WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.760 Real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.760 --> 00:00:10.880 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. The Bible makes it very clear 3 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:19.680 that evil is an outcropping from original good. You can't have evil without 4 00:00:19.680 --> 00:00:25.480 first something preemptive evil and what preemptive evil was good. You can't 5 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:34.200 say that's good and that's bad, unless you understand that evil comes out of good. 6 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:41.720 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jack Kibs.com slash podcast. 7 00:00:41.720 --> 00:00:47.000 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 8 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:51.840 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 9 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:58.240 that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now, 10 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:02.800 open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Kibs. 11 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:09.280 You and I know we can bear witness to the fact we're a little bit embarrassed because we don't 12 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:14.880 always cling to the truth. We wander from it sometimes, but we know this. We belong to the truth. 13 00:01:14.960 --> 00:01:22.400 The Bible is God's truth. The Bible does not contain God's truth. The Bible is God's truth. 14 00:01:23.440 --> 00:01:30.640 And right there, he opens up by saying, I find van la la that there's a law that is that work. 15 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:37.760 It's a spiritual event. It's transcendent from this world. Church family, listen up. 16 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:42.400 This is not religion he's talking about. He is saying that there's something inside of me that 17 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:50.000 is speaking to me constantly. I find then a law. There's a voice in my conscience. 18 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:57.200 There's a voice in my soul. There's a voice speaking to me. And John chapter one verse four, 19 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:04.240 the Bible says, in him was life and the life was the light of men. The truth of God speaks to 20 00:02:04.240 --> 00:02:10.800 every man, woman, boy and girl. You don't have to make excuses about it and you don't have to 21 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:17.360 try to cover it up. It's a fact. I remember years ago, he just popped into my head. 22 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:24.240 There was a man. In fact, maybe in God's grace, he's watching right now, though I doubt it. 23 00:02:27.200 --> 00:02:31.280 For those of you who don't know, I did not always do this in my life. I was working. I was a 24 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:38.080 supervisor over an awesome laboratory, research and development lab that 25 00:02:38.640 --> 00:02:45.680 backstered. Now it's called Edwards Life Sciences and credible corporation. I had a blast there. 26 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:51.840 When the church outgrew, our ability to maintain it, I had to quit that career job. I loved it. 27 00:02:53.360 --> 00:03:00.320 But by God's grace, I wasn't shy about it. So this man, his name was Gene. So Gene, 28 00:03:00.320 --> 00:03:02.880 if you're watching right now, I hope this hits you right between the eyes. 29 00:03:03.600 --> 00:03:10.640 He was a sassy stubborn little arrogant atheist, but he could afford to be because he had never 30 00:03:10.640 --> 00:03:16.720 had any problems in his life. That's why atheism is such a joke. It only comes out of people who 31 00:03:17.760 --> 00:03:22.800 who have had the luxury to criticize the God that they don't believe in. It's funny to me how 32 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:28.800 angry they are about the God they don't believe in. But anyway, I said, hey, I just heard you 33 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:34.320 adopted a little girl. He said, yep, I mean, that's awesome. Well, God bless you with that. 34 00:03:34.320 --> 00:03:38.720 That's amazing gift. He said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, we don't believe in God in our house. 35 00:03:39.600 --> 00:03:44.240 He said, I'm going to make sure I teach her that she is a product of evolution. 36 00:03:45.600 --> 00:03:50.800 I said, you're sick. No, I'm not. I told I said, you're really sick. I said, I tell the reason why 37 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:58.720 kids have a natural propensity to not only believe in God, but they also have a natural propensity 38 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:05.120 to deal with truth. They may lie against truth, but they will never deny truth. 39 00:04:07.200 --> 00:04:11.680 They know it because when they got the cookie dust all over their face and you ask them, 40 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:15.760 did you just eat that cookie? And they say, no, they know their lying against the truth. 41 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:23.200 Where adults, we perfect it. We begin to tell lies so much that we begin to believe that is true. 42 00:04:23.760 --> 00:04:28.640 And by the way, that's one of the judgments of God is that when you'd lie against the truth, 43 00:04:28.640 --> 00:04:33.280 you can lie against it so much that eventually, and that's what we're hearing on our culture today. 