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 --> 00:00:10.960 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. You and I without Jesus you know 3 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:15.360 why life is so brutal and you're so tired? And carrying a dead man around all 4 00:00:15.360 --> 00:00:22.720 these years. You and you're trying to prop yourself up, parties, drugs, fun, 5 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:30.880 money, whatever, I don't know, it doesn't matter. The response to emptiness is endless, 6 00:00:30.880 --> 00:00:31.920 why aren't you tired? 7 00:00:35.760 --> 00:00:41.680 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 8 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:48.160 Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 9 00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:53.360 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's like saying, 10 00:00:53.360 --> 00:00:59.520 amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to what 11 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:05.920 God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. Paul is speaking to the Greeks at Corinth 12 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:10.880 and he says, do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? 13 00:01:11.520 --> 00:01:19.840 He says there is a lot of people who are not going to go to heaven. They're called the unrighteous. 14 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:26.640 They're not going to make it. So don't be deceived. No fornicators, who the fornicator is? 15 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:32.160 A fornicator is a person who's not married, who is having sex with somebody who's not married 16 00:01:32.160 --> 00:01:36.240 or they're having sex with someone that is married, which makes them both the fornicator and 17 00:01:36.240 --> 00:01:42.320 an adulter. When two married people are committed adultery, it is adultery. Funny enough, 18 00:01:42.320 --> 00:01:47.360 it's not fornication, it is pure adultery. But when someone is single having sex with somebody 19 00:01:47.360 --> 00:01:52.240 that they're not married to, it is called fornication. That word fornication is the Greek word 20 00:01:52.240 --> 00:01:58.160 fornia. Recognize that word? It's the root word to our word pornography. 21 00:01:58.800 --> 00:02:09.920 Idolaters, idol worshipers, simply put pleasure seekers. Next adulterers. 22 00:02:11.920 --> 00:02:24.640 Next homosexuals. Next sotomites. Next thieves. Covetousness. Drunkers. Revilers. 23 00:02:24.640 --> 00:02:31.760 Man, all that describes our era. But now, revilers, you can catch on the evening news almost 24 00:02:31.760 --> 00:02:41.680 constantly now. Extortioners. People use in other people to get rich. They'll destroy other people's 25 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:51.200 lives and walk away with their wealth and they can go to sleep at night. Wow. They will not 26 00:02:51.200 --> 00:02:58.000 inherit the kingdom of God. They're not going. But thank God for verse 11 because I don't know 27 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:05.360 about you. But I could point to several of those things over there and say that was Jack in 1977. 28 00:03:06.160 --> 00:03:17.840 Can you? Has your life changed? Rephrase. Did he change your life? 29 00:03:22.160 --> 00:03:31.520 Verse 11 is pure joy and liberty and such were some of you. But you were washed but you were 30 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:37.360 sanctified but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God and 31 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:43.440 all God's people said amen to that. If you look at that and say I can't believe I heard that. 32 00:03:43.440 --> 00:03:49.440 I'm never coming back here again. You are nothing more than someone who is stumbling over the truth 33 00:03:49.440 --> 00:03:56.240 like Israel did 2,000 years ago when Jesus presented himself as Messiah. Your arrogance and 34 00:03:56.240 --> 00:04:02.160 your self-righteousness and your passion to justify yourself is causing you to miss the truth. 35 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:12.000 And that is a fatal decision. No one's pointing at you here right now. God loves you and he's telling 36 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:17.920 you the truth and he wants you to have a new life and you'll either say this watch, you'll 37 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:24.720 either say I'm going to reform myself by taking a morality course and a lifestyle change 38 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:35.360 which will never work or you're going to say I can't change. I see what's true. I'm going to come 39 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:43.600 to him and fool surrender because I can't do this. And that's when he moves in to stumble over 40 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:50.240 his offer is to say I don't need this and I don't need him. It's my life and he's going to have to 41 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:58.720 deal with it. My friend you are stumbling over a Christ. Don't do that. 42 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:07.360 We see this in the third argument of this verse is that what do you know for sure? It says 43 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:12.320 there in scripture even the righteousness of faith. How in the world is this possible? By faith you 44 00:05:12.320 --> 00:05:18.160 can know that you're righteous? Yes. I know. Look, I understand. People get upset when you 45 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:23.040 when you claim to know something for sure. You know we live in a world it's it's illogic. 46 00:05:24.320 --> 00:05:29.280 When you when you say I don't need Jesus I'm good enough. You understand that you wake up to the 47 00:05:29.280 --> 00:05:36.080 pursuit. I'm going to do this on my own. You can't because you start tainted the moment you get 48 00:05:36.080 --> 00:05:43.280 into the blocks to run. You're every shoes on. I'm going to start running from now on really really 49 00:05:43.280 --> 00:05:50.000 good. Impossible you showed up really really bad but I got the uniform. It doesn't matter. Are you 50 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:57.360 hearing me? That's us. That's humanity. And when you hear this you either stumble over it and die. 51 00:05:57.440 --> 00:06:04.880 Are you fall upon this truth and you say Lord have mercy upon me? 52 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:12.640 And he changes your life. We've all heard of Saul of Tarsus. 53 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:20.480 You know him as Paul the Apostle. Greatest convert to Christianity to date. 54 00:06:21.280 --> 00:06:32.800 Look at Philippians chapter three. Philippians three. Listen to him talk to us about morality versus faith 55 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:39.120 in Christ. Though I also might have confidence in the flesh because people were bragging about how 56 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:45.920 great they were. Paul says all right let's just do this. I might have confidence in the flesh. 57 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:53.280 If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh I morsel. He's rolling up his sleeves. 58 00:06:53.280 --> 00:06:58.000 You want a piece of me? He's rolling up his sleeves and he's saying you want to talk about 59 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:04.880 righteousness according to human effort? I'll take you on. 60 00:07:07.280 --> 00:07:13.280 If anyone thinks he may have confidence in the flesh I morsel circumcise the eighth day. 61 00:07:13.280 --> 00:07:17.280 That was prescribed by Moses. Did you know that from God? Circumcise the eighth day. 62 00:07:17.280 --> 00:07:21.200 Right now Paul would say all right let's start here. What day were you circumcised on? 63 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:26.400 Oh man my parents they had a donkey layover. The camel broke down. 64 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:36.240 I got circumcised on the 10th day or the 9th day. I almost got circumcised on the 8th day. Paul says 65 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:52.240 you miss of the stock of Israel. I know my pedigree. Wow of the tribe of Benjamin. I'm right in 66 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:59.440 line. That's where all the big wheels came out of. A Hebrew of the Hebrews. 67 00:07:59.760 --> 00:08:07.920 Concerning the law of Pharisee. Concerning zeal. Persecuting the church. I killed people. 68 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:14.000 I killed people who said there were Christians. I hunted them down and I even got so elevated I 69 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:20.640 oversaw the killing of other Christians. That's how zealous I was for the truth. We're going to 70 00:08:20.640 --> 00:08:26.160 eradicate the world from these crazy Christians who follow this Christ man. Did you know that name 71 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:30.960 better remember Stephen getting stoned to death? Who was the boss of the stoning? You're looking 72 00:08:30.960 --> 00:08:41.360 at him. He hated Jesus. Concerning righteousness which is in the law. Blameless. But what things were 73 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:48.160 gained to me? These I've counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things lost for the 74 00:08:48.160 --> 00:08:53.440 excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus. My Lord for whom I've suffered the loss of all things 75 00:08:53.440 --> 00:09:01.680 and count them as rubbish that I may gain Christ and be found in Him. Not having my own righteousness 76 00:09:01.680 --> 00:09:07.120 which is from the law which is impossible. But that which is through faith in Christ the righteousness 77 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:17.920 which is from God by faith. By faith. Israel had the truth but they desired they changed it. It 78 00:09:17.920 --> 00:09:23.760 was always by faith but the Jewish leadership said we're going to pursue it by works of righteousness 79 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:32.880 and legalism was appealing to them. It's brutal and it will slay you spiritually. 80 00:09:34.640 --> 00:09:41.120 Second thing is this. What do you say about the gospel versus 31 to 32? What do you say about it? 81 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:45.760 Very quickly this won't take long versus 31 to 32. Can you recognize it? 82 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:57.520 Repent and believe. Believe. Simply put put all your weight on Jesus. See right now without Jesus 83 00:09:57.520 --> 00:10:02.800 you're carrying your own weight. Listen according to the scriptures you and I are spiritually dead. 84 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:09.520 You know how hard it is to carry a dead man? How is it that somebody who weighs 200 pounds living 85 00:10:09.520 --> 00:10:18.480 feels like they weigh 350 pounds when they're dead? Isn't that where their weight doesn't change? 86 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:26.320 You and I without Jesus you know why life is so brutal and you're so tired? You've been carrying 87 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:34.480 a dead man around all these years. You and you're trying to prop yourself up. Hardies, drugs, 88 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:43.120 fun, money, whatever. I don't know. It doesn't matter. The response to emptiness is endless but 89 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:48.400 aren't you tired? Now see young people today. Young people go oh man let me know and I'm just 90 00:10:48.400 --> 00:10:55.280 getting started on that whole thing. Oh can we spare you some grief? We could actually save your 91 00:10:55.280 --> 00:11:03.680 life if you listen. Nothing in this world has given you and I. We're taken into heaven. Nothing. 92 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:10.720 Well Pastor I just won the lottery. I just won 500 million dollars and what are you going to do with it? 93 00:11:11.680 --> 00:11:15.360 Are you going to wind up like 75.6% of the people who win lottery? 94 00:11:17.520 --> 00:11:25.760 Broke in 10 years. On drugs divorced. Completely messed up. Why? Because it's not the answer. 95 00:11:26.800 --> 00:11:32.880 He's the answer. That money's not going to hold you. That money's not going to cuddle you and 96 00:11:32.880 --> 00:11:39.680 call you and give you peace in the midst of a storm but Jesus will. Jesus does. That's what the 97 00:11:39.680 --> 00:11:50.080 gospel does. Recognize that. Secondly will you respond to it? And Romans 9 verse 32 the Bible says 98 00:11:50.640 --> 00:12:02.080 why? Why? Because they did not seek it by faith as it were but the works of the law that they 99 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:09.920 stumbled at the stumbling stone. The answer to what he's saying is in verse 31 when it says 100 00:12:09.920 --> 00:12:14.560 but Israel pursuing the law of righteousness has not attained to the law of righteousness. Then 101 00:12:14.640 --> 00:12:21.840 when he says why at the verse 32 it's because they pursued righteousness by trying to keep the law 102 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:27.040 and not by faith. In other words to pursue it by faith is to lean on Jesus' righteousness. 103 00:12:28.560 --> 00:12:30.560 To do it by works is to lean on your own. 104 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:41.840 And so will you respond to this gospel of his? Now this gets fun to me. I love. 105 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:49.760 Here we are reading the New Testament but I just love how this church goes. People will often say 106 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:56.720 when they come here is I just I get so much Old Testament with the New Testament. Well there is 107 00:12:56.720 --> 00:13:04.080 no other Testament. It's the Old and the New. There's not another. There's not a third. 108 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:14.240 The Old is what announces is coming and the New records what has come and what has come is 109 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:21.280 exactly what the Old said would. No contradiction. Beautiful harmony. You guys ready? We're almost done. 110 00:13:21.280 --> 00:13:30.400 You ready? All five of you are ready? So watch this. Almost 3,000 years ago. Isaiah 28 verse 16. 111 00:13:30.400 --> 00:13:39.840 Therefore thus says the Lord God. Behold, I lay in what? Zion. God says I lay in Zion a stone for 112 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:45.760 a foundation, a trite stone which means it's been tested proven and found to be true. A precious 113 00:13:45.760 --> 00:13:53.120 cornerstone is sure foundation. Whoever believes will not act hastily or the word is will not be 114 00:13:53.120 --> 00:14:03.280 anxious. Isn't that amazing verse? Almost 3,000 years old. God is saying I am going to establish. 115 00:14:03.280 --> 00:14:11.680 This is a prophetic verse. Hey, how about this? It's not been fulfilled yet. It started with Jesus 116 00:14:11.680 --> 00:14:18.480 first coming. Where's Jesus returning to? Jerusalem. Where's the throne of David? 117 00:14:19.280 --> 00:14:25.360 Jerusalem. Powerful. You guys might remember when there was a warrant as it were out for the 118 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:30.000 arrest of the apostles because Jesus had ascended back to heaven. Holy Spirit came down to the 119 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:33.760 day of Pentecost. They were filled with the power of God and they're out preaching the gospel and 120 00:14:33.760 --> 00:14:37.760 they're really shaking it up. They're preaching the gospel. Thousands of people are getting saved. 121 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:44.960 Eyes of the blind are opening up. I mean, they're doing that. They're doing it. Look at Acts chapter 4. 122 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:53.840 Acts chapter 4. Now as they spoke to the people, so this is think of the apostles. They're all in 123 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:58.720 trouble. They're all in trouble for being just like Jesus. That's what they're in trouble for. 124 00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:04.160 Now as they spoke to the people, the priest and the captain of the temple and the sadducees 125 00:15:04.160 --> 00:15:10.800 came upon them, being greatly disturbed that they had taught the people and preached in Jesus the 126 00:15:10.800 --> 00:15:17.600 resurrection from the dead. Hey, you can't say that. You imagine. Jesus Christ, he rose again 127 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:24.240 from the dead and he'll raise you from the dead too. Don't say that. Why would we not say that? 128 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:29.680 Because we don't want you to say it. We know his tomb's empty. We know he's gone. But don't say it. 129 00:15:30.400 --> 00:15:39.040 But this is one religious group beaten up on people who had experienced the personal risen 130 00:15:39.040 --> 00:15:47.440 savior. You remember that now. This doesn't meet our stand. We have a tradition. 131 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:56.160 Whatever. We're going to follow Jesus. And they laid hands, verse 3, and they laid hands on them 132 00:15:56.160 --> 00:16:01.840 and put them in custody until the next day for it was already evening. However, many of those who 133 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:10.640 heard the word believed and the number of the men, this is male men, men, males, not male men, but 134 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:18.880 that's not mankind, mankind. It's males. This doesn't include women and children. 135 00:16:19.680 --> 00:16:25.600 And the number of the men came to be about 5,000. Can you imagine? One sermon and you have a 136 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:34.080 mega church. And it came to pass on the next day that their rulers and elders and scribes, 137 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:40.320 all of the religious hierarchy, as it was well as the High Priest and Caiaphas, John and Alexander, 138 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:44.960 and as many as were of the family of the High Priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem 139 00:16:45.040 --> 00:16:52.080 and when they had set them in the midst, they asked, by what power or by what name have you done this? 140 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:59.360 You know what they did? They had prayed for a man and the man got his legs back power and to walk 141 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:12.080 again. Only legalism would be upset at that. Hey, we're not in on that. How dare you give somebody 142 00:17:12.080 --> 00:17:20.160 the ability to use their legs again? You should have checked with us first. Is that funny or what? 143 00:17:22.320 --> 00:17:27.440 And so, verse 7, and when they had set them in the midst, they asked by what power and by what name, 144 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:34.640 then Peter, verse 8, filled with the Holy Spirit. The old Peter has gone now. He's a new one. 145 00:17:35.600 --> 00:17:43.120 Said to them, rulers of the people and elders of Israel, if we this day are judged for a good deed, 146 00:17:44.080 --> 00:17:51.760 done to a helpless man by what means he has been made well, let it be known to you all and to all 147 00:17:51.760 --> 00:17:57.200 the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, you can 148 00:17:57.200 --> 00:18:05.440 see him insert that. Who you crucified? Who got raised from the dead? By him, this man stands here 149 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:14.080 before you whole. Notice what the Holy Spirit, this is awesome. Just act like you're impressed by 150 00:18:14.080 --> 00:18:25.280 this. When the Holy Spirit, not yet, timing, everything. Peter, who's just like you and I, the 151 00:18:25.280 --> 00:18:29.600 difference, right? The difference in Peter's life is now he's full of the Holy Spirit. So, 152 00:18:29.600 --> 00:18:35.280 what does that mean? It means the Holy Spirit is speaking Bible right out of his mouth. Are you 153 00:18:35.280 --> 00:18:41.120 watching this? Watch what happens. Peter's mouth might be moving, but it's the Spirit of God just 154 00:18:41.120 --> 00:18:49.120 delivering the Word. Watch what happens. It's so cool. This is the stone which was rejected by you 155 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:55.040 builders, which has become the chief cornerstone. He's quoting Isaiah. Why? Because the Holy Spirit 156 00:18:55.040 --> 00:19:00.560 wrote Isaiah. Nor is there salvation to the other. For there's no other name under heaven, 157 00:19:00.560 --> 00:19:06.320 giving a wrong man whereby we must be saved. Now, when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, 158 00:19:06.320 --> 00:19:17.280 and perceived that they were uneducated, that they had gone to, I was going to say Yale, MIT, 159 00:19:17.280 --> 00:19:27.360 Harvard, UCLA, USC, and untrained men, they're Galileans, they marveled. I love this next part 160 00:19:27.360 --> 00:19:37.200 and they realized they had been with Jesus. How do these country bumpkins have this kind of power? 161 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:41.600 Oh, wait, they were friends of Jesus. Man, I hope that's said about us. 162 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:50.720 This Jack Hibbs podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, 163 00:19:50.720 --> 00:19:55.360 are listener supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 164 00:19:56.160 --> 00:20:00.800 Go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected. 165 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:06.320 This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. 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