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 --> 00:00:09.440 truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. 3 00:00:09.440 --> 00:00:13.360 Hey good news everybody, God is sovereign, you don't need to vote. 4 00:00:13.360 --> 00:00:17.360 Stay tuned, find out how that turns out. 5 00:00:20.400 --> 00:00:26.960 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 6 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:32.800 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 7 00:00:32.800 --> 00:00:36.080 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 8 00:00:36.080 --> 00:00:42.000 To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 9 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:46.080 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. 10 00:00:46.080 --> 00:00:47.520 Here is Jack Hibbs. 11 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:54.400 Hey everybody, I know that it's a scary day. 12 00:00:55.360 --> 00:01:01.840 It's October 31st, 2024, and yeah, for pagans, did you know that? 13 00:01:01.840 --> 00:01:06.640 For pagans, it's a scary day. 14 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:12.640 So pagan, paganism, October 31st, but for Christians, did you know that today 15 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:18.480 is Reformation Day? Reformation. 16 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:21.520 Isn't it funny how life is right? 17 00:01:21.520 --> 00:01:24.560 It's so true for all of us, it depends on where you plant your attention. 18 00:01:25.600 --> 00:01:27.600 Oh, it's Halloween spooky. 19 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:37.120 And yeah, no, October 31st is the celebration, the reflection, the contemplation, 20 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:44.560 the thanks for God moving in the Reformation period with the reformers. 21 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:50.480 When he used people like John Hus and Wickcliffe and then onward, 22 00:01:51.280 --> 00:02:01.600 Zwingli and Calvin and Luther and awakened the church by the word of God. 23 00:02:01.600 --> 00:02:03.040 Now all these men were flawed. 24 00:02:03.600 --> 00:02:06.960 All these men were just like you and I, except they were brilliant. 25 00:02:07.440 --> 00:02:13.040 But you know, listen, all of us have our spiritual blindspot, you have them. 26 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:15.360 I have them, every human does. 27 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:20.640 And that is, there's areas where we fail. 28 00:02:20.640 --> 00:02:27.280 We see things differently, maybe in a way that in time proves that we were wrong in this 29 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:30.160 particular understanding because we're flawed. 30 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:36.160 So yeah, you know what, all of the greats, knocks, right? 31 00:02:37.760 --> 00:02:41.120 Andrew, Bernard, I mean, you can go on and on. 32 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:47.840 Spurgeon and JC Ryle, all of these greats that we love reading. 33 00:02:49.200 --> 00:02:51.040 I like to look at it this way, you guys. 34 00:02:51.040 --> 00:02:56.800 When I'm preparing for a message, I like to think that more than me reading these 35 00:02:56.880 --> 00:03:04.080 guys, which by the way, I don't read, when I'm studying for scripture, I get my messages together, 36 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:12.800 my sermons together first, just me and the Lord, Bible and blank sheet of paper and a pen. 37 00:03:14.640 --> 00:03:19.840 And that usually takes a long time and then I confirm my theology by reading the ancients. 38 00:03:19.920 --> 00:03:21.120 I don't read modern guys. 39 00:03:23.040 --> 00:03:27.440 If they're not dead, they're not red is the way I view it. 40 00:03:27.440 --> 00:03:31.280 And so I don't want to read anybody's going to change their mind later. 41 00:03:32.320 --> 00:03:38.160 But reformation day, but today's October 31st, and I'm going to be talking about something pretty 42 00:03:38.160 --> 00:03:43.840 spooky. And I'm going to be talking about the spookiness of the stupidity of the church. 43 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:48.480 I don't know if that should be our title or not, or the spookiness of the suicide of an influencer. 44 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:54.480 The suicide of the influencer would be the Christian at a time like this. 45 00:03:54.480 --> 00:04:00.880 We are coming up on the vote. This is unlike any other vote. You should know that right now. 46 00:04:00.880 --> 00:04:04.640 Even if you hate me, but you somehow tuned in because a lot of weird people tune in 47 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:10.800 to my podcast just to say or to write mean and ugly stuff and that's fine because I actually 48 00:04:11.440 --> 00:04:14.720 outgrew all that stuff and it's okay with me. 49 00:04:15.600 --> 00:04:24.000 But we're coming up on an election here in a few days and the Christian is arguing, 50 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:30.000 I'm not voting. I'm not voting. I actually don't fall for that. I actually hear this when you 51 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:34.960 say it to me. I'm not voting, Pastor. Here's what I, when you say that, this is how it lands in my 52 00:04:34.960 --> 00:04:43.760 ears. I'm lazy. I'm disengaged. My witness is worthless. My light's gone out. My salt is dead. 53 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:53.120 I'm too much of a Pharisee to vote. I would never get involved in this. 54 00:04:54.960 --> 00:05:00.640 Man, I'm so grateful you were not around in the days of George Washington or for that matter. 55 00:05:03.440 --> 00:05:09.280 William Bradford in the pilgrims because you would have been dead weight, man. You would have been 56 00:05:10.080 --> 00:05:19.280 well, you would have committed suicide of being an influencer. You could have influenced someone 57 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:25.360 for what's good and you chose not to do that. Listen, if you're still with me now after that 58 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:33.040 little exhortation, I want to bring some more light as you're right down to the line. We're 59 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:37.520 right down to the line. So I wrote some notes out here which I don't usually do all this much. 60 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:42.560 But I want you to write these down. Or if you're driving right now, if you're flying right now, 61 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:47.520 you won't get a chance, maybe to write them down. But you can review this later. Please 62 00:05:47.520 --> 00:05:54.960 and share it with others. Please, please, please. So we are coming up on the election and on October 63 00:05:54.960 --> 00:06:02.080 20th, 2024, not all that long ago, about 11 days ago, I delivered a message that was titled, 64 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:10.800 I forgot the title. When Christians fail to vote, something like that. When Christians fail to 65 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:15.600 vote, it doesn't matter. It's going to be available in the link. You can get it at the link 66 00:06:16.400 --> 00:06:26.000 in the description that's popping up or that will show up for you. I made some statements that are 67 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:31.120 not only factually true for our founding fathers because I quoted them in mass. 68 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:39.280 But it's also true biblically. And tons of people loved it, tons of people hated it, 69 00:06:39.280 --> 00:06:44.000 all of them claim to be Christians. So what's the deal? What's the deal? 70 00:06:45.440 --> 00:06:51.680 So first of all, it was heavily based upon Matthew chapter 25. Even though I didn't physically 71 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:58.640 read that, Matthew chapter 25 begins like this. For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling 72 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:06.080 to a far country. Jesus is speaking of himself, by the way, who called his own servants and delivered 73 00:07:06.080 --> 00:07:12.080 his goods to them. Imagine him giving you what are the goods that Jesus gave you, by the way? 74 00:07:12.080 --> 00:07:18.800 Forget salvation. That's already implied. Has nothing to a salvation. He's going away. He gave 75 00:07:18.960 --> 00:07:25.280 you some goods. You need to ask yourself, what are the goods that you have from Jesus? 76 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:35.680 And so into one, he gave five talents to another, he gave two, and to another, he gave one, 77 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:43.760 to each according to his own ability. And immediately he went on his journey. That's awesome. 78 00:07:43.840 --> 00:07:49.040 The guy who had the guy that has one, he shouldn't be looking at the guy that has five or the guy 79 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:53.360 that has three. How come I don't have three? How come I don't have five? Because you're going to 80 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:58.240 find out that the knucklehead that had one couldn't even do anything with his one. So a lot of people 81 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:06.880 like that today, they have one moment, one moment given to them by God to possibly influence 82 00:08:06.880 --> 00:08:14.480 America, the church, and the world for good, and maybe even save a baby's life and they won't take it. 83 00:08:15.280 --> 00:08:19.840 So why would they get three from God? Or why would they get five from God when they can't 84 00:08:19.840 --> 00:08:27.360 even do the one that they have? Keep that in mind. And so likewise, he who had two gained, oh so 85 00:08:27.440 --> 00:08:36.880 when he was away, they invested. So when they received the talents, they traded with others and 86 00:08:36.880 --> 00:08:47.680 they multiplied them. So the three guy made three more and the five, he made more and on it goes, 87 00:08:47.680 --> 00:08:54.560 I should say the two, not the three. And the point is the guy that has one, he's actually the 88 00:08:54.560 --> 00:09:00.800 epicenter of the entire parable. But each of the guys who had what they had invested what they had, 89 00:09:00.800 --> 00:09:07.600 they took their talent, which by the way, a talent, we get bogged down, a talent is our 90 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:13.280 pendulum swings to both sides and we miss it completely. A talent is not how good you can play 91 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:28.560 your violin. And the talent is not, it's not some stack of gold, weighing a certain amount. No, 92 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:38.000 look at it this way. A talent, a talent, three or five is the opportunity. A talent would be 93 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:43.680 an opportunity. To one man, he gave one opportunity to another man, he gave two opportunities or three 94 00:09:43.680 --> 00:09:50.160 opportunities to another man, he gave five, he gave them whatever you have, whatever I have, 95 00:09:50.160 --> 00:09:55.840 God gave it to you, guy gave it to me and what influence you and I have is different for a reason. 96 00:09:56.480 --> 00:10:01.440 What are you doing with your influence? Because you do have one no matter who you might be. You might 97 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:07.920 be at the bottom of Antarctica right now with three scientists researching and you're watching this 98 00:10:07.920 --> 00:10:13.680 right now. Guess who you can influence? The two people that you know, not to mention those that 99 00:10:13.680 --> 00:10:20.800 are in your social media world. And so I'm going to paraphrase this. So Jesus goes away, he comes back 100 00:10:20.800 --> 00:10:26.320 and at the time he returns, he says, all right, everybody line up. Give an account. It's time to 101 00:10:27.040 --> 00:10:34.000 show me what you did with the goods that I gave you. All right, you who I gave five, how to go. 102 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:41.200 I took the five you gave me, invested it, made a big influence, got five more. Jesus says, well done, 103 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:47.520 that'll good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of the Lord. All right, next guy. Yes, sir. 104 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:55.600 You gave me two and I took the two and I doubled it and I got four. Well done, that'll 105 00:10:55.600 --> 00:11:02.320 good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of the Lord. All right, you I gave you one. Let's see 106 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:16.560 what you did with one. Oh, well, Lord, I knew that you were stern and that you demand a harvest where 107 00:11:16.560 --> 00:11:26.480 you've not planted and results where you have not set up that opportunity. I know that you're 108 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:37.200 tough and that you're hard. And so rather than do anything, I buried it under the ground. So I buried 109 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:48.080 my talent. I buried my opportunity. Let's get to the crux. I buried my vote by not voting at all 110 00:11:49.040 --> 00:11:56.320 because I knew you're tough because you're going to judge me and you're holy and you gather where 111 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:02.240 you've not sown and you take in that which you've not harvest. And so you don't mess around. 112 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:10.640 And so I just buried it. So let's like this. So I buried it. So here it is. And Jesus said that 113 00:12:10.640 --> 00:12:18.400 that mastery, speaking of them of of himself now to you and me, Jesus says to the guy that buried his 114 00:12:18.400 --> 00:12:25.520 vote, he should have at least put it in the bank while I was away so it would collect interest at 115 00:12:25.520 --> 00:12:37.840 least. You wicked servant you depart from me into outer darkness. You unprofitable servant. 116 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:48.160 You ruined it. That guy got an unbelievable trouble. So are you saying Pastor Jack that if I don't 117 00:12:48.160 --> 00:12:59.120 vote that I'm in trouble with God, let me put it this way. If some beast was raping a 15 year old 118 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:07.360 girl on the street corner of fifth and main and you drive by and you pull over and you start 119 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:13.840 video recording it and saying how terrible this is. Did you know that when they do the investigation, 120 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:20.480 you're going to be held liable to some degree. Listen, I don't know where you live, but the county 121 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:29.680 that I live in that issues concealed weapons permits. We were all told that if you come upon a crime 122 00:13:31.040 --> 00:13:36.080 that is a crime of life and death and rape was the actual topic by the way, rape. 123 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:46.320 The county said, if you do not with this concealed weapons permit eliminate the danger, the evil that 124 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:53.360 is taking place, the county will hold you responsible for not getting involved to save that girl's life. 125 00:13:55.680 --> 00:14:04.080 Wow. Wow. So listen, do you think the Christian has the right, the opportunity, the authority to 126 00:14:04.080 --> 00:14:11.360 sit out voting when Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party are not only demonized. You say, how 127 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:17.520 could you say that? It's so easy. At the national convention for the Democrat Party, true or false, 128 00:14:17.520 --> 00:14:24.720 did they have trucks, medical unit trucks out at the parking lot of the DNC performing abortions 129 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:35.280 during the DNC? DNC? Oh my gosh, DNC, Democrat national convention slash they were offering free 130 00:14:35.280 --> 00:14:44.640 abortions during that week. At the event, true or false, go find out, demonic party, demonic, sick 131 00:14:44.640 --> 00:14:50.480 freaks. How do you stop sick freaks and demonics? Well, in this particular world we live in here in 132 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:56.640 America, you vote them out. I mean, some of us have other feelings about that, but I don't know, 133 00:14:56.640 --> 00:15:04.880 be my feelings and they should be very glad about that because in other countries like Saudi Arabia 134 00:15:04.880 --> 00:15:18.240 or Iran or Jordan or Yemen or Ethiopia or parts of Sudan, they would kill you on the spot. We don't 135 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:25.040 do that in America. We vote them out. And in that is doing righteousness. And if you fail, if you 136 00:15:25.040 --> 00:15:30.720 ignore to do that, when given the opportunity, you're no different than that servant of the Lord 137 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:39.120 who had the opportunity to do something and didn't do it. Ezekiel chapter 33 verse 6 tells us that 138 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:46.400 if the watchmen pastors do not blow the trumpet of warning to what's going on in your culture by 139 00:15:46.400 --> 00:15:51.760 an invading army that's coming or by danger that is coming, God says, I'm going to hold that 140 00:15:52.400 --> 00:15:58.160 watchman that pastor responsible for what happens in his own community. There's going to be a whole 141 00:15:58.160 --> 00:16:05.360 lot of explaining going on and God's not going to listen to a word of any man's excuses. Every pastor 142 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:12.960 should be risking his life at this time to promote pro life. That's the least that we can do. The 143 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:19.840 book of James, jot it down, please, James 417 says to those of you who are saying, I'm not going to 144 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:30.800 vote because I'm a Christian. I'm not going to vote because I'm I'm holy. James 417 says, if you know 145 00:16:30.880 --> 00:16:43.200 to do good and you do not do it to you, it is sin or upon you, it is sin. James 417. So 146 00:16:44.560 --> 00:16:50.080 this is what's very, very important. What we're talking about here is to not to do good, to not 147 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:59.520 to not to do good. If you choose not to do good, it's not only sin, but I love what Edmund Burke said 148 00:16:59.520 --> 00:17:07.040 to Parliament in England during the revolutionary period. That's the American revolutionary period. 149 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:14.960 All that evil needs to do to triumph is for good men to do nothing. And that's many of you. 150 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:23.520 That's many of you who choose to do nothing. Look, I'm not trying to get your vote for the pro life 151 00:17:23.600 --> 00:17:29.200 movement. I'm trying to I'm trying to save you in the day of judgment. When I say save, I'm not 152 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:35.360 saying your salvation is on the line. I'm saying that according to 1 Corinthians chapter 2, 3, and 4, 153 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:40.400 you and I are going to be judged by the Lord Jesus Christ. Did you know that? 154 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:50.240 And we better be careful about what we do with the opportunity he gives us. So let me run 155 00:17:50.320 --> 00:17:58.400 down a few things. That message, by the way, I'm grateful. Excuse me, I'm grateful October 20th, 2024. 156 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:08.160 It popped up in quite a few digital media platforms as a headline. 157 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:13.200 Southern California pastor this says this about the election. 158 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:22.320 Pastor calls out churches or blah, blah, blah, whatever it is. It turned out to be very controversial. 159 00:18:24.560 --> 00:18:31.040 Why? So because of thinking like this, and I wrote some of these down. 160 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:38.080 And by the way, will you please write this down? Ezekiel 3 verses 16 to 19. I just read 161 00:18:38.080 --> 00:18:47.840 Ezekiel 33 6, but read Isaiah chapter 62 as well. And so real quick, because we're limited here on time. 162 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:56.400 If you have the opportunity to influence others to do good instead of evil, should you take it? 163 00:18:58.880 --> 00:19:03.760 See, right now, soon as I say that, you're starting to squirm because you're concocting your 164 00:19:03.760 --> 00:19:14.960 excuse. I'm going to say it again so that you can you can try to cope with your moral challenge right now. 165 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:26.640 If you have the opportunity to influence someone to do good instead of evil, would you do that? 166 00:19:27.280 --> 00:19:34.000 I got news for you. If you don't do that, you're sending. Bible makes it clear. 167 00:19:38.800 --> 00:19:50.080 What about somebody who says, well, Pastor, I'm not going to vote because the candidate is not 168 00:19:51.040 --> 00:20:00.480 holy. They don't represent all my views and all of even biblical views. They only represent some not all. So I can't vote for them. 169 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:10.240 Isn't it amazing that Jesus said, whatever judgment you handle outhand out to people that same judgment will be placed upon you? 170 00:20:13.280 --> 00:20:18.960 So I can only conclude that if you're so holy and your vote is so holy, 171 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:29.040 that you can't give it to any candidate running for any office in this nation, in this state, in this county, 172 00:20:29.040 --> 00:20:40.480 in the city that you live in, I cannot think of a more gruesome, disgusting manifestation 173 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:48.320 of a Pharisee than that. That is so damn-devil, 174 00:20:48.320 --> 00:20:54.240 parasitical conduct. Didn't Jesus address this in the four Gospels? 175 00:20:57.280 --> 00:21:04.000 Mom and dad, I wish I could help you. Jesus said, one man says, mom and dad, I wish I could help you. I know you're starving to death. 176 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:09.920 But my offering, I have to go dedicated to God, wish I could help. 177 00:21:10.800 --> 00:21:17.360 Jesus says that person's a wretch. Isn't that amazing? But I'm doing it for God. 178 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:25.120 Jesus said, God doesn't need it. You should feed your mom and dad or whatever the situation is. 179 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:33.440 But in that case, Jesus used the mother and the father or as he expounded upon it, the temple. 180 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:38.320 This has been dedicated to the temple so I can't give it to you. Think about you right now. 181 00:21:38.320 --> 00:21:42.080 Now I know, look, some of you are saying like, man, who are you? Who are you harping on right now? 182 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:49.440 I am harping on the people who for one reason, if they're truly Christians, 183 00:21:51.360 --> 00:21:55.280 we're going to be revealed if we're truly Christians by our conduct. 184 00:21:55.760 --> 00:22:03.600 This is very, very important. You can't vote because you're votes too holy. 185 00:22:06.320 --> 00:22:13.520 I'm assuming, I don't know if I can trust you. When I ask this question, are you registered to vote? 186 00:22:15.600 --> 00:22:21.120 If you're not registered to vote, then I don't need to hear from you. 187 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:24.640 If you're not registered to vote and you're over 18, 188 00:22:29.120 --> 00:22:39.760 what's the purpose? What do you, I mean, that's bizarre to me. It's a powerful form of influence 189 00:22:39.760 --> 00:22:45.600 and you choose not to do it. So you don't need registered to vote. That's bizarre to me. 190 00:22:46.240 --> 00:22:50.720 Anyway, the only thing worse than that is if you are registered to vote. 191 00:22:51.520 --> 00:22:57.680 So if you register to vote, but you're not going to vote, for example, for Trump because he can be a real, 192 00:23:01.760 --> 00:23:11.280 he can be a real stinker, but he's really great about borders, which I'm not a prophet, 193 00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:17.280 but probably soon after this podcast, after the election, 194 00:23:19.200 --> 00:23:29.280 you're going to probably between the election day and the day of the inaugural when there's a new 195 00:23:29.280 --> 00:23:35.840 president, you're going to probably wish you had voted for somebody that stood for borders. 196 00:23:35.840 --> 00:23:45.120 Kamala Harris doesn't stand for our borders at all. The single number one authority, 197 00:23:45.840 --> 00:23:51.280 even over Mayorkas is Kamala Harris. For four years, 198 00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:59.840 regarding our borders, who's the boss? Who's responsible for this? Is it a crazy that in your 199 00:23:59.840 --> 00:24:05.280 own office where you work, somebody's responsible to make sure that the copier machines are all filled 200 00:24:05.280 --> 00:24:13.040 up with toner? Do you remember growing up when you're a little kid, those of you who are my age, 201 00:24:13.040 --> 00:24:20.480 and we had milk monitors and window monitors? Remember how we love that? We would open the window. 202 00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:26.960 It was such an honor in our name. We got picked this week every day. We got to do our milk monitors. 203 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:34.400 What does that mean? Who's on the board? Jack, he's the milk monitor this week. Everybody got 204 00:24:34.400 --> 00:24:39.440 their milk at their desk because I would go up and down the aisle and hand out the milk or you did 205 00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:45.680 too. Someone was responsible. It was their task. It's what they were supposed to be faithful to do. 206 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:54.160 It's what they were hired for. Kamala Harris, as vice president was given by Joe Biden, 207 00:24:54.720 --> 00:24:57.920 the sole responsibility to secure America's borders. 208 00:24:58.400 --> 00:25:08.400 Frankly, she should be tried for treason on that ground alone. Period. But you're not going to vote. 209 00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:14.560 And if you don't vote to oppose, it's kind of like playing battleship. Have you ever played 210 00:25:14.560 --> 00:25:22.000 that game battleship or some other games like chess or maybe even checkers where you block? You can 211 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:30.640 block. You can block bad from happening by positioning yourself. You can block evil from 212 00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:34.720 happening by voting for Trump. I'm not asking you to marry the guy. He's already married. I'm 213 00:25:34.720 --> 00:25:42.160 not asking you to take him home to dinner. I'm asking you to use him as a tool to block evil. 214 00:25:43.440 --> 00:25:49.040 Because you know what? Less babies will die under Trump and then here's the thing that Christians, 215 00:25:49.040 --> 00:25:55.840 Christians, listen, thank God, we're saved by the grace of God because a lot of Christians are so 216 00:25:55.840 --> 00:26:02.800 dumb. They just can't think. But you know what? If they trusted Christ to die for their sins and 217 00:26:02.800 --> 00:26:07.200 rose again from the dead, they actually are born again. They're going to go to heaven no matter how 218 00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:14.560 dumb they are. And thank God for his grace. Praise the Lord. But so dumb that they can't figure this 219 00:26:15.360 --> 00:26:23.920 out. I can't vote because I don't like Trump. Trump never asked you to like him. Voting in America 220 00:26:23.920 --> 00:26:31.760 is not about who you like. It's who's best for the country. Not you, not me. Who's best for the 221 00:26:31.760 --> 00:26:38.480 country? Borders, economy, come on, kick and scream all you want. If there's any Dems watching 222 00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:43.600 right now, you guys, you guys think you have an argument. It's so hilariously pathetically funny. 223 00:26:43.600 --> 00:26:49.840 We can see right through. When you guys say that Trump screwed up the economy, he ruined it. 224 00:26:50.640 --> 00:26:56.800 You're lying. Is that called gas, lamp lighting, gas lighting, flame, torching? I don't know what 225 00:26:56.800 --> 00:27:01.200 it's called. But isn't it that the thing where you blame, you accuse somebody of what you're doing? 226 00:27:01.200 --> 00:27:10.080 You accuse that of them. The Democrats cannot handle an economy. Are we any type? How do you, 227 00:27:10.160 --> 00:27:14.640 how do you know? Because I was born and raised in California. That's how I know. 228 00:27:16.560 --> 00:27:22.960 California will suck every penny out of your wallet and put you into a slave camp if news 229 00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:27.520 him had his way. And by the way, that's been the case for decades in California. 230 00:27:28.240 --> 00:27:33.840 Taxes, taxes, taxes, taxes to death. And you would think that all the taxes that California 231 00:27:33.840 --> 00:27:40.480 takes in that it would be the richest state in the nation. We are not. We're broke. We're 232 00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:48.320 bankrupt. Democrats cannot save money. They can't do it. It's not in them. You know why? Because 233 00:27:48.320 --> 00:27:55.280 it's a discipline. And the worst thing in the world is third party spending. Third party spending 234 00:27:55.280 --> 00:28:05.120 is someone who spends money. They did not earn on stuff that they don't have to answer for. 235 00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:12.480 That's called a politician. But everybody lists up. You're not going to vote for Trump. 236 00:28:14.880 --> 00:28:19.280 So you're going to allow more babies to be killed. That's on you. It's not on me. 237 00:28:20.240 --> 00:28:28.080 My hands are free and clear of the death of the unborn. Because every chance I get all the time 238 00:28:28.080 --> 00:28:34.160 I speak up in their defense, my hands are clean. But you're going to say to make yourself feel a 239 00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:39.760 certain way. I'm going to sacrifice children. I'm a Christian, but I'm going to sacrifice myself. 240 00:28:40.560 --> 00:28:45.680 I mean, I'm going to sacrifice babies for myself so I can feel better. So when people ask me, 241 00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:52.640 did you vote for Trump? No. Oh, don't you feel great? Don't you feel amazing? Enjoy it while you 242 00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:59.840 can. Because when God says, when I gave you the chance, the talent, the opportunity to block 243 00:29:01.120 --> 00:29:09.120 the killing of the unborn, did you take it? And you're going to say, no, in Jesus is going to say, 244 00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:19.040 you did wickedly. You knew what I wanted and you did what you felt. There are those who might say, 245 00:29:19.840 --> 00:29:25.280 well, you know, voting in America, we should trust in the sovereignty of God. 246 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:31.280 Because voting in America, it's like we're voting for a king and Israel got in trouble for 247 00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:42.640 picking a king, king Saul. What? How do you equate a constitutional republic 248 00:29:43.680 --> 00:29:51.440 with Israel's monarchy? Oh, they got in trouble for picking Saul. No, no, no, no, they did not 249 00:29:51.440 --> 00:30:00.240 get in trouble for picking Saul as king. That's not going to fly. They got in trouble because they 250 00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:09.360 rejected God. Israel did not get in trouble for picking Saul. They got in trouble for not picking 251 00:30:09.360 --> 00:30:16.400 God, for not obeying God. They threw their opportunity to serve God and to have God as their 252 00:30:17.120 --> 00:30:24.960 king of king and lord of lords. They rejected him. And so they picked up on king Saul. So don't 253 00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:32.240 say that you can't vote because it's like picking a king. That's insane. What you want to make 254 00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:38.160 sure is that you learn from that first Samuel, I think it's chapter 7 and 8 of first Samuel. 255 00:30:38.160 --> 00:30:44.400 What you want to be careful that you don't do is that you don't reject God and the opportunity 256 00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:50.320 gave you by not voting because we live in a republic, not a monarchy. So don't that kind of 257 00:30:50.320 --> 00:30:56.160 thinking. See, this is what I mean about Christians being dumb. What kind of logic is that? 258 00:30:58.240 --> 00:31:05.120 If we lived in a monarchy, we might have something to talk about. But even then, what pre-empts the 259 00:31:05.120 --> 00:31:13.920 monarchy selection is that we would have walked away from God. That's the issue. And that's what 260 00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:19.680 you're doing. If you say, I'm not going to vote. I'm not going to vote for mayor. I'm not going to 261 00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:24.480 vote for president. I'm not going to vote for Congress because they're all corrupt. My vote is so 262 00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:33.200 holy. I can't give it away to corruption. So getting back to the register voter part, the participant 263 00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:40.320 in this democracy. That is a constitutional republic, which trumps democracy. Your ability to vote, 264 00:31:40.320 --> 00:31:50.400 you don't do anything with it. You don't do it. So you're actually your dead weight if you don't 265 00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:55.920 get involved. You don't help anybody. You're really not. Yeah, so I give food to the homeless. 266 00:31:57.440 --> 00:32:01.680 There's a lot more opportunities that you and I can have to do good if we don't do it. We're 267 00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:12.320 sending. So you would say, yeah, well, I can't give my vote to Trump. So you've never voted before. 268 00:32:12.320 --> 00:32:17.280 Oh, yes, I voted in previous elections. I thought you just said your vote was holy and you can't 269 00:32:17.280 --> 00:32:25.040 give it to people who are not perfect, not right, not what, not able to walk on water. 270 00:32:25.360 --> 00:32:33.760 You voted for people in the past, but you're not going to vote for a pro-life presidency now. 271 00:32:35.600 --> 00:32:43.200 That's weird, isn't it? It's funny. You clearly didn't see that your vote wasn't so holy and wasn't 272 00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:49.920 so tainted when you voted before. How could you give the other guys a vote? You know, I voted 273 00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:59.200 for Ronald Reagan. How dare I? Boy, the biggest mistake I ever made in my life was voting for 274 00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:06.000 George Bush, both of them. Total globalists, total, you know what they were, both of them. They 275 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:13.920 still are, by the way. Well, their Democrats with the fake are behind their names. Look at Bush's 276 00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:22.560 policies. They're all Democrat policies. You don't like what I'm saying? Show me by the policies 277 00:33:22.560 --> 00:33:36.320 of George H and George W. How they were Republicans. Tell you what, I'm so committed to honoring the 278 00:33:36.320 --> 00:33:46.240 dead in memorial who fought so that I could vote. That in California, we rarely ever have a good 279 00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:53.600 choice in California. It's so hard. And I don't, I don't miss one vote to honor the dead to those 280 00:33:53.600 --> 00:34:00.240 who sacrificed for my opportunity to vote. If I don't vote, I'm insulting them. If I don't go vote, 281 00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:04.960 I'm saying their lives, their sacrifice on the battlefield meant nothing to me. 282 00:34:07.120 --> 00:34:15.280 In California, you know what we have to do here in California? We have to vote for the least 283 00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:23.680 worst Democrat. Because in California, we have what's called a jungle primary, which means there could 284 00:34:23.680 --> 00:34:33.520 be a Republican versus a Democrat or an independent versus a Republican or a Democrat versus Democrat 285 00:34:33.520 --> 00:34:38.560 or a Republican versus a Republican or an independent versus an independent. It's the two top 286 00:34:38.560 --> 00:34:44.800 vote getters move on from June and the primary to the election in November. It's in California. It's 287 00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:53.760 called a jungle primary. And most often, we have to pick between two Democrats. Does that stink? 288 00:34:56.000 --> 00:35:05.440 But hits, it's the people's republic of California. So, Pastor Jack, what do you do? 289 00:35:06.240 --> 00:35:13.120 That's easy. Been doing it for years here in California. And that is, if Democrat A 290 00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:27.280 believes that baby should be murdered at birth and Democrat B believes that the abortion is okay 291 00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:37.440 up until the second trimester, which is still murder, it's still hell on earth, it's still an 292 00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:45.280 abomination to God. If that's my only choices, I'm taking my vote and I'm voting for the less 293 00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:52.480 of the evil. Yes, you heard me say it. Voting for the lesser of two evils flies with God 294 00:35:53.280 --> 00:36:02.000 versus you bearing your vote in the ground. Because I picked the guy that less babies would die 295 00:36:03.280 --> 00:36:10.000 to block the Democrat to get into office that would kill babies even after they're born, 296 00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:14.720 which by the way, you're being lied to right now. I just saw it today again. Lied, 297 00:36:14.720 --> 00:36:25.200 lied, lied, lied to your face. And it is a fact you can get it probably at the Barna 298 00:36:25.200 --> 00:36:36.080 Hole or the Arizona State, George Barna, they did a poll, Kelly Shackleford. And is it first America, 299 00:36:36.080 --> 00:36:43.760 you guys are America first, America first legal? I think it is. They paid for a poll to be done. 300 00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:51.280 Kamala Harris said in quotes, you can babies can die, be killed up till birth as they're coming out. 301 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:57.040 Kamala Harris, you listen, you don't vote and you'll let her get in office. I'm clean. 302 00:36:58.560 --> 00:37:02.800 You're not because you said it out. And then we got to wrap this up. I got four minutes and 40 303 00:37:02.800 --> 00:37:12.240 seconds left. Don't view your vote as being so holy that you can't get involved. Please, 304 00:37:12.240 --> 00:37:20.640 that is a manifestation of a Pharisee type of thinking that does murderous things to people. 305 00:37:22.240 --> 00:37:31.520 And we're not choosing a king. We're choosing a president and a senator and a mayor 306 00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:37.200 that comes closest to representing the biblical worldview. See if I'm missing something before 307 00:37:37.200 --> 00:37:46.160 we wrap this up to him who does not do good to him at his sin. So you don't want to sit it out. 308 00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:52.240 Jesus is going to judge you and me on what we did with the opportunities that we have 309 00:37:52.240 --> 00:37:58.400 including voting, including voting, maybe it's up near the top because it's such a big deal in 310 00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:03.920 this republic. We're not choosing a king. That's ridiculous to think like that. 311 00:38:04.720 --> 00:38:09.040 God is sovereign. So I'm not going to vote, which is really again, Christian 312 00:38:11.840 --> 00:38:18.320 Christian stupidity, Christian biblical ignorance because if God is sovereign, so you're not going to vote, 313 00:38:20.160 --> 00:38:28.720 then what do you do when you're hungry, Christian? I'm so hungry. If you came to me and said, 314 00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:33.280 God is sovereign. I don't get involved. Oh, man, I'm starving. Can you take me out the lunch? 315 00:38:33.280 --> 00:38:41.200 No way because God sovereign. God sovereign. Look, sorry, friend, I'm going to go to lunch because 316 00:38:41.200 --> 00:38:46.800 I understand God's sovereignty. You believe in God's sovereignty, but you don't think you should 317 00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:52.640 get involved. Here's what I recommend. Go outside, tilt your head back, open your mouth, 318 00:38:53.440 --> 00:39:00.240 and if God is sovereign, wait for him to send an eagle to fly over your face and drop in and 319 00:39:00.240 --> 00:39:05.920 out burger, Coke and fries into your mouth. That's what you mean when you say God is sovereign, 320 00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:10.960 so I'm not going to vote. No, listen, God is sovereign and in the sovereignty he gave you and 321 00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:17.360 I have the opportunity to invest our talents, our vote. So don't hide behind God's sovereignty. 322 00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:23.280 God's sovereignty says get involved and make a difference. If you don't, you are not acknowledging 323 00:39:23.280 --> 00:39:31.440 my sovereignty. Wow. You viewed it all wrong. You flipped it around. God is sovereign and 324 00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:38.320 the sovereignty he calls me to get involved to do righteousness. God's sovereignty says in 2 Corinthians 10 325 00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:48.720 verse 6, Christians punish disobedience. He sovereign. God's sovereign, but he told Boaz to go plant 326 00:39:48.720 --> 00:39:56.800 his vineyard. God's sovereign, but he told Gideon to get ready for war. If God is sovereign and he is 327 00:39:58.480 --> 00:40:04.800 the way that you view it is why doesn't why don't we go to war? No, no, we won't even go to war. 328 00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:09.120 I was going to say why don't we go to war in our underwear instead of wearing battle gear because 329 00:40:09.120 --> 00:40:15.200 God's sovereign after all God's sovereign. No, you and even go to war. In fact, you and even put 330 00:40:15.200 --> 00:40:20.400 on underwear because God's sovereign. That's the way that you that's actually how you live. I'm not 331 00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:27.520 voting God is sovereign. No, you don't understand God's sovereignty. You're lazy. You're missing an 332 00:40:27.520 --> 00:40:34.240 opportunity to glorify Christ and to honor the dead. And so you sit out the vote. Friends, 333 00:40:34.240 --> 00:40:45.600 don't do that. Don't do it. Vote. Get involved. Make a difference. So maybe this podcast should be 334 00:40:45.600 --> 00:40:54.720 titled the death of an influencer because that would be you. If you're not voting, you are not 335 00:40:54.720 --> 00:41:02.960 allowing your opportunity, your light to shine in the dark and your influence you've murdered. 336 00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:10.240 It's the suicide of an influencer. Please don't let that happen to you. Get smart. Get quick. 337 00:41:10.240 --> 00:41:15.120 Get registered to vote. You can go do it now. Did you know that on voting day you can register 338 00:41:15.120 --> 00:41:20.640 to vote and then walk two feet over and vote. Did you know that? There's no excuse. 339 00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:29.440 My hands are clean. I'm good. Listen, as always, we believe here that it's time for us obviously. 340 00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:37.120 It's time for us to live out what we believe in. It's time for real life. 341 00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:44.880 This has been this has been an hour of discipleship. That's what it's been. 342 00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:51.360 We believe it's time to live out what we believe in. It's time for real life. 343 00:41:52.560 --> 00:42:00.480 So listen, if this blesses you, share. Send it out to others. 344 00:42:01.680 --> 00:42:08.480 Email the link to friends. Post it. Whatever you need to do. But by all means, please get out there 345 00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:15.840 and vote, pray, and then no matter what whoever gets elected, you better be prepared. 346 00:42:16.800 --> 00:42:21.760 In Jesus' name, God's on his throne. We worship Him alone. Amen. 347 00:42:26.560 --> 00:42:30.960 This Jack Hibbs podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are 348 00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:35.440 listener supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 349 00:42:36.240 --> 00:42:41.840 Go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected.