Radio Broadcast Wednesday 01/14/2026

Classic Christianity – Life Changing Faith – Part 3 – 01-14-26

~ “For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; 6and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities and continue to grow in them, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But whoever lacks these traits is nearsighted to the point of blindness, having forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.” 2 Peter 1:5-9

~ There are many many folks today that say they believe their sins were forgiven at the cross, but by their very actions, AND even their prayers, they give lip service to TRUTH. It’s a tough lesson in life, when you suddenly realize you have been asking God to do what he has already done at the cross. And if you are one of the ones that is asking God to forgive you over and over again, it’s time to wise up in the Spirit and admit (confess) agree with God, that He took away ALL your sins at the cross, and there is no more forgiveness being vended out by God. He went to a cross, ONCE, to die for the sins of the whole world, for ALL time, for ALL people, for ALL sins. Stop believing the lies that the religous world teaches, that of ongoing confession, asking God to forgive you every time you sin, and start trusting in the TRUTH of the gospel, that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses (sins) against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

And to those of us who know the TRUTH, we are to be spokespeople for God, to allow the Holy Spirit use our mouths, and our bodies, and our time, and our online presence to set the record strait. Tell it boldly. “It is finished! He forgave your sins at the cross.” We can tell that to any person today, because it is TRUTH. Apply Faith to the equation today, and be a teacher of TRUTH yourself.

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And a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, having done what, will I inherit eternal life?”
And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good, except God alone. Luke 18:18,19

~ “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?

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.”

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~ “You think you can grow and mature when you’re still dealing with your sins? Not according to God. I’m not even sure you’d be born again. You’re still dealing with him. When I read Hebrews, I’m not sure about that, but I’m telling you, if I was sitting there right now still dealing with him, I’d deal with it right now. I guarantee you, I’d deal with that right now, the same way that I had to, Lord, after I chewed my daughter out for not picking up the peaches, went into my wild tirade with her, got down on my knees and said, Oh, Lord, I’m so sorry. Please forgive me. I already knew First John wasn’t real. And then here I was asking, oh, God, please forgive me. It’s like the Lord said, I’m so sick of hearing that I don’t know what to do. What do you think I did at the cross? Bob, well, that’s right, you forgave me, didn’t you? Lord, yeah, you did. But Lord, I’m sorry. You really sorry? Bob, Ooh, sorry. Well, then go tell Debbie. I’m not that sorry. Rather, rather talk to you about it. He said, I know that’s what you’ve been doing for years, talking to me instead of talking to the people you insult. Now get off of your self righteous knees and realize that my forgiveness is yours. Now go out and seek the forgiveness of your daughter. And that day, I said, Lord, it’s the last time I’ll ever insult you by asking me to do what you’ve already done, from this day forth. I’ll never insult you by asking you to forgive me again, but I will thank you profusely for the fact that you already have. Was I born again that day? I don’t know, don’t think so, but I want to tell you, there wasn’t any growth until that day. According to Scripture, you can’t grow in godliness, brotherly, kindness, love when you’re still dealing with what God said is finished.” ~ Bob George

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Bob George 0:28
And that’s why I think those 50 days following the resurrection of Christ were there. He said, I’ve given you 4000 years to show you you can’t do it. Now. You’ve seen everything I came to do, and I’m going to show you still can’t do it. There is not a way in the world, even if you would have walked with Jesus for all those years, seen everything he did, heard everything he said, There’s no way in the world you can live the Christian life. He said, the day of Pentecost is the day that I’m going to send my spirit to live in you, not to walk beside you and teach you, but to live in you and to be your life. And when Christ is your life appears, you’ll appear with him. I’m not asking you to live the Christian life, either with me or apart from me. You can’t do it. That’s my life, not yours, but I will come and live inside of you, and I will produce my life in and through you, just like a vine produces its life in and through a branch, identically the same. And there is only one thing that I ask a branch to do, walk by faith in the vine, because there’s not one thing that you can do that I’m pleased with, apart from abiding in the vine. Any fruit that you think you’re producing is artificial fruit, and someone comes along takes a bite of it, they’re going to have a mouthful of wax, because it’s not real. It looks real. If you stand at a distance, it looks real. That’s why we don’t want to let people get too close to us. You might find out what I’m really lying so just stay away a little bit. Don’t ever bite into me. That’s why we do that, because we’re phonies. And so the issue is that he’s saying to us, you cannot do it. I never expected you to do it. I never thought you would do it. I never thought you could do it. And that’s why I’m coming to live in you, so that I can do it in and through you. That’s true Christianity.

You’ve got a huge segment in Christianity today saying, No, Jesus came to walk alongside of you, to help you to do it. And so if he’s helping me to do it, and I do it, who did it? Who did it? Me, oh, I had a little help for Jesus. You know, it’s kind of 80% me and 20% little whipping cream. Little Jesus whipping cream never hurt anybody. And so we go out and try, because Jesus is helping me to live the Christian life in the energy of our flesh, still in the energy of our flesh, because I’m doing it. He’s helping me to live in my flesh. He is helping me to walk in the flesh. Is he? No, but I want to tell you, folks, there is a huge segment of evangelical Christianity. I mean, huge that that’s precisely what they teach. You have people who teach that there is no such thing as the indwelling Spirit that sounds like voodoo. You see, the evangelical Christian world has come along and said, boy, don’t talk about this Holy Spirit that’s too charismatic sounding. And automatically they start placing you with some wild, charismatic teaching. Isn’t that, just like Satan, take what the heart of the gospel is and say, Don’t get so involved in that. That’s that’s what the wildies are doing. I don’t care who’s doing what they’re doing. This is truth. I don’t care who’s doing it or isn’t doing it. This is what truth is. That if I’m the vine and you’re the branch, that the only way that you’re going to function as a branch is through abiding the life of the vine, that life that’s produced, that fruit that’s produced, is not yours branch, it’s mine. You just get the privilege of bearing it. Do we understand that, guys? You cannot love in your own strength, can you? You can try, but can you love with God’s love in your own strength? No, can you have joy? No, you can have a little happiness every now and then, but that’s short lived. How about peace? Can you have some peace occasionally? Yeah, a little bit of peace. You can go down, go out on a river bank and fish. Have a little peace, but got to go home. Patience, kindness, goodness, what’s called the fruit of what? The fruit of what? Guys by flesh, or is it called the fruit of the what? The Spirit, only Spirit, can produce that I said voodoo guys, this is real. If this isn’t real, Jesus isn’t real. He’s the one who told me, Bob, it is good for you that I’m going away, because while I’m here, you’re dealing with me on the basis of the five senses of sight, sound, touch, smell and taste. I’m going to deal with you on something totally different than that. It’s called Spirit. You were born again of mom and dad, that’s flesh. I’m going to make you born again of the Spirit. That’s God, and you cannot function apart from being born again of God. You can try, but it doesn’t make it. You know it doesn’t make it.

We bounce prayers off of the ceiling. We know there’s an emptiness inside. We’re always seeking for something to bring me some happiness. I have no peace. I cannot rest. I’m always looking for something else, looking for the next job, looking for the next dollar, looking for anything, next girl, next guy, looking for anything to satisfy this empty heart. You know when you’re empty, that you’re empty. I knew full well I was empty. I had the things of the world, but I was empty as a pork barrel inside, without God living in me, because God and in the man is totally indispensable to the humanity of the man.

And so faith is not dealing with sight. Faith is not dealing with feelings. Faith is not dealing with miracles. He gave those in order that we would believe his message. The only reason Jesus ever did a miracle, the reason he ever healed a person physically, was so that we would listen to what he said spiritually. Because whatever you do that heals your body right now, you’re going to go into the grave sooner or later, it’s all temporary, is it not? But when you’re born again in the Spirit, my friends, you’re told you have eternal life, eternal life.

We just had the funeral service of Bob Taylor. Susie is with us today. Last week. I know where Bob Taylor is, and everybody knows him, knows where he is. That’s why they’re rejoicing in where he is. You’re hurting for where you are, but you’re rejoicing in where they are. Someone said to a man one time, I’m sorry to hear that you lost your wife. He said, Oh, sir, when you lose something, you don’t know where they are. So I didn’t lose my wife. I know where she is. I’m just separated from her for a while, but I didn’t lose her. I know where she is. And folks when we can live with that, we live with a peace in our hearts that passes all understanding. I want to tell you something for Christians. You look at Christians and how they respond when people die, the world looks about these people must be insensitive. These people don’t have any feelings. Why they’re not moaning and groaning and wailing and they’re saying, Praise Jesus. This makes what’s wrong with these people? Don’t they have any feelings or any heart? Do you think they understand that? Do you know what that’s called, folks? The peace of God, that what passes what? All understanding, you cannot understand it on a human realm. It’s spiritual.

And so he’s saying to us that there’s one way that you’re going to function in this Christian life. You put your faith, not some of it, guys, I am convinced that nothing can separate me from the love of God. I may do things to separate you from me, but I’m not ever going to be separated from the love of God. I know that as well as I know that I’m standing here right now. There’s another thing I know. I know that my sins have not been placed on Jesus, and that he’s still hanging on the cross and able, therefore that if I confess that he’ll hang on the cross and forgive me. I know that is not true. What I do know is true is that Jesus took away my sins from his eyes forever throughout all eternity, that I do know, and therefore I know that I am a forgiven person. I didn’t deserve it. I certainly didn’t earn it. It’s just what he did for me. Why did he do it? He loves me. He loves me.

Now, I say, How could you do that? How could you love me? Well, same reason I love Richard, it’s a mystery for both of you. God loves you. He loves you so much that he demonstrated His love towards you in the while we were lost, dead, sinners, Christ died for us. Isn’t that amazing, guys, why would someone want to do that? Why didn’t he just leave us? Because He loved us, and he’s saying, the only thing that I want out of you is to believe me. Just believe me. A parent will do that with a child. Literally. Think about it. When raising your kids, all I want you to do is believe me. Because believe me, I, as a parent, don’t have anything except Goodwill for you. I, there’s nothing that I want bad for you to happen. So believe me, trust me, and that’s all God’s saying, believe me, trust me. I know what’s best for you. I know what is good for you. I know what you need. You don’t even know what you need, but I do. Trust me, believe in me, and I’ll make your paths straight. It’s all faith, guys, it’s all faith, not in me, but faith in Him. Our role is to say, Lord, apart from you, I can do nothing. I’ve proven that to myself. How many of you have proven to yourself that you can’t live the Christian life? That should just take a second to get your hand up on that just I mean, I’ll just flash up automatically. You can’t live it, you can’t give it, you can’t live it. So why are we still trying? In order to make ourselves look good to other Christians.

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Bob George 13:18
Folks, God says there’s one thing that pleases me, and that’s you learn to walk by faith. Now, once you’ve learned to walk by faith, there’s some additives. Let’s go to Second Peter.

Second Peter in the first chapter, beginning in verse five. Excuse me, did I say second? First? Peter, second, Peter, second, Peter. I was at first, Peter, verse five, for this reason. Now, what’s the verse reason? Because, as it says in verse three, his divine power has given you everything that you need for life and godliness. How many of you believe that? How many of you believe that he’s given you everything you need for life? Now, guys, do you need to go out to artificial things? Or do you think maybe what he provided is good enough for us? Where in the world the apples come from and the pears? How many have you ever eaten a pomegranate? Have you ever seen anything packaged like that in your life? I mean, seriously, you talk about a packaging company, that thing is unbelievable. How many of you have never seen a pomegranate? Go buy one and just cut it open and look at it. It’s unbelievable. Well, who did that? The Big Bang Theory? He’s given us everything, guys. Now, when the word says everything, it means there’s nothing else that you need, everything that you need for life. Is there anything else? If we needed anything else for life, we’d all be dead, right? We got air, we got food, we got everything we need to be alive and for godliness. He gave you everything now that you need. Who did he give you for what you need in godliness? Himself, I’ve given you myself. So I’ve given you everything you need for life and godliness. Now, where do we get to know that? Through our knowledge of Him, of him who called us by His own glory and goodness. He allows us to participate in this divine nature. We get an opportunity to participate, we’re told, in the divine nature and escape the corruption of this world caused by evil desires.

Folks, evil desires are going to kill you. Evil desires are what wipe us out. Evil desires that we have, and we have to recognize them as what they are. They’re evil. Because folks, I want to tell you something. Righteousness is never alone. It always has company. It’s always called evil. Wherever you have goodness, you always got evil right there next to it always is there. And God’s saying that evil destroy you. It will destroy you. It’s for our own good.

Now, for this reason, it says, Make every effort to add to your faith. Now he’s saying the foundation of everything we do is faith, believing in Him. So I’m going to add to faith, goodness. And to goodness, knowledge about who? Jesus. Add to your knowledge self control. That’s how do you keep myself under the control of God. To that self control perseverance, the ability to hang in there with coming to what Paul said, I’m convinced nothing can separate me from the love of God. Godliness, brotherly kindness and a brotherly kindness, love, love, God’s love. Now he says, if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, in other words, that in one thing, you just say, Oh God, please give me and bloop there it is. This is what’s called maturity. As you grow in your knowledge of Christ, these things will be produced in you. They’re already there. He’s going to produce them in you. He says, if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they’ll keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. He didn’t say ineffective and unproductive in your work for Jesus. He said, it’ll keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of Christ. He wants us to have a total knowledge of Him, of Jesus. If anyone does not have these qualities in increasing measure. So you can’t really measure it. You know whether you’re growing in these things or not if you don’t have them, here’s what your problem is. You’re nearsighted and blind. You know what? When you’re nearsighted, who you looking at? When you’re nearsighted, what are you looking at? You. That’s your problem. You’re looking at you instead of him, and you’re blind to him very much alive to yourself. And has forgotten that he has been cleansed from what guys? His past sins.

You think you can grow and mature when you’re still dealing with your sins? Not according to God. I’m not even sure you’d be born again. You’re still dealing with him. When I read Hebrews, I’m not sure about that, but I’m telling you, if I was sitting there right now still dealing with him, I’d deal with it right now. I guarantee you, I’d deal with that right now, the same way that I had to, Lord, after I chewed my daughter out for not picking up the peaches, went into my wild tirade with her, got down on my knees and said, Oh, Lord, I’m so sorry. Please forgive me. I already knew First John wasn’t real. And then here I was asking, oh, God, please forgive me. It’s like the Lord said, I’m so sick of hearing that I don’t know what to do. What do you think I did at the cross? Bob, well, that’s right, you forgave me, didn’t you? Lord, yeah, you did. But Lord, I’m sorry. You really sorry? Bob, Ooh, sorry. Well, then go tell Debbie. I’m not that sorry. Rather, rather talk to you about it. He said, I know that’s what you’ve been doing for years, talking to me instead of talking to the people you insult. Now get off of your self righteous knees and realize that my forgiveness is yours. Now go out and seek the forgiveness of your daughter. It. And that day, I said, Lord, it’s the last time I’ll ever insult you by asking me to do what you’ve already done, from this day forth. I’ll never insult you by asking you to forgive me again, but I will thank you profusely for the fact that you already have. Was I born again that day? I don’t know, don’t think so, but I want to tell you, there wasn’t any growth until that day. According to Scripture, you can’t grow in godliness, brotherly, kindness, love when you’re still dealing with what God said is finished.

I don’t care who’s listening to this today, whether you’re an educated theologian or a seminary president or a successful Christian business person or just a normal person, I’m saying to you that God does not accept 99.9%. You’re either going to take this and run with it, or the Bible says you may not be saved. Doesn’t say because of your actions, doesn’t say without your actions, it’s impossible, please God, without faith, and you’re not putting faith in Jesus when you’re still dealing with what he said, is finished. I don’t care who you are, let’s pray.

Father, we want to thank you that we have one in whom we can put our faith. I thank you that our faith is not predicated on feelings. It’s not predicated upon miracles or signs and wonders. It’s not predicated on what I see. We’re told that faith is the substance of things not seen. It’s a spiritual birth, not a physical birth. We are born again the day that we accept these truths by faith. We have nothing to lose, everything to gain, and all we need to do is to be able to say thank you, Jesus. If there’s one within my voice today that has understood the fact that they can’t, they’ve tried, but they can’t do it that today, they’ll say, Jesus, I’m ready for you to do it. I’m ready for you to take control of my life. I want to thank you for your unbelievable gift of forgiveness to me, of how you look down from that cross as if I was the only person on the face of the earth and said, Father, forgive him. He doesn’t know what he’s doing, and for that unbelievable plan of yours of entering into my death with you, so that I could enter into your resurrection with you. I thank you for that. By a mere act of faith of saying to Jesus right now, Father, I need you. Thank you that you took away my sins at the Cross never to see them again, so that being raised from the dead, you can raise me from my state of spiritual death and come alive in you to start a new life altogether, no longer living for myself, but living to please the living God who lives in me and I pray these things in Jesus name and for his sake. Amen

Well, guys, my prayer is that again, if there is anyone again out there within the sound of my voice that made that decision today, that you’ll begin to get into the Word of God and begin to study the Word of God and to let the Spirit of God, who lives in you teach you the meaning of it, to direct your paths, teach your mind, direct your emotions and your will till it becomes conformed with that of Christ. We never stop growing. We never will stop growing. And that’s the beauty of it. And so with regardless of where you’ve been, regardless of where your life has been. There is no life like being in Christ. I tried it all as a lost man. There is hardly anything I missed. None of it works. It leaves you empty. And the only thing that ever filled an empty soul in my life was the day it was filled with Christ, Jesus. So it is my desire. Desire that you’ll do the same thing as quickly as possible, to recognize, I can’t but Jesus you did, and to come to know Him as your Lord and your Savior.

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