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 --> 00:00:11.320 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. In our culture today, I know I say 3 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:16.040 this often, but I'm gonna keep saying it often. We've got to figure out how to get 4 00:00:16.040 --> 00:00:21.080 alone. We're too busy, we're too distracted. When was the last time you just 5 00:00:21.080 --> 00:00:26.600 unplugged and said, God speak to me. How are we doing Lord? Together you and I, let 6 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:35.280 speak to you. He's personal. You can get the outlines of this podcast by 7 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:42.080 going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. Today, if this podcast lifts you up and 8 00:00:42.080 --> 00:00:46.280 encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, then make sure you leave 9 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:52.200 us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's like saying amen or yes. Then 10 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:56.840 that rating will encourage others to listen. Now, open your hearts to what God's 11 00:00:56.840 --> 00:01:04.080 word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. The security of the sovereign word when 12 00:01:04.080 --> 00:01:08.380 God speaks, God who is not a man, the Bible says cannot lie. When God speaks, He 13 00:01:08.380 --> 00:01:11.980 speaks the truth. And the Bible tells us in verse six right here in the opening 14 00:01:11.980 --> 00:01:16.600 part of verse six, it says, but it is not that the word of God has taken no 15 00:01:16.600 --> 00:01:24.320 effect. When he speaks about this, the Jews not believing that not all who say 16 00:01:24.320 --> 00:01:30.720 there is real are of Israel. What does this mean? What's the result? Those that say 17 00:01:30.720 --> 00:01:36.040 there are Jews, but not all of them are Jews. Is it the lack of God's word? The 18 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:43.680 Empowerful? Has God's word failed? Will God's word ever fail you? Never fail you. 19 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:49.800 God's word cannot fail. The only reason why you and I would say this is not working. 20 00:01:49.800 --> 00:01:58.400 It's because of us, not Him. And they refuse to believe. Jesus had to contend with it. 21 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:04.160 They had taken the revelation of God and they had made it into man-made religion. And 22 00:02:04.160 --> 00:02:11.160 they set up all of these orders and all of these do's and don'ts. And all God desire 23 00:02:11.160 --> 00:02:18.360 and desires is a personal relationship. And you come to know that by his awesome sovereign 24 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:23.520 word when God speaks to you. He says, listen, does this attract you? God says, I have 25 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:29.400 loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore with loving kindness, do I draw you? That word 26 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:38.240 draw means he pulls you in, but he doesn't, he doesn't make you love him. That would 27 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:47.320 not be a relationship. That would be tyranny. His love for us is clearly revealed in Scripture. 28 00:02:47.320 --> 00:02:53.200 But this is pretty, I think, powerful for us. When you look at verse 6 and the opening words 29 00:02:53.200 --> 00:02:58.440 of it, but it is not that the word of God, mark it down in your notes. That's the logos 30 00:02:58.440 --> 00:03:03.640 of God, the logos, that beautiful word logos. And this is the meaning of it, logos. The logos 31 00:03:03.640 --> 00:03:09.120 is the embodiment of thought. Think about that. When the word Jesus became flesh and dwelt 32 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:15.520 among us, right, everybody? Are you guys awake? Okay. So the logos is the embodiment of 33 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:22.400 thoughts. This is fun. Jesus, what does this mean? It means that Jesus is the manifestation 34 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:27.640 of the will of God. You could actually see the will of God when you're watching and listening 35 00:03:27.640 --> 00:03:33.120 to Jesus minister 2000 years ago. Can you imagine? You're watching the will of God be lived 36 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:40.000 out on earth. An idea, an expression. It is the embodiment of a statement, an answer, an 37 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:46.280 utterance, an appearance. It is the divine revelation of the divine thought. And is the 38 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:51.320 communication of the most perfect thought, information, or intelligence to another. In 39 00:03:51.320 --> 00:03:58.400 other words, it's communicated. The logos by being the very logos, Jesus Christ is to be 40 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:04.720 spoken of, is to be announced. I love this. Jesus Christ, the name of Jesus, the word 41 00:04:04.720 --> 00:04:10.680 of God itself, was never to be contained in the box or hidden. It is to be announced 42 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:16.160 to the world that for God's soul of the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that 43 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:20.720 whosoever would believe in Him would not perish but have everlasting life. That Christ 44 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:25.240 died in the cross for our sins. He rose again from the grave for our justification. That's 45 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:32.160 to be preached among the world. Never contained. God's sovereign word when it goes out, people 46 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:37.520 have to decide on it. Let's be honest. I know you're ringing your hands, you're frustrated, 47 00:04:37.520 --> 00:04:41.160 you see your son or your daughter or your mom or your dad. They're just not responding 48 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:51.200 to the gospel. Just pray. But just know this. Ask God to intervene. Ask God. Lord, wake 49 00:04:51.200 --> 00:04:57.520 them up. Lord, cause your mercy to fall upon them. You pray and you battle like that in prayer. 50 00:04:57.520 --> 00:05:04.760 But know this. God's word goes out and His children will respond to His word and He knows 51 00:05:04.760 --> 00:05:10.960 this. He's always known this and God has never existed without knowing this. It's called 52 00:05:10.960 --> 00:05:16.760 foreknowledge. We read it a moment ago. And that's a strong foundation for where we're 53 00:05:16.760 --> 00:05:23.760 going. Revelation chapter 1 verse 1 is a beautiful picture of this logos being revealed. 54 00:05:23.760 --> 00:05:29.840 It says the revelation of Jesus Christ, the book of Revelation is the apocalyptic or the 55 00:05:29.840 --> 00:05:36.040 revealing or the pulling of the drape. So to speak, imagine you have a statue and you're 56 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:43.680 going to reveal the statue. You pull off the covering and that is the apocalypsis, the 57 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:50.880 revealing of the statue. Okay, you with me. The book of Revelation is pulling off the veil 58 00:05:50.880 --> 00:05:56.600 of who Jesus Christ is and it's awesome. Read always the book of Revelation. You should 59 00:05:56.600 --> 00:06:00.400 read it all the time, the Bible. The book of Revelation says you should read it all the 60 00:06:00.400 --> 00:06:05.720 time. Because number one, it says God says, I'll bless those who read it and I'll bless 61 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:10.240 those who hear it being read. You want to bless your family? Read the book of Revelation 62 00:06:10.320 --> 00:06:15.440 to them. So you have to be kidding me. I'm not kidding you. But I will tell you this, the 63 00:06:15.440 --> 00:06:21.360 book of Revelation has a presupposition to it. It supposes you have already read the Old 64 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:26.920 Testament. You will never understand the book of Revelation unless you read the Old Testament. 65 00:06:26.920 --> 00:06:34.200 It's impossible. What's mentioned in the oldest fulfilled in the book of Revelation? That 66 00:06:34.200 --> 00:06:40.120 book will unlock things to you, not make you more confused, unlock things to you. But 67 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:44.040 God's Word is effective even if people don't believe it. This is what Paul is saying in 68 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:49.240 the front end of verse six is, God's Word never fails. In fact, the Word, listen, when 69 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:55.040 it says that it's not that it has not taken any effect, the word effect means to drop 70 00:06:55.040 --> 00:07:04.840 off or to diminish. God's Word does not drop off in strength. So the Bible, it's so old. 71 00:07:04.840 --> 00:07:08.800 I can't believe you get up in the morning. You guys go to that church and you just gather 72 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:15.040 around an old book. It's not an old book. This thing is alive and listen, there's stuff 73 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:18.400 that hasn't even happened yet that's written in this book and it's, we're waiting for 74 00:07:18.400 --> 00:07:26.120 it to happen. This thing's alive. Okay, it's not the newspaper to drop off or to diminish 75 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:33.160 to fade away. The Bible doesn't fade away. It doesn't lose power. Wow. It doesn't fail. 76 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:37.320 It's not going to fail. Church family, the effectiveness of the Word of God. It doesn't 77 00:07:37.320 --> 00:07:42.240 need to be charged. It doesn't need to be pumped up. I don't know if this is good or bad, 78 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:45.760 but the other day, like last night actually, over by P.F. Changs, you know, there's a whole 79 00:07:45.760 --> 00:07:51.560 lineup of Teslas getting charged up. Some people are sitting in their car reading books. 80 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:55.160 Seriously, so what are they doing in there? They're reading the book. Why are they reading 81 00:07:55.160 --> 00:08:00.200 the book? Because they're charging their batteries. And this, one guy, you got to hand, I've 82 00:08:00.200 --> 00:08:03.320 never seen this happen before. You got to hand it this guy. Some guy pulled up in a big 83 00:08:03.320 --> 00:08:07.760 Ford pickup truck and just parked right in one of those Teslas parts. I mean, he turned 84 00:08:07.760 --> 00:08:14.640 off his, he had his diesel going and turned that thing off. He got off and he just walked 85 00:08:14.640 --> 00:08:21.840 into P.F. Changs and I'm thinking, that's awesome. He didn't plug it in. He couldn't find 86 00:08:21.840 --> 00:08:29.080 a parking spot. So he parked where the electric car is supposed to park. Eight is dinner, got 87 00:08:29.080 --> 00:08:34.440 back in his truck. The people are still sitting there reading the book. God's words not 88 00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:42.280 like that. In fact, tonight, if the conditions are right and everything goes off at about 713 89 00:08:42.280 --> 00:08:48.320 this evening, look to the west and watch Elon Musk launch a rocket. And you'll see it 90 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:53.000 go out and listen, that thing not only picks up a speed, but once it gets into space, it 91 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:57.680 keeps going and you're going to watch it. You'll lose sight of it just south of Hawaii 92 00:08:57.680 --> 00:09:02.680 by the time it's just a little speck. What's going on? It's accelerating. And then it gets 93 00:09:02.680 --> 00:09:07.360 into an atmosphere that it doesn't diminish. It just keeps going. Think about that regard 94 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:13.240 in the Bible. God launched the Bible through his prophets. He launched the Bible through 95 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:18.440 Abraham. He launched the Bible through Moses through Deborah. You name the great men and 96 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:24.040 women of the Bible. And that truth of his never diminishes. It keeps going. It doesn't 97 00:09:24.040 --> 00:09:30.400 run out. Well, that was then today's now. The Bible doesn't lose any power. What we need 98 00:09:30.400 --> 00:09:37.240 to do is align ourselves with the strength of God's word. I want to see God move. So do I? 99 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:44.040 So let's find out where he's moving or what he wants to do to move. His word is alive. 100 00:09:44.040 --> 00:09:49.320 And God says in Isaiah 55 11, I'm going to send it out to accomplish whatever I've intended 101 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:57.280 to do. And it will not return unto me void. The power of God's word is absolutely awesome. 102 00:09:57.280 --> 00:10:02.160 And you know something about this and how beautiful this is that God would personify his 103 00:10:02.160 --> 00:10:08.560 word in John chapter 1, very familiar to all of us. As Christians, John 1 verse 1, that 104 00:10:08.560 --> 00:10:13.440 is in the beginning, that was a physical universe. In the beginning of the physical universe 105 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:21.800 was, that is, was already the logos, the word. And the logos, the word was with God and 106 00:10:21.800 --> 00:10:28.960 the word was God that that sink in. He, the logos was in the beginning with God. So when 107 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:35.640 physical universe is being created, he was already there. Jesus was never created. The 108 00:10:35.640 --> 00:10:43.040 cults create Jesus. That's why they're a cult. Jesus has never been created. Jesus is 109 00:10:43.040 --> 00:10:50.120 the eternal son of God, Savior, the second person of the Holy Trinity as revealed in the Bible. 110 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:57.560 Thus the Elohim of the Bible, God in singular plurality, God the Father, God the Son, God the 111 00:10:57.560 --> 00:11:04.360 Holy Spirit. Awesome. All things were made through him and without him nothing was made that was 112 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:11.320 made. Verse 14, and the word became flesh and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory, John, 113 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:16.360 says, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. Is that awesome? 114 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:23.720 That is absolutely incredible. The logos of God never diminishes. The security of God sovereign 115 00:11:23.720 --> 00:11:29.040 word is at work in your life. Are you a follower of Christ today? Guess what? He is committed to 116 00:11:29.040 --> 00:11:35.120 himself to get you into heaven. Well, what do I need to do? Stay out of the way. Let him get it 117 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:44.840 done. He'll do it. Follow him. Jesus never said, now, here we go. You lead. No, Jesus said, 118 00:11:44.840 --> 00:11:52.280 here we go. You follow. Isn't that great? Don't you like to follow? I like to follow. I've always 119 00:11:52.280 --> 00:12:02.120 struggled with God personally. Don't tell me about this. I'm really good at following. I'm 120 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:07.360 really good at it. I think growing up at a Marine Corps at home had a lot to do with that. But it 121 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:14.160 made a lot of sense to me becoming a Christian. And if I were to ever be in the ministry, I would have 122 00:12:14.160 --> 00:12:21.200 picked being an assistant pastor because I just what do you need done? I'll do it because I have no 123 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:24.920 problem doing what I'm doing to God. It doesn't matter who the guy is. I'm going to do it to 124 00:12:25.640 --> 00:12:32.120 God. And I love that stuff. And there's liberty. You know, I don't know if you know this or not, but 125 00:12:32.120 --> 00:12:38.520 there's a lot of liberty and obedience. You know, God calls us his children. He doesn't call us his 126 00:12:38.520 --> 00:12:44.640 slaves. But did you know the word servant in the Bible is the word slave? Well, which one is it? It's 127 00:12:44.640 --> 00:12:51.880 both. The more you get to know God, the more you fall in love with who he is as a person, that when 128 00:12:51.880 --> 00:12:58.520 you come to him in a relationship, you want to be his biblical slave. So what is a biblical slave? A 129 00:12:58.520 --> 00:13:07.080 douloy or douloy? A douloy. So what is that? That means, listen, in the Roman world, if I owed 130 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:13.960 somebody money and I couldn't pay them, then I had to go into servitude to their world and I had 131 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:19.080 to mow their lawn, trim their tree, what milk their cow, whatever it was until until I had my debt 132 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:27.320 paid off you with me. But during that time, if I met a, maybe I met this woman and she's also in 133 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:32.040 servitude and we get married. This happened all the time in the Roman world. And then we had kids. 134 00:13:32.040 --> 00:13:38.600 We still work for the same boss. He's the guy that we couldn't pay back. So we're working off our debt. 135 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:44.200 But I worked off my debt before my wife works off her debt and I've got the kids and I realized, 136 00:13:44.760 --> 00:13:51.800 excuse me, sir, but you're a good master. I have flourished under this time of servitude to you. 137 00:13:51.800 --> 00:13:59.240 I don't want to go. Well, your wife's got three more years to pay off her debt. Well, listen, 138 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:06.040 you're so good to me. Good to us. I want to give you my life. So the master would say, 139 00:14:06.920 --> 00:14:14.360 that's awesome. I want to keep you. I love you. I love you. Then let's settle it. They go after the 140 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:22.760 porch that the guy puts his ear on a piece of wood right there and the owner takes a nail and 141 00:14:23.800 --> 00:14:29.080 puts a, it's called an all puts a earring in there. All the guys are going, what? And all the girls 142 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:37.960 are going, is it gold? Is it diamond? He'll cross. It's an announcement. I have a good master. 143 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:46.760 I've chosen to give him the rest of my life to serve him. And that relationship is very 144 00:14:47.400 --> 00:14:52.520 descriptive of the Christian relationship with God the Father. Listen, he calls, he says, call me 145 00:14:52.520 --> 00:14:57.320 Father. You are my children. And then out of that love, we turn around and say, whatever you want 146 00:14:57.320 --> 00:15:03.720 done, whatever you're going to do, Lord send me. It's that sweet. It is that beautiful because the 147 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:12.520 logos has communicated to us that he has been and has provided for us salvation. Philippians chapter 148 00:15:12.520 --> 00:15:18.200 2 verse 12 says, therefore my beloved, as you have always obeyed not as in my presence only but 149 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:25.720 now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling or reverential 150 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:30.440 awe for it. Look at verse 13, for it is God who works in you. You said, well, wait a minute, 151 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:37.480 you just said work out your own salvation. Then it says for God is it is God who works in you both 152 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:43.640 to will and do of his good pleasure. What's the answer? Yes, that's true. The answer is yes. 153 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:52.840 Present yourself and God the Spirit will do your work of life in your, you're just to yield. 154 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:56.680 Does that make sense people? And this is going to be important because Abraham is going to be 155 00:15:56.680 --> 00:16:01.320 commended in a moment. The works of Abraham will be commended. I'm going to ask you in advance, 156 00:16:01.320 --> 00:16:10.360 be thinking, what are the works of Abraham? In Luke chapter 24 verse 44, Luke 24, 44, we're still 157 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:17.080 talking about the security of this sovereign word. It says there that Jesus said to them, this is the 158 00:16:17.800 --> 00:16:24.280 latter evening now, resurrection Sunday. These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still 159 00:16:24.280 --> 00:16:31.640 with you that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses. Everybody, 160 00:16:31.640 --> 00:16:39.000 Jesus is the issue. Christ is the issue of the entire Bible. Jesus is speaking here in Luke 24, 44. 161 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:47.320 Listen, everything that's been written from Moses and the prophets and the Psalms concerning who? 162 00:16:48.280 --> 00:16:55.320 Me, Jesus is speaking and he says the whole book is written about my life, about me, about my person. 163 00:16:56.920 --> 00:17:01.720 We don't believe in Jesus because what? Because it's Jesus. Well, you know I'm born in the Western 164 00:17:01.800 --> 00:17:07.160 world. Christianity was the dominant religion and I guess I'm a Christian. No, no, no, no. 165 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:15.560 No, it's Jesus because the Bible from Genesis 315 to the Book of Revelation chapter 22, it's all about 166 00:17:15.560 --> 00:17:22.840 Jesus. And Jesus says so right there. By the way, if anybody ever tells you, remember, oh, you know, 167 00:17:22.840 --> 00:17:27.240 Jesus never said he was God. This is a verse right here that Jesus is announcing the entire Bible 168 00:17:27.240 --> 00:17:32.520 was written about me. I mean, that's pretty wild. Think about it. Well, I believe Jesus was a great 169 00:17:32.520 --> 00:17:39.480 prophet. I don't. That's crazy. Well, I believe he's a very good person. The best person ever. 170 00:17:40.520 --> 00:17:47.160 I don't. That's crazy. Well, why do you say that? Because if you're saying he's the best person ever 171 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:52.360 but he's not God, then how do you explain this? Jesus said, if you die believing in me, you'll live 172 00:17:52.360 --> 00:18:00.520 forever. Jesus says you come to me. Your sins will be forgiven. Either that's crazy or he's God. 173 00:18:02.440 --> 00:18:07.160 Oh, he's a good prophet. No, no, no, no, you can't be a good prophet and pull that off. 174 00:18:08.840 --> 00:18:16.600 And you can't be a good person and say such things without being God. And yet everything he did, 175 00:18:17.560 --> 00:18:21.240 he said that he was going to do it in advance. It's called the Bible. 176 00:18:22.520 --> 00:18:29.320 Absolutely awesome. Verse 45. And he, that is the logos, opened their understanding that they might 177 00:18:29.320 --> 00:18:37.560 comprehend the scriptures, that they might in a sense behold him. Absolutely remarkable. Security. 178 00:18:37.560 --> 00:18:44.360 Listen, Christian, don't say anything out loud. Right now, where you're at, do you understand 179 00:18:44.840 --> 00:18:51.080 that you cannot save yourself? None of us can't. That's why Jesus went to the cross. You can't do it. 180 00:18:55.960 --> 00:19:00.200 This Jack Kibb's podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, 181 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:04.840 are listener supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 182 00:19:05.560 --> 00:19:11.240 Go to jackhibb's.com to learn more and stay connected.