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 --> 00:00:09.320 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. 3 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:13.280 What will you do with the information and how do you process all that's going on 4 00:00:13.280 --> 00:00:18.720 in the world? You name it from what's happening to the Middle East, outer space, on your 5 00:00:18.720 --> 00:00:29.880 streets, in your yard, at your dinner table, on your skin, the target is your heart. 6 00:00:29.880 --> 00:00:36.280 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 7 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:42.280 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 8 00:00:42.280 --> 00:00:47.360 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's like saying 9 00:00:47.360 --> 00:00:53.320 amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now, open your hearts to 10 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:58.120 what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 11 00:00:58.120 --> 00:01:03.000 Galatians 4.19, he says, my little children, this is Paul the Apostle speaking, my little 12 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:11.680 children, is that not beautiful? For whom I labor and birth again until Christ is formed 13 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:18.280 in you, Christian, that is the salvation life and then the sanctification life that follows. 14 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:25.440 So Romans 8.28 says, and we know that all things work together for good work. It's the 15 00:01:25.440 --> 00:01:31.240 word air gone. You can write it down. It's on the screens, actions, behaviors, deeds, the 16 00:01:31.240 --> 00:01:37.960 doings. An example of the meaning of the word is as you described the work of a designer 17 00:01:37.960 --> 00:01:43.840 or craftsman using his tools to create or to finish his thought or idea. I love that. 18 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:49.840 By bringing into a physical existence, I just love the fact that God made us creative 19 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:53.720 individuals. Now, some people are not so creative. That's okay. You're not supposed to 20 00:01:53.720 --> 00:01:59.360 apologize for that. God died for your sins. He didn't die for your personality. You know 21 00:01:59.360 --> 00:02:04.160 that? Well, he's really loud and she's really quiet and I'm somebody in between and this 22 00:02:04.160 --> 00:02:10.040 person's that way and they're the other. God loves that. It's the sins that God hated 23 00:02:10.040 --> 00:02:15.800 enough to go to the cross to die in our place. Okay? So if you're quiet, be quiet unto 24 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:22.320 God. If you're a big mouth, be a big mouth unto God. But don't try to be somebody else. 25 00:02:22.320 --> 00:02:25.580 If you wanted you to be somebody else, you would have made you that person. So stop 26 00:02:25.580 --> 00:02:30.280 trying to be like them. Plus they're probably trying to be like you anyway. Now, the math 27 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:36.860 of God is amazing. In fact, listen to this. This word work implies that all things are 28 00:02:36.860 --> 00:02:44.280 activated in the believer's life. In other words, all things are online, not online online, 29 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:50.760 but online in power. They're working. See, you and I, we fail to recognize this because 30 00:02:50.760 --> 00:02:59.120 we get bogged down in the mundane of life. See, we lose it because it's the routine. This 31 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:04.360 is what happens. Friends, listen, please listen carefully. The more predictable your life 32 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:12.800 is in some areas, fantastic, but also the predictable things of your life that are not effective. 33 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:18.160 That's not good. God wants to take the predictable things where you're seeking after him with 34 00:03:18.160 --> 00:03:22.720 all of your heart and your loving on God. You're going after him. And then he takes your 35 00:03:22.720 --> 00:03:28.840 life and he transforms it into something incredibly active. I don't mean busy. We need to get 36 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:34.780 away from busy. When I say active, I mean activated your life in the spiritual realm. 37 00:03:34.780 --> 00:03:41.480 Well, now you're alert to things. You're hearing from him. He's leading you and you don't 38 00:03:41.480 --> 00:03:45.040 want anything else but him to be speaking to you. And when that happens in our lives and 39 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:49.840 we can decide today to have it happen that the word of God is going to be a supreme period. 40 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:54.400 You make up your mind. That's it. All things work together for good to those who are called 41 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:59.760 to those who love God according to the purposes that God has engineered for my life. I'm going 42 00:03:59.760 --> 00:04:06.360 to go for it. When that truth takes hold of your life, when verse 28 takes control of your 43 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:14.560 life, everything changes. I'm going to actually show you what happens when verse 28 takes control 44 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:23.120 of your life. So I don't know if you've ever heard of the National Bible B Championship. 45 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:33.800 It's insane. I mean, that's a good way. I've learned that from young people. It's fire. 46 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:47.840 Hang on. It's busting. That's something coming from somebody that I came from Groovy. This is 47 00:04:47.840 --> 00:04:53.960 amazing. What happens when the spirit of God takes the word of God and gets a hold of your heart 48 00:04:53.960 --> 00:05:01.640 and it becomes real? Put your eyes on the screen. All right, here's your last passage. Both riches and 49 00:05:01.640 --> 00:05:11.640 honor come. Madison. First, that's Alonians. Four, verses 13 through 18. Sorry, that'd 50 00:05:11.640 --> 00:05:27.080 be incorrect. For the rest of you. Bethany. Four chronicles 29, 10 through 13. That is correct. 51 00:05:27.080 --> 00:05:35.240 Please recite it. First chronicles 29, 10 through 13. Wherefore David blessed the Lord before all 52 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:39.400 the congregation. And David said, blessed be thou. 53 00:05:44.280 --> 00:05:49.160 Oh, God, Israel, I'm falling forever and ever. 54 00:05:53.400 --> 00:06:02.680 God, oh, Lord, you are the greatest and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty. 55 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:16.840 For all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine. Thine is the kingdom, oh, Lord. 56 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:27.960 And thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come of thee. And thou rainest 57 00:06:27.960 --> 00:06:38.360 over all. And in my hand is power and might. And in my hand, it is to be great and to give strength 58 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:47.400 unto all. Now, therefore, I God, we say and praise thy glory, its name. First chronicles 29, 10 through 13. 59 00:06:47.800 --> 00:07:02.680 Bethany, bring us into your heart, mine. What was going on there? I just realized how powerful and 60 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:09.240 in control God is and how everything is just because of him. And he's so great and amazing. 61 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:14.840 That ladies and gentlemen is the way the word of God should impact us. Praise God. That's awesome. 62 00:07:14.840 --> 00:07:23.400 That's what this is all about. Wow, right? I mean, excuse me for a moment. 63 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:33.240 No, that's no harsh reddish here. No, no, no. Wow. 64 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:42.520 So when trouble, yeah, when trouble comes to her life, she knows that there's a great one that 65 00:07:42.520 --> 00:07:47.160 she can go to. She doesn't have to have all the answers. He's got the answers. She's got 66 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:53.320 somewhere to go. So many in our world today do not know. You and I know people, we have relatives, 67 00:07:53.320 --> 00:07:58.120 we have friends, we have spouses or we have children or grandchildren. They don't know where to go. 68 00:07:59.880 --> 00:08:08.680 They don't know that that kind of God is available. But he is. I'm going to give you an equation. 69 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:16.280 God gave it to me. It's personal. I'm not going to make it. Don't make a shirt. I'll make a shirt. 70 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:23.720 But God showed me some math this week preparing for this message. One plus two equals one. 71 00:08:25.320 --> 00:08:30.520 You see, you need to figure that out. Yep. Number one is all the good things in life 72 00:08:31.640 --> 00:08:37.400 are working out for my good. All the good things in my life are working out for my good because I 73 00:08:37.400 --> 00:08:42.600 love God. It might be a little bit of love, but I love God. And I do know that I'm called because 74 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:48.520 I can't walk away from them. And that he's bringing his purposes about all the good stuff. 75 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:59.880 Number two is all the bad stuff. One good stuff. Number two, bad stuff. The bad stuff is working 76 00:08:59.880 --> 00:09:05.640 together for the good exactly as the good stuff. I don't see it. I don't understand it. God says, 77 00:09:05.640 --> 00:09:16.840 I got it. I'm doing something here. When one plus two equals one, God says, I'll take the bad. 78 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:21.960 I'll take the good. I'll take the good. And I'll take the bad. And when I get done, it's one. 79 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:30.440 And it's this way. I'm in them all to bring you to one spot in one place. And that is the 80 00:09:30.440 --> 00:09:36.840 likeness of my son. That is the, if you're a believer here today, the only reason why you're alive 81 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:42.680 today, you may think there's a thousand reasons why you're alive. I get it. I understand that. 82 00:09:42.680 --> 00:09:47.160 But according to God, there's one reason why you're breathing right now as a believer. And that is 83 00:09:47.160 --> 00:09:57.080 to bring his son, glory, says the spirit of God, John 14, John 16. And all the good comes out from 84 00:09:57.080 --> 00:09:59.800 that. What about the bad? God's going to work the bad out too. 85 00:10:02.760 --> 00:10:08.280 Bible says in James chapter 1, verse 2, James 1, 2. This is my brother in count of all joy when 86 00:10:08.280 --> 00:10:14.120 you'll fall into various trials knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But 87 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:20.440 let patients have its perfect work that you may be perfect and complete lacking nothing. That means 88 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:25.560 that that perfection is not holiness perfection. It means that God's got absolute 89 00:10:26.280 --> 00:10:31.160 lordship over your life and your yielded. Is it amazing? God says come with me. Where are we going? 90 00:10:31.160 --> 00:10:36.120 We asked, where are we going? He says come with me. You're going to find out. You want an 91 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:41.080 exciting life? Follow God. You want me to rather jump off of a building. Yeah, well, I don't know. 92 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:45.960 Eventually you're going to get tired of doing that or your parachute won't open. 93 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:52.760 But if you wanted a thrilling life, you ought to follow Jesus radically. 94 00:10:54.680 --> 00:10:59.400 It's funny in this world. Everything's about extreme. Join us for an extreme adventure. 95 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:10.120 This fall, you know, sign up, you know, on this tour, it's an extreme. 96 00:11:10.760 --> 00:11:17.160 Get on your kayak and go down the Colorado River. It's an extreme, an extreme. And with 97 00:11:17.160 --> 00:11:23.480 you have a sign up, it's extreme. And then I show up and say, hey, follow Jesus, it's totally 98 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:31.640 extreme. And people like, what? Go, be quiet. But listen, you started one end of the river. You 99 00:11:31.640 --> 00:11:42.840 ended. It's over with him and never ends. Never ends with him. And when it says that all things 100 00:11:42.840 --> 00:11:48.360 are working together, this is awesome. The word together in the Greek language means it's coming 101 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:53.960 from the outer limits to the center. It's coming from what's outside to the middle. All that's 102 00:11:53.960 --> 00:12:00.520 going on in life in the world around you. You name it. From what's happening to the Middle East, 103 00:12:00.520 --> 00:12:09.320 outer space on your street, in your yard, at your dinner table, on your skin, the target is your 104 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:15.320 heart. What will you do with the information? And how do you process all that's going on in the 105 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:20.920 world? Friends, listen, people are losing their minds right now because of what's going on in 106 00:12:20.920 --> 00:12:29.320 the world because they will not look at the Bible. Seriously, people are all caught up in writing 107 00:12:29.400 --> 00:12:34.920 and all kinds of opinions and they're protesting and violence. They don't even know what they're doing. 108 00:12:35.560 --> 00:12:41.800 They don't understand. There's an eternal plan at work. But listen, when there's no God in your 109 00:12:41.800 --> 00:12:53.640 life, you're going to lose it. Listen, if there's no God, then drink all you want. You need it. 110 00:12:54.280 --> 00:13:07.880 But if there is a God, you need to know him. Listen, this is free. Young people, stop with being 111 00:13:07.880 --> 00:13:14.280 offended what people are saying on your TikTok or whatever your thing is. Did somebody say something 112 00:13:14.280 --> 00:13:22.120 to you and they didn't like you this week? They hurt your feelings? Yeah, who said that? I don't 113 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:33.880 know. It was Story Puffy Fish 13 said it. Do you know Story Puffy Fish 13? No. Then what do you 114 00:13:33.880 --> 00:13:38.680 have said about? They said something. Do you see how nuts our world is? 115 00:13:42.360 --> 00:13:51.320 First clue, kid. Anybody who names themselves Story Puffy Fish 13? Ain't worth a minute conversation. 116 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:58.280 And the other thing is, no matter what you say to them, they're not going to be happy with your answer. 117 00:13:58.920 --> 00:14:08.280 If you really want to get involved in something that is social and extreme, 118 00:14:09.800 --> 00:14:15.480 follow Jesus. And instead of being a victim to the internet, why don't you become a victor 119 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:19.800 in the internet? Why don't you throw some Bible verses out there and see what happens? 120 00:14:20.760 --> 00:14:28.360 Give them John 316 all the way to verse 21. Watch what happens. You'll have 50% people loving you and 121 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:39.240 50% of people will hate you. John, go ahead. That's John 316 to 21. When you follow Jesus, 122 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:44.120 you're going to be loving. When you follow Jesus, you're going to be hated. If Christ came back 123 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:49.560 today, do you know what the world would do to him? crucify him. That kill him again. 124 00:14:51.160 --> 00:15:00.680 Don't think that we've evolved into some more tolerant creature. No. If Jesus showed up today, 125 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:06.680 the only people who would love on him would be those who recognized that they were sinners. 126 00:15:06.680 --> 00:15:11.880 Did you know that? Reach your Bible. All those who wanted to kill him did not believe they were 127 00:15:11.880 --> 00:15:17.400 sinners. He's the friend of sinners, the Bible says. So I want to be in the front of the line. 128 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:24.280 That doesn't mean I go out and sin. In fact, as I am now, I sin less than I ever have. But 129 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:31.640 I'm a sinner. I see my sin worse now than I ever have. I'm getting closer to Jesus, but what 130 00:15:31.640 --> 00:15:38.440 still remains is disgusting. Look at me. Look, I'm dressed up for you today. See this? 131 00:15:38.920 --> 00:15:43.000 Inside. You don't know what this is doing right now. You don't know where this is at. 132 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:48.920 You know it's true about you. You can be sitting right here and your mind be a thousand miles from 133 00:15:48.920 --> 00:15:54.840 church. And God knows it all. But when the Holy Spirit gets a hold of you, He goes to work. 134 00:15:55.640 --> 00:16:03.480 And it is a beautiful thing. And so church, we revel in the fact that when it says to those 135 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:10.200 who are the called. So it's the number one prerequisite to the verse being applied to your life 136 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:20.840 is in the first part of verse 28. Do you love God? We're called to love Him. And you can't 137 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:27.240 love someone unless you find out about them. There's people who have fallen in love on online 138 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:31.320 relationships. Or what are they called? Long-distance relationships and stuff? 139 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:38.040 And it's kind of it's from what I've heard. It's been kind of cool for a lot of people because 140 00:16:38.040 --> 00:16:44.600 they lived so far away that they couldn't cross any moral lines. So they conversed with one another 141 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:49.640 and he made he makes comments like this. Wow, this relationship's been amazing and we plan 142 00:16:49.640 --> 00:16:55.240 on getting married. But I didn't realize I could talk so much. Well, why is that? Because all we do 143 00:16:55.240 --> 00:17:00.840 is talk online. She lives in another country and our relationship came about this way. 144 00:17:02.520 --> 00:17:08.040 And it was all, listen, how do they get to know each other? Conversation. And then listen, 145 00:17:08.040 --> 00:17:12.440 here's another tip. Boy, I'm just giving out the relational tips here right now in this service. 146 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:19.240 Girls, this is especially applicable to you. If you're interested in the guy and he says he's 147 00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:26.120 interested in you, ask him to pray for you. And not like this. So, hey Rocky, 148 00:17:26.120 --> 00:17:35.000 were you praying for me? Yeah, sure, babe. No, I mean now. You mean like over the phone? 149 00:17:36.760 --> 00:17:46.760 Yeah. Uh, hey, that's a warning. Don't get messed up with some guy that you're not impressed with. 150 00:17:46.760 --> 00:17:50.920 I'm not talking about his biceps. I don't care about his pocketbook. 151 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:57.320 Is he humble enough to pray for you and pray over you? Man, that's somebody to consider. 152 00:17:58.520 --> 00:18:01.880 Think about that. It's all free. Again, it's all free. Wasn't even in my notes. 153 00:18:02.840 --> 00:18:09.640 Second prerequisite is being called, called. Those who are the call, definite article, 154 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:15.480 the called, meaning those who have been invited into the family of God. How does that happen? 155 00:18:15.480 --> 00:18:19.560 God invites you. Did you know that church? The Bible teaches that God will invite you into his family 156 00:18:20.120 --> 00:18:21.480 to be one of the called ones. 157 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:32.120 This Jack Hibbs podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported. 158 00:18:32.120 --> 00:18:35.080 Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 159 00:18:35.800 --> 00:18:41.560 Go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected.