Classic Christianity – The One True Gospel – Part 2 – 7-21-26
~ I am amazed how quickly you are deserting the One who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ.
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be under a curse! As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be under a curse!
— Today, satan is wispering in your ear, “just don’t tell about a certain aspect of TRUTH, and everything will be fine. Why would you want to rock the boat, and teach that?.” And Jesus would say, “Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus told him. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’” We are to only serve the Lord. We are ONLY to listen to Him for Truth. We are to do as the King Jesus wants us to do. We are to say the things King Jesus wants us to say. We are to abide in His Spirit of Truth moment by moment by faith. Don’t compromise the Gospel of Christ Jesus no matter what. When you know something to be TRUE, correct others to the best of your God given abilities in Christ Jesus. Do not worry about what others think. Tell it like it is. Period. And that is exactly what the apostle Paul did. He spoke boldly about the TRUTH of the Gospel. He did NOT allow those that preached any form of law keeping to be included into the mix. He corrected things when he saw them. And he did not care where the chips fell. And make no mistake about it, Paul was run out of town in many many places, because people refused to obey Truth, but instead they choose to obey the teaching of Satan and demons and Man. It’s time to wise up with the the Holy Spirit teaching you TRUTH and allow Him to direct your path in everything you do.
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 true nature of the early Christian church, emphasizing that it met in homes for teaching, fellowship, and prayer, not in formal buildings. He criticizes modern churches for debating issues like homosexuality and the role of women, comparing them unfavorably to the rampant sin in Paul’s time. Bob stresses that the gospel is about eternal life through faith in Jesus, not through human rituals or traditions. He condemns perversions of the gospel, such as the Mormon belief in becoming God, and insists on the importance of discernment and adherence to biblical truths, as revealed by the Holy Spirit.
“Just like the pastor that I had, and and and I loved the man. But again, and I understand where people are coming from. I just don’t agree with it, but I remember him calling me into his office and and talking to me about the First John one nine issue. And and this man is a Greek scholar, he’s knowledgeable of the Scripture. He said, “Bob, I agree with you on what you teach on that 100%. I started teaching it a number of years ago and almost got ran out of the convention. What I say to you is, Bob, you’ve got so many good things to say, and he said I had a good way of saying it. He said, “Get off of it, get off of it, because you’re going to ruin your ministry teaching it. Well, there’s a decision, isn’t it? A decision to say you’re right. He didn’t need to tell me that. I already knew that. But if I just get off of that teaching and just teach the same old thing, and yeah, I know you’ve sinned, brother. But when you do, all you got to do just First John one nine, and you’ll be okay. I’ve been through that, and I know it’s not true. But I could say, okay, forget it. I won’t teach it anymore. Could do that. What would happen to you? I think you die of an ulcer, and I had to say, Pastor, I said, I understand, but you’re a pulpiteer, and I’m down in the pews, and I have to deal with people every day at the gut level where they are, and that thing is destroying people’s knowledge of the sufficiency of Christ Jesus, and I cannot quit teaching it.
And his thing was, “We’ll bless you, brother. I’ll pray for you. And believe me, we needed it, and to this day, we need it. I was thinking of the radio program here today, and and of how somebody could take you off the radio for teaching that you’re eternally saved means I don’t believe you’re eternally saved. I don’t believe Jesus’ cross was sufficient. I don’t think His resurrection was sufficient. I don’t know any conclusion to that, unless it’s just a doctrine that’s different than what I’ve grown up with, and I don’t like your doctrine. But that’s pretty severe to me to take somebody off of the air who’s proclaiming the truth of the Word of God because you’re teaching. That you’re eternally secure. What do I what do I call that? That’s a different gospel than what Paul preached. It’s a different gospel.” ~ Bob George
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So why don’t we go into the book and see if we can shed some light on it? Galatians one one. Paul, an apostle, sent not from men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him Jesus from the dead, and all the brothers with me to the churches of Galatia. Were these churches of Galatia buildings down on the corner of Walk and Don’t Walk, with steeples and stained glass. No, there weren’t any buildings like that back then. What was he talking about? The church-that’s people who met in homes. the The home in the church, the church could have been meeting under a tree. You don’t call the tree a church. People who were gathered together for the study of the apostles’ teaching and for fellowship and for prayer-that was the Church of Jesus Christ. People who met daily in those days, daily for the apostles’ teaching and for fellowship and prayer. It was not an entertainment center. It was not a place that you go to meet friends so that you might find a husband or wife someday. It was a place where you went for one purpose only-to learn the apostles’ teaching, to fellowship with people of like mind, and to pray together. Now, isn’t that complicated? And that was the church, not in buildings, in homes. So when he says that I am preaching, I’m writing to the churches in Galatia. He was talking about all of the different homes where people were meeting in, because in a city of any magnitude at all, distance certainly was a problem. In those days, they didn’t have Volkswagens to go to church in or anything else. They you had to either walk or you went by mule, and so he was writing to those homes and to a leader in that home who would be called a teacher could be called a pastor.
Now he says to those people, “Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age. Now was that back then? Yes. Is it now? Absolutely. Is this age of ours evil, or is it not? I mean, friends, I cannot believe what’s going on in the world today. I mean, I’m ready to go back to the ’50s. I cannot believe it. You have the promotion of every perverse action on the face of the earth. You have denominations debating whether they should allow homosexual pastors. Why would you be debating that? I mean, why don’t you debate whether you ought to have adultering pastors or pedophile pastors, what’s the debate about? And we’re debating those in denominational churches who call themselves Christian. You have every type of sin going on under the sun flaunted in front of us every day of our lives, and we’re expected to sit back and never give in to any of them. Any of you can sit here today and say you’ve never given in to any of them? Any hands? It’s out there, folks. It’s out there in abundance. The young people today that are going to schools are going to school in a totally different atmosphere than any of us who are over 50 ever went to when I grew up, the biggest discipline problems in school was chewing gun and gun and running in the halls. Today you’d be running in the halls to keep somebody from shooting you. I mean, it’s it it it’s just a different world in which we live. And yet, guys, everybody’s saying, “Oh man, if God doesn’t condemn America, he’s going to have to apologize for Sodom and Gomorrha. Have you heard that one? We haven’t even come close to Sodom and Gomorrah yet. Now, now we’re trying, but when you know the sin that was taking place back in Paul’s days in the heathenistic countries of Greece, in Turkey, in these places, we hadn’t even seen sin yet. Because it was rampant, much more so even than it is today. We just see more of it because of media.
So he says that he has rescued you and me from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. Now Paul is saying, I’m astonished. Now he’s going to start meddling. I’ve complimented you. Now I’m going to start meddling. I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel, which is really no gospel at all. Now, folks, again, this letter was going into the province of Galatia, into many, many different home studies, and so this gospel that was different than what Paul had preached was spreading all over. It was everywhere, and Paul is saying that I am absolutely astonished that you people are so quickly deserting the one who called you, and who’s that? Jesus. They’re deserting Jesus and are turning to a different gospel, which he says is no gospel at all. Evidently, some people are throwing you into confusion, and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ, folks. You know what evil is-a perversion of good. That’s all it is-a perversion of good. God comes in with the good, and evil comes and perverts the good into something else.
Did God in His Scripture, and when God hung on a cross, did He die for just some of your sins, or did He die for all of them? Then how could you come up with a scripture, or how could you come up with a gospel that says, “Then you can lose your salvation” Where is that going to come from? What is that? What is that doctrine? It’s a perversion, a perversion of what? Of truth. Jesus came and said, “I give you what kind of life? Eternal life. Now, a person comes along and says, “No, no, you don’t have eternal life. You can lose it. Then can you if you can lose eternal life? Can you call it eternal life? No, have to call it temporal life. Did he come to give you temporal life or did he come to give you eternal life? Eternal life. People come along and said you got to come and get baptized in my church before you’re saved. What is that? Well it is a perversion. A perversion of what? Perversion of the truth, where Jesus says, “You come to be by faith. Paul said, “I’m glad I didn’t baptize any of you, unless Gaius and yeah, the house of Stephanas. I baptized some of you. I didn’t come to baptize, but to preach the gospel. Now, if baptism was in the gospel, could you make that statement? I mean, I didn’t come to preach the resurrection, just the cross. What would you say to me? I’d hope you’d all leave. The gospel concerns the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ Jesus. That’s what I came to preach, not getting dunked in water or sprinkled with water, but Jesus. So what is that teaching? It’s a perversion of truth.
Now people can come along and say, “Oh, you’re just arrogant because you believe those things. Well, if that’s the case, so be it. But I think I can back it up with Scripture, and I think I can back it up with divine logic-a logic that God gives you when His Spirit lives in you. You can come along with all kinds of things. You have to become a HEBREW in order to be saved. That was what was one of the main things that was taking place then. Is that true? You have to get circumcised before you can be saved. Is that true? No, no. So what were they doing? Well, they were perverting the gospel, and so in all of these things, we could go on and on and on with hundreds of them. You got to worship Mary to be saved. Is that true? Did anybody in the New Testament worship Mary? Somebody called me one time saying, “Why don’t you talk more about Mary? I said, “I talked about Mary in proportion to what she’s written of in the Scripture about two times. She was a woman who was greatly blessed. She was chosen by God to bear the Son of God in her womb. You and I are blessed by Bob by having Jesus living in us 20-four hours a day. Which would you rather have, Him in your womb or in your heart? Not asking that question to you guys.
And so we have to understand that. But but people go down and they put their worship in other things. People put their worship in their leaders, they worship ______. They worship whoever it might be, ____ ______, whoever it might be, ______. Then said Paul. What did Paul say when they tried to do that? Said, cut it out. You were baptized in my name. Who’s Apollos? Who’s Paul? Who’s Peter? Where did. Servants, are they big deals in the Christian life? Now, folks, I want to tell you something. You can make yourself a big deal, and people are dumb as dirt who just follow along like that’s true. And all you got to do is just get a stupid-looking robe and a hat on your head, and boy, people flock to you by the millions and look like you’re holy. Yeah, you can play that game if you want to, but in the Bible, folks, there is no distinction between laity and the pastor, none at all. So we put ourselves, we dress ourselves up, and people wear their collars on backwards, and like _______ said, it’s a sign they’re walking in the wrong direction. You can do all of those things: wear your black suits, wear all that. So to do what? Set yourself apart to make yourself holy. I got news for you: wear robes. Often wondered. Well, I went to church a pastor wore a robe every Sunday. What are you wearing that thing for? Don’t you have clothes. That set you apart, makes you holy? Amy went to church as she called it a big bubble up there. You know, they had this big thing. This thing up there is built way up where you come and stood this big pulpit type deal, overlooking everybody. Why? Makes you look important. And people fall for that and think you are. They ought to interview the people’s wives, or just hang around one of those guys long enough just to see how holy we all are. You can put on those things and not know the Lord from a lamp post, and put on a robe, put on your collar, put on a hat, whatever it might be, and people follow you like you’re God Himself. Am I right or wrong, guys? What does that show us about us? Dumb as sheep. That’s what Jesus called us, wasn’t it? Sheep, dumbest animal on the face of the earth. They’ll just walk right over a cliff, following somebody else.
And we have to understand, folks, that just as Tim was singing about, without grace, without his discernment, we are lost. God gives you and me discernment, and this book is about discernment. I’m astonished that you were so quickly deserting the one who called you. I’m astonished at that. Where’s your discernment? Why can’t you identify error when it smacks you right in the face? And I have to say that satan is unbelievably clever. So I’m not diminishing him. So satan, don’t get on me more than you do, not diminishing you. He’s very clever, and those smooth-talking, flattering tongues, and all that can get around. And man, have you deceived in a minute. You just think this has got to be the neatest guy that God’s ever created since, since Jesus Himself, and we can get deceived by them, and that’s why when we come here on Sunday, we don’t come to get a political message or to get some viewpoints. We come to do what? Study the apostles’ teaching, not my teaching, not Jehovah’s Witness teaching, not Mormons’ teaching, not the Catholics’ teaching, not the Baptist teaching, but study the Word of God. You say, “Well, how am I supposed to know what it means? Ask the Spirit to reveal it to you. Now, has He promised to do so? You know, the only thing that keeps you from being able to understand the Word of God is not wanting to. That’s all it takes. I don’t want to. I’m not interested. That’s all it takes because God says, “I’m there, forcing it on you. I’m there with it in your face every day of your life. The only thing that keeps you from not understanding the meaning of the Word of God is you’re indifferent. You don’t care, and I am convinced that if we sat down and each and every person in this room individually sat down and had a heart to say, “Lord, I want to know you. I want to know everything about you. We’d get together a year later, and we’d be almost 100% in our understanding on this, without a teacher, just the Spirit.
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And so Paul is challenging these people. He said, “I don’t understand what’s taking place.” Here you’re turning to a different gospel, which is no gospel at all, and these people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. Now look what he says about this, folks. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preach to you, let him be eternally condemned. Is that is that nice language? No, Paul, you’re not being politically correct here. I mean, that’s that’s harsh stuff, and and you’re supposed to be a gracer. Do you know what some people get the idea about grace is? Forget what truth is. Just just take it all. You know, doesn’t matter what somebody does. Just let go. That’s not grace. That’s stupidity. If that’s what grace was, what did they have elders for to go around and say you’re teaching the Bible wrong, you’re teaching truth wrong, and we have that idea that grace is you never say a harsh word to anybody. What happened to the Apostle Paul with with Barnabas, seemed to me they had a pretty good riff. What happened to the Apostle Paul with Peter when he comes in and said, “You’re a hypocrite, slopping down those pork chops with the best of them here until those Judeites got here. Now you act like you wouldn’t look at one if you could taste one if it hit you in the face. Said you’re a hypocrite, folks. That’s strong language, but it’s truth. And we look at grace as just let her all. That’s not grace. Grace is truth. You cannot separate Jesus from grace and truth. He was full of grace and truth. And if you got grace, you got truth. You have truth, you got grace. And it’s not always happy. I think God has a little grace. Don’t you think maybe He might know what grace is? What about these the Scripture that sits down and says, “You foolish, idiotic Galatians” What’s wrong with you, God? That didn’t sound very gracey to me. You see what I’m getting at, folks?
We’ve got these funny ideas as to what grace is, grace hits you right between the eyes to let you know you’re wrong, your attitude’s wrong, and so he said, even if we are an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preach, let him be eternally condemned. That’s a strong statement, folks. Now we use this, of course, to say, well, oh, he’s talking about Mormons. We didn’t get away with that. Those are those Mormons over there that that angel appeared to Joseph Smith and taught him the Bible. So that didn’t apply to me. Paul said, I wouldn’t care if an angel came down teaching a gospel different than what we preached. I don’t care if it’s to the Mormons or who it’s to. Let them be eternally condemned. Now, that incidentally is what happened to the Mormon Church. Their Mormon Bible is written as a result of Joseph Smith, who supposedly saw an angel come down and put some binoculars in his hands and looked into these Egyptian hieroglyphics and then translated them into King James. Did you get that? These Egyptian hieroglyphics were 1000s of years old, supposedly, but he translated them King James. It didn’t come out to about 1500 And you got how many people sucked into that stuff, folks? Where God was merely a man who elevated himself to be God, and you can do the same thing. You just keep working at it hard enough, you can become God. And you poor women, if you’re married, you’re not going to go to heaven unless your husband calls you out of the grave. So you better get along with your husband. Better be obedient to him, because he’s not coming out if you don’t.
I had a lady who grew up in a Mormon religion, was married, had a husband being as a hornet, and she left Utah and moved over into El Paso area and caught the radio broadcast over there and came to understand the grace of God. How you talk about someone happy. And her husband was chasing her all over the place, trying to get her back. And he finally found her one day, and he said, “If you don’t come back to me, I’m not going to call you out of the grave. She said, “If you called me out, it wouldn’t come out anyway.
So, folks, there’s all kinds of gospels out there, aren’t there? I mean, there’s there’s hundreds. I bet we could name hundreds of gospels that are out in the world today, and and he’s saying even if an angel should come and preach one of those other gospels to you, other than the one we preach to you, let him be eternally condemned. That shows you the heart of Paul that was given to him by the heart of God, and that is you don’t tolerate another gospel. You don’t tolerate another gospel. I sent my Son, whom I love, to die on a cross. Of the forgiveness of your sins, and if you come to anyone or any other system other than to Him for forgiveness, you have perverted the gospel. And Paul’s attitude was, “I hope those people be eternally condemned. It’s harsh.
As I have already said, and now I say again: If anyone, I’m going to repeat this one again. If anyone is preaching to you a gospel other than what we accepted, than what you accepted, in other words, from us, let him be eternally condemned. Said it twice. Now, folks, does this sound like being tolerant? I mean, can you imagine Paul today on an interview? He’d get ripped apart. Well, you’re a bigot. You’re a narrow-minded bigot. You know what’s wrong with a little bit over here? That works for them. It works for you. That works for what’s wrong with that? And then run him out of this country. You know what they did back in his days? Ran him out of his country. Was that popular? What he taught? Was it truth? Absolutely. Which side you going to stand on? Popularity or truth? He said, “If you were approved by man, you wouldn’t be approved by God. So he said it twice: If someone preaches a gospel to you different than the one that came to you, let him be eternally condemned. Am I trying to win the approval of men or of God? Am I trying to get elected president of the convention? Am I trying to be popular with my cohorts? Am I trying to gain acceptance by the biggies, whoever they are? Guess the ones with the big crowds. Or am I trying to be pleasing to God? What pleases God, folks? Faith. It’s a good title for a book. Faith that pleases God. Faith. Faith in who? In Jesus. Faith in what else? The gospel that was presented. Faith in the whole gamut of Jesus and His sufficiency for you and me. That’s the faith that pleases God. So he said, “Am I trying to please man? If I was trying to please man, I’d have to forget all this. I’d have to quit teaching all this.
Just like the pastor that I had, and and and I loved the man. But again, and I understand where people are coming from. I just don’t agree with it, but I remember him calling me into his office and and talking to me about the First John one nine issue. And and this man is a Greek scholar, he’s knowledgeable of the Scripture. He said, “Bob, I agree with you on what you teach on that 100%. I started teaching it a number of years ago and almost got ran out of the convention. What I say to you is, Bob, you’ve got so many good things to say, and he said I had a good way of saying it. He said, “Get off of it, get off of it, because you’re going to ruin your ministry teaching it. Well, there’s a decision, isn’t it? A decision to say you’re right. He didn’t need to tell me that. I already knew that. But if I just get off of that teaching and just teach the same old thing, and yeah, I know you’ve sinned, brother. But when you do, all you got to do just First John one nine, and you’ll be okay. I’ve been through that, and I know it’s not true. But I could say, okay, forget it. I won’t teach it anymore. Could do that. What would happen to you? I think you die of an ulcer, and I had to say, Pastor, I said, I understand, but you’re a pulpiteer, and I’m down in the pews, and I have to deal with people every day at the gut level where they are, and that thing is destroying people’s knowledge of the sufficiency of Christ Jesus, and I cannot quit teaching it.
And his thing was, “We’ll bless you, brother. I’ll pray for you. And believe me, we needed it, and to this day, we need it. I was thinking of the radio program here today, and and of how somebody could take you off the radio for teaching that you’re eternally saved means I don’t believe you’re eternally saved. I don’t believe Jesus’ cross was sufficient. I don’t think His resurrection was sufficient. I don’t know any conclusion to that, unless it’s just a doctrine that’s different than what I’ve grown up with, and I don’t like your doctrine. But that’s pretty severe to me to take somebody off of the air who’s proclaiming the truth of the Word of God because you’re teaching. That you’re eternally secure. What do I what do I call that? That’s a different gospel than what Paul preached. It’s a different gospel.
So he said, “I’m not trying to please man. If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ. And I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preach is not something that man made up. I did not receive it from any man. I was not taught it. Who taught Paul the gospel? The Holy Spirit of God. Who who teaches you the gospel? The Holy Spirit of God. I cannot emphasize this enough, guys. You have the Spirit of God living in you, and if you have the Spirit of God living in you, He’ll teach you the truth. He isn’t withholding it. So Paul said, “I wasn’t taught by any man; I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ. No eye has seen. Remember, Paul said, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived of those things that God has prepared for those who love Him, but it must be what? Revealed by the Spirit, revelation from the Spirit. There are things that I have taught through the ages or through these years, these 30-seven years, that there’s no explanation for it except the Spirit revealed it, and you can look back and say, “Well, he revealed it to other people too. He sure did. Yeah. And sometimes you get to somebody. I’ll give you a book and show you something there, and so you’ll read a little bit out of it, and it says saying the same thing, written two, 300 years ago. It’s revelation. No big deal. He revealed it to me and revealed it to you. It’s revelation. That’s where Paul received the knowledge that he taught and wrote down. He received it from Christ, for you have heard of my previous way of life in HEBREWISM, how I intensely persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it, and I was advancing in HEBREWISM beyond many HEBREWS of my own age. So, in other words, he was the up-and-comer, and I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my father. What was he zealous for? The traditions of my fathers. We can get into tradition, can’t we, and be zealous for it?
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