Radio Broadcast Tuesday 06/16/2026

Classic Christianity – Living in the Present – Part 2 – 6-16-26

~ “And without faith it is impossible to please God. For anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6

~ Understanding that without Faith is impossible to please God is critical in our understanding of what Faith really is. Faith is trusting in the Faithful One of God, Jesus Himself, God in flesh. Faith is trusting what He said He would do. Faith is trusting in His words. Faith is trusting God, even when you don’t fully understand the things of God. Faith is trusting in what God says about you and me. Faith is trusting in God’s Love for you! “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 Faith is drawing near to God when we are in trials and tribulation. Faith is key to everything.

But our faith must not be in ourselves. It must not be in our church or what we do or don’t do. And yet there are many today who say they are saved by Faith in Jesus, God in the flesh, and then they try and become Torah Observant to keep themselves holy. How much sense does that even make? Yet there are many that become hypocrites and everyone knows they are too. They however lie to themselves and others and in their pride think they are doing all the things that God wants them to do. And for the things they fail at, they think God covers over that last little bit of lack of being observant, because at least they tried to be. And hence, if they keep 90 percent of the laws, and fail in the 10 percent, then they only need a 10 percent Jesus for covering over those failures of theirs. However, the bottom line today, is they pick and choose what laws they think they can obey, and even seem to forget the Temple was completely destroyed, and the old law was done away with and a New Priest was established, one who is an eternal priest forever and ever, which also included a New Law, the Law of His Love forever. They totally dismiss that key.

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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 misconceptions and arrogance within certain Christian movements, emphasizing the importance of genuine faith in Jesus over personal faith or charisma. He argues that true faith is rooted in believing in Jesus’ death and resurrection, which transforms one’s life and attitude. George critiques the modern emphasis on personal faith and the role of pride, highlighting that unbelief is the root of all sin. He stresses the necessity of humility and reliance on God’s word, as recorded in the Bible, to lead a life of faith and please God.

“Now, what does have something to do with Christianity? Faith. But you see, Satan comes and shields that, and says this is what faith is. If you’ve got faith that’s big enough, why, then God will heal you. Or, if your faith is big enough, God will do this for you. Now, isn’t that strange that Jesus said, if any of us had faith the size of a mustard seed, that we could move mountains, you know, how big a mustard seed is, you can’t even hardly see it. So that says to me that what Jesus is saying is you don’t have a whole lot of faith, but you don’t need a lot of faith, you got a big God, and if you got a big God, you don’t need a whole bundle of faith, and how are you going to measure faith? But you see, we get down and say, oh, you got to have big faith, and you got to have big faith, and big faith, and we get into the faith movement now. Well, you see, we’re not in a faith movement, you’re in a Jesus movement, and our faith is merely what says I believe you.

We exercise faith every day when you sat in that chair, and for some of you, you exercise a lot of faith that they would hold you. You exercise faith when you sit in a chair, you obviously believe that chair would hold you, or you would have said it, would you? You’d been done to sit in if you thought it’s going to collapse on you. We exercise faith. We go to a restaurant and order food. How do you know it’s not being poisoned? How do you know when you go home and it’s not being poisoned? You exercise faith every day of your life. People get in the car to drive from Houston to here, they had faith that their gas wouldn’t run out. That was poor faith for some people. So you have, you put your faith all the time. You get an airplane, you certainly don’t think it’s going to crash, or you’d be a nitwit to get in it, so you exercise faith that that plane is going to take me where it says it’s going to take me, and it’s going to land where it’s supposed to land. That’s faith.” ~ Bob George

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And so I wanted to clear some of those things up. The same thing is true, not only in that movement. Same is true in other movements, in Protestant, or whatever you want to call it. You have people who are arrogant, and you have people who we get into positions of leadership and become arrogant, and I’ve done interviews with people who have shows that are big, big, big, well-known people, and I’ve been interviewed by them on television, and I remember one especially where the deal was that they sat me down, they came in, guy was sitting there, sat down here, put this, put all the stuff on you. This guy was looking the other direction. Never even know who you are. Don’t have a clue who you are. Looking around, talking to everybody, this type of thing. The camera is on. 3,2,1, Hi there, you. We have with us one of my best friends, Bob George. He doesn’t know me from an atom, doesn’t have a clue who I am, and was talking about my book, Classic Christianity. I said to him, “Have you read it?” I did. Have you read it? No, he hadn’t read it. And we said, “What do you send acting like you read it for?” And then then the break would come. It’s break 321, Hi there. I look at that and say that is utter nonsense. I won’t go back on those channels. I’ve got all kinds of opportunities to go back. I will not go to them because it’s phony as can be, and I think we get enough phoniness out in the world, don’t you, that you don’t need it in a Christian church. I like to just come to church and be around people, just people who love Jesus, don’t you? And so this kind of stuff that you see, can you imagine the world looking at all this that’s going on in television and saying, if this is what Christianity is about, who needs it? And I agree with him. If I thought that’s what Christianity, I’d be the biggest heathen in town, because I too do not think that has a thing to do with Christianity.

Now, what does have something to do with Christianity? Faith. But you see, Satan comes and shields that, and says this is what faith is. If you’ve got faith that’s big enough, why, then God will heal you. Or, if your faith is big enough, God will do this for you. Now, isn’t that strange that Jesus said, if any of us had faith the size of a mustard seed, that we could move mountains, you know, how big a mustard seed is, you can’t even hardly see it. So that says to me that what Jesus is saying is you don’t have a whole lot of faith, but you don’t need a lot of faith, you got a big God, and if you got a big God, you don’t need a whole bundle of faith, and how are you going to measure faith? But you see, we get down and say, oh, you got to have big faith, and you got to have big faith, and big faith, and we get into the faith movement now. Well, you see, we’re not in a faith movement, you’re in a Jesus movement, and our faith is merely what says I believe you.

Well, what’s your faith in you? Is my faith in when I get in an airplane, that my faith is going to make that plane to land safely. My faith ain’t gonna have anything to do with that. If somebody’s poisoned my food, is my faith not going to let it affect me? So, you see, we have to understand what faith is. It’s not our faith, it’s the object of our faith, and we’re told in the scriptures that whatever is not of faith is sin, but it’s not faith in faith, it’s whatever is not of faith in Jesus, is sin. Jesus said in John 16:9 in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me. Jesus said the world’s sin, singular, is unbelief. “unbelief in me,” and folks, that doesn’t end at the cross and the resurrection, that’s where it begins. We have had no faith in Jesus at all until we put our faith in the fact that Jesus died to take away our sins and that He was raised from the dead to give me life. That’s where this begins. That’s where my spiritual life began. Was back in 1969 when I put my faith in the fact that Jesus died for me, and that Jesus was raised for me to give me what? Life, and when that occurred, I was born again. Totally changed, changed in attitude. Never read this Bible before. I was 36 years of age. When I opened it, it cracked. Never had it open, never carried it to church. Never spoke. If somebody had a Bible in their hand, I thought they were weird. I knew nothing about the truth of the Bible. Little tidbits you would hear, you’d sing ‘Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.’ And all that was a lie, because I didn’t know what the Bible told me. Never had it open. You’re listening to what your pastor tells you, so you say, “Well, I guess he’s been to cemeteries, so you ought to know. And so we assume that. Well, that’s a poor assumption, guys. I want to tell you that right now, because in the majority of seminaries today, you only get about 20% of your curriculum in the Bible, and so that’s a poor assumption.

So it gets down to the fact that God came and left us through the apostles and through His teaching to the apostles, saying to them, I will cause everything that I’ve said to you to come back to your memory. That’s why we have the Bible. We have the Bible because the apostles set apart by God were given the gift of retention, also of to absorb from the Spirit of God and put it down in writing, not in English, in Greek, in the New Testament, was the most explicit language on the face of the earth. That’s why it was written in Greek, and we have it today in translation. If we live in America, we have English. You live in Germany, you have German. You live in Japan, you have Japanese. But all of it was translated off of those original manuscripts, and I got truth in my hand, this is truth, and this is constant, and I can count on it, just like ho is water, I can count on that. And he is saying that what is written in that book is directly from me, it’s like I’m standing in front of you, and speaking to you, and what sin is, is not believing in Jesus.

Now, like this plant, it’s like the emotions, and I like the thought. The thought is the unbelief, the emotions is the result. You’ve got sin observed, that’s kind of what our emotions do. It kind of observes where we are. You can see our emotions, can’t you? You can see when you’re angry and seeing you’re happy, all those things. It’s an observance. Anger, worry, envy, adultery, strife, all of those things are the result of the root of all sin, which is what unbelief. Every sin you and I commit, the root of it is I’m not trusting Jesus and what He said, I’m leaning on my own understanding, and I’m trusting something, or what someone told me, or just what I think about something, and isn’t it amazing how strong we are in this thinking. Why do you think this? Well, I don’t know, but I think it. So, don’t confuse me with facts my mind’s made up. Am I right or wrong? Don’t we think that way? And you can talk to people and try to drive sense in their head. Don’t bother me. This is what I, the big I think. That’s pride, big I in the middle of it. It doesn’t matter what you think. The issue is what did Christ think. That’s why in marriage, how in the world are you going to figure out a woman’s thinking if you’re a man? And how are you going to figure out a man’s thinking, if you’re a woman? You think we’re still cavemen. You’re probably right. How in the world are two separate entities, woman and man, ever going to have harmony in a home if you don’t have somebody else to go to? As to what should I be thinking? It isn’t that I’m not thinking, it’s not that Amy’s not thinking. The issue is, which one of us is thinking right? Maybe neither one of us. And so that’s why you have to go to Jesus to find out what is right, and that’s where you’ve got to go, because man and woman, there’s no way in the world you’re going to think the same way about things. Period. You may as well forget that. And any of you who are married can testify that I see some Amen, hallelujahs. The only way you’re going to have harmony is to have someone in between that, and that’s the word of God. It the word of God that will come to our hearts, show us our thinking is wrong. Both of our thinking is wrong, and that brings you into harmony with one another. Without it, you’re not going to have harmony. I don’t care how you try, don’t care how many marriage seminars you go to, you’re not going to have harmony until your center point of thinking is Christ Jesus, so he is the root. Unbelief is the root of all sin, and belief is the root of a happy life.

And so we’re told that the necessity of without faith, it’s impossible to please God. Now, why? Well, because that’s what we’re talking about, because if you don’t put faith in Him, you’re going to have to put faith in yourself, or faith in what someone else tells you, or faith in what you read in a book. And, guys, the problem with a book is you don’t know who wrote it, could be an idiot who knows how to write, and so that’s the, that’s the problem is you don’t know who the author is, and so we have to realize that I know who the author of this is. I know who authored this book, and he’s a lot smarter than Reader’s Digest, and a lot smarter than, you know, these newscast people who are going around studying Jesus. Little hard to do if you don’t study the Bible, go to Israel and study Jesus. Well, go to Israel, and you study stones. It’s a lot more of those that are our Jesus over there, but it’s the issue that this – we know who the author is. When I pick this book up, I don’t have to wonder who wrote this book, and I don’t have to wonder who was the person who led these people to write this book, it came directly from God into the heart of a man who put down God’s thoughts into this book, so when I’m reading this book, I’m reading who’s thoughts, Peter’s thoughts, Paul’s, no, God’s thoughts, as it was recorded through His servant, the Apostle Paul, or Peter.

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So in this case I don’t have to worry about the author, I know who the author is, and that’s why I can put faith in the word of God, and without faith He says it’s impossible to please God. Why? Because God says I’ve revealed what I want you to have faith in. I first of all revealed who I want you to have faith in when Christ Jesus was revealed to you, and now I have given you my Bible, so that you can know what to put your faith in and where to go to find truth, and so we look at that and say when the Holy Spirit points out an area of our life where we’re living contrary to faith, either an attitude or action, he is always there to point those things out to you. It’s not always pleasant when he does it, but that’s his job. His, the Holy Spirit of God, is always there if we’ll listen to him. But you see, what keeps us from listening to him or anyone else is pride, and we have to understand, guys, the unbelievable effect that pride has in our lives. It is a destructive force, pride of man. Pride is what caused Satan to rebel out of heaven. Pride is what caused Adam and Eve to sin. I don’t need to listen to God, I’ll listen to Satan. Pride is, is, is a force, guys. It is a force of destruction. And what does God say? I give grace to the humble, but I resist who? The proud. Why? Because the proud is too prideful to receive grace, and so we have to understand the truth of that, that the grace of God has to be absorbed by a heart that is willing to say I may not be right, or more correctly to say I probably am not right, and that’s why I need instruction. You see, pride keeps you. I don’t need instruction. You see that lot of times in kids. I’ve seen that with kids when they can hardly bounce a basketball. You try to teach them how to bounce a basketball. I don’t need help, I know how to bounce it. It’s all over the place, but I know where I know how to bounce it, because pride in little kids, pride don’t tell me I know. You don’t you don’t know, you’re not going to know for years and years and years how to play basketball. It’s going to take time and practice and experience, but you see, we don’t think experience has any bearing on education. But I want to tell you, information without experience, you may as well forget it. And so pride is a killer, and so that’s why he’s saying without faith in Jesus it’s impossible to please God, because if I don’t have faith in Jesus, it’s because I have faith in me, and that’s what creates this thing called pride.

And so we have to understand what God is saying to us here, guys, and to understand the truth that I need to agree with God concerning my sin, as an example, when I sin, and we all do, you know, does anyone out there don’t think they sin? Now I’m not talking about, you see, our sins have been taken away from the eyes of God, but I don’t live up there, I live down here, and the reason they had to be taken away from the eyes of God is so He wouldn’t have to see my sin, he’s already taken it away. Do we understand that God took away your sins, all of them, at the cross 2000 years ago, never to see them again? Are we all together on that to understand the truth of that? Now down here where I live, do I ever get angry? You know that’s called sin. Do I ever do all kinds of things? That’s all that’s called sin. Can I talk mean to people? Yeah, that’s called sin. Can I worry? Oh, yeah, but that’s a healthy concern. We can rename these things, that’s called sin. You cannot worry and have faith at the same time, can you? Are we together on that? And so now should that, should that put us in the dumps? Oh, woe is me. I worried that I disappointed God.

You can’t disappoint God. In order to be disappointed, you have to have an unrealistic expectation. He never had any expectation about you at all, except to fail, so he never has had an unrealistic expectation about you and me. So, how’s he going to be disappointed in you? Never expected anything out of you to begin with, except that’s why he said, unless you abide in me. If you abide in me, then something’s going to happen. When you don’t, don’t be disappointed, that’s all you can do is fail. And so we have to understand the truth of this type of thing. So when I do blow it in some way or another as a result of putting my dependency on me instead of him, why I agree with God concerning that sin. I agree with him, and Lord, I acted like a jerk, act like somebody didn’t even know the Lord, and then you agree with Him concerning His forgiveness. Thank you, Lord, that you took away those sins at the cross. Thank you, I’ll never be accountable for that sin to you. There’s no condemnation awaiting me who belongs to Christ Jesus. That’s something in it, guys, because there’s always a consequence to sin, but not with God, not with God. He said, “No, there is no condemnation awaiting you who belong to Christ Jesus. Why? Because the law of the spirit of life, when I made you alive in Christ, that law surpassed the law of sin and death. You came into this world dead under the law that the wages of sin is death. Consequence of sin is death, and I came to give you life, and to give it to you abundantly, and all salvation is is recognizing that I’m dead spiritually, and Lord, if you came to give me life, then I want you to come into my heart and give me life, because I don’t have life on my own, and I want you to give me whose life? Spiritual life already got mom and dad’s life. Now I want yours. And you’re born again, you’re born again, thanking him for the fact that he took away your sins, never to see them again. And you’re thanking him for the fact that the consequence of sin is death, and you’ve replaced that by the law of life. And I am now alive in Christ, and I am alive eternally in Christ. Important guys, I’m not only alive, I’ve been made alive eternally, and so I thank God for those things.

What is faith saying? I believe that that’s true. It’s not only true in an intellectual sense, but it’s true to the point that when I die and go before God, and He would say to me, “What have you done to deserve to be here? I said, “I haven’t done anything, except I trusted your Son.” And if Jesus is not the one to give you and me eternal life, we’re all going to be dead. There isn’t going to be any salvation. If Jesus is wrong, we’re all goners, we’re all goners, we’re going to be spending our life in some place called hell if Jesus is wrong, and so I’m putting all of my faith, so to speak, on the fact that Jesus is right and that Jesus is who He claimed to be God, and that Jesus came as God to this earth and walked on this earth for some 33 years and fulfilled the law in its entirety by walking in perfect love through his entire life and love is the fulfillment of the law and that Jesus fulfilled the law for me who couldn’t fulfill a 10th of it and therefore having fulfilled the law, was able to usher in this New Covenant of grace that we stand in today, the grace of God that says, “Come unto me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I’ll give you rest and peace for your soul.” And you and I put our faith in those statements, we put our faith in the word of God that says, “Come to me,” and I say okay, and I come to him, and I’m born again, and that’s the good news of the gospel. We agree with him concerning those, that’s all faith is just saying I agree. Did we have anything do with any of that? No, we just agree, or we disagree.

So, I’m not sure that, Lord, I was taught if you become a Catholic, you’re saved, or you’re taught wrong, and you hang on to that belief, and you’re going to end up in hell. I was taught that if I become a Muslim, you’re wrong, and you keep hanging on to that belief, you’re going to go to hell. You can have faith in that. Those people have faith, don’t they? You got faith in that, but you keep putting your faith in that, and you’re going to end up in hell. I believe Buddha can save you, that you got faith in that, but I want to tell you something. You keep your faith in that, and you’re going to end up in hell, according to what? This book that I put every ounce of confidence on my eternal security in, that what this book recorded about Jesus is true. If it isn’t, I’m going to hell, and so are you. That’s how stringent this faith is. What you have and who you have your faith in determines where you’re going to spend eternity, according to the word of God. Narrow is the way. Why is the way narrow? I used to read that narrows away, that means only the good people get there, only those who are good enough people, like my dad, they’ll get there. Me, I’m not sure, only the good people, that’s what that narrows the way means. It’s just, just a very few people are going to be good enough to get there, that, and what it means, and that isn’t what it means at all. Narrow is the way is the fact that only a few people are going to have sense enough to believe what Jesus said. The rest of us want to work for it. Rest of us want to get up and work, say, ‘No, I went to church, I tithed. Big hairy deal. What if you didn’t have a church to go to? What if you didn’t have any money? You discounted by God, thrown out. Don’t think so.

You see, pride is what keeps us. Why is the gate narrow? Because pride keeps us from humbling ourselves and accepting that I can’t get there on my own, you know, the gate that they talk about, the going through in Israel, the camel, they talk about a camel can’t get through the needle, the eye of the needle, that’s a gate that if a camel is loaded up with his with with the stuff he’s carrying, he can’t kneel down, he can’t get through the gate. In order for the camel to get through the gate, you have to take off all the load off of his back and to go in naked. Then he can get through the gate, and that’s exactly what it’s talking about in regard to salvation. Until we’re willing to put down all of the things that the world has told us, that the way you’re going to get to heaven is by being at this or being that or being this or doing this and doing this and doing this, you have to put that aside, you have to take it off your back and you’re going to get on your knees and crawl through that gate as a humble servant of Christ Jesus. And so we agree with God concerning our need to turn in faith and to walk in the spirit, that’s exactly how we’re going to please God. Without this kind of faith, it’s impossible to please Him.

Exchange your attitude of unbelief, because guys, again, you can be saved, you can, you can have come to a point where in your life where you said for me to get to heaven, I realize there’s anything I can do or say, and so I’m going to turn to you, Jesus, to get me to heaven, but I’m going to take care of my life in the meantime, and a lot of times that’s said I’ll see you in heaven, Jesus, because I know I’m saved, but I’m going to run my own life in the meantime. He says, ‘No, Bob, that ain’t going to work. And when we come to Christ, we’re all self-sufficient, aren’t we? All of us are self-sufficient when we come to Christ, and so we’re self-sufficient lost men. We get saved, we become self-sufficient saved people, and that’s what God has to do, is to knock that self-sufficiency out of us. You know, it was about 18 years from the time that Paul was led over the wall to escape from being killed until Barnabas went and got him. As about 18 years, 18 years, that’s a long time. And you say, what in the world was God doing with Paul? Probably pounding pride and legalism out of him, 18 years, so if he hadn’t pounded all of us out of us yet, we still got, we got a few years to go many times. So don’t get discouraged.

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