WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.820 Real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.820 --> 00:00:12.020 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. I can honestly tell you that I 3 00:00:12.020 --> 00:00:16.980 don't hate anybody but if there's somebody I dislike the most on this planet 4 00:00:16.980 --> 00:00:25.800 you're looking at them. I am my problem. Whenever I've made a dumb decision to 5 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:33.560 dumb thing, it was me. Was it you? And when you face that, there's freedom. 6 00:00:35.080 --> 00:00:41.520 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jack Kibs.com slash podcast. 7 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:46.880 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 8 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:51.760 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 9 00:00:51.760 --> 00:00:57.280 that's like saying, amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 10 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:02.680 Now, open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Kibs. 11 00:01:02.680 --> 00:01:08.320 Keep this in mind. Three things. I'll enumerate them in a second. Everybody get 12 00:01:08.320 --> 00:01:14.000 this down. Remember, some scholars say Paul is talking about the man who's not 13 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:20.040 born again yet. This is a carnal individual, not a Christian. I disagree. Some 14 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:24.440 will say, no, he's actually talking about somebody who is a Christian, but living 15 00:01:24.440 --> 00:01:31.240 a carnal life. I disagree. I actually believe that Paul, the Apostle, is 16 00:01:31.240 --> 00:01:37.680 talking about a Christian revealing to us the great struggle. Listen, of a mature 17 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:45.000 believer's life. This is the word of a man of God who is honest enough and 18 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:50.560 transparent enough to tell you, this is what it's like to live a life that is torn 19 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:56.280 between two wills. And it's the born again you. It's the new you, fighting with 20 00:01:56.280 --> 00:02:02.040 the old you. There's the new Jack that's Paul that's pulling and being pulled 21 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:06.480 by the Holy Spirit. And sometimes I agree with them. And then there's the old Jack 22 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:11.080 that is being pulled by the flesh and the world of Satan. And sometimes I agree 23 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:16.960 with him. And I'm torn between two. I submit you today that only a mature 24 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:25.080 believer can acknowledge that discovery. Think about it. It's brilliant. Three 25 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:30.240 things. Let God's law be your judge. We learned that in verse 13. Let God's law 26 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:35.240 judge you. Stop listening to people and don't let someone or something judge you 27 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:41.280 nothing but God's word. Let God's word be your judge. By the way, if you let 28 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:46.720 God's word be your judge, you'll never be condemned. Think of that. Man will 29 00:02:46.720 --> 00:02:52.120 condemn you. Satan will condemn you. Your psychology will condemn you. God's word 30 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:57.000 will never do that. God's law will always point you to the cross. Always. 31 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:03.120 Secondly, we saw that God's love will be your assurance. I like this. God's 32 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:08.160 love will be your assurance. You don't need the approval of anybody so long as 33 00:03:08.160 --> 00:03:13.720 you have the approval of God. Do you know beyond a shadow of it out that God loves 34 00:03:13.720 --> 00:03:17.600 you? And do you know that he has forgiven you of your sins? That gives you an 35 00:03:17.600 --> 00:03:23.440 assurance that cannot be in any way separated from you. Listen, there's nothing in 36 00:03:23.440 --> 00:03:27.480 this world economy that can separate you from the love of God. The Bible tells 37 00:03:27.480 --> 00:03:37.560 us not even a balloon. Not even a bomb. No terrorist. No imprisonment. Nothing. 38 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:42.800 Because our God is everywhere. And remember, he's promised to dwell in you, which 39 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:46.840 we looked at the third thing. Let God's light be your guide. Remember, did I do it 40 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:50.560 in this service? Did I shine that high beam light? Right now in this room we have 41 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:55.560 ambient lighting. That is ambient or atmospheric lighting. It's it's this 42 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:59.520 organized light. You're not thinking about that. But it's very disorganized, which 43 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:04.000 serves the purpose. It's just filling the room. It's it's just here. And it's 44 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:10.760 very, very non-directed light. But I held that beam up to you last week and 45 00:04:10.760 --> 00:04:16.200 shined it right in your face. What was happening? A very, very powerful beam was 46 00:04:16.200 --> 00:04:23.840 being generated to be delivered right at your pinpoint seat location. And what 47 00:04:23.840 --> 00:04:28.880 that means is it was no longer ambient lighting. It was direct lighting. It would 48 00:04:28.880 --> 00:04:33.760 be like if I held a laser out to you where that could have done damage. That light 49 00:04:33.760 --> 00:04:39.920 was bright that I had. But just super defined lighting and frequency and 50 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:44.480 directional power would be like a laser. And you could put it right on your chest 51 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:50.720 or right on your forehead. What's going on? All of that light has been controlled 52 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:55.840 and brought down to a point. And you can be in a church service just like this 53 00:04:55.840 --> 00:05:01.480 right now. And the truth is going out and you're here. But then God moves 54 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:06.800 sovereignly. We don't know how and when it happens in your life. And all of a 55 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:11.560 sudden you sense as though God is pointing you out and calling you right out of 56 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:15.560 the audience. It's as though God is pointing to you. There can be a room of 57 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:19.360 thousands of people on all of a sudden you feel like you're the only one in the 58 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:25.120 room. That's God shining that light. And he's taking what is common and bringing 59 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:28.880 it into your life to make it relatable to you. And that's when he begins to 60 00:05:28.880 --> 00:05:33.760 stoke life. Romans 7, 14 says, for we know that the law is spiritual, but I'm 61 00:05:33.760 --> 00:05:39.640 carnal. Sold under sin. You have to mark those words. Those words I'm bound to 62 00:05:39.640 --> 00:05:45.560 sin. You and I, I don't mean bound like I have to. I mean I'm tied to it. I was 63 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:50.800 born this way. If anybody ever has an excuse, sorry, I was born this way. It's you 64 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:56.720 and I being sinners. Funny people always, oh, I was born this way or you were 65 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:00.680 born that way. And then you really tell the truth about it. The truth is we're 66 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:04.720 all born sinners. And people get all upset at you for dealing the truth. The 67 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:10.400 Bible says, David said I was conceived in sin. That doesn't mean David's mom was 68 00:06:10.400 --> 00:06:14.280 goofing around or something. And it means that the you and I are sinners. We 69 00:06:14.280 --> 00:06:19.880 listen, we naturally think thoughts that are not pleasing to God. And you just have 70 00:06:19.880 --> 00:06:28.620 to, you just, you and I have to own that. It's real. Baby's lie. They steal. They're 71 00:06:28.620 --> 00:06:33.080 cute as a button, but they'll rob you blind. They'll lead every cookie. If they 72 00:06:33.080 --> 00:06:39.560 could reach the drawer, they'd eat every cookie there is. They'll lie to you. Thank 73 00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:44.080 God, they have horrible motor skills because they get so angry instantly. Can you 74 00:06:44.080 --> 00:06:49.760 imagine if there was a, can you imagine if your baby had a gun in his diaper? You 75 00:06:49.760 --> 00:06:53.680 know how they're like, they're having crazy in the next moment. They're grinding 76 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:56.680 their gums and they're about ready to attack you. Can you imagine if they had a 77 00:06:56.680 --> 00:07:01.120 45 in their underwear? That'd be a, that'd be a bad day. Man, they put that 78 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:07.600 shoot you and then they cry about, oh, mommy, they're emotionally crazy. Why? Because 79 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:12.600 we're sold into sin. We're humans. But we received that what I said last week was 80 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:18.320 S.I.N. positive condition from Adam and Eve. And then you guys all got real quiet 81 00:07:18.320 --> 00:07:26.960 when I said, and also S.K.D. and people went, what spiritually transmitted disease is 82 00:07:26.960 --> 00:07:35.440 called sin. And the Bible says that God's law points that out like a beam of light and 83 00:07:35.440 --> 00:07:42.440 begins to speak to us. Galatians 5, 24 said, and those who are Christ, notice possessive. 84 00:07:42.440 --> 00:07:48.280 Those who Christ owns have crucified the flesh with its passions and its desires. What 85 00:07:48.280 --> 00:07:52.600 does that mean? By the way, it's in the continuous. It's very interesting. We're owned by Christ 86 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:58.320 past tense. I belong to him. But I currently have to crucify my flesh because it keeps 87 00:07:58.320 --> 00:08:05.640 popping its head up. I want to live for God. And the moment I embark upon that, my mind 88 00:08:05.640 --> 00:08:11.680 goes off into the weeds somewhere. Or my flesh has some dumb idea. And I've got a war going 89 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:15.280 on inside of me. And again, if you're not a real Christian, you don't even know what I'm 90 00:08:15.280 --> 00:08:21.960 talking about. You may be very religious, but you don't know what I'm talking about. 91 00:08:21.960 --> 00:08:28.880 I can honestly tell you that I don't hate anybody, but if there's somebody I dislike the 92 00:08:28.880 --> 00:08:38.880 most on this planet, you're looking at them. I am my problem. Whenever I've made a dumb 93 00:08:38.880 --> 00:08:48.200 decision to the dumb thing, it was me. Was it you? And when you face that, there's freedom. 94 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:52.200 Is that truth shines in you? And it drives you to Jesus. And you say, Lord, forgive 95 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:58.080 me. I ask you to forgive me. We've been deceived by sin. Listen, Satan's smart. Number 96 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:02.760 one, as a Christian, listen, Christian, your name is written down in heaven. You're going 97 00:09:02.760 --> 00:09:10.800 to heaven, Christian. Satan lost you. Isn't that a beautiful thought? He lost you. You've 98 00:09:10.800 --> 00:09:18.720 been plucked as it were at black, some black, you think about some black pebble as it were, 99 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:26.280 some little black rock in Satan's crown. Christ plucked you from Satan's crown and he washes 100 00:09:26.280 --> 00:09:35.120 you in his blood and you turn out to be an incredible gem. You've been, listen, the salvation 101 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:43.720 of Christ has captured you and delivered you out of Satan's realm of glory, but just 102 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:49.040 because he lost you, doesn't mean he gives up and quits, because listen, everybody, if 103 00:09:49.040 --> 00:09:54.160 you're a Christian, the number one thing that Satan has against you now is to silence you. 104 00:09:54.160 --> 00:09:57.960 He lost you. So what does he do now? Is he pack up and go home, cry all the way, stuff 105 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:03.920 his little tail between his leg, cry all the way home? No? He does everything to get 106 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:08.120 you to be quiet now. The worst thing he can do, by the way, that's why new believers 107 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:12.480 are such a threat to Satan. You can't shut a new believer up. They get saved and they're 108 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:17.480 just like shooting their mouth off everywhere. They're all excited. I'm sure that demons 109 00:10:17.480 --> 00:10:24.120 are like freaking out because that teenager so excited about Jesus. Why? When we share 110 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:30.000 Christ with somebody, that's a threat to the kingdom of hell. Satan's kingdom, listen, 111 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:36.560 Satan wants to silence you. He wants to keep you quiet. He doesn't want you to speak 112 00:10:36.560 --> 00:10:43.720 up. If, listen, I'll prove it to you. Don't raise your hand. Ask yourself, are you a Christian? 113 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:49.880 If you answer yes, and my next question is this, do you tell people about Jesus? Do you 114 00:10:49.880 --> 00:10:56.160 know why there's a pause? Because Satan has you wrapped. You may be Lazarus with new 115 00:10:56.160 --> 00:11:00.920 life, but you're still wrapped in your grave cloths. The reason why you don't tell people 116 00:11:00.920 --> 00:11:10.400 about Jesus is because you're embarrassed. You don't want people to think you're crazy. 117 00:11:10.400 --> 00:11:16.360 It's a very funny thing because Satan will lie to us to keep us quiet. Don't tell anybody 118 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:21.720 then think you're nuts. Listen, they already think you're nuts. Most people think we're 119 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:25.120 crazy. Ask your friends. What do you think of me? Listen, it's not important what they 120 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:30.000 think. Tell them about the love of God. Tell them about the cross. Tell them about the 121 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:33.760 empty tomb. Tell them that God loves them. Tell them that there's a day of judgment that 122 00:11:33.760 --> 00:11:37.920 God wants you to escape through the blood of Christ. Tell them that. They need to know 123 00:11:37.920 --> 00:11:43.240 they should know. But Satan will say, don't say that. Have you noticed? He says that. 124 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:46.200 See, I'm going to tell that person. And then you hear this thought in your head. Don't 125 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:51.960 do that. You look like a crazy Jesus freak. Don't do that. And then your flesh watch, 126 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:56.640 your flesh goes, yeah, let's not do that. We don't want to go overboard on this. You 127 00:11:56.640 --> 00:12:02.160 know what I'm saying? Versus the spirit. The spirit side of you, when God is speaking 128 00:12:02.160 --> 00:12:06.280 to you, he'll say, what did you go tell that person? And you still get nervous. Your throat 129 00:12:06.280 --> 00:12:12.080 gets dry. You get, I don't, listen, I don't care who you are. You get nervous. But 130 00:12:12.080 --> 00:12:18.160 God says, and here, Satan talks so slick and then God talks so soft. I wish God would 131 00:12:18.160 --> 00:12:26.320 yell sometimes. Jack, the person on the red jacket, that one. But he goes like this. 132 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:32.360 Jack, that person right there, tell them that I love them. And now I'm going back and 133 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:40.280 forth. Oh my goodness. You hear him saying, this is that conflict, remarkable. The 134 00:12:40.280 --> 00:12:46.640 realities of salvation are also these found in verse 15. And that's frustration for 135 00:12:46.640 --> 00:12:53.360 what I am doing. He says, I do not understand. I don't get it. Paul is telling to us, this 136 00:12:53.360 --> 00:13:00.600 is incredibly deep for what I will to do that I do not practice. But what I hate that 137 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:07.000 I do. He is not talking to us about a life where Paul never did what God wanted him to 138 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:11.520 do. He's talking about the honesty of a life where you and I no matter how close we walk 139 00:13:11.520 --> 00:13:18.960 with God, we still trip up. Listen, friends, he's not using this as an excuse to harbor 140 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:27.480 your sins. He's telling us the reality of the warfare that we're in, the frustration. 141 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:31.520 But for us as believers, it's a beautiful frustration because I never had it before 142 00:13:31.520 --> 00:13:43.000 until it became a Christian. Frustrated because I love God. And as soon as I say I love God, I feel 143 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:49.880 like a fool for saying it. Are you with me? Am I going too personal here? I love him. But when I 144 00:13:49.880 --> 00:13:54.960 say it, I feel like a fool because he deserves so much more love from me. When I think about 145 00:13:54.960 --> 00:14:02.840 the hell that I will never see, the loneliness I will never know, when I think about the isolation 146 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:11.360 from all that is human in hell forever, I'm never thankful enough. I'm like a spoiled little 147 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:19.600 kid running around. And my love for him is so weak. There's a frustration in that, but then 148 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:26.280 there's a glory in the frustration. It's like, Lord, I'm not finished and you're not finished. 149 00:14:26.280 --> 00:14:34.000 We're on the move. We're growing, which leads us to this. Look at verse 16, it's God's amazing 150 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:40.840 grace. The reality of salvation is this amazing grace. You guys don't remember. Grace means that 151 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:46.080 it's God's favor that he places upon you. Imagine, I don't have anything. Imagine if I had 152 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:50.760 something to throw at you right now. Imagine if I had a hula hoop or something. And I'm throwing 153 00:14:50.760 --> 00:14:54.760 it like that and it goes around your head and shoulders and I've got your head and shoulders. 154 00:14:54.760 --> 00:14:59.540 And I just cling it out like that and it lands like that. And you don't know, but I may be 155 00:14:59.540 --> 00:15:05.240 aiming for you, but you don't know. But it lands on you. And if it lands on you, you get 156 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:13.680 all of these things. It's a good thing. You don't have it land on you and say, I don't 157 00:15:13.680 --> 00:15:20.960 want this. Or it's nice that it landed on me, but why didn't it land on him? What do you 158 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:27.400 care? God's grace landed upon you. Now, let me make a direct. God's grace lands on each 159 00:15:27.400 --> 00:15:32.280 and every single one of you here. Even if today you're a non-believer, you have no idea. 160 00:15:32.280 --> 00:15:37.040 The amount of amazing grace that gets you through one day as you curse his name, cuss 161 00:15:37.040 --> 00:15:42.200 his name and raise your fist as it were and he's still in his patience because judgment 162 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:47.440 time has not yet come. He's blessing you. That's why he says the rain falls on the 163 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:51.920 just and the unjust at the same time. God says, look, the just and the unjust, they have 164 00:15:51.920 --> 00:16:00.880 a harvest. They live, they breathe. The atheist is breathing God's air right now. Every time 165 00:16:00.880 --> 00:16:06.520 I think of that, it'd be awesome just once to watch. Hey, God, can you just cut a supply 166 00:16:06.520 --> 00:16:17.480 off? 50%. So somebody's cursing God and gets a little, you know, like Darth Vader. You 167 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:22.200 just, I know it's carnal. You just want to see it, though, for once. It'd be kind of awesome. 168 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:26.960 But no, God's grace is good. God's grace overrides all of that. Bless is the person that's 169 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:37.200 cursing them. Not for long, but he does. If then I do what I will not to do, I agree 170 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:43.360 that the law that it is good. Oh, yes. Yes, my Jewish friends listen. The law of God is 171 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:50.640 perfect and beautiful, spectacular. And I revere it. Paul the Apostle, the great Jew said 172 00:16:50.640 --> 00:16:58.800 the law is awesome and excellent. So long as it's used lawfully, didn't he? You know what 173 00:16:58.800 --> 00:17:03.560 that means? It means the law illuminates to all of these realities that the law cannot 174 00:17:03.560 --> 00:17:10.160 save you. Only Jesus can save you. The law is to drive you to Christ, to drive you to 175 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:15.600 Messiah. The amazing grace of God is remarkable.