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 --> 00:00:11.160 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. God our nation has been torn 3 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:21.320 open. Our borders have been destroyed. Our economy is imploding. Our children are 4 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:29.040 exposed to the violence of the streets. We are in debt. We have forsaken Almighty 5 00:00:29.040 --> 00:00:34.880 God. And we ask you Lord in Jesus' name that you had awakened the United 6 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:40.200 States of America for no other reason but to bring you glory. 7 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:47.640 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 8 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:53.040 Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 9 00:00:53.040 --> 00:00:57.880 life in Christ then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us 10 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:03.400 that's like saying amen or yes. Then that rating will encourage others to listen. 11 00:01:03.400 --> 00:01:09.560 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 12 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:15.400 Just as God warned the nation of Israel and any nation your land will be filled 13 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:21.240 with confusion and our land is full of confusion. God gave birth to the 14 00:01:21.240 --> 00:01:26.440 nation of Israel and that is a matter of biblical fact. The interesting thing 15 00:01:26.440 --> 00:01:32.200 about God giving birth to the United States is that it is an historical fact. 16 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:39.160 There is no mention of America being birthed as a nation in the Bible yet. 17 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:46.760 No one educated can deny the fact that the United States has had more of God's blessings 18 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:51.080 than perhaps even Israel itself over the years. 19 00:01:51.800 --> 00:01:58.280 What God did for Israel in the space of thousands of years God did and beyond for 20 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:04.120 America in a couple hundred years. How could that possibly come to pass? How could 21 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:15.800 that happen? Because our pilgrim fathers saw that by chance if we as a people who 22 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:21.560 believe in His Word would seek His face it might be that God would want to do a work 23 00:02:23.320 --> 00:02:28.280 among those who trust Christ. Our founding fathers knew that they were not Israel. 24 00:02:30.440 --> 00:02:36.920 They knew that. They weren't confused but they also made reference and preached messages 25 00:02:36.920 --> 00:02:43.960 regarding the fact that God's promises are open ended to any nation who will take up His promises. 26 00:02:44.200 --> 00:02:49.480 That God's Word to us is to anybody who will take up His Word to obey. 27 00:02:51.640 --> 00:02:58.600 This is so true that if Russia today or if North Korea today picked up the Bible to obey it God 28 00:02:58.600 --> 00:03:05.880 would begin to bless their land. God would begin to bless their leadership. God will not turn away 29 00:03:05.880 --> 00:03:13.160 anyone who calls upon Him in humility. When people pray humbly before God and seek His face 30 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:19.240 based upon the Word of God not to pray that you might win the lotto or have a happy day 31 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:26.040 but that God might rule and reign in America again through the hearts and minds of men and women. 32 00:03:27.640 --> 00:03:32.600 Do you think that kind of prayer is going to go unopposed by the forces and powers of darkness? 33 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:39.400 Think again. If you're today and I can't imagine you being at this church but if you are today 34 00:03:39.480 --> 00:03:45.400 somebody who practices recreational Christianity it's time to wake up and get real. These are 35 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:53.160 desperate times. It is obvious on all fronts. What will become of America? Only God knows. 36 00:03:54.600 --> 00:04:01.400 But this we know. If we will turn and seek His face repent of our sins and humble ourselves. 37 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:10.200 God says, I will heal your land. I don't know what that means but I know it's good. 38 00:04:12.200 --> 00:04:17.480 But with all due respect we have to qualify that. That's a condition. 39 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:23.320 Did you know that? Well I thought salvation was free. I'm not talking about salvation. 40 00:04:23.400 --> 00:04:31.480 By the way, salvation is free but not to God. It costs Him everything. 41 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:37.080 Thus it's free to us because He doesn't accept our currency. 42 00:04:37.960 --> 00:04:55.320 But regarding this country there's a qualifier if my people. Let's be honest. 43 00:04:56.920 --> 00:05:03.880 Have you been weeping? Have you been sick to your stomach? Have you been unable to eat? 44 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:17.800 Are you watching the systematic rise of those manifestations that the Bible says is of demonic activity? 45 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:26.360 Didn't you know this? We call it mental illness. There is mental illness but I'm not buying 46 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:33.160 that everything that's going on is of mental illness. First of all if it is mental illness 47 00:05:33.560 --> 00:05:45.560 where is all that coming from? I think the mental illness that we do have is certainly a result of spending 48 00:05:46.280 --> 00:05:52.920 40 hours a week playing video games and ever seeing the light of the day and having Pepsi and 49 00:05:52.920 --> 00:06:00.280 donuts for breakfast that stuff will kill you. The brokenness of family we read it today that 50 00:06:00.280 --> 00:06:07.880 will destroy you. The attempted banning of preaching of the gospel so that young people think that 51 00:06:07.880 --> 00:06:17.640 there were nothing but a successful exit out of a primordial mudhole of evolution and then 52 00:06:17.640 --> 00:06:25.160 somebody grabs a rifle and shoots up a classroom and we are all in shock. What about your hypocrites? 53 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:31.960 We tell people they are a derivative of an animal and a monkey and then we expect them to act 54 00:06:31.960 --> 00:06:37.400 like angels in the classroom or on the streets. What about your hypocrites? 55 00:06:39.640 --> 00:06:45.080 Our nation needs to turn back to God. Listen, when it says nation, don't wait for Barack Obama or 56 00:06:45.080 --> 00:06:54.280 Donald Trump or Gavin Newsom or anybody else. It's not going to happen until I turn back to God. 57 00:06:55.480 --> 00:07:01.560 It's not going to happen unless you turn back to God. Don't leave this service today and saying, 58 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:10.040 you know, those people need to return back to God. No, it's us. We are here in this condition because 59 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:18.680 of the church. Do you not know history? Alexa Detokville gets dispatched from Paris from Versailles. 60 00:07:19.400 --> 00:07:24.760 You've got to go take this assistant with you. We'll fund the whole trip. Your brilliant, 61 00:07:24.760 --> 00:07:32.440 your great observer, your great philosopher. You're just the right man. Following the revolutionary 62 00:07:32.440 --> 00:07:41.640 war and the victory of the colonies over Great Britain, go figure out how do they do that 63 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:47.080 and then bring back the report so we can have a revolution here just like they did. 64 00:07:49.640 --> 00:07:57.880 Tokville came to America and he went throughout the colonies. You can read it. He wrote the book. 65 00:07:59.640 --> 00:08:08.200 Taking notes, notation this, notation that and he was puzzled out of his own mouth. He was 66 00:08:08.200 --> 00:08:14.920 puzzled as to the greatness of America. How could this be happening? This upstart nation defeats 67 00:08:14.920 --> 00:08:21.400 the greatest military power on the face of the earth. How is it that this nation in its army loses 68 00:08:21.400 --> 00:08:30.600 almost every battle and then somehow wins the war? So it's not their military strength. Everybody 69 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:37.480 knows that. So he checks that off his list. He goes to the fields and Detokville writes, 70 00:08:38.280 --> 00:08:47.480 unbelievable production of apples and peaches, walnuts, cherries, wheat. The farmer is getting so 71 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:56.040 much out of one square acre of land. I've never seen such a thing. Bounty writes that down. 72 00:08:56.760 --> 00:09:06.840 Cattle. All of it. He writes it down. But he said, listen, this is brilliant. He said, 73 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:11.160 this still doesn't explain the greatness of America. What makes the ground to this? 74 00:09:12.920 --> 00:09:17.880 Do you remember in California you guys years ago? I was born in San Diego. This is far north. 75 00:09:18.680 --> 00:09:24.840 This is as far north as I've ever lived. But I remember the days of California when 76 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:36.360 the Central Valley and the Salinas Valley, you could almost spit on the ground and strawberry 77 00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:48.040 bush would grow. Did you know that California was the fruit and vegetable basket of the nation? 78 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:54.200 And the entire nation, the Salinas region that was known as the salad bowl of America. 79 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:54.680 Did you know that? 80 00:09:58.920 --> 00:10:03.960 Detokville can't figure it out. And he's about ready to get back on the ship and head back to France. 81 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:16.280 But he went to church. And he said, I just found out, America is great. He wrote because America 82 00:10:16.280 --> 00:10:24.120 is good. The day that America ceases to be great will be because it's ceased to be good. 83 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:36.120 America is in its last twilight gleaming. The very founder of this nation, the first citizen, 84 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:43.240 the first commander in chief, the first general, the first president, 85 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:54.200 bowed his knee daily in prayer to Almighty God. So much so, the famous painting from Valley 86 00:10:54.200 --> 00:11:03.080 Forge is not a hoax. It's not a joke. Isaac Potts was dispatched to keep an eye on Washington as 87 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:10.920 he went into the woods away from the starving forces of the colonial army. Feet frozen in snow, 88 00:11:10.920 --> 00:11:17.560 bloodied trails left behind by bloody feet and ice cold weather. Did you know at Valley Forge 89 00:11:17.560 --> 00:11:26.200 we were eating the souls of our boots? Did you know that we were eating and chewing on bark off 90 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:39.080 the trees? We were reduced to nothing. And Washington left his troops. And it was noticed, 91 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:44.200 where's he going? And he walked his horse into the woods and he got on his knees in the snow and 92 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:52.760 he prayed. And part of that prayer was written down by the man who heard him. That man also said in 93 00:11:52.760 --> 00:11:59.480 that moment, I knew right then and there there is no way for Britain to defeat the United States 94 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:08.040 if the God of benevolent heaven heard this man's prayer. Is this too much for people? Is this a 95 00:12:08.040 --> 00:12:17.960 message that I'm saying that will gender criticism? I hope so. We are so ignorant of American history. 96 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:26.200 We don't even know this nation and how it came into being. But do you realize that if we got on 97 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:34.760 our knees and prayed, God might do something. Can we get on our knees and pray? For those of you 98 00:12:34.760 --> 00:12:39.240 who don't care to remain seated, some of you cannot physically get on your knees. 99 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:46.600 Actually that's just it's too tight isn't it? You want to stand? Can you get on your knee? Okay. 100 00:12:47.560 --> 00:12:54.520 Let's do it. Let's get on their knees. Yep, you can be part of Newsweek's headlines. Pastor 101 00:12:55.720 --> 00:13:04.520 forces people at Sharpie Penpoint to get on their knees. 102 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:25.800 Father, we come before you right now. We pray right now that unless you watch the gate, 103 00:13:26.680 --> 00:13:36.280 the watchman watches it in vain. God, our nation has been torn open. Our borders have been destroyed. 104 00:13:37.880 --> 00:13:44.840 Our economy is imploding. Our children are exposed to the violence of the streets. 105 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:54.920 We are in debt. We have forsaken Almighty God. And we ask you, Lord, in Jesus' name that you 106 00:13:54.920 --> 00:13:59.400 had awakened the United States of America for no other reason but to bring you glory. 107 00:14:01.400 --> 00:14:07.800 God, wake us up to the reality. This nation has not won a war since World War II and we live 108 00:14:08.040 --> 00:14:19.800 off of hype, showmanship, so much of it, perception. We have been hollowed out because you are no 109 00:14:19.800 --> 00:14:26.440 longer the epicenter of this nation. Lord, we invite you to come back to this country with mercy. 110 00:14:27.400 --> 00:14:33.640 Come back to this country, God, we plead, we ask upon you and we plead upon you, Almighty God, 111 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:43.480 to forgive us of our sins. Expose the pornographers. Expose Lord the drunkenness. Expose Lord the evil. 112 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:50.760 Expose the aberrant sexuality. Expose the robbery. Expose Lord the idolatry. Expose 113 00:14:53.400 --> 00:15:02.520 the things that have ravaged this nation all the while you have been targeting our ears all along 114 00:15:03.400 --> 00:15:12.040 and saying, Church, will you hear me? Church, listen. And Father, I pray today 115 00:15:14.280 --> 00:15:21.160 that instead of President Trump raising his fist and victory, which I understand any political 116 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:27.320 photo of that, I mean that is a poster no doubt about it. That's a commercial clip, no doubt about it. 117 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:37.320 I pray that you would just dissolve that thinking and that there would be the going to the knees. 118 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:47.400 Father, God, we pray now and we ask in Jesus' name for you to do a miracle in our midst. 119 00:15:48.760 --> 00:15:51.960 Start with California. If you're going to start with California, start with us. 120 00:15:51.960 --> 00:16:04.360 But dear God in heaven, may we not wave a flag all over the place without the Holy Spirit being 121 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:13.720 pleased with our conduct. The only answer is going to come from God's house and we pray Lord God 122 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:19.320 in Jesus' name and all God's people said, Amen. Church family, I'm going to ask you 123 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:24.280 to hear this, right? So you hear this all the time, but 124 00:16:29.800 --> 00:16:37.560 for God so loved the world, I heard a very famous preacher this last week say 125 00:16:38.520 --> 00:16:45.160 that God only loved those who believed in him and he did not love those who did not believe in him. 126 00:16:46.600 --> 00:16:52.840 It's too bad Jesus didn't know that. For God so loved the world, Jesus said that he gave his 127 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:57.240 only begotten Son that whosoever would believe trusting him would not perish but have ever 128 00:16:57.240 --> 00:17:02.600 lasting life. Jesus Christ loves you. He died on the cross for your sins but for you to reject 129 00:17:02.680 --> 00:17:08.840 and disobey his free offer of eternal life leaves you in the condition that you're in to throw 130 00:17:08.840 --> 00:17:15.000 the gift back in his face is to have no gift and it's that gift that you must have to enter 131 00:17:16.520 --> 00:17:24.280 into heaven. I pray that for you, I pray that would sweep this nation. 132 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:32.200 Time is running out. I pray that you sense the great sense of urgency that we would stop being 133 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:35.160 idle and that we would obey him. 134 00:17:40.040 --> 00:17:44.440 This Jack Kibb's podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are 135 00:17:44.440 --> 00:17:48.920 listener supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 136 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:55.400 Go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected.