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 --> 00:00:12.360 truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. Pray biblically. Pray that you're 3 00:00:12.360 --> 00:00:16.200 the prayer that you're offering is in line with the will of God, which is the 4 00:00:16.200 --> 00:00:23.160 Word of God. Once you say amen, get up and blow the world away. 5 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:32.160 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 6 00:00:32.160 --> 00:00:37.560 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 7 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:42.400 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 8 00:00:42.400 --> 00:00:47.960 that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 9 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:53.320 Now open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 10 00:01:18.600 --> 00:01:25.680 And this is eternal life, that they may know you. They only true God and Jesus Christ 11 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:30.880 whom he has sent. Is it interesting that Jesus is praying in John 17 to the 12 00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:38.880 father in the third person? Did you catch that? He's praying. He's praying to the 13 00:01:38.880 --> 00:01:43.520 father, but then at the end it says the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you've 14 00:01:43.520 --> 00:01:51.320 sent. Remarkable. John 16, verse 12, John 16, 12, I still have many things to say to 15 00:01:51.320 --> 00:01:56.720 you, but you cannot bear them now. This is before he leaves back to heaven. However, 16 00:01:56.720 --> 00:02:01.960 when he, the spirit of truth has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he 17 00:02:01.960 --> 00:02:07.960 will not speak on his own authority. But whatever he hears, he will speak. This 18 00:02:08.040 --> 00:02:14.960 is the Holy Spirit who dwells in you. John 16, verse 5, but now I go away to him who sent 19 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:20.560 me and none of you asked me, where are you going? But because I have said these things to 20 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:25.400 you, sorrow has filled your heart. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth. It is to your 21 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:31.520 advantage that I go away. For if I do not go away, the helper will not come to you. But 22 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:37.360 if I depart, did he depart? Remember the book of Acts tells us that as they were talking 23 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:42.640 to him, he just began to lift off from the earth and was ascended into the heavens and 24 00:02:42.640 --> 00:02:49.640 received up in the glory of God. He says, if I depart from you, I will send him to you. 25 00:02:49.640 --> 00:02:57.520 One of the overwhelming facts, truths, undeniable realities that I know Jesus Christ rose 26 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:01.480 again from the dead. I mean, think about it. I know he was crucified. Yes, the Bible 27 00:03:01.480 --> 00:03:05.840 says so. I believe he rose again from the dead. I know this. Yes, the Bible says so. But 28 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:11.840 how do I know that? I wasn't there. Somebody who was there dwells within me. The Bible 29 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:18.520 says in verse 27, now he who searches the hearts, I love this. He who searches the hearts 30 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:23.320 knows what the mind of the spirit is. I want everybody to look at that for a moment. I'm 31 00:03:23.320 --> 00:03:28.520 sorry, I'm kind of pumped up excited about this. Can I just read this? You look at the screens 32 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:37.360 or look at your Bible. Now, he that's God who searches the hearts, whose hearts are hearts 33 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:47.600 knows what the mind of the spirit is. What an unusual statement to make. Do you get the 34 00:03:47.600 --> 00:03:54.200 connection? Translation, leave it on the screen. Let me put it this way. God looks down 35 00:03:54.200 --> 00:04:00.920 from heaven, right past your skin and bone. And he looks inside your mind and he looks 36 00:04:00.920 --> 00:04:11.960 inside your soul. And he knows exactly. He knows exactly what the spirit is saying about 37 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:18.480 the one that he possesses you. The born again believer, sealed into the day of redemption. 38 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:30.840 Isn't that glorious? Marked by God. Because he makes intercession for the saints according 39 00:04:30.840 --> 00:04:38.560 to the will of God. My goodness, you know, it's amazing about this. It brings you so much 40 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:44.760 comfort. You think about sitting back in a recliner, but then as soon as you realize that, 41 00:04:44.760 --> 00:04:52.480 it's like, wait a minute. If this is true, God, what do you want me to do about this? And 42 00:04:52.480 --> 00:05:02.560 you say, live the life. Speak the word. Tell them about me. Get out there. Live. Do it. 43 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:07.880 And we don't have to sweat about it. He does it. It's wonderful. Heaven is answering when 44 00:05:07.880 --> 00:05:14.920 we pray. Listen, church family, listen, when you pray and your prayer is in alignment with 45 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:19.960 the will of God, say, how do I know that? Remember, we talked last week. Pray biblically. Pray 46 00:05:19.960 --> 00:05:24.120 that you're the prayer that you're offering is in line with the will of God, which is the 47 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:32.720 word of God. Once you say, amen, get up and blow the world away. When you know I was at 48 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:39.080 the store the other day and I saw this Satanist and he looked kind of sad. I thought about 49 00:05:39.080 --> 00:05:45.160 telling him about Jesus, but then I thought, maybe it's not God's will. Translation. God 50 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:53.560 was telling you, there's a Satanist. Go get him. Tell him about my love for him. But you 51 00:05:53.560 --> 00:06:01.160 know what, it didn't happen because your will was done. And so the Lord had to send somebody 52 00:06:01.160 --> 00:06:05.800 else and sometimes I wonder if we'll be in heaven and it's like, hey, have that Satanist 53 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:09.800 get up here. That's the guy I was going to talk to that day, but I went out. And then 54 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:12.840 somebody's going to come along and say, don't worry about it. God called me to do it. And 55 00:06:12.840 --> 00:06:20.440 I did it. There he is and praise the Lord. It's like, oh, me. I missed that one. Somebody 56 00:06:20.440 --> 00:06:25.520 has once said, maybe it was Chuck Mr. Years ago said that he thinks that in the day of judgment 57 00:06:25.520 --> 00:06:32.400 for us as believers before Christ, the wipe in a way of every tear has nothing to do with 58 00:06:32.400 --> 00:06:38.240 anything except that. The wipe in a way of the tears when it is revealed to us the opportunities 59 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:43.320 that we missed. See, we're not going to be judged by our sins. We're going to weep in heaven 60 00:06:43.320 --> 00:06:47.680 on the day of Christ's judgment, the beam of seat, but then he wipes those away and I do 61 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:51.960 agree with that because if our sin was washed away, the Bible is clear, that's not going 62 00:06:51.960 --> 00:06:57.080 to be the issue. So then why are we crying? Oh, my dad didn't make it. You won't have 63 00:06:57.080 --> 00:07:02.760 any memory of your dad. Oh, my son didn't make it. You won't have knowledge of him. He's 64 00:07:02.760 --> 00:07:09.720 not in the family. Then why are we crying in heaven? I think God is going to say, Jack, 65 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:16.480 I wanted you to use you in this way, that way here, there, but you said, no, or whatever 66 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:22.040 it might be. Don't be like that. How about this, everybody? And we'll press on is I'd rather 67 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:29.880 get an A for trying, right? What if I think it's God and I'm not sure, but I step out and 68 00:07:29.880 --> 00:07:39.000 do it anyway. I'd rather get an A trying, right? Then an F for just sit in there. We need 69 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:46.560 to be a little reckless, people. Here's a quote, if it blesses you or not, here's a quote, 70 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:55.560 there's a great liberty and surrendering to the will of God. We have also been left a great 71 00:07:55.560 --> 00:08:01.000 example of what it is like to surrender to the will of God in the most impossible situations. 72 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:08.760 Jesus gave us the ultimate example. We do not need to figure the issue out on our own, 73 00:08:08.760 --> 00:08:15.080 rather Jesus himself gives us the greatest prayer that could ever have been offered up. It is 74 00:08:15.080 --> 00:08:22.120 simply this. Father, into your hands, I commit my spirit. We always associate that prayer with the 75 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:28.880 end of life. And I get it. That's one of Jesus's, if not his last words. Into your hands, I 76 00:08:28.880 --> 00:08:37.040 commit my spirit. And Jesus yielded up the spirit. But how about now in life? How about now us 77 00:08:37.040 --> 00:08:41.920 adopting that prayer every day of our Christian life starting this moment for Father, into your hands, 78 00:08:41.920 --> 00:08:48.800 I commit my spirit. So what does that mean? That means whatever happens today, that's God's 79 00:08:48.800 --> 00:08:53.760 business. Tomorrow morning, when you get up, Father, before your feet hit the ground, Father, 80 00:08:53.760 --> 00:08:58.160 into your hands, I commit my spirit and then put your feet on planet Earth. Think about it, 81 00:08:58.160 --> 00:09:01.760 because you've been laying in the bed. You've haven't been on Earth. You've been in your 82 00:09:01.760 --> 00:09:13.120 Mike Lindell, my mattress, my pillow. And you just, you go from that into my slippers. 83 00:09:14.800 --> 00:09:24.720 And you say, you say, Lord, into your hands, I commit my spirit. And then after that, whatever goes on, 84 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:32.240 goes on. Who cares? It's in the hands of God. It's in the hands of God. He's answering. He's always 85 00:09:32.240 --> 00:09:41.280 answering. The Holy Spirit's work, verse 27, now he searches the hearts, knows what the mind of 86 00:09:41.280 --> 00:09:50.080 this spirit is. It's not this Holy Spirit's mind. It's your mind. So very quickly, Psalm 139, verse 87 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:58.320 17. How precious are your thoughts toward me, O God? How great is the sum of them? If I should count 88 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:04.320 them, they would be more than the number than the sand. When I awake, I'm still with you. 89 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:14.240 Oh, man, how about this? Very popular verse, Jeremiah 29, 11 to 13. For I know the thoughts, 90 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:18.080 this is God speaking, friend. Listen, if you're down to the dumps right now, if you're fighting 91 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:27.840 depression, here I have an injection for you. Let's put this IV drip in. Okay, and it's free. 92 00:10:30.400 --> 00:10:35.920 God says to you, I know the thoughts that I think toward you says the Lord, thoughts of peace. 93 00:10:38.800 --> 00:10:47.360 And not of evil. To give you a future and a hope, then you will call upon me and go and pray to 94 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:53.120 me and I will listen to you and you will seek me and find me when you've searched for me with 95 00:10:53.120 --> 00:11:00.000 all of your hearts. His word says that he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of 96 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:08.080 God. Psalm 139, verses 1 through 6 is O Lord, you have searched me. Hey, that sounds like Romans. 97 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:14.720 You've searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up. You understand my 98 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:21.760 thought of far off. You comprehend my path and my line down and are acquainted with all of my 99 00:11:21.760 --> 00:11:29.040 ways. Doesn't this sound like Romans? For there is not a word in my tongue, but behold, O Lord, 100 00:11:29.040 --> 00:11:35.200 you know it altogether. You have hedged me. I love that. You've hedged me behind and before. 101 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:46.800 It's squished by God. You know, I gotcha. And laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too 102 00:11:46.800 --> 00:11:56.560 wonderful for me. It is high. I cannot attain to it. Psalm 103, verse 10. He has not dwelt with us 103 00:11:56.560 --> 00:12:03.200 according to our sins, nor punished us according to our equities. For as the heavens are high above the 104 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:08.880 earth, so great is this mercy towards those who fear him. As far as the east is from the west, 105 00:12:08.880 --> 00:12:15.680 so far by removed our sins from us as a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who 106 00:12:15.680 --> 00:12:22.240 fear him. The word fear don't panic. It means to be an awe of him. It doesn't mean to be scared. 107 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:36.640 For he knows our frame and remembers that we are dust. So good. Isaiah 53, 12. Therefore, I will divide 108 00:12:36.640 --> 00:12:44.240 him a portion, speaking about Messiah with the great. And Messiah shall divide the spoil with the 109 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:52.000 strong because Messiah poured out his soul unto death. And Messiah was numbered with the transgressors 110 00:12:52.000 --> 00:13:00.480 and Messiah bore the sin of many and made, oh, there's our word. Intercession for the transgressors. 111 00:13:01.040 --> 00:13:10.480 Hebrews, I'm almost done. Hebrews 5, verse 7. Who in the days of his flesh? He, Messiah, had offered 112 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:17.440 up prayers and supplications with the him and it cries and tears to whom he was able to save 113 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:25.040 him from death and was heard because of his godly fear or awe. Though he was a son, yet he learned 114 00:13:25.040 --> 00:13:30.880 obedience by the things which he suffered. You know how you're learning about God, friend, 115 00:13:30.880 --> 00:13:36.320 by the things that you suffer. And having been perfected or made complete, this is Christ 116 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:41.760 in the flesh. He became the author of eternal salvation to those who obey him. He's not awesome. 117 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:48.720 I want to give you a quote by John Locke. I'm a fan of John Locke. He's amazing. But look at this 118 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:55.200 quote, John Locke. The people who have no other remedy in this as in all other cases where they have 119 00:13:55.200 --> 00:14:01.600 no judge on earth but to appeal to heaven. John Locke was talking about when everything breaks down 120 00:14:01.680 --> 00:14:07.120 in government of this earth. Remember this, the believer can always appeal to heaven. In fact, 121 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:13.120 I want we want to show you the flag. See that flag? Appeal to heaven. It depends on the time of 122 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:17.440 the year I have that flag hanging on my house. Depends on what's happening. That's an awesome 123 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:22.080 thing. By the way, real quick, side note. I don't know. I know you have nowhere else to go today. So 124 00:14:22.880 --> 00:14:33.200 George Washington, as general, those guys had all grown up reading John Locke. And George 125 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:39.440 Washington, when he examined the fact that we were about to go up against the greatest military 126 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:46.400 of power in the face of the earth, England, George Washington remembered this. It's in his own 127 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:54.320 writings. And he says, I want a flag struck to be flown everywhere. Take the liberty tree that 128 00:14:54.320 --> 00:15:00.960 Sam Adams started in Boston. That's a cool idea. Take the liberty tree and slap it on the flag 129 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:06.720 and put this what John Locke said in appeal to heaven. That's the only way we can win 130 00:15:07.520 --> 00:15:12.880 is if we appeal to heaven. And Washington had that struck and put up everywhere. Did you know that? 131 00:15:13.760 --> 00:15:16.400 You should have known that. If you go to school here, you'd know that. 132 00:15:18.160 --> 00:15:24.800 And that awesome. Listen, church, you can always appeal to heaven at all times. I don't think we 133 00:15:24.800 --> 00:15:32.960 appeal to heaven enough. We need to appeal to heaven more and more. And that'll just leave you with this. 134 00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:40.160 And next to this chapter 3 verse 13, Moses said to God, 135 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:46.240 indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, the God of your fathers has sent 136 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:55.600 me to you and they say to me, what is his name? What shall I say to them? And God said to Moses, 137 00:15:55.680 --> 00:16:03.280 listen, before I say anything more, didn't we just go through this a few weeks ago about his name? 138 00:16:09.760 --> 00:16:13.120 I made a comment in that sermon of a few weeks ago that 139 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:19.840 and you know all the, all the Sunday messages are all the, we teach from the same book, 140 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:24.960 but the sermons are all different depending on first, second, and third. And I don't know which 141 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:31.360 one I said this in, but I gave, I gave challenge to the fact that if you're a Muslim, you can't, 142 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:36.560 you can't tell me the name of your God. And you, I asked you, what is the name of the God of 143 00:16:36.560 --> 00:16:41.120 Islam? And you said, Allah, and I said, I'm sorry, I can't hear you. What is the name of the God 144 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:46.400 of Islam? What is his name? And you said, Allah, and I asked you a third time if you were in that 145 00:16:46.400 --> 00:16:52.000 particular service, clearly by the looks of your face, it wasn't this service. And I said, no, 146 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:59.360 I'm asking you as a Muslim, what is the name of your God? Stop telling me God. What's his name? 147 00:17:00.800 --> 00:17:06.960 Because you see an Arabic, Allah is the word for God. There are a lot of gods. 148 00:17:09.600 --> 00:17:17.200 It's true. Whoever your God is is your predominant thought. Whoever your God is is your 149 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:24.320 predominant appetite. It's your prevailing desire. Is it money? Is it surfing? Is it golfing? 150 00:17:24.320 --> 00:17:30.560 Is it whatever? What is it that? Oh boy, I can't wait. Fill in the blank. That's a God. 151 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:37.280 Could be tidalists. Could be Ferrari. Could be rocking chair. I don't know. 152 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:45.680 Could be in and out. You know, at least that one's got Bible verses on it. Anyway. 153 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:55.840 God says, Moses, you tell them, I am that I sent you to my people. 154 00:17:57.280 --> 00:18:07.920 And the tetragammatron is this. The name of God is not only the root Yah to salvation. 155 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:20.000 That word, but the tetragammatron, capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D is also the meaning of 156 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:31.040 the becoming one. So today, for my life personally, I need direction. I pray to Yah, 157 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:45.280 who is my L, who is my God. Yah is His name. Okay, you're tracking? And I'm seeking Him for guidance. 158 00:18:47.280 --> 00:18:49.040 And I pray in His name. 159 00:18:53.600 --> 00:18:57.840 This Jack Hibbs podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, 160 00:18:57.840 --> 00:19:02.480 our listeners supported. 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