Radio Broadcast Tuesday 10/15/2024

Classic Christianity – Book of Romans P08 (10-15-24)

Jesus God is TRUTH!

“Jesus answered, “I am the WAY and the TRUTH and the LIFE. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6
~ Jesus is TRUTH. His Name is TRUTH. Jesus, God in flesh cannot lie. So when He says, He is the Way, there is not some other way to the Father. And when He says, He is the TRUTH, there is not some other TRUTH out there in the world. There is only one TRUTH. Now you can choose to believe it, or not, but He still remains TRUTH no matter what. And when He says He is the Life, there is not some other Life apart from Him. For if you have Jesus living inside of you through the HOLY SPIRIT, you have His Life in you. And once you have the Holy Spirit, you have LIFE for ALL eternity. You cannot lose what has been given to you. Now there are those that teach there is some future saving life to be had. They will even teach the lie that there are two types of salvation, one where you come to Jesus by faith, and then are sustained by your works. This is nothing more than Catholicism repackaged in a form of works Protestantism. It’s all a lie folks. And if you have not had a chance to listen to the study on the book of Galatians that we just finished, we strongly encourage you to go through it and listen to the details. For the details matter in every thing.

But today, we have all been deceived beyond measure. We cannot get away from it. It’s on television at EVERY turn of the channel, on Radio, on the News media, on the Internet, on Social media, on Sports, in our schools, in ALL the churches, in ALL politics, in Everything of the world. And your neighbors and family have all fallen for it and pass it on from one generation to the next. Satan is an excellent player of the game of “Good Cop Bad Cop” and what you are seeing today is nothing more than that game played out on the world stage. People have fallen in love with idols right and left. They look to movie stars and singers, and even so-called Christian singers, thinking that they have to be good to listen to, after all they sing so-called Christian songs. We taught our children that it was okay to have idols by what we did ourselves. Many of us still spend Sundays watching our favorite players and teams play sports, thinking nothing of it. And we have all looked to demons to solve our problems too. And make no mistake about it, these are demons. And they have had thousands of years of practice of their deceptive craft. And do not be surprised or take pride in thinking you could not be deceived by Satan yourself, because he is a master of disguise and deception. We were ALL deceived since birth. And all the demons have learned from the best of the best on how to deceive the world better and better each year, because demons never die.

And we are told, not to lean on our own understanding, and in all our ways acknowledge Him, and He will make our paths straight. So pray to God to open your eyes to what is going on in the world. Pray that He shows you with His eyes, and allows you to hear with His ears, to make sense of the things of the world. For only God, through the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, can show you ALL TRUTH. However, when you ask God for the wisdom to know, ask it with Faith, trusting God to do what He said He would do. And only those that have the Holy Spirit can be given the knowledge of TRUTH. That’s where everything begins, with Jesus being TRUTH.

“Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.” James 1:5-7

~ Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God— the gospel He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures, regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh, and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.

Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith. And you also are among those who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.

To all in Rome who are loved by God and called saints:

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed all over the world. God, whom I serve with my spirit in preaching the gospel of His Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you in my prayers at all times, asking that now at last by God’s will I may succeed in coming to you. For I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you, that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles. I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.

I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Judaean [Ἰουδαίῳ (Ioudaiō)], then to the Greek. For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, suppressing the truth by unrighteousness, because the known of God is manifest among them, for God has revealed it to them. For from the creation of the world His invisible qualities, both His eternal power and divinity, are clearly seen, being understood by the things made, for them to be without excuse.

For having known God, they glorified Him not as God, or were thankful; but they became futile in their thinking and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and they changed the glory of the immortal God into a likeness of an image of mortal man and birds and quadrupeds and creeping things.

Therefore God gave them up in the desires of their hearts to impurity to dishonor their bodies between themselves, who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and reverenced and served the created thing beyond the One having created it, who is blessed to the ages! Amen.

Because of this, God gave up them to passions of dishonor. For even their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature. And likewise also the males, having left the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their desire toward one another, males with males, working out shame and receiving in themselves the recompense which was fitting of their error.

And as they did not see fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a depraved mind, to do things not being proper; being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness; gossips, slanderers, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful; inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents; foolish, untrustworthy, heartless, unmerciful; who having known the righteous judgment of God, that those doing such things are worthy of death, not only are practicing them, but are also approving of those practicing them.” Romans 1:1-32

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.”

~ “But that’s old fashioned guys. Don’t you understand that that Bible was written 1000s of years ago? We live in a 21st century. Have you heard that? We live really? Just how different Do you think you are from Adam, except you got clothes on? Just how much different Do you think you are from Moses or from Abraham? Just how much different Do you think you are. Mankind is mankind. and it hadn’t changed a bit according to the Bible. So there is no such thing as, Oh well, that’s, that’s old time stuff. No, no, that’s real stuff. That’s real. And so he says, they claim to be wise became fools. And here’s what started happening, and it’s what exactly we see going on today, not only in this country in unbelievable proportions, but all over the world. Nothing new. It almost ruined Rome. Came to the point where the Roman Empire was having difficulty, because there was no population being created because of people who had said, I don’t need God to determine right from wrong, good from evil. You don’t understand God. You don’t know what feels good. And my heart became foolish and it became darkened. And what happened? They became fools, and they began to exchange the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles began to be idol worshipers. And folks, you know, there’s more idol worshipers than what you can carve out of wood. We can make idols out of booze, drugs, sex, church. We can make idols out of anything, can’t we? And that’s what happened to them. And therefore, he says a continuation of that mindset, whether it’s you or me, that says, I do not need God to determine right from wrong and good from evil. God says, you’re on your own. You’ve let go, I’ve let go of the wheel, and I’m going to give you over to drive the car. You want to be independent, I’m going to let you be independent. You want to do it your way. I’ll let you do it your way, and you’re going to see the results, but I’ll let you do it your way. That’s love. God gave us a free will, did he not? And God says, I’m not going to violate your free will. You have the right to choose right from wrong and good from evil. You can either choose right from wrong as a result of what I have said is right and wrong, or you can choose it on your own, but if you decide to choose it on your own, you’re on your own.” ~ Bob George

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And he said, these qualities have been clearly seen. They’ve been understood, so that men are without excuse. Now you’re without excuse, when you deny the sovereignty of God, you’re without excuse. When you’re suppressing the knowledge of God, you’re without excuse. The Bible says, Don’t make up excuses. You’re without excuse. It’s clear to you. You can see it when you refuse to see it, you’re without excuse. Now he said, although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God or gave thanks to him. They knew there was a God. They’ve seen. They’ve seen the evidence of it. I imagine, if you’re like me, I don’t ever remember a time in my life where I did not believe in God. Were you kind of that way? You just kind of grew up believing in God. Kind of was obvious to me that there was a God, and I wasn’t it. It was pretty obvious to me. I never but I didn’t know him. I didn’t glorify him. I didn’t give thanks to Him. And it says that when a person continues in that mindset, Yeah, I know there’s a God, but I don’t listen to him. I got my intelligence to rely on. He says God did something. He said they’re thinking because of the mindset that says I don’t need God. It causes something to happen to our thinking. And he said, our thinking became futile and our hearts became foolish, and our hearts became darkened, a Darkened Heart where it has no conscience anymore.

It’s like the buddy of mine that said he remember the time that he and his wife walked into a pizza parlor and it was so dark he couldn’t even see the weight of the table. And after a while, the waiter came up, and he led them, stumbled them to the table. He said, he sat down after a while, and after a while, he could see the checkered tablecloth on the table. And he said, after a while, someone hand him a menu, and he could read the menu. Said, nobody turned up the lights. I just became accustomed to the darkness. And that’s what happens. Our hearts get darkened. We have no awareness of good and evil and right and wrong. We can do anything we want to, and that’s okay. Our hearts have become darkened, insensitive to the things of God. And he said, That’s a byproduct of denying, not denying God, but a denying that God is truth. It’s not denying the existence of God, it’s denying the fact that I don’t need to listen to him. I got my own standards. I got my own ways of looking at things. I don’t need to listen to God. And he says, When that occurs, something happens to our hearts. He said, it becomes futile. It becomes foolish. Man thinks he’s wise, and God says, man’s wisdom is but foolishness to God, and our hearts become darkened. And although they claim to be wise, they became fools. And that is exactly what happens when a man says, This is what God says.

But that’s old fashioned guys. Don’t you understand that that Bible was written 1000s of years ago? We live in a 21st century. Have you heard that? We live really? Just how different Do you think you are from Adam, except you got clothes on? Just how much different Do you think you are from Moses or from Abraham? Just how much different Do you think you are. Mankind is mankind. and it hadn’t changed a bit according to the Bible. So there is no such thing as, Oh well, that’s, that’s old time stuff. No, no, that’s real stuff. That’s real. And so he says, they claim to be wise became fools. And here’s what started happening, and it’s what exactly we see going on today, not only in this country in unbelievable proportions, but all over the world. Nothing new. It almost ruined Rome. Came to the point where the Roman Empire was having difficulty, because there was no population being created because of people who had said, I don’t need God to determine right from wrong, good from evil. You don’t understand God. You don’t know what feels good. And my heart became foolish and it became darkened. And what happened? They became fools, and they began to exchange the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles began to be idol worshipers. And folks, you know, there’s more idol worshipers than what you can carve out of wood. We can make idols out of booze, drugs, sex, church. We can make idols out of anything, can’t we? And that’s what happened to them. And therefore, he says a continuation of that mindset, whether it’s you or me, that says, I do not need God to determine right from wrong and good from evil. God says, you’re on your own. You’ve let go, I’ve let go of the wheel, and I’m going to give you over to drive the car. You want to be independent, I’m going to let you be independent. You want to do it your way. I’ll let you do it your way, and you’re going to see the results, but I’ll let you do it your way. That’s love. God gave us a free will, did he not? And God says, I’m not going to violate your free will. You have the right to choose right from wrong and good from evil. You can either choose right from wrong as a result of what I have said is right and wrong, or you can choose it on your own, but if you decide to choose it on your own, you’re on your own.

And so he gave them over in sexual desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their body bodies with one another. This is the ultimate that can take place because of a Darkened Heart and a darkened mind, and a mind that says, I’m going to do it my way. And he says that I turn them over to the sense sinful desires of their hearts, sexual impurity and the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator. They served and worshiped what God created rather than the one who created it. God created man. I began to worship man instead the One who created man.

Now he says, it says the creator who is forever praised, amen. He said, this is truth. Now because of this, it says now because of what? Of making a determination that I do not have to listen to God, I’m going to determine what’s right and what’s wrong. I’m going to stand at the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and say, I’m going to determine what’s right and wrong and good and evil. God, I do not need you because of this God gave them over to shameful lust. Now, folks, the word there means a passionate desire, a type of an uncontrollable desire, where it says even their women, and it’s literally female, the whole female group exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. Now, what are you talking about? You’re talking about sexual relations where even it says and it starts off with the women exchange these natural desires. What’s a natural desire? A natural desire for a woman is to desire a man that’s also in the Garden of Eden. And the natural desire of a man is to desire a woman, and in marriage, to have sexual intercourse and a relationship with each other naturally. Now, what happens when a person says, no, no, that’s not right. That isn’t right. I want to do it with a man. Folks, God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. He never intended for sex to be done with the same sex. That is a perversion of the mind that starts first of all with a mind that says, I don’t need you. I don’t need to listen to what you have to say is right and wrong and good from evil. I’m doing it my way. That’s where it starts. And then the mind becomes darkened to the point where there’s natural, unnatural affections for one another. So even their women exchange natural relations. And I think he didn’t say that about men, but even it’s saying even the women, you know, men, will do anything, but even the women, women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

Now, in the same way it says the men or the male. Race, the males also abandoned natural relations. Now, folks, when it says you abandon natural relations, it means that you’re born with natural relations. No one is born liking someone from the same sex. You’re born with a natural relation for the opposite sex. Otherwise you can’t abandon it. Can you? To abandon something you have to have something. So that annihilates this idea you were born this way. I heard a person the other day was talking to some people said, well, this person said, when they were three years old, they were attracted to a man. Three years old? Good Lord Almighty folks. What are people thinking? Three years old, you don’t know who you’re attracted to or what you’re attracted to and little boys until they’re a certain age, they don’t like girls. That didn’t mean they’re homos. They just don’t like them, our little grandkids. You say, Do you have a girlfriend? Ehh. Well, wait till they hit 12, and it’s good that they don’t, if you know guys. So it says men abandoned natural relationships with women and were inflamed with lust. Folks, this is in the Greek language is an uncontrollable an uncontrollable emotion. You are inflamed. That’s all you think about. And it says that these men were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed what the Bible says, indecent acts with other men, you don’t have to wonder what this is, and you know what it says? Received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

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Homosexuality, the act of homosexuality. What is that? It’s having sex with the same sex. That act is called perversion. It’s not called born that way. It’s called perversion. And as when I continue to be involved in perversion. I become a pervert. It’s called perversion. Now, folks, I want to tell you something. I don’t care, and thank God he’s not, but I wouldn’t care if my son was a homosexual. I would be teaching this message. So you don’t interpret the Bible through a bias. You don’t have all of a sudden, well, you got somebody in the family, it’s got this. So I’m going to quit teaching. I’m sorry, folks, you can’t do that. Truth is truth, regardless who engages in error. And so you cannot begin to take these things through your bias. And I got people who write letters that like to cut my head off because of what I’m teaching on this. So what they’ve done is decide to go on the side of error and abandon truth. They’ve abandoned truth in order to grab a hold of error. Because folks, I want to tell you something. I am not knocking people. I’m knocking the acts of people. God loves people, regardless of their sexual preference. He loves you. He died for you. He was raised from the dead for you. But he says what you’re doing is perversion. You. And when God says it’s perversion, it’s perversion. He also says in the Bible that anyone who teaches that godliness is a means to financial gain is perversion. So you could call either one of those perversion. It’s a perversion of what is truth. And folks, you can’t pussyfoot this stuff. And we live in a day and age where men are scared to death to get up and teach truth about the Bible, and it’s a disgrace. So I’m not knocking homosexuals. I’m knocking homosexual behavior. I’m calling it what God calls it perversion. So someone say to me, Well, you’re a bigot. I say You’re a pervert. So now that we’ve slandered each other, well let’s get on to the conversation.

It says they’re going to receive due penalty for their perversion. From God? No, there’s no condemnation awaiting those who belong to Christ, Jesus, in your own soul, we have even today, where aids would be a part of that. God doesn’t give you aids, folks, your partner, does. People live with this deep, deep awareness that I hope no one finds out I’m living a lie. I’m living a lifestyle that I know nobody likes. So guess what took place, an agenda took place, an agenda among people who practice homosexuality, who says we’re going to have an agenda to make the world accept this. I was born this way. It’s not sin. Born This Way. Isn’t that what you hear? That’s a lie out of the pit of hell. And so a movement started. It got into media. It became glorified. I don’t know about you, it turns my stomach. I turn on television see a couple guys kissing each other. It’s perversion, folks, it’s contrary to human nature. God didn’t make you that way. You’ve gotten into it by promotion. You certainly cannot propagate, so you must recruit. And so we have acceptance. It’s gotten into our political realm, and now church. So now we have gay bishops, and we’ll have gay pastors, and we even have gay churches.

And people have said, well, they go to church. Well, I know a lot of singles that go to church looking for mates. That’s the only reason to go to church. I got a good singles department, got some good looking guys and girls hanging out there. Might find me a maid over there. What’s the difference? I tell you. So folk going to church doesn’t mean I flipped anything about it. I sat in church all my life. Didn’t know the Lord from a flagpole. The issue is what’s taught in that church. And if I’m going to teach that homosexuality is okay, I’m going to have to say this Bible is full of bunk, am I not? And this God, who supposedly was the author of this Bible, doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and so I don’t know what God you’re worshiping over here, but it’s not the God of the Bible. So you got your own God. I mean, you’re going to church and you’re worshiping God. You just took him out of the Bible and made up your own you got your own straw man that you worship, because the God of the Bible says, this is perversion, and you’re over here worshiping in a group that’s all hanging together and saying, Oh no, this is love. This is not an easy message to teach.

