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Classic Christianity – Bob George – A Journey Through The Book Of Hebrews Part 2 (05-20-25)

A Journey Through The Book of Hebrews Resting in Jesus Part 2

~ “We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing. Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to reteach you the basic principles of God’s word.c You need milk, not solid food! For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.” Hebrews 5:11-14

~ It’s time to become an adult in Christ Jesus. It’s time to grow up and put away childish things. And the things that are childish are those that religion keeps a person hooked on and chained to, baptism by water, tithing, asking over and over again for forgiveness to God, and repentance from dead works of the flesh. We need to press on toward the higher calling He has for each of us. And that is to share the Truth of the word of God with others. Most all of us by now should be teachers ourselves. The Holy Spirit has trained us to be used by Him. Time to speak up and not be silent. Time to share Truth of the Word of God. Think about over the years how many times we have heard Bob explain the Truth of 1 John 1:9. We know it like the back of our hand, but we fail to open our mouths up about it. We many times fail to be bold in Christ Jesus as we should. And remember, even Paul prayed for boldness to speak bodily about Jesus and the truth about the gospel as he should. So we are in good company for each of us to pray for boldness directly to God. And He will provide all the necessary means to use each of us in situations that He places us in to share Truth. Learn to listen to the Holy Spirit. Speak when He wants you to speak. Be silent when He wants you to be silent. Do what He asks you to do. Listen when He tells you to listen. Pay attention to the details, when He says pay attention to the details. In all things, learn to live by Faith from first to last. This is His will for each of us. So let’s go on to maturity and tell it like it is:

“Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith in God, instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And this we will do, if God permits.

It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age— and then have fallen away—to be restored to repentance, because they themselves are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting Him to open shame.” Hebrews 6:1-6

And we know, that these people above have tasted, but have NOT repented, because if they had, they would not be subjecting Jesus to open shame, by denying the cross by their constant asking for what God has already done. For they heard the message, they tasted the message, but fell away from believing the Truth, because they never repented in the first place. They keep placing Jesus back up on the cross and spitting in His face and calling Him a liar by their actions. It’s obvious to those of us who are in Christ Jesus what is going on, even though people will use these same verses to try and convince people that they can lose their salvation, which is another lie of Satan.

Hebrews 4:1-4
“Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it. For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it.

Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said:
“So I swore on oath in My anger,
‘They shall never enter My rest.’”

And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world. For somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this manner: “And on the seventh day God rested from all His works.” And again, as He says in the passage above: “They shall never enter My rest.”

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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.”

~ “And he says, we have so much more to say about this, but it’s hard to explain, because you’re slow to learn. You, in fact. Look what he’s saying here, guys, in fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers. You need some would teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. So he’s talking about that by this particular time in your spiritual growth, you ought to be in a position of being able to communicate to others these truths. But he said, Instead of that, you’re still needing to be taught the elementary truths again, you’re still in your ABCs. You need milk, not solid food. Well, who do you give milk to? Babies. Anyone who lives on milk is still being still an infant is not acquainted with the teachings about righteousness, but solid food is for the mature who, by constant use, have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. How do you learn to distinguish good from evil? Through constant use of the truth given to you by God, walking by faith in the truth and the wisdom given to you by God, not leaning on your own understanding. Now therefore, he said, Let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity. Let’s get out of your ABCs and start getting into maturity. Let’s get out of the one plus one equals two and start into some multiplication. Let’s grow. It’s time to grow. And he says, not laying again the foundation of repentance from Acts that lead to death and faith in God. Instruction about baptisms and laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment, and God, permitting, will do so. Saying, Why do you need to go over these things again? You ought. They ought to be a part of your life by now. If someone in your in your life as an example, if someone comes up and says, Oh, you can lose your salvation, it shouldn’t even be something you need to deal with. It isn’t even something to think about anymore. That. Already settled. That is a settled issue. My faith is in the one who saves me completely. That’s whom my Faith is in. I don’t need to talk about that anymore. Whether you’re saved by baptism, or whether you’re saved by that issue isn’t even worth talking about. If you’re saved by baptism, then you can’t be saved by Jesus. You gotta make up your mind which one you’re going to be saved by.” ~ Bob George

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Get people saved and exhausted. You know that song, He is exalted, He is exhausted. I am exhausted. Busy and barren. That unfortunately, folks, I think, is the condition of the majority of the Christian world, busy and barren, or else sitting there, not busy and guilty. God called us to rest, now that is not in accordance with my understanding, that’s in accordance with God’s wisdom. And so he said, There is a promise of rest that still stands. Let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. In other words, don’t fall short of this. Enter into it. There’s a rest available to you. For you, we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did, but the message they heard was of no value to them. Why? Because those who heard it did not combine it with what? With faith. Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said so, I declare on oath, in my anger, they shall never enter my rest. And yet his work has been finished since the creation of the world. And it goes ahead to talk about there still remains in verse six to enter that rest, some will enter that rest, and those who formerly had the gospel preached to them will not go in because of their disobedience. And what’s he talking about, disobedience? Unbelief.

Now, folks, when the HEBREWS and the Israelites were freed out of Egypt, they entered into the desert, did they not? There was a promised land waiting for them. From that day forth, they didn’t enter in and for 40 years, they wandered in their own works because of their unbelief that they would not enter into that rest. Moses, who led them out of Egypt, never did enter into that rest. Joshua had to cross them over into the rest. And Joshua is another name for Jesus, so it was a foreshadowing, a picture of Jesus entering you into the rest. Now I do not believe there is any Born Again Christian that leaves Egypt and immediately gets into the promised land. I think the desert is a necessary place for us, and the reason for that is this, all of us are saved as self sufficient people, aren’t we? All of us are saved, leaning on our own understanding, because we don’t have anything else to lean on. And so now we’re saved. And as I’ve said before, I was a very self sufficient lost person, and then I became a very self sufficient saved person, and that desert is what knocks the self sufficiency out of you, and that’s what it should do. Some people never get it knocked out of them. They remain self sufficient until the very day they die, saved, but sorry. They’re the kind of people and I can remember that in my own life, go share Jesus with somebody, and the deal is what for? Tell people come to Jesus, you can be miserable like me, and you get to the point where you say, I don’t know, outside of just eternal life, outside of getting somebody out of hell into heaven, why would you want to share him? I’m not experiencing any joy, not experiencing anything in my life. Seems to me, many of them are having more fun than I am, because I want to tell you something, folks, when you’re a Christian working for acceptance in Jesus, you’re much more miserable than a lost person. Well, the lost person isn’t trying to get acceptance in God. They don’t even know who he is, but a saved person trying to earn his acceptance by what he’s doing is the most miserable person on the face of the earth. Because in the first place, I am not only trying to do what I think say God wants me to do, but also have in mind what God wants you to do. And so I’m not only going to be trying to keep myself right with God, brother, I’m going to be trying to keep you right as well. And so there’s nothing more miserable on the face of the earth than a Christian living leaning on his own understanding, trying to please God to what he’s doing. And so he said, There is a Sabbath rest that is available to us.

Now let’s go down to verse 14. Verse 14 says, Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith that we profess. Profess, excuse me, yeah, just brush my teeth. Can’t do a thing with him. Now again, what were we talking about in regard to this thing, Faith? Who is their faith in? It’s in Christ. It’s in the Lord, isn’t it? Faith isn’t something that, because of my faith, I made something happen. It’s the fact that God has already made everything happen. Didn’t he just get through saying he’s already completed His work since the foundation of the earth? If God has already completed His work, how much more is there to complete? So if he’s already made everything happen, how much more is there to make happen? So you see, if we got the idea that faith is making something happen, we’re ridiculous. God has already made everything happen. That’s going to happen. Faith is, I’m going to enter into that by faith, he’s already done it. Has God already completed the work? As far as he’s concerned, already completed the work that he began in you? Absolutely. So what’s our role? Let him complete it. Isn’t that right? Let him complete it. And all that means in the completing of the work that he began in you, you started by faith right now, I want you to end by faith, and in the process, I’m going to be teaching you the faithfulness of the one that you have faith in, and that’s what faith is, is having faith in the faithfulness of the One in whom you say you have faith in.

