WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.572 --> 00:00:09.141 Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. 2 00:00:09.382 --> 00:00:11.324 You ever stop to think about the awe of God? 3 00:00:11.724 --> 00:00:14.047 He's awesome is where we get that from. 4 00:00:14.567 --> 00:00:17.911 We ought to be in awe of Him because He can take care of our lives. 5 00:00:19.693 --> 00:00:20.394 He doesn't give up. 6 00:00:20.434 --> 00:00:21.195 He doesn't quit. 7 00:00:27.206 --> 00:00:35.951 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. 8 00:00:36.371 --> 00:00:39.433 To us, that's like saying amen or yes. 9 00:00:39.813 --> 00:00:42.255 Then that rating will encourage others to listen. 10 00:00:42.975 --> 00:00:45.877 Now open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you. 11 00:00:46.357 --> 00:00:47.718 Here is Jack Hibbs. 12 00:00:49.613 --> 00:00:53.215 Getting God right is this, is being in awe of God. 13 00:00:53.255 --> 00:00:54.096 Can you write that down? 14 00:00:54.456 --> 00:01:01.340 The number one place that we begin, we talk about wisdom, we talk about knowledge, we talk about knowing God and the fear of God. 15 00:01:01.400 --> 00:01:02.361 Where do we begin? 16 00:01:02.441 --> 00:01:06.323 Verses one through seven is being in awe of God. 17 00:01:06.363 --> 00:01:07.424 We have to nurture that. 18 00:01:07.604 --> 00:01:09.946 And we get to do that, by the way, if we apply ourselves. 19 00:01:11.024 --> 00:01:16.186 And getting God right is becoming a rarity in the world in which you and I live in. 20 00:01:16.566 --> 00:01:19.847 A lot of misunderstandings about God, getting God right. 21 00:01:19.867 --> 00:01:23.628 A lot of people relegate God down to feelings or emotions. 22 00:01:24.088 --> 00:01:25.208 And that's not who God is. 23 00:01:25.869 --> 00:01:28.570 A lot of people think that they can make up theology. 24 00:01:28.670 --> 00:01:29.530 Can't do that either. 25 00:01:30.570 --> 00:01:33.191 God has revealed to us his word, the Bible. 26 00:01:33.611 --> 00:01:34.832 Number one, mark it down this way. 27 00:01:34.852 --> 00:01:36.412 It's found in verses one through four. 28 00:01:36.793 --> 00:01:43.035 And that is getting God right and being in awe of God is for you and I to consider who he is, obviously. 29 00:01:43.335 --> 00:01:44.215 Where do we start? 30 00:01:44.656 --> 00:01:45.976 Is that we get to know God. 31 00:01:46.036 --> 00:01:46.877 We've got to know God. 32 00:01:46.897 --> 00:01:50.058 The Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. 33 00:01:50.358 --> 00:01:51.038 And here it comes. 34 00:01:51.098 --> 00:01:55.400 To know wisdom and instruction and to perceive the words of understanding. 35 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:57.881 All of these things are given to us by God. 36 00:01:57.961 --> 00:01:58.441 Watch this. 37 00:01:58.821 --> 00:02:03.642 Verse 3, to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, judgment, and equity. 38 00:02:04.343 --> 00:02:07.223 All the things that our world says they care about. 39 00:02:07.864 --> 00:02:08.544 Have you noticed that? 40 00:02:08.864 --> 00:02:09.984 We want justice. 41 00:02:10.344 --> 00:02:11.264 We want equity. 42 00:02:11.465 --> 00:02:13.745 No, no, actually you don't. 43 00:02:14.045 --> 00:02:17.286 You're using the same words, but you're using a different dictionary. 44 00:02:18.767 --> 00:02:23.368 God is the one who will determine equity, justice, understanding. 45 00:02:25.041 --> 00:02:26.845 Listen, this is God's universe. 46 00:02:26.885 --> 00:02:27.746 We're only visiting. 47 00:02:28.809 --> 00:02:30.011 We're not here for a long time. 48 00:02:32.396 --> 00:02:33.157 God's eternal. 49 00:02:33.859 --> 00:02:34.981 And there's going to be a day when... 50 00:02:35.760 --> 00:02:40.262 He sets his plans in order and redeems and reclaims. 51 00:02:40.943 --> 00:02:41.823 But how do I become? 52 00:02:41.863 --> 00:02:44.885 That would be a good question is, how do I become more in awe of God? 53 00:02:45.285 --> 00:02:45.965 Start with this. 54 00:02:46.085 --> 00:02:47.706 Genesis chapter 1, verse 1. 55 00:02:47.746 --> 00:02:49.787 We all know it, but do we meditate on it? 56 00:02:50.187 --> 00:02:55.170 In the beginning, that is of the physical universe, all things physical, God created. 57 00:02:56.591 --> 00:02:57.111 God bless you. 58 00:02:57.131 --> 00:02:57.991 Thank you for coming today. 59 00:02:58.031 --> 00:02:58.972 Have a great Sunday. 60 00:02:59.372 --> 00:02:59.872 That's enough. 61 00:03:00.893 --> 00:03:02.714 In the beginning, God created. 62 00:03:04.856 --> 00:03:08.057 Listen, you get past Genesis 1-1, the rest of the Bible's downhill. 63 00:03:11.018 --> 00:03:12.598 He created the heavens and the earth. 64 00:03:12.938 --> 00:03:16.499 The earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep. 65 00:03:16.899 --> 00:03:21.500 And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 66 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:24.901 Then God said, let there be light and there was light. 67 00:03:25.401 --> 00:03:26.481 By the way, this is fun. 68 00:03:27.201 --> 00:03:33.663 The light that God created over the physical universe predates the creation of the sun. 69 00:03:35.325 --> 00:03:35.405 Why? 70 00:03:35.906 --> 00:03:38.248 God is light. 71 00:03:39.809 --> 00:03:40.129 Awesome. 72 00:03:40.169 --> 00:03:40.730 Remarkable. 73 00:03:41.570 --> 00:03:43.932 Considering the awe of God, we're going to go through some things. 74 00:03:43.952 --> 00:03:44.513 You guys okay? 75 00:03:44.533 --> 00:03:45.173 You ready for this? 76 00:03:46.734 --> 00:03:47.755 Job chapter 28. 77 00:03:48.256 --> 00:03:51.318 You can't talk about the awe of God without going to the book of Job. 78 00:03:51.338 --> 00:03:52.119 And for good reason. 79 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:53.340 You know, poor Job. 80 00:03:55.061 --> 00:04:01.847 You know, we say poor Job and none of us would want to go through what he went through, but we want to be as close to God 81 00:04:06.362 --> 00:04:09.583 Of course, God used the man Job because he could. 82 00:04:09.603 --> 00:04:12.384 He was usable to teach Satan a lesson. 83 00:04:14.065 --> 00:04:21.968 Every time I think about the book of Job, I have to ask myself, how willing am I to be a true witness for God in anything? 84 00:04:24.944 --> 00:04:27.145 If God were to ask us this morning, do you love me? 85 00:04:27.205 --> 00:04:29.525 We would all stand up and say, yes, we love you. 86 00:04:29.866 --> 00:04:31.686 And then God says, okay, great. 87 00:04:31.706 --> 00:04:33.787 I'm so happy to hear that because you know what I did with Job? 88 00:04:33.907 --> 00:04:34.587 Yes, I know. 89 00:04:34.647 --> 00:04:35.287 I read the book. 90 00:04:35.567 --> 00:04:36.868 I'm going to do the same thing with you. 91 00:04:38.768 --> 00:04:39.989 Yeah, I don't know about it. 92 00:04:40.489 --> 00:04:40.789 Really? 93 00:04:42.529 --> 00:04:44.550 Can you ask the first question all over again? 94 00:04:45.870 --> 00:04:48.931 Don't you think that's how Peter felt when Jesus said, do you love me, Peter? 95 00:04:50.732 --> 00:04:50.972 Yes. 96 00:04:51.752 --> 00:04:52.332 Feed my sheep. 97 00:04:52.753 --> 00:04:53.573 Do you love me, Peter? 98 00:04:54.526 --> 00:04:54.806 Yes. 99 00:04:55.286 --> 00:04:56.046 More than these fish? 100 00:04:56.847 --> 00:04:57.127 Yes. 101 00:04:58.627 --> 00:04:59.447 Do you love me, Peter? 102 00:04:59.647 --> 00:04:59.927 Yes. 103 00:05:00.027 --> 00:05:00.708 Feed my sheep. 104 00:05:01.108 --> 00:05:03.648 And then Peter said, Lord, why do you keep asking me this? 105 00:05:04.308 --> 00:05:06.629 You know that I phileo you. 106 00:05:07.249 --> 00:05:08.590 I Philadelphia you. 107 00:05:09.970 --> 00:05:10.790 Peter was busted. 108 00:05:10.830 --> 00:05:16.291 Peter was confessing, my love for you is about as best as I have for my brother. 109 00:05:17.172 --> 00:05:18.712 That's about as big as it is. 110 00:05:19.432 --> 00:05:21.433 Peter's confession should be our confession. 111 00:05:21.453 --> 00:05:22.193 Lord, I love you. 112 00:05:23.511 --> 00:05:24.411 but I need to love you more. 113 00:05:24.972 --> 00:05:25.272 Amen? 114 00:05:26.232 --> 00:05:26.992 How does that happen? 115 00:05:27.372 --> 00:05:28.493 Be in awe of God. 116 00:05:30.073 --> 00:05:32.014 God alone understands the way of wisdom. 117 00:05:32.534 --> 00:05:34.195 He knows where it can be found. 118 00:05:35.035 --> 00:05:39.156 For he looks throughout the whole earth and sees everything under the heavens. 119 00:05:39.537 --> 00:05:45.479 He, that's God, decided how hard the winds should blow and how much rain should fall. 120 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:46.919 Think of that. 121 00:05:48.380 --> 00:05:52.081 He made the laws for the rain and laid out a path for the lightning. 122 00:05:54.595 --> 00:05:57.437 Then he saw wisdom and evaluated it. 123 00:05:59.198 --> 00:06:02.120 He set it in a place and examined it thoroughly. 124 00:06:03.260 --> 00:06:05.942 And this is what he says to all humanity. 125 00:06:06.963 --> 00:06:08.784 The fear of the Lord is true worship. 126 00:06:09.705 --> 00:06:12.126 To forsake evil is real understanding. 127 00:06:12.146 --> 00:06:14.668 Those things go hand in hand, you know. 128 00:06:15.728 --> 00:06:17.589 And the next passage, we'll jump to the next one. 129 00:06:17.629 --> 00:06:18.689 It's Job 37. 130 00:06:18.729 --> 00:06:19.189 Watch this. 131 00:06:19.489 --> 00:06:20.870 Pay attention to this, Job. 132 00:06:21.370 --> 00:06:24.871 Stop and consider the wonderful miracles of God. 133 00:06:25.291 --> 00:06:30.613 Do you know how God controls the storm and causes the lightning to flash from his clouds? 134 00:06:31.354 --> 00:06:33.034 I love when God talks like that. 135 00:06:35.995 --> 00:06:37.556 In other words, none of it's an accident. 136 00:06:39.597 --> 00:06:40.557 None of it's an accident. 137 00:06:42.017 --> 00:06:47.621 Do you understand how he moves the clouds with wonderful perfection and skill translation? 138 00:06:48.181 --> 00:06:55.586 If God wants to move water so that it rains in Colorado or the Sierra Nevada or Chino Hills, how does God do it? 139 00:06:55.986 --> 00:06:59.449 God, listen, God brings water up from the ocean, right? 140 00:06:59.669 --> 00:07:01.810 He separates fresh water from salt. 141 00:07:02.210 --> 00:07:04.632 He raises it up and he puts it into a cloud. 142 00:07:06.353 --> 00:07:08.635 And then he sends wind and he moves the cloud, right? 143 00:07:09.722 --> 00:07:10.302 Think about it. 144 00:07:10.423 --> 00:07:12.424 And an airplane can fly through the cloud. 145 00:07:12.624 --> 00:07:13.165 No problem. 146 00:07:14.325 --> 00:07:25.173 And then at the finger snap of God, the condensation takes place to such a level that the cloud can dump millions of tons of water that you can weigh. 147 00:07:25.193 --> 00:07:26.654 It can even be a flood. 148 00:07:28.176 --> 00:07:31.218 How do you float something over somewhere and then create a flood? 149 00:07:31.238 --> 00:07:33.960 You ever stop to think about the awe of God? 150 00:07:34.380 --> 00:07:36.662 He's awesome is where we get that from. 151 00:07:37.988 --> 00:07:42.151 If God wants it to rain in the desert, he just floats the rain over and then drops it. 152 00:07:42.931 --> 00:07:43.812 That's our God. 153 00:07:44.492 --> 00:07:49.756 All of a sudden, he ought to be, listen, we ought to be in awe of him because he can take care of our lives. 154 00:07:50.817 --> 00:07:56.200 Even when we as his children get in trouble, I think about, you say, well, that's great. 155 00:07:56.521 --> 00:07:59.162 I don't really care about God floating in a cloud over the desert. 156 00:07:59.323 --> 00:08:00.964 I can't make my mortgage payment. 157 00:08:01.869 --> 00:08:14.632 Friend, listen, if God can take care of your sins on the cross and float a cloud of water over the desert, turn to God, give it all to him, and he will begin to do a work where that's no longer a problem. 158 00:08:14.652 --> 00:08:16.112 And I don't know what that means for you. 159 00:08:18.233 --> 00:08:19.153 But he'll work with you. 160 00:08:21.014 --> 00:08:21.734 He doesn't give up. 161 00:08:21.754 --> 00:08:22.494 He doesn't quit. 162 00:08:24.681 --> 00:08:35.923 Verse 17, when you are sweltering in your clothes and the south or Santa Ana winds blow and everything is still, he makes the skies reflect the heat like a bronze mirror. 163 00:08:35.963 --> 00:08:39.284 Did you know that is a scientific fact right there? 164 00:08:39.624 --> 00:08:43.425 Atheist, agnostic, doubters, take a picture of verse 18. 165 00:08:43.725 --> 00:08:48.806 That is literally a meteorological scientific fact. 166 00:08:49.386 --> 00:08:50.306 How did Job know that? 167 00:08:50.587 --> 00:08:52.567 Well, God's the one speaking here, so he knows it. 168 00:08:53.793 --> 00:08:56.654 So teach the rest of us what to say to God. 169 00:08:57.414 --> 00:09:00.115 We are too ignorant to make our own arguments. 170 00:09:01.536 --> 00:09:04.637 Should God be notified that we want to speak? 171 00:09:05.337 --> 00:09:08.438 Can people even speak when they are confused? 172 00:09:08.598 --> 00:09:16.001 Verse 21, we cannot look at the sun for it shines brightly in the sky when the wind clears away the clouds. 173 00:09:16.501 --> 00:09:24.665 Verse 22, so also golden splendor comes from the mountain of God, who is clothed in dazzling splendor. 174 00:09:24.965 --> 00:09:32.409 We cannot imagine the power of the Almighty, but even though he is just and righteous, he does not destroy us. 175 00:09:32.810 --> 00:09:35.371 No wonder people everywhere fear him. 176 00:09:35.891 --> 00:09:39.333 All who are wise show him reverence. 177 00:09:39.373 --> 00:09:40.694 And all God's people said, amen. 178 00:09:41.857 --> 00:09:42.557 Job 38. 179 00:09:42.817 --> 00:09:43.878 This is my favorite. 180 00:09:44.238 --> 00:09:47.619 When the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind, this is what he said. 181 00:09:48.019 --> 00:09:51.860 Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorant words? 182 00:09:52.700 --> 00:09:54.261 You imagine, Lord, speak to me. 183 00:09:54.601 --> 00:09:55.581 Lord, speak to me. 184 00:09:56.001 --> 00:09:59.663 Who are you speaking to me in such ignorant words? 185 00:10:01.003 --> 00:10:02.584 Doesn't make you feel about that big. 186 00:10:06.491 --> 00:10:11.733 Brace yourself like a man, because I have some questions for you, and you must answer. 187 00:10:11.753 --> 00:10:13.173 Wow. 188 00:10:13.833 --> 00:10:16.694 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? 189 00:10:16.814 --> 00:10:17.234 Tell me. 190 00:10:19.855 --> 00:10:27.818 I like verse 4, because when people tell me that the earth is 400 trillion billion quadzillion years old, here's what I ask them. 191 00:10:28.238 --> 00:10:28.718 How do you know? 192 00:10:30.298 --> 00:10:30.778 Were you there? 193 00:10:30.798 --> 00:10:35.620 It's a big guess, you know. 194 00:10:38.047 --> 00:10:39.148 All the sciences applied. 195 00:10:39.909 --> 00:10:43.313 By the way, side note, you can't get the sciences to agree on the age of the earth. 196 00:10:43.333 --> 00:10:43.793 Did you know that? 197 00:10:45.135 --> 00:10:53.224 The astrophysicists say that the universe is much younger than what we thought, and the geophysicists say, no, it's much older. 198 00:10:54.160 --> 00:10:55.121 It's got to be older. 199 00:10:55.621 --> 00:11:00.905 Some people argue that the earth is older than everything else because the earth is so complex. 200 00:11:01.045 --> 00:11:04.347 No other body that's observable has complex life like we do. 201 00:11:04.607 --> 00:11:08.150 So if you're going to have an evolutionary theory, it's got to be super old. 202 00:11:09.391 --> 00:11:11.192 Older than Jupiter, older than Venus. 203 00:11:11.252 --> 00:11:12.233 No, no, you can't have that. 204 00:11:12.513 --> 00:11:14.134 This group begins to argue with that group. 205 00:11:15.195 --> 00:11:18.757 And the Christians in the middle, we never got degrees in physics. 206 00:11:19.618 --> 00:11:20.579 We just said, you know what? 207 00:11:20.619 --> 00:11:21.880 God said he did it. 208 00:11:22.020 --> 00:11:23.641 And Job, you weren't there, so how do you know? 209 00:11:25.486 --> 00:11:25.986 Wow. 210 00:11:28.027 --> 00:11:30.229 So where were you when I laid the foundations there? 211 00:11:30.309 --> 00:11:32.009 Tell me if you know so much. 212 00:11:33.190 --> 00:11:34.711 You determined its dimensions? 213 00:11:34.991 --> 00:11:38.513 Or who determined its dimensions and stretched out the surveying line? 214 00:11:39.233 --> 00:11:40.694 What supports its foundations? 215 00:11:40.934 --> 00:11:42.295 And who laid its cornerstone? 216 00:11:42.695 --> 00:11:47.558 As the morning stars sang, that's a reference to angels, together, and all the angels shouted for joy. 217 00:11:48.666 --> 00:11:53.729 Who kept the sea inside its boundaries as it burst from the womb? 218 00:11:54.389 --> 00:12:05.755 And as I clothed it with clouds and wrapped it in thick darkness, for I locked it behind barred gates, watch this, limiting its shores. 219 00:12:07.336 --> 00:12:07.817 Think of that. 220 00:12:09.085 --> 00:12:16.358 the vast ocean, and you can go down to Newport or Huntington and stand at the beach right there, and God says, waves, you can go that far. 221 00:12:16.418 --> 00:12:18.682 Great ocean, you can go that far, but you can't go past there. 222 00:12:18.842 --> 00:12:19.403 You stay right there. 223 00:12:20.946 --> 00:12:22.088 We take these things for granted. 224 00:12:22.993 --> 00:12:27.976 Verse 11, and said, thus far and no further will you come. 225 00:12:28.396 --> 00:12:31.138 Here, your proud waves must stop. 226 00:12:31.398 --> 00:12:36.401 Have you ever commanded the morning to appear and cause the dawn to rise in the east? 227 00:12:36.701 --> 00:12:40.743 Have you made daylight spread to the ends of the earth? 228 00:12:41.904 --> 00:12:42.805 Oh, wow. 229 00:12:44.325 --> 00:12:48.288 You guys, this is a book that's over 3,000 years old. 230 00:12:50.289 --> 00:12:51.390 Listen to this science. 231 00:12:51.410 --> 00:12:52.070 Okay. 232 00:12:52.308 --> 00:12:54.731 To bring an end to the night's wickedness? 233 00:12:55.232 --> 00:13:00.698 As the light approaches, the earth takes shape like clay pressed beneath a seal. 234 00:13:01.058 --> 00:13:03.681 It is robed in brilliant colors. 235 00:13:05.147 --> 00:13:09.590 The light disturbs the wicked and stops the arm that is raised in violence. 236 00:13:09.850 --> 00:13:13.132 Have you explored the springs from which the seas come? 237 00:13:13.472 --> 00:13:14.813 Have you explored their depths? 238 00:13:14.933 --> 00:13:17.434 Do you know where the gates of death are located? 239 00:13:17.674 --> 00:13:22.717 Have you seen the gutters of, or the gates of utter gloom? 240 00:13:22.997 --> 00:13:25.459 Do you realize the extent of the earth? 241 00:13:25.619 --> 00:13:27.240 Tell me about it if you know. 242 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:29.481 Verse 19, where does light come from? 243 00:13:31.289 --> 00:13:32.389 And where does darkness go? 244 00:13:33.070 --> 00:13:33.530 Isn't that neat? 245 00:13:33.830 --> 00:13:37.151 Darkness, by the way, never puts an end to light, ever, in any realm. 246 00:13:38.311 --> 00:13:40.952 In all of physics, darkness never puts light out. 247 00:13:42.893 --> 00:13:47.374 That's why you can have, listen, imagine if you had a little candle that was burning darkness, black. 248 00:13:47.434 --> 00:13:48.614 Imagine the flame being black. 249 00:13:49.335 --> 00:13:50.475 It would not quench the light. 250 00:13:51.295 --> 00:13:54.996 But if you have a little candle that's light, it invades the darkness. 251 00:13:56.237 --> 00:13:56.857 That's awesome. 252 00:13:59.920 --> 00:14:02.883 verse 20, can you take each to its home? 253 00:14:03.224 --> 00:14:04.846 Do you know how to get there? 254 00:14:06.468 --> 00:14:07.970 But of course you know all this. 255 00:14:09.775 --> 00:14:14.157 For you were born before it was all created, and you are so very experienced. 256 00:14:14.838 --> 00:14:19.680 Have you visited the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of hail? 257 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:24.842 I have reserved them as weapons for the day of trouble or the time of trouble. 258 00:14:25.323 --> 00:14:27.464 Where is the path to the source of light? 259 00:14:28.184 --> 00:14:30.485 Where is the home of the east wind? 260 00:14:31.086 --> 00:14:34.067 Who created a channel for the torrents of rain? 261 00:14:34.447 --> 00:14:37.829 Who laid out the path for lightning? 262 00:14:38.904 --> 00:14:43.086 Who makes the rain to fall on barren land and in the desert where no one lives? 263 00:14:43.486 --> 00:14:48.508 Who sends rain to satisfy the parched ground and make the tender grass spring up? 264 00:14:48.968 --> 00:14:50.369 Does the rain have a father? 265 00:14:51.249 --> 00:14:52.670 Who gives birth to the dew? 266 00:14:53.610 --> 00:14:55.511 Who is the mother of the ice? 267 00:14:55.791 --> 00:14:58.572 Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens? 268 00:14:59.732 --> 00:15:00.313 Verse 30. 269 00:15:00.753 --> 00:15:06.955 For the water turns to ice as hard as rock and the surface of the water freezes. 270 00:15:07.015 --> 00:15:08.396 God says he does all this stuff. 271 00:15:09.137 --> 00:15:13.620 Final thing with Job, I think, for the rest of the day is Job 40, verses 3 and 4. 272 00:15:13.980 --> 00:15:17.302 Then Job answered the Lord and said, behold, I'm vile. 273 00:15:18.123 --> 00:15:19.164 What shall I answer you? 274 00:15:20.164 --> 00:15:22.866 I lay my head or hand over my mouth. 275 00:15:25.208 --> 00:15:28.690 But God had told him, I'm going to ask you questions and you're going to answer me. 276 00:15:28.710 --> 00:15:30.371 And Job says, I can't do that. 277 00:15:31.732 --> 00:15:32.853 That's an awe of God. 278 00:15:33.987 --> 00:15:38.290 Friends, we need to break out of our cyber world and we need to get to the rim of the Grand Canyon again. 279 00:15:38.330 --> 00:15:39.692 Take a vacation, take a trip. 280 00:15:39.912 --> 00:15:41.393 Climb a mountain, climb a tree. 281 00:15:42.694 --> 00:15:47.618 Go down to the shores of the sea, crack open the book of Job and give God thanks. 282 00:15:47.718 --> 00:15:53.002 You realize that, the respect and the awe of his greatness. 283 00:15:53.502 --> 00:15:58.246 The other thing is this, in being in awe of God, is verses five to six, and that is remembering who we are. 284 00:15:59.027 --> 00:16:00.067 We need to remember it. 285 00:16:00.933 --> 00:16:01.373 Who we are. 286 00:16:01.433 --> 00:16:03.995 The Bible tells us that we are just dust. 287 00:16:04.875 --> 00:16:07.217 Which, by the way, again, figure that one out. 288 00:16:07.837 --> 00:16:13.721 We didn't find out until thousands and thousands of years later, through scientific discovery, that we are dust. 289 00:16:14.802 --> 00:16:16.302 Humans are made out of dust. 290 00:16:17.203 --> 00:16:18.004 Isn't that something? 291 00:16:19.084 --> 00:16:22.806 We're rearranged in that dirt clod that's outside your window at home. 292 00:16:23.687 --> 00:16:24.888 But we're made of the same stuff. 293 00:16:26.223 --> 00:16:28.084 Have you ever noticed, you guys, you ever thought this through? 294 00:16:28.224 --> 00:16:28.604 Get ready. 295 00:16:28.624 --> 00:16:31.825 I told my granddaughter this and she goes, quote, that's deep. 296 00:16:33.425 --> 00:16:34.106 Have you noticed? 297 00:16:34.646 --> 00:16:41.728 Evolutionists will say, look, everything is evolved because when everything is embryonic, it all looks the same. 298 00:16:42.148 --> 00:16:44.449 Have you seen an embryonic dolphin? 299 00:16:45.570 --> 00:16:47.370 Have you seen an embryonic monkey? 300 00:16:47.790 --> 00:16:49.451 Have you seen an embryonic human? 301 00:16:49.811 --> 00:16:51.952 Have you seen an embryonic elephant? 302 00:16:52.852 --> 00:16:53.712 They all look the same. 303 00:16:54.733 --> 00:16:58.795 The evolutionist who says there's no God looks at that and says, we're all the same. 304 00:16:59.896 --> 00:17:01.016 We've all come from the same... 305 00:17:01.517 --> 00:17:02.237 Excuse me. 306 00:17:03.778 --> 00:17:05.259 That doesn't prove your point. 307 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:06.399 It proves my point. 308 00:17:07.360 --> 00:17:09.921 My point is, he's the same architect. 309 00:17:10.202 --> 00:17:11.522 He's the same designer. 310 00:17:11.782 --> 00:17:18.086 He starts out this way, but just because that thing is really little doesn't mean it turns in from an elephant to a human. 311 00:17:19.006 --> 00:17:21.067 It doesn't go from a lizard to me. 312 00:17:22.331 --> 00:17:23.933 It's the signature of God. 313 00:17:26.435 --> 00:17:32.921 In fact, every Ford car that comes out of Ford, they may be different looking cars, but they got the Ford logo. 314 00:17:34.663 --> 00:17:36.985 Listen, God's work has got his fingerprint on it. 315 00:17:37.045 --> 00:17:39.707 It can be a bird or it can be a whale or it can be you. 316 00:17:41.329 --> 00:17:42.971 God's the design architect. 317 00:17:44.052 --> 00:17:45.012 And he brings it forth. 318 00:17:46.594 --> 00:17:47.395 Remember who we are. 319 00:17:49.032 --> 00:17:53.314 We are created in the image of God, but we are fallen creatures, and we need to get back to him. 320 00:17:53.914 --> 00:17:56.096 That's why Jesus came, to bring us back to him. 321 00:17:57.436 --> 00:18:04.160 The Bible says in Proverbs 1, verses 5 and 6, a wise man will hear and increase learning. 322 00:18:04.180 --> 00:18:07.441 I hope you want to learn something new every day. 323 00:18:07.501 --> 00:18:09.582 I hope that describes you. 324 00:18:09.622 --> 00:18:10.843 If not, change that today. 325 00:18:11.643 --> 00:18:12.704 Learn something new every day. 326 00:18:13.744 --> 00:18:16.546 And a man of understanding will attain wise counsel. 327 00:18:17.621 --> 00:18:18.802 Don't listen to your own counsel. 328 00:18:19.182 --> 00:18:31.147 You know when you get together with you, yourself, or me, myself, and I, and we have a meeting, we always wind up concluding that this is what I want to do. 329 00:18:32.848 --> 00:18:38.390 And the majority wins, which is always in my favor. 330 00:18:41.952 --> 00:18:42.652 Watch out for that. 331 00:18:43.659 --> 00:18:45.339 Talk to other godly people. 332 00:18:45.820 --> 00:18:50.061 Of course, the ultimate answer, after you seek counsel, is taking it before the Lord. 333 00:18:51.601 --> 00:18:59.063 That verse 6 goes on to say, to understand a proverb and an enigma, the words of the wise and their riddles. 334 00:18:59.383 --> 00:19:01.503 So how do I become this person? 335 00:19:03.484 --> 00:19:12.966 Regarding the awe of God, that's where we begin, because the wisdom and the knowledge comes from a God, a God who is one who we are awestruck by by. 336 00:19:14.487 --> 00:19:16.607 Your instructions come from your creator. 337 00:19:17.608 --> 00:19:19.428 He knows exactly what to do with your life. 338 00:19:19.668 --> 00:19:20.428 You and I do not. 339 00:19:21.228 --> 00:19:22.529 Father, we praise you. 340 00:19:23.109 --> 00:19:31.150 We give you all the thanks and all the glory and all the appreciation because you and you alone are mighty and wonderful. 341 00:19:32.171 --> 00:19:35.951 Wisdom cries out and says, Lord, have your way. 342 00:19:36.572 --> 00:19:37.852 Thy will be done. 343 00:19:38.792 --> 00:19:42.873 Lord, that we leave this building deeper in love with you than when we came in. 344 00:19:43.892 --> 00:19:52.936 And may those who experience our life, believer or unbeliever, know that we've been with the Most High God. 345 00:19:57.738 --> 00:20:03.120 This Jack Hibbs podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, are listener supported. 346 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:06.562 Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 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