Radio Broadcast Monday 06/08/2026

Classic Christianity – Hang On – Part 1 – 6-08-26

~ “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:1
~ Knowing about Jesus is not the same thing as knowing Jesus personally. Everyone today knows about Jesus. Many even say they believe in Jesus. But they are not believing in the Jesus of Scriptures. They are believing in a different Jesus. One of 1st Imaginations. Many think of Jesus as but a mere Man, someone who did “good” works, but they don’t believe Jesus was God in the flesh. They may even have been to “church” their whole life, and have heard about Jesus, but they never placed Faith in Him, as God in the flesh, who took away ALL their sins at the cross.

This is why we need to get back to the very foundation of who Jesus really is, and share the Truth with others. Don’t assume someone is saved because they go to so-called “church,” because most have NOT been born again of the Spirit of God. Find out what they believe, and then share the True full Gospel with 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. 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 recounts his journey from a life devoid of spiritual understanding to a deep relationship with Christ. He describes his upbringing in a religious family, his superficial church experiences, and his pursuit of success through material wealth. Bob’s life took a turn when his father was diagnosed with cancer, leading him to question life’s purpose. A pivotal moment came when he attended a Campus Crusade for Christ event and heard the gospel message for the first time. Bob realized his need for a personal relationship with Christ, which transformed his life and filled the emptiness he had felt.

~ “There are many times, you know, people say, well, I go to church, and I say, well, that’s fine, but which one do you go to? Because I went to church all my life, but I never heard the gospel. I never heard that I was a sinner. No one ever carried a Bible, never had any emphasis on reading the Bible at all. It was just a place where you went on Sunday, and you heard kind of a nice little message, and you put your dollar in the offering plate, and you went home, and that was about it. Did meet some nice people along the way, people that you became friends with, that was always encouraging. But as far as having any depth of religious understanding, there was none in my life at all. As a matter of fact, when I came to Christ and got a Bible and opened it up, it cracked. It had not been opened before, and I have to just say that I knew about Jesus. If so, if you would have said, ‘Do you know about Jesus Christ?’ Absolutely, I believed with all my heart that he died on a cross. I believed with all my heart that he was raised from the dead. Beyond that, there was no belief in anything. Those were historical facts. That was no different than saying that I believe that Abe Lincoln was president of the United States, and that Abe Lincoln was killed in the Ford theater. It’s a historical acknowledgement of something that took place, but that was as deep as it went in regard to my relationship with Christ.” ~ Bob George

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Bob George 0:29
About 39 years ago, that my father went to be with the Lord. Dad had been sick with cancer for a number of months prior to that event. And it was a very special time in all of our lives, because I had just a couple of months earlier than that come to know Christ as my personal Lord and Savior at the age of 36. And it was quite an experience for me, because as we have talked about on different occasions, you have the idea that this is such great news, that’s that comes to you, such great news that you have been born again, not having any clue what that was before the event, not certainly being able to describe it to anybody, but all of a sudden you were born again of the Spirit of God, and your whole life took a totally different direction, and that was such certainly the case in my life.

My parents were religious people, always had us in church on Sunday. My memories of sitting in our church is sitting on the second pew, and normally with my head as a young boy on mom’s lap, sleeping. Some of you have never gotten out of that habit. But I do remember many, many things about being in church with my parents, especially the music, and even though I really do not have any recollection of any message that I ever heard, I do remember the songs, and just like singing that song today, a fairish Lord Jesus, those words touch your heart. And so I was never adamant toward God, I was just did not know that I could know him.

