In this episode of Classic Christianity Radio, Bob George explores the profound implications of Christ’s sacrifice and the transformative power of faith. Delving into the teachings of Jesus and the concept of forgiveness, Bob sheds light on how believers are reconciled through his life and resurrection. The discussion addresses the essence of the gospel, emphasizing that salvation is attained through faith in Christ alone, and stresses the significance of understanding this as the foundation of our spiritual journey.
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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And what did James say? If you kept them all, And in your entire life just violated one. You violated all of them. How many want to stand before God saying how obedient you’ve been to the law with that as a criteria? I don’t think so. And so he nailed the law to the cross with its regulations that was against us and stood opposed to us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross. Now, folks, in doing that. He neutralized the Jew who had the law. The Gentile never did have the law. He neutralized us all down to one level. All have sinned and all have fallen short of the glory of God. And there’s only one way to salvation, and that’s through faith in Christ Jesus. So he neutralized us and brought us all down to one level. And so he said, I’m sending you to them to open up their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light. And from the power of Satan to God, how come? So that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are set apart by faith in me. Christ took away our sins. The next day, remember, John said, look, the Lamb of God, who does what, guys? Takes away the sins of the world. Takes it away from where? Now, as guys see people say, take away sin, doesn’t seem like I’ve taken away from me. How many of you know that he hadn’t taken it away from you in practice? Who did he take it away from? The eyes of God. So that God is not dealing with you and me on the basis of sin today. Sins of the world have already been judged. The verdict was guilty. The punishment was what? Death. And who took it? Jesus. How much of it? All of it. Only one sin attributable to man, according to Jesus. The sin of the rejection of the Son of God. That the world’s sin is unbelief in me. And the only question God will ever ask any man on earth is, what did you do with my son? No man will ever go to hell because of his sins. Only the sin of the rejection of the Son of God. We watched a little excerpt last night on Jeffrey Dahmer. Nice guy. You can’t get much worse if you were to name a sinner than Jeffrey Dahmer. You know what he talked about in the end of the interview? That he had come to know Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. And that he was a child of the living God. Do you believe that? Jeffrey Dahmer who cut people up in cannibalism? And murdered people. He’s in heaven. Yeah. The best thing that those prisoners ever did for. Jeffrey Dahmer was killing. So that he could go into the presence of Christ. Now people say that’s not fair. I’ve been so good. And Jesus said I’m not interested in how good you’ve been. Or how bad you’ve been. It’s how dead you are. I’m here to cure death. And the only solution to death is life. And the only life available to you is the resurrected life of my son, Jesus. And when you refuse him, you remain dead. That’s the good news of the gospel, guys. So Christ was sacrificed how many times? Once to take away the sins of many people and he will appear a second time not to bear sin but to bring salvation for those waiting for him. Why isn’t when Jesus comes back he coming to bear sin? Why isn’t he going to do it? Well he’s already done it. Why isn’t he going to come to offer more forgiveness for us? Because there isn’t any more forgiveness. Without the shedding of blood there is what? No forgiveness. If there was any further forgiveness to be executed on your and my behalf, if we truly believe what the Bible says, that without the shedding of blood, there’s no forgiveness, what would Jesus have to do? Die again. Do you want him to do that? I have people, oh, they just keep asking God all the time, please forgive me, please forgive me, because it makes me feel good. So in other words, you want to crucify the Son of God all over again so you can feel good? You ought to think how good it feels to just wake up in the morning knowing you’re a forgiven person. You ought to test that one sometime and see how good it makes you feel. That I’m not good because I’ve done something. I’m free because he did something. And we’ve reversed it and made this out of a stupid religion whereby we go to the confession booth or you go to your first John 1 nines or you go back to your days of atonement. Or you go, we’ve made a religion out of what Jesus said. I finished it. I did it, not you. There is no more forgiveness to be executed. He cried out from the cross what? It’s finished. Now, when are we going to believe that? When are we going to believe it? He said, you know that he appeared so that he might do what? Take away our sins and in him is what? There isn’t any sin in him. And so, my dear children, he said, I write this to you so that you won’t sin. But if anyone does, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense, Jesus Christ, the righteous one. And he is the one who turns aside God’s wrath, taking away our sin and not only ours, but the sins of the entire world. Remember this. Atonement covered sins. Christ took away sense what is the only conclusion that you can come to as a born-again believer who has come into a relationship with the living risen Christ because what was provided for then is only received in his resurrection you don’t come forward to get forgiveness you already are forgiven you come forward to get life And that’s why it said in Romans that while we were yet enemies. That means lost, guys. While we were yet enemies, we were. That means past tense, already done. Reconciled to God through the death of his son. How much more? Having been reconciled, that being now an accomplished fact, shall we be saved by his what? His life. That’s the importance of Easter. That’s the importance of this Sunday. It’s the day that man received life called eternal life. Why is it eternal? Because of the eternal consequence of what he did on the day of preparation. Took away eternally the cause of spiritual death. Is that good news, guys? That’s the good news of the gospel. Now, I want us to turn over to Corinthians in the 11th chapter of Corinthians. And if it brings us to what is the meaning of this supper, what is the meaning of this event that we do that we call the Lord’s Supper? Well, what I’m going to do is to read from the Scripture, not from our tradition, not from our Baptist teaching or charismatic teaching or anything else, but from the Scripture, the only place it talks about the Lord’s Supper. I’m going to read from it. Paul says in the following directives, I have no praise for you. I don’t think he had much praise for anything the Corinthian church did, to be real honest. It’s probably the most unholy group of people that ever lived on the face of the earth, and that’s where he had to go minister. In the following directives, I have no praise for you, for your meetings do more harm than 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. But when you come together, is it not the Lord’s Supper you eat? For as you eat, each one of you goes ahead without waiting on anybody else. One remains hungry, another gets drunk. Now don’t you wonder how you get drunk on that grape juice? It’s amazing. And we’ve built that into doctrine. It Oh, my Lord would never touch wine. You know the passage, do not get drunk on grape juice. We’re in his excess. That little bit of grape juice makes your heart happy. Come on, people, grow up. Grow up. Quit acting like morons in regard to these things. God says that we’re not to go out and abuse alcohol and that type of thing, but where in the world does he say that your lips are never supposed to touch it? And I’m not advocating drinking. I don’t like to drink. I drank enough to last a lifetime. That’s not the issue. It’s the issue of quit perverting Scripture. And what it says in Scripture is don’t you have homes to eat and drink in? There’s a solution. You’re coming together and one remains hungry, another gets drunk. Now, what is he saying here? Well, he’s saying you’re getting ready to come and have the Lord’s Supper together as a body of Christ. And the Lord’s Supper has a picture to it. There’s a picture that God wants us to see. And so you come into the room and you’ve got the food and everything in here. And and all of this room over here comes and looks at the table and it’s all empty and all the food’s gone, all the wine’s gone, and here this group over there is sitting over there, fat, dumb, and happy, and they’ve eaten all the food, drank up all the booze, and you’re coming for supper. And he’s saying, you guys are not thinking about the body of Christ. All you’re thinking about is yourself, your gluttons. That’s what he’s saying here. Don’t you have homes to eat and drink in, he says, or do you despise the church of God? Do you despise your brothers and sisters in Christ so that you’re sitting there and happy that all the food’s gone because you filled your belly? He said, humiliate those who have nothing. What shall I say? Should I praise you for this? He said, certainly not. I’m going to go down to verse 27. Therefore, whoever eats the bread and drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner. What is the unworthy manner in which the Corinthian church was taking the Lord’s Supper? What was the unworthy manner? Do what? Not waiting on your brother. Eating up all the food, drinking up all the wine before the rest of the people got there. Now, what have we taught in the church today? But you have to make yourself worthy. So we dim the lights. Play the organ. And sit there in maudlin introspection. Trying to get all of your sins confessed. As you celebrate the new covenant which says there’s sins and lawless acts. I’ll remember no more. And where these have been forgiven, there’s no longer any sacrifice for sins. And we’re sitting there forgetting that and drinking the cup of the new covenant and don’t have a clue what the new covenant says. Pervert. Talk about perversion of truth.
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So he says in here, whoever drinks or eats the bread, drinks a cup in an unworthy manner, will be guilty of sinning against the body. If they’ve eaten up all the bread, drank up all the wine, who are they sinning against? The body of Christ. Are you guys all with me? The body of Christ. You’re the body of Christ. He said, I’m going away, and when I do, I’m going to send my spirit to live in you, and you’re going to be my what? My body. Well, how is this Lord’s Supper going to have any meaning to it if all the bread’s gone and all the wine’s been consumed? You’re not looking out after the body, and that’s what he says. Whoever eats the bread and drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be sinning against the body and the blood or the life of the Lord. And where does the life of God live? In you. You’re sinning against the entirety of what I came to do. I made you a part of the body of Christ, and my life came to live within you. A man ought to examine himself before he eats the bread and drinks the cup. What do you mean? Modeling introspection? Or examine himself? What’s it talking about here? Examine myself. Am I being a pig? Or am I waiting on the body? Am I thinking about my brothers? Or am I thinking only about getting my own body filled? Examine yourself. It isn’t sitting around and modeling introspection. It’s saying, am I doing right or am I doing wrong? For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself. Judgment from who, folks? How do you know that? That this is judgment from the body and not judgment from God? Because our sins have already been judged. Have they not? Folks, it’s amazing to me. I’ve said and taught these things to people and people sit there as dead as a hammer and don’t believe a word of it. Here it’s right in the Bible. Sit there as dead as a mule. And don’t believe it. Because their tradition doesn’t tell me so. That’s sick. And we need to get rid of this tradition stuff and start going to the Word of God and saying, what does the Word of God say in regard to these issues? And then start following them. If we’re going to walk by what? Faith, which is the only thing that pleases God. It’s amazing how stubborn people can be. when they’ve learned Baptist theology or Presbyterian theology or Methodist theology, and boy, don’t you tell me anything outside of those. Of course, none of them agree with each other, so somebody’s right or wrong. Examine yourself before you eat the bread and drink the cup. Anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself from the body. That’s why many of you are weak and sick and a number of you have fallen asleep. That word is passed out. What do you do when you eat too much and drink too much? What do you do? You go to sleep. You fall asleep. You pass out. I’ve seen some of you do that while I’m teaching without drinking the wines. That’s what happens. You gorge yourself. Get there and drink too much wine. What are you going to do? What do you do on Sunday? The head bobbers. If we judged ourselves, we wouldn’t come under judgment. Judgment from who? From the body. If you judged your own actions, you wouldn’t come under judgment from the rest of the body. When we’re judged by God, which he is judging this action, or he would be writing it, we’re being disciplined and will not be condemned with the world. This book is a book of discipline. That’s what’s called discipleship. And every time, if I was a Corinthian and I was sitting here and this is what I had been doing, this book would discipline me. I’d read that and say, Brother, I’ve been acting like a moron, according to God. I need to cut this out, and we need to start as a body of Christ recognizing the entire body, wouldn’t you? That’s what it’s for. So, my brothers, here’s the conclusion to this, guys. So, my brothers, when you come to eat… Wait for each other. There’s a conclusion to this. Wait for each other. And if anyone’s hungry, he should eat at home. So that when we meet together, it may not result in judgment. That’s the Lord’s Supper according to the Bible. That wasn’t the Lord’s Supper according to the Christian church I grew up in or the Presbyterian church. But that’s what the Lord’s Supper is in regard to the Bible. Now let’s see what this picture is there for. This was on the night, the day before Jesus was being betrayed. And so he was leaving his disciples with this picture. It’s a visual aid. And he was using this piece of bread as an example. If you were to look for the body of Christ 2,000 years ago, you would have had to go back to Israel and look for Jesus of Nazareth, wouldn’t you? And there you would have found the body of Christ. But what did he say? He said, this body is going away. But be glad it’s going away because when I do, then I’m going to send my spirit into you and you’re going to be my body. In other words, right now, my body is confined to Israel. But in a few days, my body is going to be all over the world at the same time. Because you are going to be my body. Do we realize that? We’re the part of the body of Christ. And so he used that as an example, as a picture. This is my body. It didn’t mean that this loaf was his body. It didn’t mean that when you eat it, that you’re eating Jesus. It’s an example. It’s an example. And he said, this represents my body, which is going to be broken for you. And he says, take and eat. Now, as you and I pass this bread around, if we can get our guys to come up and help with this, please. As we do this, this example becomes an example of the day that you became a part of the body of Christ. And we had one loaf, and now as you participate in that, just as you came to Christ individually, not collectively, not in a group, you came one at a time, that’s a picture of the day that you came to Christ one at a time. So as you take the bread… To you, it’s a picture of the day you became a part of the body of Christ. When you see your neighbor, it’s a picture when he became a part of the body of Christ. And you begin to see this going all the way around of all of us from different backgrounds, color, creed, how God touched our hearts individually and made us into this marvelous body of Christ. That’s what this is a picture of. So as we pass this bread to one another, And you partake of that. As you pass this to your neighbor, why don’t you communicate to them what we know is true. And that is that, Bob, we belong to Christ and we belong to one another. Stephen, we belong to Christ and we belong to one another. Charlie, we belong to Christ and we belong to one another. Bob, we belong to Christ and we belong to one another. Take the bread individually just as you came to Christ individually. Don’t wait on anybody else. You didn’t wait on somebody for salvation. You came to Christ on your own. It’s a picture when God reached down to you. Somebody either through the Bible or communicated the good news of the gospel to you and you responded. Could have rejected, but you responded and became a child of God and your life changed. Probably the greatest miracle that you and I will ever experience in our lives is the day we were born again. And when you think of the implication of that day, that’s the day that you inherited eternal life. And you stop to think of how important that is. It is the most important day in your life. When you were born again of the spirit. There’s no greater favor that we can do for a loved one than to show them how they can have eternal life. And you don’t get it through religion. You get it through Jesus. And it’s all him and none of us. Now we started with one loaf. Where is it? It’s gone. Where is it? It’s in you. That’s a picture of Christ in you, your hope of glory. That’s what the Lord, that’s what God gave us that illustration for. It’s a visual aid of what took place in his life. Now, where is the body of Christ? Well, it’s here. It’s all over the world, quite frankly, of whoever’s in Christ Jesus. That is the body of Christ. Again, we’ve kind of brought it down many times. That’s church membership. No, it’s his membership. We’re members of the body of Christ Jesus. How did we get to be that? Not by joining something here, but by being joined to Christ Jesus and him being joined to us. So we read that what I received from the Lord, I also passed on to you the Lord Jesus on the night that he was betrayed, he took bread. And when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, This is my body, which is for you, so do this in remembrance of me. In the same way, after the supper, he took the cup, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this whenever you drink it in remembrance of me, for whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. Now what is, he said, this is the cup of the what? The new covenant. When did the new covenant go into effect in the book of Hebrews? How many of you have wills? When will your will go into effect? On the day that you die, not a day sooner. And so Jesus taught under the old covenant, the covenant of the law, and in so doing buried us under it. Man had studied the law enough to think, well, I haven’t committed adultery. And you had the shufflers. You had all kinds of things taking place. And Jesus said, you know, you’ve missed the whole point because I get underneath the skin. And I deal with things under the skin. The law deals with outward. I deal with the inward. And he buried them. You see, guys, statements like be perfect. You know, is that encouraging? If God came up to you and said, I want you to be perfect, Leroy. How perfect, Lord? It’s perfect because the Father is in heaven. That’s all we’ll do. Isn’t that encouraging? Just how are you going to pull that off? Well, Jesus, why did he say that? To bury us. To show you, you can’t. When I say I can’t, I’m ready for the cross and resurrection. You can say, well, I’ve not committed adultery. He said, have you ever looked at a woman with lust in your heart? Well, yeah. Well, then you’ve committed adultery. Say, well, that didn’t make sense. I don’t care what makes sense or not. That’s what I’m saying. I’m looking on the inside. You’re looking on the outside. And that guy says, I think I’ve had it. He said, yeah, you have. Now you’re ready for the cross.
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Until next time, walk in faith, be good to one another, and praise the Lord. Amen.
