WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.571 --> 00:00:09.117 Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast, with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. 2 00:00:09.337 --> 00:00:10.578 This is my personal observation. 3 00:00:10.598 --> 00:00:15.901 I don't care what your religion is, I don't care where you are, what country you're from, what continent you're on. 4 00:00:16.301 --> 00:00:24.426 I think a normal person, even if they're in the wrong religion, maybe they haven't heard the true love of God and the gospel of God yet, maybe they're messed up in the wrong religion. 5 00:00:24.546 --> 00:00:25.547 If they're normal... 6 00:00:26.525 --> 00:00:30.255 They're going to want to live and they're going to want to have life and enjoy life. 7 00:00:32.181 --> 00:00:34.848 Human beings ought to want to live and love life. 8 00:00:39.221 --> 00:00:47.967 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. 9 00:00:48.388 --> 00:00:51.450 To us, that's like saying amen or yes. 10 00:00:51.830 --> 00:00:54.272 Then that rating will encourage others to listen. 11 00:00:54.973 --> 00:00:57.895 Now open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you. 12 00:00:58.375 --> 00:00:59.736 Here is Jack Hibbs. 13 00:00:59.756 --> 00:01:00.777 We learn best, no doubt about it. 14 00:01:01.738 --> 00:01:03.839 We learn best by listening, which is also connected to observation. 15 00:01:03.859 --> 00:01:07.322 We learn best by listening, which is also connected to observation. 16 00:01:08.702 --> 00:01:11.625 and experience, which is the reality that we're going through. 17 00:01:12.245 --> 00:01:19.092 That said, I think you'll be accustomed to this. 18 00:01:19.632 --> 00:01:32.905 In two specific areas of what is known in Scripture as poetic writings, it doesn't mean it's poem, it doesn't mean it's made up, it's the way it's delivered, is parables and proverbs. 19 00:01:34.250 --> 00:01:34.810 Remember that. 20 00:01:35.250 --> 00:01:44.454 Parables is casting, illuminating truth alongside someone's head so that they might see what you're teaching in an illustration form. 21 00:01:44.494 --> 00:01:47.516 Jesus, of course, was the master of it. 22 00:01:47.696 --> 00:01:53.798 And then Proverbs is, as I said, teaching by comparison. 23 00:01:55.699 --> 00:02:02.262 Little snippet, sentence or two, maybe two verses at the most, illumination. 24 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:04.039 Amazing. 25 00:02:04.499 --> 00:02:05.580 So write this down if you would. 26 00:02:05.980 --> 00:02:06.780 What is a proverb? 27 00:02:06.960 --> 00:02:07.540 Very important. 28 00:02:07.960 --> 00:02:09.361 This is what a proverb is. 29 00:02:10.161 --> 00:02:17.784 It is a concise to the point way of communicating truth or wisdom by making truth or wisdom mentally tangible. 30 00:02:18.024 --> 00:02:19.044 That's a cool statement. 31 00:02:19.524 --> 00:02:21.325 Or graphically real. 32 00:02:22.603 --> 00:02:25.485 Tangibly, mentally tangible. 33 00:02:25.505 --> 00:02:26.025 What does that mean? 34 00:02:26.806 --> 00:02:30.889 Even though it's a thought in your head, it is so dramatic that you don't forget it. 35 00:02:31.209 --> 00:02:32.370 And graphically real. 36 00:02:32.430 --> 00:02:34.632 Boy, you and I live in a world that's graphic, is it not? 37 00:02:36.353 --> 00:02:37.013 But is it real? 38 00:02:39.015 --> 00:02:40.115 There's a lot of graphics. 39 00:02:42.357 --> 00:02:43.138 We don't know if it's real. 40 00:02:43.458 --> 00:02:48.521 Most of the stuff on your internet, thumbnail, YouTube, whatever, search, fake. 41 00:02:48.581 --> 00:02:48.862 Fake. 42 00:02:49.901 --> 00:02:51.862 Have you ever, you know what I'm talking about? 43 00:02:52.242 --> 00:03:02.865 You see the picture where you go like, let's go deep sea fishing, and then you see this, you see some guy with his rod, and it's a photograph, and the guy's catching like a 5,000 pound sea bass. 44 00:03:04.325 --> 00:03:11.047 And you say, look at the size of this guy's catch, it's amazing, it's fake my friend, can't you see that? 45 00:03:11.327 --> 00:03:19.430 But listen, if you downsize and scale the image back, if it's still photoshopped, so to speak, it's still fake. 46 00:03:21.939 --> 00:03:26.735 A proverb will give you and I exactly what we need for this 21st century experience. 47 00:03:28.643 --> 00:03:32.004 to expose false from true, to reveal false from true. 48 00:03:32.765 --> 00:03:36.986 And so listen, almost interchangeably, Proverbs and the next thing is wisdom. 49 00:03:37.526 --> 00:03:38.327 What is wisdom? 50 00:03:38.867 --> 00:03:39.347 This is great. 51 00:03:40.047 --> 00:03:44.189 Wisdom is the proper use and application of knowledge. 52 00:03:45.069 --> 00:03:46.870 I'll talk about this in a second, I'll come back to it. 53 00:03:47.350 --> 00:03:55.333 Using what you have learned, knowledge, experienced, listen this is important, discipline to make good life decisions. 54 00:03:55.773 --> 00:03:56.534 Check this out. 55 00:03:57.214 --> 00:03:59.575 It is the proper use and application of knowledge. 56 00:04:00.555 --> 00:04:11.099 You could be, you could be the greatest brain surgeon on paper that UCLA has ever produced. 57 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:24.345 You could be the number one, you can get the best grades as a brain surgeon in all of the American medical history of the United States. 58 00:04:25.515 --> 00:04:26.916 Perfect A's and beyond. 59 00:04:28.277 --> 00:04:33.682 I don't care one bit about how smart you are regarding books. 60 00:04:35.644 --> 00:04:36.144 I don't care. 61 00:04:37.525 --> 00:04:40.368 I want to know if you can work on my brain. 62 00:04:42.350 --> 00:04:43.290 Are you hearing me, folks? 63 00:04:43.711 --> 00:04:45.673 Have you ever seen people, leave it up on the screen, guys. 64 00:04:45.933 --> 00:04:48.775 Have you ever seen people, have you ever heard of this? 65 00:04:48.875 --> 00:04:49.456 I've heard of it. 66 00:04:49.616 --> 00:04:51.538 I don't want to see anybody like this, but I've heard of it. 67 00:04:52.535 --> 00:04:58.840 Have you ever heard of people who are like life counselors, but they've never had children? 68 00:05:04.063 --> 00:05:06.685 That was my next statement. 69 00:05:06.705 --> 00:05:11.068 Or they have never been married, and you got your degree where? 70 00:05:11.529 --> 00:05:12.129 USC. 71 00:05:14.030 --> 00:05:15.572 Well, USC this right now. 72 00:05:15.832 --> 00:05:16.192 If you... 73 00:05:17.280 --> 00:05:22.744 If you ain't been married and if you ain't got kids, you're working out of a half deck there, friend. 74 00:05:24.425 --> 00:05:29.829 Because you can learn all you want, the experience or the discipline is putting them together. 75 00:05:31.251 --> 00:05:33.872 You could, listen, none of us would be happy if the guy gets on. 76 00:05:34.113 --> 00:05:40.017 If you're catching British Airways this evening until Heathrow and the captain goes, this is your captain speaking. 77 00:05:40.397 --> 00:05:41.698 Glad you guys are all on board. 78 00:05:42.599 --> 00:05:43.600 We're gonna be leaving soon. 79 00:05:46.077 --> 00:05:48.118 we got the best flight attendants, all that jazz. 80 00:05:48.138 --> 00:05:49.838 This is a great airplane, super duper. 81 00:05:51.198 --> 00:05:53.839 And maybe you'd all like to do it. 82 00:05:53.899 --> 00:06:02.020 I'm really excited to be with all of you today because I've never flown this aircraft before. 83 00:06:04.201 --> 00:06:04.921 Have a great trip. 84 00:06:06.701 --> 00:06:07.341 I want off. 85 00:06:09.302 --> 00:06:09.922 I want off. 86 00:06:12.863 --> 00:06:18.568 Those of you who have gray hair or no hair, you are so valuable. 87 00:06:19.669 --> 00:06:21.411 Lisa and I were just talking about this yesterday. 88 00:06:21.731 --> 00:06:26.956 You and I are so valuable because we've got some miles behind us. 89 00:06:27.857 --> 00:06:32.301 And we've got young people who bless their hearts all over this campus. 90 00:06:32.341 --> 00:06:38.786 Young people are getting married, they're meeting young people here on campus, which we don't want this place to be like a meetup place. 91 00:06:39.738 --> 00:06:40.558 But it's happening. 92 00:06:41.038 --> 00:06:43.799 I'd rather have people meet up here than at Joe's Bar and Grill. 93 00:06:45.180 --> 00:06:47.440 And they're having, they're getting, I got to put that in order. 94 00:06:47.481 --> 00:06:50.401 They're meeting up here, they're getting married, and they're having babies. 95 00:06:51.102 --> 00:06:52.442 We have babies all over the place. 96 00:06:52.462 --> 00:06:53.582 This is a baby church. 97 00:06:56.343 --> 00:06:57.804 And here's the amazing thing. 98 00:06:58.564 --> 00:07:03.787 Seriously, because they didn't have a Christian upbringing, they don't know what to do. 99 00:07:04.787 --> 00:07:09.690 And what we need is older people to come along and disciple them like a grandma and a grandpa. 100 00:07:10.430 --> 00:07:11.211 Very, very important. 101 00:07:11.591 --> 00:07:17.514 Colossians chapter four, verse five says, walk in wisdom toward those who are outside. 102 00:07:17.554 --> 00:07:20.275 That is the non-believers redeeming the time. 103 00:07:20.595 --> 00:07:21.616 That's a beautiful statement. 104 00:07:22.613 --> 00:07:26.876 Walk in wisdom toward those who are unbelievers, redeeming the time. 105 00:07:26.896 --> 00:07:27.777 There's two commandments. 106 00:07:28.177 --> 00:07:30.059 Walk in wisdom toward the unbeliever. 107 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:32.620 Walk in such a way that you're redeeming the time. 108 00:07:32.921 --> 00:07:33.641 This is amazing. 109 00:07:33.941 --> 00:07:35.983 By the way, the word walk, look at this beautiful meaning. 110 00:07:36.403 --> 00:07:37.384 Walk in wisdom. 111 00:07:37.664 --> 00:07:38.265 To behave. 112 00:07:39.065 --> 00:07:40.786 Or conduct yourself toward life. 113 00:07:40.906 --> 00:07:41.446 No, look at that. 114 00:07:41.646 --> 00:07:42.306 Toward life. 115 00:07:42.867 --> 00:07:43.187 Living. 116 00:07:43.987 --> 00:07:45.628 To walk forward to the finish. 117 00:07:45.708 --> 00:07:49.209 To live in a way that occupies the day. 118 00:07:49.309 --> 00:07:50.790 Implying day by day. 119 00:07:51.010 --> 00:07:53.131 Every day until the end of life. 120 00:07:54.251 --> 00:07:54.872 Wow. 121 00:07:55.192 --> 00:07:58.613 One word with that incredible meaning in the Greek language. 122 00:07:58.913 --> 00:08:00.894 Walk in wisdom. 123 00:08:01.174 --> 00:08:02.595 Beautiful and powerful. 124 00:08:05.516 --> 00:08:08.037 Jesus said seven times in the book of Revelation. 125 00:08:09.598 --> 00:08:12.200 He who has an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit says. 126 00:08:15.202 --> 00:08:16.003 We have to listen. 127 00:08:17.824 --> 00:08:23.529 Wisdom is teaching by discipline, not by punishment. 128 00:08:23.569 --> 00:08:25.971 But the time we have remaining, and I want to make sure I get through this. 129 00:08:26.051 --> 00:08:27.412 Church, listen, this is going to be heavy. 130 00:08:28.933 --> 00:08:31.155 Again, all because of introduction. 131 00:08:32.056 --> 00:08:33.857 Next week we'll get into the verses of it all. 132 00:08:34.457 --> 00:08:34.978 Listen to this. 133 00:08:38.474 --> 00:08:40.216 I was reading some old stuff. 134 00:08:40.876 --> 00:08:43.118 I say old stuff, so much has changed. 135 00:08:43.259 --> 00:08:44.039 It was about 1954. 136 00:08:44.180 --> 00:08:50.846 I want you to see this, and I'll read it to you on the screens. 137 00:08:51.206 --> 00:09:03.218 In our nation today, as a culture, we have forsaken wisdom, teaching through discipline, and have instead defaulted to punishment through ignorance. 138 00:09:04.895 --> 00:09:11.719 One of the tragic results of that is the complete and total failure of what a family is and how it works. 139 00:09:13.539 --> 00:09:16.601 Which has led to the unraveling of our society. 140 00:09:17.441 --> 00:09:22.384 Because we have adopted the wisdom of the world, we have forsaken God's instructions. 141 00:09:25.285 --> 00:09:30.588 For example, why do we have overcrowding in our prisons today? 142 00:09:31.928 --> 00:09:35.250 The answer is that we have adopted punishment over discipline. 143 00:09:36.591 --> 00:09:44.535 If a father instructed his child by discipline, according to the scriptures, listen to me. 144 00:09:45.576 --> 00:09:54.621 Some of you are already starting, the hair on your arms or whatever, you're starting like, mm, father's discipline, mm. 145 00:09:55.301 --> 00:10:01.385 Whoa, whoa, whoa, just because you and I had rough experiences doesn't negate the authority of God's word, the Bible. 146 00:10:02.818 --> 00:10:06.921 Don't let our life's situation interpret the Bible. 147 00:10:08.182 --> 00:10:09.083 God says this. 148 00:10:09.103 --> 00:10:11.324 I mean, I think he agrees with this. 149 00:10:11.925 --> 00:10:23.733 According to the scriptures, that child would grow up understanding his or her proper place in the world and how to flourish in the world, no matter the condition that the world may be in. 150 00:10:25.095 --> 00:10:25.915 We need that today. 151 00:10:28.297 --> 00:10:31.900 When that fails to happen, we substitute discipline with punishment. 152 00:10:32.839 --> 00:10:41.926 In doing so, we have failed to properly discipline, instruct, and educate our children in how to be a God-honoring witness with their lives. 153 00:10:42.706 --> 00:10:51.933 That is tragically insightful because, listen, according to the Bible, and I'll read some of these passages. 154 00:10:51.973 --> 00:10:52.993 There'll be more in the future. 155 00:10:54.074 --> 00:10:58.017 We are instructed as fathers and as parents to discipline our children. 156 00:10:59.558 --> 00:11:00.479 The Bible says so. 157 00:11:01.982 --> 00:11:06.105 you're feeling the pushback to that because this culture has swallowed you up. 158 00:11:08.387 --> 00:11:15.473 The Bible says a child left to themselves will grow up to be a reproach to their parents. 159 00:11:17.234 --> 00:11:21.998 The Bible says that when we discipline our children, we drive evil far from them. 160 00:11:22.819 --> 00:11:23.419 Did you know that? 161 00:11:24.680 --> 00:11:30.004 The reason why we have an adverse reaction to this encouragement to be 162 00:11:31.087 --> 00:11:56.339 scriptural and biblical lovers of our children, most often in the areas of discipline, is because that's the way God has intended it, but it's to always be done God-like by believers who love their children, who don't respond in the flesh and in a carnal way where they beat their kids. 163 00:11:57.119 --> 00:11:58.500 God never said, beat your kids. 164 00:12:00.931 --> 00:12:02.712 But see, you and I live in a culture of abuse. 