In this episode of Classic Christianity Radio, Bob George delves into the profound complexities of God’s grace and how it should truly transform our lives. Listeners are taken on a journey exploring themes of spiritual authority, the consequences of disregarding divine guidance, and the reality of judgment for our sins, as illustrated through biblical examples. With clarity and conviction, Bob explains the necessity of understanding the resurrection of Christ beyond mere religious formality to embrace a lifestyle that genuinely reflects God’s grace and love. The discussion further reveals the pitfalls of spiritual arrogance and the importance of humility in
Welcome to Classic Christianity Radio with Bob George. Bob’s clear, timeless teachings on the complete forgiveness and unconditional love of Jesus Christ will transform your life as you learn about God’s amazing grace. Let’s join Bob as he teaches us from God’s Word.
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Well, let me ask you a question. Can you go out, if you were truly born again, can you go out and do anything you want to do and the grace of God covers it? Is that true? Is that a motivation for going and doing anything you want to do? Why? Because it says that anything you give into is going to dominate you. It’s going to control you. It’s going to be your master. Who do you want to be mastered by? God or your sin? And so, these are godless men. who teach in essence that the grace of our Lord is a license for immortality and deny Christ as our sovereign and our Lord. These were men of the Gnostic persuasion, and we just have variations of that, who believe that what we do in the flesh is irrelevant because the flesh is matter and matter is evil. And therefore, with Jesus, he couldn’t have come in the flesh because Jesus couldn’t be evil. So he was a phantom. He was an illusion. That’s what the Gnostics taught. But you see, we don’t teach that, but we do do variations of that. And so it doesn’t make any difference what we do in the flesh. Grace covers it. And so go live it up. Well, you see, in the scriptures it says, if Jesus isn’t real in his resurrection, then eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may die. That’s the mindset you would have if you didn’t believe in Jesus. But when you believe in Jesus and you have Christ living in you as your Lord and Savior, to think that that’s a license for immorality is other nonsense, isn’t it? But that’s what was being taught back in those days and even to this day. Though you already know this, I want to remind you that the Lord delivered His people out of Egypt… but later destroyed those who did not continue to believe. Remember, they were in the desert for 40 years, wandering in that desert. The angels who did not keep their position of authority, but abandoned their own home. These he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great day. In other words, the angels that fell and came to this place earth he says he’s kept them in darkness bound with everlasting change for judgment on the great day so god sees sin and god judges sin but who took the judgment for our sin and where was our sin judged at the cross and what was the verdict guilty and who took the punishment Jesus, how much of it did he take? All of it. How much is left for us? None of it. In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and to perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire. In other words… God says that if you’re saved, those things should not be a part of your lifestyle. If you’re not saved, it is a part of your lifestyle. It’s a part of it. If you are saved, it shouldn’t be a part of it. In the very same way these dreamers pollute their own bodies. We see that taking place today of people polluting their own bodies. We’re not satisfied with the way it looks. We’ve got to add to it. We pollute our bodies. Reject authority and slander celestial beings. How many have heard where we go down and you hear people coming and say, I command you, Satan. Isn’t that right? I know how to take care of Satan. Just chest puffed out, just like a peacock, just a cocky walking around. And I got the ability to just cast him out. Well, what it says here about that, even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare bring a slanderous accusation against him. But he said, the Lord rebuke you. How many of us hear the Lord rebuke you? Or do we rebuke him? So again, does Satan ever attack you? Does he? I mean, is he kind of alive and well? I think so. And he attacks you like crazy. Now, if you want the attack to start or to stop, are you a match for Satan? Am I a match for Satan? You’ve got to be kidding. But God is. So what should our verbiage and attitude be? The Lord rebuke you. Why? Because I belong to the Lord. And I am a child of the living God and the Lord whom I worship rebuke you. Now you might get some action. But if you think we’re going to go up against Satan, we got another thing coming, don’t we? We’re no match for him. The Lord rebuke you. And yet, it says these men speak abusively against what they do not understand. They just do not understand the fact that Satan is stronger than all of us. And what things they do understand by instinct, like unreasoning animals, these are the very things that destroy them. Guys, isn’t it strange? When you stop to think of life, I don’t know about you, but the older that I get, the sadder life becomes you think to yourself with all of the things that we have available to us that God has given us everything we need for life and for godliness God provides for us everything that we see he’s provided why do you make chickens so we can have eggs everything is provided for us And we have everything that we need for life and for godliness. And for some reason, there’s something in this thing called the old flesh, the sin nature that lives in us, where we want to go out and destroy ourselves. We carve up our bodies. We stick things in them. We want to get into booze and get drunk. Get into drugs and get bombed out of her mind? You say, what’s wrong with us? What is there? In men especially, we are really dodo’s. I mean, you stop to think. You see these guys flipping around on motorcycles and doing all this stuff. You don’t see women doing that. Oh, maybe a few, but not many. But for some reason, we guys, of course, this is where the sin comes from, is from us. If it came from women, Mary would have passed on a sin nature. They all come from us. And, I mean, I stopped to think about that. What is in us where we want to destroy each other and destroy ourselves intentionally? And I said, I don’t know. It’s a mystery, isn’t it? But he says that we don’t understand things. The things that we’re just like dumb animals. Now, woe to them, he said. They have taken the way of Cain and they’ve rushed for profit into Balaam’s error. They have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion. And these men are blemishes at your love feasts. Eating with you without slightest qualms. Shepherds who feed only themselves. clouds without rain, blown among by the wind, autumn trees without fruit, and uprooted twice dead. Turn with me for a moment back to 1 Corinthians. And guys, we have the Lord’s Supper, but I’m just going to go over again. What was taking place in Corinth? That ties into these people coming into our assemblies. Men are blemishes at your love feast, eating without you, without the slightest qualm. Now let’s see what’s taking place in the Lord’s Supper in Corinth. Because they had crept into the assemblies by then. The following directives, he says, I have no praise for you, for your meetings. I’m sorry, I’m in chapter 11 and beginning in verse 17. I’m sorry, I forgot to give that to you. In the following directives, I have no praise for you, for your meetings do more harm than do good. In the first place, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and to some extent I believe it. No doubt there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God’s approval. When you come together, is it not the Lord’s supper you eat? For as you eat, each one goes ahead without waiting on anybody else. Don’t you have homes to eat and drink in? It says one remains hungry and another gets drunk. Kind of annihilates the idea of grape juice, doesn’t it? Be not drunk on grape juice, where it is excess. One remains hungry, another gets drunk. Don’t you have homes to eat and drink in, or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say? Shall I praise you for this? Certainly not. Well, that’s what was taking place in Jude that we’re talking about. These men are blemishes at your love feast. They’re not coming in to be involved in the big picture of the love feast. They were coming in to gorge themselves on food and to drink up all the wine before the rest of the body got there. And that was the sin of Corinth. And so he says they do that without even the slightest qualm at all. Think nothing of that. Now it says, verse 27, Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, and that is precisely what they were doing, and what was the unworthy manner in which they were taking the Lord’s Supper? Eating up all the food, drinking up all the wine before the rest of the body got there. Missing the picture. They’re guilty of sinning against the body of Christ and the blood of the Lord. Now again, if you came in for the Lord’s Supper and this group over here got here before this group did and you came in and everything was gone and all the food had been consumed and all the wine had been consumed and they were sitting over here fat, dumb, and happy, you’re sinning against the body of Christ, aren’t you? In other words, you’re not considering the body of Christ. You’ve just moved in and said, I’m going to get all that I can and who cares about the rest of them. And so he’s saying to them that you’re doing that in an unworthy manner. So he says a man ought to examine himself before he eats the bread and drinks the cup. Examine himself what? Dim the lights. Play the organ. Get into introspection. Ask God to forgive your sins. Be sure you don’t have any unconfessed sin in your life. Is that what that means? No, it means to examine yourself. Did I come in here and eat up all the bread and drink up all the wine before the rest of the body got here? Am I being a glutton? Am I looking out for the body? Or am I just looking out for me? That’s what it means to examine yourself. And it tells us for. Anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself. Judgment from who? From the body. You think if you came in here and they’re sitting over here, some of them passed out from drinking too much and eating too much. Do you think you’d sit there and say, praise Jesus? Look at our dear brothers in Christ. Or do you think you’d judge them? You’re going to judge them, rightfully so. This is why many of you are weak and sick and a number of you have passed out or fallen asleep. What do you do when you eat too much and drink too much? Go to sleep. Some of you probably had a little too much to eat and drink this morning. I’ve seen you. But if we judged ourselves, in other words, am I looking out after the body or just my own interest? You would not come under judgment from who? The rest of the body.
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Now, when we’re judged by the Lord, which is what the Lord is doing here in this book, and folks, that’s what our Bible is. It’s a book of discipline. It’s a book of discipleship, and discipleship is discipline. The Lord is looking at what the Corinthians are doing and disciplining them with his word. He’s showing them, you’re wrong. Remember where it says all scripture is for teaching and rebuke and all that? That’s what he’s doing. Now, when we’re judged by the Lord, we’re being disciplined so that we’ll not be condemned with the world. In other words, the world, God is saying, I don’t want you to be looked at as just another person out there in the world. You’re different. You’ve been set apart. You’ve been set apart for truth. So, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for each other. That’s the instruction. Wait for each other. If anyone’s hungry, eat at home so that when you meet together, it will not result in judgment. So when we have the potluck in a couple of weeks, if you’re that hungry, eat at home before you get here. So guys, we’ve got these people. And to this day, you have people who claim to be born again, but are just merely professors, but not possessors. And so he says that they’re clouds without rain, blown along by the wind, autumn trees without fruit, and uprooted, twice dead. They’re wild waves of the sea. These are pretty descriptive, aren’t they? Wild waves of the sea. Destructive, in other words. Foaming up their shame. Wandering stars for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever. Then he talks about Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men. See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly acts they’ve done in the ungodly way. And of all the harsh words, ungodly sinners have spoken against him. He’s talking about judging the lost. These men are grumblers and fault finders. They follow their own evil desires. They boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage. But dear friends, remember what the apostle of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. They said to you in the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires. And these are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts, and do not have the Spirit of God living in them, although they’re in religious work. Can you be in religious work and not know the Lord? You better believe it. You better believe it. Did you read the article in the paper about the Baptist? I don’t remember whether he said he was a minister or not, but he was a Baptist, and his wife was there in her little cloth on her head, he had converted to Muslim. Do you see that in the paper? There’s an article, and I thought to myself, what are you printing that for? Who cares? I mean, if you were a Muslim that converted to Christianity and put that in the paper, you’d hear it uproar. Well, what would you say about that guy who was a Baptist, now is a Muslim? What would you say about it? What did the Bible say about him? What’s a Bible verse that you know would be true about that? Exactly. They went out from us? How come? They were never a part of us. Was he a Baptist? Sure. Baptist. Was he saved? No. He was a lost Baptist. Can you have lost Presbyterians? You better believe it. How about lost Methodists? Or better yet, any saved Methodists? How about Episcopalians? How about Catholics? You see, guys, because you belong to the club, it doesn’t make you saved. And so you have a lot of people who are professors or just denominationalists. But they weren’t saved. I was in a Presbyterian church for 36 years of my life. All through high school. Probably never missed a Sunday. Lost as you can get. But I was in church. So being in church does not make you a Christian. And so we follow our own instincts. We don’t have the spirit of God living in us. And the other thing we know about the fact that when we don’t have the spirit of God living in us is you cannot understand spiritual things. That’s why people don’t read the Bible is because until you’re saved, you cannot understand the Bible. Natural man cannot understand spiritual things. It’s foolish to him. And how many of you, when you were lost, picked up the Bible and tried to read it? And you kind of got to the begets and the begats and you were begone. And you say, I don’t understand this thing at all. And you close it and kind of make an icon out of it. And then you get saved. And you pick up the Bible and say, who rewrote this thing? Right? Because now you can understand it. Why do you understand it? Because the Spirit of God lives in you. That’s one way to know whether you’re saved or not. Can you understand the Scripture? Because if you’re saved, the Spirit of God is there to interpret it for you. And so, folks, we have enemies in our camp. We have to understand that. And it’s getting worse. And it will continue to get worse. As far as I’m concerned, I, quite frankly, have never… taken end times that seriously, but I personally think that we are in them. I think with what I see taking place in Israel, which has taken place since they became a nation, I think when I hear leaders that stand up and boldly say that our intention is to wipe Israel off of the face of the earth, I think you could figure out they have an enemy and also want to wipe the Christians off. And so we’re headed toward an Armageddon. There is no question about that. We are headed toward Armageddon. When that’s going to occur, we don’t know. But the signs are there. People who are declared enemies of this country and democracy are gaining, and many have already gained, atomic warfare. That means we could blow ourselves up, all humanity. And it says in the scripture, if Jesus didn’t come back, that’s exactly what we’d be doing. We’re so smart that we can develop bombs to kill millions. That’s how smart we get. Smart enough to kill people. But we’re headed toward it, in my opinion. And so the issue is, are we ready? And the issue is, are we ready to see that God has set us apart, that he has given us the authority to go out and to help people to come to know Christ Jesus before those events occur? And it’s my prayer that we’ll be more active in that. Every person sitting in this room knows people. And you know people who need to know the Lord. You know people many times that don’t have a place to worship on Sunday. And you have an opportunity of bringing them. Because I do believe that they’re going to hear some truth. They may not like it, but they’re going to hear some truth. And truth sets people free. And if truth sets you free, error keeps you in bondage. And so, folks, let’s get aware of the lost around us and help them. to come to know Christ as their Lord and Savior. Let’s pray together. Father, let’s take time to just meditate in our own hearts as to where we are. There may be some in the sound of my voice that have never come to know you as their personal Lord and Savior. They’ve come to understand the truth of what you said about us, that we’re sinners and in need of salvation. They never knew how to obtain salvation. It’s as simple as believing what you’ve heard, that Jesus died for you then so that raised from the dead, he can live in you now and to take up residence in you And to make you a child of God. If that’s anyone’s desire. In this room. Or across the internet or wherever it might be. Just talk to God. Tell him that you need him. Thank him for the fact that he. Took away your sins at the cross never to see them again. Thank Him for the fact that He was raised from the dead so that that life that raised Him from the dead can now raise you from the dead to give you new life, to be indwelt by God. If that’s your heart’s desire and you’ve expressed that to God, you today have become a child of God. To as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become a child of the living God. Thank Him for that. Trust Him now that He will guide you and direct you into all truth. You’ll have your ups and downs, your good days and your bad days, but He never will ever leave you nor forsake you. And thank Him for that. You’re in a process of growth, just like when you were born physically, you’re in a process of physical growth. Father, we thank you for salvation that is ours in Christ Jesus and for the word of God that we hold in our hand that we can rely upon as the object of truth. And we pray these things in Jesus’ name and for his sake.
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Until next time, walk in faith, be good to one another, and praise the Lord. Amen.
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Put Jesus first in your life and turn your life around.
