Yahweh’s Word Unfiltered

I’ve been a faithful Gospel sharing Believer for over 40 years. I can count on two hands the number of born-again Christians that I have ever met out in public who tried to give me a Bible tract…let alone tried to share the Gospel of Christ with me! I’ll be honest. I’ve had a lot more Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses try to share their faith with me than born-again Believers!  So where are all the born-again Believers ‘hiding out’ these days? I know the places where you’re ‘hiding out’! Many of you are ‘hiding out’ in the safe, comfy confines of your local place of worship! You tell others (in your Church) that you ‘love the Lord so much.’ So why aren’t you going out and sharing the ‘love story’ of His Son? Brethren, we’re living in a dying world that desperately needs some eternal hope? I know that some of you sooth your conscience (about not going out and sharing the Gospel) when you send a monthly stipends to that missionary family over in Papua New Guinea or Kazakhstan. You’ve convinced yourself that doing that should please the Lord. P.S. IF that’s the only ‘evangelism’ that you’re doing…it won’t please Him!And I also know that many of you blood-bought, born-again Believers are ‘hiding out’ in plain sight…up to your eyeballs in the ways and pleasures of this world. I wonder how many people around you even know that you’re a Believer? Now I get it! It’s a ‘little scary’ to think about ‘coming out of the closet’ and ‘exposing’ your beliefs to the world! Especially after you’ve been ‘hiding in that closet’ for so many years. Because you’re ‘thinking’ with your emotional fleshly ‘pea-brain’…when it comes to deciding about ‘stepping out’ and publicly sharing your faith you find yourself afraid of what people might say…or worse yet…what they might even think about you!!! (Said sarcastically!)  Are you kidding me! The Creator God of the universe came down to planet earth…took on a human form…so that HE could suffer and die to save your ‘sorry ass’ from hell…and you’re worried about someone shaming or embarrassing you if you share the message of Christ with them! Good thing your savior wasn’t worried about that on His way to Calvary! Yeshua Christ warned His Followers…”IF any of you are ashamed of ME or MY Word…My Heavenly Father and I will be ashamed of you at the Judgment Seat!  Brethren…there’s only two people who don’t want you sharing the message of Christ with the unsaved! Satan and you’re carnal, selfish flesh!  Brethren, this world isn’t ‘going down the toilet’ spiritually because of the perversions, immoralities and debaucheries the secular world is wallowing in. These immoral, wicked things have been around since the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. And it’s a fact that these evil, immoral behaviors have become more ‘in your face’ (i.e. openly prevalent) in recent years. And I believe that’s because born-again Believers are not doing their ‘job’ and going out (by the millions) and sharing the free gift Gospel of Christ with the unsaved face-to-face! Getting saved (i.e. getting born-again by putting your faith in Yeshua Christ as your eternal savior) is the only thing that can ‘change a heart of stone’!  Acts 8:3 But Saul began ravaging the church, entering house after house, and dragging off men and women, he would put them in prison! So…did this discourage the Believers from GOING OUT? NOT AT ALL! Acts 8.4 Therefore, those who had been scattered went about  preaching the Word.Saints…IF you truly are born-again…and IF you truly appreciate what Yeshua Christ did to save your sorry butt from hell…than you know that Yeshua Christ IS the only Way (to salvation.) Shame on you IF you’re too afraid or so uncaring that you have no desire to share the 'love story of Christ' with those who are headed to hell! Brother Bob

I’ve been a faithful Gospel sharing Believer for over 40 years. I can count on one hand the number of born-again Christians I have ever met out in public who tried to even give me a Bible tract…let alone try to share the Gospel with me!  Isn’t that a shame!  What a sad testimony about the evangelism concerns of the American born-again Church! In forty years of being saved I should have come across hundreds if not thousands of born-again Believers (in public places) trying to at least give me a Bible Tract! The words of the savior to His Followers was GO OUT IN THE WORLD and share the Gospel with the unsaved. Unfortunately, that clear cut command has ‘evolved into’ STAY IN the nice warm, comfy, safe confines of your local Church and preach the Gospel to the sheep at some inadequate revival meeting a couple times a year!Brethren, Believers are called to be ambassadors for Christ. That means were called to be public spokespeople for our savior! Secular ambassadors don’t ‘hide out’ in their basements! Secular American ambassadors go to foreign countries and speak well of…and build up their home country. Secular ambassadors go out of their way to boldly and proudly profess the blessings and goodness of their home country….encouraging foreign countries to be part of the American dream! Well, that’s what Christian ambassadors should do with the unsaved…as they speak well of and build up their savior! The unsaved need to be ‘persuaded’ (thru love, reason and logic) that Yeshua is a ‘country’ that they should want to be part of! Unfortunately, that’s only going to happen IF the Believer is willing to ‘open their mouth for Christ!’Church, our Heavenly Father put the responsibility of sharing the love story of His Son on us! Our Father didn’t give this responsibility to angels. He didn’t just give this responsibility to gifted evangelists! And our Heavenly Father most definitely never, ever expected that the only person in a born-again Church to be sharing the Gospel is the pastor.  What has happened in today’s born-again Church is that much of the Believer’s responsibility for GOING OUT INTO THE WORLD and preaching the Gospel to the lost has been ‘delegated’ to some far away missionary…or some unbiblical ‘traveling evangelist’ (who shows up once a year) and preaches to the choir!  I say shame on any born-again Believer who ‘hogs’ the ‘love of Christ’ all to themselves! Shame on the cowardly born-again Believer who knows that the people at their place of employment are headed to hell…and they still don’t say a word! Shame on the Believer who doesn’t even know IF the people they meet regularly at: the neighborhood grocery store, or gas station, or dentist office or local downtown farmer’s market etc. are saved or not! Shame on the born-again Believer who doesn’t share his or her faith because they’re fearful of what the unsaved might think of them!    Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore, since we Believers are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race Yahweh has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Yeshua, the champion of the faith who completed the race. Because of the joy awaiting Him, He endured the cross, DISREGARDING the public SHAME it brought on Him! Church…our savior is not asking us to ‘hang on a cross’ for Him…although we should be willing to die for Him. He’s simply asking us to care enough about what He did to save our sorry butts from hell...that we would WANT TO to GO OUT and tell others how much He loves them too!Brother Bob 

GO OUT IN TO THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL!Yeshua Christ commanded His Followers to go out into the world and preach the gospel! Those are pretty easy to understand instructions aren’t they?  GO OUT INTO THE WORLD AND PREACH THE MESSAGE OF MY SON! A Believer doesn’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what that means! Now, Yeshua Christ did NOT say…STAY IN your churches and preach the Gospel!  He didn’t say, stay in the nice, warm comfy confines of your church…and preach the gospel (over and over again) (to those people who are already saved! He didn’t say ‘hire’ or ‘pay’ a traveling evangelist (whatever that is) to come and preach to the choir! (SIDE NOTE: I’m NOT saying is ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’ to do evangelism in your church…occasionally! It’s is wrong IF the only evangelism ministry that the born-again people in a Bible Church do…is inside their church!) Brethren, most Believers (including Church leaders) in the Church of the Living God have failed miserably at obeying Yeshua Christ’s command to GO OUT INTO THE WORLD (I.E. into the public ‘marketplaces of your neighborhood’…or the ‘highways and byways’ of your life…or at your place of employment and share the message of salvation with a dying world. Sadly, most Believers today have no desire to go out! They’re too afraid or too ashamed or too comfortable! Now…even as a born-again Believer who loves the Lord…my sinful flesh says to itself; self, so what if the people in this world die! This wicked world is loaded with evil, rebellious sinners who choose to live a life of hedonistic debauchery! They don’t ‘deserve’ to know what Yeshua Christ did for them! But then my spirit reminds me that I too was once lived in that darkened world of never ending hopelessness and deception. Brethren, it was hearing and understanding the message of the Cross which changed my life. But sadly, in these End Time Church days of cowardly, timid, biblically apathetic Believers…there are a lot of unsaved people living in darkness who are not hearing that message of hope from Yahweh’s people! There’s not one example of the Lord commanding Believers to bring the lost into your churches so you can share Christ with them. Now again…I am not saying that it’s wrong to invite unsaved people to your churches. What I’m saying is that IF that is the “soul” way the Believers in your church try to reach the lost…that’s mediocre evangelism! Brethren, our Heavenly Father put the responsibility of sharing the love story of His Son on us who are saved! And after all that Yeshua Christ went thru to save our sorry butts from hell…we should need no other motivation do as He commands and GO OUT INTO THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE LOST!  SIDE NOTE: Please! Please! Please! Don’t listen to the fool (i.e. biblical coward) who tells you that Believers should only witness to someone they can also disciple! That’s a doctrine Satan loves! If you want to read an amazing story how ONE GUY (simply handing out Bible tracts) ‘changed’ the lives of thousands of unsaved people…do a Google search on the name FRANK JENNER! Frank never discipled one soul. And yet his faithfulness in doing something as simple has giving someone a Bible tract…changed the world in ways you can’t even imagine!  Please look up his name! By simply being faithful in handing a single Gospel Bible tract to the unsaved who crossed his path...Frank played a part in leading thousands to Christ!Brother Bob 

Yeshua Christ commanded His Followers to go out into the world and preach the gospel! Those are pretty easy to understand instructions aren’t they?  GO OUT INTO THE WORLD AND PREACH THE MESSAGE OF MY SON! A Believer doesn’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what that means! Now, Yeshua Christ did NOT say…STAY IN your churches and preach the Gospel!  He didn’t say, stay in the nice, warm comfy confines of your church…and preach the gospel (over and over again) (to those people who are already saved! He didn’t say ‘hire’ or ‘pay’ a traveling evangelist (whatever that is) to come and preach to the choir! (SIDE NOTE: I’m NOT saying is ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’ to do evangelism in your church…occasionally! It’s is wrong IF the only evangelism ministry that the born-again people in a Bible Church do…is inside their church!) Brethren, most Believers (including Church leaders) in the Church of the Living God have failed miserably at obeying Yeshua Christ’s command to GO OUT INTO THE WORLD (I.E. into the public ‘marketplaces of your neighborhood’…or the ‘highways and byways’ of your life…or at your place of employment and share the message of salvation with a dying world. Sadly, most Believers today have no desire to go out! They’re too afraid or too ashamed or too comfortable! Now…even as a born-again Believer who loves the Lord…my sinful flesh says to itself; self, so what if the people in this world die! This wicked world is loaded with evil, rebellious sinners who choose to live a life of hedonistic debauchery! They don’t ‘deserve’ to know what Yeshua Christ did for them! But then my spirit reminds me that I too was once lived in that darkened world of never ending hopelessness and deception. Brethren, it was hearing and understanding the message of the Cross which changed my life. But sadly, in these End Time Church days of cowardly, timid, biblically apathetic Believers…there are a lot of unsaved people living in darkness who are not hearing that message of hope from Yahweh’s people! There’s not one example of the Lord commanding Believers to bring the lost into your churches so you can share Christ with them. Now again…I am not saying that it’s wrong to invite unsaved people to your churches. What I’m saying is that IF that is the “soul” way the Believers in your church try to reach the lost…that’s mediocre evangelism! Brethren, our Heavenly Father put the responsibility of sharing the love story of His Son on us who are saved! And after all that Yeshua Christ went thru to save our sorry butts from hell…we should need no other motivation do as He commands and GO OUT INTO THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE LOST!  SIDE NOTE: Please! Please! Please! Don’t listen to the fool (i.e. biblical coward) who tells you that Believers should only witness to someone they can also disciple! That’s a doctrine Satan loves! If you want to read an amazing story how ONE GUY (simply handing out Bible tracts) ‘changed’ the lives of thousands of unsaved people…do a Google search on the name FRANK JENNER! Frank never discipled one soul. And yet his faithfulness in doing something as simple has giving someone a Bible tract…changed the world in ways you can’t even imagine!   2 Corinthians 5:17-20 Anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! And all of this is a gift from Yahweh, who brought us back to Himself through Christ. And our Father has given us the task of reconciling unsaved people to Himself. For Yahweh was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And our Heavenly Father gave His born-again, eternally saved children this wonderful message of reconciliation.  So we are (supposed to be) Christ’s ambassadors; Yahweh is making His appeal (to the unsaved) through us. We speak for Christ when we plead (to the unsaved), “Come back to God thru His Son!”Brother Bob

