Radio Broadcast Wednesday 04/16/2025

Classic Christianity – The Mystery of God Part 3 (04-16-25)

Bob George Presents: The Mystery of God Week Two Part 3

~ And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ. Ephesians 1:9,10

When the Holy Spirit comes to indwell a person today, He teaches us the mystery of His will. Now it’s important for us to understand, that those who are not in Christ Jesus, who are not born of God, will not understand the mystery of God, for they do not have Truth living in them. And you can speak to someone, till blue in the face, of the things of God, and they will not have a clue what you are even talking about. It requires the Holy Spirit living in a person to teach a person what the word of God means. And that is the reason today many are not understanding the things of God, because they have been brainwashed by Satan into thinking they are born again, when in reality they are not. For only those who have the Holy Spirit living in them, are having their minds renewed. And the more things that are renewed, we see the lies of the world, and the Truth of God clearer and clearer as time goes on.

Think about it folks, when you have a hunger to know the deeper things of God, It is God himself that is leading you into ALL Truth. We are reminded in the Word of God, to trust in no Man, NOT even ourselves. And why is that the case? Because Man can be teaching Satan’s lies without even knowing it. And people think, “Satan could never deceive me” as though they are above deception themselves. Yet everyone has been deceived, and continues to be deceived by Satan and the demons and the teachings of the world. Don’t forget, that a third of the angels in heaven fell from heaven, and were kicked out of heaven and kicked down to earth. Do we simply think they are doing nothing except floating around? We even forget the story about the demons in the demon possessed man that Jesus encountered, and there was a LEGION of demons that came out of one man and went into about 2000 pigs. And get this, it was the demons that requested Jesus allow them to go into the pigs. So obviously, demons don’t care what type of flesh they inhabit. And also remember, that Satan appears as an angel of light. It’s a false light, but people believe it. “And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.” 2 Corinthians 2:14 And as a reminder, we know from scripture that angels can appear in human form, so also can demons be incarnate in the world, and people would not have a clue. “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.” Hebrews 13:2

So why is this important for ALL of us to know today? Because God does not want us to be unaware of what is going on today. He wants us to know Truth, and Truth because with TRUTH, Jesus himself. For His name is TRUTH, and He cannot lie.

Mark 5:1-13
On the other side of the sea, they arrived in the region of the Gerasenes. As soon as Jesus got out of the boat, He was met by a man with an unclean spirit, who was coming from the tombs. This man had been living in the tombs and could no longer be restrained, even with chains. Though he was often bound with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and shattered the shackles. Now there was no one with the strength to subdue him. Night and day in the tombs and in the mountains he kept crying out and cutting himself with stones.

When the man saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees before Him. And he shouted in a loud voice, “What do You want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You before God not to torture me!” For Jesus had already declared, “Come out of this man, you unclean spirit!”

“What is your name?” Jesus asked.

“My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.” And he begged Jesus repeatedly not to send them out of that region.

There on the nearby hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding. So the demons begged Jesus, “Send us to the pigs, so that we may enter them.”

He gave them permission, and the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs, and the herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the water.

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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the One having blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world for us to be holy and blameless before Him, in love having predestined us for divine adoption as sons to Himself through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of trespasses, according to the riches of His grace which He lavished upon us in all wisdom and understanding, having made known to us the mystery of His will according to His pleasure, which He purposed in Him for the administration of the fullness of the times, to bring together all things in Christ—the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth— in Him, in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of the One working all things according to the counsel of His will for us, the ones having first trusted in Christ, to be to the praise of His glory, in whom you also, having heard the word of truth, the gospel your of salvation, in whom also having believed you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance to the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory. Ephesians 1:3-14

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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.

~ “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?

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7

Lord Jesus, teach me the truth of the world today and give me the wisdom to know the truth and identify the lies of the devil. Thank you God.”

“~ Now, in verse nine, he also now has made known to us the mystery of his will. So we’re talking about his will according to His purpose, according to His good pleasure. So now here again is this good pleasure. So it pleased God to make known to you and to me the mystery of his will. Now, folks, of the mystery. The Greek word for that is musterion, and that is not like a Perry Mason novel. It is a hidden truth that is revealed at the time that it is chosen by the people to reveal it to you. You join some kind of a secretive organization. They got all these secret things, and after you accomplish this and this and this and this, well, then they reveal the mystery of their organization to you. Well, that’s where that word came from. It’s a revealing at a proper time. And so when the time had fully come, God chose to reveal to us. Who’s the us? Who would be the us in here? It would be everybody would now, who is able to get something revealed to them, to make known is to be revealed? Who’s the only people that have something revealed to them? Born Again people. Who’s the only person that can reveal truth to you. I can’t see, ear, can’t hear, mind, can’t conceive of those things that God has prepared for those who love him, but it must be what? Revealed by the Spirit. Who’s the only people that can be revealed to you? People who have the Holy Spirit of God living in them. If you’re sitting in here today and you’re not born again, you don’t have a clue what I’m talking about, because it says those things are foolishness to you, because spiritual things have to be discerned spiritually. And that angers people, especially religious people who think they know something, and they thought they knew, the religious people of the day of Jesus thought they knew what the Bible said. Jesus came along said, you don’t have a clue what it says. And that really made them happy. Oh, well, teach us rabbi, as you’re hanging from the cross and I beat you half to death. So you have to realize that natural man cannot understand spiritual things. That’s foolishness to him.” ~ Bob George

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So folks, where when we were adopted, when the Gentile community, along with the HEBREW community, was predestined by God for salvation that was in accordance with His pleasure and his will. So we have the will of God. We have the pleasure of God. So what does that tell you about God? Does he? Is He pleased to do that? Yes, gave him pleasure. I you know, we talk about pleasure. He had pleasure in saving the world. And that’s what this is talking about. In Him. We have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, again, in accordance with the riches of what? Your confession is, that what it says in accordance with the riches of what? God’s grace. Now let’s go back again when you’re talking about grace. What is grace? Giving you something that you did not what? Deserve. All right, now, when I have the mindset and I’m taught that if I ask God to forgive me, he will forgive me. Then would you not have to say that if I ask, then I deserve to be forgiven? Would that be the case? I deserve that I asked, didn’t I? I mean, I went to the confession booth, didn’t I? I mean, I climbed up the steps on my knees, didn’t I? I went to the Day of Atonement, didn’t I? I did what you told me to do. So I deserve to be forgiven. Is that grace? No, if you do something in order for him to do something, then you deserve what you get. So when you’re talking about the fact that I have forgiveness in accordance with the riches of God’s grace, that means that I can do nothing to receive that forgiveness. That means that I do nothing to be redeemed, because if I did something to be redeemed, then I would be getting what I deserve. Grace is receiving what you did not deserve. Mercy is withholding what you did deserve. Are we together?

So when you’re talking about your redemption, that was all according to the foreknowledge of God, according to the election of God, according to the will of God, that you, as a Gentile, would have the opportunity to be redeemed and forgiven the same way that the HEBREW was. Now under the Old Covenant, that God gave to the HEBREW, not to the Gentile. God did not give ever, ever the law to the Gentile. And that’s why Paul said, when I was under the law, that I behaved as one under the law in order to win some under the law, and to those that were not under the law, the Gentile, then I behaved like them in order to win some so the Gentile never was under the law. These churches that many of you have been into and been beaten to death in, who dragged the Old Covenant law in, have done something that God never, ever, ever intended them to do in the first place. He said, I don’t know why you’re under this thing. I never gave it to you. So it’s like going over and stealing someone’s car and then being proud of it. Because the law was never given to those of you in this congregation that are Gentiles, it was never given to you. Now, if you were under that law, how did you get forgiven back in those days? You had had to go sacrifice. You sacrificed. God forgave? Is that grace? Not in grace? You and faith that you did something. God did something.

Now, folks, when we’re talking about now, how so should you go over to the Gentile world and say, Well, how you guys going to get forgiven? You go to a average J@@ish person today who has no religion at all. And in 70 ad, when the sacred, when the temple was destroyed by Titus, in 70 ad, there has not been sacrificial systems since. There’s been no sacrifice since then. So you say, How in the world are you people getting forgiven? Do you ever think about that? How are you experiencing forgiveness? They’re in a sacrificial system. Without the shedding of blood. There is no forgiveness. You certainly are not accepting the one who shed his blood. How in the world do you stand forgiven? And the answer is, well, doing good things, doing good things, doing penance, yeah, doing good things, yeah. So in other words, you’re into a situation where, how in the world are you experiencing forgiveness? So folks, when you’re talking about this in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding, we have to realize that this both takes care of the HEBREW who does not have a temple to sacrifice in and the Gentile that never did have one. Of course, we build a confession booth and the first John one nines and altar calls and all that type of thing, whatever else goes on in order for me to do something, in order for God to forgive me and then say Praise God for His grace, that’s not Grace any more than I could say here Lou is $10 Give me your book and you give me the book to say Praise God for your grace. Grace. I paid for it. Where to say, Lou, I tell you what, I’ll wall around on the floor for a little while, and after I do, will you agree? After a while, long enough to give me your book, and you say, oh, okay, so I wall and wall and wall, and he gives me a book and say, Praise God for your grace. No, I wallowed for that. Amen.

So do we see, folks, what we’re talking about here, that this thing of predestination, of election, all of that type of thing was dealing with nothing except HEBREW and Gentile in order to be able to say, God so loved the entire. World that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever would believe in him would not perish but have everlasting life.

Now, in verse nine, he also now has made known to us the mystery of his will. So we’re talking about his will according to His purpose, according to His good pleasure. So now here again is this good pleasure. So it pleased God to make known to you and to me the mystery of his will. Now, folks, of the mystery. The Greek word for that is musterion, and that is not like a Perry Mason novel. It is a hidden truth that is revealed at the time that it is chosen by the people to reveal it to you. You join some kind of a secretive organization. They got all these secret things, and after you accomplish this and this and this and this, well, then they reveal the mystery of their organization to you. Well, that’s where that word came from. It’s a revealing at a proper time. And so when the time had fully come, God chose to reveal to us. Who’s the us? Who would be the us in here? It would be everybody would now, who is able to get something revealed to them, to make known is to be revealed? Who’s the only people that have something revealed to them? Born Again people. Who’s the only person that can reveal truth to you. I can’t see, ear, can’t hear, mind, can’t conceive of those things that God has prepared for those who love him, but it must be what? Revealed by the Spirit. Who’s the only people that can be revealed to you? People who have the Holy Spirit of God living in them. If you’re sitting in here today and you’re not born again, you don’t have a clue what I’m talking about, because it says those things are foolishness to you, because spiritual things have to be discerned spiritually. And that angers people, especially religious people who think they know something, and they thought they knew the religious people of the day of Jesus, thought they knew what the Bible said. Jesus came along said, you don’t have a clue what it says. And that really made them happy. Oh, well, teach us rabbi, as you’re hanging from the cross and I beat you half to death. So you have to realize that natural man cannot understand spiritual things. That’s foolishness to him.

So he said that he has made known something to you. Now, to every person sitting in this room that’s born again, he has made known to you this mystery. It’s the mystery of his will, so he has a will according to His good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ to be put into effect when the times have reached their fulfillment. What is the pleasure of his good will? What is this mystery? To bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head. That is Christ. That’s his mystery. He said, I’m going to reveal that to you. You tell that to a lost HEBREW, a religious HEBREW, that these heathenistic Gentiles are going to be saved. You got to be kidding. Don’t tell me that stuff. In fact, I’ll crucify you. If you keep talking to me about it. After a while, you tell the Gentile world, who starts looking at the J@@s that have rejected Jesus for 2000 years, and say those J@@s saved the same way you are. Don’t give me that stuff. We’ve been faithful all these years, and that’s that wall that has separated the HEBREW and the Gentile to this very day that can only be broken down through new birth in Christ, where the two of you realize both of you have been now become as one through your relationship with Christ, Jesus. And so all of this was a mystery, and it was God’s pleasure to reveal to us this mystery, and that is, I’m going to bring the two of you into one person in Christ, Jesus, and there’s going to be one head, and that’s Christ. You’re not going to have over here a pope as the head, and over here is a rabbi as the head. You’re going to have one head, and He is Christ, Jesus period.

Now in him, are you in him? Okay, we were also chosen, now that against the Gentile, having been predestined according. According to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of His will. So what was the purpose of his will? To bring all things in heaven and earth together under one head, that is Christ. Now, why did he want to do that in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, who was that? Who is that the HEBREWS might be for the praise of his glory? And you also, who’s that the Gentiles were included in Christ when you heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, having believed now that’s having believed you and I at the very moment that we come to Christ by faith. And again, folks, there’s two things necessary in salvation. One, I have to see my condition. Two, I have to see His provision. Your condition is not how bad you have been behaving. That’s a result of your condition. Your condition is dead. And that is the condition of every man born on the face of this earth. He is born dead. That is your condition. That is why you bounce prayers off the ceiling. That is why you go through life saying, I really don’t have any meaning and purpose to life. That’s why you say, May as we drink and be happy for him tomorrow, we may die. It doesn’t seem like I have any joy in my life, so may as well go take some drug. It’ll make me giggle for a while. It’s also why religiously you’re out seeking one experience after another, experience after another experience. If you’re not headed toward Toronto, you’re headed toward someplace else in order to get spiritual goose bumps, someplace is why you’ve never rested.

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Bob George 15:32
Jesus said, When you drink of my water, you’ll never thirst again. And so you say, Why are you still thirsty? When you eat of my bread, you’ll never hunger again. Then how come you’re still hungering after a new experience? Because, you see, I would not hunger after anything if my heart is satisfying. You know, I’ve just sat down and gorge myself of food. I’m not hungering for something, right then. I’m full. And when you and I have come to Christ, we’ve been given, how much ?Everything. And when you’ve been given everything, how much do you need? So do you need another giggle experience someplace? And I tell you, folks, these people are deceiving the socks off of people, of leading you from one experience to another experience to another experience, I want to tell you something right now. If Lou, you had your legs sawed off and all of a sudden one grew back, it wouldn’t intensify my faith one iota in Jesus, not one bit, not a bit. Why? I don’t need a leg growing on for me to believe in Jesus, and if I do something’s wrong with me, and that’s exactly what Jesus said, If you can’t believe the resurrection, if you can’t believe that, why do you think you’re going to believe God if he grows a leg back on you? And folks, these people that are out seeking one experience, one miracle, after another, after another, in order to say, oh, that helps me believe in Jesus. You say you can see all the miracles that you want to but if you can’t believe the resurrection, don’t think you’re going to believe because of that. All you’re going to believe is some miracle man made a leg grow. And all that is is deception, and all that is is to get people’s mind off of Jesus and on to somebody else. Because I don’t care how much people say, Praise God, the glory is going to that man. And he’s the one also living with his Rolls Royces, and we have to understand that what’s going on today. He says, You got a mind. Use it. I’ve given you a discernment. Use it, and God gave you a sound mind. And I want to tell you, if you think you got a sound mind rolling around on the floor, giggling like and howling like a dog, you got a different idea of what a sound mind is and what I do. God gave us a sound mind to think with. Jesus, this is not this isn’t funny business. This is a man who came to this earth and died on a cross. He didn’t come to get us giggling. He came to get us to think with our minds so that we can know something and know about his love. Because we don’t know about his love. We don’t know about anything.

Now folks, he says, having believed then you were marked in him, in other words, sealed the problem with the promised Holy Spirit. Now, this Holy Spirit of God that lives in you and me is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession. Who’s that? Who’s ultimately going to come to Him who are now in a point of rejection of him? What group of people is that? The HEBREWS, and it says that right now that we as Gentiles provide a source of jealousy to the HEBREW, but someday Jesus is going to come back and plant his feet right down on the Mount of Olives, and at that time, they’re going to look upon the one whom they pierced. And it says that every eye is going to gaze upon him, and every tongue, every knee is going to bow, every tongue is going to confess that what? Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father, that day is coming, and until that day comes, you and I as a Gentile are sealed with that deposit Holy Spirit that guarantees our inheritance. And we are going until the last Gentile comes in, and when the last Gentile comes in. And the Lord’s coming back.

So folks, this is all in accordance with what? His will and His purpose and His plan. Is there any of this that should take us by surprise? No, it’s all according to His plan. Now it says, For this reason, because of this, because of here. Now, who’s writing this? Paul. Who was Paul? What was his ancestry? HEBREW. He was a rabbi of Rabbi, a Teacher of teachers. He said, As far as outward, legalistic experience was no one touched me as far as outward obedience to the law nobody touched the apostle Paul, he said, but he came to know his Lord, and so he is. He’s saying to them, man, for this reason, I mean, because I had this revealed to me that the Gentile is going to come to Christ the same way the HEBREW is. Ever since that has occurred, and ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and your love for all the saints, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in all of my prayers, I keep asking that the God of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you, look what he asked for, the spirit of wisdom and revelation. Now, what does he want to reveal to us? Now he’s talking about the spirit of revelation. Is that talking about that, I hope that you have a spirit to just gain some revelation from out there someplace? Is that what he means? The Spirit is that I pray that when you are able to have the word of God communicated to you, that you will have depend upon the Spirit to reveal the meaning of it.

You can’t have revelation unless you have someone who’s going to tell you what to be revealed. And that’s folks, why we are the most privileged people on the face of this earth. We have Bibles coming out our ears. We have a book that was given to us by God, a book that the original manuscripts in which those letters were written were written by man, but they were written by the Holy Spirit of God, working in and through that man and transferring the truth of that onto a page. And that’s what you and I are reading right here. But we can read this and have no idea at all what it means, because, as I said, until the Spirit of God reveals it to you, you don’t know what it means. And folks, that’s why you cannot depend upon a teacher, because a teacher can teach you what it says. I can teach you what God has revealed to me, what it means, but you’re going to be in sad shape if you say, This is what I believe it means, because that’s what Bob said, and God does not want people to function that way. A teacher should put enough salt in the food to make you thirsty, so that you’ll go into the Word of God on your own and let God reveal that to you through your own personal study of the Word of God. So the best that I can do is to teach you what it’s saying and to teach you and to explain to you what God has revealed to me, what the meaning of that is, but the purpose of that is for you to go back and to let God reveal what the meaning is to you. And I think if we’re both indwelt by the same Spirit, we’re going to have the same meaning.

So he says, I pray that God will give you this Spirit of wisdom and His revelation. How come? So that you may what? Know him better. Now, folks, that is the key to all of this. Why does God want you to know these things? So that you will get to know him better. It’s only one reason for for any of this. It’s to get to know Him, to get to know His love, His mercy, His kindness, His provision. That the purpose of Christianity isn’t sitting around talking about we as what we as Christians are doing, I said 28 you years ago, I joined an organization whose call was come help change the world that appealed to my flesh. Sounds noble, doesn’t it? Sounds good. That’s a flesh appeal. I can’t even change me. How am I going to change the world? I can’t even change Amy. I couldn’t change our kids. I didn’t change our kids. Amy changed her kids. So how and where do you go change the world? I said, Well, I did great job. World’s gotten progressively worse for 28 years, and yet that Christ still goes out, come we’re going to go be world changers. We’re going to change the world. Baloney. Can’t even change yourself. God didn’t call us to change the world. He called us to proclaim Jesus. And when you get your eyes on changing the world, you got your eyes on the wrong thing. He called you and me to proclaim Him, and I can’t proclaim who I don’t know. So my first goal is to get to know Him, and to get to know what he has done for me when I understand that you can’t shut me up because it’s too full, it’s too much, it’s too wonderful. Because I’m not sitting around talking about how wonderful we are and how and wonderful things that we’re doing and talking about how wonderful he is and what wonderful things he has done.

And so he says, I hope that you will have that spirit of revelation so that you may know Him better, and I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened. How come? In order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and is in comparably great power for us who believe.

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