There are many times, you know, people say, well, I go to church, and I say, well, that’s fine, but which one do you go to? Because I went to church all my life, but I never heard the gospel. I never heard that I was a sinner. No one ever carried a Bible, never had any emphasis on reading the Bible at all. It was just a place where you went on Sunday, and you heard kind of a nice little message, and you put your dollar in the offering plate, and you went home, and that was about it. Did meet some nice people along the way, people that you became friends with, that was always encouraging. But as far as having any depth of religious understanding, there was none in my life at all. As a matter of fact, when I came to Christ and got a Bible and opened it up, it cracked. It had not been opened before, and I have to just say that I knew about Jesus. If so, if you would have said, ‘Do you know about Jesus Christ?’ Absolutely, I believed with all my heart that he died on a cross. I believed with all my heart that he was raised from the dead. Beyond that, there was no belief in anything. Those were historical facts. That was no different than saying that I believe that Abe Lincoln was president of the United States, and that Abe Lincoln was killed in the Ford theater. It’s a historical acknowledgement of something that took place, but that was as deep as it went in regard to my relationship with Christ.

But through a series of circumstances in my particular life I was in business, I grew up with the philosophy, I guess, of the world that the way that you’re going to be happy is to accumulate some money, have a nice wife, have nice children, have their little picket fence, and all that, and you’re going to be happy. I did not hear any philosophy that sounded any different or any better to me at the time, and so that’s the one I grabbed a hold of. Fact, my Bible was a book called Think and Grow Rich. Some of you might remember that one, and that’s what I went by, and I kind of lived by that book. So I went into ultimately a business. I went with a large corporation after I got out of school and was trained very well with them, and ultimately got into my own business there in California.

And it was there at that particular juncture of life, where I thought, boy, everything that I’d looked for is now happening. I’ve now got my own business, I’m free. Well, that’s a joke. Anyone that’s ever had their own business know that when you get that, that’s when you really get in bondage. But to me, why that was kind of freedom. There was a man. There was a young man that worked that I worked around at that particular time. His name was Lloyd Brinkman. His mother and relatives are here with us today. And Brink was one of those guys, very, very ambitious, and he was kind of a guy that I wanted to follow, because he ultimately left the corporation that he was with and started his own and became a multi millionaire, and I thought that’s what I’m after. And so he kind of set a little bit of an example for me as to what I wanted to achieve in business. So when ultimately got my own distributorship in California, why I knew I was on the way.

You know, it’s crazy, and that’s how silly we are in regard to what impresses us. I was just impressed out of my socks with the fact that I owned a car, a big old black Lincoln Continental convertible, that you know, the trunk went up in the back, the thing went down, and oh man, and red leather seats, and all that stuff, and I just thought I was somebody, somebody driving around that car. And you say, How can a car make you feel like you’re somebody, somebody, because you got to get out of that car, you know, Caitlyn, at least eat lunch, and I guess when I got out of the car as a nobody, and then it got back in the car, and I was a somebody, but it’s crazy, isn’t it how stupid we are into thinking those kinds of things have any meaning to them? And then you get a house, you got a swimming pool, and boy, that’s really something too, but how many days a week do you really swim? Not too many, but all those things become impressive to you. And to me, I grew up really with a desire for acceptance, an insatiable desire for acceptance, and especially when it came to my parents, especially my mom and dad, and especially I think with a boy it’s with his father of wanting acceptance from his dad.

And so Amy still comments to that to this day, that how, when we lived in California, and my folks would fly in, that first place I took them was to my warehouse, I wanted them to see that great big old warehouse full of goods, and and show them how successful I was, and to get patted on the back at, boy, Bob, you’re doing good, and that just made me feel so good. And really didn’t care much what Amy thought, you know, because wives don’t sit around saying, “Oh, sweetie, you’re really good,” they say, “Get the garbage out.” It’s thinking a little bit in here, and so that’s just kind of the way that was. So you kind of want to be around people that gave you some strokes instead of just the normal thing that you go through with life. Well, that was the case, certainly with my mom and dad.

My dad was a very, very successful attorney back in Indiana, and he was a good man, as far as you hear the word good, God says no one’s good, but we called him good. But he was a decent human being. He was probably one of the most moral men I’d ever known, and to me that created a frustrating example. I did not have a clue as to how somebody could be that moral, but at any rate, he was a moral person from the world standpoint and was a decent human being, and I thank God for him every day.

So when the news came to me at a point in time when I basically had achieved, and I knew that I was on the road to achieving what I wanted out of life, and that was money and success. I can remember living there in Whittier, California, and wanting – we lived in a nice house, but I wanted a bigger one, and I couldn’t understand why Amy was saying, I don’t want a bigger house, I can’t hardly take care of the one I got. Well, that to me was just stupid. Why wouldn’t you want the biggest house you could live in? And, but that was me, that was just us, that was the ego coming out. And so I had all of these things going for me as far as business is concerned, but as far as the person who was doing that business, I was a mess, and I could not be the kind of person that I knew that I wanted to be. I knew people, neighbors that I would observe the way they dealt with their kids, and I would look at them and say, Why can’t I be that way? It was not that I was not a good father, I wasn’t a mean father, I wasn’t that type of thing, I was just kind of an absentee. My mind was on success in business and making money, and I used to say to Amy, “Honey, I’m doing this for you.” That was a lie, because I wasn’t doing it for her, I was doing it for me. I was doing it for my own ego, for my own pride, so that people would pat me on the back and look like I’m successful. That’s why I like that car, made me look successful. You can be poor as a church mouse, and be driving one of those things you want to, but to me made me look successful.

And so all of those things were kind of in a play at this particular time when I had achieved the things that I wanted to achieve, and I knew that I was on the pathway to the ultimate that I was looking for, and yet I was empty as a pork barrel inside, and it was that was confusing to me. And many times I would look into the mirror and see this reflection coming back, and look in and say, “Bob, George, who are you? I don’t even know who you are.” I didn’t know who I was. Nobody knows who they are until they come to their relationship with Christ. We were born to be plugged into God, and when you’re not plugged into God, you don’t know Him, and you don’t know you. I don’t care who you are. I don’t care how successful you think you are, but you are as empty as a pork barrel until you come to into a relationship with Christ. And so I would go through those things, I would go through the asking the question, What’s it all about? What’s life all about?

And then we got a call that Dad had cancer, and I can remember flying back to Indiana on one of those trips. I took my young daughter with me. We flew back to Indiana to see Dad. I can remember flying in those airplanes at that particular time, and looking out at the clouds underneath me for the first time, you know, when you’re flying, first time you’ve seen clouds underneath you, and to recognize that this is a sight that was preserved for God alone prior to the time that aviation came into being, and no man had ever seen those sights before, until aviation came into being. That’s not very long ago. And I remember today, I know the passage. Back then, I didn’t know any passages, but “be still and know that I’m God.” And it was the first time in my life that I got still, where I wasn’t moving, doing something, and I had to sit there, and I had to be still, because I didn’t want to talk to anybody. All I wanted to do was to look out on this site that was preserved for God alone until just a few years ago, and to look down on the universe, I remember the first time that I took off from Los Angeles to fly back to Indiana to see my dad, and I remember taking off in that airplane, and from the Los Angeles airport I knew where my warehouse was, and so I was looking for it, and it only took just a few minutes of going up in the air to that warehouse was about that size, and you couldn’t even see the people around it, and I thought, this is how significant we are, and all it takes is just to go up in the air, just a few minutes, and you’re just a nothing.

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Bob George 14:45
You know, it’s like somebody says, you want to find out how important you are, just stick your fist down to a bucket of water and pull it out and see how much it’s missed. And it really got my attention was saying what is. This all about this life is all about, is it just getting up in the morning and making a bunch of money, so that you could go to bed at night and go to sleep and wake up the next morning, make some more money, go to bed at night, get up the next morning, make some more money, go to bed at night? Is that all life’s about? And it seemed like, although I wasn’t a praying dude, that any prayer that I had to God was kind of, what’s it all about, Alfie? That literally was my prayer to God, what’s it all about Alfie, because I could not figure out what this life was all about. Why? Where’s the importance, the significance of it? Because by then I’d learned that what I was accomplishing was not getting it on the inside. Oh, you made money, you could buy things, but empty inside, the emptiness in the heart of man that can only be filled through a relationship with His Son, Christ Jesus. And that bewildered me, because I was taught, remember, that this was what was going to make you happy. Go out, make some money, have a nice successful business, have a nice family, have nice kids, and everything’s going to be wonderful. I had all those things, and yet that emptiness was still there.

And then the call came, as I said, where my dad had cancer, and I was flying back to Indiana. I went back to see Dad, and those were some very, very tough times, because Dad was extremely sick. He had, he had a cancer in his throat, part of his throat had been operated on and cut out, so he spoke in a garbled tongue. Here he was a lawyer, making his money in trial work, and here he didn’t, could not even speak adequately. And so that was a tough time of knowing that my dad was not only sick, but my dad was dying. And so we always remember that one time I flew back to Indiana, and Dad had gone back into the hospital, was unbelievably sick, so sick, as a matter of fact, that they said that he had a bowel obstruction, and that they were going to have to go operate on him. And I knew that my dad could not survive an operation, he was too weak, in order for him to even move in bed, I had to pick him up and move him, he couldn’t even move on his own, he was that weak, and yet got to go in the next day for an operation. I knew there’s no way that Dad could survive.

And so you know, when everything else fails, what do you do? Well, you talk to God. I didn’t know God, but He knew me. But I remember going down to the chapel in that hospital, and I can remember that as vividly as it was today or yesterday, and literally sitting there and saying, God, if you will get my dad well, I’ll dedicate my life to you, and I thought, there is no way in the world God can turn that one down. I mean, just think, God, what you’re getting, and so there’s no way that He could turn that prayer down. Real humble person… And so, but I meant that at the time, I meant that if you’ll just get my dad well, I’ll dedicate my life to you. The next day I came to visit Dad early in the morning, before supposedly he was to go into surgery, and he was walking up and down the halls and had shaved himself and was like new. And the doctors scratched their heads, and I scratched my head, and everybody didn’t know what had happened, but that mass had gone away. There was a little minister that used to come out sometimes and pray with the patients, and my mom said, “I bet that little minister had something to do with that, and I said, “Mom, I bet he did too.”

And the very next day I had already changed my mind and started right back in the same pathway that I was in before. Thanks, God, for the miracle. But now I’m going to keep doing what I was doing. There’s only one problem with that: God doesn’t let you get away with that. And over the next few weeks, something started happening. My dad started getting better, and I started getting worse, and I was in nothing but a state of confusion. I could not make intelligent decisions, I could not think properly. It was just a total turmoil to me as to what was going on inside. I was a double-minded man, that had become unstable in all ways.

And so with that promise to God, I kept doing what I was doing, and then it came down to a point where, in that particular, particular period of time, that our marriage was really on the rocks, I was doing my thing. As far as I was concerned, we didn’t have a marriage problem. Now that’s funny. We guys are kind of dumb on things. We don’t know that our wives are miserable. Anybody relate to that? And so somebody say, well, did you have a good marriage? I said, yeah, sure did. Making some money, got a nice house, live in, you know, come home at a halfway decent hour, 9, 10, 11, something like that every day, and, and, yeah, got a good life going. Amy was miserable, I didn’t know it, she’d tell me she was miserable, I didn’t believe her. So it was. It’s one of those things that’s the way we are. We’re just absolutely oblivious many times to the needs of our mate, especially guys. We just, we just think about going, making a living, and it’s not that we don’t need to make a living, we do, and that it isn’t that in what God called us to. He called us to provide for our family, but again, it’s the fact of overemphasizing something, having something totally out of balance, and my life was totally out of balance.

