Radio Broadcast Tuesday 06/30/2026

Classic Christianity – Debt of Love – Part 2 – 6-30-26

~ “And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:13

~ 1 Corinthians chapter 13 teaches us about the perfect Love of God. This as we have said is something we cannot produce ourselves. It has to be something that God does in and through us. We have to learn how to abide in the Holy Spirit for everything, including the Love of God towards others department. Everyday life will show us that we can’t but He can. And the summary of the chapter is that Love is the Greatest of ALL things. And folks, when we understand how much God has and continues to Love us, and He is long suffering, not wishing anyone to perish, we are left thanking Him for everything. Because He Himself, Scripture says, God is Love, and He fulfilled the Law for us. That is the True indicator of how much He loves us.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16

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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 emphasizes that love, not moral behavior, is the fulfillment of the law and the only thing that truly counts. He discusses how we all struggle with love, which is why the grace of God is often overlooked. Bob highlights that the Love of God is patient, kind, and does not envy or boast, and it protects and trusts others. He stresses that love is the greatest of faith, hope, and love, and that true love is demonstrated by forgiving and trusting others. Bob concludes by urging believers to internalize, through the Holy Spirit leading us, in these teachings and to live out the love of the Spirit of God, flowing out of them in their relationships, relying on God’s grace for everything.

“I’m going to first of all want to trust my kids, but at the same time I’m going to be cautious with my kids, that’s why when Debbie was dating and she would sit out in front of the house with her boyfriend, that I would flicker the lights, she’s agreeing with, and if they didn’t come in, I’d flicker the more, and if she didn’t come in, then I went out to visit them. That’s because I trusted them. But folks, it says that God trusts, God protects, always trusts, He always hopes the best. There’s always a hope for somebody. Hope the best, you have kids that are off, hope the best for them. Hope the best. You know why? That hope begins encouraging. You know, if somebody is off and someone is telling them all the time how cruddy they are, after a while you don’t have much incentive to not be cruddy, do you? But when people are good and they have hope, and I believe in you, and I got hope in you, you kind of get up and say, well, then maybe I can pull this off. It always perseveres. Love never fails. It never fails. See, we think other things will succeed, but God says no. No, what never fails is love.

So, guys, we have to come to a point of, are we going to walk believing what God says, or do we still hang on to what seems to be right from the world? And what God is saying to us is, my way doesn’t fail. There are prophecies, they’ll cease, where there are tongues will be stilled, where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we all know in part, and we all prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, and many times we grow up as older people still thinking like children. When I became a man, I put away childish things. There are things that you do as a child that you put away when you grow up. I put away childish things.” ~ Bob George

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Bob George 0:29
Love is a fulfillment of the law. There’s only one goal. The only thing that counts, told the Scripture, the only thing that counts is faith. What expressing itself through what? Love. Period from God’s standpoint, that’s not from ours. We say, oh, I’m moral, I don’t, I don’t, I don’t do that, I don’t do this, I don’t give a flip what you don’t do, how you doing in the love department, that’s the issue. But you see, we say I. I want to, I don’t want to hear that. That’s why the grace of God, folks, and the message of the grace of God is not as popular as you thought it was going to be, is because I don’t want to hear that, because I can’t pull that one off. I can restrain the flesh and not commit adultery, or restrain, restrain the flesh and not steal or restrain the flesh and not covet, but I cannot love in the energy of my own flesh, and we want to bring glory to me, because I want to tell you something. If I’m not bringing glory to me, there’s only one place to bring it to, and that’s to Him. And so we get down to the point I’ve wondered so many times with all of the instruction that’s in the scripture, why it has always come down to this thing of love? And the reason is it’s the only thing we cannot pull off, we can’t do it all the time, all the time, and we want to, that’s why it says in James, talks about how our tongue is, it’s like a flame of fire, it could just destroy people, we just can’t help from talking. I think how often we just talk too much. You ever get into that? You ever give people advice too much? How many of you like to give people advice? How many people like to hear it? None. The most worthless thing on the world is unsolicited advice.

Guys, in the long run, in the long run, we have one teacher that can really teach you, and he’s called the Holy Spirit. A man can teach you, and another man can teach you something else, but when the Spirit teaches you, you’re taught, and this, what the Spirit is doing, he’s saying here, and do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. The night is nearly over, and the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. In other words, walk in God’s light. And if you’re going to walk in God’s light, what are you going to be walking in? Love.

Now, in First Corinthians 13, again he describes love to us, and we look at this because this is how He has first of all commanded us to love, but before we, I think, before we can look at that intelligently, that we have to go back to say, if this is God’s definition of love, and if God is love, why then this is how God loves you, and God loves me. And remember what it says, that it’s not that we love God, but what? He loved us first. So we can go through this lineup of love and read that God is patient, always patient with you. Is that good news? Are you always patient with others, and if we’re not, what are we doing according to God? Not loving, and what’s he say about that? The only thing that counts, Bob, is faith expressing itself through love. Yeah, but Lord, didn’t you see all the good things I did? Yeah, I saw them, but if you’re not loving, they don’t mean anything. Love is kind. God is kind to you. Are we always kind to one another? Are we? Do we say things sometimes that are unkind to one another? How many of you say things to your wife or your husband sometimes it’s not kind, how many, how many of you lie? No, there are more of you lie than. We can say some of the most unkind things to the person that we love the most on the face of the earth, and say unkind things to them. God says it’s not love, and we have to recognize that when we’re doing that, it’s not well, forget the it’s not love. If you want to be a Christian, if you’re talking about what a wonderful holy Christian youths you are, this is God’s standard of gaging that, not ours. This is God’s way of gaging it. I don’t care how wonderful you think people think you are, or how wonderful you think you are. This is what I think of you when you’re not loving, you’re not kind.

Love is never envious. God is never envious of you. Says, are you envious of anybody else? Do you ever wish that you had what other people have? You know, there are people who live with that type of thing. Oh, I can’t stand my sister. Why? Because she’s got a bigger house than I do. Well, my daughter’s got a bigger house than we do, but I don’t hate her. I like to go there. Envy. Do you know it says envy and strife and selfish ambition, there is evil of all kinds. Envy, envy what other people have. I don’t have enough. Don’t have enough. Let’s go the government and get more.

Love never boasts, God never is boastful towards you and me. How are we? Are we ever out boasting about ourselves? You know, bringing attention to ourselves, always talking about ourselves, you know, there’s some play people that you go out for a dinner and you’re going to learn everything you need to know about them, because they’re just going to talk the whole time about themselves. People like this is that love, you know, what’s the problem with that? Talk too much, no, love, it’s no love, love, not love. Love is interested in other people. You know, sometimes we go on conferences and we go out and eat with somebody, and people are sitting there continually asking me questions, and you know, it’s like someone says, you know, what kind of a hot meal do you want to say? I don’t know, I never had one. I was sitting there talking, food always gets cold, but I feel like saying, look, I don’t want you know everything you need to know about me, I want to know about you, I want to hear about you. You already know about me. You don’t know too much about me. I want to know about you. And that should be our attitude, is learning more and more about people, asking questions about them, so that they can get into the conversation. That’s a loving thing to do, isn’t it?

So it’s not self-seeking. Love is not self-seeking, always looking out for others’ interests. Do you do that? Do I do that? No, love is not easily angered. It just takes a miracle to get me mad. How about you? I mean, somebody pulls in front of me in the car. I just praise Jesus. When I hear a minister talking junk, I just praise Jesus, easily angered. Golly, guys, I look at this thing and I say, there isn’t anything in me that represents this as somebody that’s been the Lord 40 years seems like you’d learned something, by now you say I have. I’ve learned that apart from Him I can do nothing. I can do nothing. That’s why I love the grace of God, and you know that’s what some people say, “Oh, you just like the grace of God because you’re a sinner,” as if they weren’t said, “better love the grace of God because you’re a sinner,” but the issue is, don’t match yourself up with all of this exterior stuff, because there are many, many people who really, they look at themselves as I am one moral dude. I mean, don’t, don’t, don’t compare me with somebody, you’re going to lose, because I am really it. I’ve not done this, I’m not done this, and I want to say something. If you haven’t done this and this and this, praise God for that, but don’t be puffed up over it, because God’s saying if you don’t have love, you don’t have anything. Did God love David? Seemed to me that he didn’t live a real perfect life. Did he love Solomon? You talk about sex, brother, he had it, he had everything, but he didn’t have love.

Love keeps no records of wrongs. Now that means that God does not keep any record of your and my wrong. Now, guys, if that is not good news, then I do not know what good news is. Now, if I thought that I never did wrong, that wouldn’t be real impressive. Well, at least I don’t have to keep God too busy. But you know what, the busier you keep Him, the more grace abounds. Is that what it says? Where sin abounds, grace more abounds. The longer that I live, and the longer that I see myself falling short of what God said is important, not what man says is important. Man can sit back and honor you for what you’ve done on behalf of God in the Christian world, but when you come to the end of your life, what it’s going to look at is how’d you do in the love department. Love doesn’t keep records of wrongs. I want to ask you, do you keep records of your husband’s wrongs or your wife’s wrongs? You bring it up, hurt them with it? Do you? It’s not love. Don’t pretend to be holier than thou if you’re doing that, and I won’t either, because it’s not love. And you can look good in the eyes of man, but in God’s eyes he’s saying you’ve never caught something. Love doesn’t keep records of people’s wrongs. You say you just don’t understand. Yeah, I do. I understand the temptation to keep records. I don’t even understand the benefit of keeping records, but God says it’s not love. You can do it, but it’s not love. So, get rid of the idea of how holy you are, because it’s not love.

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Bob George 13:45
Love does not delight in evil. In other words, there’s no delight in ever hearing something off color, never laugh at a dirty joke. Not much response on that one. It always rejoices with the truth, especially when someone tells you something about you that you don’t want to hear. It just makes you delight. Honey, you got spinach in your teeth. Oh, thank you, dear. Love always protects others. God protects you. He says protect others?

God always trusts the best in you. Do we trust other people, or do we live with an attitude of distrust? In our relationship with Amy and myself, we grew up in two different atmospheres altogether. Amy grew up in communist Russia. I grew up in Indiana. I grew up in the Midwest, where people did not even have keys for their house. Mom and Dad would leave and go to Florida, and never lock their house, never lock it, never think of locking it. No one ever thought of locking their cars. Don’t know why they put on the, on the car, didn’t need them. A man’s word was his bond. My dad was an attorney, and most of his work was verbal contracts. When I said it, and you agreed to it, that was it. Period. Didn’t need it written out. That was, we grew up trusting everybody. Everybody said to me, he’s like a dang dog, just loves everybody, just trust, because we did, we trusted everybody. Amy grew up in an atmosphere that, if you trusted somebody, you’re going to lose your life. Grew up in a place where children turned in their parents, go into a place where, as a little girl, somebody had given their family a book, and Stalin’s picture was in that book, and Amy was a kid, just a little kid, and like you do when you have a crayon and you see a picture, you color it. They could have gone to prison for that. Her mother was petrified when she found that book to have to give it back, and somebody say they defiled Stalin. Lived in a place you couldn’t trust anybody. I lived in a place where you trusted everyone. And what’s God do? Put us together, put us together. So, here she does. Do you think that barnacle is going to fall off of her automatically? No. Do you think my barnacle is going to fall off of me? I went out to California as this naive Indiana kid, and man, they saw me coming. I got cheated so much, it was unbelievable. Just by being dumb and trusting, Amy was saying, ‘Don’t trust all’ you don’t know what you’re talking about. I found out, yes, you did. God brings a balance back to that, but again, there’s God takes two opposites, brings them together. But the issue is that God wants us to trust. He wants us to trust with intelligence. He wants us, but he wants us basically to live with an atmosphere of I trust you.

I’m going to first of all want to trust my kids, but at the same time I’m going to be cautious with my kids, that’s why when Debbie was dating and she would sit out in front of the house with her boyfriend, that I would flicker the lights, she’s agreeing with, and if they didn’t come in, I’d flicker the more, and if she didn’t come in, then I went out to visit them. That’s because I trusted them. But folks, it says that God trusts, God protects, always trusts, He always hopes the best. There’s always a hope for somebody. Hope the best, you have kids that are off, hope the best for them. Hope the best. You know why? That hope begins encouraging. You know, if somebody is off and someone is telling them all the time how cruddy they are, after a while you don’t have much incentive to not be cruddy, do you? But when people are good and they have hope, and I believe in you, and I got hope in you, you kind of get up and say, well, then maybe I can pull this off. It always perseveres. Love never fails. It never fails. See, we think other things will succeed, but God says no. No, what never fails is love.

Now it said, we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror. Then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part that I shall know fully, even as I am now fully known, and now, guys, these three things remain: faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these is love. For in Christ, neither circumcision or uncircumcision has any value. Look at this verse, guys. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love toward who? One another. You see, guys, we can become so infatuated with the grace of God and so enthralled with the fact that nothing can separate me from the love of God, and you’ve heard me stand here and say that, that I am convinced of that, and in my heart I am convinced of that, I am convinced that nothing can separate me from the love of God, trials can’t, tribulation can’t, hardship can’t. Well, then pass it on, then pass it on. If you’re so convinced that nothing can separate you from the love of God, then nothing can separate them from the love of God. So pass it on to one another, and when you do, you’re completing my act. When I love you, I’m completing God’s act of loving me, here to here, here to here. It’s an act of God. Are we loving one another, or are we trying to tear each other down?

Now, guys, this is not a message to me of encouragement, because everything I’ve said you can’t pull off, and I can’t either, but it is a message of encouragement, because this is why we rely upon and thank God for his mercy and his grace, I cannot, but he can. Not only that, he can, he did, and he pulled off for you and me what we could not do on our own. We can go out and do good deeds, we could go out and help people. We can go out and kind of live a life that’s free from from sex and free from this stealing and free from this. And he says, if you act like an idiot to one another, it doesn’t mean a flip to me. Now, you may get all puffed up over it, but it doesn’t mean anything to me. If we’re not loving one another, he says nothing counts, nothing counts.

So I bore my soul to you, because as I look at these things, and I look at it, and I say it just doesn’t make any difference what kind of a ministry you have. I sat there and watched Bob Christopher. I even listened to some own tapes, pretty good, especially the ones on New Covenant. That’s an excellent series that we’re doing there, but to say, if I sit there and I don’t take this message and internalize it to the point where I am able to pass that on to others, it doesn’t mean a thing, doesn’t mean a thing, and most people look and say, “Well, yeah, you’ve done a lot.” Said, yeah, doesn’t mean anything, doesn’t mean anything. Is tha right or wrong?

So, guys, let’s be honest with God, to be honest with Him, and to be able to say, Lord Jesus, you know my heart, and you know that I’m not always patient with people, and I’m not always kind with people, and I sometimes say things that I know are hurtful to people, and I don’t like being that way, and I want you to take over control of this tongue and this life of mine, and let me learn what it means to love one another as Christ Jesus loved me. I want to get all bitterness out of my heart. If I’m holding any kind of resentment and bitterness in my heart right now toward anybody, I need to let it go, because what it’ll kill you. If you’re holding resentment in your heart towards somebody right now, it will kill you and is killing you. I want to let it go. They’ve hurt me. I know they hurt me too. Jesus says, and what did I say? Father, forgive them. They don’t know what they’re doing. We can be hurt, we think, or they did it intentionally, most of the time, people that hurt you don’t ever do it intentionally, just do it because we’re sinful. We need to forgive. Let’s close our eyes and talk to the Lord.

Father. Let us take a moment to be still and know that you’re God, to be still and to allow you to search our hearts, and if we have bitterness in there towards somebody, release it. I want to give it to you, and I don’t want to take it back this time. I want to give it to you forever. I’m tired of being angry. I’m tired of being hurt. I want to live free. I want to live as a child of God, not as a partial child of God. I want to be made aware of continually in my life, that apart from love, nothing matters, and for you to check my heart every time that I have an attitude that is contrary to love, and teach me that the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. And we’re going to thank you for this, Father, as you continue to help us to grow in grace, knowing that we’ll be in this conflict for the rest of our lives, but it doesn’t need to be the severity that many times it comes to. We can put these things at your feet, where they belong. We can trust you with the outcome of our children’s lives and our mates lives that you are far more have far more ability to change us than we do to change people. So Father, we thank you for this, praise you for it, thank you for this group of wonderful people that you’ve called to assemble together, and we pray all these things in Christ’s name and for His sake. Amen.

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