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 --> 00:00:11.360 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. In all of life right now you and I 3 00:00:11.360 --> 00:00:16.840 need more and more and more of this personal awesome God. We say worship songs to 4 00:00:16.840 --> 00:00:20.440 him but we scarcely know him let's be honest. We can combine all of our 5 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:25.640 knowledge together and we stretch the surface maybe. But we love him. How do we love 6 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:29.280 him when we've never seen him. It's hard to explain this but he has revealed 7 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:32.640 himself to us personally on the inside. 8 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:41.560 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 9 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:46.960 Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 10 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:51.800 life in Christ then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings to us 11 00:00:51.800 --> 00:00:57.400 that's like saying amen or yes. Then that rating will encourage others to listen. 12 00:00:57.400 --> 00:01:03.760 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 13 00:01:03.760 --> 00:01:07.480 I'm a real big fan of Bible prophecy. I think everybody should be. Bible 14 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:13.120 prophecy proves that the Bible is given by God. God tells the future in advance but 15 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:17.440 one of the great things about God prophesying the future is when he 16 00:01:17.440 --> 00:01:22.440 prophesies what is known as the doctrine of soteriology. It is God the God of 17 00:01:22.440 --> 00:01:29.680 the Bible who prophesies salvation. No man made that up. Nobody can 18 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:35.920 talk to that idea. God did. Listen to me in sarcastic right now. Why would God 19 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:41.520 give you an idea that he wanted you and I to be forgiven and experience 20 00:01:41.520 --> 00:01:50.040 salvation. Why would he do that? Yes because he loves us. That ought to blow your 21 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:56.240 mind. He said, Well, I don't know pastor. Nobody loves me in this world. Maybe 22 00:01:56.240 --> 00:02:03.360 that's true. Maybe nobody does love you. Who cares? God does. By the way let's be 23 00:02:03.360 --> 00:02:09.960 honest. The people who love us on Monday they may not love us on Tuesday. 24 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:17.400 Genesis 315, God is speaking. He says, I will put enmity between you, Satan and the 25 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:22.560 woman, Eve. I'm going to put warfare between Satan and his descendants and 26 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:29.480 Eve and her descendants. Between your seed and her seed notice the capital S. 27 00:02:29.480 --> 00:02:37.800 Divinity. Someone's going to come from Eve who will be divine. Whoever he is, we 28 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:43.440 know who he is. He shall bruise. The word bruise you see the bruise twice. The 29 00:02:43.440 --> 00:02:48.080 word the context demands everything. Let me read it according to context. He shall 30 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:54.480 crush your head. Hey, Satan you're going to get ahead crushing. By the one who's 31 00:02:54.480 --> 00:03:00.440 going to come from the woman Eve she's going to have one in her line who will 32 00:03:00.440 --> 00:03:09.440 be one of divinity. He's going to crush your head. Oh, I like that. And you, Satan, 33 00:03:09.440 --> 00:03:19.040 shall bruise his heel. Satan will inflict the pain upon Christ and that is 34 00:03:19.040 --> 00:03:24.440 summed up in the fact that Christ goes to the cross and he suffers rejection and 35 00:03:24.440 --> 00:03:31.120 he fulfills Isaiah chapter 53 and Psalm 22 of the Old Testament. And he goes to 36 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:38.160 that cross and he bears the atoning weight of God's people. And the Bible tells 37 00:03:38.160 --> 00:03:43.800 us that Christ, and it had to be this way, Jesus died at Golgotha. He died in 38 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:48.600 Jerusalem. He died in the nation of Israel and all of that to fulfill the 39 00:03:48.600 --> 00:03:53.720 Old Testament prophecies. And I want to stress that in light of today's insanity 40 00:03:53.720 --> 00:04:00.400 as being discussed by I was going to say what came into my head. But you know there's 41 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:06.000 a big debate right now. Is Israel really Israel? Are they legitimate as a country? Should 42 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:15.560 we be helping them? And the word in Hebrew is lib tard, lib tard. Sorry. I probably need 43 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:21.920 to ask God to forgive me. If you say today that there is no viable existence for the nation 44 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:30.480 of Israel, you are denying the Bible. Jesus not only had to die in Jerusalem, but the Bible 45 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:36.480 tells us that without an Israel and without a Jerusalem, Christ can't return. When Jesus 46 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:44.400 returns to the earth to establish his kingdom, he returns to where? Canada? Santa Monica? 47 00:04:44.400 --> 00:04:49.160 He returns. His foot will touch the Mount of all of Zechariah tells us. The Bible tells 48 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:54.960 us it's going to split open. Ezekiel tells us that water will explode from the Mount 49 00:04:54.960 --> 00:05:00.800 of all of that. And it will flow down into the sea of the Mediterranean. And half of it 50 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:06.080 will flow down into the Dead Sea. And Christ will cross the Kidron Valley. And he'll go 51 00:05:06.080 --> 00:05:12.040 through the Golden or the Eastern Gate. He will establish his rule and reign. And Daniel 52 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:17.720 tells us he'll judge all the nations as a shepherd, separates the sheep from the goats. 53 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:22.120 Just at the end of the seven-year tribulation period, the great second coming of Christ. 54 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:26.800 And I'm getting so excited about this and has nothing to do with my notes. But I just 55 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:34.800 have to say that. There's a lot of people denying the legitimate government of Israel today 56 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:41.240 because they say they're sinners. They don't believe in God. They're immoral. And I hear 57 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:50.400 people saying that. And I'm thinking, are you? Are you sinless? And what are you referring 58 00:05:50.400 --> 00:05:56.720 to? And they're talking about America has now taken the place. Are you, is America not 59 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:03.980 immoral? Is not America the one that pumps out sin to the world? We're the pornographic 60 00:06:03.980 --> 00:06:10.060 capital of the world. Oh, it's ridiculous. Israel is Israel and the Bible. Jerusalem 61 00:06:10.060 --> 00:06:16.140 is Jerusalem. And the Messiah is the Messiah. And there's no missing around with that. 62 00:06:16.140 --> 00:06:22.500 I digress. Genesis through Moses announces that you and I will have a Redeemer who will 63 00:06:22.500 --> 00:06:27.820 crush Satan's head. And Jesus did that at the cross and when he rose again from the 64 00:06:27.820 --> 00:06:33.900 dead, it's an awesome thing. What would be God's personal and willing display of himself 65 00:06:33.900 --> 00:06:41.060 in the act of grace? Number one comes to my mind is Noah. The Bible tells us that Noah 66 00:06:41.060 --> 00:06:48.660 found grace in the sight of God. Noah. Then I think about Abraham. Abraham. This is 67 00:06:48.660 --> 00:06:56.340 kind of a shocker room. Abraham was a Gentile before he became a Jew. He was from 68 00:06:56.340 --> 00:07:02.900 Earth of the Caldeas. He was pagan. This is how, are you listening? This is how personal 69 00:07:02.900 --> 00:07:08.300 your God is. Your God who is God, same God. We're studying that on Wednesday nights. He's 70 00:07:08.300 --> 00:07:16.980 the same. You should end forever. He's the same God who calls Abraham out of paganism. 71 00:07:16.980 --> 00:07:22.900 He called me out of paganism. He said, come. Basically, the word is the same. Think about 72 00:07:22.900 --> 00:07:31.660 it. Didn't Jesus say to Peter, come. Follow me. God said to Abraham, come to me. Follow me. 73 00:07:31.660 --> 00:07:37.100 I'm going to lead you out. Come. And then you know the Bible tells us, Sarah asked him 74 00:07:37.100 --> 00:07:41.900 where are we going. Hebrews 11 verse 8 says Abraham went out following God not knowing 75 00:07:41.900 --> 00:07:46.820 where he was going. Can you imagine? Abraham, where are we going? Where are we going? 76 00:07:46.820 --> 00:08:00.980 This is the dread of every, every married man. Honey, where are we going? I don't know. 77 00:08:00.980 --> 00:08:09.820 He tells you. I don't know. I'm following his voice. Personal. He's so personal. Yet 78 00:08:09.820 --> 00:08:17.300 he's God. He's spirit. And we are just mere mortals. But he loves you. And he loves us. 79 00:08:17.300 --> 00:08:23.940 A great example of his grace is, again, when God spoke to Moses. And when Moses said, show 80 00:08:23.940 --> 00:08:30.740 me your glory. God says to Moses, humans can't look at me and live. Just my very presence. 81 00:08:30.740 --> 00:08:36.580 That's so personal. He tells Moses, I'd love to show you me. But if you see me, you'll 82 00:08:36.580 --> 00:08:42.500 try. I mean, the physics won't work. You're a mere mortal. I'm spirit. And if you were 83 00:08:42.500 --> 00:08:48.860 to look at me, you would die, Moses. But he saw the order of Moses's heart. And he says, 84 00:08:48.860 --> 00:08:53.740 I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll do second best. You see this crack on the rock over here? 85 00:08:53.740 --> 00:08:59.860 I'm going to stuff you. I know. I see it. I see Moses going the crack. And here's 86 00:08:59.860 --> 00:09:03.380 God's finger. And he's just pushing Moses into the crack. Tuck him. Tuck him. There's 87 00:09:03.380 --> 00:09:07.900 an elbow hanging out. We'll push that in. There's a part of Moses' chin sticking out of 88 00:09:07.900 --> 00:09:12.820 you to push that in there. All right, Moses, don't move. It's kind of like taking a picture. 89 00:09:12.820 --> 00:09:18.980 You ready? Don't move. Smile. God stopped something to rock. And the Bible says that God 90 00:09:18.980 --> 00:09:25.340 passed by. And then God removed his hand from covering Moses' body and Moses' face. 91 00:09:25.340 --> 00:09:30.660 And the Bible says that the atmosphere was so disturbed by the presence of God passing 92 00:09:30.660 --> 00:09:38.180 through that that's where we get the word after glow. Moses saw the residual effects of God's 93 00:09:38.180 --> 00:09:43.860 presence having gone through the atmosphere that was in front of Moses. And so powerful was that 94 00:09:43.860 --> 00:09:50.820 that it actually changed the look of Moses' face as he began to take on the glow. That's why he 95 00:09:50.820 --> 00:09:56.660 came down Mount Sinai with this face covered that he didn't want the people to see the glory 96 00:09:56.660 --> 00:10:04.500 departing from him as it faded. Personal God. And then what about the personal God revealed in 97 00:10:04.500 --> 00:10:11.700 the man David? He says of David, David is a man after my own heart. You can't get more personal 98 00:10:11.700 --> 00:10:17.460 than that, everybody. In all of life, right now, you and I need more and more and more of this 99 00:10:17.460 --> 00:10:22.900 personal, awesome God. We say worship songs to him, but we scarcely know him, let's be honest. 100 00:10:23.460 --> 00:10:27.220 We can combine all of our knowledge together and we scratch the surface maybe. 101 00:10:28.820 --> 00:10:34.660 But we love him. How do we love him when we've never seen him? It's hard to explain this, 102 00:10:34.660 --> 00:10:44.900 but he has revealed himself to us personally on the inside, heart to heart. And then what about 103 00:10:44.900 --> 00:10:53.060 the man Isaiah? And Isaiah, chapter six, it's an awesome revelation where Isaiah sees the glory of 104 00:10:53.060 --> 00:10:59.220 God. He's allowed to see heaven and the seraphim before the presence of God, the great angels 105 00:11:00.420 --> 00:11:07.060 before him. And when Isaiah sees that, Isaiah understands that when he sees the Lord, he says, 106 00:11:07.060 --> 00:11:11.940 I saw the Lord high and lifted up and his glory filled the temple. And then interesting, 107 00:11:11.940 --> 00:11:21.060 there's a temple in heaven. And then what about the man Daniel? The personal God met with Daniel. 108 00:11:21.940 --> 00:11:27.300 By the way, young people listen up. Daniel was taken as a very young teenager, very young, maybe 109 00:11:27.300 --> 00:11:35.460 13, captive and taken into Babylon. He never saw his home again. He never saw family. He never 110 00:11:35.540 --> 00:11:42.500 saw his country. He never saw his home again. And Daniel remained true to God. How do you remain 111 00:11:42.500 --> 00:11:48.500 true to God after all of those decades? Because God revealed himself personally to Daniel. 112 00:11:49.540 --> 00:11:53.540 And I want to submit to you today that the more that you pursue and seek after the Lord, 113 00:11:53.540 --> 00:11:58.980 he will reward you with more of his presence in your life. So much so, 114 00:11:59.700 --> 00:12:07.940 that as you walk with him, that reality takes more hold of your life than anything in this 115 00:12:07.940 --> 00:12:17.300 temporal world can ever possess, remarkable. But Daniel had favor from God. And then finally, 116 00:12:17.300 --> 00:12:22.820 with this one, just these are just brief examples. The prophet Malachi in your Old Testament 117 00:12:23.540 --> 00:12:30.580 is summed up in this. God tells Malachi, I'm listening. Isn't that a beautiful thing to hear? 118 00:12:30.580 --> 00:12:34.740 Don't you want to, maybe right now in your life, don't you want to hear God say to you, I am listening 119 00:12:34.740 --> 00:12:42.340 to you. I can hear you. In fact, he says in Malachi, I not only can hear you and I'm listening to you, 120 00:12:43.060 --> 00:12:48.980 God says, this is awesome. I think it's Malachi 316, I'm not sure. God says, I'm even writing it down 121 00:12:49.060 --> 00:12:59.860 in my book of remembrance. This is the God of the Bible. And he loves you. He said, where are you going 122 00:12:59.860 --> 00:13:07.780 with this? I'm trying to build you up, strengthen you up. In Romans chapter 1 verses 16 and 17, Paul 123 00:13:07.780 --> 00:13:13.540 writes and says, for I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. I hope you're not ashamed 124 00:13:14.180 --> 00:13:20.900 of naming the name of Jesus in public. I hope you don't turn red in the face. If anything, 125 00:13:20.900 --> 00:13:26.260 we should mention the name Jesus and the world should turn red in their face. By the way, 126 00:13:26.260 --> 00:13:32.180 can I get all of you to do this? I shared this with you before but let's just do this together. 127 00:13:32.980 --> 00:13:41.540 If you and I are somewhere and we hear the name of God, we hear God or Jesus Christ said 128 00:13:41.620 --> 00:13:48.580 and are not so happy setting, it could be in a movie, it could be at a restaurant. Let's agree 129 00:13:48.580 --> 00:13:52.740 to do this. Kind of like slapping that sticker on the back of your car and getting prayed for. 130 00:13:53.460 --> 00:13:59.220 Let's all agree on this. When you hear somebody saying a movie or a TV show or on the golf course, 131 00:13:59.860 --> 00:14:09.140 Jesus Christ or God, exactly. Just saying, is Lord, if you're at a theater and you're in the things 132 00:14:09.220 --> 00:14:15.860 going on and notice, it's the number one cuss word than any other word. If somebody says Jesus Christ 133 00:14:15.860 --> 00:14:24.820 there in the theater, say, is Lord, and you're just ruined the day for everybody, it's beautiful. 134 00:14:25.380 --> 00:14:28.740 You know what they'll go? They'll leave that movie thinking, you know, there were some lunatic. 135 00:14:29.620 --> 00:14:33.700 Every time somebody said Jesus Christ in the film, somebody yelled out and said, he's Lord, 136 00:14:34.340 --> 00:14:38.500 and you know what's going to happen? Somebody's going to say, what's wrong with that? He is the Lord. 137 00:14:39.700 --> 00:14:43.700 Think about that. We can't let them get away with that. And we can have some fun doing that. 138 00:14:43.700 --> 00:14:49.940 What a witness. Don't be ashamed of the gospel, he says, for it is the power of God into salvation, 139 00:14:51.140 --> 00:14:58.100 to every believer, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile, for in it the righteousness of God is 140 00:14:58.100 --> 00:15:03.540 revealed from faith to faith, and here's the Old Testament verse. This is the gospel and the Old 141 00:15:03.540 --> 00:15:13.300 Testament. The just shall live by faith. Habakkuk chapter 2 verse 4, beautiful. So God who is all 142 00:15:13.300 --> 00:15:22.900 loving and all caring and kind invites all to come to him by faith. And because the gift of 143 00:15:22.900 --> 00:15:30.740 salvation is provided by God, paid for by God, invented by God, he's the Redeemer. Who are we to 144 00:15:30.740 --> 00:15:41.860 boast? Who are we to strut our what? Our knowledge? Our denominational background? What a joke. 145 00:15:43.540 --> 00:15:50.900 Well, I'm a Lutheran. Well, we'll pray for you. Well, I'm a Catholic. I'm a Baptist. I'm a 146 00:15:50.980 --> 00:15:55.940 Calvary Chapel person. By the way, you guys know you're in Calvary Chapel, which forget about 147 00:15:55.940 --> 00:16:02.020 the name. This is a Bible study and you'd be shocked to find out who's sitting around you. There 148 00:16:02.020 --> 00:16:07.460 are people here from every, every denomination. There are some people here who don't even know 149 00:16:07.460 --> 00:16:14.100 why they're here. They just thought they should come. There's Jews who come here after Sabbath, 150 00:16:14.100 --> 00:16:20.020 they come here to learn to find out what, what is it we think? There's even cold members who show 151 00:16:20.020 --> 00:16:25.300 up trying to give, after a message, they try to follow you to your car to hand you something. 152 00:16:26.100 --> 00:16:32.820 And let us know, by the way, set your alarm off, the car will beep, we'll send, we'll deploy some 153 00:16:32.820 --> 00:16:41.940 of our special forces to rescue you from false doctrine. But wow, so here we go, church, it's this. 154 00:16:41.940 --> 00:16:47.620 Getting real with God and man versus one to three, it's this. It means that we have a grounded 155 00:16:47.620 --> 00:16:52.980 faith. Can you write that down? Grounded faith. We've got to make sure that you and I have a grounded 156 00:16:52.980 --> 00:16:59.140 faith that can take it, that can take the criticism, that can take the attacks, that can take 157 00:17:00.820 --> 00:17:07.460 all of the challenges. Is your faith grounded? And we look at this verse one, wherever there's a 158 00:17:07.460 --> 00:17:14.580 grounded faith, there's going to be maturity that produces a practical faith. I love God's 159 00:17:14.580 --> 00:17:21.220 definition of faith in the Scriptures. So here it says, right in verse one, it says, 160 00:17:21.220 --> 00:17:30.820 receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things. You say, 161 00:17:30.820 --> 00:17:35.300 what in the world does this mean? Well, number one, we've got to unpack the meaning of these words. 162 00:17:35.300 --> 00:17:40.500 Look at the Greek word for receive, it's very important in chapter 14 verse one. The word 163 00:17:40.500 --> 00:17:47.060 receives here means to bring in or to take alongside. Listen, as brothers and sisters in Christ, 164 00:17:47.940 --> 00:17:53.460 now that would be those of us who understand that the old and New Testament speaks about Jesus 165 00:17:53.460 --> 00:18:02.100 being the Messiah. Yeshua, hamasyah. We understand that. We understand that He forgives sins, 166 00:18:02.100 --> 00:18:07.780 but His requirement is that you must confess your sins, repent of them. In other words, you must 167 00:18:07.780 --> 00:18:13.780 agree with God. I have sinned against the Almighty God. We've all sinned. The question is, 168 00:18:13.780 --> 00:18:20.580 what are you going to do about it? This is critical. Are you going to humble yourself and receive His 169 00:18:20.580 --> 00:18:28.500 free gift, or are you going to pull up your boots and tighten your belt and say, I'm going to 170 00:18:28.500 --> 00:18:35.060 believe, but I'm also going to help God out. There's a big difference. There's an eternal difference 171 00:18:35.060 --> 00:18:42.100 between those two things. Why? Because the just shall live by faith. And so when the Bible tells us 172 00:18:42.100 --> 00:18:48.900 to bring in or to take alongside of, to open our arms or to welcome in, to make welcome accepted, 173 00:18:48.900 --> 00:18:56.260 He's saying this to us all right now as believers. Be opening and accepting with arms to bring in 174 00:18:56.260 --> 00:19:03.700 alongside of you any weak brother that has a weak faith. And make sure that you do that for 175 00:19:03.700 --> 00:19:10.900 nor the reason but for love. Don't listen. Don't bring them in. He says to get into disputes 176 00:19:11.540 --> 00:19:18.260 about doubtful things. This is a profound declaration of maturity. A grounded faith is a mature 177 00:19:18.260 --> 00:19:23.780 faith. It knows what it believes and it can defend what it believes. I'm going to ask you this. 178 00:19:23.780 --> 00:19:28.660 Don't answer. Don't answer out loud, but by all means, please get this answered. 179 00:19:29.460 --> 00:19:36.340 Can you tell anyone who asks you on what basis does God forgive sins? You need to know this. 180 00:19:37.220 --> 00:19:40.020 If you don't know the answer to that, how can you believe in it? 181 00:19:42.500 --> 00:19:44.580 I believe Jesus is Lord. What does that mean? 182 00:19:47.460 --> 00:19:49.460 I believe God is God. What does that mean? 183 00:19:50.980 --> 00:19:54.980 You've got to be up. This is what's wrong with the church today, at least in the Western world. 184 00:19:55.060 --> 00:20:00.180 It says in spouts of all kinds of things and it doesn't know how to back up what they claim to believe. 185 00:20:02.820 --> 00:20:09.220 You would never get your job that way. You'd never keep your job that way. A practical faith is a 186 00:20:09.220 --> 00:20:16.180 working faith. Jesus Christ came to save us from our sins and to give us that new identity that's in him. 187 00:20:16.180 --> 00:20:26.580 This Jack Kibs podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported. 188 00:20:26.580 --> 00:20:36.180 Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? Go to jackhibs.com to learn more and stay connected.