Legalistic

Radio Broadcast Wednesday 11/11/2026

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2 Corinthians 5:21

Classic Christianity – Our Attitude Towards Legalism – Part 3 – 11-11-26

~ 2 Corinthians 5:21 — God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God..

In “Classic Christianity — Our Attitude Towards Legalism, Part 3,” Bob George explains Jesus’ rebukes of the religious leaders in Matthew 23. Jesus condemned their focus on outward rules—such as carefully tithing herbs—while neglecting justice, mercy, and faithfulness. George uses the image of straining out a gnat while swallowing a camel to illustrate how religious legalism can elevate minor observances over what matters most.

The talk then focuses on hypocrisy: appearing righteous outwardly while harboring greed, self-indulgence, and other failures within. George says Jesus’ strong words were not a lack of love; they were meant to expose the leaders’ condition and their blindness to their own faults. He contrasts their judgment of others with the mercy people often seek for themselves.

Bob emphasizes that everyone has sinned and that God looks at the heart, not merely outward conduct or religious reputation. He argues that acknowledging sin as sin is necessary to recognize the need for forgiveness at the cross and freedom in Christ.… Click to Read More And Follow Along With The Message

Radio Broadcast Tuesday 11/10/2026

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You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel

Classic Christianity – Our Attitude Towards Legalism – Part 2 – 11-10-26

~ Matthew 23:23-24 — Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier 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 gnat but swallow a camel.

In this teaching, Bob George focuses on Jesus’ confrontation with the religious leaders in Matthew 22–23. He begins with Jesus’ teaching that the whole law and the prophets hinge on loving God and loving one’s neighbor. George says Jesus used this exchange to expose the gap between the leaders’ knowledge of religious law and the love it was meant to express. Classic Christianity – “Our Attitude Towards Legalism Part 2”

Bob then highlights Jesus’ warning not to imitate the Pharisees’ behavior: they placed heavy demands on others but did not help carry those burdens themselves. He connects this to religious performance and status-seeking, emphasizing Jesus’ teaching that greatness comes through serving others, not through titles, public recognition, or self-exaltation.

A central message is that legalism can obstruct people from trusting Christ by suggesting that God’s acceptance must be earned through good deeds.… Click to Read More And Follow Along With The Message

Radio Broadcast Monday 11/09/2026

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Burdensome Loads Tied Up on Man

Classic Christianity – Our Attitude Towards Legalism – Part 1 – 11-09-26

~ Matthew 23:1-4 — Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples: “The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy, burdensome loads and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.

In “Our Attitude Towards Legalism, Part 1,” Bob George teaches that turning one’s eyes toward Jesus means understanding His thoughts and attitudes. Bob says believers receive the mind of Christ through the indwelling Holy Spirit, who reveals spiritual truth.

Bob contrasts life in Christ with legalism, arguing that the law cannot give life and that believers should not be placed back under its demands. He compares legalistic teachers of his time to the Judaizers who sought to bring Christians under the law.

Discussing Jesus’ response to religious experts, Bob highlights the two greatest commandments: love God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. He emphasizes that people respond to God’s love rather than earning His favor through faith or good deeds.… Click to Read More And Follow Along With The Message

Radio Broadcast Wednesday 06/02/2021

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Jesus is the Initiator

Classic Christianity – A Closer Look at The New Covenant P5 (06-02-21)

Synopsis

When you read the Old Testament, you get a better understanding and visual picture of why we need a New Covenant. In my growing up, the ten commandments were taught as something to live by and memorize. I am not sure what people still think about the ten commandments today, because in my state, the ten commandments were ordered to be taken down from the capitol grounds, and I would hear from church-going people that Roy Moore needs to stand down and obey the law of the land. But the point is, the ten commandments is something closely tied to the conscience that God has created in mankind as something that is holy, righteous and good. In Muslim countries, I have heard that if you steal gold out of a store, because they do not have such items locked up in a case, then you can get your hand chopped off. That is overly harsh punishment to me, but the point is they would not have such a law if they thought stealing was not wrong.

Many churches used to, and maybe still do, teach the ten commandments as holy, righteous and good.… Click to Read More And Follow Along With The Message

Call-ins Radio Broadcast Friday 03/05/2021

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Jesus Has Taken Away Your Sins Once For All

Call-In Classic Christianity Radio – Bob George P614 (03-05-21)

Synopsis

What is the purpose of the book of Hebrews? Have you ever heard a sermon on it? It is so valuable to understand the New Covenant we are living under today. Oftentimes the only passage people have heard about from Hebrews are Hebrews 6:4, and without understanding the entire context of what the author of Hebrews is writing about, people get all fearful that they are deliberately sinning, meaning they have committed one of the nasty nine or one of the dirty dozen, that they are going to be cast into a raging fire. So what do people do? They pull out their 1 John 1:9 and ask God to forgive them of their sins.

First of all, one must understand the totality of the cross. When the Jew is going back to the day of atonement, killing a bull or a goat, to get his sins forgiven, or the Catholic is going to the confessional booth to get his sins forgiven, or the Protestant is going direct to God to get his sins forgiven, quoting 1 John 1:9 out of context, what are they doing? They are sinning against the knowledge of the truth.… Click to Read More And Follow Along With The Message

Call-ins Radio Broadcast Thursday 12/17/2020

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Classic Christianity and Growing in Grace

Call-In Classic Christianity Radio – Bob George P594 (12-17-20)

Synopsis

All of us need encouragement in this fallen world we live in. As Jesus warned us so many times, let no man deceive you. All of us have been deceived one time or another and are all subject to deception. Many of us grew up in some denomination or cult even, and some of us came to the knowledge of the truth. We came to realize God’s word is truth, and anything contrary to that is to be rejected as from men. Not all men are deliberately deceiving you. Many are simply passing on what they heard from others.

How grateful we are for those many people, the born again believers all over the world, who have understood God’s grace, the totality of the cross, of being made complete in Christ and salvation through receiving new life through the resurrection of Christ Jesus, who has offered all men the Holy Spirit to be placed in those who believe.

So listen now as various callers call in to either encourage Bob or receive instruction on things they have heard that just does not ring true to them, and are coming now into greater focus, or clarity of understanding, of the meaning of the word of God.… Click to Read More And Follow Along With The Message