WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.571 --> 00:00:09.135 Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast, with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. 2 00:00:09.436 --> 00:00:15.238 Did you know that right now, the only hindrance to you and I experiencing the wisdom of God, which is not from this world, is you. 3 00:00:15.759 --> 00:00:16.259 It's me. 4 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:18.160 It's us. 5 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:22.502 The God who's eternal is still the God who's eternal. 6 00:00:27.206 --> 00:00:35.949 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. 7 00:00:36.369 --> 00:00:39.430 To us, that's like saying amen or yes. 8 00:00:39.810 --> 00:00:42.251 Then that rating will encourage others to listen. 9 00:00:42.971 --> 00:00:45.872 Now open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you. 10 00:00:46.352 --> 00:00:47.712 Here is Jack Hibbs. 11 00:00:49.453 --> 00:00:50.314 I want to show you this. 12 00:00:50.534 --> 00:00:52.075 This is from Psychology Today. 13 00:00:52.155 --> 00:00:53.115 This is from the article. 14 00:00:53.135 --> 00:00:54.236 You can read it yourself later. 15 00:00:54.356 --> 00:00:59.899 Each day we make hundreds of decisions that all shape our reality, identity, and story. 16 00:01:00.299 --> 00:01:06.102 Too often we are oblivious to the feelings, thoughts, emotions, and sensations that drive our actions. 17 00:01:06.863 --> 00:01:09.044 This is not a Christian publication, I'm telling you. 18 00:01:09.824 --> 00:01:14.847 Mindful decision-making requires pausing and following these ten steps. 19 00:01:15.388 --> 00:01:17.549 I agree with that part. 20 00:01:18.820 --> 00:01:26.666 But let's watch, because listen, friends, the Bible tells us that there's a wisdom of this world that is very, very displeasing to God. 21 00:01:27.226 --> 00:01:29.488 And then there's the wisdom that's given to us from above. 22 00:01:30.108 --> 00:01:35.031 I hope I speak for all of us from here over to here that we want the wisdom of God. 23 00:01:36.352 --> 00:01:37.453 Okay, watch this. 24 00:01:37.613 --> 00:01:40.135 Ten things that author gave us. 25 00:01:40.395 --> 00:01:41.476 So number one is this. 26 00:01:44.702 --> 00:01:47.584 Number one is make time and clear your mind. 27 00:01:48.104 --> 00:01:57.330 So man says, or I wanted to, survey says, make time and clear your mind. 28 00:01:57.831 --> 00:01:58.211 All right. 29 00:01:59.692 --> 00:02:03.214 Bible says, Psalm 27, verse 14, wait on the Lord. 30 00:02:03.895 --> 00:02:06.677 Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart. 31 00:02:06.737 --> 00:02:08.178 Wait, I say on the Lord. 32 00:02:09.298 --> 00:02:09.519 Okay. 33 00:02:09.739 --> 00:02:11.380 So psychology can only take you so far. 34 00:02:13.046 --> 00:02:14.527 Psychology will never mention God. 35 00:02:16.649 --> 00:02:19.031 But psychology knows enough that you need to clear your mind. 36 00:02:19.412 --> 00:02:20.392 You can clear your mind. 37 00:02:20.452 --> 00:02:21.894 Listen, what's inside there? 38 00:02:22.274 --> 00:02:22.594 Nothing. 39 00:02:22.634 --> 00:02:23.375 You can hear crickets. 40 00:02:24.916 --> 00:02:29.941 God says, no, wait on me, and I'm going to strengthen your heart. 41 00:02:30.681 --> 00:02:34.985 Number two, survey says, identify the challenge before you. 42 00:02:35.205 --> 00:02:36.967 Know what you want to achieve. 43 00:02:37.787 --> 00:02:38.128 Hello? 44 00:02:39.647 --> 00:02:44.031 Most of the time, we as humans know we want to achieve based upon what we want. 45 00:02:45.112 --> 00:02:47.814 But how do we know what we want is what God wants? 