’t come to please the religions, because the religious can’t be pleased with a message that I am the only way to God. That is totally contrary to religion. Religious is not going to accept the fact that we are all sinful. And that until we die to self sufficiency, we cannot come alive to God. Religion likes positive confession. Religion likes positive thinking, religion likes robes, and cathedrals, and positive faith. All I do is just think positive faith. Doesn’t make any difference what the object of your faith is. Just your faith is going to get you there. Faith in what? Faith in yourself. Faith in your faith, faith in your religion. Faith must have an object and the object of a Christian faith is Christ Jesus and him alone. Not in how big my faith is. But in how big the object of my faith is. Who is Christ Jesus. Now religion loves that other kinds of stuff.

Now, Paul said, I’m not trying to win the approval of man. Folks, when Paul’s talking about it’s interesting, isn’t it, that if I or an angel from heaven should come and preach a different gospel. I can’t help from hearing as a listen of the radio sometime these phenomenal commercials that come on, about this loving father sitting down having breakfast with his boy, and helping him to get through the hard times of life. And how, how that we went to this little restaurant, and it seemed like we were confused at home, but we went to this restaurant and talk everything was okay. And finally, everything’s okay. And this message is brought to you by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. And everybody sit there and says, Boy, that sounds good. That sounds so family oriented. It sounds so neat. Do you know what the basis for the Church of Latter Day Saints is? Where an angel of light came and preached a different gospel than the one that Paul preached. That’s what the whole thing is about. A man who thought he saw an angel of light, who wrote down out of his little binoculars. And looked at some Egyptian hieroglyphics that happened to be written in King James. Unbelievable 1000s of years before King James came along with they were interpreted in King James and are duped people by the 1000s and maybe the millions into a different gospel than that in which Paul preached. And Paul’s admonition to that is let them forever be accursed. That’s a hard condemnation. But it’s a true one. And the reason that it is so true, is because you’re dealing with internal life. You’re not dealing with something that can make me feel good for these brief years here on this earth. You’re dealing with where you and I are going to spend eternity, whether we’re going to spend eternity in the presence of the true God, or spend eternity separated from that God. But the fact of the matter is, is error can sound good, closed in neat stuff. But it absolutely, it will doom you to a life separated from God. And that is not a narrow God, folks.

We celebrated last week, what God had to do, in order to save man, man doesn’t need religion. He doesn’t need a nice home life. He needs Christ. He needs to be made complete. And we are born into this world. dead spiritually. We are born without the Spirit of God living in us and man was designed by God to be alive bodily, soulisly and spiritually. And when there is no life, spiritually, you are two thirds whole. And you’re missing something that’s the emptiness that you and I find within our own hearts. And flesh and blood will never inherit the kingdom of God any more than you would put a pack of garbage into a refrigerator. It’s not hard to understand. And we come down to say, Well, God is narrow on all that. No, he is not narrow on all this type of thing. All men, all of us have sinned fall short of the glory of God, all of us, all of us are dead as a hammer born into this world dead as a hammer spiritually. And life is offered to each and every one of us, but not some kind of artificial life out there not some kind of life that we make up, or a straw God that we create. Or some harebrained idea, if that’s the case, Jesus could have stayed in heaven and not had to suffer and die on a cross for forgiveness of our sins, and be raised from the dead on the third day, he could have stayed in heaven and say, Guys, develop your own system down there. And any old way will do. Well, any old way made due to kind of get you and me doing okay down here, but any old way will do to give you life. And the problem with man is the fact we’re dead and we need life. It’s not that we need, as I said to get along better with our family. That’s nice thing. But that’s not the that’s not the major issue. It’s not the major issue that we walk around looking nice and acting nice. The major issue is do you want to remain dead, separated from God? Or do you want life? Now if you want life, Jesus said, I am that life. Not some Jesus that I make up in my own mind. That’s some Jesus that comes along. But the real Jesus, you’re talking about a physical, real, objective man who walked on the face of this earth, who claimed himself to be God Himself. And who was raised from the dead, and that moment began to raise other people from the dead. And that has been testified by literally millions of people down through the ages to this very day. And if he were not God, then He was the biggest liar or imposter who ever walked on the face of this earth, because he claimed himself to be God. Mohammed never claimed himself to be God. Buddha never claimed he had laughed to death. Had anyone ever said, are you God? No founder of any religion claimed, Moses didn’t claim himself to be God. Jesus claimed himself to be God. And either he was or he was the biggest liar or imposter who ever walked on the face of this earth or he was a Looney Tunes. But you can’t come up with any as CS Lewis said, patronizing nonsense about him being a good moral teacher, he didn’t leave that option open to us, never intended to. He was who He claimed to be God who came with a mission to do what? Restore in us life. Life eternal. Not to make us need people, but to give us life so that we could live. Now everyone can’t do that. Only God could do that. Buddha couldn’t die for somebody’s sins, or be raised from the dead. Mohammed couldn’t die for someone said they were prophets. Moses couldn’t die for anyone’s sins. You couldn’t die for anyone’s sins. God had to and that’s what God did God came to this earth, that Jesus that we’re talking about, that one who was born of a virgin, not talking about some Jesus that you’ve made up but the one who was born of a virgin, prophesied for 1000s of years over 300 prophecies he fulfilled in and of himself almost a mathematical improbability. And that Jesus that was died on a cross was buried raised from the dead that empty tomb is a known fact. Been all kinds of speculation we talked about last week as to how a got empty but there is no denial at all that it was empty. Seated today at the right hand of God interceding on our behalf. The one who came and said it’s good for you that I’m going away for when I do I’m going to send my Spirit into your heart. And that life that raised me from the dead I’m gonna raise you from the dead. To any man and woman boy and girl on the face of this earth who has sense enough to see their condition. But our pride keeps it from that pride of man it says I’ll do it my way. No, yes, you will. And you’ll end up exactly we’re doing it your way leads you and me, down a path of destruction. And our oh, pride in our hearts is what keeps us from receiving grace. God gives grace to the humble but he resists the proud. Why do you resist the proud? Because the proud won’t receive. Proud’s got it all together. Proud’s got all the answers. Proud knows everything. Proud’s, smart, smarter than anybody. Proud says I’ll do it my way, mother. Well, it says Keep at it. And that’s how God works with us. Keep at it till you come to the end of yourself. The world the interceptors that are in the world today are rampid are doing everything in there power to keep man from ever coming to the end of it.

