Radio Broadcast Monday 06/29/2026

Classic Christianity – Debt of Love – Part 1 – 6-29-26

~ “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. What matters is faith expressing itself through love.” Galatians 5:6

~ We constantly mess up in the love department with others as compared to God’s Love for us. And it is so important to remember, it’s only through the Holy Spirit flowing in and through us, can we bear the Fruit of Love ourselves. He is the vine and we are the branches. We cannot produce Love on our own. As much as the flesh wants to say, “look how good I am doing,” it completely fails in the God Love department. Only through abiding in God’s love for us, can we begin to allow His Love to flow through us, as we respond to others.

So don’t beat yourself up when you cannot produce Love, because no one can produce Love as God is always Love in pure form. Stand firm in the grace of God, and allow Him to teach you to trust in Him for all things, even in the Love department. For He will constantly be renewing your mind, and you will know when you respond in the flesh, and you will also know when you have responded in the Spirit. Because the flesh will want to get angry, or get even, or lash out to others. But the Spirit will be long suffering. He that Lives in you will guide you in this Truth. Trust His discipline in your life, and thank God for His Grace upon you.

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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 concept of love as a debt in Romans 13, emphasizing that the only debt we should have is to love one another. He criticizes the modern debt-based society and argues that true love fulfills the law, as it does no harm to others. Bob highlights the importance of kindness, patience, and forgiveness, noting that many Christians focus too much on avoiding sin rather than practicing love. He stresses that love is the ultimate measure of a Christian’s life, not moral behavior or good deeds, and that true love is a lifelong journey requiring God’s grace.

“I mean, you see, any one of us could go out and, and perform good deeds, and I’ve performed good Christian deeds for years, you know, if anybody’s looking at it. And I’m not diminishing it, and I’m not, I’m not saying that it wasn’t good, but I’m saying with all of those things that we do, if I do not have love, God says, Bob, it hasn’t meant a flip to me, that meant flip. Kids, are they loving their parents when they’re going out and drinking and taking drugs and messing around doing all the stuff you do as kids? Are you loving your parents? No, you’re not. That’s your problem. If you were loving your parents, you’re not going to be doing those things. Period. Period. If you want to be, say that I’m a child of God, and I’m a Christian. Then what God says is, how you doing in the love department? How you doing in the love department? Because if you, as a young person and a child, decide to go out and to be a drug addict, or to get involved in alcohol, or to get involved in all the things that kids want to do. There’s one reason for that: you’re not loving your parents, because you know you’re hurting them by what you’re doing, don’t you? You know you’re hurting them by what you’re doing.” ~ Bob George

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Bob George 0:29
We’re going to start this morning in Romans 13, and guys, as the marquee said, and incidentally, it’s good to get the sign back, wasn’t it? They said in the last days there’ll be signs, so we’re glad that we’re fulfilling that prophecy. Want to talk to you today about something that became aware to me while we were gone. You know, many times you have to just get away and just to think and to get looking into your own heart and your own self to say, ask yourself the question, How you doing in this world today? In Romans 13 it says, Let no debt remain outstanding except the continuing debt to love one another. The problem that’s going on in this country today, the economic failure and everything else that you see going on today is due, quite frankly, to that violation. That we have become a debt society and a debt people, and again a direct violation what the scripture says, where He says don’t let any debt remain outstanding. And a debt is something that you owe to somebody. A debt is something that I have borrowed, but I’ve received benefit from, and I owe you something for that. And the scriptures say that don’t let any debt remain outstanding, except, and here’s the exception to this, guys, the continuing debt to love one another. In other words, he’s saying to us that you have an obligation, a debt, an obligation to love one another, and you say, well, I thought all of this is free, and I say, yeah, it is, but that’s why you have an obligation. Remember, it says that it’s not that we loved God, but that what? He loved you and me first, and because He loves you the same way that he loves me, He says you have an obligation to love one another. Why? Well, because I love the person that you don’t love and the person that you want to destroy.

We have people who want to destroy people and they get some kind of a kick out of trying to destroy people. You say what in a world is going on in the name of Christ when someone wants to destroy another human being? I’ve had people do things to me that were extremely damaging, but I want to tell you something. I never had the desire to want to go destroy them. I don’t want to hang around them, but I certainly don’t want to harm them. God will do that. That’s God’s business, isn’t it? Or is it? Or is it our business? We have a debt. It says an obligation to love one another. It’s a debt for he who loves his fellow man it says has fulfilled the law. Now look what it says here, guys. The commandment: Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet, and whatever other command there may be, whatever command is out there, it says are summed up in this one rule: love your neighbor as yourself. Love does not harm do harm to its neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law.

My friends, how many times do we do harm to one another? How many times with our lips do we do harm to one another? The Bible tells us to be an encouragement to one another. How many times do we spend discouraging people rather than encouraging people? How many times in our lives do we dig up a person’s wrongs? And dig them up, how many times, and is that love? If you have done something wrong, do you know that you’ve done something wrong? I mean, and if you don’t, your friends will, you know that you’ve done something wrong, and when you do something wrong, does it hurt? It hurts you, doesn’t it? It hurts you. Why? Well, I’ve done something wrong that hurts somebody else, and it hurts you. Now, every time somebody brings that up, it’s hurting you again. You’re not loving when you’re bringing up what hurts people, it discourages you.

I want to ask you a question. Is there anyone in this room, and if there is, don’t be afraid to hold up your hand. Is there anyone in this room that has led a perfect life? Is there anyone in this room who thinks they’ve led a perfect life? And if you have, there’s an insane asylum that I’d like to take you and introduce you to. Is there anyone in this room that has never hurt anybody? Is there anybody in this room that’s never been hurt by somebody? You never been hurt by anybody. Oh no, I was getting ready to introduce that insane asylum that we were talking. They need some good drummers in there. What I’m getting at, folks, all of us, all of us have fallen in one way or another, have we not? I don’t think there’s a person sitting in this room, unless you’re very, very deceived, that is going to be able to go into the presence of God and say, God, here I am, you lucky person, and have you seen how wonderful I have been through my whole life? And God will say, no, I didn’t notice that, but I got a film that I’ll be glad to show you, and we say, forget it, forget it.

Guys we can do okay. And this is the thing that gets to me. I can be on the radio, and I tell you, I love being on the radio, because for some reason when I’m on the radio, it seems like God’s there with me. And then the radio is over, and I wonder where it goes. You ever had that? You come to church, you leave, you say bye, James, bye Bill, by God, gone for the week. You ever have that happen to you? Do you ever have dry spells, guys? I have them, and I tell you what gives them to me. I sit there and say, Bob, George, you preach the gospel, you understand the gospel, you’ve led hundreds of people to Christ in your Christian life, you’ve taught hundreds and 1000s of people about the good news of the gospel, and sometimes you can be the ornery, a son of a gun, you ever want to know, and unloving to Amy, to people. You can’t imagine what I said when I left that church, and those attitudes, guys, are not from God. They are not from God. And when you’re not kind to one another, it’s not from God. When you’re bringing up past ills, it’s not from God. When you’re digging up stuff on people, it’s not from God. God says that if the law, and you see, we get down and say, “Oh, I don’t commit adultery, and I don’t steal.” He said, Look, that doesn’t mean a flip if you don’t have love, not mean anything if you don’t have love now. If you’re loving, you’re not going to go steal from somebody. If you’re loving, you’re not going to be going having intercourse with somebody else’s wife. That’s, that’s for sure. But the issue is, it’s not what you don’t do, it’s what you do do, and that’s what kills me. It’s because you get the point to say, Lord, I can’t do this, I want to live a life that is loving to all people at all times. Like to say that’s that’s what I would really desire to do. I cannot pull it off. Can you? If you can, you need to talk to me, because I can’t pull it off. And you know what it gets down to? Thank God for His grace.

I mean, you see, any one of us could go out and, and perform good deeds, and I’ve performed good Christian deeds for years, you know, if anybody’s looking at it. And I’m not diminishing it, and I’m not, I’m not saying that it wasn’t good, but I’m saying with all of those things that we do, if I do not have love, God says, Bob, it hasn’t meant a flip to me, that meant flip. Kids, are they loving their parents when they’re going out and drinking and taking drugs and messing around doing all the stuff you do as kids? Are you loving your parents? No, you’re not. That’s your problem. If you were loving your parents, you’re not going to be doing those things. Period. Period. If you want to be, say that I’m a child of God, and I’m a Christian. Then what God says is, how you doing in the love department? How you doing in the love department? Because if you, as a young person and a child, decide to go out and to be a drug addict, or to get involved in alcohol, or to get involved in all the things that kids want to do. There’s one reason for that: you’re not loving your parents, because you know you’re hurting them by what you’re doing, don’t you? You know you’re hurting them by what you’re doing.

And so do you see how the decision making process has to ultimately come down, is is this what I’m wanting to do, love or isn’t it? Is it love or isn’t it? There’s the issue, not do I do it or don’t do it, is it love? So he says that all of these commandments, love does no harm to its neighbor. There’s the key. Not going to do any harm to my neighbor. I’m not going to do any harm to my kids. Some kids aren’t going to do any harm to my parents, to my family, to my workers. Not going to do harm to them. I’ll guide them, but I’m not going to do harm to them. Does no harm to his neighbor. Therefore, love, it says, is the fulfillment of the law. Now, guys, why does love fulfill the law? You see, the law says thou shall not. Love says this is what I do, do not what I don’t do, but here is what I do, I love one another, and when I love the law’s been fulfilled. You go out and don’t do something, all you’ve done is restrain the flesh, and you see many times people look at Christianity as that’s what it is, is keeping from sinning. That’s my goal in life, is to quit sinning. Well, lots of luck, you’ve just failed it. Your law, the goal to Christian life is not to quit sinning. The law, the goal of the Christian life is to start trusting, not to quit sinning, to trust, because when you’re trusting, you’re walking in the spirit, and there’s a result to that, is you won’t be fulfilling the desires of the flesh, so the goal is not to quit sinning. The goal is to start trusting. The goal is to learn to walk in love, and my friends, that is a lifetime deal, a lifetime deal to learn to walk in love. And you say, well, are you mean? No, I’m not mean to people, I just sometimes ignore them. Do you do that? Am I the only one? I’m the only one today talking about it, but it bothers me. It bothers me when I guess sometimes that I’m so self-engrossed or so thinking about me that I don’t have an opportunity to think how me is affecting you.

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Bob George 14:42
Love is a fulfillment of the law. There’s only one goal. The only thing that counts, told the Scripture, the only thing that counts is faith. What expressing itself through what? Love. Period from God’s standpoint, that’s not from ours. We say, oh, I’m moral, I don’t, I don’t, I don’t do that, I don’t do this, I don’t give a flip what you don’t do, how you doing in the love department, that’s the issue. But you see, we say I. I want to, I don’t want to hear that. That’s why the grace of God, folks, and the message of the grace of God is not as popular as you thought it was going to be, is because I don’t want to hear that, because I can’t pull that one off. I can restrain the flesh and not commit adultery, or restrain, restrain the flesh and not steal or restrain the flesh and not covet, but I cannot love in the energy of my own flesh, and we want to bring glory to me, because I want to tell you something. If I’m not bringing glory to me, there’s only one place to bring it to, and that’s to Him. And so we get down to the point I’ve wondered so many times with all of the instruction that’s in the scripture, why it has always come down to this thing of love? And the reason is it’s the only thing we cannot pull off, we can’t do it all the time, all the time, and we want to, that’s why it says in James, talks about how our tongue is, it’s like a flame of fire, it could just destroy people, we just can’t help from talking. I think how often we just talk too much. You ever get into that? You ever give people advice too much? How many of you like to give people advice? How many people like to hear it? None. The most worthless thing on the world is unsolicited advice.

Guys, in the long run, in the long run, we have one teacher that can really teach you, and he’s called the Holy Spirit. A man can teach you, and another man can teach you something else, but when the Spirit teaches you, you’re taught, and this, what the Spirit is doing, he’s saying here, and do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. The night is nearly over, and the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. In other words, walk in God’s light. And if you’re going to walk in God’s light, what are you going to be walking in? Love.

Now, in First Corinthians 13, again he describes love to us, and we look at this because this is how He has first of all commanded us to love, but before we, I think, before we can look at that intelligently, that we have to go back to say, if this is God’s definition of love, and if God is love, why then this is how God loves you, and God loves me. And remember what it says, that it’s not that we love God, but what? He loved us first. So we can go through this lineup of love and read that God is patient, always patient with you. Is that good news? Are you always patient with others, and if we’re not, what are we doing according to God? Not loving, and what’s he say about that? The only thing that counts, Bob, is faith expressing itself through love. Yeah, but Lord, didn’t you see all the good things I did? Yeah, I saw them, but if you’re not loving, they don’t mean anything. Love is kind. God is kind to you. Are we always kind to one another? Are we? Do we say things sometimes that are unkind to one another? How many of you say things to your wife or your husband sometimes it’s not kind, how many, how many of you lie? No, there are more of you lie than. We can say some of the most unkind things to the person that we love the most on the face of the earth, and say unkind things to them. God says it’s not love, and we have to recognize that when we’re doing that, it’s not well, forget the it’s not love. If you want to be a Christian, if you’re talking about what a wonderful holy Christian youths you are, this is God’s standard of gaging that, not ours. This is God’s way of gaging it. I don’t care how wonderful you think people think you are, or how wonderful you think you are. This is what I think of you when you’re not loving, you’re not kind.

Love is never envious. God is never envious of you. Says, are you envious of anybody else? Do you ever wish that you had what other people have? You know, there are people who live with that type of thing. Oh, I can’t stand my sister. Why? Because she’s got a bigger house than I do. Well, my daughter’s got a bigger house than we do, but I don’t hate her. I like to go there. Envy. Do you know it says envy and strife and selfish ambition, there is evil of all kinds. Envy, envy what other people have. I don’t have enough. Don’t have enough. Let’s go the government and get more.

Love never boasts, God never is boastful towards you and me. How are we? Are we ever out boasting about ourselves? You know, bringing attention to ourselves, always talking about ourselves, you know, there’s some play people that you go out for a dinner and you’re going to learn everything you need to know about them, because they’re just going to talk the whole time about themselves. People like this is that love, you know, what’s the problem with that? Talk too much, no, love, it’s no love, love, not love. Love is interested in other people. You know, sometimes we go on conferences and we go out and eat with somebody, and people are sitting there continually asking me questions, and you know, it’s like someone says, you know, what kind of a hot meal do you want to say? I don’t know, I never had one. I was sitting there talking, food always gets cold, but I feel like saying, look, I don’t want you know everything you need to know about me, I want to know about you, I want to hear about you. You already know about me. You don’t know too much about me. I want to know about you. And that should be our attitude, is learning more and more about people, asking questions about them, so that they can get into the conversation. That’s a loving thing to do, isn’t it?

So it’s not self-seeking. Love is not self-seeking, always looking out for others’ interests. Do you do that? Do I do that? No, love is not easily angered. It just takes a miracle to get me mad. How about you? I mean, somebody pulls in front of me in the car. I just praise Jesus. When I hear a minister talking junk, I just praise Jesus, easily angered. Golly, guys, I look at this thing and I say, there isn’t anything in me that represents this as somebody that’s been the Lord 40 years seems like you’d learned something, by now you say I have. I’ve learned that apart from Him I can do nothing. I can do nothing. That’s why I love the grace of God, and you know that’s what some people say, “Oh, you just like the grace of God because you’re a sinner,” as if they weren’t said, “better love the grace of God because you’re a sinner,” but the issue is, don’t match yourself up with all of this exterior stuff, because there are many, many people who really, they look at themselves as I am one moral dude. I mean, don’t, don’t, don’t compare me with somebody, you’re going to lose, because I am really it. I’ve not done this, I’m not done this, and I want to say something. If you haven’t done this and this and this, praise God for that, but don’t be puffed up over it, because God’s saying if you don’t have love, you don’t have anything. Did God love David? Seemed to me that he didn’t live a real perfect life. Did he love Solomon? You talk about sex, brother, he had it, he had everything, but he didn’t have love.

Love keeps no records of wrongs. Now that means that God does not keep any record of your and my wrong. Now, guys, if that is not good news, then I do not know what good news is. Now, if I thought that I never did wrong, that wouldn’t be real impressive. Well, at least I don’t have to keep God too busy. But you know what, the busier you keep Him, the more grace abounds. Is that what it says? Where sin abounds, grace more abounds. The longer that I live, and the longer that I see myself falling short of what God said is important, not what man says is important. Man can sit back and honor you for what you’ve done on behalf of God in the Christian world, but when you come to the end of your life, what it’s going to look at is how’d you do in the love department. Love doesn’t keep records of wrongs. I want to ask you, do you keep records of your husband’s wrongs or your wife’s wrongs? You bring it up, hurt them with it? Do you? It’s not love. Don’t pretend to be holier than thou if you’re doing that, and I won’t either, because it’s not love. And you can look good in the eyes of man, but in God’s eyes he’s saying you’ve never caught something. Love doesn’t keep records of people’s wrongs. You say you just don’t understand. Yeah, I do. I understand the temptation to keep records. I don’t even understand the benefit of keeping records, but God says it’s not love. You can do it, but it’s not love. So, get rid of the idea of how holy you are, because it’s not love.

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