Well, with this, I said, over these next few weeks, in that condition that we were in, we had a blowout one night, and really a bad argument, and Amy probably was thinking about leaving. Now, I just couldn’t understand how she could ever think something like that. I mean, leave me, come on, but that’s she said. She said that I still don’t believe her to this day, but she did say that. But but things were bad, and in that state I can remember after having this huge blowout that we walked around the hills of Whittier, Amy and I, and I said something to her that still I look back on it as kind of a funny thing to say, but I said, you know, honey, sometimes I feel like God is calling me to be a minister. Now, here I just been out drunk, lying out my teeth to where I’d been, but I thought God has called me to be a minister. Think that should have qualified before. Don’t you think? What I didn’t know is that God was calling me unto Himself. I did not know. I didn’t even know that type of thing could take place, but that was what was going on. It wasn’t being called to be a minister, it was calling Him to me to Himself.

And so with that we went back into the house, and there was a television show on it, was sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ, and in that program Pat _____, as many of you know, some of you younger generation don’t think that’s Daniel’s brother or something, but Pat _____ was a very famous, well-known singer at the time, and I loved music, and so I wanted to watch the program, and on that program I saw a bunch of young people talking about Jesus, they weren’t talking about church, they weren’t talking about religion, they were talking about Jesus, and I remember this one guy who had just won the Olympics in weightlifting, so he was not, you know, he wasn’t a girly guy, and so, and I liked that, and he got up and talked about the fact that all my life I searched for power, and I found it in the person of Jesus Christ, and man, my heart got touched.

What in the world is he talking about? He isn’t talking about religion, he’s talking about Jesus, and it touched me. They asked at the end of that program to write in for a book that they had offered, and so I told Amy we’re going to write in for that, and so we did, and got back a letter that it was out of print, but there’ll be one shortly coming, but to come to an open house that they were holding on a Sunday afternoon. And so I was always a great committer, I’d always commit to something, and then spend the next five days or so trying to figure out how to get out of something, and so I said, “Oh, absolutely, we’re going to go out to that religious place, that’d be great.” And I figured as better than going to the attorney’s office and get the divorce, so it was, it was kind of one of those options that this is better than the other one, and the very next day. Amy didn’t know, though, at the time, but I was trying to figure out how in the world am I going to get out of this. Then, guess what? We had another blow up. There was just plain no, it was either that or it’s over. And so we went out to the open house, empty as a pork barrel. I couldn’t figure out what in the world was going on in my life.

And so we went out to that open house, and there I heard Bill _____ give a presentation on the gospel of Christ. Wasn’t talking about religion, he’s talking about Jesus. That was new for me, that even though I had sat in church all my life, I had never heard a message of salvation. I’d never heard a message that I was a sinner, that I was separated from God. I always thought I was okay. You know, you’re kind of when you don’t know truth, you’re kind of, you’re kind of forced to just believe what the world says. So, I kind of believed God was grading on the curve, but at any rate, I had no idea about salvation. I had never heard the word in all the years that I sat in church. I never heard lost, never heard saved, never heard that you had to come to Christ by faith for salvation, never heard any of those type of things. And so we sat there, and after he finished speaking, I was deeply touched, and told Amy I’m going to go down and talk to that man, and she probably thought I was crazy, but I did. I went forward and sat down with him, and he sat down with me. It took him about maybe three seconds to figure out my problem, and he asked me if I had ever made that discovery of knowing Christ Jesus as my Lord and Savior? To be real honest with you, I didn’t have a clue what he was talking about. And so he went over the scriptures with me, that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life. Do you believe this, Bob? Yeah, did I believe it? Yeah, intellectually, was it real to me yet? No. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Do you believe that? Amen. That I really believe. I really believe that one. That Christ Jesus came to die for sinners. Well, that was pretty good news. You see, that’s good news, because I’m one of those. Do you want to receive Him? To as many as received Him, to them, he gave the right to become a child of the living God, and everything inside of me said, “Boy, do I want to receive him. I want new life.”

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