WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.640 real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:15.000 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. 3 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:20.440 Know this. It means today while you and I are alive, we understand something right now 4 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:29.560 that it's time for you and I to die. What do we mean by that? Oh it's good news. 5 00:00:29.560 --> 00:00:35.680 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibs.com slash podcast. 6 00:00:35.680 --> 00:00:41.920 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 7 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:47.000 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's like saying 8 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:52.920 amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to 9 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:57.240 what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibs. 10 00:00:58.080 --> 00:01:01.680 Put on this truth. We're going to preface everything today with this. Put on this 11 00:01:01.680 --> 00:01:09.840 truth, market, it's time I die. Welcome to church. It's time that you die. See, what do you 12 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:16.520 mean by that? Death, dying. That word, those words generate all kinds of emotion in us. 13 00:01:16.520 --> 00:01:22.280 And so it should. A sweet family just coming in here that service this morning out in front 14 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:28.800 as I was greeting the people coming in. This couple said that they've come from a church. 15 00:01:28.800 --> 00:01:34.520 They're here today, but their pastor died earlier this week. Well listen, I didn't know 16 00:01:34.520 --> 00:01:41.080 the gentleman, but let's make this statement. The man may have died in the flesh. His body 17 00:01:41.080 --> 00:01:46.680 may have stopped beating heart. Okay, but he entered into the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ 18 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:52.440 and it's so awesome that if he had a chance to come back today, he wouldn't do it. Do you 19 00:01:52.440 --> 00:01:57.480 understand that? This is an absolute fact. We get so comfortable in this world and you got to 20 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:02.440 thank God for what's going on in our world around us. It's getting more and more uncomfortable 21 00:02:02.440 --> 00:02:08.280 for us to be comfortable in this world. Have you noticed that? And I'm a great fan of this. 22 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:12.920 Listen, do we want to have a recliner? Do we want to have a footstool? Do we want to have 23 00:02:12.920 --> 00:02:19.400 an umbrella? Yes, but can you really live like that? Come on, you can't live like that and none 24 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:25.240 of us that are touched by the Holy Spirit would be content to be on a perpetual vacation while 25 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:30.520 people are dying and going to hell or the world is suffering or the people in our community are 26 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:37.480 hurting? No, so what's the answer to all of this? Paul the Apostle instructs this right here 27 00:02:37.480 --> 00:02:44.520 right now that put on this truth, Christian. It's time I, it's time we die and this is what it 28 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:51.000 means. When he says in verse 20 at the front end of it, I have been crucified with Christ. I want 29 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:54.680 you to consider this right now. Get out your highlighter because you're going to need it today. 30 00:02:56.520 --> 00:03:04.840 When it says here, I have been three words that shock. I often say this people I think don't 31 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:12.520 like it. I'm going to keep saying it until I go to heaven that you can pursue all other faith 32 00:03:13.720 --> 00:03:19.480 movements or religions in the world and none of them offer again. I say this every week. None of 33 00:03:19.480 --> 00:03:27.240 them offer what I'm about to tell you right now. When Paul the Apostle says, I have been. It's 34 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:35.400 all past tense. It's done. You cannot get it any more done than what he's about to say. He is 35 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:40.840 saying to us today, what I'm going to teach you right now, Paul would say, it's already happened. 36 00:03:41.720 --> 00:03:49.880 It's history. Know this. It means today, while you and I are alive, we understand something right 37 00:03:49.880 --> 00:03:55.240 now that it's time for you and I to die. But what do we mean by that? Oh, it's good news. 38 00:03:56.760 --> 00:04:04.040 I have been those three words. The declaration means and there's no greater declaration in faith 39 00:04:04.040 --> 00:04:11.800 is the Christian proclamation. I have been. That's our declaration. That's the proclamation of 40 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:19.720 the believer. I have been feeling the blank. Change. I have been transformed. I have been forgiven. 41 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:28.360 I have been set free. I have been liberated. I have been made alive. The Bible says over and over 42 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:34.440 again. I have been Christian. Get ready for the big day. Understand something. No matter how you 43 00:04:34.440 --> 00:04:39.560 feel or what you think, if you're following Christ, if you can confess today that Jesus Christ is 44 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:46.920 Lord to the glory of God, the Father, you can say, I have been. And I love that. Not a has been. 45 00:04:47.960 --> 00:04:56.360 Oh, he's nothing but a has been. No, you have been. Number one, note this that the statement means 46 00:04:56.360 --> 00:05:02.120 positionally. You need to know this. Please, that this is a positional declaration of the believer. 47 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:07.640 Whatever's going on in life, know this right now. Church be reminded. You have been declaration 48 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:16.200 of position. I have been crucified. Paul willingly declares here that the life of the believer is a 49 00:05:16.200 --> 00:05:21.960 crucified life. He said, Jack, how the world can this be good news? Because listen to the world, 50 00:05:21.960 --> 00:05:30.040 crucifixion was a brutal barbaric death. Yes, absolutely. And you got to remember, Paul spoke this 51 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:36.760 truth in the first century when it was a living reality. We don't have crucifixions today. 52 00:05:38.440 --> 00:05:45.480 If Paul lived today in the 21st century, he would say, I have been electrocuted. Paul would say, 53 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:54.840 I have been to the electric chair. It had that stigma. I have been crucified. That would have 54 00:05:54.840 --> 00:06:01.400 raised the hair and the eyes of a first century believer. But Paul says it clearly. By the way, 55 00:06:01.400 --> 00:06:06.920 remember this, that nobody walked away from a crucifixion, just like nobody walks away from the 56 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:13.960 electric chair. It's final. It's complete. It's all effective. There's a reason why I'm saying this. 57 00:06:13.960 --> 00:06:20.200 The word crucified right here in the Greek language, Galatians 2.20 is amazing. It means to nail. Listen, 58 00:06:20.280 --> 00:06:26.280 not only to nail. Here's the punch. Not only to nail, but the word means to nail together. 59 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:32.520 Listen, being crucified doesn't mean you have a hole in you. It means that you are nailed to something. 60 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:38.440 You say, oh yes, yes, I see where you're going. Jesus was nailed to the cross. Not so. I mean, 61 00:06:38.440 --> 00:06:44.120 yes, he was. But that's not the point. It wasn't that Jesus was nailed to a cross which 62 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:53.640 qualifies him being crucified for us. Oh no. Jesus Christ was nailed to our sins. Our sins 63 00:06:53.640 --> 00:06:59.960 were represented at that cruel cross of Christ. And Jesus was nailed to that cross. Was it an 64 00:06:59.960 --> 00:07:07.560 implement of execution? Yes. But only in the physical realm. The greatest implement of 65 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:13.880 execution is sin. The Bible tells us in the day that the soul sins, it shall surely die. 66 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:19.800 The Bible says we've all sinned and come short of the glory of God. The word means to be 67 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:25.320 nailed together. It means to be nailed with another. It means to be nailed to something or 68 00:07:25.320 --> 00:07:33.800 listen to someone. That's a hideous thought to be nailed to another person. I don't have the time 69 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:41.080 to get into one of the Roman sentencing that they had, but it was actually sewing a dead person. 70 00:07:41.080 --> 00:07:46.920 Some areas of the Roman Empire, if you committed murder, they would take the body of the man you 71 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:53.480 murdered and sew that person's skin to your back. Do you know what happens? I told you I wasn't 72 00:07:53.480 --> 00:08:01.800 going to get into it. Here I am getting into it. His rotting decaying flesh began to go inside of 73 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:13.880 you and his death, his death killed you. Think of it. The death of Jesus Christ at the cross, 74 00:08:13.880 --> 00:08:25.080 as we shall see today, killed you. I told you this message is for Christians. The old life, 75 00:08:25.080 --> 00:08:31.080 the old Jack that he used to be before I met Jesus. Listen, Christ killed him at the cross. 76 00:08:32.760 --> 00:08:39.160 Jesus was sinless, pure and perfect. Jesus was nailed to the cross. He was nailed to something else 77 00:08:39.160 --> 00:08:47.240 and to another. And that person was me and he died for me. He died for me. It's a place of 78 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:55.240 position. I've been crucified with Christ. This means crucifixion was never a solo event. 79 00:08:55.240 --> 00:09:01.480 In any case, how so? Number one, in the Roman sense, a man that was crucified was crucified for 80 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:06.840 his crimes. Think of it. He was crucified for his crimes. Did you know over the top of the head 81 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:14.760 of every Roman crucifixion was the man's offenses? Did you know that over the top? They nailed that. 82 00:09:14.760 --> 00:09:19.080 The guy was sentenced. A guy wrote somebody else. Maybe it was a bailiff, so to speak. 83 00:09:19.080 --> 00:09:24.920 Wrote down what he was accused of. And then you were led out to Golgotha. You were thrown 84 00:09:24.920 --> 00:09:30.040 down on that cross. And as they nailed you to the cross, one of the magistrates of the law would 85 00:09:30.040 --> 00:09:37.000 hammer a plaque to the top of the cross. And it said what you were guilty of. Do you know it, 86 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:42.440 by the way, there was a sign over Jesus' head too. Wasn't there? Do you know what he was guilty of? 87 00:09:43.400 --> 00:09:49.800 It says that he was king of the Jews. They didn't want a king. They didn't want King Jesus. 88 00:09:49.800 --> 00:09:57.240 They wanted a politician that never goes well. Politician Jesus. Politician, always go with Jesus. 89 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:02.200 Always go with Jesus. Yeah, we know that more than ever now. 90 00:10:04.440 --> 00:10:07.320 But there's another way that you were crucified in the Roman Empire. 91 00:10:08.280 --> 00:10:18.920 And over the top of your cross, it didn't have murder, thievery, or whatever it was. 92 00:10:20.920 --> 00:10:26.360 Tens of thousands of people were crucified in the Roman world. And over the top of their head 93 00:10:27.320 --> 00:10:35.800 was the word Nazarene. Nazarene, did you know that? Nazarene is what the world called 94 00:10:35.800 --> 00:10:45.240 believers who followed Jesus. Oh, that's a Nazarene. He said, no, no, I'm born in Judea. 95 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:50.040 You're a Nazarene. No, no, no, I was born in Bethlehem. No, you're a Nazarene. What made you a 96 00:10:50.040 --> 00:10:58.040 Nazarene to follow Christ? Jesus was from Nazareth, they said. And so even today in the Middle 97 00:10:58.040 --> 00:11:02.600 East, when they're beheading and crucifying Christians, do you know they put that you? I should have 98 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:09.080 gotten it for you on the screen. Have you seen that you? Noon. Noon. What is this? 99 00:11:09.880 --> 00:11:14.440 They go to, listen, Muslims go down the streets. Jihadists go down the streets and they mark 100 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:20.280 a Christian home in Syria or in some parts of the Muslim world and they get some paint and they 101 00:11:20.280 --> 00:11:25.640 put a you on the front door. And that means a Nazarene lives here, a follower of Jesus lives here. 102 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:29.240 They are to be punished. They are to be cursed. They are to be killed. 103 00:11:32.040 --> 00:11:38.360 And so when a, when a martyr was put on the cross for following Christ, his guilt was for following 104 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:45.720 Jesus. Those days, by the way, seemed to be advancing in the world more than ever. 105 00:11:47.800 --> 00:11:53.480 But no one is crucified for crucifixion's sake. There's always a reason. There's always a reason 106 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:58.360 why people are going to attempt to crucify you so to speak at work. There's always going to be a 107 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:04.360 reason why someone wants to crucify you and your family or in the community. Dear friends, 108 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:12.360 listen, let them crucify you for the right reasons. Put on this truth, it's time I die. That means 109 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:22.280 I'm dying to the old Jack, to the old me. Galatians chapter 5, verse 24, 524 says, and those who are 110 00:12:22.280 --> 00:12:27.960 Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. You know what that means? This is 111 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:33.080 awesome. This is what I'm talking about us dying. It means this, that here I am, I'm a believer. 112 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:41.080 Listen, everybody, please don't assume. I'm a believer. I'm a follower of Jesus. And I'm going to 113 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:45.160 walk with Jesus. I hope that's one of your prayers. I hope that's one of your profound prayers. 114 00:12:45.160 --> 00:12:50.440 Oh, Jesus, draw me closer. I don't want to get closer to this world. Have you not listened any 115 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:57.320 non-Christians in here? Come on. Join the team that wins. Here's the team that wins. Read the 116 00:12:57.320 --> 00:13:04.280 book of Revelation at the end of the book. We win. Will it get tough for us? Yes. Is it going to 117 00:13:04.280 --> 00:13:09.480 be difficult? Yes. Are we going to be hated in this world? Yes. Here's the truth of the matter. 118 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:15.560 Man, listen, go for the long pass. Go for the long haul. Go, go for the finish line because 119 00:13:15.560 --> 00:13:21.240 short term pleasure, short term rewards. Do nothing but rip you off. It's not going to be worth. 120 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:26.200 It's like a sugar rush when you're hungry. Give me a tootsie roll. You're going to get sick. 121 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:30.280 You're going to get all charged up for three minutes and then you're going to come down and you're 122 00:13:30.280 --> 00:13:37.000 going to listen. You're going to be just as hungry with a headache. That's what the world does. 123 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:43.240 Never satisfy. Listen, Jesus walks you through the difficulties of this world and it's satisfying. 124 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:49.240 And he gets us to the end and it's victorious. Why? I have been crucified. The Bible says with 125 00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:53.640 Christ. And when Jesus died on the cross, the Bible tells me this is heavy stuff. Listen, 126 00:13:53.640 --> 00:13:57.720 this is heavy because it sounds so basic, but it's so heavy because few of us supply this. 127 00:13:57.720 --> 00:14:02.920 When the Bible says I have been crucified with Christ, it means that when Jesus Christ 128 00:14:02.920 --> 00:14:08.520 died there, he died for you personally, Greg. He died for you, Mike. He died for you, Karen. 129 00:14:08.520 --> 00:14:15.560 He personally died for you and that's something he did 2,000 years ago. Listen, it's done. 130 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:21.480 You see, yeah, but that was 2,000 years ago. Listen, yes, he did the job then. 131 00:14:23.560 --> 00:14:28.360 So that when you hear this gospel preached, you wake up to the reality of what has been 132 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:36.440 and walk into it, receive it so that it is now true with you and your life. It's absolutely awesome. 133 00:14:36.920 --> 00:14:42.600 You can say today I have been crucified with Christ, Mike, because when those desires of the 134 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:47.800 flesh, here's the thing. Just because Jesus died on the cross for Jack 2,000 years ago, 135 00:14:47.800 --> 00:14:54.600 doesn't mean that Jack walks around every day all day long with sinless thoughts and perfect 136 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:59.640 thoughts and perfect motives. No, listen, the fact that Jesus died on the cross from my sins 137 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:06.040 secured my inheritance. It's done. Ain't nobody tampering with that reality. I am forgiven 138 00:15:06.200 --> 00:15:11.160 in Christ, but because the Holy Spirit takes his truth, check it out. This is what makes us 139 00:15:11.160 --> 00:15:16.200 believers and disciples in this day is when it says I've been crucified with Christ, Paul is 140 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:22.600 telling us this because you've got to tell yourself that every day. When those old desires pop up, 141 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:28.920 that's why he's wrote Galatians 5 or 24. When a mean thought comes up or I'm going to do this, 142 00:15:28.920 --> 00:15:34.120 ah, forget about that. I'm going to go for it. I want it. I'm going for it. And you stop thinking 143 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:39.800 about the ramification or the sinfulness of your desire. You're in trouble. 144 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:48.280 But the person that sins or the back, the backslider or the unbeliever or the obedient believer, 145 00:15:48.280 --> 00:15:51.480 the same temptations come to all men, everyone of us. 146 00:15:54.680 --> 00:16:01.240 What tempts me? Tempts you. Listen, let me pick on someone. I'm going to have you stand up and tell 147 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:09.400 the church what you're tempted. Why do you laugh? Nobody would do that and for good reason. 148 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:16.760 But I got to tell you, but the moment you said, well, my big temptation is this. As soon as you 149 00:16:16.760 --> 00:16:24.600 say it, people are going to go, oh, that's ridiculous. They can relate in an instant. 150 00:16:25.560 --> 00:16:34.360 Oh, that's terrible. Oh, golly. People can relate to an instant to that reality. Why? Because 151 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:39.160 it's us, it's our human nature. But here's the difference. The believer says, nope, nope, nope. 152 00:16:39.160 --> 00:16:44.920 No, I know where this goes. Listen, I know he died in the cross for me. This is an antithesis 153 00:16:44.920 --> 00:16:52.520 to what God wants to do in my life. Listen, my flesh is going, let's do it. But I know in my will, 154 00:16:52.520 --> 00:16:57.320 it's not the right thing to do and it's not God honoring. I refuse to do this. In fact, I'm going 155 00:16:57.320 --> 00:17:00.840 to walk away. I'm going to close my eyes. I'm going to shut the blinds. I'm going to speed away. 156 00:17:02.520 --> 00:17:08.200 That's the difference between a believer and a non-believer or a believer in a backslidden believer. 157 00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:14.200 That's the big difference. You've got to see this. And you would say to yourself, I'm crucified 158 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:22.920 with Christ. It's so vitally important, Colossians. Chapter 2 verse 14 says, listen to this, 159 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:28.360 regarding the cross, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us. Remember 160 00:17:28.360 --> 00:17:36.760 that plaque over the head? That's it. That's the log. That's the synlog in heaven. It's 161 00:17:36.760 --> 00:17:44.520 roved, which was contrary to us. And he has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 162 00:17:44.520 --> 00:17:51.720 Do you see that? Do you see? Do you hear? God nailed it to the cross. So according to God in one 163 00:17:51.720 --> 00:17:59.800 hour of one moment of one day, one second, all of Jack Hips' sins were dealt with at the cross 164 00:17:59.800 --> 00:18:05.480 two thousand years ago. That doesn't mean I'm automatically saved nor you. What it means is God 165 00:18:05.480 --> 00:18:12.360 paid the price. What kind of a fool would reject what he's done? You see, that's what sends a 166 00:18:12.360 --> 00:18:20.040 person to hell. It's not that you reached, maybe in what is it? 88 sins. If you hit number 89, 167 00:18:20.040 --> 00:18:26.440 you fall into hell. The scale tips. And you just slide into the abyss. That's not how it works. 168 00:18:27.080 --> 00:18:33.880 Jesus died for all the sins of the world. Every sin. He said, well, why don't we all just get 169 00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:39.880 to go to heaven then by default? Because there's one sin he didn't die for. One sin is called 170 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:46.520 blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. What is it? It means to reject the gospel, to reject what he did 171 00:18:46.520 --> 00:18:51.560 freely, to reject what he's given to you freely. You reject it. You push it away. You don't want it. 172 00:18:52.520 --> 00:18:57.960 In other words, you're telling Christ that he died on the cross for nothing, that he wasted his time. 173 00:18:58.440 --> 00:19:05.560 No, listen, for the believer, it's always the right time for us to die. Because when we're in charge, 174 00:19:05.560 --> 00:19:10.200 when we're living, when we're calling the shots, Christ is not in control. Number two, 175 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:15.800 getting ready for the big day, put on this truth, and that is it's the end of me. Coming to the end 176 00:19:15.800 --> 00:19:22.360 of me is good news. Look at Galatians 2.20 says, it is no longer I who live. Would you love that? Look, 177 00:19:22.360 --> 00:19:28.440 I'm pumped up. Honestly, that verse should just cost someone to have a brain freeze. 178 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:38.840 What a statement it is no longer I who live. I'm sure if you went to a psychologist or a therapy 179 00:19:38.840 --> 00:19:42.040 session and they asked you questions and you were to say to them, you know I'm a Christian. 180 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:50.360 And it's no longer I who live. They're going to make a phone call. They're going to call for backup 181 00:19:50.360 --> 00:19:56.280 or get you a pill. What do you mean there's what do you mean you no longer it's no longer you who 182 00:19:56.280 --> 00:20:04.120 live. That's Christ living in me. Okay, I'm going to get a few more doctors in this room. The world cannot 183 00:20:04.120 --> 00:20:14.280 understand this. 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