Category: Love

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

This is the last broadcast as Basic Gospel. We are grateful for the love and support of our listeners and we thank God for each and every one of you. Today’s message is the Great I Am. Our Christian life begins and ends with Jesus. He holds everything together. Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” John 8:58. Jesus is always going to be the Great I AM in your life. Rejoice in the truth that he will never leave you or forsake you. Open the door of your heart and say “yes” to Jesus Christ.

Categories: Jesus Christ Resurrection Faith Hope Love

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

He is alive! This is the greatest message ever told. This gospel message is a message of life. We see that through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:17 says “And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.” But, thanks be to God, Jesus was raised and in him we have eternal life.

Categories: Jesus Christ Resurrection Faith Hope Love

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

Toward the end of his life Jesus gathered his disciples to prepare them for what was ahead. In John 13 Jesus chooses to wash the feet of the disciples. It was to show the full extent of his love. The next day he showed the ultimate act of love through his death on the cross. In the washing of the disciple's feet, he shared a new commandment. "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." John 13:34-35

• Jeff calls for and explanation of "Blessed are the poor in spirit".
• Can you explain how Preterists, Futurists, and Historicists view the Book of Revelation?
• Could you please explain 1 peter 4:18? If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?
• I know repentance mean to change your mind. Is it wrong to teach that repentance mean to stop sinning?
• How can I be godly and loving to ungodly and unloving family members?

Categories: Love Bible Apologetics Salvation Forgiveness/Repentance Christian Living

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

Love never fails (1 Corinthians 13:8). This means that love never falls away, never departs from us. We can count on steadfast love in the person of Jesus Christ. This is our confidence in life.

• What is the meaning of "those who endure until the end will be saved"?
• Lois asks for clarification on being saved and speaking in tongues.
• A callers asks about Hebrews 6:4-6. Does this mean someone can walk away and never be saved?
• Is praying for prosperity something we do when we know that Christ is sufficient?

Categories: Love End Times Salvation Hard Passages Money/Giving

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis, Andrew Farley

Romans 7 explains how the resurrection impacts you directly - you died to the law, so that you now serve in the new life of the Spirit. This truth makes all the difference. Craig asks about Genesis 14:17-24, which is often used to support the practice of tithing. Jesus himself said that tithing is a matter of the law. We no longer are under the law and can practice the grace of giving from the heart. The next question is about 1 John 4:20, 4:8, 2:15. Does this mean we can never be annoyed with others?

Categories: Money/Giving Love

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

What are the results of the resurrection for you and me? How is the resurrection relevant for us today? "If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— 'Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch'..." Colossians 2:20-23

• Derron calls about the gift of tongues. Is it for today?
• How can we love God with all our heart?

Categories: Grace Holy Spirit Love

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

"Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel..." Philippians 1:27 Paul encourages us to advance in our understanding of the Gospel and let the roots of the Gospel grow deep so we can live it out in the world today.

• What is going on in Acts 14:1?
• Chauncy asks if Lucifer was a cherubim?
• Please explain the "shield of faith" that Paul wrote of in Ephesians 6:6.
• What does it mean to pray in the Holy Ghost?
• I've accepted Jesus as my savior. But there's a problem, rather than loving God I'm sometimes afraid of him and its tiring for me. How can I love him more as my father than a judge.

Categories: Faith Bible Apologetics Love

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

Being thankful every day of your life

• What is Gods desire for us? Finding Gods rest
• Whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive?
• What is the truth of the Gospel?
• What is love?
• When did the bloodline of the Jews begin?
• Why did Jesus say My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?
• What is the good news?

Categories: Faith Prayer Love Jesus Christ Sin

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis, Andrew Farley

How do we go against the current. How do we stand out in the culture? One thing that really distinguishes us is the New Covenant. But for many the phrase New Covenant seems boring or theological. Why is the New Covenant so important to us today? It's the Gospel of grace that was fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

• Brad calls about 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 as the description of the Christian life.
• Mary Jo asks about Romans 7:19 "For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing."
• How are we to be reconciled to God? 2 Corinthians 5:20
• Can you explain 1 Peter 5:7?

Categories: New Covenant Grace Love Bible Righteousness/Justification

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

In this crazy world we live in there's a lot of uncertainly and instability. However as believers we have a hope. Throughout the Scripture we read God's promises. But too often we see a trail of condemnation as we try to live up to the law. Only when we come to the grace of God poured out through Jesus Christ can we walk the trail of assurance in his finished work.

• What does it mean to "do all things in moderation"? Is that in the Bible?
• Why in Ephesians 17:26 is Paul still dealing with the sin issue if Christ finished his work on the cross?
• Are all the promises to Israel fulfilled in the Body of Christ? Is the Church Israel?

Categories: Love Christian Living Sin Bible

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

There's nothing as basic to the Gospel as the love of Jesus Christ demonstrated by his death on the cross. Paul put it this way, "God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8 There are so many who claim to be a Christian but don't believe that Jesus is the only way to God. We need to take a stand upon the cross of Jesus Christ and recognize that it's a demonstration of God's love for us.

• Are we living in the last days with everything that's happening now?
• What do you think is the proper Christian response to issues like controversial movies and other media?
• Can a person who once believed according to Romans 10:9-10, then truly denounce their salvation?

Categories: Love End Times Christian Living Salvation

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis, Andrew Farley

When we look out there into the world we see those items Paul wrote that love is not, don't we. So what has to happen to flip the switch? What takes someone from the way of the world to the way of the love?

• Steve asks about John 3:5 "Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God."
• Brad calls to say "thank you" for teaching me about the love of God.
• Can a person who once believed according to Romans 10:9-10, then truly denounce their salvation?

Categories: Love Salvation Testimonies/Thanks

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

We find the definition of love in 1 Corinthians 13. Paul uses fifteen actions statements to tell us of God's love for us. We see seven positive statements and eight negative statements. Let's focus on vs. 6... "[Love] does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out."

• I attended a funeral recently and am very confused on the subject of death.
• How do we bear one another's burdens?
• Do you have books? Do you have a YouTube channel?
• Simple Gospel, Simply Grace | https://simplegospelsimplygrace.com
• YouTube | https://youtube.com/basicgospel
• My daughter asks: Am I going to go to Heaven?

Categories: Love Heaven Christian Living

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

We all yearn for the love of God and we do all we can to earn it. But the love of God isn't something we can earn. 1 John 3:1 "See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are!" Let your faith be manifested in love.

• Can you be mentally/emotionally divorced?
• "Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you who belong to Christ Jesus." 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Our thankfulness is always a response to the grace of God.
• Please explain James 4:1-3 "What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don't they come from the evil desires at war within you?..."

Categories: Love Divorce God's Will Bible

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

The grace of God is sufficient to meet every need of the human heart. It's the love of God that brings us assurance to live everyday. John, in his Gospel, only described himself as the one whom Jesus loved. "In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." 1 John 4:9-10

• I know that Catholics believe in purgatory but I have never seen any verses pertaining to that.
• Is it possible for people to see spirits?
• Pat asks about 1 John 5:17 NLT. "All wicked actions are sin, but not every sin leads to death."

Categories: Love Heaven Christian Living Sin Apologetics

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis, Andrew Farley

There's nothing better to talk about than being loved by God. John described himself as the one whom Jesus loved? How do we get to that point in our own lives? So often we measure God's love for us on what we do for Him instead of what God has done for us. Looking to Jesus is the only way to truly understand God's love for you.

• Why don't more pastors talk to people about the consequences of their actions based on the thoughts they have?
• What is the process of sanctification? Is it one time or continual?

Categories: Love Christian Living Righteousness/Justification

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis

The Word in Dallas, TX is featuring Basic Gospel as Ministry of the Month in September. We are grateful for their partnership. We are talking about the love of God. Our resource for the month is The Trail of Assurance, which will make the love of God real in your life. The apostle John always describes himself as "the one whom Jesus loved". We want you to come to that point where you can also say "I am the one who Jesus loves". He will pour that love into your heart and will continue to make that love known to you. It will become your experience in daily life. Understanding this reality will change your life forever.

• Was sin created?
• Was God created?
• Is it a sin to play video games?
• Why do so many preachers still proclaim that we must repent of our sins? What are they taught in the schools?
• How did you learn this truth?

Categories: Love Bible Sin Christian Living Holy Spirit

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis, Andrew Farley

How giant is your love today?

• Does Andrew Farley teach hyper-grace?
• Are we totally forgiven? Hebrews 10:14
• Are we supposed to live a balanced life?
• What is hyper -dispensationalism?
• Do you live in the old or the new covenant?
• What do you say to people who say God is a myth?

Categories: Love Grace

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis, John Lynch

John Lynch joins the broadcast to discuss current events and how the Gospel gives us answers to all of life's troubles.

• "For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility." Ephesians 2:14-16
• On My Worse Day, by John Lynch: https://store.basicgospel.net/product/BOMWD.html
• For more about John, visit: https://www.johnlynchspeaks.com/

Categories: Grace Love Christian Living

Bob Christopher, Bob Davis, Andrew Farley

Peter stood up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith. ... But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will." Acts 15:7-11

• Can you comment on John 13:35? "By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
• I'm having a struggle in my life and it's around James 2:26. I'm full of fear.

Categories: Salvation Love Faith