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 --> 00:00:14.800 Hey everybody we're gonna be jumping into part two of our message titled Jesus is 4 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:21.840 not a God. Jesus is not a God. So grab your bibles, get a friend, let's do this 5 00:00:21.840 --> 00:00:25.040 together, let's dive in. 6 00:00:26.040 --> 00:00:32.440 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 7 00:00:32.440 --> 00:00:37.840 Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 8 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:42.680 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us 9 00:00:42.680 --> 00:00:47.880 that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to 10 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:53.320 listen. Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack 11 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:55.320 Hibbs. 12 00:00:55.320 --> 00:01:00.600 Well everybody welcome back to our podcast. What we are doing is something that is 13 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:05.240 so needful for everybody. I got to tell you straight up, it doesn't matter if 14 00:01:05.240 --> 00:01:11.800 you are a Christian and atheist, an agnostic, it doesn't matter if you are 15 00:01:11.800 --> 00:01:18.680 already into some sort of religious process or system. With what I'm sharing 16 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:25.000 with you in part one, which we put out there last time. This now being part two is 17 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:31.640 that we're looking at a title for this series and that is and it's to catch you 18 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:39.120 intentionally and that is Jesus is not a God. It's clever, right? Jesus is not a 19 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:43.160 guy. So wait a minute. I thought you Christian says Jesus is God. Jesus is God. 20 00:01:43.160 --> 00:01:49.120 Jesus is not a God and the reason why the title is such is to grab your 21 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:56.280 attention because everyone else other than the Christian who understands 22 00:01:56.280 --> 00:02:02.280 biblical theology, who lets the Bible speak to them, speak to them for themselves. 23 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:10.600 Understands that Jesus Christ is the eternal Almighty God who was manifested in 24 00:02:10.640 --> 00:02:18.200 human form. To deny that is to be a cult member or to be cult thinking. That's 25 00:02:18.200 --> 00:02:23.920 the number one thing that makes a cult a cult. Colts have various outline 26 00:02:23.920 --> 00:02:31.240 aberrant doctrines, which technically are not the issues at the beginning. What 27 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:37.520 is the epicenter? The beginning doctrine where they make an error is that Jesus 28 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:43.120 is not God. It's so funny though because they're so vehemently committed to 29 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:48.240 arguing with you how Jesus cannot be God manifested in human flesh and they 30 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:53.320 give you all their reasons as to why they believe that. But some of those 31 00:02:53.320 --> 00:02:56.840 religions turn right around and tell you how you can become a God. I find that 32 00:02:56.840 --> 00:03:02.760 hilarious. Mormonism is one of them. Look, I have Mormon friends. I love them as 33 00:03:02.760 --> 00:03:07.240 human beings. They're sweet, precious people. Hey, look, if you want to get 34 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:10.960 something done, look for a Mormon. I mean, they they'll get something done 35 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:17.040 because they have to. They've got to work their way into heaven. Their Jesus is a 36 00:03:17.040 --> 00:03:26.520 God. The Mormon God, Jesus, there's the God, Adam God. Adam is a God in Mormonism. 37 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:31.800 There's an infinite amount of gods in Mormon theology. You just don't hear that 38 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:38.440 at your doorstep. We know as we've been talking in our previous broadcast that the 39 00:03:38.440 --> 00:03:45.960 Jehovah Witnesses say, well, nobody, nobody's a God. So the Mormons are all wrong, 40 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:52.620 but you Christians are all wrong too because Jesus cannot be God. The 41 00:03:52.620 --> 00:03:58.680 Jehovah Witnesses declare that Michael, the archangel, goes by an additional name, 42 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:05.880 the name of Jesus. They think Jesus is Michael, the archangel, and they deny his 43 00:04:05.880 --> 00:04:11.880 deity. And so to do that, they have to deny various parts of the Bible. And one of 44 00:04:11.880 --> 00:04:18.120 those sections is John's letter in his epistles, specifically first John. We're 45 00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:22.640 picking it up. If you were with us last time, you have started to develop a list 46 00:04:22.640 --> 00:04:28.080 of scriptures that I'm walking you through and we're going to pick it up. So 47 00:04:28.440 --> 00:04:34.600 guys, if you missed the first broadcast, just click on the one before this and get 48 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:42.120 up to speed. And so here we go. First John, chapter 5, verse 20, first John 5, 20. 49 00:04:43.440 --> 00:04:50.640 The Bible says, and we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an 50 00:04:50.640 --> 00:04:59.040 understanding that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true. 51 00:05:00.200 --> 00:05:10.120 That's a comma there. In his son, Jesus Christ, this is the true God and eternal 52 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:14.680 life. Now you might want to argue that. Well, Jack, just hold on. Yes, it 53 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:19.160 announces that Jesus is the Son of God, but we could all become the sons of God. 54 00:05:19.200 --> 00:05:27.120 So that's no big deal. It does say that it is his son, Jesus Christ, Jesus 55 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:35.920 being his name, Christ, Curios or Messiah in Hebrew, Savior. Okay. Yeah, not a 56 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:41.280 problem. But the verse ends by saying, this is the true God and eternal life. 57 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:50.080 You can't avoid that. Whoever the eternal life is is God. Whoever God is, is 58 00:05:50.080 --> 00:05:57.280 eternal life. The Bible clearly here connects that the Son is eternal. You can 59 00:05:57.280 --> 00:06:02.640 only have one eternal and that's God. Whoever that son is, who's eternal, it 60 00:06:02.640 --> 00:06:07.440 already says that he's the Son of God, which means that God is manifested. Jesus 61 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:12.320 is the Son of God, meaning that he's the second person of the Trinity. And he 62 00:06:12.320 --> 00:06:17.680 has revealed himself to mankind. Notice this, the Father did not reveal 63 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:22.480 himself to us tangibly. The Father did not do that. The Bible says that God is 64 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:28.200 spirit and those that worship God must worship him in spirit and in truth. So 65 00:06:28.200 --> 00:06:33.920 the Father is spirit. When we read old and New Testament accounts of visions of 66 00:06:33.960 --> 00:06:42.480 God, we see whoever the prophet is or the apostle is that is describing the 67 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:51.240 vision of heaven, they speak of God and the Lamb of God seated next to him. But 68 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:57.680 they see what appears to be a silhouette of light being the Father. The Holy 69 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:03.680 Spirit did not personalize himself. The Holy Spirit did not make himself 70 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:09.920 incarnate. The Holy Spirit is exactly that, the Holy Spirit, the third person of 71 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:18.560 the Trinity. It is only Jesus, the Son of God, that is promised in the Old 72 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:23.120 Testament scriptures and confirmed in the New Testament accounts that he 73 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:30.320 became incarnate. incarnate means he came and transformed from eternal God 74 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:38.720 spirit, being born through the conception of the Holy Spirit's work in Mary and 75 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:44.040 Mary brings forth Jesus from the womb. Jesus comes into this world born just 76 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:48.720 like you and I did. Why? Because he's our savior. But the Bible makes it clear 77 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:54.160 that he is our savior God. He's the man God, you could say. Now there was a 78 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:59.920 lunatic years ago, I believe it was in the 80s, Bog 1. Some of you oldies might 79 00:07:59.920 --> 00:08:04.760 remember Bog 1. He was based out of Southern Oregon. He came from India. He 80 00:08:04.760 --> 00:08:10.720 declared himself to be God, the God man, Bog 1. I'm God on earth. And you say, man, 81 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:14.640 that's crazy. Yeah, well, you know what? It was remarkable. You can research it 82 00:08:14.640 --> 00:08:21.920 yourself. But he may, he may have been crazy, but he made a lot of money because 83 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:26.960 it just so happens that a lot of doctors, professionals, highly educated people 84 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:34.280 for some reason, flocked to his cult in Oregon and became followers of his. And I 85 00:08:34.280 --> 00:08:37.640 think at one point he had like five Rolls Royces. He had a bunch of corporate 86 00:08:37.640 --> 00:08:41.760 jets and all this stuff. But he wound up getting caught by the IRS and somehow 87 00:08:41.760 --> 00:08:45.960 he escaped and got back to India somewhere. Who knows whatever happened to him. 88 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:50.320 But he was a God. He said that he was God incarnate, that he was the God man. 89 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:56.080 Where did the demon that spoke that to him get that idea? Or where where did 90 00:08:56.640 --> 00:09:03.800 Bog 1. Gosh, I think his name was Rajneesh. This is scary because I'm going back 91 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:13.760 decades. But where did Rajneesh get that idea? The God man. Listen, Jesus 92 00:09:13.760 --> 00:09:19.520 predates that whole thing. Right now today in the 21st century, he's seated at 93 00:09:19.520 --> 00:09:24.200 the right hand of God. The father is God the son. And Jesus will forever be the 94 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:29.360 God man. He is a hundred percent God and a hundred percent man to be our 95 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:34.640 intercessor, our salvation, our eternal life. First Timothy chapter three, verse 96 00:09:34.640 --> 00:09:38.680 sixteen. One of my favorite verses ever. First Timothy three, verse sixteen. This 97 00:09:38.680 --> 00:09:46.080 is incredibly graphic. Paul is arguing with Timothy to be ready to give an 98 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:51.680 argument regarding Christ. And without controversy, great is the mystery of 99 00:09:51.680 --> 00:10:01.560 godliness. Here it comes. God was manifested in carnation in the flesh, justified 100 00:10:01.560 --> 00:10:08.640 in the spirit seen by angels preached among the Gentiles believed on in the 101 00:10:08.640 --> 00:10:17.200 world and received up into glory. That is the mission statement capsulated in one 102 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:24.280 verse regarding who is the Jesus of the Bible. Listen, Jesus is not a God. Jesus 103 00:10:24.280 --> 00:10:32.240 Christ is the God. And Paul seals the deal in one verse writing to Timothy. I 104 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:38.280 want to read it again and look at it with me and your Bibles. Without controversy, 105 00:10:38.280 --> 00:10:43.080 without debate, talk about it. All you want, you're just wasting air, you're 106 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:47.800 wasting time. You can get in controversies, but here's the answer. Great is the 107 00:10:47.800 --> 00:10:52.160 mystery of godliness. In other words, what he's going to tell you is super deep, 108 00:10:52.160 --> 00:11:04.160 but crystal clear. God was manifested in the flesh. Who do you know throughout 109 00:11:04.160 --> 00:11:14.800 all of humanity that according to a book, a belief system that God was going to 110 00:11:14.800 --> 00:11:20.560 come to earth in human skin? Right now you're all stumped and you should be 111 00:11:20.560 --> 00:11:26.240 stumped because there's only one answer. It's the Bible. It's the Bible that 112 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:33.200 announces this. And so fast forwarding to the New Testament, Paul is saying that 113 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:36.960 God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit. It means that 114 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:41.640 everything Jesus Christ did, he did by the spirit of God. He did by the power of 115 00:11:41.640 --> 00:11:47.680 God. He did by the authority of the Holy Spirit, which is why the Pharisees, 116 00:11:47.680 --> 00:11:54.040 when they said, we know how you cast out demons, Jesus. We figured it out in our 117 00:11:54.040 --> 00:11:58.160 religious knuckleheads. We came to this conclusion. You do it because you're the 118 00:11:58.160 --> 00:12:02.880 Prince of demons. That's who you are. You're working with Bibles above. That's how 119 00:12:02.880 --> 00:12:07.080 you cast out demons. You're in cahoots with Satan. And do you remember the 120 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:14.040 remember the response Jesus gave? He said, uh, can a can a house divided 121 00:12:14.040 --> 00:12:20.080 stand? Uh, your blade, you're attacking me for casting out demons. You're saying 122 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:25.720 that I'm Satan's cohorts and then he nailed them. He's because the Jews have 123 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:33.800 exorcists. They have exorcisms. And when Jesus said, then if I cast out demons 124 00:12:33.800 --> 00:12:39.960 by Bibles above, who do your sins cast out demons by? They're like, oh my gosh, 125 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:43.600 we didn't think that through all the way. That's great. He catches them in their 126 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:50.080 own stupid arguments. Um, but no, the fact of the matter is justified in the 127 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:54.400 spirit, uh, means that Jesus revealed the power and the person of the Holy Spirit 128 00:12:54.440 --> 00:13:00.000 as well, which by the way, the conclusion was this, if you, uh, Jesus said, all 129 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:04.800 manner of sin will be forgiven you in this life. If you sin against the Father, 130 00:13:04.800 --> 00:13:07.760 it will be forgiven you. And if you get sin against the Son, it will be 131 00:13:07.760 --> 00:13:11.680 forgiven you. But he who sins against the spirit of God, the Holy Spirit will 132 00:13:11.680 --> 00:13:16.840 never be forgiven in this world or in eternity. Never, never will you be 133 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:22.240 forgiven. Why? It's to come to the conclusion that what Jesus was doing was 134 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:26.720 not the power of the Holy Spirit, but was demonic spirit. And so that 135 00:13:26.760 --> 00:13:32.520 blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is the unforgivable sin. It's not being 136 00:13:32.520 --> 00:13:37.040 mean and ugly. It's not eating fattening food. It's not even suicide as tragic 137 00:13:37.040 --> 00:13:41.400 as that is. The importantable sin is not believing the testimony of the Holy 138 00:13:41.400 --> 00:13:46.400 Spirit when he witnesses to you that Jesus Christ is God. The next thing in 139 00:13:46.400 --> 00:13:50.920 that fantastic verses seen by angels, the Greek word is where we get the 140 00:13:50.920 --> 00:13:55.360 English word got that by angels. Whatever happened in the incarnation of 141 00:13:55.360 --> 00:14:00.800 Jesus Christ coming into the world in Bethlehem, when, and please take this in 142 00:14:00.800 --> 00:14:05.720 the right spirit, when Mary got into the birthing position, it appears based 143 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:10.080 on this one word that angels gathered around in the invisible realm, 144 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:15.280 obviously. And they watched the birthing of the Son of God in human 145 00:14:15.280 --> 00:14:21.400 skin. They got seen by angels. Does it mean, oh, hey, Michael Gabriel, there 146 00:14:21.400 --> 00:14:26.840 goes Jesus. It's not what it means. It means that when he came into the world and 147 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:31.560 was manifested, his coming into the world was something that they had never 148 00:14:31.560 --> 00:14:36.960 seen before. And they got it. It's what we would say the angels were wide 149 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:47.360 and open mouthed in awe. Imagine little babies, baby Jesus's head in the 150 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:51.960 crowning starts to come out. The angels are looking. Maybe his arm came out for 151 00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:57.160 us. We don't know, but they know they were there. And whatever happened, they 152 00:14:57.160 --> 00:15:04.000 angels were gawking at the advent of Christ. Friends, that's awesome. You 153 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:09.520 think that through for a moment, preached among the Gentiles. Is that not 154 00:15:09.520 --> 00:15:18.240 self-explanatory? It's safe to say that nobody has covered the earth by radio, 155 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:22.160 broadcast, preaching. I think Billy Graham, I forget what year it was from 156 00:15:22.160 --> 00:15:29.840 Central Park, New York, preached live to two billion people were watching. It 157 00:15:29.880 --> 00:15:35.400 was the most at that time, it was the most viewed broadcast of all time. What 158 00:15:35.400 --> 00:15:41.280 did he say? He gave the gospel. No one's ever done that regarding Muhammad. No 159 00:15:41.280 --> 00:15:49.520 one's ever done that regarding Joseph Smith or Charles Russell or Mary Baker 160 00:15:49.520 --> 00:15:55.280 Eddie. No one's ever done that regarding any other group. And even to this 161 00:15:55.360 --> 00:16:00.080 moment, right now today, even in the face of persecution, as I sit here right 162 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:07.360 now in this podcast, we have just come out of another Sunday, which in India, it 163 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:14.280 was a bloody Sunday. In India, you guys know, if you don't know, in India, there 164 00:16:14.280 --> 00:16:19.920 is a wholesale slaughter going on of Christians mass martyrdom is taking 165 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:28.800 place in India. Christians are being killed. And even in light of that, the number 166 00:16:28.800 --> 00:16:34.720 one message preached around the world every day of every hour of every moment of 167 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:42.000 every month of year is the gospel of Jesus Christ found in the Bible. He was 168 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:47.600 preached among the Gentiles. The Bible tells us believed on in the world, simply 169 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:51.920 meaning this, that people's lives who were changed, those people's lives who 170 00:16:51.920 --> 00:16:57.120 were changed to turn around and changed the world. I'm going to very, very 171 00:16:57.120 --> 00:17:04.640 bluntly declare this, go and look around at human history and find out what 172 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:09.920 has been the greatest good in human history. It's just a test for you. In all of 173 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:14.480 human history, what's been the greatest good in all of human history for 174 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:20.400 everyone, for every culture, any culture, check it out. Go look and see. What has 175 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:29.680 been the greatest good for humanity since the dawn of man? It's not fire. It's not 176 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:41.600 the United Nations. It's not cracker jacks. The greatest good that's ever been 177 00:17:41.600 --> 00:17:45.600 given to this world are the lives of the people who have been 178 00:17:45.600 --> 00:17:48.960 transformed by Jesus because do you know what happened throughout human history? 179 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:53.280 They went and started hospitals. They went into places that you would never 180 00:17:53.280 --> 00:17:58.160 go, that I would never go in the deepest and most dangerous parts of Africa 181 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:03.600 and South America and the rainforest of the Amazon. 182 00:18:03.600 --> 00:18:07.200 And they set up mission stations and they brought in doctors and they pulled 183 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:11.200 teeth and they cleaned teeth and they stitched up wounds. They gave people 184 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:18.320 medicine. They prayed and healed people. They did things like 185 00:18:19.120 --> 00:18:23.600 Oh, what's his name? Elizabeth Elliott. What's your husband's name? Jim. Jim Elliott 186 00:18:23.600 --> 00:18:30.080 and others like that who went into the crazy places to hostile tribes to give 187 00:18:30.080 --> 00:18:36.560 them the love of God, even custom their lives. Think about it. Hospitals 188 00:18:36.560 --> 00:18:41.760 find out the origin of hospitals, check out the origin of universities, especially 189 00:18:41.760 --> 00:18:47.600 those of you who live in the United States. The foundation for 190 00:18:47.600 --> 00:18:53.520 the education system in the United States is not even up for debate. The 191 00:18:53.520 --> 00:18:57.440 foundation for the educational system in the United States 192 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:02.880 were Christian universities. Hands down. The first universities to get started 193 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:07.040 in America. None of them were secular. They're all Christian. 194 00:19:07.040 --> 00:19:11.840 Now look, there's a debate as to who was the first. 195 00:19:11.840 --> 00:19:17.040 So William and Mary College University, they argue with Harvard because both of 196 00:19:17.040 --> 00:19:20.000 them claim, we're older, no, we're older, we're older, no, we're older. 197 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:24.000 Who cares? Both of them were established to create pastors, 198 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:28.480 missionaries and Christian workers. Did you know that? 199 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:33.760 Those of you who live in the Boston area take some time off and go find the 200 00:19:33.760 --> 00:19:39.760 original entrance to Harvard Gate, right? Before you go through the gate, 201 00:19:39.760 --> 00:19:47.200 stop and turn to your right and pull the bushes back and there's that beautiful 202 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:51.920 old original brick wall. There's a placard right there that 203 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:55.760 gives you the mission statement of Harvard University. 204 00:19:55.760 --> 00:19:58.400 It tells you what it was established for. 205 00:19:58.400 --> 00:20:01.520 It's so obvious I'm not even going to tell you right now. 206 00:20:01.520 --> 00:20:04.960 I'm going to make you go look. You'll be shocked. Oh, by the way, 207 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:08.800 there's a reason why the current administration planted a big bush 208 00:20:08.800 --> 00:20:14.480 in front of the placard to hide it. You got to pull back a bush to see it. 209 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:20.320 Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, remarkable. Check it out. 210 00:20:20.320 --> 00:20:25.600 Anyway, received up in the glory. Hey, is there a rumor that Jesus ascended? 211 00:20:25.600 --> 00:20:29.600 And went back to where he came from. Jesus himself said, I'm going to go away, 212 00:20:29.600 --> 00:20:33.280 but I'm going to come back. And when I come back, John 14 verse 1 to 3, 213 00:20:33.280 --> 00:20:37.040 when I come back, I'm going to pick you up from this earth and take you to myself. 214 00:20:37.040 --> 00:20:41.840 Titus chapter 2 13. This is one of my life verses. Titus 2 13. 215 00:20:41.840 --> 00:20:46.240 This is the Christian's attitude for today. It's never supposed to change. 216 00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:51.040 It is a constant barometer indicator every day for 217 00:20:51.040 --> 00:20:55.360 the Christian. Why? The Holy Spirit requires this of you, 218 00:20:55.360 --> 00:20:59.440 but that's okay. Don't worry. The Holy Spirit makes this true in your life. 219 00:20:59.440 --> 00:21:03.120 In other words, what I'm about to read to you in Titus 2 13, 220 00:21:03.120 --> 00:21:09.280 the Holy Spirit gives you this thought 221 00:21:09.280 --> 00:21:14.320 and thereby keeps you prepared day by day by day. 222 00:21:14.320 --> 00:21:20.000 Looking for the blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God 223 00:21:20.080 --> 00:21:26.880 and Savior Jesus Christ. That's my mic drop. 224 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:34.000 Friends, people, is Jesus God? He's the God. 225 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:38.080 Looking for the blessed hope. What's that? Christ is coming back. 226 00:21:38.080 --> 00:21:43.120 How? It's our hope. Why? It's his glorious appearing. 227 00:21:43.120 --> 00:21:47.440 Why should we care? Why? How does that matter to us? Because he's our great God 228 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:51.760 and Savior. Jesus Christ, you can't get around it. 229 00:21:51.760 --> 00:21:55.920 Period. John 8.58, John 8.58. 230 00:21:55.920 --> 00:22:00.720 Remember, all of this is to the person that knocks on your door 231 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:04.560 trying to convince you to join their cult and they'll tell you 232 00:22:04.560 --> 00:22:07.520 that eventually they don't offer this up so quick. 233 00:22:07.520 --> 00:22:12.720 Oh, we don't believe that Jesus is God. Well, John 8.58, 234 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:15.520 Jesus responded to people who were saying the same thing. 235 00:22:15.600 --> 00:22:19.280 We don't believe you're God. In John 8.58, Jesus said to them, 236 00:22:19.280 --> 00:22:23.440 most assuredly, I said to you before Abraham was a go at me 237 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:29.680 in the Greek language. I am. It's the same in the Hebrew of Genesis 3 238 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:38.160 when Moses meets God. Wait, Genesis 3? Sorry, no, no. Exodus 3, 239 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:47.280 Exodus 3, where God meets Moses at the burning bush. 240 00:22:47.280 --> 00:22:50.800 Exodus 3. I'm having a brain freeze. Do you remember when Moses goes to the 241 00:22:50.800 --> 00:22:53.840 burning bush and the burning bush speaks to him? 242 00:22:53.840 --> 00:22:58.320 And Moses says, this is amazing. This bush is on fire, but it's not being consumed. 243 00:22:58.320 --> 00:23:03.280 And the Lord speaks out of the burning bush to Moses and says, 244 00:23:03.280 --> 00:23:10.000 go down to the children of Israel and tell them that I am, that I am, has sent you, okay? 245 00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:15.040 And so I think if you check out Exodus 3, you'll find that out. 246 00:23:15.040 --> 00:23:21.360 And it's remarkable because the exact same Hebrew word that God gave to Moses 247 00:23:21.360 --> 00:23:25.280 to go tell the children of Israel who he was talking to is the exact same 248 00:23:25.360 --> 00:23:30.080 in the Greek language of John 8, 58, when Jesus said, 249 00:23:31.840 --> 00:23:38.720 you guys ought to know by now that before Abraham was ever a born, that I am, 250 00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:45.600 I'm the eternal one. Kind of hard to get around that, okay? 251 00:23:45.600 --> 00:23:49.920 John 8, 24, therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins. 252 00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:54.480 If you do not believe that I am he, you will die in your sins. 253 00:23:54.480 --> 00:23:57.840 A absolute direct declaration of deity. 254 00:23:57.840 --> 00:24:04.960 If you don't believe in Jesus Christ, that he is the I am, that he, he, capital H, he is the I am. 255 00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:09.840 You will die in your sins. I don't care how religious you are. It's irrelevant. 256 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:13.840 I don't care if you're the Pope right now, kitchen this podcast. 257 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:18.880 Unless you're born again, Mr. Pope, you're not making it to heaven. 258 00:24:20.080 --> 00:24:24.160 And you're, listen, if you think you're something, you need to check out Nicodemus. 259 00:24:24.160 --> 00:24:26.000 You're nothing compared to Nicodemus. 260 00:24:27.120 --> 00:24:30.640 And Nicodemus in John chapter three, Jesus said, Nick, unless you're born again, 261 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:33.600 you're not going to go to heaven. And that's true about the Pope. 262 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:36.800 And if it's true about the Pope, it's true about the popper. 263 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:42.000 About all of us. Unless you're born again, you'll not see the kingdom of heaven. 264 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:48.400 You will die in your sins. Unless Jesus Christ is the Lord and Savior of your life plus nothing. 265 00:24:49.360 --> 00:24:53.280 That you put faith in his death and resurrection for you plus nothing. 266 00:24:54.080 --> 00:24:58.720 Very, very important. John chapter 10, verse 32 and 33, John 10, 267 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:06.880 32, 33, Jesus answered them. Many good works I have shown you from my father 268 00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:13.920 for which of those works do you stone me? Okay, so I've been doing miracles. Why are you going to 269 00:25:13.920 --> 00:25:18.800 kill me? So tell me which one ticked you off? The Jews answered and said to him, 270 00:25:19.520 --> 00:25:24.160 for a good work, we do not stone you. Those miracles are quite spectacular, Jesus. 271 00:25:24.800 --> 00:25:30.720 No, that's not why we want to kill you, but for blasphemy. Okay, that is a big deal. 272 00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:39.280 Why? Because you being a man declare yourself to be God. Have you ever had somebody tell you? 273 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:43.120 Have you ever heard somebody tell you? Jesus never claimed to be God. 274 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:47.680 Oh yeah, John 10, verses 32 and 33. 275 00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:54.720 Isn't it awesome, by the way, Jesus said, you guys upset about the miracles? I mean, 276 00:25:54.720 --> 00:25:58.400 he knew exactly what was going to happen. So you guys upset, gee, I'm really sorry, 277 00:25:58.400 --> 00:26:01.920 what miracle offended you? Oh, no, no, your miracles are spectacular. They're amazing. 278 00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:07.040 Everybody's talking about them. No, no, no, we're going to kill you because you've committed blasphemy 279 00:26:07.040 --> 00:26:12.640 because you've told everybody, you've told us that you're God and that's it. You're done. 280 00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:19.600 They understood exactly my friend's 2000 years ago. His opponents understood 281 00:26:19.600 --> 00:26:23.600 that Jesus was declaring himself to be God. Not a God, 282 00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:31.840 the God, Titus 210, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things. 283 00:26:31.840 --> 00:26:33.840 Who's the Savior? How many Savior's do we have? 284 00:26:35.120 --> 00:26:39.680 Only one. Remember, we talked about Alpha and Omega, the beginning of the end, the first and 285 00:26:39.680 --> 00:26:44.400 the last, the one who was, who is, who is to come, the Almighty? We only have one. You can only 286 00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:50.560 be one. There's only one. God is one, the Bible says. Well, there's only one Savior, there's only one 287 00:26:50.560 --> 00:26:58.720 God. And Jesus Christ is our Savior. Jesus Christ is, in fact, God. Jude, chapter 1, verse 24, 288 00:26:58.880 --> 00:27:06.240 Jude 124. Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you 289 00:27:07.680 --> 00:27:15.680 faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy to God our Savior who alone 290 00:27:15.680 --> 00:27:23.760 is wise. Wow, that's awesome. That's epic. Listen, we can keep going. I don't think, we'll make 291 00:27:23.760 --> 00:27:32.480 this a three-parter because I have some more, but it's been long enough. Process this. Put the two 292 00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:37.520 previous, now this being a previous, this podcast together with the previous podcast, 293 00:27:37.520 --> 00:27:44.640 get a small group together. Send this out, copy, share it to other people. This could save their 294 00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:52.240 eternal lives. Friends, listen, the gospel is actually being given right now in the series of 295 00:27:52.320 --> 00:28:00.000 these podcasts. Okay, for those of you who say, well, I just preached the gospel. Why? This is the 296 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:03.920 gospel. When you say I just preach the gospel, you better be careful. You know what you're talking 297 00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:10.960 about because the gospel is repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved. 298 00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:19.440 Starts with repentance. Why? Because he's God. We're not. Repent and believe on the Lord Jesus 299 00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:25.840 Christ. It's the Lord Jesus Christ who the Bible says there is no name given among men whereby we 300 00:28:25.840 --> 00:28:32.720 must be saved. It's that name, the name that is above all names, that every knee should bow and 301 00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:39.760 every tongue shall confess that. What? That the Holy Spirit is Lord? No, but he is. That the Father 302 00:28:39.760 --> 00:28:47.200 is Lord? No, but he is. The answer is that Jesus Christ is Lord because he is. 303 00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:56.080 So listen, share this, please. 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