Radio Broadcast Wednesday 01/21/2026

Classic Christianity – We, The Church – Part 3 – 01-21-26

~ The Body of Christ, His Spirit is in You and Me Who Are Born Again

~ God wants to use you and me as part of His church. He wants us to know that we are a part of His spiritual body, and as such we are here for each other, the rest of the body of Christ. When we abide in Him, He directs our paths on everything. Sometimes He wants to use us to teach others. Sometimes He wants us to comfort others who are hurting. Once you realize the TRUTH of the church, then that building on the corner of walk and don’t walk has no meaning whatsoever. It’s just a building built by human hands. Those that are still stuck in religion will defend their building however. And they will defend their identity too, based on where they think they are going to “church.” This is how you know these folks are brainwashed and in need of salvation themselves. Most have not heard the Truth of the gospel. Most are still thinking that getting forgivness of sins is the gospel, when the Truth of the matter salvation is Life. All those who are Dead are in need of Life that is eternal.

And Jesus wants us to be Truth tellers today. Don’t beat around the bush. Tell it like it is. People need the Life of God, through His Holy Spirit living in them. Share Truth that they were born without the Spirit of God living in them. And God wants each of us to have the Spirit for Life. That’s the only thing that counts today. So as God’s Temple, allow the Spirit of God to live His life in and through you, directing your paths on what He wants you to say and do. Learn to listen to Him, and learn how to get out from satan’s lies and the things of the world.

~ “Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and the Spirit of God dwells in you?” 1 Corinthians 3:16

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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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~ “And those are born again people, born again now indwelt eternally by the Spirit of God and placed in this body called the ecclesia, the body of Christ, made up of all kinds of parts and gifts. And we’ll study a little bit more about that next week, different gifts given to this body to be exercised in the body, for the building of the body. There is no gift that is given to edify yourself. An apple tree doesn’t turn around eat its own apples. A cow doesn’t drink her own milk. Gifts are given for the benefit of the body, not self edification. So if you got a gift, it’s self edifying, forget it, because that isn’t what it’s given for. I don’t sit around the gift of teaching in a room by myself and teach myself. If I didn’t use the gift that God gave me to edify you, I wouldn’t be using my gift. And the same thing is true with yours. Everybody says, Well, I don’t know what my gift is. Well, God will show you, if you’ll if you, if you’re curious, he’ll show you. Someone once described the way you kind of discover your gift is kind of like the family sitting at the breakfast table and one of the kids spills the milk. The person with the gift of teaching says, Now, Son, let me show you what you did there, and he’s going to kind of teach him how to hold his glass a little bit different so he won’t knock it over. One with the gift of helps is going to say, get down and start cleaning it up. Not even asked to just want to clean it up. They got a gift of helps. The admonisher is going to tell them why they did that dumb thing. He’s going to be there in there. Now, here’s the reason you did it. But number one, you’re a little bit stupid, but that’s all right. God loves you anyway. They’re going to be a little but at any rate, your gifts will be, can be explained a little bit by just that one illustration. But you do have a gift, and God wants you to exercise it in the body. He doesn’t want you to get all hung up on it and get all prideful over it. He just wants you to use it. But we’ll be studying about that next week.” ~ Bob George

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God is a head. He controls everything. Why did I just touch my face? Because my brain told me to. Why did I scratch? Because brain tells me a itch. Why do we go eat? Because your brain tells you you’re hungry or you’re a glutton, either one. Our head controls every single thing that this body does, whether we like it or whether we don’t, that’s the way it is, isn’t it? That’s why it says in the scripture, Don’t be conformed to the world. But what? Transform. Transformed by what? The renewing of your mind, not your arms or your legs, but your mind. Your mind controls what this. Body fulfills. And so the body is a unit, though it’s made up of many parts, and though its parts are many, they form one body. Don’t have two bodies here. Only got one, but it’s made up of a lot of parts. And he wants us to see this illustration, because he says, so it is with Christ, for we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body. Now, guys, you could read that, what could someone think that meant to be baptized? What? Placed in water, is that what this means? Now, you know, I don’t even know for sure if the Spirit has to reveal that. I think you’ll be able to figure that out by context, but ultimately, the Spirit of God has got to teach you. No, no, this is not what that means. This means a spiritual baptism. We were all baptized by one Spirit, not by one pastor, by one Spirit, into the body of Christ, folks, that is what the scripture refers to. Is the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of God, in order to be born again, you must be born again of the Spirit of God, right? You’re born again of the Spirit. That means I don’t have the Spirit until I’m born of the Spirit. So I’m not born with it. It’s something that I have to get from God. And that is a spiritual birth. I have a natural birth that came from mom and dad, and then there is a spiritual birth that God wants to give you. So his Spirit comes and is joined to our human spirit, and we’re complete. We’re born again. And that spirit is sealed, impervious to sin and impervious to the things of the world. It is sealed, my friends, sealed. Nothing can get into it. Sin can’t get into it. That Spirit that’s in you is sinless, just like the spirit that was given to you was sinless, sealed. That’s Christ in you, your hope of glory. Then that Spirit that came to indwell you placed you spiritually into the body of Christ. That’s one Christ in you, you in Christ. And that’s what’s called the baptism of the Holy Spirit. You were baptized by one Spirit into one body, whether HEBREWS or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one spirit to drink. There was no such thing of God placing you into a HEBREW body and placing the Gentiles into a Gentile body. We separate each other that way, but God didn’t. His Church is not divided, HEBREWS over here, Gentiles over here, his church are born again, believers who are together, and he teaches you how to live with one another and not to let the dissensions that are naturally there to take over. One Spirit, baptizing every person, HEBREW and Gentile alike, into one new body. And we were all given not two spirits, but one Spirit to drink, in other words, to comfort us.

Now the body, we’re told first, Corinthians 12, is not made up of one part, but many. So if the foot should say, because I’m not a hand, I don’t belong to the body. Now, what’s he saying here? You guys all have different parts. Your fingers do certain things, different than your toes. Your toes do something different than your fingers, but they’re all part of this body. Are they not? And every one of those parts have a function, and from the head standpoint, they’re all equally important. So you’re not going to sit there and say, well, but I’m not the hand, so I don’t belong to the body. It would not, for that reason, cease to be a part of the body. You’re a part of the body, whether you think so or not. If you’re in Christ and the ear should say, because I’m not an eye, I don’t belong to the body. It would not be, for that reason, to cease to be a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? In other words, he is saying that God has arranged the parts of this body. God has arranged. Change these parts. God gave you fingers and fingernails and toes and heart. He gave those things to you when you stop to think of the complexity of the human body, and even the complexity of an eye a camera in your head, and you say big bang. Say somebody banged you in the head. That’s the big bang. You got banged in the head by somebody to even begin to even think those things, let alone believe them. That all of this is just by happenstance. But God arranged these parts. He’s the one who gave them to you, and he arranged them just as he wanted them to be. He didn’t want the fingers to be down on your feet and didn’t want your toes to be up here. He arranged our body precisely the way it needed to be to function, to serve you. It’s amazing.

If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it were, there are many parts, but there are only, there is only one body, one body, many parts, one body. Now, what he is trying to get across here, guys, is this that if God has made you a finger, be a happy finger, and quit trying to be a toe. And if God made you an eye, quit trying to be an ear, and quit trying to get all the ears together together and have an ear service and get all the noses together and blow up a storm and get all the tongues together and wag. He said, get that mindset out of your head, and that one gift is better than the other. Yeah, yeah, you got those ears on you, but I got eyeballs. Well, who gave you the eyeballs? And why do you think that the eyeball is more important than the ears? Let me take both of them away from you and see how happy you’re going to be as some people are. You see, guys, all of that is nonsensical thinking that goes on today, rampantly in our Christianity today, where you get all the noses together and we’re blowing up a storm together. And the reason we’re together, we got a unity and purpose. What’s your purpose? Blow our nose. What’s your purpose? Why girl tongues, speak in tongues. What’s your purpose to do this? To do this is that, how God divided the body? Said, How is anybody going to see the multiplicity of gifts if you’re going to get your church and your people gathered together to just speak up a storm, to blow your nose, just to walk around. You got people doing that, walking around. Have you seen those? You seen those that? Have you all? How many have seen that on TV? Had the unfortunate experience of seeing that one. Round, twirling tambourine guys standing there singing the same song, nine for 19,000 verses, same guy, walking up and down. Everybody says, Praise the Lord. No wonder Jesus called us dumb sheep. So he says that there’s one body. It’s made up many parts. And what I want you to do is to see the unity of the diversity. When the world is going to see is how this diverse group is unified into one body. And that is the goal that God has for us.

Now we might want to turn to First Corinthians 12, and let’s read on from where we left off here, many parts of one body. Let’s turn to verse 21 in chapter 12. This will not be on the screen, but if you want to look it up, you can. The eye cannot say to the hand, I don’t need you. And the head cannot say to the feet, I don’t need you. On the contrary, these parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable, we treat with special honor, and the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty. He just hits it all, doesn’t he? We got some places that, he said, parts of our body that are unpresentable. We don’t go around presenting them to the public. But they said they’re treated with a special modesty. And should be. We have violated that as well, haven’t we? We violated that as well. To the world, they pay no attention to this at all. Modesty is a thing of an antiquated word, to be modest, and we flaunt what is natural and what is man made, especially the man made, we love to flaunt. It gets biblical. Think that’s of God? I don’t think so. And so it says that these parts are of spatial there are parts that need no special treatment. There are there are other parts that have no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honors to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body. This is the whole reason behind this no division, and that its parts should have equal concern for one another. And if one part suffers, every part suffers with it. If one part is honored, every part rejoices in it. Isn’t that kind of amazing, guys? How many of you ever got a little tiny splinter in your finger or someplace it hurts your whole body, doesn’t it? Or how many of you ever stubbed your toe? You know, now that’s just a tiny little part of your body, but it makes your whole body hurt, doesn’t it? And there’s some places that you get hit that you just wish you didn’t have. So we understand from our body that when one part hurts, everything hurts, and we should see be the same way in our spiritual body, that if we see a brother and sister in Christ is hurting, that we should hurt with them. We should reach out to them with compassion instead of ho hum. They’ll get better. Or I like this one better. I’ll pray for you. Well I need food. Well, I’ll pray for you. Man, take some food to them. Take some food to them. If you got somebody that’s sick or been operated on, somebody ought to be there to think that maybe they might be able to use some food.

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Has anyone been sick in this group and had the recipient of somebody in a body bringing them something? We have you have different people. The rest of you haven’t been sick, or else nobody’s been nice to you. But the issue is, that’s what we should be thinking. We should be thinking about, how do you serve this body of ours. Why? Because everything in this body is there to serve this body. It’s there to serve it. When my mind says to scratch when you itch. It’s to serve the body. Well it itches, so I want to scratch it everything. And he says, that’s the way we should be as this body, or any body of Christ. We should be thinking about reaching out whenever the occasion is there, to help people wherever we can, and to hurt with them.

You know, many times, guys in our ministry to people, we think that we have to say something, where sometimes all a person is looking for is just somebody to be there and maybe just cry with them. Many times, we think that the only way I’m going to minister to someone is talking, where sometimes it’s just the silence and the compassion that comes out of that silence is what a person is looking for, but it says to be there, to try and to be there and to allow the God who lives in you to lead you to do what he wants You to do with that individual, the body of Christ.

So it talks about the fact that God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so there will be no division in the body, but that its part should have equal concern for one another. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it. If one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. When a part of the body gets honored, we rejoice with that. Thank God for it.

Now it says you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a part of it. And in the church now, folks that again, in the church, is not talking about a building. This building is paid for. But more important is our salvation is paid for, and was paid for long before this thing was paid for. But this is not the church. This is a building. This is a building that, if we weren’t here, somebody could come and buy it and make a warehouse out of it. Couldn’t they? It’s not a church, it’s a building. So get our minds off of this idea that the church is that building down on the corner of walk and don’t walk, that’s a building, probably an expensive one, that has been built many times to just house a bunch of lost people, but it’s a building. And so what he’s talking about here is not a building. He’s talking about the Church of God. And the church of God is people who are born again.

We have in most of our assemblies where the way of salvation is not taught, and I want to say hammered, where there’s no doubt to the congregation as to how to be saved. It’s well known, it’s well preached, it’s well presented, but in the average assembly, you have a huge percentage of people that do not know the Lord from an apple tree. In the assemblies that I was in prior to coming to Christ, I never knew a born again Christian, including the pastor, never knew one. It was a building that had been raised money for and built to house dead people to come on Sunday morning and receive a dead message. Good fellowship. Had some good friends, but no input. Never heard the word salvation, never heard that I was lost, never heard that I could be saved. Never heard why somebody needed to be saved. Never heard one of those things in 36 years of sitting in church, never heard one time.

The only time that I can remember hearing a gospel message was at a ___ _____ crusade in California, in Los Angeles, and I went to that ____ _____ crusade with Amy. And my mom and dad were visiting from Indiana at that time, and we went together. Now, what did I hear that day? Now I’m not saying what ____ _____ said. I’m saying what I heard, what I heard at the end of that message was, repent of your sins and come forward and get Jesus. My heart said, repent of my sins. I’ve been trying to do that for 30 some years. And what you’re saying to me is I’m going to repent of all my sins and go forward like a hypocrite and then go back to my seat and continue in my sins the way I’ve been doing. That’s what I heard. Repent of your sins, and I wasn’t going to be a hypocrite. And the only reason that I did not go forward that day was because of that, repent of my sins. I’ve tried, I can’t do it.

But you see, the message of the gospel isn’t to repent of your sins, because there’s only one sin attributable to mankind, as far as the Lord Jesus is concerned. That’s the sin of rejection of the work of Christ Jesus of him and his work. I didn’t hear repent of your sin of unbelief. I didn’t hear that. I would have responded to that. I heard sins, and I was wise enough to know I cannot repent of my sins, I can try, but I’ve seen too many people try and fail, so I’m not going to go down and go through the motions. I went home. We drove home. I was mad. I was mad. Has a problem with my family is we’re so darn they are so darn prideful. They are so prideful, we wouldn’t even go forward. But the seed was sown. Now, whether again, whether that was said or not, I do not know, and I’m not saying it was, I’m saying that’s what I heard. But guys, the whole issue here is this that you’re born again, and you know that better than I you’re born again of a spiritual birth, when there comes a time in your life when you are sick of you. No one comes to Jesus. I just love me. Okay, Jesus come into my heart because you’ll be so glad to get me. Always remember W A Criswell saying to me one time at Bob, the time that you’re going to find yourself the closest to Jesus is when you’re flat on your face with no place to look except upward. And I believe that’s true. You come to a point in your life where you recognize, whether you’re a little kid or not, that whatever requirements seem to be placed on me, I can’t I can’t pull it off. I can’t do it. He says, Now you’re ready for salvation. When you come to understand that you can’t is when you’re going to be looking for the one who can. It’s not a church experience, guys, it’s a real experience. It’s not a religion. It’s a relationship. It’s a person who’s come to the end of their own self sufficiency and the end of their own self righteousness and really able to say, I don’t have any righteousness. That’s what God says about you. There is no righteousness in us. No man will ever be declared righteous in the sight of God through obedience to the law. So you’re not going to get it. You’re not going to get there through self effort. And you come to the end of yourself and you turn to this wonderful Jesus. It’s like people call me sometimes say, Bob, I’m almost to the end of my rope. I say, grease that sucker, because when you at the end of your rope is where you’re going to find the outstretched arms of Jesus Christ. Saying, Come unto me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest for your soul. Come unto me. That’s when you fall into the arms of Jesus. Is when you’ve come to the end of your rope is where you’re going to find him.

And those are born again people, born again now indwelt eternally by the Spirit of God and placed in this body called the ecclesia, the body of Christ, made up of all kinds of parts and gifts. And we’ll study a little bit more about that next week, different gifts given to this body to be exercised in the body, for the building of the body. There is no gift that is given to edify yourself. An apple tree doesn’t turn around eat its own apples. A cow doesn’t drink her own milk. Gifts are given for the benefit of the body, not self edification. So if you got a gift, it’s self edifying, forget it, because that isn’t what it’s given for. I don’t sit around the gift of teaching in a room by myself and teach myself. If I didn’t use the gift that God gave me to edify you, I wouldn’t be using my gift. And the same thing is true with yours. Everybody says, Well, I don’t know what my gift is. Well, God will show you, if you’ll if you, if you’re curious, he’ll show you. Someone once described the way you kind of discover your gift is kind of like the family sitting at the breakfast table and one of the kids spills the milk. The person with the gift of teaching says, Now, Son, let me show you what you did there, and he’s going to kind of teach him how to hold his glass a little bit different so he won’t knock it over. One with the gift of helps is going to say, get down and start cleaning it up. Not even asked to just want to clean it up. They got a gift of helps. The admonisher is going to tell them why they did that dumb thing. He’s going to be there in there. Now, here’s the reason you did it. But number one, you’re a little bit stupid, but that’s all right. God loves you anyway. They’re going to be a little but at any rate, your gifts will be, can be explained a little bit by just that one illustration. But you do have a gift, and God wants you to exercise it in the body. He doesn’t want you to get all hung up on it and get all prideful over it. He just wants you to use it. But we’ll be studying about that next week.

Well, let’s close for this time, and hope this has been beneficial to you. Father, we want to thank you for your goodness to us and the fact that you want to use us. That’s why you gave us these gifts, is you want to use us. You’ve allowed us to become a part of your work on this earth. You’re the initiator of all things, but you use our bodies and our minds to carry it out, and we thank you for that. Keep us humble, Lord Jesus, keep us close to your feet. Keep our face to the ground where there’s only one place to look at. That severance. Allow us to see that we’re here for a reason and a purpose. As far as you’re concerned, there aren’t any losers for people blessed of God, and God wants to use you. We thank you for all these things in his wonderful and matchless name.

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