WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.840 Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:11.120 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Everybody, it's one of those 3 00:00:11.120 --> 00:00:16.400 moments where we're going to do, ask me anything, questions, so get ready, and we'll 4 00:00:16.400 --> 00:00:20.920 dive into some very cool questions that have come to us. 5 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:28.840 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to JackHibbs.com slash 6 00:00:28.840 --> 00:00:34.200 podcast. Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a 7 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:38.000 more fulfilled life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five 8 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:43.760 star ratings. To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will 9 00:00:43.760 --> 00:00:48.680 encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to 10 00:00:48.680 --> 00:00:56.840 you. Here is Jack Hibbs. Hey everybody, thank you. Just a few hours ago, I asked if 11 00:00:57.400 --> 00:01:03.320 you guys would help me out personally because when I show up to do a podcast, I'm like a lamb 12 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:11.160 to the slaughter. I show up and everything is set up. And then many of the gatherings, 13 00:01:11.160 --> 00:01:15.880 podcasts or whatever it might be, they throw the topic at me with about a two-minute warning. 14 00:01:16.520 --> 00:01:22.040 And so I thought I would, I thought I would team up with you to kind of throw 15 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:28.680 them a curveball. And so I asked you guys on Facebook if you would send me a topic and we, 16 00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:34.440 we got, how many topics, zillions of topics, hundreds of topics. So we don't have time to 17 00:01:34.440 --> 00:01:39.480 answer hundreds of topics, but we'll do three right now. And I want to say that we're going to 18 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:47.960 be talking right now regarding what Evelyn, what Evelyn has written. And Evelyn has written 19 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:59.160 this regarding prayer. In fact, she cites Proverbs 28 verse 9 and she talks about that when a man 20 00:01:59.160 --> 00:02:08.120 is not right with God, even his prayer is an abomination unto the Lord and can, can, can our prayer 21 00:02:08.920 --> 00:02:17.240 make God sick? Sick to a stomach, that is, nauseous, repulsed. The answer is absolutely yes, Evelyn. 22 00:02:18.200 --> 00:02:23.880 When we're not right with God, he doesn't want to hear from us. When our children are not right with 23 00:02:23.880 --> 00:02:29.480 us, they've done something and they're in the penalty box, we don't talk to them and they don't 24 00:02:29.480 --> 00:02:33.480 talk to us. They have to go to the room, they have to sit and think about what they did wrong. 25 00:02:34.440 --> 00:02:41.160 Then they come out and face the judgment of what they've done. God deals with the exact same way. 26 00:02:41.720 --> 00:02:50.280 Now listen, when believers pray, then the Lord hears us as we walk with him in the light. Read 27 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:57.400 1 John. Read 1 John chapter 1 because there, the Bible tells us that if we walk in the light, 28 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:01.400 as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another in the blood of Jesus Christ, his son 29 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:06.680 cleanses us from all sin. If we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us of our sins 30 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:13.240 and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. The key is to walk with Christ. Does God forgive people 31 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:21.160 who are not walking with Christ? Answer absolutely not. Question, does God hear the prayer of an 32 00:03:21.160 --> 00:03:28.520 unbeliever? The answer, only one prayer will God hear from an unbeliever, only one. He will never 33 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:36.680 answer a prayer according to his Bible of an unbeliever. Except one, and that one prayer is the 34 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:42.840 prayer of repentance, the prayer of faith come into Christ. This is just pure fact, hardcore, 35 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:49.480 core theological fact. God does not listen to the prayers of the wicked. By the way, God also says, 36 00:03:49.480 --> 00:03:55.560 don't repeat to me your prayers. Stop repeating prayers like the heathen do. I don't want to hear it. 37 00:03:56.280 --> 00:04:04.440 And then he also warns, don't pray so long. The unrighteous pray so long thinking for 38 00:04:04.440 --> 00:04:10.360 there are many words they will be heard. Jesus said, nope. In fact, the Old Testament says, when you 39 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:21.640 come before the Lord in prayer, let your prayer be to him efficient. Not much in word be exact. 