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Real life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Hey everybody we're gonna

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have to do it but this one demands a response. Here we go.

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Hey everybody welcome back to the Jack Hibbs Podcast and listen you could always

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encourages the entire team. Talking about the entire team I have to tell you

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straight up that I do not read comments made by people. I don't have the time. I

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just don't have the time and I'm not joking I had a 21-hour day yesterday for

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real and I'm trying to recover from that. I don't have the time to peruse social

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media but you might say well my gosh you're posting all the time I am posting

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all the time on the various platforms but I walk away from those posts. I post

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it and then I walk away but number one that's one of the ways how I keep so

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happy and lighthearted is because I don't get bogged down in what people are

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you know saying about whatever but we have a team that reads the responses from

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people and so one of the things is we're I don't think we've ever done this

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before but this is really good so Colleen I'm gonna say if you're Colleen who

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left this a message Colleen I'm gonna say Colleen see I'm not gonna give

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your whole handle because that's probably not fair to you but Colleen see you

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know who I'm talking about you asked a question and it's awesome and it goes

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something like this that you were listening to a message recently that I was

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giving and that I had made the comment which was actually a statement quote from

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the Bible that I said that you need to work out your own salvation with fear

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and trembling and your great question was is I thought our salvation was

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purchased in Jesus and we had it and that it's not by works but it's just by

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faith in Him alone so can I address that first of all you are absolutely

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correct you are 100% correct Colleen number one is that our salvation is

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solely fixed upon the absolute and the exhaustive to the point of sufficient

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sacrifice of Jesus Christ at the cross in other words what Jesus did for us

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of the cross satisfied the righteousness of God which has been revealed to us

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in the law Christ came and met all the demands of the law thereby think of it

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this way thereby when the law examined Jesus Christ in Passion Week think

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about that the Old Testament law examined the life in the ministry of Jesus

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Christ and could not bring anything against him when the law was satisfied the

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next part of his redemptive act for us is that he then having been perfected

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before the law of Christ's God he was always perfect but he lived out that

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perfection in human flesh which is amazing because was Jesus really tempted not

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only was he really tempted he was tempted far beyond what you and I can be

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tempted because he's pure like you and I would have never known we will know in

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the future will be as pure as Jesus in eternity and heaven imagine that read

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first John it'll blow your mind but having said that Colleen yep it's all by

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Jesus and so your next comeback is well then what about working out your own

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salvation with fear and trembling what do I do doesn't sound doesn't sound

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very thrilling Philippians chapter two always friends always never build a

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theology off of a verse ever that's what cults do by the way you want to be a

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cult build your theology off of a verse and if you want to be you know like a

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like a global cult then build your theology off of random verses from Old and

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New Testament that have no correlation whatsoever together and are more

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importantly read out of context context is everything and it shouldn't surprise

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you okay so here in Southern California context is everything if I'm hungry

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right and I want a hamburger right in California if you know that you're not

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but this is where hamburgers are born all the big ones in in America are born

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here don't tell me about five guys it's not even funny I'm talking about real

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hamburgers that come from California so if I want a hamburger I'm gonna go

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listen to the context I'm gonna go to in and out burger that's where that's

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where God would eat first of all everything has got verses on it it's a

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Christian company and I'm and I've got a burger but in the context I have to

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fries and the milkshake together the context of this together gives you a

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well-rounded experience of how great an in and out burger can be an in and out

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double double animal style is what you want and that context then affords you

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freedom like to dip your fries in your milkshake before you eat it okay so I

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I digress kind of context dictates everything so listen to this Philippians

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Paul is writing to the believers in Philippi these are Roman believers they are

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Europeans they're not Jews they are in the region of what would probably be

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those that are closer to Macedonians but be that as it may they are residing in

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Philippi and he writes to the church of Philippi and the people who live there

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are called Philippians okay and in chapter two you quoted it calling therefore

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my beloved as you have always obeyed not as in my presence only but now much

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more in my absence work out your own salvation with fear and trembling verse

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13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure now

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that's just the hint of the context you see all of a sudden oh wait a minute

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verse 13 says it's God who's working it out in me yes so what does it mean let's

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go back to verse 12 what does it mean for us to work out our own salvation with

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fear and trembling you ready here it is to work out our own salvation simply means

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this because we're saved we work out our own salvation from the fact that we

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are saved not that we get saved by working for our salvation that's not how we

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that's not how it works our salvation is a gift that's given now that you're saved

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what does it mean it means watch discipline your life in such a way that will

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advance the entire process of your relationship with Jesus Christ now in

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salvation in sanctification and being called and your ultimate glorification in

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Christ Jesus Paul talks about that Romans chapter 8 verses 28 to 31 so you want

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to check that out but here's the deal God is at work within you God is at work

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verse 13 you could even read it backwards God's at work within you he's going to

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work so that you can work out your own salvation with reverence and with awe that's

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what those words mean not to be terrified and be flinching when God speaks no it's

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a joyous union and it's thrilling because salvation is not by our sweat it's not

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by our efforts it's not by our deeds it is truly this because I'm saved I am

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going to make sure I set my alarm earlier to get up with God to spend time with

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him see I don't have to do that but I want to grow so I'm going to do that so

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work out your own salvation with with a reverential awe would be that I'm

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going to go to church and find out how I can be used I want to I want to put my

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faith into action what does God want to do with me now you can stay home and

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you're gonna go to heaven but it's best to invest in your relationship with God

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and so when it's working out it's just let me rephrase it let the salvation that

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is yours let it go release it in your life and find out what God wants to do with

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you and as he uses you just remember maintain that with a reverential awe and

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thankfulness toward God because he's the one doing it all he's the one that's at

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work in you so it's two verses of absolute liberty absolute freedom absolute

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joy and absolute assurance because why because I'm going to walk the straight

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and narrow with Jesus and the Holy Spirit's going to give me the power to do

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that and the wanta he's going to give me the wana to do it I'm going to want to

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do this so it's not any works of righteousness on your own to do this is to

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yield to the work of God and letting him do what he wants you to do and I hope

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calling that this liberates you and that it also brings an answer to your

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question you know think of a glove right you can see a glove you can go to your

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local hardware store and there's a glove you can buy gloves and they they're all

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just gloves and they're basically meaningless until your hand slips inside the

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glove and you by the way you'll try on a few gloves until you find one that

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fits or fits the application for which you need it okay are you going to be

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handling acids then you need a certain kind of a rubber a polypropylene type of

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glove a glove that can handle toxins and poisons and acids you wouldn't use

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that glove for gardening you would use a gardeners glove they usually have a

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little bit of rubber grip and they're they're cloth on the top well maybe what

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if you you're going to do hard yard work you're gonna cut down some trees you're

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gonna use your chainsaw or you're going to dig fence post you know you're

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gonna deal with barbed wire and stuff like that for your for your land or for

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your property you'd use leather gloves why because they can take it you use the

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glove in the application for which it was created for know this the Bible says

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calling that you were created by God to live out your life and serve him and

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those things that you're to be doing are actual works that God has given you

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before the foundation of the world was ever laid these are works that God has

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given each of us as believers to live out now listen some of you might be saying

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oh my goodness really I'm a Christian pastor Jack and I don't know what I'm

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supposed to do you better find out that's your purpose in life and if you

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listen if you think you've been having fun so far as a Christian you ain't

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seen nothing yet because when you yield yourself to what God wants to do and listen

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sometimes that comes by presenting yourself and lots of trial and error what

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I mean by that is I want to serve God I want to find out what my gift is and

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you sign up for the parking lot ministry traffic ministry ushering ministry

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children's ministry you might go to seven different ministries until you find

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one that it's like oh my gosh I love this and the reason why you're gonna love

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it is because God has put that love in your heart for it before the world was

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ever created before you ever born you were designed for that and guess what's

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gonna happen you are gonna work your tail off doing it and people are gonna say

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you need to take a break and you go man I can't take a break this is the best

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where do you get your energy from where do you get your motivation from from

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God why you were built to do that that's why God called you to do that and so

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while other people who are not called to what you're doing are all pooped out

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and tired and thrashed you would be just as thrashed if you're trying to do

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what they do what they do is incredibly powerful to the advancement of the

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gospel listen the church that I pastor I'm surrounded by people literally who

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have incredible callings and giftings in the area to advance the gospel

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via technologies or a writing or graphics or audio or you know logistics it's

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amazing just today I found out I'm sorry didn't even know this about when

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people order books how does that happen what's the process where on the

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property does that take place who's doing this how how our book orders processed

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I can't even wrap my brain around that I don't have to I'm not called to do

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that I wouldn't even I'd blow it all up I'd mess it up so listen Colleen find

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out what God wants you to do do with all of your heart and you're gonna find out

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that you disciplining your life which is a joy to draw closer to Jesus which is

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part of being a disciple it turns out that you wind up fulfilling the full

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purpose as to why God gave you eternal life in the first place he gave you life

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for a purpose don't just wait around to get to heaven what you want to do is be

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busy about our father's business and that when it time comes to go to heaven

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you are going to heaven having accomplished your race as Paul put it you have

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finished your course you've kept the faith and you can lay your head down at

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night satisfied and thankful for all that God gave you for that day so I hope

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that is an answer to you I hope that brings some consolation to you it's a

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great question but remember everybody read the entire context of what's

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before you don't just eat the fries okay there's more to it don't just read

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that verse read it in the chapter read it in its paragraph as you read it

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unpacked the word meanings and you'll grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus

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Christ so you guys listen as always we would love to have you subscribe that

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