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 --> 00:00:10.560 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. When the Holy Spirit goes to 3 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:14.520 work in the life of a believer, it is a marathon. And here's the amazing thing. 4 00:00:14.520 --> 00:00:17.960 It's not the flash in the pan that proves anything. It's who comes across the 5 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:21.400 finish line at the marathon, you know? 6 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:29.600 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to JackKibs.com slash podcast. 7 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:34.760 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 8 00:00:34.760 --> 00:00:38.920 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 9 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:44.720 To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to 10 00:00:44.720 --> 00:00:50.800 listen. Now, open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Kibs. 11 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:55.600 I'm going to give you a string of verses. You guys already write small Ephesians 12 00:00:55.600 --> 00:01:01.680 222. Watch this. Listen up in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling 13 00:01:01.680 --> 00:01:07.880 place of God in the spirit. What does that mean? He is writing Paul is to the 14 00:01:07.880 --> 00:01:15.800 believers in Ephesus and he's announcing to them that you mere mortals, humans can 15 00:01:15.800 --> 00:01:21.360 become the dwelling place of Almighty God by the Holy Spirit. It's called being 16 00:01:21.360 --> 00:01:25.080 a follower of Christ or what Jesus again said, being born again. And you want to 17 00:01:25.080 --> 00:01:30.320 ask yourself, do I know that to be true in my life? Just very simple. Do I know that 18 00:01:30.320 --> 00:01:35.560 that verse is actually true in my life? There are a lot of us who can say absolutely. 19 00:01:37.360 --> 00:01:43.520 Second thing is 1 Corinthians 3 verse 16. Do you not know that you are the temple of 20 00:01:43.520 --> 00:01:49.120 God and that the spirit of God dwells in you? You say, Jack, no, come on. If the spirit 21 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:55.960 of God dwells in you, then I want to see you jump 45 feet or I want to see you 22 00:01:55.960 --> 00:02:02.400 shoot lightning bolts out of your fingertips. This is not a circus and God is not 23 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:11.720 a clown and he's not some side show. That would accomplish nothing whatsoever of 24 00:02:11.720 --> 00:02:17.440 meaning. Listen, what will accomplish something of eternal meaning is that when the 25 00:02:17.440 --> 00:02:23.520 Holy Spirit goes to work in the life of a believer, it is a marathon. And some of us when 26 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:29.320 we give our lives to Jesus, some things changed instantly. Some of you cussed like a sailor 27 00:02:29.320 --> 00:02:36.320 and then you came to Christ and it ended instantly or some of you had this pursuit or that desire 28 00:02:36.320 --> 00:02:39.840 or this and there's some things that God, you know that right in our lives. He took care 29 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:44.160 of instantly and then there's some things he took care later and there's some of the 30 00:02:44.160 --> 00:02:48.400 things he's working on. And here's the amazing thing. It's not the flash in the pan that 31 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:52.680 proves anything. It's who comes across the finish line at the marathon, you know? And this 32 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:59.520 thing called Christianity is a life and it's done by the spirit of God dwelling in you. 33 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:05.720 Secondly, under this, you guys, is the spirit of comfort within you? Is this? Is he the 34 00:03:05.720 --> 00:03:11.680 spirit who possesses? He says, possesses. I don't like that word. Why don't you like the word? 35 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:20.200 I think of the exorcist possesses like possession totally. Possession. I don't know if you should 36 00:03:20.200 --> 00:03:27.320 use that word. No, no, I want to use that word. You want to know why everyone who knows that 37 00:03:27.320 --> 00:03:37.680 the Lord has saved them, knows something and that is our lives are possessed by God. The 38 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:43.840 Bible tells us he owns us. He bought us at a great price. Some of you might say, I don't like 39 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:50.320 that word because I'm afraid of my own life. I'm a free spirit. Yeah, I used to be a free 40 00:03:50.320 --> 00:03:58.560 spirit and doesn't go well. What you want to do is you want to say, Lord, here's what you want 41 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:04.960 to know. Dear God, I'm going to read your book and find out what you're all about. As you read 42 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:12.800 this book, you know, this is his love letter to you and as you read it, supernatural. You know, 43 00:04:12.800 --> 00:04:18.080 somebody wrote you a letter in the eighth grade and you went, oh my goodness, this is a forever love. 44 00:04:20.320 --> 00:04:27.120 You called them up after school, talk all night, hang up. No, you hang up. No, you hang up first. 45 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:32.560 I never hang up on you ever. No, no, you go ahead. You hang up. No, you know that. 46 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:46.800 And then you get a new basketball and it's like all over. See this book? God says, Jack, yes, 47 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:52.480 I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore, it is with my loving kindness that I've drawn 48 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:59.360 you to me. Jesus, you keep talking like that to me and I just might fall in love with this whole 49 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:07.840 person of who you are. Oh, Jack, that's not anything. Listen to this. You let me in to your life and 50 00:05:07.840 --> 00:05:16.160 I will never leave you or forsake you. And remember this and never forget this. I am with you 51 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:21.840 always even to the end of the world. Listen, you start reading his book, his love letter to us and 52 00:05:21.840 --> 00:05:29.920 it's like, okay, all right, this is amazing. What happens? You wind up yielding yourself to 53 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:34.480 this love. And the more you do that, the more free you become. So much so friends that if the 54 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:41.520 world comes along and says, hey, how about a snort of this or a shot of that or a drink of this. 55 00:05:44.080 --> 00:05:49.920 Technically, according to biblical theology, you could do a snort, a sniff, what did I say? 56 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:56.080 A drink, a drop. You could do it. You don't lose your salvation. But you wind up realizing, I don't 57 00:05:56.080 --> 00:06:07.120 need to do that. Watch, watch my back. All right, think of it. Do you, listen, if Christ is in you, 58 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:14.800 you've got the power to walk away from stuff. Hey, I know your wife's away. I know on a business trip, 59 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:25.680 why don't you come on over? The Christian starts laughing at that. It's like Satan really. Can you 60 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:33.440 like, could you be a little bit discreet? This is ridiculous. Are you hearing me? You walk away. 61 00:06:33.440 --> 00:06:39.200 How free is that? Can you walk away from temptations? Listen, if Christ is in you, you can. 62 00:06:39.200 --> 00:06:50.240 But if the world is in you, then listen, you're being set up and Satan knows, by the way, he's 63 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:55.280 for real. The Bible says he's real. Jesus says he's real and he's plotting. The Bible says that he's 64 00:06:55.280 --> 00:07:05.920 like a lion hunting you down. But I like the fact that the Bible says in Romans 9 here that if 65 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:12.400 indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you, some of your Bibles have a correct translation word says 66 00:07:12.400 --> 00:07:18.640 since the Spirit of God dwells in you. That's the actual translation. Since to statement of fact, 67 00:07:18.640 --> 00:07:22.560 how do we know? He's speaking to the Romans. He just earned the earlier part of the verse, gave them 68 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:29.440 the endorsement of the Spirit of God is in you. And since the Spirit of God is in you, how does he 69 00:07:29.520 --> 00:07:36.480 do that? He dwells within you. He sets up his home. Isn't it amazing that, well, God is so 70 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:44.560 esoteric. He's so removed from us. We could never know him. Well, is he our creator? Oh, yeah, 71 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:47.920 he created us, but we could never know him. Then what kind of a creator is that? 72 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:55.840 Did you hear me? Don't you think for a moment? I'm just guessing. I don't know. But years 73 00:07:55.920 --> 00:08:00.240 ago, we were starting to church in Steuert, Germany. I had no idea that down the street was the Mercedes 74 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:07.440 Benz Museum. I would imagine that some guy Mercedes and some guy Benz, I'm thinking that they 75 00:08:07.440 --> 00:08:13.280 got together and they probably drove the car first. Can you imagine designing the car and finding 76 00:08:13.280 --> 00:08:18.480 some guy off the street? Excuse me. Do you want to try that thing out? Nobody does that. 77 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:26.880 That designer is intimately involved. The creator is intimately involved. If you invent something, 78 00:08:26.880 --> 00:08:33.440 you're going to be involved. Listen, God created you. And he's involved. But you and I have to 79 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:38.160 invite him into our lives. All right, hang on here we go. This is Jesus speaking. If you love me, 80 00:08:38.160 --> 00:08:44.320 keep my commandments. Don't worry about that. That's an easy lift. When he's inside of you, 81 00:08:44.400 --> 00:08:52.240 you delight in his commandments. He does it. And I will pray the Father and he will give you another 82 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:59.120 helper. The word in Greek is paracletos or paraclete. Para, one who comes alongside you, 83 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:04.480 cleat or cleatos to comfort you. Isn't that beautiful? Jesus said, I'm going to send the Holy 84 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:09.520 Spirit to you. He's going to come alongside you to comfort you all along the marathon. 85 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:16.160 And he will, and I will give you another helper that he may abide with you forever. Excuse me, 86 00:09:16.160 --> 00:09:20.800 but isn't that kind of like, let's fall in love with God words? He may abide with you forever. 87 00:09:20.800 --> 00:09:27.120 Don't you like that? The Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees 88 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:35.680 him nor knows him. But you know him for he dwells with you and shall be in you. Listen to this. I 89 00:09:35.760 --> 00:09:42.720 will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. That's Jesus speaking. Did you get that? Everybody? 90 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:49.040 You guys awake? Jesus is saying, I got to go. I'm going back to heaven. I'm going to send the 91 00:09:49.040 --> 00:09:56.640 Holy Spirit to you. Notice what he says at the end. I'm not going to leave you orphaned. I'm coming 92 00:09:56.720 --> 00:10:00.960 to you. Wait, say, which one is it? Holy Spirit or Jesus? Yes. 93 00:10:03.680 --> 00:10:09.280 Jesus dwells within you by the person of the Holy Spirit. Listen, for that matter, 94 00:10:09.280 --> 00:10:14.240 when you choose to obey God, your mind is submitting to God the Father. If you think about it, 95 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:20.000 the Spirit's at work in you. Jesus is at work in you. The Father's at work in you, all through the 96 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:28.240 Word of God. That's why the Bible is a living, breathing book. Next verse. John 14, 23, Jesus answered 97 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:34.480 and said to him, if anyone loves me, he will keep my word and my Father will love him and we will 98 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:41.680 come to him and make our home with him. Talking about the human existence. Oh, my goodness people, 99 00:10:41.680 --> 00:10:48.720 please know this to be true in your life. Can you look at that and say, I am so grateful. God is so 100 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:55.280 awesome. Are you looking at saying those are very powerful words? What times lunch? 101 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:04.240 This is eternal truth, but what Spirit is in you? Let not your heart be troubled. Neither 102 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:10.960 let it be afraid. You have heard me say to you, I'm going away and coming back to you. If you 103 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:15.760 loved me, you would rejoice because I said, I'm going to my Father. I'm going to the Father. 104 00:11:15.760 --> 00:11:21.920 For my Father is greater than I. That's awesome. See, why does it say it that way if they're 105 00:11:21.920 --> 00:11:31.200 co-equal, co-eternal? Because Jesus became a man forever to represent you and I. Isn't that 106 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:39.200 amazing? He was our prototype. Next verse. John 15 verse 7, if you abide in me and my words abide 107 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:44.640 in you, you will ask what you desire and it shall be done for you. By this, my Father is glorified 108 00:11:44.800 --> 00:11:49.760 that you bear much fruit. So you will be my disciples. Let me qualify this because people, 109 00:11:50.800 --> 00:11:54.640 I lost them halfway through this verse because they started saying, honey, that's how we're going to 110 00:11:54.640 --> 00:12:00.320 get our new house right there, baby. That's how we're going to win the lotto or that's how we're 111 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:08.880 going to get the whatever. No, no, no, no, no. If you abide in me, personal relationship, 112 00:12:08.880 --> 00:12:14.480 and my word, the Bible, abides in you. Okay, so now you're programmed by the Bible. 113 00:12:17.040 --> 00:12:20.000 You're going to have, you're going to, can I put it this way? You're going to bleed Bible. 114 00:12:21.280 --> 00:12:25.040 How's that? You will ask what you desire. 115 00:12:28.160 --> 00:12:33.360 Oh, you mean I'm going to, I'm going to actually start desiring the things that God desires. 116 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:40.720 Yep. And God will answer those prayers. Always pray. That's why by the way, the model, 117 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:45.280 the thing that sums it up perfectly when Jesus cries out to his Father and says, Father, 118 00:12:45.280 --> 00:12:50.080 if there's really, if there's any other way this, this cup can pass from me before I go to the cross. 119 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:54.960 If there's some other way, man, can be saved. Let's do it. And then what did Jesus say? 120 00:12:54.960 --> 00:13:00.080 Nevertheless, not my will, but thy will be done. That's exactly what that means. 121 00:13:01.040 --> 00:13:04.880 I've prayed my prayer, God, but what's not of your word? Take it out. 122 00:13:06.880 --> 00:13:11.760 And I tell your friend, you can pray with confidence. Next verse, 123 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:18.640 you did not choose me, but I chose you. And a point to do that you should go and bear fruit, 124 00:13:18.640 --> 00:13:23.680 and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you. 125 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:30.720 Beautiful. Why would you do that? Fruit bearing, a godly, holy, powerful, 126 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:36.960 awesome, dynamic Christian life. Next verse, John 1526, but when the helper comes, 127 00:13:37.920 --> 00:13:42.640 whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, 128 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:49.200 he, that is the Spirit, will testify of me. Isn't that amazing? John 165. 129 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:54.800 But now I go away to him who sent me, and none of you ask me, where are you going? 130 00:13:56.400 --> 00:14:01.760 But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. Nevertheless, 131 00:14:01.760 --> 00:14:06.800 I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away. Can you imagine Jesus saying that to you? 132 00:14:06.800 --> 00:14:11.440 It's going to be really good for you if I leave. For if I do not go away, the helper will not come 133 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:16.240 to you, but if I depart, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will convict the world of 134 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:22.000 sin. Did you know that? Conscious. The Holy Spirit's job all around the world is to tell people, 135 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:29.600 you shouldn't be doing that. You need Jesus. And he says of righteousness and of judgment, 136 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:34.000 of sin because they do not believe in me and of righteousness because I go to my Father and you will 137 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:41.200 see me no more of judgment because the ruler, this is Satan, of this world is judged. Amen, right? 138 00:14:41.760 --> 00:14:46.800 I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when he, the spirit of 139 00:14:46.800 --> 00:14:52.640 truth has come. Here's what he's doing right now here in this building. He will guide you into 140 00:14:52.640 --> 00:14:58.000 all truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak, 141 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:04.560 and he will tell you things to come. He will glorify me, for he will take of what is mine and declare 142 00:15:04.640 --> 00:15:13.920 to you. Bible. Wow. In John chapter 14 verse 17, it starts out by saying, you know him, for he 143 00:15:13.920 --> 00:15:19.840 dwells with you and will be in you. Verse 18, I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. 144 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:25.600 What a assurance. God is so good. How does he reveal himself to us? No kinds of ways. 145 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:30.720 Depends on where you're at in life. Do you believe or are you not a believer? There's a different way 146 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:38.240 that he speaks. God speaks sometimes through circumstances, not always, but sometimes. You have to 147 00:15:42.560 --> 00:15:48.720 ask him, Lord, are you in this? Is this what you want? Or is this what your word says? 148 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:54.640 But he reveals himself. I blew it, by the way, this week. I should have known that God was 149 00:15:54.640 --> 00:15:59.280 revealing his goodness to me. God's been very good to me. That's an understatement. 150 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:13.120 But it was my annual visit to my doctor, and he's amazing. He's just amazing. He's a nice guy. 151 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:22.960 He's not my genius. He's a nice guy. And he's way up in LA, and it just takes you, you know, forever 152 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:30.400 to get there and forever to get home. But you know what? Just like once a year, maybe twice a year. 153 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:36.960 So I go, and it's amazing. It's just an amazing place. Everything's done right then there. 154 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:43.200 You do this. You put that there. You do this thing. They grab this. They pull on this. They put 155 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:47.040 you upside down. They inside out. They do this. There's people in line with their machines. 156 00:16:47.040 --> 00:17:00.960 I mean, it's amazing. I was in and out in less than an hour. And the last thing was this. 157 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:07.040 The last thing was when my doctor comes, and he's got all the data that these machines have spit 158 00:17:07.040 --> 00:17:13.280 out, and the technicians bring them, and he walks in, and this is so cool. Thank you for praying. 159 00:17:13.280 --> 00:17:18.400 By the way, thank you for praying. Watch this. He comes in and he goes, okay, so here's what we have. 160 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:25.760 So you came to me a year and a half ago. Here's your numbers in these categories. So he's showing 161 00:17:25.760 --> 00:17:34.640 me the numbers of my chemistry. Then six months after that, this is your chemistry. Six months after 162 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:40.640 that, this was your chemistry. And here's your chemistry today right now. Just moments ago, 163 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:53.040 and I go, okay, and he goes, I know how old you are. He said, chemically, you've gotten younger. 164 00:17:54.400 --> 00:18:05.600 He said, your whole chart is reversing. And I said, what's this? I felt. But then I go, 165 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:14.240 it's because I have a great doctor. And he goes, now look, this guy is renowned. He's very well known. 166 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:28.560 He's a big deal. He went, he goes, you have a great God. And I, exactly, I went, oh, yeah, 167 00:18:29.280 --> 00:18:37.360 that's what I meant to say. He said, you should have said what I said, and I should have said what 168 00:18:37.360 --> 00:18:47.840 you said. I got busted. But God reveals himself to you. He's not a private God. He takes up 169 00:18:47.840 --> 00:18:54.960 residence. And of all things, he says, I'll live inside of you. Try to listen, search all the cults 170 00:18:54.960 --> 00:19:03.200 in the world. Search all of the world religions. And not one of them claim that their God will move 171 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:09.680 inside of you. And the Bible tells us that he marks us down and seals us onto the day of redemption. 172 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:17.600 Wow. If you trust Christ today, that's how saved you are from hell and from the power of the grave. 173 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:26.400 For us, the believer, death is just a release. The Bible tells us in the book of Hebrews that men have 174 00:19:28.560 --> 00:19:33.600 worried and lamented about death for all these thousands of years until Christ came 175 00:19:35.520 --> 00:19:41.440 because he took death on and he broke the grave. And Jesus said, if somebody were to die, 176 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:46.320 believe it in me, yet shall he live forever. What an awesome God we have. 177 00:19:51.120 --> 00:19:55.520 This Jack Hibbs podcast, as well as all the broadcasts out reach opportunities, are 178 00:19:55.520 --> 00:20:03.200 listener supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? Go to jackhibbs.com 179 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:06.320 to learn more and stay connected.