WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.760 Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.760 --> 00:00:09.280 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. 3 00:00:09.280 --> 00:00:14.200 There comes a monumental moment in every one of our lives. Most of them, by the way, are 4 00:00:14.200 --> 00:00:21.360 terrifying. The monumental moment, sometimes when things are defined, when a moment is 5 00:00:21.360 --> 00:00:27.600 before you and you are compelled to do something that is beyond you, or there's an issue 6 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:31.840 in front of you, and you look around and you say things like this, somebody's got to do something, 7 00:00:31.840 --> 00:00:36.880 somebody's got to do something. And then there's almost like a tap on your back and God is saying, 8 00:00:39.040 --> 00:00:44.560 it's why I have you right here right now. It's you. You're to do this. 9 00:00:47.760 --> 00:00:53.760 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 10 00:00:54.400 --> 00:01:00.240 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 11 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:05.440 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's like saying, 12 00:01:05.440 --> 00:01:11.920 amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to what God's 13 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:19.760 word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. Can God revive America? I don't know. When it comes 14 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:24.960 to our government, I don't see a difference anymore between our parties. They're all on the same 15 00:01:24.960 --> 00:01:33.600 team. The only problem is what team? At this hour, we have people in this country that have 16 00:01:33.600 --> 00:01:41.760 now been discovered to be a military, paramilitary army that have made it, that have made it across 17 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:50.080 our southern borders, men identified, men skilled at warfare, men, not of this country, but have 18 00:01:50.080 --> 00:01:59.280 come here for mischief. What's going on? Unless God intervenes, we will find out. Unless God 19 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:09.440 intervenes, we'll soon know. But this is not the country I grew up in. But I believe that God 20 00:02:09.440 --> 00:02:16.560 will hear from heaven one, one decision to memorialize today in our lives to God and to dedicate 21 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:23.280 our faith to him and our nation to him. God spared Nineveh. We're pretty bad as a country, 22 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:28.880 but if you study the history of Nineveh, you think Adolf Hitler invented some bad stuff regarding 23 00:02:28.880 --> 00:02:33.680 the Jews? Did you know that Hitler's people studied what the Ninevehites did to the Jews, 24 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:41.280 which is how they figured out how to get skin and make furniture? That was not Hitler. Hitler 25 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:51.200 got that from Nineveh. Did you know that? There's been worse nations, but God spared one 26 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:57.120 for a generation because they turned back to God or they turned to God at all, and that was the 27 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:04.320 Ninevehites. But what's it going to take? We must be a people that are thankful to God, 28 00:03:05.760 --> 00:03:11.280 and it's obviously it's time that we throw off the yoke of ease. It's not a sin to have ease, 29 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:19.760 God's blessed us. But it's time for us to do what a good friend of mine said. He's immigrated 30 00:03:19.760 --> 00:03:24.720 here from another country and he said, you know, he said, what you learn in the country I came from 31 00:03:24.720 --> 00:03:34.320 is you learn how to suffer. He said, as Americans, we need to learn how to suffer. I want you to 32 00:03:34.320 --> 00:03:45.680 hear from a man who stood for what he believed in, everybody hated him. A man when he was running 33 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:53.440 for president, his opponent yelled at him and said, I believe you're too faced and he turned and he 34 00:03:53.440 --> 00:03:59.680 said, friend, if I had another face, do you think I'd be wearing the one I'm wearing right now? 35 00:04:01.440 --> 00:04:08.560 That was Abraham Lincoln. And what he believed in cost him his life. 36 00:04:11.200 --> 00:04:17.280 Have you been to the Lincoln Memorial? Have you stood there before the giant of a man that's 37 00:04:17.280 --> 00:04:22.960 in marble? And have you stood before that incredible altar? It's actually set up to be as like a 38 00:04:22.960 --> 00:04:29.200 Greek altar. And on each side, the second inaugural address by Lincoln and the Gettysburg 39 00:04:29.200 --> 00:04:34.400 address on the other side. And both of them flanked Lincoln sitting in that incredible 40 00:04:35.520 --> 00:04:44.640 chair. By the way, his arms are rested on two books or what they believe to be the 10 commandments 41 00:04:44.640 --> 00:04:48.400 or others have speculated the new and the Old Testament. We don't know. 42 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:58.400 But what do you believe cost him his life? Did you know what his final words were? Have you been 43 00:04:58.400 --> 00:05:04.560 to the Ford theater? You can still see his clothing. There's blood still there. It's preserved his 44 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:14.960 blood. Did you know what he told Mary? His last words to Mary, his wife, he said, 45 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:30.000 Mary, I want to walk on the streets of Jerusalem and Lincoln was shot dead. 46 00:05:32.400 --> 00:05:39.520 He's memorialized forever. Frankly, if you study about his life and how he came to his end, 47 00:05:39.520 --> 00:05:46.320 he believed that black and white should live together and experience the same exact 48 00:05:46.320 --> 00:05:52.480 freedoms that there should be no difference. And that it came from the Bible. I had an awesome 49 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:58.400 opportunity, Lisa and I, to be in President and Harrison's house. And in that President's home, 50 00:05:58.400 --> 00:06:06.480 we went to our forget what room it is, but they called it the Lincoln Bible room and in that room 51 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:13.840 from Florida ceiling, as it surrounded a fireplace, was all of Lincoln's Bibles. Lincoln would read 52 00:06:13.840 --> 00:06:17.920 the Bible and write them up and write them up and then they would be filed away. He'd get a new 53 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:24.560 Bible, write them up, put it away and the wall was filled with Bibles and remarkable. You don't 54 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:30.080 have to hear about that. But what do you believe in cost him his life? And as a Christian, 55 00:06:30.880 --> 00:06:37.040 that's the call to duty, as a believer. That's nothing for us, according to the Scripture. 56 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:45.280 Jesus said, if you die believing in me yet shall you live? It's absolutely amazing. But listen, 57 00:06:45.280 --> 00:06:51.600 it's also this, you guys, is the fact that the message of the memorial is what's important, 58 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:57.200 what's the message? The Bible tells us that enumerous accounts throughout the Bible, 59 00:06:57.200 --> 00:07:01.840 throughout the Old Testament specifically, that something would take place and then there would 60 00:07:01.840 --> 00:07:06.640 be announced, this is what it means. And the Scriptures would be then given 61 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:16.080 to pass this on to the next generation. In Joshua chapter 4, verse 17, the Bible tells us then 62 00:07:16.080 --> 00:07:20.960 the priest who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of 63 00:07:20.960 --> 00:07:26.080 the Jordan, that's the Jordan River, and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until the people 64 00:07:26.080 --> 00:07:33.760 had crossed over completely over the Jordan. Memorials and the message, it's not just the memorial. 65 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:43.120 Lincoln speaks beyond the graves, so to speak. You go to the Jordan River and you don't look 66 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:48.080 at the water today when we take our Israel tours, you think about what happened here, the message 67 00:07:48.080 --> 00:07:54.160 of what this stands for. When you stand at the foot of the Washington Monument, you don't think 68 00:07:54.240 --> 00:08:01.600 about the stone, you don't think about Washington. If you know him, by the way, every American should 69 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:09.040 know him, there's volumes for you to get to know him. Oh, one of my favorites. We'll go together 70 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:14.640 some time and our next, when we schedule again a heritage tour, when we stand there at the Jefferson 71 00:08:14.640 --> 00:08:24.640 Memorial and the four panels that are surrounding Thomas Jefferson, written from his hands these 72 00:08:24.640 --> 00:08:30.640 engraved and stone are all of these remarkable statements that we've come to grow up in love 73 00:08:30.640 --> 00:08:38.560 and every one of them reference God. But our world would not have you know that now. That would 74 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:45.760 be scrubbed right out of our woke education today. How long will it take this nation once it 75 00:08:46.800 --> 00:08:52.880 divorces itself from God to even erase granite? I don't want to see that, 76 00:08:55.040 --> 00:09:02.640 but a memorial is speaking, it's always speaking. And we would think about this as well, 77 00:09:03.520 --> 00:09:10.960 what do we do about it? God's Bible is real, it's not a story book. Will God come down again in power? 78 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:16.960 I'm asking him, are you willing to ask him? God will you come down again in power? 79 00:09:18.160 --> 00:09:23.440 If you and I wake up tomorrow morning, God will you come down in power? Why not? Are we not weak? 80 00:09:24.160 --> 00:09:32.240 Do we not need his power? Don't we qualify? I believe we do, we qualify beautifully. 81 00:09:33.520 --> 00:09:35.760 So what do we do about it? We lean upon a God. 82 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:42.720 Everybody's been watching the news, we've been watching the great reset. Those of you who have 83 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:48.480 the slightest retirement, now we see our government's attacking the 401k that you have, 84 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:54.800 going after your, listen, city, county, state employees, look what the government and 85 00:09:54.800 --> 00:09:59.520 Washington's starting to target your retirement. Look what's coming, look what's happening. 86 00:09:59.520 --> 00:10:04.560 You say we were, I thought that was untouchable, you thought wrong. What's happening? 87 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:15.360 And that can make you unnerved. Or, this is what you can do about it. Lord your Bible anticipated 88 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:20.800 such days, Job said it, oldest book in the Bible, Job, naked I have come into this world and 89 00:10:20.800 --> 00:10:25.840 naked I'll leave. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Right? None of us are going to be taking our 90 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:35.760 stuff with us into heaven. We also know this that the message of a memorial is that it speaks 91 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:40.240 out. We need to speak out and we need to speak up people. 92 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:46.560 We see a lot of things going on in our culture that you can no longer turn a blind eye to. 93 00:10:47.280 --> 00:10:50.640 Our nation's under attack and they're from a wrangle. 94 00:10:56.960 --> 00:11:01.760 But there are things people that we need to stand. The Bible says in Deuteronomy chapter 6, verse 6, 95 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:08.640 and these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently 96 00:11:08.640 --> 00:11:13.360 to your children. That a beautiful thing. Imagine falling around chasing your kids all day, 97 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:19.600 telling them stuff about God. And shall talk of them when you sit down in your house and when 98 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:25.920 you walk by the way, when you lie down, Bible, hey, hey, Junior, listen to this. Joshua did. Do you 99 00:11:25.920 --> 00:11:37.680 what Deborah did? Wow. And when you rise up, you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they 100 00:11:37.680 --> 00:11:44.240 shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorpost of your house and on 101 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:49.920 your gates. What? The great things that God has done. And then finally, we end with this, the 102 00:11:49.920 --> 00:11:56.880 makings of a memorial. I hope you leave with the desire to do this in your life. Who are you? 103 00:11:57.680 --> 00:12:06.640 What has God given you? Jurisdiction over? What is within your reach? The Bible tells us 104 00:12:06.640 --> 00:12:12.160 those who compare themselves with others are not wise. Have you noticed that? Have you ever heard 105 00:12:12.160 --> 00:12:16.640 of that term keeping up with the Joneses? That's a really stupid thing to do. I know it's a huge 106 00:12:16.640 --> 00:12:23.920 temptation, but don't do it. It ends in destruction. Listen, if your friend has got a gold-plated 107 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:30.160 lawnmower that doesn't mean you need a gold-plated lawnmower, that's his stupidity. Not yours. 108 00:12:30.560 --> 00:12:38.960 Okay, but find out what God wants you to do with your life and then do it with all of your heart. 109 00:12:40.800 --> 00:12:50.240 And when somebody says to you, my, that's amazing. You can say something to the effect. God's 110 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:59.120 been good to me. That's all you need to do and the door begins to open. So quickly it's this. 111 00:12:59.840 --> 00:13:05.360 There comes a monumental moment in every one of our lives. Most of them, by the way, are terrifying. 112 00:13:06.400 --> 00:13:13.600 The monumental moment. Sometimes when things are defined, when a moment is before you and you 113 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:21.120 are compelled to do something that is beyond you, or there's an issue in front of you and you look 114 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:25.120 around and you say things like this. Somebody's got to do something. Somebody's got to do something. 115 00:13:26.160 --> 00:13:32.800 And then there's almost like a tap on your back and God is saying, it's why I have you right here 116 00:13:32.800 --> 00:13:41.920 right now. It's you. You're to do this. But don't look around to compare yourself with others. 117 00:13:41.920 --> 00:13:47.040 God says, don't do that. We should encourage every single one of us, you know? 118 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:55.680 And also regarding the dedication of the memorial is because when we stand there at a Jefferson 119 00:13:55.680 --> 00:14:03.680 or at a Lincoln, or how about this? My favorite in Washington DC is the World War II Memorial. 120 00:14:03.680 --> 00:14:06.560 It's absolutely stunning. If you've never seen it, you got to go. 121 00:14:07.040 --> 00:14:13.440 First time I ever arrived there, I just was looking at the incredible layout of it all. 122 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:16.800 It was just so spectacular. And then I looked around and I saw a Japanese crime. 123 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:26.400 And I thought, wow. And then I saw a group of Italians crime. 124 00:14:26.880 --> 00:14:36.560 And some French, you see people from all over the world will gravitate to the World War II Memorial. 125 00:14:36.560 --> 00:14:42.640 And on one side, it's all the battles and all of the commitments of the Atlantic Theater it says. 126 00:14:43.520 --> 00:14:48.000 And on the other side, the same regarding the Pacific Theater of war. 127 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:58.480 But today, our kids are learning that America's ugly mean racist. 128 00:15:01.760 --> 00:15:05.840 Just for the record, I want to announce that those are a bunch of bizarre, strange, 129 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:12.160 communist, certainly liars who either know the truth and they're hiding it, or they have an 130 00:15:12.160 --> 00:15:18.720 evil agenda. You can come to this country and I've got friends that came here with nothing 131 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:25.680 in their multi-millionaires. They created a business at a 20 bucks. They've employed thousands of 132 00:15:25.680 --> 00:15:40.800 people. Oh, listen. This nation, we should stand, we should pray, we should vote, we should 133 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:46.960 take care of our neighbors, we should show the love of Jesus. But let's know this, that memorials, 134 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:52.240 when you stand at a memorial, it's to remind you of something great. And when you stand there before 135 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:57.680 the Washington or the Jefferson, you are reminded. You don't talk to it, by the way. You don't 136 00:15:57.680 --> 00:16:02.800 do that. And when I looked at the World War II Memorial, I was so moved and then I kept walking 137 00:16:02.800 --> 00:16:08.000 and I went to the strangest looking memorial we have as a country. It's at ground level. You start 138 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:15.040 walking and it starts to happen to you. And it's a stone ice cold black marble wall. 139 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:23.360 It's the Vietnam War Memorial. And it was the only one I saw. I never saw somebody standing in 140 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:29.600 front of Jefferson saying thank you, Thomas. It was awesome. There's nobody talking to George 141 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:35.280 Washington at Mount Vernon. But when you go to the Vietnam War Memorial, there's people leaning 142 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:42.720 on the wall. They're crying. They're called, they're speaking to their uncles and brothers and sisters. 143 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:51.360 It's amazing. The expense of freedom, the cost of it all, and make no mistake about it. 144 00:16:54.160 --> 00:16:58.320 If we were as bad as people are saying that we are, by the way, people don't say we're bad outside 145 00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:02.320 this country. You know that? You have to get outside this country. People want America to do well. 146 00:17:02.640 --> 00:17:07.520 It's only inside where a bunch of petulant brats are complaining about what they have. 147 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:19.200 And I got to tell you, I have to tell you that 148 00:17:19.280 --> 00:17:31.440 from 1945 on, if America was such a bad country, do you know that nobody could have stopped 149 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:37.760 us from conquering the entire world? You know that? You understand that? We're the only 150 00:17:37.760 --> 00:17:43.680 atomic power on the face of the earth. You think anybody was going to rise up after we decimated 151 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:52.240 Japan? We were feared. How many other countries did we take? How come you and I don't live in 152 00:17:52.240 --> 00:18:00.480 France right now? That's a nice place. How come we, why don't we have the freedom to go live in 153 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:04.640 China right now? Hey, how come we don't live in Germany right now? You know why? Because we're not 154 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:08.960 occupiers, we're liberators. We're not a conquering nation. 155 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:18.160 This Jack Hibbs podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, 156 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:22.800 are listener supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 157 00:18:23.520 --> 00:18:29.120 Go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected.