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 --> 00:00:11.240 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Don't be surprised if you do not 3 00:00:11.240 --> 00:00:14.560 feel God brush up against you or pinch your little arm to let you know he's 4 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:17.740 there. He doesn't do that stuff when you said you that you'd never leave me 5 00:00:17.740 --> 00:00:23.200 or forsake me. That's right, but I don't feel it. I didn't say you would feel it. 6 00:00:23.200 --> 00:00:27.640 Diddy, he didn't say you'd feel it. I didn't say you'd feel it. Yeah, but I need 7 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:33.240 your strength. You've got it. I need your wisdom right in front of you. I need 8 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:40.040 you to get me through this. I will. The results you got to leave with God. 9 00:00:41.040 --> 00:00:47.560 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 10 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:52.920 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 11 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:57.800 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 12 00:00:57.800 --> 00:01:03.320 that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 13 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:09.720 Now, open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 14 00:01:09.720 --> 00:01:14.520 Titus chapter 2 verse 13 says looking for the blessed hope. That's that 15 00:01:14.520 --> 00:01:19.400 pregnant expectancy of us being transformed and going into his presence, 16 00:01:19.720 --> 00:01:25.080 looking for the blessed hope and the glorious period of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. 17 00:01:25.080 --> 00:01:29.720 And the words, by the way, and the actions of the believer ought to define a great expectation 18 00:01:29.720 --> 00:01:39.800 in our lives. Why? Paul did this. Old, aged, scarred, imprisoned in Rome in a Roman sewer. 19 00:01:39.800 --> 00:01:45.240 The mammothin prison. I've been there. Maybe you've been there as well. It's a tourist site 20 00:01:45.240 --> 00:01:51.960 where you go in Rome and he was in the belly of Rome underground and in that sewage canal. 21 00:01:53.720 --> 00:02:01.240 And he wrote this. One of his last few words, by the way, second Timothy 4 verse 8. Finally, 22 00:02:01.240 --> 00:02:07.240 listen to this man. He's looking down the barrel of Nero's judgment. He's going to have his head 23 00:02:07.240 --> 00:02:13.400 cut off. Finally, there's laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the 24 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:19.960 righteous judge, will give to me on that day. And not to me only, but to all those who have 25 00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:25.160 loved his appearing. Do you love the fact that Christ could appear at any moment? There's a 26 00:02:25.160 --> 00:02:29.480 crown of righteousness that awaits you. You and I should be pregnant with this with this 27 00:02:29.480 --> 00:02:36.760 expectancy. Colossians 3 verse 4 says, when Christ who has our life appears suddenly appears 28 00:02:36.760 --> 00:02:40.600 without warning, by the way. This is not the second coming he's talking about. This is the 29 00:02:40.600 --> 00:02:47.880 rapture of the church. Very different. The appearance of Christ. Then you also will appear with him 30 00:02:47.880 --> 00:02:52.760 in glory. First Thessalonians, this is how it's going to happen. If any of your technical here, 31 00:02:52.760 --> 00:02:56.360 you're going to want to write this down. See, what's the mechanics of that? I don't understand the 32 00:02:56.360 --> 00:03:02.440 physics of that. Well, God knew you were going to ask that question, so he gave you this. First 33 00:03:02.440 --> 00:03:09.240 Thessalonians 4 verse 13 starts by saying, but I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren. The word 34 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:14.520 ignorant here in the Greek word is, do not be uninformed. It means it's information you can have, 35 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:21.720 so don't avoid it. Get it. Concerning those who have fallen asleep or died in Jesus, believers 36 00:03:21.720 --> 00:03:27.640 are referred to as that. They fell asleep in Christ, speaking of the body, lest you sorrow as others 37 00:03:27.640 --> 00:03:33.400 who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him 38 00:03:33.560 --> 00:03:41.160 those who died in Jesus. Verse 15, for this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are 39 00:03:41.160 --> 00:03:47.400 alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are dead. In other 40 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:52.360 words, their dead body is going to pop out of the ground in the resurrection, just nanoseconds before 41 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:57.640 if you're living in