Classic Christianity – The One True Gospel – Part 1 – 7-20-26
~ Paul, an apostle—sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead— 2and all the brothers with me,
To the churches of Galatia:
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
I am amazed how quickly you are deserting the One who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ.
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be under a curse! As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be under a curse! Galatians 1:1-9
— Today we have lots of fake gospel messages that are NOT True. Every denomination has a varation to what they believe. But they all have one thing in common, the teaching of lies. For example, pastors have been completely brainwashed by the doctrines of demons, through their Christian theological training which they all go to for some form of training. Seminary students are taught sophisticated lies, such as the ‘Vending Machine’ Salvation Fallacy, treating God as a transactional dispenser of forgiveness But scripture states that without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness (Hebrews 9:22). Because Christ shed His blood once and for all, forgiveness was already finished at the cross. We come to Jesus for Life, and we are saved ‘by His Life’ (Romans 5:10) through His Holy Spirit living inside us. Yet most today don’t believe the TRUTH of that. They constantly lean on their own understanding of things, and go running to their pastor to see what they have to say, because they trust the teaching of Man instead of the Holy Spirit and God’s Word. Time to stop that. Time to wise up in the Holy Spirit and allow the Spirit of Truth to teach you ALL TRUTH, just as He declared the Spirit of Truth would.
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 Apostle Paul’s transformation from a zealous persecutor of Christians to a passionate proclaimer of Jesus Christ. He emphasizes Paul’s tenacity in preaching grace over legalism, criticizing modern churches for blending law and grace. George highlights the prevalence of legalism globally and stresses the need for a return to the true gospel. He shares his personal approach to studying the Bible, relying on direct revelation rather than commentaries. Bob also addresses the New Covenant, contrasting the old law of sin and death with the new law of life for believers, and warns against perversions of the gospel.
“You start learning about a New Covenant, a covenant of grace that was ushered in at the day that Jesus Christ went to a cross and died and became your Lord and your Savior, and I saw the difference between the old and the new, and how the old has been replaced now with a New Covenant, and we live today and stand today in the grace of God that has done what? Replaced the law of God to who believers, not for unbelievers. They’re still under the law of sin and death, are they not? But when we have been released from that law of sin and death, we now live under the law of life, and the Old Covenant goes to the old, to the to the lost, and the New Covenant is where we as saved live.” ~ Bob George
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The Apostle Paul wrote two thirds of the New Testament that we have in our hands today. He was a remarkable man in all ways, tenacious as a lost person and tenacious as a saved person, he was a radical in his beliefs, and prior to his conversion, was absolutely determined to eradicate this cult called Christianity or the Way, and he was adamant about that in all ways, and chased down Christians and got permission from the leaders to chase them down and bring them back for persecution and ultimately the death of Stephen. And so here was a man who had the passion of of a person that you we probably can’t even comprehend how passionate he was about his belief system, and that was HEBREWISM. And then on the road to Damascus, he met the Lord Jesus Christ. Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? He said, “Who is this? It’s the Lord Jesus that you’re persecuting. And Paul was blinded temporarily at that point and led back to a point in his life where his eyes were opened and he could see the clarity of the gospel of Christ Jesus and realize that this Messiah that he had studied about all of his life was this man Jesus who met him on the road to Damascus. This man Jesus who was the Lord of Stephen, that he held his cloak as they stoned him to death. That this was who this man is. He’s the Messiah. He’s God, and his whole life was turned around. And that same tenacity that he held to persecute Christians was now in the proclamation of Jesus. And I’ve said many times after Jesus, I think Paul’s the next one I want to meet. He is a man of all men, and said to go through the torture, the persecution, the rejection, all of the things that you go through as a result of the proclamation of the gospel. Paul went through every one of those things, and so you’re going to see insights into the Scripture as we open up the scripture. We just finished the book of Romans. We’re going to see insights into this man’s heart as to who he came to know, and that was Jesus, and what he came to know about him, and about his love and his grace that we all sit in today and stand in.
