WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.840 Real life presents the Jack Hibb's podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:11.280 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Your salvation and my salvation 3 00:00:11.280 --> 00:00:17.460 was in his heart and mind and accomplished, positionally, in Christ before the 4 00:00:17.460 --> 00:00:23.240 world was ever created. Only God can do that! Is your God that big? The God of the Bible is! 5 00:00:23.240 --> 00:00:32.480 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibs.com slash podcast. 6 00:00:32.480 --> 00:00:37.880 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 7 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:42.720 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 8 00:00:42.720 --> 00:00:48.280 that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 9 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:53.720 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibb's. 10 00:00:55.000 --> 00:01:00.120 The church marked this down if you would. It is this that the fact is that God will be our 11 00:01:00.120 --> 00:01:05.160 defense and he does it in a way that is most unique and marked down if he would. It's this 12 00:01:05.160 --> 00:01:09.720 is that his innocence is now our innocence. You might see, well, Jack, what in the world, 13 00:01:09.720 --> 00:01:15.240 how in the world does innocence have anything to do about me being protected by God? It has everything 14 00:01:15.240 --> 00:01:20.840 to do. The innocence of Jesus Christ, listen to this. The innocence of Christ speaks about his 15 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:29.640 purity. Jesus Christ is not weak. We think of innocence and we think of a cute little puppy 16 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:39.560 or a kitty or some maybe figurine. The innocence of God is holy, it is pure and it is powerful. 17 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:46.440 We don't often connect innocence and power together but we don't often also put meekness and 18 00:01:46.440 --> 00:01:53.560 God together, Dewey. The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ is meek and yet the Bible tells us that 19 00:01:53.560 --> 00:02:01.000 from his face the heavens flee from his presence. The Bible tells us that Christ when he opens his mouth 20 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:08.520 in the coming future the earth will tremble but the Bible says he's meek and he's innocent. Pure 21 00:02:10.440 --> 00:02:17.720 and in that purity the Bible tells us that those of us who trust Christ, his innocence, his righteousness, 22 00:02:17.720 --> 00:02:25.160 his very nature of salvation has been imparted to us. That when God looks at you as a believer right 23 00:02:25.160 --> 00:02:31.240 now, see you and I are very mindful of our past, aren't we? It comes up too often, isn't it? Did 24 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:39.240 you know? Listen, when our minds pop up thinking about our past we are to wrestle that thought down 25 00:02:40.040 --> 00:02:47.000 with Scripture and we keep moving on. Why? Because you and I watch, watch, you and I have been 26 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:54.120 positionally in heaven declared innocent by the blood of Christ. The problem is you and I know you 27 00:02:54.600 --> 00:03:02.280 and I. And we are our problem. You know, regarding our salvation, listen, regarding our salvation, 28 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:06.760 God is not worrying about it. He's not biting his nails. He's not wondering exactly how it's 29 00:03:06.760 --> 00:03:12.200 going to work out. Oh my goodness. How's it going to go for Jack? He's not thinking about it. Did 30 00:03:12.200 --> 00:03:18.360 you know that? It's done. To God, it is done. He not only did it at the cross, you're going to 31 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:25.560 see today that your salvation and my salvation was in his heart and mind and accomplished 32 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:31.720 positionally in Christ before the world was ever created. Only God can do that. Is your God that 33 00:03:31.720 --> 00:03:39.560 big? The God of the Bible is. But in the meantime, you and I are in route. This is called sanctification. 34 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:45.880 It's kind of painful. And that is you and I live with you and I. And I am my biggest problem. 35 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:56.760 I'm convinced of this from Scripture. Michael, the archangel, he can deal with Satan. I can't. 36 00:03:56.760 --> 00:04:02.440 Satan's too strong for me. I have the name of Jesus and I've been purchased by the blood of Christ 37 00:04:02.440 --> 00:04:09.640 thus I am safe. Nothing can come to me unless it gets approved by the Father first. But as I am in 38 00:04:09.640 --> 00:04:18.280 this flesh, I can't take on Satan. He's an incredibly powerful demonic, Satanic entities for real. 39 00:04:19.400 --> 00:04:26.200 I don't have to. All I have to do is do what every three-year-old knows what to do. And that is 40 00:04:26.200 --> 00:04:30.520 get behind their dad's kneecap. Have you ever seen a little kid when they're scared? They just go 41 00:04:30.520 --> 00:04:35.320 right behind their parents kneecap and then they peek out from time to time to see how's everything 42 00:04:35.400 --> 00:04:39.480 how it's all going. And make sure everything's going right right behind. 43 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:46.760 We are his children. He didn't tell us, you know, you got to get out there and fight your fight. 44 00:04:46.760 --> 00:04:52.120 Maybe you'll make it. No, we fight the fight because he's the one that's clothed us in the armor of 45 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:56.120 God and he's the one that has already told us the victory's already been taken care of. 46 00:04:57.480 --> 00:05:01.320 Go out there and stand. I got you covered on this. You're on your own. 47 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:08.280 Who? Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. We're going to run 48 00:05:08.280 --> 00:05:12.360 through a few words right here and it's the word who. Look at the word who. Add love, by the way. 49 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:18.600 I'm probably pronouncing it wrong, but the Greek word just... Doesn't that sound like a who in a 50 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:25.560 moment? The kind of who's we're talking about here is... What kind of who's are they? 51 00:05:26.440 --> 00:05:35.640 Any certain one kind of who? That's who? Someone who? Anyone? In a generic sense? Which encompasses 52 00:05:35.640 --> 00:05:44.200 all any one or the many? A mob? A group? Translation? Everybody? Everybody? Anybody? 53 00:05:45.640 --> 00:05:48.600 So watch this. Everybody? Anybody? The mob? 54 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:57.160 She'll bring a charge against me, against us, against God's elect. It's not going to work. 55 00:05:59.400 --> 00:06:02.520 Now, you know this. People will attack you. Have you not caught on to this yet? 56 00:06:03.320 --> 00:06:07.800 People will attack you. People will say things about you. Doesn't it to be true? People will 57 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:13.560 say things about you? Listen. Just make sure that the things they say about you aren't true. 58 00:06:14.200 --> 00:06:20.920 I had one pastor in my life. I don't have a pastor anymore. My pastor died and people said, 59 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:26.360 what are you to do with Pastor Chuck died? You need a new pastor? Not possible. I got Jesus. 60 00:06:27.080 --> 00:06:32.040 I'm waiting. I'm going to go see Pastor Chuck later. But who's going to replace him? He's the only 61 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:36.840 pastor I've ever known. Who's going to replace him? I learned so much from him. One of the things I 62 00:06:36.840 --> 00:06:43.160 learned from him was this. Don't ever defend yourself. I was under attack one time totally unjustified. 63 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:49.400 There were some guys, so to speak, beating up on me and I asked them, what do I do? And he said, 64 00:06:49.400 --> 00:06:55.480 read the book of Nehemiah. Have a sword in one hand and a trowel in the other. Stay at the work. 65 00:06:55.480 --> 00:07:00.920 Don't come down, but you're going to have to defend yourself with the word of God. And I said, 66 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:09.880 okay, how do I do that? He goes, just have the word of God. Have it. It will defend you. 67 00:07:09.880 --> 00:07:18.360 He said, the moment you go to defend yourself when people attack you, God will let you defend 68 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:24.520 yourself. And when that happens, you're going to lose. Now, you know this is going to be true 69 00:07:25.160 --> 00:07:31.480 in your heart, as soon as I put it this way. If somebody says something and you know it's not true, 70 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:37.480 well, guess what? God knows it's not true. But if you run around or you answer back or you tweet or 71 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:43.400 you Facebook or you jump into that thing and you respond, you open your up yourself up to Pandora's 72 00:07:43.400 --> 00:07:52.840 box. And it's so destructive, better to be silent and let God be your defense. I'm telling you right 73 00:07:52.840 --> 00:07:57.880 now that was some of the greatest advice I've ever been given in life because the response 74 00:07:57.880 --> 00:08:02.760 emotionally is, well, I better set that record straight. You'll never set it straight when you're 75 00:08:02.760 --> 00:08:10.280 trying to talk to lunatics. They can't be set straight. The truth is this, whoever is attacking you, 76 00:08:11.320 --> 00:08:16.440 you just need to say this, Father, what they're saying is not true. Can you deal with that, Father? 77 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:24.120 And zip your lip, no more talking about it, no matter what they're saying, let God be your defense 78 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:30.280 because the moment you step up, God will let you and that's not a good day. He doesn't need you to 79 00:08:30.280 --> 00:08:35.640 step in to defend yourself because we are his children. Has he given us the armament? Yes, 80 00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:41.960 to advance the gospel and to go into a dark world. Yes, but God is our defense. And then the word 81 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:49.800 bring, the word bring means to bring in friction or to bring harassment. Who's going to bring this 82 00:08:49.800 --> 00:08:56.600 against us? Listen, these generic entities will bring harassment, will bring pronouncements against 83 00:08:57.000 --> 00:09:02.600 us. And then the word charge, the word charge, a banking term meaning to call the loan. 84 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:08.040 See, this is kind of weird word, isn't it? It means to