Radio Broadcast Wednesday 10/08/2025

Classic Christianity – Spiritual or Worldly – Part 3 – 10-08-25

Spiritual or Worldly – Part 3 – 10-08-25

~ “Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephase or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you, and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.” 1 Corinthians 3:21-23

Stop saying, I follow, “such and such.” Stop following Man. Stop putting Man on a pedestal today. Stop it! Don’t you know that it is God who makes a child of God grow? Now a man can plant a seed of TRUTH, and someone else can water that seed, but it is God that makes that seed GROW. And today, more than ever, in this little season of deception, we need to stand strong in the HOLY SPIRIT, not leaning on our own understanding of anything today. Because as has been said many times before, we have ALL been deceived by the enemy of our souls. ALL Truth is found in God alone, not on the world stage. Learn to abide in the Holy Spirit for all Truth. And when you start abiding in the Spirit of God (who lives in every TRUE believer), you will begin to see with HIS eyes and hear with HIS ears of the truth of what is going on in the world today, and the word of God will become alive for you, and you will understand the things of God that you never knew were there. All things become new. And, He does not want His children to remain ignorant of what is happening in the world today. He wants you to seek wisdom directly from Him, because each of us is the TRUE NEW Temple of God. And this TEMPLE is NOT built by human hands. It is built directly by God Himself. When you are truly in Christ, you will become a fool to the world. Because He sets you apart in ALL TRUTH. And those in the world will think you are a fool, but the wisdom of the world is but foolishness in God’s sight. And you will become Wise in the Holy Spirit causing you to grow in ALL wisdom and understanding of God. So Wise up in the Spirit of God today. Ask and it shall be given to you, without finding fault.

1 Corinthians 3:15-20
16 Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

18 Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.” 20 And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

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And a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, having done what, will I inherit eternal life?”
And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good, except God alone. Luke 18:18,19

~ “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.” 1 John 5:12

~ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; the one believing in Me, even if he should die, he will live. And everyone living and believing in Me shall never die, to the age. Do you believe this?” John 11:25,26
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Pray to God:

Do you really want to know the WHOLE Truth of what is going on today?

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

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~ “And so my friends, he’s saying to us, Don’t deceive yourself. If any of you thinks that he’s wise by the standards of this age, he should become a fool so that he may become wise. In other words, become a fool to the things of the world in order to become wise to the things of God. And so the Lord knows the thoughts of the wise that are futile. So then no more boasting. Here is his conclusion about men. Let’s stop the boasting. Guys. I don’t mean to be critical, but I am. But I tell you, I got so tired when I was involved in denominations. I got so tired after church of going to lunch with my friends and all anyone talked about was church, church, church, church charge. And this is what we do at the church, and this is the thing we have to do at the church. And we have a bowling alley in the church, and I got so sick of hearing that. And never, ever the word Jesus used. Church. We’ve substituted Jesus for the church. And my friends, this doesn’t have church doesn’t have anything to do with Jesus. This is a place that says, where you come for the apostles teaching and for fellowship and prayer, period. It’s not an entertainment center. It’s a place where you come to learn.

And so he says, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise are futile. No more boasting about men. All things of your are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world, word of world, or life or death or the present or the future, are all yours. And you are of Christ, and Christ is of God. That’s my friends is the good news of the gospel. We individually have come to know him personally, and we have the privilege of fellowshipping with other like minded believers and grow in our knowledge of the grace of God, I have to assume that the reason that you people are here is because you want to learn, because whether you want to or not, you’re going to be taught. Because that’s all we do, but that’s all you need, and that’s all I need, is just to learn more about Jesus and to grow in my knowledge of him. Well, let’s pray together.” ~ Bob George

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He says, and look what it says, what, after all, is Apollos and what is Paul? Notice he doesn’t say who. He doesn’t say who. After all, who is Apollos and who’s the place says, What are they? What are they? And it says only servants. Well, you see Apollos and Paul were called apostles, and they could be called pastor. I don’t like somebody calling me pastor. I really don’t, Pastor George, come on, just call me Bob. Why? Because those names make it sound like you’re somebody and we’re not. We’re not. And so here’s Paul and Apollos and Peter, who were apostles hand picked by Jesus, who’s saying, what are we? He could have said, well, we’re apostles, well, we’re preachers and we’re pastors and we’re priests. Said, No, we’re servants, a servant that’s a person who serves others. That’s a person who washes people’s feet when they’re dirty, a servant, and that’s what he says. And you know what? He’s proud of it. He isn’t sitting there saying, yeah, we’re just servants. He’s glad to be a servant. He says, serving the Lord. He says, What are we? What are we? We’re only servants through whom you came to believe. In other words, we are serving you. And you came to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ because of what we came to tell you, as the Lord assigned to each of us the task, he said, this was not self induced. This was following what the Lord told us to do.

He said, I planted the seed. Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. You go out in your lawn, you plant something, you can plant it, you can water it. But guess who has to make it grow? God. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything. What is can you imagine the Apostle Paul saying, I’m nothing? To me, he’s big, isn’t he? To me, there’s never been a man like him outside of Christ Jesus to me as I read his life in the Bible, and he said, No, Bob, got the wrong deal. No, you don’t got the wrong deal. Who are we? We’re nothing. The man who plants and a man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor, but we are God’s fellow workers, and you are God’s field and God’s building. We’re all in this together, guys. We are all in this together.

And those of you who have decided to worship in this assembly and to follow this ministry, are following a movement of God that is bigger than us or you. We have been dedicated for 25 to 30 years of doing nothing less, nothing else, except drawing people away from legalism, back into the arms of the grace of God. And if you think that is not God’s will, you don’t understand the Scripture. Paul says, Don’t let anyone put you back under the yoke of legalism, the do’s and the don’ts, and we have been helping. We’ve been on the cutting edge, media wise and book wise and everything else. We’ve been on the cutting edge. There’s no question about that, for 20, over 20 some years of getting people out of that legalism that kills you back into the grace of God that gives you life. We haven’t compromised the gospel. We haven’t added to it. We haven’t told people that you have to be baptized to be saved, because baptism is not in the gospel. We haven’t told people you have to speak in tongues, because, I think, quite frankly, we don’t speak enough with our with the language we do know. We don’t need 1000 tongues to sing when we don’t use the one we have to speak the good news to people.

We haven’t told people that you have to tithe, because tithing is not New Testament form of giving. We never had to compromise. We never had to coerce people, paid this building off in six years, never told people to tithe. Why? It’s not biblical. What’d we ask you to do? Give sacrificially. Give joyfully, just what it talks about in Corinthians, give in accordance to what you do have, not in accordance what you don’t have. That’s Biblical giving, and today we’ve gotten away from biblical giving. Said, now you ought to got to come tithe. We had a guy called the other day said, What do you think ought to do? Said, What do you mean? He said, Well, I’m in a church where the pastor demands that we bring our tax report to the church to see what we make so to be sure we’re tithing. And I said, Well, I don’t know who’s dumber the pastor or you for staying there? That’s what I told him. I don’t know who’s dumber the pastor or you. I wouldn’t stay in that church for five minutes. And yet a person will sit there and say, Well, what should I do? What should I do? Back Door evangelicalism, get out of there, find yourself someplace that teaches truth. It’s not truth. Tithing is a way of supporting the Levitical priesthood. Tithing was giving food stuff, so it said you ought to really surprise them someday, get a bushel of corn and dump it on the altar. It’s not biblical, and it’s a sin to teach what is not biblical as pastors.

We’re told in a scripture that we’re supposed to be ministries of a New Covenant, not the old that kills. Levitical priesthood is old. This is new. If any man be in Christ, he’s a new Christian. Old things have passed away. And behold, all things have become new. Thank God for it. So he says that when you’re following Paul, following Apollos, following Peter, aren’t you just mere men? You’re just man followers. After all, he says, What is Apollos? What is Paul? Only servants God’s fellow workers and you are God’s feeling field, God’s building. By the grace God has given me. Paul said, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. Now, guys, a foundation, we’ve talked about this the importance of a foundation.

In California was like Texas, where pier and beam type of construction was very scarce. It was all slab construction. And you had a lot of mass builders, like, like here in Dallas and other places, people who built hundreds of houses at a time. Well, you had people who would go in and in concrete, whether you if you know how that’s done, you’ve got what they call reinforcing steel, and you have to put the reinforcing steel in. And they would have the inspectors who would come by and solidify the fact that the reinforcing steel has been put in, and then move on. And the builder would come in and take it out and move it someplace else. So you had a slab with no reinforcing steel, 1000s of houses like that. It’s against the law. It’s criminal, but they did it. Now, if you had one of those houses, it was concrete. You can’t see there any reinforcing steel in there, but there wasn’t any reinforcing steel. Guess what happens? In about a year, concrete starts cracking, and if it lasts long enough, your house will fall down. Your foundation in a house, you know that in order to have a house, it’s going to remain it had better have a solid foundation, don’t you? Well, the same thing is true biblical that Paul says that by the grace given me, I laid a foundation. In other words, I’m going to lay the foundation of Jesus Christ. He is the foundation.

And he tells us later on, in Corinthians that this is the gospel, or this is the foundation that saves you, death of Christ, burial of Christ, and resurrection of Christ. This is the gospel that saves you. When you come to Christ, you don’t come to get dunked in water. You come to Jesus to get life. Whose life? His life, who is available to you. The resurrection of Christ, Jesus, the historical event of Christ, Jesus’ life, when he died for our sins and on the third day, was raised from the dead. We can look at that as a historical event and say, I believe that, yeah, but you don’t believe what He did it for. I mean, he just wasn’t raised from the dead to be raised from the dead because he was tired of being in the grave. He was raised in the dead so that that life that raised Him from the dead can raise you from the dead. Because you’re born dead, you’re not born alive. No man was born alive except Jesus. That’s why his virgin birth isn’t up for grabs. You’re born dead. And if you’re dead, guys, that is not a good state to be in. You don’t have to be a genius to figure that out. That’s kind of dumb to come to understand that the Bible says you’re born dead, and say, I want to remain dead. He said, I came that you might have what? life I am, the resurrection and the life. And whosoever believes in me though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this? He who has the Son has what? Life. What kind of life? Spiritual life. Where to come from? The resurrected Jesus, if you have. The Son, you have life. If you don’t have the Son of God, you don’t have life, which means what, you’re dead. The whole issue of salvation is an issue of life and death. Now, in order to give you life eternal, he had to eternally, take away from the eyes of God, eternally the cause of death, which was what? Sin. That’s why there is no condemnation for you who belong to Christ, Jesus, why he took it away? God isn’t dealing with man on the basis of sin today. He’s dealing with basis on the of new life. The whole issue is, are you in Christ? You out of Christ? If you’re out of Christ, you’re dead. If you’re in Christ, you’re alive. And we’ve made a big religion out of this, and we’ve made our list of do’s and don’ts out of this.

And Christ says, Paul says through his word, the only thing that counts, Bob is your faith in me, resulting in love toward others. Period, period, period. The only thing that counts is faith in me and loving one another. Simple, isn’t it? But you see, what do we do with simple things? Make them confusing. So he has given him he said he laid the foundation. Each one of you should be careful how he builds. You’ll notice on that foundation there was no baptism, no tongues, no church attendance, death of Jesus, burial of Jesus and resurrection of Jesus. Are we in that equation at all? Anybody out there have anything to do with that passage? You have anything to do with it? Not a thing. Not a thing. Your deal is accepted or rejected. If you haven’t been born again, it’s because you have not accepted what Jesus has done for you. Some people say I haven’t been born again because I’m not good enough. You never will be good enough.

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You say, Well, you take the Lord’s Supper, because if you’re unworthy, you’re going to eat and drink damnation on yourself. I want to tell you, I got news for you. The Worthy is the Lamb, not the sheep. You never have been worthy, and I haven’t either. I’m not worthy to be saved. I’m just joyful. We have nothing to do with it. This is all Jesus. It’s none of us. He said. I’m leaving you guys out of the equation. I’m going to come and do it all for you, and I’m going to give you an opportunity of accepting or rejecting. If you reject what I have accomplished for you given you life, you’re going to remain dead very simple, and I’m not going to send you to hell. You’re going to send yourself to hell. So don’t be blaming me when you’re down there in the Texas heat. You send yourself. Why? Because you refuse life. If you refuse life, you remain in a condition you were in, dead. If you want to remain dead, that’s your choice. He gave us a choice, a part of the sovereignty of God, my friends, a part of the characteristic of the sovereignty of God is in His sovereignty, He gave you and me a will, a choice that’s part of his sovereignty. It’s not that he’s so sovereign that you can’t reject His will. Oh really It seemed to me a whole bunch rejected Jesus. He wasn’t too bad of an evangelist. And so we’ve got a choice. I’m either going to accept truth or reject it.

Now he says, If you’re going to build, if you have your foundation on Christ and Him alone, be careful how you build. No one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid. So don’t try to add to the death, burial and resurrection of Christ. Quit adding baptism to that, and quit adding tongues to that, and quit adding church attendance to that all this other man made garbage. It is not gospel. And it says this is no gospel at all. You don’t reject, you don’t accept a Jesus of your making. You say, I believe in Jesus, but I don’t believe he is born a virgin, born. Well, then you don’t believe in the Jesus of the Bible. You believe in the one you’ve made up. Well, I don’t believe he is raised from the dead. Fine. Then you got your own Jesus, but you don’t have the Jesus that saves you. There’s a lot of people in that boat. Well, I don’t believe Jesus is God. Well, then you’ve got your own Jesus, and your own Jesus doesn’t save you. But they say, oh, yeah, it will. No, it won’t. No, it won’t.

So there’s no other foundation. Be sure that no one can lay a foundation other than one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. You see how simple that is, guys, it isn’t all of these other things. It’s Jesus Christ. God isn’t narrow minded. He’s not being narrow minded and bigoted. He’s just the only one that could save you, who else could take away the sins of the world from the eyes of God, except God himself? He didn’t send two sons, send One. And if you’re you’re too stubborn and too egotistical to accept him. Which one do you think you’re going to accept? Well, the one I make up. Well, I hope the two of you have fun down in Texas heat, because you’re not going to go into the kingdom of God with your own Jesus, and you’re not going to go into the kingdom of God with your own plan. You’re going to go with putting your faith in who God provided for you. That’s precisely why Jesus said, The World’s sin, singular, sins, taken away from the eyes of God. No man will ever go to hell because of his sins, only the sin of the rejection of the Son of God.

If a man builds on this foundation, If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, his work will be shown for what it is, because the day will bring it to light, it will be revealed with fire, and a fire will test the quality of each man’s work. If his work survives, he’ll receive his reward. If it’s burned up, he’ll suffer loss, because he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames. Folks, there’s many, many people, in my opinion, who have built multi churches, mega churches, who are going to be standing before God one of these days, and the Malachi is going to be lit. It’s all going to be burnt wood, hand stubble, because it’s been done with man made techniques. As I’ve said, knowing us, we’ll be saying, well, my pile is bigger than your ash pile, but it’s still going to be a pile of ashes. The only thing that’s going to be rewarded are those things that we have allowed Christ to do in and through us. That’s why he says, give me a cup of water in the name of Jesus. You know, that’s not very thrilling. That won’t make the newspaper. Won’t make the Baptist standard. It may not, but I’m going to see it. God says, I’m going to see your mercy. I’m going to see your kindness. So it says, there, don’t you know yourselves that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? And the answer to that is, do you know that or don’t you? Are you aware of that truth? Are you born again? Or have you just been going through the motions? Or are you in the process? Because any one of those things is a possibility. Many times, we’re just in the process of learning. We haven’t understood these truths. We have that happen all the time. I heard and heard and heard. Then one day I heard everything, everything came alive, came alive.

And so my friends, he’s saying to us, Don’t deceive yourself. If any of you thinks that he’s wise by the standards of this age, he should become a fool so that he may become wise. In other words, become a fool to the things of the world in order to become wise to the things of God. And so the Lord knows the thoughts of the wise that are futile. So then no more boasting. Here is his conclusion about men. Let’s stop the boasting. Guys. I don’t mean to be critical, but I am. But I tell you, I got so tired when I was involved in denominations. I got so tired after church of going to lunch with my friends and all anyone talked about was church, church, church, church charge. And this is what we do at the church, and this is the thing we have to do at the church. And we have a bowling alley in the church, and I got so sick of hearing that. And never, ever the word Jesus used. Church. We’ve substituted Jesus for the church. And my friends, this doesn’t have church doesn’t have anything to do with Jesus. This is a place that says, where you come for the apostles teaching and for fellowship and prayer, period. It’s not an entertainment center. It’s a place where you come to learn.

Father, we Father, we seem to, many times, rejoice in shallowness, never having a desire to get to the depth of something. Never want to challenge our minds. Somehow think that there’s a limit on what we can learn, almost stretch ourselves. Father, help us to just open up our hearts, help us to see that this book is a love letter to us. We read it. It’s a discipline book. We read it and see that’s not me. He says, I know, but it’s me. If you abide in me, I’ll produce these things in and through you. It’s such a free life. And help people to see that, that you have called us to freedom. You said, don’t use our freedom now to indulge the flesh. That’s not why he called you to freedom. He called you to freedom to walk in the newness of life and to walk in grace and in love with Christ. Jesus, Father, deepen these things into our hearts, for we pray it in the name of Christ, Jesus, our Lord.

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