WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.571 --> 00:00:09.134 Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast, with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. 2 00:00:09.414 --> 00:00:11.875 If you're an atheist, this is a great day. 3 00:00:11.975 --> 00:00:13.136 You can stop that right now. 4 00:00:13.496 --> 00:00:14.236 You want to know why? 5 00:00:14.716 --> 00:00:15.777 How many of you are Jewish? 6 00:00:15.957 --> 00:00:17.017 You have Jewish blood in you. 7 00:00:17.057 --> 00:00:17.597 Raise your hands. 8 00:00:17.637 --> 00:00:17.958 Come on. 9 00:00:18.238 --> 00:00:18.578 Several. 10 00:00:18.858 --> 00:00:19.118 Awesome. 11 00:00:19.138 --> 00:00:19.718 Put your hands down. 12 00:00:19.998 --> 00:00:22.419 How many of us are Gentiles with no Jewish blood in us? 13 00:00:22.799 --> 00:00:24.280 That means the rest of you raise your hands. 14 00:00:25.379 --> 00:00:29.203 All of us are proof of a nearly 3,000-year-old prophecy. 15 00:00:29.523 --> 00:00:30.484 God's word is true. 16 00:00:30.805 --> 00:00:31.085 Boom. 17 00:00:31.305 --> 00:00:37.271 Here we are, just exactly as the Bible said, that Gentiles would believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 18 00:00:37.531 --> 00:00:38.572 Go figure that out. 19 00:00:38.953 --> 00:00:39.193 See? 20 00:00:39.513 --> 00:00:40.855 You don't need to be an atheist anymore. 21 00:00:41.195 --> 00:00:43.818 That alone proves God's existence. 22 00:00:47.726 --> 00:00:53.671 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 23 00:00:54.271 --> 00:01:02.998 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five-star ratings. 24 00:01:03.438 --> 00:01:06.500 To us, that's like saying amen or yes. 25 00:01:06.880 --> 00:01:09.322 Then that rating will encourage others to listen. 26 00:01:10.043 --> 00:01:12.945 Now open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you. 27 00:01:13.425 --> 00:01:14.786 Here is Jack Hibbs. 28 00:01:16.171 --> 00:01:31.897 Paul is not going to be some pie-in-the-sky orator who, not to offend anybody, but would never take a course of philosophy without inserting the gospel. 29 00:01:34.578 --> 00:01:41.001 Paul would never host a rally to talk about something and never bring up the gospel. 30 00:01:41.221 --> 00:01:41.821 Are you hearing me? 31 00:01:42.381 --> 00:01:43.462 The gospel is the answer. 32 00:01:44.325 --> 00:01:45.606 The word of God is the answer. 33 00:01:45.926 --> 00:01:54.011 And Paul is saying, I have learned from God to not speak about anything that he first has not worked out in my life. 34 00:01:56.172 --> 00:01:56.692 I love that. 35 00:01:58.833 --> 00:02:01.315 The Bible tells us in Hebrews chapter 2 verse 4. 36 00:02:02.376 --> 00:02:05.838 God also bearing witness, that is preaching the gospel. 37 00:02:06.558 --> 00:02:13.182 Both with signs and wonders, with various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit according to his own will. 38 00:02:13.202 --> 00:02:13.302 Amen. 39 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:22.002 If you want to see God work, make yourself be global. 40 00:02:22.362 --> 00:02:24.503 And here's the beautiful age in which we live in. 41 00:02:24.963 --> 00:02:28.464 You and I live in an age that we can go global on our device. 42 00:02:31.465 --> 00:02:35.647 You can transform your social media into a witnessing tool for Jesus. 43 00:02:37.565 --> 00:02:39.567 Mark chapter 16, verse 16. 