Radio Broadcast Wednesday 12/06/2023

Classic Christianity – Book of Hebrews P43 (12-06-23)

Build Your Foundation on Jesus, The Rock

~ Jesus is the Rock of our salvation. Jesus is our everything. Jesus tells us to obey the word of God, believe on Him, Jesus, God in flesh, and build our salvation on him and him alone. So many people are out there building their foundation on their flesh. They think God is pleased with them when they do something in the flesh that appears to be good. But here is the thing, the motive for doing things in the flesh is actually Not good. It is evil to God. That right there is difficult for some people to accept. Why? Because they are out there performing in their flesh and they feel proud of what they are doing. They think to themselves that they are better than others. They even compare themselves to others. Some who are really into religion are proud of their religion too. They think their religion is what true Christianity really is. They put Mary or even the Apostles on a pedestal and worship them instead of worshiping God. They listen to the teaching of man instead of God. They are swayed by every wind of doctrine, because they do not know the word of God, nor do they have the Holy Spirit living in them.

And it doesn’t matter what so-called Christian religion people are talking about today. For all these religions are considered dung as compared to knowing Jesus. “Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,” Philippians 3:8 So get rid of the idea that religion is going to save a person. Get rid of placing people on a pedestal. Get rid of worshiping at the foot of man, and instead start listening to the Holy Spirit teach truth. For only God is the spirit of Truth. All Truth comes directly from God. Thus we need to start paying closer attention to the details in the word of God.

~ “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” ^{Matthew 7:24-27}

~ “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’ ^{Matthew 7:21-23}

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~ “And he said, Therefore, everyone who hears this word of mine and puts them into practice, applies, it relies on it counts on it. And it goes right back to what we were talking about at the beginning as far as reconciliation, God was in Christ reconciling you unto Himself, not counting your sins against you, therefore what? Put it into practice, be reconciled. That’s all it means, believe it, be reconciled. Quit spending the rest of your life asking God to do what he’s already done, be reconciled to God. Why? Because God was in Christ reconciling the world to you to himself, put it into practice. Now he says to a person who does that is like a wise man who built his house, on a rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against the house and yet it did not fall. Why didn’t it fall? Well because its foundation was on the Rock on the Word of God. But everyone who hears these words of Mine of Jesus, not hears the words of mine or Here’s the words of some evangelist or preacher, whoever else it might be. Here’s the word of Jesus, here’s the Word of God. And if the Spirit of God lives in you do you have the ability to understand what it means? What’s the Bible say about that? Natural man cannot understand what? Spiritual things. What does it sound to him? Sounds foolish to him, to a natural man, but it says, you as a Christian indwelt by Christ literally have what? The mind of Christ. Had somebody on the radio last night said, some people think I lost my mind. I said, I did. I lost mine. And I hope you’ve lost yours. In order to get a new one, it’s called the mind of Christ. We need to lose ours in order to get his. It’s like onne of the gals that is in our metro here years ago, at a banquet she said I had attempted suicide seven times. In my life, I said I finally made it. I died so that he could live.” ~ Bob George

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So many things that look good on the outside folks, Jesus says evildoer. We’d never know that again, if it wasn’t for the Word of God. When people call me sometimes and ask me questions about things, I don’t have a prejudice. I really don’t. I don’t have anything against some by Well, I take it back. Yeah, I do have some against people walk around. Have you seen that guy on TV walked around with his hands like this, physicial people fall all down and supposed to be slayng people in the Spirit? That is a phony baloney. Yeah, he is totally heretical human being. He is not doing that. Those are actors falling down. And I say that publicly and I’ll back it up. If you want to know something, folks, you got to have a whole bunch of people believe in that. It doesn’t surprise me that someone would want to get up and con folks you can make a lot of money that stuff. I can understand that brother knowing what I know today, if I was lost, I’d get into religious business. I’d made my million some other way except what I was trying to do. You just con the socks off of dumb people don’t understand the word of God. What do I have against that? Just don’t like it guys looks because it looks funny? No, because it’s totally contrary to the Word of God. There isn’t anything in the Bible about slaying people in the Spirit. That’s what I got against it. It’s not in the Bible. And if it isn’t in the Bible, what should you do with it? Pitch it. What is it? Con stuff. emotionalism, a means of conning people, if it isn’t in the Bible, taught as if it were.

I don’t have anything against Mormons. Why don’t I believe that? Joseph Smith looked into a pair of binoculars and saw some Egyptian hieroglyphics and interpreted what they said? Outside of the fact that, you know, the Book of Mormon was translated in King James. And these Egyptian hieroglyphic plates are supposed to be about 3000 years old. So I guess King James was back then. You know that, the the translation of the Book of Mormon is King James. And the the plates that they were being translated on were about supposed to be 2000 years old. So King James, I guess was back in 2000 years, years old writing these books. Now there’s, there’s many things. Why don’t I like that is because you don’t like the people didn’t maybe didn’t like, oh, Joseph? No, it’s because it’s a lie. If the word of God is truth, it’s not in the Word of God, do we understand that? It’s not in the Word of God. It’s contrary to the Word of God. What’s wrong with Jehovah’s Witnesses, people nothing? Why don’t I bring them in here? Because they’re liars. According to the Word of God. The Word of God declares, without any exception, Jesus is God. They go door to door, spend their lives trying to convince people that he isn’t. That’s a lie. It’s called an antichrist. It’s nothing wrong with the people that can be saved like anyone else can, but the doctrine that they are teaching is contrary to the Word of God. How do I know that? I know the Word of God. And if I didn’t know the Word of God, I could be tossed to and fro by every wave of doctrine. Is that not true or not? And we can be sucked into any harebrained idea that comes down the pike if we don’t have a plumb line on which to gauge our life. So Jesus is talking about this word, the one we’re studying about in Hebrews that is sharper than a two edged sword, dividing the soul from the Spirit. This word of God that Paul and Timothy said is God breathed and it’s profitable for teaching and rebuking and correcting and training and righteousness. Jesus talked about it, said, know the word you’re going to spoke, you’re going to be able to identify phoniness and prophecy, you’re going to be able to identify phoniness and people casting out demons and performing miracles in my name, you’re going to be able to know the difference between what’s true and what’s not.

And he said, Therefore, everyone who hears this word of mine and puts them into practice, applies, it relies on it counts on it. And it goes right back to what we were talking about at the beginning as far as reconciliation, God was in Christ reconciling you unto Himself, not counting your sins against you, therefore what? Put it into practice, be reconciled. That’s all it means, believe it, be reconciled. Quit spending the rest of your life asking God to do what he’s already done, be reconciled to God. Why? Because God was in Christ reconciling the world to you to himself, put it into practice. Now he says to a person who does that is like a wise man who built his house, on a rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against the house and yet it did not fall. Why didn’t it fall? Well because its foundation was on the Rock on the Word of God. But everyone who hears these words of Mine of Jesus, not hears the words of mine or Here’s the words of some evangelist or preacher, whoever else it might be. Here’s the word of Jesus, here’s the Word of God. And if the Spirit of God lives in you do you have the ability to understand what it means? What’s the Bible say about that? Natural man cannot understand what? Spiritual things. What does it sound to him? Sounds foolish to him, to a natural man, but it says, you as a Christian indwelt by Christ literally have what? The mind of Christ. Had somebody on the radio last night said, some people think I lost my mind. I said, I did. I lost mine. And I hope you’ve lost yours. In order to get a new one, it’s called the mind of Christ. We need to lose ours in order to get his. It’s like onne of the gals that is in our metro here years ago, at a banquet she said I had attempted suicide seven times. In my life, I said I finally made it. I died so that he could live.

Now it says your foundation was on a rock, but everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who builds his house on the sand, in other words, believes it acts upon it. He built his house on the sand, the rain came down, the streams rose, the winds blew and beat against the house and it fell with a great crash. When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at His teaching because he taught us one who had authority and not as their teachers of the law merely quoting the opinions of others, but he taught with total authority. Now folks what’s happening in your house? Is it tumbling down or is it standing firm? You see, folks we can we can understand something we can build that beautiful house. And in order to build on the sand, there’s somebody’s got to sell you that lot. And so there’s some people out there telling you great foundation. No problem with this foundation it is a good foundation build your life on this one. Somebody had to sell you that lot. So you’ve been sold a bill of goods. And you build a fine house, fine materials, fine wood, fine brick, fine roof, fine plumbing, fine everything. But if that house is built on sand, and this storm comes what’s going to happen to it? Gone wiped out. Why? Foundation, foundation. Now folks, the foundation is Christ Jesus. Christ, Jesus says is the cornerstone. He is the foundation of all that we are. And he then said My Word is truth. And if you can’t build on that word, you do not have a plumb line on which to gauge your life. Now I’m gonna go through some scriptures.

First of all, does everyone in here. How many of you in here, believe and know that Christ Jesus is who he claims he is God? Okay, you believe. I think that’s most all of us. That he is who he claimed to be God. Do you know that? And not just a know it but know why you know it out of the Word of God, he claimed himself to be God didn’t he? The apostles claimed him to be God, if if he were not God, him claiming himself to be God, he had been a liar or an imposter or else he was God, His apostles would have been liars or imposters, in claiming he was God. And you sitting in here claiming that you are born again would also be a liar or an imposter or you’ve had an encounter with God, one of the three. So if Christ is God, then we need to say what then does God have to say about his word? Because if we don’t understand what Christ says about the Word of God, then we believe well, the word is true because a preacher said it’s true or the word is true, because we Baptists believe Word is true. We’ve word is true, because we’re conservative, and I believe it’s true. Those are very flimsy reasons for believing anything. And so we have to go back to who the Bible is written about, Christ Jesus himself to say, who did Christ claim himself to be? Did Buddha claimed himself to be God? No, of course not. He had laughed at you it is claimed that he was still searching. Mohammed claimed to be God? No, of course not. Of course not. Are they still in their grave? Of course they are. Is Jesus? No. It’s the only grade that’s famous for who isn’t in it. There is no religious leader that claimed himself to be God. That’s where Jesus is unique from all people on this earth. He’s not a religious leader, he didn’t even come to bring in religion. He was God who came to this earth and the person of Jesus Christ and walked on this earth in order to show us what God was like. And also what man was to be like, the only one person who could have ever died for the forgiveness of your sins, all of them, taking them away, God Himself, the life of God laid down for you so that he could give it to you. That’s where he’s the evidence, the evidence of the Old Testament prophecies over 300 of them proclaiming him to be who he is the Messiah coming. That’s what we talked about a couple of weeks ago, John the Baptist, why did he come baptizing? To point out the Messiah to Israel, this is him. This is the one that’s been written about for 1000s of years prophesied, God among us with us. They shall call his name Immanuel meaning God with us. He’s here. And Jesus came to this earth and he walked on this earth, proclaiming himself proving it by the miracles that He did to the doubters. And then in his final act, through his life, fulfilling the law going to the cross, taking upon himself the sins of the world, dying a death exactly like ours. So that raised from the dead, we could experience the resurrection exactly like his and raised from the dead with a promise that the Holy Spirit of God that raised me from the dead, I’m going to raise you from the dead, and to you apostles that are raised from the dead. That Spirit of God is going to bring back everything I’ve ever said to you, and you’re going to put it in a book, it’s going to be called the Bible so that men for generations can know exactly what I taught out of the word.

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What a God. Now, that’s the Jesus that said, and John 5:39, you diligently search the Scriptures because you think by them, you possess eternal life, and these are the Scriptures that testify about me. Yet you refuse to come to me to have life. You refuse to come to me to have life. John five, do you not think I will accuse you before the Father, your accuser as Moses on whom your hopes are said, If you believe Moses, you would believe me for he wrote about me. But since you don’t believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say? Well, that nailed them. Ah we believe Moses said, No, you don’t. Moses wrote about me. If you believe Moses, you’d believe me. And Luke, he said, how foolish you are in slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken, did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter his glory. And beginning with Moses at all of the prophets, he explained to them what was said in all of the Scriptures concerning Himself. In John 20, but are these things are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing, you may have life in his name. As we’ve talked about before, the Bible is the only book that we study to get to know the author.

Now, what do you say about the Word of God? Then he said, Sanctify them by the truth. Jesus said to the Father and His prayer, Lord, Sanctify them, set them apart by your truth. What sets you apart, by the way we dress? No by truth. What sets you apart as a believer? By the truth. What did he say about the truth? Your word is truth. Jesus said that, Your word is truth. You will know where to go from truth to his word. That’s where truth is. And he said, that truth will set you apart. What else will that truth do? Set you free. And then he said, when the Son has set you free you shall be what? FREE INDEED. Can you separate the sun from the word? Well, no, they’re identical. He said, The Word of God is gonna stand forever. Heaven and earth, he said, will pass away, but My words will never pass away. The world will never be without the word of God. How many years did communist Russia over there thinking could choke out Christianity? Make a religion of atheism, teaching the school’s atheism in our math classes, atheism, teach atheists about a man. Shut Down churches shut down everything say stop it. Stop it, you can’t stop it. God’s always got his remnant. He’s always got his children who are behind the scenes and underground constantly doing what? Sharing with people the Word of God. And finally, you come to the point where you say, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work. A godless nation will not survive any more than a godless man will not survive. Because all our nation is is just a capitulation of men. And a godless man will not survive and a godless nation will not neither. That’s why it’s so exciting to me to see what’s taking place over there right now in Russia where millions of Bibles have been shipped into that place. We talking about preparing people for the winter, and thank God there’s a need for that because they’re going to be cold physically, but my goodness, the preparation for the winter spiritually, is going all over the place with those Bibles going in the Word of God standing forever, you can’t stop but it’ll never stop. In First Peter, Peter said, All men are like grass and all their glory is like the flowers in the field and the grass withers, and the flowers fade, but the Word of our Lord stands forever. And then he said, This is the word that I Jesus preached to you. The validity of the Word of God rests entirely upon the testimony of Jesus and the apostles. Why do I believe the Bible? Because I believe Jesus is God and God said the Bible’s true. A person come up and say do you believe the Bible you don’t believe Bible’s true? Do you? What do you think about Jesus? Why should I answer well, I mean, what would matter if I convinced him now it’s true? So what? Sometimes people come to me and say, Do you really believe this? Look, if I could prove to you beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jonah was in a whale? Would you come to Christ? No. Well no, I’m okay to take time to try to convince you what good will do to convince you that he was in a whale and still be lost? I’ve never had a bar on her deathbed say Bob was Jonah really in a whale. One thing I want to know before I go, just before I croak, I got three breaths, was Jonah in a whale? People have criticized schools of lambasted teach evolution. Why don’t I believe in evolution? Why? Because of doing scientific studies? The answer to what do you believe about evolution is the answer to what Who do you say that I am? The answer to evolution is who do you say Jesus is? person say to me, Bob, what do you think about evolution? Let me ask you a question. Who do you think Christ is? Why? Well what good is it make a difference? Know where I came from? I don’t know the One who created me. Is Jesus God or isn’t he? If he is God, what did he say about creation? That’s the issue not me. I wasn’t there. Mold But not that old. Whasn’t there.

Say science, folk science, the very definition of science denies dealing in Origins. Science is a science of observing observable data, you can’t observe observable data in creation. So when anyone says we prove evolution scientifically, is a total blast on their own profession, because science isn’t there to deal with origins, science is there to deal with observable data. And so when you’re talking about evolution, if you’re talking about what do you believe about that the answers What do you think about Christ? Because if Christ is God, what did he say about it? He said, In the beginning, God created the heavens in the earth. In the beginning, God created man, if Jesus is God, and he said that God created man, guess how we got here? That eliminates coming from a monkey, doesn’t it. I’ll never forget, when we were first, Christians and stuff, we used to get down to kids, you know, and we’d get out and have our Bible study on the bed at night before they went to bed. And I got this book one time on evolution had this monkey on the front out, and we’re going to look at it from a biblical standpoint. And and I opened up the book and started reading out of it. Bob was sitting there on bed, and Debbie and Amy and Bob was probably about nine. And he always kind of sat there looking like he wouldn’t listen to anything. And so it’s read news guy looking around, you know, what I’d gotten read through. And he’s Bob looked at me and said, Dad, if we came from monkeys, how come they’re still monkeys? And I looked at that, and I closed it. So that’s it. Out of the mouth of a nine year old answered that question, if we came from monkeys, how come there’s still monkeys? A nine year old figured that one out, the intellectual still trying. I say how do you share Christ with an intellectual, a little slower. Real slow.

The validity of the Word of God, my friend stands upon Christ Jesus and his testimony. We’ll read a couple of that on creation because it’s there. When they questioned that type of thing, Jesus said, haven’t you read he replied that at the beginning, the Creator made them male and female. In Genesis it said, Let us make man in our image in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and the birds of the air and over the livestock and all the earth and all the creatures that move among the ground. So God created man in His own image and an image of God, He created him male and female, He created them, we didn’t evolve. Second, Peter said, but they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s Word, the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water, and by water, just like it was said. In Hebrews, it says, By faith, we understand 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, and He was with God from the beginning. And through him, All things were made without him, nothing was made, that has been made. So when we’re dealing with this word that we hold in our hands today, the foundation, we can know something, not only is the author, truth, but His Word is truth. And if the word is true, and that means I can read it, and realize that even though in my flesh and my understanding and my educational background and my experience, that it might not make sense. If it doesn’t, you can almost say good. That means it must be of God. Because of a made sense to me, it probably wouldn’t be of God. And to realize that this word is our plumb line. And if we will follow it, and there’s the big isn’t it, because it’s not easy as it but to never deny its truth. A person comes in to me and says, Bob, I am a child of God, I’m struggling homosexual. bowtie, or whatever else it might be, I’d say sit down brother. And we’ll work on that till hell freezes over. An open heart is saying, I’ve got this thing. I’m a child of God, I got this problem. And it’s wrong, and I’m going to work on it. But a person who comes in and says, Bob, just like everyone’s doing, now they’re coming out and saying there’s a brain thing that homosexuals have a little something different in their brain. Come along, say Don’t blame me. I just made that way. I just born that way. Or I’m that way because I had a domineering mother, I’m that way because I had dad, to me. I say the interview is over. There is no sense in talking. I can’t always do right, folks, and you can’t either. But I don’t ever want to get the place where I don’t know what right is. I can’t follow it all the time. I can’t do it all again, can you? Don’t we live with the things I want to do? I don’t and the things that don’t want to do. I do. But I tell you, I know what is right out of the Word of God. And when a person’s in trouble is when they start rationalizing the Word of God in order to meet their own weaknesses. When the Word of God says something is wrong, it’s wrong. Don’t rationalize, it’s wrong, I can’t do it. I’m still doing wrong. I’ll tell you one thing I know it’s wrong. And I’ll trust the Lord to complete the work that he began in me. But I’m not going to deny that it’s wrong. When I see people in the biggest trouble is when we deny and come to the point in our lives where our flesh has gotten such control of us. That we began to say I don’t believe the word is what it says. I can’t do it. So it might not be that must not be true, folks you never could do it only he can do it. Our role is to see that our foundation is built upon him who is God, who claimed this word is true. And to walk in the truth.

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