WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.640 real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:17.760 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. The Bible defends itself. You can't 3 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:23.040 treat them like in the other book. If you're gonna defend Homer or if you're 4 00:00:23.040 --> 00:00:29.280 gonna defend Nick Beth or Romeo and Juliet, then you've got to study Shakespeare 5 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:33.240 and find out what's going on and what's the deal and what what what do that mean 6 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:38.440 and what was going on at that time. Listen, the Bible defends itself and what 7 00:00:38.440 --> 00:00:43.800 are we supposed to do? You and I are supposed to be armed with the Bible and let it 8 00:00:43.800 --> 00:00:46.800 out. 9 00:00:46.800 --> 00:00:53.680 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jack Kibs.com slash podcast. 10 00:00:53.680 --> 00:00:59.040 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 11 00:00:59.040 --> 00:01:03.880 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 12 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:09.440 that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 13 00:01:09.440 --> 00:01:15.880 Now, open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Kibs. 14 00:01:15.880 --> 00:01:20.440 I always find it amazing to me. You can read every religious writing of every 15 00:01:20.440 --> 00:01:26.240 religious founder out on care who they are. But the honesty of the Bible is unparalleled. 16 00:01:27.240 --> 00:01:31.560 People say, well, I just think a bunch of Jews wrote the Bible. You better think again. 17 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:35.640 Because if they did, first of all, they were prophetically perfect without error. So that 18 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:40.880 makes it non-human. So they couldn't have written it. But the second thing is, if they 19 00:01:40.880 --> 00:01:46.200 did write it, why would they throw themselves under the bus so constantly? Notice how honest 20 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:55.200 the... If man wrote the Bible, he sure throws himself under the bus? No, God wrote the Bible. 21 00:01:56.240 --> 00:02:02.720 It's remarkable. So what's the answer to this? Here's a good answer. Jeremiah 3.22, 22 00:02:02.720 --> 00:02:10.520 return you backsliding children. It's beautiful. Return you backsliding children. And I will 23 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:17.920 heal your backsliding. Indeed, you do come to me for you are the Lord, our God. Return to him. 24 00:02:17.920 --> 00:02:24.240 Come back to him. Maybe for some of you, you need to come to him for the first time. What about 25 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:32.240 Isaiah chapter 1 verse 18? God says, God says, come now and let us reason together. Says the Lord, 26 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:40.320 though your sins are like scarlet red. They shall be as white as snow, though they are red like 27 00:02:40.320 --> 00:02:47.920 crimson. They shall be as wool. You see the hope? The honesty is presented before us. The hope 28 00:02:47.920 --> 00:02:55.120 comes. God says, bring it to me. Bring yourself to me. And then finally, under this point, just when 29 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:00.800 you thought there was no hope, the answer is found in verse 10 that the Bible tells us where we 30 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:10.080 must start. As it is written, and this is amazing, Paul begins now this 14 case or 14 point indictment, 31 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:16.480 but watch this. This is the Holy Spirit using Paul to quote the Old Testament scriptures. 32 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:25.600 Number one, indictment here, there is none righteous, no, not one. The word righteous simply 33 00:03:25.600 --> 00:03:31.440 means there are none who do the right thing. Now watch everybody. You might say, Jack, I am so 34 00:03:31.440 --> 00:03:37.120 offended because I do good things every year. I feed the homeless. I walk the little lady from 35 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:43.280 Pasadena across the street. I make sure that there's a homeless thing. I understand. I hear that, 36 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:48.880 but that's not what he's talking about. He's announcing that whatever we do, whatever we do, 37 00:03:48.880 --> 00:03:58.160 it's tainted on the inside in the motive. We can all get together and go out and fix every problem 38 00:03:58.160 --> 00:04:07.760 in our community. And that's good. And so we should. You cannot equate that as righteousness before 39 00:04:07.760 --> 00:04:18.000 God because God looks on the