44 00:02:39.587 --> 00:02:40.208 What about this? 45 00:02:40.949 --> 00:02:43.352 He who believes and is baptized will be saved. 46 00:02:43.372 --> 00:02:44.453 By the way, let me explain that. 47 00:02:44.513 --> 00:02:46.595 He who believes, that's how salvation happens. 48 00:02:47.096 --> 00:02:51.581 And then baptism is the outward announcement that you've been internally saved. 49 00:02:52.222 --> 00:02:57.548 Nowhere does the gospel say that you have to believe and be baptized, then you're saved. 50 00:02:59.075 --> 00:03:02.578 But the Bible does teach that if you believe, you're saved. 51 00:03:02.918 --> 00:03:10.925 And then your first step of obedience should be the display or the acknowledgement that you've accepted Christ buried in the waters of baptism. 52 00:03:11.525 --> 00:03:17.610 It's a symbol or a type of your dead life now coming up in newness of life. 53 00:03:18.691 --> 00:03:20.853 He who believes and is baptized will be saved. 54 00:03:20.873 --> 00:03:24.175 But he who does not believe, notice this, notice, see, it answers it. 55 00:03:25.156 --> 00:03:27.058 But he who does not believe... 56 00:03:27.752 --> 00:03:28.613 will be condemned. 57 00:03:28.813 --> 00:03:31.254 It doesn't say he who does not believe and is not baptized. 58 00:03:32.515 --> 00:03:35.077 And these signs will follow those who believe. 59 00:03:35.477 --> 00:03:37.539 In my name, they will cast out demons. 60 00:03:38.539 --> 00:03:39.140 You say, really? 61 00:03:39.600 --> 00:03:42.942 Yeah, really. 62 00:03:43.343 --> 00:03:46.445 Should we not be wearing pastor cams? 63 00:03:49.887 --> 00:03:51.128 I don't know if you can handle it or not. 64 00:03:56.220 --> 00:03:59.242 You ever been dealing with somebody and it's not normal what's going on? 65 00:04:01.043 --> 00:04:08.128 You ever seen their eyes turned as black as the eight ball on a pool table? 66 00:04:08.428 --> 00:04:09.148 How did that happen? 67 00:04:09.729 --> 00:04:14.472 You ever heard somebody change their voice and they sound like their voice is 30, 40, 50 feet away? 68 00:04:15.732 --> 00:04:16.513 How did that happen? 69 00:04:17.814 --> 00:04:18.694 I don't believe in that stuff. 70 00:04:18.774 --> 00:04:19.695 I just believe in the Bible. 71 00:04:20.295 --> 00:04:21.356 No, you don't believe in the Bible. 72 00:04:22.517 --> 00:04:24.478 Jesus told us this stuff is real. 73 00:04:24.498 --> 00:04:24.558 No. 74 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:28.781 which I think explains a lot about America these days. 75 00:04:33.583 --> 00:04:43.908 And these signs, cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues, they will take up serpents, and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them. 76 00:04:43.948 --> 00:04:46.769 They will lay hands on the sick and they will recover. 77 00:04:48.590 --> 00:04:51.551 First of all, you're not supposed to tempt God and drink poison. 78 00:04:51.571 --> 00:04:52.672 That's not what it's talking about. 79 00:04:54.705 --> 00:05:01.911 But if you take all this right here and you study the book of Acts, all those things happen in the book of Acts to those who went out to the world to serve Christ. 80 00:05:02.211 --> 00:05:02.692 Do you know that? 81 00:05:04.293 --> 00:05:05.314 I had a group in Russia. 82 00:05:06.235 --> 00:05:08.196 I forget what year it was from this church. 83 00:05:08.897 --> 00:05:09.738 Somebody got saved. 84 00:05:09.798 --> 00:05:10.358 It was awesome. 85 00:05:10.558 --> 00:05:11.419 The guy got saved. 86 00:05:12.500 --> 00:05:13.421 His name was Kaha. 87 00:05:15.122 --> 00:05:16.503 He was from Kazakhstan. 88 00:05:17.925 --> 00:05:18.825 We were in Moscow. 89 00:05:19.926 --> 00:05:21.468 We were preaching the gospel on the streets 90 00:05:23.261 --> 00:05:24.622 And Caja accepted Christ. 91 00:05:25.983 --> 00:05:30.706 Then he came back a little later and he said, I want you, Pastor Jack, to come to my home. 92 00:05:30.766 --> 00:05:34.969 I told my dad that I'm going to bring you home to preach the gospel to my family. 93 00:05:35.249 --> 00:05:36.230 How do you say no to that? 94 00:05:40.221 --> 00:05:44.923 So Lisa was with me and some others, our translators, and some of you. 95 00:05:45.644 --> 00:05:48.105 And I don't know if there was about maybe 10 of us or so. 96 00:05:48.145 --> 00:05:49.205 We went to their flat. 97 00:05:49.346 --> 00:05:50.306 It's beautiful. 98 00:05:50.526 --> 00:05:52.027 Spare the length of it. 99 00:05:52.047 --> 00:05:56.329 It was, oh, my goodness, five to six hours. 100 00:05:58.297 --> 00:06:05.881 But the father, the son announces, these are Americans, and they're all freaking out because they'd never seen an American before. 101 00:06:05.901 --> 00:06:07.302 They're touching us. 102 00:06:08.283 --> 00:06:09.704 No, really, they were touching our skin. 103 00:06:10.224 --> 00:06:11.264 Like we were from Mars. 104 00:06:14.006 --> 00:06:18.589 And they were so happy to have an American in their home, and the father, he's an old man. 105 00:06:18.909 --> 00:06:19.589 He's like 68. 106 00:06:19.609 --> 00:06:24.072 He's an old guy, old wrinkled dude. 107 00:06:26.404 --> 00:06:30.605 He's speaking in Russian and he's so proud. 108 00:06:31.145 --> 00:06:33.445 And he calls it toast. 109 00:06:33.505 --> 00:06:34.745 It's culture, toast. 110 00:06:36.206 --> 00:06:38.986 And he's pouring this stuff. 111 00:06:39.006 --> 00:06:41.827 And to me, it looks like 98. 112 00:06:41.887 --> 00:06:45.787 Yeah, it's like high octane. 113 00:06:46.908 --> 00:06:49.848 And I told Larissa, I said, we don't drink. 114 00:06:50.868 --> 00:06:54.109 And she goes, you do tonight. 115 00:06:56.532 --> 00:06:58.213 And I said, no, no, no, we don't. 116 00:06:58.553 --> 00:07:00.895 She said, listen, you need to stop that right now. 117 00:07:00.955 --> 00:07:01.675 Here's what's going on. 118 00:07:02.416 --> 00:07:04.577 Number one, it's our culture. 119 00:07:05.317 --> 00:07:06.178 This is a big deal. 120 00:07:07.058 --> 00:07:09.140 That is cognac and vodka. 121 00:07:10.701 --> 00:07:16.624 She said, if you don't drink, toast with this family. 122 00:07:16.644 --> 00:07:18.465 Because you have to, I'm sorry, I keep going like this, don't I? 123 00:07:18.986 --> 00:07:20.767 That's because we had to join arms like this. 124 00:07:22.027 --> 00:07:23.648 He gives it to you, you give it to him. 125 00:07:24.089 --> 00:07:24.429 It's like... 126 00:07:29.050 --> 00:07:34.853 And she goes, if you don't do this, he will be so offended, he will be crushed, you won't be able to say anything to him. 127 00:07:35.093 --> 00:07:37.374 And I remember saying this to myself. 128 00:07:38.414 --> 00:07:44.137 Oh, God in heaven, you said in Mark's gospel that we can drink poison. 129 00:07:46.078 --> 00:07:46.819 I'm serious. 130 00:07:49.980 --> 00:07:50.840 I cannot tell you. 131 00:07:50.880 --> 00:07:51.881 You'll have to ask Lisa. 132 00:07:51.901 --> 00:07:52.901 She's got a great memory. 133 00:07:53.382 --> 00:07:55.743 I don't know how many toasts we did. 134 00:07:57.408 --> 00:08:01.990 But me and our team and all of them at the table, nobody got a buzz. 135 00:08:04.731 --> 00:08:06.111 We shared the gospel. 136 00:08:06.911 --> 00:08:07.792 There was silence. 137 00:08:07.872 --> 00:08:11.753 And then Caja stood up and said, did you hear what he said? 138 00:08:13.754 --> 00:08:14.774 You can be forgiven. 139 00:08:14.794 --> 00:08:16.035 I was forgiven today. 140 00:08:16.375 --> 00:08:17.535 You can come to Christ. 141 00:08:18.075 --> 00:08:18.896 Now, right now. 142 00:08:19.936 --> 00:08:21.257 We'll never have this chance again. 143 00:08:21.277 --> 00:08:23.717 He told me, what's the, oh, wait. 144 00:08:24.058 --> 00:08:24.378 He said, 145 00:08:25.410 --> 00:08:30.895 Dad, mom, you, sister, friends, all of you, right now, except Jesus. 146 00:08:31.275 --> 00:08:31.735 Right now. 147 00:08:33.617 --> 00:08:34.497 It was so funny. 148 00:08:35.018 --> 00:08:35.638 And you know what? 149 00:08:36.079 --> 00:08:38.301 I mean, that's a weird form of evangelism. 150 00:08:41.483 --> 00:08:42.524 But he looks at me. 151 00:08:42.544 --> 00:08:44.606 This guy's been saved for hours. 152 00:08:45.206 --> 00:08:48.869 This guy, he turns to me and he says, say it again to them. 153 00:08:50.591 --> 00:08:54.374 I said it, and they all stood up to accept Christ. 154 00:08:56.256 --> 00:08:59.718 And that's not in my notes. 155 00:09:00.339 --> 00:09:03.981 But that verse, I want to see God move. 156 00:09:04.001 --> 00:09:05.081 You want to see God move? 157 00:09:05.101 --> 00:09:06.722 Then get out there where he's moving. 158 00:09:08.824 --> 00:09:09.124 Okay? 159 00:09:09.284 --> 00:09:09.724 And clue. 160 00:09:09.764 --> 00:09:10.725 It's not on your couch. 161 00:09:13.406 --> 00:09:14.627 Jesus is in the world. 162 00:09:14.667 --> 00:09:15.307 He's out there. 163 00:09:16.868 --> 00:09:20.310 And then very, very quickly, we need to wrap this up and we will and it ends with this. 164 00:09:20.350 --> 00:09:21.531 Verses 20 to 21. 165 00:09:21.571 --> 00:09:24.313 And that is the church is here and it's there and it's... 166 00:09:25.649 --> 00:09:26.769 Everywhere, God's church. 167 00:09:27.810 --> 00:09:31.711 Which, by the way, we need to be praying for the believers in Iran and Persia today. 168 00:09:32.491 --> 00:09:36.212 We don't know how many are dead, but there's a lot of dead people. 169 00:09:37.613 --> 00:09:40.214 But Christianity is exploding in Persia. 170 00:09:43.575 --> 00:09:44.815 God's church is everywhere. 171 00:09:46.536 --> 00:09:48.657 And you want to look for God's church on the move. 172 00:09:48.717 --> 00:09:51.077 In verse 20, and so I have made it my aim. 173 00:09:51.898 --> 00:09:52.938 This is my target. 174 00:09:54.864 --> 00:09:58.127 to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named. 175 00:09:58.167 --> 00:10:01.771 If people have already heard about Jesus, Paul said, I'm moving on. 176 00:10:04.734 --> 00:10:06.176 Notice the intensity of this man. 177 00:10:06.436 --> 00:10:07.317 And may it be ours. 178 00:10:07.957 --> 00:10:10.980 Wait, was Jesus preached in where? 179 00:10:11.061 --> 00:10:13.143 In Southern California, Jesus has been preached? 180 00:10:13.523 --> 00:10:14.164 Oh, yes, Paul. 181 00:10:14.624 --> 00:10:15.805 Okay, then I'm not going there. 182 00:10:15.825 --> 00:10:17.928 Isn't that amazing? 183 00:10:19.077 --> 00:10:20.218 Well, where are you going to go? 184 00:10:20.518 --> 00:10:24.001 Tell me where Jesus Christ has not been preached, and that's where I'm going to go. 185 00:10:24.401 --> 00:10:29.505 Now, we used to think we've got to get in an airplane and fly to Bangladesh or something to do that. 186 00:10:30.346 --> 00:10:34.248 Now, all we have to do is open our eyes in our own community. 187 00:10:36.770 --> 00:10:37.911 The world is now here. 188 00:10:40.893 --> 00:10:42.214 Last week in New York City, 189 00:10:43.277 --> 00:10:54.081 Over the city of New York City, now the Islamic call to prayer is now being broadcast over New York City for the first time in American history. 190 00:10:54.321 --> 00:10:58.522 And I made a post about that, and I said, this is what you get when Christians don't vote. 191 00:11:00.563 --> 00:11:01.543 I want that to settle in. 192 00:11:07.913 --> 00:11:08.834 How do you commit that? 193 00:11:09.634 --> 00:11:11.255 Give them Jesus Christ. 194 00:11:11.395 --> 00:11:12.196 That's the only way. 195 00:11:12.236 --> 00:11:12.816 What are you going to do? 196 00:11:13.317 --> 00:11:14.377 Preach the gospel. 197 00:11:15.978 --> 00:11:19.301 And by the way, after you preach the gospel, go vote right next time. 198 00:11:21.522 --> 00:11:28.467 And so, listen, he says, I've made it my aim to preach Christ, the gospel, that is. 199 00:11:29.863 --> 00:11:31.004 not where he's been named. 200 00:11:31.024 --> 00:11:31.904 See the word aim? 201 00:11:32.385 --> 00:11:33.725 The word aim is awesome. 202 00:11:34.146 --> 00:11:35.126 I make it my aim. 203 00:11:35.206 --> 00:11:35.587 Look at it. 204 00:11:36.447 --> 00:11:37.268 It is my love. 205 00:11:37.308 --> 00:11:39.589 The word means to aim is to love. 206 00:11:39.809 --> 00:11:40.690 It's to joy. 207 00:11:40.850 --> 00:11:42.071 It's to aspiration. 208 00:11:42.391 --> 00:11:43.371 It's to ambition. 209 00:11:43.492 --> 00:11:44.692 It's to target. 210 00:11:45.593 --> 00:11:46.934 I've made this my target. 211 00:11:48.134 --> 00:11:49.095 Love is my target. 212 00:11:51.076 --> 00:11:52.137 How do you live that out, Paul? 213 00:11:52.197 --> 00:11:53.578 By telling others about Jesus. 214 00:11:55.858 --> 00:12:03.745 Matthew 28, verse 18, And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. 215 00:12:04.445 --> 00:12:07.108 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations. 216 00:12:07.708 --> 00:12:12.412 By the way, in that declaration, the word evangelism is never mentioned because it's implied. 217 00:12:14.094 --> 00:12:16.376 Every Christian will tell somebody about Jesus. 218 00:12:17.497 --> 00:12:21.020 When they become a believer, go and make disciples. 219 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:23.002 That is, make them students of the word. 220 00:12:24.498 --> 00:12:29.519 All the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them. 221 00:12:31.779 --> 00:12:38.740 To observe all things that I have commanded you and lo or behold I am with you always even to the end of the age or the end of the world. 222 00:12:38.820 --> 00:12:39.201 Amen. 223 00:12:39.481 --> 00:12:40.861 Acts chapter 1 verse 7. 224 00:12:41.521 --> 00:12:48.162 And he said to them, Jesus said to them, It is not for you to know the times and the seasons which the Father has placed in his own authority. 225 00:12:48.702 --> 00:12:53.063 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit is. 226 00:12:54.175 --> 00:13:01.798 comes upon you and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and all of Judea and Samaria, here it is, and to the end of the earth. 227 00:13:03.358 --> 00:13:04.699 Does any of this excite you? 228 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:08.260 When I read that, I say, pick me, pick me. 229 00:13:10.501 --> 00:13:11.522 Don't you want to get freaked out? 230 00:13:12.742 --> 00:13:16.423 Listen, some people have to go to an amusement park to get their rush. 231 00:13:17.504 --> 00:13:18.984 I'm not big on amusement parks. 232 00:13:19.845 --> 00:13:20.425 I don't need them. 233 00:13:21.690 --> 00:13:23.611 Some people are, what's the word? 234 00:13:23.731 --> 00:13:24.811 Adrenaline junkies. 235 00:13:25.371 --> 00:13:29.073 Man, tie a rubber band to your leg and jump off a bridge. 236 00:13:30.173 --> 00:13:31.054 I don't need to do that. 237 00:13:32.474 --> 00:13:33.515 Jump out of an airplane. 238 00:13:35.055 --> 00:13:35.936 I don't need to do that. 239 00:13:37.716 --> 00:13:40.297 I'm trying to be as radical for Jesus as I can. 240 00:13:40.837 --> 00:13:42.958 I'm trying to obey him as much as I can. 241 00:13:43.018 --> 00:13:43.999 And let me tell you something. 242 00:13:44.759 --> 00:13:47.060 That will stoke your life. 243 00:13:48.383 --> 00:13:49.724 That will get you going. 244 00:13:49.804 --> 00:13:55.747 Because if you have got your antenna up and you're listening, you might just hear him say something. 245 00:13:56.828 --> 00:13:58.589 And then your heart rate is going. 246 00:13:58.609 --> 00:14:01.731 And you can't sleep. 247 00:14:01.831 --> 00:14:05.573 You can't rest until he says to you, you go do this thing. 248 00:14:06.774 --> 00:14:07.534 And you go do it. 249 00:14:07.555 --> 00:14:08.495 And you're not strong enough. 250 00:14:09.356 --> 00:14:10.436 And you don't have the ability. 251 00:14:10.777 --> 00:14:11.857 And who are you anyway? 252 00:14:12.257 --> 00:14:13.218 Who are we anyway? 253 00:14:13.818 --> 00:14:16.580 But we stand for what he wants us to stand for. 254 00:14:16.940 --> 00:14:19.082 And then God opens up the sea. 255 00:14:20.302 --> 00:14:23.004 All because you obeyed and brought him glory. 256 00:14:24.845 --> 00:14:32.170 And he says in verse 21, but as it is written, to whom he was not announced, they shall see. 257 00:14:33.743 --> 00:14:36.624 And those who have not heard shall understand. 258 00:14:37.584 --> 00:14:41.826 This is the Apostle Paul quoting out of the book of Isaiah. 259 00:14:42.766 --> 00:14:43.426 Notice this. 260 00:14:44.327 --> 00:14:47.408 As it is written. 261 00:14:48.628 --> 00:14:53.110 Paul the Apostle is leaning upon the Old Testament to do New Testament evangelism. 262 00:14:55.231 --> 00:15:01.473 That's why the book of Isaiah has more quotations of it in the New Testament than any other book of the Bible. 263 00:15:04.318 --> 00:15:07.499 Here, Paul is referring to Isaiah 52, verse 15. 264 00:15:09.059 --> 00:15:10.059 It's about the Messiah. 265 00:15:10.739 --> 00:15:12.820 So shall he sprinkle many nations. 266 00:15:13.100 --> 00:15:15.980 Kings shall shut their mouths at him. 267 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:19.101 And what had not been told them, they shall see. 268 00:15:19.641 --> 00:15:23.962 And what they had not heard, they shall consider. 269 00:15:24.402 --> 00:15:25.042 Folks, listen. 270 00:15:25.362 --> 00:15:30.783 Paul the Apostle, by the Holy Spirit, is using Isaiah chapter 52 to announce to us... 271 00:15:32.040 --> 00:15:37.761 that God's plan is for those who have never heard the gospel or never understood to become believers also. 272 00:15:37.961 --> 00:15:41.282 It's not just the Jews, it's Gentiles also. 273 00:15:42.182 --> 00:15:48.524 And listen, he's also quoting Isaiah 65 verse 1. 274 00:15:49.104 --> 00:15:54.425 I was sought by those Gentiles who did not ask for me. 275 00:15:56.201 --> 00:15:58.042 I was found by those, who are those? 276 00:15:58.302 --> 00:16:00.603 Gentiles, who did not seek me. 277 00:16:00.983 --> 00:16:03.724 I said, here I am, here I am. 278 00:16:03.744 --> 00:16:04.784 Isn't that cute? 279 00:16:05.605 --> 00:16:07.025 This is God saying, here I am over here. 280 00:16:07.505 --> 00:16:08.346 You guys are looking for me? 281 00:16:08.626 --> 00:16:09.126 I'm right here. 282 00:16:09.926 --> 00:16:10.566 Isn't that cute? 283 00:16:13.468 --> 00:16:19.610 God speaks through the Hebrew prophet announcing to the Jewish people that he's also going to save Gentiles. 284 00:16:21.349 --> 00:16:21.989 Look around you. 285 00:16:23.150 --> 00:16:26.572 In fact, if you're an atheist, this is a great day. 286 00:16:26.672 --> 00:16:27.813 You can stop that right now. 287 00:16:28.193 --> 00:16:28.974 You want to know why? 288 00:16:30.274 --> 00:16:32.736 How many of us, let's do it this way. 289 00:16:32.896 --> 00:16:33.956 How many of you are Jewish? 290 00:16:34.137 --> 00:16:35.197 You have Jewish blood in you. 291 00:16:35.237 --> 00:16:35.778 Raise your hands. 292 00:16:35.818 --> 00:16:36.118 Come on. 293 00:16:38.379 --> 00:16:38.739 Several. 294 00:16:39.020 --> 00:16:39.300 Awesome. 295 00:16:39.320 --> 00:16:39.860 Put your hands down. 296 00:16:40.160 --> 00:16:42.562 How many of us are Gentiles with no Jewish blood in us? 297 00:16:43.182 --> 00:16:44.623 That means the rest of you raise your hand. 298 00:16:47.383 --> 00:16:51.525 All of us are proof of a nearly 3,000 year old prophecy. 299 00:16:52.005 --> 00:16:52.945 God's word is true. 300 00:16:53.325 --> 00:16:56.066 Boom, here we are, just exactly as the Bible said. 301 00:16:56.346 --> 00:16:59.747 That Gentiles would believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 302 00:17:00.008 --> 00:17:01.048 Go figure that out. 303 00:17:01.428 --> 00:17:03.329 See, you don't need to be an atheist anymore. 304 00:17:03.669 --> 00:17:06.770 That alone proves God's existence. 305 00:17:07.630 --> 00:17:08.931 And so I want to leave this with you. 306 00:17:10.471 --> 00:17:11.572 They shall understand. 307 00:17:11.672 --> 00:17:12.572 Do you understand? 308 00:17:14.233 --> 00:17:15.113 Do you know that? 309 00:17:17.867 --> 00:17:25.389 That Christ Jesus is not a fairy tale, it's not a story, and he is not the founder of a religion. 310 00:17:25.429 --> 00:17:35.691 I'm always offended, not really, when people say, you know the three great faiths and the great three religions in the world, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. 311 00:17:36.231 --> 00:17:38.711 Islam's always at the end because it came last. 312 00:17:39.371 --> 00:17:39.932 Just know that. 313 00:17:40.212 --> 00:17:44.672 Judaism, Christianity, Christianity comes out of the Old Testament scriptures. 