The sad thing with most Believers these days is that they just don’t see the daily spiritual…and the eternal consequential importance of learning and then obeying those Laws that Yahweh has established for His Church. Brethren, I’m not just talking about the ten commandments! I’m talking about all those DO and DO NOT (and implied DO and DO NOT) commandments/laws that we see in the Church Epistles. Brethren, our Heavenly Father has literally given born-again church-age Believers hundreds of DO and DO NOT (and implied DO and DO NOT) commandments in His Church Epistles! I wonder what percentage of saved people even care about learning and then obeying their Heavenly Father’s Laws? I know from what I see and hear out there in Christendom…the percentage is very low!  At a bare minimum all born-again Believers should at least have the spiritual desire to be want to be obedient to all those commandments that the Lord has established for His Church!Yeshua Christ told His Followers. I don’t care IF you simply tell Me that you love Me! I want you to show ME that you love Me. And you show Me that you truly do love Me…by keeping My commandments!   Brethren, you don’t need to be a Bible Scholar to discern what Christ is saying! There are a lot of born-again, Spirit indwelt Believers these days simply giving the Lord ‘lip service’ love. Their ‘worship time’ is all about ‘feeding’ their emotions. There’s way too much (emotional) spirit…and very little biblical Truth! Even today’s ‘worship’ songs are laden with ‘easy-peasy’ ‘touch your heart’ words…and not sound biblical doctrines!Brethren, the Good Lord doesn’t care one iota about what we Believers wish biblical Truth was. And the Good Lord could care less about what we Believers think or hope biblical Truth is. Either we know His biblical Truths or we don’t! And if we don’t know His Word…then we should not speak as though we do! Our Heavenly Father is also NOT okay with Believers being okay with accepting or tolerating various views or opinions about the same doctrines! There are hundreds of unbiblical, man-made doctrines being used by Believers in the Church as though they came right from the mouth of God! Brethren, sincerity that is not coupled with biblical Truth is simply just another form of religious gibberish! Our Heavenly Father expects His people to grow up spiritually and ‘get off’ the ‘mommy’s milk’ of His Word and start learning the ‘meat and potatoes’ of His written Word!   Brethren…our Heavenly Father delights in hearing His people publicly proclaim the excellencies of His written Word throughout the land. He’s pleased when His people learn and then publicly proclaim that His Ways are righteous, good and holy. But sadly, we live in a time when those wonderful doctrinal Truths of Yahweh’s Word are very seldom shared in His Church…let alone proclaimed throughout the world!Psalms 1:1-2 How blessed is the Believer who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked. Nor wander on the  path of sinners. Nor sit in the seat of scoffers! But their delight is in the Law of Yahweh. And on His Law the faithful meditates day and night.     Speaking the Truth in love (because so few are),Brother Bob

Any Church leader who teaches you that Believers are NOT under Yahweh's Laws (i.e. don't have to obey Yahweh's Laws) simply doesn't know what they're talking about.  Brethren...when the Apostle Paul tells Believers that they're not under Yahweh's Laws...that statement alone IS a Law of Yahweh that Believers are under!  I hope you see the irony there! Believers have ALWAYS been 'under' Yahweh's Laws! Adam's Laws from Yahweh were to be fruitful and multiply, do not to eat from the tree of good and evil, and do not eat meat. Noah's Laws from Yahweh were to build an Ark...and when the floods over eat whatever you want to...so long as you drain out the blood from the meat you eat.  Abraham's Laws from Yahweh were to leave the land of your family and go where I tell you...and start circumcising people. Now in Moses' day... Yahweh got very 'fruitful' with His Laws! He gave Moses hundreds of Laws for the People in the Nation of Israel. And Yeshua Christ Himself never taught Believers that you're no longer 'under' Yahweh's Laws.  However, being that Yeshua Christ IS Yahweh the Word...He began 'altering' some of those Old Testament Laws of Moses' day. And then Yahweh's Laws were either drastically 'altered' or made obsolete completely once the Church Epistles came out. The confusion with the term 'Believers are not under Yahweh's Law but under grace' comes when untrained, untaught Bible teachers try to use these words as the reason why Believers don't have to keep or obey God's Law (i.e. commandments) once they're saved. And for some reason many in the Church only associate the word 'Law' with Old Testament Laws. In the Scriptures...the words 'Laws' or 'Commandments' are synonymous.  Yahweh gave Moses over 600 Laws/Commandments in the Old Testament that He expected His people to obey. Well, the New Testament 'tops that' because Yahweh gave the Church (i.e. born again Believers) over 800 Laws/Commandments that He expects His people to obey! Brethren, no one has ever been eternally saved thru their faithfulness to Yahweh's Laws! Being unsaved and striving to obey Yahweh's Laws (which many unsaved religious people try to do) doesn't make you any less unsaved when you die. However, when unsaved people strive to obey Yahweh's Laws (especially His moral Laws) it does make them be better citizens. On the other hand...being faithful to Yahweh's Laws/Commandments (as an already saved, born-again Believer) 'simply' makes you a pleasing child of Yahweh! Being obedient to Yahweh's Laws doesn't make a Believer 'better saved'...or help 'keep them saved. It simply 'merits them a "Well done good and faithful servant" at the Judgment Seat of Christ!Brother Bob      

BELIEVERS ARE STILL UNDER THE LAWIn this day and age of 'easy believism' it's hard to get Spirit-indwelt, born-again Believers to understand that even though they are saved under grace…they are also most definitely 'under' God's Laws. The foolish idea that because Believers are saved by grace they do not have to obey God's Laws is ludicrous! And yet many in the Church believe that. The idea that Believers are not under Yahweh's Laws come from a misinterpretation of Romans 6.14. The Apostle Paul says in Romans 6:14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. Brethren, that verse is talking about (people) trying to obey Yahweh's Laws in order to be or get or stay saved.  You see, IF you believe that a person gets saved or keeps themselves saved by keeping Yahweh's New Testament Laws (i.e. commandments) then the Law(s) of Yahweh are your 'master.' (By the way…there are over 800 New Testament Church Laws in the Scriptures!) And the only way to overcome that 'master' would be by keeping all of Yahweh's (800) Laws perfectly! And you and I both know that's never going to happen!      Here's another Bible verse where the Apostle Paul speaks of the Law.  1 Timothy 1:8 But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully.  Brethren, the words commandments and laws are synonymous!  When Yeshua Christ told His Followers, "IF you truly love ME…you will keep My commandments." He could have just as easily said, "IF you truly love ME…you will keep MY laws'!   The words commandment and law were used interchangeably all the time in the Old Testament. And in the New Testament Yahweh's commandments didn't stop being His laws just because the words commandments is used more often!   So, IF you're one of those Remnant Believers who loves to hear the Truths of Scriptures being taught…ENJOY what I'm sharing!  Because I know that what I share in all my podcasts will encourage the spiritual hearts and minds of those Believers who love to learn the Truths of Scriptures!Your true friend in Christ, Brother Bob

So, I’ve started up my biblical journey thru the Book of the Acts of the Apostles! I strive to keep this biblical journey simple…was also having some fun! As in all my podcasts, I don’t try to teach what I don’t know. Now, in my Bible teachings and on my podcasts I share (over and over and over again) that the Good LORD never intended that the Book of Acts be used as a doctrinal book for the Church. So that means that all you signs and wonders seeking Believers (who ‘cling’ to the words in Acts chapter two verses one thru four, believing that what was going on in those four verses is a doctrinal teaching for today’s Believers) are absolutely, one hundred percent wrong! Now, with that said, the Book of Acts is loaded with good spiritual ‘stuff’ that can be ‘gleaned’ for teaching purposes! The Book of Acts is also a great Book to use for getting biblically ‘sidetracked’ on biblical ‘rabbit trails’! Which, if you listen to my podcasts already know that I do that quite often.Speaking the Truth…because so few are,Brother Bob  

Progressive revelation is NOT taught in most born-again churches these days. (Sadly, a LOT OF biblical doctrine (beyond the 3rd grade level) is NOT taught in most born-again churches these days. And not only that, most Believers are never taught HOW to discern the biblical Truth that is found in t heir Bibles. Most Believers these days read their Bibles like they do a nice, sweet Hallmark card...or a Mother Goose Fairy Tale book. Progressive revelation is the process by which Yahweh 'delivers' His various or newly inspired (i.e. latest, up-to-date) teachings, instructions and commandments...over a period of time...instead of all at once.   Because the Scriptures tell me that the End Time Church (for the most part) will be loaded with MANY false (i.e. bad) teachers and MANY misled or deceived Believers (Christ's words) (as it is now)...I am not surprised or shocked by the biblical ignorance and/or the biblical apathy that I am seeing and hearing from people who profess to be saved or born-again. And I'm not surprised or shocked by the numbers of professing Believers who live their spiritual lives through their emotions instead of through their brains. However, one thing that does surprise me is the numbers of Believers who claim to love the Truths of Scriptures...and who have access to sound Bible teachings...choosing to ignore sound teachings in order to do what seems right in their own eyes!Brother Bob   

So in the first part of this first podcast I’m going to simply explain why I started doing podcasting in the first place. Then, for the rest of the podcast I’m going to do some spiritual/biblical venting!  Brethren…I’ve been searching the Scriptures for Yahweh and Yeshua’s biblical Truths for a long time. (And they are in His Word. You simply have to ‘dig’ for them!) And for many years I tried to share some of those ‘deeper Truths’ of Scriptures (that I have learned) in the various Bible churches that I have attended with whomever seemed interested. Unfortunately…most Believers are simply content to ‘believe what they believe.’ Since it wasn’t ‘working’ to ‘get’ the ‘deeper’ ‘harder’ Truths of God’s written Word out in Bible church settings…I decided to start small home Bible studies. (Over the years I have discovered that people are more willing to ‘open up’ in a home Bible study setting…then they are in a larger church setting.) I only invited those people to these studies who were genuinely interested in being taught sound biblical Truth! I can’t tell you how many Believers (over the years) would say…”Why isn’t my church leader teaching me this stuff!” Sadly, those Believers (who had learned those ‘harder’ deeper’ Truths of Scriptures (that they were never taught before) started going back to local churches…they ‘deserted’ or ‘walk away’ from the biblical Truths that they had learned (and professed to believe)…and ‘returned to the muck and mire’ (of the false or lukewarm teachings) they initially wanted to get out of!Please listen carefully to Yeshua Christ prophecy about what the End Time Church will be like.  Literal Bible verse words are underlined.) Matthew 24:3-5, 10-11, As Yeshua was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples (I.E. APOSTLES) came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and what will be signs TO LOOK FOR IN the End Times (Church is implied)?” (Please notice that there are three questions being asked of Yeshua. And Yeshua answered and said to them (Apostles) , “See to it that no one misleads you. (Now, even though Yeshua Christ is speaking in the PRESENT TENSE (to the Apostles)…HIS words are ‘directed’ at us Believers in the End Times!)  For many (false teachers) will come in My name, saying, ‘I know the way of truth,’ and will mislead many. (Par added.) Now, I interjected the words FALSE TEACHERS in this verse because ANYONE who misleads Believers IS a FALSE TEACHER! Sadly, many of the Believers in today’s born-again churches are doing the same thing that Yahweh’s children did in the Old Testament. And that is…ignoring the HIS commandments and doing what seems right in their own eyes!  Many Believers no longer DO the DO’S and DON’T do the DON’TS of the Church Epistles!  Philippians 2:19-21 If the Lord Yeshua is willing, I hope to send Timothy to you soon for a visit. Then he can cheer me up by telling me how you are getting along.  I have no other reliable Believers like Timothy, who genuinely cares about your welfare. All the other Believers care more about their own interests…not for what matters to Yeshua Christ.Speaking the Truth (in biblical love) (because so few are),Brother Bob

It's NOT that most of you signs and wonders seeking Believers aren't sincere. The 'issue' is that your sincerity is NOT coupled with ACCURATE (i.e. up to date) biblical Truth! And that’s because you sign gift seeking Believers are not understanding HOW Yahweh’s PROGRESSIVE REVELATION works! You're striving to 'get' a sign gift that the Scriptures teach is no longer being manifested.  Progressive revelation is the theological (i.e. biblical) concept which states that Yahweh has revealed His will, plan, and nature to humanity gradually over time, rather than all at once. Simplified this means that those Believers born after the completion of the Scriptures ‘know’ much more about Yahweh’s will and plans for Believers than the Believers in Noah, Abraham or Moses’ days did. Today’s Church Age Believers simply have a fuller understanding of Truth (because of the completed New Testament Church Epistles) compared to an Old Testament Believer. And this process of progressive revelation not only reveals new Truths from Yahweh. These newly revealed Truths show us which (Old Testament or even (some) New Testament) Truths of Yahweh have become obsolete! It’s sad that a lot of professing Believers can’t discern that many of Truths of Yahweh (usually in the Old Testament) are no longer the Truths that a Believer should obey! Here are just some Old Testament examples of what I mean. Leviticus 23:26-31 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “On exactly the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall humble your souls and present an offering by fire to Yahweh. You shall not do any work on this same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement on your behalf before Yahweh your God. If there is any person who will not humble himself on this same day, they shall be cut off from his people. As for any person who does any work on this same day, that person I will destroy from among the people. Deuteronomy 22:23-24  If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her, then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them to death; the girl, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.Leviticus 7:27  Any person who eats ANY blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.’”(I’m a medium rare steak guy myself!) Here’s a ‘dicey one’ to ponder! Deuteronomy 23:1 No man who is emasculated or has his male organ cut off shall enter the assembly of the LORD.      WOW! Where’s the love Yahweh? (Said facetiously.) If these were still inspired Truths of Yahweh that the LORD expected today’s Church Age Believers to obey…we would all be in trouble! In fact…IF these “Truths” of Yahweh were still commandments that the LORD expected Church Believers to obey…MOST of us would either be ‘booted out’ of our churches…or be dead! Brethren, the LORD means what HE says…and says what HE means…but sometimes WHAT He initially said gets changed to something else (i.e. NEW and different.) I’ll explain in more detail in the podcast. Speaking the (biblical) Truth in (real) love,Brother Bob

Brethren…our Heavenly Father IS a good and loving Father…with those children of His who DO as He commands! Somewhere in the not too distant past…the ‘powers to be’ in the Christian Church ‘twisted’ and/or ignored what the Scriptures say about Yahweh being a holy and just…and have turned Him into a ‘candy-man’ God who freely and unconditionally ‘hands out’ all of His blessings…just because He can!  Brethren…our Heavenly Father and our Savior say what they mean…and mean what they say! So, those Bible teachers who ignore the biblical qualifying factors for Yahweh’s promises are going to face some serious (i.e. bad) consequences at the Judgment Seat of Christ! By ‘cherry-picking’ Bible verses Bible teachers can come up with all kinds of soft and chewy, sweet sounding fairytale (i.e. false) sermons about how their God is always good…or always loving…or always forgiving etc. in order to make the (biblically dumb) sheep in the pews feel good about their lackadaisical (i.e. lukewarm) attitudes about what the Scriptures really teach! You see, IF spineless Church ‘leaders’ can convince their sheep that their Heavenly Father IS ALWAYS good, kind, loving and gracious (He’s NOT!) towards them…regardless of how the Believer is living their earthly life…these feckless church leaders know that the sheep will return week after week to fill the church coffers. When our Heavenly Father says IF you DO as I SAY…THEN I will DO as I promise He means just that!  And to believe otherwise means that you’re either biblically ignorant or willfully stupid. P.S. Now the Spirit of Yahweh can help those Believers who are biblically ignorant learn that God’s biblical promises for His children are conditional. He cannot help those Believers who choose to be willfully stupid!    Isaiah 48:18 “If only My children had paid attention to My commandments! Then their  well-being would have been like a river, and their righteousness like the waves of the sea.Speaking the Truth (i.e. telling it like it (really) is, because so few are, Brother Bob

Sadly, a lot of Believers these days are living their spiritual lives in an imaginary, ‘feely,’ make-believe world…believing that everything is ‘good’ between them and their Heavenly Father and their savior! Brethren, unless you’re a brand new child of Yahweh (someone who’s still excited about their ‘new-found’ faith in Christ (and who has no idea what a biblical truth is yet)) you’re kidding yourself if you think that everything is ‘good’ between you and your Heavenly Father and your savior…just because you ‘feel’ (like) it is!  From the beginning of the Scriptures until the very end…the only time Believers ‘found’ themselves in a ‘good’ (living) relationship with their Heavenly Father was when they were doing as HE commanded! Eve thought it was okay to eat the forbidden ‘fruit’…because it was pleasing to her eyes! Lot’s wife thought I’ll take one look back…and then I’ll do as the Lord commanded. Moses and Aaron decided to take matters into their own hands…instead of obeying Yahweh! And both of them had their ministries ‘cut short’! Uzzah believed it was better to keep the Ark from failing then it was to obey Yahweh…and he died for making a decision that seemed right in his own eyes! And Solomon! Dear Brother Solomon! Your father David warned you that IF you chose to forsake the Lord’s commandments…HE (Yahweh) would forsake you forever! Besides Yeshua, Solomon was the wisest and smartest human who ever existed…and yet he not only ignored Yahweh’s commandments…he ‘promoted’ and ‘elevated’ the pagan religious practices that his pagan wives brought into his life! (By the way, as ‘punishment’ for Solomon’s sins…his future Millennial and New Earth ‘kingship’ (reward) was stripped from him by Yahweh!) Brethren…I could go ON and ON and ON with biblical stories of Yahweh’s people choosing to do just the opposite of what HE commanded! And let’s group the Apostle Peter in with those Believers who chose to do (on numerous occasions) what seemed to be the right thing to do…and it wasn’t! Brethren…you really need to ‘wrap your head around the biblical fact’ that unless you're a 'baby' Believer (who doesn't know any better) anytime Believers chose to do what seems right in their own eyes (regardless of how sincere they are…or how ‘good’ it feels) they are in sin! God’s people need to understand that at the Judgment Seat of Christ it is not going to matter one iota (to the savior) that you had good intentions for choosing to disobey God’s instructions for His Church! It is not going to matter one iota (to the savior, at the Judgment Seat of Christ) that you ignored the Truths of Scriptures…and instead simply chose to believe what your church leaders told you Truth was!  I promise you Brethren, unless you are a brand-new Believer (who doesn’t know any better) the Judgment Seat of Christ will not go well for the born-again child of Yahweh who chooses to try ‘build’ on the Foundation of Christ using beliefs that seem right in their own eyes! Brethren, it pleases our Heavenly Father when His children learn, obey and guard the Truths of His written Word that He has given His Church! That means you need to set aside some serious time for studying the Bible. As you’ll hear in this podcast series…a Believer does NOT have to be a Bible Scholar to read and understand most of the teachings, instructions and commandments found in the Church Epistles. And I promise you that IF you get serious about ‘getting off’ the ‘mommy’s milk’ of Scriptures…the Holy Spirit WILL guide and enlighten you to the ‘deeper’ Truths of Scriptures!  Jeremiah 33:3 ‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’Speaking the Truth in love (because so few are)Brother Bob    

Sadly, we live in a time when most Believers could NOT explain SIX essential biblical doctrines of the Church Epistles…even IF their life depended on it! Oh, there are a lot of Believers ‘doing church’…but very few are ‘doing church’ as their Heavenly Father has commanded them.  Yeshua Christ warned the Believers of the Sardis Bible church that they had a name on the marquee (outside their church) which made them sound alive (i.e. biblical)…but they were spiritually dead! WOW! Those are ‘tough love words’ from the savior!  Unfortunately, because so many of Yahweh’s children are biblically ignorant…they don’t ‘get’ what Yeshua means by His Words. Proverbs 2:1-5 My son, if you will receive my words and treasure my commandments within you; Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding; For if you cry for discernment; Lift your voice for understanding; If you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures; Then you will discern the fear of Yahweh and discover the knowledge of God.Brethren, reading the Scriptures is NOT the same thing as discerning the Scriptures. This world is full of church leaders, Bible ‘teachers’ and Christian social media ‘influencers’ spewing all kinds of biblical ½ truths (½ truth are always a lie!) or phony or misguided promises (from supposedly the Lord) that aren’t qualified!  And that’s because a lot of born-again, Spirit indwelt Believers simply don’t know what they’re talking about! Again…listen to these (Church) End Time Words of Christ (when He was asked what the End Time Church would look like.) These warning words are the first things that Christ shares when He’s asked what the End Time will look like. Matthew 24:4-5 See to it that no one misleads you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many.  Of all the things that the savior could have shared first…He shares these sobering words with His closest Followers! Again, because so many Believers don’t discern their Scriptures very well…they totally miss what their savior shares in Matthew chapter 24!Saints, it takes more than simply being saved to discern the Truths of Scriptures. Jeremiah 33:3 Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things which you do not know.’ Speaking the (real) Truth in love (because so few are),Brother Bob  

Sadly, we live in a time when most Believers could NOT explain SIX essential biblical doctrines of the Church Epistles IF their life depended on it! Oh, there are a lot of Believers ‘doing church’…but very few are ‘doing church’ as their Heavenly Father has commanded them.  Yeshua Christ warned the Believers of the Sardis Bible church that they had a name on the marquee outside their church which made them sound biblical…but they were spiritually dead! WOW! Those are ‘tough love words’ from the savior!  Unfortunately, because so many of Yahweh’s children are biblically ignorant…they don’t ‘get’ what Yeshua means by His Words. Proverbs 2:1-5 My son, if you will receive my words and treasure my commandments within you; ​Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding; ​For if you cry for discernment; Lift your voice for understanding; If you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures; Then you will discern the fear of Yahweh and discover the knowledge of God.Brethren, reading the Scriptures is NOT the same thing as discerning the Scriptures. This world is full of church leaders, Bible ‘teachers’ and Christian social media ‘influencers’ spewing all kinds of biblical ½ truths (½ truth are always a lie!) or phony or misguided promises (from supposedly the Lord) that aren’t qualified!  And that’s because a lot of born-again, Spirit indwelt Believers simply don’t know what they’re talking about! Again…listen to these (Church) End Time Words of Christ (when He was asked what the End Time Church would look like.) These warning words are the first things that Christ shares when He’s asked what the End Time will look like. Matthew 24:4-5 See to it that no one misleads you. ​For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many.  Of all the things that the savior could have shared first…He shares these sobering words with His closest Followers! Again, because so many Believers don’t discern their Scriptures very well…they totally miss what their savior shares in Matthew chapter 24! Saints, it takes more than simply being saved to discern the Truths of Scriptures. Jeremiah 33:3 Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’  Speaking the Truth in love (because so few are,Brother Bob  

Here’s the definition of the word discernment. Having discernment means having the ability to be able to understand, judge, and distinguish things clearly, especially when things are not obvious or straightforward. Unfortunately…because biblical discernment is lacking ‘big time’ in the born-again churches these days…a lot of Believers don’t know what they don’t know about the Truths of Scriptures. Oh…these Believers will give you lots of opinions about they think the Truths of Yahweh’s written Word are. (You’ll witness this at most “Bible studies” these days.) Believers without discernment will share all kinds of beliefs that they have…without really knowing where it is in the Scriptures those beliefs come from. And when ‘challenged’ to ‘defend’ why it is they believe what they believe…most Believers simply get irritated or get that ‘deer in the headlights’ look on their faces. I couldn’t tell you how many Believers I’ve met over the years who simply tell me that they believe what their shepherds tell them!  I’ve been a serious ‘student’ of the Scriptures for over 40 years. Now, even with that said, I don’t claim to know it all. However…I have learned ‘a thing or two’ about biblical Truth in those 40 plus years of studying the Scriptures. I can hear it already. Brother Bob is claiming to have learned the Truths of Scriptures thru his own human logic. I never said that! I know quite well that IF it wasn’t for the Spirit of Yahweh faithfully ‘helping’ me ‘see’ the complex diversities of the written Word…I too would be as biblically ignorant as many of today’s Believers are. Now, even with that said…make no mistake the Spirit of Yahweh ‘revealed’ the Truths of His written Word to me because I was seriously seeking to know (i.e. DISCERN) biblical Truth!  The Spirit of Yahweh not only ‘reveals’ the Truths of His written Word to Believers who genuinely seek to know them…He also gives the Believer the ability to DISCERN what the ‘hidden meaning’ of the Scriptures are.  Hebrews 3:7-13 That is why the Holy Spirit says, “Today when you hear HIS voice, don’t harden your hearts as Israel did when they rebelled, when they tested ME in the wilderness. There your ancestors tested and tried MY patience, even though they saw MY miracles for forty years. So I was angry with them, and I said, ‘Their hearts always turn away from ME. They refuse to do what I tell them.’ So in my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter MY place of rest.’” Be careful then, dear Brothers and Sisters. Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living Lord. You must warn each other every day, while it is still “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God.Lord knows that I’m consistently trying to ‘warn’ Believers about the earthly and eternal consequences of having (and dying with) a calloused, unteachable heart! Brother Bob 

The Title of this podcast says all that I need to say about the contents of Part Two in this series.   

Now, let me say right up front that I know without a shadow of a doubt that the free gift of eternal life (that the Lord gives to all who truly believe the gospel of Christ) is absolutely, 100%, totally free! It’s free! free! free! Romans 6.23 the wages (or consequences) of sin is death…however, the gift of eternal life IS FREE!  FREE means that a saved person’s eternal salvation is NOT determined  or maintained by how ‘well’ that person ‘behaves’ (after they get saved!) And since a person’s eternal salvation IS FREE…it won’t fade away because they’re not living up to a certain moral standard!  Yeshua Christ’s promise of a Free Gift of eternal life DIDN’T come with the stipulation that a person’s must strive to stop sinning OR make Christ the Lord of their life in order to BE or GET or STAY saved! Truly saved people received the Gift of eternal life the NANO-SECOND they believed the Gospel! The FREE GIFT of eternal life is NOT ‘doled out’ AFTER a born-again person spends a few years on the mission field, or after spending 6 months in a discipleship class or after attending Seminary school!  And I know that the Bible teaches that a person’s eternal salvation is NOT determined by HOW WELL they ‘behave’ because then a person would be saved by faith in Christ PLUS good works…which is contrary to what the Scriptures teach! Now, since salvation is a free gift that the Lord (freely offered to all who believe the Free Gift Gospel of Christ)…that means that no one receives OR KEEPS their free gift of eternal salvation ‘persevered’ by faith in Christ plus maintaining a righteous walk! Those who believe they need to ‘maintain’ a righteous walk of holiness (in order to keep them self saved), are basically (and foolishly) believing that they need to ‘help’ Christ with their salvation process! Since the Bible is crystal clear that FREE GIFT of eternal salvation comes thru faith in Christ plus nothing…you need to answer this question! How would a Believer ‘lose’ or ‘forfeit’ their eternal salvation for being bad….when they never received their free gift of salvation for being good in the first place! How can a Believer lose what they never deserved to begin with?Brethren, there are a lot of Believers in the Church who sincerely but foolishly believe that if a true, blood-bought, eternally saved child of God is not maintaining a certain standard of morality or decency or obedience…they will lose their salvation! Again I ask! How can a Believer lose (for being bad) something that they didn’t (initially) get in the first place for being good? In fact…IF you believe that a saved person can forfeit or ‘lose’ their eternal salvation if they die living a carnal life…you’re most likely not saved yourself because you are believing in a ‘good works’ plus Christ Gospel! (Which is a false Gospel!)  Again…is the free gift of eternal life really free…or does a Believer have to maintain a certain walk to keep it? Is it possible for the FREE GIFT of eternal life to be both FREE and NOT free at the same time? NO! When a person thinks that they need to ‘help’ Christ keep them saved thru righteous or holy living…their ‘saving faith’ is not in Christ alone. And no one is eternally saved unless their faith is in Christ alone!  Behold I, Paul, say to you that if any Believer receives circumcision, (believing that it will help saved them) Christ will be of no benefit to you (i.e. you’re no longer saved!) ​And I testify again to every person who receives circumcision (believing that it will help saved them), is under obligation to keep the whole Law. Anyone you believes they need to DO STUFF (plus believe in the Free Gift Gospel of Christ) (in order to maintain their salvation) have been severed (i.e. CUT OFF) from (salvation thru) Christ! ANY of you who are seeking to be justified by law (i.e. good works); you have fallen from saving grace (i.e. you who choose to do that are no longer saved.)

I know that A LOT of you have NEVER EVEN BEEN TAUGHT that Yahweh and Yeshua's NAMES were removed from original inspired Scriptures! For the first ten years of my life as a born-again Believer I too was NEVER taught! For those ten  years I ignorantly went along with the Christian 'flow' not knowing that as I read my Bible...I was using SUBSTITUTED (i.e. added) title/names for my Heavenly Father and my savior!  And then (I believe that) the Spirit of Yahweh 'revealed' to me the ONE TRUE BIBLICAL NAMES of my Heavenly Father and my savior! (YES! Our Heavenly Father and our savior DO HAVE biblical names. The problem is...they're NO LONGER in the Bible! Yes! You heard me right! That's absolutely asinine! Anyways, I'm getting ahead of myself!  All I know is that WHEN I DID find out that my Heavenly Father and my Savior HAVE biblical NAMES...I was both shocked (that none of my Church 'leaders' had ever taught me that....AND ANGRY...that I had 'allowed' myself to be deceived about such a serious biblical matter! So in this podcast I'll explain HOW and WHY those holy and sacred NAMES (Yahweh and Yeshua) were literally 'removed' from the written Word!  I pray that your desire to know biblical Truth...is stronger than your pride!Brother Bob

It’s sad how much Believer’s don’t know about the Truths of Scriptures.  I definitely don’t claim to be the ‘sharpest (spiritual) tool in the shed!’ But after seriously seeking to know the Truths of Scriptures (for over 40 years), the Spirit of Yahweh has ‘revealed’ a thing or two to me!  Unfortunately, most Believers I meet seem to be more interested in what the Christian ‘crowd’ believes, or what feels right, than what the Scriptures itself teaches is right! Now…there are some areas in the Scriptures where Believers (in the Spirit of unity) can agree to disagree! However…the One true names of our Heavenly Father and our savior is not one of those areas! Oh, we can ‘debate’ whether the savior’s biblical name is YESHUA or YOUSHUA. However, there is NOT a shadow of any doubt that our savior’s biblical name has never been IESOUS or JESUS!  And we can ‘debate’ the correct way to pronounce our Heavenly Father’s biblical name YHWH! But again… there is NOT a shadow of any doubt that our Heavenly Father’s biblical name has never been Lord!    Brethren, we were duped! Over the past 2000 years, some sanctimonious (and really, really biblically dumb people) decided that they knew better than Yahweh…and made the decision to remove Yahweh’s One true biblical name from the Old Testament Scriptures…and substitute His name with a title! Yeah, you heard me right! (I have more details on this ‘corruption journey’ in the podcast.) And even during the Church Age…some sanctimonious (and really, really biblically dumb people) decided that they knew better than Yahweh and decided to remove His One true name from the New Testament Scriptures (and also substitute the title Lord) in it’s place. These same sanctimonious (but really, really biblically dumb people) decided to ‘change’ the unchangeable (and untranslatable) name of the savior (Yeshua) to ‘nothing-burger’ man-made names! And what’s really sad…is that this went on ‘right under the noses’ of born-again, Spirit indwelt Believers! I know that when the Truths of Yahweh and Yeshua’s true biblical names was ‘revealed’ to me (by the Spirit of Yahweh)…my first reaction was shock! But another reaction was anger! I was pissed off big time knowing that I had been lied to by people I considered to be my spiritual leaders! I was angry that supposedly wise Bible Scholars like Strong’s and Vine’s didn’t have the ‘stones’ to teach Believers the Truths about how people had ‘corrupted’ the true biblical names of our Heavenly Father and our savior! Brethren, our Heavenly Father and our savior’s true biblical names are known! Let’s just use them instead of using the ‘whatever’ ‘names’ or titles that men have substituted for YAHWEH and YESHUA!Sharing the Truth because so few are,  Brother Bob   

As Yeshua Christ gives us the (true) story of Lazarus and the Rich Man…HE IS revealing some newly inspired (i.e. never before heard) biblical Truths. Until Christ shares this story of the Rich Man and the Poor Man, no one really knew what went on in the Old Testament place for the dead known as Sheol or the Pit! Well, the “mysteries” of Sheol (which is Hades in the New Testament) are about to be ‘exposed’ by the savior.   Now sadly, because most born-again Believers have ‘lost’ the ability to biblically discern the ‘different’ ‘layers’ of biblical Truths and sound spiritual information that the Lord has ‘hidden’ in the sentences (i.e. words) that they read in their Bibles…most Believers don’t have a clue that there is much more “hidden’ biblical information in those sentences (i.e. words) that they logically read and comprehend in their daily Bible readings! Now, although the Bible IS a Book that can be logically read and then be logically comprehended. There is another ‘aspect’ of the Scriptures that most Believers don’t ‘see.’ And that’s ‘seeing’ the ‘deeper’ spiritual Truths of Yahweh’s written Word (‘hidden’ in the words that you read in a Bible verse.) Our Heavenly Father only ‘reveals’ those ‘hidden’ Truths of His written Word to those Believers who are genuinely seeking to ‘go deeper’ than just what they logically comprehend as they read their Bibles. Names like: A.W. Tozer, Tony Evans, John MacArthur, and Adrian Rodgers come to mind when I think of men ‘gifted’ to discern (and explain) the ‘deeper Truths’ of Yahweh’s written Word to Believers! Brethren…we get ‘one life’ to share the free salvation message of Christ with the unsaved. And I promise you according to all that I know about the Truths of Scriptures that IF you are truly saved (i.e. born-again)…and haven’t been sharing the free gift Gospel of Christ with the unsaved around you (you will still be saved from hell when you die!) But for all eternity, you’ll have sorrow and regret for all those unsaved people you knew (who are now in hell) who you never shared the Gospel with!   Unfortunately, the Rich Man found out too late that hell was a real place! (I wonder IF anyone ever shared with him?) However, to the Rich Man’s credit, (once he dropped into hell) he cared so much about his unsaved family that he begged Abraham to please send Lazarus (back up) to his family to warn them that hell is a real place! To which Abraham ‘harshly’ replied, “No!  They need to get saved by reading and believing the Truths of Scriptures! Speaking the Truth in love, Brother Bob   

As Yeshua Christ gives us the (true) story of Lazarus and the Rich Man…HE IS revealing some newly inspired (i.e. never before heard) biblical Truths. You see, until Christ shares this story of the Rich Man and the Poor Man, no one really knew what went on in the Old Testament place for the dead known as Sheol or the Pit! Well, the “mystery” of Sheol is about to be ‘exposed’ by the savior.   Now sadly, because most born-again Believers have ‘lost’ the ability to biblically discern the ‘different’ ‘layers’ of biblical Truths and sound spiritual information that the Lord has ‘hidden’ in the sentences (i.e. words) that they read in their Bibles…most Believers don’t have a clue that there is much more “hidden’ biblical information in those sentences (i.e. words) that they logically read and comprehend in their daily Bible readings! Now, although the Bible IS a Book that can be logically read and then be logically comprehended. There is another ‘aspect’ of the Scriptures that most Believers don’t ‘see.’ And that’s ‘seeing’ the ‘deeper’ spiritual Truths of Yahweh’s written Word (‘hidden in the words’ that you read in a Bible verse), that He only ‘reveals’ to those Believers who are genuinely seeking to ‘go deeper’ (than just the ‘surface’ of a Bible verse.) Names like: A.W. Tozer, Tony Evans, John MacArthur, and Adrian Rodgers come to mind when I think of men ‘gifted’ to discern (and explain) the ‘deeper Truths of Yahweh’s written Word!  Brethren, IF your only ‘understanding’ of the Truths of Yahweh’s written Word come from what you ‘read’ ‘on the surface’ of a Bible verse…you’re missing out on a lot of what the Scriptures ‘say’ ‘within’ the words of a Bible verse!  A Believer whom the Lord has ‘revealed ‘ the ‘deeper Truths’ of His written Word to…should be able to spend hours sharing the Truths of Yahweh ‘hidden’ in a stories like: the Rich man and the Poor Man, Lazarus and the Tomb….or in the Parable of the Talents. IMPORTANT SIDE NOTE: Don’t be deceived or duped by the unbiblical or inaccurate, emotionally driven ‘teachings’ of the signs and wonders seeking Believers out there in the Church! They’re going to share a lot of unbiblical ‘feely’ ‘stuff’ that SEEMS RIGHT or FEELS RIGHT (i.e. sounds pious and holy) (when it’s not!)…not having a clue about what they speak!  Speaking the Truth in love, Brother Bob   

Brethren, in this podcast series I’m simply giving you (what I believe to be) some ‘hidden’ biblical Truths of Scriptures. You don’t have to believe what I’m sharing (about Yeshua Christ’s soul and spirit going to hell to pay off mankind’s hell sin debt) to BE or GET saved! What I’m doing in this podcast series is similar to when I try to teach the Brethren the truths about pagan origins of Christmass or Easter, and the reason behind WHY the man-made ‘names’ of God and the savior is in our Bibles these days. Or when I did a podcast explaining why I KNOW that it was only the twelve Apostles who were together on the Day of Pentecost (when the supernatural manifestation of the Spirit of Yahweh took place.)   All Believers are called to be a DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH (i.e. defenders of the Truths of Scriptures.) I don’t know about you…but I take that responsibility seriously! So, in light of that…I KNOW that the Good Lord wants me to share ALL His biblical Truths (and truths in general) with His sheep. (Sadly, very few of Yahweh’s ‘shepherds’ these days are true defenders of the one True faith handed down to all in the Scriptures. And I believe that’s because very few of Yahweh’s ‘shepherds’ really know their Scriptures very well.   For me personally, when I realized that not only did my savior suffer miserably before He finally died on the cross…He then went to hell (for three days and three nights) to ‘complete’ His sacrifice for mankind’s sins…my appreciation for what He did to save my sorry butt from hell was magnified!   Speaking the Truth in love (because so few are),  Brother Bob    Listen to my podcasts at: God’s Word Unfiltered  

Most born-again Believers don’t ‘see’ that the Scriptures clearly imply that our Lord and Savior Yeshua Christ suffered TWICE for mankind’s sins. His physical (i.e. body) death at Calvary “paid for” the physical consequences of mankind’s sins. But once HIS physical body died…HIS soul and spirit went to hell (for three days and three nights) to ‘pay off’ the hell sin debt that ALL humans ‘owe’ a holy and just God! Matthew 12:38-40 At this some of the Torah-teachers said, "Rabbi, we want to see a miraculous sign from you." He replied, "A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign? No! None will be given to it but the sign of the prophet Yonah. For just as Yonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea-monster, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the depths of the earth.The Bible teaches that the PHYSICAL death of Christ (i.e. His blood sacrifice at Calvary) ‘removes’ or washes away a Believer’s physical (i.e. fleshly) sins as they confess and repent! WHAT Yeshua Christ did a Calvary DIDN’T ‘remove’ the hell debt consequences (for our sins) (that our soul and spirit deserves to ‘pay for’ in Hades?) That’s WHY Yeshua Christ’s (INVISIBLE) SOUL/SPIRIT HAD TO GO TO HELL! Yeshua’s PHYSICAL death (I.e. sacrifice) at Calvary was a ‘partial’ payment for mankind’s sins! Christ ‘completed’ mankind’s sacrifice for sins by going to hell and paying off the hell sin debt that ALL humans ‘owe’ a holy and just God!  Acts 2:24-27, 29-32 But Yahweh has raised HIM up and freed HIM from the suffering of death; it was impossible that death could keep its hold on HIM. For David says this about HIM (i.e. the Messiah): 'I saw ADONAI always before ME, for HE is at my right hand, so that I will not be shaken. For this reason, MY heart was glad; and MY tongue rejoiced; and now MY body too will live on in the certain hope that YOU will not abandon ME to Sheol. (Peter speaking to Jews) "Brothers, I know I can say to you frankly that the patriarch David died and was buried—his tomb is with us to this day. Therefore, since he was a prophet and knew that Yahweh had sworn an oath to him that one of his descendants would sit on his throne, David was speaking in advance about the resurrection of the Messiah, that it was HE who was not abandoned in Sheol and whose flesh did not see decay. Yahweh raised up this Yeshua! And we are all witnesses of it!Yes! the Bible clearly implies that Yeshua Christ suffered TWICE for our sins! Once on the cross…and once in hell!  Yeshua Christ completely PAID OFF our hell sin debt when we got saved…but all those PHYSICAL sins that we commit AFTER we get saved are ‘removed; (i.e. washed clean by the Blood of Christ) as we confess and repent of the sin we just committed!  Now…IF you listen to the podcast series on this topic you’ll hear me say (repeatedly) that I am NOT telling you that UNLESS you believe what I’m sharing (on this topic) you can’t be saved! I know Brothers and Sisters in Christ who don’t believe (for foolish, emotional reasons) that the soul and spirit of Yeshua Christ went to hell! Oh well! We’ll let the Lord sort that out at the Judgment Seat.  P.S. I believe that a lot of our so-called biblical beliefs are going to be ‘corrected’ at the Judgment Seat of Christ! Brother Bob       

So this is the final podcast in a four-part series where I expose the unbiblical errors of Calvinism! As I share in ALL MY podcasts…a Believer doesn’t have to be a rocket scientist or Bible scholar to hear and understand the simple Truths of Scriptures that I share. AND YET…as I look out into the world at the born-again Church…I SEE (i.e. HEAR and READ) a LOT of very pious sounding but totally unbiblical BS (i.e. biblical stupidity) being ‘passed off’ as being ‘of the LORD’! I have never claimed to have all the answers…but after 40 years of seriously studying the written Word of Yahweh…and NOT just casually reading thru the Word of Yahweh…I have learned much! So, when I do ANY podcasts…not just this one exposing the errors of Calvinism…I AM NOT determining my ‘biblical positions’ based on what SEEMS or FEELS right. But rather on what I believe is LOGICALLY and TRUTHFULLY right…according to Yahweh’s written Word. I’ll be honest…I am shocked by the number of Believers whom I have talked to who do not have BIBLICAL convictions. BUT rather spiritual convictions based on what seems right (i.e. feels right) to them! And that’s definitely the case with Calvinists! There is absolutely nothing biblically true about the TUILP doctrines of Calvinists…and yet thousands of professing born-again Believers have allowed themselves to ‘fall prey’ to the idiotic doctrines of Calvinism! Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ…I KNOW (from the obvious biblical apathy and biblical ignorance) that I see (i.e. HEAR and READ) in many of today’s born-again Believers, that the Church is in the End Times! (Side Note: Yeshua Christ and the Apostle Paul clearly tell us in the Scriptures that this is what the End Time ‘fallen away’ (from biblical Truth) Church will be like!) So, with that said, PLEASE!...PLEASE!...PLEASE! 'TURN OFF' your ‘emotion button’ and go listen to my podcasts (with an honest and teachable mind) at God’s Word Unfiltered. P.S. If you choose to listen to my podcasts…please ‘leave your heart’ on the Hallmark movie site. Don’t ‘bring your feelings’ into a Bible study situation.) If you have BIBLICAL ‘aught’ with what I say…please email me at [email protected].   But don’t waste my time (and your time) emailing me IF all you have to ‘offer me’ is something in regard to how much you don’t ‘like’ WHAT I say or HOW is say it! Your true friend in Christ, Brother Bob      

In Part three of this series about exposing the unbiblical errors of Calvinism I focused on the letter “L” (in the Calvinistic TULIP acronym); which stands for: LIMITED ATONEMENT OR…to simply that ‘fancy’ phrase LIMITED ATONEMENT literally means (to a diehard Calvinist) that Yeshua Christ did NOT die for everyone. He only died for those (very few) who His Father predetermined (i.e. picked ahead of time) would be saved! I KNOW! It’s NUTS! The more I study the Calvinistic beliefs…the more I’m convinced their doctrines come right out of the pits of hell themselves!Well…here are three…easy to understand (unless you’re a ‘blinded’ Calvinist) Bible verses which totally contradict the blasphemous concept of LIMITED ATONEMENT! I John 2:2, "Yeshua Christ is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world ."  1 Timothy 2: 5-6 "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Yeshua Christ; Who gave himself a ransom for all John 3:16-17 For Yahweh so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. ​For YAHWEH did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.I could share many more Bible verses which 'expose' the Calvinism doctrine of LIMITED ATONEMENT for what it is. (A deceptive lie!) But I won’t! If your spiritual mind and heart are so hard-hearted that you can’t see the obvious errors of the doctrines of Calvinism…you are definitely ‘caught up’ in a dark ‘light!Your true friend in Christ, Brother Bob

Brother Bob…What do you mean I’m responsible for my walk with Christ? Sadly, many Believers in the Church today have been duped into believing that either the Spirit of Yahweh or Yeshua Christ Himself are totally responsible for their spiritual walk! A lot of born-again Believers are foolishly told that IF their faith is strong enough…they can simply ‘sit back’…’put their feet up’ and watch the savior or the Holy Spirit ‘fight’ all their spiritual battles for them! Here are just a FEW of the hundreds of Bible verses which clearly show that the born-again, Spirit-indwelt, blood-bought children of Yahweh…and NOT the Spirit of Yahweh…are accountable for ‘walking the talk’! Luke 13:24 --- “Work hard to enter the narrow door to God’s Kingdom, for many will try to enter but will fail.Romans 12:11 Never be lazy; but work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically.1 Corinthians 3:8 The one who plants and the one who waters work together with the same purpose. And both will be rewarded for their own hard work.Philippians 2:12 Work hard to show the results of your salvation, obeying God with deep reverence and fear.1 Timothy 4:10 This is why we work hard and continue to struggle, for our hope is in the living God, who is the Savior of all people and particularly of all believers.1 Timothy 5:17  Elders who do their work well should be respected and paid well, especially those who work hard at both preaching and teaching.2 Timothy 2:15 Work hard so you can present yourself to God and receive his approval. Be a good worker, one who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly explains the word of truth.Hebrews 2:1,3 So we must listen very carefully to the Truths that we have heard, or we may drift away from it. So what makes us think we can escape if we ignore this great salvation that was first announced by the Lord Yeshua himself and then delivered to us by those who heard him speak? Hebrews 4:6,11 So God’s rest is there for people to enter, but those who first heard this good news failed to enter because they disobeyed God. So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall.2 Peter 1:10-11 So, dear brothers and sisters, work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen. Do these things, and you will never fall away. IF you work hard at doing these things…then Yahweh will give you a grand entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Yeshua Christ.Church, the idea that the Holy Spirit is ‘responsible,’ or worse yet is the One, who does all this stuff above for Believers is ludicrous! Any words of ‘honor’ or ‘praise’ (from Yeshua Christ) (at the Judgment Seat of Christ) for a ‘job well done’…will be empty words IF we’re not the ones deserving of those words of honor or praise! If it isn’t the Believer who plays a major role in ‘fighting the good fight’…then the whole Judgment Seat of Christ reward system is a farce! I don’t know about you…but I don’t want to take credit (i.e. get rewarded) ‘for a job well done’…IF I wasn’t the one choosing to strive to try and please my savior and my Heavenly Father! I want it to be me and not the Spirit of Yahweh who ‘earned’ the praises of my savior!  Speaking the Truth in love, Brother Bob          

I’m a born-again Believer who sincerely and genuinely strives to defend what I believe to be the Truths of Scriptures. I believe that the doctrines of Calvinism have very little to do with the Truths of Scriptures (even though Calvinists say otherwise!) So, in spite of what the Calvinists say about their doctrines being biblical...I know they're not. So I 'look at' Calvinistic doctrines as being deceptive and dark 'enemies' of biblical Truth...which need to be 'rooted out' of the Church.  Now I know that many Calvinists sincerely believe that their Calvinistic beliefs are biblical. But so do the Mormons, JW’S, and today’s emotionally driven, experiential signs and wonder seeking Pentecostals. All of who I know have beliefs that are either unbiblical…or (un)biblically inaccurate.Now, I don’t hate Calvinists. However, I do ‘hate’ their Calvinistic doctrines! (Just as I don’t hate Catholics. I hate their man-made doctrines.) Most Calvinists don’t even realize how unloving they are. Their doctrines have not only ‘turned’ the God of the Scriptures into an unloving God…they have ‘turned’ Yahweh into a liar. Every Bible version on planet earth includes words like these: John 3.16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.One of the beliefs of Calvinism is that the only people who get saved are those people who Yahweh picks for salvation! That belief makes Yahweh out to be a liar! Because this Calvinistic doctrine teaches that Yahweh doesn’t love the whole world...even though the Bible verse above says differently! And IF Yahweh only loves those who He ‘picks’ for salvation...Yahweh lied when He gave the world that Bible verse above! Another reason why this Calvinist belief (that the only people who get saved are the people Yahweh picks for salvation) makes Yahweh out to be a liar is the fact that the verse about tells us that Yahweh made His Son available to the whole world! And yet, the Calvinistic belief above teaches that Yahweh only made His Son available to a few! And finally…the last reason why this Calvinistic belief (that the only people who get saved are the people Yahweh picks for salvation) makes Yahweh out to be a liar is that in John 3.16 above, Yahweh declares that whoever believes is given the opportunity to believe in His Son (for salvation.) Brethren, this Calvinistic belief that I just shared above is just one of the unloving, unkind, deceptive, and biblically inaccurate doctrines of Calvinism! There are many more. If you’re genuinely concerned about WHY the doctrines of Calvinism are biblically wrong…please listen to this podcast series. IF you’re a die-hard Calvinist who not willing to be corrected…I believe you’re living in a ‘dark’ ‘light’... and you probably don’t even know it! Matthew 6:22-23 The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!It’s one thing to have strong biblical convictions based on the Word of God! It’s another thing altogether when your ‘convictions’ come from sources outsight the LIGHT of the Truth of Scriptures! If your faith is in the doctrines of John Calvin…you’re in a really ‘dark place’! And IF you believe in a sacramental ‘Gospel’ (which is really not the Gospel of Christ at all)…you’re not even saved!Speaking the Truth in love, Brother Bob

One wouldn't think this would be a 'questionable' doctrine in the Church of the Living God. But it is...for some. Brethren, there are Believers in the Church who sincerely believe that EVEN IF a person (who) USED TO profess to be born-again, (but who now) chooses to openly and publicly renounce (i.e. reject) Yeshua Christ as their savior...they would still be eternally saved because they USED TO believe in the Gospel of Christ! No! I'm not making that up! Now to be fair, there are ways to convince yourself (misusing) the Scriptures that a USED TO BE Believer...who's now an Unbeliever...will still be saved from hell when they die. However...IF you listened to part one of this series I explained the biblical meanings for the English words: believe, believing, believed and believer...and they all come from ONE Greek word PISTUEO. And that Greek word has nothing to do with USED TO BE a Believer. DEFINITIONS OF BELIEVINGSTRONG'S SAYS.... BELIEVE, BELIEVES, BELIEVING BELIEVED in the Greek means to have a mental persuasion by implication, to entrust (especially one's spiritual well-being to Christ): — believe(-r), commit (to trust), be committed unto 1, be put in trust with 1, commit to one's trust. 1a; to think it to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in of the thing believed; to credit, have confidence; mere acknowledgment of some fact or event: intellectual faithVINE'S SAYS to believe,” also “to be persuaded of,” and hence, “to place confidence in, to trust,” signifies, in this sense of the word, reliance upon, not mere credence (i.e. not merely something you believed in the past.)So in other words, the general definition of BELIEVE, BELIEVES, BELIEVING and BELIEVED clearly implies CONTINUING TO BELIEVE!IT’S BIBLICALLY LOGICAL THAT IF A PERSON NO LONGER BELIEVESWHAT THEY NEED TO BELIEVE in order to be SAVED…THEY’RE NO LONGER A BELIEVER! It's important to note that in the New Testament, "pisteuó" carries a richer meaning than simply intellectually believing at some point in time. The word implies deep trust and continued reliance. Hence, IF you stop believing you are no longer a believer.  In John 6:47 you see: “Truly, truly, I say to you, the one who believes has eternal life.” This verse both make it clear that you have to BE A believer in order to have eternal life. In English the word “believe” is a friendly word. The big question is what does it really mean to believe in Him. As I said before, every time you see the words believe, believing, believed and believes (in the New Testament) they come from the Greek word pisteuo, which means so much more than just believing something in your head. It means “believe in, to entrust, to rely on, to cling to.” Brother Bob

I’m a born-again Believer who sincerely and genuinely strives to defend what I believe to be the Truths of Scriptures. I believe that the doctrines of Calvinism have very little to do with the Truths of Scriptures (even though Calvinists say otherwise!) So, in spite of what the Calvinists say about their doctrines being biblical...I know they're not. So I 'look at' Calvinistic doctrines as being deceptive and dark 'enemies' of biblical Truth...which need to be 'rooted out' of the Church.  Now I know that many Calvinists sincerely believe that their Calvinistic beliefs are biblical. But so do the Mormons, JW’S, and today’s emotionally driven, experiential signs and wonder seeking Pentecostals. All of who I know have beliefs that are either unbiblical…or (un)biblically inaccurate. Now, I don’t hate Calvinists. However, I do ‘hate’ their Calvinistic doctrines! (Just as I don’t hate Catholics. I hate their man-made doctrines.) Most Calvinists don’t even realize how unloving they are. Their doctrines have not only ‘turned’ the God of the Scriptures into an unloving God…they have ‘turned’ Yahweh into a liar. Every Bible version on planet earth includes words like these: John 3.16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.  One of the beliefs of Calvinism is that the only people who get saved are those people who Yahweh picks for salvation! That belief makes Yahweh out to be a liar! Because this Calvinistic doctrine teaches that Yahweh doesn’t love the whole world...even though the Bible verse above says differently! And IF Yahweh only loves those who He ‘picks’ for salvation...Yahweh lied when He gave the world that Bible verse above! Another reason why this Calvinist belief (that the only people who get saved are the people Yahweh picks for salvation) makes Yahweh out to be a liar is the fact that the verse about tells us that Yahweh made His Son available to the whole world! And yet, the Calvinistic belief above teaches that Yahweh only made His Son available to a few! And finally…the last reason why this Calvinistic belief (that the only people who get saved are the people Yahweh picks for salvation) makes Yahweh out to be a liar is that in John 3.16 above, Yahweh declares that whoever believes is given the opportunity to believe in His Son (for salvation.) Brethren, this Calvinistic belief that I just shared above is just one of the unloving, unkind, deceptive, and biblically inaccurate doctrines of Calvinism! There are many more. If you’re genuinely concerned about WHY the doctrines of Calvinism are biblically wrong…please listen to this podcast series. IF you’re a die-hard Calvinist who not willing to be corrected…I believe you’re living in a ‘dark’ ‘light’... and you probably don’t even know it! Matthew 6:22-23 The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!It’s one thing to have strong biblical convictions based on the Word of God! It’s another thing altogether when your ‘convictions’ come from sources outsight the LIGHT of the Truth of Scriptures! If your faith is in the doctrines of John Calvin…you’re in a really ‘dark place’!  Brother Bob         

I was going to title this: You Must Be a Believer in order to Be a Believer...but I thought that title was too arrogant! When I use the term Believer (Capitol B; noun title)…I’m speaking of someone who I would consider to be a true, blood-bought, eternally saved, born-again child of Yahweh. I consider a true Believer to be someone who believes that the blood of Yeshua Christ is the only thing which can ‘wash away’ sins. I’m quite aware that there are many unbelievers (in religions all over this planet) who say they ‘believe’ in Yeshua Christ…who really don’t! Many of these unbelievers say that they believe that Christ died for their sins! But then ‘reveal’ that they don’t really believe that Christ and Christ alone saves them…when they tell you that their ‘saving faith’ involves believing in Christ PLUS doing good works and/or doing church sacraments!   Now maybe it’s just me…but I’m pretty sure that the Bible teaches that in order for someone to BE a blood-bought, born-again, eternally saved child of Yahweh…they must BE a Believer; and not someone dreaming of being a Believer…or hoping to be a Believer…or planning on becoming a Believer…or even used to be a Believer! Again. Maybe it’s just me! I would consider anyone who openly chooses to REJECT or RENOUNCE Yeshua Christ as their savior to be an unbeliever!  Of course someone MUST (presently) BE a believer (in the FREE GIFT/NO WORKS Gospel of Yeshua Christ) in order to be eternally saved child of Yahweh. Now, I’m doing this podcast series because there are die-hard, born-again, once-saved, always-saved Believers in the Church who actually believe that if someone (who once claimed to be born-again) openly and publicly renounces and rejects their belief that Yeshua Christ is their savior, they’ll still be eternally saved from hell…because they used to be a Believer! Yeah, you heard me right! These die-hard OSAS Christians believe that if a person (who used to be a born-again Believer)…now openly rejects the ‘written in stone’ biblical Truth that Yeshua Christ is the only way (to heaven)…they’re still going to be saved from hell because they used to be a Believer! You just can’t make this stuff up! Now, in the end, it’s the Lord Himself who decides who’s saved and who’s not saved. However, I ‘feel’ pretty confident to say that (in the Church Age) the Bible teaches that a person must die believing that Yeshua Christ is the only way to heaven! Speaking the Truth in love, Brother Bob        

Brethren, in this Parable of the Prodigal Son we read about a young son (i.e. Believer) who chooses to run away from the responsibilities that his father (i.e. the Lord) had for him to do. And not only that…when this self-centered, rebellious younger son decided to ‘desert’ his father…he left, selfishly taking a share of the family’s wealth with him. Now, once this rebellious son squandered all his money on licentious living…he realized that he needed to figure out a way to make (more) money (for food)…because he was starving to death! But even after he found a ‘job’ (feeding pigs)…he found out that because there was a great famine in the land…food was not that easy to come by. So out of desperation…he decided to ‘crawl back’ to his father’s house…and beg his father for forgiveness…knowing that even his father’s hired hands ate well!Most times suffering is a great way to get ‘right’ with the Lord. That is IF the suffering is the result of unrepentant sin. In the story of the Prodigal Son the father didn’t ‘chase after’ his rebellious son as he was running away! I believe the father knew that his rebellious son needed to go thru some ‘tough times’ in order to appreciate what he had left behind.  King David thanked the Lord for disciplining him because he believed it kept him from going carnal.Church, please listen up! A faithful, church-going born-again child of God can be seen (by the Lord) to be a 'wandering from the faith' child...like the Prodigal Son. That’s because a Believer can be doing all kinds of ‘church stuff’…and be listening to all kinds of professing ‘Bible teachers’…and be filling their heads with Christian music…and still be seen by the Lord to be a ‘wandering’ child…’dead’ to the faith!  I shared this next thought in my podcast. But it’s important so I’m going to repeat it. Scriptures imply that the Church of Sardis had a large marquee outside their place that read: HOME OF SARDIS BIBLE CHURCH. And yet, the Lord said that the Believers inside that big, beautiful church were biblically ‘dead’! Not spiritually ‘dead.’ (They were doing lots of spiritual stuff!) Yeshua considered them to be biblically ‘dead.’ How could that be? There were Believers inside the place where they met! And the place they met was called a Bible Church!  And the Believers inside the Bible Church of Sardis were faithful church-goers! So, what was the Lord’s issue with these Believers? They had ‘left’ (i.e. deserted) their first love…which should have been following the biblical Ways of their Father! The ‘faithful’ church-going Believers in the Bible Church of Sardis had ‘wandered away' from doing the things which pleased their Heavenly Father. They were instead doing those ‘church things’ which pleased the Brethren. Or pleased self. Now, IF you don’t believe that can happen to born-again Believers (who are faithfully attending a born-again church) you’re deceived! Listen to these sad words of Christ about the Bible Church of Laodicea. Revelation 3:15-16, 20 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you Believers were cold or hot. ​So because you Believers are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any Believer hears My voice and opens the door, I will come to them and I will dine with them, and they with Me. These sad words of Yeshua Christ go right along with what He said in John 14:23-24 Yeshua replied, “Those Believers who love Me will do what I say. (AND IF they do what I say)…My Father will love them, and (AND IF they do what I say) THEN WE will come and make our home with each of them.  Any Believer who doesn’t love ME (even though they say they love ME) will show ME that they don’t really love ME by NOT obeying My Word.   (Par added but clearly implied) Brother Bob

One of the most beautiful love stories in the Bible is found in the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Now, in this first (of two) podcasts I’ve only given you ½ the love story. P.S. Part two will ‘reveal’ that the father’s unconditional love for his son existed...whether his son was behaving righteously or unrighteously! (More on this thought in part two.)   Listen to me carefully! It’s important that Believers GRASP that even though their Heavenly Father loves His children dearly…HE will not ‘chase after them’ IF they choose wrong over right. The father in the Parable of the Prodigal Son (much like our Heavenly father) never stopped loving his son when he was ‘up to his eyeballs’ in sin. But God’s character is such that HE will not ‘run’ and ‘rescue’ His children from their sinful ways! Now, the sin of the Prodigal Son started long before he got involved in sexual immorality and other licentious sins. The sins of the son started in his heart and mind while he was still at home with his father. Unfortunately, instead of ‘dealing with’ his selfish, sinful thoughts…the son allowed the sin thoughts to linger. And once that happened...the son’s sinful flesh ‘got control’ of his actions!You see…the father’s unconditional love for his son didn’t mean that he was going to ‘over-look’ or ‘ignore’ his rebellious son’s sinful behaviors! And that’s because true (biblical type) love is expressed by doing what’s best for someone…even IF that someone doesn’t receive it! Now the father could have chased after his son (as he was leaving) and beg and pleaded with him to not leave. But that’s NOT God’s way! The Lord believes that most times…what’s ‘best’ for His thick-skulled, rebellious, wayward, obstinate children is to go thru a little pain and suffering. That seems to ‘refresh’ their brains on how well they had it before they got selfish and whiny! Psalms 119:66-67,71 ​Teach me good discernment and knowledge, for I believe in Your commandments. ​Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your Word. ​It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I may learn Your Statutes.              Speaking the Truth (in love) because so few are these days, Brother Bob

I truly believe that a lot of born-again Believers have deceived themselves into foolishly believing that the born-again Church(es) (all over the world) are going to be 'on fire for Christ' and all 'powered-up' in the End Times! This self-deception has in turn foolishly convinced many of God's people that the Lord Himself will 'rapture' all of His children out of here (before the End Time Tribulation Period judgments start) simply because HE is so pleased with them! My friend, Yeshua Christ wondered IF HE was going to find ANY (biblically) faithful Believers when He returns! I personally believe that the Lord 'removes' the Church NOT because they were being so useful...but rather because it had become useless! Brother Bob

I believe that many of today's born-again Believers expect the Holy Spirit to do more (for them or thru them) than what the Scriptures tell us He will do. Many Believers today expect the Holy Spirit to do those things that their Heavenly Father expects them to do. These days, a lot of Believers will tell you that they need to 'feel or experience' the 'presence of the Lord' (whatever that means) before they'll believe that the Lord is 'with them' or 'near them' (again, whatever that means!)  Brethren, God-honoring faith is based on things NOT seen...and NOT on things we 'feel' or 'experience'! It's easy to 'believe' when you can physically touch the scars from the savior's wounds. In today's overly emotional, experientially driven Church environment, way too many of Yahweh's people believe that the Lord is 'with them' or 'for them'...because (to them) it feels like He is.  The Good Lord gave today's Church Age Believers a supernatural indwelling of the Holy Spirit to guide and enlighten them...IF THEY GENUINELY STRIVE TO LEARN and UNDERSTAND the Truths of Yahweh's written Word. It's biblically clear that blood-bought, born-again, eternally saved Believers CAN (if they so choose to) completely 'SHUT DOWN' (i.e. 'turn off' the 'work' or 'power' of) the Spirit of Yahweh who indwells them! Brethren, our Heavenly Father didn't give Believers the Holy Spirit so that HE could then DO (for Believers) those Truths of Scriptures that HE helped Believers to learn and understand!  It's NOT the Holy Spirit 'job' to supernaturally 'overwhelm' a Believer and then DO (i.e. keep or obey) Yahweh's commandments for them! All of God's people are expected to CHOOSE to OBEY those Truths of Scriptures that the Spirit of Yahweh has 'helped' them 'see' and understand! A MAIN THEME (for Believers) thruout the Scriptures (from our Heavenly Father) is: HAVE YOU DONE AS I COMMANDED?  If Believers were NOT capable of DOING AS HE COMMANDED...the Lord would NEVER hold them accountable when they DON'T do as HE commanded!  Now, (for the millionth time) DOES the Holy Spirit 'play' an essential 'role' in every Believers life?  Yes and no! Yes, IF the Believer is genuinely seeking to LEARN and KNOW and UNDERSTAND the Truths of Yahweh's written Word. No, IF the Believer doesn't put any effort into trying to learn God's written Word!  No, IF the Believer expects the Holy Spirit to do everything for them! The Good Lord never intended the Holy Spirit to be used like a "TYME MACHINE"...doling out 'stuff' at the push of a button!   Brother Bob      

I believe that far too many born-again Believers today are trying to ‘push’ way too much of their God-given biblical responsibilities onto the Holy Spirit. A lot of Believers ignorantly believe that it’s entirely (and always) the Holy Spirit’s responsibility to take the Truths of Scriptures; ‘chop it up into little pieces;’ then turn it into a puree mixture (like baby food); and ‘feed it’ to them at the proper temperature!! Brethren, the Judgement Seat of Christ is NOT at all about HOW WELL the Holy Spirit ‘prepared your spiritual food’ and then ‘fed it’ born-again Believers! The Judgement Seat of Christ is entirely about HOW WELL the born-again Believer ‘prepared’ and then ‘digested’ and absorbed the Truths of Scriptures!!! I promise you that there will NOT be ONE SINGLE Believer at the Judgment Seat of Christ who will be allowed to blame the Holy Spirit for the fact that they died a worldly-loving, worldly-minded Believer. There will NOT be ONE SINGLE Believer who will be allowed to blame the Holy Spirit for the fact that they died a biblically ignorant child of God! Believers won't be allowed to 'blame' the Holy Spirit they were cowardly and fearful when it came to sharing their faith in public!  Hebrews 5:11-14 There is much more we would like to say to you Believers, but it is difficult to explain, especially since you are spiritually dull and don’t seem to listen. You have been Believers so long now that by now you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about Yahweh’s Word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food. For someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how to do what is right. Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong.2 Timothy 2:15 Work hard (at learning Yahweh’s written Word)…so you can present yourself to the Lord and receive his approval. (At the Judgment Seat of Christ!)  Be a good worker, one who does not need to be ashamed; one who correctly explains the Word of Truth. (par added)Now…for the millionth time! YES…the Holy Spirit has an essential ‘role’ in enlightening and guiding those Believers who strive to walk in a manner which pleases their Heavenly Father. However…it’s NOT the Holy Spirit ‘job’ to ‘baby-sit’ Believers 5, 10, 15 and 20 years after they got saved! 2 Peter 1:10  Therefore, Brother and Sisters in Christ, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble (i.e. fall away); Your true friend in Christ, Brother Bob 

It's been awhile...but I'm back!   Part Twenty is simply a continuation of the podcast series "A JOURNEY THRU THE BOOK OF THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES."  Enjoy!Brother Bob

This podcast begins to go thru Saul's (Paul's) experiences (in Acts chapter nine) has he meets (rather dramatically) his prophesied messianic savior 'face to face'!  

Because of what I read on most professing Believer’s online posting sites these days…and because of what I read and hear many professing Believers share on online Bible sermon or teaching sites, I know that many born-again Believers are truly biblically ignorant. And the consequences for that biblical ignorance is the obvious evidence which shows that many of God’s people have ‘wandered away’ from anything beyond the basic Truths of Scriptures. It’s clear to me (a guy who calls them as he sees them) that many professing Believers (which includes church leaders) simply don’t know their Scriptures very well. Now, it’s ‘easy’ for me to see that because I know my Scriptures fairly well! Sadly, many of you don’t…so you ‘won’t’ see what I see! Brethren, I’m not sharing what I just shared to boast or brag about how biblically smart or wise I am. I’m simply stating a fact! I don’t claim to be a Bible scholar! And although many of you accuse me of being a ‘know it all’…that’s your view and not mine! I’m simply a guy who has always loved Truth. And because my Heavenly Father knows that I diligently seek to know His biblical Truths…He (thru the Spirit of Yahweh) has revealed many of His Truths to me over the years. Now, before any of you think that I share that out of pride believing that I’m much smarter than most of you…hear me out! The Truths of the Scriptures that I have learned or that have been revealed to me…ARE NOT THAT DIFFICULT TO FIGURE OUT! (If you study the same Book for over forty years you’re bound to learn a thing or two in that Book!) After forty plus years of sharing what I believe to be basic Truths of Scriptures…I have yet to have ONE SINGLE Believer refute what I believe using ‘biblical’ beliefs! Every single Believer who has ever had the ‘stones’ to personal ‘reject’ the Truths of Scriptures that I share, has done so using beliefs that come from their heart (i.e. their feelings) and not their head (i.e. brains.)  Again, here are Yeshua Christ own words about what the condition of the End Time Church WILL be like. Matthew 24:3-5, 9-11 What sign will signal Your return and the end of the (Church) age?” Yeshua told His disciples, “Don’t let anyone mislead you (Believers), for many (false teachers) will come in MY name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah (or I know the Way).’ These false teachers WILL DECEIVE MANY (Believers). Then you (faithful Believers) will be arrested, persecuted, and killed. You (faithful Believers) will be hated all over the world because you (faithful Believers) are MY Followers.  And many (other Believers)  will fall away from ME and betray and hate each other. And MANY FALSE PROPHETS will appear AND WILL DECEIVE MANY. Behold…I have told YOU (Believers) in advance! (par added)So, do you believe your savior’s End Time warning words? Or are you instead going to keep listening to the false teachers who are leading you astray? Are you going to choose to be one of the few…or part of the many? Are you going to ‘step up’ and do as the Scriptures teach…and not worry about the BS you’ll have to put up with? Or are you going to continue to ‘fall in line’ with all the other Christian ‘lemmings’ who are headed for a fall? Philippians 2:19-21 But I hope in the Lord Yeshua to send Timothy to you shortly, so that I also may be encouraged when I learn of your condition. ​For I have no other workers in the Church with the same kindred spirit (as Timothy) who will genuinely be concerned for your welfare. ​For all the other Believers (whom I have ministered with) put their own interests before those of Yeshua Christ. (par added but implied)Speaking the Truth in love because so few are these days,Brother Bob

All those initially 'redeemed by the Blood' Believers who came out of Egypt weren't 'spared' or kept from their Heavenly Father's judgments...once they became whiny, rebellious, disobedient children! And many times in the Old Testament Yahweh used Gentile rulers to punish His rebellious, disobedient children. So, why would Yahweh spare or keep His (mostly) lukewarm, worldly minded, worldly loving, biblically apathetic and/or biblically ignorant Church Age children from having to go thru the judgments of the 7-year Tribulation Period? (I hope you're not so biblically dull that you've allowed yourself to be convinced that just because you're a 'member' of the Body of Christ...you get exempt from your Father's judgements! Ananias and Sapphira don’t believe that!) Why would Yahweh 'rescue' His worldly-loving, disobedient born-again people from the judgments (i.e. earthly punishments) (coming soon to planet earth) that they deserve? Why would Yahweh ‘rescue’ HIS people…when they DON’T do as HIS Word says? He surely is not going to ‘rescue’ them simply because they got born-again at some point in their life? Are today's worldly loving, biblically apathetic and/or biblically ignorant New Testament Believers seen (by Yahweh) as being any less rebellious and disobedient than all those Old Testament children of HIS who were punished unto death while wandering around in the desert for 40 years? As HE always does...Yahweh will 'rescue' those children of HIS He deems faithful! (Out of all those (probably) millions of Believers who ‘saved’ out of Egypt…only two adults…Joshua and Caleb (were faithful enough to be spared from God’s wrath) and make it into the Promised Land!) Yahweh doesn’t 'rescue' His children from physical judgment...simply because they are His children! Again…Ananias and Sapphira found that out too late! Revelation 3:8, 10-12 , “I know all the things you faithful Believers (in the small but faithful Church of Philadelphia) do, and I have opened a door for you that no one can close. You have little strength, yet you obeyed MY Word and did not deny ME. “Because you have obeyed MY command to persevere, I will protect you from the great time of testing that will come upon the whole world to test those who belong to this world. I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take away your crown (i.e. stay faithful or you will ‘lose’ rewards.) All those Believers who are (found to be) overcomers(at the Judgment Seat of Christ)…will become pillars in the Temple of Yahweh, (which is INSIDE the Millennial Reward City of Jerusalem during the 1000 year Millennial Kingdom period)…and they will never have to leave it. And I will write on them the name of my Father, and they will be citizens in the city of Yahweh—the new Jerusalem that comes down from heaven from my Father. And I will also write on them MY new name. (Par added)Speaking the Truth in love…and not meaningless, fluffy, kissy-huggy, ‘empty’ love words,Brother Bob 

For the most part, Western Civilization...a civilization made up at one time of mostly God-honoring, Bible promoting, God-fearing people...have gone secular and/or returned to it's pagan roots. A once God-fearing America is no longer the most powerful, God-honoring nation in the world! The most powerful nation today is anti-God communist China. The most evil and rebellious nations today (in God's eyes) are NOT those nations run by true Followers of the Koran!  It's those Christian nations who turned away from the God of the Bible and the Truths of HIS Word...a God and Truths they once willing to die for! I believe America (once a bastion of biblical laws and principles) is going the way of Rome. She is dying from within! I believe that the Lord is using today's evil, vile, wicked, Christian hating political leaders to judge America! The secular and/or fake religious people now running America have 'kicked' the God of the Bible and His Truths out onto the curb! And I promise you that 'America' (the nation and the people in her) will suffer for choosing to do that! I believe that America the nation will be soon be judged for choosing to walk away from the righteous ways of Yahweh. Ways they once clearly knew! And once America 'goes down'...the evil Prince of darkness (who will be empowering the Beast and his evil empire) will come for nation of Israel (to judge and purify her as Yahweh promised)...and for any faithful Yeshua Believers who refuse to take the Mark of the Beast!  Brethren...righteous politicians will not be able to undo the vile and evil immorality and political corruption that permeates all aspects of America! It's evil talons are too deep into our culture to be removed. Wicked, evil, vile behaviors that would have sent people to prison just a few short years ago are now not only tolerated, they're promoted! Babies are being butchered in the womb! Little children are being encouraged by 'adults' to mutilate themselves! Nearly every form of sexual immorality is 'legal' in America. And some forms of sexual immorality are even being 'blessed' by the Church! One of of four Americans (including Church people) are on a psychiatric (poison) 'pill'...which is used to 'mask' sin issues! Believers can pray till the cows come home...but the Great I Am is NOT going to hold back HIS righteous judgment on America, Israel...and on this world! All these things I shared are why the words of Christ in Matthew chapter twenty-four are so important! Because very soon a smooth-talking, intelligent, wise and powerful MAN is going to be 'displayed' in the world as mankind's last hope! This MAN is going to initially be accepted as the best and only hope for a world 'dying' from economic, social and spiritual chaos! And this MAN will initially be great for this world. He will bring peace! He will bring prosperity! But the 'good' that this MAN is doing is all a ruse! All the things that this MAN does simply lead up to His final goal...destroy the Nation of Israel and all Jews. And along the ways this MAN is hoping to hunt down and murder Yeshua Believers! Yes...this MAN will bring temporary hope to this world! That is until this MAN becomes a Satan indwelt agent of evilness, hatred and revenge!      So saints...you need to know your Scriptures! Born again Believers need to use their brains and not their hearts as they 'dig into' what Yahweh's Words warn us about the End Times and the 7-year Tribulation Period! If you chose not to do that...Yeshua Christ warned Believers...that they too will be duped by this MAN of lawlessness! The only true hope for today's wickedly vile sin-cursed world, and biblically failing Church is the return of Yeshua Christ. But Brethren...I promise you that Christ is not coming until after a lot of bad stuff happens in this world!  Brother Bob    

Sadly, a lot of Believers these days are living their spiritual lives in an imaginary, ‘feely,’ make-believe world…believing that everything is ‘good’ between them and their Heavenly Father and their savior! Brethren, unless you’re a brand new child of Yahweh (someone who’s still excited about their ‘new-found’ faith in Christ (and who has no idea what a biblical truth is yet)) you’re kidding yourself if you think that everything is ‘good’ between you and your Heavenly Father and your savior…just because you think or ‘feel’ (like) it is!  From the beginning of the Scriptures until the very end…the only time Believers ‘found’ themselves in a ‘good’ (living) relationship with their Heavenly Father was when they were doing as HE commanded! Eve thought it was okay to eat the forbidden ‘fruit’…because it was pleasing to her eyes! Thanks a lot Eve! You had one simple commandment to keep! If you (and you’re idiot husband) had just obeyed that one simple commandment…I get to send my life in a sinless, paradise environment, chasing after my naked (and perfectly beautiful wife) 24/7!  Lot’s wife thought I’ll take one look back…and then I’ll do as the Lord commanded. She died for making that stupid decision! Moses and Aaron decided to take matters into their own hands…instead of obeying Yahweh! And both of them had their ministries ‘cut short’! Uzzah believed it was better to keep the Ark from failing then it was to obey Yahweh…and he died for making a decision that seemed right in his own eyes! And Solomon! Oh Solomon! Your father David warned you that IF you chose to forsake the Lord’s commandments…HE (Yahweh) would forsake you forever! Forever is a long time! Besides Yeshua Christ, Solomon was the wisest and smartest human who ever existed…and yet Solomon not only ignored Yahweh’s commandments…he ‘promoted’ and ‘elevated’ the pagan religious practices that his pagan wives brought into his life! (By the way, Solomon’s future Millennial and New Earth ‘kingship’ was stripped from him by Yahweh!) Brethren…I could go ON and ON and ON with biblical stories of Yahweh’s people choosing to do just the opposite of what HE commanded! And let’s group the Apostle Peter in with those Believers who chose to do (on numerous occasions for Peter) what seemed right in their own (fleshly) eyes! Brethren…you really need to ‘wrap your head around the biblical fact’ that anytime Believers chose to do what seems right in their own eyes (regardless of how sincere they are…or how ‘good’ it feels) they are in sin! God’s people need to understand that at the Judgment Seat of Christ it is not going to matter one iota (to the savior) that you had good intentions for choosing to disobey God’s written Words for His Church! It is not going to matter one iota (to the savior, at the Judgment Seat of Christ) that you ignored the Truths of Scriptures…and instead simply chose to believe what your church leaders told you Truth was! It is not going to matter one iota (to the savior, at the Judgment Seat of Christ) that believed that you were doing the right things because it ‘felt right’ or seemed right! I promise you Brethren, unless you are a brand-new Believer who doesn’t know any better…the Judgment Seat of Christ will not go well for each and every born-again child of Yahweh who chose (for many years) to continue to ‘build’ on the Foundation of Christ using hay and straw! Speaking the Truth in love (because so few are)Brother Bob        

THE IGNORANCE OF CHRISTIANS TODAYThis past week, I’ve had the agony of witnessing two Christians passionately speak about their supposed BIBLICAL beliefs. Neither of them know what they were taking about! And over the past 30 years I have seen this scenario 'play out' hundreds of times! It’s devastating to see so much biblical ignorance in MANY of today’s Christians…including pastors. I am passionate about the Truths taught in the Bible. Now I understand that in many things, we may not agree, even though we are all reading the same word of God. (P.S. When we disagree on a doctrinal Truth…either we’re ALL wrong…or just one of us is right! The Truths of Scriptures do NOT come with multiple choice options.) However, there are certain things that are taught in the Bible that anyone who has the ability to read should be able to know. But sadly, in these days of vast amounts of biblical ignorance…even many of the most basic, easy to understand Truths of Scriptures are NOT agreed upon by most Christians. Hebrews 5:11-14 There is much more we would like to say about this, but it is difficult to explain, especially since you are spiritually dull and don’t seem to listen. 12 You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food. 13 For someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how to do what is right. 14 Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong.And my spirit is vexed when I see so much ignorance in the faith. Again, I am the first one to say we must read our Bibles and be Bereans, searching out what is true. And contrary to what many of my charismatic signs and wonders Brothers and Sisters believe…I wholeheartedly agree that there is NO mystical, supernatural gift of osmosis (which delivers the Truths of Scriptures to the mind of Believers who do NOT study their Bibles!)Now…when I speak about biblical ignorance, I am not speaking of people who are teaching something different because they have gained (thru their studies (by the Holy Spirit)) some new insight into a Biblical passage…and see things from a different angle, resulting in a different way of thinking. (I truly appreciate ANY Believer who has BIBLICAL convictions! Now…that doesn’t necessarily make them right. But they’re in a much better place than ALL those Believers out there in the Church who are ‘deciding’ what biblical ‘truth’ is based on their feelings!)  Unfortunately, in today’s Church there are MANY who blatantly use Bible passages out of context, avoid verses that say the exact opposite of their beliefs, and EISEGETE the bible text to make their own (incorrect) points. This group is different from those Believers who teach stupid things simply because they are biblically stupid. And I’m afraid the latter type is ‘running’ the churches these days!SIDE NOTE: EISEGETE is a FANCY LAWYER WORD which means…the process of interpreting text in such a way as to introduce one's own presuppositions, agendas, or biases. It is commonly referred to as reading into the text. It is this practice which ‘allows’ people to ‘use’ the Scriptures to teach pretty much whatever it is they the flock to hear!  EISEGESIS is best understood when contrasted with EXEGESIS.  EXEGESIS is drawing out a text's meaning in accordance with the author's context and discoverable meaning…like learning the meaning of Greek words in order to ‘find’ the Truths of the original writers of Scriptures! EISEGESIS is when a reader imposes their interpretation of the text. Thus EXEGESIS tends to be objective; and EISEGESIS, highly subjective.Speaking the Truth in Love,Brother Bob

For the most part, both the Church (which literally IS the people) and church leaders (which are the people who 'run' and 'manage' the people)...IS a biblical mess!  If you listen to just some of the Christian surveys (that I used in this podcast series), you too we 'see' how far professing Believers have 'drifted away' from the sound teachings, beliefs, instructions, and commandments that the Lord has given His Church! (I could have given you MANY more statistics from legitimate Christian organizations that all show the same (terrible) biblical condition of today's Church!) In the Old Testament the Believers had 'lost' (i.e. forgotten about) Yahweh's written Word! And guess what...they didn't 'discover' the 'lost' Word of Yahweh in a cave or in another country! They 'found it' in the House of the Lord! I am afraid that even though many Believers carry their Bibles INTO the House of the Lord in the Church Age...they have 'lost' the importance of learning, obeying, and defending the Truths of Yahweh...even as they sit in the House of the Lord!    Now, IF you are a Believer who lives their biblical life thru their feelings...you're going to instantly reject what I just said. IF you're a born-again Believer and you're going to reject what I just shared (about the lousy biblical condition of the End Time Church (including church leaders) (because your pastor told you to reject what I'm sharing...you are one of those misled Believers who allowed a 'false teacher' to lead you astray from the Truths of Scriptures! And finally, IF you're a born-again Believer and you choose to reject what I share in my podcasts because you don't believe I'm being biblical...you're a biblically ignorant Believer who doesn't know what they're talking about! Today's biblical apathy and biblical ignorance amongst most of God's people IS obvious to anyone who knows their Scriptures! Less than 5% of professing Spirit indwelt, Spirit led born-again Believers believe they know enough about the Scriptures to teach others!  This is a serious matter saints!   Hebrews 5:11 - 6:2 Brethren, there is much more we would like to say about this, but it is difficult to explain, especially since you Believers are spiritually dull and don’t seem to listen. You have been Believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you Believers need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food. For and Believer who lives only on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how to do what is right. Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong. So let us stop going over the basic teachings about Christ again and again. Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding. Surely we don’t need to start again with the fundamental importance of repenting from evil deeds and placing our faith in God. You don’t need further instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. (OR DO YOU?) (par added)  Brethren, A LOT OF Believers in the House of Yahweh are choosing to linger at about the 2nd grade biblically. Lousy shepherds has a lot to do with this. However, ALL of God's children should be choosing to WALK in a manner which pleases their savior...and not their shepherds!   Speaking the Truth in love,  Brother Bob 

For the most part the Believers in the Church today are a biblical mess! This would include church leaders as well the sheep sitting in the pews! The unbiblical garbage that’s being passed around as God’s Truths is staggering! Go in any Christian Bookstore these days and check out the titles of the so-called Christian books. (These books are where the beliefs of professing Believers are openly exposed for all to see.) And as you glance thru these books…you will find ‘Christian’ books which will ‘justify’ and ‘satisfy’ whatever it is a Believer wants to do! And these days, regardless of whatever unbiblical spiritual belief you may have...it doesn't take long to search online media sites and find people preaching the things which tickle your ear and please your heart!  Now, this posting (and the biblical info in my podcast series) isn’t Brother Bob expressing his mean-spirited, hard-ass opinions. The ‘ugly’ biblical condition of today’s Church IS an obvious fact…to those Believers who truly know their Scriptures. And do you know what? The biblically ignorant condition that the Church ‘finds’ itself in…IS right where Yeshua Christ said it would be in the End Times! Christ’s Apostles asked Him what will the End Times be like. To which Christ replied… Matthew 24:3-5 what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” And Yeshua answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads YOU. For MANY will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ AND WILL MISLEAD MANY. Yeshua Christ is literally PROPHETICALLY fore-telling the Believers (who will be around in the End Times) to be on your guard…see to it THAT YOU are NOT misled because there WILL BE (not might be or could be) BUT WILL BE MANY (not a few but many) false teachers in the End Times…and MANY (not a few but many) misled or deceived Believers in the Church. Christ’s warning above…see to it that YOU are NOT misled is clearly directed at Believers. Again, the YOU who Christ speaks about IS YOU Believers.  UNBELIEVERS can’t be misled. They are already misled! UNBELIEVERS can’t fall away (from the faith) because they never ‘had’ the true faith (to fall away from) to begin with! Here are some more FALLING AWAY/FALSE TEACHERS warning verses from Yeshua Christ! Matthew 24:10-11 At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another. ​Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many. Brethren, you need to stop listening to the spiritual but unbiblical BS your church leaders are teaching you. You need to stop letting your feelings dictate what you think biblical Truth should be…and start accepting what the Scriptures literally say biblical Truth is! If you don’t do that…you’re going to ‘fall’ for the lies of the false teachers in the Church. (Again, IF you don't know your Scriptures very well...HOW will you ever know IF someone is teaching you biblical Truth...or deceiving you? Again Christ’s words…For MANY (false teachers) will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ (or I know the Way) AND WILL MISLEAD MANY. P.S. There are two kinds of false teachers ‘active’ in the Church today. There are those false teachers who willfully and purposefully introduce unbiblical doctrines into the Church. (And if you don’t believe that can happen…then you are truly biblically ignorant...and very naïve!) The other kind of false teacher in the Church today is the Believer who is allowed to teach other Believers…even though he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.  Speaking the Truth in love,Brother Bob P.S. I glad to see and hear some well-known, biblically wise Christian leaders of the land finally starting to teach and preach (as I have been saying for 40 years) that the Bible says that the End Time Church will be an unbiblical mess!  

There's a biblical war going on in the world...and in the Church...and most Believers are not even aware of it.  Satan and his minions are working full time to try to get the religious and spiritual ways of this world to replace the Truths of Scriptures.  And he is having much success. If that were not the case...then why is it that Satan and his minions have managed to 'remove' both our Heavenly Father and His Son's biblical names from the Bible?  The biblical name of our Father (YAHWEH) was IN the original Hebrew Scriptures over 6800 times! Now, it's not even in their ONE TIME! It's been replaced with a title (word) LORD. So I ask you. Who do you think would be so arrogant and prideful that they would have NO PROBLEM corrupting the Scriptures to the point of getting God's biblical name removed from the Bible? Yeah! Satan! The same guy who's got most born-again Believers using an unbiblical, made-up name for their savior!     Many of the Christian teachings and practices that are going on in the Church today have little to nothing to do with biblical Truths!   A lot of Believers these days have allowed themselves to become a very biblically ignorant people. And being that so many of them don't know their Scriptures very well...even if a lot more Believers were made aware of the biblical war going on to distort, twist and alter the Truths of the Bible, they wouldn't even know which church teachings today are biblical Truth or man made religious gibberish!   Brethren, it's NOT ENOUGH to simply tell the Lord that you love HIM! Both our Heavenly Father and our savior demand that Believers SHOW THEM that we love them by learning, obeying and defending the Truths of Scriptures!Listen to these words of Yeshua Christ! John 14:21,24 The Believer who has My commandments and GUARDS and PROTECTS THEM is the Believer who REALLY loves Me... The Believer who does not love Me, WILL BE the Believer who DOES NOT GUARD and PROTECT My words.(The English word KEEP in this verse is actually the Greek word TELEO which means to guard and protect.) You see saints...IF you want to hear, "Well done, good and faithful servant" (at the Judgment Seat) it's NOT enough to simply BE born-again! And IF you want to hear, "Well done, good and faithful servant" (at the Judgment Seat) it's NOT enough to simply TELL the Lord that you love HIM! And IF you want to hear, "Well done, good and faithful servant" (at the Judgment Seat) it's NOT enough to simply be a faithful church goer!The kind of 'love' that both our Heavenly Father and our savior are looking for is type of love that's revealed thru one's obedience and dedication to defending the written Word. Yeshua Christ told His Followers...Don't tell ME that you love ME! Show ME that you love ME by obeying and defending the Truths of MY written Word. Speaking the Truth in love, Brother Bob

Sadly, many in the Church of the Living God really don't realize how much Satan and his minions have already 'altered' (i.e. tweaked and twisted) the original Truths of Scriptures! Now granted...not all of the compromises in today's Scriptures can or should be 'put' on Satan. A lot of the blame for Yahweh's written Word being corrupted is the result of biblically lazy and/or biblically ignorant (supposed) Bible scholars being 'recognized' and 'accepted' as being people who know what they're talking about...rather than being people who are 'challenged' to prove that what they say is biblical Truth!  Brethren...I can never say my next words enough! Yeshua Christ Himself told His Followers (over and over and over again in the Gospels) that the End Time Church WILL (not might) BUT WILL BE loaded with false teachers...AND misled Believers! Christ words not mine!   Mark 13:4-6 Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when the End Time things begin to be fulfilled?” ​And Yeshua began to say to them, “See to it that no one misleads YOU (i.e. YOU BELIEVERS). Many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He!’ (or I AM THE WAY) and will mislead many. (par added.) Now, when I say false teachers...I'm NOT only talking about the evil and treacherous kinds of false teachers who PURPOSELY try to lead Yahweh's people astray! False teachers can also be those Bible teachers who KNOW LITTLE about the Truths of Yahweh's written Word...but teach others as though they do!  Brethren, Satan and his minions truly have caused much havoc, deception and confusion in the Church of the Living God by twisting and adding to the Scriptures. But so have all the people in the Church, who, because they don't know their Scriptures very well...and 'allow' biblical additions and subtractions to happen.   So again, as you listen to this two part series about the schemes of the devil...picture Satan and his large evil force of millions getting together for a large "FORCES OF DARKNESS" seminar with Satan being the keynote speaker! Brother Bob 

I know this 'journey' thru the Book of the Acts of the Apostles is taking a long time.  But that's okay! There's a lot of great spiritual and biblical insight in that Book!  And anyways...I'm NOT going anywhere until the Lord returns.  So enjoy!  And please take the time to listen to my other podcasts AT: God's Word Unfiltered! IF you are genuinely interested in biblical Truth...those podcasts will both bless and encourage you!Brother Bob