inside. Why are you doing that? Well, butchered my friends invited me. 40 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:24.720 That's sweet, but it's unacceptable to God because those people are hungry. Listen, there's a lot 41 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:32.880 of ministry. There's a lot of paratured ministries that do a lot of work, but they never mention the 42 00:04:32.880 --> 00:04:37.440 name of Jesus to those who they do the ministering to. Look, I'm going to get in trouble for this, 43 00:04:37.440 --> 00:04:47.200 not from you, from others. But if there's a ministry that says, oh wow, I'm not going to say it, 44 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:54.640 there's a big one. Send your money. Send your money to us and we'll show them the love of God. 45 00:04:55.200 --> 00:05:00.080 The problem is they don't give them any Bibles. They never mentioned Jesus. 46 00:05:02.080 --> 00:05:08.640 They don't lead anybody to Christ. They feed them and guess what? In 24 hours or three days later, 47 00:05:08.640 --> 00:05:14.960 they're going to be hungry again, but they've never heard the bread of life. They've never heard 48 00:05:14.960 --> 00:05:22.000 the water of life. They haven't been given the thing that feeds the soul. When you feed someone's 49 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:30.400 body, you should at the same time feed them, feed the soul. Listen, when we give people, when you 50 00:05:30.400 --> 00:05:38.240 stop and give people food or whatever it might be, that's great, but it's not enough. 51 00:05:39.200 --> 00:05:45.840 Give them food and say, now listen, in fact, I think I really believe if you have the food in 52 00:05:45.840 --> 00:05:52.560 your hand, if you've got the jack in the box bag and you're going to say this and I want to give 53 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:58.720 you this to you, but you need to know something. Jesus Christ died for sinners. Are you a sinner, 54 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:07.520 young man? Yeah. Do you know why Jesus died in the cross? For me? Do you know what he did after 55 00:06:07.520 --> 00:06:16.560 he died? No. He rose again from the dead. You love your life? No. Do you want to get off the streets? 56 00:06:17.200 --> 00:06:26.320 Yes. Then listen, take this food. Here's this number you call and let's get your life going. 57 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:33.920 But just to hand, let's be honest, I'm just being honest, if we just have food in our trunk and we 58 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:40.800 just give them food and drive away and we even say, God bless you, we've done nothing. We've done 59 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:50.480 nothing. We have appeased their tummy for a moment, but their soul is still lost. If we do good works, 60 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:56.640 we need to also watch. Forget about the motive because we can never know what our own hearts 61 00:06:56.640 --> 00:07:02.320 are thinking. Are you hearing me? Yes. Well, Bethesda, I wasn't going to sign up for that ministry, 62 00:07:02.320 --> 00:07:08.000 but now you're causing me to reconsider because I don't know what my motives are. I understand the 63 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:13.920 frustration. Those of us who are seasoned believers, we already went through all of that. We wound up 64 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:19.440 waking up to the fact that we sat around forever while all the ministry was going on because we 65 00:07:19.440 --> 00:07:25.040 were afraid to offend God because our motive might not be right. Here's the correct way to do it. 66 00:07:25.760 --> 00:07:33.040 Lord, I heard about the need. I can feel that need. I love you, but never enough, but I love you, 67 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:39.600 and here's the deal. Jeremiah said, my heart's deceitfully wicked and I can't even know it. 68 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:46.560 So God, I hope my motive's right, but I'm going to do this and you go do it and you let him deal with 69 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:52.320 the motive in the day of judgment. But to sit, you never want to sit it out because Jesus said to the 70 00:07:52.320 --> 00:07:56.960 people who sit it out, when he comes back, he's going to say, why didn't you get involved? And 71 00:07:56.960 --> 00:08:02.240 they're going to say, because we knew that you were, you knew everything and you're terrifying. 72 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:07.120 So we buried it in the ground and we waited for you to come back. So we did nothing with our lives. 