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 --> 00:00:09.340 truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. 3 00:00:09.340 --> 00:00:15.640 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. 4 00:00:15.640 --> 00:00:20.640 Old things have passed away. Did you hear that? Old things have passed away. 5 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:28.440 What old things? Old things. Nobody can control your life, including your old 6 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:35.440 self, when you wake up to this awesome biblical truth. 7 00:00:35.440 --> 00:00:41.680 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 8 00:00:41.680 --> 00:00:46.920 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 9 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:51.800 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 10 00:00:51.800 --> 00:00:57.160 that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 11 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:02.840 Now, open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 12 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:08.200 Pretend you're not at church today. Let's pretend we're in a really, really good theological 13 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:13.960 course that you're in a class today. One of the things that I would say in the class is that 14 00:01:13.960 --> 00:01:19.400 what is absolutely certain beyond all of the things that we can actually know about our 15 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:27.080 immediate existence as human beings is the fact what God has worked and what God has 16 00:01:27.080 --> 00:01:33.000 wrought at the cross through Jesus and his resurrection from the dead. Listen, Christ actually 17 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:39.240 was crucified. You say, well, I don't believe the Bible. So then read Roman accounts of it. 18 00:01:41.240 --> 00:01:46.200 Well, I don't like the Roman Empire. Well, go to the British Museum of History then and 19 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:51.160 look at the artifacts that are there. Why not read about some of the ancient volumes of 20 00:01:52.440 --> 00:01:59.160 writings that are records of the first and second century regarding the crucifixion of Christ. 21 00:02:00.520 --> 00:02:03.880 It's not just the Bible that announces that Jesus was crucified. 22 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:10.520 But if you decide to go with the Bible, which you ought to go with the Bible, it's the same book 23 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:16.760 that says he rose again from the dead. The cross is where he paid for our sins and purchased our 24 00:02:16.760 --> 00:02:24.120 innocence. Three days later, he rose again from the dead to be the very, the Bible uses the word advocate, 25 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:33.880 attorney, to be your attorney in mind, to make sure that what he did is finished in all eternity. 26 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:44.360 Wow. Innocence. What an awesome thing. The Bible tells us it goes on there in that verse. 27 00:02:45.480 --> 00:02:50.520 Who shall bring a charge against God's elected as God who justifies? We remembered that the 28 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:57.400 in verse 33, the word justifies means that to show or to display its God's desire church to take 29 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:02.840 every one of his children of whom I pray that you trust in Christ to exhibit righteousness, 30 00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:10.120 to proclaim, to declare another righteous. It's an imparted righteousness. This is the gospel. 31 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:16.200 This is what the Bible teaches. Is that God gives righteousness? I'm reminded right now, 32 00:03:16.200 --> 00:03:23.560 last Thursday night, I had the opportunity. I was asked by beautiful people at Prager You and 33 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:31.880 also at the Israeli Consulate if I would assemble pastors and go to Los Angeles and have them see the 34 00:03:31.880 --> 00:03:40.120 October 7th massacre from Hamas footage. I just want all of you to know something. We sat there, 35 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:48.040 we watched it. All of you need to know something because the narrative out there in the 36 00:03:48.040 --> 00:03:56.040 world that was made up. And here's the funny thing. If it's made up, if it's made up, 37 00:03:56.040 --> 00:04:05.560 and it didn't really happen, you know, that's what they're saying. Then why if I were to play 38 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:12.440 portions of what we viewed last Thursday night and streamed it to the world right now, 39 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:23.560 why would people be upset? Why would Newsweek and USA Today have an article about this church service 40 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:28.760 tomorrow? They would be absolutely furious. What do you upset about? You guys said it was fake. 41 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:33.080 You see? Then why are you upset? 42 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:43.800 When we pray to our God, atheists get upset. Why do they get upset? They just think we're a bunch 43 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:49.480 of idiots, a bunch of fools. Why should they be upset? If God doesn't exist, why be upset? 44 00:04:50.840 --> 00:04:56.040 If it never happened and we viewed it to all of you today, why would the world be upset? 45 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:03.480 Because it happened. And we saw it. We watched it when that viewing was over. We all sat silent. 46 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:13.800 And the consulate general's office, he stood up and he said, verbatim, I say, 47 00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:21.880 thank you for coming tonight. You're all dismissed. And he walks away. 48 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:33.320 And nobody moved. And I just had to stand up. I walked down to the front. 49 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:46.920 And I said, excuse me, but I know many of you in here are Jews. I brought a delegation of Christian 50 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:57.800 pastors with me tonight. And I thank Marissa, CEO of Prager You. But you may not want to be hearing 51 00:05:57.800 --> 00:06:05.000 from a Gentile right now at such a moment. But can I remind all of you that, 52 00:06:08.280 --> 00:06:14.040 according to the Bible, if a Christian and a church does not love and support a Jew and 53 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:19.640 Israel, that they're not a New Testament church. They're not New Testament Christians. 54 00:06:21.400 --> 00:06:28.120 And I said, you're not going to like who I'm going to quote in a moment. But he's the guy you 55 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:32.760 have the biggest problem with. A couple of guys chuckled. They were rabbi's there. They knew where I 56 00:06:32.760 --> 00:06:39.640 was going. And I said, it's the Apostle Paul. And they laughed. They don't like Paul. Jesus, 57 00:06:39.640 --> 00:06:47.080 they said, Jesus was crazy. Paul. And I said, I'm sorry, I want to quote the renegade, Paul, 58 00:06:48.520 --> 00:06:59.240 who said, the just shall live by faith. And I said, if any of you are listening carefully, 59 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:05.720 that's actually not Paul. That's Paul quoting your prophet, Habakkuk, chapter 2 verse 4. 60 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:11.080 It's Habakkuk 2 4 that says, the just shall live by faith. Those who are justified, how do they 61 00:07:11.080 --> 00:07:18.040 get justified by faith in God, not faith in ourselves, faith in Him. And so they're watching, 62 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:23.480 there's listening. If you've ever spoken to a Jewish audience, it is a thrill. For those of us 63 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:32.440 who are old, it's called an e-ticket ride. Ask somebody what we mean by that. Because they love, 64 00:07:32.440 --> 00:07:36.920 they're beautiful. Man, they love to argue. They know how to argue. They're taught how to argue. 65 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:42.280 It's very, very great. It's very good for your mind, by the way. Very stimulating. They question 66 00:07:42.280 --> 00:07:48.120 everything. And we should be like that. And so I just said, before we go any further, 67 00:07:49.400 --> 00:07:59.080 I happen to be a Gentile who's been grafted in to the family of the God of Abraham, Isaac, 68 00:07:59.080 --> 00:08:06.680 and Jacob based upon what your prophet Isaiah said to the Gentile nations will come to Israel 69 00:08:06.680 --> 00:08:13.880 and will receive the light of salvation through Messiah. And as soon as I said that I was a Gentile 70 00:08:13.880 --> 00:08:21.720 who's connected to Isaiah, they started going, okay, I haven't talked in their language now. 71 00:08:22.440 --> 00:08:26.040 What was the language? You could see the lights coming on in their minds. 72 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:32.840 And said a few more words about love and about if you need anything. And what our church is 73 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:37.400 doing to help families right now in real time throughout Israel that are suffering. 74 00:08:40.520 --> 00:08:48.760 And what happened was, when I said thank you, and I started to walk, people got up, 75 00:08:48.760 --> 00:08:54.760 they came over, they're hugging me, I got a couple of kisses from men. It was not that kind of a 76 00:08:54.760 --> 00:09:04.840 thing. It was a Middle Eastern thing. It's legit. It's not goofy. And it was precious. 77 00:09:06.920 --> 00:09:14.520 You know why? It was a dark sinister hour and a half. But we were not, there's no way as a 78 00:09:14.520 --> 00:09:19.720 Christian I could have walked out of that theater and leave the atmosphere the way that it was. 79 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:29.640 You can't do that. You can't do that. But how do we do that? Because we know that we've 80 00:09:29.640 --> 00:09:35.800 been declared innocent by the work of Christ. It's not us. Well, Jack, weren't you nervous to get 81 00:09:35.800 --> 00:09:42.440 up there and stand? Nervous to the core. Did my mouth go dry? It always does. No, I'm serious. 82 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:50.040 So you don't seem nervous when you're speaking. I'm lying to you. I tremble before I come out 83 00:09:50.040 --> 00:09:56.360 here. You just get, after 33, 34 years, 35 years, you get used to it. You just learn how to manage it. 84 00:09:57.640 --> 00:10:05.000 It's all of God. But he did the work and we honor him when we obey him because what he bought for 85 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:10.440 you and I's eternal life by the blood of Christ, forgiveness of sins in a brand new world. 86 00:10:11.400 --> 00:10:19.880 In 2 Corinthians 5, 21, the Bible says, for he made him who knew no sin. Wow. 87 00:10:21.640 --> 00:10:27.560 For us that he might become or that we might become the righteousness of God in him. 88 00:10:27.560 --> 00:10:33.560 Jesus Christ took upon himself all of our sins. And this is the result. I'm reading it backwards. 89 00:10:33.560 --> 00:10:39.240 If you think about it, that's 2 Corinthians 5, 21. But before that is 2 Corinthians 5, 17. But 90 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:44.120 I read it backwards intentionally. This is how he did it or this is the result. I should say 91 00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:50.120 of what he did. He who knew no sin. Jesus, I'm going to say it again when I say he who knew no sin 92 00:10:50.120 --> 00:11:00.200 shout Jesus, right? Just for fun. He who knew no sin. God laid upon him. God imparted to him. God 93 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:07.320 put all our sins upon him and we received his righteousness. For what reason? 94 00:11:08.760 --> 00:11:16.680 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. All things have passed away. Did 95 00:11:16.680 --> 00:11:25.480 you hear that? Old things have passed away. What old things? All old things. Nobody can control 96 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:33.720 your life, including your old self when you wake up to this awesome biblical truth. All things 97 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:40.520 have passed away. Behold, isn't that beautiful? Open wide your eyes. All things have become new. 98 00:11:41.160 --> 00:11:47.080 Did you know you're all new? You know you love new things. And I think God put that in us. 99 00:11:48.680 --> 00:11:54.600 You're to be a new creation. You got to love it. I think we're going to walk around heaven. 100 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:58.760 I don't know how this is going to work, of course not, but I think every day we're going to have 101 00:11:58.760 --> 00:12:08.600 that sense of, this is all so new. Well, for how long? Forever. Can you imagine exploring eternity? 102 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:16.600 It's eternity for crying out loud. We will forever be going on a hike somewhere. We're forever going 103 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:22.680 to be making some sort of an expedition or journey to see what God has made. It's going to be absolutely 104 00:12:22.680 --> 00:12:28.840 awesome. The next thing is this everybody in verse 34 is that his death is now my death. 105 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:35.080 He said, check, is that good news? Yeah, listen, what are you going to do about Bible prophecy? 106 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:39.560 Because this is a prophetic utterance. The Bible announced in advance that it would be God who 107 00:12:39.560 --> 00:12:43.960 would die for our sins on the cross. It would be that little baby born in Bethlehem, 108 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:49.080 Micah chapter 5, verse 2 of the Old Testament that would die on the cross for our sins. 109 00:12:50.040 --> 00:12:55.800 It would be the very one who would be pierced in his hands and his feet and hung in a cross in Psalm 110 00:12:55.800 --> 00:13:04.120 22. He's the very one in Isaiah chapter 53 that he would be there and he would suffer. His beard 111 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:07.640 would be plucked out. You ought to read, when's the last time you read Isaiah 53, you ought to read it 112 00:13:07.640 --> 00:13:13.560 again. It's Isaiah's prophetic utterance about the suffering of the Messiah. His beard would be plucked 113 00:13:14.040 --> 00:13:22.200 out. His back would be laid wide open and the Bible tells us that all of that abuse he took for us 114 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:28.440 that we might receive not only healing spiritually, but also the Bible talks about physical healing 115 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:37.640 as well. Wow. His death. Now, if I was to leave Jesus's death right there at that, Jesus died. 116 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:43.320 Okay, so here's going to, people are just, they're used to me saying something that they can twist 117 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:48.840 and make weird. So here's another one. Don't want to have them run out of material. 118 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:56.520 Do you know the difference between a Christian crucifix and a Catholic crucifix? Anybody? 119 00:13:58.920 --> 00:14:05.720 That's right. A Catholic crucifix has Jesus on it. A Christian crucifix does not. 120 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:14.680 That may be a revelation to some of you, but a Christian's view that as anathema, to be honest 121 00:14:14.680 --> 00:14:22.200 with you, that Christ, he's not on the cross. He's not on the cross. He was on the cross one 122 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:31.720 Friday afternoon. That's it. It's all it took. And when he rose again from the dead, never to suffer 123 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:37.240 again. Never. The book of Hebrews were studied on Wednesday nights, says that he offered himself 124 00:14:37.640 --> 00:14:47.160 once and suffered and never again. He's not on the cross. He's enthroned in heaven above. 125 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:54.520 The Bible makes it very, very clear that his death, my friends, his death, you got to remember 126 00:14:54.520 --> 00:14:58.760 something. When we talk about the death of Jesus Christ, we're talking about the death of his physical 127 00:14:58.760 --> 00:15:09.000 body. His spirit didn't die. His soul didn't die. His body died. If you were to die today, 128 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:15.160 your body would die. That's the only part of you. Look, you're, listen, you are three parts. 129 00:15:15.160 --> 00:15:21.640 Body, soul and spirit, the Bible tells us. Body, soul and spirit. The Bible says that apart from 130 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:26.440 Christ, we're spiritually dead. So our spirit is like in a state of coma. 131 00:15:29.160 --> 00:15:33.240 And the Bible says it's the Holy Spirit that awakens our spirit. 132 00:15:35.400 --> 00:15:43.240 And then the mind, suke, in the Greek, root word of psychology, psyche is the thinking. 133 00:15:45.400 --> 00:15:51.480 You're, we're born spiritually dead, but we have a soul, which is our mind, and we have a body. 134 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:58.520 Listen, without Jesus, we're running on two-thirds of what we are. Did you know that? 135 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:04.680 When we're born again, that third part comes alive. The spirit is made alive. 136 00:16:05.640 --> 00:16:11.160 And what's great is that as you feed, are you listening? As you feed your spirit, the word of God, 137 00:16:11.160 --> 00:16:17.320 as you feed more and more, you attend Bible study, you grow, you serve, you put the Bible 138 00:16:17.400 --> 00:16:22.120 into action and you grow and you get yourself honestly. I'm not saying this to invoke anybody 139 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:28.760 signing up for anything. Don't do that. But go somewhere, do whatever. But when you begin to put 140 00:16:28.760 --> 00:16:35.640 into practice, what you know, when you go do Christianity, that's when the fireworks, that's when 141 00:16:35.640 --> 00:16:40.840 things connect. And the power of God shows up because honestly, why would, why would God give you 142 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:46.120 power if you study the Bible and you're just going to sit down the rest of your life? He's not 143 00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:49.960 going to give it. You don't see anything happening. Look, speak for yourself. 144 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:57.720 God wants to do stuff with you. When you read it, tell him, Lord, I just read this today, 145 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:04.200 I'm going to go, I'm going to get up and go do that. Watch what happens. You'll, you'll be trembling, 146 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:09.320 you'll be dry mouth, you'll be scared, and the spirit of God shows up, and then you walk away, 147 00:17:10.040 --> 00:17:21.080 freaked out, galvanized. When he died, God says, okay, all those who will trust in my son, 148 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:27.800 it's as though they died also. So think about this. The death of Christ 149 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:33.560 is waiting for some of you. You've never come to Jesus. You've never asked him to forgive you 150 00:17:33.560 --> 00:17:38.440 of your sins. You've never asked him to take control of your life. You've never, you've never had 151 00:17:39.400 --> 00:17:43.400 had, never had once have you done that. But this is what God's waiting for you to do, to do that 152 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:50.360 very thing. Why? Because when that happens, he announces to you, now that you're alive, 153 00:17:50.360 --> 00:17:56.680 do you see who you used to be? Yes, I do. My goodness, people, if you, if you're here today and 154 00:17:56.680 --> 00:18:01.400 you've never experienced that, it's like being lost in a fog. And then when you get out of the fog 155 00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:05.560 and you look back at what you just came from, you had no idea where you were until you got out of it. 156 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:12.840 The moment you realize that is the moment that the believer revels, not only the death of Jesus, 157 00:18:12.840 --> 00:18:21.000 but the fact that God has, listen, God has deposited upon my life in your life the death of Jesus 158 00:18:22.120 --> 00:18:28.600 that our life died 2,000 years ago. You say, how can that be? And I'm not even a Christian 159 00:18:28.600 --> 00:18:32.520 today, you might say, he's waiting for you. It's all been bought. 160 00:18:37.320 --> 00:18:43.240 This Jack Hibbs podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported. 161 00:18:43.240 --> 00:18:50.440 Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? Go to jackhibbs.com to learn more 162 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:52.520 and stay connected.