And so, one of the books that he wrote was the book of Galatians, a wonderful treatise that was dealing with the problem that had crept into the church, and that was or not crept the minute he went into a place and preached the grace of God. The Judaizers came right in behind him, trying to put them right back under legalism. So it wasn’t something that crept in; it was something that jumped in immediately, and and yet the apostle Paul bravely and tenaciously continued to proclaim not only the grace of God but that you cannot commingle law and grace. When we look at teaching today, in the majority of our churches, and I’m sad to say that I wish that that kind of a statement did not have to be said. But it makes no difference whether you’re Catholic or whether you’re Protestant. What you see taught is either total law or a commingling with a little bit of grace. You got the law sprinkle in a little Jesus like salt, and you’re going to be okay. And to that, Paul was saying such harsh terms as, “I wish these people would be eternally condemned. He did not take law lightly. He said law had a purpose, and God gave us the law with a purpose, and it was for nothing else except to show us our own sinfulness and to shut our mouths in regard to our self righteousness. The only purpose of the law, to show you you’re a sinner, so that you would turn to Christ for His salvation. And so He did not take this teaching lightly as we do today. We kind of go into churches that kind of blend a little long grace. Oh, well, that’s nice. We need a little both, and we put up with that. Now we’re boy, we’re tough on the sinner, but the legless, eh, nice people. That wasn’t Paul. That wasn’t Paul at all. Paul loved the sinner. He hated the self righteous. He hated the attitude of self-righteousness.
So we’re going to see as he attacks this problem in the province of Galatia and the churches that were held there in Galatia. He’s going to attack that problem of legalism and of the commingling of law and grace. It’d be very appropriate for today’s church, not only in this country, but all over the world, because it doesn’t make any difference where you go today. If you go into Korea and you go to the Korean churches, you’re going to see the flourishing of legalism. If you go into Europe, you’re going to see the flourishing of legalism. You go over to Russia, where the churches are now able to meet a absolutely commingling of legalism continual, so it’s not just here; it’s all over. Why is that so? Because Satan’s all over, and because his team is all over, and he’s ensuring that this message does not get out that we’re trying so hard to proclaim, and so when I’m proclaiming, as others do, and it’s not that all people are in that shape because they’re not. There are many marvelous ministers today who are proclaiming the truth and the grace of God, but I want to tell you, it’s a minority, and it’s a remnant of people, and if this message is ever going to prevail in this so-called world of Christianity, it’s going to have to do so as people who have been touched by the message of grace, not sit there saying, “Hey, that’s a nice message, but someone whose heart has been touched by Jesus, who are willing to stand up and give of their time and treasure and talents to see this message proclaimed and to continued, otherwise it goes by the wayside. You say, “How come this message isn’t more prevalent than what it is? For that reason, it has not been supported with the tenacity of heart that the apostle Paul had, where he said, “I don’t care who likes me or who doesn’t. This is truth, and I’m going to proclaim it. When you do proclaim it, you have people who say, “Oh, you’re just egotistical, or “You’re just dogmatic, or “You think you know it all. And not everybody believes this way. And you say, “I know. Not everybody believes this way. But if what they believe isn’t backed up by Scripture, then you shouldn’t be listening to what they believed, and I believe that what we’re teaching is backed up by Scripture. And the reason I believe that is that’s the only book I have, because I am not a reader. I’m not a commentary reader. I don’t read other people’s books. I wouldn’t even read mine had I not written them. I’m very serious about that. I’m not a reader. The only book that I have consumed in my life is this is this Bible that I hold in my hand, and that’s when I knew it was of God because I don’t like to read. Now some people love to read, just love it. They’ll read anything you give them. I’ll read nothing you give me. I don’t like to read. Like to listen. I don’t like to read. I didn’t like to read in college. I don’t know how I got through, but I did. But I’m saying to say, do I really enjoy reading? No, I really don’t. And I can remember in my early days of being a Christian, where I absorbed myself in this Bible, I never had seen truth in my life until I opened up this Bible, and was absorbed in it.
And this young seminary student came to the door one day selling a commentary, which was about $5 about that thick, big thing. But then you had to buy another Bible for about 20-five. It was another Bible that got that for about five. Well, I bought the other Bible. It was, it was, and it was not a Bible, but it was like a concordance. I bought that. He said, “Well, now you can get this other one for like, you know, two or $5 except this big book. I don’t want it. Said, “You don’t want it? No, I don’t want it. How come? Because I don’t want to read a commentary. Why don’t you want to read a commentary? Well, because it appears to me that a commentary is a comment from man, and if whoever wrote that commentary got it from God, I got the same God living in me, and I just seen Him give it to me direct. I don’t like to eat chewed up food. Now, Bob Davis is guide. He doesn’t mind doing that if he can get the teeth in his mouth. Now again, does everyone function that way? No. Am I saying that’s where everyone should function? No. I’m just saying that uniquely, that’s how God put it in my heart, and so I have felt and I still to this day feel that way that a commentary is merely a comment of men, commentary, a comment of men, in regard to what they feel God has taught them in regard to interpretation, and I feel like that if God has given you a comment on interpretation, it has to be backed up by Scripture, and if He’s given me a comment on Scripture, it’s got to be backed up by Scripture, and sometimes there might be a disagreement, so we have to take a look where into the Scripture to see if there is evidence enough in what you believe to keep teaching what you think, and I’ll do the same thing for years and years and years. I don’t do that much anymore. Maybe I should, but for years and years and years, when someone would call with a question that I was not really 100% sure of on radio, I I would go back and read through the entire New Testament, and I’ve read through the New Testament, I don’t know how many hundreds of times, except Revelation. I stopped. I didn’t read through Revelation. Now, some people think, well, you should have. That’s probably true, but I don’t get much out of that. Maybe one of these days I will. Seem to be a lot of people who teach on it. That seem like they know what it says. I’m not 100% sure of the content of Revelation, but I’d go through and read through to be sure that that question was being answered in context of the entirety of the New Testament, and so that’s the way I learned the Scripture. I learned by studying, and I learned by going back with every question and trying to answer that question in light of the totality of all of the Scripture.
When I did that, I came to conclusions that the Gospels were different sometimes than what Paul was teaching. I said that cannot be true. The Bible doesn’t contradict himself. How can that be? How can Jesus say in a prayer, “Forgive your sins, forgive as as your Father in heaven forgives you, forgive your brother, and if you don’t forgive your brother in heaven or other brother here on earth, your Father in heaven won’t forgive you. How do you match that up with Paul, who writes, “God was in Christ reconciling the whole world unto Himself, not counting their sins against you. How do you reconcile that? How do you deal with that? Well, I tell you, with one of the two, you read over it real fast, and if you’re teaching, you talk a little louder toward one of them. But there’s still that gnawing deal down inside your gut that says this is not right. It cannot be. And one day you’re studying through the book of Hebrews and you see a New Covenant. Where’d that come from? Now, of course, we’ve taken the Lord’s supper for years, haven’t we? And we’ve drank the cup of the New Covenant after we’ve confessed our sins and begged God to forgive us. When the New Covenant is, you’re already forgiven. But we don’t know what it is. We’ve heard the term, but we don’t know what it is. We don’t know the meaning of what we are hearing. And if you don’t know the meaning, then your faith is merely in what someone said rather than what it means into what they said.
You start learning about a New Covenant, a covenant of grace that was ushered in at the day that Jesus Christ went to a cross and died and became your Lord and your Savior, and I saw the difference between the old and the new, and how the old has been replaced now with a New Covenant, and we live today and stand today in the grace of God that has done what? Replaced the law of God to who believers, not for unbelievers. They’re still under the law of sin and death, are they not? But when we have been released from that law of sin and death, we now live under the law of life, and the Old Covenant goes to the old, to the to the lost, and the New Covenant is where we as saved live.
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Now you go back with that understanding and you study the Book of Galatians. Now you know what Paul means. So why don’t we go into the book and see if we can shed some light on it? Galatians one one. Paul, an apostle, sent not from men, nor by man. Paul is saying, “I was not sent to do what I’m doing by anyone except Jesus Christ. I was not ordained by men. I don’t have any ordination papers. I did not graduate from cemetery. Seminary, excuse me, and so I don’t have a degree. It’s amazing how impressed we get with these degrees. And of course, if we don’t earn one, then we get honorary doctor’s degrees, and then insist people call you doctor. It is sickening, but we love degrees and titles, don’t we? Paul says, “I don’t have a title from anybody. There ain’t anybody that told me to go come to you. There wasn’t anyone that sent me to you. I don’t have any degrees that you’d be interested in, Gentiles. I came to you sent by God and by God alone. And folks, I love what Major Ian Thomas said. He said these people come down and say, “Oh, I’m called to preach. Said, “No, you’re not. You’re not called to anyone except Jesus Christ. Now He may send you to preach, but you’re not called to preach. You’re called to to Jesus, and then Jesus sends you to minister wherever He wants to send you, and there are many people who are called to preach that have unfortunately never been called to Jesus yet, and they’re all over the place. And I could name you some funny stories about that, but we think I’m called to preach.
When Amy and I had the big blowout that we had, that was a big blowout, and after it cooled off a little bit, we went out walking in the hills there of Whittier, California, and I said to her, “Honey, sometimes I feel like I ought to go be a preacher. Now I just come from the bar, feeling I’m called to be a preacher. Well, that’s pretty good qualification for it. Amy’s comment was, “Well, why don’t you go be one? I didn’t realize I was being called unto Jesus. I wasn’t being called to preach or to go be a preacher. I was being called to Him. Didn’t know it until later. So the first calling and the only calling of God is coming to me, and then I’ll send you where I want to send you. So you’re not called to preach, you’re called to Jesus, and a lot of people get the idea I’m called to preach, and so don’t don’t tell me to wash windows, I’m a preacher. Don’t tell me to paint a room, I’m a preacher, and now I get up and preach. That’s all I do. I just preach. No one cares whether I preach or not, but I preach. Very few people are listening, but I preach, and folks, that’s a misconception that is totally in the Word of in in the Church of Jesus Christ today. People called to preach instead of called to serve. Jesus served whether he preached or not. He served people in love, and that’s what he called us to do: serve people in love. So he’s saying to them, “I wasn’t sent to you by any man nor by a man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him Jesus from the dead, and all the brothers with me to the churches of Galatia.
Now again, to the churches of Galatia, were these churches of Galatia buildings down on the corner of Walk and Don’t Walk with steeples and stained glass? Were that was that what he was talking about? No, weren’t they buildings like that back then? What was he talking about? The church who met in homes. We just talked about that, didn’t we? In Romans, the church-that’s people who met in homes. The the home in the church. The church could have been meeting under a tree. You don’t call the tree a church. People who were gathered together for the study of the apostles’ teaching and for fellowship and for prayer-that was the Church of Jesus Christ. People who met daily in those days, daily for the apostles’ teaching and for fellowship and prayer, it was not an entertainment center. It was not a place that you go to meet friends so that you might find a husband or wife someday. It was a place where you went for one purpose only-to learn the apostles’ teaching, to fellowship with people of like mind, and to pray together. Now, isn’t that complicated? And that was the church, not in buildings, in homes. There were no buildings, just homes where people met in.
So when he says that I am preaching, I’m writing to the churches in Galatia. He was talking about all of the. Different homes where people were meeting in, because in a city of any magnitude at all, distance certainly was a problem. In those days, they didn’t have Volkswagens to go to church in or anything else. They you had to either walk or you went by mule. But the the matter, the fact of the matter is that they met in homes in different parts of the city, and so he was writing to those homes and to a leader in that home, who would be called a teacher, could be called a pastor, and an elder in those days was not someone in this setting, it was a person in Galatia who went from home to home to home to be sure that the teaching was online and true and in line with what had been taught by the by Jesus and the apostles. That was what an elder was. Now today, in most churches, you become an elder by the size of your pocketbook, and then after a while, you run the church. And so, but in those days, an elder was merely a man who was mature in the Lord. He was not a new Christian. He said, “Don’t make new Christians into this kind of leadership. A mature person who knew the word of God, who understood the meaning of the word of God, whose life expressed Jesus, and that man would be named to go around and to check up on these different homes. And obviously, you’d do the same in your own wherever you happen to be meeting. But the main job was that of supervision.
Now he says to those people, grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age. Now, was that back then? Yes. Is it now? Absolutely. Is this age of ours evil, or is it not? I mean, friends, I cannot believe what’s going on in the world today. I mean, I’m ready to go back to the ’50s. I cannot believe it. You have the promotion of every perverse action on the face of the earth. You have denominations debating whether they should allow homosexual pastors. Why would you be debating that? I mean, why don’t you debate whether you ought to have adultering pastors or pedophile pastors? What? What’s the debate about? And we’re debating those in denominational churches who call themselves Christians. You have every type of sin going on under the sun flaunted in front of us every day of our lives, and we’re expected to sit back and never give in to any of them. Any of you can sit here today and say you’ve never given in to any of them. Any hands? It’s out there, folks. It’s out there in abundance.
The young people today that are going to schools are going to school in a totally different atmosphere than any of us who are over 50 ever went to when I grew up, the biggest discipline problems in school was chewing gun and gum and running in the halls. Today you’d be running in the halls to keep somebody from shooting you. I mean it’s it’s it’s just a different world in which we live. And yet, guys, everybody says, “Oh man, if God doesn’t condemn America, he’s going to have to apologize for Sodom and Gomorrha. Have you heard that one? We haven’t even come close to Sodom and Gomorrah yet. Now, now we’re trying, but when you know the sin that was taking place back in Paul’s days, in the heathenistic countries of Greece, in Turkey, in these places, we hadn’t even seen sin yet because it was rampant, much more so even than it is today. We just see more of it because of media.
So he says that he has rescued you and me from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. Now Paul is saying, “I’m astonished. Now he’s going to start meddling. I’ve complimented you. Now I’m going to start meddling. I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel, which is really no gospel at all. Now, folks, again. this letter was going into the province of Galatia, into many, many different home studies, and so this gospel that was different than what Paul had preached was spreading all over. It was everywhere. And Paul is saying that I am absolutely astonished that you people are so quickly deserting the one who called you. And who’s that? Jesus. They’re deserting Jesus and are turning to a different gospel, which he says is no gospel at all. Evidently, some people are throwing you into confusion, and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. Folks, you know what evil is-a perversion of good. That’s all it is-a perversion of good. God comes in with the good, and evil comes and perverts the good into something else. Did God, in His Scripture, and when God hung on a cross, did He die for just some of your sins, or did He die for all of them? Then how could you come up with a Scripture, or how could you come up with a gospel that says, then you can lose your salvation? Where is that going to come from? What is that? What is that doctrine? It’s a perversion, a perversion of what? Of truth. Jesus came and said, “I give you what kind of life? Eternal life. Now, a person comes along and says, “No, no, you don’t have eternal life. You can lose it. Then can you? If you can lose eternal life, can you call it eternal life? No, have to call it temporal life. Did he come to give you temporal life, or did he come to give you eternal life? Eternal life. People come along and said, ‘You got to come and get baptized in my church before you’re saved. What is that? What is a perversion. A perversion of what? Perversion of the truth, where Jesus says you come to be by faith. Paul said, “I’m glad I didn’t baptize any of you, unless Gaius and yeah, the house of Stephanas. I baptized some of you. I didn’t come to baptize, but to preach the gospel. Now, if baptism was in the gospel, could you make that statement? I mean, I didn’t come to preach the resurrection, just the cross. What would you say to me? I’d hope you’d all leave. The gospel concerns the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ Jesus. That’s what I came to preach.
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