WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.680 Real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:11.680 --> 00:00:19.840 truth equip the saints and impact our culture. Are you happy? Are you excited? Are 3 00:00:19.840 --> 00:00:26.680 you joyful? Do you have godly anticipation? If you don't have those things it's 4 00:00:26.680 --> 00:00:32.920 because you're not doing what he created you together. Hands out! Because when 5 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:36.880 you're doing, when you find out what it is he wants you to do and you do it, the 6 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:41.680 world can fall out from underneath you and you will be happy, you will be joyful, 7 00:00:41.680 --> 00:00:49.640 and you will be full. I can't imagine going through life without that assurance. 8 00:00:50.040 --> 00:00:56.360 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackkibs.com slash podcast. 9 00:00:56.360 --> 00:01:01.680 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 10 00:01:01.680 --> 00:01:06.560 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 11 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:12.080 that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 12 00:01:12.080 --> 00:01:17.480 Now open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you. Here is Jack Kibs. 13 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:25.160 God's glory is revealed to you when he knows you. That's why Bible study only 14 00:01:25.160 --> 00:01:29.840 takes you halfway because once you study a verse of the Bible, then God says, 15 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:35.440 okay now go do it. The Bible tells us and I love this, the Bible tells us in 16 00:01:35.440 --> 00:01:41.080 Luke chapter 10 verse 18 and Jesus said to them, this is the disciples now 17 00:01:41.080 --> 00:01:46.040 they're growing that went from 12 to 70 of them. I saw Satan fall like lightning 18 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:49.200 from heaven. That's a great thing. He said, what are you saying that for Jesus? 19 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:55.280 Behold, I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all 20 00:01:55.280 --> 00:02:02.720 the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you. This would have 21 00:02:02.720 --> 00:02:09.960 been a great theme verse for 2020. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this that the 22 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:14.400 spirits or the demons are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your 23 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:19.800 names are written in heaven. Can you imagine? Jesus says, now go and preach the 24 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:23.760 gospel. Okay, here we go and you preach the gospel and communities are getting 25 00:02:23.760 --> 00:02:28.920 saved. Miracles are happening and demons are running away from you and you go 26 00:02:28.920 --> 00:02:33.720 back to Jesus and you say, it works. It works. Your gospel works. Wow, that was 27 00:02:33.720 --> 00:02:42.400 amazing. We not only know you, but while we were away from you preaching and 28 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:49.520 ministering, we discover that you know us. And Jesus says, that's very, very cool, 29 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:57.000 but listen, remember this. Best thing of all. Rejoice, not in that, but in the fact 30 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:02.200 that your names are written down in heaven. Your names. Is your name written down 31 00:03:02.200 --> 00:03:08.720 in heaven? Number three, make sure you're being faithful. We don't need to be 32 00:03:08.720 --> 00:03:13.680 labor this. Just challenge you on this. Be faithful. He's coming for you. So make 33 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:21.560 sure that you're being faithful. The word faithful means being reliable to what 34 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:24.720 God has called you to do. It means that he can trust you with what he's given 35 00:03:24.720 --> 00:03:29.600 you to do. This is beautifully liberating, friend. You, you, you, you, not the 36 00:03:29.600 --> 00:03:35.440 person next to you. You specifically, you think about it as unique as a snowflake 37 00:03:35.440 --> 00:03:39.840 is. You know, I believe people when they say that I've never looked at a snowflake. 38 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:45.040 I'm told every one of them is different. Okay. I have it. Look, so I'll, I'll go with 39 00:03:45.040 --> 00:03:52.360 the science on that if that's science. The hallmark card says you're as unique as a 40 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:59.520 snowflake. Okay. I, I know that's true. You are unique. Here's the thing. God is 41 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:05.960 saying to you, whoever you are, who you know me and I know you, be faithful to why I 42 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:11.720 give you life. See, when we're unfaithful, I don't mean this in any other way, 43 00:04:11.720 --> 00:04:17.720 except this is life. This is my life. I want to, I want to do this. I want to do 44 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:24.640 that. I want to, I want to do my things. It's not necessarily something. In fact, 45 00:04:24.640 --> 00:04:28.440 let me put it this way. It's not necessarily something evil that they're saying. 46 00:04:28.440 --> 00:04:35.360 They don't know anything. They're, they're non-christians. They don't know. And they're 47 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:39.720 trying to look, let's be honest. They're doing the best they can to make their 48 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:47.640 life mean something. Right? Why do people have sexual exploits or drug-induced 49 00:04:47.640 --> 00:04:54.560 events or power grabbing? And why do they do that? Because they're trying to find 50 00:04:54.560 --> 00:05:00.240 meaning. Don't be so mean to them because you used to be just like them. Have we 51 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:04.800 forgotten that he's rescued us from this? We need to be gentle and kind and loving and 52 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:08.560 we need to reach out to them. Pray first and then reach out to them. The truth is 53 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:13.760 they're trying to get what you have or they're trying to get what Jesus gives for 54 00:05:13.760 --> 00:05:18.440 free. They don't know that. So they're trying to figure out how do I feel this void 55 00:05:18.440 --> 00:05:28.920 of my life. They're not necessarily the spawn of Satan. They just may not know Jesus. 56 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:33.120 And we can so focus down, oh look what you're doing, look what you're doing. Look, I've 57 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:37.280 told you before church, when somebody I don't know, walks up and says, hi, I'm a Christian. 58 00:05:37.280 --> 00:05:43.840 I'm in my mind. I go, hey, nice to meet you. In my mind, I'm going, oh boy. What do we 59 00:05:43.840 --> 00:05:51.840 got here? Because you don't know. I don't know. They have named a name. They put themselves 60 00:05:51.840 --> 00:06:00.240 in a category. Are they in pursuit of Christ? Are they in submission to his word? If somebody 61 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:08.480 comes up and says, hey, I'm a full blown atheist. Well, I can relax. Are you with me? I don't 62 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:13.080 expect anything from them. If they say, hey, you know what, I'm a full blown atheist that 63 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:19.480 was thinking about going over there and doing this and doing that. And of course you were. That's 64 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:28.600 what I used to do before I was a follower, right? You're going to be faithful to something or 65 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:37.480 to someone. Jesus says, be faithful to me. Be faithful to me. God has given each of you something 66 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:44.600 to do in this life for his glory. You are to find out what it is. And when you find it, 67 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:50.920 or run with it, God made you for a purpose. Listen, don't respond out loud. Are you happy? 68 00:06:52.280 --> 00:07:01.640 Are you excited? Are you joyful? Do you have godly anticipation? If you don't have those things, 69 00:07:01.640 --> 00:07:09.400 it's because you're not doing what He created you to do. Hands down. Because when you're doing, 70 00:07:09.400 --> 00:07:15.480 when you find out what it is He wants you to do and you do it, the world can fall out from underneath 71 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:23.800 you and you will be happy. You will be joyful and you will be full. I can't imagine going through 72 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:31.000 life without that assurance. So find out what that is. And Matthew 633, the Bible says, 73 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:37.240 seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. So the kingdom of God, this is fine. It's two 74 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:41.000 things. Number one, seek first the kingdom. That's His politics. That's what it means. 75 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:47.880 Seek first the politics of Jesus. What is that? He's king. King Jesus. John Adams always called 76 00:07:47.880 --> 00:07:57.640 Jesus, King Jesus. I like that. King Jesus. That's right. He's king. Listen, when kings say 77 00:07:57.640 --> 00:08:07.960 things, you do them, right? Isn't it great that the Bible reveals to us that Jesus is king? 78 00:08:09.320 --> 00:08:15.560 It doesn't reveal him. It doesn't reveal us president or senator or congress or prime minister 79 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:25.000 king. I like that. See, I like that because I like His politics. His politics is love. 80 00:08:26.280 --> 00:08:32.360 His politics is joy, peace, kindness, gentleness, self-control, the fruit of the spirit. That's 81 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:40.040 His politics. And this is how we confirm that our faith is correct and that we are knowing Him and 82 00:08:40.040 --> 00:08:47.800 that we're on the right path is that we're ready for Him. This is so important yet so easily missed. 83 00:08:49.640 --> 00:08:53.320 If we're on the right path and we believe what His Word says and that He's coming back for us and 84 00:08:53.320 --> 00:09:00.760 we don't know when it could be at any time, how do I maintain this to be ready for Him? Second 85 00:09:00.760 --> 00:09:06.360 Corinthians 13, five says examine yourselves to see or to determine whether you are in the faith, 86 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:13.080 test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you? Isn't that awesome? 87 00:09:14.040 --> 00:09:20.920 The word in the word examine means this to put yourself through the test. Watch, it's to put 88 00:09:20.920 --> 00:09:25.480 yourself through the test. The word means to challenge your authenticity. 89 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:32.520 If you've ever been and if you've never been, I encourage you to go. It's absolutely amazing. 90 00:09:32.600 --> 00:09:37.160 Go to Bodhi, California. Have you ever heard of Bodhi? How many have you been to Bodhi? Raise 91 00:09:37.160 --> 00:09:41.640 your hands. Oh, well. Well, those of you who haven't, you've got to go. Bodhi, California. 92 00:09:43.400 --> 00:09:51.880 Northern California, just east of the 395. It's way up there. It's like 8,300 feet high. So 93 00:09:51.880 --> 00:09:58.280 dress warm. In that location, by the way, everything's still standing. Everything's still standing. 94 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:03.080 There's even letters and there's even, at the assayers office. This is my point. At the assayers 95 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:08.680 office, when you took your gold, you took it to the assayers office and you put in the guides. 96 00:10:08.680 --> 00:10:14.440 It's all still there. You can read it. It's been there some like 1849, 1853. 97 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:24.360 Whether the guy brought in, by the way, true. I forget his first name, but Mr. Levi 98 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:36.440 and Mr. Strauss. Yep. That's where they lived. They moved from San Francisco to Bodhi. Why? 99 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:42.680 Because people at Bodhi working at Bodhi, maybe they were the richest people on earth at that time. 100 00:10:42.680 --> 00:10:48.920 Bodhi was producing more millionaires per week than any other place ever in human history, 101 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:57.560 from mining gold. It was so prolific that they didn't have will barrels. So some guy invented a 102 00:10:57.560 --> 00:11:02.200 will barrel that would work a lot better than what the carts that they were using. You know what 103 00:11:02.200 --> 00:11:10.520 the guy's name was? Stoodabaker. Pants were wearing out because they were made of cotton. And so two 104 00:11:10.520 --> 00:11:17.800 guys, two Jewish guys, moved from San Francisco, gave up their careers and they went to go mine for 105 00:11:17.800 --> 00:11:23.400 gold. And this doesn't know what the Bible says. They were mining for gold and they wore their pants 106 00:11:23.400 --> 00:11:29.720 out so fast that they went back to San Francisco and invented denim. And they're called Levi Strauss. 107 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:38.760 Levi's today. Zippers wouldn't work right. So they did button ups. Levi Strauss. Then they kept 108 00:11:38.760 --> 00:11:44.600 breaking tools. They were finding so much gold they were wearing out tools. Pants and will barrels. 109 00:11:44.920 --> 00:11:52.040 So some guy, listen, some guy talked to his friend about we need to figure out how to build a new 110 00:11:52.040 --> 00:11:56.520 shovel, a different kind of shovel. And if we only had a thing like this, it would help a lot. 111 00:11:58.520 --> 00:12:02.840 What do you think, Mr. Robuck? Well, I think we should do this, Mr. Sears. 112 00:12:05.160 --> 00:12:10.200 Bodhi California. Why did I bring that up? Someone help me. I have no idea. 113 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:23.960 Oh, when you found gold, you took it to the assayers office and they poured acid on it. 114 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:32.040 And they acid washed everything away. That wasn't gold. And the gold just became brilliant. 115 00:12:32.040 --> 00:12:36.520 And they said, congratulations. That's one nugget you have there. That's tremendous. 116 00:12:36.520 --> 00:12:44.200 The Bible says, examine yourselves. Pour the acid. Look, pour the acid on my life. 117 00:12:45.640 --> 00:12:52.120 See what's real. No one can do that except you. The believer in Christ Jesus will do this to 118 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:58.440 themselves. They will look at themselves and they will say, when he comes, is he coming for me? 119 00:13:00.040 --> 00:13:04.120 I want to make sure because I'm going to pour the acid of his word on my life to see what needs 120 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:11.160 to be washed away and I'm willing to see what's true and let it stand. That takes faith, friend, 121 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:18.920 in him because you're willing to get that report card from him. You'll be ready. We don't 122 00:13:18.920 --> 00:13:24.840 have to worry much at all about anything regarding his coming if you examine yourself. 123 00:13:25.560 --> 00:13:31.560 And then we end right here. Make sure that you're found by him. And I'll just end with this. I 124 00:13:31.560 --> 00:13:37.320 wish I had the time. But to be found by him, I did a little bit of study on sheep and goats. 125 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:44.280 You know, goats will not follow easily or if at all the shepherd's voice. 126 00:13:45.640 --> 00:13:48.920 You know, goats are independent. They do their own thing. Did you know that goats will eat 127 00:13:48.920 --> 00:13:53.320 anything that's in front of them if they want to? You know, they're very 128 00:13:53.800 --> 00:14:00.200 non-selective, non-critical about what they consume. 129 00:14:04.680 --> 00:14:08.760 Let me read this to you. One of the many differences between sheep and goats is how they eat. 130 00:14:08.760 --> 00:14:13.800 Sheep are grazers. They ramble slowly among particular plants close to the ground. Goats, 131 00:14:13.800 --> 00:14:22.920 on the other hand, are browsers. Internet browsers. They look for almost anything when leaves, 132 00:14:22.920 --> 00:14:27.880 twigs, vines, and scrubs are not on the menu. They will consume just about anything that is 133 00:14:27.880 --> 00:14:35.480 convenient. Contrary, sheep are slow, methodical eaters, while goats can be agile in the pursuit of 134 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:43.800 food and indiscriminate with their diet. Jesus said, you're the sheep or a goat. Listen. 135 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:53.960 Sheep, sheep have to be fed by the shepherd or they have to be eating under the shepherd's 136 00:14:53.960 --> 00:15:06.680 approval of a field or a hillside. Scientifically, factual sheep prove scientifically that God is 137 00:15:06.680 --> 00:15:13.720 the creator because evolution could never be true because we know that sheep cannot exist without 138 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:20.200 a human being. Did you know that? Sheep cannot live without humans. They'll die. 139 00:15:23.080 --> 00:15:28.680 And just that argument alone debunks evolution because you couldn't have had sheep before humans. 140 00:15:30.920 --> 00:15:35.720 You can only have sheep because of a shepherd. A goat, on the other hand, 141 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:47.960 they'll eat your purse. They'll eat your wallet. But when you're found by him, it means this. 142 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:56.680 It means that he knows you by name. That he knows you by name, my friend, and the tragic thing would 143 00:15:56.680 --> 00:16:04.760 be that at the end, can you imagine, you die. In fact, I wrote this down. It sounds kind of 144 00:16:04.760 --> 00:16:11.240 terrifying, right? Watch this. This is what I wrote. As I look across the sanctuary, I see that 145 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:18.840 every single one of you will be meeting Jesus Christ in person in just a few years. Think of it. 146 00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:26.760 You say, I don't know, I like the way that sounds. It doesn't matter because even if you live to be 147 00:16:26.760 --> 00:16:33.400 a hundred, it's only a few years compared to eternity. So it's true, as I look across this 148 00:16:33.400 --> 00:16:37.880 sanctuary, every single one of you will be meeting Jesus Christ personally. 149 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:45.800 And so you want to make sure when he sees you, will he see you with your name tag on? 150 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:55.240 Hey, I know you. Can you imagine being in line? And you're going up to the gates there and 151 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:58.440 there's Peter's got a little clipboard. I don't know where we got that from. It's not in the Bible. 152 00:16:59.160 --> 00:17:06.040 But can you imagine, what's your name? I had a name tag in life. I don't know where my name tag is. 153 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:14.920 I had it when I was living. Let's see what happens when we get up there. But you look around 154 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:21.000 and there's other people's name tags. Can you imagine? Mike, come on in. Welcome. Enter into the 155 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:29.480 joy of the Lord. Jack, come on in. What's your name? Fred. Well, how do I know? It's Fred. 156 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:36.920 There's no Fred here. Where's your name tag? I don't have one. I had one in life. 157 00:17:39.080 --> 00:17:46.680 But I noticed as soon as I died, I didn't have one. I'm sorry. I can't come in. 158 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:54.760 Jesus gives you that name tag. The Bible says in the book of Revelation, he will give you 159 00:17:56.280 --> 00:18:00.280 a new name. I'm really glad about that. I'm done with Jack. I'm tired of it. 160 00:18:03.800 --> 00:18:11.400 Let's listen. Let's pray right now. But listen. Are you going? Listen. He's coming for you. 161 00:18:12.360 --> 00:18:17.160 You will enter eternity in the next few years. 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