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 --> 00:00:11.680 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. When we do good things, the word 3 00:00:11.680 --> 00:00:15.160 actually means we're doing God-like things. Did you know that? When you tell your 4 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:18.200 kid, go out there and do something good. You're actually saying literally 5 00:00:18.200 --> 00:00:21.480 according to the meaning of the word, go out there and do something that God would 6 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:26.600 do. That's awesome. In the Bible says, cling to what's good, cling to what is of 7 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:30.800 God. Be glued to it. 8 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:38.680 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 9 00:00:38.680 --> 00:00:44.040 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 10 00:00:44.040 --> 00:00:48.920 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 11 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:54.480 that's like saying, amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 12 00:00:54.480 --> 00:01:00.880 Now, open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 13 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:31.680 What else does that word say? That we're to be angry with it, to resist it, to push it 14 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:37.280 away, to fight against it, to loathe it, to loathe. We don't even use that word anymore. 15 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:43.720 It's Old English to loathe. I mean, it sounds brutal, doesn't it? I loathe you. I mean, 16 00:01:43.720 --> 00:01:49.800 that sounds hurtful. But listen, the Bible says, to the Christian church in the 17 00:01:49.800 --> 00:01:58.440 21st century, hate evil. And I'm afraid we don't, as a church. I'm not saying this 18 00:01:58.440 --> 00:02:03.560 church and I'm not saying you. I'm saying the church in the 21st century. Do we hate 19 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:08.720 evil? I don't know. It doesn't look like it to me. We're very willing to keep our 20 00:02:08.720 --> 00:02:14.320 mouth shut in the face of evil. And that is actually being an agreement. If we never 21 00:02:14.320 --> 00:02:19.520 speak up, we are agreeing with the evil. If you never stand up and speak up against 22 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:26.240 what is evil, you are condoning that evil. He said, well, I don't believe that. I don't 23 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:31.760 like that. Say something. Isn't that the model for Homeland Security? See something, say 24 00:02:31.760 --> 00:02:38.360 something. Wouldn't that be great if the church took that on? See something, say something. 25 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:41.680 When the church sees an injustice, when the church sees an evil, when the church sees 26 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:45.960 something that is wrong and hurtful and against God's will and against God's Bible, we're 27 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:51.480 supposed to say something. But you know what we do? We're cowards. We say things like 28 00:02:51.480 --> 00:02:57.760 this. I don't know why somebody doesn't do something. Failing to realize that God allowed 29 00:02:57.760 --> 00:03:02.400 you to see the problem for you to do something about it. Well, I don't know why we don't 30 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:13.440 have a ministry for this. Well, that's a great idea. Head it up. You thought of it that 31 00:03:13.440 --> 00:03:21.720 God gave you that. Think about this for a moment. So don't have fake love, but make 32 00:03:21.720 --> 00:03:28.480 sure you hate evil. And we are to be a haters of evil. Ephesians chapter 4, verse 25 and 33 00:03:28.480 --> 00:03:36.960 6. It's just where for putting away line, line. I tell you, line, think about how spiritually 34 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:45.040 energized line is. The Bible says that Satan is the father of lies. He invents lies. Speak 35 00:03:45.040 --> 00:03:50.480 every man truth with his neighbor. For we are members of one another. Listen to this. Be 36 00:03:50.480 --> 00:04:00.800 angry and sin not says the Bible. The Bible says for us to be angry against evil. We don't 37 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:06.720 see this anymore. We see pastors and pulpits pretending and playing games and covering 38 00:04:06.720 --> 00:04:14.880 the evil. Making excuses for evil. Saying things like this, well, I feel, listen, pastor, 39 00:04:14.880 --> 00:04:20.520 if that's you, no congregation cares how you feel. They want to hear the truth come 40 00:04:20.520 --> 00:04:24.840 out of your mouth. If you're called of God, you're going to speak the truth. In love, 41 00:04:24.840 --> 00:04:29.760 but you speak it. And that's how people are rescued and loved on and rescued and made 42 00:04:29.760 --> 00:04:40.640 right with God. You've got to speak the truth. And so we're to be angry at wrongdoing. 43 00:04:40.640 --> 00:04:46.280 And to prove to you how messed up we are, watch this. We're to be angry at wrongdoing. 44 00:04:46.280 --> 00:04:53.720 What's wrongdoing? It's doing the wrong thing. It's not rocket science. We're to be angry 45 00:04:53.720 --> 00:05:01.200 at sin. All this is according to the Bible. We're to be angry at wickedness. Listen, we 46 00:05:01.200 --> 00:05:09.040 don't even know what wickedness is anymore. Say, Jack, are you kidding me? I'm not kidding you. 47 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:17.040 We've been so deluded. And when you approve of wrongdoing and sin and wickedness, you become 48 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:28.160 rescued. Your judgment fails you. That word evil, you guys, is the word for nearest in the 49 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:37.600 Greek language. And it means basically to toil and to be toilsim in the work of sin, to work hard 50 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:47.440 and perpetually at sinning, making plans. Hey, is your husband going on a trip? Yeah, you want 51 00:05:47.440 --> 00:05:52.800 to meet up? You know, that's right out of the Bible. Book of Proverbs. Did you know that? 52 00:05:52.800 --> 00:06:02.400 Hey, young men, the woman said from the window, come on up. I've just paid my vows. And my husband 53 00:06:02.400 --> 00:06:10.960 has taken a bag of money and he's gone on a long business trip. Come to me and let's have our 54 00:06:10.960 --> 00:06:19.920 fill of love until the morning. You know, that's in the Bible. And the Bible says to the young man, 55 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:26.480 hate that woman, flee from her, run from her, because the Bible says that once she's gotten you 56 00:06:26.880 --> 00:06:33.600 into her bed, amazingly, the Bible, the technology of the Bible, she will pierce your liver through 57 00:06:34.640 --> 00:06:44.080 and you'll die. Guess what? Later on, we found out that promiscuity attacks the liver of the human 58 00:06:44.080 --> 00:06:51.760 being. Did you know your liver is like the, it's like a pharmacy inside your body. Your liver, 59 00:06:51.760 --> 00:06:58.080 if you have a healthy liver, you've got a healthy life. The Bible says in sexual immorality with the 60 00:06:58.080 --> 00:07:06.400 harlot, you're destroying your liver. Among other things like your family, remarkable. God knows 61 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:14.000 it's time to hate evil. And it's time to call it what it is because God says I hate it. God says 62 00:07:14.080 --> 00:07:21.600 I hate this. God says I love you, but the Bible also says God is angry with the wicked every day. 63 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:25.840 Did you know the Bible says that? God is angry with the wicked every day. 64 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:33.600 And you've got to choose. I gave you enough time to leave the sanctuary. It's too late now. 65 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:40.560 The doors are shut. Here we go. Romans 1 verse 20. Might I remind you as I read this, 66 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:48.480 this is 2,000 years old from the Bible. For ever since the world was created, people have seen 67 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:54.160 the earth and the sky through everything God made. They can clearly see his invisible qualities, 68 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:59.680 his eternal power, and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God. Yes, 69 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:05.120 they knew God, but they wouldn't worship him as God or even give him thanks. Do we live in a 70 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:12.960 thinkless age? Wow. And they began to think up foolish ideas of how God was like. In other 71 00:08:12.960 --> 00:08:20.000 words, they recreated God in their own image. That's a great God to have to approve of all your 72 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:25.760 evils. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. Is that something familiar? 73 00:08:26.880 --> 00:08:32.240 Is our culture confused? Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools, 74 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:37.600 and instead of worshiping the glorious ever-living God, they worship idols made to look like mere 75 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:45.360 people and birds and animals and reptiles. That's evolution and reverse. So God abandoned them 76 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:53.920 to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things 77 00:08:53.920 --> 00:09:00.480 with each other's bodies. Does that sound like the internet? They traded the truth about God for 78 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:05.840 a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the creator himself who is 79 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:14.160 worthy of eternal praise, amen. That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. 80 00:09:15.040 --> 00:09:20.960 Do you know any people like this? I do. Even the women turned against the natural way to have 81 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:26.480 sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. Verse 27, and men instead of having normal 82 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:31.280 sexual relations with the woman burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with 83 00:09:31.280 --> 00:09:36.320 other men. And as a result of this sin, they listened it. They suffered within themselves 84 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:43.920 the penalty they deserved. Internal sickness. That's strong stuff people. Since they 85 00:09:43.920 --> 00:09:48.160 thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their own foolish thinking 86 00:09:49.920 --> 00:09:55.040 and let them do the things they should never that should never be done. Their lives became full 87 00:09:55.040 --> 00:10:02.240 of every kind of wickedness. See, it's a slope downward. I'm sorry to read this stuff to you, 88 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:13.520 but this is pure Bible. Sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, 89 00:10:13.520 --> 00:10:21.360 gossip. There are backbiteers, haters of God, insolent, proud, boastful. They invent new ways of 90 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:31.760 sinning. Verse 31 goes on to say, undescerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, 91 00:10:32.640 --> 00:10:38.480 wow, unmerciful, who knowing the righteous judgment of God that those who practice such things 92 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:43.440 are deserving of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them. 93 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:48.640 You know what that verse means? It means that when you see something evil and you keep watching 94 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:54.000 it, you don't turn the channel, or you go pay to the theater to go watch it, and you say, 95 00:10:54.000 --> 00:11:02.880 everybody watches this. We're approving it. I know this burns. I know this thing. None of us are 96 00:11:02.880 --> 00:11:13.360 innocent on this. Next time you go to some strip club or whatever it is that you go to, 97 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:19.680 buy two tickets, because Jesus is right along with you. If you're a believer, you've taken 98 00:11:19.680 --> 00:11:26.640 Christ into the setting. If you've got to go watch this movie or that thing by a second ticket, 99 00:11:27.760 --> 00:11:33.040 because Christ is with you. Now those in Romans chapter one are those whom God has abandoned. 100 00:11:33.040 --> 00:11:39.520 You say, God abandons people? Yes, he does. They will not listen to him, and then there comes 101 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:45.280 a time when God gives them over. I was shocked. Listen to this. Proverbs chapter six, verse 16 says, 102 00:11:45.280 --> 00:11:52.960 there are seven things he detests. Hot eyes. You know what that is? A proud look. Conceited person. 103 00:11:52.960 --> 00:12:01.120 God says, I hate that. A lying tongue. God says, I hate liars. And hands that kill innocent blood. 104 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:07.760 Kill the innocent. Of course, that verse applies to the destruction of a human baby. Of course, 105 00:12:07.760 --> 00:12:14.960 that applies, but it applies to more than that. For example, if a man is beating up on his wife, 106 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:23.280 that verse applies. If a woman or a man are beating up on their children, that verse applies. God 107 00:12:23.280 --> 00:12:29.520 says, I hate those who kill innocence. It doesn't mean they're sinless. It means that they're defenseless 108 00:12:29.520 --> 00:12:38.000 against such a power. God says, I hate that. Can you imagine the physician that's performing the abortion? 109 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:46.240 Notice the mother. She may be terrified, scared. She's been talked into it. She doesn't want to do it 110 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:50.800 down deep inside. She's mortified. And by the way, if that's you, God loves you. And listen, 111 00:12:50.800 --> 00:12:55.440 God wants you to tell him the truth about what went on. And listen, he'll give you a brand new life 112 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:59.440 and he'll bless you. And maybe listen, that baby is in heaven. Why don't you go to heaven later 113 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:05.920 and meet your baby someday? What a great thing that would be. But think about the nurse or the physician 114 00:13:05.920 --> 00:13:12.800 that is willfully, systematically, heartlessly, cold-bloodedly extracting that child from that person 115 00:13:12.800 --> 00:13:19.040 that should be living in the safest place in the planet. The mother's womb. God says, I hate them. 116 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:25.120 Jesus said, if you harmed any of these little ones in the day of judgment, it would have been better 117 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:33.840 for you if you had never been born. This is serious stuff, people. This shocked me this week. 118 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:38.240 Did you know this? I was shocked by this. I had to read it three times over. So the article was 119 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:42.640 talking about life and the value of life and how in the Western culture, we're supposed to 120 00:13:42.640 --> 00:13:49.200 value life more because we're supposed to be the enlightened culture. And this argument was put 121 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:54.880 for it. It talked about in the detail, the grief. Where were you, by the way? On September 11th, 122 00:13:54.880 --> 00:14:00.080 2001, you remember where you're at? I can tell you what I was wearing. I remember where I was 123 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:08.720 standing. And I watched those the second plane flying to the building. Where were you? Think 124 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:14.480 about that. Nearly 3,000 people were killed that day. Did you know that? And the news reports said 125 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:21.520 that the innocents, they were killed by terrorists and the innocent parish, you know what they meant, 126 00:14:21.520 --> 00:14:29.040 right? They meant that those that were meaner and uglier and equipped for war killed those who 127 00:14:29.040 --> 00:14:32.720 were not even in the mindset of war. Are you tracking with me? It's not that they were sinless 128 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:39.440 innocent. They were not engaged. The fight wasn't equal. So to speak, yeah. And then the article 129 00:14:39.520 --> 00:14:47.200 went on to say this. However, more people died on September 10th, 2001. And on September 12th, 130 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:56.560 2001, then on September 11th, 2001. And I went, what? And then they went to, then they went on 131 00:14:56.560 --> 00:15:03.440 to cite the amount of abortions that took place on those two days. Did you know that abortions 132 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:08.160 went down on September 11th? Did you know that? If not stopped. Because the nation stopped. 133 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:16.000 Is that shocking? I was shocked by that. That Proverbs 6 goes on to say in verse 18, 134 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:22.480 the heart that plots evil. God says, I hate, I hate the the feet that race to do wrong. God says, 135 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:29.520 I hate false witnesses who pours out lies. God says, I hate the person who shows discord among a family. 136 00:15:29.920 --> 00:15:37.520 God says, I hate that. You think somehow you're so something that you got to share your mouth 137 00:15:38.160 --> 00:15:43.120 at the destruction of your family? God says, I hate that. Listen, God says, I hate those who 138 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:50.880 divide my church up. Did you know that? And then we end with this and you're saying, thank God, 139 00:15:50.880 --> 00:15:58.080 we end with this. It's cling to what is good. Well, listen, cling to what is good. This is a 140 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:04.560 fantastic word, cling. It means, this means to bond together, be glued together, be united, 141 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:12.640 one becoming, two becoming one, to be attached. In this case, of course, be, be attached, 142 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:21.600 be stuck on what's good. The amazing thing about, about this good is that according to the Bible, 143 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:28.080 God is the only one who's good. When we do good things, the word actually means we're doing 144 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:32.720 God-like things. Did you know that? When you tell your kid, go out there and do something good. 145 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:36.800 You're actually saying, literally, according to the meaning of the word, go out there and do something 146 00:16:36.800 --> 00:16:45.440 that God would do. That's awesome. In the Bible says, cling to what's good, cling to what is 147 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:58.720 of God. Be glued to it. You're almost done. Take a deep breath, everybody. Let it out. 148 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:06.720 You might need to do that one more time pretty soon here. I'm going to give you some good news. 149 00:17:07.600 --> 00:17:14.320 I'm going to see if you can recognize it. And I want to remind you, I'm reading to you a love 150 00:17:14.320 --> 00:17:23.520 letter from the Apostle Paul 2,000 years ago to those who lived in Greece in the city of Corinth. 151 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:34.080 First Corinthians, don't you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God. 152 00:17:35.280 --> 00:17:38.880 Practice wrong. That's what the word means. Don't fool yourselves. 153 00:17:39.360 --> 00:17:49.840 Those who indulge in sexual sin or who worship idols or commit adultery or are male prostitutes 154 00:17:50.800 --> 00:18:00.880 or practice homosexuality or are thieves or greedy people or drunkards or abusive or cheat people, 155 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:08.240 none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God. If I stop right there, we should all just go get 156 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:16.240 drunk and drive off the end of the pier. You may not have done those things. You may have done 157 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:23.600 some of those things. All you have to do is think of one of those things. And now we're guilty. I'm 158 00:18:23.600 --> 00:18:27.520 guilty of several of those things, and I'm not going to tell you which ones they are. I may not 159 00:18:27.520 --> 00:18:34.480 have done them, but I thought about it. According to God's word, I'm guilty, because God knows my heart. 160 00:18:35.120 --> 00:18:44.640 So what do we do about that? Here's the good news. Some of you were once like that. 161 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:51.760 So I'm going to say it again and say, hey, man, because you're happy to hear that. Because if you're 162 00:18:51.760 --> 00:18:59.840 sitting here right now, going, oh gosh. He's speaking to a crowd of people who are going, 163 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:05.840 that crowd in Corinth, you're not going to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Those of you guys who 164 00:19:05.840 --> 00:19:12.320 committed adultery and the Corinthians would say, whoa, whoa, what? We live for adultery. That's 165 00:19:12.320 --> 00:19:20.400 all we do. You see, well, Jack, it's not all I do, but do you watch it? Do you entertain it? 166 00:19:21.280 --> 00:19:27.280 Do you think about it? Whatever it might be. What about taking advantage of people in business, 167 00:19:27.280 --> 00:19:33.520 cheating them? They cheat people. God says, you're not going to heaven. You're a white collar thief. 168 00:19:33.520 --> 00:19:38.400 You fancy it at all up, made it look good. You swindle people. That's what Satan does. You're 169 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:45.040 not going. And then when you get convicted, it's like, ah, see, somebody in here is going to say, 170 00:19:45.040 --> 00:19:48.400 I don't like being talked to like this. You're one of them. 171 00:19:49.360 --> 00:19:57.840 Versus the person that is saying, how'd you know? I didn't know. I don't know anything. I'm just 172 00:19:57.840 --> 00:20:05.920 repeating the Bible. This is what God says. Some of you were like that, but you were cleansed, 173 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:10.880 but you were made holy. You were made right with God by the calling on the name of the Lord Jesus 174 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:19.120 and by the Spirit of God. That's the gospel. He died in the cross to set us free from that 175 00:20:19.120 --> 00:20:25.360 imprisonment that we were in. So we get to love people. We get to hate evil because we know 176 00:20:25.360 --> 00:20:28.160 what it does to people. 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