73 00:08:07.200 --> 00:08:11.600 And he said, you wicked servants, depart from me. 74 00:08:13.200 --> 00:08:17.760 Don't take your life, Christian, and bury it to play it safe. God hates that. 75 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:24.800 At least get up and give it your all and say, God, you purge my motives because I can't even 76 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:28.800 know my heart. Listen, I don't have this verse right now, but it'll come up in the future. Paul, 77 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:37.200 the apostle himself even said, I don't even judge my own heart. Paul says, I can't, I don't, 78 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:42.320 I don't even know it. I leave it to God. And that's a great way to live by the way. People 79 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:50.000 will judge you. And we live in a cage right now where that's really, that's all that people do. 80 00:08:51.040 --> 00:08:57.120 People just sit in their mom's basement with their pajamas on criticizing people. 81 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:05.760 Online, you know, on the computer. You know what Paul, the apostle said about that? He said, I 82 00:09:06.400 --> 00:09:13.280 don't care. He said, I don't care what people say. And he goes, in fact, I don't even care what I say 83 00:09:13.280 --> 00:09:19.280 about myself. He said, all I care about is what God cares about, what God thinks. And then a great 84 00:09:19.280 --> 00:09:28.480 way to live. Can you imagine? It's very liberating to live free. Verse 10 tells us that the Bible 85 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:36.560 tells us where to start. And so, as it is written, there is none righteous, none who do the correct 86 00:09:36.560 --> 00:09:42.800 thing, motive included. In March, chapter 2, verse 15, mark it down in your margins if you would 87 00:09:42.800 --> 00:09:50.000 of your Bible. March, chapter 2, verse 15 begins by saying, now it happened as Jesus was dining, 88 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:57.520 eating at Matthew Levi's house, that many text collectors and sinners who sat together with Jesus 89 00:09:57.520 --> 00:10:03.680 and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him. And when the scribes and the Pharisees, 90 00:10:03.680 --> 00:10:09.760 these are the professional religionists. Can I just say it for clarity? These are the pastors and the 91 00:10:09.760 --> 00:10:18.320 priests, saw Jesus eating with text collectors and sinners. You feel that already coming? 92 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:26.240 It already stinks. They said to his disciples, notice they didn't say it to him. 93 00:10:29.920 --> 00:10:38.800 See, they see Jesus sitting with these losers and they despise that. So instead of talking to 94 00:10:38.800 --> 00:10:48.800 Jesus, they talk to his disciples. I'm trying to find a word that I won't have to repent of. 95 00:10:51.680 --> 00:10:59.040 Think of it. Very few people have the integrity to go to someone and say, you know, 96 00:10:59.280 --> 00:11:11.280 this or that about you, they'll go to everyone else and they'll make it, they'll make their sin 10 97 00:11:11.280 --> 00:11:16.400 times worse than whatever sin they think you're guilty of because what they'll do is they'll say, 98 00:11:16.400 --> 00:11:22.080 you know, I don't want to gossip or anything, but can you pray for me? Because I need to go talk to 99 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:30.720 Bob and you see Bob, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, Bob. So please pray for me. Let me 100 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:35.760 tell you, it's a miracle. Honestly, that guy doesn't strike people dead at that moment. 101 00:11:37.040 --> 00:11:45.360 No, I'm serious. It is one of the most grotesque forms of sin because unit does. It takes the person 102 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:55.920 who's hearing this and changes forever their view of Bob and that blood is on your hands. 103 00:11:59.280 --> 00:12:05.920 Instead of just going to Bob, you don't have the guts to do that. So you'll gossip about it, 104 00:12:05.920 --> 00:12:11.760 you'll post about it or you'll tweet about it and then he has to find out or she has to find out 105 00:12:11.760 --> 00:12:21.120 through the grapevine and don't think for a moment that God will excuse that. Look what these 106 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:31.040 guys are doing. They go to the disciples and say, how is it that he eats and drinks with tax 107 00:12:31.040 --> 00:12:38.240 collectors and sinners? Why didn't they ask Jesus? They're so, what does the Bible say? God hates 108 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:48.320 those who so discord among the brethren. Oh, look at verse 17. I wish I could see this. 109 00:12:51.280 --> 00:12:59.520 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, goes like this, when Jesus heard it, he said to them, 110 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:11.440 those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick, I did not come to call the 111 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:24.480 righteous, but sinners to repentance. Only guy can answer this way. Peter, James, how is it that 112 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:34.080 your master, Jesus, each with these publicans and sinners and tax collectors, we would never 113 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:42.400 do such a thing. So Jesus, here's it. Hey guys, it's okay. I've come to save those who need saving. 114 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:52.880 You're so proud and puffed up by your self-righteousness. My salvation will never make it through all 115 00:13:52.880 --> 00:14:01.040 that. You see yourself as healthy. Don't worry about it. I've come to save the sick. These tax 116 00:14:01.040 --> 00:14:08.160 collectors and these common people, they know their sinners. That's why I'm eating with them. 117 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:14.560 You guys can save yourself. That's what you're bent on doing anyway. I didn't come for you. 118 00:14:15.280 --> 00:14:23.200 Came for them. I mean, he burns them and he does it, though, only the way God can do it. It's so polite. 119 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:33.840 It's okay, guys. I've come to save the sick. Oh, yes. Well, that's nice. No, you're the sick ones, 120 00:14:34.800 --> 00:14:40.640 but they couldn't even say it. He actually gave them a parabolic answer. 121 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:50.080 He casts truth right alongside them, hoping, by the way, always doing this. And we'll end with this. 122 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:53.760 It's horrible. We'll end with this. Look at this. Look. Look. 123 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:04.240 He ends with this. Para to cast alongside. 124 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:11.120 Parabalos, parable to cast truth alongside the head. 125 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:22.880 Jesus says, I've come to save those that are sick. And that truth just lands right there. 126 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:39.520 And they could go yikes. I need salvation. He's just equating all of them with us, righteous people. 127 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:46.800 I'm going to take the bait and you bite like a fish takes the hook. 128 00:15:47.760 --> 00:15:54.320 One person does it and the parable lands on the other side of some other guy's ear. Same truth, 129 00:15:54.320 --> 00:16:01.120 right? Same exact truth. In the sanctuary, Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins. He rose 130 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:08.480 again from the dead to set you free to guarantee your salvation, that there's salvation in him alone. 131 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:13.280 And by you putting faith in what he's done, he'll save you. If you confess with your mouth that 132 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:18.240 Jesus Christ died on the cross and God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Watch this. 133 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:22.800 That truth just landed between each and every one of you. 134 00:16:25.760 --> 00:16:31.120 And one of you will say, what was that you just said? It's called the gospel. 135 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:36.640 I never heard that before. I thought I knew he died on the cross, but what do I have to do? 136 00:16:36.640 --> 00:16:42.000 I was supposed to do something. Nothing! I've never heard this. I like it. 137 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:48.480 And you said he rose again from the dead to guarantee my salvation. That's right. 138 00:16:50.880 --> 00:16:58.240 Why? I want that. Then a very next person sitting next to you heard the exact same thing and says 139 00:16:58.480 --> 00:17:01.600 this is ridiculous. 140 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:11.200 When is he going to end this right now? Father, we pray right now, Lord, 141 00:17:13.760 --> 00:17:23.200 that the truth of your holy word would go out and have its effect. I'm reminded right now 142 00:17:23.200 --> 00:17:30.480 that Billy Graham said, as long as he's faithful to preach the cross, decisions will be made. 143 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:33.760 Some yes and some no. 144 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:42.560 This Jack Kibb's podcast, as well as all the broadcast out reach opportunities, 145 00:17:42.560 --> 00:17:47.200 are listener supporting. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 146 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:59.760 Go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected.