Radio Broadcast Monday 05/25/2026

Classic Christianity – That Ugly Flesh – Part 1 – 5-25-26

~ Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.

Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh! For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— though I myself could have such confidence. Philippians 3:1-4a

~ Here’s where the rubber meets the road. Do we tell it like it is, or do we cover over the TRUTH of the word of God? There are lessons in life that we need to see for ourselves, and that is we are to tell it like it is, especially when the Holy Spirit is clearly instructing you to say what He wants you to say. By the way, dogs still are amongst us today. And it’s more prevelant than most imagine it to be. Because the Truth of the matter is all of the Christian Industrial Complex is run by the dogs themselves. And most have no clue. Many even hold the dogs up on their social media pages, and have no clue what these dogs teach in regards to the very foundation of what salvation even is. Most pastors themselves have no clue. Many think it is getting ones sins forgiven, as though when a person asks for forgiveness, God then somehow magically transforms forgiveness after the cross. They have no clue as to what the Life of Christ Jesus really is. Sure they can repeat what the Scriptures say, but when it comes time to explaining the meaning of the Scriptures, they are all over the place.

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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. Luke 18:18,19

Jesus is God in flesh: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:1

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Pray to God:

Do you really want to know the WHOLE Truth of what is going on today?

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.”

~ Bob George discusses the importance of not fearing repetition in learning, emphasizing that it is essential for understanding. He criticizes modern sensitivity to truth, citing biblical examples where bluntness and telling it like it is was necessary. Bob presents that true believers are those born again, not those who follow man-made traditions or church memberships. He warns against putting confidence in fleshly achievements like religious observances or ancestry. Bob stresses that true righteousness comes from Christ, not observance of the law, and that believers should focus on their relationship with Christ, considering everything else as loss compared to knowing Him.

~ “Watch out, he says, for those dogs. Now, guys, that is not real politically correct, calling people dogs and people who are mutilators of the flesh, but if that’s truth, then why have we grown to the point where, for the sake of being so-called politically correct, we fear to proclaim truth? That has become almost a mystery to me. I didn’t grow up that way, and most of you who are at least a little older certainly can agree with me that you didn’t grow up that way, that you kind of spoke truth is what truth is, and, and no big deal, but we’ve become so sensitive today that we just cannot stand to hear even truth, but the fact is that in the scriptures you’re going to see truth proclaimed, when when Jesus said to people, you’re a bunch of white-washed sepulchers, that is not what you’d call politically correct, but it’s truth, and because it’s truth, it will set you free. And so he says, watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those manipulators of the flesh, for it is we who are the circumcision. In other words, these people who are claiming that we are the true believers in Christ Jesus. That is true even today, where you will find people who say we are the church. Well, folks, there is no “the” church except the Church of Christ Jesus, and that doesn’t mean that you name your church “the church” and that becomes “the church.” It’s the church that Christ brought about, not the ones we bring about, not the memberships that we create, but the memberships that He created, and the only way that he creates a church is through spiritual birth. We create them through baptism, church membership, rolls, donuts, all kinds of things that we create church with. Those are man-made, those are what’s called fleshly things, but Jesus’ church is a supernatural church. It’s an invisible church. As a matter of fact, our founder isn’t down here except in us, but he says that is my church. It isn’t a denomination. You have people today say, well, our church is the first. I don’t care if it was the first or before the first. It’s man-made. The only church that God is interested in is His church, not ours.” ~ Bob George

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It’s no trouble for me to write the same things to you again; this is a safeguard to you. So, what Paul is saying here is, I’ve written these instructions to you before, and I’m going to write to you again, you know. Many times we are scared to death of repetition, and yet we’re told, and we know that repetition is the mother of learning, and yet many times we’re scared to death of it. So he said, “No, I’m going to write to you again, and probably again and again, if necessary, because I want you to get what I’m saying.

Watch out, he says, for those dogs. Now, guys, that is not real politically correct, calling people dogs and people who are mutilators of the flesh, but if that’s truth, then why have we grown to the point where, for the sake of being so-called politically correct, we fear to proclaim truth? That has become almost a mystery to me. I didn’t grow up that way, and most of you who are at least a little older certainly can agree with me that you didn’t grow up that way, that you kind of spoke truth is what truth is, and, and no big deal, but we’ve become so sensitive today that we just cannot stand to hear even truth, but the fact is that in the scriptures you’re going to see truth proclaimed, when when Jesus said to people, you’re a bunch of white-washed sepulchers, that is not what you’d call politically correct, but it’s truth, and because it’s truth, it will set you free. And so he says, watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those manipulators of the flesh, for it is we who are the circumcision. In other words, these people who are claiming that we are the true believers in Christ Jesus. That is true even today, where you will find people who say we are the church. Well, folks, there is no “the” church except the Church of Christ Jesus, and that doesn’t mean that you name your church “the church” and that becomes “the church.” It’s the church that Christ brought about, not the ones we bring about, not the memberships that we create, but the memberships that He created, and the only way that he creates a church is through spiritual birth. We create them through baptism, church membership, rolls, donuts, all kinds of things that we create church with. Those are man-made, those are what’s called fleshly things, but Jesus’ church is a supernatural church. It’s an invisible church. As a matter of fact, our founder isn’t down here except in us, but he says that is my church. It isn’t a denomination. You have people today say, well, our church is the first. I don’t care if it was the first or before the first. It’s man-made. The only church that God is interested in is His church, not ours.

And so we go out and we build big memberships, and we build big buildings, and we just are so proud of our congregation and our group, and, and, and, and why. Well, because we built it, you know, we went to church growth seminars, and, and we did all kinds of things, and we built this thing, and we visited all the visitors, and we encouraged them, or manipulated them back into church, or whatever it might be, and we have built this thing, we’re so proud of it, but God says that in what I’m looking for. He said, the church that I’m interested in is the church that I produced, and that’s produced by being born again believers, all color, all creed, all backgrounds, all economic strata. It makes no difference, just born again people.

So he said, ‘You watch out for these people, these people who do evil, manipulators of the flesh. For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh. No confidence in the flesh. Now he said, I have reason to put such confidence in the flesh, and so what Paul is going to do here is describe some of the ways in which we put confidence in the flesh, and it’s very explicit. He says, first of all, I have, I was circumcised on the eighth day, and then he followed religious observance. It would be like saying I was baptized when I was 12, or I was baptized, or I’m a tither, or I have 99.9% church attendance, or whatever else you want to put into there. It’s something that I have done, and, and, and because I’ve done it, I have confidence that that’s what’s going to get me in. And so he said, circumcised on the eighth day. In other words, religious observance. The people of Israel ancestry, my mommy and daddy were Baptists, my great granny were Baptists, and my great great grammy are Baptists, and brother, I’m a Baptist, and so I’m okay now. I could use Presbyterian or anything, I’m not down on Baptist, just use it as an example, okay? So, politically correct, need to clear that up. There are people like that. I am so proud of the fact that I come out of a generation of Presbyterians, or a generation of Baptists, or a generation of Methodists, and my relation clear back to the days that I can’t even remember. We’re all of the same denomination, and so am I. So I’m okay. How can I not be okay when I followed the traditions of man through all of these years? Confidence in the flesh.

He said, out of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. In other words, as far as my race is concerned, of being a Hebrew, I’m one of the best ones out there. So Paul’s kind of identifying himself that I was a Hebrew of the Hebrews, I’m a Christian of the Christians, and if you want to take a look at a, at a healthy good Christian, I guess that’s comparison to a bad Christian, but to a good Christian man, you just look at me and I’ll show you what a good Christian is. So, your confidence is there. What is your confidence in, how good I’m doing? You just put you folks just don’t realize how much I pray, and you just don’t know how much I read the Bible, and I do it in an orderly fashion. When do you do yours, Joe? Seven in the morning? I do mine at six. If he said six, I’d have done it at five, and we play Christian one-upmanship, don’t we? And there’s all of that kind of stuff going on, and so we become confident in that, we become proudful, prideful of the fact that that’s what I’m doing, and I’m okay, because that’s what I’m doing, I have confidence in my flesh. This is these are all religious things, you know. We can get into the flesh, the stuff that we’re really familiar with, but these are all just religious things. We’d get into the other, but I’m afraid to be too convicting, so we’ll trust him.

He said, as far as persecuting the church, or in regard to the law, a Pharisee. In other words, you want to talk about a law keeper, brother. I’m a law keeper, I’m under the law, and I am a keeper of that law. And, and you just look to see how well I keep the law. I go to church on the day I’m supposed to, and I haven’t murdered anyone recently, and I haven’t stolen, and I all of these things. I am a law keeper in regard to the law. I’m like a Pharisee, I’m top drawer. As for zeal, man, zealous for the Lord. I go out and witness to everybody that walks, and a few that don’t, and I just.. I just have a zeal for God. Every time I look at somebody, I say, “Praise Jesus”. Got a real zeal for God. Where’s the focus on all this stuff, guys? It’s on me, me, what I’m doing for God. It’d be like a branch saying, “Boy, hey, haven’t you seen how much fruit I got hanging on me? I mean, I am one producer of fruit” Not realizing that that branch could not produce a thing if it were not for the branch abiding in the vine, a branch cannot produce fruit. A branch can only bear the fruit of the producer, and the producer is not the branch, the producer is the vine. And so, is there anything for us to be bragging about? Not really. But do we? Absolutely, we have what confidence in the branch. You guys may get on thrall if you want to with that vine, but I want to tell you, I’m a pretty impressive branch, and so we need to keep our eyes on the branch, and that’s the way we think that’s confidence in the flesh, very subtle, but very true.

A Hebrew of Hebrews zealous for God, and not only that, but I persecute people that aren’t like me. I mean, if I’m this law keeper, and somebody isn’t keeping the law the way I think they should keep the law. You’re going to hear from me, and you’re going to hear from me real good, because I’m a, I’m a keeper of the law, and I’m going to make sure that you’re a keeper of the law. As for legalistic righteousness, as far as being righteous in the sight of God, Paul said I was faultless. I have people like that. Have you ever run into somebody and never thinks they sin? Do you know there are people around that say that I never sinned? How many of you have ever known anyone like that? I hope none of you have been that way, but how many? How many have known somebody just literally say, ‘I never sinned?’ How many in the hands could it see? Not too many in here. How many of you don’t know anybody? Maybe you’ve never broached the subject. When I run, there’s somebody that says, ‘I never sinned.’ I say, let me talk to your wife. I had a guy on the radio one time, it was a dummy, let me talk to her. It kind of ended that conversation in a hurry.

Confidence in the flesh, and Paul is saying, as far as confidence in the flesh, I probably got more confidence that I could put in the flesh in any of you, but verse seven, whatever was to my profit, in other words, whatever I thought was profitable for me, I was doing these things because I felt they were profitable to me. It was, it was doing something for me. It was making me more acceptable in the sight of God, and that’s the reason I was doing them. Is the law said to do this, and I was obeying the law, and the law said to be circumcised, and I was circumcised. Didn’t have anything to do with that, but my parents did. I was a HEBREW of the HEBREWS, I was a Hebrew of the Hebrews, and so I was out. It was beneficial for me to act like a good Hebrew, beneficial for me to go out and act like a good Christian. It always kills me when I hear that good Christian. I always do compare that. I guess that’s comparison to a bad Christian, but you just wonder why people use that word, good Christian.

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Bob George 14:34
As a matter of fact, what did Jesus say about that word “good”? He said when they called him “good” “good teacher,” remember, they tend to him. He said, ‘Hold on a minute. Why do you call me good? Only God is good.” So, if you’re going to call me good, call me God, and if you don’t want to call me God, don’t call me good, because only God is good. Now, if he’s saying that only God is good, what does that say about you and me? How many times do we say, oh, he’s such a good person? Have you ever been around him when he’s mad? You ever been around her when she’s mad? See, we can be nice people, can’t we? And sometimes. But to be good people, we need to get that out of our vocabulary, guys, because the Bible says there aren’t any of us good? We just think we are. Basically, isn’t that what you always hear? Basically, I’m a good person. I just killed three people and raped, raped 10, but basically I am a good person. And you hear that constantly, hear it constantly. If you have ever gone and worked in prisons, you will hear that constantly. Yeah, I did that. But basically, I am a good person. Well, you see, if I’m a good person, what do I need a savior for? If I’m such a good person, what do I need forgiveness for? I don’t need forgiveness if I’m a good person. I need forgiveness because I’m not a good person, don’t I? See, we don’t want to admit that we don’t want to see truth, we don’t want to be set free with truth to see ourselves as God sees us, and therefore see our need for salvation in Christ Jesus.

And so all that other is doing what? Putting confidence in the flesh. Paul says, I don’t want you to have any confidence in the flesh. We, who are the true believers, put no confidence in our flesh. In our flesh, you said is no good thing, and we have to understand the truth of that. You say, “Well, why did God.. why did God do this the way He did it?” I mean, that’s that’s something that really we all ought to think about sooner or later in a Christian experience. Why did God do this? God could have saved us in such a way that He just eradicated the flesh, and so I didn’t have any flesh in conflict with my spirit. I just was born again, and now I am perfect, and there’s no conflict at all. He could have done that, but he didn’t, and it says God can’t look on sin. Then, how in the world does he live in me, and how in the world does he live in you if God can’t look on sin? Can anybody answer that question? So, all of those kind of things. Oh God, every time God sees sin, he turns his back and it flips around, you kind of envision after a while got on this chair that you know you sin around I go and just confess it and I twirl back around again and just twirling around up there. Can you believe how many people there are in the world today and how many sinners there are in the world today and how much spinning he must be doing? But we teach that.

God chose for some reason to come and indwell us in the midst of the fact that even as I come to indwell you, I’m going to indwell a person that is also indwelt by sin, that has still something called flesh living in you, and that that’s going to be a conflict until the day that you die between the flesh and the spirit. They’re in conflict with each other. The flesh doesn’t do what the spirit wants to do, and the spirit doesn’t do what the flesh wants to do. They’re in conflict with each other. How many have found that to be true in your Christian experience? That is the conflict that you’re in. Well, you say, why did God do that? He didn’t have to do that. Is there a benefit to my having flesh? Paul said it’s a weakness. You know what he said to do with your weakness? Rejoice in it. Say what, Lord? Yeah, rejoice in it. How can I rejoice in my weakness? It’s a thing that keeps me off balance. No, no, he said it shouldn’t keep you off balance. You should rejoice in your weakness, because your weakness is what’s going to keep you dependent upon Christ. If I did not have any weaknesses, I would forget Jesus in a New York minute, and so would you. Adam and Eve didn’t have any weaknesses prior to the fall, but they still fell. And so we have to understand the truth of that, that as long as I am in this flesh of mine, as long as I’m indwelt by Christ Jesus, which is forever, there’s going to be a conflict between those two. So I tell people, if you really want to get down to the point where you’re sinless, pray for death, because that’s when it’s going to occur. The day that you and I are absent from this body and present with the Lord is the first time that we will see him as he is and become like Him. Until that time, we’re going to be in the kind. Conflict of Paul in Romans seven, the things you want to do, you don’t do, and the things that you don’t want to do, you do them anyway. Wretched man that I am, who will free me from this bondage of sin and death? And his answer to it is, praise be to God through Jesus Christ, my Lord. He set me free. He set you free.

So, where should our emphasis be on the branch or the vine? To see, the flesh puts the emphasis on the branch, and the spirit puts the emphasis on the vine. So, Paul says, whatever was to my profit, I now consider loss for the sake of Christ, I put all those things behind me. They have no meaning to me anymore. And what is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whose sake I lost all things. Well, what’s he talking about losing? All the accolades that come from being a person who was circumcised on the eighth day, all the accolades that come from being a HEBREW from Israel, all the accolades that’s come from being a tribe of Benjamin, the accolades of being called the Hebrew of the Hebrews, the accolades that come from being a law keeper, the accolades that coming is what a zeal for God this guy has. All the accolades had come from he’s bold as brass, goes out and persecutes the church. As far as legalistic righteousness boy, he’s without fault. Oh, those are things that feel good for people to say about you. He said it’s all flesh. Forget about what people say about you. As a matter of fact, forget about what people think about you. I say, if you’re worried about what people think about you, forget it. They’re not, they’re thinking about themselves, and yet we spend time constantly preoccupied with, I wonder what they think about me. Forget it. The only issue is important to us is, what does God think about you?

And if you’re in Christ, He thinks a lot about you. As a matter of fact, He thinks so much of you that He calls you my son, my daughter. That ought to satisfy our hearts. They said everybody wants to be accepted. Why God made us that way. God made us in such a way whereby the three strongest desires that we have in all this world, or will ever have, is the desire to be loved unconditionally, the desire to be accepted, and there’s a difference between being loved and being accepted unconditionally, and to have meaning and purpose to life. Well, if we don’t understand that, that that’s there, don’t try to take it away from me, it’s, it’s part of me, it’s part of being a human being, so you’re saying to yourself, well, where do I go to get that need met? And if we don’t go to where God created you to go, and that is to Him to meet that need, we have no option except to go someplace else, and where do we go? To each other. And so we try to get that need for unconditional love met in our mate, or in our children, or in our parents. If I would have just had more loving parents, I’d really be okay. No, I can take you to people that grew up with the most loving parents you’d ever want to stay in your life at a mess. So, we’ve got all these excuses. If, if, if, if I would have just.. if this… They say no, there’s an influence that’s there, but don’t blame the way you are today on that influence. You had choices, and it’s the choices that you made here to determine whether you’re walking in victory or not today.

So he says, I consider everything as a loss compared to this surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord. He sees this born again experience where he got to know Jesus personally, he sees that as probably the most important thing that ever took place in his life, and as a matter of fact, he calls this surpassing greatness. How great it is to know that you’re His. Now, guys, we forget about that, don’t we? You kind of take it for granted, at least that is my experience sometimes, it’s kind of ho hum. Well, that’s pretty nice stuff. I forget about many times, especially the longer you’re in Christ is how lost you were when you weren’t in Christ, and that’s some benefit to of coming to Christ later on in life is because, like, I had 36 years of experience as to what it is to not have the Lord living in you, that’s pretty good amount of time, but a lot of people never got that time. Said, I came to Christ when I was nine. I said, did you ever stop to think that you had to do all your sinning as a Christian? But guys, don’t take it for granted. Paul said, “I see this, that I would consider everything that’s ever happened to me as loss compared to that surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whose sake He said, ‘I’ve lost all things.'” I consider them dung, I consider him nothing but a waste, that I might gain Christ and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, and there again mentioning that He does not have a righteousness that comes from the law. See, we try to gain our righteousness through the law. The law was given to us by God to show us our unrighteousness, and we have misused the law to our benefit. We think it’s to our benefit by taking the law and using it as a means of gaining righteousness, and the law was not given for the righteous, it was given for the unrighteous, to show you your condition, so that you would turn to Christ Jesus for your salvation.

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