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real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth equip the saints and impact our culture if you're not a Christian you

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are one heartbeat away from hell right now you've hit my heart check that's

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fine it's strong don't slip on any bananas watch out you know I'm saying you

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are walking on a bridge of thread over a raging fire and you don't even know

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it you can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash

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podcast today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a

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more fulfilled life in Christ then make sure you leave us one of those five

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star ratings to us that's like saying amen or yes then that rating will

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encourage others to listen now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to

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you here is Jack Hibbs in 1st John 418 the Bible tells us there's no fear in

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love but perfect or complete love cast out fear because fear involves torment

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boy does it not but he who fears has not been made perfect or complete in

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love so what does that mean the person that fears as a believer I'm just

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talking by the way first John's written to Christians only if you're not a

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Christian you should worry big time you should be in total gut wrenching fear

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right now tonight if you're not a Christian you are one heartbeat away from

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hell right now I just have my heart checked it's fine it's strong don't slip on

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any bananas watch out you know I'm saying you are you are walking on a bridge

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of thread over a raging fire and you don't even know it William Booth the founder

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the Salvation Army said if I could take all of my soldiers and show them

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hell they would never backslide imagine listen first John's written to the

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Christian we are not to fear because fear always generates torment we are to

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be an awe of God see you put the Bible say fear God yeah yeah it does say

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fear God in English the word some maybe some translations I haven't seen it

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yet but maybe some translations would put it right it's be an awe it's

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reverential awe of God right like you go to Grand Canyon you stand on the edge

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it's like what that's how you approach God this is amazing this is too big

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fear Satan loves fear he loves to rip people off with fear and the Bible says

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why fear you don't need to fear perfect love meaning God's love realized for you

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remorse fear Paul knew this you know this when when they said okay we're gonna we're

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gonna kill you Paul I'm sure this is how it came about we're gonna kill you okay you

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can kill me bad that'd be good I'll go straight to heaven so go go for it well

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wait a minute then we're gonna let you live okay that's fantastic to because to I'll

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just keep living for Jesus so wait a minute can you imagine these guys they don't

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know if they're gonna give them 20 bucks to catch a cab or an axe to cut his head off

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they don't know what to do with this guy because Paul the Apostle said to live is

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Christ to die is gain I'm sure it came out of a situation where Rome said you

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know what we're gonna kill you you taking your little mouth all around the

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Empire talking about Jesus we're gonna take you out and I'm certainly just

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said yeah which way how do you want to I'm good with it well then if you're good

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with it because we're trying to destroy you if you're good with it we're gonna let

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you live all right that's good to you can't stop someone like that you understand

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that that's the Christian life the only reason why you and I are not like that if

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we are not like that is because of fear that's why the Bible says don't fear

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what man can do to you know this be honest we can only die so long so what

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did it torture me what if there's all these start start graving crazy they're

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gonna chop her heads off that would be pretty quick right think about it you

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could only die so long and then there's eternal life don't fear number six why

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me or you why me is a tendency Jeremiah 31 threes is the Lord has appeared of old

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to me saying yes I have loved you with an everlasting love therefore with

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loving kindness I have drawn you the love of God draws in the midst of a world

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that is invented all kinds of things to rattle our minds or what many will

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think comfort them God says above everything in this world I love you my love is

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real my love can be experienced today I don't know where you were today but if

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you had a chance to be outside at all if you were driving maybe some of you

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working I don't know just even if you went from one office building to the

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other today today was perfect it was just perfect what and what did you think

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about that when the breeze breeze coming off the ocean you're feeling on your

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skin what was amazing if you wanted to be warm if you're in the sun the sun was

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intense if you wanted to cool off in an instant you just step one foot over into

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the shade it seemed like nature was responding to today just the sound of it

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when you think about when you say our ask why me you're forgetting that God

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loves you absolutely we have to wake up to this because it doesn't come

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natural for us you might be here today and you're not a Christian God loves

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you he hates what you're doing is it amazing you don't you enjoy it God hates

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it because he sees the outcome of it think about it if the God of the Bible

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wasn't loving then he wouldn't be upset with you for doing wrong he'd say go

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kill yourself what do I care but because he loves you he doesn't want you to

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hurt yourself he loves you and then finally why wait I don't know maybe I'm

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blinded to this but it seems to me it's it should be harder to be an unbeliever

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nowadays I mean let's end with this why would you not believe in God I would like

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you to get your Bible out or borrow somebody's Bible and show someone or me

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where in why here in the it's over here it's this chapter in this verse this is

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why I can't be a believer oh that's why so it's not it's not because you know

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believe in God have you noticed that I am convinced I've never met an atheist I'm

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convinced of it I have learned that people who claim that they're atheist they

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have the luxury to claim their atheists does it make sense because when

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life gets rough for the atheist almost all of them cry out for God and those

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who don't I was so sad the day that Christopher Hitchens died he was my favorite

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atheist I liked him a lot was he foul foul bad mouth bad mouth but you ever

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listen to his arguments he's gene brilliant man you know you I can't recommend

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you listening to him because he cusses a lot in his debates but you know his

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problem was he claimed to be the most famous atheist in the world he was

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problem was he was an atheist because every time he gave a presentation all over

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the world when he was given it he attacked the God of the Bible for the way God

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does things he was furious at God and he would say so and you listen to him and

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you listen and you realize he is a he does believe it's twisted it's wrong but

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how can you be upset with someone who doesn't exist you don't yell at the

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fire hydrant for getting in your way right there are no atheists I'm

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convinced that doesn't happen everyone's pagan or Christian well

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pastor I just I find that only offensive it's because I got you that's why I got

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you I did I made you think didn't I made you think because if if you

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claim to be an atheist it's because you have the luxury to complain about the

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God of the universe and by you say so you're actually grumbling about the one

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you don't believe in you can't be you can't do that it's illogical in fact I

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think the Puritans used to use the word insane the word

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ensainment a man who thinks without God if you think without God you're insane

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isn't that great I love that I don't believe in God you are not right so why

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wait because you know if you're not a believer tonight are you wouldn't want

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to be a believer many times I've heard people say well where was God when I

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was nine years old we grieve with you in that by the way but why don't you

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direct your anger at the right one Jesus told you in this book Satan has come

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to rob kill and destroy I have come to give you life well you know what I

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married this man or this woman and she was a Christian and then she ran out

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on God yeah that's a heartbreak and that happens all the time God doesn't make

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robots he's not gonna make you believe and he's not gonna make somebody keep

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believing in the whole question comes down to was that individual really in the

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family of God or not here's the deal tonight and every one of our lives tonight I

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don't care how young you are it's how it's expressed newborn baby to a man or

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woman is 99 years old we have to we have to experience love two ways because we've

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been creating the image of God we have to receive love we have to have it we'll

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die without it and we have to give it so what you were designed to do because

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you've been created the image of God and tonight your life has been not all that

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healthy as a non-believer because you've not allowed the love of God to love

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you like you just was to be loved you're not gonna find love in sex you understand

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that sex is one of the ingredients that God gave regarding love but sex is not

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love power is not love wealth is not love does it make sense why are some

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people poor as dirt and happy I was gonna say happy as a clam I don't know what

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that means but we you know what I'm saying why is what is that why listen 45

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minutes at this time of the day we can be we could be in Brentwood or Bell

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Air right in 45 minutes right here straight down the 60 some of the richest

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people in the world who are stoning themselves out of their minds right now

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sleeping around trying to figure out what the meaning of the life is and their

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idols in our world and nobody if they knew would want to live like them it's all

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the show but every one of us want love they they need the love of God and they

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need to give I'll leave you with this illustration I've said it a zillion times

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I love it you think of God being merciful for 120 years while Noah was

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proclaiming truth and building an ark in his front yard can you imagine and then

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God says get in the get in the boat and the family gets in the boat and the Bible

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says God shut the door I'd like to have seen that he mentioned all the neighbors

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say Noah what are you doing and the door about self just goes

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and didn't it rain like a week later was in a long time it's like it like it

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door didn't shut in the art pull away can you imagine the people outside hey

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Noah where's the water remember that it had not the Bible said it had not

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rained on the earth yet and then can you imagine a cloud comes what is that and

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it starts dropping on rain at some point in time I bet you know I could hear them

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crying on the ark just getting open the door open the door open the door so

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Lisa and I run a cruise ship in Alaska in a honeymoon couple we found out

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later they're a honeymoon couple they tell you you know the boat leaves it for

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but beyond the boat at three don't be late if you're late here's the

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information for you to figure out how to get to the next stop for this ship

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don't be late and so before an hour before the ship's going

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it's letting you know man you can just be trying on something there and

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it's like come on let's go why cuz the ship's leaving and away everybody gets

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on board and the attendance are taking the gangway off the dock and you see

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this uber car pull up and these young couple with shopping bags and stuff

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and they're going and the ship just starts going like this and they're standing

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like this I'm serious we watched the whole thing happen we did we're just like

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this I'm sorry but we did we're just like this don't tell me there's nothing you

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can do

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hey look that's merciful because there's no second stop when that ship leaves

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when Jesus comes it's over or when your heart stops it's over there's no second chance

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