demand sudden payment for a debt. 85 00:09:10.680 --> 00:09:16.440 That's a powerful word. The world, are you guys listening? The world is out to intimidate us. 86 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:25.160 When he says, who shall bring a charge against God's elect? Notice, it's them up against him. 87 00:09:26.040 --> 00:09:34.280 It's not them against us. They are the ones that are attacking God. How is that true? Because I'm 88 00:09:34.280 --> 00:09:43.080 God's kid and God is my father. He's my defender. So when this loan call comes up, what do you mean by 89 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:49.880 that? Do you remember when you bought a car or a house or I don't know something? If you signed 90 00:09:49.880 --> 00:09:56.280 the contract and you borrowed money to do that, you never took, you know the fine print that's 91 00:09:56.280 --> 00:10:03.640 like 17 pages that you assumed was okay and you signed it. Did you know what you signed? You signed 92 00:10:03.640 --> 00:10:11.400 a document there that said that you give the bank rights who loaned you the money. You have given 93 00:10:11.400 --> 00:10:17.720 the bank rights to call that loan any time they want to. See what it means. It means you've got 94 00:10:17.800 --> 00:10:22.280 30 days to come up with all the money you owe the bank for your home or they can get you out. 95 00:10:25.720 --> 00:10:31.560 If your home is not paid for, that's what you and I are in right now. Pretty scary, right? 96 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:42.040 The world says this. We're calling the loan on you, meaning we're calling you to account. Give an 97 00:10:42.040 --> 00:10:52.280 answer. This is the accusation. Come back. Make your defense. We're giving you a few moments to do 98 00:10:52.280 --> 00:10:57.720 it. The world will pressure you. This is happening to students. It's happening to teachers. It's 99 00:10:57.720 --> 00:11:01.880 happening to police officers. It's happening to nurses and to doctors and you fill in the blank. 100 00:11:02.920 --> 00:11:11.240 You will do this in this world or does this not happen to God's kids? Is it not happening now? 101 00:11:12.040 --> 00:11:18.760 And God says, I know this. You hear them. God would say, Jack, you hear them speaking, but I'm listening. 102 00:11:20.520 --> 00:11:26.040 The innocence of God is our very defense. And then that word elect simply means favored ones, 103 00:11:26.040 --> 00:11:31.880 chosen ones. The ones that God has selected. We studied this a few weeks ago that God selects his 104 00:11:31.880 --> 00:11:36.360 children. Does that bother you? The sovereign God. Some people will say, well, do you know what? I'm 105 00:11:36.360 --> 00:11:44.200 a Calvinist or I'm a hyper Calvinist or I'm a 4.3 or a 4.9 or a 3.7 Calvinist. Listen, 106 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:51.880 all this. Just calm down. Listen, here's the deal. God says, I based on my foreknowledge, 107 00:11:51.880 --> 00:11:59.320 predestined my children to be mine based on foreknowledge. You want to unpack that? You want 108 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:08.840 to wrestle with it? Why would you want to wrestle with that? I love it. If today you are saying 109 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:15.640 to yourself, I want to know Jesus, God's calling you. God's inviting you into His kingdom. 110 00:12:16.680 --> 00:12:20.680 If you're saying today, I want to have a new conscience. I want to be free from guilt and shame. 111 00:12:20.680 --> 00:12:24.120 And I want to know, I want to live with God and I want to know that when I die, I'm going to go 112 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:30.840 see Him in heaven. God is calling you. And He calls those based on His foreknowledge 113 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:39.240 because God lives, listen, He lives in eternity. Nothing's going to happen for God. Things 114 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:43.960 are going to happen for us, but God lives in eternity. Isn't it amazing? He lives in what we 115 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:52.760 would say is the eternal now. It's always now with God. There's no time where He is eternal. 116 00:12:54.200 --> 00:13:02.280 But God knows throughout all of human time and beyond, of course, that in His foreknowledge, 117 00:13:02.280 --> 00:13:07.560 He predestined us to be His children. And I revel in it. People want to argue about it. 118 00:13:07.560 --> 00:13:14.200 We want to debate you on this. What? That some people are chosen and some are not. Why would I 119 00:13:14.200 --> 00:13:21.880 debate from this? God says, based on His foreknowledge, He selects His own. There's no problem there. 120 00:13:24.280 --> 00:13:30.200 If your God's really big, there's no problem. The free moral agency of choice, you sure do. 121 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:35.560 God gave that to you. But God also knew before the universe was ever created, 122 00:13:35.560 --> 00:13:38.680 what kind of decision you would make when the gospels presented to you. 123 00:13:39.880 --> 00:13:48.120 He doesn't learn anything, but He sees all. He gets all the credit. He provides salvation. 124 00:13:49.080 --> 00:13:54.040 His presence is heaven. And because of Satan and sin, there's a hell. 125 00:13:56.120 --> 00:14:02.280 And hell is for a place that people do not want God. They got to go somewhere in eternity. 126 00:14:02.280 --> 00:14:06.760 Those are the two options. Smoking or non-smoking. That's your choice. 127 00:14:10.680 --> 00:14:15.160 The elect of God. I want to read this to you. The elect of God. This gets kind of fun. 128 00:14:15.160 --> 00:14:21.480 Get your pen out. This is going to cool. The elect of God are all those either Jew or Gentile 129 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:29.240 having come to Christ in whom God is predestined to salvation based upon His eternal foreknowledge. 130 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:39.560 They are called the elect because the word denotes having been determined beforehand or ordained. 131 00:14:40.520 --> 00:14:47.960 That is God, listen, having knowledge from eternity past or previously or ahead of 132 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:54.360 the physical universe or time. The elect. Watch everybody. You have to watch my hands. 133 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:58.440 This is the only way I can do it. We'll go from right to left or left or right, I should say. 134 00:14:59.320 --> 00:15:07.720 Old Testament. If God's children are his elect, remember God's doctrines never change. 135 00:15:09.560 --> 00:15:19.880 He never changes. So if God's doctrine of elect is unchangeable, then let's look at the Old Testament 136 00:15:20.760 --> 00:15:27.880 where the Old Testament believers called saints. The answer is yes. Where the Old Testament 137 00:15:27.880 --> 00:15:39.240 believers called the elect. The answer is yes. Noah, Daniel, Moses. How about this? 138 00:15:40.680 --> 00:15:47.880 Two sets of brothers regarding God's elect. You ever heard a cane enable? 139 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:52.520 Didn't God tell cane if he just do good? Oh, everything's going to be fine. 140 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:59.640 Cane did wrong. Cane murdered his brother. Have you ever heard of Jacob and his son? 141 00:16:02.680 --> 00:16:08.200 They're called saints. Book of Daniel, chapter 7 and chapter 9 talks about saints. 142 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:14.200 Friends, I hate to burst your bubble for some of you but saints are not made in Rome 143 00:16:15.160 --> 00:16:21.160 and they're not decided on by cardinals and popes. There's none of that in the Bible. Sorry, 144 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:30.840 a man, a human, cannot do that. Only God makes sinners saints and he does it by the power of his 145 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:36.680 spirit and by his atonement. Now watch right now today our day and age. This is called the Church 146 00:16:36.680 --> 00:16:43.240 Age. For the last 2000 years, the Church Age or the bride of Christ, are we not called saints 147 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:48.920 to the saints that are at Philippi, to the saints that are at Rome, to the saints that are 148 00:16:48.920 --> 00:16:55.160 at Corinth. We are called saints. Are we sinless? No. No saints are. 149 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:02.920 What makes someone a saint is the object to which they have placed their trust for redemption. 150 00:17:02.920 --> 00:17:08.760 That's Christ. Saints of the Old Testament, saints presently, you and I? 151 00:17:09.880 --> 00:17:16.360 Are there saints in the tribulation period? Absolutely. Tribulation Saints. Did you know that? 152 00:17:16.360 --> 00:17:22.520 In fact, the tribulation saints, the Bible tells us that Satan will exercise his power over the 153 00:17:22.520 --> 00:17:28.360 saints of God in that seven-year tribulation period of time and he will kill them. He will kill 154 00:17:28.360 --> 00:17:35.080 the saints of God, the Bible tells us during the tribulation period. Here's what's amazing. 155 00:17:36.040 --> 00:17:41.640 The Old Testament, are you guys still tracking? The Old Testament saints, like David, for example, 156 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:46.440 they're given an eternity, white robes. Did you know David's going to wear a white robe and 157 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:53.160 eternity? Did you know the tribulation saints, the Bible says they have to be faithful into death 158 00:17:54.120 --> 00:18:00.600 and they will be those that are his and upon their death they're given white robes. 159 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:05.560 Did you know that there's a group of saints? There's only one group of saints that do not get 160 00:18:05.640 --> 00:18:13.960 robes. It's the bride of Christ, the church. She gets fine linen, clean and bright. It's a wedding gown. 161 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:19.880 Completely different. According to the Bible, you and I are engaged to Christ. 162 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:25.240 Here's the beautiful thing about this. God's elections based upon God's own nature. If you 163 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:29.880 have an understanding a little bit of God's nature, you'll have no problem with having God do what 164 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:35.480 he does based on foreign knowledge because God is love the Bible says. He's love. 165 00:18:37.560 --> 00:18:43.960 The Bible doesn't say that God loves, of course he loves, but his actual nature is defined, 166 00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:51.160 for example, God is holy, God is light, and God is love. He loves. 167 00:18:51.160 --> 00:19:01.560 This Jack Hibbs podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported. 168 00:19:01.560 --> 00:19:10.360 Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? Go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected.