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 --> 00:00:10.200 truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. Listen friends, if you're 3 00:00:10.200 --> 00:00:14.040 skeptic in the house today, listen up. When the gospel is preached in a crowd, 4 00:00:14.040 --> 00:00:19.000 even of some ruffians, and then somebody comes along under the power of the 5 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:23.240 Holy Spirit, and he proclaims the truth from the Word of God, and those people 6 00:00:23.240 --> 00:00:28.640 woke up to the love of God. And that kind of love that you realize that God loves 7 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:34.040 you with causes you to turn right around, and love God back. 8 00:00:35.060 --> 00:00:41.360 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 9 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:46.760 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 10 00:00:46.760 --> 00:00:51.680 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 11 00:00:51.680 --> 00:00:56.800 that's like saying, amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to 12 00:00:56.800 --> 00:01:02.320 listen. Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack 13 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:07.680 Hibbs. Then the Bible, when you open it up, it tells you right there that God is 14 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:13.120 love. Romans chapter 5 verse 8 tells us that God demonstrated his own love 15 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:18.640 toward us and that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. That's an 16 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:24.560 amazing statement. Look at that verse. The scriptures are demonstrating to us 17 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:28.560 because that's God's will for you to know that even while you were yet a sinner, 18 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:32.880 Christ died for us in the cross. That speaks about the infinite, 19 00:01:32.880 --> 00:01:38.320 awesome power of God to know you before you ever born, because he's God, and we'll 20 00:01:38.320 --> 00:01:42.720 talk about that in a moment. But when Jesus died in the cross for your sins in 21 00:01:42.720 --> 00:01:47.600 mind, he actually knew you by name, though you had not been born yet. 22 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:56.960 This is God's awesome and tremendous ministry of atonement. First John chapter 4 verse 16, 23 00:01:56.960 --> 00:02:04.240 first John 4 16 says, and we have known and believed the love that God has for us. 24 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:11.920 God is love. And he who abides in love abides in God and God in him. Can someone say, 25 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:20.480 man, that is good news. Our God loves us. And we need to respond to that love. But I 26 00:02:20.480 --> 00:02:24.400 listen, I'm going to warn you right up front. If you really believe that God loves you, 27 00:02:25.440 --> 00:02:30.720 then it is going to be, what's the word, incumbent upon you to show love. 28 00:02:32.720 --> 00:02:37.680 Not only to God, but to one another. And what I've said this before, I'll say it again, 29 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:42.720 every time I say I love God, I feel like I'm a fool, because it seems so hollow. 30 00:02:43.920 --> 00:02:50.000 But God's love is amazing. Here's a fun verse, 1 Corinthians 13, 13 says, 31 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:55.680 and now abides faith, hope, and love, these three. But the greatest of these is love. 32 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:03.840 And the world doesn't know love today. The world is looking after all of these pursuits 33 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:08.320 to try to find some sort of fulfillment and they miss love altogether because they think it's 34 00:03:08.320 --> 00:03:13.600 the love of sex or the love of things or the love of power. And it doesn't work. No, it's just 35 00:03:13.600 --> 00:03:18.640 the love of God. The love of God is the only thing that can satisfy your life. And I love that 36 00:03:18.640 --> 00:03:25.360 passage in 1 Corinthians 13 because it says that the three, the Trinity of God's goodness is 37 00:03:26.160 --> 00:03:31.360 faith, hope, and love that he makes available to us. But did you know something? When we go to heaven, 38 00:03:31.920 --> 00:03:37.280 will there be faith in heaven? Will you need to have faith in heaven? You'll have no need of 39 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:41.920 having faith in heaven. What do you have faith for in heaven? You're walking around, you're living it. 40 00:03:41.920 --> 00:03:49.440 He's there. You have no need of faith. Faith is going to be done with faith. Gone. Mission complete. 41 00:03:49.440 --> 00:03:54.800 What about hope? If you're talking to Jesus in heaven, are you going to need hope? You're not going 42 00:03:54.800 --> 00:04:01.760 to need hope. Listen, hope is now. Hope takes you all the way to the end of your life. And then 43 00:04:01.760 --> 00:04:10.080 listen, when he shows up, what are you hoping for? All hope has been fulfilled. Isn't it awesome 44 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:16.880 though that the Bible says, but the greatest of these is love. And love will never fail. Love is the 45 00:04:16.880 --> 00:04:22.240 only thing that you and I can experience in this life with God that is only going to intensify in 46 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:28.400 heaven forever with him. And none of us can even begin to imagine what that's going to be like. 47 00:04:28.400 --> 00:04:34.880 The love of God flowing in and out of us like the waves of the sea. Remarkable. So church marked 48 00:04:34.880 --> 00:04:40.160 this down if you would. So give God your love. And it starts with this. Seen him for who he is. 49 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:45.840 Seen him for who he is. And I got to tell you with the time that I have left this morning, 50 00:04:45.840 --> 00:04:50.960 it's a disgrace because we could spend months talking about his attributes from the Bible. 51 00:04:51.840 --> 00:04:56.400 And so there's words and I'm going to blow these off. You can look at him later. I don't want 52 00:04:56.400 --> 00:05:02.080 to take the time. When he says things like this, read in your Bible with me. He says, I say 53 00:05:02.080 --> 00:05:07.680 through the grace given to me. So Paul, circle the word me. Paul is saying, God has given me grace. 54 00:05:08.400 --> 00:05:15.200 And he's speaking to the believers in Rome to you, to everyone who is among you. I love this 55 00:05:16.640 --> 00:05:24.400 through grace that has been given. Grace is a gift from God. Look what he says. The grace that has 56 00:05:24.400 --> 00:05:30.800 been given to me. Christian, Paul does not walk away with it and say, I'm so glad God gave me that 57 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:37.200 grace and I'm just going to hang on. Do it. Nope. When God moves in your life, it can't work 58 00:05:37.200 --> 00:05:42.880 that way. It's extremely volatile in the beautiful way. It's not only given to me. He says to 59 00:05:42.880 --> 00:05:48.480 everyone who is among you. So here's what Paul is saying in a modern day time. He would be saying 60 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:57.680 this to us. God has given me grace. And I want all of you to have the same grace. 61 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:09.040 And I want you to have that same grace. Watch how he does this. When he says to me, to everyone, 62 00:06:09.840 --> 00:06:17.680 to those among us, he says to you, it's absolutely universal to the application. Understand this 63 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:23.280 church he is saying? God has extended grace and this is where we begin. He would be announcing 64 00:06:23.280 --> 00:06:30.000 and understanding the very person of God. The God of the Bible among so many attributes is a 65 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:37.040 God of grace. And grace is that word that means God bestows upon you that which you cannot earn. 66 00:06:39.280 --> 00:06:44.080 And we don't really appreciate that much until we need it. But mark this if you would. 67 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:52.080 The fact that God is all sufficient, can you write that down? He's the all-sufficient God, 68 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:59.200 the God of the Bible. You'll find this in no other references of deities throughout human history 69 00:06:59.200 --> 00:07:05.760 except the God of the Bible. He's all sufficient. So what does that mean? That means he has all that he 70 00:07:05.760 --> 00:07:13.520 has. He is all that he is and needs nothing. There is a discipline in theology. It's rarely ever 71 00:07:14.400 --> 00:07:21.440 mentioned, but it is the doctrine of Asiati. Asiati simply meaning this, that the God that you 72 00:07:21.440 --> 00:07:25.920 worship today, I trust you do. I trust you know the Lord Jesus Christ, that the God that you worship 73 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:36.640 today, the doctrine of Asiati means this, that he needs nothing from you at all. I like that. If I 74 00:07:36.640 --> 00:07:43.600 worship a God that needs something from you to keep him going, I need a new God. Are you hearing 75 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:52.000 me? If someone propagates to you, evangelizes to you, introduces you to some sort of deity that needs 76 00:07:52.000 --> 00:08:00.640 your help. That's the wrong God. Can I say, I'm going to say it? I'm not even going to ask. I'm 77 00:08:00.640 --> 00:08:06.640 just going to say this. I don't watch Christian TV unless it's on the real-life network. 78 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:14.320 Did you get that? That was a little plug. Forget it. Moving on. You want to know why? This is what I 79 00:08:14.400 --> 00:08:21.760 hear on too much of what is called Christian programming. If you don't send the $100 now, 80 00:08:23.280 --> 00:08:27.680 if you don't send in the money, we're going to go, the station's going to go out of business, 81 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:32.240 we're going to shut down. We won't be able to preach the gospel to you anymore. You need to send 82 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:38.880 in the money. Really? Or how about the one that says, the one that's praying and he's praying 83 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:45.120 and Jesus, we need to get all the people to give money to send in the money and they're talking 84 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:51.680 about money and the money. Every time I hear that, I just reach for my wallet and make sure it's 85 00:08:51.680 --> 00:08:57.680 safe because you know like an AI arm could come out from the screen and grab your wallets. 86 00:08:58.880 --> 00:09:04.400 If you're worshiping the God that you've got to say to people, if you don't give money, 87 00:09:04.400 --> 00:09:09.520 we're going to go off the air. I shout back to the screen. You probably should go off the air 88 00:09:10.800 --> 00:09:15.120 because listen, you're announcing to people that God is broke. He needs your help. 89 00:09:16.880 --> 00:09:22.480 He is all sufficient. My God, your God I trust, the God of the Bible. He doesn't need us for 90 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:27.440 anything. You say, you have a dindy creatus? Of course he created us. There's a big reason for this 91 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:32.240 but it's not because he needed us. What do you think he created us for like what a basketball? 92 00:09:32.240 --> 00:09:41.520 He needed somebody to play with? He's not, listen, he made humans. He's not human. I love saying 93 00:09:41.520 --> 00:09:47.200 that because it kind of makes the hair on their neck go up. The Bible says he's spirit and God had 94 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:53.360 dwelt as spirit until Christ was born into the world, the second person of the Trinity. God, 95 00:09:53.360 --> 00:10:00.080 the Son, took on human skin to not only relate to us but most importantly for us to be able to 96 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:07.200 relate to him. None of us in this room can say, God doesn't know how I feel. He knows exactly how 97 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:13.680 you feel and he knows exactly how to fix you from feeling that way. He knows all about it. 98 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:21.840 The Bible teaches us that this God that we should love and honor and obey. People get all witty. 99 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:25.520 Love, honor and obey. So as you could do in a wedding service, yes, that's right. And you know 100 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:30.560 it's so cute about it. The audience at a wedding has no problem. Do you pledge today to love, 101 00:10:30.560 --> 00:10:38.880 honor and obey? The audience goes like this, oh my goodness, what? Both of them are looking at each 102 00:10:38.880 --> 00:10:48.080 other like this. You could, I could have said and you both pledged to jump off the bridge together. 103 00:10:48.160 --> 00:10:56.720 They'd go as long as we're together. Listen, when love is the driving force of your life, 104 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:03.920 there's none of this stuff that has to be brought up because it is coming out of you. 105 00:11:05.280 --> 00:11:13.920 It happens remembering this that our God is the uncurated God. He's not created. God was not 106 00:11:13.920 --> 00:11:17.680 created. There's always those people you and I bump into. They think they're so smart. 107 00:11:18.640 --> 00:11:24.480 They say things like this. So did God create everything? Yep. Who created God? And it's so funny 108 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:29.520 because they think they're so smart. Yeah, so God created everything, right? Yeah. So who created 109 00:11:29.520 --> 00:11:43.520 God? It's like, oh no, you stumped me. He's the uncurated God. For something to be created, 110 00:11:43.520 --> 00:11:49.920 it's got to have a beginning and because it's created, it will have an end. He's the uncurated God 111 00:11:49.920 --> 00:11:56.960 who dwells outside all that you and I know and have been exposed to in our physical earthbound life. 112 00:11:59.920 --> 00:12:05.600 And so we think we can question God. Question God about this. Question God about that. 113 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:11.120 Somebody questioned me last service about the fires. Where was God in all this? Excuse me, 114 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:15.520 where was God in all this? He was right there. Who wouldn't he do something about it? I said, 115 00:12:15.520 --> 00:12:20.400 he is doing something about it and he did do something about it. It may not meet up to your 116 00:12:20.400 --> 00:12:26.480 estimation, but what God is doing, he does for the eternal purpose. Yes, the fires were horrible, 117 00:12:26.880 --> 00:12:33.280 but read your Bible carefully. The Bible makes it very clear that Satan does a lot of things in 118 00:12:33.280 --> 00:12:38.720 this world. I find it awesome that when Jesus was woken up by the disciples in the midst of a storm 119 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:42.880 on the Galilee and they were all going to drown and they said, wake up, don't you care if we 120 00:12:42.880 --> 00:12:48.800 perish? Jesus stood up and he rebuked the waves in the wind and the same word he used as the word 121 00:12:48.800 --> 00:12:55.440 he used to rebuked devils and demons. You want to put blame where blame is due and somebody says, 122 00:12:55.440 --> 00:13:00.400 where is God in all this? You need to first of all say this is exactly the kind of world that 123 00:13:00.400 --> 00:13:06.160 Satan wants you to suffer through as a world without hope knowing this. Jesus said, I've come to 124 00:13:06.160 --> 00:13:11.120 give you life and that more abundantly, but Satan has come to rob you to kill you and destroy you. 125 00:13:11.680 --> 00:13:18.000 Remember that everybody. The Bible has the answers, but know this. He's the uncreated creator. 126 00:13:18.400 --> 00:13:26.640 Colossians, chapter 1, verse 16, am I yelling at you? I feel like I am. I'm sorry I'm excited. 127 00:13:28.640 --> 00:13:40.080 No, it's, I just, Colossians, chapter 1, verse 16, all things were created through him and for him. 128 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:53.520 Okay, here it comes. Colossians, chapter 1, verses 16 through 18 says, all things were created through 129 00:13:53.520 --> 00:14:00.320 him. Mark this down. Follow this. All things were created through him and for him and he is before 130 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:08.080 all things. He existed before all things physical ever appeared and in him all things consist 131 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:14.640 the atomic glue. All things are held together by him and he is the head of the body, the church, 132 00:14:14.640 --> 00:14:21.120 who is the beginning, the first born from the dead that is, listen, that in all things he may have 133 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:26.960 the preeminence. Christ Jesus rose again from the grave and listen, on the day of Pentecost, 134 00:14:27.760 --> 00:14:33.200 God's Holy Spirit gave birth to what is called the church. The church is the family, the body 135 00:14:33.280 --> 00:14:42.400 of believers of, I love this, listen, of every color on every continent of every, if you name the name 136 00:14:42.400 --> 00:14:48.000 of Christ based and understood by the Bible that he died for your sins and rose again from the 137 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:56.720 dead. He's your savior that he died for you and putting faith in him is your salvation. He is 138 00:14:56.720 --> 00:15:04.640 it. He says, believe in me and you say, I do. I recognize Lord, I am a sinner. You died for me 139 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:10.080 and you rose again from the dead. I believe you. I give you my life. Listen, when that happens, 140 00:15:10.880 --> 00:15:15.440 you have come home. You don't even realize that. You have come home to the God that has made you 141 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:21.040 and that verse is powerful because it screams the preeminence of Jesus Christ. The Bible says all 142 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:28.160 things were made by him. Revelation 4 verse 11, the Bible says there, John witnesses this, 143 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:35.760 you are worthy of Lord to receive glory, honor, and power for you created all things and by your will 144 00:15:35.760 --> 00:15:44.400 they exist and were created. I love that Exodus chapter 3 verse 14 and God said to Moses, 145 00:15:44.640 --> 00:15:53.200 I am who I am. Now the context is this, Moses was just commissioned by God to go back down the 146 00:15:53.200 --> 00:16:03.040 mountain to tell the children of Israel who sent him. So Moses rightly says, who do I say sent me? 147 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:09.760 What do I tell them? I know these people, they ask so many questions. 148 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:16.160 And God says, when you go down there, tell them, I am that I am sent you. 149 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:28.800 The I am that I am is the eternal existing self-contained, self-sufficient God. Moses, 150 00:16:28.800 --> 00:16:34.400 you go down and tell them that the one who sent you is the God who needs nothing to sustain himself 151 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:41.680 and no one. This should cause us friends to be a very humble people. 152 00:16:47.760 --> 00:16:54.800 You should never see an arrogant, proud Christian. Now we do see them, just know this. When you 153 00:16:54.800 --> 00:16:59.520 see a proud, arrogant Christian, I just want you to know this. Can you keep this between us? 154 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:03.280 Because I don't want to go to a pastor's conference somewhere in the world and get in trouble. 155 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:12.720 This is our thing. If you see a Christian who is proud, they may be a Christian, 156 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:20.000 but they're far from God. They may be a child of God. They're going to heaven, but they've 157 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:30.080 wandered away from the awe of who God is and humility has evaporated from them. Do you hear what I'm 158 00:17:30.080 --> 00:17:40.080 talking about? Christian should never be arrogant. The more we view the incredible magnitude of our 159 00:17:40.080 --> 00:17:44.640 great God and get to know more of Him, which is only one way by reading this love letter to you 160 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:50.400 called the Bible, the more you realize who He is, the littler you become. But that's a good thing. 161 00:17:53.280 --> 00:17:59.360 But listen, but when we are Christians and we start to get puffed up in our head or in our chest, 162 00:17:59.360 --> 00:18:05.120 so to speak, we've lost sight of God and His grandeur and His greatness. You need to be re-exposed 163 00:18:05.120 --> 00:18:10.640 to the great things of God. Moses could have come down the mountain like this. Hey, everybody, 164 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:17.520 stay away. God and I are up there talking. We're talking about you guys. He could have. He didn't. 165 00:18:19.600 --> 00:18:27.280 He came down the great I am. Wow, what an exclusive name. Of course, there's no other name. 166 00:18:29.040 --> 00:18:34.720 The self-sufficient one. Interesting. John chapter 8, verse 58, Jesus said to them, 167 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:39.920 most assuredly, I say to you before Abraham was, what's the word? I am. It's the same word. 168 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:45.360 If somebody ever tells you Jesus never claimed to be God, they don't know what they're talking about. 169 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:50.640 In fact, Jesus said that right there and they got ready to kill him for saying that because 170 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:54.800 if he committed blasphemy, if he wasn't God, the cool thing is he was God. 171 00:18:56.880 --> 00:19:03.840 And we are to be in great awe and honor. Church, we need to, I'm not saying this is our problem, 172 00:19:03.840 --> 00:19:08.640 but it might be your problem or it might be someone's problem. We need to be very careful 173 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:16.000 that we don't just treat God like a big buddy, a big pal. Well, do you need to say that we could 174 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:22.160 call him Abba? Yeah, that's a great term of endearment, but the Abba in Hebrew means that the kids 175 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:29.680 really respect dad, Abba. You don't call your dad. If your dad's name is Mike, you didn't go, 176 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:37.840 hey, Mike. I mean, that's pretty sick. We're to be an awe of him more than ever. 177 00:19:42.560 --> 00:19:46.720 This Jack Kibb's podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, 178 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:51.440 are listener supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 179 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:57.840 Go to jackhibb's.com to learn more and stay connected.