Radio Broadcast Wednesday 03/04/2026

Classic Christianity – What Are You Plugged Into – Part 3 – 3-04-26

~ “And without faith it is impossible to please God. For anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6

~ Wake up folks, faith is key. When faith has come to your own life, Jesus has set you free. So be free. Put on His clothes and get rid of the old ones. You are no longer held in custody by the Law. Before that, you were locked up and held in custody by it. He freed you from that when you come to Him by Faith. That is faith in HIM, not yourself. That is Faith in what Jesus, God in the flesh did on the cross for you, took away ALL your sins, not what you are doing for Him. Faith is the Only thing that pleases God. Don’t allow anyone to place you back under custody of the law, and certainly do NOT do it yourself.

So get plugged into Jesus and live by Faith from first to last. Walk in the Light, as He is in the Light. Allow Him to direct your path in everything.

~ “Before this faith came, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.” Galatians 3:23-25

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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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~ “Once you were in darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. If you’re a child of God and he. Is your head, and you have become a part of his body. We are called a light in the Lord. Well, what do you do? Live as children of light. If you are light, live as light. If you’re a light bulb. Put out light. That’s what a light bulb is for. Put out light. If you’re a water fountain, put out water. Not complicated is it. For the fruit of light consists of this goodness, righteousness, the truth, righteousness and truth, and find out what pleases God. Now, guys, find out what pleases God. What does the Bible tell us pleases God? Faith. The righteous will live by what faith. So what pleases God? Faith, apart from faith. It’s impossible to do what? Please God. It doesn’t say apart from works. It says apart from faith. Now, if faith in God tells you to go work, to do something, that’s what you do, but you don’t go do it in order to get the glory of God surrounding you. So if you’re in the light, walk in the light, and the fruit of the by product of walking in the light is goodness, righteousness and truth, and find out what pleases the Lord, and we know what that, walk by faith.” ~ Bob George

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How you keep all you guys together if we don’t have the law? Well, have you read it says the grace of God teaches you to say no to unrighteousness. We try to use the law of God that kills you. It says in the Bible that the power of sin is where? In the law, and we try to use the power of sin to make you holy. I’m going to use the power of sin to shape you up. Says, No, it’s the grace of God, It’s the goodness of God. It’s the mercy of God. It’s the love of God that draws a man’s heart to the heart of God and makes him want to be like him, like him. To say, God, if you love me so much, to do what you’ve done for me. How do I get to know what makes you tick? How do I get to know what, why you think the way you think? Because do you and I think that way? If I was God, there wouldn’t be Muslims. There wouldn’t be anybody putting Bob. I’d blow them. I’d blow them off face the earth, wouldn’t you? Maybe some of you are kinder than I am, but I wouldn’t put up with them. But God, would you put up for 1000s of years with the HEBREWS rumbling in the desert and grumbling in the desert and rebelling and well, you wouldn’t put up with them five minutes. We don’t do we put up with our mates like that. You just let your mate do something wrong, brother. I’m out of here that shows what we’re like. You can you can disagree with me for a while, but you better not just there’s going to come a point in a very short period of time when that line is crossed, brother and I’m gone. Is that right or wrong? That’s our patient level, not God’s.

So it says that before faith in Jesus came, you were a prisoner, and you were a prisoner until this faith is revealed. But now the faith has been revealed. I am free from what I was a prisoner of. I’ve been let out of jail. So it concludes, so the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ. How come? So that we might be justified or let out of jail by what? Faith are we together? What’s the law powerless to do? Well, the law can’t make you righteous.

And folks, I want us to think this is not just a J__ish situation, like I say, you go over to Israel. And incidentally, I’m kind of glad we got out of there when we did there. I mean, we were sitting there looking at sites that are getting blown up today. That’s a horrible situation going on over there. But I want to ask you a question, how would you like it if Mexico and the leaders of Mexico openly declared that my goal for Mexico is to wipe the United States off of the face of the earth? And Canada, all of the governments of Canada said My goal is to wipe the United States off of the face of the earth. How do you think we’d respond when someone bombed us? Folks, there’s that little country with all the land around it, just this little tiny country carved out called Israel, a little tiny country called Israel, and around it, surround it, Lebanon and the north all the way around it, except the ocean. The ocean is the only thing that doesn’t want to destroy them, or the sea, saying, My goal is to wipe them off of the face of the earth. Now you think you’re going to sit there and say, We need to negotiate. We need to be sweet. I got news for you. You’re talking to thugs who want to wipe them and you, as a Christian, off of the face of the earth. This isn’t militants, that’s the religion. That’s not militants, that’s the religion. It’s a religion that was based upon believe or die. If you don’t believe that, just go back and read, believe or die. That’s how the Muslim religion got started and was sustained. Believe or your throat is slit. You’re not talking about friendly things. You’re not talking about religion. You’re talking about a desire to wipe some people off of the face of the earth and to gain world domination where everyone becomes a Muslim. You ladies here, get rid of your clothes and you put robes on, you cover your faces, and you live like a secondary citizen. That’s what’s going to happen if that was ever accomplished. So those are laws. That’s what the law ultimately does. You got law, and then you got to get more law. That’s law over here. We got a law here as well. You got it in churches. It’s not just J__ish. It’s in our churches. We’ve grabbed a hold of the Law of Moses that God says to die to, and we’ve said, You don’t understand God, I’m going to bring it in to my so called Christian religion, and we’re going to comingle it, we’re going to talk about grace, but the law is the real thing. That’s the real issue. Grace is sprinkled. Grace is salt going to sprinkle a little grace on my law doing and that’s what we have today.

Now, Paul says that I don’t set aside the grace of God if righteousness could be gained through the law. Christ died for nothing. What he is saying there is if you’re trying to use the law for your Righteousness, Christ should have stayed at home. Now, guys, I didn’t say this. This is God’s word, so if anyone’s going to rebel against it, don’t rebel against me. I’m just a messenger boy. I didn’t create this message. We’ve just been called to proclaim it. And Paul said that if this law that you’re so fond of could be gained if righteousness your righteousness could be gained through your obedience to the law. Christ died for nothing. You don’t even ignore the fact that he even existed, because he has no meaning at all to you in your life, none at all. Just forget it if you think that your obedience to the law is going to make you righteous, the law can’t justify you know that a man is not justified by observing the law. Now, here it’s talking about observing the law. Now, guys, your mind would say, Well, come on, doesn’t God want us to observe these laws? Yeah, yeah. If you’re lost, he wants you to see that these laws are what are necessary to keep chaos from occurring in you and in your country and in your nation, wherever you are, but in so doing, to realize you can’t do it. So guys, there’s two ways. There’s two forms of motivation that God has for man. One is the law, motivating people through the law, and in order to do that, you have to motivate them through what? Fear, through fear. That’s all you can do under the law. You must motivate people through fear. Under grace you motivate people through what love, perfect love casts away what all what fear. So you got two forms of motivation, fear and love. Now, what God is saying to us is until, until Grace has come and the love of God has come to invade your heart you are in bondage to this law that creates fear. That’s your form of motivation. But when faith has come in Jesus now you leave that fear behind because it says perfect love casts away all fear. So God isn’t real fond of fear. God doesn’t use fear as a motivation. He uses love as a motivation. But you see, if I don’t know how to motivate by love, I’m going to go back to motivating my fear. If I don’t know how to get people to give out of their hearts, I’m going to go back to the law and scare the daylights out of them. If you don’t tithe, God’s going to zap you, right or wrong, those are the only two options that you have on motivation, love and fear. And so he’s saying to us, a man is not justified by observing the law, and he’s going to justify you but by faith in Christ, Jesus. So he says, because of that fact, you see, and when you’re saying because of this fact, you have to know that that is a fact. In other words, Paul has come to a fact of recognizing the truth that these things are true, that you’re no longer under the law as a Christian, as a lost person, you’re still under it hadn’t done its work yet. But as a saved person, you’re in Christ. Now you leave the law behind. It’s done its work in order to walk freely in the newness of life, which is in Christ, Jesus. Right or wrong? And now you leave the motivation of fear behind, and you motivate now are motivated by love.

Under the law, if I don’t do it, God’s going to zap me, so I better do it. Don’t want to do it. Can’t stand doing I’m going to do it because I don’t want to get zapped under grace Jesus loved me. Jesus gave himself for me. God loved me. God forgave me. Therefore, forgive one another. It’s your motivation, totally different. So we’ve put our faith now, now that we understand those truths, we too have put our faith in Christ, Jesus. How come? So that we too may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law. Why? Because by observing the law, no one will be justified. Now, how many people do you think are included in that no one? Way you suppose no one means it means no one well, not even good people? No one. What about Mahatma Gandhi? No one. No one. What about these people who walk around? They’re just looking so peaceful, and they got robes on, so they must be peaceful. And they and they and they smile so and they’re so quiet and so peaceful. Well, they probably took a pretty good drug this morning. No one, no one is justified before God by the law, no one, HEBREW, Gentile, slave or free. No one will ever be or ever has been justified before God, through the law.

If you can declare yourself as righteous in the sight of God, it’s because you have put your faith in the righteous One. Apart from that you have no righteousness, we can sit around and act righteous and talk righteous and go to churches where people are righteous, but apart from being imputed the righteousness from God, you are never going to experience what righteousness is. Right or wrong? The righteous, if you’ve been declared righteous by Jesus, how do you live now? You live by what? By faith in who? Jesus, the one who loved you and gave himself for you.

Now, if I’m going to live by faith in Jesus, then I want us to turn for just a moment as we close the fifth chapter of Ephesians, beginning in the eighth verse, Ephesians, five eight, don’t live by the law that’s motivated by fear. You live by faith in Jesus Christ, that’s called grace, motivated by love. Verse eight, once you were in darkness, that is the condition of every lost person who is called a prisoner. You are in darkness. No one who is lost is in the light, guys. And if you are not in the light, you cannot see very well, and that’s why we have what you have going on the world today, people who are in darkness, who don’t see very clearly.

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Once you were in darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. If you’re a child of God and he. Is your head, and you have become a part of his body. We are called a light in the Lord. Well, what do you do? Live as children of light. If you are light, live as light. If you’re a light bulb. Put out light. That’s what a light bulb is for. Put out light. If you’re a water fountain, put out water. Not complicated is it. For the fruit of light consists of this goodness, righteousness, the truth, righteousness and truth, and find out what pleases God. Now, guys, find out what pleases God. What does the Bible tell us pleases God? Faith. The righteous will live by what faith. So what pleases God? Faith, apart from faith. It’s impossible to do what? Please God. It doesn’t say apart from works. It says apart from faith. Now, if faith in God tells you to go work, to do something, that’s what you do, but you don’t go do it in order to get the glory of God surrounding you. So if you’re in the light, walk in the light, and the fruit of the by product of walking in the light is goodness, righteousness and truth, and find out what pleases the Lord, and we know what that, walk by faith.

Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness rather expose them. In other words, it isn’t going around saying, Hey, I caught you. There isn’t any love in that, but exposing what is right and wrong. It’s being having the boldness to say that something is not an alternate lifestyle. It’s homosexuality. That going and sleeping with someone out of marriage is not shacking up. It’s called adultery or fornication, that’s exposing truth for what truth is. And if someone is a drunk, they’re not an alcoholic, they’re a drunk. If you’re lost, it’s not you’re it’s not that you’re unsaved. That’s a nicer word than lost. They’re just unsaved. Is that anything like an uncola you know? What do you mean? Unsaved? You’re lost. And that’s what he’s saying here. Is expose sin For what sin is. Call it what it is. Quit pussyfooting around with these names that we’ve come up with. Call it what it is. He says it’s shameful to even mention what the disobedient do in secret. That’s true.

But everything exposed by light becomes visible, for it’s the light that makes everything visible, and that’s why it said, wake up. O sleeper. Wake up. People, wake up. God has called you and me to be a light in this world, to be a light for Jesus. The world is dark. Everyone you run into doesn’t need Jesus is dark. Their minds are darkened, and they need light in order to see. And God has called us to be instruments of righteousness. God has called us to be instruments of light, instruments to be able to go out into the world that’s full of darkness and be able to say to people that there’s a better way. Rise from the dead and Christ will shine on you. Be careful then how you live, not as unwise, but wise, making the most out of every opportunity, because the days are evil. In other words, quit looking at being a procrastinator. I’ll do it tomorrow. He said, If you got something to do it, do it today. If you know, I tell you I have to fight that like crazy, because I love to do tomorrow what I could do today. It’s just kind of a natural instinct of mine, make the bed. I’ll make it next month, or maybe next year, make the best of an opportunity, because the days are evil, therefore don’t be foolish. It says, Do not be foolish. But understand what the Lord’s will is, do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. What he’s talking about, don’t be foolish. Why? Because alcohol makes you foolish. Have you ever been around a guy or a person is drunk? Aren’t they intelligent? Now we think we are. Man, I never so smart my life when I was drunk. We think we know everything, but you’re You’re a fool. You sit there, slobbered all over yourself, looking as simple as a mule, but you think you’re smart. He says, Don’t do that. That’s not That’s not the way a child of God lives. It’s not for you. That’s for the that’s. Are the lost world. You can’t criticize the lost world for what they do. They don’t know any better. They’re in darkness, but you’re saved now. And that’s all that’s saying, is, guys, put aside this stuff. Wake up. Wake up. Rise from the dead. You were dead. Those are things that dead people do. Now wake up and to and to begin getting a brand new attitude toward life, and the way you live your life and the way you think about life, because if you don’t think properly, your actions are not going to be proper. So he says, Don’t do that. It’s stupid, especially for a child of God. It’s idiotic to go and to alter your mind instead of renew your mind. Now, there’s many sins, but these are just things that really mess you up. Don’t get drunk with wine. It leads to debauchery. So in other words, it’s going to lead to something other than drunkenness. Have you ever known a real drunk it wasn’t a liar. There’s no such thing, because you have to lie. That’s just part of it. That’s part of anything that you got to lie about it means you really shouldn’t be doing it. If I got to lie about it, it’s one good way of knowing whether you’re doing right or wrong. If I have to lie about it, it’s wrong.

