WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.320 Real life presents the Jack Kibb's podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth 2 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:15.320 equip the saints and impact our culture. 3 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:20.360 We need to stop pointing our finger at other people and own our own sin because you cannot 4 00:00:20.360 --> 00:00:22.160 repent. 5 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:26.040 You cannot repent of your sins and be right with God while you're pointing your finger at 6 00:00:26.040 --> 00:00:29.800 other people. 7 00:00:29.800 --> 00:00:36.200 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackkibb's.com slash podcast. 8 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:42.200 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 9 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:45.440 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 10 00:00:45.440 --> 00:00:52.040 To us, that's like saying, amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 11 00:00:52.040 --> 00:00:58.520 Now open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you, here is Jack Kibb's. 12 00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:03.400 Today in this room, you are either one who is following Christ by faith and you've surrendered 13 00:01:03.400 --> 00:01:08.160 to that fact or you may be here today and look, you may be thinking that you're on your 14 00:01:08.160 --> 00:01:09.160 way to heaven. 15 00:01:09.160 --> 00:01:10.360 Maybe you are, maybe you're not. 16 00:01:10.360 --> 00:01:12.760 You may be very moral, very religious. 17 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:17.320 You may or may not be on your way to heaven. 18 00:01:17.320 --> 00:01:22.160 But if you're asking yourself today, you tell me pastor just how much do I need to perform? 19 00:01:22.160 --> 00:01:26.720 What do I need to do to earn the favor of God? 20 00:01:26.720 --> 00:01:32.760 That question stands and he's looking at it, Paul is in verse 25, how much is needed 21 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:37.640 for enough to be enough when it comes to religion? 22 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:43.360 And so it says there in verse 25, for circumcision is indeed profitable. 23 00:01:43.360 --> 00:01:51.440 It's a great thing, qualifier, if you keep the law, you should underline that in your Bible. 24 00:01:51.440 --> 00:01:57.560 But if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become un-circumcision. 25 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:04.000 Now church, before we dive into this, Paul the Jew is speaking to a predominant Gentile 26 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:13.000 church in Rome, but it had a great population of Jews that had come to faith in Christ. 27 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:18.680 But there were still on the outside those Jews who were upset with the gospel and they 28 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:21.720 were attacking the gospel. 29 00:02:21.720 --> 00:02:25.400 And they were saying, no, you've got to do these things and do the other things and you've 30 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:32.200 got to follow Jesus but keep the law and they had all these rules going on and Paul says 31 00:02:32.200 --> 00:02:37.680 something and thank God, the genius of God, this could only come from another Jew. 32 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:43.560 He speaks about things that might turn your face a little red, but I have a feeling 33 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:50.200 today that you won't forget that God is calling you to a relationship to him with faith. 34 00:02:50.200 --> 00:02:54.680 The word circumcision, we'll talk about it later, but just make a note of it this way, 35 00:02:54.680 --> 00:03:03.720 circumcision is an institution, it's a sacred calling that God placed upon Abraham's descendants, 36 00:03:03.720 --> 00:03:09.520 both Abraham that came later on in life with Abraham, but with his descendants as a marked 37 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:10.840 out people. 38 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:15.920 Listen, you should write this down, this might shock you, but there were other pagan religions 39 00:03:15.920 --> 00:03:21.720 that practiced circumcision before God told Abraham to be circumcised. 40 00:03:21.720 --> 00:03:25.880 I don't know if you know that or not, but there were other religions. 41 00:03:25.880 --> 00:03:32.000 In fact, there were certain groups in Egypt that practiced circumcision. 42 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:33.920 Why did they do that? 43 00:03:33.920 --> 00:03:37.000 Because it was to identify with their gods. 44 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:43.040 If you worship Zeus or Athena, it was not uncommon for you to be marked with the name or names 45 00:03:43.040 --> 00:03:46.240 of your gods. 46 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:51.520 Well God called out his people and the right of circumcision, watch this everyone, God 47 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:59.440 took that which was in practice among pagans and he converted it to mean truth. 48 00:03:59.440 --> 00:04:02.320 Genesis chapter 17, verse 13. 49 00:04:02.320 --> 00:04:08.480 It says there, he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money must 50 00:04:08.480 --> 00:04:15.840 be circumcised and my covenant shall be in your flesh for a never lasting covenant. 51 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:21.120 God is speaking that to Abraham, the father of the Jewish nation and the father of all 52 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:23.640 true believers. 53 00:04:23.640 --> 00:04:30.040 Jeremiah chapter 6 verse 10 says, to whom shall I speak and give warning that they may 54 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:33.920 hear behold their ears are uncircumcised. 55 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:35.760 See where I'm going? 56 00:04:35.760 --> 00:04:39.160 Nobody circumcises their ears. 57 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:45.280 But God is speaking, you need your ears circumcised, you're not listening. 58 00:04:45.280 --> 00:04:46.520 They cannot listen. 59 00:04:46.520 --> 00:04:50.560 Behold, the word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn. 60 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:53.320 They take no pleasure in it. 61 00:04:53.320 --> 00:04:57.960 Whatever's keeping you from hearing the word of God, you need to have that thing circumcised 62 00:04:58.040 --> 00:05:01.560 out of your life. 63 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:09.640 Deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 16, therefore circumcised the foreskin of your heart and be stiff 64 00:05:09.640 --> 00:05:11.560 necked no longer. 65 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:14.360 Do you hear what he's saying? 66 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:18.680 Now by the way, every time you hear me use the word circumcised, you should insert 67 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:22.240 the word baptism or baptized. 68 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:25.320 You can do that today in the 21st century. 69 00:05:25.320 --> 00:05:33.200 It can be the same difference or maybe you were confirmed or maybe you went and you received 70 00:05:33.200 --> 00:05:40.920 your approval or sign off on some form of catechism or some form of real keeping or some sort 71 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:46.560 of standards, whoever you are today, in the listening of this message, insert whatever 72 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:53.840 you have trusted in and look to be acceptable to God. 73 00:05:53.840 --> 00:05:56.080 For the Jew, it is circumcision. 74 00:05:56.080 --> 00:06:00.440 So how much is needed, number one, we look at this in verse 25, how much is needed to keep 75 00:06:00.440 --> 00:06:01.440 the law? 76 00:06:01.440 --> 00:06:02.960 Can you write that down? 77 00:06:02.960 --> 00:06:07.160 For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law. 78 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:09.440 So the law is to be kept. 79 00:06:09.440 --> 00:06:10.640 We'll agree on that. 80 00:06:10.640 --> 00:06:11.640 God's laws perfect. 81 00:06:11.640 --> 00:06:13.600 God says keep it. 82 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:18.280 And He makes this declaration and so the question is, how much of it needs to be kept? 83 00:06:18.280 --> 00:06:22.400 And I want you to analyze that question because it's a flawed question. 84 00:06:22.400 --> 00:06:23.400 Are you with me? 85 00:06:23.400 --> 00:06:27.640 Listen, how much of it needs to be kept if I'm going to keep the law? 86 00:06:27.640 --> 00:06:28.640 How much? 87 00:06:28.640 --> 00:06:30.400 See, this is how humans think about things. 88 00:06:30.400 --> 00:06:33.080 How much of it do I need to keep? 89 00:06:33.080 --> 00:06:35.440 All of it. 90 00:06:35.440 --> 00:06:40.280 If there's ten commandments and I break one commandment, am I still okay? 91 00:06:40.280 --> 00:06:43.280 The Bible says you are not okay. 92 00:06:43.280 --> 00:06:46.640 You are no longer okay. 93 00:06:46.640 --> 00:06:50.840 So circumcision right from the get-go is an announcement that this is an individual who 94 00:06:50.840 --> 00:06:56.840 has made a covenant with me, God, that they will keep my law. 95 00:06:56.840 --> 00:06:58.000 All of you need to remember that. 96 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:02.520 My Jewish friends, listen for that matter, Muslims, whoever you might be trying to work 97 00:07:02.520 --> 00:07:03.520 your way into heaven. 98 00:07:03.520 --> 00:07:05.680 God says keep the commandments. 99 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:10.720 Oh, and by the way, in the day that you break a commandment, you need to bring me innocent 100 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:12.120 blood. 101 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:18.120 So when God says circumcision is regarding you keeping the law right from the start, 102 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:21.960 you realize I'm in trouble. 103 00:07:21.960 --> 00:07:27.640 But when we're, listen, when we get confronted as humans, we try to justify ourselves in 104 00:07:27.640 --> 00:07:28.640 things. 105 00:07:28.640 --> 00:07:31.840 We always try to justify our own position. 106 00:07:31.840 --> 00:07:38.440 So we ask silly questions like, well, how much of the law am I supposed to keep? 107 00:07:38.440 --> 00:07:41.440 So that's why Paul says if you keep the law, I love that. 108 00:07:41.440 --> 00:07:46.400 But if you could highlight that, circle it, you can put your initials next to it. 109 00:07:46.400 --> 00:07:53.880 But this hour display is to display faith and devotion to God. 110 00:07:53.880 --> 00:07:55.480 But it's an exact call. 111 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:58.240 God says I have a zero tolerance on sin. 112 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:02.080 It's not accepted in my presence. 113 00:08:02.080 --> 00:08:03.080 Circumcision. 114 00:08:03.080 --> 00:08:08.120 Listen, Isaiah chapter 6, verse 1, in the year that King Uzziah died, Isaiah said, I saw 115 00:08:08.120 --> 00:08:14.060 the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up in the train, or that is his glory of 116 00:08:14.060 --> 00:08:16.040 his robe filled the temple. 117 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:17.560 Imagine this for a moment. 118 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:25.440 Above it stood a seraphim, these angelic type creatures, they're different. 119 00:08:25.440 --> 00:08:29.040 Each one of the seraphim, by the way, had six wings. 120 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:33.680 With two he covered his face, that's in the presence of God, and with two he covered 121 00:08:33.680 --> 00:08:37.360 his feet, and with two he flew. 122 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:42.880 And one cried to the other and said, holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts, the whole 123 00:08:42.880 --> 00:08:46.000 earth is full of his glory. 124 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:51.600 Verse 4 says, Isaiah witnessed this, and the post of the door were shaken by the voice 125 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:55.520 of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke. 126 00:08:55.520 --> 00:09:01.160 He's seen this heavenly vision of God's temple above, God's throne, verse 5. 127 00:09:01.160 --> 00:09:07.760 So I said, woe is me, for I am undone, because I'm a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in 128 00:09:07.760 --> 00:09:10.120 the midst of a people of unclean lips. 129 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:15.600 My eyes have seen the King, oh please mark that. 130 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:20.040 Isaiah, why are you so distraught, why are you so undone, why are you in the midst of a 131 00:09:20.040 --> 00:09:28.440 radical spiritual crisis, and he would say my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. 132 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:36.800 One verse 6 tells us, once Sarifan flew to him, having in his hand a live coal, a burning 133 00:09:36.800 --> 00:09:44.480 coal which was taken with the tongs from the altar, and he touched my mouth with it, 134 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:49.720 and he said, behold, this has touched your lips, your iniquity has taken away, and your 135 00:09:49.720 --> 00:09:52.280 sin purged. 136 00:09:52.280 --> 00:09:56.360 Church family, I don't know if we're going to get any further today than that. 137 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:59.840 Are you kidding me? 138 00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:05.320 In the year the King, Uzziah died, that was by the way, Isaiah and Uzziah were best friends, 139 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:10.080 and a lot of scholars believe that Isaiah's problem was, he leaned too much on that wonderful 140 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:17.400 godly King, Uzziah, and when Uzziah died, Isaiah had a faith crisis. 141 00:10:17.400 --> 00:10:23.600 He was distraught, he didn't know what to do, and in that crisis he saw in this vision, 142 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:28.240 the throne of God, and he saw the holiness of God, and I want everyone to think, you 143 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:31.280 think for a moment, you're going to work your way into heaven, you're going to get to 144 00:10:31.280 --> 00:10:36.680 heaven by being good, you're going to work your presence into heaven by your merit, keep 145 00:10:36.680 --> 00:10:37.680 this in mind. 146 00:10:37.680 --> 00:10:45.320 Isaiah, the prophet of God, saw the Lord, and he says, whoa is me, I'm completely undone, 147 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:49.880 whoa, meaning there's nothing good in me. 148 00:10:49.880 --> 00:10:56.960 That is what happens when you see the Lord of hosts sitting upon his throne, and you 149 00:10:56.960 --> 00:11:03.720 can see him sitting upon his throne if you want to by just waiting upon him in prayer. 150 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:09.200 Read the word, close your eyes, think, pray, call out to him, and imagine for a moment 151 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:11.800 what Isaiah is saying. 152 00:11:11.800 --> 00:11:18.560 God will show you his glory in the way that you need to see his glory, and what's absolutely 153 00:11:18.560 --> 00:11:19.560 awesome to me. 154 00:11:19.560 --> 00:11:23.240 Mark this down to everybody, because it makes no theological sense if you're going to 155 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:25.080 work your way into heaven. 156 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:32.040 A seraphim takes a coal off the altar of sacrifice, the altar of burning, and this hot white 157 00:11:32.040 --> 00:11:40.440 coal is placed on the prophet's mouth, and the angel announces your sins been taken from 158 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:41.440 you. 159 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:42.440 Excuse me. 160 00:11:42.440 --> 00:11:49.680 If you're a good Hebrew scholar, you would say stop, not possible, that's the whole point. 161 00:11:49.680 --> 00:11:52.160 Isaiah, are you going to work your way to heaven? 162 00:11:52.160 --> 00:11:53.160 No. 163 00:11:53.160 --> 00:11:55.160 Are you going to be good enough to get to heaven? 164 00:11:55.160 --> 00:11:56.160 No. 165 00:11:56.160 --> 00:11:57.160 I'm undone. 166 00:11:57.160 --> 00:12:04.160 Well, how did you get put back together after you fell off that wall? 167 00:12:04.160 --> 00:12:12.320 God declared me sinless, God declared me holy, God declared me forgiven. 168 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:17.920 In that Isaiah moment of Isaiah chapter 6 is a New Testament truth. 169 00:12:17.920 --> 00:12:19.560 Dear friends, listen up everybody. 170 00:12:19.560 --> 00:12:23.560 Our New Testament gospel is the fulfillment of the Old Testament promise. 171 00:12:23.560 --> 00:12:25.120 Nobody made this stuff up. 172 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:28.200 This is the fulfillment of what has always been true. 173 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:33.520 God declares you righteous by the works that he has done not you. 174 00:12:33.520 --> 00:12:39.880 And when that's true to transform your life, when that's true to transform your life, 175 00:12:39.880 --> 00:12:44.520 the second thing we see in verse 25 is when enough is not enough and we ask that silly 176 00:12:44.520 --> 00:12:49.320 question, how much is needed to start over again? 177 00:12:49.320 --> 00:12:53.040 Isn't that the big drama about us coming back to Christ? 178 00:12:53.040 --> 00:12:54.040 How much do I need? 179 00:12:54.040 --> 00:12:55.800 What do I need to do to start over again? 180 00:12:55.800 --> 00:12:58.160 Okay, pastor, you got me. 181 00:12:58.160 --> 00:12:59.160 God's holy, I'm not. 182 00:12:59.200 --> 00:13:03.720 Isaiah was amazing, I'm nothing like him, but Isaiah's sins were purged by God. 183 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:08.200 Okay, I used to walk with Jesus, but I'm not walking with him anymore, but I want to come back. 184 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:12.760 So what do I need to do to start over again? 185 00:13:12.760 --> 00:13:15.560 Just tell me what to do and I'll do it. 186 00:13:15.560 --> 00:13:22.120 It says, but if you are verse 25, but if you are a breaker of the law, listen up. 187 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:24.960 Your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 188 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:33.560 The uncircumcised means sin is still upon you. 189 00:13:33.560 --> 00:13:43.120 But how much of that is in practice, how much of that is in the record of heaven? 190 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:44.120 How much? 191 00:13:44.120 --> 00:13:45.120 Where do you parse that out? 192 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:46.440 Where do I start again? 193 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:52.400 If I failed and walked away from God or maybe if I think I sinned the unforgivable sin, 194 00:13:52.400 --> 00:13:56.040 but now I'm convicted and I want to come back. 195 00:13:56.040 --> 00:13:57.600 Where do I start? 196 00:13:57.600 --> 00:14:04.240 We all and always start at the exact same place every single time. 197 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:06.520 That we understand that it's not by any efforts. 198 00:14:06.520 --> 00:14:11.880 Oh, pastor, just tell me, I'll gather together whatever I need to do to come back to God. 199 00:14:11.880 --> 00:14:14.320 Maybe you're somebody today and you're saying I need to come back. 200 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:17.000 I need to get right with God again. 201 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:20.800 I need to return to my first love, John put it. 202 00:14:20.800 --> 00:14:25.280 We have to approach the Lord and are returning to Him, owning our sin. 203 00:14:25.280 --> 00:14:30.840 I'm going to say something that's very unpopular today and it needs to become popular. 204 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:35.880 We need to stop pointing our finger at other people and own our own sin because you cannot 205 00:14:35.880 --> 00:14:37.680 repent. 206 00:14:37.680 --> 00:14:41.480 You cannot repent of your sins and be right with God while you're pointing your finger 207 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:44.080 at other people. 208 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:50.400 When it all comes down to Jack and God, I must not care about anybody else. 209 00:14:50.400 --> 00:14:57.480 Give me Ron, I'm to love all of you and I'm to love the world that hates me. 210 00:14:57.480 --> 00:15:07.480 But when it all comes down to it, I'm to honor and to please Him in Him alone and you turn 211 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:11.040 to Him and you come the same way you came in the first place. 212 00:15:11.040 --> 00:15:14.080 Lord, I'm a sinner, forgive me. 213 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:15.880 Wash me clean. 214 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:22.480 No, see, we've got this mentality, in fact, in the words that there are mortal words 215 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:34.520 nowadays, the great philosopher Arnold Schwarzenegger said that no pain, no gain, no pain, no gain. 216 00:15:34.520 --> 00:15:40.760 And I want you to think about that for a moment. 217 00:15:40.760 --> 00:15:46.200 Every year, Muslims make a hodge and in part of their religious practices, I have one 218 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:47.680 of the implements. 219 00:15:47.680 --> 00:15:53.240 It's a handle with chains on it and has razor blades about 12 of them. 220 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:58.360 And they flog themselves on the back and cut themselves open and hit themselves on the 221 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:05.200 face and bleed themselves, all to make atonement for their sins. 222 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:08.600 And listen, if that applies to you, if you're somebody watching now in the world and that 223 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:14.320 you're alive, Jesus died on the cross so you would never have to do such a silly thing. 224 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:20.520 Jesus, listen, it's not your pain that gets you the gain, it's his pain that gets you 225 00:16:20.520 --> 00:16:26.520 the gain, it's his salvation, it's what he's done. 226 00:16:26.520 --> 00:16:31.600 But we've got this thing about religiosity that I've got to do something to reestablish 227 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:32.600 hope. 228 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:34.360 No, you don't, you turn back to Christ. 229 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:38.680 The Bible says, but if you are a breaker of the law here, your circumcision has become 230 00:16:38.680 --> 00:16:40.560 an uncircumcision. 231 00:16:40.560 --> 00:16:46.360 It means that the outward symbol that you have been devoted to God in a covenant relationship, 232 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:49.880 the Bible says, is now broken. 233 00:16:49.880 --> 00:16:51.920 So how do you reestablish it? 234 00:16:51.920 --> 00:16:59.400 Honestly, listen, if cutting off of the skin made me right with God and I break the law, 235 00:16:59.400 --> 00:17:03.120 what do I do? 236 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:08.640 You see, what brings us to this and I wonder if you're going to, if you're going to catch 237 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:17.800 it is at the bottom or at the end of verse 25, how much is needed to keep the law? 238 00:17:17.800 --> 00:17:22.640 So let's put them up on the screen, didn't I say that earlier, is that point number one? 239 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:26.040 So is that a, is that a, is that a typo? 240 00:17:26.040 --> 00:17:28.080 No, not at all. 241 00:17:28.080 --> 00:17:33.280 Number one was the same as number three and that's the cycle. 242 00:17:33.280 --> 00:17:34.280 Do you understand me? 243 00:17:34.280 --> 00:17:37.680 Everybody, listen, this is the cycle. 244 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:39.520 How much is needed? 245 00:17:39.520 --> 00:17:41.400 How much of the law do I need to keep? 246 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:45.720 Then you fail, all of it, then, then you fail, then you make some sort of amends. 247 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:49.920 You do some sort of penance, listen, please, I mean this with all affection. 248 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:55.760 When someone turns to you and says of religious authority, I tell you what, you got a problem? 249 00:17:55.760 --> 00:18:03.360 You do five of these things, three of those and seven of the other. 250 00:18:03.360 --> 00:18:10.520 And if you do that, listen, listen, this is painful, but with no gain. 251 00:18:10.520 --> 00:18:14.400 You go through this and you go through this and you go through this and you do like Martin 252 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:20.640 Luther did and going up the steps and the knees of those going up the steps for atonement 253 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:24.080 on their knees, bloodied, worn and calloused. 254 00:18:24.080 --> 00:18:30.480 He wakes up to the realization, what works can man do to get right with God? 255 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:37.360 And God spoke to Martin Luther, the Catholic German reformer and the awakening came to him 256 00:18:37.360 --> 00:18:40.600 that the just shall live by faith. 257 00:18:40.600 --> 00:18:44.720 And the world was changed, but listen, in your life, you could be sitting here right 258 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:49.280 down the 21st century and be very religious and be very lost because you're still thinking 259 00:18:49.280 --> 00:18:54.040 on a merit based, what do I need to do to keep the law of performance? 260 00:18:54.040 --> 00:18:57.520 And you've got to come to a stark realization that you can't keep the law. 261 00:18:57.520 --> 00:18:59.680 It is holy, it's pure, it's awesome. 262 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:04.120 And you try with all of your might, but the bottom line is this, the day that you break 263 00:19:04.120 --> 00:19:06.280 it, you're going to need blood. 264 00:19:06.280 --> 00:19:10.040 And if you come forward and you say, no, no, just cut off more flesh and I'm going to 265 00:19:10.040 --> 00:19:12.080 get right back at it. 266 00:19:12.080 --> 00:19:13.280 I'm going to win this thing. 267 00:19:13.280 --> 00:19:16.600 I'm going to conquer myself and I'll present myself before God. 268 00:19:16.600 --> 00:19:23.160 You just wait and see, you're going to need the atonement of the lamb, or you're going 269 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:25.960 to think that you need to give more flesh. 270 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:33.120 I'll give you a hint, only one's acceptable to God. 271 00:19:33.120 --> 00:19:37.280 This Jack Hibbs podcast, as well as all the broadcasts out reach opportunities are 272 00:19:37.280 --> 00:19:39.000 listener supported. 273 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:42.600 Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 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