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 --> 00:00:12.120 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Hey crazy podcast today I think 3 00:00:12.120 --> 00:00:16.440 you're gonna like it maybe not super practical kind of personal but we're 4 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:19.640 gonna reach into the mail bag many of you responded with some questions to us 5 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:24.680 and we're gonna try to answer a few of those from the Bible yes and some of 6 00:00:24.680 --> 00:00:34.320 answers from the Bible plus. Well, stay tuned you can get the outlines of this 7 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:41.600 podcast by going to Jackhibbs.com slash podcast today if this podcast lifts you 8 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:45.880 up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ then make sure 9 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:51.160 you leave us one of those five star ratings to us that's like saying amen or 10 00:00:51.160 --> 00:00:56.400 yes then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to 11 00:00:56.400 --> 00:01:02.600 what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jackhibbs. We're everybody welcome to 12 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:06.920 Jackhibbs podcast and we're gonna have some fun today we are going to grab 13 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:12.520 from our mail bag responses from people questions from people so we're gonna 14 00:01:12.520 --> 00:01:15.920 dive right in we're gonna try to get as many as we can within about a 25-minute 15 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:23.440 period of time and allowing me if you would with your generosity to be honest 16 00:01:23.440 --> 00:01:28.680 with my answers when I say honest with my answers I may or may not be correct but 17 00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:34.320 I'll be honest with my answer of course I believe I'm correct but I will 18 00:01:34.320 --> 00:01:40.920 absolutely be correct when I happen to either hit science on the nail head 19 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:46.040 or on target right and I will definitely absolutely be correct if I am 20 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:51.800 citing scripture so we'll do our best to bring you everything accurately and 21 00:01:51.800 --> 00:01:56.640 right as is possible and then ultimately you be the judge as long as you 22 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:01.240 understand the word of God judges us and so listen we're gonna go to the mail 23 00:02:01.240 --> 00:02:05.760 bag I think that's a popular term to use we should use that we're gonna go to 24 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:10.780 the mail bag and these mail bag questions have come to us obviously by 25 00:02:10.780 --> 00:02:16.200 listeners that have reached out to us and have emailed us or have written to 26 00:02:16.200 --> 00:02:21.320 us so mail bag question number one from our producers behind this 27 00:02:21.320 --> 00:02:28.000 microphone and screens is what's explain what it means to be absent from the 28 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:34.320 by present with the Lord and how that works with the dead explain what does it 29 00:02:34.320 --> 00:02:38.440 mean to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord and how does 30 00:02:38.440 --> 00:02:44.600 that correlate with those who are dead in Christ perfect Bible answer here it 31 00:02:44.600 --> 00:02:51.360 is the scriptures say of the believer the Christ follower this is the Christian 32 00:02:51.360 --> 00:03:00.600 the real one that to be absent from the body is a reference to the moment we die 33 00:03:00.600 --> 00:03:09.160 our body is vacated by the spirit of who you and I are our minds are spirit 34 00:03:09.160 --> 00:03:15.400 leave the body please start thinking about your body as a biomedical bio 35 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:24.480 engineering bio device a bio designed apparatus to be a tool whereby it's 36 00:03:24.480 --> 00:03:30.840 animated by the mind and by the spirit of who we are okay that's very important 37 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:35.960 to be absent from the bodies to be present with Christ the believer immediately 38 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:42.640 dies in this world and is immediately with Christ in his presence instantaneously 39 00:03:42.640 --> 00:03:47.360 there's no such thing as soul sleep there's no such thing as purgatory there is 40 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:53.960 no such thing as the the believer floating around in some sea of souls awaiting 41 00:03:53.960 --> 00:04:00.440 some form of intervention no if I have a heart attack right now and drop dead 42 00:04:00.440 --> 00:04:05.240 I will immediately be with be with the Lord Jesus Christ the Bible tells us 43 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:10.720 that in this life while we're at home in the body Paul said to the Corinthians 44 00:04:10.720 --> 00:04:18.280 if we're at home in our bodies we are obviously absent from Christ but for the 45 00:04:18.280 --> 00:04:22.560 reverse to take place death sets the believer free we need to remember that 46 00:04:22.960 --> 00:04:29.280 Jesus has made death the great escape for the believer see Jack did you get that 47 00:04:29.280 --> 00:04:34.120 right yeah yeah yeah he took away the power and the sting of death turned it right 48 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:38.880 around and made it for us the believer a door that we walk through into the 49 00:04:38.880 --> 00:04:44.760 presence of God so the believer said free by death we're not terrorized by death 50 00:04:44.760 --> 00:04:48.680 the Bible says to the believers who come to Christ they're no longer held 51 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:54.000 captive by the fear of death so remember that I think I miss it did I answer 52 00:04:54.000 --> 00:05:01.200 that or miss something else um oh the dead in Christ who rise first at the 53 00:05:01.200 --> 00:05:05.600 moment of the rapture first Thessalonians chapter four verses 13 through 18 the 54 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:09.560 Bible says that those who have died in Christ will rise first we're talking 55 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:16.520 about the body their bodies are dead either cremated burned alive buried at 56 00:05:16.520 --> 00:05:22.200 in a graveyard eaten by a shark and eliminated doesn't matter the molecular 57 00:05:22.200 --> 00:05:28.480 structure the molecules of who you are exist if you've been cremated or not 58 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:36.040 okay that's very important to remember that must be resurrected but remember now 59 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:42.240 follow this if the believer dies right now we bury your body at forest lawn 60 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:48.720 over here or Rose Hills you're with the Lord we're hosting your service you're 61 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:54.760 not there you're in heaven the dead those who have died in Christ when Christ 62 00:05:54.760 --> 00:06:00.480 returns in John chapter 14 verses one two and three and again first Thessalonians 63 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:05.400 4th 13th through 18 when Christ returns in the atmosphere he doesn't he doesn't 64 00:06:05.400 --> 00:06:10.560 physically arrive he appears in the atmosphere the trumpet blast is bone the 65 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:14.280 shout is given the voice of the archangel the trumpet of God the dead in Christ 66 00:06:14.280 --> 00:06:18.960 shall rise first what does that mean it says that their bodies will rise up he 67 00:06:18.960 --> 00:06:25.000 brings with them those who once inhabited those bodies they're in heaven my 68 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:31.800 mom for example if Christ were to come today for the church he would come and he 69 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:37.360 would bring my mom with him in the atmosphere her body would come up out of 70 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:43.920 the ground in resurrection and it says that they will be united she will be 71 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:52.040 united with her glorified body I you will immediately be metamorphosed we will 72 00:06:52.040 --> 00:06:57.000 be changed in an instant in a twinkling of an eye our bodies will go from this 73 00:06:57.000 --> 00:07:02.960 body that is subject to sin our bodies will be reconstituted in the twinkling of 74 00:07:02.960 --> 00:07:09.320 an eye and we will go up to meet them in the air again read first Thessalonians 75 00:07:09.320 --> 00:07:14.120 4th 13th through 18 carefully when a believer dies their body goes to the 76 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:17.960 ground their spirit goes to the presence of the Lord when Christ comes back he 77 00:07:17.960 --> 00:07:23.160 raises their new body and they receive that new body and they have that 78 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:27.440 resurrected body you see what kind of body are they wearing right now scholars 79 00:07:27.440 --> 00:07:33.000 call it the intermediate body our moms our dads our friends our children the 80 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:38.000 aborted babies they are wearing something but it's not their resurrected bodies 81 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:43.280 the ultimate fulfillment and goal of course and God's redemption will be the 82 00:07:43.280 --> 00:07:49.240 day that you obtain your resurrected body I hope that helps next one from our 83 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:54.480 producers it is what explain the biblical point of view of decision-making 84 00:07:54.480 --> 00:08:00.800 people say my heart says one thing God says another so explain the biblical 85 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:08.240 worldview the biblical way of making decisions in light of the fact that my I 86 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:15.960 want one thing my emotions want this thing this is what I feel to be right I 87 00:08:15.960 --> 00:08:21.360 would really like to do this but the Bible says this in other words I think the 88 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:26.680 way the question was put is that I feel I should go left but the Bible says I 89 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:31.720 should go right you do understand right correctly do you do you do you do 90 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:35.040 understand that to be a disciple this is what this is definition of a 91 00:08:35.040 --> 00:08:45.660 disciple a disciple does what the master what the the journeyman right if those 92 00:08:45.660 --> 00:08:53.500 of you in construction there's the journeyman and there's the apprentice we 93 00:08:53.500 --> 00:08:58.700 go with what the Bible says absolutely against what our feelings say you know 94 00:08:58.700 --> 00:09:03.780 our thoughts that we have we have them all the time what do we do with them we 95 00:09:03.780 --> 00:09:10.140 wash our thoughts through the filter of the word of God this is what's called a 96 00:09:10.140 --> 00:09:15.580 disciple a lot of people I have to be sorry to be blunt with you but you know 97 00:09:15.580 --> 00:09:19.860 Jesus said a lot of people are gonna go into hell and miss heaven altogether a 98 00:09:19.860 --> 00:09:23.460 few there be that find the path to eternal life and there's very few people on 99 00:09:23.460 --> 00:09:28.340 that straight and narrow path you know why one of the reasons is is that there 100 00:09:28.340 --> 00:09:31.900 are a lot of people who say they believe in God but they do what they want to do 101 00:09:31.900 --> 00:09:36.500 and their life proves that they don't believe in God they just say they do but 102 00:09:36.500 --> 00:09:41.660 they don't they believe a God exists but they don't know who he is and you can 103 00:09:41.660 --> 00:09:48.460 say oh it's Jesus so what who's he if you can't define who he is in charge of 104 00:09:48.460 --> 00:09:54.660 your life what Jesus are you talking about so you to be a disciple is to follow 105 00:09:54.660 --> 00:10:00.340 what God's words says not what you feel and therein is the modern day 21st 106 00:10:00.340 --> 00:10:04.620 century dividing line there's a lot of people that are gonna wind up in hell 107 00:10:04.620 --> 00:10:10.980 shocked Matthew chapter seven begin in at verse 20 go ahead and read it start 108 00:10:10.980 --> 00:10:15.660 there Matthew 7 verse 20 there's gonna be so many people shocked because they 109 00:10:15.660 --> 00:10:20.100 were really religious they went to church services but they did what they 110 00:10:20.100 --> 00:10:24.940 wanted to do Jesus said they never did what he said to do they were never 111 00:10:24.940 --> 00:10:30.660 disciples that's very important I hope that helps but I really hope that helps 112 00:10:30.660 --> 00:10:35.700 because if you were doing what you want to do then you shouldn't call yourself a 113 00:10:35.700 --> 00:10:39.940 Christian because the word Christian means Christ follower which means you're a 114 00:10:39.940 --> 00:10:45.580 Christ Obeyer now you want to be a disciple disciples follow the master it's the 115 00:10:45.580 --> 00:10:51.220 apprentice doing what the journeyman instructs him to do next question how do you 116 00:10:51.220 --> 00:10:57.820 respond to Christian couples in church living great they are in the same house 117 00:10:57.820 --> 00:11:03.620 but they say they're not so what's the how do I respond to couples that are 118 00:11:03.620 --> 00:11:08.660 living to get Christian couples living together they're not married but they're 119 00:11:08.660 --> 00:11:12.380 living in the same house and they might even claim that they're not having any 120 00:11:12.380 --> 00:11:19.420 sexual relationship whatsoever number one we have an immediate answer for this 121 00:11:19.660 --> 00:11:29.620 this is the absolute fail safe response abstain from all appearances of evil you 122 00:11:29.620 --> 00:11:36.500 can be living in the same house you could actually be keeping yourself pure on 123 00:11:36.500 --> 00:11:41.740 opposite ends of the the house like Bill Clinton lived on that side of the 124 00:11:41.740 --> 00:11:48.100 White House and Hillary lived on that side of the house that that was a fact by 125 00:11:48.100 --> 00:11:53.980 the way I know people who work the White House during their administration they 126 00:11:53.980 --> 00:11:57.780 lived in the same house but they didn't have any physical relationship that's 127 00:11:57.780 --> 00:12:06.100 true but it but listen for you and I for you who ask in this question even if 128 00:12:06.100 --> 00:12:10.900 you don't it looks like you do two neighbors who live across the street they've 129 00:12:10.900 --> 00:12:13.660 heard that you're a Christian but you guys you're living in the same house not 130 00:12:13.660 --> 00:12:21.620 married to them it looks sinful to them it's wrong in the Bible says stay away 131 00:12:21.620 --> 00:12:27.220 from things that even look wrong you say yeah but yeah but yeah but you what you 132 00:12:27.220 --> 00:12:32.580 don't understand the moment you go into the defense mode of this approves your 133 00:12:32.580 --> 00:12:38.620 wrong we can't do that if you're living like that you're not married and you're 134 00:12:38.620 --> 00:12:43.700 living like that what we're trying to save money no you're not obeying God and 135 00:12:43.700 --> 00:12:49.420 you don't trust God obey God he'll take care of the money obey God trust him 136 00:12:49.420 --> 00:12:53.460 well he's not going to listen to anyone of any of your excuses and I've heard 137 00:12:53.460 --> 00:12:58.180 them all approaching almost 40 years of ministry I've heard them all I heard it 138 00:12:58.180 --> 00:13:06.060 all it doesn't fly look if you love each other then go back and stay at mom and 139 00:13:06.060 --> 00:13:10.860 dad's house or a friend's house you guys break up split up that way physically and 140 00:13:10.860 --> 00:13:17.260 do it the right way abstain from all appearances of evil keep yourself 141 00:13:17.260 --> 00:13:26.100 pure get married and build a life okay but just know this it's for financial 142 00:13:26.100 --> 00:13:30.980 reasons my if my if she doesn't stay in our home that she's going to be 143 00:13:30.980 --> 00:13:34.580 homeless don't you have some friends where she can stay though it doesn't 144 00:13:34.580 --> 00:13:38.700 have any Christian girlfriends are there any people listen have you gone to 145 00:13:38.700 --> 00:13:42.620 the pastors at your church and said look we don't want to live like this we 146 00:13:42.620 --> 00:13:47.980 know that the appearance is wrong so can is there a elderly couple that they 147 00:13:47.980 --> 00:13:53.100 have a room for her so we can get married we're gonna get married soon listen if 148 00:13:53.100 --> 00:13:58.420 you love her if you guys want to be married get married well I'm waiting to 149 00:13:58.420 --> 00:14:03.820 get my degree in astrophysics stop it get married love deferred makes the 150 00:14:03.820 --> 00:14:07.780 heart grow sick oh no my parents said we have to wait till we're 45 that's 151 00:14:07.780 --> 00:14:16.020 insane get married do you love each other get married get married stop waiting for 152 00:14:16.020 --> 00:14:20.100 all the alignments of the universe to come together and it's all perfect and we 153 00:14:20.100 --> 00:14:24.300 got the money happening and we got all these things in line and we've got 154 00:14:24.300 --> 00:14:30.580 enough to do this and the other it will never happen it will never happen if 155 00:14:30.580 --> 00:14:35.660 you love her if you love him get married start your life and go for it God 156 00:14:35.660 --> 00:14:42.460 will bless you next question with men under attack in modern society what does 157 00:14:42.460 --> 00:14:46.900 it mean to have biblical masculinity and how do they leave their households 158 00:14:46.900 --> 00:14:51.900 important yeah masculinity the question is with masculinity being under attack 159 00:14:51.900 --> 00:14:59.300 what's the man to do to be to be a biblical man and living out masculinity 160 00:14:59.300 --> 00:15:05.300 number one God created masculinity stop apologizing for it okay there's a 161 00:15:05.300 --> 00:15:09.980 woke world out there that wants you to grovel and bow down and apologize to 162 00:15:09.980 --> 00:15:16.060 everybody because you're a man okay that is called idiocy and it's a sickness and 163 00:15:16.060 --> 00:15:22.140 our cultures full of it it should be taken out with the trash God made men God 164 00:15:22.140 --> 00:15:29.100 made women he didn't make a