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 --> 00:00:11.200 truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. God doesn't dwell in temples made 3 00:00:11.200 --> 00:00:15.320 with stone. Thank God! He wants to live inside your heart and the question 4 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:19.760 today is, is exactly is that the truth regarding your life? Does he live within 5 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:24.320 you? Does your heart beat with the things of heaven? 6 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:32.680 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 7 00:00:32.680 --> 00:00:38.000 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 8 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:42.880 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 9 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:48.440 that's like saying, amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 10 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:53.880 Now, open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 11 00:00:55.560 --> 00:00:59.240 The Bible tells us that it's the Holy Spirit raised Christ from the dead, 12 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:04.040 and according to the Bible, the Holy Spirit lives inside of every believer. And you can, 13 00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:08.520 by the way, you can detect that when you're talking to somebody else by their world view. What 14 00:01:08.520 --> 00:01:13.960 do they believe? Who do they say Jesus Christ is, for example? Did you know you can know this? 15 00:01:13.960 --> 00:01:20.040 Talk to people. We need to stop being so superficial as a culture. You know that, everyone? 16 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:25.400 We live right on the edge, and I'm not talking about thrills. We live right on the edge of reality. 17 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:31.000 We need to start digging in. Now is the time to start digging into people's lives. People are 18 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:37.320 scared. People are not sure what's going to happen. We need to ask people, hey, do you know Jesus? 19 00:01:37.320 --> 00:01:43.240 They're going to say yes. Then you countering to say, can you define... Jesus, who? Which one? What 20 00:01:43.240 --> 00:01:49.640 are you talking about? Let them unpack that. And it might open up a door of evangelism. You can 21 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:55.960 tell them about the real Jesus. The one who is revealed in the Old Testament, and all of what he did 22 00:01:55.960 --> 00:02:03.320 is recorded in the Nile, the remarkable ministry. We also know this, friends, and it's quite powerful. 23 00:02:04.520 --> 00:02:10.600 The scriptures tell us that in Joel, the book of Joel, the Hebrew prophet Joel, chapter 2, verse 28, 24 00:02:10.600 --> 00:02:16.520 and it shall come to pass it afterward that I will pour out my spirit. Notice this. 25 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:25.320 God, the Holy Spirit, on all flesh, your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Now this message 26 00:02:25.320 --> 00:02:32.760 is given by Joel 2500 years ago to the Jewish people. Your old men shall dream dreams. Your young 27 00:02:32.760 --> 00:02:38.360 men shall see visions. And also on my men's servants and maidservants, I will pour out my spirit 28 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:46.120 in those days. And I will show signs or wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood and fire 29 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:51.960 in pillars of smoke. Listen up, everybody. The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon 30 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:57.720 and to blood before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. Friends, that is Joel's 31 00:02:57.720 --> 00:03:04.360 description of the second coming of Christ. That's Joel's description of the consummation 32 00:03:05.320 --> 00:03:11.400 of man's rule on earth. When this was mentioned 2000 years ago, we'll read it in a moment by 33 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:17.560 the Apostle Peter. Peter is speaking to the Jewish people, sites, the book of Joel saying, 34 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:22.840 this work that you're seeing is by the hand of God. Joel talked about it. But as you well know, 35 00:03:22.840 --> 00:03:30.440 the religious leaders of Israel, they rejected. But that's okay. God put them on pause. He's going 36 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:36.120 to start play any moment. Maybe he's doing that now in the world around us. God's getting 37 00:03:36.760 --> 00:03:42.120 ready to work with the Jewish people again. But note this, what are you saying right here? If you 38 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:47.640 are a student of the Bible, you're saying, wow, that's end time stuff. Yes, it is. But watch this. 39 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:53.880 He says in verse 31, the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon and to blood before 40 00:03:53.880 --> 00:03:58.760 the coming of the great and awesome or terrible day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass that 41 00:03:58.760 --> 00:04:04.840 whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Watch for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, 42 00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:11.000 there shall be a deliverance as the Lord has said among the remnant whom the Lord calls. 43 00:04:12.040 --> 00:04:19.320 The end time events. Now church family, mark this down in your notes. Acts chapter 2, verse 14, 44 00:04:19.320 --> 00:04:26.360 2000 years ago, after the resurrection of Christ and the ascension of Christ back to heaven, 45 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:33.400 Peter standing up with the 11 raised his voice and said to them, men of Judea, 46 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:40.600 and all who dwell on Jerusalem, let this be known to you and take heed in my words. But this is 47 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:50.920 what was spoken by the prophet Joel, remarkable announcement. God does not live on stone tablets. 48 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:57.400 God does not live in a temple. Think of it. You see, Jack, wait a minute. As a Jew, I'm offended by 49 00:04:57.400 --> 00:05:02.920 that. Wait, wait, wait. No, you're not. No, you're not. Just listen. Who wanted to build God 50 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:09.880 the temple, everybody? David. But what did God say to David? David, you know, your hands are too 51 00:05:09.880 --> 00:05:14.760 bloody. In fact, read the fine print. David, your hands are too bloody. You're a man of war. 52 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:22.280 I just want you to know, I don't need a house. You can't put me in a house and David wants to build 53 00:05:22.280 --> 00:05:29.240 God a house. David is told by God, okay, listen, you can't build it, but you can fund it. 54 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:35.560 You can pay for a lot of it. In fact, he did. King David funded most of it, 55 00:05:37.080 --> 00:05:41.880 but he couldn't build it, but his son Solomon did build it. On the day that the temple was 56 00:05:41.880 --> 00:05:47.160 complete, those of you who know your Old Testament, what happened on that day? The priests lined up 57 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:53.880 to go in to get the things going, right, to go back or to take what's on the tabernacle and put 58 00:05:53.880 --> 00:06:00.120 it into the temple with all of its glory before they could even go in the building. The Bible says 59 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:05.320 that the Spirit of God moved inside the building, the Chicana glory appeared within the temple 60 00:06:05.320 --> 00:06:10.760 and emanated out from the temple so that the priests could not even make their way in to the temple. 61 00:06:10.760 --> 00:06:17.400 Is that awesome? Friends, listen, right now today, the very throne of your heart. God has decreed 62 00:06:17.400 --> 00:06:25.800 in the Word of God Old and New Testament. Jeremiah, Ezekiel, I will live in your heart. I will dwell 63 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:33.080 within you. That's not a New Testament invention. It's a New Testament recording of an Old Testament 64 00:06:33.080 --> 00:06:41.240 promise. God doesn't dwell in temples made with stone. Thank God. He wants to live inside your 65 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:46.200 heart. And the question today is, is exactly, is that the truth regarding your life? Does he live 66 00:06:46.200 --> 00:06:54.360 within you? Does your heart beat with the things of heaven? It matters. Secondly, look, there's the 67 00:06:54.360 --> 00:07:01.400 great appeal. There's the appeal of heaven. Heaven's appeal is reality within us. Heaven's appeal. 68 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:08.120 Even we ourselves groan within ourselves eagerly waiting. Mark down these two words, please, along 69 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:13.240 your margins or in your notes, the word groan. We've come across it before in this book of Romans, 70 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:21.320 stonadzo and Greek. It means to exhibit pain or to show evidence of pain. We groan. Every single one 71 00:07:21.320 --> 00:07:28.200 of us know this in life to one degree or another. Physical pain, emotional pain, non-physical pain. 72 00:07:29.080 --> 00:07:34.440 That is, I would think the realm of the spirit. Think about that. The pain that this world is 73 00:07:35.400 --> 00:07:43.240 going through. But check this out. It means out of sorts or disjointed, misaligned or skewed. 74 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:51.080 Pain. We groan. The world is groaning. Just the evidence of the fact that the world is groaning 75 00:07:51.080 --> 00:07:56.520 tells you that there's something better. A remarkable truth. And then the word eagerly. 76 00:07:57.320 --> 00:08:02.920 The word eagerly here means to experience expectation. Friends, listen, when you're in pain, 77 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:08.440 the greatest thing that you can hear is when somebody tells you that you're going to get relief. 78 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:14.120 Have you ever been in real pain? Have you ever given birth to kidney stones? 79 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:24.920 Listen, don't do it. I, a couple of years ago, I didn't tell you about it, but I just, I was 80 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:31.240 feeling fine and then I started sweating and I'm wondering why am I sweating? And within five minutes, 81 00:08:31.240 --> 00:08:41.320 I went from being what somewhat resembled a man. I was vomiting on my face in pain. When I showed 82 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:45.640 up, I mean, I didn't, I couldn't even drive. Somebody drove into the hospital. And when I showed 83 00:08:45.640 --> 00:08:53.640 up, the, the guys, get a wheelchair. Somebody recognized this guy's giving birth to a stone here. 84 00:08:53.720 --> 00:09:01.720 And I'm telling you, I went in there and I, oh, but the cool thing was during the whole thing, 85 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:05.720 I kept thinking, Jesus, this is nothing compared to what you went through. This is nothing compared 86 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:13.160 to what you went through. This is nothing compared to what you went through. And then they came 87 00:09:13.160 --> 00:09:21.640 and they gave me morphine. And I understood right then and there. Now I see why there's drug 88 00:09:21.640 --> 00:09:29.720 addicts in the world. Relief came. When the nurse said, you know what, you're really, 89 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:36.840 this is a whopper. And that's not comforting when they say, this is, this thing is seven by seven. 90 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:42.920 Yeah, I have it. It's framed to the home. I named it. It's called Little Jack. I got it. I have it. 91 00:09:42.920 --> 00:09:49.480 I've got it. I, I dated it, gave it a name. 92 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:56.760 When somebody says we'll be right back, I'm going to go get a nurse and she's going to bring you 93 00:09:56.760 --> 00:10:07.800 some relief. It's like, yes. In life, the trail, hurt, relational issues, people coming against us, 94 00:10:07.800 --> 00:10:12.840 people hating us, misunderstanding. How much pain do we go through in life? When somebody 95 00:10:12.840 --> 00:10:17.480 hates us or whatever and they say, why they hate us? But that's not even the reason they misunderstood. 96 00:10:17.480 --> 00:10:25.400 They don't even know. That's some of the worst. And you have no way of responding. Deep pain. 97 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:32.600 And yet Christ is there and he mitigates and he comforts and he gives us his word. 98 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:39.320 But I can't wait. Listen, friends, just like you, the older I get, I can't wait to see heaven. 99 00:10:40.280 --> 00:10:48.760 Heaven, this is not it. The appeal of heaven is beautiful. It's encouraging, but we groan, 100 00:10:48.760 --> 00:10:54.680 and we eagerly wait with expectation. The Bible says in Galatians 5 verse 5, for we through the 101 00:10:54.680 --> 00:11:01.640 Holy Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. What a statement that is. What does 102 00:11:01.640 --> 00:11:07.640 that mean? That means me as a Christian, watch me as a Christian, walking with Jesus, I'm keenly 103 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:14.280 aware of all of my faults and all of my sins. Now my sins are not so much. In fact, I don't know if I 104 00:11:14.280 --> 00:11:19.400 sin outwardly much anymore at all, if anything. Depends on how fast I drove here today. 105 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:25.560 But outside of that, you know, I'm not going around cheating or drinking or murdering kittens or 106 00:11:25.560 --> 00:11:30.360 looking at porn. I don't do that. But on the inside I have thoughts. 107 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:38.360 Or I want that. This is not right, but it's like, oh man, look at that. That's an awesome cake. 108 00:11:39.160 --> 00:11:43.960 How many people? You look at the size of the cake. Do you do this or is it just me? 109 00:11:44.600 --> 00:11:49.720 And it's like, that's a standard cake. And I'm looking around at how many people are in the room. 110 00:11:49.880 --> 00:12:02.520 Do the math. The geometry from that angle. And you come to the conclusion. I need to get up there. 111 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:08.520 That's called selfishness. That's called self-centeredness. 112 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:17.000 And we sin. Listen, as you walk with Jesus, you become much more keenly aware of your imperfections. 113 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:21.400 And you know this is true. It's like looking at those magnifying lamps in a hotel. 114 00:12:21.400 --> 00:12:26.360 You go to a hotel to relax and enjoy yourself. And then some nut puts this magnifying glass 115 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:31.800 in the bathroom. So you turn it on and you can see every pore, everything. And you go, what is that? 116 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:35.720 They should have a different lamp that makes you look better than what you really look like. 117 00:12:36.280 --> 00:12:43.880 Your pain for that room should make you look great. Nope. When you see yourself more clearly, 118 00:12:43.880 --> 00:12:49.080 you're much more aware of your deficiency. However, if you stay there, you'll be depressed. 119 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:54.760 If you step over into the arms of Christ who's telling you, I love you. 120 00:12:56.520 --> 00:13:01.240 I've called you with the never-lasting love. Come to me and I'll forgive you. 121 00:13:02.920 --> 00:13:06.760 I'm your Lord and Savior. In the beauty of it all, how does he do this? He takes 122 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:15.080 ashes and converts them into beauty. When just about rock bottom, he says to you, you're the sinner 123 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:25.400 and I'm the Savior. Your loss, but I find, come to me and you go to him personally. 124 00:13:27.400 --> 00:13:32.840 Don't come to this church and say, I want Christ. We can introduce it to him, 125 00:13:33.800 --> 00:13:39.000 but a church cannot give you Christ by saying, well, okay, just sign right here. 126 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:45.640 Listen, did we pass the plate around this morning to have you give the money? No, no, he did not. 127 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:50.200 And when you, is there a little card in the seat in front of you saying, how to become a member? 128 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:56.360 No, it's not there. You want to know why? Because those things get in the way of you meeting God. 129 00:13:57.640 --> 00:14:01.800 Look at it, see this jacket? I don't wear jackets, but last week a war jacket, people said, 130 00:14:01.800 --> 00:14:07.800 I like the jacket. I like the jacket. The jacket. It's better with the jacket. So I'm thinking, 131 00:14:07.800 --> 00:14:14.280 I don't like the jacket, but because I love you, I'm wearing the jacket. The price I pay. 132 00:14:17.400 --> 00:14:22.360 Would I rather have the jacket off? Yes, but for you, because I love you, I wore the jacket. 133 00:14:23.560 --> 00:14:28.360 Okay, listen, we become all things to all men that some might be saved, right? 134 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:34.360 And when we introduce people to the Savior who washes away sins, 135 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:40.120 irregardless of your background, irregardless of your pedigree or the lack thereof, 136 00:14:41.880 --> 00:14:49.240 I love when you speak about pedigree. The Bible says not many wise God has called, not many 137 00:14:49.960 --> 00:14:55.080 astute or not many wealthy and not many royal or not many blue bloods is the word that we would 138 00:14:55.080 --> 00:15:00.520 use God has called. This is not many. When Queen Elizabeth died, did you know that she was the one 139 00:15:00.520 --> 00:15:05.800 who said when she came across that portion of scripture, she said, I'm so grateful that it says, 140 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:14.040 that not many blue bloods, that Christ doesn't call not many. She says, I was saved by an M 141 00:15:15.480 --> 00:15:21.160 because it doesn't say he doesn't call any blue bloods. It says many. Isn't that beautiful? 142 00:15:21.800 --> 00:15:26.520 All have sinned and come short of the glory of God, every single human has sinned. He invites everyone 143 00:15:26.520 --> 00:15:34.840 to come, but do all come? No, but some do. And the Queen of England did, and I love the fact that she, 144 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:38.200 she says I was saved by an M. No, no, no, she did that, like, 145 00:15:40.840 --> 00:15:45.000 and M. No, I don't know what I'm communicating right now, by the way, in the gang language, 146 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:51.000 I have no idea what this means, so forgive me. But she says I was saved by an M. 147 00:15:52.040 --> 00:15:57.880 An M said many, not any. And you might say today, I've sinned so far, Pastor God would never 148 00:15:57.880 --> 00:16:05.000 have me. Don't talk like that. You're insulting the blood of Christ. The Bible says you sinned big 149 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:11.560 and you're forgiven, you love big. What an awesome thing. You can't run. I mean, you can run. 150 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:16.280 She's not going to get anywhere. His love will be there. You'll run. You're running from God. 151 00:16:16.280 --> 00:16:19.560 You run. I'm not going to have. There's no way. And while you're looking back to 152 00:16:19.560 --> 00:16:26.680 see how far you are away from him, you'll run right into him. David said, if I make my bed and hell, 153 00:16:26.680 --> 00:16:33.480 you're there. If I flee to the uttermost parts of the sea, you're there. He's awesome. 154 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:40.760 Heaven's a reality, and we appeal to that reality. Philippians chapter 3, verse 20, I love this. Our 155 00:16:40.760 --> 00:16:47.240 citizenship is in where? Heaven, church family, listen up. Our citizenship is in heaven. The 156 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:52.680 word in the Greek is politic. The way that we think, the way that we act, what we do, how we 157 00:16:52.680 --> 00:17:00.600 conduct ourselves is in heaven. So what does that mean? It means what heaven is we are to 158 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:12.280 represent here and now. Hang on to your seats. We're not encouraged in the Bible to go out and 159 00:17:12.280 --> 00:17:18.840 propagate our opinions on people. We are to propagate the will of God, the word of God, 160 00:17:19.560 --> 00:17:25.000 to people that they might have hope, that they might have salvation. Are you hearing me? 161 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:29.800 Now I know that sounds nuts in an age like this, which is all about social media. 162 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:39.240 You can get caught up into the opinions of people. You need to get caught up in the opinion of one, 163 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:44.680 and his opinion is very clear. It's not an opinion. It's a fact. It is truth, and he's awesome 164 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:52.520 that way. He's precious that way. Hebrews chapter 9, verse 28, listen to this. So Christ or Messiah 165 00:17:52.520 --> 00:17:59.480 was offered once to bear the sins of many. I'm going to interrupt myself right here. If you're 166 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:09.160 a Jewish today, for example, you ought to write down right here Isaiah chapter 53. You ought to write 167 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:14.120 it right there. So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. You know where you find that 168 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:23.080 language? Isaiah chapter 53. Old Testament prophet to the nation of Israel that the Messiah 169 00:18:23.800 --> 00:18:28.760 would give his life for the sins of not only the nation, but for the world. 170 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:39.560 To those who eagerly wait for him, he will appear a second time. You can't appear a second time 171 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:49.320 unless you came the first time. He came 2000 years ago. Apart from sin, meaning sin will not be a 172 00:18:49.320 --> 00:18:57.080 factor when he comes the second time. When he comes back, it says apart from sin for salvation, 173 00:18:57.080 --> 00:19:02.600 tremendous statement. Jesus Christ is coming back for those who are his, and when he takes us either 174 00:19:02.600 --> 00:19:10.360 by life, right? Or by rapture? It doesn't matter. When he picks us up, it has nothing to do with sin. 175 00:19:10.360 --> 00:19:16.840 The sin question, that means it's been done with. Think about this everybody. He's picking us up 176 00:19:16.840 --> 00:19:25.320 unto salvation, not unto the sin issue. Where were and when was our sin dealt with? On the cross 177 00:19:25.320 --> 00:19:30.520 2000 years ago, he was the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, says the Bible. 178 00:19:32.440 --> 00:19:33.160 It's thrilling. 179 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:43.880 This Jack Kibs podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported. 180 00:19:43.880 --> 00:19:51.080 Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? Go to jackhibs.com to learn more 181 00:19:51.080 --> 00:19:53.320 and stay connected.