Radio Broadcast Monday 06/16/2025

Classic Christianity – No Boasting Here – Part 1 – 6-16-25

No Boasting Here

~ 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
There is only one gospel that saves, and that is NOT the one that is being shared in most brick and mortar churches today. Those are other gospels, which is NO gospel at all.

Jesus who was perfect, for no sin was found in Him, and He was and is God in the flesh. He was born a perfect Man, lived a perfect life, and went to the cross on our behalf, becoming sin for us, and bore ALL our sins on the cross, taking away all the sins of the world for everyone, dying on the cross, and then on the third day rising from the dead to give us His Life when we place Faith in Him.

Most people do not agree with that. And therein, is the issue. Most people who claim to be in Christ Jesus are Not saved. Because think about it folks, how many religions agree with God today? How many people believe that God took away the sins of the whole world? Very very few believe the Truth of the word of God.

1 Corinthians 2: 14-16

14 The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment. 16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

~ “I have written these things to you, the ones believing in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. 1 John 5:13

~ I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree together, so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be united in mind and conviction. My brothers, some from Chloe’s household have informed me that there are quarrels among you. What I mean is this: Individuals among you are saying, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into the name of Paul? I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, so no one can say that you were baptized into my name. Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas; beyond that I do not remember if I baptized anyone else. For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with words of wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. 1 Corinthians 1:10-17

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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.”

~ “Here’s the original and I passed on to you of first importance, that Christ died for our sins, according to His scripture. He died for what? Our sins, ours, not his, ours. An innocent man there, He who knew no sin became sin for you and me who are sinful, so that we who are sinful could become the righteousness of God. That’s the gospel. He was buried. He was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures, he appeared to Peter, then to the 12, and after that, he appeared to more than 500 of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep, then he appeared to James and then to the apostles, and last of all, he appeared to me also as to one abnormally born. This is the gospel at saves.” ~ Bob George

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Bob George 0:30
Well, let’s turn to the book of First Corinthians. Paul is dealing here in the first chapter of First Corinthians, as we begin in in verse 10 in the first chapter. Then we’ll get down to where we open up on our screen. But before that, I want to read to us the the passages that preceded this. I appeal to you brothers in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another, so that there may be no divisions among you. God does not want us to be divided. He wants us to be unified, no divisions among you, so that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought. He said to be united in mind and in thought, and I want you to hold on to those through those thoughts. I want you to have one mind, and it’s the mind of Christ, and I want your thoughts to be on biblical truth, rather than the wisdom of the world. My brothers, some from Cleos house, have informed me that there have been quarrels among you. What I mean is this, one of you says, I follow Paul another, I follow Apollos, another, I follow Cephas, and then another group where I just follow Jesus or Christ.

Now, folks, this would be no different today than saying I’m a Baptist, I’m a Presbyterian, I’m a Catholic, I’m a charismatic, I’m a NEO charismatic, I’m an Au fauciist, I’m a pre millennialist. You have those kind of things that divide the body. As I have talked about before, if you went to a Methodist seminary, you as a pastor, would go into the pastorate preaching Methodist theology. If you went to a Baptist seminary, you would come out of that seminary and form a church and teach Baptist theology. If you were a Catholic, you would go to the Catholic seminary and come and teach Catholicism. If you went to a charismatic seminary, you would come out and teach people charismatic theology, and none of those agree with each other. And so if you’ve got any discernment at all to you, you have to understand the truth of that, that those do not agree with each other. There is no unity in that at all. There’s not one mind, and there’s not one thought. There’s all kinds of thoughts. Now, where does that division come from, that we live with today? Where does those divisions come from? Because all of your biblical truth should come from the Bible. We all can read the Bible. Can we not and know what it says? I can ask you right now to just read a passage of scripture. I appeal to you brothers in the name Lord Jesus, that you agree with one another and say, what does that say? And you would look and say, well, it says, I appeal to you brothers in the name of the Lord Jesus and all that you may agree with each other, you know what it says. So does a computer know what it says. So does anyone who knows how to read know what it says. Or somebody who doesn’t know how to read but has heard someone else say this. Knows what it says, But the issue isn’t, do you know what it says? The issue is, do you know what it means? Do you know what it means? There’s where the division comes in. Do you know what it means? Hang on to that thought a minute.

My brothers says, Some say you follow Paul in other words, I’m a Presbyterian. Some say I follow Apollos. I’m a Methodist. Some say I follow Cephas. I’m a Baptist. Some say this. Some say that he’s saying is Christ divided? In other words, did Jesus come to preach a multitude of messages and ultimate say now, James for you and your group over here, here’s what truth is, and, and, and Ellen for you and your group over here, that’s what truth is and, and here’s what truth is. And we just, it’s just kind of all truth, just whatever turns you on, and that’s what we have today. Hey, that’s good for you. That’s fine. That’s fine for you. Jesus taught one message, folks, and the apostles, who were the converts of Jesus, taught one message, not two, one message, just one. And he’s saying, Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized in the name of Paul? Now listen to what he said. I’m thankful I didn’t baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, so that no one can say that you were baptized into my name? Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas and beyond that. Look what he says. I don’t remember if I baptized anyone else. Why? Well, for Christ didn’t send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with words of human wisdom less the cross be emptied of its power. Paul said, I did not, was not sent to baptize, but contrast to preach, what? The gospel

Turn with me. Back to chapter 15. Chapter 15. Don’t hear many pages turning there. Chapter 15, First Corinthians. Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel that I preached to you. Now, remember he just said, Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel. Now, I want to remind you of this gospel. Now, folks, he wants us all to be single minded, to think the same way. Going to remind you of the gospel that I preached to you when you received and on which you have taken your stand by this gospel, you are saved. Are we together? Now we ought to get a little excited about this, because now I’ve got something that’s saying, this is the gospel that saves you, nothing added, nothing subtracted. This is the gospel that saves you. If you hold firmly to the word I preached to you, or inasmuch as that’s the if there, in light of the fact that you hold firmly to the word I preached to you, otherwise you believed in vain. In other words, he’s saying, this is the gospel that saves you, if you don’t try to add to it or subtract from it. But if you try to add to it or subtract from it, you haven’t got it, because it’s not the gospel that saves you. It may be a gospel to you, and it may be a gospel to the preacher that’s preaching it, but it isn’t the gospel that saves you. And here’s the gospel that saves you. What I received from who guys? From God, I passed on to you of first importance, this isn’t a man’s message, not a man’s message at all. It says, quite frankly, this isn’t a message that’s foolishness to man. You see, folks, we’ve got two kinds of wisdom, God’s wisdom and man’s wisdom. In this gospel, it ties in to Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures. You see, man’s thinking is that just good, think for a minute that didn’t make any sense. If I’m guilty, I need to pay for my guilt, and if I don’t want to pay for it the way God wants me to, then I need to make up some things that I can do, but I’m going to make up my own gospel. I’m going to make up my own ways of being saved and staying saved. That’s man’s way. God says, no, no, guys, you can’t do it. The problem is you can’t do it. The problem is that everything that I’ve ever commanded you, you’ve fallen flat on your face. And that’s why, for this gospel to save you, it has to be all me and none of you. Because if I put you one little bit into this equation, you’re going to screw it up, as you’ve done for 1000s of years. You have to come to understand something. You cannot do it. Now the ego of man says, Just watch me. And he says, I have watched you. That’s why I’m telling you, you can’t do it.

But in our arrogance, we say, No, I’m going to follow Presbyterian teaching. I’m going to follow Baptist teaching. I’m going to follow people to People to People. Teaching, I’m going to follow folks. I’m going to tell you something. There’s only one teaching that you’d better follow, and it’s right out of this book. If I’m not teaching out of this book, stay home. But if I am speaking out of this book, and if we are teaching truth out of this book, you’re a part of a movement to be real, honest with you that needs to occur in this country. People need to return to the truth. When I wrote Classic Christianity, that word classic, I stole it from Coke. You remember when coke changed their formula? Nobody liked it. So what’d they do? They went back to the original, and what they call it classic coke. I just said, we need to go back to the original. We’ve gotten away from we’ve gotten our new formulas. We need to return to the original. So I call it Classic Christianity, a return to the original. This is the original we’re you’re not going to get the original by studying a theological book. You’re going to go to the original by studying this book [THE WORD of GOD].

Here’s the original and I passed on to you of first importance, that Christ died for our sins, according to His scripture. He died for what? Our sins, ours, not his, ours. An innocent man there, He who knew no sin became sin for you and me who are sinful, so that we who are sinful could become the righteousness of God. That’s the gospel. He was buried. He was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures, he appeared to Peter, then to the 12, and after that, he appeared to more than 500 of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep, then he appeared to James and then to the apostles, and last of all, he appeared to me also as to one abnormally born. This is the gospel at saves.

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Bob George 13:34
Is there any baptism in there? Do you suppose just possibly, that’s why Paul said God didn’t send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, and then explains what the gospel is? I don’t think you have to be indwelt with an ultimate amount of discernment to figure out that baptism is not the gospel. I Right? And yet you have whole denominations that teach, yet you have to be baptized to be saved. Now you can believe that, but I want to tell you, my friends, is that truth according to the scripture? Well, people, said, well, in that book of Acts, people were baptized. I don’t care if they were dunked upside down. It’s not the gospel. If they were baptized, they were baptized for another reason except salvation. And the book of Acts is a historical book. It just is there to tell you what happened. It doesn’t matter where it’s right or wrong, it’s just what happened. Remember when Peter said, Perhaps God will forgive you for this? Is that true, that perhaps God will forgive you for that? Or is it true that God was in Christ, reconciling the whole world unto Himself, not counting their sins against them? And said, which is truth? But he said it so it was recorded. See, that’s how I know the Bible’s true. It records dumb statements. This is the gospel, and this is the gospel, my friends, that saves you if you hold on to it, if you allow yourself to add to it or subtract from it, he says, You’ve never got it because I can’t add in other words, why would I want to add to what has been complete? And if I don’t understand that Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection is what completed the whole issue for me, why would I want to add to it? Why would I want to if I understood the truth of that? So what he’s saying is, you’ve never understood it.

You know, in Romans five, where it says that while we were yet enemies, you and I were reconciled to God through the death of his Son. You know what reconciliation is? It’s an accounting term. Any of you that have taken accounting bookkeeping, you know what it is to reconcile your books. If I had bought from you a million dollars worth of merchandise and I went belly up bankrupt, and you had 100,000 or a million dollars, or whatever I just said, worth of debt on your accounts receivable. You know what you’d do if you wanted to balance your books? You’d write it off. You’d write it off. And that’s what it says that God wrote it off. He took it off of his accounts receivable. You don’t owe the debt anymore. And then has to beg us, because we’re so smart, for by In other words, for goodness sakes, be reconciled to God. Take it off your accounts payable. If I’ve taken it off of my accounts receivable, take it off of your accounts payable, because if you don’t take it off your accounts payable, even though I’ve taken it off of my accounts receivable, every time you get around me, you’re going to feel guilty. You are going to be telling me that one of these days I’m going to pay you back. I’m saying, No, you’re not. It’s off my books, and you’re not going to want to fellowship with me. If you don’t take it off of your accounts payable, you do not want to go into the presence of someone who has taken it off of their accounts receivable, believe me, you don’t want to be around them every time you get around them, you feel guilty. Yeah, he had to take all that off his accounts receivable. My friends, it says while we were yet enemies, we were reconciled, taking it off of his accounts receivable, reconciled to God through the death of his Son. Again. When did that happen? When you were enemies, what does that mean? What’s it mean, guys? Lost. When you’re an enemy of God what are you? Lost before you were born again. Now, what does that mean? I was not born again at birth. That means that when I was born, I was reconciled to God through the death of his Son. Does it or doesn’t it? Think it through. I’m tired of these, of dealing with flimsy understanding. I know people who are 1000 miles wide and a quarter of an inch deep. We need to get depth in our understanding, and you’re not going to do it unless you think through. So I want you to think this through. While you were yet enemies, while you were yet lost, what were you? Reconciled to God through the death of his son? How many sins did Jesus die for at the cross folks? Were your sins judged? What was the verdict? What was the punishment, and who took it? How much is left for you? That’s why it says there’s no condemnation awaiting you. Who belong to Christ, Jesus, that’s why. Why? Why? Why, Lord? Why is that true? Because he said, the law of the law of life, has freed you from the law of sin and death. You were born under the law of sin and death, and you were freed when you were born again from that law by the law of life. Now that’s why, in the Scripture, it goes ahead to say, while we were yet enemies we were not will be were reconciled to God through the death of his Son. How much more now, having been reconciled that being an accomplished fact. Are we together, guys? That is an accomplished fact.

How much more having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his what? His life. You’re not saved to the death of Christ. This idea of come forward and get your sins forgiven is not truth. Your sins are already forgiven. If you’re going to come forward, you come forward to get life, because you don’t have life. You have forgiveness, but you don’t have life. Where is that forgiveness that was provided received? In his resurrected life. That’s why, when you come to Christ, you come for life, not for forgiveness. You come thanking Him for His forgiveness, that’s an accomplished fact, and receive where that forgiveness is received, resurrected life. I came that you might have what? Life. I am the way and the truth and the life. He who has the Son has what? Life. He who does not have the Son does not have what? Life. You guys want to live dead? Whoopee I’m dead! Listen, my friends, this is an unbelievably serious matter that God is dealing with, that when sin entered into this world, Man died and you are born dead, but you’re born forgiven. Now you see, if you think salvation is getting your sins forgiven, then everyone would be saved. And it’s amazing to me how that when it says this is the gospel that saves you, that we still have teaching that says, in order to be saved, you must put your faith in truth, and the truth is that your sins were forgiven when you were born, and that there’s no more forgiveness to be executed on your behalf, by God, I want you to think it through without the shedding of blood, there is how much forgiveness? None. Is there any more shedding of blood? Are you sure? Well, if there’s no more shedding of blood, then there’s no more forgiveness. And if there isn’t any more forgiveness, what do you have to conclude about the one time where there was forgiveness? What did he cry out from the cross, friends? It’s finished. What did he mean? Paid in full. What’s paid in full mean? There isn’t any more payment. So he said, This is the gospel that saves you. It’s all what he did.

What does man in his wisdom, do? We come along and add to it. Now, you got to be baptized, got to speak in tongues, you got to have church attendance. You got to tithe. That’s for sure. Got to tithe. Where is tithing in the New Covenant, it isn’t there, then why do we teach it? You got me because we have a building fund. That’s why we don’t teach tithing. As we paid the building off without teaching tithing,

We add to it. You see, the gospel is God’s wisdom. All of this other stuff is man’s foolishness. Religion. Where did it ever say that we’re supposed to walk around up here with robes on? Where’d that come from? Well, it sets me apart. Well, you better believe it. Go naked under that robe for one or two. Don’t have to worry about buying clothes or anything else. Just buy robes. Where’d all that stuff come from? Got me, but it would make you look good, and we wear collars backwards. I guess that’s supposed to make you look better. It shows you’re walking in the wrong direction. It’s we where did that stuff come up with folks? I’m not trying to be critical. I may have sounds like it. I’m just saying, Where did it come up with? It didn’t come up from there. Paul says, this is the gospel that saves you. It’s all what Jesus did. Didn’t anything you did. It’s all what Jesus did. And we come up and say, no, no, that didn’t make sense. And you know what? It doesn’t make sense from a human level. It doesn’t make sense from a human level. But we are not to be thinking on a human level. We have a better way of thinking if we’re born again, and that’s spiritual. Natural man can’t understand spiritual things. It’s foolish to him. That’s why, if you’re lost, all this sounds nuts to you, and it ought to identify yourself. If it sounds foolish to you, you’re lost. And if you’re lost, my friends, you are in a sad shape, because if you die in that condition, you’re going to spend the rest of your life alienated from God. And I want to tell you that is not a pleasant forecast for life. You say, Well, I don’t believe it. I know you don’t. That’s why you’re lost. If you believe it, you’d be saved. Well, I believe in this. I believe in man’s thoughts.

Well, I’ll tell you, my friends, man hadn’t really progressed very far. Then you stop think back in this country, it wasn’t very long ago that this country was founded, what did we have to for transportation? Horses, horses. Then we built wagons to pull the horses to pull wagons. And our forefathers came across this land, into the West Coast and across mountains and Indians and everything else in covered wagons. They ate as we eat today. They slept as we eat. Sleep today. They had children as we have children today. Everything that you do today, they did no difference. Now we’ve progressed. You say, we call it progression, where we’ve developed cars and bicycles and and tanks and and airplanes and bombers. We we’ve really advanced a long way. But we’re the same people. We have the same emptiness inside. We have the same hunger for food. We haven’t changed a bit. We’ve just gotten into a different mode of transportation. That’s all.

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