third option that said is that a man needs to 165 00:15:29.100 --> 00:15:34.460 learn how to be a man boys need to learn how to be boys from the beginning when 166 00:15:34.460 --> 00:15:39.540 little junior comes popping out you've got to train that little guy and how to be 167 00:15:39.540 --> 00:15:48.540 a guy we have to imprint that upon them were the ones as parents to import to 168 00:15:48.540 --> 00:15:58.740 them or export to them our understanding of what history medicine physiology 169 00:15:58.740 --> 00:16:05.380 biology makes of a man in other words a little boy who's three years old doesn't 170 00:16:05.380 --> 00:16:10.660 understand he just thinks it's really cool that moms high heels make this 171 00:16:10.660 --> 00:16:16.900 clickety-clack sound on the tile down the hallway when you see your three-year-old 172 00:16:16.900 --> 00:16:22.540 boy wearing mom's high heels you say this hey junior take those things off they 173 00:16:22.540 --> 00:16:27.260 look goofy on you they look better on your sister put these on instead put on 174 00:16:27.260 --> 00:16:34.500 dad's boots let's be dudes and then let them do it that's how you do it when 175 00:16:34.500 --> 00:16:38.820 when a when a five-year-old boy wants to have a tea party with with the girls in 176 00:16:38.820 --> 00:16:45.540 the neighborhood it's really good for you to actually talk them out of it you 177 00:16:45.540 --> 00:16:49.820 need to tell them you know what let the girls do that I'm gonna take today off 178 00:16:49.820 --> 00:16:55.220 from work buddy you know we're gonna do we're gonna go fishing or we're gonna go 179 00:16:55.220 --> 00:16:59.860 to the Bass Pro Shop and we're gonna look at some really cool things let's 180 00:16:59.860 --> 00:17:04.460 let's go get some slingshots we'll buy some slingshots there maybe even a 181 00:17:04.460 --> 00:17:09.860 BB gun or a pellet gun and we'll get some targets and we'll go to the park or 182 00:17:09.860 --> 00:17:15.060 we'll go to the wherever and and we'll just do some target practice okay 183 00:17:15.060 --> 00:17:20.400 buddy believe me you offer your boy the option he's gonna take a trip to the 184 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:26.780 Bass Pro Shop over T this quick if he doesn't you're a little too late you need 185 00:17:26.780 --> 00:17:32.480 to get back on you need to get you need to get on it you need to listen here's the 186 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:35.960 Bible train up a child in the way that they should go and when they're old they 187 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:42.080 will not read they will return to it or in the or depart they will not depart 188 00:17:42.080 --> 00:17:47.800 from it train up a child in the way that they should go are you raising a 189 00:17:47.800 --> 00:17:54.480 female cause or to embrace femininity show her that is it assumes you know what 190 00:17:54.480 --> 00:18:00.520 that means it jevison raise him in the way of masculinity roll him around in the 191 00:18:00.520 --> 00:18:11.640 dirt do do guy crazy things thank god boys need to become men and part of man 192 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:18.340 we're wired you know we're wired to do things that are not always healthy we 193 00:18:18.340 --> 00:18:22.560 shouldn't jump off of roofs but we're so tempted to jump off of roofs I 194 00:18:22.560 --> 00:18:26.660 remember growing up jumping off of roofs I just for I wanted to fly so bad that 195 00:18:26.660 --> 00:18:32.680 that was my that was my thing we was so stupid we we went down to at the time 196 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:38.040 we went down to what was called the Long Beach Army Navy surplus store and we 197 00:18:38.040 --> 00:18:43.800 bought a bunch of parachutes and we strapped them on and we jumped off the 198 00:18:43.800 --> 00:18:49.080 highest point of our house it didn't go over so well because by the time the 199 00:18:49.080 --> 00:18:53.440 parachute opened up we hit the ground it was like a suicide run but we that's 200 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:58.240 what boys do and by the way the neighborhood girls they watched us because 201 00:18:58.240 --> 00:19:04.880 they're smart that's how life is parents don't suppress that don't suppress that 202 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:11.320 manage it but masculinity we've got the greatest example he's called Jesus 203 00:19:11.320 --> 00:19:20.440 Jesus confronted evil Jesus prayed Jesus walked with a bunch of other guys and 204 00:19:20.440 --> 00:19:28.820 taught them how to be guys Jesus was gracious and forgiving toward women that 205 00:19:28.820 --> 00:19:34.540 were caught in very terrible situations Jesus saw people that were tired 206 00:19:34.540 --> 00:19:41.780 and weary and he fed them biblical masculinity is exactly what the 207 00:19:41.780 --> 00:19:48.100 prescription is by God for the world to see right now and I hope we've grown up 208 00:19:48.100 --> 00:19:52.740 now because this experiment has come and gone it's pretty much dead and that is 209 00:19:52.740 --> 00:20:02.660 the incredible dumbness of woke ism whoever's woke still they are woke nuts 210 00:20:02.660 --> 00:20:08.260 come on let's be honest oh I believe that everybody should pay for me while I 211 00:20:08.260 --> 00:20:14.660 sit around and focus on my navel and worry about climate change you want to 212 00:20:14.660 --> 00:20:22.340 change the climate why don't you get a job and contribute to fixing things but 213 00:20:22.340 --> 00:20:29.260 come on step up we need a culture to step up and if you think I'm being harsh 214 00:20:29.260 --> 00:20:40.460 17 and 18 year olds stormed the beaches of Omaha Utah Normandy to liberate 215 00:20:40.460 --> 00:20:46.500 France from Adolf Hitler 17 and 18 year olds what are 17 and 18 year olds 216 00:20:46.500 --> 00:20:54.500 doing today they can't even storm their bedroom we need to stop woke and we 217 00:20:54.500 --> 00:21:01.700 need to get real and biblical masculinity is what the world needs right now next 218 00:21:01.700 --> 00:21:11.180 question 219 00:21:11.180 --> 00:21:19.020 no listen I need to almost repeat this verbatim poor poor parent by the way I 220 00:21:19.020 --> 00:21:24.100 wrote a book not too long ago called living in the days of deception and this 221 00:21:24.100 --> 00:21:33.380 poor parent is entertaining deception the parent said what what do we say to our 222 00:21:33.380 --> 00:21:46.380 God to our adult God fearing son who now says he's a gay Christian I don't 223 00:21:46.380 --> 00:21:54.780 know where to begin on this this is wrong this is wrong in so many fronts you 224 00:21:54.780 --> 00:22:02.620 cannot be a God fearing Christian and be gay you can be a God fearing Christian 225 00:22:02.620 --> 00:22:12.300 and struggle with same such sex attraction okay you can be a God fearing Christian 226 00:22:12.300 --> 00:22:18.420 and struggle with heterosexual attraction that's called temptation kill it bring 227 00:22:18.420 --> 00:22:22.940 every thought under the captivity of Christ Satan's out there throwing every kind 228 00:22:22.940 --> 00:22:32.140 of dart at us as possible but listen the moment you go from claiming to be a 229 00:22:32.140 --> 00:22:36.940 God fearing Christian to the practice of homosexuality or the practice of 230 00:22:36.940 --> 00:22:42.660 adultery or the practice of fornication you're no longer God fearing if you 231 00:22:42.660 --> 00:22:49.540 were God fearing it wouldn't have happened okay God the fear of God is the 232 00:22:49.540 --> 00:22:56.860 beginning of wisdom wisdom and the fear of God keeps you from doing dumb things 233 00:22:56.860 --> 00:23:02.260 that the world tries to talk you into doing no the truth is your son made a 234 00:23:02.260 --> 00:23:06.940 decision to depart from the will of God and he knew it the Holy Spirit was 235 00:23:06.940 --> 00:23:12.820 there telling him to do what he wanted to do there are other reasons as to why 236 00:23:12.820 --> 00:23:17.580 he confirmed this decision in his life could be that somebody heard him most 237 00:23:17.580 --> 00:23:22.980 often I always get mail on this one are you ready and yet yet to be proven wrong 238 00:23:22.980 --> 00:23:32.780 over 90% well over 90% of people who opt for the homosexual experience were 239 00:23:32.780 --> 00:23:42.140 molested as a young child and or exposed to heavy pornography it messed them up 240 00:23:42.140 --> 00:23:47.540 confuse them terribly they saw things that they were not supposed to see at 241 00:23:47.540 --> 00:23:52.540 that age they were not hormonally and mentally able to process it it caused 242 00:23:52.540 --> 00:23:58.860 profound confusion and thereby they wonder if this relationship that is not 243 00:23:58.860 --> 00:24:04.940 working out right between myself and my girlfriend or myself and my wife is 244 00:24:05.020 --> 00:24:13.260 is not working it must be because I'm gay the origin of that is in the early days 245 00:24:13.260 --> 00:24:20.380 of life nobody is nobody straight with a normal upbringing says you know I think 246 00:24:20.380 --> 00:24:24.860 I'm gay now and I can say this with a whole lot of authority and listen to 247 00:24:24.860 --> 00:24:31.180 the LBGTYQ is not going to be happy when they hear this it's pure fact I've been 248 00:24:31.180 --> 00:24:35.740 pastoring for over 35 years I've watched what's happening the circle is coming 249 00:24:35.740 --> 00:24:42.540 out to full circle I've had people say Pastor Jack I'm 17 years old I'm gay and 250 00:24:42.540 --> 00:24:47.980 now they've come back around high pastor Jack I'm 27 remember me maybe I do 251 00:24:47.980 --> 00:24:52.220 maybe I don't I told you right here in the church for you that I was gay turns 252 00:24:52.220 --> 00:24:58.220 out I wasn't boy did I go down to stupid road and make bad decisions I want to 253 00:24:58.220 --> 00:25:01.580 be a dad or I want to be a wife I want to have a normal relationship 254 00:25:01.580 --> 00:25:05.180 and I want a girlfriend or I want a boyfriend I want to have a family and I 255 00:25:05.180 --> 00:25:11.020 want to have kids and then they wake up so now here's my answer to people who say 256 00:25:11.020 --> 00:25:16.300 I'm gay now I always say to them I never take them seriously they can 257 00:25:16.300 --> 00:25:20.460 Pastor Jack you know I just want you know I'm gay now no you're not I don't believe you 258 00:25:20.540 --> 00:25:29.260 what no I don't think you are I don't think you're gay and that's founded upon science by the way 259 00:25:29.260 --> 00:25:35.740 God doesn't make gay man makes gay God made us to make babies 260 00:25:40.220 --> 00:25:47.180 so if you can't make a baby then what's going on here well first of all you can thank God 261 00:25:47.180 --> 00:25:54.140 that God exists right now I need to repent and get your life straight with him right with him 262 00:25:55.260 --> 00:25:58.620 but you know you say well that's so brutal that's so brutal no you want to hear brutal 263 00:25:59.900 --> 00:26:02.780 I'll tell I'll tell you honestly because they're not going to tell you 264 00:26:04.380 --> 00:26:09.100 you know for example Richard Dawkins is any an evolutionist I think he's the most famous 265 00:26:09.100 --> 00:26:19.260 evolutionist walking around right now or is it um who's the other guy is um Harris 266 00:26:22.860 --> 00:26:29.260 no Hitchens is Hitchens tragically's in hell I hope I wish I hope he's in heaven but Hitchens is 267 00:26:29.260 --> 00:26:33.660 gone he's a Jewish guy he's the neurologist you guys know I'm talking about 268 00:26:34.620 --> 00:26:41.420 I hear us anyway he's an evolutionist have you noticed evolutionist never 269 00:26:42.460 --> 00:26:48.620 Sam Harris thank you thank you have you noticed that evolutionist never talk about homosexuality 270 00:26:50.940 --> 00:26:57.260 they should be the ones talking about it first because you know what they believe that homosexuality 271 00:26:57.340 --> 00:27:09.340 was eradicated by evolutionary processes in in place that washed away homosexuality 272 00:27:10.780 --> 00:27:16.700 10,000 years ago a million years ago evolution does not allow for homosexuality 273 00:27:18.620 --> 00:27:20.940 it's impossible evolution to say 274 00:27:21.900 --> 00:27:28.700 we would thank God if we believed in God but we're going to thank evolution because a homosexual 275 00:27:28.700 --> 00:27:35.180 only lasts for one generation and he's dead evolution washes out that anomaly that's evolution 276 00:27:35.180 --> 00:27:42.620 I didn't say it that's evolution it washes away the anomaly I'm saying to you that God can heal 277 00:27:42.700 --> 00:27:52.540 brokenness he loves doing that please please consider Jesus next question last question last 278 00:27:52.540 --> 00:28:03.100 question with such a noisy world how does one oh oh wow this is personal whoof how does somebody 279 00:28:03.100 --> 00:28:11.980 quiet their mind in such a noisy world wow this is personal because I'm going to give you two 280 00:28:11.980 --> 00:28:18.380 answers maybe three not sure but two for sure and I'm sure people are going to be upset with me when 281 00:28:18.380 --> 00:28:25.740 I say this I don't care this is what works for me I've always found my comfort because the Bible 282 00:28:25.740 --> 00:28:31.420 says to find comfort in the scriptures the Bible says that we need to renew our minds in the Bible 283 00:28:31.420 --> 00:28:38.620 number one question how much Bible are you just letting 284 00:28:41.020 --> 00:28:51.580 sit seep drip marinate meditate into your life I'm not talking about your daily Bible reading which 285 00:28:51.580 --> 00:28:56.460 is about 20 minutes long boom boom boom boom boom get in the car let's go that's not it that will do 286 00:28:56.540 --> 00:29:05.340 you nothing I'm talking about sitting there with a verse or a couple of verses and you're actually 287 00:29:05.340 --> 00:29:14.540 letting it marinate inside of you that begins to calm you down it begins to steal the heart in 288 00:29:14.540 --> 00:29:22.060 fact you'll even see your heart rate slow down your mind will start to be renewed as the Bible says 289 00:29:22.060 --> 00:29:26.940 that's how you renew your mind is with the word of God those of you who don't like to hear this or 290 00:29:26.940 --> 00:29:31.820 those of you who are saying that doesn't work you're actually admitting that you do not meditate 291 00:29:31.820 --> 00:29:36.220 on the scriptures I'm telling you right now the Bible story you meditate on scriptures it affects 292 00:29:36.220 --> 00:29:49.180 you I am mr. ADD okay and I have two problems going on I'm not only ADD but I'm certain that I have 293 00:29:49.180 --> 00:29:56.860 some form of chemical disorder and you may have the same for this reason I know that I have a 294 00:29:56.860 --> 00:30:04.460 very hyperactive liver because that's been diagnosed so for example if you take a sleeping pill 295 00:30:04.460 --> 00:30:10.540 and you fall over and go to sleep and I take the same pill you take I'm going to watch you sleep 296 00:30:11.420 --> 00:30:18.300 it has no effect on my body if you were to take two sleeping pills you would sleep eight hours 297 00:30:19.020 --> 00:30:24.460 I would take two and I would watch you sleep for eight hours it doesn't affect my body 298 00:30:25.100 --> 00:30:30.620 and that is a very very bad thing I'm one of those guys that if I go into surgery I've gone through 299 00:30:30.620 --> 00:30:37.180 procedures and I'm the guy that wakes up or I'm the guy that feels stuff and I can't move you 300 00:30:37.580 --> 00:30:43.580 until the doctor about it it's horrible so I'm being very personal with you right now but I 301 00:30:43.580 --> 00:30:53.180 got to tell you right now my mind always listen my mind always oh by the way write this down 302 00:30:55.180 --> 00:31:02.380 how to handle your emotions by June hunt it's a book how to handle your emotions by June hunt 303 00:31:03.100 --> 00:31:10.780 hunt it the book but back to my problem I'm going to I'm going to do this this is 304 00:31:12.220 --> 00:31:20.460 until recently I didn't know any better in my head this is what you would hear in my head this 305 00:31:20.460 --> 00:31:35.180 is what I would hear hear that static that's been in my head for 65 years 66 years lay down 306 00:31:37.500 --> 00:31:42.700 walk read talk hear that static 307 00:31:43.340 --> 00:31:56.380 and somebody told me to start taking niacin now I'm not a doctor don't pretend to be a doctor do not 308 00:31:56.380 --> 00:32:06.620 try this at home niacin for me I started taking heavy dosages of niacin very expensive not trash that 309 00:32:06.620 --> 00:32:16.780 you buy it some dumpy you know store this is very very high in niacin and I take a volume of it 310 00:32:17.740 --> 00:32:22.380 daily and I've been doing this for a little over a month and listen to this 311 00:32:26.300 --> 00:32:32.700 stopped I don't know I don't know if I was nice and deficient I don't know if niacin goes to war 312 00:32:32.700 --> 00:32:43.580 and fixes it I don't know but this I know there is a spiritual problem that is dealt with by 313 00:32:44.220 --> 00:32:53.900 immersion and meditation in the Bible and God fixes it in my life there's a combo issue where I 314 00:32:53.900 --> 00:33:03.660 found out that I have this noise this white noise in my head and for whatever reasons niacin took it 315 00:33:03.660 --> 00:33:13.740 away so you may have a chemical problem a hormonal problem of blood disorder something but this I know 316 00:33:13.740 --> 00:33:26.780 for sure renewing my mind in the scriptures calm us me down see when we freak we have a tendency to 317 00:33:26.780 --> 00:33:32.540 run right past the Bible with our hair on fire when we should stick our head in a bucket of water 318 00:33:34.540 --> 00:33:40.060 put out the fire sit down and read for example the Psalms or the book of Philippians where 319 00:33:40.060 --> 00:33:49.100 their God promises you to give you a sound mind okay try it look into that so listen I know this 320 00:33:49.100 --> 00:33:55.900 is crazy crazy podcast strange you may not want to share this with anybody else but if you do 321 00:33:55.900 --> 00:34:00.700 you can go to jack hips.com you can hit share you can hit subscribe you can hit like 322 00:34:02.140 --> 00:34:07.980 but look we're just keeping it real we believe that it's time for us you know our word right 323 00:34:07.980 --> 00:34:12.380 is we believe that it's time for us to live out what we believe in it's time for real life 324 00:34:12.380 --> 00:34:19.660 and this is part of it and so I want to just do that and be happy about it because the the 325 00:34:19.660 --> 00:34:25.900 awesome thing is I'm at a time you can hear the alarm we got to go God bless you guys jack hips.com 326 00:34:25.900 --> 00:34:26.700 we'll see you next time 327 00:34:31.340 --> 00:34:36.780 this jack hips podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported 328 00:34:37.260 --> 00:34:44.460 will you consider partnering with us through a special gift go to jackhids.com to learn more 329 00:34:44.460 --> 00:34:47.740 and stay connected