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Classic Christianity – Power of Resurrection – Part 2 – 7-15-25

Power of Resurrection – Part 2

~ “The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.” 1 Corinthians 2:14

Have you noticed, when talking about the things of God with people, it’s as though you are speaking to a brick wall? Well folks, that is simply an indication that people are not saved, and do not have the Holy Spirit living in them for Life. For the Spirit speaks to our spirit about the deeper things of God. And if you are not listening to the Spirit of God, by abiding in Him, you will have no clue as to what is going on in the world today. You will lean on your own understanding and will trust in the teaching of Man instead of the Holy Spirit. And therein is the main issue today. We have trust in the teaching of Man, including our own understanding of things, to try and make sense what is going on the in the world today.

So if you really want to know what is going on in the world today, ask for wisdom from God and it will be given with great abundance without finding fault. That is His promise. And don’t beat yourself up thinking that God is disappointed with you. For God is not counting any of your sins against you. He wants you to simply come to the knowledge of TRUTH. And folks, there are so many lies in the world that most would be shocked to find out the TRUTH. But seek the TRUTH in ALL things. Seek and you shall find. He wants us to know even the deep things of God.

“10 But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. 1 Corinthians 2:10-13

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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.”

~ “So there’s power, he says, in the resurrection. Now, guys, what is the power in the resurrection? That is the time when you and I receive the ability to be God’s witness. It’s a time when we are indwelt by what the Old Testament saints were not indwelt with, Life. Christ, Jesus came to live in you and me. This is a reality, folks. Now you tell this to the lost people, or you before you were lost, it sounds like foolishness, but it didn’t say natural man cannot understand foolish or spiritual things. It’s foolish to him, but you, who are spiritual, can understand all things. These are part of the things he wants us to understand that you have been indwelt by something living. Now you physically were already living when you were born again, but when you’re born again, you were born first of all, of your mom and dad’s will. You had nothing to do with that, and you didn’t have anything to do with your spiritual birth. But the Bible says you’ve got to be born again, born first of all, of the water, that means natural birth, and then born again, of the spiritual, of the spirit, that means spiritual birth. And again, guys, I want to reiterate that there is no way in the world for you to be born again apart from the invasion of the life of Christ, Jesus coming to live in you. And so there is no such thing as being born again today and receiving the Spirit tomorrow. Period. I don’t care who teaches you that that is an impossibility in the logic of God’s Word. There’s no way for that to occur. People say, Bob, you don’t understand. I had to. I don’t care how many experiences you had, you’re not saved by experience. You’re not saved by feelings. You’re saved by truth. Truth is what sets you free, not an experience. Well, you don’t understand, Bob, I did something I’d never done before. So have I. Unfortunately.” ~ Bob George

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So there’s power, he says, in the resurrection. Now, guys, what is the power in the resurrection? That is the time when you and I receive the ability to be God’s witness. It’s a time when we are indwelt by what the Old Testament saints were not indwelt with, Life. Christ, Jesus came to live in you and me. This is a reality, folks. Now you tell this to the lost people, or you before you were lost, it sounds like foolishness, but it didn’t say natural man cannot understand foolish or spiritual things. It’s foolish to him, but you, who are spiritual, can understand all things. These are part of the things he wants us to understand that you have been indwelt by something living. Now you physically were already living when you were born again, but when you’re born again, you were born first of all, of your mom and dad’s will. You had nothing to do with that, and you didn’t have anything to do with your spiritual birth. But the Bible says you’ve got to be born again, born first of all, of the water, that means natural birth, and then born again, of the spiritual, of the spirit, that means spiritual birth. And again, guys, I want to reiterate that there is no way in the world for you to be born again apart from the invasion of the life of Christ, Jesus coming to live in you. And so there is no such thing as being born again today and receiving the Spirit tomorrow. Period. I don’t care who teaches you that that is an impossibility in the logic of God’s Word. There’s no way for that to occur. People say, Bob, you don’t understand. I had to. I don’t care how many experiences you had, you’re not saved by experience. You’re not saved by feelings. You’re saved by truth. Truth is what sets you free, not an experience. Well, you don’t understand, Bob, I did something I’d never done before. So have I. Unfortunately.

Guys, there’s too much going on today in this feely, feely, and we got to get these feelings. Folks feelings follow thought. God designed us that way. He designed us in such a way whereby our feelings predictably respond to whatever we are thinking. If I am thinking anxious thoughts, I’m going to be feeling anxiety. If I am thinking angry thoughts, I’m going to be feeling anger. If I am thinking depressive thoughts, I’m going to be depressed. It is not a syndrome, it is not an illness. It isn’t something that you need to get a pill for. It is stinking thinking, and there is no exception to that. When you’re depressed, you’re thinking depressing thoughts, and the only solution to depressive thoughts is to correct them with truth and let truth do what? Set you free from what? Your depression. There any sense of being depressed, you can I can get depressed. I can get down, can’t you. I can think dumb thoughts, can’t you. I can think anxious thoughts, can’t you? And anxiety is always thinking about what’s going to happen where? In the future, that is God’s country up there. We don’t belong there. There’s not a person sitting in this room that knows what’s going to happen to them five minutes from now, except maybe you might go to sleep. We don’t know, the future is God’s country. That’s why he said, forget the past and stay out of the future. Well, Jesus was here they came. Hey, Lord, what’s going to happen in the future. He said, That’s not for you to know. I’m telling you to live one day at a time today. When you’re living up in the future. Oh, this is going to happen. This is going to happen if I’m in sale. Oh, I’m going to get a big sale that’s futuristic stupid thinking you don’t know what you’re going to get. Oh, I’m going in for an operation, and I’m going to be, I’m going to be, you don’t know what you’re going to be. You just better hope that the surgeon knows what he’s doing. You don’t know. And so get out of the future. It’s like on planning. People say, do you plan? No, I plan function, but I don’t plan results. You get in there and say, we’re going to make a million dollars in business, not here, in business, we’re going to make a million dollars. I’m going to budget how much I’m going to make. You don’t have a clue what you’re going to make. How many of you budgeted your retirement a number of weeks ago, and how many are budgeted today? How many of you thought that your retirement was going to go down the tubes five weeks ago? I heard a lady on television sad thing, probably in my age, approximately, that’s old, standing in California in the midst of the rubble of her house. She said, three weeks ago, we lost everything we had on the stock market, and now my house is burnt down. We have nothing. Do you think they knew that weeks ago? But I tell you what God wants us to do in that thing, live one day at a time. That’s why he said, One day at a time. Why? That’s the only time you can live emotionally. My emotions can only respond to what’s going on right now. Are we together, guys? Right now my only time I could my emotions can respond. They can’t respond tomorrow. It’s not here. They can’t respond yesterday. It’s over only right now, but I can cause my emotions to respond by what I’m thinking about yesterday and 10 years ago and 15 years ago. Do you know the people, many times, live in guilt over what they did a long time ago, live in guilt over it, or become very understanding of other people over it, well, I made a mistake. Well, the issue is, guys, whether you’d made a mistake or whether you didn’t make a mistake is not the issue. The issue is, what are you doing back there? What are you doing back there? And there are people who live in the past thinking about all the bad things that happened to them in the past, and how I got abused in the past. Well, how are you going to correct that today? If you got abused in the past, it’s in the past. And God is saying, live one day at a time. Why? Because when I’m thinking about what happened to me 10 years ago, my emotions do not know whether that is happening right now, because of my mind, it’s happening right now. It’s right there, isn’t it? Or whether it happened 10 years ago. Our emotions are dumb. All they can do is respond to whatever you’re thinking. And so I can make myself an emotional basket case today by being preoccupied with what happened yesterday, and my emotions are just doing what God created them to do, responding. Your emotions are responders to whatever you’re thinking. And then if it isn’t bad enough to be preoccupied with what happened yesterday, you go over with what’s going to happen tomorrow. And if all this happened to me, then think all the bad things are going to happen tomorrow. Now we got them compounded, and you wonder why the vast majority of people in this country need Prozac.

Folks, just what do you think a little round pill is going to do to correct your thinking? Do you think that I could be as dumb as a mule and take a pill and be smart? If there was I’d be gobbling up bottles of it. So what can this pill do? The ones that we’re so anxious to go to for thinking stuff, I’m not talking about pills for physical things. I’m talking about emotional brain stuff. Just what pill do you know that can change my thinking or to make me think properly, make me think biblical thoughts? Maybe we need Christian pills.

Do you think there’s anything out there like that guys? Then why do we run to it like dumb sheep? It can numb you. That pill can numb me until I’m said, dang dumb. I don’t know what’s going on, but it cannot change my thinking and as a man thinks, what? So is he. So is he. Guys? We have such a tendency, and we do it all in the name of Christianity. I’m just such a good Christian to run to everything under the sun except to him. I won’t ask for a show of hands, but ask the question, how many of you have ever been depressed? I’ll show my hand. I’ve been depressed. What did I run to? Nothing? Who did I run to? Jesus. Because I knew that if I’m depressed, it’s because I’m thinking depressing thoughts, and I also knew that the only solution to thinking dumb, depressing thoughts is to start thinking truthful thoughts, because I have learned something truth sets you free, and I don’t really want to live in bondage. So I want my dependency to be upon the One who created me. Because if I want to find out something about me, then I’m going to go to who made me. I’m not going to go to another one of you. I’m going to go to who made me.

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Bob George 14:18
He is my Creator. He’s the one who ultimately created us. He created us this way. He created us in this way that our emotions are going to respond to what we’re thinking. Are we together? Now, folks, when we are indwelt by the Spirit of God, we have another life living in us, we’re told that we have the mind of Christ. Do you know that passage that we have been given the mind of Christ? Now, if that isn’t good news, something’s wrong with you, because that means that I do not have to depend upon my mind, but I can depend upon his mind. Now, if I’m going to depend upon his mind, what am I going to be depending on him to do? To do, what? Teach me what? Truth. Why do I need taught truth? Because Jesus said we’re like sheep. You can’t find a dumber animal. Now some people, oh, I don’t like that. I don’t care whether you like it or not. God called you a sheep. Could have said a dumb sheep, because left to our own, we are dumb. We have no wisdom. We have intellect, but we have no wisdom, apart from Christ, none. God gave you a Spirit of discernment and of wisdom, wisdom.

So this power that he’s talking about His resurrection power. You say, Well, I’ve never experienced it. Well, then you’ve never drawn upon it. And if you have experienced it, I’m not sure we can describe it, but we do know that if you are born again, that God has given you something that enables you to do what someone else cannot do. Have you ever noticed a little thing like this when you’re lost, you can talk about God all day long, can’t you? You know what? Me talking about God doesn’t bother you at all. Or the big boy upstairs, or I like the good Lord. You hear that the good Lord, but mention the name Jesus, and you’ll gag on that name. How many of you have seen that? I’ve seen that you can’t get it out. Oh, and curse it, but I’m talking about talking about Jesus, talking about God all day long, but not this person, Jesus. Now, when you’re able to talk openly, not about the Big Boy upstairs, or the good Lord, but Jesus, something’s happened inside of you, because you can’t talk that way on a regular basis unless the Spirit of God gives you the power to do so. So that’s why he said that you’re going to be power to be my witnesses. Look at Acts one. They met together. They asked him, Lord, is this the time you’re going to restore the kingdom of Israel? Again, the HEBREWS were looking for Israel to be restored from the bondage of Italy. And he said, it’s not for you to know the times or the dates the Father has set by his own authority. They said it’s not for you to know. Now you’re talking about future, not for you to know. But he said, you’ll receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and when that Holy Spirit comes to indwell you, you will receive power to be my what? Witness.

Now again, what are you going to be a witness of? Turn to Acts four. Look at Acts four. Just look on the screen, if you want to. All believers were of one heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions were his own, but they shared everything they had and with great power, the apostles continued to testify to what guys? The resurrection of the Lord Jesus and much grace was upon them. You’re going to have power to not be ashamed, to be a witness to the resurrection. What’s the importance of the resurrection? It’s what gives you power to live your life. It’s what gives you a power to communicate the good news to others. It’s what takes away fear, to communicate this good news to others. My friends, God has left us here on this earth for one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to communicate the gospel. And the gospel, the focus of the gospel is on the resurrection.

But you can’t do that until you’ve been raised from the dead, if you’re sitting in the sound of my voice and have never been raised and never been born again, it’s time to be born again, because today is the day of salvation. People say, Well, I. Don’t need the Lord. Yes, you do. Because anybody who is not in Christ, Jesus, folks, there is an emptiness inside of you. We’re right or wrong? You remember that to those of you who are born again, you remember the emptiness that is there. You might have money, you might have position, but there’s an emptiness. Something is missing. You remember that? Has it been too long to remember that the emptiness that’s there? And do you know why you feel like there’s something missing? Because there’s something missing. And do you know what’s missing? Wife, resurrected wife, the resurrected life of Christ, Jesus coming and taking up residence in your life to a degree. Sounds a little like Hocus Pocus, but how are you going to explain what happened to you when you were born again? How am I going to explain that one day you’re heading in one direction, and the next day you’re heading in another direction. That doesn’t mean there’s not fall backs along the way. It means you’re a new creature.

Before I was saved, I never had the Bible open. When I was saved and opened the Bible, it cracked. I never had it open. Had no need to have it open. We didn’t carry it in the church I went to, didn’t see anybody else that carried a Bible when I after, I saved and went to church with people carrying their Bible, I thought, this is strange, people carrying their Bible with them. I’ve never seen that before. The church I went to, the denomination I was in, they didn’t care about the Bible. And I want to tell you something, folks that is a large majority of what’s represented today in Christianity are people just like that. They don’t know the Scriptures and they don’t know the power of God. And so to me, the change was to a person that had no interest in the Scripture, didn’t know I was supposed to one day and the next day, I couldn’t get enough of this scripture, because became the most fascinating book in the world. And I wonder, with people, if you’ve been born again, why isn’t this book interesting to you?

We’d rather read books on positive thinking. You know what my favorite book was before coming to Christ? Think and Grow Rich. Think and Grow Rich. It’s got some principles in there. Incidentally, that work for business doesn’t have anything to do with your with your life. After I became a Christian, that book went in the trash. Why? Because it’s trash, humanistic thinking trash. And I came to know truth. This book will tell you what truth is.

Now let’s go on to the power of God for salvation. Look at Romans. One Paul says, I’m not ashamed of the gospel. Now look at this, guys. I’m not ashamed of the gospel because it, the Gospel is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes. So we want to know, well, what is this power of God? The gospel, the gospel, like I said, He’s called us here for one reason to get out the gospel. Why? Because people are lost, and he wants people to be saved, and he wants us to have an interest in seeing that people are saved. And so he says, I’ve given you the power of the gospel. Do you know guys that every time you get up and proclaim the gospel, you’re proclaiming the power of God. You know why? Because God’s Word does not return void. That’s power. That’s power.

Amy has a lot of Jewish friends, and most, most of them are, they think atheist. There is no such thing as an atheist, in my opinion, their agnostic. But Amy will sometimes just say something. She was with a lady one time she’s in a back seat, and she quoted the scripture that what profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul, you know what her response was? What’d you say again? Where’d you say again? Could you repeat that? I want to write that down. She didn’t know scripture, but I want to tell you something, guys, that word didn’t return void.

We’ve got something in our hand called the gospel that God says you don’t need to depend upon your good presentation. You don’t need to depend upon your total knowledge. You don’t have to go to cemetery for 19 years if you’re born again, you’re indwelt with the power of God. That’s a lot better than an education, guys. And if you are indwelt by the power of God, then the power is in the Gospel. That means whenever I give the gospel to somebody, God’s power is working in their lives, whether they accept it or not, it’s not the issue. A seed has been sown. Every time you give out truth, guys, a seed has been sown in that person’s heart. Do you understand that? It doesn’t return void. So don’t be afraid to say anything, and don’t be afraid of rejection. I’ll guarantee you’re going to get rejection. Why? Because they don’t understand what you’re saying. It sounds foolish to them. That’s okay. That’s okay. The power of God is in this gospel. So he said, I’m not ashamed of the gospel. It is the power it the Gospel is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes first the HEBREW, don’t have to be afraid of the HEBREW or the Gentile.

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