46 00:02:49.415 --> 00:02:52.237 Bible says, Jeremiah 29, 11. 47 00:02:52.297 --> 00:02:55.420 God says, for I know the thoughts I think toward you, says the Lord. 48 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:59.223 Thoughts of peace, not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 49 00:02:59.283 --> 00:03:01.465 All God's people said amen to that, right? 50 00:03:02.786 --> 00:03:07.730 Survey says, number three, determine goals both short and long term. 51 00:03:08.431 --> 00:03:08.851 Okay, okay. 52 00:03:09.861 --> 00:03:10.701 Nothing wrong with that. 53 00:03:11.542 --> 00:03:12.902 But how are you going to do that without God? 54 00:03:14.183 --> 00:03:18.985 Bible says, Proverbs 3, verses 5 and 6, Trust in the Lord with all your heart. 55 00:03:19.325 --> 00:03:20.766 Lean not to your own understanding. 56 00:03:20.786 --> 00:03:24.507 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths. 57 00:03:24.607 --> 00:03:25.448 That's way better. 58 00:03:26.228 --> 00:03:27.168 That's way better. 59 00:03:28.289 --> 00:03:30.710 Number four, survey says, get smart. 60 00:03:33.311 --> 00:03:35.392 Some of us are old enough to remember get smart. 61 00:03:36.612 --> 00:03:37.833 Who was anything but smart. 62 00:03:41.204 --> 00:03:45.626 Bible says, Proverbs 4, verse 7, Wisdom is the principal thing. 63 00:03:45.666 --> 00:03:46.686 Therefore, get wisdom. 64 00:03:46.966 --> 00:03:49.207 And in all you're getting, get understanding. 65 00:03:50.648 --> 00:03:53.409 Survey says, number five, Acknowledge your biases. 66 00:03:53.729 --> 00:03:54.610 We all have them. 67 00:03:55.410 --> 00:03:55.810 It's true. 68 00:03:56.410 --> 00:03:58.051 That's why I can't trust myself. 69 00:03:59.832 --> 00:04:01.313 I was talking to somebody recently. 70 00:04:01.333 --> 00:04:02.493 I don't remember where. 71 00:04:02.793 --> 00:04:07.355 But I reminded them of something or I told them what I always have to remind myself. 72 00:04:07.695 --> 00:04:08.856 I'm the worst part about me. 73 00:04:09.932 --> 00:04:11.133 I am my greatest danger. 74 00:04:11.813 --> 00:04:13.315 Oh, Satan is going to. 75 00:04:13.475 --> 00:04:15.456 Satan, Satan, sure. 76 00:04:15.916 --> 00:04:17.578 But hey, here's the deal. 77 00:04:19.899 --> 00:04:23.182 I think Satan is saying, let's just let Jack make his own decisions for a while. 78 00:04:23.302 --> 00:04:24.443 This would be great for us. 79 00:04:26.244 --> 00:04:28.265 If I'm thinking on my own, it's a disaster. 80 00:04:29.186 --> 00:04:30.267 Lord, what do you want to do? 81 00:04:32.268 --> 00:04:33.489 So yeah, we have our biases. 82 00:04:33.529 --> 00:04:37.172 Our biases are always self-leaning. 83 00:04:39.727 --> 00:04:42.850 And people say, I disagree with you because I hate myself, Pastor. 84 00:04:44.331 --> 00:04:46.493 I'm not biased. 85 00:04:46.513 --> 00:04:47.173 I hate myself. 86 00:04:48.594 --> 00:04:49.595 I hate myself so much. 87 00:04:50.156 --> 00:04:51.336 I wish I didn't live anymore. 88 00:04:53.098 --> 00:04:53.738 I hate myself. 89 00:04:53.778 --> 00:04:53.999 Why? 90 00:04:54.119 --> 00:04:55.019 I'm so ugly. 91 00:04:57.261 --> 00:04:58.162 I don't have any money. 92 00:04:59.183 --> 00:05:02.846 If you hate yourself for these reasons, you should be happy about it. 93 00:05:03.807 --> 00:05:06.890 If you hate yourself for these reasons, think about it. 94 00:05:06.910 --> 00:05:11.493 If you hate yourself, that means you're saying about yourself, I deserve nothing good, nothing right. 95 00:05:11.613 --> 00:05:17.578 I should be ugly, mean, and gross because I hate myself. 96 00:05:17.598 --> 00:05:19.039 It's a dog chasing the tail. 97 00:05:20.881 --> 00:05:24.944 Stop with your bias and realize this. 98 00:05:25.625 --> 00:05:28.787 Even while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 99 00:05:29.988 --> 00:05:32.931 Listen, before you ever knew him, he knew you. 100 00:05:34.668 --> 00:05:35.831 Before you were ever born. 101 00:05:37.776 --> 00:05:38.879 He knew all about you. 102 00:05:40.243 --> 00:05:41.205 And he loves you anyway. 103 00:05:42.437 --> 00:05:48.358 Spurgeon said, the great Charles Spurgeon said, I'm so glad that God called me into his family before I was ever born. 104 00:05:49.078 --> 00:05:51.099 Because he wouldn't have called me after I was born. 105 00:05:51.699 --> 00:05:55.220 Of course he was joking because that's not biblical theology, but it was cute. 106 00:05:55.900 --> 00:06:00.581 Matthew 6, 32 and 33 says, These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers. 107 00:06:00.961 --> 00:06:04.321 But your heavenly father already knows all your needs. 108 00:06:04.782 --> 00:06:08.842 Seek the kingdom of God above all else and live righteously. 109 00:06:08.902 --> 00:06:11.683 That simply means do the right thing. 110 00:06:12.163 --> 00:06:14.605 and he will give you everything you need. 111 00:06:18.188 --> 00:06:21.470 Survey says, number six, take stock of your values. 112 00:06:22.491 --> 00:06:27.995 All right, that's nice, but your values differ than my values, but God's values never change. 113 00:06:29.712 --> 00:06:36.738 Galatians 5 verse 16 starts by saying, I say then walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 114 00:06:37.598 --> 00:06:40.921 For the flesh lusts against the spirit, the spirit against the flesh. 115 00:06:41.241 --> 00:06:42.983 And these are contrary to one another. 116 00:06:43.723 --> 00:06:45.164 Lord, I want to walk in the spirit. 117 00:06:46.445 --> 00:06:47.886 My values, I don't trust them. 118 00:06:48.287 --> 00:06:49.448 My values can change. 119 00:06:49.828 --> 00:06:50.729 God never changes. 120 00:06:50.989 --> 00:06:52.930 He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. 121 00:06:54.432 --> 00:06:56.874 Survey says, number seven, explore your options. 122 00:06:56.894 --> 00:06:56.994 Okay? 123 00:06:58.031 --> 00:06:58.831 Now that's a great thing. 124 00:06:58.851 --> 00:06:59.711 That's great counsel. 125 00:06:59.771 --> 00:07:00.792 Explore your options. 126 00:07:00.812 --> 00:07:01.372 That's good. 127 00:07:02.952 --> 00:07:06.473 But listen, again, without godly guidance, it could be a disaster. 128 00:07:06.513 --> 00:07:10.053 What if all your options are very, very limited? 129 00:07:13.154 --> 00:07:21.296 Bible says in Psalm 27, for one thing have I desired, that will I seek, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. 130 00:07:21.576 --> 00:07:22.436 Here it is. 131 00:07:22.476 --> 00:07:23.376 This is the awe of God. 132 00:07:23.636 --> 00:07:26.817 To behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. 133 00:07:29.317 --> 00:07:30.017 Here's what happens. 134 00:07:31.358 --> 00:07:36.961 When the world says, well, you've got options on this, and the Christian drives the world nuts because the Christian goes like this. 135 00:07:37.421 --> 00:07:38.762 Thank you very much for that information. 136 00:07:38.802 --> 00:07:39.642 Those are my options? 137 00:07:39.902 --> 00:07:40.883 Yes, those are your options. 138 00:07:41.343 --> 00:07:42.504 I tell you what, I'll get back to you tomorrow. 139 00:07:42.524 --> 00:07:43.244 I'm going to pray about it. 140 00:07:46.506 --> 00:07:54.770 I remember being very, very young, about 22 years old, and I was offered a job that was way beyond me, 141 00:07:56.179 --> 00:07:58.600 But I was offered a job by a global corporation. 142 00:07:58.620 --> 00:07:59.320 It was amazing. 143 00:07:59.340 --> 00:08:02.521 100 or 200,000 employees. 144 00:08:05.001 --> 00:08:07.562 But they said, you're the right man for this job. 145 00:08:07.622 --> 00:08:08.782 I didn't believe so. 146 00:08:08.882 --> 00:08:09.603 I didn't think so. 147 00:08:10.223 --> 00:08:14.424 But all these other people were applying for the job and all these people were being interviewed. 148 00:08:15.244 --> 00:08:17.525 The series of interviews would have killed most people. 149 00:08:17.925 --> 00:08:21.026 The only reason why I survived it is because I didn't think they were going to hire me. 150 00:08:21.046 --> 00:08:22.306 So I didn't take it seriously. 151 00:08:23.046 --> 00:08:31.028 In fact, at the end, six hours of total interviews, at the end, I said, and his name was Mark. 152 00:08:31.068 --> 00:08:32.908 He said, okay, and so that's it. 153 00:08:33.548 --> 00:08:34.609 And I said, that's it. 154 00:08:34.649 --> 00:08:35.529 So are we all done? 155 00:08:36.249 --> 00:08:36.789 Yeah, we're done. 156 00:08:36.949 --> 00:08:42.930 And I said, okay, well, here's actually the reason why we've been having these interviews. 157 00:08:42.950 --> 00:08:45.191 It has nothing to do with this job. 158 00:08:48.352 --> 00:08:50.252 Because I'm not qualified for this job. 159 00:08:52.312 --> 00:08:55.415 It must be because God wants me to tell you about his son, Jesus Christ. 160 00:08:55.575 --> 00:08:57.417 And I told him up one side down the other. 161 00:08:57.437 --> 00:08:59.139 That guy sat there and then his response was this. 162 00:08:59.560 --> 00:09:00.300 I used to go to church. 163 00:09:01.602 --> 00:09:02.323 I don't go anymore. 164 00:09:03.944 --> 00:09:04.585 I got hired. 165 00:09:06.507 --> 00:09:07.128 I got hired. 166 00:09:07.188 --> 00:09:08.389 I was there 13 years. 167 00:09:08.429 --> 00:09:09.430 We became friends. 168 00:09:10.191 --> 00:09:11.752 And he wound up accepting Christ. 169 00:09:11.813 --> 00:09:12.994 And he's been walking with Jesus. 170 00:09:18.552 --> 00:09:19.493 And so here's your option. 171 00:09:19.533 --> 00:09:22.035 And so listen, I've looked at the punchline. 172 00:09:22.295 --> 00:09:23.176 The punchline was this. 173 00:09:23.416 --> 00:09:24.256 He said, you're hired. 174 00:09:24.296 --> 00:09:27.599 And I said, I'm going to pray about it with my wife, Lisa. 175 00:09:27.739 --> 00:09:27.999 What? 176 00:09:30.241 --> 00:09:31.362 So then they called the next day. 177 00:09:32.202 --> 00:09:32.463 Mr. 178 00:09:32.503 --> 00:09:32.763 Hubs. 179 00:09:32.943 --> 00:09:34.404 That's how nice of the place it was. 180 00:09:34.904 --> 00:09:35.165 Mr. 181 00:09:35.225 --> 00:09:35.445 Hubs. 182 00:09:41.820 --> 00:09:43.841 Mr. Mallinckrodt has made his decision. 183 00:09:43.881 --> 00:09:46.942 He'd like you to make your decision. 184 00:09:47.102 --> 00:09:48.743 And I said, we're still praying about it. 185 00:09:50.183 --> 00:09:51.704 There are people in line to get this job. 186 00:09:52.484 --> 00:09:53.745 I knew I wasn't supposed to have it. 187 00:09:55.005 --> 00:09:56.426 Then it became super obvious. 188 00:09:57.906 --> 00:10:04.369 I got to trust God because all these other people that are super qualified and I'm not, they want me to take this position. 189 00:10:04.389 --> 00:10:05.249 I took the position. 190 00:10:06.468 --> 00:10:08.710 The rest of that, I'll tell you some other day, it was insane. 191 00:10:08.730 --> 00:10:10.251 For 13 years, it was amazing. 192 00:10:10.872 --> 00:10:11.372 I cried. 193 00:10:11.392 --> 00:10:12.793 The day that I left, I left. 194 00:10:12.894 --> 00:10:21.401 The day that I resigned, I cried all the way home because it was such an amazing ministry because what happened here was this church was growing and I couldn't do both jobs. 195 00:10:21.441 --> 00:10:22.182 It was killing me. 196 00:10:23.443 --> 00:10:24.403 What's your options? 197 00:10:26.986 --> 00:10:28.187 I'm not into options anymore. 198 00:10:28.207 --> 00:10:28.307 What? 199 00:10:29.998 --> 00:10:34.163 God, I am going to stand here and you show me what to do. 200 00:10:34.683 --> 00:10:37.066 Be still and know that I am God, the Bible says. 201 00:10:37.466 --> 00:10:38.307 Wait upon him. 202 00:10:38.687 --> 00:10:39.969 You'll never be put to shame. 203 00:10:42.151 --> 00:10:45.695 Survey says, number eight, consider the consequences of each action. 204 00:10:46.496 --> 00:10:46.896 That's good. 205 00:10:47.457 --> 00:10:47.817 Psalm 39. 206 00:10:49.996 --> 00:10:53.079 139 verse 23 says, search me, O God, and know my heart. 207 00:10:53.139 --> 00:11:00.526 Try me and know my anxieties and see if there's any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. 208 00:11:00.847 --> 00:11:01.407 Wow. 209 00:11:05.031 --> 00:11:08.274 Number nine is make your decisions and commit to taking action, they said. 210 00:11:10.329 --> 00:11:14.312 Psalm 32 verse 8 says, I will instruct you and teach you in the way that you should go. 211 00:11:14.653 --> 00:11:16.794 I will guide you with my eye. 212 00:11:17.535 --> 00:11:18.256 God says that. 213 00:11:18.776 --> 00:11:20.638 I want to be led by the Lord that way. 214 00:11:22.259 --> 00:11:27.123 Number 10 says, check in over time, if appropriate. 215 00:11:28.084 --> 00:11:30.185 I'm so glad we don't have to do that as believers. 216 00:11:31.226 --> 00:11:33.088 Excuse me, God, I'll check in with you in a few weeks. 217 00:11:33.108 --> 00:11:33.308 Okay. 218 00:11:36.634 --> 00:11:40.755 The Bible says in 1 Thessalonians 1.17, please get this, everybody. 219 00:11:41.216 --> 00:11:42.136 Pray without ceasing. 220 00:11:42.156 --> 00:11:43.336 You know what that means? 221 00:11:44.117 --> 00:11:45.037 So how am I going to go to work? 222 00:11:45.057 --> 00:11:47.298 How am I going to eat if I'm just praying all the time? 223 00:11:47.538 --> 00:11:48.338 That's not what it means. 224 00:11:49.418 --> 00:11:51.779 It means you live your life. 225 00:11:51.819 --> 00:12:03.103 Think about your dish, like your radar, your TV thing, or a television station, or SpaceX, or SpaceX. 226 00:12:05.102 --> 00:12:06.803 Think about your head having a dish on it. 227 00:12:11.787 --> 00:12:14.209 In contact with God, constantly talking. 228 00:12:14.469 --> 00:12:14.910 Where are you? 229 00:12:15.010 --> 00:12:15.490 I'm at work. 230 00:12:15.730 --> 00:12:16.171 Where are you? 231 00:12:16.251 --> 00:12:16.731 At the beach. 232 00:12:16.971 --> 00:12:17.412 Where are you? 233 00:12:17.532 --> 00:12:17.832 Eating. 234 00:12:18.132 --> 00:12:18.633 Where are you? 235 00:12:19.653 --> 00:12:20.154 Goofing off. 236 00:12:20.354 --> 00:12:20.934 Where are you? 237 00:12:23.336 --> 00:12:24.257 Always talking to him. 238 00:12:25.338 --> 00:12:26.739 I've told you before, I'm going to say it again. 239 00:12:27.560 --> 00:12:32.343 In a way, life, for the believer, there should not be an amen. 240 00:12:32.363 --> 00:12:32.464 Amen. 241 00:12:33.448 --> 00:12:34.849 Until we're all done. 242 00:12:35.690 --> 00:12:36.631 I mean done with life. 243 00:12:37.512 --> 00:12:39.093 Our whole life when we breathe. 244 00:12:39.213 --> 00:12:40.515 Look, I guarantee you this. 245 00:12:40.655 --> 00:12:43.958 You are going to breathe your entire life until you die. 246 00:12:47.401 --> 00:12:50.223 At the end of your breathing, that's the amen. 247 00:12:50.344 --> 00:12:51.364 That's the amen to God. 248 00:12:52.185 --> 00:12:52.405 Why? 249 00:12:52.526 --> 00:12:56.749 Because in the meantime, we are in a constant state of communication with God at all times. 250 00:12:58.271 --> 00:12:59.192 Verse 7 tells us, 251 00:13:00.405 --> 00:13:04.728 Being in awe of God, getting God right by knowing who we can become. 252 00:13:06.069 --> 00:13:09.371 Verse 7, as it is in verse 15, it's one of those theme verses. 253 00:13:10.351 --> 00:13:17.476 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 254 00:13:18.557 --> 00:13:24.901 Listen to Albert Barnes, the wonderful pastor, theologian, Albert Barnes of early America. 255 00:13:25.441 --> 00:13:29.804 In biblical theology, God-ordained wisdom is evidence of true religion. 256 00:13:30.726 --> 00:13:31.827 Think about that for a moment. 257 00:13:32.127 --> 00:13:47.074 People who know God walk in levels of wisdom, ever increasing, by the way, just as godliness, piety, the knowledge of God and the fear of God and the sincere and uniform obedience to God will be seen by all. 258 00:13:47.434 --> 00:13:49.955 This is the wisdom of God, which is from above. 259 00:13:50.155 --> 00:13:50.695 Albert Barnes. 260 00:13:50.715 --> 00:13:51.376 Isn't that beautiful? 261 00:13:52.176 --> 00:13:53.977 You'll detect that in people's lives. 262 00:13:55.282 --> 00:14:05.645 And well did Barnes speak, because in light of the words of the Apostle James, listen to what James says, James chapter 3, verse 13. Who is wise in understanding among you? 263 00:14:06.206 --> 00:14:10.407 Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. 264 00:14:11.967 --> 00:14:19.270 But if you have bitter, listen up everybody, if you have bitter envy, I know people like this, 265 00:14:20.777 --> 00:14:21.698 You know people like this. 266 00:14:21.718 --> 00:14:26.161 You can't stand to be around them because when you're around them, you feel like you need to go take a shower. 267 00:14:28.882 --> 00:14:31.884 They're really hard to be around because they're filled with envy. 268 00:14:32.885 --> 00:14:39.890 They can't stand that someone else got the promotion and they're bitter about it. 269 00:14:41.371 --> 00:14:46.494 Or they hear somebody being blessed by God and they just grind their teeth. 270 00:14:49.552 --> 00:14:51.274 That's a wicked heart. 271 00:14:52.917 --> 00:14:53.077 Ugh. 272 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:57.543 They have bitter envy, self-seeking in your hearts. 273 00:14:57.983 --> 00:15:00.226 Do not boast and lie against the truth. 274 00:15:00.246 --> 00:15:04.752 This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. 275 00:15:04.772 --> 00:15:04.852 Ugh. 276 00:15:05.901 --> 00:15:10.905 And where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. 277 00:15:11.746 --> 00:15:24.556 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy, good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 278 00:15:25.536 --> 00:15:27.196 Wow, God make me like that. 279 00:15:27.557 --> 00:15:29.757 Church, listen, we all need to grow in wisdom. 280 00:15:30.097 --> 00:15:33.698 Lord, we're asking you right now that you'd give us that kind of wisdom. 281 00:15:34.378 --> 00:15:35.479 The wisdom from above. 282 00:15:35.959 --> 00:15:36.779 That's what we need. 283 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:39.099 I want to show you these things. 284 00:15:39.540 --> 00:15:41.000 Worldly wisdom sounds like this. 285 00:15:42.540 --> 00:15:43.561 Look out for number. 286 00:15:45.761 --> 00:15:47.242 Absence makes the heart grow. 287 00:15:48.902 --> 00:15:50.922 You don't sound too enthusiastic about these things. 288 00:15:51.883 --> 00:15:52.803 You only live... 289 00:15:55.095 --> 00:16:01.944 If you can't beat them, he who dies with the most toys, he had it. 290 00:16:03.466 --> 00:16:04.628 A woman's work is never done. 291 00:16:06.290 --> 00:16:08.493 If you can't always get what you want. 292 00:16:10.035 --> 00:16:11.397 And I never heard this from her before. 293 00:16:12.321 --> 00:16:13.261 Have you heard this one before? 294 00:16:13.881 --> 00:16:15.482 A golden key can open any door. 295 00:16:16.322 --> 00:16:16.942 I've never heard this. 296 00:16:16.962 --> 00:16:17.942 Have you heard this one before? 297 00:16:17.982 --> 00:16:18.523 Raise your hand. 298 00:16:19.223 --> 00:16:20.243 That guy has. 299 00:16:20.283 --> 00:16:20.703 Those two. 300 00:16:20.743 --> 00:16:21.583 Well read right there. 301 00:16:21.883 --> 00:16:24.444 I've never heard that. 302 00:16:24.484 --> 00:16:25.504 I don't know anything about that. 303 00:16:25.844 --> 00:16:26.845 That's what the world says. 304 00:16:27.565 --> 00:16:29.485 Hey, buddy, get all the gusto you can, man. 305 00:16:29.745 --> 00:16:30.686 You only live once. 306 00:16:31.086 --> 00:16:32.766 He who dies with the most toys wins. 307 00:16:33.606 --> 00:16:34.187 Wins what? 308 00:16:34.207 --> 00:16:38.548 Wins what? 309 00:16:38.568 --> 00:16:39.608 And all of these things, 310 00:16:41.524 --> 00:16:42.825 Wisdom matters. 311 00:16:43.085 --> 00:16:43.485 Wisdom. 312 00:16:45.647 --> 00:16:46.928 We're in the 21st century. 313 00:16:47.488 --> 00:16:49.049 You know that doesn't rattle God. 314 00:16:50.510 --> 00:16:58.155 Did you know that right now, the only hindrance to you and I experiencing the wisdom of God, which is not from this world, is you, is me. 315 00:16:59.736 --> 00:17:00.116 It's us. 316 00:17:01.457 --> 00:17:04.539 The God who's eternal is still the God who's eternal. 317 00:17:07.001 --> 00:17:07.801 We are his children. 318 00:17:07.821 --> 00:17:08.422 Listen, listen, 319 00:17:09.966 --> 00:17:12.928 By an ancient theology, how are you saved? 320 00:17:14.408 --> 00:17:20.592 Christ went to the cross and died in our place because we owe God a payment. 321 00:17:22.053 --> 00:17:23.153 You say, what payment? 322 00:17:23.413 --> 00:17:24.274 Adam and Eve sinned. 323 00:17:24.534 --> 00:17:25.475 I didn't even know them. 324 00:17:27.216 --> 00:17:31.338 Of course, we've not met them, but their DNA is inside of us. 325 00:17:34.218 --> 00:17:36.821 They sinned then, and it's written in the Bible. 326 00:17:37.461 --> 00:17:37.802 Yikes. 327 00:17:38.582 --> 00:17:40.244 You and I sin just like them. 328 00:17:46.190 --> 00:17:51.895 When the world knocks on the door and offers us this, that, or the other, do we seek our own counsel? 329 00:17:52.275 --> 00:17:53.216 That's what Eve did, you know. 330 00:17:53.717 --> 00:17:55.278 She might have stepped back. 331 00:17:55.759 --> 00:17:57.701 I don't know why I put my hands in my pockets. 332 00:17:57.721 --> 00:17:58.682 She didn't have any pockets. 333 00:18:02.909 --> 00:18:06.010 She might have stepped back, and she's very amazing. 334 00:18:06.070 --> 00:18:08.430 She's talking to the serpent, and she has no problem. 335 00:18:08.450 --> 00:18:10.251 She didn't say, yikes, a talking snake. 336 00:18:10.551 --> 00:18:11.191 This is weird. 337 00:18:12.051 --> 00:18:12.991 She's talking to the snake. 338 00:18:13.811 --> 00:18:15.432 By the way, the snake stood up in those days. 339 00:18:15.652 --> 00:18:16.252 That's weird. 340 00:18:17.352 --> 00:18:18.012 That's creepy. 341 00:18:19.333 --> 00:18:21.913 How did it walk like that? 342 00:18:21.933 --> 00:18:22.913 Like a pencil walking. 343 00:18:31.934 --> 00:18:33.255 And so the snake talks to her. 344 00:18:33.755 --> 00:18:39.940 I don't think the snake, when it spoke to her, remember, it's Satan speaking through the snake. 345 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:41.241 He like possesses the snake. 346 00:18:43.343 --> 00:18:44.504 Satan enters the snake. 347 00:18:45.244 --> 00:18:46.946 And the snake says, hey, Eve, what's up? 348 00:18:47.026 --> 00:18:47.266 Yo. 349 00:18:49.007 --> 00:18:49.668 She goes, yo. 350 00:18:50.248 --> 00:18:50.749 Hi, snake. 351 00:18:53.311 --> 00:18:55.132 Have you considered the tree over there? 352 00:18:56.613 --> 00:18:57.874 She didn't think anything was wrong. 353 00:18:59.776 --> 00:19:00.937 And the snake says, you ought to... 354 00:19:02.182 --> 00:19:03.423 You ought to go over there and get that fruit. 355 00:19:03.483 --> 00:19:04.844 Well, God said not to have that fruit. 356 00:19:04.864 --> 00:19:06.305 The day that we eat of it, we're going to die. 357 00:19:06.725 --> 00:19:09.567 And the snake says, you shall not surely die. 358 00:19:09.927 --> 00:19:10.528 Translation. 359 00:19:11.728 --> 00:19:12.389 Has God said it? 360 00:19:15.171 --> 00:19:15.431 Really? 361 00:19:15.451 --> 00:19:17.092 Maybe you ought to exercise your options, girl. 362 00:19:20.137 --> 00:19:22.718 You ought to think about yourself more often because here's the thing. 363 00:19:22.898 --> 00:19:25.019 If you do that, you're going to see that it's really good. 364 00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:26.120 It tastes fantastic. 365 00:19:26.800 --> 00:19:32.322 And it's going to provide for you a lot of self-assurance and pride. 366 00:19:33.203 --> 00:19:35.104 And it's going to make you wise. 367 00:19:36.264 --> 00:19:36.924 Isn't it interesting? 368 00:19:36.944 --> 00:19:38.625 That was one of Satan's lines to her. 369 00:19:40.946 --> 00:19:44.248 If you do this, you're going to be three times blessed. 370 00:19:45.568 --> 00:19:46.869 Most important, you're going to be wise. 371 00:19:49.043 --> 00:19:53.965 The Bible says when she heard that and then looked at the tree, she concluded, I'm going to do it. 372 00:19:54.885 --> 00:19:55.905 That's where she sinned. 373 00:19:56.666 --> 00:20:00.607 All those who are able to worship have options. 374 00:20:01.687 --> 00:20:02.187 You know that. 375 00:20:03.128 --> 00:20:06.409 Angels and humans have the option to worship God or not. 376 00:20:07.389 --> 00:20:09.970 You can't have real worship without real choice. 377 00:20:11.251 --> 00:20:13.791 You can't have real love without real choice. 378 00:20:15.432 --> 00:20:18.233 That's why God says today, choose today whom you'll serve. 379 00:20:19.883 --> 00:20:26.785 And so I choose today to give my life to you and to live for you because I'm done living for myself. 380 00:20:31.946 --> 00:20:37.308 This Jack Hibbs podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, are listener supported. 381 00:20:37.888 --> 00:20:40.769 Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 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