314 00:17:46.613 --> 00:17:47.173 That said... 315 00:17:49.342 --> 00:17:51.743 I don't like being called a religionist. 316 00:17:52.004 --> 00:17:53.024 I'm not a religionist. 317 00:17:53.885 --> 00:17:55.125 Oh, what is your religion? 318 00:17:55.466 --> 00:17:56.166 Ain't got one. 319 00:17:59.028 --> 00:18:01.830 Listen, if you love Jesus, you don't have a religion either. 320 00:18:03.250 --> 00:18:05.772 If you love Jesus, you have a relationship with him. 321 00:18:06.252 --> 00:18:06.973 Friends, listen. 322 00:18:07.113 --> 00:18:09.614 If you know the Lord, you know this. 323 00:18:10.034 --> 00:18:11.815 You know that you're going to heaven. 324 00:18:11.856 --> 00:18:17.479 The Bible says, listen, these things are written that you might know that you have eternal life. 325 00:18:18.391 --> 00:18:21.033 You're going to have to, listen, don't anybody move. 326 00:18:21.093 --> 00:18:22.113 This is a holy moment. 327 00:18:22.613 --> 00:18:24.915 Many of you are going to be nervous in a second. 328 00:18:25.855 --> 00:18:30.658 Because I'm going to challenge, well, I'm going to invite you, but you're going to be challenged by the Holy Spirit. 329 00:18:30.978 --> 00:18:34.140 In a moment, I'm going to ask you to make a decision regarding Jesus Christ. 330 00:18:34.901 --> 00:18:39.984 Right now, today's the day, now is the time for you to finally stop goofing off. 331 00:18:41.224 --> 00:18:43.606 It's time for you to stop trying to run your life. 332 00:18:44.466 --> 00:18:46.688 It's time for you to stop justifying yourself. 333 00:18:47.628 --> 00:18:48.489 You know you're guilty. 334 00:18:48.869 --> 00:18:49.790 We know you're guilty. 335 00:18:50.110 --> 00:18:51.131 And we don't even know you. 336 00:18:53.032 --> 00:18:54.033 But we're all guilty. 337 00:18:57.415 --> 00:19:01.658 Lust, anger, fear, hatred, envy. 338 00:19:03.299 --> 00:19:04.120 In fact, listen to this. 339 00:19:06.670 --> 00:19:07.450 I want to read this to you. 340 00:19:07.670 --> 00:19:14.372 The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth. 341 00:19:14.972 --> 00:19:21.654 Look to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth, for I am God and there is no other. 342 00:19:21.874 --> 00:19:24.574 There's no other God because there's no other way of salvation. 343 00:19:25.115 --> 00:19:29.996 Listen, I'm going to ask you right now, Father God, in Jesus' name, I pray that they would say, that's it, that's it. 344 00:19:30.156 --> 00:19:30.936 I'm done with this. 345 00:19:31.096 --> 00:19:32.436 I'm done playing games. 346 00:19:32.556 --> 00:19:34.077 I'm going to get real with God. 347 00:19:35.350 --> 00:19:36.672 I'm going to give my life to Christ. 348 00:19:36.852 --> 00:19:40.999 I'm going to confess that he died on the cross for my sins and rose again from the grave. 349 00:19:41.620 --> 00:19:48.450 As the Bible says, I'm going to receive Jesus as my Lord and Savior because I need him to wash me of my guilt, shame, and sin. 350 00:19:48.470 --> 00:19:50.954 And I'm going to receive the new life that he has for me. 351 00:19:55.573 --> 00:20:00.937 This Jack Hibbs podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, are listener supported. 352 00:20:01.518 --> 00:20:04.400 Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 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