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