WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.320 Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, 2 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:15.320 equip the saints and impact our culture. 3 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:16.720 I don't care who you are. 4 00:00:16.720 --> 00:00:20.480 If you were to come up to me and say, pornography is a great benefit in my life for this reason. 5 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:24.920 You are lying to yourself and we all know it. 6 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:31.000 Where are the women rising up and saying we've got to put an end to pornography? 7 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:35.800 Where are they? 8 00:00:35.800 --> 00:00:42.240 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 9 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:48.200 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 10 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:51.480 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 11 00:00:51.480 --> 00:00:58.080 To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 12 00:00:58.080 --> 00:01:01.600 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. 13 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:04.400 Here is Jack Hibbs. 14 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:09.560 Jude says, when presenting the gospel to the world around you, Christian, he says, on 15 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:11.880 some have compassion. 16 00:01:11.880 --> 00:01:16.160 There are people who are broken and people who know that they're alienated from God 17 00:01:16.160 --> 00:01:18.480 and you are to be compassionate to them. 18 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:23.680 He says, on some having compassion, making a distinction. 19 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:27.440 It means that you share the love of God and the righteousness of God and they come up to you 20 00:01:27.440 --> 00:01:29.600 and they say, I need God. 21 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:30.600 I need forgiveness. 22 00:01:30.600 --> 00:01:32.440 I need a new life. 23 00:01:32.440 --> 00:01:37.280 And here Jude tells us to be extending to them compassion. 24 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:41.520 Verse 23 says, but on others, save with fear. 25 00:01:41.520 --> 00:01:43.720 The word fear in Greek, there is phobos. 26 00:01:43.720 --> 00:01:48.000 It means to be blunt with the truth. 27 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:53.680 Some people mock and they ridicule and, oh, that's ridiculous, that's ridiculous. 28 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:56.760 On those people, Jude says, don't give them compassion. 29 00:01:56.760 --> 00:01:58.920 Compassion's not going to help them. 30 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:03.280 You turn to them and you tell them, unless you escape the life that you're living, you 31 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:07.240 are going to be swallowed up by the grips of hell itself. 32 00:02:07.240 --> 00:02:11.800 You are going to be consumed by the very thing that Jesus died on the cross to liberate 33 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:15.800 you from. 34 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:24.440 Hopefully from the city of destruction, as it were, in John Bunyan's Pilgrim progress, 35 00:02:24.440 --> 00:02:25.440 run quick. 36 00:02:25.440 --> 00:02:26.440 You would run. 37 00:02:26.440 --> 00:02:30.440 You would grab whatever you have that's of importance and you would run and you would 38 00:02:30.440 --> 00:02:31.440 flee. 39 00:02:31.440 --> 00:02:36.240 And Jude is saying that to some that you would save them with fears is even so, look at 40 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:41.200 this, pulling them out of the fire, having even or hating even the garment defiled by 41 00:02:41.200 --> 00:02:42.200 the flesh. 42 00:02:42.200 --> 00:02:45.840 Man, there's people like that, you look at people, I look at people, we look at people 43 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:49.520 and we look at them and we think, man, that person is just too far gone. 44 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:52.640 Boy, that person's lost, there's just no hope for them. 45 00:02:52.640 --> 00:02:55.880 The Bible says, don't you dare do that. 46 00:02:55.880 --> 00:03:03.040 Our Christianity will not break, it won't melt, it's not flimsy, it's resilient and we 47 00:03:03.040 --> 00:03:04.960 don't have to protect it. 48 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:07.360 Oh, I can't go talk to that person. 49 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:13.240 They got a pierced, they got a nose piercing and a lip piercing and their faces tattooed 50 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:16.880 and they're half dressed and they're smoking pots. 51 00:03:16.880 --> 00:03:20.720 I can't talk to them, why can't you talk to them? 52 00:03:20.720 --> 00:03:24.520 Are you afraid somebody might take a picture of you talking to them and you might have your 53 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:28.640 reputation damaged? 54 00:03:28.640 --> 00:03:35.400 When we see people that are either look so lost or in fact are lost, we go to them and 55 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:40.880 speak to them and ask them about God and if they say, God, this happened to me truly 56 00:03:40.880 --> 00:03:47.680 in life, a pastor friend of mine years ago, this is almost 40 years ago, walking down the 57 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:52.400 boardwalk in Newport Beach, walked by a bunch of bikers, it was a nasty, mean looking 58 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:57.520 biker gang and we were witnessing the people and witnessing the people and we saw this biker 59 00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:02.400 gang and they're drinking beer and they're cussing and we got really quiet and we just 60 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:05.240 walked by, we're intimidated by them. 61 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:11.760 Terrified by them and we were walking by and I have never heard God speak audibly, I just 62 00:04:11.760 --> 00:04:16.480 have not, maybe you have, I've never heard him speak audibly but when he speaks, however 63 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:18.560 he speaks, you know it. 64 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:21.640 He didn't say any words that I heard. 65 00:04:21.640 --> 00:04:29.240 This is what happened in my heart, why did you not share my truth with them and in my 66 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:35.600 mind in three seconds I said because they scare me and I immediately stopped and I said 67 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:39.960 Richard, we have to go back and I walked back and I'm not kidding you. 68 00:04:39.960 --> 00:04:46.840 I walked up to the guy who is the biggest, gnarliest cussing, beer, drink and dude. 69 00:04:46.840 --> 00:04:53.160 This is right by Babbo up here and Newport Pier, by Newport Pier and I said, I said, this 70 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:58.240 is exactly what happened, it was a miracle because I didn't even plan this. 71 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:02.920 I said, excuse me but before you kill me for telling you about Jesus, I want you to 72 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:08.680 know that I'm a Christian and God wants me to say something to you and he goes, that's 73 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:11.680 funny man. 74 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:17.680 And I said, this is who Jesus is and I told them, all of his buddies were standing around. 75 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:26.200 He got stoned, face serious, his friends were mocking, he told them all to shut up. 76 00:05:26.200 --> 00:05:28.480 He let me keep talking. 77 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:33.880 You know what the conclusion was, he said, listen, I want to thank you for telling me this, 78 00:05:33.880 --> 00:05:37.160 but I have been such a bad man in my life. 79 00:05:37.160 --> 00:05:41.640 There is no way that God would ever let me into heaven. 80 00:05:41.640 --> 00:05:46.080 He said, no, it's pretty soon someday I'm going to get stoned out of my mind, I'm going 81 00:05:46.080 --> 00:05:50.120 to open up my heartily on the freeway and I'm just going to roll myself off the back and 82 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:55.120 kill myself because I could never make it to heaven. 83 00:05:55.120 --> 00:06:01.240 And all I could leave him with was this, Jesus said, the person who sins the most and 84 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:04.320 is forgiven is the one who loves the most. 85 00:06:04.320 --> 00:06:09.360 And I walked away, I don't know whatever became of him, I know that God's word doesn't 86 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:13.720 return void, but we need to be careful that we don't get so Christianized that we don't 87 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:24.240 tell people who don't look like us or think like us or have sex like us that we do not 88 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:28.920 announce the kingdom of God to them for fear. 89 00:06:28.920 --> 00:06:35.440 Romans, Paul is speaking to a Roman culture that had been sex crazed and the women had 90 00:06:35.440 --> 00:06:41.480 given themselves over to one another because they divorced themselves as it were from the 91 00:06:41.480 --> 00:06:46.960 natural use of a man and men gave up on women and went after one another two thousand years 92 00:06:46.960 --> 00:06:50.160 ago, the Bible speaks about it and here we are today. 93 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:53.600 And so this is vitally important church, we pick it up where we left off and I'm sorry 94 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:57.280 again if you've missed these messages, go back and view them. 95 00:06:57.280 --> 00:07:02.240 I'll simply tell you this, that in the previous announcements we looked at these verses and 96 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:07.320 we saw that behind the mask there's the abuse, we talked about that. 97 00:07:07.320 --> 00:07:13.560 And in the abuse there's the abuse of the body of the soul and of the mind. 98 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:21.200 Previously to that we looked at the destruction behind the mask, the destruction of morality. 99 00:07:21.200 --> 00:07:28.200 Once we cross that line and we don't make corrections we become immoral but it's a bizarre 100 00:07:28.200 --> 00:07:33.040 immorality because when we become immoral according to the Bible we begin to justify our 101 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:38.320 new created morality, we begin to justify our wrongs and then we begin to lose a reason. 102 00:07:38.320 --> 00:07:43.600 We can't think right anymore, destruction and then we saw, remember we ended this last 103 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:49.480 time when we are in the state of destruction and we're alienated from God, we lose all 104 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:57.560 sense of boundaries, anything goes, which is why friends listen, which is why today there 105 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:10.800 are clubs that you can join, what is the the man boy club, the man, man, man, man, you can 106 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:18.800 club where men in relationships with boys, there's groups that you can sign up, there's 107 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:24.320 all these things going on and our culture, our culture just turns away from that, does that 108 00:08:24.320 --> 00:08:32.320 not say anything about it? What's going on? Why, listen, if, listen, if we were born good 109 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:39.320 and man is an ain'tly good then why is it, as I mentioned last week, why is it that 110 00:08:43.520 --> 00:08:50.520 we continue to allow pornography to be legal? It does nothing but destroy people. Listen, 111 00:08:50.520 --> 00:08:55.880 I don't care who you are, if you were to come up to me and say pornography is a great 112 00:08:55.880 --> 00:09:01.920 benefit in my life for this reason, you are lying to yourself and we all know it. Where 113 00:09:01.920 --> 00:09:08.920 are the women rising up and saying we've got to put an end to pornography? Where are they? 114 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:15.000 My argument is this, it's a spiritual matter, Paul told us 2000 years ago it's a spiritual 115 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:20.080 issue. We're living in the last days, I have overwhelming evidence that I could never 116 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:27.080 fit into a one hour sermon but it's here and so now we come today to what is known as 117 00:09:27.160 --> 00:09:34.080 behind the mask is the verdict and we see that the verdict is final. There's a finality 118 00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:40.760 to it, verse 28 and even as they did not like to retain, hold the thought of God in their 119 00:09:40.760 --> 00:09:47.960 knowledge, God responds, He gives them over to a debased mind to do those things which 120 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:54.760 are not fitting and here's why. Look back at verse 24, therefore God also gave them 121 00:09:54.760 --> 00:10:00.240 up to uncleanness in the lust of their hearts. Remember we talked about last week the burning 122 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:07.560 inside, the burning inside, the lust and when that's not put in check or controlled with 123 00:10:07.640 --> 00:10:12.960 self control, applying the word of God to it, I don't believe there's any cure for it 124 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:18.960 by the way but the word of God. What happens if you don't seek God, you'll dishonor 125 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:23.800 your body among yourselves, among themselves and you'll exchange the truth of God for 126 00:10:23.800 --> 00:10:27.640 the lie. This is a remarkable statement because what happens is there's a finality, there's 127 00:10:27.640 --> 00:10:33.520 a line that's crossed that says, I am going to now take my body, I'm so craven over sexual 128 00:10:33.520 --> 00:10:41.000 pleasure that I can't get enough of it. I did this, I did that, I did the other thing, 129 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:46.440 I did, I did five of this and two of the other and seven of these and then a whole party 130 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:55.280 and then it wasn't enough and so I went this way and it never stops. Ted Bundy, anybody 131 00:10:55.280 --> 00:11:03.800 remember Ted Bundy? Wow, okay, I didn't, those of you who do not know who Ted Bundy is, 132 00:11:03.800 --> 00:11:11.040 you should study or read or look at the documentaries about Ted Bundy's life. His life of serial 133 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:22.240 killing started by looking at his mother's bra and panty catalogs and it turned him into 134 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:34.280 an animal, a legendary predator. There's a finality to it. If you let your life continue 135 00:11:34.280 --> 00:11:37.960 to go and God says that's it, there comes a moment when you give yourself up away from 136 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:43.840 the truth and you believe the line, you go after the lie and today we celebrate and say 137 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:47.840 things like stand in my business. It's funny, the people that say stand in my business, 138 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:53.240 they make sure that their business is in front of everybody else's business. Look, I'll 139 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:57.120 be honest with you, what you do in your own bedroom, I don't care if you're from Mars, 140 00:11:57.120 --> 00:12:03.240 I don't want to know about it. God knows, He'll set a score in the end. But when you bring 141 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:10.320 it out public, you got to be able to take the heat of the public. It's the way life works, 142 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:16.800 but nothing is hidden from God. He sees everything. By the way, side note, it's not in my notes, 143 00:12:16.800 --> 00:12:21.120 maybe God is laying this on my heart right now. How many Christian couples, husbands and wives 144 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:25.240 are in here right now? Raise your hands. Christian couples, husbands and wives. Okay, listen, 145 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:30.240 Christian, husbands and wives, I'm a big fan of this. When you come together, I don't 146 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:33.320 know, I don't think there's young people here. It's too early for service, right? There's 147 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:37.680 no young people in here. Is there a young person in here, racers? Okay, all right, then I'll 148 00:12:37.680 --> 00:12:44.200 say this. Listen, Christian couples, let me just, this always blows the non-believers' mind 149 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:48.120 when they hear this, because they've never heard this before. The God of the Bible created 150 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:54.120 sex, and the Christians should have the most fantastic sex than anybody else in the planet. 151 00:12:54.200 --> 00:13:10.040 Okay, and so here's the thing. When you're wrestling with your spouse, that whole precious thing 152 00:13:10.040 --> 00:13:16.840 should end in an embrace. And I think the man, I think the husband should say, Lord, thank 153 00:13:16.920 --> 00:13:27.920 you so much for this radical gift you've made. Wow, God, you're amazing. I mean, come on, 154 00:13:27.920 --> 00:13:38.520 God, because he invented that. What does the world do? The world takes it and breaks it. 155 00:13:38.520 --> 00:13:45.880 And the world lies to you. In fact, the Bible says the Christian couples should not stop doing 156 00:13:45.880 --> 00:13:51.640 that except for fasting and prayer. No wonder why the church is growing around here. A lot of 157 00:13:51.640 --> 00:14:00.080 babies being born. I'm sure I'll get letters on that, but probably won't read it anyway. 158 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:10.000 But they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, to a remarkable thought, because they 159 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:17.920 exerted pressure. They gave energy against what is natural. They fought it. They knew inside, 160 00:14:17.920 --> 00:14:26.240 but they fought it. And they believed the lie. They inverted reality. Verse 28 teaches us. Verse 28 161 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:30.880 goes on to tell us that God gave them over to a debased mind. Notice this. This is the judgment of God 162 00:14:30.880 --> 00:14:37.920 that has revealed in Romans chapter 1. God's not being mean. He's not having a bad day. God says, 163 00:14:37.920 --> 00:14:45.440 okay, it's yours. You want it? You can have it. And that word debased means a way of thinking that 164 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:50.320 cannot stand the test. It means to be thinking in a way that fails a test. It's interesting, 165 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:56.960 isn't it? It means to be thinking in such a way whereby your thought process in the evaluation 166 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:07.600 renders you failed or to fail a test. It means like this. It's task a question. What do you see? 167 00:15:07.760 --> 00:15:12.880 Regarding male-female relationship in this area that he's speaking about regarding sexuality. 168 00:15:14.320 --> 00:15:21.200 And you hear people say, I see whatever I want to see. Bible says, you're flirting with a 169 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:26.800 debased mind. See, Jack, how can you say that? I didn't say it. The Bible says it. 170 00:15:26.800 --> 00:15:36.480 That's right, man. Well, I just want to do whatever feels good. You're flirting with a 171 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:44.480 debased mind. A mind that's thinking in such a way that fails the test. Well, what's the test? 172 00:15:45.040 --> 00:15:54.480 Take a look. Do some homework. Do some science. Read a book. It's obvious. 173 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:06.560 Think about that today. Is this truth and the sadness of it being lived out in 174 00:16:07.280 --> 00:16:15.280 delivery words in hospitals today? Are nurses being told not to mark the gender of the child? 175 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:24.320 Did you know some hospitals or some nurses, some doctors are taking pictures of 176 00:16:26.640 --> 00:16:32.400 the baby's gender when it's born because of all the confusion that's going on. 177 00:16:32.640 --> 00:16:40.400 What's going on? What's happening in our world today? It's exactly what the Bible talked about. 178 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:48.720 By the way, before we move on, verse 28, it's quite a statement. If you think about it, look at 179 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:55.120 verse 28. God gave them over with your Bibles open. Look at verse 24. God gave them up. You hear 180 00:16:55.120 --> 00:17:02.400 that? They did this. They wouldn't listen. God gave them up. Verse 24. Look at verse 26. They did 181 00:17:02.400 --> 00:17:09.440 this. God warned them. God gave them over. See that? Look at verse 28. We're red. They did this. God 182 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:19.520 warned them. God gave them over. Three strikes. Three warnings. And what is it? It is to do those 183 00:17:19.520 --> 00:17:26.560 things which are not fitting. The word not fitting here, the word the Greek language means 184 00:17:26.560 --> 00:17:33.520 not allowed or not correct. It's not beneficial. God says there's some things that are not allowed. 185 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:39.520 God says there's some things that are not correct. God says there are some things that are not 186 00:17:39.520 --> 00:17:50.640 beneficial. Does that quench you? That's so narrow. That's okay. Nero is good. Nero is a good thing. 187 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:58.320 It means it doesn't work. It doesn't come together. It's not according to design and God has warned. 188 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:03.680 And what I'm telling you is the Bible said this is exactly what would happen in the last days. 189 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:13.600 This Jack Hibbs podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are 190 00:18:13.600 --> 00:18:18.000 listener supporting. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 191 00:18:18.800 --> 00:18:23.280 Go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected.