WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.400 Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, 2 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:15.440 equip the saints and impact our culture. 3 00:00:15.440 --> 00:00:19.040 When your flesh is dead to the demands of this world, it means that we're no longer 4 00:00:19.040 --> 00:00:21.920 held by the temptations of this world. 5 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:26.880 So God works in the life of the believer by the Holy Spirit and what happens to us is 6 00:00:26.880 --> 00:00:31.520 that we're able to say no to that temptation that would lead us into destruction. 7 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:41.440 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 8 00:00:42.080 --> 00:00:47.920 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 9 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:51.280 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 10 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:57.120 To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 11 00:00:57.760 --> 00:01:01.200 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. 12 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:02.640 Here is Jack Hibbs. 13 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:13.360 God wants you, the old person, watch to be dead to your old self, that the believer deals with 14 00:01:13.360 --> 00:01:19.280 every day. Every day I get up. The old Jack says, hey, I got an idea. It's always a bad idea. 15 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:27.120 I've got to tell the old Jack, we're not doing that. God's word says this and we're not going to do that. 16 00:01:28.720 --> 00:01:35.360 And so that's the part of living and being dead. I got to make sure that guy stays down. 17 00:01:35.360 --> 00:01:41.120 The Bible says, Jesus said that you need to take up your cross and follow me, which means that 18 00:01:42.080 --> 00:01:49.760 as we follow him alive, we are to be on the cross dead. But in this life, we can see ourselves 19 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:53.920 carrying the cross and the old Jack is on it, but the old Jack keeps yelling at the Jack that's 20 00:01:53.920 --> 00:02:02.400 carrying the cross. But it's also true that you and I positionally as believers. 21 00:02:02.720 --> 00:02:08.880 You see, we're alive now. When you and I were born into this world 22 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:14.560 on our birthday, according to the Bible, we were born dead. Did you know that? 23 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:21.520 You say, how can that be true? I'm listening to you right now. I'm alive. You are physically alive. 24 00:02:23.040 --> 00:02:30.560 And your soul is alive. But the Bible says that man without Christ is spiritually dead. 25 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:38.080 Think about that for a moment. God told Adam and Eve, the day that you eat of the fruit, you will die. 26 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:44.320 And the day that they ate of the fruit, there was no way that you and I could have 27 00:02:45.200 --> 00:02:52.160 visibly, as far as we know, distinguished if they were dead. They didn't look dead. They lived for 28 00:02:52.160 --> 00:02:56.880 900 plus years after that before they died. But he said, in the day that you eat of the fruit, 29 00:02:56.880 --> 00:03:05.520 you'll die. What happened? Who died? What died? The real Adam died. The real Eve died in that moment. 30 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:11.280 Think of that. Who you and I are right now, the part that we're looking at. You're looking at 31 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:16.240 me on this screen right now. And the truth of the matter is, if you really want to get down to it, 32 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:24.720 you are looking at a bio-machine, the human machine of who I am. You cannot see my soul. You cannot 33 00:03:24.720 --> 00:03:32.960 see my spirit. However, nothing about my physical body can do anything in and of itself. 34 00:03:34.720 --> 00:03:40.400 I am being animated by the person that's within me. That ought to kind of freak you out for a moment 35 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:51.120 because we get so fixated on, you know, whatever. This is just a shell that is used by our spirit and 36 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:59.280 soul to communicate what's inside of us. If we filet you wide open and pull all your parts out, 37 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:05.920 we will never find a personality section. There is the spleen. There is the liver. Where's this 38 00:04:05.920 --> 00:04:12.160 personality? You'd never find it. We should pass through. It's up in the brain. Really now. Well, 39 00:04:12.160 --> 00:04:17.200 let's open up your head and you look inside the brain. You don't find a personality part. 40 00:04:17.760 --> 00:04:23.600 The Bible tells us that when God created Adam, He created it out of the dirt of the earth, 41 00:04:24.880 --> 00:04:32.400 the dirt. And by the way, go look at yourself under a microscope. You're still dirt. We're still 42 00:04:32.400 --> 00:04:39.840 dirt. We were made of dirt. And Adam's body was there. Could you talk to Adam? Well, I guess you 43 00:04:39.840 --> 00:04:46.160 could talk to Adam. Would he say anything back? Nope. You could poke him. Nothing would happen. 44 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:55.040 There was no pulse until what happened. CPR, huh? God leaned over and it says that God breathed 45 00:04:55.840 --> 00:05:03.360 in the breath of the nostrils of Adam life. Can you imagine when his lungs filled for the first 46 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:09.920 moment, it was the breath of God. And mankind has had that existence ever since. Check this out. 47 00:05:10.880 --> 00:05:21.520 God created Adam out of dirt, but inserted within him the breath of God. And that is why man is 48 00:05:21.520 --> 00:05:28.800 created in the image of God. Man dreams. Man thinks. Man creates. Man 49 00:05:29.840 --> 00:05:35.200 invents. And it's quite remarkable. But we need to remember that as we get into this. 50 00:05:35.200 --> 00:05:41.280 Romans 6 verse 6 tells us knowing this that our old man was crucified with him. He's talking to 51 00:05:41.280 --> 00:05:47.360 believers. The old Jack was crucified with Jesus according to the plan of God that the body of 52 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:53.200 sin might be done away with. My body is not supposed to control my life. If it does, I'm enslaved 53 00:05:53.200 --> 00:06:01.280 to my body. I can't tell my body to sit down or to withhold this from my body. My body might 54 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:08.880 be screaming. And if, listen, without Christ, your body screams and demands things and you have 55 00:06:08.880 --> 00:06:18.400 no power to withhold from its demands. When lust appears, we go after it. If temper flares, 56 00:06:18.400 --> 00:06:26.880 we fulfill it. And it's going to continue that way unless we understand that a life with Jesus 57 00:06:26.960 --> 00:06:33.520 Christ causes us to have control over the old man. You see, I thought he was dead. He's dead, 58 00:06:33.520 --> 00:06:39.280 but he comes back every day. Sometimes multiple times in a day. And you've got to tell him where to 59 00:06:39.280 --> 00:06:47.760 go. That we should no longer be slaves of sin. Verse 7, for he who has died has been freed from 60 00:06:47.760 --> 00:06:53.520 sin. Is that not true? That's amazing. God wants you to look at your life Christian this way. 61 00:06:54.080 --> 00:07:01.840 Verse 7, for he who has died has been freed from sin. A dead person, you could go to 62 00:07:01.840 --> 00:07:09.680 Baskin Robbins and pass all of the flavors in front of a dead guy. Which one's he going to pick? 63 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:19.360 What's his favorite number? None. He's dead. True story, a guy drove, a guy died. He was supposed 64 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:26.720 to be buried in, he wanted to be buried in LA. The guy died in Texas. His friend put him in a 65 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:33.920 convertible car, set him up, put a cowboy hat on him, and drove him to LA. Dead guy. And the guy 66 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:38.160 even got pulled over by a cop and the cop never figured out. And it was a Cadillac convertible. 67 00:07:39.200 --> 00:07:44.800 The guy, the cop thought the guy was sleeping. The guy was dead. Can you imagine? Listen, 68 00:07:45.520 --> 00:07:49.760 when your flesh is dead to the demands of this world, it means that we're no longer held by the 69 00:07:49.760 --> 00:07:56.160 temptations of this world. So God works in the life of the believer by the Holy Spirit. And what 70 00:07:56.160 --> 00:08:01.760 happens to us is that we're able to say no to that temptation that would lead us into destruction. 71 00:08:04.320 --> 00:08:07.840 I don't want to get ugly or mean about this stuff, but listen, we need to grow up. 72 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:13.920 Amen. When people say, oh man, I love Jesus, but I just keep going back to this mud hole. 73 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:22.240 No, stop it. Just stop it. You keep going back to the mud hole because you love the mud hole 74 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:28.880 more than you love Jesus. Just be honest and say it. Well, I love going, but I just can't stop 75 00:08:28.880 --> 00:08:38.240 looking at porn. Oh, I have the answer for you. Stop talking about God because you love porn more 76 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:45.840 than you love God. You love that more than you fear. The heart of God. Well, I don't know what 77 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:53.680 happens, but this is every time it's because you love that thing more than God. You need to understand 78 00:08:53.680 --> 00:08:58.640 that he died on the cross that we can put the death of things that lead us into total destruction. 79 00:08:59.520 --> 00:09:08.880 And the danger about evil is that it doesn't show up with evil. I'm going to ruin your life. 80 00:09:09.920 --> 00:09:17.600 Man, it shows up attractive. It shows up slick. It shows up looking good. And it tricks people. 81 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:24.240 Luke 9, verse 23, alluded to this a moment ago, then Jesus said to them all, 82 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:29.680 if anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself. There's liberty and friends and 83 00:09:29.680 --> 00:09:37.440 denying yourself. Take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose 84 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:45.440 it. But whoever loses his life gives it to Christ. For my sake, we'll save it. It's remarkable. 85 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:51.680 So from chapter 5, verses 12 to 21, it says, though, that there's a drama being projected 86 00:09:51.680 --> 00:09:59.120 under the walls of the soul. And here the Bible is going to look inside of us. In Romans 3, 23, 87 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:07.200 the Bible says, for all of sinned and falls short of the glory of God. Humans, this is us. 88 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:13.040 And you're going to need to choose who you're going to follow in life, because my flesh, 89 00:10:13.040 --> 00:10:18.480 my flesh wants to follow all of the little shiny things. Look at that. 90 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:24.960 Oh, that smells nice. They'll shine anything. Oh, look, that's fast. Oh, that's big. 91 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:32.320 Oh, that's, we're enamored by that. And the flesh is like, and as a believer, I've got to say, 92 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:38.480 no, turn your eyes away. That's not good. Stop. Go the other direction. That's not, listen, 93 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:44.560 again, that's one of the great marks of being a believer. If you just lolligag right into the gate 94 00:10:44.560 --> 00:10:50.800 and get your head cut off, that's because you wanted to. There was no war. You're in the flesh. 95 00:10:51.520 --> 00:10:59.200 It's all you know. But Jesus bought back. He reclaimed. So Adam forefits the kingdom. 96 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:07.520 Imagine God said, Adam, look at it. Starts right here in Eden. Like, Eden was like his. Eden was, 97 00:11:07.520 --> 00:11:14.240 the earth was amazing, but Eden was like his house and backyard, you know. It's all yours, Adam. 98 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:21.360 You have dominion over it all. Go enjoy that. This is so good to you. I mean, it sounds amazing. 99 00:11:21.920 --> 00:11:30.400 And on top of the fact, I mean, he's got Eve. I mean, I'm assuming Adam was handsome and amazing. 100 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:39.200 I'm assuming Eve was an absolute knockout. And on top of it, they were naked. I mean, how great 101 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:49.440 is that? And they were in the garden. They were in a garden. Adam, where are you? 102 00:11:50.560 --> 00:11:58.000 Over here by the pomegranates or whatever, I don't know. Behind the avocado tree. Come catch me. 103 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:05.600 It had to be amazing. What's wrong with you? You can't wrap your mind around that. 104 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:17.680 That's from God, man. And Satan comes along and says, no, no. Let me tell you the truth. 105 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:22.400 And he lies. We hear that a lot today, by the way. We're going to tell you the truth. 106 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:30.480 We have a report just in. The experts have now declared, does anybody believe 107 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:40.960 anything anymore? No. No way. Remarkable. Which, by the way, I think is a setup for what's coming. 108 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:46.720 Because Jesus said the Bible says there's a day coming when people someone's going to say something. 109 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:55.920 And the Bible says the world will believe the lie. Remarkable. But listen, God brought it back. 110 00:12:56.640 --> 00:13:03.600 Brought it back. And he bought it back. Second Corinthians 5, 17 says, therefore, if anyone is in 111 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:08.480 Christ, he's a new creation. You know, it's amazing about that statement. You can't have a new 112 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:16.640 creation unless you have an old one. In other words, we're moving off. We're leaving off from Adam. 113 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:22.080 And we're following Christ. That's what we're going to be learning these next few weeks. 114 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:29.120 Revelation 21.5, incredible verse. Then he who sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. 115 00:13:29.680 --> 00:13:34.480 Don't you love new things? Let's be honest. Don't you love the smell of new carpet? 116 00:13:35.680 --> 00:13:41.040 Don't you love the sight of a new day? Have you noticed that you've got burdens on one night 117 00:13:41.520 --> 00:13:45.360 and you go to bed, you sleep on it, you wake up the next morning and there's something 118 00:13:46.160 --> 00:13:55.360 easier about the problems, newness. We love that. It springs hope inside of us. 119 00:13:56.160 --> 00:13:59.600 And God says there's going to be a new day. But listen, right now, right where you're at, 120 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:06.960 the Bible says you can become a new creation in Christ Jesus. It's all on the inside. It's not 121 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:12.000 a kingdom yet that's on earth. It's a kingdom that begins first in the human heart and soul. 122 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:17.360 They ask Jesus when's your kingdom coming? We want to see it. 123 00:14:18.800 --> 00:14:25.680 And he said the kingdom doesn't come like that. You don't say the kingdom is here or the kingdom 124 00:14:25.680 --> 00:14:34.800 is there. He says the kingdom is among you because the kingdom comes inside of you. That's where 125 00:14:34.800 --> 00:14:40.720 he begins right now. There's a day coming. Hallelujah, right? There's a day coming when he 126 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:47.280 physically returns to establish his earthly kingdom. But right now we have that experience, 127 00:14:47.280 --> 00:14:55.040 we have that politic now of Christ in us, the hope of glory. And then in 1 Corinthians 15, 24, 128 00:14:55.040 --> 00:15:01.200 the Bible says then comes the end, the end of the world. When he delivers the kingdom to God, 129 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:07.600 the Father, when he puts an end, here it is, to all rule, all authority and power. That's earthly 130 00:15:07.680 --> 00:15:12.880 powers. Aren't you glad? Can you imagine all these people in the global world pushing people around? 131 00:15:14.560 --> 00:15:24.160 Jesus is coming back. Because power misses with you. And so people who are in power, they begin to 132 00:15:24.160 --> 00:15:33.040 believe strange things about themselves. It's actually known as megalomania. They have delusions 133 00:15:33.040 --> 00:15:39.920 of grandeur and authority about themselves. There are many people today who know Bill Gates who are 134 00:15:39.920 --> 00:15:48.320 saying he's literally not mentally fit. The problem is Bill Gates is the largest landowner in the 135 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:54.160 United States of America now. He's got a lot of power. Why? How did that happen? He's full of 136 00:15:54.400 --> 00:16:02.000 himself. That's one of the curses about power or influence. You can become drunk. And that's an 137 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:09.680 ancient issue regarding the human soul without God. God's on the throne. And right here the Bible says 138 00:16:09.680 --> 00:16:14.800 there's a day coming when the kingdom of God will be delivered to the Father. That's a reference to 139 00:16:14.800 --> 00:16:24.160 eternity. And all the earthly powers will be unseated. I don't know about you, but this is an election 140 00:16:24.160 --> 00:16:31.120 year. I just love the thought of that. These people who think, I mean, they will tell you what to do. 141 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:35.920 We're going to tell you what to believe. And you can't do this. And you sit down and remember, 142 00:16:35.920 --> 00:16:41.920 you elected me. So I'm going to tell you what to do. And there's going to be a day. Somebody's 143 00:16:41.920 --> 00:16:52.800 going to say, Jim, I am, I am, I am Chuck Schumer. I'm Nancy Pelosi. I'm, well, I don't know 144 00:16:52.800 --> 00:17:01.600 whoever insert the name that you have in your head. And God's going to go, who? Can you imagine? 145 00:17:01.600 --> 00:17:06.240 Think about that. People think they're so big. People think they're so powerful. 146 00:17:07.040 --> 00:17:15.520 Some day the entire Congress, the entire Senate, the presidency, the parliament in England, 147 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:22.720 all the kings and power brokers of the world will one day bow their knee. And the Bible says, 148 00:17:23.360 --> 00:17:26.640 the Bible says they're going to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. 149 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:32.800 They're going to confess Jesus Christ is Lord. I just wonder sometimes if before they confess 150 00:17:32.800 --> 00:17:38.000 that, that's what's written in the Bible. I'm wondering if they say, I thought I was Lord. 151 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:42.880 But it turns out Jesus is Lord. What a wake-up call. 152 00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:47.760 Absolutely remarkable. 153 00:17:50.080 --> 00:17:55.040 Romans 12 verses 1 and 2 says, and so dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you 154 00:17:55.680 --> 00:18:02.640 to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and 155 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:09.280 holy sacrifice, thus our title in this series, the kind he will find acceptable. 156 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:16.640 This is truly the way to worship him. Don't copy the behavior and customs of the world. Look 157 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:23.120 at verse 2. Hello, everybody. Did you go? You all see that? Don't copy the behavior and customs 158 00:18:23.120 --> 00:18:31.760 of this world. Period. Think of that. But let God transform you into a new person by changing the 159 00:18:31.760 --> 00:18:38.960 way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. 160 00:18:39.760 --> 00:18:45.520 What a tremendous statement this is. In fact, I think verse 2 is like a woke detector. 161 00:18:45.840 --> 00:18:51.520 Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world. 162 00:18:56.240 --> 00:19:01.120 This Jack Hibbs podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, are listener 163 00:19:01.120 --> 00:19:08.320 supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? Go to jackhibbs.com 164 00:19:08.320 --> 00:19:17.600 to learn more and stay connected.