WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.820 Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.820 --> 00:00:10.980 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. God is not writing off our 3 00:00:10.980 --> 00:00:14.620 ability to go sin. God is saying, listen, here's the gravity of the matter, I know 4 00:00:14.620 --> 00:00:19.980 you. And I have saved you. But the last final step of your total redemption is 5 00:00:19.980 --> 00:00:24.120 your body. And that's going to come at your death, Christian. We got to get 6 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:27.920 this around our heads once and for all. Death for the Christian is 7 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:30.960 graduation. 8 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:38.720 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 9 00:00:38.720 --> 00:00:44.000 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 10 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:48.880 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 11 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:54.400 that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 12 00:00:54.400 --> 00:01:01.040 Now, open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 13 00:01:01.040 --> 00:01:04.880 I'm going to encourage you as a believer, just the believers I'm speaking to at 14 00:01:04.880 --> 00:01:09.560 this moment, judge yourself right now and ask yourself, am I living with God on a 15 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:20.400 daily basis on an earn, merit, works, level? Am I okay with God because I'm doing 16 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:29.160 good? I hope not. Maybe you're here today and you don't know God at all. You 17 00:01:29.160 --> 00:01:32.920 know, you have a clue what's going on in here. You just got here before the game 18 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:37.040 starts. You're wondering, wait, so what's up? You mean God knows my thoughts? Yeah, 19 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:41.640 the Bible says he knows your thoughts before you think of them. But God is light, 20 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:44.440 the Bible says. So I'm going to ask, I'm going to show you what's going on right 21 00:01:44.440 --> 00:01:54.280 here right now. So guys, let's turn down the lights. That's pretty good. Okay, so 22 00:01:54.280 --> 00:01:58.840 watch this. You're in the dark. The Bible says without Christ, we walk in this world 23 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:04.040 without the light. We're in the dark. The Bible says before we come and know 24 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:09.640 His salvation. We are in darkness. And then God will begin to speak to you. And it 25 00:02:09.640 --> 00:02:20.120 might be at some point at a distance. There's some light, but it's a little bit vague. And 26 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:25.160 then like it's a little bit closer, you're learning more, you're hearing more, you're 27 00:02:25.160 --> 00:02:31.120 wondering about life and about the meaning of life and about who Christ is and should 28 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:34.600 I read the Bible? And when you open up the Bible, watch this. Now, I don't want to hurt 29 00:02:34.600 --> 00:02:41.680 anybody, but this stuff begins to happen. And you begin to be exposed more and more to 30 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:50.400 the truth until something happens to where God dials down right on you. And when that 31 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:55.520 happens, guys, you can turn the lights on. When that happens in life, that is God speaking 32 00:02:55.520 --> 00:03:00.160 to you. And watch what happened. In that moment, you are going to respond in a legalistic 33 00:03:00.160 --> 00:03:09.120 way, such as, tell me what to do. Show me what steps I need to do to be approved by God. 34 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:14.040 When that spotlight of God's conviction comes upon you, that is not the right response. 35 00:03:14.040 --> 00:03:20.320 The right response is to say, I am in the light. You got me. And watch this. When we are 36 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:34.880 in the light, we notice things like lint, hair. The closer we get to him, the more is revealed. 37 00:03:37.600 --> 00:03:43.040 If ever you know in a Christian experience, somebody who's proud and arrogant in their 38 00:03:43.040 --> 00:03:50.320 Christian, I can tell you one thing. They're far from God. The closer a believer is to the 39 00:03:50.320 --> 00:03:57.040 Lord Jesus Christ, the less they are of themselves, the greater he is, and the more real in reality 40 00:03:57.040 --> 00:04:06.240 that life will be. Psalm 119, verse 104, Psalm 119, 104, listen to this. Through your precepts, 41 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:12.240 I get understanding. In other words, read the Bible. I get to know more about myself. And who 42 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:18.240 God is. Therefore, I hate every false way. Now you want to be careful how you read that. He's 43 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:23.040 not talking about you hate every false way of somebody else. He's talking about you hate every false 44 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:29.600 way about yourself. How does that happen by studying his precepts, you see? And of course, the famous 45 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:36.800 verse, verse 105, your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Is that also? God's 46 00:04:37.280 --> 00:04:41.840 word. Beautiful. Number two, church is this when it comes to the reality of salvation. 47 00:04:43.520 --> 00:04:49.520 Am I mean when it comes to the reality of salvation? The first thing is this, verse 14, is to know 48 00:04:49.520 --> 00:04:59.520 that deception of sin. Know it. Sin is very deceptive. It's very dangerous. You can't have 49 00:04:59.520 --> 00:05:05.600 salvation without recognizing that sin has already, in fact, deceived you. You must have the great 50 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:11.520 need of experiencing forgiveness. Watch this regarding the deception of sin. He says in verse 14, 51 00:05:11.520 --> 00:05:18.960 for we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold, under sin. There's some powerful 52 00:05:18.960 --> 00:05:23.680 words right here, spiritual meaning this, for we know that the law is spiritual, holy, pure, 53 00:05:24.640 --> 00:05:32.800 God's will. But it goes on to say, but I am carnal. The word in Greek is sarcanos, or rooted from 54 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:42.320 the word sark, or sarks, and not shark, sark, pertaining to the flesh, the material things of man, 55 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:49.760 the animalistic desires of the base human existence passed on by Adam's fall. And I wrote this 56 00:05:49.760 --> 00:05:59.120 down. I added this next part, STD. STD. Yep, spiritually transmitted disease. Every one of us is 57 00:05:59.200 --> 00:06:06.160 S.I.N. positive because of Adam and Eve. None of us had to learn sin, right? You didn't go to 58 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:11.280 junior college and learn how to lie. You already knew all that stuff before you entered first grade. 59 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:19.360 It's in us, but the light of the law magnifies that reality, and the mirror of the law shows me. 60 00:06:20.640 --> 00:06:24.640 So you think about Adam. This is an amazing thing, because Adam and Eve cover everything 61 00:06:24.640 --> 00:06:30.800 regarding whatever situation we could be in life. Number one, God told them both, don't touch 62 00:06:31.440 --> 00:06:37.360 that tree and don't eat of that fruit, because God gave them free moral agency. If they didn't have 63 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:42.480 choice, you didn't then you got robots. And nobody wants to have a love relationship with a robot. 64 00:06:43.760 --> 00:06:50.720 They had a choice. Adam was somewhere, we do not know where. The snake comes along, Satan's 65 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:55.920 possessing the snake and he talks to Eve. He talks her into thinking that there's a better life 66 00:06:55.920 --> 00:07:00.800 than what God's given you. All you need to do is eat this fruit because God's been holding out 67 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:06.960 on you and you'll see that this tastes way better and you'll know so much more. And here's the 68 00:07:06.960 --> 00:07:16.000 killer, Eve. You'll become a God. The Bible says she was deceived and she ate the fruit. And then 69 00:07:16.080 --> 00:07:24.880 Adam shows up. Adam doesn't sin. The Bible tells us that Eve is the one who sinned. Adam did 70 00:07:24.880 --> 00:07:29.360 something worse. She said, what could possibly be worse than sinning against God? Adam did it. 71 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:37.360 He transgressed. So Adam shows up, yet unfalling in nature, he could have, and I wish he would have, 72 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:42.240 I'm sorry to say this, but don't you, he could have said, Eve, where's your light? 73 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:50.800 You're like, I mean, you're like naked. Yeah, I just, talking to the snake over here, 74 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:58.880 I'm told me to eat this and I'd be, I'd be like a God if I ate it. Adam could have, listen, 75 00:07:58.880 --> 00:08:05.040 A, Adam could have said, well, I don't know, but I predict in about 900 years you're going to die 76 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:12.720 because you are clearly spiritually dead right now because your lightbulb is going out, girl. 77 00:08:14.400 --> 00:08:19.280 And tough for you, I tell you what, see this pile of dirt over here? 78 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:23.760 I'm just going to hang around over here until he pulls another rib at me and makes a new one. 79 00:08:23.760 --> 00:08:32.240 I get a brand new one. See, Eve, the Bible tells us that Adam didn't do that. Adam transgress. 80 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:36.000 You know what that means? It means that Adam thought about God in his relationship with God 81 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:43.440 and then Adam looked at Eve, she must have been a cutie because the Bible says that Adam chose 82 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:49.680 to be with Eve. That's why Jesus Christ is called the last Adam. He came into this world to 83 00:08:49.680 --> 00:08:56.160 associate with us, took upon himself the form of a man and he got into our sinful situation 84 00:08:56.880 --> 00:09:00.240 to rescue us from what Adam plunged us into. 85 00:09:03.920 --> 00:09:08.960 And Jesus died on that cross and he rose again from the dead to bring us salvation. 86 00:09:10.800 --> 00:09:16.320 It's pretty amazing, but Paul makes this incredible admission which is true and everybody knows it. 87 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:22.560 I'm carnal and I'm sold under sin. What does that mean? That means we struggle with the sin nature. 88 00:09:23.280 --> 00:09:28.720 But Christian, here's the beautiful thing about it. Only the believer in the house are watching 89 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:35.360 right now understands, yes, my Christian life is a battle. I just contend every day with the things 90 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:46.320 of this world. Good for you. So do we. Keep going. Don't stop. The world has been duped. The world is 91 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:52.960 in the grip and whatever lust and passions lead them, they have no power to resist. 92 00:09:54.000 --> 00:10:01.280 Not true for us. Galatians 5, verse 24 says, and those who are Christ have crucified the flesh 93 00:10:01.280 --> 00:10:06.400 with its passions and desires. If we live in this spirit, let us also walk in this spirit. That's 94 00:10:06.400 --> 00:10:12.320 an amazing statement. So, Jack, which one is it? Am I a Christian or not? Well, let me ask you, 95 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:17.520 are you having to struggle and deal with the crucifixion of your desires every day? 96 00:10:17.520 --> 00:10:24.000 Do you understand the difference? Am I me? Or is it in your life? It's just you, only you. 97 00:10:26.400 --> 00:10:32.800 Or for the rest of us, can we say, I've got the Jack that I want to be, the Jack that I'm giving 98 00:10:32.800 --> 00:10:38.640 to Jesus, the Jack that is now wanting to go to heaven. And then there's the Jack that visits me 99 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:45.920 from the past and says, hey, what about this? And the new Jack has got to say to the old Jack, 100 00:10:45.920 --> 00:10:53.680 sit down. Get the behind me, Satan, right? There's the rebuking of yourself. How does that happen? 101 00:10:53.680 --> 00:10:59.360 The Holy Spirit is at work in you, by the way. The more you take intake of the Bible, 102 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:07.200 the more active that dynamic becomes. It's awesome. First John, chapter 1, if we say that we have 103 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:17.040 fellowship with God, so don't respond, but do you fellowship with God? And walk in darkness, 104 00:11:17.040 --> 00:11:22.320 oh, do you fellowship with God? Is that what you say? But you hate your brother or your sister? 105 00:11:24.560 --> 00:11:30.240 Do you say that you have fellowship with God, but you can't live without a line of cocaine or 106 00:11:30.880 --> 00:11:38.480 or the drink or the drug? Do you say you have fellowship with God, but you're sleeping around? 107 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:49.360 We lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, 108 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:55.440 isn't that amazing? Before Adam and he fell, the Bible says that they walked with God in the garden, 109 00:11:55.520 --> 00:12:02.480 and the Bible says God is light. And the ancient Hebrew rabbis told us that Adam and Eve were 110 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:06.400 clothed with light. They weren't naked. Remember, they, since they realized they were naked after 111 00:12:06.400 --> 00:12:11.200 they sinned, they were clothed in light. Can you imagine what kind of, what did that look like? 112 00:12:11.920 --> 00:12:18.400 It's awesome to even think. But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one 113 00:12:18.400 --> 00:12:23.520 with another in the blood of Jesus Christ, his son cleanses us from all sin. You see verse 7, 114 00:12:23.520 --> 00:12:31.360 that's called revival. If we say that we have no sin, it's like those Pharisees, the weirdos, 115 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:38.560 the self-righteous, justifiers of their selves, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 116 00:12:39.920 --> 00:12:44.080 If we confess our sins, this is an amazing statement. If we confess our sins, 117 00:12:45.040 --> 00:12:55.920 so the term is ek homo legato, it means to say the same word. If you say the same thing about sin, 118 00:12:55.920 --> 00:13:02.080 that God says about it, that's called confession. God, I know that this is going on in my life, 119 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:10.400 that little sweetie at the water fountain at the office who's not your wife. God is saying stop it. 120 00:13:10.400 --> 00:13:16.720 And in that moment when he's speaking to you, and he's speaking to you all the time, 121 00:13:18.400 --> 00:13:25.760 he's saying to you stop it. And you will either repent, that's exhibited by confession and listen 122 00:13:25.760 --> 00:13:30.560 to this, nobody needs to know. The thought is in your mind and you've been flirtatious and God says 123 00:13:30.560 --> 00:13:35.840 you need to cut this off right here right now. That's the Holy Spirit preserving you, loving you, 124 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:47.040 listen, it's God judging you so you can live. If you say it's okay, it's okay really. You should 125 00:13:47.040 --> 00:13:53.440 read the, what happened to David? Okay, the Bible says can you take fire and bring it to your bosom 126 00:13:53.440 --> 00:14:02.160 and hold it without being burned? Maybe it's some fantasy thinking about possessions or about 127 00:14:02.160 --> 00:14:08.480 romance or about something and nobody sees. So it's okay. And God says you belong to me. What are you 128 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:15.120 doing? Your mind is fixated, your passions are going somewhere else and it's not sanctified, 129 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:23.040 it's not sanctioned, it's wrong. But if we confess our sin, Ek homolageo, he is faithful and 130 00:14:23.040 --> 00:14:28.080 just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not 131 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:34.640 sinned, we make him God a liar and his word is not in us. Church, did you hear that? Listen 132 00:14:34.640 --> 00:14:39.600 to the reality of God's word. We're not perfect, but if you could, wouldn't you be? 133 00:14:41.920 --> 00:14:50.240 But this life, this old life dogs may day and night. The beautiful thing is, 46 years ago when I 134 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:57.760 met Jesus, a war began. Not with me in Jesus, we were warring before that. Jesus and I got together 135 00:14:57.760 --> 00:15:04.880 and went to war against me. And I'm happy about that. My little children, he says in chapter 2, verse 136 00:15:04.880 --> 00:15:10.720 1, my little children, these things I write to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone sins, 137 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:16.800 we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. Wow, I'm so grateful for that right 138 00:15:16.800 --> 00:15:24.240 now. Every single one of us should thank God for this wonderful, wonderful truth that God knows 139 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:29.520 exactly what we're made of. And he knows where our passions lie. And is your heart after God? 140 00:15:31.040 --> 00:15:37.280 Does his word excite you and you want to live for him? And the second thing under this point is 141 00:15:37.280 --> 00:15:44.640 this and that is know the believers frustration in verse 15. It's a beautiful thing. For what I am 142 00:15:44.640 --> 00:15:51.600 doing, says the Apostle, I do not understand. This is so weird. I thought when I became a Christian, 143 00:15:51.600 --> 00:16:00.480 I could walk on water. Why am I battling these thoughts? Why do I have old things, try to 144 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:07.200 rare its ugly head to reinsert itself in my life? I don't understand this. Well, how come, Paul? 145 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:15.440 Well, here's the reason why, for what I will to do, my will, what I decide to do to yield my will 146 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:22.240 to do, that I do not practice. Have you ever gotten up in the morning and you told God, this is 147 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:29.280 going to be a great day, God? Not going to blow it. It's going to go great. Here we go. 148 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:40.880 Paul says, I know this, I've done this. That what I will to do by the five o'clock, I wind up 149 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:47.600 figure now that I don't practice it. And what I hate, that I do. Can you believe the honesty of the 150 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:51.520 Bible? Look, with all due respect, friends, you're going to find this in any other religious writings. 151 00:16:53.680 --> 00:17:00.400 But it's so awesome because it is so real. God is not riding off our ability to go sin. God is saying, 152 00:17:00.400 --> 00:17:07.120 listen, here's the reality of the matter, I know you. And I have saved you. But the last final step of 153 00:17:07.120 --> 00:17:12.720 your total redemption is your body. And that's going to come at your death, Christian. We got to 154 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:17.600 get this around our heads once and for all. Death for the Christian is graduation. 155 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:24.640 It's not the grave. Read your Bible to be absent from the bodies, to be present with the Lord. 156 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:28.400 The frustration, though, is in the here and now. I know what to do. 157 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:37.200 Now I have to be honest with you. You guys, you know where I live. People see me everywhere. 158 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:42.880 So they see Lisa and I everywhere. And I look normal, right? I would think I look normal. I mean, 159 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:48.000 I got a pants on. I got this juice on. I'm wearing a shirt or something. I'm not, you know, 160 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:53.280 running around. You're not, I'm not pushing a shopping cart around Albertsons with vodka in it. 161 00:17:53.280 --> 00:18:03.040 And whiskey, you don't see that do you? You see hummus and almond milk and butter peanut butter. 162 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:12.480 When you see a set of restaurant, am I hiding the bottle? Oh, hi, how are you? No. 163 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:20.960 Well, listen, I'm going somewhere with this. I'm not, you know, I'm not an LA in some back alley massage 164 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:33.680 place. No. I don't have to be. You wouldn't know why, according to God. He knows every thought in my head. 165 00:18:35.760 --> 00:18:43.920 And I can look to you, stellar. You can look to me, stellar. But without Christ living in you, 166 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:53.280 there's a whirlwind of filth in my mind. That's why God says, I don't judge, according to the external. 167 00:18:55.280 --> 00:18:59.680 I look into a man's heart. Isn't that amazing? See, if you want religion, go somewhere else. 168 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:04.480 If you want to meet Jesus, you're in the right place because he's not, he's not content to hang on 169 00:19:04.480 --> 00:19:13.840 across around your neck. Now, he's close. He's near your heart. But he's got to get inside. 170 00:19:16.320 --> 00:19:18.240 And he'll never barge in. You got to invite him in. 171 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:27.120 This Jack Kibb's podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, 172 00:19:27.120 --> 00:19:31.760 are listener supported. 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