165 00:12:03.073 --> 00:12:03.273 Why? 166 00:12:03.493 --> 00:12:08.858 Because we've been brought up in a culture where we've been taught wrong and we've not been told the Bible. 167 00:12:13.682 --> 00:12:29.315 But when parents ignorantly, I say, cutting them slack, punish their children, I want you to know right now, nowhere in the Bible is a parent authorized to punish their child. 168 00:12:30.867 --> 00:12:31.427 Did you know that? 169 00:12:33.008 --> 00:12:35.270 Did you know that God punishes the ungodly? 170 00:12:35.950 --> 00:12:37.511 That's his preview. 171 00:12:38.712 --> 00:12:41.253 Did you know that God disciplines his children? 172 00:12:42.854 --> 00:12:44.815 Boy, is there a big difference. 173 00:12:44.835 --> 00:12:46.156 Here's how God does it. 174 00:12:46.857 --> 00:12:47.157 Jack? 175 00:12:47.857 --> 00:12:48.397 Yes, Lord? 176 00:12:50.219 --> 00:12:53.440 You know, you saw what you just thought in your head a moment ago, didn't you? 177 00:12:54.161 --> 00:12:57.543 Yeah, but you know, we're all human. 178 00:12:59.558 --> 00:13:00.979 Yeah, well, that's why I came and died. 179 00:13:03.061 --> 00:13:07.043 And that gets in the way of you and I in our fellowship together. 180 00:13:08.284 --> 00:13:12.067 And to be quite honest with you, Jack, I can't stand to be separated from you. 181 00:13:12.127 --> 00:13:15.910 I want to be with you in every moment of your life because I love you. 182 00:13:17.019 --> 00:13:20.642 And so I'm warning you, don't let that happen again. 183 00:13:20.742 --> 00:13:26.147 Arrest that thought, rebuke the temptation, take it to the cross, and move on in power. 184 00:13:26.667 --> 00:13:27.228 Yes, Lord. 185 00:13:27.448 --> 00:13:28.789 Why would he tell me that? 186 00:13:29.049 --> 00:13:30.851 By the way, I just paraphrased several scriptures. 187 00:13:31.411 --> 00:13:32.432 Why would he do that? 188 00:13:32.953 --> 00:13:33.813 Because he loves me. 189 00:13:37.657 --> 00:13:43.682 But listen, if you're growing up and you're a kid and you don't exactly appreciate nor know what's right or wrong yet... 190 00:13:44.786 --> 00:13:52.470 and you cross that line, you do something wrong, and the next thing you know, you've got a pair of knuckles slapping you across the room. 191 00:13:53.951 --> 00:14:00.494 That's called punishment, and it creates, listen, it creates chaos. 192 00:14:02.975 --> 00:14:07.778 Chaos in the home, chaos in the child's life, fear, and an ungodly way of fear. 193 00:14:09.083 --> 00:14:12.285 There should be a reverential awe that children have for their parents. 194 00:14:12.325 --> 00:14:14.666 And by the way, they're kind of born with it in a way. 195 00:14:14.986 --> 00:14:17.387 They think mom and dad are the greatest thing on the planet. 196 00:14:17.727 --> 00:14:20.189 That's why even a parent who abuses their child. 197 00:14:20.209 --> 00:14:23.350 Did you know that child when they're young will defend the parent? 198 00:14:27.872 --> 00:14:28.193 Wow. 199 00:14:28.213 --> 00:14:28.293 Wow. 200 00:14:31.494 --> 00:14:36.317 When we love our kids, we will discipline them in a godly way. 201 00:14:37.350 --> 00:14:40.974 Solomon is going to be teaching us this, instructing them. 202 00:14:41.774 --> 00:14:44.217 Now, a great thing is God tells you what's wrong. 203 00:14:44.857 --> 00:14:48.601 Now let's say it's God, now it's time for God to discipline. 204 00:14:49.982 --> 00:14:52.144 God says, I told you five times not to do that. 205 00:14:52.164 --> 00:14:53.105 You've kept doing it. 206 00:14:53.425 --> 00:14:56.789 So here's what we're going to do. 207 00:14:57.109 --> 00:14:59.651 In the following days, I'm going to put you in the penalty box. 208 00:14:59.691 --> 00:15:02.014 Don't whine about it when it happens, Jack, because... 209 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:08.422 You won't listen, so I'm going to deal with you this way to get you to pay attention next time. 210 00:15:09.542 --> 00:15:10.383 And then we go like this. 211 00:15:10.643 --> 00:15:12.144 No, God, please, I'll never do it again. 212 00:15:12.524 --> 00:15:13.264 He knows better. 213 00:15:14.825 --> 00:15:15.766 You will do it again. 214 00:15:18.047 --> 00:15:20.448 Man, I'm trying to get this done. 215 00:15:21.869 --> 00:15:24.211 Remember when Jesus said, I've got 99 sheep. 216 00:15:24.971 --> 00:15:25.731 They're all fine. 217 00:15:26.072 --> 00:15:26.892 There's one missing. 218 00:15:29.153 --> 00:15:31.655 You little obedient sheep, you stay right here. 219 00:15:32.472 --> 00:15:33.673 I got to go after that one. 220 00:15:34.413 --> 00:15:35.854 And Jesus goes after that one. 221 00:15:36.435 --> 00:15:38.236 And when he gets that one, he brings it back. 222 00:15:39.357 --> 00:15:43.220 Jesus did not tell you what many of the shepherds did in those days. 223 00:15:44.941 --> 00:15:48.283 If that little lamb ran away, they would bring it back. 224 00:15:48.604 --> 00:15:51.506 If he ran away again, he would bring it back. 225 00:15:52.286 --> 00:15:57.150 If he brought, if he ran away a third time, have you ever heard the word third time is the charm? 226 00:15:57.170 --> 00:15:57.350 Charm. 227 00:15:58.436 --> 00:16:01.237 The third time, the shepherd would go after the little lamb. 228 00:16:02.038 --> 00:16:03.598 You know, listen, God will go after you. 229 00:16:03.778 --> 00:16:04.078 You know what? 230 00:16:04.138 --> 00:16:05.559 If you belong to God, here's what he'll do. 231 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:06.379 He'll go get you. 232 00:16:07.460 --> 00:16:11.181 But on the way back home to the flock, to the fold, he's going to pause. 233 00:16:11.241 --> 00:16:12.142 And you're going to be, oh, good. 234 00:16:12.182 --> 00:16:13.943 We can take a break. 235 00:16:14.023 --> 00:16:16.223 Yeah, we are going to take a break. 236 00:16:16.464 --> 00:16:20.465 But you are the one that's going to be broken. 237 00:16:21.886 --> 00:16:26.408 And the shepherd stretches out the back leg of that little lamb over two rocks. 238 00:16:27.427 --> 00:16:35.672 with space in the middle, he takes his rod, not the staff, the staff for rescuing the little lamb, the rod is for disciplining the lamb. 239 00:16:36.152 --> 00:16:46.719 And the discipline is this, I love you little lamb, you little, you little lamb chop you. 240 00:16:52.062 --> 00:16:56.725 And he breaks that bone of that back leg. 241 00:16:59.459 --> 00:17:01.840 Lambs, terrified, of course, hurting. 242 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:07.162 He puts now, because he can't walk, he puts now the lamb on the back of his shoulders and he walks all the way back home. 243 00:17:07.683 --> 00:17:11.004 And for weeks, he'll carry that lamb on his shoulders. 244 00:17:11.464 --> 00:17:19.628 A sheep who grows up on the back of its shepherd's shoulders because of a broken leg has a proximity of nearness that the other sheep do not have. 245 00:17:22.578 --> 00:17:27.342 He knows the shepherd's heartbeat, the shepherd's sweat, scent, sound. 246 00:17:27.862 --> 00:17:31.705 Everything about the shepherd becomes intimate to the lamb that had the broken leg. 247 00:17:32.085 --> 00:17:33.286 That's a lesson for all of us. 248 00:17:33.666 --> 00:17:34.747 Proverbs 3, 12. 249 00:17:35.228 --> 00:17:39.751 For whom the Lord loves, he corrects, just as a father, the son in whom he delights. 250 00:17:40.912 --> 00:17:42.093 Think of that. 251 00:17:42.433 --> 00:17:44.254 By the way, I think that's the verse behind this. 252 00:17:44.514 --> 00:17:48.497 Son, I'm gonna have to discipline you now because of your disobedience. 253 00:17:48.537 --> 00:17:51.580 And I gotta tell you, buddy, it's gonna hurt me much more than it's gonna hurt you. 254 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:58.722 When you're a kid, you think your parent is lying until you become a parent. 255 00:18:01.203 --> 00:18:05.285 As a parent, wouldn't you rather be the one disciplined if your kid would get it? 256 00:18:05.585 --> 00:18:06.045 Think about it. 257 00:18:06.085 --> 00:18:15.848 If the option was this, if the dad would wind up being injured for the child's disobedience, the dad would do it if he knew the child would learn from it. 258 00:18:16.629 --> 00:18:17.109 Are you hearing me? 259 00:18:19.008 --> 00:18:20.749 Anybody who doesn't have kids yet, listen up. 260 00:18:20.769 --> 00:18:23.870 What I just said is a painful reality of what it means to grow up. 261 00:18:25.991 --> 00:18:32.995 Your love for your kid is so much so that you would take anything and that's part of us having a hard time of letting go. 262 00:18:34.936 --> 00:18:37.877 We want to bubble wrap our kids and we think we're doing them a justice. 263 00:18:38.697 --> 00:18:39.938 We're doing them an injustice. 264 00:18:42.999 --> 00:18:44.280 We got to prepare them now. 265 00:18:44.360 --> 00:18:46.081 I don't care if your kid was hatched yesterday. 266 00:18:46.481 --> 00:18:48.142 We got to prepare them now to grow up. 267 00:18:49.714 --> 00:18:53.737 The day that baby's born, you are rearing that child to be let go. 268 00:18:57.240 --> 00:18:57.541 Wow. 269 00:19:00.383 --> 00:19:01.964 The parents delight in the child. 270 00:19:02.925 --> 00:19:06.748 They want them to prosper and to live and to go out and walk with God. 271 00:19:06.768 --> 00:19:08.930 Next verse, Ephesians 6, 4. 272 00:19:09.330 --> 00:19:12.233 And you, fathers, do not provoke your child to wrath. 273 00:19:12.273 --> 00:19:13.374 Don't taunt them. 274 00:19:15.575 --> 00:19:16.676 Don't pick on them. 275 00:19:17.197 --> 00:19:18.078 Call them dummy. 276 00:19:19.491 --> 00:19:21.892 Loser, of course you can't. 277 00:19:22.352 --> 00:19:25.254 Your sister can throw it farther than you can. 278 00:19:29.855 --> 00:19:33.177 But bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord. 279 00:19:34.698 --> 00:19:36.158 Wow, don't provoke them. 280 00:19:37.179 --> 00:19:37.919 Encourage them. 281 00:19:38.399 --> 00:19:43.581 Dad, mom, you guys have almost divine voices to the ears of a child. 282 00:19:43.601 --> 00:19:46.763 Hebrews 12, verse 7. 283 00:19:48.232 --> 00:19:53.214 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons. 284 00:19:53.714 --> 00:19:56.956 For what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 285 00:20:00.137 --> 00:20:01.537 Proverbs 19, 18. 286 00:20:02.178 --> 00:20:04.619 Chasten your son while there is hope. 287 00:20:06.359 --> 00:20:10.121 And do not set your heart on his destruction. 288 00:20:12.762 --> 00:20:13.282 Remarkable. 289 00:20:14.763 --> 00:20:15.183 Powerful. 290 00:20:18.355 --> 00:20:19.176 I'll leave you with this. 291 00:20:21.260 --> 00:20:24.445 God's instruction to us from his Bible is that we might live. 292 00:20:25.627 --> 00:20:30.414 Isn't it amazing today that God's word to us is that he wants us to be wise. 293 00:20:35.786 --> 00:20:41.151 This Jack Hibbs podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, are listener supported. 294 00:20:41.732 --> 00:20:44.595 Will you consider partnering with us through a special 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