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 --> 00:00:11.040 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Every single one of us in 3 00:00:11.040 --> 00:00:15.560 conjunction with all that we've talked about have this part of us every day 4 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:19.880 there's the old part of you that wants to take control. Are you a Christian? 5 00:00:19.880 --> 00:00:24.320 Yes, you're a Christian. Hallelujah, but you're not in heaven yet. But the proof 6 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:28.560 that you're a Christian is the war that you're involved in with yourself. That's 7 00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:32.520 the battle of the believer. That's proof that Jesus Christ lives inside of you 8 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:37.200 by the Holy Spirit. Are you at war with all of those things that you want 9 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:40.280 you to live for? 10 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:47.640 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 11 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:52.960 Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 12 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:57.640 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To 13 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:03.000 us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to 14 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:08.520 listen. Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack 15 00:01:08.520 --> 00:01:13.440 Hibbs. Philippians chapter four verses eight and nine. Finally, my brother and 16 00:01:13.440 --> 00:01:18.840 whatever things are true or whatever things are noble. Whatever things are just 17 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:23.440 by the way, just like Frisk Ruthians 13, you can put Jesus's name in here. True 18 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:30.040 Jesus, noble. Yep, his name goes there too. Just, mm-hmm. Pure. That's him. Whatever 19 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:34.480 things are lovely. Yep. Again, whatever things are of a good report, that's right. 20 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:39.920 If there is any virtue, if there is anything praiseworthy, meditate on these 21 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:44.960 things. Verse nine, the things which you learned, pulsed to them and received and 22 00:01:44.960 --> 00:01:51.520 heard and saw in me. Wow, what a witness. These do and the God of peace will be 23 00:01:51.520 --> 00:01:57.160 with you. In other words, God will bless obedience every time we choose to obey 24 00:01:57.160 --> 00:02:04.400 God instead of our anger, our emotions. It ends well. Secondly is in verse 20 and 25 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:11.640 that is that coming to the end of us is that we guard against being bitter. We 26 00:02:11.640 --> 00:02:16.680 who are bitter bitterness. Boy, this is a big one. How do you fight and ward off 27 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:21.920 bitterness? And you think about this, for example, Jesus Christ was the epitome of 28 00:02:21.920 --> 00:02:27.400 all that is good. All was Jesus in the Bible. You've read, you've read the 29 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:31.800 Bible. You've read the prophecies about him. You've read many of those prophecies 30 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:36.520 being fulfilled as they plucked out his beard, ripped open his back, crucified him 31 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:41.320 through his hands and his feet, pierced him in the side, ripped his skin open by 32 00:02:41.320 --> 00:02:45.080 the cut with the Roman cat of nine tails, spit on him, put the crown of 33 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:54.600 thorns on him, beat him, then blindfolded him and slapped him. Was Jesus ever 34 00:02:54.600 --> 00:03:04.240 once? Is there any indication that he became bitter? Never once. In fact, from 35 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:10.320 the cross, what they do, Father, forgive them. They know not what they do. I submit 36 00:03:10.320 --> 00:03:15.360 you today that you and I could never have done that. Only the Holy Spirit, only 37 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:24.800 Christ, only God can do that. Because we would have been angry. And yet Jesus, for 38 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:31.240 God's great plan of redemption of eternal life as an offer to you to make that 39 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:36.800 decision of your own willfully. And it must be by you willfully, personally. He 40 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:42.680 provided that path for you. Listen, friends, bitterness will destroy you. Listen, 41 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:46.400 Satan lies to us and he says things like this. Don't ever forgive them for what 42 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:51.680 they did to you. You just, you know, never let them have the satisfaction of 43 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:56.200 knowing. You know what happens? You start thinking about what they did. Think 44 00:03:56.200 --> 00:03:58.280 about it. You get up in the morning, you start thinking about what they did to 45 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:02.080 you. You think about all day long what they did to you. You know what happens? The 46 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:05.920 Bible says a little root of bitterness begins to sprout up and it begins to 47 00:04:05.920 --> 00:04:14.160 defile you. The Bible tells us that bitterness can destroy an entire church because 48 00:04:14.160 --> 00:04:22.680 it spreads like a cancer. Bitterness. Therefore, if your enemy is hungry, starve 49 00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:33.240 them. That's what bitterness would do. No, feed them. You want to counter the 50 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:39.320 temptation to be bitter? Feed your enemy. Man, don't miss this next part here. God 51 00:04:39.320 --> 00:04:44.160 gave you an idea ability to forgive those who have sinned against us so we don't 52 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:52.200 become bitter. Don't believe the lie to think that you cannot forgive that 53 00:04:52.200 --> 00:04:56.240 person because you're not going to let them have the satisfaction of knowing 54 00:04:56.240 --> 00:05:03.160 that. You completely flubbed it up. God gave you the ability to release that 55 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:08.320 person's control over your life because you issue forgiveness to them though you 56 00:05:08.320 --> 00:05:14.040 may never see them again. They might even be dead and there's a weight that they 57 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:18.920 hold over you. There's a cloud they hold over you. You know why? How can they do 58 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:24.080 that? Think about it. How right is being said is you can prove it. They're dead, 59 00:05:24.080 --> 00:05:30.120 they're gone. Why are you angry? Why are you bitter? Why are you hurt? Because you 60 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:36.880 are the one allowing them the deceased to still control you. Why would you do 61 00:05:36.880 --> 00:05:41.800 that? God gave you the ability to forgive others even if they're dead so that 62 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:48.680 you can go free from their control. It's liberating and you won't grow bitter. 63 00:05:48.840 --> 00:05:54.160 There won't be that little hook, that little. You know when you have, you can have 64 00:05:54.160 --> 00:06:01.040 the greatest pair of shoes which I'm at my age now. You know I've already got you 65 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:05.400 all the greatest shoes are sold at I don't know shoes stores but is it 66 00:06:05.400 --> 00:06:10.280 Nordstroms? They sell nice stuff. Is it Nordstroms or Aldo? Is that is you know 67 00:06:10.280 --> 00:06:15.560 what's nice? I guess if Gucci makes shoes do they Gucci shoes? Oh you got to 68 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:20.120 have Gucci shoes. So what? How comfortable are they? See it's great being 69 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:24.280 old. I don't care if it's Gucci shoes. I don't care what it is. You know what I 70 00:06:24.280 --> 00:06:31.680 have found out? I have found out that sketches are awesome. You want to know? And 71 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:37.120 they just keep getting awesomer. Here's the proof. They're really they're really 72 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:41.160 Gucci and stuff on your face. It's just like oh this is fantastic feeling. And 73 00:06:41.200 --> 00:06:48.400 then when you thought this can't get any better, they invent the slip-in. You don't 74 00:06:48.400 --> 00:06:53.800 even have to bend over to put your shoes on. You just slip in instant comfort and 75 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:59.320 somebody looks at says you're wearing sketches. I go that's right man slip-ins. They're 76 00:06:59.320 --> 00:07:03.840 awesome. They're amazing. Oh yeah well go ahead and wear your sketches. I'm wearing 77 00:07:03.840 --> 00:07:07.800 these you know million-dollar Gucci shoes and they and they walk away and 78 00:07:07.840 --> 00:07:12.840 they're feet are hurting. I'm okay with that. If that's how you want to live 79 00:07:12.840 --> 00:07:17.600 really do you want to live like that? I forget what the saying is in Israel but 80 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:22.560 it's a beautiful saying but it's it means this. The guys got the best shoes in 81 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:29.200 the world but he's got a pebble in his shoe. How is that? You can have the best 82 00:07:29.200 --> 00:07:32.240 shoes in the world but if there's a little pebble in your shoe you're in 83 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:37.480 pain. You can be the best of the best but because you haven't given it to 84 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:44.880 Jesus you're still carrying it. You got a pebble in your heart. Don't be like 85 00:07:44.880 --> 00:07:50.400 that. Colossians 3 verse 12. Therefore as the elect of God holy and 86 00:07:50.400 --> 00:07:55.480 beloved this is the believer this is you put on tender mercies kindness humility 87 00:07:55.480 --> 00:08:01.560 meekness long-suffering. You'll be free from bitterness. Hebrews chapter 12 88 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:07.720 verse 15. Looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God lest any 89 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:13.720 root of bitterness spring up cause trouble and by this many become defiled and 90 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:19.600 then finally church it's this. It's verse 21. When we consider are we busted 91 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:25.720 or we broken we need to come to the end of ourselves come to the end of us we 92 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:32.200 who are evil we who are evil and immediately there's the temptation in your 93 00:08:32.200 --> 00:08:38.360 mind to say something like we'll speak for yourself faster. I'm talking about 94 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:44.360 the evil that is you and the evil that is me. Let me be more specific. The evil 95 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:52.280 that is you that is native to you. The evil that is me that is native to me. 96 00:08:55.560 --> 00:09:01.880 Every single one of us in conjunction with all that we've talked about have 97 00:09:01.880 --> 00:09:07.320 this part of us every day. Listen every day there's the old part of you that 98 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:13.680 wants to take control. Are you a Christian? Yes you're a Christian. Hallelujah. But 99 00:09:13.680 --> 00:09:17.880 you're not in heaven yet. But the proof that you're a Christian is the war that 100 00:09:17.880 --> 00:09:24.040 you're involved in with yourself. You got admit you most often war against 101 00:09:24.040 --> 00:09:28.760 yourself. Isn't that what Paul the Apostle said in Romans chapter 7. Paul said in 102 00:09:28.760 --> 00:09:33.200 Romans chapter 7 the very thing that I do not want to do that's the thing I 103 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:38.560 wind up doing. The thing that I hate is the thing that I wind up saying or doing. 104 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:43.680 And then he says who shall deliver me from this body of sin and death. Notice 105 00:09:43.680 --> 00:09:50.080 Paul put the blame where the blame was due. Who shall deliver me from this body? See 106 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:54.680 you've been born again if you've trusted Christ. If you believe Jesus died for 107 00:09:54.680 --> 00:09:57.840 you and the cross and rules again from the dead that you're a sinner but he's 108 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:01.680 the savior you've received him into your life you've said I'm gonna walk with 109 00:10:01.680 --> 00:10:08.640 Jesus now. You're new. But why the trouble? Why the problems? Oh because the old 110 00:10:08.640 --> 00:10:16.280 you is still hanging around the new you. It's the you. It's the two of you. You know 111 00:10:16.280 --> 00:10:21.960 the two of you like the two of me. The two of me is this. I'll give it I'll tell 112 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:27.640 you here's the two of me. So I told you so I've gained so much weight lately. I 113 00:10:27.640 --> 00:10:31.140 got a bet. I got to knock this off. I've been needing too much bread. You know 114 00:10:31.140 --> 00:10:33.980 when you're in a hurry you just throw stuff down your mouth. You don't. And 115 00:10:33.980 --> 00:10:38.480 traveling's terrible. It breaks up your routine. So it's like I got to go 116 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:44.420 out of this way. I'm hungry. I'll pull over. And so no more bread. No more of that 117 00:10:44.420 --> 00:10:50.900 stuff. Okay. So yesterday we had to yesterday was our appointment to walk the 118 00:10:50.900 --> 00:11:00.460 plank. It was our tax day. You know they call it taxes but I think I think it's 119 00:11:00.460 --> 00:11:08.900 really tithing. It's tithing to these gods called politicians. But that's a 120 00:11:08.900 --> 00:11:15.940 message for some other day. So we walked the plank. We did the thing and so we're 121 00:11:15.940 --> 00:11:19.980 driving home and we saw this place and I don't know French but it was it was 122 00:11:19.980 --> 00:11:25.780 something like douche la douche. And we saw it. Hey what's that? And then in 123 00:11:25.780 --> 00:11:32.740 English underneath it said bakery and cafe. And I had just told Lisa earlier. I 124 00:11:32.740 --> 00:11:37.060 asked her earlier. I said you want to get some coffee? She goes yes. This is just 125 00:11:37.060 --> 00:11:44.380 fine to coffee place. And so you know we didn't understand that part but we 126 00:11:44.380 --> 00:11:50.460 saw the word cafe. So we pulled in there and you can't see inside. We couldn't 127 00:11:50.460 --> 00:11:55.100 see inside. We opened the door and the first thing this pastry smell hits you in 128 00:11:55.100 --> 00:12:00.900 the face. I'm going to tell you where the place is at some other time. I'm 129 00:12:00.900 --> 00:12:12.540 protecting you from yourself. We walk in and it's amazing. And right there in 130 00:12:12.540 --> 00:12:17.460 front when you walk in there's these trays with these spoons for you to pick up 131 00:12:17.460 --> 00:12:27.940 these and it's like immediately. I had said no more bread. And then you walk in 132 00:12:27.940 --> 00:12:36.940 and we're totally innocent. Coffee. We're gonna get coffee. Oh. The coffee was 133 00:12:36.940 --> 00:12:43.020 over there. You had to go through. Look when I tell you about it and you'll go 134 00:12:43.020 --> 00:12:48.820 there because you're evil like me. You're gonna see how smart Satan is. He put 135 00:12:48.820 --> 00:12:52.660 the coffee down there and you got to go through a gauntlet of pastries and they're 136 00:12:52.660 --> 00:12:56.660 all European which is the best in the world. Americans do not know how to do 137 00:12:56.660 --> 00:13:00.860 pastries like Europeans. And there's the chocolate avalanche and there was 138 00:13:00.860 --> 00:13:05.340 this the apple explosion and it was all this like my goodness. And we're going 139 00:13:05.340 --> 00:13:10.980 like this. And so there's a tray and there's a tray with this spoon that you 140 00:13:10.980 --> 00:13:17.900 pick things up and I'm thinking boy we got you know we have to blend in. And so 141 00:13:17.900 --> 00:13:21.560 we're just like well this is my you know I'm gonna try this. We actually 142 00:13:21.560 --> 00:13:25.100 sit this to do ourselves to each other. You know why don't we try this one and 143 00:13:25.100 --> 00:13:28.340 we can because they really like that and our granddaughter likes this the 144 00:13:28.340 --> 00:13:32.300 grandsons and then our friends. They like one of those raspberry. We'll try 145 00:13:32.300 --> 00:13:37.460 that. We'll try it for them and we'll report back to them. And we had this 146 00:13:37.460 --> 00:13:43.820 thing. We got our drinks. We sat down and it's like oh wow all this and then 147 00:13:43.820 --> 00:13:47.540 guess what by the time we got to the car this is what came out of our mouth. Why 148 00:13:47.540 --> 00:13:53.100 did we do that? What is wrong with us? And I told her I'm not eating bread 149 00:13:53.100 --> 00:13:58.460 anymore. I'm gonna tell you. Listen our flesh there's a part of our flesh that 150 00:13:58.460 --> 00:14:04.020 is saying let's do this. And then there's the part that's new that's saying we 151 00:14:04.020 --> 00:14:08.860 don't need that. We don't need that. Sit down. We don't need that. That's the 152 00:14:08.860 --> 00:14:12.740 battle of the believer. That's proof that Jesus Christ lives inside of you by 153 00:14:12.740 --> 00:14:17.640 the Holy Spirit. Are you at war with all of those things that you once used to 154 00:14:17.640 --> 00:14:26.220 live for? Evil. Don't think that evil is some maniac with a chainsaw and a 155 00:14:26.220 --> 00:14:35.820 hockey-masked face. I think it's Joanna Michelson who wrote the book The 156 00:14:35.820 --> 00:14:42.840 Beautiful Side of Evil about witchcraft and those little things that are 157 00:14:42.840 --> 00:14:52.680 silly little games are demonically engineered to hook you. Wow. Well friends. 158 00:14:53.180 --> 00:14:58.980 Psalm 34-18 says the Lord is near to those who have a broken heart and give 159 00:14:58.980 --> 00:15:06.020 such as have a contrite spirit. Can you be honest enough with yourself to say to 160 00:15:06.020 --> 00:15:13.200 yourself you have sinned against the Almighty God? You have offended God? You have 161 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:24.320 broken his law and you just go down the Ten Commandments, sexually immoral, 162 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:32.760 idol worshiping, having to live for things. That's your identity. If this 163 00:15:32.760 --> 00:15:37.040 thing's out of your life you don't know what you're going to do with yourself. 164 00:15:37.040 --> 00:15:47.060 Honoring others, honoring your parents and you get convicted. That conviction you 165 00:15:47.060 --> 00:15:49.960 should thank God. If you don't understand you should thank God that the Holy 166 00:15:49.960 --> 00:15:55.480 Spirit is still trying to reach you by conviction. Some people listen, some people 167 00:15:55.480 --> 00:15:58.120 hear the words I'm saying right now and these scriptures that I'm saying right 168 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:03.280 now and all they can think about is going to the pastry cafe store. They have 169 00:16:03.280 --> 00:16:11.320 no, they just don't care. They just want out of here. Then there's some of you 170 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:16.360 that it's actually stabbing you in the heart and you're saying I feel like 171 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:20.980 God's got a searchlight going on inside my soul. If that's you that's him 172 00:16:20.980 --> 00:16:27.560 speaking to you and you should be very happy that you feel so bad because he's 173 00:16:27.560 --> 00:16:33.560 saying I love you and I'm angry with the wicked every day but I'm calling you 174 00:16:33.560 --> 00:16:41.800 out into my family. Please say yes to me. Come to me. I'm not willing that any 175 00:16:41.800 --> 00:16:47.300 should perish but that all should come to me and you should respond to him. You 176 00:16:47.300 --> 00:16:53.760 should say yes to him and that's a very very powerful truth. I leave you with 177 00:16:53.760 --> 00:17:01.840 this. Psalm 51 says by the way I'm gonna read Psalm 51. David wrote it after he 178 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:11.720 got busted after he got broken. These are the words of a man who got caught and then 179 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:16.080 took his guilt before God. Are you guilty? Listen, don't say anything. Just think 180 00:17:16.080 --> 00:17:20.080 this through. Are you getting caught right now by the Holy Spirit? Nobody knows 181 00:17:20.080 --> 00:17:25.840 what you're doing and the Holy Spirit saying fix this now. You're busted. What 182 00:17:25.840 --> 00:17:30.520 you do with it right now will determine if you stay busted or if you're broken. 183 00:17:30.520 --> 00:17:36.400 If you're broken you'll live forever. If you're broken you'll come to him and to 184 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:41.120 be broken is what David shows us here in Psalm 51. Have mercy upon me. Oh God 185 00:17:41.120 --> 00:17:45.000 according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender 186 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:50.520 mercies, blood out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and 187 00:17:50.520 --> 00:17:55.640 cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions. That's called 188 00:17:55.640 --> 00:18:02.520 confession and my sin is always before me against you and you only have I 189 00:18:02.520 --> 00:18:08.520 sinned and done this evil in your site. Verse 10. Creating me a clean heart 190 00:18:08.520 --> 00:18:17.320 oh God and renew a steadfast spirit within me. And then finally Psalm 147 verse 191 00:18:17.320 --> 00:18:24.440 3. The Psalmist writes, he heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds. 192 00:18:24.440 --> 00:18:27.800 This is our God. 193 00:18:30.120 --> 00:18:34.800 This Jack Kibb's podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are 194 00:18:34.800 --> 00:18:38.960 listener supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special 195 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:46.560 gift? Go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected.