WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.320 Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, 2 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:15.120 equip the saints and impact our culture. 3 00:00:15.120 --> 00:00:19.800 A nation goes as a home goes, but a home doesn't know what to do unless the church steps 4 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:20.800 up. 5 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:21.800 It begins in the church. 6 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:22.800 By the way, that's true in the Bible. 7 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:27.640 It's true in sociology studies, and it's true in American history. 8 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:32.200 The church has got to catch fire that affects the family. 9 00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:42.200 Drunks stop drinking abusers, stop abusing, and womanizers, and manizers, and budwizers. 10 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:49.400 Stop, stop doing that, and they make their homework, and then you know what happens? 11 00:00:49.400 --> 00:00:54.160 Then the community changes, and then the county changes, the state changes, and the nation 12 00:00:54.160 --> 00:00:55.160 changes. 13 00:00:55.160 --> 00:01:05.160 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 14 00:01:05.160 --> 00:01:11.960 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 15 00:01:11.960 --> 00:01:15.240 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 16 00:01:15.240 --> 00:01:21.800 To us, that's like saying, amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 17 00:01:21.800 --> 00:01:25.400 Now, open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. 18 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:28.400 Here is jackhibbs. 19 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:30.000 Sounds like Ezekiel 38. 20 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:36.000 I see those people says, Gog, G-O-G, they dwell in safety. 21 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:37.000 They're prospering. 22 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:39.040 Look how stuck up they are. 23 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:41.640 The word was confident they are. 24 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:44.880 What drives hatred, envy? 25 00:01:44.880 --> 00:01:50.240 When your heart's wicked, you're envious, and when you're envious, your heart's wicked. 26 00:01:50.240 --> 00:01:52.800 And people have killed over envy. 27 00:01:52.800 --> 00:01:59.120 The Bible says they crucified Jesus because they envied him. 28 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:03.240 Remarkable truth and power. 29 00:02:03.240 --> 00:02:07.320 The Bible tells us in Joel chapter 3, verse 1, behold, the days are coming, and at that 30 00:02:07.320 --> 00:02:13.120 time, when I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, 31 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:18.440 and I will enter into judgment with them on the count of my people, my heritage Israel, 32 00:02:18.440 --> 00:02:23.160 whom they have scattered among the nations, and they have also divided up my land. 33 00:02:23.160 --> 00:02:25.040 Are you kidding me? 34 00:02:25.040 --> 00:02:30.160 This is 2600-year-old prophecy, and it looks like we're talking about a UN decision 35 00:02:30.160 --> 00:02:32.200 last week in the news. 36 00:02:32.200 --> 00:02:35.880 Divide the land, divide the land, right there in the Bible. 37 00:02:35.880 --> 00:02:41.480 Zachariah chapter 12, verse 1, the word of the Lord concerning Israel, the Lord who 38 00:02:41.480 --> 00:02:46.400 stretches out the heavens and who lays the foundation of the earth and who forms the human 39 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:52.900 spirit within man, declares this, I'm going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the 40 00:02:52.900 --> 00:03:00.040 surrounding nations reeling, Judah will be as well as Jerusalem. 41 00:03:00.040 --> 00:03:05.400 On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem 42 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:18.680 an immovable rock for all the nations, all who try to move her will injure themselves. 43 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:20.440 The word in Hebrew injure themselves. 44 00:03:20.440 --> 00:03:21.760 It's a very sad thing. 45 00:03:21.760 --> 00:03:23.720 A lot of us can relate to this. 46 00:03:23.720 --> 00:03:28.560 The word means to go to something heavy, in this case, it's a rock. 47 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:29.560 Can you imagine? 48 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:34.440 It means in Hebrew to pick up the rock, and you're so committed to picking up the rock that 49 00:03:34.440 --> 00:03:36.600 you pick up the rock, but you rip your guts. 50 00:03:36.600 --> 00:03:38.280 The word is to rip your insides. 51 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:39.280 You tear yourself apart. 52 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:42.440 Have you ever seen those Olympic weightlifting guys? 53 00:03:42.440 --> 00:03:43.440 Why? 54 00:03:43.440 --> 00:03:48.840 Can you imagine the world is going to have this mindset? 55 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:50.240 We got to deal with Jerusalem. 56 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:54.120 We got to do, what's the fascination with Jerusalem? 57 00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:55.120 There's no oil there. 58 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:56.120 There's no airport. 59 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:57.120 There's no river. 60 00:03:57.120 --> 00:03:58.120 There's really no nothing. 61 00:03:58.120 --> 00:03:59.120 Great food. 62 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:00.120 Great food. 63 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:02.120 Think of it. 64 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:05.960 It makes no sense. 65 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:06.960 The world's going to go like this. 66 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:07.960 Try to move it. 67 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:08.960 Get it out of sight. 68 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:09.960 Just get it. 69 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:12.320 Push it into the Mediterranean. 70 00:04:12.320 --> 00:04:13.520 And they pick it up. 71 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:22.400 You can hear springs flying and gears popping and rip yourself apart if you try to move 72 00:04:22.400 --> 00:04:23.400 it. 73 00:04:23.400 --> 00:04:24.400 God says. 74 00:04:24.400 --> 00:04:25.400 Don't mess with them. 75 00:04:25.400 --> 00:04:26.400 God's got a plan. 76 00:04:26.400 --> 00:04:28.360 A remarkable plan. 77 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:29.360 So much so. 78 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:30.360 Watch this. 79 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:31.360 So much. 80 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:33.600 This is part I get really excited. 81 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:39.840 Up until now, I've been, all right, right now I lose it over this. 82 00:04:39.840 --> 00:04:43.240 The only thing worse for me is to be in Israel when I teach this, what I'm about to say. 83 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:45.080 I just lose control. 84 00:04:45.080 --> 00:04:46.080 It's amazing. 85 00:04:46.080 --> 00:04:47.240 Here it comes. 86 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:54.520 On May 14, 1948, Israel became a nation because President Truman, an American President, 87 00:04:54.520 --> 00:04:59.760 went against all the deliberation and all the counsel of the nations of the world. 88 00:04:59.760 --> 00:05:03.680 And Truman said, no, we're going to recognize Israel as a nation. 89 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:07.920 On May 14, 1948, Israel had a birthday. 90 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:08.920 Listen. 91 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:14.840 Saturday morning, on May 15, Zionist proclaimed new state of Israel, Truman recognizes it and 92 00:05:14.840 --> 00:05:15.840 hopes for peace. 93 00:05:15.840 --> 00:05:16.840 Tel Aviv is bombed. 94 00:05:16.840 --> 00:05:18.840 Egypt orders an invasion. 95 00:05:18.840 --> 00:05:19.840 Happy birthday. 96 00:05:19.840 --> 00:05:20.840 Attack. 97 00:05:20.840 --> 00:05:21.840 Wow. 98 00:05:21.840 --> 00:05:22.840 Think of it. 99 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:24.560 Think of it. 100 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:25.800 Next slide. 101 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:26.800 Tel Aviv is bombed. 102 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:28.360 US recognizes Jewish state. 103 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:29.360 Read the print below. 104 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:32.200 Israel is proclaimed Arab's March. 105 00:05:32.200 --> 00:05:35.080 Truman action stuns closing session of UN. 106 00:05:35.080 --> 00:05:36.600 Battle in Jerusalem. 107 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:38.280 Egypt orders an invasion. 108 00:05:38.280 --> 00:05:40.400 Sounds like you're reading Ezekiel. 109 00:05:40.400 --> 00:05:47.240 Except thank God, but the time Ezekiel rolls around in his prophecy, Egypt will be a friend 110 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:48.240 of Israel. 111 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:51.520 As it is today, by the way. 112 00:05:51.520 --> 00:05:59.000 Saudi Arabia, a friend, Jordan, a friend, Egypt, a friend, exactly as the prophets foretold. 113 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:02.960 Not only are the right nations lined up to invade, the right nations for the first time 114 00:06:02.960 --> 00:06:08.200 in history are lined up that support Israel in the region. 115 00:06:08.200 --> 00:06:10.480 That's not a coincidence. 116 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:12.120 Here's the punch line. 117 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:20.480 This is 2,740, 750 years old. 118 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:24.440 Isaiah chapter 66. 119 00:06:24.440 --> 00:06:32.400 Before the birth pains even begin, Jerusalem gives birth to a son. 120 00:06:32.400 --> 00:06:37.240 Who has ever seen anything as strange as this? 121 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:44.640 Whoever heard of such a thing has a nation ever been born in a single day? 122 00:06:44.640 --> 00:06:48.920 Has a country ever come forth in a mere moment? 123 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:54.600 But by the time Jerusalem's birth pains begin, her children will be born. 124 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:59.080 Would I ever bring this nation to the point of birth and then not deliver it? 125 00:06:59.080 --> 00:07:00.080 Ask the Lord? 126 00:07:00.080 --> 00:07:01.080 No. 127 00:07:01.080 --> 00:07:08.400 I would never keep this nation from being born, says your God. 128 00:07:08.400 --> 00:07:16.240 Israel was first born by being called out of Egypt in the wilderness wanderings and then 129 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:21.920 eventually brought into the promised land by Joshua. 130 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:31.240 Israel's second birth prophesied in the prophet Isaiah not only happened in 1948, it happened 131 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:41.120 exactly as Isaiah said it would in a mere moment in one day the nation would be brought forth 132 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:47.080 and an instant Jews from around the world would have a nation. 133 00:07:47.080 --> 00:07:54.000 That verse alone should dispel any doubt about the veracity and the ability of the God 134 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:55.720 of the Bible to keep his word. 135 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:59.000 And when he says to you, trust me and I'll take you to heaven. 136 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:00.000 Trust me. 137 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:01.000 I'll forgive you your sins. 138 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:02.000 Look to me. 139 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:05.920 I doubt on the cross for your grief and give you eternal life. 140 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:09.200 Follow me and I'll take you straight into heaven. 141 00:08:09.200 --> 00:08:10.640 I'll give you purpose and meaning. 142 00:08:10.640 --> 00:08:14.720 I'm the God that made you and it's time to come to the God that says that is the exact 143 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:24.160 same God that keeps his word, keeps his promises, exact same God, keeps the same one. 144 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:30.880 The Bible tells us in Ezekiel 34 verse 13 and I will bring them out from the peoples or 145 00:08:30.880 --> 00:08:35.240 the nations and gather them from the countries and I will bring them to there. 146 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:36.560 What is it? 147 00:08:36.560 --> 00:08:42.080 In land I will feed them on the mountains of Israel and in the valleys and in all the 148 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:45.320 inhabited places of the country. 149 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:46.320 This is Israel. 150 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:47.320 God says so. 151 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:48.320 And then finally we end here. 152 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:50.800 Number four argument is this and it's a short one. 153 00:08:50.800 --> 00:08:54.240 It's all eyes to war. 154 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:57.200 All eyes to war. 155 00:08:57.200 --> 00:09:03.480 Look I struggle with this just as you do and that is what's happening next. 156 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:06.720 Typically we keep our Bibles open. 157 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:10.840 I would stay tuned to Isaiah 17 and Ezekiel 38 at the same time. 158 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:12.920 I'll be reading both those. 159 00:09:12.920 --> 00:09:16.720 Could happen tomorrow. 160 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:24.960 Regarding the nation of Israel, it's been written. 161 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:27.160 We know what happened to them. 162 00:09:27.160 --> 00:09:30.480 We know what's happening to them and we know from the Bible what's going to happen to 163 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:34.240 them. 164 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:36.240 America is nowhere mentioned in the Bible. 165 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:41.600 That brings me great pain and it brings me great hope. 166 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:48.880 Number one, it pains me because our nation was very much used as a big brother to Israel's 167 00:09:48.880 --> 00:09:52.640 establishment the second time. 168 00:09:52.640 --> 00:09:58.960 This is a Judeo-Christian nation in its roots. 169 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:06.280 This nation has been blessed in every category over every nation on earth in all of human 170 00:10:06.280 --> 00:10:11.080 history, including Israel itself. 171 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:19.800 Freest people, freest constitutional government, greatest technologies, greatest military, greatest 172 00:10:19.800 --> 00:10:20.800 achievements. 173 00:10:20.800 --> 00:10:23.520 Did you know that you're sitting in the most compassionate nation on the face of the 174 00:10:23.520 --> 00:10:24.520 earth? 175 00:10:24.520 --> 00:10:25.520 No nation. 176 00:10:25.640 --> 00:10:31.280 Give more to disaster relief and suffering than the United States year after year after 177 00:10:31.280 --> 00:10:32.280 year. 178 00:10:32.280 --> 00:10:36.880 God used this nation. 179 00:10:36.880 --> 00:10:41.480 Once our federal budget of the United States government annually was to produce Bibles 180 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:49.120 and ship them to nations in the world where there was no Bible. 181 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:53.680 When soldiers went off to war in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, they 182 00:10:53.760 --> 00:10:56.880 were given Bibles. 183 00:10:56.880 --> 00:11:03.360 I have one. 184 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:08.520 Oh, how the mighty have fallen, says the scripture. 185 00:11:08.520 --> 00:11:12.600 Where do we go from here? 186 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:13.600 Watching what's happening. 187 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:16.840 Is God waiting for his people to call out to him? 188 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:17.840 Is God waiting? 189 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:23.440 He's not waiting on any political party or is some chest moved by some political genius 190 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:27.560 or some blunder to happen and he's not waiting for that. 191 00:11:27.560 --> 00:11:32.320 God is saying if my people, if my people, if my people, if my people, if my people will 192 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:37.040 call out to me, if my people will repent, he's calling out to us. 193 00:11:37.040 --> 00:11:38.840 Why is everything in limbo the way that it is? 194 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:41.600 He's calling out to us. 195 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:42.600 What is so undetermined? 196 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:43.600 What's so confusing? 197 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:47.680 There's nothing but confusion. 198 00:11:47.680 --> 00:11:52.680 In light of this last year past, all the dynamic, how do you explain the most bizarre 199 00:11:52.680 --> 00:11:56.920 year ever and yet all around the world, record numbers of people coming to Christ? 200 00:11:56.920 --> 00:11:58.640 What's up? 201 00:11:58.640 --> 00:12:00.920 And what's up for America? 202 00:12:00.920 --> 00:12:06.800 Well, I'm not an Einstein, but I can tell you this based on God's word. 203 00:12:06.800 --> 00:12:13.640 There's no hope for America unless, no hope for America unless, in this order. 204 00:12:13.640 --> 00:12:19.760 Number one, the church stops playing games, stops goofing off and starts teaching the 205 00:12:19.760 --> 00:12:23.520 Bible and living the life from the pulpit to the peel. 206 00:12:23.520 --> 00:12:27.920 Number two, number two, it affects the home. 207 00:12:27.920 --> 00:12:32.920 A nation goes as a home goes, but a home doesn't know what to do unless the church steps 208 00:12:32.920 --> 00:12:33.920 up. 209 00:12:33.920 --> 00:12:34.920 It begins in the church. 210 00:12:34.920 --> 00:12:36.240 By the way, that's true in the Bible. 211 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:42.440 It's true in sociology studies and it's true in American history. 212 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:44.400 The church has got to catch fire. 213 00:12:44.400 --> 00:12:46.320 That affects the family. 214 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:56.320 The church stops drinking abusers, stop abusing and womanizers and manizers and budwisers. 215 00:12:56.320 --> 00:13:03.360 Stop, stop doing that and they make their homework and then you know what happens? 216 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:08.000 Then the community changes and then the county changes, the state changes and the nation 217 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:09.000 changes. 218 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:10.880 That's the only hope for America. 219 00:13:10.880 --> 00:13:16.120 God is not going to sprinkle pixie dust over America without being true to His pattern. 220 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:20.120 The church is the ground and pillar of all truth says the Bible. 221 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:23.720 Why do you think churches are going through the struggles of their life right now? 222 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:31.560 It's an attack on one side and it's a trial on the other. 223 00:13:31.560 --> 00:13:32.840 That's the only hope for America. 224 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:38.600 If that doesn't happen, it's over and God's showing us a little bit of hints what it's 225 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:41.080 like when it's over. 226 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:44.440 When He's left the building. 227 00:13:44.440 --> 00:13:51.960 It's a very critical time and it's going to lead to war. 228 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:56.520 Every guy in this room knows that when there's somebody a week on the playground, the bully 229 00:13:56.520 --> 00:13:58.840 takes advantage of the weak kid. 230 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:02.920 Every single time. 231 00:14:02.920 --> 00:14:05.160 You want to stop bullying? 232 00:14:05.160 --> 00:14:10.400 Teach every kid how to defend themselves because bully is in the heart. 233 00:14:10.400 --> 00:14:14.360 You can legislate it all you want, it's never going to change a thing. 234 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:17.400 You've got to change the heart until heart should change. 235 00:14:17.400 --> 00:14:22.360 Your kids got to be able to protect themselves because a bully will find the weak kid because 236 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:28.720 bullies are cowards and there's a lot of coward nations out there right now. 237 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:31.040 They're lunatics. 238 00:14:31.040 --> 00:14:34.080 They've got nuclear weapons and a match and they don't know what to do but they feel 239 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:36.040 like they should do something. 240 00:14:36.040 --> 00:14:41.680 Nobody cares about them so they want to make you care about them. 241 00:14:41.680 --> 00:14:43.920 Just have religious aspirations. 242 00:14:43.920 --> 00:14:47.760 Listen, I'm not a prophet. 243 00:14:47.760 --> 00:14:53.380 In fact, Jesus said this way, in Matthew 246, and you will hear of wars and rumors of 244 00:14:53.380 --> 00:14:56.640 wars, see that you're not troubled by this. 245 00:14:56.640 --> 00:14:59.200 For all these things must come to pass. 246 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:04.000 The end is not yet, but the end of the world is not yet. 247 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:07.640 That same chapter by the way, read it later, chapter 24, Jesus said, oh and yes, there's 248 00:15:07.640 --> 00:15:11.160 going to be pandemics. 249 00:15:11.400 --> 00:15:15.600 There is called pestilence, global sicknesses. 250 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:19.000 Jesus said, oh and yes, and there's going to be lawlessness. 251 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:27.160 He said, in fact, when the disciples came to Jesus and said, tell us, when will these 252 00:15:27.160 --> 00:15:28.800 things be? 253 00:15:28.800 --> 00:15:35.040 What will be the sign of your coming, three-part question, and the end of the world? 254 00:15:35.040 --> 00:15:37.840 And listen, Jesus did not say this. 255 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:39.560 He did not say this first. 256 00:15:39.560 --> 00:15:44.680 He did not say there's going to be wars and rumors of wars. 257 00:15:44.680 --> 00:15:46.640 He didn't say that first. 258 00:15:46.640 --> 00:15:49.000 Jesus did not say first. 259 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:52.720 There's going to be earthquakes, big ones, all over the world. 260 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:55.360 He didn't say that first. 261 00:15:55.360 --> 00:16:00.720 He did not say volcanoes, keep your eye on volcanoes. 262 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:01.720 He didn't say that first. 263 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:05.360 He said that a couple of verses later. 264 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:08.800 Volcanoes, earthquakes, pandemics. 265 00:16:08.800 --> 00:16:13.120 He said this too, but not first. 266 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:15.720 Men will hate one another so much. 267 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:19.960 Their love will grow cold for humanity. 268 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:25.800 And because of that, lawlessness will rule. 269 00:16:25.800 --> 00:16:29.440 Lawlessness will prevail. 270 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:31.520 Nobody fears the law. 271 00:16:31.520 --> 00:16:33.520 People do what's right in their own eyes. 272 00:16:33.520 --> 00:16:35.040 He didn't say that first. 273 00:16:35.040 --> 00:16:38.560 You and he said first, when they asked him, when are you coming back and what about the 274 00:16:38.560 --> 00:16:39.560 world? 275 00:16:39.560 --> 00:16:42.600 Jesus said the most important thing first. 276 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:45.480 He said, let nobody deceive you. 277 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:50.560 Many false Christ and many false prophets are going to come and seek to deceive you. 278 00:16:50.560 --> 00:16:52.800 Listen to this, I love it. 279 00:16:52.800 --> 00:16:59.880 He says, and if it were possible, deceive even the very elect. 280 00:16:59.880 --> 00:17:04.680 He said if, one little word. 281 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:07.520 He didn't say the elect are going to be deceived. 282 00:17:07.520 --> 00:17:09.960 He said the opposite. 283 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:12.200 If it were possible, it means it's impossible. 284 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:14.560 You ever look freshman logic course. 285 00:17:14.560 --> 00:17:18.520 First grade, first grade logic course. 286 00:17:18.520 --> 00:17:23.720 I'm not a first grade, but maybe third grade. 287 00:17:23.720 --> 00:17:28.440 If it's not possible, then it's impossible. 288 00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:29.440 How could Jesus say that? 289 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:31.680 It's easy. 290 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:37.640 Because when this word is in you, this thing keeps you from being deceived by that invisible 291 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:38.640 dark world. 292 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:46.560 This is what does it. 293 00:17:46.560 --> 00:17:51.520 And God is so gracious with you and your journey because when you start out, or if you've 294 00:17:51.520 --> 00:17:54.320 old, seasoned saint, you've been with Jesus for a long time. 295 00:17:54.320 --> 00:17:58.960 His grace sustains you through, but to whom much is given, much is required. 296 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:06.360 As you grow older in Jesus, much less feelings, much more faith, because you're growing up. 297 00:18:06.360 --> 00:18:12.340 But when you're a new believer, it's all feelings in a little bit of faith, but faith comes 298 00:18:12.340 --> 00:18:18.320 by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God, Romans 10, 17 says, so watch this. 299 00:18:18.320 --> 00:18:20.680 You love being around new believers. 300 00:18:20.680 --> 00:18:22.000 They're awesome. 301 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:27.120 You know somebody who gets saved and is like, well, I just love the Lord. 302 00:18:27.120 --> 00:18:28.120 That's great. 303 00:18:28.120 --> 00:18:29.120 Praise the Lord. 304 00:18:29.120 --> 00:18:31.520 Yes, praise the Lord. 305 00:18:31.520 --> 00:18:33.200 And they're so fine because they go, you know what? 306 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:34.200 I'm going to pray. 307 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:35.600 I'm going to pray because I don't have a job. 308 00:18:35.600 --> 00:18:37.200 You know, yeah, you pray. 309 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:39.200 Lord, I need a job. 310 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:42.040 I'd like to have a good one. 311 00:18:42.040 --> 00:18:43.040 Yeah. 312 00:18:43.040 --> 00:18:44.040 Thank you, Jesus. 313 00:18:44.040 --> 00:18:45.040 Amen. 314 00:18:45.040 --> 00:18:47.600 And then you go, that's nice. 315 00:18:47.600 --> 00:18:51.360 And then they call you the next day, hey, I got a phone call. 316 00:18:51.360 --> 00:18:52.360 Some company called me up. 317 00:18:52.360 --> 00:18:53.840 They asked me what my name was. 318 00:18:53.840 --> 00:18:56.600 Hey, who is this on the other end of the phone? 319 00:18:56.600 --> 00:18:57.600 It's Bill. 320 00:18:57.600 --> 00:18:58.600 We're going to give you a job. 321 00:18:58.600 --> 00:18:59.760 I'm going to pay you double. 322 00:18:59.760 --> 00:19:00.760 Okay. 323 00:19:00.760 --> 00:19:01.760 He hangs up. 324 00:19:01.760 --> 00:19:03.520 Praise the Lord. 325 00:19:03.520 --> 00:19:05.600 Have you noticed a new believer wherever they go? 326 00:19:05.600 --> 00:19:07.760 It's just like they just, they pray. 327 00:19:07.760 --> 00:19:09.800 It's not, God just goes, boom, there you go. 328 00:19:09.800 --> 00:19:13.360 Hang out with new believers. 329 00:19:13.360 --> 00:19:15.760 And they, I just sense the Lord. 330 00:19:15.760 --> 00:19:18.880 In an old season, Sancos, I don't sense anything. 331 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:21.880 What are you sensing? 332 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:25.840 God is working in the journey in different levels with His grace, but with, there's more 333 00:19:25.840 --> 00:19:26.840 of the Word. 334 00:19:26.840 --> 00:19:29.520 And He gives you time to know the Word. 335 00:19:29.520 --> 00:19:33.120 So in the day of your visitation, you'll know it. 336 00:19:33.120 --> 00:19:40.360 You recognize the times and the seasons to build faith, to be strong, because God keeps 337 00:19:40.360 --> 00:19:41.360 His Word. 338 00:19:41.360 --> 00:19:52.040 And so the new believers covered the old season, saints covered, because God's faithful. 339 00:19:52.040 --> 00:19:56.120 This Jack Hibbs podcast, as well as all the broadcast out, reach opportunities are 340 00:19:56.120 --> 00:19:57.920 listener supported. 341 00:19:57.920 --> 00:20:01.480 Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 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