WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.480 Real life presents the Jack Kib's podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, 2 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:09.320 equip the saints and impact our culture. 3 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:11.760 God is not swayed by the ages. 4 00:00:11.760 --> 00:00:15.960 The same convictions the martyrs had to die for their faith. 5 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:19.320 Those truths are still available to us today in the Word of God. 6 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:21.060 The Holy Spirit is still alive. 7 00:00:21.060 --> 00:00:23.400 He still indwells his people. 8 00:00:23.400 --> 00:00:32.840 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackkibs.com slash podcast. 9 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:38.800 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 10 00:00:38.800 --> 00:00:42.040 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 11 00:00:42.040 --> 00:00:48.640 To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 12 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:52.000 Now open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you. 13 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:55.120 Here is Jack Kib's. 14 00:00:55.120 --> 00:01:02.360 Ezekiel 36, verse 26, God says, I will give you a new heart and I will put a new spirit within you. 15 00:01:02.360 --> 00:01:03.840 Friends, listen, this is what God says. 16 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:05.920 You either believe him or you don't. 17 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:10.640 I'd like you to take him at his word, friend and try him out. 18 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:15.200 I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 19 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:21.520 I'll take your stony heart out of you and I'll give you a brand new soft and pliable heart. 20 00:01:21.520 --> 00:01:24.720 Verse 27, I will put my spirit within you. 21 00:01:24.720 --> 00:01:26.480 Did you get that? 22 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:27.480 This is God speaking. 23 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:29.600 I will put my spirit within you. 24 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:31.440 Now watch. 25 00:01:31.440 --> 00:01:38.240 And I will cause you to walk in my statutes and you will keep my judgments and you will do them. 26 00:01:38.240 --> 00:01:39.720 I'd love this for this reason. 27 00:01:39.720 --> 00:01:42.880 Verse 27 is glorious. 28 00:01:42.880 --> 00:01:44.840 Can I read it backwards? 29 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:48.280 Make might make more sense. 30 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:49.920 You will do my statutes. 31 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:51.080 You'll do my judgments. 32 00:01:51.160 --> 00:01:53.120 You're going to keep those. 33 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:54.120 Really? 34 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:55.120 Yep. 35 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:56.120 Here's how. 36 00:01:56.120 --> 00:01:59.360 I will put my spirit in you. 37 00:01:59.360 --> 00:02:01.600 That's how it happens. 38 00:02:01.600 --> 00:02:06.840 It's the same equivalent to Jesus saying, if you love me, you'll keep my commandments. 39 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:09.280 And when you hear that, you feel like surrendering. 40 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:11.280 Like give it up. 41 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:12.280 No, no, no, no. 42 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:15.840 God says, I will put within you my spirit. 43 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:19.520 I will cause you to keep my judgments and do them. 44 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:26.000 This is the born again, Jesus said, spirit-filled, spirit-led life. 45 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:29.720 Christianity, don't sign up for it. 46 00:02:29.720 --> 00:02:32.360 Don't become a member of it. 47 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:36.840 Let God do it in you by the Holy Spirit of God. 48 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:40.160 It's the Spirit's business to make you more like Jesus. 49 00:02:40.160 --> 00:02:45.000 You and I are just supposed to cooperate with Him. 50 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:46.000 It's remarkable. 51 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:47.240 He's remarkable. 52 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:49.680 He's also the life-giving spirit. 53 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:54.020 The Holy Spirit is a life-giving spirit in Romans 8 verse 2, the Bible says, for the 54 00:02:54.020 --> 00:03:01.600 law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 55 00:03:01.600 --> 00:03:04.000 This is so spectacular. 56 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:10.800 The law of sin and death is where I was before I met Jesus. 57 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:12.560 After meeting Jesus, what happened? 58 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:18.040 The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus took control of my life. 59 00:03:18.040 --> 00:03:20.280 See, how do you know? 60 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:24.720 Because the things of God began to become interesting to me. 61 00:03:24.720 --> 00:03:29.240 The things I didn't care about before, now I care about. 62 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:31.520 You begin to think different. 63 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:37.800 He begins to work his life in deal. 64 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:41.120 I remember years ago in Israel, there was a Tanner. 65 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:48.080 Now that's the old term, it's in the New Testament book of Acts, but a Tanner is someone 66 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:57.560 who works with skins, animal skins, and you've seen them like shot bazaars and kiosk 67 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:04.240 and stuff, these purses or whatever it is that's made out of leather, but technically a 68 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:07.440 Tanner did that. 69 00:04:07.440 --> 00:04:12.960 They can take hardened skin from an animal and they work on it and work on it and work 70 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:19.160 on it with oils and lotions and movements and they start to turn it into, does he even 71 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:21.200 know what a shami is? 72 00:04:21.200 --> 00:04:26.960 Can make it as soft and pliable as a shami, what's going on? 73 00:04:26.960 --> 00:04:29.600 That's exactly what God does with the human heart. 74 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:35.520 I came, you come to God with a hardened heart, we've got pain, we've got walls built up, 75 00:04:35.520 --> 00:04:40.320 people have hurt us, people are bad, that's bad, this is bad, and all this stuff, we bring 76 00:04:40.320 --> 00:04:47.280 all of our scars right there and God says, okay, let me in and we go, are you kidding me? 77 00:04:47.280 --> 00:04:50.520 But we opened the door just enough for him to start going to work and he puts a little 78 00:04:50.520 --> 00:04:56.720 bit of oil, he begins to massage and to work in his word. 79 00:04:56.720 --> 00:05:03.000 He begins to go to work and your mind begins to get cleared up, the fog begins to lift, 80 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:09.640 your desires start changing, absolutely amazing, the life-giving spirit of the Holy Spirit. 81 00:05:09.640 --> 00:05:15.600 He says in Romans 5, verse 21, sin, rain, and death, even so grace might rain through 82 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:19.920 righteousness, to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 83 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:23.680 It's his righteousness friend, not yours. 84 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:27.120 Do you want that? Is that sound appealing to you? 85 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:29.680 He's the active Holy Spirit. 86 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:33.960 He is the active Holy Spirit, John 17, 23. 87 00:05:33.960 --> 00:05:38.480 The Bible says Jesus is speaking, listen to this, he's talking to his father, it's a prayer, 88 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:43.920 it's known as the high priestly prayer of Christ Jesus, he's speaking to his father and 89 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:56.360 he says, listen, I am them, the them is you and you and me, that they may be perfect 90 00:05:56.360 --> 00:06:02.600 or made perfect or complete in one and that the world may know that you have sent me and 91 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:08.040 I have loved them, think of all of you right here and I have loved them as you have loved 92 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:19.040 me, Jesus says, man, you want to talk about just love and active and possessive and the 93 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:26.360 spirit of God working, he makes the announcement that he's the active God of loving us, it's 94 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:27.680 remarkable. 95 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:32.000 We also know from Galatians 2.20, he's the sanctifying Holy Spirit. 96 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:35.960 The Bible says, regarding our lives, I've been crucified with Christ, not only as Christ 97 00:06:35.960 --> 00:06:41.400 in me by the Holy Spirit, but the Bible says that I, my life, Jack's old world, has been 98 00:06:41.400 --> 00:06:46.960 crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me, please, are 99 00:06:46.960 --> 00:06:47.960 you guys awake? 100 00:06:47.960 --> 00:06:52.520 That's exactly what I'm talking about, I may offend somebody, listen, listen, just to 101 00:06:52.520 --> 00:06:57.360 be an, I'll equally offend everybody right now just to get this point across. 102 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:04.160 When he says I've been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives 103 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:11.640 in me in the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who 104 00:07:11.640 --> 00:07:15.320 loved me and gave Himself for me. 105 00:07:15.320 --> 00:07:17.160 Did you hear me stress that? 106 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:20.760 Why is that important? 