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Classic Christianity – The Mystery – Part 1 – 8-4-25

The Mystery – Part 1 – 8-4-25

~ In Christ Jesus we have been given everything today. Now we are to walk by faith in EVERYTHING. It’s important for us to understand how much we have been blessed by HIM! And today, the Holy Spirit is making this mystery known to ALL who are children of God. And if you are not a child of God, then this will have no meaning in your heart. For only those in Christ will be able to comprehend the breadth and length and height and depth the Love of God has for each of us. And don’t let a legalist try and rob you of the Truth of the word of God. Stand firm in your faith and the Faithful One of God, Jesus, God in the flesh, who took away the sins of the world and is not counting any of them against you today.

Ephesians 1:3-14
“3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the One having blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world for us to be holy and blameless before Him, in love 5 having predestined us for divine adoption as sons to Himself through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One, 7 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of trespasses, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He lavished upon us in all wisdom and understanding, 9 having made known to us the mystery of His will according to His pleasure, which He purposed in Him 10 for the administration of the fullness of the times, to bring together all things in Christ—the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth— 11 in Him, in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of the One working all things according to the counsel of His will 12 for us, the ones having first trusted in Christ, to be to the praise of His glory, 13 in whom you also, having heard the word of truth, the gospel your of salvation, in whom also having believed you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance to the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory.”

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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.”

~ Bob George emphasizes that forgiveness of sins is a gift through Jesus Christ, not something earned through human efforts or rituals. He stresses that true faith is in God’s grace, not in personal works. Bob discusses the mystery of God’s will, revealed in Ephesians, which is the unity of all things in Christ. He warns against false prophets and legalistic teachings, such as compulsory tithing, and asserts that salvation is eternal and cannot be lost. Bob urges Christians to stand firm in their faith, despite societal pressures and false teachings, and to prioritize their relationship with Jesus.

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~ “And so He lavished all of this upon us with wisdom and understanding, knowing full well that if I’m going to be a forgiven person, I’m going to have to walk by faith in the fact that he did it. I can’t walk by faith in my dedication to keep short accounts with God. What if I miss one? What if I forget one and die? What’s going to happen to me? And you and I both know we don’t have answers for those kind of questions, but the issue is you don’t need answers. He lavished upon us forgiveness so that you and I can know that we’re a forgiven person. He did this in accordance with the riches of his grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.

And now it says he has made known to us the mystery, and I want us to keep a hold of that for a minute. That’s a mousterian That was a secret in the heart of God that was only to be revealed in God’s timing, a mystery of his will. This is a mystery of the will of God according to His good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ to be put into effect when? When he was ready for it to, and when was he ready for it to? When the times will have reached their fulfillment. Is to bring all things in heaven and earth together under one head, and that is Christ.

Now, whenever you see this mystery, it’s like a prophecy. This mystery, in a sense, was a prophecy that was going to be fulfilled when God was ready to fulfill it. There are many prophecies through the scriptures. There are many fulfillments of prophecy that have already been fulfilled, and some of them are still future, and some people still argue over which have been fulfilled and which have not been fulfilled. Turn back with me for a moment to Matthew chapter 24 and we’ll just give a couple of examples of this. Matthew 24.

” ~ Bob George

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Bob George 0:29
If you’ll turn to the book of Ephesians, I’m going to it’s not this will not be on the screen, so follow along with him in the first chapter, beginning in verse seven, it says, In Him, we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins. Where do we have forgiveness of sins? In Him. In Him, it’s in accordance with the riches of God’s grace. It isn’t anything that we do to get it, you don’t get forgiven by asking, you don’t get forgiven by begging. You don’t get forgiven by going to a priest. You don’t get forgiven by being diligent in your first John one nine. You are forgiven because of his glorious grace. And whenever we substitute something else, we are turning away from the grace of God. We are not accepting what God did, and say thank you. Instead of we’re continuing to ask for what in him we already have and possess. And then we call that faith, and we talk about what faith people we are. If you have faith that God is looking for, it is not faith in you and what you’re doing. It is faith in what he has accomplished, and so in him is where we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins through his blood, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that He lavished upon us. It doesn’t mean he just dabbled a little bit to us He lavished. It means there just was no end to it. Just lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. He’s the one who has the wisdom, he’s the one who has the understanding. It is God who did this because he knew what we had to have, and he also, my friends, if we’ll ever get it through our cranium, that he knew that we could not do what God commanded us to do. We it we miss the first commandment, love your God with all your heart, mind and soul and spirit. Guys, think about that for a moment and say, just how deep do we do that? Just how much in love are we with God, with all of our mind, soul and spirit? Or do we like television a little bit better, or maybe money, or maybe position, or maybe acclaim, or maybe girls, Robert or Bowers, whatever it might be? But the issue is, do we really even fulfill that one? The answer is no. If it was not for the Christ, Jesus, who is alive, living in us, we couldn’t even live up to that one. And so He lavished all of this upon us with wisdom and understanding, knowing full well that if I’m going to be a forgiven person, I’m going to have to walk by faith in the fact that he did it. I can’t walk by faith in my dedication to keep short accounts with God. What if I miss one? What if I forget one and die? What’s going to happen to me? And you and I both know we don’t have answers for those kind of questions, but the issue is you don’t need answers. He lavished upon us forgiveness so that you and I can know that we’re a forgiven person. He did this in accordance with the riches of his grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.

Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him and called his attention to these buildings, they were quite impressed with the temple and with the buildings at the temple, quite impressed with what man was able to build. We still are today. We sit and marvel at these buildings that can be knocked down, as we know, in a New York minute, but yet we marvel at them. And they said to him, do you see these things? You could just see them. Lord, do you see what we built? He said, Jesus answered to that was, I’ll tell you the truth. Not one stone here will be left on another every one, every stone that is huge, incidentally and weighty, will be torn down every single one of them. Now, here were people saying, there, Lord, do you see this marvelous building that has been built and how sturdy it is, and how indestructible it is, kind of like the Titanic that would never be able to sink. And Lord said, there’s going to come a time when you’ll not see one stone upon another.

Now, as Jesus was sitting in that temple mount, the disciples came to him privately, not in public, but privately. And they said, what we all ask, Lord, when will this happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming at the end of the age? So they understood, or they thought, that this prophecy was going to be filled at the end of the age. In other words, the period that has not come yet. And he said, what will be the signs of this? When is this going to happen? Isn’t that basically what we always turn to when we’re thinking about prophecy is, when is this going to happen? What are going to be the signs? How are we going to know why we want to know in advance? And quite frankly, guys, if God wanted us to know all the details of advance. He would have put it there, but he didn’t, because he doesn’t want us to know until we know. And so we come down to the point where he said, When is this going to happen? He answered, watch out that no one deceives you. In other words, don’t be deceived by man’s teaching, for many will come in My name, claiming that I am the Christ. And many will deceive you and will deceive many people. You’ll hear now, folks, we’re going to hear, see some things that have been through history. And as people read these prophecies, and then they are in the midst of wars and rumors and wars. They say, aha, this is it. That’s why, for years, people have said, This is it. This is the end times. We’re saying it right now. End Times. Yeah, the banks aren’t doing too well, End Times. Economy’s not what you end times. And we always come to end times. But he said, You’re going to have rumors and wars and rumors of wars. Let me ask you a question. All over the world, are there wars and rumors of wars going on right now? How about back in 1941 were there wars and rumors of wars going on? Absolutely. How about back prior to that World War One, wars, rumors of wars? Do you know that through history, I think there’s a period, if I’m not mistaken, of maybe three or four years when there wasn’t war going on someplace in the world that’s marvelous mankind, that we are these good people, that we are that we get so scientifically involved and so scientifically advanced, that we can build bombs to kill each other and guns to shoot each other, wars and rumors of war, he said, but see to it that you’re not alarmed. So when you hear about it, he said, Don’t be alarmed. Such things much happen, but the end is still to come.

Nation will rise against nation. Does that take place? Has it taken place? Is it taking place right now? Absolutely. And kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines. There will be earthquakes. Are there famines in the world? Are there earthquakes in the world? Do signs blow down in the world? They’re going to be in various places. Now, he said, All of these are the beginning of birth pangs, but it’s not yet ready. He said, Then you and he’s talking about to the people through the apostles who were asking him these questions. And I would have to assume to the people who were followers of the teachings of Christ, Jesus, through the apostles, he said, you’re going to be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you’ll be hated by all nations because of who? Me.

Now, folks, we walk around many times as Christians thinking, Boy, I’m now born again. Christian, everybody’s just going to love me to death, and we just don’t understand that when the world doesn’t like you, the world doesn’t like Christians. The world doesn’t like j@@s. You know, in the Muslim faith, to this day, in the people that are in command at the end of their speeches and stuff, they say a word, which means the coming, their coming of their Messiah. They believe that there’s a messiah that’s going to come, but they believe that before that Messiah comes, that the earth is going to have to be ridden of Israel and the United States, that’s their doctrine. That is why they’re doing what they’re doing. That is what they’re thinking. What they’re thinking is before we can have this Messiah come back, we have to have a turmoil and wars that will ultimately destroy Israel and the United States. We see that, don’t we? We don’t want Israel to be on the face of the earth. We want to annihilate them. We don’t want the United States to be on the earth. We want to annihilate them. Is that being said, or isn’t it, to this very day by people of the Muslim faith, and we sit around and say, Oh, well, all religion’s okay. We’re idiots, a pack of idiots, because we do not pay any attention to religious things. Those are just kind of pie in the sky stuff. Listen, the way man functions is based upon what he thinks about God. And if you have a God, and your God, whether we look at it and say, Oh, that’s, that’s nonsense, they don’t think it’s nonsense. They are as dedicated to that, lie as you can get, and they are dedicated to doing exactly what their religion tells them must be done before their messiah comes back, destroy Israel and destroy the United States. Why do you think people over there in the country were applauding and having a party when they killed more people in one day in New York than were killed in Pearl Harbor, and applauding good job. Why it’s the beginning of this destruction of Israel and destruction of America. Religion, I’ll tell you, folks, we better start taking religion seriously, because if you don’t, we’re going to be taken over by it.

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Bob George 14:54
Now, do you think we who stand up against that are going to be popular? So you may as well. Forget running for sheriff isn’t going to happen. So he says, You’re going to be hated. Why are you hated? Because of Christ, Jesus. At that time, many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other. In other words, people will come along and say, I don’t like this thing. I like being a Christian, but when I find out that no one likes me, I’m out of here. I want to be liked. I want to be popular. I want to be accepted. I got news for you. If you stand up and say, I am a born again believer, you are not going to be accepted by the world. May as well just get used to it. Better find yourself from new friends because you cannot, my friends, you cannot walk on this earth on both sides of the street. It’s what’s called a double minded man that is unstable in all ways. And I’ve said before, the only person that I’ve ever known able to walk down both sides of the street at the same time as a drunk. And unless you’re a drunk, you can’t walk down both sides of the street at the same time. You better choose which side you’re going to go down. And there comes a decision in every person’s life is, Who am I going to follow? You know that verse that today is the day that I want to follow the Lord today. Otherwise, we’re double minded people. And I don’t care what you say about yourself, you may be the smartest person in the world. The Bible says you’re double minded. You’re a double minded person. You’re going down both sides of the street at the same time. There comes a time in life when you have to say, for me and my house, we’re going to follow the Lord. I don’t care if the world likes it or doesn’t like it. I don’t care if my neighbors like it or they don’t like it. For me and my house, we’re going to follow the Lord. You’re going to be popular in your neighborhood, no, because you’re not going to be invited to all the parties where you got all the booze flowing. Who cares? What do you need to be popular them for? Well, you need to be popular with this so called gang. Think about it for a minute. People are trying to get popular with people who are destroying their lives. You sit around in school and say, oh, I want to get involved with this gang. What’s the gang doing out there? Getting on pot, smoking, pot smoking, taking drugs, alcohol, sex, everything else is that the group you want to get around? See what sounds like fun to me. Well, go give it a whack and see how much fun it is. If any of you have tried it, I could call on you to come testify, because I want to guarantee you those things are not as fun as they look like. That’s why you never see them in the movies. You don’t see the repercussion in the movies, you just see the fun, don’t you see the person romping around in bed, but you don’t see their must up hair the next day. See everybody looking just nice as could be. Don’t see the hangovers. Don’t see the throwing up. Don’t see the fact you can’t open your eyes in the morning. All you see is the good stuff, the good fun stuff, so called fun stuff, which means acting like an idiot. Make up your mind, guys, we got to make our minds up, especially with our youth of the day, you got to make your mind up. Do I want this direction? Or I want this direction? You say, Well, I can’t have any fun as a Christian. Well, that’s pretty sad to think you can’t have fun by doing what God has called you to do. As a matter of fact, I never had so much fun in my life as when I became a Christian. And I never remember anything as dull as a New Year’s Eve party. And we used to go to them, you know, get around these little things. Drink. Yippee. Yippie, yippie, yippie. Oh boy, that’s a lot of fun. Wake up in the morning with the hangovers of bad you can’t even get out of bed. Oh, did I have fun last night? Yeah, we’ll have fun. What should I do? Go get another drink. Fun. Really fun. Well, let’s get off that kick.

You’re going to be handed over to be persecuted, put to death, going to be hated because of me at that time, many will turn away from the faith and betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Folks, I want to tell you something. We look at that thing, false prophets, and we think, Oh, those are the Mormons. Who’s a Jehovah’s Witness. What about the people who are in our churches today who are teaching legalism? What about that? I. What do you have to call them? A false prophet. If I’m in here teaching you, which I heard this morning on radio. I don’t know why I listen to it just irritates me. But a whole presentation with music background, beautiful thing about the beauty of tithing and how we should be tithing, and I thought to myself, What in the world is going on here? Now, guys, I want to clarify something. I am not against giving. In fact, I wish more of you had the gift of it. So I’m not talking about giving. I’m talking about a compulsory tithing, which was an Old Testament way and means of supporting the Levitical priesthood period. That’s why God put in tithing to support the Levitical priesthood. I ask you, is Levi your priest, or is Jesus? If Levi is your priest, keep a tithing. But if Jesus is your priest, we need to learn to free will give. We need to learn how to give out of our hearts, to give out of our poverty in many instances, as many people did, to help us pay off this building, to give out of your poverty, to give joyfully, to give in accordance to what you do have, not what you don’t have. That eliminates the idea that if you don’t have money for your tithe, go borrow it. Go steal it. I’d rather be a thief and not be a tither. Don’t bother. Go put it on your credit card, guys, that is not truth. I’m not teaching what I’m doing because I like to get upset, but it’s not truth. And yet, you have the biggest, most well known preachers in America get up every Sunday, and especially in January and February, and teach tithing. Where do you find tithing in the new covenant? How many of you know what the New Covenant is? When did it go into effect? At the death of Christ. So from the death of Christ on, the teaching in the Bible, from the death of Christ on that eliminates the Gospels, from the death of Christ forward, what is the teaching? Do you find tithing in there? Any place it’s not there. Why isn’t it there? Because the old is gone. Tithing was Old Covenant. We now are in a New Covenant, a covenant of grace, where he says there’s sins and lawless acts, I’ll remember no more, and where these have been, not will be, have been forgiven. Have been it’s a past act done. There’s no more sacrifice for sins. You go to God and say, Oh Lord, please forgive me. He says, Where’s your sacrifice? Because without the shedding of blood, they’re in a forgiveness. So what are you asking me to do when you don’t have a sacrifice? See, we’d say that of the J@@s, see, the J@@s, they don’t have their sacrificial system. How do they get forgiven? Well, I got a better question. How are you keeping yourself forgiven if you think you aren’t? Because where’s your sacrifice, not the shedding of blood. There is no forgiveness, and there isn’t any more shedding of blood, is there. That’s why Christ said when I’m coming back, I’m not coming back to bear sin, I’m not coming back to sacrifice. I’ve already done it, coming back to bring salvation for those who are waiting on me. And so my friends, you got false prophets today? Person that’s teaching you that Jesus isn’t God. Is a false prophet. Person who’s teaching is thinking about singing, holy, holy, holy Lord, God, almighty, talking about the Trinity, Blessed Trinity. People say no, isn’t a trinity. God isn’t Father Son. God, Father, Son, Holy Ghost, just, just the Father. Then other people say, no, just Jesus. The Bible says there’s a trinity, yeah, but I don’t understand it. Don’t worry, nobody else does either. But we can comprehend it. Can’t We? We can apprehend it. Because the Bible declares it that God is made up of spirit. We don’t know what spirit looks like, but it says he’s made up of God the Father, God the Son. Holy Spirit, yet there’s one God, just like an egg shell, white yoke, one egg, one egg, three parts, one egg. False Prophet, teaching that the trinity is not true.

To me, it’s a false prophet, not teaching that it’s finished. I mean, it seems to me that if Christ cried out from the cross, It is finished. And what he meant was paid in full. That’s what tele means, paid in full, not paid in part. I don’t believe that you’re a true prophet when you’re teaching, He didn’t mean that. We had a lot of people last week talking about loss of salvation. Told Vivian to go to hell. She said, If I do, we’ll have a fun time together. Yeah, Tori, she’s going to hell. Why? Because you listen to that Bob George, who teaches that you can’t lose your salvation. Well, I believe that a person who believes that you can lose your salvation is a false prophet. Now I’ll tell you why. Because the only thing that could cause my salvation to get lost is sin, and for me to say I could lose it means Jesus didn’t do what he said he came to do. What did he come to do? Take away the sins of the world. Now again, Guy says that writers are wrong, and if it is right, how do you respond to that truth? By saying yes, but so we’ve become billy goat Christian, but, but, but there’s no but there’s a few around, but that’s not what we’re talking about. There’s no but it’s finished. When something is finished, it means it is over. Are we right or wrong? So I think you’re a false prophet. I think you’re a false prophet when you’re teaching that you can lose what God said is eternal. And I think false prophets are going to hell. Now we’ve sat back and pussy footed that long enough, as far as I’m concerned, and I think it’s time that the evangelical stands up and starts telling truth and starts telling people, you keep on that philosophy and that you’re teaching you’re going to hell. That’s what they tell us. If they got guts to say that to me, I’m going to have guts to say it to them. So Vivian, you know what to say the next time you hear that.

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