40 00:04:21.960 --> 00:04:28.120 So listen, Evelyn, yes, our prayers can be an abomination to God when we're not walking with him in 41 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:36.440 the spirit as believers. Keep this in mind. And Matthew chapter 6, Jesus says, if you don't forgive 42 00:04:36.440 --> 00:04:41.160 others, your Heavenly Father will not forgive you. Does that mean if you're having a hard time 43 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:47.480 forgiving somebody that you're going to go to hell, even if you're born again? Some people 44 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:54.600 teach that, you know? That's not what it means. Number one, if you are a believer, we are called 45 00:04:54.600 --> 00:05:00.200 to forgive our enemies. Sometimes it takes us a lifetime to forgive our enemies, depends upon 46 00:05:00.200 --> 00:05:06.200 the depth and the gravity of the pain inflicted. It's hard. We have to work at it. We have to ask 47 00:05:06.200 --> 00:05:13.720 God to help us. But listen, when Christ has forgiven you and I so much, if we withhold forgiving 48 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:17.640 forgiveness to somebody else who's done so little to us compared to what we've done to God, 49 00:05:18.200 --> 00:05:23.480 God says, I'm not going to be talking to you. You're our fellowships broken right now. That 50 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:28.760 that's sin that you just did. Husband, Christian husband, Christian wife, and you're 51 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:34.680 tearing each other up and you don't ask for forgiveness. God says, I'm not talking to either one of you. 52 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:39.960 It doesn't mean you're aborted from the kingdom of God's family. It means he's not listening 53 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:46.440 to you anymore. So what basis do you say that, Pastor Jack? I knew you would ask. So it's Isaiah 59. 54 00:05:47.080 --> 00:05:56.120 Isaiah 59 verses 1 and 2 says, My hands not short that it cannot save you. Neither is my ear deaf 55 00:05:56.120 --> 00:06:04.280 that I cannot hear you. But your sins have separated you from me so that when you pray, I will not 56 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:11.400 listen and when you're in trouble, I will not rescue you. God is saying keep a short account. 57 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:23.160 Forgive people. Walk before me and be my child. Those who are not his children, 58 00:06:23.960 --> 00:06:31.240 their prayers are an abomination to God. Next one, Maryland writes, and I'm wondering, 59 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:34.920 is it Maryland? Is that your name Maryland? Or are you from Maryland? I don't know, but you're 60 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:41.640 Maryland anyway. And so you said that you've been blessed by a lot, hundreds and hundreds of people's 61 00:06:41.640 --> 00:06:50.120 testimonies regarding their near death experience. What do I think about that? Number one, do you know 62 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:58.680 these people? Did they write? Did they write it? Is it video? How do you know them? Number two, 63 00:06:59.400 --> 00:07:06.600 how do you know it's not chat GPT speaking? How do you know it's an actual real thing? Could it be 64 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:19.960 some sort of a fictional thing? Let me answer you more specifically is what is it that interest you 65 00:07:19.960 --> 00:07:25.720 about people's near death experience? Why are you interested in that? Because if you want to 66 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:30.360 read about someone's near death experience, why why miss around with a near death experience 67 00:07:31.080 --> 00:07:36.920 when you can read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and find out about an absolute total death experience 68 00:07:37.960 --> 00:07:49.720 and being resurrected from the dead experience. Here's the reason why. Dreams or visions that even happen 69 00:07:49.720 --> 00:08:00.680 while under anesthesia, the doctors say you are flatlined. No, this you're not dead until God 70 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:08.280 calls your spirit out of your body. In fact, when your spirit leaves your body, that's when you're 71 00:08:08.280 --> 00:08:14.120 really dead. You and I have visited people who are on life support and the families talking to 72 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:20.680 them and they're, you know, holding their hand and stuff. And the doctors almost always say, 73 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:28.360 are you Pastor Jack? Yeah. Okay. Look, can I lean on you, Pastor? Can you go in there and tell them 74 00:08:29.080 --> 00:08:36.280 that their daughter is not here? She's on life support. She's probably been dead for a couple of days. 75 00:08:36.920 --> 00:08:45.640 Yes. Can you break that news to them? Yes, sir. Yes, ma'am. What happens? Speak to them, 76 00:08:45.640 --> 00:08:50.280 can't go through it right now. It's too long. But they pull the plug and what happens? Everything 77 00:08:50.280 --> 00:08:55.640 stops. They left that body a long time ago. When the spirit leaves the body, the body's dead. 78 00:08:57.160 --> 00:09:01.560 But when people write things like this, watch this, Marilyn, this is important. When somebody 79 00:09:01.560 --> 00:09:14.120 says, I saw Uncle Bob in heaven and he had wings. The humans in heaven, according to the Bible, 80 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:24.680 never have wings. Humans don't get wings. So what's going on? Or somebody says, I saw this and I 81 00:09:24.680 --> 00:09:31.880 saw that. I find it interesting that the near death or after life come back to life experiences 82 00:09:31.880 --> 00:09:39.880 that I have read, many times they contradict each other. And always Jesus is no big deal. 83 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:48.200 Jesus is either there or he's not there. I've heard a lot of people say, I had a near death 84 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:56.360 experience or I died on the operating table. And I'm not afraid to die anymore. Well, that's great. 85 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:07.640 Did you meet Jesus? Oh, no. No, not at all. No, I had this very, very esoteric out-of-body thing. 86 00:10:07.640 --> 00:10:13.720 It was very cool. And I don't need Jesus. I don't need Buddha. I don't need Hinduism. I don't 87 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:21.800 need nothing. I'm good. My goodness, that is a deceiving spirit and a doctrine of a demon. 88 00:10:22.680 --> 00:10:30.200 Because the Bible is the authoritative book on life and death. And what you always want to do is 89 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:37.320 compare that experience to scripture. I actually do not read anymore books or articles written by 90 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:42.600 people who had an out-of-body experience. I would recommend to you though, if you're really 91 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:47.800 interested in this, you should get the book by Randy Alcorn called Heaven. Heaven, by Randy 92 00:10:47.800 --> 00:10:54.840 Alcorn, and studied the theology of heaven. But I'll leave you with this, Marilyn, is that in 93 00:10:54.840 --> 00:11:02.040 2 Corinthians 12, Paul the Apostle is speaking about himself. He was stone to death, and he dies, 94 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:08.760 and he saw heaven, and God allowed him, clearly, to come back into his own body. And what did Paul 95 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:17.800 say? Paul said, things were seen and experience was experienced that it is unlawful for me to speak of. 96 00:11:17.800 --> 00:11:24.200 I will not speak of it because there's no earthly words to describe. That's the closest we can 97 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:30.360 get to a man bringing us a report, a human man bringing us a report as to what he saw in heaven. 98 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:38.600 I would not believe anyone's message or story, no matter who they are, that they had an out-of-body 99 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:45.640 near-death experience without comparing it to the Bible. It's got to be spot on with scripture, 100 00:11:46.520 --> 00:11:50.760 or you're going to be led astray. And then finally, you guys, you're run out of time, I think, 101 00:11:52.440 --> 00:12:01.080 countdown. We have some time maybe here. He's bow. Bow wrote, sent to some message on Facebook, 102 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:06.600 sent me a message. Bow sent it to me, Marilyn sent it to me, Evelyn sent it to me, and not our 103 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:11.640 team because we're doing a little trick-or-rue right now and answering these from you directly. 104 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:18.360 And that is this. Regarding the confession of sins, James chapter 5 tells us that 105 00:12:19.800 --> 00:12:24.840 we can confess our sins to one another. If we confess our sins, there's healing, 106 00:12:26.920 --> 00:12:32.440 that the prayer of a righteous man availeth much, that the elder should have known with oil. 107 00:12:32.520 --> 00:12:39.000 Yes, yes, yes, yes. But listen, we want to be careful because you are asking bow 108 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:45.080 regarding the confession of sins to people. When we confess our sins to others, we get healing. 109 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:51.480 Listen, bow, please don't misunderstand that. When the scripture says we should confess our 110 00:12:51.480 --> 00:13:01.320 sins one to another, number one, the scripture requires regarding confession that the confession 111 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:10.680 should be made within the circle of the sin. So if five people know about a sin that you committed, 112 00:13:10.680 --> 00:13:16.040 you should confess to those five people, not a sixth person, not a seventh, eighth, tenth, or 113 00:13:16.040 --> 00:13:23.000 twentieth. You should never go up in front of the church with the microphone because the pastor 114 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:30.280 says so and says, let's obey the Bible. Confess your sins friend to the congregation. Never, never do 115 00:13:30.280 --> 00:13:35.800 that. Ever do that. That's not what God has called you to do. You're not supposed to do that. 116 00:13:36.920 --> 00:13:41.720 And boy, when that does happen, there's a lot of charismatic groups that do that and it leads to 117 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:52.120 absolute destruction. If I sin against you, bow, then I'm supposed to ask you, bow, to forgive me 118 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:59.400 for the sin that I committed against you. I do not go to Mike and Fred and Johnny and Karen 119 00:14:00.760 --> 00:14:10.440 to tell them what I did to you. That makes me a sinner in the area of gossip and tail bearing. 120 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:20.440 The Bible says God hates that. If Fred sinned against Wilma or Wilma against Fred, 121 00:14:21.160 --> 00:14:24.600 their confession is to stay among them and no one else. 122 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:36.920 But people today will say in a small group, hey, let's confess our sins one to another like James says 123 00:14:36.920 --> 00:14:45.480 to. Do you know those people in the small group? Well, we leave them in gathering for six weeks. 124 00:14:45.560 --> 00:14:52.600 I didn't ask you that. Do you know them? Do you know them? It's kind of like the joke. Actually, 125 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:59.240 I think it was Jay Vernon McGee or it might have even been Billy Graham in a moment of candor. 126 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:04.680 Talks about this very thing taking place and the wrong atmosphere for it. 127 00:15:06.200 --> 00:15:12.200 And somebody says, let's confess our sins one to another. So one guy says, well, here's my, 128 00:15:12.200 --> 00:15:17.240 here's my sin. I'm confessing you guys. I've been taking a little bit of money from the cash 129 00:15:17.240 --> 00:15:22.600 register every week. And so I've been stealing from the company. So I'm confessing my sin. 130 00:15:23.560 --> 00:15:31.640 Okay. Next guy. Yeah, you know what? I've been looking at my neighbor. She's really hot. 131 00:15:31.640 --> 00:15:39.640 And man, I've just been having like really amazing thoughts about her. And so I confess my sin. 132 00:15:39.640 --> 00:15:49.800 And people say, okay, great. Next guy. Yeah, my sin is I have a problem with gossip. And I can't 133 00:15:49.800 --> 00:15:53.400 wait to get out of this gathering to tell everybody what you guys have been doing. 134 00:15:55.960 --> 00:15:59.880 You might laugh, but I've actually seen that happen in people's lives for real. 135 00:16:01.800 --> 00:16:06.760 So there's five guys together and they're confessing their sin because they think they're being 136 00:16:06.760 --> 00:16:14.040 really spiritual about it. And so they confess their sin. And then one guy goes home and tells his 137 00:16:14.040 --> 00:16:19.320 wife, man, do you want Mike set today? I don't tell anybody. You just sinned by the way. 138 00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:27.480 You just went home and sinned. And then your wife carries that over. And eventually that guy's 139 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:34.440 wife finds out about it. And a few other people know it's a catastrophe. Wines up splitting up and 140 00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:40.760 destroying a church, friendship, or fellowship. When the Bible says to confess your faults went to 141 00:16:40.760 --> 00:16:45.480 another, there's an assumption made in the book of James that you're talking to other mature 142 00:16:46.920 --> 00:16:57.720 believers in Christ who you know well. I don't know why we fall for this stuff. We get we read 143 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:02.920 something and we get excited or we don't read it in this context. And we wind up making it a 144 00:17:02.920 --> 00:17:09.160 practice. I once knew a group of men quite large by the way. They would break up into groups of 10 145 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:14.120 and they would go around their table and they would confess their faults. 146 00:17:16.520 --> 00:17:23.800 And lo and behold, one of the guys backslid for whatever reasons I don't remember. He stopped going. 147 00:17:24.280 --> 00:17:35.320 He wound up leaving his family. And then he wound up talking because he was backslidden or not a 148 00:17:35.320 --> 00:17:40.360 believer at all, whatever the case is, God knows. And he went around telling everybody about all the 149 00:17:40.360 --> 00:17:46.760 stuff he learned and that men's group about how bad these dudes are. So I'm no worse than anybody 150 00:17:46.760 --> 00:17:56.520 else because they all confess this stuff to me. And now I'm doing this stuff. And over about 151 00:17:56.520 --> 00:18:06.040 the course of three years, this men's group began to completely break apart because of practicing 152 00:18:06.040 --> 00:18:14.680 wrongly the word of God. They took the truth and they applied their emotions to it. And by doing 153 00:18:14.680 --> 00:18:20.600 that, they operated themselves emotionally with even possibly good intentions. They did the wrong 154 00:18:20.600 --> 00:18:28.680 thing. You must be very discreet and you must ask the question to whom do you reveal this sin to? 155 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:36.680 If you have a sin that's in your life privately, God is saying deal with that now. Repent of it, 156 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:43.160 walk away from it, cut all the tentacles or strings and chains that are attached to it and go 157 00:18:43.240 --> 00:18:52.520 and sin no more. But if your sin involves two other people, then you immediately go to them and say 158 00:18:52.520 --> 00:18:58.520 to them, listen, I cannot do this anymore. I've been sinning against God. I encourage you guys to do 159 00:18:58.520 --> 00:19:05.000 the same. But I'm confessing this to you guys. What we've been doing is wrong. And I'm not doing 160 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:11.000 anymore. Christ has convicted me. And listen, I'm not going to say a word to anybody because it's been 161 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:16.600 the three of us that we've been talking about this thing. I'm not going to repeat it again and 162 00:19:16.600 --> 00:19:23.160 encourage you to repent and do the same thing. But as to this topic and conversation, never again. 163 00:19:25.800 --> 00:19:31.880 Never again. Be very wise, Bo. Be very careful. 164 00:19:32.840 --> 00:19:36.200 Because 165 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:47.960 somebody that you talked to in this topic had better be a proven, grounded, well-adjusted 166 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:56.920 spirit-led believer. And I can tell you right now, you don't need many friends like that. 167 00:19:57.880 --> 00:20:05.160 I mean, I have probably on my hand five people that I can say things to. 168 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:15.480 One of them is Lisa. One of them is Tony Perkins, a dear friend of mine. There's a few other brothers 169 00:20:16.280 --> 00:20:27.320 that I can share with. But keep it tight. Learn how to conduct yourself in all wisdom. 170 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:33.960 So thank you. Listen, hopefully we've answered some of your questions, stimulated further study 171 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:39.560 on your part. Listen, as always, it's time for us to live out what we believe in. It's time for 172 00:20:39.560 --> 00:20:44.360 real life. That's what we're all about is real life. So check us out on various platforms. Make 173 00:20:44.360 --> 00:20:50.120 sure you get the real-life network app, by the way. Subscribe there at your app provider, real 174 00:20:50.120 --> 00:20:55.160 network, real-life network. Join us. It's for free. And until next time, God bless you guys.