that generation and you're walking down the street. It would be awesome if 42 00:03:58.200 --> 00:04:02.440 I've told you guys before. I want to be doing a funeral that day at Forrest Lawn. 43 00:04:04.760 --> 00:04:12.040 Wouldn't it be great? And now we put brother, Mike's body in the ground. Mike's out here, Mike's 44 00:04:12.040 --> 00:04:20.600 with the Lord. Can you imagine we just put the body down in there? The body is going to come 45 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:25.320 up in resurrection and the Bible says we'll read here in a second is that Mike is going to mean 46 00:04:25.400 --> 00:04:30.920 his body in the atmosphere. Those who are alive at that moment, not dead, but alive, will be met 47 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:34.360 or more fully. It's that stuff. Listen, it's that thing that you've seen in the movies. You know 48 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:38.360 the left behind movies? You've ever seen those movies, left mind? That's what they're talking about. 49 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:44.200 The pie that's fun, the plane and then he's gone or somebody. Okay, listen, when that happens, 50 00:04:44.200 --> 00:04:47.560 only God knows when it's going to happen. Don't think it's not going to happen because it hasn't 51 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:53.720 happened. Hello, it means we're 2000 years closer to it happening. That makes this a very, very good 52 00:04:53.720 --> 00:05:00.440 day today. I'm ready. I hope you're ready too. God's God's good. And where was I? Anybody remember? 53 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:08.840 Verse 16, for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout. That's John 141, with the voice 54 00:05:08.840 --> 00:05:13.560 of the archangel, with the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ will rise first and we who are 55 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:21.880 alive and remain shall be caught up. That's the word in Latin rapture or the Greek as Harpazzo caught 56 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:28.200 violently removed, picked up quickly together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. 57 00:05:28.200 --> 00:05:33.640 And thus we shall always be with the Lord verse 18, therefore comfort one another with these words. 58 00:05:33.640 --> 00:05:40.440 And you say, well, I need a little bit more technical instruction on that. Well, look at 1 Corinthians 59 00:05:40.440 --> 00:05:47.000 1550. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. You 60 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:52.920 want to know why? This is so cool. We're going, Christian, we're going to an atmosphere where this 61 00:05:52.920 --> 00:06:00.440 skin cannot survive. Okay, if you and I went down to the beach right now and we started diving down 62 00:06:00.440 --> 00:06:07.480 deep, even with scuba gear on, we can only stay down for so long and we got to come up real slow, 63 00:06:08.520 --> 00:06:13.320 right? Why? Because we were not built for that environment. Okay, we're built for here. 64 00:06:14.280 --> 00:06:20.280 And we're not even technically built all that well to go too high because after about 10,000, 65 00:06:20.280 --> 00:06:26.600 11,000 feet, you start to get a headache walking in an atmosphere so thin of O2. Are you hearing me? 66 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:32.520 That you're not built for that either. You and I have been built for this earth and that is a 67 00:06:32.520 --> 00:06:38.360 scientific and a spiritual fact. But what if we're going to go to heaven? Oh, God's got that covered. 68 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:44.280 He's going to take your resurrected body. He's going to rearrange, which I really appreciate this. 69 00:06:44.280 --> 00:06:50.200 He's going to rearrange the molecules. That's why we believe in resurrection. The Bible teaches 70 00:06:50.200 --> 00:06:56.600 resurrection, not reincarnation, not resuscitation. He's going to take, and those of you that's 71 00:06:56.600 --> 00:07:03.960 even basic physics, he's going to take, for example, your cells and he's going to keep you, you, 72 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:16.280 but he's going to rearrange them ever so slightly and he can change the entire environment or the 73 00:07:16.280 --> 00:07:23.320 theater in which you live. He can do that. He's the great physicist. It's remarkable because we cannot 74 00:07:23.320 --> 00:07:28.760 in this body. We've got to be changed. Fleshing blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, 75 00:07:28.760 --> 00:07:35.240 nor does corruption inherit in corruption. That's another topic for another day, but it's beautiful. 76 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:40.840 Verse 51, Behold, I tell you a mystery. The word mystery on in Greek means it's something that 77 00:07:40.840 --> 00:07:45.560 has always been, but it has not been revealed. It's not like a mystery like I'm going to tell you a trick. 78 00:07:46.760 --> 00:07:52.200 It means this is eternal truth that has always been, but now is the time that God has revealed it. 79 00:07:52.200 --> 00:07:57.320 Oh, yeah, well, what is that? We shall not all die, but we shall be changed. 80 00:07:59.080 --> 00:08:06.360 And in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, 18 to 25th of a second, the debate about a twinkling of an 81 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:12.120 eye, the point is it's going to be fast. At the last trumpet for the trumpet will sound, the dead 82 00:08:12.120 --> 00:08:17.000 will be raised, incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruption must put on 83 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:24.600 incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. Church failure, I just got my Social Security 84 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:30.520 thing from the IRS, or is that who it is? You know, you're this age now, you've got to plan for 85 00:08:30.520 --> 00:08:36.680 your welfare, whatever the thing is called. I look at all this stuff, and it's so technical. 86 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:43.240 And it's like, what? It makes you want to die. It's like, really? 87 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:50.600 Wait, if I have this and then that and a portion, 3% of this on top of this, 21% of that, and then you, 88 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:54.360 you can only see that doctor for a certain amount of time, then you got to go to, and it's like, 89 00:08:54.360 --> 00:09:00.120 no, this is killing me. It's all complicated, and you're going to get, you know, $1.50 a month 90 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:03.320 after inflation, all this stuff. It's like, oh, boy. 91 00:09:03.400 --> 00:09:13.400 Hallelujah. Our retirement program, according to God, he said it is immortality with him. 92 00:09:16.920 --> 00:09:22.280 Versus 19 to 21 is the fact that we're looking at a hope that is increasing, and again, 93 00:09:22.280 --> 00:09:29.400 we touched on that as well for a moment, and that was we are experiencing a hope that is not 94 00:09:29.400 --> 00:09:34.440 a wishful hope. It's a knowing hope. It's a hope. Because the hope is a tough word for us 95 00:09:34.440 --> 00:09:40.200 to unpack as Westerners. When we hope, it's like, oh, I hope the sun comes out today. You know, 96 00:09:40.200 --> 00:09:44.040 we've had two days of clouds here in California. It's like, what do we do? What do we do? 97 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:53.320 When summer coming back? So, whether people, they say something, and then you hope, or somebody 98 00:09:53.400 --> 00:10:00.840 goes somewhere, they hope that they get a room, or you hope they reserved your car, or whatever it is. 99 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:06.360 No, this is the word for hope is not that word. The word for hope, the hope that God gives is, 100 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:10.600 you know, we would say it in our modern tongue, is a hope that you can take to the bank. 101 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:14.360 It's a hope that when God says it, you can grab onto it and say, God, you said it. 102 00:10:15.160 --> 00:10:20.360 So, and by the way, that's true faith. God, you said it in your Bible. You said, you love me. 103 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:27.160 I don't feel very loved. This is happening. That's happening. This marital issue, this relational 104 00:10:27.160 --> 00:10:35.480 issue, this family or corporate problem. God, I don't feel your nearness. God, listen, don't be 105 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:40.280 surprised if you do not feel God brush up against you or pinch your little arm to let you know 106 00:10:40.280 --> 00:10:45.080 you're here. He's there. He doesn't do that stuff. What he does is, he'll remind you in your head, 107 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:51.000 what did I tell you? What did I say to you? Well, you said you never leave me or forsake me. 108 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:57.560 That's right, but I don't feel it. I didn't say you would feel it. Did he? He didn't say you'd feel it. 109 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:04.760 I didn't say you'd feel it. Yeah, but I need your strength. You've got it. I need your wisdom 110 00:11:05.880 --> 00:11:13.160 right in front of you. I need you to get me through this. I will. The results you got to leave 111 00:11:13.160 --> 00:11:26.680 with God. The results we leave with him, knowing that even nature itself is waiting for the redemption 112 00:11:26.680 --> 00:11:31.480 of man. Look at verse 19, for the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits. It's kind of 113 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:39.560 an interesting thing for the revealing of the sons of God. That's us, children of God. It doesn't 114 00:11:39.560 --> 00:11:49.560 personify nature. Nature's not a person. Nature's not Gaia. It's not a God. Nature is God's creation. 115 00:11:50.760 --> 00:11:55.560 What the Bible is announcing is that nature suffers because man sinned in the garden and never 116 00:11:55.560 --> 00:12:01.560 since then the world has suffered. I think you know that just by observation and you even feel that. 117 00:12:01.560 --> 00:12:07.320 You look around in this world and you realize, wow, things are wrong. I'm not talking about politics 118 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:15.000 or social cultural things. Just naturally. You'd be looking outside like in my backyard. People, 119 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:22.360 it's my backyard is like a zoo. That's not true. It's not true. No animals are in a cage. It's like 120 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:28.920 Jurassic Park. You look out in the backyard and you go, look at that beautiful squirrel. It's so 121 00:12:28.920 --> 00:12:38.200 beautiful and then a red tail hawk. It's like, okay, kids look over there, isn't that a nice snail? 122 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:45.720 And there's all kinds of things happening. And if I had the time, I could have showed you my 123 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:50.520 backyard. It was early in the sunny morning and I heard something out back and I looked out the window 124 00:12:50.520 --> 00:12:58.200 and there was a cat. Somebody's cat just frozen because a skunk was walking right by him. 125 00:12:59.400 --> 00:13:06.200 This is right outside my door. And while that was going on, out in the yard was a possum eating an orange. 126 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:12.360 And it was like, we should sell tickets. Subsidized. The ministry would be amazing. 127 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:21.080 Nature though dies. Nature gets hit by cars. Nature is subject to all the things that plunge it into 128 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:29.560 destruction. And the Bible says that is a result of Adam and Eve and sin. And we'll get more into 129 00:13:29.560 --> 00:13:35.560 this. But it was almost like an epicenter happened in a shockwave, went throughout all of God's 130 00:13:35.560 --> 00:13:41.960 creation. We saw in verse 20 that knowing that a plan is unfolding by the beautiful power of 131 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:49.480 God to redeem. So here it is. We look at verse 21 and it's this. That we know that there's an 132 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:55.400 ultimate makeover that is coming to this world. This is in verse 21 because the creation itself 133 00:13:55.400 --> 00:14:02.040 also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption. This is good news for everybody. Just be a 134 00:14:02.040 --> 00:14:07.880 believer. Enjoy this. Well, you don't miss this in the glorious liberty of the children of God. 135 00:14:07.880 --> 00:14:15.000 He's talking about the end game. This might come as a shock to some of you, but when you read in 136 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:22.600 the English Bible that when God comes back and judges the world that he's going to implement his 137 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:32.520 kingdom and part of the kingdom is that which follows the reign of Christ on earth. The Bible says 138 00:14:32.520 --> 00:14:38.440 first that Jesus will politically rule from Jerusalem. It's called the millennium. You've heard 139 00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:43.160 this before. You've read about it. It's one of the most documented things in the entire Bible 140 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:49.720 that finally the world is going to get a political leader that is just holy and pure 141 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:55.080 and it's going to take none other than the Son of God himself. Okay, it's not going to happen. 142 00:14:55.080 --> 00:14:59.800 It's not going to happen in Sacramento. It's not going to happen in Washington or at the Hague. 143 00:14:59.800 --> 00:15:05.480 It's not going to happen in the EU. It's going to happen by God in Jerusalem. He talks about that. 144 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:09.880 The millennial reign of Christ. That's where you've read the home mark cards and stuff where it says 145 00:15:09.880 --> 00:15:16.760 the lion will lay down with the lamb. That's right. That's right out of the Bible. You think 146 00:15:16.760 --> 00:15:21.080 home mark? Make that up. They stole that. It's plagiarism. They took it from the scriptures. 147 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:28.120 God's going to restore things and what you might find shocking is the Bible says, be hold. They 148 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:38.360 saw a new heavens space and a new earth. That's how you read it in English. Both in the Greek and 149 00:15:38.360 --> 00:15:45.640 Hebrew. God is not going to make a brand new heavens and a brand new earth. He's going to take 150 00:15:45.640 --> 00:15:52.760 the heavens that have been tainted by sin and the earth that has been ravaged by sin and he's 151 00:15:52.760 --> 00:16:00.200 going to restore or recreate. You know this from the great flood of Noah. The Bible says, 152 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:05.640 Noah, get in the boat. I'm going to destroy the world. Did God destroy the world or did he scrub 153 00:16:05.640 --> 00:16:12.760 the world? He scrubbed it. He said, Noah, I'll never flood the earth again. Next time I'll burn 154 00:16:12.760 --> 00:16:21.720 it. That's what he said. I won't flood it anymore. Next time I'll fry it because it needs to be 155 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:27.320 purged. It needs to be cleanse medical people in here. God's going to autoclave the earth. He's 156 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:33.720 going to purge it from all poisons, diseases and he's going to recreate. He's going to restore 157 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:40.760 forests and rivers and lakes and mountains and animals and it's going to be amazing. I love reading 158 00:16:40.760 --> 00:16:46.600 the Bible. There's so much hope. But the Bible tells us and we must agree that nature itself 159 00:16:47.400 --> 00:16:57.800 looks forward to that day. It's remarkable. Also, we know this as well is that when God does this 160 00:16:58.760 --> 00:17:12.280 beautiful work. It's so much like our nature. Listen. Remember, we've been creating the image of God. 161 00:17:13.560 --> 00:17:17.800 Now, you go to church all the time. You take that for granted. But you know how many little 162 00:17:17.800 --> 00:17:22.760 kids are growing up in this world today that do not know that? They're being told that they are 163 00:17:22.760 --> 00:17:30.040 nothing. They're an evolutionary byproduct. Hey, June, you're guess what? You can do anything you 164 00:17:30.040 --> 00:17:36.520 want to do because you're not responsible for anything because you are just a result of primordial 165 00:17:36.520 --> 00:17:45.160 goop. You've evolved to this point and eventually will evolve into something else. You're just an 166 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:51.160 animal. But you're at the top of the food chain. That's not exactly true, by the way. We're at the 167 00:17:51.560 --> 00:17:58.040 where the apex of evolution. Really? Once you go to Catalina and swim around the island and see 168 00:17:58.040 --> 00:18:03.240 if you're at the top of the apex of some of the biggest great whites in the world are on the 169 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:09.160 east or the west coast of Catalina Island. You're going to go in and say, oh, excuse me, 170 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:16.680 I'm the evolutionary apex. And that shark's going to say, what? No, you're not. Evolution is a 171 00:18:16.680 --> 00:18:21.240 religion. It's not backed up by science. It's what people cling to when they don't want to believe in 172 00:18:21.240 --> 00:18:25.560 God. I get it's convenient. But the fact of the matter is God said, I make creation and I'm going 173 00:18:25.560 --> 00:18:32.040 to fix it. And part of God, listen, you down deep inside the little effervescent that's left over 174 00:18:32.040 --> 00:18:36.840 from us being created the image of God. Don't you like to restore things to some degree? I mean, 175 00:18:36.840 --> 00:18:41.160 some of us just like to just get it over with and buy a new one. But some of you are amazing. 176 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:48.040 Some of you get a piece of junk car and you actually look for it. I want to find the biggest piece 177 00:18:48.040 --> 00:18:54.520 of junk I can find. What are you thinking? I'm going to restore it. Why? Because you get such a deep 178 00:18:54.520 --> 00:19:00.520 satisfaction of taking something from destruction and putting it back to its former glory. You know, 179 00:19:00.520 --> 00:19:07.560 God's going to do the same thing. He's going to take what we crashed, right? So to speak. And he 180 00:19:07.560 --> 00:19:13.720 finds it in the junk heap of the universe and he's going to restore it to its former glory. 181 00:19:14.920 --> 00:19:17.000 And a little bit of him is in us that way. 182 00:19:21.800 --> 00:19:27.720 This Jack Hibbs podcast as well as all the broadcast out reach opportunities are listener supported. 183 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:34.920 Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? Go to jackhibbs.com to learn more 184 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:37.160 and stay connected.