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Real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth,

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equip the saints and impact our culture.

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Those of you who are not believers in your judges, you should read the Bible because

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I'm a judge.

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I don't need to read the Bible.

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You should read the Bible because the judge is going to tell you how it's going to go

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with judges on the day of judgment.

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That's what it's all.

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And the Bible tells us the person that goes around judging everybody gets judged the

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hardest by God.

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Justice.

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Justice is the exact distribution of what is perfectly right.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackkibs.com slash podcast.

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ,

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then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings.

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To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen.

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Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you.

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Here is Jack Kibs.

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Justice of God.

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I'm going to try to control myself today, mentioning the word justice.

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I don't know about you.

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I'm pretty sick of it.

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If you ever, listen, you never have to put a word to qualify the word justice.

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I'm going to say this right now from the get-go.

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If you are a social justice campaigner, you've got some problems.

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First of all, you don't understand English.

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There's not portions that are justice.

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Justice also like goodness is something that relates to the nature of God.

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Ladies and gentlemen, shock or ruin, only God is just.

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Only God can be just.

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And when people begin to impose themselves into the place of being, the one who determines

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what justice is, we're flying blind.

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We are incapable.

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But we've got this justice and that justice and the other justice.

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There's only one justice, and it's the justice of God.

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And so we look at this at present in this world that we live in the concept of justice.

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Is it Judeo-Christian biblical argument?

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That ought to upset some of you that are here watching right now think of that?

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Justice, wait a minute.

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I'm a judge, and I don't believe in God.

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The Bible has a lot to say, by the way, about judges.

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Did you know that?

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Those of you who are not believers in your judges, you should read the Bible.

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Because I'm a judge, I don't need to read the Bible.

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You should read the Bible because the judge is going to tell you how it's going to go with judges

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on the day of judgment.

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That's what it's called.

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And the Bible tells us the person that goes around judging everybody gets judged the hardest by God.

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Justice, justice is the exact distribution of what is perfectly right.

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In our world, we do our best to exercise justice.

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We've all seen the statues of Lady Justice.

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Remember, she has scales in her hands, and she's blind.

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Why? Because she's supposed to be blind to influence her bias.

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She's supposed to make her decisions based upon perfection, but the problem is whenever

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there's a human involved, it's imperfect.

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And so man does the best he can, but not God.

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God is just, perfectly just.

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The Bible tells us in Isaiah 3, verse 10 and 11, tell the righteous that it shall be well

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with them.

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For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds, verse 11, but woe to the wicked.

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It shall be ill with him.

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That's the day of judgment.

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For what his hands have dealt out shall be dealt to him.

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This is the word of God, justice, justice, seemingly there's no justice.

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This weekend, in fact the officers and I were talking this morning were a little confused

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because there were two different shootings at two different train platforms in Los Angeles.

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One involved one guy and then one other involved three assailants.

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But one of the officers made mention that the video cameras showed the one guy getting

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shot, just boom, shot, boom, and people walking around the man shot laying on the platform.

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In the world in which you and I live in, men's hearts have grown cold.

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When God gets a hold of your heart, listen, you get concerned about justice and you ask

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yourself these questions and maybe that grieving family today is wondering where's the justice?

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In this world they may not get justice.

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Isn't that a sad thing to say?

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Listen according to God's Bible, there's a day of justice coming and the Bible tells

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us that when that day comes the scripture says it will be good.

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The God of all the earth will do right.

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See you and I have a hard time with that because when somebody does something wrong we want

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it paid for by them now.

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Of course, when I do something wrong I want God to forget about it.

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Just be honest.

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You get justice for everybody else but you know how that is.

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But look at verses five.

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I want you to check this out for a moment.

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Regarding God's justice, look at verses five, six and eleven.

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It is the righteous judgment of God's, is the Bible.

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I'm not asking you to believe it, I'm just asking you to read it.

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Verse six, he who will render to each one according to his deeds.

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Look at verse eleven, for there's no partiality with God.

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According to the God of the Bible, there's a day of judgment and he will have no favors.

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See Paul is writing to the Italians in Rome but there are a lot of Jews there.

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And the Jewish believers believed and struggled with having a special place with God because

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not only were they Jews but now they're born again Jews.

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So we have a special God says no.

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And then there's the Jews who are the Judaizers, those who are the Pharisees and the scribes,

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the ones that were so often against Jesus and the gospel.

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They would say that all the Gentiles have been created by God for fuel to burn an out.

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But they were special.

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By the way, many still believe that today, you don't see Jewish evangelists running around

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trying to convert people to Judaism, do you?

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They leave you alone.

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It's only us crazy Christians, us Jesus freaks who want to run around telling everybody

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about Jesus.

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Why?

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Because he died for all and he'll forgive all who will come to him.

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Someone has no partiality.

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Anyone who will come, he will accept.

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What an awesome God he is.

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But when he says here regarding this justice, we look at this in verse 5, it brings us to

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this point that we've been given new heart.

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I told you guys I was going to put a good spin on a strong word from the apostle.

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So verse 5, we learn this upfront, is that write it down please, that in light of the

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justice of God, who do we think we are?

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Well as believers, we know this, that we've been given a new heart.

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I'm not going to ask for a show of hands, I do that too often.

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But if you're a born again believer right now, you've been given a new heart.

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That's why you're born again.

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New heart pastor.

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What are you talking about?

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New heart?

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What does that mean?

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Well first let's just look at this.

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Verse 5 says, but in accordance with your hardness and your epitons heart, he's laying

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it out there.

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He's just speaking out the truth that there's a danger of having a hard heart.

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According to scripture, those of us who are believers, the Bible says God gives us a

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new heart.

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Now I do have a beef with the Bible, I say that with affection.

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I have a beef, the Bible says God gives us a new heart.

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Someday when I get to heaven I want to ask God, why didn't you give us a new mind at

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the exact same moment, right?

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The Bible says he gave us a new heart instantly, but our minds, it says, has to be renewed day

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by day.

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I don't like that.

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But honestly, I have concluded this.

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The battleground of your Christian life, is it not in the mind?

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Do you not have to battle constantly your thoughts?

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Isn't it true that temptations land on the porch of your mind?

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And how you deal with it here determines if it makes it into the house, it's part of

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God's great plan.

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By the way, if we had a new mind, apparently we wouldn't read the Bible.

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We need the Bible to renew our minds, but we were given a new heart, thank God for that.

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But he says here, in accordance with or two, the word in the Greek is this, that because

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of or the condition or diagnoses of your heart, the situation of one's heart.

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Because of the situation of your heart being hardened or impotent, we'll find out more

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about this in a moment.

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He's obviously church not talking about your heart.

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By the way, take your hand, take one hand, punch your fist.

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I'll be a little bit off on this, I won't be exact, come on, come on, pretend.

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So you can do it, I know you can.

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If you're 17, 18 years of age or over, your heart now is bigger than this, do you know that?

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Technically as an adult, if you put two fists together on the norm generally speaking,

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your heart is about that size, okay?

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And just to teach you about what not the Bible's talking about, your heart beats 100,000

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times a day, that's amazing, by the way, think about the goodness of God.

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I don't think it'd go well for you if your heart only beats 50,000 times a day, it's

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100,000 times a day.

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And about 35 million times a year your heart beats.

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35 million times and during an average lifetime the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion

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times.

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The aorta, the largest artery that supplies blood to your heart is nearly equal to the

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size of your garden hose, the diameter of your garden hose at home.

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That's amazing.

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By the way, the capillaries that are also involved in your heart, your capillaries on the other

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hand it says here that are so small that it takes 10 of them to equal the size, the thickness

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of a human hair.

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No wonder why the Bible says that we are fearfully and wonderfully made.

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Your body has about six quarts or about 5.6 liters of blood that circulate through your

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body three times every minute, that's a lot.

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Your blood travels, get this, 12,000 miles every 24 hours.

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That's two round trip flights from Los Angeles to New York, twice.

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Your heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during the average lifetime which is

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equal to more than three super tankers that transport oil around the world.

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What a remarkable thing.

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As remarkable as that, the Bible says you have a heart that is not muscle, that the real

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true part of who you are is this heart that he's referring to that will last forever.

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This is the part that is never going to stop beating if I can put it in that term.

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Your physical heart will start beating, but listen, your spiritual life will never end.

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Isn't that amazing?

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Your spiritual existence is contained in your body like a turtle lives in a shell.

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I've told you before you go out to the Mojave Desert and if you find a tortoise shell,

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the turtle is gone.

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The shell is there, but it's funny because very few people will say, look a turtle shell.

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Most people say, look a turtle.

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Well, not exactly.

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The turtle's gone, but it's a turtle shell.

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So if you're laying in your casket, don't let anybody say, hey, look, there's Joe.

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It's the shell of Joe.

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Joe's gone.

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But according to the Bible, Joe is very much alive, very much awake in heaven or hell.

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He's there.

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It's very important.

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We understand that.

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But look at the word hardness in your Bible, circle the word hardness.

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This is where we get, in fact, the Greek word you'll recognize immediately, sclerotes.

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Recognize that word, hardening of the arteries, hardening of the heart.

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A systematic layer by layer, hardening of the heart, the core, being that of man's thoughts,

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his attitudes, his emotions, summed up and being stubborn.

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The harder our heart gets, the more stubborn we become, hardening, which, listen, a heart

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left unchecked, listen, friend, if your heart is drifting, believer, if your heart is drifting

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because of bitterness, hurt, pain, it can harden and it can become not responsive, in a sense,

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you walk by someone who's just been murdered, there's no feeling anymore.

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You don't care.

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That's a dangerous place to be, listen.

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That also brings you to what is known is the place of contempt.

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You have a contempt for everybody.

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That's the world we live in today.

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There's a contempt for law.

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There's a contempt for our constitution.

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There's a contempt for what's good.

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There's a contempt for noncompliance.

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Think of it.

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And we see celebrated this week in our nation's capital, the great celebration because of their

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contempt for the unborn child's life.

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And now Nancy Pelosi and her actions have brought it to the point now where a baby unwanted.

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If the baby is unwanted, here's the amazing thing.

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If the baby is unwanted, the baby can be killed at birth.

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And you think law makes that right?

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Well you know they passed the law.

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The judge of the heaven and earth and all that there is looks down.

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He says, I will not hold you guiltless.

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It doesn't matter what laws people pass.

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Do those laws violate the will of God?

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And listen, what you and I do in life.

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We can say nobody sees, nobody cares, does God care if I were to ask you or if you were

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to ask me, do you think God cares about this?

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There's a justice that matters and that justice is God's justice.

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We have to watch out the Bible says, watch out, make sure we check our hearts that they're

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not hardening.

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And then impotent, not impotent like powerless, this is a different word.

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It means self-determined, self-excusing, self-governing, heart, an unrepentant heart, a heart

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that is incapable of changing because it can no longer feel.

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Do you remember when Jesus was preaching and inviting Israel to heaven to salvation?

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He had been arrested, he didn't defend himself, they plucked out his beard, they beat him

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till his back was opened up like a tin can.

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The Bible tells us that Jesus after being beaten could not be recognized as a human, Isaiah

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23, and Pilate says to them, what do you have to say for yourselves, look at the man

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and they announced, we will not have this man to rule over us.

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Wow, listen, if Jesus came back today, think about what Jesus is for, Jesus is for personal

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individual freedoms, Jesus is for life, Jesus is for peace, okay, do you think Jesus approves

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of this week's beheadings, hangings, and amputations of Taliban in Kabul, he's against that.

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So what if he showed up again, what if Jesus came back today in the 21st century?

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People would say, we will not have this man tell us what to do, why is that the case?

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We don't think it'd be anything different because it's the human heart, and that's got

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to be changed, we've been given a new heart, in light of God's justice, hallelujah, because

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God is just, He gave us a new heart, the believer is given a new heart.

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