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Classic Christianity – Justification by Faith – 7-13-26

~ Only through Faith in Jesus is anyone saved. Not by works of the Law. Because no one can do the works of the Law. That is the key point. And salvation for both HEBREWS and Gentiles is Exactly the same way, through Faith in Jesus. This is why we are all of one body. There is NOT a HEBREW body and a Gentile body, but only ONE Body of Christ Jesus. Don’t get caught up in the legalism crowd or the crowd that says, Hebrews are saved one way and Gentiles are saved another way. Because all of that is a lie of Satan.

— What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has discovered? If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation. However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness. And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: “Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.” Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness. In what context was it credited? Was it after his circumcision, or before? It was not after, but before. And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them. And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised. Romans 4:1-12

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 justification by faith in the book of Romans, emphasizing the contrast between HEBREWS and Gentiles. He explains that salvation is by faith alone in Jesus Christ, and not through obedience to the law or heathenistic practices. Bob clarifies that predestination and election refer to HEBREWS and Gentiles being conformed into the image of Christ. He stresses that faith involves responding to God’s provision, not initiating good works. Bob also addresses the Trinity, urging believers to walk by faith and be led by the Spirit, rather than adhering to legalistic practices.

“Folks we had nothing to do with any of this. Religion cannot grab a hold of this. The mind cannot conceive because it says that even to this day there’s a veil over the eyes of those when Moses is read. Why is there a veil there? Because you’re lost. Because it says when you’re saved that veil is lifted, so as long as it’s still there, identify yourself. You’re lost. Might be religious, but you’re lost. And folks, that is where I believe you see the tenacity of the apostle Paul as a necessity. You could not have a wimpy little guy going to that breed of vipers. You had to have somebody who was able to point their finger and saying, just like Jesus, “You are a whitewashed sepulcher,” and you could say, “Well, that doesn’t sound very sweet.” I know, but they’re mules, and you got to hit them in the head to get their attention. So we have to understand that truth that that tenacity of Paul was necessary in order to cut through the debris and get people to see that you’re lost. You’re religious, but you’re lost. And to this very day, the same is true. You’ve got to be tenacious in order to tell people if you’re still under the law and hanging on to that, you’re lost because there’s a veil, and that veil can only be lifted by Jesus. So, folks, when we see the truth of all of this, and we see as how Paul begins now in five. Since we’ve been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. We realize that we have moved from darkness to light. We’ve moved from lostness to salvation. We’ve moved from being lost to being justified, and all of that is through Christ, and none of it is of us. But because of that, we stand in grace. Now, folks, what that means is stand in grace. It means to live in it. Back in Indiana, we’d say, “Wallow in it,” rejoice in it. You are in the grace of God. You’re the recipient of the grace of God, the one who took away your sins so that you could come alive in Christ. That says walk in that. That’s all he asks you. Walk in it. Believe in it. Trust in it. Rejoice in it.

There’s nothing to rejoice about under the law. You’re under a curse. What is there to rejoice about being dead? What’s there to rejoice about someone condemning you all the time? Come on over to my house. I got some things I want to tell you. I got a list of things I don’t like about you. Come on over, and we’ll just have a ball. There is therefore now no condemnation awaiting those who belong to Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death, it’s good news of the gospel, isn’t it? And folks, that’s what the apostle Paul in the book of Romans is trying to get across to people who are still wanting to hang on to that that kills the law, instead of walking in truth.” ~ Bob George

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Let’s turn to the fourth chapter of the book of Romans. You see, from the beginning to the very end, the emphasis that the that the apostle Paul is putting not only in this book, but in many of the other books of the New Testament, the emphasis of this contrast between HEBREW and Gentile, and folks, when you see someone emphasizing something like that, there’s got to be a reason for that. One of the reasons is because of the confusion. The other reason can be because of the very principle behind it: that to the HEBREW was representative of the religious world, and to the Gentile of the heathenistic world, and showing how in both of those worlds you’re lost as can be, apart from faith in Christ Jesus, that no man will ever be declared righteous in the sight of God through obedience to the law, no man will ever be declared righteous in the sight of God through his heathenistic practices. There is no one too bad to be saved, and there’s no one too good that can be saved. It’s all by faith, and by faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ.

And so, as we have ventured into this book, we’ll ultimately get to a point where these words like predestination, election, foreknowledge are going to be used. We’ve talked about this numerous times. How these terms have been, in my opinion, perverted beyond comprehension as to their meaning, and it is not talking about that God loves you, but He doesn’t love you. It’s talking about HEBREW and Gentile. It’s talking about the whole group of the Gentile world and the whole group of the HEBREW world. Both were predestined by God to be conformed into the image of Christ by one way and one way alone, and that is by faith in Jesus Christ. And what we’ve done with that has been an unbelievable thing because we have taken that to mean something totally different than what it is, and there are people sitting around thinking I’m one of the elect and I’m saved. Don’t know how I got there. We didn’t exercise my will. I was too perverted and too too to even have faith. That’s ridiculous. When God gave you a human spirit, that human spirit. If you don’t, if that human spirit is dead, dead, dead, then you’re nothing but an animal. Your human spirit is dead to what vacated it-the life of God. But your human spirit is alive, and that’s why you, before you were saved, were sitting with a vacuum as big as the Empire State Building, wondering what’s it all about, Alfie. And we have to understand the truth of that-that that emptiness that is inside of us is because we do have a human spirit that is alive to the world but dead to God, and so that whole concept has been perverted because of people who have tried to to interpret the Scripture to mean yous and me’s instead of HEBREWS and Gentiles, and so from chapter one we’re still into chapter four. You’re going to be talking again about HEBREW and Gentile, and the reason for that is Paul wants us to understand the difference between the two. Now, as we have discussed before, from God’s economy, there’s only three types of people in the world: HEBREW, Gentile, and what is called the church or the ecclesia, which are born again people that come from both HEBREW and Gentile. So you got the lost HEBREW, you got the lost Gentile, and you got the saved church made up of both HEBREW and Gentile. From God’s standpoint, that’s the only division in the Bible.

Now let’s pick up together in chapter four. Now, folks, I want you to back up just for a moment to verse 15 because I didn’t finish that on the law brings wrath, and where there is no law, there is no transgression. So, in other words, the law shows you’re sinful, but you see you’re dead whether you know that or not. The wages of sin is on all men whether you know it or not. All the law did was to show you your sinfulness so that you might be able to get a clue that maybe that brought death. Well, it didn’t bring death. It just showed you your death. So where there’s no law, there’s no transgression, and yet all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. And the wages of sin is what? Death. So I’m not taking sin into account, but you’re still dead.

Now I want to ask you a question: Is that true of every person from this day, from the Pentecost on, born into this world, that sin is not taken into account, but you’re dead? Is sin taken into account? Is anyone going to go to hell because of their sins? Is God dealing with you on the basis of sins? What’s He dealing with you on the basis of? Unbelief, the world’s sin singular is what? Unbelief in me. All of your sins, plural, are where behind the back of God, never to see them again. Your sins were not covered; they were what? Taken away. God was in Christ reconciling the whole world unto Himself, not counting our sins against us. John says He not only died for our sins, but the sins of who? The whole world. So even though sin is not being taken into account, the wages of sin is still in existence, and that’s what? Death called the wrath of God. And what brought that on? The law brings what? Wrath. Are all of us born under the sentence of the law? What is the sentence of the law? Death. Every person born in this world is born under the sentence of death. Now, do you have to remain that way? No, because of the offer of what? Life did we offer that to him and he responds to us, or did he offer that to us? So we’re responders. So it’s written, “I’ve made you the father of many nations. He’s the father and the sight of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as if they were.”

Now, against all hope, Abraham in hope believed, and so became the father of many nations, just as it has been said to him. So shall your offspring be. Without weakening in his face, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead, since he was about 100 years old, and that Sarah’s womb was also dead, and yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what He had promised. And there again, folks, who made the promise? And if God made the promise, what are we to do with it? Reject it, accept it, or ignore it. And those are the options we have. To the people who say, “I do not want to be a responder. I don’t like that. I want to be an initiator. I’m going to reject an offer of a gift” and say, “I’m going to earn it. I will initiate my good works, and I will earn the praise of God.” That’s religion. To the opposite of that says I can do nothing. My heart is wicked and deceitful above all things, and who can know it? I can be one way one moment and another way the next. I can be nice one moment and miserable the next. I can have sweet thoughts towards someone one moment and hate their guts the next. Is that right or wrong, guys? I am one walking variable. There is not one thing consistent in me except the consistent one, and that’s him. To that person, he says, “Lord, if you don’t give it to me, I ain’t gonna get it. It’s just that simple. If you do not give me your righteousness, I will never have righteousness. If you don’t give me your forgiveness, I will never be forgiven. I cannot get humble enough and distressed enough to earn your forgiveness. And you’ve heard people say, “Well, yeah, they they apologize, but I don’t think you’re too sincere.” They need to grovel a little bit more. And you’ve had people crawling up on their knees in places with their knees bleeding, begging God for forgiveness, haven’t we? And we have people going to the confession booths, begging God for forgiveness, and you have the evangelical world going to their First John one nines, begging for forgiveness.

It doesn’t make any difference whether you’re First John one nineing, going to a confession booth, or going to the Day of Atonement. In either case, you’re denying the finality of the cross. You do not ask for what you have if you’re going to walk by faith. You can only thank for what you have. I do not ask God for eternal life because I already have it. I don’t ask God to justify me. I already am. I don’t ask God to please someday take me home. I’m already there. I’m already there. That is not faith; it’s presumption. And the Christian world is living today in presumption and calling it faith, and walking around so proud. Look what we’re doing for God. Can you imagine God being impressed with anything we’re doing? Just get up in an airplane, folks, 20,000 feet, and look down on this thing and see how impressive what we’re doing is. I mean, just see how impressive we are. And if you want to go up a little higher to where the ______ are, and just take a look at how big we are in the sight of God. Now you know why David was praying. God, who are we that you should be mindful of us? Who are we to be the recipients of your love and your grace and your mercy and kindness? He’s not impressed with us. He’s impressed with his Son. And when you have the Son, you have all he’s looking for. It’s all Jesus, folks. It’s not us.

So he says again, against all hope, Abraham and hope believed and became the father of many nations, just as it is said. So shall our offspring be, and without weakening, he believed God, and it was created him in righteousness. Now it goes ahead in verse 22, it says that is why it is credited to him as righteousness. The words “it was credited to him” were written not for him alone, but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness, for us who believe in him, who raised Jesus our Lord, from the dead. Now, folks, here again, have you believed in Him who raised Jesus from the dead? Now, you see again, it’s interesting that here it said to believe in Him who raised Jesus from the dead. In another place, Jesus said, “I will raise myself from the dead. In another place, it says the Holy Spirit raised Jesus from the dead. Another place it just said God raised him from the dead. Was he raised four times? Well, then what is all of this? Well, folks, it’s the Trinity, and you have people today that you’ve heard on the radio that are they called themselves Jesus only people, and so in other words, Jesus is God, and no one else is God, and that’s why you baptize the name of Jesus. You don’t baptize the name of the Trinity of God, just Jesus. And on the outside, you think, well, boy, I sure appreciate that emphasis on Jesus, but who is that Jesus? It’s not Jesus the Son, because Jesus the Son is part of Jesus the Father and Jesus Holy, or God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. So what’s happened? Created your own Jesus. Now, folks, if you’re supposed to believe in Him who raised Jesus from the dead, it sounds to me like there’s a couple people involved there. Now, our problem with the Trinity is that we try to put flesh and blood on the Trinity. God is spirit. You don’t put flesh and blood on spirit. God is spirit. You must worship Him in spirit and in truth. And so, when you have God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, you’re talking about a spiritual entity. And you can’t put flesh and blood on a spiritual entity. So quit trying to figure it out. You can’t even figure out air. Jesus said that to Nicodemus. You don’t know where it came from. You don’t know where it’s going. And so it is with being born again. The Spirit comes. You don’t know where it came from. You don’t know where it’s going. You don’t know why it’s here. And we’re out trying to figure out Spirit. Put flesh and blood on it, and make God three god’s with bodies, the one and bodies like I like, God the Father, God Son, all three bodies. And there, see, there’s three of them. No, it’s spirit, and the spirit of God exists in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, and to deny any one of those is no different than the Gnostics denying the humanity of Christ, or the liberal denying the deity of Christ. You cannot divide Jesus. You either got Him all, or you don’t have Him. And God is God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Don’t put flesh and blood on Him. You don’t have to understand it or comprehend it. Just apprehend it. It is communicated. It is stated. I don’t understand why one times one times one equals one because to me one plus one plus one equals three, but thank God someone taught me multiplication instead of addition. But the fact is that’s truth. You’ve got an egg that’s made up of a shell and a white and a yolk. Which one is the egg? And the Trinity is in existence. It’s there. Quit trying to pick it apart.

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And so he says to the one to believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. He was delivered over to death for our sins and raised to life for our justification. God came to this earth, took upon himself our earth suit, entered into our humanity with us, and entered into our death with us, so that we could enter into his resurrection with Him. He died for us then, so that raised from the dead, he can live in us now. And so Jesus came to this earth, taking upon himself our humanity, entered into our humanity with us. It said, finding himself in the appearance as a man, Jesus is God in an earth suit. We are man indwelt by God. A world of difference in the two, but the identity of Jesus is God in an earth suit, and we can make all of this about being perfect man and perfect and all of that. But the fact of the matter is that His identity is Jesus, God, the Son of God, who came and identified with us and our humanity, so we could identify with Him and His deity. And so he delivered his body over, became a living human sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. God’s blood shed on that cross, so that I might be able to be raised to life and to be justified in the sight of God. Did I initiate any of that? I have anything to do with any of that? Could I work for it? What do we do with it? What we do with everything? Respond to it. How do you respond to the air God gave us to breathe? Breathe. Respond to it. Quit holding your breath. Breathe. How do you respond to the food he provided for us? respond to it. Some of us respond more than others. How do you respond to everything he did for us? Respond to it. We didn’t cause it. Respond to it. That’s what faith is: responding to the revealed will of God, the provision of God.

Folks we had nothing to do with any of this. Religion cannot grab a hold of this. The mind cannot conceive because it says that even to this day there’s a veil over the eyes of those when Moses is read. Why is there a veil there? Because you’re lost. Because it says when you’re saved that veil is lifted, so as long as it’s still there, identify yourself. You’re lost. Might be religious, but you’re lost. And folks, that is where I believe you see the tenacity of the apostle Paul as a necessity. You could not have a wimpy little guy going to that breed of vipers. You had to have somebody who was able to point their finger and saying, just like Jesus, “You are a whitewashed sepulcher,” and you could say, “Well, that doesn’t sound very sweet.” I know, but they’re mules, and you got to hit them in the head to get their attention. So we have to understand that truth that that tenacity of Paul was necessary in order to cut through the debris and get people to see that you’re lost. You’re religious, but you’re lost. And to this very day, the same is true. You’ve got to be tenacious in order to tell people if you’re still under the law and hanging on to that, you’re lost because there’s a veil, and that veil can only be lifted by Jesus. So, folks, when we see the truth of all of this, and we see as how Paul begins now in five. Since we’ve been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. We realize that we have moved from darkness to light. We’ve moved from lostness to salvation. We’ve moved from being lost to being justified, and all of that is through Christ, and none of it is of us. But because of that, we stand in grace. Now, folks, what that means is stand in grace. It means to live in it. Back in Indiana, we’d say, “Wallow in it,” rejoice in it. You are in the grace of God. You’re the recipient of the grace of God, the one who took away your sins so that you could come alive in Christ. That says walk in that. That’s all he asks you. Walk in it. Believe in it. Trust in it. Rejoice in it.

There’s nothing to rejoice about under the law. You’re under a curse. What is there to rejoice about being dead? What’s there to rejoice about someone condemning you all the time? Come on over to my house. I got some things I want to tell you. I got a list of things I don’t like about you. Come on over, and we’ll just have a ball. There is therefore now no condemnation awaiting those who belong to Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death, it’s good news of the gospel, isn’t it? And folks, that’s what the apostle Paul in the book of Romans is trying to get across to people who are still wanting to hang on to that that kills the law, instead of walking in truth.

Now, in conclusion, what is there to rejoice about-that you’re no longer under the law, or that you’re indwelt by the Spirit? Why, it’s that I’m indwelt by the Spirit. You know, you have people here about that we’re no longer under tithing, and that’s all they talk about. Hey, I don’t have to tithe anymore. You’ve missed the point. The point is that you now get to give out of your heart, without compulsion. It says, to give generously, not giving what you don’t have, but give what you do have. Now, in order to do that, I got to be freed from the law of compulsion. But all some people ever hear is, “I don’t have to.” You hear that all the time. I don’t have to ask God to forgive me anymore. You’ve missed it. But the joy is, I get to thank Him for what He’s already done. Now, in order to spend my life thanking Him, I got to quit asking Him. But you don’t walk around telling everybody I don’t have to ask God forgive me anymore. You tell I get the privilege of thanking Him because I’m already a forgiven person. We miss the whole thing, and that’s what causes misunderstanding. You go back to the legalist talking about what you don’t have to do anymore, and He has a conniption, just dies. Just sin all over the place. Just frightens him to death. Someone might sin. You know, that’s not the issue. The issue is what I get to do. I get to get up every day of my life thanking God that I’m a redeemed, forgiven person, and that there’s no condemnation awaiting me who belongs to Christ Jesus. That’s something to thank Him for. But in order to do that, I gotta get free from the law. But my joy isn’t that I’m free from the law. My joy is that I’m being able to be led by His Spirit, to realize He lives in us. He leads us. How many times do sometimes we have these things? Yeah, I need to call somebody and just say hello to them, and you call them. You say, “How do you know I needed help?” How many times does a mother say, You know, there’s some danger when my kids out there playing and just intuitively go out, and sure enough, they needed to be there. That’s being led by the Spirit of God. It’s such a joy to be led by Him instead of the world. See, when do you move? When do you do something? He tells you to, when God impresses on your heart to do something, and to me, I think the greatest leading thing, the the greatest way to be led, is delight yourself in the Lord, and He’ll give you the desires of your heart. Seen that happen so many times in my life. Delight in Him, He’ll give you the desires of your heart. Now, sometimes the flesh also gives you the desires of the heart, you know, and sometimes that’s hard to distinguish. But again, guys, when you’re dealing with what should I do, the greatest thing that we have to live by is to do unto others as you would have others do unto you. You think would I want someone doing this to me? And if the answer is no, don’t do it to them. Great way to live, easy way to go.

Led by the Spirit, told this story numerous times, but it was so-it was such an evidence to me of that truth that when I was back down at the church, and you know you had to be there Sunday nights. You had to be there Wednesday, and you had to be to visit station. You had to be all those things. Never stopped to think the way you get rid of that guilt. Just join another church. But at any rate, because I used to belong one or didn’t have to do anything. But but at any rate, I was on staff, and so I was expected to be there, and all this type of thing. And this guy asked me to go to the Cowboy game with him that night, and he has one of those booths up there at the stadium where they got television, air conditioning, and all that stuff. Leather chairs-it’s really tough way to go. And asked me to go, and I wanted to go. And he said, “People, you’re going to go to the game here. You’re supposed to be in church. Supposed to be in church on Sunday night. Church. Said, “Well, no. I think the Lord says to enlighten the Lord, and He’ll give you the desires of your heart, and I’m delighting in Him, and I’m going the game. And that’s exactly where I went. Now there were people thinking that was horrible. Supposed to be in church Sunday night. I wanted to go to the game, and I got all plopped down in my leather chair right on the front row and was ready to watch that game. And all of a sudden, this guy came up to me and sat down and said, “You Bob George? I said, “Yes, I am. He said, “I understand you know something about God. I said, “Well, yes, I do. He said, “Do you mind if we talk? I never saw a play. Never saw a play. Didn’t even see the cheerleaders. You know, I was busy when that took place. And he came to the Lord. Today is one of my best friends, and on our board of directors, and baptized his own kids as he led them to the Lord. How come? Because you’re following the rules of man. There isn’t anything in the Bible says about going church on Sunday, Sunday night, Wednesday, says to love people. I don’t know why God wanted me there, except the fact to talk to Dan. So again, I you know I’m not encouraging all of you to go fishing next Sunday. But on the other hand, if you’re delighting yourself in the Lord and that’s where He’s leading you, He may want you to save a fish, I don’t know. So, so you gotta gotta gotta watch out on that. But seriously, the joy of this life, guys, the joy of this life is not being free from the law, although that’s nice. But the joy of this life is being free to be led by the Spirit of God, and that’s what Paul is trying to get across in this to hard-hearted people is to learn to walk by faith in the faithful One, not just being engrossed with the provision, but in love with the Provider.

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