Radio Broadcast Wednesday 05/06/2026

Classic Christianity – Freedom in Dependency – Part 3 – 5-06-26

~ There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love. 1 John 4:18

~ When we are abiding in the Love of God, our fears are driven out of us. Why? Because His perfect Love lives in and through us. He is the one who is driving out the fear from us. He is setting the record straight. For when a person is in Christ Jesus, His Spirit is communicating to our spirit that Everything is going to be okay. Those who are in Christ Jesus have experienced the perfect Love of God, when we are going through difficult situations, and we hear the Spirit tell us, everything is going to work out for your good. And as we look back in our own lives, we can see that has indeed been the case. And make no mistake about it, the hand of God has been in your life since day one. He knew us before we knew Him. Look back, and you can see His hand of protection upon you. And today, know this, that NOTHING can separate us from the Love of God, not even yourself. For He completes the work He began in you.

And share His Love with others. Share Jesus, God in flesh is the Perfect Love of God. God is Love. Jesus is Love. And Jesus is much much closer than people imagine today. He is flesh and bone today, and the apostles saw Him, talked with Him, shared meals with Him after He was resurrected from the dead. He is real, in bodily form, and someday we shall all see Him as He is. In the meantime, His Spirit resides in our spirit for everyone in Christ Jesus, and His Spirit will never leave us, even on our last day of flesh and blood, where we are translated to our new bodies that are awaiting us.

So trust in Him to share the Truth of the Love of God. And be a branch, and bear His fruit with others.

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.”

Bob George emphasizes the importance of living a life filled with God’s love, as described in 1 Corinthians 13. He stresses that true love is characterized by patience, kindness, and trust, and that it is essential to internalize these qualities. Bob criticizes the tendency to substitute actions like tithing and church attendance for genuine love. He highlights that God’s love is unconditional and eternal, and that it is the ultimate goal for believers to be controlled by this love. Bob also discusses the struggle between the flesh and the Spirit, the importance of dependency on God, and the assurance that God’s love will prevail through all challenges.

~ “Perfect love drives out all fear, because fear has to do with punishment. That’s why, folks, there is no punishment for you and me, who are in Christ, Jesus. Do we understand that that God is not punishing you. We have people when bad things happen, Well, wonder what God’s doing to punish them. He isn’t punishing them. The God’s punishment for sin was death. It is not a paddling. It’s not this, it’s not that, it’s death, and we have been freed from that so that we can walk in perfect love. Because fear is the opposite of perfect love, and fear has to do with punishment, and the one who fears cannot be made perfect in love. And it’s not that we loved it’s that He loved us. First. God didn’t give us a spirit of timidity, but a Spirit of power and of love and of self discipline. We’re to live in dependency that Christ maintains, totally maintains, your relationship with Himself, Being confident of this, that He who began the good work of you will carry it out to the completion until the day of Christ. Jesus, he said, that’s why I’m suffering as I am. I’m not ashamed. I know whom I believed, and I’m convinced that he is able to guard what I’ve entrusted to him for that day. It’s an attitude of dependency. We live in dependency on it totally that he is totally responsible for completing the work that he began in us. It’s God who works in you to will and to act according to His good pleasure. That is. His job is to work it out. You don’t need to sin. There’s no temptation that has seized man except as common to man. But if you do, we have one the advocate, Jesus Christ, the righteous nun, one who took away our sins from the eyes of God. If you sin, what do you do? My children, I write this to you so that you don’t sin. But if anyone does, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense. Jesus Christ, the righteous one. He’s the atoning sacrifice. That’s a bad translation in NIV. He’s the one who took away our sins, not atoned for sins, but took them away, and not only ours, but the sins of the whole world. Your sins have been taken away from the eyes of God. If we walk in the light as Jesus is in the light. We have fellowship with Jesus and the blood of Jesus, his Son, continually keeps on cleansing you of every sin imaginable. So folks, all of these things are a part of living in dependency and realizing that God loves you and he wants his best for you. Our attitude should never be. I want my prayers answered. Your attitude should always be, I want God’s will for my life. Don’t be anxious. Anxious is over in God’s country. But instead in all things, with prayer and supplication and thanksgiving, let your requests be known to God, and the peace of God that passes all understanding will quieten your heart and your mind in Christ, Jesus.” ~ Bob George

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He says, I don’t get easily angry. Here’s another one. He keeps no records of wrongs. God keeps no records of your wrongs. God does not delight in evil. He always rejoices in truth. He always protects you, trusts you, hopes the best for you, persevere. You perseveres and love never fails. Now, guys, think about. This, if God is saying to you and me, back in that passage, that it is my desire that you be controlled by the love of God, to be filled with a knowledge of the height, depth, breadth and width of the love of God, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, so that you could be filled to the measure with the fullness of God, then what how does he want us to be filled with? Well, instead of saying this is God, say I am always and we’ll see how we’re doing, I am always patient. Now I don’t want you to sit up here listen to what I am always, you put it you are always. You internalize this. I am always patient, I’m always kind. I’m never envious. I love it when my friend gets a promotion and I don’t. I just love it. I’m never boastful. I wouldn’t boast about myself if my life depended on it. It’s not proud. I’m never proud. I’m never rude to people. Do you know rudeness is a big thing, guys, you know how rude we can be to each other? You know, I go into store sometime and some of these clerks in Jesus name, I’d like to hit them upside the head. They’re so rude. People are rude to each other, and we’re rude to them as well. It’s never self seeking. I’m never self seeking. I’m never easily angered. Takes a lot to get me mad, especially on the freeway. I never keep records of wrongs. I wouldn’t bring up something that Amy did a year ago or 10 years ago if my life depended on it. How about you? Guys, we got filing cabinets full, and we justify bringing it up. That’s why people cannot get free of guilt. Somebody is always there bringing up your guilt. Have you ever noticed that God didn’t just we are and we say how loving we are. Do you know the most loving thing you can do for a person is quit bringing up their mistakes. Am I right or wrong guys? But we love to bring up your mistakes. Why? It makes us feel better because we didn’t do what you did. It makes me feel holier. Guys this is all God’s looking for. If you think that you’re doing well in the sight of God, and you’re paying no attention to this. We’re just kidding ourselves in our Christian life, because God didn’t keep in track of your attendance record at people to people, and he isn’t keeping for sure records of your tithing. What he’s looking for is how we doing in the love department.

And so he’s saying to us that we don’t delight at evil. We’re not for evil. We’re always trusting people. If your first inclination towards somebody is to trust them or to accuse them, take a look at that in your own heart, and it’s going to show you exactly where you’re walking. Is it to accuse or is it to think the best? Which is it? God says that the kind of love I’m looking for is the love that comes out of the heart that’s thinking the best before you’re thinking the worst. In other words, you’re innocent until proven guilty, which probably is where that came from, instead of you’re guilty until you’re proven innocent, which is not God’s way of dealing with things. So we have to look at our hearts, don’t we? Are we always looking the best for people, hoping the best for people, always trusting, always hoping the best? I’m hoping that this is going to get better. I’m going to persevere with people. Lot of times we just write them off, but I’ll persevere.

Now again, you have situations where people sitting there and they’re looking at marriages that have gone amok. There are some things that God recognizes in our human experience that we are sometimes incapable of dealing with on a spiritual basis. It talks about things like adultery. There are some people that cannot handle that with a mate. And as a result of that, God has said, if that’s the case, you can divorce. Does he want divorce? No, but he didn’t want sin either, did he? But when sin entered into the world, all these things happened. There are some things that you just plain can’t handle. If you can’t, God knows that, and you know it. And so we have to understand the truth of that, and we have to understand the fact that we can make mistakes, but those mistakes have been put behind the back of God never to see them again. Do we understand that?

God’s love never fails. Where there are prophecies, they’ll cease, where their tongues, they will be stilled. These are not important things where there’s knowledge it will pass away. But God’s love remains forever. And that’s what God is looking for us above all things. In fact, Paul said the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. That’s all that matters. And guys, what we have done in Christianity is we’ve looked at this thing and said, I cannot do that. And so we come up with all kinds of things. Well, a loving Christian would give, I give, therefore I’m loving. A loving Christian would share Jesus. I share Jesus, therefore I’m loving. A loving person would go to church. I go to church, therefore I’m loving. And we substituted all that kind of stuff for what it’s saying there. And the issue is that that is not the definition of what love is. We just heard the definition of love, kindness, patience, not keeping records of wrongs, not accusing people, all of those things are all what love is about. And we have to understand the truth of that. And if I’m not doing those things, I can’t sit back and rationalize it, I have to say that is dead wrong from God’s vantage point, if I’m going to listen to God.

