Radio Broadcast Tuesday 05/19/2026

Classic Christianity – Right Now! – Part 2 – 5-19-26

~ “But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you⁺ soon, that I also may be of good spirit, having known the things concerning you. For I have no one like-minded, who genuinely will care for the things concerning you. For those all seek the things of themselves, not the things of Jesus Christ. But you know his proven worth, that as a child with a father he served with me in the gospel. Therefore indeed I hope to send him immediately, when I shall have seen the things concerning me. And I am persuaded in the Lord that I myself will also come soon.

Now I deemed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister of my need, since he was longing for you all and being deeply distressed because you heard that he was sick. And indeed he was sick, nearly unto death. But God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

Therefore I sent him all the more eagerly, so that having seen him again you may rejoice, and I may be less anxious. Therefore receive him in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honor, because on account of the work of Christ he drew near unto death, having disregarded his life so that he might fill up your deficiency of service toward me.” Phillipians 2:19-30

~ We can tell much about the character of the works of Christ Jesus based on their love one to another. For those who are walking in the Spirit have the heart of God living in and through them moment by moment and it shows. Timothy was special to Paul, because Paul’s concerns for others were also shared by Timothy and Epaphroditus themselves. And Paul was eager to send him back to the Phillipians, so that they would be built up also in the Spirit of God. And it appears that Epaphroditus was actually sent to Paul to help him in his time of need by the Phillipian church, and yet Epaphroditus got sick, nearly to the point of death. And God healed him, so that Paul would not have sorrow upon sorrow if Epaphroditus had physically died after the Phillipian church had sent him to minister to Paul.

“And the peace of God, that is surpassing all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Phillipians 4:7

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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 importance of Christ’s exaltation and the universal confession of His lordship. He clarifies that working out salvation means expressing the love and compassion Christ has instilled in us. Bob emphasizes living without complaining and arguing to become blameless and pure. He highlights Timothy’s genuine concern for others, contrasting it with self-interest. George addresses anxiety, explaining it as a result of futuristic thinking and advocates living one day at a time, trusting in God’s present provision. He criticizes modern reliance on pills for emotional issues, promoting a focus on God’s word and thoughts.

~ “If it was unusual, why would he say don’t be anxious? If it was unusual to have fear, why would he say fear not? If it was unusual, there’s anything unusual about these things, we just make them unusual, so that I can sell you some pills. Ooh, that’s unusual. You’re weird, Jim. You got a problem. Here’s a pill. And we think pill is going to renew your mind. A pill can alter your mind, but a pill is never going to renew your mind. You think a pill can teach you how to think, can teach you how to be dumb, numb, but teach you how to think. Come on, but that’s what the world comes along with. All those things are my friends, are thinking patterns. As a man thinks, so is he. That’s from God. The other’s from man. Nothing unusual about being anxious. People say, I got panic attacks. Big deal, we all do sooner or later. Why you have a panic attack? Because you’re thinking panically, it’s not a word, but you can think that way. You’re thinking with panic, you’re thinking about something that’s panic. So, you got panic attacks, folks. don’t be duped by what the world comes along and tries to teach us, because the world’s philosophies are totally contrary to God’s word. Well, let’s say it back we talked about here earlier, and I pray that you’ll be what make my joy complete by being what like what minded, like minded. What’s like mindedness? I got my mind on what God said is true. I’m going to go by what God says is true. I don’t care if the whole medical profession, everybody else says this or they don’t. This is what God says, and this is where I’m going. So God says to us here that He said, ‘I’m going to see Him again, and you may be glad, and I may have less anxiety. And then turns around and says, “Don’t be anxious about anything he said, or anything usual, unusual about having anxiety, but don’t be anxious. You don’t need in staying that way. No need in staying anxious. Anxious is thinking about tomorrow. Now I want to ask you a question. Do you have a clue as to what’s going to happen to you tomorrow? Anybody, if you did, you could be a millionaire on the stock market. If you knew anything about the future, anything about the future, if you knew it, and you knew everything was going to happen tomorrow, did take you about 10 minutes to be a millionaire on the stock market. You don’t know anything about tomorrow. Tomorrow’s God’s country. What’s he say about yesterday? Forget it, forget it, put it behind you. Why? You can’t change it now. Some people never let you forget. The mistakes of the past, and every time a person brings up your mistakes of the past, they’re serving Satan, not God, because God has taken those and put them behind his back, never see him again. So, if God has done that, Who’s telling you to bring them up? How are you ever going to forget the past when someone reminded you of them all the time? Whatever’s happened to you in your life, let go of it. It’s happened, it’s over, it’s done. I have many people who cannot live their life today mourning over something that happened to them 15, 20, 30 years ago, still mourning over it. Why? Because you can’t go forward when you’re hanging on. So, guys, let go. God says let go. Forget the past and press on to the high calling of Christ Jesus. The past is over, you can’t change it. The future is God’s country. You don’t belong up there. When you’re up there, you don’t belong there. That’s God’s country. That’s why there’s no need in being anxious, because you don’t know what’s going to happen. 90% of what you’re anxious about never happens. So he said, that’s God’s country. Stay out of there. Well, what do you want me to do, Lord? I want you to live one day at a time. Well, you see, if you’re talking about physically me living one day at a time, that sounds kind of stupid. House, do you think I’m going to live except one day at a time? He’s saying no, no, I’m talking about emotionally, I’m talking about in your head, live one day at a time, forget the past, tomorrow’s God’s country. Live one day at a time, sweet Jesus. That’s all I’m asking from you. Great song, one day at a time, one day at a time. I can only trust Jesus right now. I can’t trust even a little bit ago, it’s already gone. Can’t trust him for the future. It’s not here. I can only trust him right now, but right now I do have a God that I can trust, that I can find encouragement in, that I can find comfort in right now, that I can be in fellowship with Him right now, and have tenderness and compassion from Him right now. All of those things are available to you and me right now, not tomorrow, not yesterday, right now. Wanna live joyfully, live one day at a time..” ~ Bob George

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And so Christ Jesus went to a cross, and because of that truth, and because of the attitude of Christ Jesus, that He said that’s what we should duplicate this attitude of what dependency, the dependency upon Christ to accomplish in us what we cannot accomplish on our own, because of that God exalted him to the highest place, and He gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

Now I look at this, you may want to look at it as well, and I see that He says every knee should bow and every tongue should confess, and he says that those that do that are in heaven and on earth and under the earth. Now, does anyone know anybody lives under the earth? I don’t know. Do you? He says here that a knee is going to bow, that means somebody’s got a knee, and every tongue is going to confess, and that means that somebody’s got a tongue, and where those people are located is in heaven and on earth and under the earth. He says, in essence, this could just mean that he’s just saying in the totality of what we know in this earth, below it or on top of it, every knee is going to bow and every tongue is going to confess, and that is true, it’s going to come at the end times when Christ Jesus ultimately returns to this earth, that every knee is going to bow and every tongue is going to confess that He is Lord.

Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but how much more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will Him to act according to His good purpose. Now, guys, many times people have taken this passage of scripture to teach that you can lose your salvation, that we should work out, or that salvation is not by faith, it’s also through works, and it says right here, you should work out. Well what in the world is he talking about here? Continue to work out your salvation, that means already have salvation. Now to start to work out what has been worked in, what Christ has placed in you. Now work it out. Christ has loved you perfectly. Now do what? Love one another. Christ Jesus has forgiven you perfectly. Now what? Forgive one another. How? As Christ Jesus forgave you, Christ Jesus has given you tenderness and compassion. What is working out the salvation has been worked into us. Exert compassion and understanding and comfort and love to those around us, and so it has nothing to do with the loss of salvation. It is merely saying that what I have worked in you don’t sit there like the Dead Sea and say, ‘Whoopee, I got all this stuff. Thank God, he said, ‘No, that doesn’t make my love complete. My love is complete when you’re basking in the fact that nothing can separate you from the love of God, and you therefore begin to pass that love on to those around you. Then my love is complete. My love is complete when I’ve given it to you and you have given it to someone else.

And so he’s saying to us to work out what’s been worked in with fear and trembling. Now, what does that mean? Well, remember when Paul said that when I came to you, I did not come to you with lofty words and brilliant ideas, but I came to you in fear and trembling. That doesn’t mean that Paul was sitting there all shaky. It means I came to you with reverence. Fear and trembling means that I came to you with reverence. I came to you with awe and reverence, and the same thing is true here, that work out your salvation with awe and with reverence to the one who worked it in you doesn’t have to sit around and walking around like this toward God. It means that you have reverence toward God. I have a great love for the ocean. I love the ocean. I love the beach, I love places like that, you know, I just have just nominal tastes in this world, Hawaii, California, Florida, places like that, just normal little places, I love the ocean, but I want to tell you something, I have great respect for the ocean, and you’re not going to see me wandering too far out in it, and I have great respect. I have great awe for it, but I love it, and it’s the same thing. I love God, but I also respect Him and have awe in regard to Him. Why? It’s God who works in you to will and to do and to act according to His good pleasure.

Now, here’s one for us: do everything without complaining or arguing. Now, if all of us followed that, would our households be a wee bit different without complaining or arguing. Guys, we can find everything to complain about, can’t we? It’s too hot, it’s too cold, the television’s too loud. Turn it up, it’s too soft. You ever run into those things, complaining about everything. The food didn’t taste quite as good as it did last week, complaining, arguing. What do you argue about? Always wanting to be right. Guy said I married my wife, her name was Miss Right. I just didn’t know her first name was Always. What do we argue over? I’m right, you’re wrong. So, what? When you think about so what? That building is over here. No, it’s over there. What does it matter as long as you get there? If it’s over here and you think it’s over there, the only difference is going to take you a little longer to get there, but you’re going to get there. But we argue over that. Well, I want to be right. And then when we are right, we’re so proud, feel so good about ourselves. Gee, I don’t know how ever married anyone is done with you, but I’m pretty smart, and we like to think that we’re smart. Well, all of those are attitudes that are contrary to the attitude of Christ Jesus. There it’s not an attitude of humility, it’s an attitude of, by golly, I am right, and I’m going to be right, and I don’t care whether you like it or whether you don’t. I’m going to be right, complaining and arguing. It says do everything without those things, without complaining and arguing. Why don’t we try that on? Why don’t we just say okay, for one day I’m going to function without complaining and arguing. You guys won’t make a commitment to that. You say I sure do. When? In about 50 60 years I’ll make a commitment to that. Don’t want to do it tomorrow, but if you want to try it sometime, just say, what would it be like if today I’ve made a commitment, I’m not going to complain or argue about anything. See what happens, try it out, and we’ll come back next week and see if we got any testimonies, or how many of you lie. Okay.

Now he says to not do that, so that we can become blameless and pure children of God, without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe, as you hold out the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ, and did not run or labor for nothing. What he is saying here is, I pray that these things will become a part of your life, so that I don’t have to sit back someday and say all my labor was for nothing. Those guys, that can get discouraging if you think that you have spent your life trying to. To teach people truth that sets them free, and at the end of that, nobody’s paid an ounce of attention to it. You just have to sit back and say, well, my labor was for nothing. I may as well been out collecting garbage, but even he says, if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, but I’m glad and rejoice with all of you, so you too should be glad and rejoice with me.

Now he says, I hope that in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon. Now again, Timothy was co-author of this book of Philippians. He was a co-worker of Apostle Paul. Brother Paul had led him to Christ. He had grown up in a home with a mother and a grandmother who were both Christians, very, very influential in his life. And so he was with Paul at this time, and he says that I’m going to send Timothy to you, that I may also be cheered when I receive news about you. He’s saying something about Timothy that would be a wonderful compliment coming from someone like the Apostle Paul. I have no one else like him who takes a genuine interest in your welfare. He’s saying I don’t have any other worker like Timothy that I can honestly say takes a genuine interest in the welfare of you. That would be some compliment, wouldn’t it, coming from anyone, but coming from the Apostle Paul would be very, very well received. For everyone looks out after his own interest and not those of Jesus Christ. And that’s really true, in that we have a tendency to look out for my own interest, not yours, but mine. And yet, Timothy obviously was a person who had a genuine interest in others.

Now think about it for a moment, with the attitude of Christ Jesus, that he says we should have an attitude like that of Christ Jesus. Did Christ Jesus look out after his own interests or ours? He saw us in a fallen condition for him to sacrifice for me, he had to die, he had to suffer, he had to be beaten, he had to be rejected. He came into his own, his own received him not, but to all who did receive him, he gave the right to become children of God, but Christ Jesus had to make a decision that for our benefit I am not going to be able to look out after my interests. My interests are staying alive, aren’t they? Are we together on that one of the greatest things we have is the is the desire for survival, isn’t it. We’ll do anything to stay alive, and but he said, ‘No, no, I’m going to come to die, and I’m going to come to suffer, and to do what is necessary to become the one living sacrifice that is of such value that it can take away the sins of the whole world, and I’m willing to do that. Why? For us.

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I believe it’s somewhat like a woman having a child as she goes through the suffering that it takes to produce a baby, especially at delivery, I’ve said before, if men had to have babies, you’d only have one. I don’t think we’d ever do it again, but women, something in them, where for the sake and for the joy that is set forth before them, as to what is going to be produced, they’re willing to go through the suffering that you go through to have a child. Now, we guys, we don’t have much trouble having children. It’s not a real suffering thing for us, but for a woman, she has to go through the suffering. And so it’s the same thing with Christ Jesus, that even though he was going to have to become sin for us, and he was going to have to die for that sin, he was willing to do that for our benefit, looking out after our interests over and above his own interests, and it says that that’s exactly what Timothy, the attitude that he had, and so he said everyone looks out after his own interests, not those of Christ Jesus, but you know that Timothy has proved himself, because as a son with his father he has served with me in the work of the gospel, in other words, he’s been like a son to me, and I’ve been like a father to him, and we’ve served together the work of the gospel. And I hope, therefore, to send him as soon as I see how things go with me, and I’m confident in the Lord that I myself will come soon. So he’s saying that I’m hoping that I’ll be able to come to see you in Philippi before long, but right now got to stay where I am, but I think it’s necessary to send back Aphrodite, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger, whom you sent to take care of my needs, for he longs for all of you, and his distress, because you heard that he was ill, and indeed he was ill, and almost died. So, here’s a fellow worker that was sent from Philippi to Paul to take care of his needs, and while he was there, obviously was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not only on him, but also on me to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.

Now, guys, this leaves us with, is it spiritual to be sorrowful over the loss of a brother or a sister, according to Paul, is that unusual? If you had a fellow worker, if I had one of our workers, one of our staff members that died, would I be sorrowful or joyful? It depends on who it was. No, there be great sorrow, be great sorrow to lose a fellow worker in Christ Jesus, the same with you. When people in our congregation have gone to be with the Lord, there is great sorrow that comes to all of us. With Paul, he said God had mercy on him, and now not on him, but also me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow. He just didn’t leave sorrow, he said sorrow upon sorrow. Therefore, I’m more than eager to send him, so that when you see him again, you’ll be, you may be glad, and I may have less anxiety. Now, in this same book of Philippians, he says, “Don’t be anxious about anything, but in all things with prayer and supplication and thanksgiving, let your requests be known unto God. And then the peace of God that passes all understanding will quieten your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus. He’s saying don’t be anxious about what? Anything, but a couple chapters later, for before that, he says I’m all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again, you will be glad, and I may have less anxiety. Does Paul think it’s unusual for any of us to have anxiety? So he said, “Don’t be anxious about anything, but I’m hoping that I’ll have less anxiety now. What Paul is talking about here, guys, his anxiety is an emotion that is connected with futuristic thinking. When you’re anxious about something, you’re normally anxious about what’s going to happen tomorrow, aren’t you? So, it’s a futuristic thought that is producing anxious feelings today. Remember this, that God has designed you in such a way whereby your emotions are going to predictably respond to whatever you’re thinking. You don’t have emotional problems, you have thinking problems. If you are thinking. Sad thoughts. How are you going to be feeling sad if you are thinking anxious thoughts? How are you going to be feeling anxious if you’re thinking mad thoughts? How are you going to be feeling? Mad and angry. If you’re thinking depressed thoughts, how are you going to be feeling depressed? It’s not a syndrome, it’s not a sickness, it’s a thinking pattern. I’m thinking depressing thoughts, and therefore I am feeling depressed. That’s the way God made you. He made you in such a way whereby my feelings are going to predictably respond to whatever I am thinking. Precisely, why it says in the Bible, as a man thinks, what? So is he, so is he, so does he feel, so does he do, and so when Paul is saying about anxiety, there is nothing unusual about anxiety, there is nothing unusual about being depressed. Now we come up in our modern day thinking, and say, “Oh, that’s unusual, you need a pill, or you need us, you got a syndrome. But see, all that’s humanistic talk, because God says there’s anything unusual about that at all. Paul himself says, “I hope to be less anxious.”

If it was unusual, why would he say don’t be anxious? If it was unusual to have fear, why would he say fear not? If it was unusual, there’s anything unusual about these things, we just make them unusual, so that I can sell you some pills. Ooh, that’s unusual. You’re weird, Jim. You got a problem. Here’s a pill. And we think pill is going to renew your mind. A pill can alter your mind, but a pill is never going to renew your mind. You think a pill can teach you how to think, can teach you how to be dumb, numb, but teach you how to think. Come on, but that’s what the world comes along with. All those things are my friends, are thinking patterns. As a man thinks, so is he. That’s from God. The other’s from man. Nothing unusual about being anxious. People say, I got panic attacks. Big deal, we all do sooner or later. Why you have a panic attack? Because you’re thinking panically, it’s not a word, but you can think that way. You’re thinking with panic, you’re thinking about something that’s panic. So, you got panic attacks, folks. don’t be duped by what the world comes along and tries to teach us, because the world’s philosophies are totally contrary to God’s word. Well, let’s say it back we talked about here earlier, and I pray that you’ll be what make my joy complete by being what like what minded, like minded. What’s like mindedness? I got my mind on what God said is true. I’m going to go by what God says is true. I don’t care if the whole medical profession, everybody else says this or they don’t. This is what God says, and this is where I’m going. So God says to us here that He said, ‘I’m going to see Him again, and you may be glad, and I may have less anxiety. And then turns around and says, “Don’t be anxious about anything he said, or anything usual, unusual about having anxiety, but don’t be anxious. You don’t need in staying that way. No need in staying anxious. Anxious is thinking about tomorrow. Now I want to ask you a question. Do you have a clue as to what’s going to happen to you tomorrow? Anybody, if you did, you could be a millionaire on the stock market. If you knew anything about the future, anything about the future, if you knew it, and you knew everything was going to happen tomorrow, did take you about 10 minutes to be a millionaire on the stock market. You don’t know anything about tomorrow. Tomorrow’s God’s country. What’s he say about yesterday? Forget it, forget it, put it behind you. Why? You can’t change it now. Some people never let you forget. The mistakes of the past, and every time a person brings up your mistakes of the past, they’re serving Satan, not God, because God has taken those and put them behind his back, never see him again. So, if God has done that, Who’s telling you to bring them up? How are you ever going to forget the past when someone reminded you of them all the time? Whatever’s happened to you in your life, let go of it. It’s happened, it’s over, it’s done. I have many people who cannot live their life today mourning over something that happened to them 15, 20, 30 years ago, still mourning over it. Why? Because you can’t go forward when you’re hanging on. So, guys, let go. God says let go. Forget the past and press on to the high calling of Christ Jesus. The past is over, you can’t change it. The future is God’s country. You don’t belong up there. When you’re up there, you don’t belong there. That’s God’s country. That’s why there’s no need in being anxious, because you don’t know what’s going to happen. 90% of what you’re anxious about never happens. So he said, that’s God’s country. Stay out of there. Well, what do you want me to do, Lord? I want you to live one day at a time. Well, you see, if you’re talking about physically me living one day at a time, that sounds kind of stupid. House, do you think I’m going to live except one day at a time? He’s saying no, no, I’m talking about emotionally, I’m talking about in your head, live one day at a time, forget the past, tomorrow’s God’s country. Live one day at a time, sweet Jesus. That’s all I’m asking from you. Great song, one day at a time, one day at a time. I can only trust Jesus right now. I can’t trust even a little bit ago, it’s already gone. Can’t trust him for the future. It’s not here. I can only trust him right now, but right now I do have a God that I can trust, that I can find encouragement in, that I can find comfort in right now, that I can be in fellowship with Him right now, and have tenderness and compassion from Him right now. All of those things are available to you and me right now, not tomorrow, not yesterday, right now. Wanna live joyfully, live one day at a time.

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