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We’re scared to death to see a man go through some trials and tribulations and scared to death to see people going through some hard times and depressed and all that we got to do something to help them right now. We’ve got to get them. Listen, my friends. Those are the things that get you to the end of yourself. We are interceding with pills and medication and council and everything else to say no I’m okay you’re okay. Instead of letting people get to the end of themselves. And there’s where they’re going to find the Lord Jesus Christ. Scared to death of suffering in any way, shape, or form, and yet the Bible says it’s those suffering that we build character. And the whole world is out to try to alleviate any kind of suffering. And in this world, Jesus said, You’re gonna suffer. Though he said, I can even turn that into a benefit for you. Because it’s through our suffering, that we get rid of our self sufficiency, and latch on to him, and Christ’s efficiency, isn’t it. There’s not a person that I know, that has not gone through the trials and tribulations who have come to know Christ, really knowing who would say, not saying that if I had to do it all again, in order to get to know Him the way I didn’t know him today, I’d go through it again. I heard that time and time again out in the prisons, that I came to Christ in this prison. And if I had to go and to be incarcerated again, in order to know today, what I know about my Jesus, I’ve voluntarily put myself back in prison to do. It’s through our trials and tribulations and hard times that we come to the end of ourselves, at the end of our self sufficiency. And the world and the counseling profession to a large degree is standing like a defensive end to intercept the pass of God. So that is never caught. And the touchdowns never made. We’ve become interceptors to try to intercede between the difficulty and the sufficiency by some man made way and means of making you duped in your mind into thinking I’m okay again. We do it with booze. We do it with drugs, or we can do it with mind altering anything. We can do it with sitting around thinking I’m okay because my faith is so big. I’m okay because I’m a Mormon. I’m okay because I’m a Baptist, I’m okay because I’m a Presbyterian and I’m okay. I’m okay. I’m okay. No, we’re not okay. Until we’re in Christ. In Him is life eternal.

Now, folks, Paul goes ahead to say, I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not something that man made up. I don’t want you to get any idea that what I’m preaching was originated by some man, some man didn’t sit around and dream this thing up. I did not receive it from any man. I didn’t get it from Peter. I didn’t get it from Paul or from from John. I didn’t get it. He said from any of the apostles, I got this message directly from God. He said, nor was I taught it from somebody, I didn’t go to Jay U to get a degree. I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ. The message that Paul said I preached to you, which is the fullness of the gospel, Christ alive in you your hope of glory. He said, I got it by direct revelation from Christ himself. That’s why folks, we have talked so many times about the fact that the gospel and the truth of the gospel was proclaimed by Jesus. It was ultimately explained by Paul. Peter, in his early teachings, you will never find in those early writings of the church, the message of Christ in you your hope of glory, it hadn’t been revealed yet. It didn’t mean that salvation was not occurred. But you see, you saw Peter and the early apostles preaching a prophecy, a return of the Messiah. Paul taught the mystery, the mystery of Christ alive in you your hope of glory. That’s why Paul didn’t go to Peter to get that message. He didn’t go to John to get it. He didn’t go to any of the apostles to get it. He said, What I have taught you was by direct revelation from Jesus Christ Himself.