Let’s go down, turn over to six, to chapter six. Chapter verse one. Excuse me, back. We’ll we’ll go back to verse 11 in chapter five, when he’s talking about the fact of how Jesus and talking about the source of living by faith. And he says, we have so much more to say about this, but it’s hard to explain, because you’re slow to learn. You, in fact. Look what he’s saying here, guys, in fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers. You need some would teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. So he’s talking about that by this particular time in your spiritual growth, you ought to be in a position of being able to communicate to others these truths. But he said, Instead of that, you’re still needing to be taught the elementary truths again, you’re still in your ABCs. You need milk, not solid food. Well, who do you give milk to? Babies. Anyone who lives on milk is still being still an infant is not acquainted with the teachings about righteousness, but solid food is for the mature who, by constant use, have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. How do you learn to distinguish good from evil? Through constant use of the truth given to you by God, walking by faith in the truth and the wisdom given to you by God, not leaning on your own understanding. Now therefore, he said, Let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity. Let’s get out of your ABCs and start getting into maturity. Let’s get out of the one plus one equals two and start into some multiplication. Let’s grow. It’s time to grow. And he says, not laying again the foundation of repentance from Acts that lead to death and faith in God. Instruction about baptisms and laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment, and God, permitting, will do so. Saying, Why do you need to go over these things again? You ought. They ought to be a part of your life by now. If someone in your in your life as an example, if someone comes up and says, Oh, you can lose your salvation, it shouldn’t even be something you need to deal with. It isn’t even something to think about anymore. That. Already settled. That is a settled issue. My faith is in the one who saves me completely. That’s whom my Faith is in. I don’t need to talk about that anymore. Whether you’re saved by baptism, or whether you’re saved by that issue isn’t even worth talking about. If you’re saved by baptism, then you can’t be saved by Jesus. You gotta make up your mind which one you’re going to be saved by.

And we have scripture after scripture in that regard. And as Peter talks about that the water, that when, when Noah was saved through the water, he wasn’t saved by the water. Water is an instrument of death when you’re out in the middle of it, you go out in the ocean with no life wrapped off and say, all this water is going to save me. You are deceived. It’s going to swallow you. So it says you were saved through that water, and that water is a symbol of the baptism that saves us. What’s the baptism that saves us? The baptism of the Holy Spirit of God. What did John the Baptist say? I baptize you with water, but one coming after me whose sandals I’m not worthy of tying will baptize you with what? The Holy Spirit of God. Now, what does that mean to roll around on the floor and babble in tongues? Is that what that means to be saved for the Holy Spirit, or be to be baptized by the Spirit? People come up and say, Have you been baptized in the Spirit, or by the Spirit? Meaning, or have you spoken or have you spoken in tongues? That’s ludicrous. The very moment that you were saved, you were indwelt by the Spirit of God. You couldn’t be saved apart from the Spirit of God coming to live in you. That’s what it means to be born again of the what? Of the Spirit. And that’s why it says in Romans that if the Spirit of God is not living in you, you don’t belong to Him. So how could you be born again today and receive the Spirit tomorrow? That is heretical teaching. It’s wrong, and it leads people down a primrose path to emotionalism.

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When you’re born again, you are born again of the Spirit. You couldn’t be born again if the Spirit didn’t live in you, then what did it say? The Spirit did baptizes you into the body of Christ. So the Spirit comes to live within you, then places you into his body. And now you are all are a part of the body of what? Christ, who’s the head? The Pope? Jesus. There’s only one head Jesus. There are some people come along and say, pastor’s the head. If most pastors I know, include me, is the head, you’re in trouble. There’s only one Head of the Body of Christ, that is Jesus. We are now baptized, placed into his body. Now, folks, the church, the ecclesia, is not an organization, it’s an organism. It is a living organism, not a dead organization. As far as Jesus is concerned, there’s only one church. It’s not the Catholics. It’s not the church of God. It’s not the Baptists or the Presbyterians or the Church of Christ or all the cults that come up and say, We are the church. There’s only one church as far as God is concerned. That’s His church. His Church consists of Him and his body. It has nothing to do with where you plant your body on Sunday morning. It has nothing to do with how it’s organized. It only has to do with one thing. Are you born again? Have you come into a relationship with the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of God baptized you into the body of Christ? That’s the baptism that saves you. Christ comes to live in you. He places you into his body. Transaction done. Jesus does not come and whack off parts of his body. Finger, I don’t like the way you’re acting. Off you go.

Now, folks, when we understand that truth, then when people say, Should I go to church, is like saying, Should I go to body? Should I what? Go to body. Say? What in a word are you talking about? How could you go to body? You are the body. You are the church. If you’re in Christ, you are the body of Christ. It’s not that thing sitting down on the corner of walk and don’t walk. That’s a building that is not the church. That’s a building that houses some of God’s kids and a whole bunch that aren’t. And I want to tell you something, folks, when you go out and try to popularize that building, you know what you’re going to end up with? A whole bunch of carnal Christians. You go out and try to attract people through activities and big choirs and big bands and big, big, big, big, everything. You know what you end up with? A bunch of people that are there to get entertained, and you wonder why we got so much troubles in the church. I’ll tell you one thing. I’d rather have a group of this group right here, of people who know the Lord than it would 5000 people who don’t trying to play Christianity on Sunday morning. And we have to understand, folks, that’s God’s body. That’s the only one He’s interested in. His Church is not an organization. His Church is an organism. It’s you and me. And so I got as a part of this body, I’m a part of the body of Christ here, Demetri and his family is a part of the body of Christ in Russia. Then you got part of the body of Christ in China, and you got part of the body of Christ in South America. You got his body all over the place. And that’s what he meant with greater things will you do, because I go to the Father. While he was here, he was limited to one spot, but he said, when I go away, I’m going to spend my Spirit to you. You’re going to be my body. You’re going to be all over the place at one time. Now, folks, is that sobering to realize that if you are truly born again, and you are truly in the body of Christ? Is it sobering for you and me to understand we are literally a part of his body here on this earth? That’s a sobering thought, isn’t it, that he has loved you to the point of not only bringing you into a relationship with him, but enabling you to be an extension of him here on this earth where we live, and therefore, with the authority as a child of God and as a part of the body of Christ, to be able to, as it says in the scripture, bind what has already been bound in heaven. That means I have the ability, and so do you to go to any person on the face of this earth, and with all of the authority of heaven and earth, say, I got great news for you. God was in Christ reconciling you unto Himself, not counting your sins against you. Is that good news?

Now I want to tell you you’re not going to say that leaning on your own understanding, your own understanding is going to say, Boy, you better shape up your life, or God’s going to zap you real good. That’s man’s understanding, is it not? But see, we’ve got something greater to say to people. We got a wonderful thing to say to any person on the face of this earth. God was in Christ reconciling you. He’s already done that. He not only died for your sins, but He died for the sins of the whole world. Is that good news? Then can you ever, do you ever have the authority, as a child of God to go to someone and say, if you don’t get your life cleaned up, you’re going to go to hell? That’s what we said in Texas hail. Is that a true statement? Is that a true statement, that if you don’t get your you don’t get your life cleaned up, you’re going to go to hell? Do we have the authority to make that statement? No, God didn’t. That’s leaning on your own understanding. And what when we do say that, what we don’t say, but we mean is, and I’m glad. What do we have the authority to tell a person? Your sins have already been taken away at the cross 2000 years ago. Your only problem is you’re dead. If you’re not alive in Christ, then you’re dead. And if you’ve got a problem of death, there’s only one solution to that, and that’s life. And there’s only one source of life available to you and me, and that’s the resurrected life of Christ Jesus, unless you can come up with someone else that’s been resurrected.

Is that a good message? Yeah. Do we have the authority to say that to people? Absolutely. How do I know that? By faith. I know that by faith, in other words, my faith didn’t create that message. Faith enables me to enter into that message, and faith enables me to boldly communicate that message, because I know it to be absolutely true. Can I go out there to somebody under the authority of God and say, if you tithe, God will bless you? You give 10% God multiply it back 100 fold. Is that truth, you have any authority to say that? Not from God. As a matter of fact, what does God say? Anyone who teaches that godliness is a means to financial gain, in essence, says he’s a pervert. It’s perverted teaching to teach somebody that godliness is a means to financial gain. So I don’t have the authority to say that. By faith what I do have the authority to say is, when you invest in the proclamation of the gospel, there’s going to be rewards. What are your rewards? God’s Word does not return void. You know, it’s going to accomplish something. I say when I invest in a corporation, I don’t know where that thing’s going to make money or not depends on where the stock market’s going. Well, when I invest in God’s work, I don’t have to worry about it. If it’s truly God’s work, I know a return is going to be there. I’ve got a promise from God that that word will not return void. So what an investment that is. Can’t lose.

So let’s, let’s go on. He says, to leave these elementary teachings and and let’s go on to maturity. Let’s go down to Hebrews 6:12, okay. He says, first of all, I don’t want you to be lazy. I want you to imitate what we have in front of us. In regard to people who have exercised faith and seen how God honored that. These are people who, through faith and patience, inherit what have been promised to them. In other words, God made a promise to you. They believed that promise. They entered into that promise and then sought the reward that was already stated in regard to that promise. So he said, I want you to imitate that faith.

In regard to time, let’s go down to the 11th chapter of Hebrews, and then let’s just go through some of those passages. 11th Chapter is kind of the hall of fame, the Faith hall of fame. Let’s start by faith is be what is faith? It’s being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we don’t see. This is what the ancients were commended for. Now let’s go to to verse three. By faith, we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. Now again, what does that do to evolution? It just It should just blow it out. That’s good way of putting it. We understand the universe was formed at God’s command. Now if you don’t believe that, what are you going to lean on? Your own understanding and in our deal, our government and people have spent literally billions of dollars through the year trying to disprove God in regard to how we got here. Why? Because they didn’t begin with the premise of the Word of God, that how we got here was at God’s command. The universe was formed at the command of God. So we don’t have to worry about whether evolution is true. So as you go to school, the young people go to school, and you’re taught evolution, why you can probably write what they want you to write down in order to pass a grade and then forget what you learned. Now I did that, whether it was evolution or not. That one was that was easy for me. I never I I was probably taught evolution, if it was I never learned it.

Now by foot number four, By faith, Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. Cain was saying, No, I’ll get my own sacrifice. And Abel said, No, I’ll offer the sacrifice God told me to offer. By faith he was commanded as a righteous man. When God spoke well of his offerings by faith, he still speaks, even though he is dead. In other words, the speaking that he’s talking about is walk by faith. When God says, This is my sacrifice, then this is my sacrifice.

Let’s go to to five. We’ll just go right on down by faith. Enoch was taken from his life so that he did not taken from this life so they did not experience death. He could not be found because God had taken him away. But for before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. Now, what’s the only thing that pleases God? Faith and without faith, what? It’s impossible to please God. So we’re talking about again, faith, without faith, it’s impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him. By faith, Noah, when warned about things not yet seen and holy fear, built an ark to save his family. So God said, Noah, build an ark. And what did Noah do? Well, he built an ark. Now you can imagine building this ark out in the middle of this desert land. You think you might get a little criticism on that. I mean, you say, what are you doing out in the middle of this desert Noah? Building a boat. Building a boat out there.

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