44 00:04:33.280 --> 00:04:38.720 Well, it's my truth. I don't doubt that it's your truth, but it's only your truth because your 45 00:04:39.520 --> 00:04:45.920 judgment has been fried by sin. And you're justifying your position. Thus, you must 46 00:04:46.960 --> 00:04:52.240 agree with the trend of the culture where I have my truth. You have yours. Listen, our truth 47 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:58.240 stinks. There's only one truth in its gods. John chapter 8 verse 12, Jesus spoke to them again, 48 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:05.600 saying, I am the light of the world. By the way, Ego, Eme, the light of the world. That means he's 49 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:12.720 the only light of the world, the great I am. He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, 50 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:22.560 but have the light of life. Awesome. Just a rat, truth. We know where we belong, and we 51 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:27.920 belong in the truth, and the Christian can detect that. Imagine the spirit of God inside of you, 52 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:37.040 and he is, and he's very jealous over you. I mean that in a holy way. And imagine 53 00:05:37.760 --> 00:05:45.760 his job is to make sure that you gravitate and know and discern truth from good and from evil. 54 00:05:45.760 --> 00:05:52.640 Secondly is the reality. We belong to the reality. Definite article, I stress the reality. 55 00:05:54.800 --> 00:06:00.640 What really is, you see the word evil. That evil is present with me. So he says, I find 56 00:06:00.640 --> 00:06:08.560 them that there is a law, and that law is this. That present is evil, or evil is present within me. 57 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:18.400 I submit to you today that only a strong believer, like Paul, can admit such a thing as you can, 58 00:06:18.400 --> 00:06:24.160 as I can. Because when you and I are not believers, we are not sensitive to the fact that there's 59 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:31.040 evil present within us. We might think about it, but we don't care much about it. No, we know 60 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:37.840 the real identity. See the word evil, we'll have it on the screen. That means bad, badness, harmful, 61 00:06:37.840 --> 00:06:44.880 loathsome, wrong. It implies that the departure from what is good, goodness, beneficial, healthier 62 00:06:44.880 --> 00:06:52.960 rights, evil. Pastor, do you mean to say that you believe in evil? 100 percent. And I don't 63 00:06:52.960 --> 00:06:58.560 need to talk to you about it. I just need to remember my old life. And I can also look at my current 64 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:05.680 life. Now I don't go out, I don't go out doing evil. I don't just, I don't do that. I used to do 65 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:10.960 that. We say, well, then you're not evil. Oh, no, you don't know what I battle in my head. 66 00:07:11.520 --> 00:07:20.800 That's evil. I battle the evil that's in my head. That's in my mind. So do you. Listen, 67 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:27.120 when I throw myself out there under the bus, I'd love for you guys to say, yeah, hey, man, man, 68 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:36.560 me too. Me too. We should sort of move it. Me too. Paul is saying, I have, I battle this, 69 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:44.000 and I say me too. That's the reality. And then this is the word present. It means to be right 70 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:50.400 alongside, that is as a little right alongside of you, to be within, not only to be present, 71 00:07:50.400 --> 00:07:57.920 the word means, but to be presenting evil. It is as though evil is on parade. That's how one 72 00:07:57.920 --> 00:08:03.680 Greek scholar put it that this verse right here, verse 21, is announcing that evil is on parade 73 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:13.120 within me, constantly fighting. We do as believers this parade of evil. You know this. I, 74 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:20.480 okay, this is one of those moments. I've learned in my life and the life that I lived before I came 75 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:33.280 to Christ, if I relax my, the guardrails around my mind, now I thank God for some 46 years, those guard 76 00:08:33.280 --> 00:08:39.040 rails have been up. And what, what are you talking about pastor? It means that I've got guardrails 77 00:08:39.040 --> 00:08:47.360 up because if I let him relax, if I just rest my mind without having what did Paul stand in 78 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:55.200 another place, gird up the loins of your mind. If I let them down, if I relax and let my thinking 79 00:08:55.200 --> 00:09:04.560 become lazy, sloppy, evil comes in like water, like into a ship. And that evil is not your evil, 80 00:09:04.560 --> 00:09:10.880 that evil is my evil past. And why is it that I have a hard time remembering really good things? 81 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:18.080 But I can tell you at the age of 17 that this happened in technicolor, and how is it that in my mind? 82 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:24.480 I see it instantly in technicolor. How is it? Because it's evil, and I deal with it, and you deal 83 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:30.400 with it. Why? Because it's part of our flesh that is yet to be redeemed. If you're Christian today, 84 00:09:30.400 --> 00:09:36.320 you've been born again by the power of God. You've got a renewed mind, and you have a brand new heart, 85 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:43.120 but nothing is referred to regarding our bodies. That's why death for the Christian is awesome. 86 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:50.160 Get rid of this rotten stinking thing, because I got it. Listen, death sets me free from the appetites 87 00:09:50.160 --> 00:10:00.160 and demands of this. And then one day in the resurrection we'll have a brand new sinless body 88 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:06.080 that's going to be incredible. By the way, listen to this, Plato, listen to what he had to say. 89 00:10:06.640 --> 00:10:12.720 He said the physical aspect of our humanity blocks the mind's ability to penetrate ultimate truth. 90 00:10:12.800 --> 00:10:19.440 Remember now this guy goes, what is he? When was he 400 BC? 200? We're going way back, man. 91 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:27.040 But the mind or the soul is eternal and free and in touch with ultimate reality. 92 00:10:27.920 --> 00:10:34.960 The obstruction to a vision of truth is found in the body. Isn't that interesting? He knew that. 93 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:40.880 Why? Because God wrote it inside of Plato. And therefore the body is something from which we need 94 00:10:40.880 --> 00:10:50.640 to be redeemed. Plato and Socrates was said to be having a conversation and it goes this way. 95 00:10:50.640 --> 00:10:57.680 It's quoted this way. It may be that God can forgive sins, but I don't see how. They understood 96 00:10:57.680 --> 00:11:05.600 that there was a need for sins to be forgiven and that there was an internal lust that man has 97 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:12.240 for sin. And you can almost see those guys throw their arms up in frustration about that. 98 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:19.040 No, the fact, the real factual evidence of evil is a powerful witness church. I put it this way. 99 00:11:19.040 --> 00:11:27.680 It's the antithesis. It's the opposite of which is good. Of what is good? Evil. Can you pick out, 100 00:11:27.680 --> 00:11:31.760 listen, atheist, even right here, right now, maybe you're watching. Do you know what's good and evil? 101 00:11:32.400 --> 00:11:40.720 How do you know? I don't believe in God. Well, is it good or evil to do this or that? Well, that's 102 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:47.760 evil. And they'll have their standard of judgment. Are you with me? Everybody does. Think about this. 103 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:57.360 You who say there is no God, how is it that you have some form of morality? Where did that come from? 104 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:07.760 The Bible makes it very clear that evil is an outcropping from original good. You can't have 105 00:12:07.760 --> 00:12:15.280 evil without first something preempting evil and what preempted evil was good. You can't say 106 00:12:15.280 --> 00:12:24.400 that's good and that's bad unless you understand that evil comes out of good. There had to be a 107 00:12:24.400 --> 00:12:30.960 starting point. We know where we belong. Thirdly is that we belong to what is right. He says the 108 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:37.680 all this is happening to the very one himself, the one who wills to do good. He says, I want to do 109 00:12:37.680 --> 00:12:42.880 good. I'll submit you today that down deep inside according to the standard of God, the atheist, 110 00:12:42.880 --> 00:12:47.920 the nonbeliever, whoever you may be outside of Christ, you do not will. You do not determine. You 111 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:56.800 do not strive to do good. You may will. You may strive to exult yourself to get in the picture to 112 00:12:56.800 --> 00:13:03.840 get your name out there, but that's not good. Now the fact is this is the true new creation in Christ 113 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:11.120 speaking. And I love that he inserts that. The one who wills to do good. That statement is one of 114 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:18.400 a person who knows Christ. Number two in our study today versus 22 to 23 is that we know what the 115 00:13:18.400 --> 00:13:25.520 fight is all about. There's a great fight that's going on. I've been overruled every time. I've 116 00:13:25.520 --> 00:13:30.720 told you guys this before, but I've been overruled on this. I've floated it past Lisa. She said no 117 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:35.920 way. I've mentioned it to a few staff members trying to go around the wisdom of my wife to see 118 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:44.800 no way. And that is I'm just a super fan of Peter Jackson's version on the silver screen of Lord 119 00:13:44.800 --> 00:13:53.360 of the Rings. It's extremely graphic. There's no sex. Okay, so it's not that kind of a thing. When I 120 00:13:53.360 --> 00:14:01.600 say graphic, Peter Jackson takes you into the bowels of hell. And it's the closest manifestation to 121 00:14:01.680 --> 00:14:09.520 what I read is a biblical hell where you see what's going on and all of the activity and that 122 00:14:09.520 --> 00:14:17.440 bottomless pit and the camera descends and descends and descends down. And as it's going down, you look 123 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:25.280 around as it's descending and it's all of these orcs and others that are being either fashioning 124 00:14:25.280 --> 00:14:33.600 tools of weaponry for battle against the humans or there's these demonic entities that are 125 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:40.640 bringing forth out of this like soup, membrane type of soup, the birthing of more demons, a 126 00:14:40.640 --> 00:14:51.840 massian an army to do what? To go to war against man. And that's what Tolkien saw in his imagination 127 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:55.920 regarding the spirit realm. It kind of freaks people out. I think Christian should watch it, 128 00:14:55.920 --> 00:14:59.760 but then it's pretty heavy. Don't have your kids in the room. They'll have nightmares. 129 00:15:02.640 --> 00:15:09.520 But we shriek at that. But yet there's things after us worse than that. But you just can't see them. 130 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:17.760 The awesome thing is you and I know what the fight is all about. The beautiful thing is about 131 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:24.640 in verse 22 is that we learn that the fight is from victory. It's from the angle of victory, Christian. 132 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:31.280 If you've read your Bible, you know this right now. We are never given the permission to be defeated 133 00:15:31.280 --> 00:15:36.880 ever in the Bible. Do you know that? The Bible says we're more than conquerors. 134 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:42.480 Over and over again, I'm reading right now through Chronicles and it's incredible. How many times 135 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:48.320 David consults God and God says, yes, go to war with the enemy, but do it this way. It's always key, 136 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:52.640 by the way, when you're reading the great battles in the Bible, always watch what God says. 137 00:15:55.280 --> 00:15:59.200 At one point, the army was going to go in attack and God said, no, no, no. 138 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:04.960 Gideon, here's what I want you to do. I want you to get a bunch of torches and okay, all right, 139 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:10.400 so we're going to do night fighting. All right, torches. God, here's the torches. He said, okay, 140 00:16:10.400 --> 00:16:16.480 you got a sword? Yeah, all right, now you're talking. I think God says, you got a pot? You have a 141 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:25.040 big jar? Yeah. Light the torch, put the torch in the pot, carry the torch, get out your sword, 142 00:16:25.920 --> 00:16:32.640 and go toward the enemy in the middle of the night. And when I instruct you guys to yell, yell, 143 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:42.480 this is God's battle plan. When you yell, I want you to take the end of your sword, I want you 144 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:48.480 to break the pot so the torches appear. Isn't that cool? As soon as the torches could be seen, the pot 145 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:54.160 had to be broken for the torch to be seen. As soon as the enemy saw the instant hillside covered in 146 00:16:54.160 --> 00:17:02.160 fire, they freaked and they jumped up and they said, the sword of the Lord and the sword of Gideon 147 00:17:02.160 --> 00:17:12.080 is upon us and they freaked out. Now, you don't go to battle like that. But when God says, go to battle 148 00:17:12.080 --> 00:17:22.480 this way, you do it. And God says, when you go to battle, Christian, every day, you know what the 149 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:26.240 fight's all about. And remember this, you're fighting from the angle, from the position of victory. 150 00:17:27.360 --> 00:17:32.800 Verse 22, he says, for I delight in the law of God, that's victory. I could close my bottle and walk 151 00:17:32.800 --> 00:17:39.040 away right now, right there, for I delight in the law of God. That all had just removed forever. 152 00:17:39.040 --> 00:17:44.560 This silly conversation about Paul is speaking about being a non-believer. The non-believer does not 153 00:17:44.560 --> 00:17:50.880 delight in the law of God. He says, I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. We're 154 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:55.440 coming from the angle of victory for I delight in the law of God. I read the Bible and I look at it 155 00:17:55.440 --> 00:18:01.360 and I read it and I say, oh God, do that in my life. Isn't that what you say? Why? Because we delight. 156 00:18:01.360 --> 00:18:08.880 The word is that we rejoice in it. We're joyous about it. To be light of heart. I'd love that. 157 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:15.840 Confident or confidence isn't in us. It's in the fact that he's told us the war is determined 158 00:18:15.840 --> 00:18:20.240 already. You do clean up battles in your life. You're fighting evil. You're fighting this. You're 159 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:25.840 fighting wokeism. You're fighting racism. You're fighting poverty. You're doing all those things that 160 00:18:25.840 --> 00:18:32.080 express the love of God in whatever that thing is. Christian don't ever let some knucklehead tell you 161 00:18:32.080 --> 00:18:38.320 that if you get involved in feeding the homeless or the abortion issue or the homeless issue or the 162 00:18:38.320 --> 00:18:44.560 border issue that you're getting involved in politics, you're showing the love of God in every area. 163 00:18:44.560 --> 00:18:50.080 That's what you're doing. I don't want anything to do with the Christianity that stays within 164 00:18:50.080 --> 00:18:57.120 the four walls of the church. Who needs that? That's how our nation got messed up. No, listen, 165 00:18:57.120 --> 00:19:04.080 it's out there. And we speak truth to the issues. And we expose the falsehood. Why? Because we're coming 166 00:19:04.080 --> 00:19:13.600 from the angle of victory, Christian. This Jack Hempst podcast as well as all the broadcasts out 167 00:19:13.600 --> 00:19:18.960 reach opportunities are listener supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special 168 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:25.600 gift? Go to jackhempst.com to learn more and stay connected.