107 00:07:20.760 --> 00:07:28.800 Because you coming to this church does nothing to get you into heaven. 108 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:33.320 Do you be an allutheran, a Catholic, a Methodist, assembly of God? 109 00:07:33.320 --> 00:07:34.320 What flavor are you? 110 00:07:34.320 --> 00:07:36.920 There's 31 of them, which one is it? 111 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:39.320 Doesn't matter. 112 00:07:39.320 --> 00:07:40.640 Are you in Christ? 113 00:07:40.640 --> 00:07:42.120 Does He dwell in you? 114 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:43.320 Is He the Son of God? 115 00:07:43.320 --> 00:07:45.960 Did He give Himself for you? 116 00:07:45.960 --> 00:07:48.880 These are things that we must answer. 117 00:07:48.880 --> 00:07:52.160 I know you may not like me after this message, I don't really care, I need to say this 118 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:53.160 to you. 119 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:57.600 You know that if you were to die today, that Christ would invite you or open his arms 120 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:03.240 wide and embrace you into the presence of his heaven. 121 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:04.240 You need to know that. 122 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:06.960 You must know that, Christian, you are to know that. 123 00:08:06.960 --> 00:08:10.840 He's the sanctifying Holy Spirit, next he's the working Holy Spirit. 124 00:08:10.840 --> 00:08:12.320 This is amazing to me. 125 00:08:12.320 --> 00:08:13.640 He never stops working. 126 00:08:13.640 --> 00:08:21.200 He's amazing, Jesus was here and He sent it back to heaven, then He sent the Holy Spirit. 127 00:08:21.200 --> 00:08:25.160 Holy Spirit has been working here for the last 2,000 years. 128 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:30.600 That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, that you, Ephesians 3, 17, sorry, that 129 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:34.720 Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, that you being rooted and grounded and love 130 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:40.360 may be able to comprehend with all of the saints what is the width, the length, the depth, 131 00:08:40.360 --> 00:08:45.760 the height to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge that you may be filled with 132 00:08:45.760 --> 00:08:48.600 all the fullness of God. 133 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:52.280 That's the work of the Holy Spirit in your life. 134 00:08:52.280 --> 00:08:58.880 Next, he is the securing spirit, securing by that I mean just protecting you, wrapping 135 00:08:58.880 --> 00:09:01.080 you up, keeping you safe. 136 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:07.360 Philippians 1, 23, Paul says, for I am heart pressed, listen to this, I'm heart pressed, 137 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:11.880 I'm being squeezed on every side between the two. 138 00:09:11.880 --> 00:09:12.880 What is it Paul? 139 00:09:12.880 --> 00:09:14.160 What's crushing you? 140 00:09:14.160 --> 00:09:20.120 He's saying this reality, I have a desire to depart and be with Christ. 141 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:21.440 Was He sick? 142 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:23.960 No. 143 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:25.480 Was He chained up with what? 144 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:29.760 Listen, this is Paul's life, His target. 145 00:09:29.760 --> 00:09:32.960 His target was to be with Jesus. 146 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:37.800 And He says, by the way, which is far better, He didn't mean to insult them, the Philippians. 147 00:09:37.800 --> 00:09:43.480 He's saying, hey you guys, look, I long to go be with Jesus like right now. 148 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:47.360 There's a deal, God wants me to stick around to help you guys grow. 149 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:48.360 Will you hurry up? 150 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:49.880 No, I added that part. 151 00:09:49.880 --> 00:09:53.560 But if I were Paul, I would have said, can you guys like step it up a little bit so I 152 00:09:53.560 --> 00:09:54.560 can get out of here? 153 00:09:54.560 --> 00:09:55.560 Can you imagine? 154 00:09:55.560 --> 00:09:56.560 It's amazing. 155 00:09:56.560 --> 00:09:57.560 See, really? 156 00:09:57.560 --> 00:09:59.360 Jack, isn't that kind of morbid? 157 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:07.240 Well, it all depends on what spirits in you. 158 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:15.600 Look, I told you before, Paul, he was the greatest known convert to Christianity the world 159 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:17.200 has ever seen. 160 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:20.400 Probably ever we'll see. 161 00:10:20.400 --> 00:10:23.400 He says, to live as Christ. 162 00:10:23.400 --> 00:10:26.240 All right, so okay. 163 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:27.480 So you want to live for Christ, huh? 164 00:10:27.480 --> 00:10:28.480 That's right. 165 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:31.160 Well, then we're going to kill you. 166 00:10:31.160 --> 00:10:33.720 Well, to die is game. 167 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:34.720 So wait a minute. 168 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:40.000 You say, I said to live as Christ and to die as game. 169 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:44.000 So wait a minute, if we kill you, you're happy about that because you're going to go see 170 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:45.000 Jesus. 171 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:46.000 That's right. 172 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:48.960 Well, we don't like you. 173 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:52.720 So we're not going to kill you. 174 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:54.880 To live as Christ. 175 00:10:54.880 --> 00:10:56.400 Which is it? 176 00:10:56.400 --> 00:11:00.240 To live as Christ, to die as game. 177 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:06.800 Understand, if your target is heaven and the spirit of God dwells in you, no professor, 178 00:11:06.800 --> 00:11:11.360 no teacher, nothing, no cultist is going to sway you. 179 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:14.280 It's impossible. 180 00:11:14.280 --> 00:11:16.200 It's impossible. 181 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:19.520 God, listen, God is not swayed by the ages. 182 00:11:19.520 --> 00:11:23.800 The same convictions the martyrs had to die for their faith. 183 00:11:23.800 --> 00:11:27.040 Those truths are still available to us today in the Word of God. 184 00:11:27.040 --> 00:11:28.800 The Holy Spirit is still alive. 185 00:11:28.800 --> 00:11:30.880 He's still in dwells his people. 186 00:11:30.880 --> 00:11:34.600 Then listen, that fact is this. 187 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:38.400 To live as Christ, to die as game. 188 00:11:38.400 --> 00:11:39.400 We leave this world. 189 00:11:39.400 --> 00:11:41.520 We go to his arms. 190 00:11:41.520 --> 00:11:43.080 That's not bad, ladies and gentlemen. 191 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:46.520 That's quite awesome. 192 00:11:46.520 --> 00:11:50.240 Remarkable. 193 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:57.800 The Bible tells us that he is the gracious Holy Spirit, Colossians chapter 2, verse 13. 194 00:11:57.800 --> 00:12:02.800 You being dead in your trespasses and the unsecretion of your flesh, he has made alive 195 00:12:02.800 --> 00:12:04.400 together with him. 196 00:12:04.400 --> 00:12:06.640 This is that quickening I told you about. 197 00:12:06.640 --> 00:12:11.200 Having forgiven you all of your trespasses and having wiped out all the handwriting of 198 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:18.000 requirements, that is the list of sins that you thought and or have done that was against 199 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:19.000 us. 200 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:20.000 God knows. 201 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:21.000 Is that amazing? 202 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:23.400 Well look what God did with that list. 203 00:12:23.400 --> 00:12:28.840 That list which was contrary to us and he has taken it out of the way, having nailed 204 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:31.360 it to the cross. 205 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:32.360 Wow. 206 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:33.560 That's awesome. 207 00:12:33.560 --> 00:12:35.120 Jesus died in our place. 208 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:38.360 Took away our curse that was upon us. 209 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:39.520 I'll speed this up. 210 00:12:39.520 --> 00:12:41.640 He's the overwhelming Holy Spirit. 211 00:12:41.640 --> 00:12:43.240 Overwhelming. 212 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:48.040 John chapter 4, verse 14, Jesus said, whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will 213 00:12:48.040 --> 00:12:49.600 never thirst. 214 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:51.600 That's quite a statement, isn't it? 215 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:52.600 You drink the water I give. 216 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:56.320 You'll never be thirsty. 217 00:12:56.320 --> 00:12:57.920 Really. 218 00:12:57.920 --> 00:13:05.760 But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into 219 00:13:05.760 --> 00:13:10.360 everlasting life. 220 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:15.840 This is not of this earth friends. 221 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:18.880 These next two passages don't miss them. 222 00:13:18.880 --> 00:13:20.600 In fact, write this down. 223 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:24.840 He's the satisfying Holy Spirit and I want to ask you, I want to set you up for this. 224 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:29.320 Do you know when, have you ever thought about, what was the first time, if you have to 225 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:35.600 be born again to enter the kingdom of heaven, which Jesus said you do, then when was the first 226 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:38.560 account of people being born again in the Bible? 227 00:13:38.560 --> 00:13:40.560 That's a good question. 228 00:13:40.560 --> 00:13:43.720 I'm going to show you where. 229 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:50.440 John chapter 7, we'll start with this, John 7, verse 37, watch this. 230 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:55.320 Now in the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out saying, if anyone 231 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:58.040 thirst, let him come to me and drink. 232 00:13:58.040 --> 00:14:02.520 He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of 233 00:14:02.520 --> 00:14:03.520 living water. 234 00:14:03.520 --> 00:14:06.680 He's quoting the Old Testament. 235 00:14:06.680 --> 00:14:13.680 But this he spoke concerning the Holy Spirit, whom those believing in him, futuristic 236 00:14:14.680 --> 00:14:20.680 would receive for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. 237 00:14:20.680 --> 00:14:24.400 Glorified means he was not yet crucified and resurrected from the dead. 238 00:14:24.400 --> 00:14:25.520 You got that, everybody? 239 00:14:25.520 --> 00:14:26.520 We're almost done. 240 00:14:26.520 --> 00:14:27.520 You got that? 241 00:14:27.520 --> 00:14:29.000 Next passage is the answer. 242 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:34.120 When was the first person or congregation to ever be born again? 243 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:35.360 You're going to know the answer. 244 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:42.600 John chapter 20, begin in verse 19, Jesus now is resurrected from the dead. 245 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:45.120 Watch what happens. 246 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:47.200 It's kind of funny, actually. 247 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:55.440 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, that Sunday, when the doors 248 00:14:55.440 --> 00:15:00.920 were shut, where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood 249 00:15:00.920 --> 00:15:01.920 in the midst of them. 250 00:15:01.920 --> 00:15:04.480 The word is Jesus suddenly appeared. 251 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:06.800 He didn't go through the doors, what it means. 252 00:15:06.800 --> 00:15:07.800 Can you imagine? 253 00:15:08.440 --> 00:15:10.360 Thomas, you scared him, I'm scared. 254 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:13.520 Peter, I'm really scared. 255 00:15:13.520 --> 00:15:15.560 James, James, and James, you scared? 256 00:15:15.560 --> 00:15:17.240 We're super scared. 257 00:15:17.240 --> 00:15:18.960 Matthew, you're pretty terrified, aren't you? 258 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:21.040 We're just terrified. 259 00:15:21.040 --> 00:15:27.400 And then all of a sudden, and look, well, he asked, look what he says. 260 00:15:27.400 --> 00:15:30.520 He says, peace be with you. 261 00:15:30.520 --> 00:15:33.880 Don't freak. 262 00:15:33.880 --> 00:15:35.640 Peace be with you. 263 00:15:35.680 --> 00:15:40.240 And when he had said this, he showed them his hands in his side. 264 00:15:40.240 --> 00:15:41.520 Look, you guys, it's me. 265 00:15:41.520 --> 00:15:44.720 Because you know, they would have thought, being good Jews, they would have thought. 266 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:46.640 This is a spirit. 267 00:15:46.640 --> 00:15:47.800 That's what they would have thought. 268 00:15:47.800 --> 00:15:48.920 This is a ghost. 269 00:15:48.920 --> 00:15:50.080 This is a manifestation. 270 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:51.240 Jesus is here. 271 00:15:51.240 --> 00:15:52.320 Look at my hands. 272 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:53.720 What's in his hands? 273 00:15:53.720 --> 00:15:55.560 Holes. 274 00:15:55.560 --> 00:15:57.000 Open up his robe. 275 00:15:57.000 --> 00:15:59.200 What's over here on the right side? 276 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:01.640 Hole. 277 00:16:01.640 --> 00:16:03.840 Wow. 278 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:07.360 And then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. 279 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:08.840 So Jesus, here it comes. 280 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:11.520 So Jesus said to them again, peace to you. 281 00:16:11.520 --> 00:16:14.600 As the Father has sent me, I also send you. 282 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:19.920 And when he had said this, here you go, remember, he breathed on them and said to them, received 283 00:16:19.920 --> 00:16:21.480 the Holy Spirit. 284 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:24.640 And this received the Holy Spirit is not the coming upon. 285 00:16:24.640 --> 00:16:30.080 That's the Greek word, epi, epi, it means to come upon for service. 286 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:34.560 God, the Holy Spirit comes upon Christians who are going to go do something for God. 287 00:16:34.560 --> 00:16:37.520 He does it by his power, not by their power. 288 00:16:37.520 --> 00:16:38.520 This is not that word. 289 00:16:38.520 --> 00:16:40.720 This is the word EN. 290 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:41.720 The spirit of God. 291 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:45.480 When he breathed on them, the spirit of God moved inside of them in that moment. 292 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:49.400 And let me tell you what I'm happy about what it doesn't say. 293 00:16:49.400 --> 00:16:54.160 It doesn't say, and Matthew got goosebumps all over his body. 294 00:16:54.160 --> 00:16:56.320 It doesn't say that. 295 00:16:56.320 --> 00:16:57.320 It's not recorded. 296 00:16:57.320 --> 00:16:58.320 Do you feel that? 297 00:16:58.320 --> 00:16:59.320 Oh my gosh. 298 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:01.560 Well, are you feeling this? 299 00:17:01.560 --> 00:17:03.200 None of it's recorded. 300 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:04.640 I believe that's deliberate. 301 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:05.640 Why? 302 00:17:05.640 --> 00:17:09.040 Because that's irrelevant. 303 00:17:09.040 --> 00:17:11.880 The Holy Spirit moved inside. 304 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:15.760 They became born again in that second. 305 00:17:15.760 --> 00:17:18.880 The spirit had moved in and began to go to work. 306 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:19.880 And then we end here. 307 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:23.520 What does he go to work doing, purifying us? 308 00:17:23.520 --> 00:17:26.520 So listen, if you're non-Christian today, and Christians have brought you, 309 00:17:26.560 --> 00:17:30.320 I'm on your side right now, buddy. 310 00:17:30.320 --> 00:17:32.440 The Holy Spirit at work in the life of the believer. 311 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:36.560 Listen, none of us will be perfect, but we're not the people we used to be. 312 00:17:36.560 --> 00:17:40.160 And by the way, that hasn't come about because we're getting older, 313 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:43.320 or because we've been conditioned. 314 00:17:43.320 --> 00:17:49.560 Listen, we're not the same people we used to be because the Holy Spirit's been working. 315 00:17:49.560 --> 00:17:50.560 Now, we're not listening. 316 00:17:50.560 --> 00:17:52.200 We still mess up. 317 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:56.080 But if we're really walking in the spirit, you're going to be the first one to know, 318 00:17:56.080 --> 00:18:01.000 because we're going to turn to you and say, listen, Louis, I'm thinking Louis, 319 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:04.320 Lucifer, Louis, your friend. 320 00:18:04.320 --> 00:18:09.440 Listen, Louis, what I just did, that's not, Christians don't do that. 321 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:11.200 That was wrong of me. 322 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:13.440 That did not represent Jesus Christ. 323 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:14.800 That was a bad attitude. 324 00:18:14.800 --> 00:18:18.040 I've asked him to forgive me, and I'm asking you to forgive me. 325 00:18:18.040 --> 00:18:24.280 Don't judge Jesus based upon what I just did, because that was wrong. 326 00:18:24.280 --> 00:18:27.080 Okay? 327 00:18:27.080 --> 00:18:32.640 So unbelieving friend, you can always hold your Christian friends accountable to that one. 328 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:37.120 That pastor said that they have the Spirit of God speaking to you, you're going to say, 329 00:18:37.120 --> 00:18:39.960 you're sorry. 330 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:40.960 Well, that's true. 331 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:41.960 Why? 332 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:49.240 Because the Spirit of God's purifying us is cleaning up our thoughts, thoughts, did you hear 333 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:50.240 me? 334 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:56.720 And I like you, I'm concerned. 335 00:18:56.720 --> 00:19:01.160 The Bible says that before Christ comes back, people, their lives will be like the days 336 00:19:01.160 --> 00:19:07.480 of Sodom, like the days of Gomorrah, and he says it also be like the days of Noah. 337 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:10.120 Do you know what characterized the days of Noah? 338 00:19:10.120 --> 00:19:15.560 God said that every thought of every man's imagination was wicked constantly. 339 00:19:15.560 --> 00:19:19.800 Does that not sound like our day? 340 00:19:19.800 --> 00:19:21.160 But you know what? 341 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:28.760 We were all in that direction, in that point, in one place, and he's been changing us by 342 00:19:28.760 --> 00:19:29.760 his power. 343 00:19:29.760 --> 00:19:31.880 That's not reformation. 344 00:19:31.880 --> 00:19:40.120 You can have reformation, it doesn't work, I want transformation. 345 00:19:40.120 --> 00:19:44.400 This Jack Kibb's podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, are 346 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:46.040 listening or supporting. 347 00:19:46.040 --> 00:19:49.600 Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 348 00:19:49.600 --> 00:19:54.240 Go to jackhibb's.com to learn more and stay connected.