Radio Broadcast Tuesday 12/03/2024

Classic Christianity – Book of Romans P23 (12-03-24)

The Spirit is Given For Life AND to Guide Us Into All TRUTH

~ However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. John 16:13

Most have no clue what being guided by the Holy Spirit is. For most do not have the Holy Spirit living in them, because they are dead in their unbelief of Jesus and His righteousness. And so, because most do not have the Holy Spirit living in them, they can only be guided by Satan and the world. And those that do have the Holy Spirit living in them, but fail to abide in the teaching of the Holy Spirit, will also be guided by their own understanding of things, and will fall back into the lies of Satan and the world. There are no inbetweens, either a person is being directed by God, or they are being directed by Satan. And today the teaching of Satan’s lies are found everywhere. Most have no clue as to the depth of deception that is going on today. They think nothing of watching the teaching of the world on TV without ever realizing what is actually being taught. And for the child of God, Satan doesn’t want you to trust in the Holy Spirit for the teaching of ALL Truth. He would rather get you to trust in your own understanding, or lean on the teaching of Man, rather than the truth of the word of God.

Luke 18:18,19
18 And a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, having done what, will I inherit eternal life?”
19 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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~ What then will we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Never may it be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or are you unaware that as many as have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised up out from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.

For if we have become united in the likeness of His death, certainly also we will be of the resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, so that the body of sin might be annulled, that we are no longer enslaved to sin. For the one having died has been freed from sin.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised up out from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer rules over Him. For that which He died, He died to sin once for all; but that which He lives, He lives to God. So also you, consider yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, in order to obey its desires. Neither yield your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but yield yourselves to God, as living out from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness. For sin will not rule over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Never may it be! Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to him whom you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? But thanks be to God that you who were slaves of sin have now become obedient from the heart to the pattern of teaching to which you were committed. And having been set free from sin, you have become slaves to righteousness.

I speak in human terms on account of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you yielded your members in bondage to impurity and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield your members in bondage to righteousness unto sanctification.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness. What fruit, therefore, did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now, having been set free from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:1-23

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.”

~ “Now, when people have no clue at all as to the ministry of the Holy Spirit in our lives. In other words, the Holy Spirit of God is just some kind of a fantasy. You may as well be talking about Casper the ghost, but there’s a reality. Christ is ALIVE. Christ was raised to bring life to you and me, and when you have Christ’s life living in you now, you have someone to instruct you, to teach your mind, control your emotions and direct your will. Do you not? And that’s Christ. No longer, law is written on stone that you cannot obey. No longer law is written on stone that you can obey. And because you cannot obey, you’re under the death penalty. And that’s why it says a man under the law is under the curse. You’re under the curse of the law. You’re dead, but to be led internally by the loving God who now lives in us and leads us into paths of righteousness. He guides us, he leads us. He does not condemn us. Do you understand that? In Christ, what are we told? There is no condemnation awaiting you who belong to Christ, Jesus. Why? Because the law of the Spirit of Life has set you free from the law of sin and death. There’s no condemnation awaiting you who are in Christ Jesus.” ~ Bob George

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Well, we’re going to pick up in verse eight, in chapter six, and read through that, and then get into where we left off last week. We’re told that if we died with Christ, then we believe that we will also live with Him, for we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again. Death is no longer has mastery over him. Folks in the realm of God, the wages of sin is death. The wages of sin is not a paddling. The wages of sin is not going to the woodshed. The wages of sin is not getting scolded. The wages of sin in the Bible is death. And when Jesus became sin for you and me, he also was under the penalty of death, and he died a death just exactly like ours, so that we could experience a resurrection exactly like his. Do we understand that, that even God Himself was subject to the law of sin and death, and you cannot separate sin from death. If you’re going to be under the law, then if you sin, you’re going to die. And we had to be freed from the mastery that sin had over us in that the wages of sin is death, and that had to be cured permanently if we were ever going to experience what we call eternal life in Christ Jesus. And so he said, he cannot die again, and therefore death has no longer a mastery over him nor us when we’re born again. The death he died, he died to sin. How many times? Once. Now, if the wages of sin is death, and you’ve died once, and it says he’s not going to die again, what does that tell us? If he isn’t going to die again, it means that the death that he died, he died to accomplish something eternally, forever. Did he not? And that is the meaning of the cross, that when Jesus died once and for all, he said, it’s finished. And that means it is finished. The sin issue has been dealt with by God. The sin of man was placed upon the Lord Jesus Christ at the cross, and there he who knew no sin became sin for us, so that in him we could become the righteousness of God. Because apart from the righteousness of God, there is no righteousness, because none is righteous. All have failed, All have sinned, all have fallen short of the glory of God, and the only righteousness that you and I will ever receive is the righteousness of Christ Jesus. So he died to sin once and for all, but the life that He lives, He lives to God eternally, and so do we when we’re born again.

In the same way. I guess that maybe Paul was part Texan. He said, reckon yourself dead to sin, but alive to God. Now, we talked about last week that what is sin in the Bible is what? Unbelief. The wages of sin is death and sin is unbelief. That which is not of faith is what? Sin in the Garden of Eden? How did Adam sin? He didn’t commit adultery. There wasn’t anybody there to commit it with. He didn’t steal, he didn’t do any of those things. He started believing what Satan told him was true, and in so doing, denying what God had told him was true. And so in the Garden of Eden, is the root of sin. Now you can have the fruit of sin, and that we’re all familiar with, but what we don’t do is to get down underneath the skin to see what the root is. Are you a drunk? You don’t have a drinking problem, you got a heart problem. Do you understand that you don’t have a drinking problem. You got a heart problem. It’s hard as a brick, and you think that you need to go and sous your head with booze in order to have satisfaction in your life, instead of turning to God. And until you come to see the truth of that, you’ll be fighting drinking all of your life, and you’ll be be going from one meeting to another meeting to help to quit drinking you don’t have a drinking problem. You got a heart problem. Jesus said it’s not what a man puts in his mouth that defiles him, it’s what proceeds out of his heart. You don’t have a drinking problem. You don’t have a drug problem, you got a heart problem. And until that heart problem is solved, nothing is going to get solved. You can put a man in jail and quit him drinking or quit him using drugs, but it hasn’t solved the heart problem. And God says you got a problem. And if you got a heart problem, there’s only one person that can cure that heart problem, and that’s the cure of heart problems. And it’s not a cardiologist, it’s God, it’s Jesus. He’s the only one that can give you, as the Bible says, a new heart. I will give a new heart to you. It will not be a heart of stone. It will be a heart of flesh. It’s a new heart that I’ll give to you. And so he says, reckon yourself dead to this world of unbelief, this wrecking yourself, dead to this attitude that God doesn’t know what he’s talking about, Satan does. Or I know what I’m talking about. I don’t need God. I don’t need Satan. I’ll figure it out on my own. I’ll do it my way, as Sinatra is saying. Dead to sin, dead to being an unbeliever, but alive to God in Christ. Jesus now again, folks, this isn’t just talking about an unbeliever. Is it talking about a lost man? There’s an awful lot of you sitting in this room who are believers, who are unbelievers. We’re believers in Christ, but we’re not trusting Him with our daily lives. Am I right or wrong? And so he says, Therefore, don’t let sin reign in your body. Because, my friends, the very moment that we turn ourselves over to saying, I don’t need God for information, I don’t need God to determine right from wrong, I’ll do it on my own. After all, God doesn’t live in this modern generation that we live in today, and he’s not politically correct either, and so I’m not going to pay attention to him. He just doesn’t understand. He just doesn’t understand. We’re living in a new generation. I’ll tell you something. God does understand. He’s the one who made us. He’s the one who knows us. And it says that when you let sin reign in your mortal body, you’re going to be obeying the evil desires that are put there constantly by Satan. How many of you get bombarded by Satan with evil desires? You see your hands in a room now anybody doesn hold your hand up? How many of you get I’ve been convicted of being a liar? We get bombarded with evil desires. Why? Because they’re there. They’re in our flesh. And he says, but don’t offer the parts of your body to sins as instruments of wickedness. We can offer these bodies to ours, either place as a wicked, as an instrument of wickedness or an instrument of righteousness. He says, rather, offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life. You’ve been brought from death to life. Now offer yourself to God as a living person, and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. And then again, I asked you last week, if you haven’t marked this in your Bible, sin shall not be your master, because you’re not under law, but under grace.

Now, folks, you’re going to see some passages if you look back in your Bibles to chapter five, verse 20, the law was added so that the trespass might increase, but where sin increase, Grace increased all the more. In other words, you can’t out sin the grace of God. Now some of us have tried, but you can’t do it. You can’t out sin the grace of God. And so it just says that just as Sin reigned in death so that grace might reign through righteousness, in order to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Turn back to Galatians, 319, what was the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgressions or sin, until now, when you have an until you have a before and after. Don’t you? So it was added. It was added until the seed. Now, who’s the seed? Jesus Christ. So it was added until Jesus, to whom the promise referred had come. The law was put in effect through angels by a mediator, a mediator, however, does not represent one party, but God is one. Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not. For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would have come by the law. Can the law give you life? What does the law give you? Death. But the Scripture declares that the whole world is a prisoner of sin, so that what was promised, that was promised to Abraham, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to all who believe. Now, before this faith came, before you exercised faith in Jesus Christ, or before the first time that Jesus came, either one of those things are true. But because we’re here before you exercise faith in Jesus Christ, you were held prisoners by the law, locked up just like locked up in jail, until faith in Christ should be revealed. So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ. So what was the purpose of the law? To lead us to Christ. The purpose of the law is to show you your sinfulness. Why? If I don’t see I’m a sinner? What in the world do I need with Jesus Christ, with his cross, if I don’t see that I’m dead, what in a world is the meaning of the resurrection? All it is is a historical fact. The identical to Lincoln got shot in a Ford theater. It has no meaning at all to me that Lincoln got shot in the Ford theater, outside of it being a historical truth. And the same thing is true with Jesus. It has no meaning of his resurrection until you come to understand that I’m dead and his resurrection is what gave me life now, what took place 2000 years ago has meaning to me today. Is it right or wrong? And now that this faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law. The law did its work. The law showed me I was a sinner, and now I put the law aside. It did its work. The purpose of the law was to show me I was a sinner so that I would turn to Christ by faith and to be led by Him from that day forth, no longer being led by the law, but by the Spirit.

Now, when people have no clue at all as to the ministry of the Holy Spirit in our lives. In other words, the Holy Spirit of God is just some kind of a fantasy. You may as well be talking about Casper the ghost, but there’s a reality. Christ is ALIVE. Christ was raised to bring life to you and me, and when you have Christ’s life living in you now, you have someone to instruct you, to teach your mind, control your emotions and direct your will. Do you not? And that’s Christ. No longer, law is written on stone that you cannot obey. No longer law is written on stone that you can obey. And because you cannot obey, you’re under the death penalty. And that’s why it says a man under the law is under the curse. You’re under the curse of the law. You’re dead, but to be led internally by the loving God who now lives in us and leads us into paths of righteousness. He guides us, he leads us. He does not condemn us. Do you understand that? In Christ, what are we told? There is no condemnation awaiting you who belong to Christ, Jesus. Why? Because the law of the Spirit of Life has set you free from the law of sin and death. There’s no condemnation awaiting you who are in Christ Jesus.

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So when people tell you, if you keep doing this or this or this, you’re going to go to hell, that’s a lie, because no man will be held accountable for his sins when there is no law. And the law has been put aside to those who are believers, the law has been put aside so that you can now be led internally by the Holy Spirit of God who lives in you. Is that good news folks? I agree that’s worth applauding for it. So he’s saying here, because of this truth, do not offer parts of your body as instruments of wickedness. Rather, offer yourself as those who have been brought from life to death, and offer parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness, For sin shall not be your master, because you’re not under the law, but you’re under Grace. Now, folks, as we talked about last week. If sin is not your master because you’re not under the law, then when you are under the law, sin is your master. Do we understand that? Sin is your master when you’re under the law, and the only way you’re going to be freed from being mastered by sin is to become mastered by him. You can be mastered by sin, or you can be mastered by him, and there’s nothing in between. When you refuse to be mastered by him, you are automatically being mastered by sin. Do we understand that? There’s no alleyway, there’s just a fence, and on one side is him, the other side is sin, and you got a choice as to who you’re going to be mastered by him or by sin.

Now let’s pick up in verse 15. Again, we’ve got questions here, and as I mentioned to you last week, in between chapter five and chapter eight, you got a parenthesis. It’s chapter six and seven. Chapter Five literally goes right into chapter eight in thought. But Paul paused here and said, I’m going to answer some questions in chapter six and seven. I’m going to answer these questions before we go on to the good news that is in chapter eight, which, of course, begins, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. And so what we’re doing here is he’s pausing to answer three basic questions. First one, in the first verse of chapter six, what shall we say? Shall we go on sinning? If this grace is as good as you’re saying, Paul, well, then should we go on sinning so that God’s grace could just be known more? In other words, the more we sin, the more his grace is going to be talked about. And that’s what it’s all about, isn’t it? Talking about God’s grace. So let’s just go up and sin up a storm so God’s grace will be shown to the whole world. And that was one question that was asked.

Now we’re coming to number two. What then shall we say? You’ve just gotten through saying that we’re no longer under the law. Sin shall not be your master because you’re not under the law. I don’t know how much more clearer it can be that you’re not under the law than that. And yet you have entire denominations that teach people that they under the law. Do we not? And legalistic as can be and put you under the law, and therefore keep you under the power of sin, and then beat the daylights out of you every Sunday for sinning. What shall we say then, shall we go on sinning? You just got through sin. We go on sinning so the grace may abound. Now we’re sin. Shall we go on sinning? Because we’re not under the law, but under grace. In other words, how many people have said, with this kind of teaching a grace teaching, oh, you’re teaching people to have a license to sin. I’ve told people I don’t need a license to sin. I sin quite well without a license. Have you ever noticed anyone not sinning, who’s under the law? I mean, if you ever known anybody under the law that never sinned, but it’s kind of like I’m under the law, I don’t sin. You’re under grace, and you do. I got news for you. It says, All have sinned. It’s just whether you want to be mastered by sin. If you want to be mastered by sin, keep yourself under the law. If you want to be mastered by God, keep your self under grace. So shall we sin? Because we’re not under the law, but under grace? Say by no means. In other words, it’s kind of like saying that’s a dumb question. Don’t you know that when you offer yourself to someone to obey Him as slaves, you’re slaves to the one whom you obey. Don’t you know that? When you offer yourself to someone as a slave, you are obligated to obey the one you offer yourself to. Is that right or wrong? Now, folks, when you’re a slave, you have no rights. When you’re a slave, you live under the control of the master. You really have no option. You are just there to obey the master, and he’s saying when you and I offer ourselves to someone to obey your slaves, to the one whom you obey, whether you’re slaves to sin which leads to death, or whether you’re a slave to obedience which leads to righteousness. But thanks be to God that though you used to be, and this is used to be, before you were saved, you used to be slaves to sin. How many can testify to that, that before you were saved, you were a slave to sin? You may as well all testify to it, because the Bible just got through saying you were a slave to sin. So you don’t need to think over, was I or wasn’t I?

Thanks be to God that you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. Now, does that mean that you were without teaching? No, you were you had teaching, and you wholeheartedly obeyed it. If you were taught under the law were you wholeheartedly trying to obey the teaching that you were entrusted to? How many of you were under the law, wholeheartedly trying to obey the law? Let me see your hands. How many of you were successful? What happened to the hands? But you wholeheartedly were trying, weren’t you? I mean, you were giving it a whack law. I’m supposed to obey the law, Lord. I’ll give it a whack, and you’re out there trying. But what did you find out about trying to obey the law? We’ll study that in Romans seven. The same I want to do, I don’t do, and the things I don’t want to do, I do anyway. And so what do we do? We pick the ones we can do. I can go to church on Saturday instead of Sunday. I can do that one. Or if it was vice versa, I could do that one. And and, you know, if nobody sees why, I cannot drink, and nobody smells. I cannot smoke, all this kind of stuff. I pick the ones that I can do, and those are the ones I’m going to concentrate on. And that’s what we do. We concentrate on those ones. But you see, God gave us 10, and when you look at the law, no man has ever lived in obedience to the law. And James said that if you kept the entire law, and yet violated in one point, you violated how much of it? All of it, all of it, so that that puts us all where we belong. So he said, You hope, even though, when you were a slave to sin, you were wholeheartedly trying to obey the teaching to which you were entrusted.

Now, folks, you can grow up in a home with good teaching, and you can grow up in a home with bad teaching, and unfortunately, in this day and age where there’s divorce and the split of homes, you can have one parent teaching nonsense, another parent trying to teach truth, and that poor kid in the middle is bombarded with double mindedness, and he becomes totally unstable in all ways. There’s no consistency in what’s being taught. And so therefore we have to realize that as parents, if you’re going to, if you if you’re if you’re not going to get along with each other and you’re going to split, for God’s sakes, become committed to teaching the child the same moral values, and don’t have one over there teaching people to go live like the devil and the other one teaching them to go to church and to and to obey the things of God, because that creates what the Bible calls a double minded man and makes you unstable in all ways. Get at least consistent for the sake of your children. So he says, we go out and we wholeheartedly obey the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. But you now in Christ, you’ve been set free from sin. You have been set free from being a slave to false teaching. Do we realize that? Why? Because we have the Spirit of God living in us, and what is the purpose of the Spirit of God living in us? To lead us into what? All truth. And if the Spirit of God lived doesn’t live in you, you don’t have a clue what truth is. You just leaning on your own understanding. It says, acknowledging him and he’ll direct your paths. Quit leaning on your own understanding. But if you don’t have the Spirit of God living in you, you have no choice but to lean on your own understanding. And so you’ve been set free from that. We now have a plumb line in our life, folks, a plumb line where we can go to and know precisely whether the line is straight or not.

We’re talking about the fact that we have been set free from having to believe lies. We do not have to believe the lie of Satan. We don’t have to. We can choose to, can’t we? But we don’t have to. Where before you knew Christ, you had no option. He told you to do something. You just went and did it. Satan comes along and he says tells you things, things that are contrary to what you know to be true. Comes along and tells you things that you know full well are harmful to your body. That’s the temple of the Holy Spirit of God. You know full well, it’s harmful to you. But he tells you how much fun it is, or he tells you all kinds of stuff. And so we pour things in our veins, and we pour things in our mouth, and we pour things all kinds of deals. We suck smoke down our lungs, we get into booze, we get into drugs, we get into all kinds of things that we know full well are harmful to our bodies. Who are we listening to? You’re not listening to God. God is saying your body’s the temple of the Holy Spirit of God. Don’t treat it that way, but we do. So he’s saying to us that you’ve been set free from having to do that. So there’s no such thing is, I don’t have any control over this. Yes, you do. Yeah, you do. Do you know folks that you can do anything that you want to do, anything you want to do you can do, if you want to quit something, you can quit it. Before I came to the Lord, I used to smoke like a furnace. I just couldn’t wait to get another cigarette. Then, if it was late at night and I ran out, I just went and got some. Now, Amy asked me to go get groceries. I’d have thought that she was killing me, punishing me in some way, but you could go get cigarettes. And on the day that I realized that those cigarettes controlled my life, I didn’t do it because of health, because I was on a 200 year plan back then, they controlled me. And the reason I knew they controlled me is I couldn’t quit. And the reason I came to the realization those things control me, I pitched them in a waste basket and never picked another one up. I joined a health club. I quit drinking booze, and I quit drinking coffee for a month. Just Just a month. Yeah, because every time I had a cup of coffee and wanted a cigarette, every time I had a drink, wanted a cigarette, so I cut out everything that you equated with having a cigarette. I had no problem at all, and I smoked three packs a day many times. That’s a lot. That’s a lot of puffing. Of course, people say you weren’t smoking the cigarette smoked. You were just a sucker. But the issue is, don’t say to me you can’t quit, because I know you can, and I quit as a lot as a non Christian, so don’t tell me you can’t quit. It’s the issue you don’t want to.

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