So what are we talking about here? Then we’re talking about a motivation that is required for us to desire to do God’s will. Because, in essence, what we really desire is to feed the flesh. We desire to rationalize our actions and our attitudes. Do we not? We will rationalize them all over the place. I’m doing what I’m doing because you did what you did. God says what they did. That’s I’m dealing with them on I’m dealing with them, I’m now dealing with you and your reactions. Again., we got actions and reactions. We look at his actions and say, Oh, you’re the reason I reacted. He said, No, no, no. Circumstances don’t cause your nature. They just reveal your nature. That’s pretty sickening, isn’t it, my wife cannot put mad in me. She can just draw it out of me. Now we don’t like that. We don’t like that at all you made then what we say you made me mad. Said, no, no, you didn’t make me mad. You just drew mad out of me. If you didn’t have mad in me, you couldn’t get it out of me. How did Jesus respond at the cross? Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness. Why? That’s all that was in him. You can’t stir up beans in a pot unless there’s beans in a pot. If you didn’t have anger in you, you couldn’t get it out of you. And so we look at circumstances cause me to react. He said, No, it just reveals where you are. That’s all. Just reveals where you are. Now, is it important for me, for God to reveal where I am, if where I am and where he wants me to be? Is that important? Should we resist that? Should we be shocked? Do you think God’s shocked at anything you do? Ooh, did you see what Bobby just did? No, he isn’t shocked. He isn’t shocked at all. He knows us, and so we shouldn’t be shocked when yucky stuff comes out of us. Why? Because yucky stuff is still in you. I don’t care how sweet you look on the outside, you’re full of Yuck, and if you don’t believe that, I’ll reveal it for you. Is that unusual? No, it’s unusual. It’s reality, isn’t it? We got it in us, and so what does he want us to do? He wants we shouldn’t be saddened by these things. We should be glad that it’s being revealed. If my desire is to walk in the newness of life in Christ, Jesus, because that’s going to help me to do that.

Had one of our board members, ex board members, George Reaver. He’s and he’s probably 90s by now, but he’s one of the dearest brothers I’ve ever known. But he said to me one day, said, you know, Bob, God gave me the absolute perfect wife for me, I mean, the absolute perfect wife. I said, George, that’s a nice thing to say. Why did you say that? He said, Well, very simply, because everything God wants to reveal about my nature, she says, she shows it to me. She reveals it. It’s perfect for me. She reveals his nature. So we have a conflict. The sin the mind of the sinful man is death. The mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace. The sinful mind. Mind is hostile to God. It doesn’t submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. And therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. And that’s the key, is, don’t be foolish. Let’s understand what the will of the Lord is. But there’s a conflict between the flesh and the Spirit. This supernatural ability is required for us to do God’s will. It says that it is God who has at work within us to will and to act according to His good purpose. So we’re told that God is working in you and me to lead us to His good purpose. That job isn’t over, is it? We would like for it to be over, but if you really want it to be over, pray for death, because that’s when it will be over, not until. You and I will have this struggle between the flesh and the spirit, until the day we die, we right or wrong, you’re going to be doing the things you don’t want to do and not doing the things that you want to do until the day you die. The beauty of it is that the more we renew our mind on truth, and the more that we yield ourselves to the Spirit of God that lives in us, the less the desires of the flesh are going to wrap their ugly heads, but you’re always going to have them.

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And so Paul says, I can do everything through Christ that gives me strength. And then another place, he says, I rejoice in my weakness. Why does he rejoice in his weakness? Because it shows him his need for Jesus. And when I’m weak, he is strong. What is God’s will for you and for your life? We’re told that it’s God’s will for every believer to be filled with the fullness of God’s love. We just talked about this passage. He’s praying. We say, I’d like to know what God’s will is for me. He’s just told us, it’s God’s will that you be rooted and established in this love that he’s talking about, and to be controlled by love so that you can be filled to the measure with the fullness of God. People are walking around. What’s God’s will for my life? This is God’s will for you. To be controlled by love. Let’s go on. To be filled means to be controlled by it says to be controlled by the knowledge of the love of Christ. We’re told in Second Corinthians 5:14 that Christ’s love compels us because we’re convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. So what is it that controlled the love of the Apostle Paul? The love of God. What controlled Jesus? The love of God. What is to control you and me? The love of God. Now, how can we therefore be controlled by the love of God. What does it mean to be controlled by the love of God? Well, control is a result of your dependency upon who you’re depending upon to control you. If, as I said last week, if I’m depending upon the popularity of the in crowd, Whoever named them the in crowd, if I’m depending upon them for my meaning and purpose to life, that in crowd will control me, whether I want them to or not. Why? Because I’m depending on them to do so.

So my dependency brings about the control of a substance or a people. Why do they call it drug dependency, alcohol dependency? Because you’re depending upon it for you everything you have in life, and your dependency upon it is what’s bringing the control of it on your life. Otherwise, everybody be alcoholics. Everybody drinks, well, not everybody, but I’m saying, if you’re a drinker, some are alcoholics and some aren’t. They say it’s a disease. No, it isn’t. It’s a control factor. You’re depending upon that alcohol to soften your pain. You’re depending upon it to give you boldness. You’re depending on that for something, and that’s why you’re drawn to it. Is because you’re depending on it to do something for you that somebody else doesn’t depend on it. So it means to live in total dependency upon who God wants us to depend upon. You and I were born into this world to be dependent people, not independent. No one’s independent. God alone, we’re dependent. And he created you to be dependent, not independent. We think if we get in our own business, I’ll be independent. Nothing could be farther from the truth, could it? And so he says, I created you to be dependent upon me, and I want you to live in dependency upon that. The illustration that he gave us is the best illustration I know of in the Bible, the vine and branch, where he said, I’m the vine and you’re the branch. And if a man depends or lives in me and I in him, he will bear my fruit, but he cannot produce my fruit. Do we all know that? Are you a branch, or are you a vine? We’re branches. What did he say? We cannot produce fruit. Now, what does again, the Christian world say when you come to Jesus, here’s your tithing envelopes. Go sick them for God, go do something big for Jesus. And Out we go. Where do I go? Do something big for Jesus. Well, you go over here, you go, over here. And so we become do do Christians. Do this, do this, do this, do this, do this, do this. Never grow in your knowledge of God’s love. Just go do and we have this idea, oh, if I could just get, if I could just get this well known athlete saved, ooh, what he could do for Jesus, or if I could, or if the President could just be a Christian who what he could do the United States. And if we could get all of our politicians, if we get the whole Congress and the whole Senate, and all of them were born again Christians, ooh, what that would be. I said, Man, you haven’t been to a deacon meeting. God doesn’t need our abilities, just our availability. We need to get rid of this idea. If I could just get this highfalutin guy, ooh, what he would do? Listen, God doesn’t need highfalutin guys to get out the gospel. He said he would choose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. So somebody told me, as my early Christian experience, Bob, I think you’re going to have a great ministry to the intellectual community. I said, Really, how come you say that? Because he said The Bible says he’d take the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. I said, Thank you, Howard, for that. I appreciate that. I’m a branch. He’s the vine. I’m a branch. I can’t produce fruit. All I can do is bear it. But when we’re abiding, we’ll come to a point like the apostle Paul, where he’s able to say, who can separate me from the love of God?

How many of you have ever been through trouble, did it separate you from God? If it did, you haven’t come to the point where you have come to understand the height and depth and breadth and width of the love of God. Paul says, no trouble. Didn’t do it. Had a lot of trouble. Didn’t separate me from God. Hardship? You ever had hardship? He said, I didn’t separate me. Persecution, you ever had persecution? Yeah, that didn’t separate me. Famine? I have never been through a famine. Been through all the rest of those things. Nakedness? Haven’t been undoubted, out in public danger, danger, the sword. There’s few of those. No, I haven’t been through them. But the issue is, if you went through them, would it separate you from the love of God? Says no, no in all these things. He says, We are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I’m convinced of something. Guys, and there’s the word, do you know that most people have difficulty in ever coming to a point in their life where they are convinced of something? In other words, I’ve got a conviction about something. You know, some people never have convictions about anything. You can ask them any question. They don’t have a particular conviction. Never formed a conviction about anything. Well, if you haven’t start with one, I’m convinced of something, nothing can separate me from the love of God. I’m convinced of that. Neither death. Death isn’t going to separate me from God. It’s going to let me go into His presence. Death, life can’t angels, demons, neither the present nor the future, or any powers, neither height nor depth nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ, Jesus, our Lord. Guys, do you understand the meaning of that? Nothing can separate you from the love of God. It’s phenomenal, isn’t it, nothing can separate you from the love of God. Get separated from people, get separated from organizations, but nothing can separate you from the love of God. And guys, I want to tell you something, if God be for you, who can be against you, and you can get people want to beat you to death and you don’t like you, and what you have to come back with, if God’s for me, who can be against me? Because in this world, we’re very conditional. We love to put people down, don’t we, if God’s for us, who can be against us, we’re in a partnership with Jesus. He is in me. I am in Him.

All that belongs to Christ belongs to you and to me, to live in total dependency, that he is causing all things to work together for your good. Do you believe that? Do you believe that whatever you are going through, or whatever you’ve gone through, that God will cause it to work together for your good, to those who love the Lord and are called according to His purpose. Do you believe that? Someone said something, I think very wise, that a person’s rejection many times is God’s protection. Do we understand that? Many times, a rejection that you get over here is only God’s way of protecting you from that person or whatever it is that is rejecting you. He says, God will take all things. I don’t care what it is, I don’t care what’s happened to you. You could have the worst things in a world happen to you, and some of us have had it. And God says, I’ll work it together for good. If you let me, if you’ll just trust me, I’ll work it together for your good. He wants us to live in that kind of dependency. God. I’m going through some tough things, but I know one thing, you’ll cause it to work together for my good. Do you believe that? That’s a promise of God.

Therefore there’s no condemnation for those who are in Christ, Jesus, why? Because the law of the Spirit of Life has set me free from the law of death. You’re free from the bondage of fear. Guys, do you know that everything in this world has fear to it? We have some little turtle doves that have that our little patio outside of our window has become a maternity ward for turtle doves. And it seems like every two months or whatever it is, whether there’s a new maternity ward taking place, and I walk by that window, sometimes it’s a window, and I look right out where it is, and that dumb thing doesn’t know that I’m not going to hurt it, so he flies away, and I say to it every time, Hey, stupid, come on back. I’m not going to hurt you. Doesn’t hear me. Animals fearful. Snakes are fearful. Bears. It doesn’t make her who they are. Fear is in all of us. Where did it come from? Satan. The day that Satan came to this earth, he has paralyzed God’s creation with fear. We fear we’re not going to be successful. We fear our kids aren’t going to be succesful. We fear. We fear, fear. Fear all the animal. Do you realize it says that even all Creation moans for its redemption when Adam fell, the whole nature fell and created this spirit of fear. Do you know what the only solution to fear is? Love of God. Those who are led by the Spirit are sons of God. You didn’t receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, so that by him, you cry out, Abba Father. There is no fear in love. The only solution to fear is love. The love of God is the only solution to curing fear in your life. Perfect love drives out all fear. What does fear drive out? Perfect love that is Satan’s tool. If I can get you fearful, I’ll get you away from the perfect love of God, and if I get you away from the perfect love of God, I’ll keep you fearful for the rest of my life.

Perfect love drives out all fear, because fear has to do with punishment. That’s why, folks, there is no punishment for you and me, who are in Christ, Jesus. Do we understand that that God is not punishing you. We have people when bad things happen, Well, wonder what God’s doing to punish them. He isn’t punishing them. The God’s punishment for sin was death. It is not a paddling. It’s not this, it’s not that, it’s death, and we have been freed from that so that we can walk in perfect love. Because fear is the opposite of perfect love, and fear has to do with punishment, and the one who fears cannot be made perfect in love. And it’s not that we loved it’s that He loved us. First. God didn’t give us a spirit of timidity, but a Spirit of power and of love and of self discipline. We’re to live in dependency that Christ maintains, totally maintains, your relationship with Himself, Being confident of this, that He who began the good work of you will carry it out to the completion until the day of Christ. Jesus, he said, that’s why I’m suffering as I am. I’m not ashamed. I know whom I believed, and I’m convinced that he is able to guard what I’ve entrusted to him for that day. It’s an attitude of dependency. We live in dependency on it totally that he is totally responsible for completing the work that he began in us. It’s God who works in you to will and to act according to His good pleasure. That is. His job is to work it out. You don’t need to sin. There’s no temptation that has seized man except as common to man. But if you do, we have one the advocate, Jesus Christ, the righteous nun, one who took away our sins from the eyes of God. If you sin, what do you do? My children, I write this to you so that you don’t sin. But if anyone does, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense. Jesus Christ, the righteous one. He’s the atoning sacrifice. That’s a bad translation in NIV. He’s the one who took away our sins, not atoned for sins, but took them away, and not only ours, but the sins of the whole world. Your sins have been taken away from the eyes of God. If we walk in the light as Jesus is in the light. We have fellowship with Jesus and the blood of Jesus, his Son, continually keeps on cleansing you of every sin imaginable. So folks, all of these things are a part of living in dependency and realizing that God loves you and he wants his best for you. Our attitude should never be. I want my prayers answered. Your attitude should always be, I want God’s will for my life. Don’t be anxious. Anxious is over in God’s country. But instead in all things, with prayer and supplication and thanksgiving, let your requests be known to God, and the peace of God that passes all understanding will quieten your heart and your mind in Christ, Jesus.

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