So we have some credibility, don’t we? We have the credibility of the Word of God as it was revealed to the author in Hebrews. We know that the gospel that Paul preached was the gospel of salvation that was revealed in Christ Jesus. And now I’d like for us to take a look at another place here. If you’ll turn with me for just a moment. Excuse me, turn back to John with me, John 10. Then we’ll go to Luke. Oh, we’re getting back to when we try to get back for a moment with our minds a little bit on deception, getting our minds on false teaching. And as it relates to signs and wonders. So I want to kind of back up into that again. Chapter 10 Verse 40, I want us to see something here. Chapter 10, verse 40. We’re talking to see something here about John the Baptist.

When Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing in the early days, here he stayed, and many people came to him. And they said, here’s what they said, though John never performed a miraculous sign. John the Baptist. All the John said about this man was true. And in that place, many believed in Jesus. John the Baptist, never performed a miraculous sign. All he did was, speak the truth about Jesus. That’s all he ever did. Bless his heart poor thing. He just hadn’t been around, name it and claim it, I guess, I don’t know. But he just had never done that. Now. Well maybe John the Baptist was kind of a second rate citizen. Well, let’s turn back to Luke seven a minute and see what Jesus has to say about John the Baptist. Chapter seven. Let’s start in verse 18. John’s disciples told him about all these things, calling to have them he sent them to the Lord and asked, Are you the one who was to come? Or should we expect someone else? John the Baptist, was he wavering? He was in prison. Was he wavering with his faith? No, no, not at all. But here’s what you see in the Word of God, you see, proclaimed in prophecy, the reigning Messiah, and you see the suffering Messiah. And in looking at those two things, they’re hard to bring together a messiah riding in on a donkey, the rain the ruler, that doesn’t make any sense. You see the suffering Messiah, the reigning Messiah. It’s like looking at a mountain peak, you can look at a mountain peak from a distance, and those two peaks look like they’re right next to each other. As you get up close to him. You see there hundreds of miles away from each other. And so here you saw the reigning Messiah and the suffering Messiah previously thought of is the same guy at the same time at the same place. And suddenly you see the evidence of the suffering Messiah, but you don’t see much evidence of this reigning Messiah. So the question obviously comes out, hold on a minute, are there two of you? Or is there just one or what’s the story here? I see you as who you are the suffering Messiah, but I don’t see much raining going on. So when it came to Jesus that John Abadi has set us to ask Are you the one who is to come or should we expect someone else is there another one? Are you the same one? At this time, Jesus cured many you had diseases, sicknesses and evil spirits and he gave sight to many who are blind so replied to the messengers, go back and report to John what you’ve seen and heard. The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor. Bless it is a man who does not fall away on account of me. Say, what about this reiging Messiah? Well, he said, that is reigning. The deaf can hear the blind can see, and people are being saved.

Well, after John’s messengers left, Jesus began to speak to the crowd. He said this about John the Baptist. What did you go out in the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind? If not, what did you go out and see? A man dressed in fine clothes? No. Those who wear expensive clothes and indulge in luxury are in palaces. But what did you go out and see a prophet? Yes, I tell you in more than a prophet. This is the one whom it has written. I will send my messenger ahead of you and who will prepare your way before you. I tell you, among those men born of a woman, there is no one greater than John. And, yet the one who was least in the kingdom of God was greater than he. My friends, the Lord Jesus Christ was saying about this John the Baptist when you went out to see John a Baptist did you see or read somebody who was wishy washy who could be swayed back and forth every wave of doctrine? Indeed you did not. You saw a man strong as horseradish proclaiming the Lord Jesus Christ coming. You didn’t see a man vacillating back and forth. A little on this side of God one day and a little on this side of God the next you saw someone proclaiming him in all power of God. None other Jesus said like him. And yet it says John never performed a miraculous sign. Why was there none other like him? Because he wasn’t a reed, tossed to and fro. When vacillating back and forth in regard to truth. He knew truth and he stayed on the side of it. And no one could move him off. His glory, so to speak, was not in being a miracle man. Or someone who was healing people or performing miracles. He just proclaimed truth and God said there’s none other like him. There is none greater. And John the Baptist never performed a miracle. Never did a sign. never spoken tongues, just spoke to us. Well what about all these signs and wonders?

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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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