Don’t get drunk with wine. It leads to debauchery. Instead, it says to be filled or controlled of the Spirit. And we both, we’ve gone into that before. It means to be controlled by love, controlled by love. Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always in all things, giving thanks to God, the Father, for how much? What’s it say? Everything, everything. Giving thanks. Remember the passage give thanks in how much all things for this is what the will of God concerning you? You want to know the will of God. That’s one of the ways you know be a thankful person, giving thanks in all things. How many times do we spend our life grumbling? Do you know guys that every bad thing that ever happens to you has been filtered through God, and he is not going to stop the will of somebody that wants to impose wrong on you. But he says, I’ll tell you one thing. I will cause it to work together for your good. We don’t know what is for our good. We don’t know we absolutely have no way of knowing what was our good. We can sit down and plan now. If this wouldn’t happen, man, I would be this, and I’d be this, and I’d be this, and we this. And God said you don’t know what you’d be. You’d probably be an egotistical idiot. And so the issue is, whatever God, whatever you have gone through, if you will, think properly, you’re going to understand something that God doesn’t make bad good, but I’ll cause it to work together for your good. To those who love the Lord and are called according to His purpose, that’s a promise of God, guys. Give thanks in everything in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and submit to one another after reverence to Christ, there’s a big one submission. How are you going to submit when I went my own way? How are we going to be submission? If I think that I am always right and I have to always be right, please don’t ever tell me I’m wrong about anything. There is only two ways to go, the wrong way and my way, and we live like that. Well, that’s not an attitude of submission. How many times do we just sit back to listen to see? Could it be that maybe I’m not thinking properly in that area?

So it’s getting back to the full pack, folks, that if we’re going to walk by faith, we’re going to have to walk by faith in Jesus, and we’re going to have to walk by faith in Him, renewing our minds with truth, and letting that truth do what he said it would do, and that’s set you free going through some tough times right now, going through some hard times. It says, Give thanks. Give thanks. Don’t get hardened by the hard times. But let God build you in the hard times he will do so he’ll build you in the hard times. That’s his promise to you and me.

Let’s pray together. Father, hard times can make us even either bitter or better. I can get bitter over things, or I can allow you to make me better because of them, it’s very hard to do when we’ve been offended. It’s very hard to do when we’ve been betrayed in one form or another, but in the final analysis, if we will see that this is none of these things have ever taken you by surprise, and you do look down on our heartaches with compassion. There’s no question about that. But in the midst of that to say, trust me, believe in me, and I will cause it to work together for your good. So to anyone in this room or in the sound of my voice through the Internet who are going through trials and tribulation in one form or another, that you really have come to the end of your own self sufficiency, look at that as a blessing, because now God can take over and to do what he said he would Do, and that is to cause it to work together for your good. The way he does that. And it seems to me is that you work in our attitudes. There are many people who have an attitude, from little on it. The only thing that’s ever going to make them happy is be a millionaire, and then you find out, I don’t think I’m going to make that. That’s what God wants you to see. I never intended you to be a millionaire. You’d probably ruin your life, but I do want you to be responsible, and God begins to work in our hearts to change our minds and our attitudes so that we become thankful people. So Father, we thank you in all things, and we thank you for your love toward us, Your mercy toward us, and the fact that these promises are ours as your children. And so let’s begin to rejoice, and let’s begin to not artificially, but to rejoice and to give thanks and to experience the joy of the Lord in the midst of the hardships that we’re going through, and we’re going to Praise You in Jesus’ name and for his sake. Amen.

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