They did not think it was worthwhile. Furthermore, it says, since they did not think it was worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God. So here’s the big one. I do not I know what the knowledge of God is. I know what it says, but I don’t think it’s worthwhile to retain it. I don’t need to hang on to it. It’s old fashioned. So since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, God gave them over to a depraved mind. Now, did God make their mind depraved? No, he. Just said, I’m going to quit teaching you you don’t want to learn. If somebody, you’re around somebody and they don’t want to learn, what do you do? Well, wallow in your ignorance, what else can you do? They won’t be taught, will they? So if they won’t be taught, you just turn them over to do whatever you want to do. That’s what God has done. So they did not think it was worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so he gave them over to a depraved mind. What happens? Your mind becomes depraved? Why? Because you’re not thinking truth, you’re thinking error. You’re living a lifestyle that is totally contrary to who you really are. So he gave them over to a depraved mind to do what not ought to be done.

They have become filled. Now, folks, this is not sitting down and say, wonder which one of these things I am, this saying, they have become filled. And you remember that the word filled me means in the Scripture, to be filled with the Spirit. What does it mean? To be controlled by they have become controlled by every kind of wickedness. So when you decide, God, you don’t know what you’re talking about, I’m going to determine what’s right, and I’m going to determine what’s wrong, and I’m going to determine what’s good, and I’m going to determine what is evil. I don’t need you. Your mind becomes depraved, and you become controlled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. People become full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. Go talk to any person on the police force, and they will tell you, this doesn’t come from me. It comes from my talking to them the most heinous crimes that they will ever go into are in the homosexual community. The most heinous crimes are in that community. Why? What it’s saying you become controlled by envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. You’re mad at people. You’re deceitful. You become gossips of those who don’t agree with you, slanderers calling good evil and evil. Good God says, pity the one who calls evil good and good evil. And yet today, what are you as a Christian? If you’re going to identify yourself as a Christian, what are you called? Bigots. Am I right or wrong? You’re one of those narrow minded people who arn’t accepting. That’s the big word today. Isn’t accepting. Accepting what? Do I accept you? Yes, do I accept your lifestyle? No, will I ever accept your lifestyle? No.

Folks, think about this for a minute. Let’s just take some of the 10 Commandments. We don’t have to take them all. Just take some. Why don’t we have an atheist Pride Day to march on Disneyland. Why don’t we have a parent haters Pride Day? Why don’t we have a murderer’s Pride Day? I just killed six people. I’m so proud of myself. Let’s have a parade. Let’s have an adulterers. Pride Day. The only problem is it wouldn’t be about to watch it on television. Let’s get all the thiefs together and have a thief Pride Day, let’s have the liar’s Pride Day. That’d be a good one. Let’s get all US liars together, and we’ll march on Disneyland and up and down the streets and be really proud of what big liars we are. Why don’t we have a coveters Pride Day? Now, folks, is adultery sin? Is there anyone in there that thinks that you were born that way, except out of Adam? I guess you could go back to him and say, don’t blame me. Blame Adam. I was born this way. Does anyone here think that adultery is not sin? God calls it sin. What about fornication? Is it or not? Is it sin or isn’t it? Yeah, well then why wouldn’t homosexuality be sin? Seems to me, you’re just doing the same thing with someone of the same sex. Am I right or wrong? Well then why is one sin and the other an alternate lifestyle? Can anyone answer me that question? Why is one okay, but the other isn’t? If you’re fornicating and committing adultery, do you get your friends together and brag about it and talk about how we ought to get a parade going? Now, folks, I’m going to tell you something in order to justify this, something’s got to be going on in not only their heads, but in people’s heads who accept that, something’s wrong. Something is deeply wrong in a country that has fallen so deep away from God’s standard that they say, Hey, if you don’t like that, you’re a bigot. That’s a shame, but it’s true. You see, if I can rename something, then I can redefine it.

Instead of being a drunk. Well, you’re an alcoholic. A drunk is sinful. An alcoholic sick. Instead of being homosexual, which is a sin, I become gay. Born that way. Isn’t it amazing? All you got to do is just rename something. You can redefine it. And that’s what’s happened. And so it says that they became arrogant. Well, what do you do when you’re arrogant? Hey, look at me. I’m a homosexual, boastful. Is that true? Oh, yeah. Hey, I got something to be proud of here. You know what I’d like to know, folks, what is there to be proud of, of the way you like to have sex? I mean, are you a topper or a bottomer or what are you? I mean, just, I mean just, what are what is there about you that makes you prideful of the way you like to have sex.

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