Radio Broadcast Wednesday 04/15/2026

Classic Christianity – What’s Your Excuse? – Part 3 – 4-15-26

~ I am the vine; you are the branches. The one abiding in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit. For apart from Me you are able to do nothing. John 15:5

~ We who are in Christ Jesus need to step back and look at the Truth of who is the One directing our paths. Many are out there trying to drive in rush hour traffic, all the time in the energy of the flesh. They think they have to be perfect in their flesh. They think that God expects some type of amazing defensive driving by them all the time. But here is the key thing, if you are in Christ Jesus, then He lives in you, and is leading you in ALL Truth and through the tribulations of Life. For it is in and through the tribulations of Life that we grow and know Him better, and learn how to Trust in Him moment by moment of the day. For we come to a sabbath rest in Him, and let Him train and teach us as we abide in Him. Oh, sometimes we want to take the steering wheel ourselves, and grit our teath and like to think we can do it without Jesus. And many times he lets us do that and of course we fail, but there is never any condemnaton for those who are in Christ Jesus. Because all our sins were judged at the cross, and He is not counting any of them against us today.

So don’t let satan convince you of trying to be a hypocrite law keeper. But instead rejoice in our weakness, for when we are weak, He is STRONG through me. It might look like I am strong, but it is because of the Holy Spirit living in and through you that He makes you strong. Learn as you go along in Life. Allow His discipline to guide you in ALL TRUTH. Be who you are if you are in Christ Jesus. A child of God, who God has set you apart, and declares you HOLY and sees you as He sees Christ Jesus, perfect in His sight no matter what.

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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

Jesus is God in flesh: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:1

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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.”

~ “People were talking to me the other day about praying and fasting, and praying and fasting, and probably say what? God doesn’t hear your body unless they’re hungry? That’s outward. That’s outward God is looking down here. Now, if you’re so preoccupied with Jesus that you don’t take time to eat, that’s fasting. But if you’re so busy thinking about Jesus that you don’t take time to eat, if it’s really in your heart, when would you have time to tell someone about it? So everyone’s concerned with what’s going on out here. We talk about, oh, I pray and I pray. Pray. So do the Buddhists, so do the Muslims, so do the Mormons, so do the Jehovah’s Witness, so does every cult. Everybody prays. What’s that got to do with anything? The issue is, are you living in dependency upon Him? If you are, I don’t have to talk about the fact I’m talking to him. That’s a natural by product if you’re living in dependency. But our attitude is, if I pray, I’ll get dependent. No, no, no. If you’re dependent, you’ll pray without telling people about it. Where’d it say to go? In your closet. That doesn’t mean to take all the coats out of there and climb inside there. It means do it by yourself and quit telling people about it. It’s an individual thing folks. We have tried to reduce Christianity to some group activity. It’s individual we’re sitting in here in a group, but each one of you in here who are in Christ has an individual relationship with Christ, Jesus, and that’s in the essence, the only thing that counts, what we can do together is whipping cream, but the reality is Jesus. That’s the reality. So it’s not what we do on the outside. It’s what’s going on on the inside. That’s what counts. And what’s going on on the inside of a person who has entered into what the Bible calls a Sabbath rest, is a person who is resting from his works, just as God did from his. That doesn’t mean we sit back on a hill waiting on the Lord to come back. It means there is nothing that I can do to add to the completed work of Christ, Jesus, he’s done it all. I can’t add to my forgiveness. I can’t add to my salvation. I can’t add to my eternal life. I cannot add to what he said. I live in you. I’ll reveal truth to you if you let me. I can’t add to that through studying Greek and Hebrew. I can rest in the fact that I’m a child of the living God, imperfect in my flesh in all ways. Can understand what Paul meant when he said I was the chief of sinners, because all of us could claim ourselves in that, if we wanted to, but in the midst of that, to be able to know something that Jesus is mine, and oh, for for sake of glory divine, he’s mine. I’m his, and to live in dependency upon the fact that he’s done it all. He loves you in spite of you, not because of you, and that I can walk in dependency on that. Now, if I’m living in that kind of a dependency upon Jesus, I don’t have to tell people how much I’m praying. I don’t have to tell people how much I’m reading the Bible. I don’t have to keep attendance records for people to people attendance. I’m free to be me and folks, there is no freedom in a world like that, to be able to know there is someone out there who understands me, there is someone out there who loves me perfectly, there is someone there who accepts me perfectly, and there is someone there waiting for me with open arms whenever that day comes when I’ll be absent from this body and present with Him. I can’t add to that. I’m gonna have to work at it. He just rested. That’s what Paul’s trying to get us to see in this book, neutralizing all of us down to the point of realizing, apart from Jesus, I can do what? Nothing.” ~ Bob George

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Now to the Apostle Paul saying to the self righteous HEBREW, is no different than what the Lord Jesus Christ said to the same groups of peoples. You see, folks, we’ve learned to tolerate legalism. We support it. We build huge buildings to it, and we glorify men who teach it, but not Paul and not Jesus. He said, You’re the most damaging people on the face of the earth. And he treated them accordingly. The only harsh words that you ever heard come out of the mouth of Jesus was to the self righteous hypocrite. And so he says, Woe to you, the fourth woe verse 23 teachers of the law and Pharisees. You hypocrites. You give a 10th of your spices, mint, dill and cumin, but you’ve neglected the more practical or the more important matters of the law, justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former. You blind guides, you strain out a nap, but you swallow a camel. This is Harsh stuff, isn’t it, folks, he’s saying to them, oh yeah, you tithe your stuff, your food stuff. When it comes down to your mom and dad needing something, won’t give them any they’ll give all your money. Over here, see somebody in need, forget them. I’m on my way to the church to tithe now, because Jesus had not ushered in the New Covenant yet, whereby the law had not been canceled yet, because it hadn’t been totally fulfilled yet, he was able to say, Yeah, because we are under the Old Covenant, you should have tithed. You should have fulfilled that’s an obligation of the law, but not at the neglect of helping those in need. You’ll have people who will still want to teach that tithing, because Jesus said that. Well, you talk about straining at the gnat. Woe to you teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You clean out the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside there are full of greed and self indulgence. Blind Pharisee first clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside will also be clean. How many of us have invested our money in the outside instead of the inside? How many of us are more interested in what we look like than what we are? How many of us would rather take our time, treasure and talent and invest it in things instead of the eternal things that are going to enable people to spend eternity with Jesus instead of eternity away from Him, to set our priorities in life, that there’s not one thing any more important that you and I can do than letting people know about the relationship that they can have with Jesus. That’s an eternal thing, folks. Everything else is temporary. You can get the best education in the world, temporary. Make all the money in the world temporary, have the biggest house in the world temporary, but the house you’re going to live in eternally is eternal. And if we have love, then our priorities in life should be number one, first of all, to give of ourselves to God, and second to see that this message goes out to a lost and hurting world. Everything else should be secondary to that. Clean up the inside and then the outside will also be clean. The sixth woe verse, 27 Woe to you teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You’re like white washed tombs. You look beautiful on the outside, but in the inside you’re full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous, but on the inside you’re full of hypocrisy and witness and wickedness, real complimentary stuff. Number seven, Woe to you teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say, if we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken a part with them in the shedding of blood of the prophets talking to the very people that are going to shed his blood. So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murder the prophets Fill up then the measure of the sin of your forefathers. You snakes, You brood of vipers. How will you escape being condemned to hell?

Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and. Teachers, some of them, you will kill and crucify. Others you will flog in the synagogues and pursue from town to town, and so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on the earth, from the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of becheron, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. I tell you the truth all of this will come upon this generation, Jerusalem O Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you. How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. Look your house is left to you desolate, For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Now let’s go back to the book of Romans, verse three, when you a mere man, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things. Do you think you’ll escape God’s judgment, or do you show contempt for the riches of His kindness, tolerance, patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you toward repentance. But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. God will give to each person according to what he has done to those who by persistence in doing good, seek and folks, I would recommend that you put for clarification in your Bible here, put his in front of glory, because you’re not seeking your own. And we’ll explain that in a moment, so those who are seeking His glory, his honor and his immortality, he will give eternal life, but for those who self seek, so you see, that is the very opposite of what he’s saying here, those who self seek and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the HEBREW then for the Gentile, but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good, first for the HEBREW and then for the Gentile, for God does not show favoritism. Now, folks, there again is where many interpretations can come about. You say, See there, if you do good, you’re going to have eternal life. You do bad, you’re not going to have eternal life. What is good? What what is what did Jesus say was the one sin of the world? Unbelief in Jesus. What is doing good? This is what this whole book quit holding back truth, accept truth, recognize it’s all Jesus and none of us now is there a by product to that? Folks, if you are a branch and you see fruit coming out of it, how come that happened? Could you say to the branch you’re doing good for producing fruit? No, because you’re not producing it. Could you even say you’re doing good by bearing fruit? No, you’re doing good by abiding in the vine. Who alone can produce the fruit. Because if you weren’t abiding, nothing would be coming out of you. So you’re not getting praise for what you’re doing. You’re getting praise for what you’re who you’re abiding in. And so when he’s talking here about all of us who are doing good or doing bad, he’s dealing with, what are you doing with my Son Jesus? So to those who reject Jesus, they’re going to remain dead and in hell. That’s your destiny. To those who accept Jesus, are going to be with Him forever. You’re indwelt by Him now he said, I’ll never leave you nor forsake you. Your destiny is totally assured when you die, you’re going to be absent from the body and present with the Lord. God does not show favoritism. I didn’t develop one plan for the HEBREW and another plan for the Gentile. I neutralized all of you so that everyone will be saved in the same way, and that’s by faith in Him and in Him alone.

Now, folks, let’s go down to verse 12, all who sin apart from the law. Now, who is that? That’s the Gentiles. So do you have any doubt, from a biblical standpoint, that God never gave the law to the Gentiles? How could you sin apart from the law if you had the law? So did he ever give the law to the Gentiles? Then how did we get it? What are we teaching every Sunday? Something that he never gave to us. He gave the Law to the HEBREW. Now he’s saying to us as Gentiles, you who sin apart from the law will perish apart from the law. What is the wages of sin? Death. You’re going to perish whether you’re under the law or you’re not under the law, because the wages of sin is death. Now that neutralizes all you Gentiles, for it’s not and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. Who’s under the law? The HEBREWS. How are they going to be judged by the law? What’s the verdict, guilty? What’s the punishment? Death. Now, has he neutralized us, all those under the law, you can’t do it dead to the Gentile doesn’t have the law. You’re dead. Now everyone then comes into this world in what condition, dead? And if you’re dead, what do you need? Life? Oh, well, good. Let’s go to Buddha. Let’s go to Muhammad. Where is Muhammad? Dead. Where is Jesus? Raised from the dead. Oh, just go be a Catholic, dead. Go be a Baptist dead. You see, folks, no one can come alive through anything man made. If you’re dead and you’re going to come alive, something from out there is going to have to enter in here, because there’s nothing in dead that can produce life. And so he neutralized the whole world. So those who sin apart from the law, the Gentiles dead, and those who sin under the law the HEBREW dead. For it’s not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. Okay, what do we say about that? Now you’ll get some people would look at that and say, See there, if you obey the law, you’ll be declared righteous. What’s the scripture say, No man will ever be declared righteous in the sight of God through what? Obedience to the law. So what is he saying here? It’s not those who hear the law who are righteous, but those who obey the law will be declared righteous. Did anyone ever obey the law? Who’s the only one who ever obeyed the law? Jesus, who’s the only one ever declared righteous? Jesus, and the righteousness that you and I have does not come from us. It comes from where? Him.

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So it’s not those who hear the law who are righteous, but those who obey the law who are declared righteous. Verse 14. Indeed, when the Gentiles, who do not have the law do by nature things required by the law, then they’re a law for themselves, even though they don’t have the law, since they show that the requirements of the law are written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them. In other words, you’ve got Gentiles over there who don’t have the law, who are living a better life than you who do, and the only one that’s going to be declared righteous are those obeying it. Now, a HEBREW under the law would say, Well, if he was honest, I think that leaves me out. And the Gentile would have to say, I don’t think I’m doing too good of a job either. You see what Paul’s doing here. Fantastic, folks. It’s the most unbelievable piece of if you want to talk about a smart attorney, this is the greatest piece of literature of defense that has ever been penned in human history. So he says this will take place on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares, so when is that judgment going to take place? When is that going to take place? When our thoughts are judged by Christ, Jesus. Now folks, let me tell you. Is there any more judgment from God for your sins? Where were your sins? Judged? At the cross. What was the verdict? Guilty. And what was the punishment? Death. And who took it? How much is left for you? None. That’s why there is no condemnation awaiting those who belong to Christ, Jesus. So you will never be judged again for your sins. There is only one sin that will be accountable to man, and that’s the sin, singular of unbelief. Have you come to Christ by faith? You still rejecting him? Has your hard, unrepentant heart still hardened, or has it been softened by the mercy and kindness and the patience of God? Man can’t do that. Only God can.

Now he’s going to address to the HEBREW under the law, verse 17. Now you who call yourself a HEBREW, if you rely on the law and brag about your relationship to God, if you know His will and approve of what is superior, because you are instructed by the law, and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those who are in the dark, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth, you then, who teach others do you not teach yourself? Sounds like just amplification of what we just studied in the woes, doesn’t it? And so he’s saying to us that here, if you rely, the key to this whole thing is relying, if you’re relying on the law to do what? Make you right in the sight of God. How many of you were ever taught that if you obeyed the law, you’d be right in the sight of God? I thought that. Now, is that what the Bible teaches? No, he’s actually teaches the very opposite. If you’re relying on that, then he says you’re in some big trouble because you’re relying on something it’s never going to come about.

Now, it says here, You who preach against stealing, do you steal? You who say that people should not commit adultery? Do you commit adultery? Now, again, this is an application of Jesus teaching. What did Jesus say about that subject? That if you look on another person with lust in your heart, you’ve what? Already committed adultery, anyone out here without sin? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? You who will brag about the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? It is written God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you. Folks, you’re in anything in the world that will cause the wrath of people against you and me as a Christian, except our own self righteousness, brother, they’ll come at us every time. When you’re standing up there acting like you’re holier than thou, you wouldn’t say a bad word if Your life depended on it, you’re going to have wrath against you, because people know that’s not true. Those of you have listened to the radio over a period of time have occasionally heard people call in and say, I don’t sin. I say, let me talk to your wife. I had one guy that said, okay, and I talked to her, your husband ever sinned?

I said, I think I got my answer. Now, why would anyone be claiming that? Well, because their head is full of self righteousness. So he’s dealing here with if you break the law, you become, excuse me, that if you are going to be blasphemed among the Gentiles because of this, we as Christians are also going to be blasphemed among the lost world because of our own hypocrisy. What does that say to the lost world when they see a person who falls or, as we talked about months ago, happens to get a divorce as a pastor, and they see the Christian world jerking them off a radio and taking them off of here and here and here. What do you think a lost world says, You bunch of hypocrites, who you think you are? I’d like to interview your wife. You see if we showed mercy and compassion like God shows and understanding, you’d have the lost world standing at our doors trying to find out what is going on with these people? They love each other, they forgive each other. I’ll tell you something folks about the J_____ people. You’re not going to find them exposing each other. They got more sense than we do as Christians. I’ll guarantee you you do not see them exposing their own people. What did it say? Love does? Covers, covers, and what does hate do? Exposes, Beli, somebody else to make yourself look better in their sight. That’s where that first part, it talks about people get into this realm, into slander, gossip, all of those things come from a heart that says, I’m going to make myself look better by making somebody else who people think are better look bad. Of course, we never see that in the political realm. Okay?

Verse 25 circumcision. That was one of the laws of the HEBREW. Has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you become as though you have not been circumcised. So what good does it say that I’m a HEBREW, but I and I have the law, but I don’t live by it. I. If those who are not circumcised keep God’s laws requirements, will they not be regarded as if they were circumcised? The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you, even though you have the written code and the circumcision are the law breaker. A man is not a HEBREW, if he is one, only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward or physical. No, a man is a HEBREW, if he is one outwardly and circumcision is circumcision of the heart by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such man’s praise is not from men, but from God.

Now, folks, you will see things that follow these principles and these truths. You’ll see people who will talk about the fact, just like in that you have to be circumcised, it’s a part of the law, but then you don’t keep the rest of the law. And he’s saying, what about the Gentiles who haven’t gone through that thing and they keep the ball the law? Aren’t they better than you are? You see, folks, it’s the heart that God is looking on. It’s the same type of thing that we have done with baptism. John the Baptist, said, I came to baptize with water that’s outward, but the one coming after me whose sandals I’m not worthy of tying, have baptized you with the Holy Spirit that’s inward. And he’s saying, it’s not the outward that makes you something, it’s the inward that makes you something. It’s the circumcision of the heart, not of an outward part of your body. It’s the baptism that takes place inwardly in your heart, not a baptism that takes place outwardly for show. And so religion is always looking outward, where Jesus Christ came to look inward, inside of the heart. Is anyone saved by getting dunked in water? No, is anyone saved by being sprinkled with water? No, is anyone saved by joining a church? No, is anyone saved by leading a good life? No, because no one’s ever led one. When they call Jesus good, what’d he say? Don’t call me good unless you’re going to call me God, because only God is good. So now that ought to settle that issue. We ought to be able to rest in the fact I’m not good, and just accept that by faith and walk by it. So it’s not the outward, it’s what’s going on in the heart. Folks, an attitude of dependency is what’s going on in the heart. You see, we are always talking about what’s going on out here.

People were talking to me the other day about praying and fasting, and praying and fasting, and probably say what? God doesn’t hear your body unless they’re hungry? That’s outward. That’s outward God is looking down here. Now, if you’re so preoccupied with Jesus that you don’t take time to eat, that’s fasting. But if you’re so busy thinking about Jesus that you don’t take time to eat, if it’s really in your heart, when would you have time to tell someone about it? So everyone’s concerned with what’s going on out here. We talk about, oh, I pray and I pray. Pray. So do the Buddhists, so do the Muslims, so do the Mormons, so do the Jehovah’s Witness, so does every cult. Everybody prays. What’s that got to do with anything? The issue is, are you living in dependency upon Him? If you are, I don’t have to talk about the fact I’m talking to him. That’s a natural by product if you’re living in dependency. But our attitude is, if I pray, I’ll get dependent. No, no, no. If you’re dependent, you’ll pray without telling people about it. Where’d it say to go? In your closet. That doesn’t mean to take all the coats out of there and climb inside there. It means do it by yourself and quit telling people about it. It’s an individual thing folks. We have tried to reduce Christianity to some group activity. It’s individual we’re sitting in here in a group, but each one of you in here who are in Christ has an individual relationship with Christ, Jesus, and that’s in the essence, the only thing that counts, what we can do together is whipping cream, but the reality is Jesus. That’s the reality. So it’s not what we do on the outside. It’s what’s going on on the inside. That’s what counts. And what’s going on on the inside of a person who has entered into what the Bible calls a Sabbath rest, is a person who is resting from his works, just as God did from his. That doesn’t mean we sit back on a hill waiting on the Lord to come back. It means there is nothing that I can do to add to the completed work of Christ, Jesus, he’s done it all. I can’t add to my forgiveness. I can’t add to my salvation. I can’t add to my eternal life. I cannot add to what he said. I live in you. I’ll reveal truth to you if you let me. I can’t add to that through studying Greek and Hebrew. I can rest in the fact that I’m a child of the living God, imperfect in my flesh in all ways. Can understand what Paul meant when he said I was the chief of sinners, because all of us could claim ourselves in that, if we wanted to, but in the midst of that, to be able to know something that Jesus is mine, and oh, for for sake of glory divine, he’s mine. I’m his, and to live in dependency upon the fact that he’s done it all. He loves you in spite of you, not because of you, and that I can walk in dependency on that. Now, if I’m living in that kind of a dependency upon Jesus, I don’t have to tell people how much I’m praying. I don’t have to tell people how much I’m reading the Bible. I don’t have to keep attendance records for people to people attendance. I’m free to be me and folks, there is no freedom in a world like that, to be able to know there is someone out there who understands me, there is someone out there who loves me perfectly, there is someone there who accepts me perfectly, and there is someone there waiting for me with open arms whenever that day comes when I’ll be absent from this body and present with Him. I can’t add to that. I’m gonna have to work at it. He just rested. That’s what Paul’s trying to get us to see in this book, neutralizing all of us down to the point of realizing, apart from Jesus, I can do what? Nothing.

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