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Classic Christianity – Bob George – Easter Part 1 (04-21-25)

Bob George Presents: Easter Part 1

~ Serve One another in Love

~ Jesus served us in God’s love for us, and died for us, even death on a cross. He went out of His way, to protect us and to take away the sins of the world, which causes death. “God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.” 2 Corinthians 5:21 And He rose again to give us His Life, living in us, when the Holy Spirit baptized us into the body of Christ, when we by faith accepted Him as God in the flesh, who took away all our sins at the cross. That is our profession of faith, and that occurred on our day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came to indwell the believer for ALL time. And sin can never cause death for the believer ever again.

And today, those that have the Holy Spirit living in them, serve each other in Love. Though many will not even recognize the Love of God, for they have grown up thinking that they have to earn God’s Love. And that is one of the biggest lies of Satan within organized church. Many times it’s subtly taught that you have to be water baptized, or keep on confessing to get forgiveness by God, or going to a “church” building and listening to Satan’s messengers of lies, or any number of religious dos and don’ts in order to be saved. Most have a difficult time today of receiving grace. And you can even see that in the apostles before the cross, where Jesus served them in love as a servant, and before they were born again of the Spirit themselves, which occurred later when the Holy Spirit indwelt them. They went from being professors of Jesus to being possessors of Jesus. And we see that in the scriptures too, where a simple thing like foot washing by Jesus himself, a servant to them, served their needs in Love was difficult for them to accept before the cross, but they understood it after the Holy Spirit came to indwell them.

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John 13:1-17

It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end. The evening meal was underway, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.

Jesus knew that the Father had delivered all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was returning to God. So He got up from the supper, laid aside His outer garments, and wrapped a towel around His waist. After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and dry them with the towel that was around Him.

He came to Simon Peter, who asked Him, “Lord, are You going to wash my feet?”

Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”

“Never shall You wash my feet!” Peter told Him.

Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with Me.”

“Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not only my feet, but my hands and my head as well!”

Jesus told him, “Whoever has already bathed needs only to wash his feet, and he will be completely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.” For He knew who would betray Him. That is why He said, “Not all of you are clean.”

When Jesus had washed their feet and put on His outer garments, He reclined with them again and asked, “Do you know what I have done for you? You call Me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, because I am. So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you. Truly, truly, I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

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And a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, having done what, will I inherit eternal life?”
And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good, except God alone.

~ “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.” 1 John 5:12

~ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; the one believing in Me, even if he should die, he will live. And everyone living and believing in Me shall never die, to the age. Do you believe this?” John 11:25,26
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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.”

~ “Now, Jesus aware before the feast of the Passover that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father, Having loved His own who were in the world, loved them to the utmost degree, though the devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot Simon’s son to betray Him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given him all things unto his hands and that he came forth from God and was going unto God, rose from the supper and laid aside His garments and girded a towel about himself. And he poured water into the basin and began to wash the disciples feet. Folks, this was the act of the lost of servants, and to wipe them with a towel which with he was girded. He came, therefore to Simon, Peter, and Peter said to Him, Lord, are you washing my feet? And Jesus answered and said to him, what I am doing you do not know now, but you will know hereafter.” ~ Bob George

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Welcome to Classic Christianity Radio with Bob George as we enter into Easter season, we are reminded how much we are loved and accepted by God. Jesus willingly died on the cross so that we could have complete forgiveness for our sins. So many people say that they were saved because their sins were forgiven, but that is only half of the gospel. Man is not merely saved by the death of Christ, but by the life of Christ. Romans 5:30 says that, For if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his son, how much more having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life? Jesus came to give us life. He came to this earth to identify with us in our death, so that we could identify with him in his resurrection, join Bob George as he teaches us about the true meaning of the resurrection. Jesus Christ gave His life for us so that he could give his life to us so that he could live his life through us.

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Well, we’re going to take a little journey today into the last days of Christ. So we’re going to pick up where it said that they draw. They drew near to Jerusalem, and they came to Bethage at the mountain called Olivet. And then Jesus sent His two disciples, saying to them, Go into the village that is opposite you, and immediately, on entering it, you will find an ass tied and a colt tied with her on which no one has ever set. Untie them and bring them to me. And if anyone says anything to you, if anyone asks you, Why are you doing this? You shall say to them, because the Lord has need of them, and He will send them here at once. So those who were sent on their way and did as Jesus had commanded them, they found a young ass, just as they said, told them tied outside the door in the street, and they untied it, and the owner said, who were standing there, said to them, what are you doing untying the colt? And they told him what Jesus had commanded. The Lord has need of it. And so they let him go. So they brought the colt to Jesus and throwing their garments on them. They set Jesus upon the Colt. Now as he proceeded, they began to spread their garments on the road, and as he was already drawing near at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole magnitude of the disciples began to rejoice and to praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen, saying, Blessed is the King who is coming in the name of the Lord, peace and heaven and glory in the highest. And a great throng who had come to the feast when they heard that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem, cut branches from the palm trees and went out to meet him, and they strewn them on the road. And the crowds who went before him and those who followed kept crying out, Hosanna, hosanna, to the son of David. Blessed is he who is coming in the name of the lord the king of Israel? Blessed is the kingdom of our father, David. Hosanna, in the highest now, all of this was done that there might be fulfilled what was spoken in a Prophet saying, Tell the daughter of Zion, fear not, behold your King is coming to you, meek and mounted upon an ass, even a colt, the fowl of an ass and these things his disciples understood, not at first, but when Jesus was glorified and they remembered that these things were written of him, and that they had done those things to him. Therefore, the people who were there with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised Him from the dead, bore witness. For this reason, also, the people went and met him because of hearing that he had brought this miraculous sign. As most of you know, this was right after he had raised Lazarus from the dead. And it was kind of the final, kind of the straw that broke the camel’s back to a degree whereby finally, people finally realize this truly is the Son of God.

Now some of the Pharisees from the multitude… Catch this. Here is a man who, for three years had performed every kind of miracle that you could imagine. As a matter of fact in the Gospel of John, it ends by saying that, I suppose if all of the things were recorded that Jesus had done, that all the libraries of the world could not contain the information. Now I want to tell you something. This book that we hold in our hand is a lot smaller than a library. So what we can assume from that statement is that the things that Jesus did are of such a magnitude that we only have captured a small bit of it. Otherwise he could never have made that statement. And so here was a man who, in his final completion of an act, had raised a man from the dead, and in the midst of doing that, and no one denying that that had been done. As a matter of fact, they knew that Lazarus was dead. They knew that all of a sudden, he was alive, coming out of a tomb after being wrapped in grave clothes. And yet, in the midst of this, catch the heart of the Pharisee, some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him. Teacher, saying to Jesus, Teacher, rebuke those disciples of yours, these people that are saying, Hosanna, Blessed be the King that comes in the name of the Lord. Rebuke those people for making those kind of statements. But he answered and said to them, I tell you that if these should be silent, the stones would cry out. So here you’ve got the difference. You’ve got the Pharisees. You’ve got the heart of the legalistic, self righteous heart that absolutely will not accept anything except their tradition and their own self righteousness, that believes that they are walking in obedience to a law. And here is a man who is coming and beginning to proclaim the grace of God. He had just given the woes. And you read through that sometimes, and you want to talk about your heart getting plucked, that will do it in a hurry, but he talked a woe to you Pharisees, you teachers of the law. Those were the religious leaders of the day. They were the authority on the interpretation of the law. And he said, You’re a bunch of white voice sepulchers. You’re all clean on the outside, but you’re dirty on the inside. And what Jesus did was penetrate all of that religious form and got underneath the skin, where all of us live, and said, underneath the skin, you’re nothing but a hypocrite. You’re claiming to be obedient to the law on the outside, but you’re not doing what you’re claiming that you’re doing. And so what Jesus did in his appearance on this earth was to neutralize the entire world. He recognized the Gentile as what we were, heathenistic in all ways, and he recognized the religious world as they were hypocritical in all ways. And in so doing, was able to say, There is none righteous. No not one. That no man will ever be declared righteous in the sight of God through obedience to the law, because it’s through the law that you begin to see your own sinfulness. And so once again, even after seeing all of these miracles, they were saying you should rebuke those disciples.

Now when he drew near and behold the city, he wept over it. And incidentally, that is where Jesus is coming back. When he returns to this earth, he isn’t coming to America. I know that’s a shock to some people, but he’s coming right back to Israel, and His feet will be firmly planted on the Mount of Olives. And because just as he departed physically, he’s coming back physically. And so you can imagine Jesus from this type of a vantage point, drew near the city and literally wept over the city of Jerusalem and said, If only you Yes, you had known, at least in your day, the things that would bring you peace. Listen to that if you would have only known what would bring you peace. What are you looking for? Peace. What is Israel looking for today? Peace. Any J@@ish program that you hear, what do they say? Pray for the what peace of Jerusalem you’re praying for the wrong thing. You better pray for the Prince of Peace to come back to Jerusalem, because until the prince of peace returns to Jerusalem, there will be no peace in Jerusalem. So it’s an exercise in futility to pray for the peace of Jerusalem while they’re in denial of the Prince of Peace. It’s only the day when every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, that you will ever have peace, not only in Jerusalem, but any place else in this world in which we live today. And so his his heart was out. He said, if you would have only known, at least in this day, the things that would bring you peace, the greeting in Israel is what? Shalom, peace. And yet when you read Paul’s Gospel, you never see that it’s always grace and peace. Grace and peace be unto you, Grace and peace. Why? There is no peace apart from grace. And as long as you’re rejecting the grace of God and hanging on to your law of tradition, you will never experience peace until you come to understand grace.

And so he says, had you only known but now are they hid from your eyes. For days shall come upon you when your enemies will cast up a rampart around you and encircle you and hem you in on every side and will level you to the ground with your children within you, leaving you not one stone upon another, because you knew not the time of your visitation. You knew not the time of your visitation. Do you know today, the Orthodox in Jerusalem or in Israel, is still looking for a Messiah they knew not the time of his visitation. They denied that he was there and therefore still looking for it. There’s an interesting thing to the Orthodox that is saying we believe the Messiah is going to come. How in a world you’re going to know who he is? The Messiah has to come from the bloodline of David. You couldn’t prove you’re from the bloodline of David, if your life depended on So how in the world is anyone going to know? And if anyone was going to know? Because you must know that when the man claims to be Messiah that he came from the bloodline of David, that possibility was totally annihilated in 70 ad, when the temple was destroyed and all genealogies were gone. And so for the Messiah had to come prior to 70 ad, in order to even identify. Jesus is saying, you did not know the time of your visitation.

And upon entering Jerusalem, the entire city was aroused, saying, Who is this? And the crowd said, this is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee. The Pharisees said, Therefore to one another, you see that they are gaining nothing. Lo, the world has gone after him. They looked at their own cohorts and said, Look, you guys are gaining nothing. The whole world is going after him. Jesus entered into the temple, and when they had looked around on anything as the hour was already late, he went out to Bethany with the 12. That was the time that Jesus rode in on the donkey, announced that people recognized him. Hosanna. Praise be to the Lord. And now we start coming in with just a few days later, Jesus came into the garden of Gethsemane.

And that’s where you see your trees that were there. And some of those trees are supposedly still there from the time of Christ. Some people said that they were all cut down by Titus. Josephus records that. From the looks of the trees that you see over there, and from people who analyze that type of thing, some of those olive trees were there when Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane, and you can see them. That’s one of the remarkable things of being over there, is when you’re standing in the Garden of Gethsemane, you don’t have to wonder whether you’re standing in the vicinity where Jesus was. That’s where he was before this event, Jesus went into the upper room. And so he would have been over in this area on Mount of Olives, where they would have gone, which is called the upper room, and that’s where they would have held and been introduced to the Lord’s Supper.

Now it said it came the first day of the unleavened bread, when the Passover lamb must be killed. And the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, Where do you wish us to go to prepare for you to eat the Passover? So he sent off Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare the Passover for us that we may eat it. And they said to them, where will you have us prepare it? And he said, Go into the city. And behold, there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. He says, follow him, and wherever he may go in say to the man of the house, the teacher says to you, my time is at hand. Where is the guest room for me to eat the Passover at your house with my disciples? And He will show you a large upper room furnished and ready there prepare for us. And his disciples sent out and went into the city, just as Jesus had instructed them, and they found just as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover. So when it was evening, he came to the 12, and when the hour arrived, he reclined at his table and the apostles with him, and he said to them, with yearning, I have desired to eat the Passover with you before I suffer, For I say to you that I will not anymore eat of it until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. And receiving the cup, he gave thanks, and he said, take this. And he divided among yourselves, For I say to you that I will not at all drink of the fruit of this vine until the coming of the Kingdom of God.

Now, Jesus aware before the feast of the Passover that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father, Having loved His own who were in the world, loved them to the utmost degree, though the devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot Simon’s son to betray Him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given him all things unto his hands and that he came forth from God and was going unto God, rose from the supper and laid aside His garments and girded a towel about himself. And he poured water into the basin and began to wash the disciples feet. Folks, this was the act of the lost of servants, and to wipe them with a towel which with he was girded. He came, therefore to Simon, Peter, and Peter said to Him, Lord, are you washing my feet? And Jesus answered and said to him, what I am doing you do not know now, but you will know hereafter.

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And Peter said to him, never may you wash my feet. In other words, Lord, Never will you ever be a servant to me. In other words, I should be a servant to you. Isn’t that a natural response? And Jesus said, If I don’t wash you, in other words, if I am not your servant and I do not serve you, to the ultimate of going to the cross for you. That’s in essence, what he was saying. And he said, Peter, you don’t understand what I’m doing now, but you will. You have no part of me. So Peter said, Well, if that’s the case, then Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head. In other words, if that’s the case, just wash me all over. Jesus said to him, he who has bathed need not to wash except his feet, but is clean all over. And you disciples are clean, though not all of you, for he knew who was going to betray him. For it was said not all of you are clean. And so therefore he had washed their feet and taken his garment and reclined again. He said to him, do you know what I have done to you? You call me the teacher and the Lord, and you speak well, for I am so. If then I the Lord and the teacher washed your feet. In other words, have served you, then you also ought to wash one another’s feet. In other words, you ought to serve others. Your attitude. Remember what Paul said that our attitude should be like that of Christ, Jesus, who, though he were God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped. But he humbled himself. He took upon himself the position of a servant. Did he not? And he said, do likewise. Do not be thinking how someone can serve me, but be thinking how I can serve one another. I gave you an example, just as I did to you, you should do also, verily, I say unto you, a bondsman is not greater than his Lord, nor our messenger greater than the one who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you will do them.

Now we know from that point on that a betrayal took place. We might just therefore pick up in the Garden of Gethsemane, because after he, after he did the Lord’s Supper, then he and his disciples would have returned around the city into the garden of Gethsemane. Now, when Jesus was in this garden of Gethsemane, and as I mentioned to it, the the the olive trees there is where the olive oil and the olive press comes from, and that’s where that name comes from. But he said, he told them, the very night, this very night you were you will all fall away on account of me. Now think of the good news of that, that here were men who had followed Jesus for all of this time through some pretty tough persecution in many instances. And yet he’s saying tonight, you’re going to fall away from me, every one of you. For he says, I will strike the shepherd, or for it is written that I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered. But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.

Now, Peter replied, Even if all fall away on account of you, I never will. Now, do you think Peter meant that? You think he is sincere? Sincere is a heart attack. He believed with all his heart that I will never, ever leave you. I don’t believe that Lord, see, the Lord had just said, you’re all going to leave. Peter says, No, you’re not. No, we’re not, not me. He was always doing that. He always had his foot in his mouth. But the Lord loved him. That’s an encouragement to me. I tell you the truth, Jesus answered this very night before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times. But Peter declared, you listen to the sincerity coming out of here. That’s why I said, Lord, even if I have to die with you, I’ll never disown you. I’ll go to my death for you. Did he mean it? Sure. Thought for sure that’s what he’d do. And all the other disciples said the same thing. You remember when, when Moses came down with the 10 Commandments, what did they say? Oh, Lord, we’ll obey those. You know, no problem for us. And before they ever got them down from the mountain, they were, they had built a golden calf and were having orgies. Now that’s how much we can do. Apart from Christ. You can be sincere, but sincerely wrong. And many times, sincerity is an attribute that people really have respect in. But folks, it means nothing, because you and I can be sincerely wrong, can’t we? Everybody that stands at the altar to get married is sincere hopefully, or they wouldn’t be there, but they were sincerely wrong in thinking in the energy of their own flesh, they could keep this thing together. Now, just as the Israelites could not keep the law in the energy of their own flesh. Here is Peter that had a devotional love for the Lord that is so obvious on another occasion we talked about that last week here was on the third watch, three o’clock in the morning. Here were the disciples out in the middle of Galilee, and three o’clock in the morning, here is Jesus came walking out on the water to them, that’d be a sight. And who was it that said, Lord, let me walk out there with you? Peter. And he got and he said, Come on. He got out of the boat, then all of a sudden, start seeing the waves. And when he saw the waves, he sunk and yelled, Lord help. What did the Lord say? Oh, ye of little faith. You say, little faith. What are you talking about? He stepped out of a boat, out onto the water. That isn’t little faith. That’s a bunch of faith. Would you do that? Would I do that? Not unless I was on the salt sea and then I’d sink. But what was he saying? He said, Peter, you had enough faith to step out of that boat onto that water. That’s a bunch of faith. But when you got out of the boat and you saw the waves, you started sinking. Now, Peter used the same faith that you used to get out of the boat, to walk out of the boat.

What’s that a picture of? You and me. How, what kind of faith did we have to exercise to step out of Adam into Christ, to leave everything behind and say, Jesus, I am trusting you and you alone for my salvation? People that have come out of tradition where you were saved by being a Catholic, you were saved by taking the Lord’s Supper, or saved by doing the ordinances, or saved by being a Greek Orthodox, or saved by anything, and you’re saying all of it’s dung, Lord Jesus, it’s you and you alone, and we exercise faith. The next day we run into a little problem. We say, help. And the Lord is saying, Bob, the same faith that you exercised to come to me exercise in me as you have received Christ, Jesus, the Lord, what? Walk ye in him. The same faith that it took to receive Him, walk in him. That’s what he was saying, almost amusingly, Peter, you had Look what you did. You got out of the boat. You walked on the water now, for goodness sakes, Peter, keep your faith where it belongs. Keep it on me. Peter was not a man of little faith. He was a man who loved the Lord with all of his heart, but he couldn’t do it. He couldn’t do it.

Now, before we go on after Christ’s death and burial and resurrection, and then after the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit of God was sent by God to live inside of you and me and to live inside of the apostles of the apostles, and they were literally born again that day, they were spiritually regenerated that day. No man is spiritually regenerated until the Spirit of God lives in you. Now, prior to that time, the Spirit of God came to come upon people for divine service, but only at Pentecost did he come to live in people? Now, what was the difference between this Peter that we’re going to read about that denies the Lord and the Peter that stood in front of those people 50 days later and said, You killed the Son of God? What was the difference in the two? The Spirit of God living in you, the Holy Spirit of God coming to take up residence in a person. That’s what it means to be born again. Now, was he religious prior to that? Sure. Was he a follower of Jesus? Prior to that? Sure. Did he love Jesus? Sure. Did he have any power to live the life? None. How come he didn’t have the life? And that is the condition of the so called Christian religious world. You have people who are living a life that they don’t have, pretending when they don’t have life. They’re religious. They say they love Jesus, they come to church, they give their money, but they don’t have a living relationship with God. So you either have a life that you don’t live, or else you live a life that you don’t have.

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