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 --> 00:00:09.280 truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. 3 00:00:09.280 --> 00:00:14.280 Listen, I have a good work for you today. God want you to leave the past and the past. 4 00:00:14.280 --> 00:00:21.000 He wants you to know something. Stop vlogging yourself over the things that you cannot remedy. 5 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:24.760 That's why Jesus went to the cross. 6 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:26.760 Trust Him. 7 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:36.520 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 8 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:42.440 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 9 00:00:42.440 --> 00:00:45.680 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 10 00:00:45.680 --> 00:00:49.160 To us, that's like saying amen or yes. 11 00:00:49.160 --> 00:00:52.280 Then that rating will encourage others to listen. 12 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:55.640 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. 13 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:58.680 Here is Jack Hibbs. 14 00:00:58.720 --> 00:01:03.680 I'm going to give you four options that are predominantly prevailing options 15 00:01:03.680 --> 00:01:06.840 with respect to the assurance of salvation. 16 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:09.960 Now before I read these, listen up everybody. 17 00:01:09.960 --> 00:01:11.920 You say, Jack, you just said assurance of salvation. 18 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:13.640 In fact, you mentioned it a couple of times. 19 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:15.600 Do you listen, are you listening, everybody? 20 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:16.600 That's so important. 21 00:01:16.600 --> 00:01:18.920 Do you believe one saved always saved? 22 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:22.560 Well, in the context of the argument that you hear people bring that forth. 23 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:27.080 I don't even like the question due to the context of the argument. 24 00:01:27.080 --> 00:01:30.680 There are people who will say, oh, so do you believe that you can lose your salvation? 25 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:33.040 Or do you believe one saved always saved? 26 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:37.800 I don't know what that person means when they ask the question, or do you? 27 00:01:37.800 --> 00:01:39.240 What do they mean? 28 00:01:39.240 --> 00:01:41.360 So let's just go for the throat on this. 29 00:01:41.360 --> 00:01:43.960 How about this? 30 00:01:43.960 --> 00:01:48.680 One saved always saved if you're saved. 31 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:49.680 How about that? 32 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:52.320 How about, in fact, let's make it even more clear. 33 00:01:52.320 --> 00:01:58.440 Jesus said to Nicodemus, unless you're born again, you will not see the kingdom of heaven. 34 00:01:58.440 --> 00:02:03.200 So it's clear when Jesus said you've got to be born from above Nicodemus, you've been 35 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:05.480 once born of the earth. 36 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:09.880 But now you need a second birth, the birth that comes from above. 37 00:02:09.880 --> 00:02:11.280 So I'll put it to you this way. 38 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:15.200 If you've been born again, you will forever be born again. 39 00:02:15.200 --> 00:02:19.160 Because there's no passage of Scripture nor verse that says you can be unborn again. 40 00:02:19.160 --> 00:02:21.000 Isn't that great? 41 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:25.720 In that up, God commits no abortions in his family. 42 00:02:25.720 --> 00:02:28.800 The question today is, what spirit lives in you? 43 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:29.800 That's the challenge today. 44 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:32.920 That's what Paul the Apostle is defining to the Romans. 45 00:02:32.920 --> 00:02:35.240 Number one, we look at this. 46 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:38.680 You fall into one of these categories. 47 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:43.520 Number one, there are those who are not saved, and they know that they're not saved because 48 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:48.000 they do not believe in the need to be saved. 49 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:51.840 These are they who are in a state of condemnation according to the Bible. 50 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:52.840 They don't feel it. 51 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:54.640 They don't think it. 52 00:02:54.640 --> 00:02:58.760 They don't understand that the Bible says they're in a state of condemnation. 53 00:02:58.760 --> 00:03:00.240 What does condemnation means? 54 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:05.120 It means that they're just basically breathing air until eternity comes. 55 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:08.760 And their destination is not heaven if you know what I mean. 56 00:03:08.760 --> 00:03:10.320 But they don't care. 57 00:03:10.320 --> 00:03:12.200 They don't believe in any of that. 58 00:03:12.200 --> 00:03:17.480 Number two, some are saved, and they celebrate having the full assurance of their 59 00:03:17.480 --> 00:03:18.960 salvation. 60 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:24.000 They know that they are living in an active state of grace with God, and they know that 61 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:26.600 they are securing Jesus Christ alone. 62 00:03:26.600 --> 00:03:29.600 I am behind door number two. 63 00:03:29.600 --> 00:03:30.600 That's my life. 64 00:03:30.600 --> 00:03:31.600 I'm an income poop. 65 00:03:31.600 --> 00:03:34.000 I'm a sinner saved by the grace of God. 66 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:36.440 But here's what's true about my life is number two. 67 00:03:36.440 --> 00:03:37.440 I'm saved. 68 00:03:37.440 --> 00:03:39.880 I celebrate that every day of my life. 69 00:03:39.880 --> 00:03:42.600 It's not that I wake up in the morning and I have to have little reminders. 70 00:03:42.600 --> 00:03:46.720 I don't have alarms that go off and say, Jack, remember you're saved. 71 00:03:46.720 --> 00:03:47.720 Jack, read the Bible. 72 00:03:47.720 --> 00:03:48.720 It's two o'clock. 73 00:03:48.720 --> 00:03:49.720 Read the Bible. 74 00:03:49.720 --> 00:03:50.720 Or whatever it is. 75 00:03:50.720 --> 00:03:52.480 I don't take Lisa's lipstick and read it on the mirror. 76 00:03:52.480 --> 00:03:55.000 Jack, remember this morning you're saved. 77 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:56.000 No. 78 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:57.000 You know what? 79 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:00.960 I hear that the first thing I start to come to in the morning before my feet hit the 80 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:01.960 ground. 81 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:05.760 The thought of my relationship with God is already in my head. 82 00:04:05.760 --> 00:04:07.600 And I celebrate that. 83 00:04:07.600 --> 00:04:12.440 You want to know why it's not human. 84 00:04:12.440 --> 00:04:14.520 It's of God. 85 00:04:14.600 --> 00:04:20.880 Listen, when God forgives me of what I did in the past and what I think in my head 86 00:04:20.880 --> 00:04:28.960 still to this day, and He still loves me, oh, I want to celebrate His grace, oh, don't 87 00:04:28.960 --> 00:04:29.960 get me wrong. 88 00:04:29.960 --> 00:04:34.480 I'm not out running around and sinning up the town. 89 00:04:34.480 --> 00:04:35.480 I don't have to. 90 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:42.360 I could have one wondering thought that would be bad enough to put Christ on the cross. 91 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:45.960 But now I know, oh, God, please forgive me of that thought or of that temptation. 92 00:04:45.960 --> 00:04:50.480 Lord, I entertain that and I, it's wrong, forgive me. 93 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:52.200 You died for that. 94 00:04:52.200 --> 00:04:55.280 Number three, some are in fact saved. 95 00:04:55.280 --> 00:05:00.080 Listen, this describes a lot of people, by the way, unnecessarily. 96 00:05:00.080 --> 00:05:05.400 Some are in fact saved, but they are emotionally insecure and they're salvation in Christ. 97 00:05:05.400 --> 00:05:08.760 Their souls are unnecessarily fearful. 98 00:05:08.760 --> 00:05:14.160 They are restless and often troubled, even though they are secure in Christ, yet they 99 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:16.440 fail to enjoy Him. 100 00:05:16.440 --> 00:05:18.640 If you were to ask them, do you love God? 101 00:05:18.640 --> 00:05:20.360 They'd say yes. 102 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:22.480 Did Jesus die in the cross for your sins? 103 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:23.480 Yes. 104 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:28.280 But they're so burdened by their past, they never escape the shell, the prison of what 105 00:05:28.280 --> 00:05:30.280 they once were. 106 00:05:30.280 --> 00:05:31.280 They're saved. 107 00:05:31.280 --> 00:05:32.280 They're going to heaven. 108 00:05:32.280 --> 00:05:36.440 Their names are written down in the Lamb's book of life, but the past weighs them down. 109 00:05:36.440 --> 00:05:39.080 They can't get past it. 110 00:05:39.080 --> 00:05:40.960 And listen, I have a good word for you today. 111 00:05:40.960 --> 00:05:44.360 God wants you to leave the past and the past. 112 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:46.200 He wants you to know something. 113 00:05:46.200 --> 00:05:51.240 Stop flogging yourself over the things that you cannot remedy. 114 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:55.920 That's why Jesus went to the cross. 115 00:05:55.920 --> 00:06:01.000 Trust Him, rejoice in Him, celebrate your salvation. 116 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:04.680 Number four, some are not saved, but think they are saved. 117 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:11.760 This is probably the next definition or perhaps the biggest definition of the common American 118 00:06:11.760 --> 00:06:13.640 today or Westerner. 119 00:06:13.640 --> 00:06:17.120 They are not saved, but they think they are saved. 120 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:22.680 They have convinced themselves of their assurance of salvation based upon another gospel, in 121 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:25.320 other words, a different gospel. 122 00:06:25.320 --> 00:06:28.360 They don't have a belief that's biblically rooted. 123 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:34.600 They have a belief maybe in morality, maybe in their religion, maybe it's denominationalism, 124 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:40.800 maybe, well, my grandfather was a preacher, my father was a preacher, my sons are preachers. 125 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:42.520 I'm fine. 126 00:06:42.520 --> 00:06:43.520 That's dangerous. 127 00:06:43.520 --> 00:06:49.360 It's based upon another gospel, meaning or understanding thus their assurance is a false 128 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:50.760 assurance. 129 00:06:50.760 --> 00:06:54.920 There are some people who say, I'm a Christian, and then if you watch their lives in some 130 00:06:54.920 --> 00:07:00.760 way, shape and form, the week that they live out after making the proclamation just begins 131 00:07:00.760 --> 00:07:03.400 to undo what they say with their mouth. 132 00:07:03.400 --> 00:07:04.400 Does that make sense, everybody? 133 00:07:04.400 --> 00:07:06.240 It's a very, very common. 134 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:07.240 It prevails. 135 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:08.800 It's unfortunate, but it's true. 136 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:11.640 Number one point today is this, what spirit lives in you? 137 00:07:11.640 --> 00:07:15.320 It's found in verse 9 and it's this, is it the spirit of comfort? 138 00:07:15.320 --> 00:07:17.320 Will you write that down in your notes? 139 00:07:17.320 --> 00:07:19.440 Is it the spirit of comfort? 140 00:07:19.440 --> 00:07:23.280 Because the Bible talks about the Holy Spirit being the great comforter. 141 00:07:23.280 --> 00:07:24.360 What does that mean? 142 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:26.680 That means in life, no matter what's going on. 143 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:31.640 You and I may spike as the bad news arrives. 144 00:07:31.640 --> 00:07:32.640 Are we here? 145 00:07:32.640 --> 00:07:37.360 We get the phone call and there's that instantaneous rush of, oh no! 146 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:39.920 And then we pull back. 147 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:45.960 God begins to minister to us and he begins to comfort us with truth and with verses and 148 00:07:45.960 --> 00:07:52.080 scripture and revelations of his nature from the Word of God and we begin to be comforted. 149 00:07:52.080 --> 00:07:56.120 I want to ask you, you ask yourself, what spirit lives inside of you? 150 00:07:56.120 --> 00:08:01.840 When you actually put your finger on a supernatural power that you lean upon on the inside of your 151 00:08:01.840 --> 00:08:05.120 life and it's not you, you know it's not you. 152 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:10.080 Jesus promised over and over again as we shall see that the Holy Spirit has been given 153 00:08:10.080 --> 00:08:13.880 to comfort us and we see it manifested in three ways. 154 00:08:13.880 --> 00:08:18.680 Number one in verse 9, we see that he is the Holy Spirit who confirms. 155 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:23.120 So you're asking, is he the spirit who confirms? 156 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:27.000 So the spirit of God starts out in the life of the believer, bringing them comfort. 157 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:28.760 You're now in the family of God. 158 00:08:28.760 --> 00:08:35.520 And then the next thing he does, he starts to confirm your relationship with God. 159 00:08:35.520 --> 00:08:37.920 New believers can give you this in graphic detail. 160 00:08:37.920 --> 00:08:38.920 It's beautiful. 161 00:08:38.920 --> 00:08:41.280 Listen, are you an older Christian? 162 00:08:41.280 --> 00:08:43.400 Find a new Christian to hang out with. 163 00:08:43.400 --> 00:08:48.600 You know like, you know, an old dog, you get a puppy to help out the old dog. 164 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:53.240 It's pretty cool to hang around new believers because they're on fire. 165 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:58.440 And sometimes us older saints, we kind of get a little stiff, you know. 166 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:01.080 And it's great to get a puppy, so to speak. 167 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:04.520 Yes, somebody, you know, what are you so excited about? 168 00:09:04.520 --> 00:09:06.920 I just accepted Christ last week. 169 00:09:06.920 --> 00:09:10.360 Now don't you ever dare say to them, no, just calm down. 170 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:14.000 No, no, no, no, no, we need to be like them. 171 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:16.360 We need to get pumped up. 172 00:09:16.400 --> 00:09:21.440 And their faith is so new and so fresh, and it's exhilarating. 173 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:22.440 Why? 174 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:23.440 What's going on? 175 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:28.920 They're experiencing those wonderful moments, very much like birth if you think about it. 176 00:09:28.920 --> 00:09:32.440 You know, the baby's brought into this world, all attentions on the baby, the spotlights 177 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:34.480 on the baby, the baby's coming out. 178 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:39.680 There's the baby, the doctor, I don't think they slap babies anymore, do they? 179 00:09:39.680 --> 00:09:41.840 Remember, they might know I'm talking about it. 180 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:44.840 Didn't you get slapped when you came into this world? 181 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:49.080 I'm sure I got slapped when I came into this world. 182 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:52.320 But everybody's goading over the baby and so they should and they're taking pictures 183 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:56.160 and they're doing this and all this kind of stuff and it's baby, baby, baby, baby. 184 00:09:56.160 --> 00:10:01.000 And then after a while, you know, especially when you have your first baby, it's all baby. 185 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:04.240 And then you have your second baby, it's like, who are you? 186 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:07.040 Third kid, do you live next door? 187 00:10:07.040 --> 00:10:10.840 You know, it's kind of funny, but when you're born into the kingdom of God, the Holy 188 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:15.680 Spirit is comforting you and he's telling you things like this, Jack, I have forgiven 189 00:10:15.680 --> 00:10:21.040 you your sins, the life that you lived before coming to me, I've washed it all away. 190 00:10:21.040 --> 00:10:25.000 And God's word speaks and says, as far as the east is from the west, I've removed your 191 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:26.000 sins from you. 192 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:29.360 I've taken them and put them in the bottom of the sea, say it to Lord. 193 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:32.040 And it's like, yes. 194 00:10:32.040 --> 00:10:33.040 And he comforts you. 195 00:10:33.040 --> 00:10:34.040 How does he do that? 196 00:10:34.040 --> 00:10:38.960 The Holy Spirit using the Word of God to confirm your relationship with him. 197 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:44.040 This is in verse 9, opening up, it says, but you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. 198 00:10:44.040 --> 00:10:46.400 Note the great contrast. 199 00:10:46.400 --> 00:10:53.640 Living a life of the flesh, fleshly appetites, the life of this world, or living the life 200 00:10:53.640 --> 00:10:57.440 now for the Spirit of God and the things that are in God's Word and the things that God 201 00:10:57.440 --> 00:10:58.440 wants to do. 202 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:03.480 There's a great division and God confirms that to us. 203 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:07.040 I firmly believe in what I'm about to say because of this verse right here. 204 00:11:07.040 --> 00:11:13.280 I don't think anybody walks around confused or deluded about what Spirit dwells within 205 00:11:13.280 --> 00:11:14.280 them. 206 00:11:14.280 --> 00:11:17.160 I really don't. 207 00:11:17.160 --> 00:11:20.520 The Bible says these things have been written that you might know that you have eternal 208 00:11:20.520 --> 00:11:21.520 life. 209 00:11:21.520 --> 00:11:22.520 That's what the Bible says. 210 00:11:22.520 --> 00:11:26.200 And I believe what the Bible says. 211 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:28.040 And God's Spirit will speak to you. 212 00:11:28.040 --> 00:11:33.400 And he'll comfort you with his Word. 213 00:11:33.400 --> 00:11:37.400 And chapter 4, verse 8, tells us about this distinction. 214 00:11:37.400 --> 00:11:41.960 He says in chapter 4, verse 8, indeed, when you did not know God, do you remember when 215 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:44.440 you didn't know God? 216 00:11:44.440 --> 00:11:47.720 You served those which by nature are not God's. 217 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:49.760 Isn't that an interesting comment? 218 00:11:49.760 --> 00:11:51.680 He said that is so ridiculous. 219 00:11:51.680 --> 00:11:54.080 Who worships God's today? 220 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:56.640 Everybody who doesn't know God. 221 00:11:56.640 --> 00:12:00.840 You say, well I'm an atheist, oh boy, you worship all kinds of God's. 222 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:05.440 Most of all, you worship the God of your supposed intellect. 223 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:11.040 Well, I used to believe in God and then I went to college. 224 00:12:11.040 --> 00:12:12.200 And what happened there? 225 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:18.080 Well, I got educated beyond your intelligence. 226 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:19.080 Think about it. 227 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:21.200 Going to college cannot make you wise. 228 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:22.520 Can you imagine going to a university? 229 00:12:22.520 --> 00:12:28.080 Listen, if USC could make people wise, they'd really have a lot of people going there. 230 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:29.560 Think about it. 231 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:31.640 The system is not knowledge. 232 00:12:31.640 --> 00:12:36.040 And today you've got to ask, what knowledge are you learning? 233 00:12:36.040 --> 00:12:38.760 Well, gravity, you know, we're not exactly sure. 234 00:12:38.760 --> 00:12:41.120 You want to be sure? 235 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:43.040 Climb the telephone pole. 236 00:12:43.040 --> 00:12:46.520 Now I'm not here, not on campus, somewhere else. 237 00:12:46.520 --> 00:12:48.680 Gravity is crystal clear. 238 00:12:48.680 --> 00:12:50.480 The laws of nature are solid. 239 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:51.480 Why? 240 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:53.960 Because the God of the Bible says, I made him. 241 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:57.840 He's a God of absolutes. 242 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:00.320 He confirms things to us by distinction. 243 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:02.800 Is your life being led by the Holy Spirit of God? 244 00:13:02.800 --> 00:13:06.440 It's very simple to answer the question, or is it being led by you? 245 00:13:06.440 --> 00:13:11.920 And your appetite, that's what Paul is drawing the line right through. 246 00:13:11.920 --> 00:13:14.520 There's a division. 247 00:13:14.520 --> 00:13:16.120 He says, you're no longer in the flesh. 248 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:19.400 It's a beautiful statement that he's making to the Roman believers. 249 00:13:19.400 --> 00:13:21.320 You guys aren't led by the flesh anymore. 250 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:24.960 And they all would have said, hey, man, but no doubt it's human nature. 251 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:29.520 There's always among those who believe in God, those who think they believe in God. 252 00:13:29.520 --> 00:13:34.080 There are those who are among believers who are not believers. 253 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:39.480 Maybe they might enjoy the morality of what people of faith bring or whatever it might 254 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:40.480 be. 255 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:46.400 But a real Christian lives and moves and dwells in their reality of the realm of the Spirit. 256 00:13:46.400 --> 00:13:48.840 Now look, people, let's be honest. 257 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:52.920 As Christians, we need to be careful, more than ever right now, for this one reason. 258 00:13:52.920 --> 00:13:58.480 We need to be careful how we witness to people, not if, of course we are to witness. 259 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:05.080 But when we walk around, we live in such a post-Christian America that you cannot talk Christianese 260 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:08.480 any longer publicly, nobody knows what you're talking about. 261 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:13.240 In fact, you go outside, listen, you go to a Ram's game or you go to a Laker game and 262 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:17.520 you say, God bless America and people are going to say, which one and which one? 263 00:14:17.520 --> 00:14:20.200 Because this guy over here, he believes in 25 gods. 264 00:14:20.280 --> 00:14:25.840 This guy believes in an infinite amount of gods, which God are you talking about? 265 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:30.360 We once knew, now we don't. 266 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:37.640 But somebody leans on some other source of identity, that's a God, money, that's a God. 267 00:14:37.640 --> 00:14:39.920 You can make it a God, sex, people have made it. 268 00:14:39.920 --> 00:14:47.560 I think that's the preferred God of the nation now, sexuality, power. 269 00:14:47.560 --> 00:14:52.040 Those are gods, it's funny because in our 21st century, we would never say that those 270 00:14:52.040 --> 00:14:53.040 are gods. 271 00:14:53.040 --> 00:14:57.960 And yet, isn't it interesting that every previous generation since the beginning of time had 272 00:14:57.960 --> 00:15:08.480 idols and icons of gods of power, gods of drunkenness, gods of pornography, did you know that? 273 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:14.400 We may not have statues, but there may be a God that has taken the place of the Almighty 274 00:15:14.400 --> 00:15:17.680 God, the real God, the living God. 275 00:15:17.680 --> 00:15:21.480 No, listen, we're not in the flesh anymore, we've come out of that. 276 00:15:21.480 --> 00:15:25.400 And now we're in the spirit that his God is working and living his life through us. 277 00:15:25.400 --> 00:15:27.120 This flesh, think about this flesh. 278 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:28.920 The Bible talks about our flesh. 279 00:15:28.920 --> 00:15:31.760 We look at it, look the first thing you did this morning, you got up. 280 00:15:31.760 --> 00:15:32.760 What'd you do? 281 00:15:32.760 --> 00:15:34.760 Right? 282 00:15:34.760 --> 00:15:39.400 Oh, man. 283 00:15:39.400 --> 00:15:45.400 You washed your face, showered whatever you did, you shaved it or whatever, and we're 284 00:15:45.400 --> 00:15:47.400 body fixated. 285 00:15:47.400 --> 00:15:52.080 You know, it's like, okay, body, body, body. 286 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:55.920 But listen, the Bible says God made us body, soul, and spirit. 287 00:15:55.920 --> 00:16:01.880 But if we live in the flesh, we're focused on the body part. 288 00:16:01.880 --> 00:16:04.760 And it just goes downhill from there if we make that our identity. 289 00:16:05.160 --> 00:16:10.280 Listen, as a believer, your identity is in Jesus, and the body part of who we are is 290 00:16:10.280 --> 00:16:13.960 just one-third of our existence, body, soul, and spirit. 291 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:16.040 The soul is your mind. 292 00:16:16.040 --> 00:16:19.200 The spirit is the new you, the born again you. 293 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:20.840 And it's remarkable. 294 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:26.680 Our God changes the way that we think, because that changes the way we speak while using 295 00:16:26.680 --> 00:16:27.680 these bodies. 296 00:16:27.680 --> 00:16:28.680 Watch this. 297 00:16:28.680 --> 00:16:29.680 I'll prove it to you. 298 00:16:29.680 --> 00:16:30.680 I think this is very fun. 299 00:16:30.680 --> 00:16:34.720 Now, please pretend you're in awe of this, because I've been studying this. 300 00:16:35.680 --> 00:16:38.680 So I've been marinating in it, so I don't know. 301 00:16:38.680 --> 00:16:40.600 But this is just a body. 302 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:42.640 What you have right now is just a body. 303 00:16:42.640 --> 00:16:47.720 Nothing that is physical can express anything meaningful. 304 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:48.680 Do you understand that? 305 00:16:48.680 --> 00:16:54.360 If my mind or my soul was not here right now, I'd just be like this. 306 00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:56.400 If my spirit was gone, I'd be like this. 307 00:16:56.400 --> 00:17:00.720 Okay, you would think two-thirds of me would render me like this. 308 00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:07.720 But if my soul starts to think, watch this, because it's invisible. 309 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:09.720 You mean your brain? 310 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:14.720 No, that's eight pounds of meat. 311 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:16.720 I mean, you know what I'm talking about? 312 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:18.720 It's such a brain. 313 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:20.720 Your brain is what the mind uses. 314 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:23.720 Put your finger on that. 315 00:17:23.720 --> 00:17:25.720 Can we like crack open your head? 316 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:27.720 There goes his mind. 317 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:35.720 No, the consciousness of who you are operates in the mind. 318 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:37.720 Watch what it does. 319 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:39.720 See, I know what I'm going to do right now. 320 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:41.720 How do I know that? 321 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:45.720 Because I thought about it. 322 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:52.720 And in a second, I'm going to employ my brain to communicate to the rest of my body. 323 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:54.720 So I have a thought, and it's this. 324 00:17:54.720 --> 00:18:01.720 I'm going to now, number one, tell you that I'm going to raise my right hand. 325 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:05.720 So what is telling you right now that I'm going to raise my right hand? 326 00:18:05.720 --> 00:18:09.720 If you say my mouth, you're wrong. 327 00:18:09.720 --> 00:18:12.720 If you say even my brain, you're wrong. 328 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:19.720 I have decided to raise my right hand. 329 00:18:19.720 --> 00:18:25.720 That consciousness is going to employ my brain in its mechanics. 330 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:29.720 CS Lewis called us the human machine for good reason. 331 00:18:29.720 --> 00:18:31.720 The brain says, all right, everybody listen up. 332 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:34.720 He's giving us tons of warning. 333 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:40.720 We're going to get a request any second to raise the hand. 334 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:43.720 And so I raised my hand. 335 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:48.720 This just did what I first thought. 336 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:58.720 I want you to stop and think for a moment that you are far deeper and mean far more than the physical existence that you have. 337 00:18:58.720 --> 00:19:01.720 You are someone who will live forever. 338 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:04.720 And heaven the Bible says, are in hell. 339 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:05.720 You'll live forever. 340 00:19:05.720 --> 00:19:06.720 The choice is yours. 341 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:09.720 Christ has bought the ticket for you to go to heaven. 342 00:19:09.720 --> 00:19:16.720 But by default, thanks to Mom and Dad, Adam and Eve, we're on a default path to hell. 343 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:18.720 That's why Christ went to the cross. 344 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:22.720 That's why the Bible, from the beginning, announced to us redemption. 345 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:24.720 And the beautiful, awesome thing is this. 346 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:27.720 That the Holy Spirit dwells in us as believers. 347 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:29.720 You either know that or you do not. 348 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:31.720 Don't guess. 349 00:19:31.720 --> 00:19:34.720 Oh, do not guess. 350 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:42.720 This Jack Kibb's podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, are listener supported. 351 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:46.720 Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 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