WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.820 Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.820 --> 00:00:11.180 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. You are living right now at a time 3 00:00:11.180 --> 00:00:17.460 where God is dividing what is, watch my fingers, the church from what is his 4 00:00:17.460 --> 00:00:22.620 church. That divide is happening right now. And right now we are in a time when I 5 00:00:22.620 --> 00:00:27.260 believe God is shaking the church to see what fruit hangs in there. Are you with me? 6 00:00:27.260 --> 00:00:33.060 Do you understand them that? What stays on the tree versus what falls to the ground? 7 00:00:35.060 --> 00:00:41.580 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 8 00:00:41.580 --> 00:00:46.940 Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 9 00:00:46.940 --> 00:00:51.800 life in Christ then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us 10 00:00:51.800 --> 00:00:57.380 that's like saying amen or yes. Then that rating will encourage others to listen. 11 00:00:57.380 --> 00:01:03.520 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 12 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:08.780 We begin now here. Verse 3 says for even Christ not please himself but as it is 13 00:01:08.780 --> 00:01:12.700 written the reproach of those who reproached you fell upon me. I need only 14 00:01:12.700 --> 00:01:16.240 to circle that in your Bible. You ought to highlight that because this is a 15 00:01:16.240 --> 00:01:22.680 glorious declaration it's extremely deep and it is this. According to Paul who's 16 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:27.640 writing the book of Romans chapter 15 verse 3 he knows exactly what he's 17 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:32.600 talking about and this speaks to us today 21 centuries later. When he says 18 00:01:32.600 --> 00:01:39.560 Christ did not please himself but as it is written and now he quotes the 69th 19 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:45.860 Psalm write it down in your notes Psalm 69 and verse 9 says this because the 20 00:01:45.860 --> 00:01:51.000 zeal of your house has eaten me up. This is speaking of the Messiah. So the Messiah 21 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:56.240 is speaking to the Father because the zeal of your house has eaten me up and 22 00:01:56.240 --> 00:02:01.760 the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen upon me. Technically the 23 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:08.720 letter or the M in me should be capitalized as it is in my Bible. Me is 24 00:02:08.720 --> 00:02:14.120 Messiah the anointed one. Jesus is saying it's referring to the Messiah that the 25 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:23.640 the Lord's house they have abused it and they've abused me. That's what the 26 00:02:23.640 --> 00:02:28.440 Messiah is saying and this is very very powerful. Psalm 69 verse 9 if you want to 27 00:02:28.440 --> 00:02:32.600 write that right down in the margins next to verse 3 it's valuable if you do 28 00:02:32.600 --> 00:02:38.120 that but listen how do we know and this is a diagnostic question it's very good 29 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:43.040 for all of us so I'm gonna ask you I'm gonna be sarcastic deliberately and you're 30 00:02:43.040 --> 00:02:49.360 gonna forgive me in advance we're just playing around right now if Psalm 69 says 31 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:58.960 that and Paul the Apostle who was a Hebrew of the Hebrews quotes it then how do 32 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:04.920 we know in the 21st century if Jesus is truly the Messiah and if our Bible is 33 00:03:04.920 --> 00:03:09.440 really real should we even invest in our Bible how do we know for sure listen 34 00:03:09.440 --> 00:03:14.600 this is critical you have no idea if the New Testament's true unless you've 35 00:03:14.600 --> 00:03:20.360 read and studied the Old Testament here's one of those dividing points in what 36 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:25.680 is called Christianity we are now in the days where God has waited and 37 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:31.200 waited and waited and he's given us time to study the full Council of God what 38 00:03:31.200 --> 00:03:36.120 does that mean to read Genesis to Revelation we're all supposed to know it so 39 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:40.200 that when the Old Testament verse is quoted like it is right here right now it 40 00:03:40.200 --> 00:03:45.280 should jump off the page of your Bible look at your Bible it doesn't say in verse 41 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:53.000 3 and so I Paul quote Psalm 69 insane the reproach of those who reproached you 42 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:58.560 fell on me you know what are you guys with me you know what he's assuming he's 43 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:04.720 assuming the reader already knows that today you can stop by any church in 44 00:04:04.720 --> 00:04:10.720 America and ask or find out if they ever studied the Old Testament or do they 45 00:04:10.720 --> 00:04:16.720 reference the Old Testament and if that church is ignorant to the Old Testament 46 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:24.000 they don't have any assurance that the New Testament is real you've made an 47 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:29.280 assumption that you can't support the reason why we believe in the New Testament 48 00:04:29.280 --> 00:04:34.400 is because the Old Testament said oh by the way look for this when the Messiah 49 00:04:34.400 --> 00:04:38.320 comes and you'll be able to put one and one together and you'll be able to come 50 00:04:38.320 --> 00:04:45.840 up with two and this is critical because we have eyewitness accounts so if the 51 00:04:45.840 --> 00:04:51.960 Old Testament said it and the New Testament recorded it now we've got a case 52 00:04:51.960 --> 00:05:01.240 that we can enter into the hearing the courtroom John chapter 2 verse 13 53 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:06.400 watch this John chapter 2 verse 13 now the pastor of the Jews was at hand and 54 00:05:06.400 --> 00:05:10.960 Jesus went up to Jerusalem and he found in the temple those who sold 55 00:05:10.960 --> 00:05:15.800 oxen and sheep and doves and the money changers doing business and when he 56 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:22.360 had made a whip of cords he drove them out of the temple with the sheep and the 57 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:28.280 oxen and poured out the changers money and overturned the tables and he said to 58 00:05:28.280 --> 00:05:34.120 those his soul doves take these things away do not make my father's house a house 59 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:40.840 of merchandise then his disciples remembered that it was written the zeal for 60 00:05:40.840 --> 00:05:45.200 your house as eating me up you guys the disciples by this at this time were 61 00:05:45.200 --> 00:05:50.560 mirror most of them mirror Galilean fishermen but they were Jews who had been 62 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:55.200 brought up in the Old Testament scriptures and when they saw Jesus do that 63 00:05:55.200 --> 00:06:02.000 they all concluded oh my gosh this is exactly what we were brought up on in 64 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:09.240 synagogue every week we recognize that we recognize Christ through the 65 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:15.960 scriptures think of that this is very powerful listen to this there's more Isaiah 56 66 00:06:15.960 --> 00:06:22.520 verse 7 even them I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful over my 67 00:06:22.520 --> 00:06:29.520 house of prayer their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my 68 00:06:29.520 --> 00:06:37.280 altar for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations this is a 69 00:06:37.280 --> 00:06:41.960 huge statement by the way it's not only God's house of prayer this it's more 70 00:06:41.960 --> 00:06:50.000 than the temple in Jerusalem God is saying yeah sure go to the temple and pray 71 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:57.840 just know this it's a place of prayer for how many nations wow think of it does 72 00:06:57.840 --> 00:07:06.320 that mean Gentile nations yeah Gentile nations and Israel wow Matthew 21 verse 73 00:07:06.320 --> 00:07:11.600 3 this is why we love our Bibles Matthew 21 3 and if anyone says anything to 74 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:16.360 you Jesus is saying you shall say the Lord has need of them and immediately he 75 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:23.000 will send them what is this he is announcing the fact that the revelation of his 76 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:27.960 Palm Sunday announcement was set up by the fact that God was at work putting 77 00:07:27.960 --> 00:07:34.920 these things together Mark 11 verse 17 then he taught saying to them is it 78 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:40.600 not written my house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations but you 79 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:46.960 have made it into a den of thieves Jesus said that quoting you now know exactly 80 00:07:46.960 --> 00:07:53.080 the Old Testament wow so Christ is announcing and this is something that you 81 00:07:53.080 --> 00:07:57.480 have to if you say Jesus is not Messiah if that Jesus is not the anointed one 82 00:07:57.480 --> 00:08:06.360 you've got some explaining to do Lucy because Jesus Himself applies the Old 83 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:11.720 Testament passage to Himself you got to get through that one and then 84 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:16.000 Paul the Apostle the great student of the Word of God and the disciples and the 85 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:22.640 Apostles also apply Jesus to that folks it's time to change your mind about who 86 00:08:22.640 --> 00:08:28.160 Jesus is look at John chapter 5 this is awesome John chapter 5 you guys do 87 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:34.240 with me John chapter 5 verse 37 says and the Father Himself Jesus is speaking 88 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:40.400 who sent me has testified of me you have neither heard his voice at any time 89 00:08:40.400 --> 00:08:47.080 nor seen his form but you do not have his word of biting in you because whom he 90 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:53.560 sent him you do not believe this is Jesus speaking of himself you search the 91 00:08:53.560 --> 00:08:59.680 scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life and these are they which 92 00:08:59.680 --> 00:09:04.920 testify of me but you are not willing to come to me that you may have life 93 00:09:04.920 --> 00:09:09.920 notice the connection here he's speaking to the scribes and Pharisees the 94 00:09:09.920 --> 00:09:17.240 professional religionist and he's saying to them God sent me to you as he 95 00:09:17.240 --> 00:09:21.960 foretold in the scriptures you search those Old Testament scriptures and you 96 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:28.240 study them day and night but you are refusing to recognize what they say if you 97 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:33.320 recognized what they said you would know that the Father sent me to you but 98 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:38.720 you're not willing that's about as crystal clear apologetic as you can get 99 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:44.840 Jesus is the same hey you know you guys been studying all your life yeah and you 100 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:48.920 guys know about the anointed one right yeah that's the Messiah that's right you 101 00:09:48.920 --> 00:09:52.760 know all the miracles I've been doing opening the eyes of the blind raising the 102 00:09:52.760 --> 00:09:58.440 dead un loosening or untying people's tongues so they can speak cleansing people of 103 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:03.080 leprosy yeah yeah we saw that they all said they saw it all the guys that said 104 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:06.360 we don't believe you Jesus is why do you not believe me because of the 105 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:11.600 miracles he drew it right out of them they said no we we see the miracles we 106 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:20.240 recognize that man that's amazing the miracles that were awesome were the 107 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:24.900 same miracles that condemned these guys to damnation because they wouldn't 108 00:10:24.900 --> 00:10:28.360 believe listen it's not that they wouldn't believe in the miracles they believed in 109 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:33.560 the miracles they said no another miracles are great but we will not come to you 110 00:10:33.560 --> 00:10:43.320 because you have declared yourself to be God and that gets in our way and Jesus 111 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:51.080 is announcing to them you're not willing to learn this out of his own mouth 112 00:10:51.080 --> 00:10:56.920 this is one of my favorites Luke chapter 24 this is awesome if I were to ever do a 113 00:10:56.920 --> 00:11:02.800 movie which I would never would I would love to have this done just because it's 114 00:11:02.800 --> 00:11:12.040 it's awesome holy it's pure it's very comical it's precious this is Sunday 115 00:11:12.040 --> 00:11:16.840 evening after the resurrection morning we we would call it on resurrection day 116 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:20.840 or Easter day now on the first day of the week very early in the morning they 117 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:24.880 insert another woman with them came to the tomb bringing the spices which they 118 00:11:24.920 --> 00:11:29.080 had prepared this is the morning hours of it but they found the stone rolled away 119 00:11:29.080 --> 00:11:33.440 from the tomb and when they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus and 120 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:38.680 it happened as they were greatly perplexed about this that behold two men 121 00:11:38.680 --> 00:11:44.040 stood by them in shining garments obviously they look like men but they're 122 00:11:44.040 --> 00:11:48.160 wearing shining garments I think they're angels then as they were afraid and 123 00:11:48.160 --> 00:11:52.920 about their faces to the earth they said to them that is the two shining 124 00:11:52.920 --> 00:11:58.520 garment men here angels why do you seek the living among the dead now this is 125 00:11:58.520 --> 00:12:03.600 I'm sorry this is funny the women went to the tomb in the morning to bring the 126 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:07.920 embalming fluids remember because they didn't get a chance we know from another 127 00:12:07.920 --> 00:12:13.120 gospel where it says that at the resurrection Christ had been risen from the 128 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:16.840 dead and then there's a great earthquake and it says that the stone was rolled 129 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:22.520 away interesting if you do the chronology of it Jesus rose from the dead and then 130 00:12:22.520 --> 00:12:28.280 the stone was rolled away it's like Jesus didn't rise from the dead and like can 131 00:12:28.280 --> 00:12:33.640 somebody move the stone away so I can get out of here he rose from the dead and 132 00:12:33.640 --> 00:12:39.560 then at some point later an angel rolls the stone back the Bible says it was 133 00:12:39.560 --> 00:12:42.720 like an earthquake an angel rolls the stone back and then the angel sits on 134 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:49.840 top of the stone and listen if you go to the garden tomb it is a big big opening 135 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:55.200 so it had to be a big big stone and he's sitting there what was he doing he 136 00:12:55.200 --> 00:13:02.280 sitting there an angel is sitting there and he's like and and and they come 137 00:13:02.280 --> 00:13:09.160 running up and they see him and there's there's numerous visitations by 138 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:14.000 different groups of people yeah on that morning and there's various encounters 139 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:19.120 with angels here there's the two angels and but they say something awesome this 140 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:26.080 is a tomb where you put dead people and the angel say why are you here why are 141 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:34.240 you here looking for somebody who's alive is it come on church that's some great 142 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:41.440 divine sarcasm angels can put it on when they want to they can lay it down the 143 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:46.920 women are all there they go to all the spices what's where is he what do you 144 00:13:46.920 --> 00:13:51.280 mean where is he why are you here why are you looking for the living where the 145 00:13:51.280 --> 00:13:55.560 dead hang out he's not he's alive this is for dead people he's gone he's not 146 00:13:55.560 --> 00:14:01.720 here he's risen from the dead I just love this now watch what happens so it 147 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:07.440 says he's not here he's risen remember how he spoke to you when he was in 148 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:11.600 Galilee saying the son of man this is what Jesus said the son of man must be 149 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:15.440 delivered into the hands of sinful man and he crucified and on the third day 150 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:21.940 rise again okay so that plays out verse 13 fast forward same chapter now be 151 00:14:21.940 --> 00:14:27.760 hold two of them this these are two disciples now it's in the evening we're 152 00:14:27.760 --> 00:14:32.200 traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus which was about seven miles 153 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:36.920 from Jerusalem and they talked together of how these things which had happened 154 00:14:36.920 --> 00:14:43.480 and so it was while they conversed and reasoned that Jesus himself drew near and 155 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:48.520 went with them okay you got two guys walking along and then here comes Jesus 156 00:14:48.520 --> 00:14:54.280 whoop he just pulls alongside hey and they're walking you got it you got to 157 00:14:54.280 --> 00:15:00.000 put yourself in their sandals this is epic it's amazing so Jesus draws near 158 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.480 to them he's and he's with them verse 16 but their eyes were restrained so that 159 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:10.280 they did not know him and he said to them what kind of conversation is this 160 00:15:10.280 --> 00:15:18.680 that you have one with another as you walk in our sad this is Jesus asking them 161 00:15:18.680 --> 00:15:28.160 the question hey what are you guys bummed out about and then verse 18 the one 162 00:15:28.160 --> 00:15:33.320 whose name Cleopas answered and said to him are you the only stranger in 163 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:37.840 Jerusalem and have you not known the things which happened there in these days 164 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:42.520 like what's wrong with you I mean you've got to be some kind of stranger I mean 165 00:15:42.520 --> 00:15:47.760 everybody knows what happened this is beautiful I wonder if Jesus is like kind of 166 00:15:47.760 --> 00:16:01.600 like holding back a smile it's precious and so he says in verse 19 what things so 167 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:07.040 they said to him the things concerning Jesus of Nazareth who was a prophet might 168 00:16:07.040 --> 00:16:12.880 indeed and word before God and all the people and how the chief priest and the 169 00:16:12.880 --> 00:16:17.320 rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and crucified him but we were 170 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:23.600 hoping listen they lost hope we were hoping that it was he who was going to 171 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:29.440 redeem Israel indeed besides all this today's the third day since these things 172 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:35.640 happened yes and certain women of our company remember their earlier verse who 173 00:16:35.640 --> 00:16:40.320 arrived at the tomb earlier astonished us when they did not find his body and 174 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:45.920 they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said he was alive 175 00:16:45.920 --> 00:16:50.960 and a certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as 176 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:57.080 the women it said that was James and John but I'm sorry Peter and John but him 177 00:16:57.080 --> 00:17:04.160 they did not see then Jesus said to them all foolish ones and slow of heart to 178 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:11.760 believe in all the prophets have spoken ought not the Christ who have suffered 179 00:17:11.760 --> 00:17:17.360 these things and enter into his glory and beginning at Moses that's Genesis and 180 00:17:17.360 --> 00:17:23.400 all the prophets Jesus expounded to them all the scriptures the things 181 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:27.640 concerning himself then they drew near to the village where they were going and 182 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:34.200 he indicated that he would have gone on further but they constrained him they 183 00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:38.320 begged him come inside it's the sun is setting we've got to come inside abide 184 00:17:38.320 --> 00:17:42.960 with us for this toward evening and the day is far spent and he that's Jesus 185 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:48.080 went in to stay with them now it came to pass that as he sat at the table with 186 00:17:48.080 --> 00:17:52.920 them that he took bread he this is awesome okay pause right there this is not 187 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:59.720 even his house notice he takes the bread do you love this he didn't say 188 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:04.720 excuse me but you guys mine I know something else but can I take the bread he 189 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:10.600 takes the bread it's his house and it's his bread if you're God it's everything's 190 00:18:10.600 --> 00:18:21.720 yours and so where was I he said a table verse 31 then no verse 30 now it came to 191 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:25.840 pass that as you said at the table he took the bread blessed and broke it and 192 00:18:25.840 --> 00:18:33.000 watch and gave it to them right verse 31 then their eyes were opened and they 193 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:37.720 knew him now stop right there at that semicolon many scholars believe that their 194 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:42.360 eyes were veiled from recognizing him because it wasn't like it wasn't like 195 00:18:42.360 --> 00:18:47.280 who I'm gonna put smoke screen on you it's because we know and from other 196 00:18:47.280 --> 00:18:54.880 scriptures that when Jesus rose again from the dead he bore his scars remember 197 00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:58.760 what they had done to him that plucked out his beard they had disfigured him 198 00:18:58.760 --> 00:19:03.360 terribly in his resurrected body in the second coming the Bible tells us that 199 00:19:03.360 --> 00:19:12.000 Israel will question him as to the scars on his body isn't that wild by the way 200 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:18.160 that's that's certainly in surely speaks of resurrection not reincarnation 201 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:26.320 somebody has lovingly said the the only man made thing in heaven are scars upon 202 00:19:26.320 --> 00:19:36.360 the Lamb of God but notice that their eyes were opened those same scholars believe 203 00:19:36.360 --> 00:19:39.880 that when Jesus stretched out to hand them the bread that's when they saw the 204 00:19:39.880 --> 00:19:46.840 holes in his hands and that's what would have caused them to recognize him and 205 00:19:46.840 --> 00:19:52.880 then look he vanished from their sight okay that had to be awesome again they 206 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:56.840 probably look they the hands and this and they look at each other and they look 207 00:19:56.840 --> 00:20:02.240 back and he's gone then they slapped each other in the face I'm making this up 208 00:20:02.240 --> 00:20:06.600 sorry they had to slap each other around to see if they were sleeping that 209 00:20:06.600 --> 00:20:11.240 that's not in the Bible I just made that part up verse 32 and they said to one 210 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:16.520 another here it is did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us on 211 00:20:16.520 --> 00:20:23.280 the road and while he opened the scriptures to us the Jesus you and I worship 212 00:20:23.280 --> 00:20:31.200 those things written beforehand scream Jesus Christ we like Peter we join in and 213 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:36.080 say we have not followed continually device fables we're not following stories 214 00:20:36.080 --> 00:20:42.040 here we're following the facts Christ is risen from the dead that's what the 215 00:20:42.040 --> 00:20:47.000 New Testament reports because the Old Testament made the promise that's how we 216 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:51.720 know the Old Testament is true because the New Testament records what was written 217 00:20:51.720 --> 00:20:57.200 in advance that's how certain your faith can be folks that's amazing it's not 218 00:20:57.200 --> 00:21:02.360 an experiment it is absolute certainty that what you believe in can carry you 219 00:21:02.360 --> 00:21:06.440 all the way through through death's door and into the presence of Almighty God 220 00:21:06.440 --> 00:21:09.360 safe and sound 221 00:21:12.360 --> 00:21:17.240 this Jack Kibs podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are 222 00:21:17.240 --> 00:21:21.440 listeners supported will you consider partnering with us through a special 223 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:28.760 gift go to jackhibs.com to learn more 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