WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.840 Real life presents the Jack Hibb's podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:09.440 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. 3 00:00:09.440 --> 00:00:12.720 Do you and I live in a world that's a battle of the will? 4 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:16.640 God is inviting you in Satan is pulling you. 5 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:22.640 God has got his arms open, saying I love you, and Satan has got his arms open and he's saying, 6 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:29.680 let me lie to you, and that's the world we live in. 7 00:00:29.680 --> 00:00:36.240 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibs.com slash podcast. 8 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:42.080 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 9 00:00:42.080 --> 00:00:45.360 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 10 00:00:45.360 --> 00:00:51.280 To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 11 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:55.360 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. 12 00:00:55.360 --> 00:00:56.880 Here is Jack Hibb's. 13 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:02.080 According to the Bible, God made you and I a three-dimensional creature. 14 00:01:02.080 --> 00:01:08.400 We have a body, we have a spirit, and we have a soul, or we would say mind interchangeable. 15 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:13.600 And in that, there's like an umbrella that is over us and that is our will. 16 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:22.640 So, for example, for you to do your will, it takes all of you to do that. 17 00:01:23.600 --> 00:01:24.560 I think you know that. 18 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:28.800 Do you remember when Jesus was telling the disciples, we're going to go to Jerusalem, 19 00:01:28.800 --> 00:01:34.960 I'm going to be betrayed, and I'll be arrested, I'll be beaten and I'll be crucified on the 20 00:01:34.960 --> 00:01:36.400 third day I'll rise from the dead. 21 00:01:38.320 --> 00:01:43.520 And you got to remember, Jesus Christ was the literal eternal God who visited this world 22 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:47.840 in human skin, to bring about our salvation. 23 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:54.960 And he goes to the Garden of Gethsemane, which Gethsemane means the crushing. 24 00:01:54.960 --> 00:01:57.440 That's where you crush the olive. 25 00:02:00.800 --> 00:02:02.000 Olive, what is an olive? 26 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:03.520 Is it a fruit? 27 00:02:03.520 --> 00:02:04.480 Is it a fruit, yeah? 28 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:05.200 Olive? 29 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:06.240 Is it a vegetable? 30 00:02:06.240 --> 00:02:07.360 Oh no, sorry. 31 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:08.880 Who cares? 32 00:02:09.600 --> 00:02:12.160 Gethsemane means where you crush the olives. 33 00:02:13.600 --> 00:02:17.600 And Jesus is in that garden where you can go to today, it's still there. 34 00:02:17.600 --> 00:02:24.080 And he prayed, listen, he prayed, Father, if there's any other way for this cup to pass from me, 35 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:25.840 let it be. 36 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:28.800 And there was silence. 37 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:32.080 The Father didn't answer him. 38 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:33.520 What was Jesus praying? 39 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:39.280 Father, if there's any other way for mankind to be saved apart from me going to this cross, 40 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:40.480 let's do it. 41 00:02:42.640 --> 00:02:43.680 And there was no answer. 42 00:02:45.040 --> 00:02:45.600 Why? 43 00:02:45.600 --> 00:02:46.960 Because he was the answer. 44 00:02:49.600 --> 00:02:51.360 And then Jesus said those words, 45 00:02:53.040 --> 00:02:55.920 not my will, but thy will be done. 46 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:02.320 And Jesus got up from that moment and lived out his life to the point of death. 47 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:07.120 Doing the will of the Father, but how did he do that? His spirit, 48 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:10.800 his soul and his body acted in harmony. 49 00:03:11.600 --> 00:03:17.200 As a believer, you and I are to walk in this unison of God's will for our lives. 50 00:03:17.760 --> 00:03:24.400 Look, apart from Jesus, there's an unholy trinity that makes up you and I, me, myself and I. 51 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:30.000 And we all scheme and plot together to try to pull off what's best for me. 52 00:03:30.640 --> 00:03:36.080 And you look at me so pious, it's you too. You did that too. 53 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:40.080 In fact, that's what we fight with today in our walks with Jesus. 54 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:45.280 Is that our will, our will is challenged by sometimes the appetites of the flesh. 55 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:49.120 And we've got to turn to our flesh and school our flesh. 56 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:53.520 We've got to remind our flesh about the Bible and that the flesh is no longer in charge. 57 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:58.560 And so that all incorporates our will and the Bible says in verse 2, 58 00:03:59.200 --> 00:04:04.960 and do not be conformed. Please mark down that word conform. Do not be conformed to this world, 59 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:11.760 but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is the good and accepted 60 00:04:11.760 --> 00:04:19.440 and perfect will of God. Well, we have our own will. The Bible tells us that we were created 61 00:04:19.440 --> 00:04:25.440 in the image of God and you have a will. And what you do with your will matters, 62 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:29.520 your decision that you make has to do with your will. 63 00:04:30.880 --> 00:04:35.360 The life that you live, listen, the lifestyle that you live has to do with your will. 64 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:47.200 Someone has said that the will is very powerful, but that also there's this desire to not will 65 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:55.680 will. That is even more powerful and that comes from God. When our body says this or our mind say 66 00:04:55.680 --> 00:05:02.080 this or whatever is going on, we resist, we fight because we are believers. What about your will? 67 00:05:02.080 --> 00:05:06.480 And of course I'm talking about the very essence of who we are as human beings. I'm going to 68 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:10.000 give you some verses and we're going to go kind of quick on this. Are you guys okay today? 69 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:15.680 Okay, I'm going to need you to, I'm tired today. I'm just telling you straight, I'm fine, 70 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:22.400 by the way, I'm not sick or anything. It just sleeps in a rarity this week. And so I'm 71 00:05:22.400 --> 00:05:26.400 going to need you guys. You can be Pentecostal during this service today. How's that? 72 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:36.800 Okay, that's enough. Isaiah 66, Isaiah 66, listen to this. Thus says the Lord, heaven is my throne. 73 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:44.800 Earth is my footstool. Where is the house that you will build me? And where is the place of my rest 74 00:05:45.520 --> 00:05:52.960 for all those things my hand has made and all those things exist as the Lord. But on this one, 75 00:05:52.960 --> 00:06:02.480 will I look on him who is poor and of a contrite spirit and who trembles at my word? Let me clarify 76 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:07.680 something for you in this modern age. God is not saying that just because you're poor, you have a 77 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:12.560 special place in my heart. That's not what it means. He's talking about that very thing you know in 78 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:18.800 the sermon on the Mount. Blessed are the poor in spirits. He's talking about those who don't see 79 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:24.960 themselves as much in light of the grandeur of God. When it says they have a contrite spirit, 80 00:06:24.960 --> 00:06:30.960 it means they're quick to repent of the wrong that they do. God says, I love that person. Are you 81 00:06:30.960 --> 00:06:36.080 hearing me? God is not saying I love the person that never sins. I love the person that never 82 00:06:36.080 --> 00:06:43.680 makes a mistake. Does such a person exist? No. God says, I love the person that looks upon 83 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:49.200 themselves and understands the fact that in them they need me, in them they know that they cannot 84 00:06:49.200 --> 00:06:56.160 save themselves. The Bible goes on to say that in them in us dwells no good thing. And that turns us 85 00:06:56.160 --> 00:07:02.400 into those of a contrite spirit. That's the key by the way to walking before the Lord in humility, 86 00:07:02.400 --> 00:07:09.120 realizing how wretched we are of ourselves causes us to be of a contrite spirit which means we 87 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:16.880 need him. And God, thank you for giving me my very breath at this moment. That life lived 88 00:07:16.880 --> 00:07:23.920 causes us to tremble at His word. This is not a terrible trembling nor is it a tremble like we 89 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:30.160 might tremble today at a cold, wintry day like it is here. To tremble is not to tremble because 90 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:36.400 you're cold. It's to tremble at the grandeur of the word of God, the Bible. Incredible. Awesome. 91 00:07:37.280 --> 00:07:46.960 And when life is at its end, the greatest joy is the word of God, the very Bible. That's why you 92 00:07:46.960 --> 00:07:53.280 see our dear brothers and sisters wanting nothing more when all comes to the end. They want nothing 93 00:07:53.280 --> 00:07:58.960 more than to read me the Bible. They say they want to hear the Bible on audio. Just play the Bible. 94 00:07:58.960 --> 00:08:05.360 I want to pass into his arms. I want to hear the Bible. Lisa's dad was dying at USC and he said, 95 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:12.720 just sing hymns. I remember he moved his mask and says sing hymns. And he wanted to go into glory, 96 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:18.720 singing hymns. And that's all that matters. Why? Because listen, your will when it's brought under 97 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:23.520 the control of Christ is a glorious thing. But notice in that verse, God says, I don't need a place 98 00:08:24.080 --> 00:08:30.320 to live. And this actually has to do with your will. Look at the next verse in John's Gospel. John 15 99 00:08:30.320 --> 00:08:39.600 verse 4 and John 14 verse 18. Jesus said, abide in me. Live in me. Take up your residence in me and I 100 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:45.760 in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless 101 00:08:45.760 --> 00:08:54.000 you abide in me. Chapter 14 verse 18, I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. Jesus said 102 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:58.720 that just before he went back up into heaven. He said, I'm going to go to heaven, but I'm going to 103 00:09:00.560 --> 00:09:07.440 send to you my Holy Spirit and by the Holy Spirit, I will live in you. That's a sermon for another 104 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:15.040 day, but that screams the doctrine of the Trinity. I'm leaving, but I'm going to come back and be in 105 00:09:15.040 --> 00:09:20.160 you. I won't leave you orphaned. I'm going to send the Holy Spirit to be with you forever. 106 00:09:21.760 --> 00:09:28.720 What an awesome truth that is. In other words, God says, you can build me a building. That's not what I 107 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:34.640 want. You can feel better. If you feel better, David, Solomon, build me a temple. I don't need it. 108 00:09:34.640 --> 00:09:41.920 I love that. Does God need this building? Absolutely not. But Jesus says, true 109 00:09:42.880 --> 00:09:51.360 relationship is when you allow your will to invite God into your life. How many of you are a single? 110 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:57.120 Anybody single in here? Raise your hand. Go ahead. It's okay. That's it. Well, listen. 111 00:09:58.880 --> 00:10:04.160 If you're interested in somebody, the first thought that you have being single is you hope 112 00:10:04.160 --> 00:10:09.360 they're interested in you. But how are you going to know? By the way, take notes on this. 113 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:15.520 Gee, whiz. I have guys all the time, Pastor, and they're like sweaty. They're like freaking out. 114 00:10:15.520 --> 00:10:20.960 I think they're going to say, God's called me to the dark jungles of the Amazon. And I'm waiting 115 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:27.200 to hear that. I go, what's troubling you? I think I like a girl. You think you like a girl. 116 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:34.800 You think or you know, which one is it? Have you talked to her? No. 117 00:10:36.880 --> 00:10:41.200 You know why you're in doubt? Why? Because you don't know, because you haven't talked to her yet. 118 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:50.160 I can't stand rejection. Get used to it. It's just the way it is. Who cares? There's no 119 00:10:50.160 --> 00:10:54.240 kind. It's not a crime. You walk up to her and you say, would you like to go out for a cup of coffee? 120 00:10:54.320 --> 00:11:00.480 If she says no, ask her 10 more times. Ladies, is that not true? 121 00:11:01.760 --> 00:11:06.880 Her sue her. She might think you're as ugly as sin. But you know what? As you pursue her, 122 00:11:06.880 --> 00:11:09.520 she might say, he's starting to look a little attractive to me. 123 00:11:12.400 --> 00:11:19.680 But guys, you got to go for it, man. And listen, that whole dynamic of relationship, 124 00:11:20.640 --> 00:11:27.200 I thank God that he has pursued me in my life. And before I was a Christian, he was pursuing me 125 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:31.920 then and he pursues me now. And listen, every day God is inviting me to get along with him. 126 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:39.200 That's the God we have. He's a relational God. And that's a matter of your will. Jesus said, 127 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:44.720 I don't want to live anywhere else but in you. God said in the Old Testament, I don't want to live 128 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:54.480 in a house, a temple. I've been to some tremendous temples in Europe, cathedrals, great ones, 129 00:11:54.480 --> 00:12:02.400 famous ones. They have coffee shops in them now. Some of them are in mosque, dead, great building, 130 00:12:02.400 --> 00:12:11.360 800 years old, dead. And then if they do have a service, no Bible, and you wonder why it's dead. 131 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:16.160 I don't wonder why it's dead. The atopsy is obvious. It's printed on the wall. 132 00:12:17.040 --> 00:12:23.680 Today, five steps on how to be happy. No Bible. Listen, I'll give you one step how to be happy. 133 00:12:23.680 --> 00:12:32.240 Read your Bible. And God will take care of the rest on that. And then 1 Corinthians 6, 134 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:38.240 1 Corinthians 6, verse 18 tells us, flee sexual immorality. We're still talking about your 135 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:43.040 body being presented as a living sacrifice. Isn't that amazing? Watch this. See what, wait, 136 00:12:43.040 --> 00:12:47.120 what does that mean? It means see the word flee. It's where we get the English word fugitive. 137 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:56.160 Become a fugitive, dissexual immorality. Sexual. You mean like sexual sex, sexual? Like get 138 00:12:56.160 --> 00:13:03.120 together? Yep. You mean flee that? Yep. It's immoral. You know it. 139 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:10.000 And now if you're a husband and a wife, that's a whole different thing. If you're not married and 140 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:16.240 you're having sexual immorality, which is what you're having, you think, well, really? I mean, 141 00:13:18.400 --> 00:13:27.680 can I be a sexually immoral Christian? God says it'll destroy you. It'll destroy you. You 142 00:13:27.680 --> 00:13:33.760 want to know why? It's an idol. There's a place for it. God created it. He loves that. 143 00:13:34.880 --> 00:13:39.360 There's confines. There's a place. You don't drive your Ferrari around the dump if you have one 144 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:44.880 and you don't take your dump truck on the Indianapolis race course either. Your body belongs to God. 145 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:51.200 To take it outside the realm of unsanctioned sexual relationship is to violate God's design for 146 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:57.520 your body. Think about that. And all of a sudden we're talking about being conformed to the 147 00:13:57.520 --> 00:14:02.000 image of this world, aren't we? This world says go out there and do it and do it as much as you 148 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:08.400 can with as many as you can. And God says it's death, at least the death. flee sexual immorality. 149 00:14:08.400 --> 00:14:13.120 Every sin that a man does is outside the body. Notice how the Bible here is saying there's 150 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:18.640 sins that are outside the body and those are things that repent of. But there's a sin that a 151 00:14:18.640 --> 00:14:23.920 person can commit and watch what happens that he who commits sexual immorality sins against his 152 00:14:23.920 --> 00:14:30.800 own body. Some of your Bibles render this commit sins against their own soul because sexual 153 00:14:30.800 --> 00:14:36.480 immorality messes up the way you think and it messes up your ability to present your body as a 154 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:46.000 living sacrifice because you are now all jumbled up and confused. And we're living an age 155 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:52.880 that is confused and jumbled up. And God's word tells us, or do you not know that your body is 156 00:14:52.880 --> 00:14:59.520 the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God and you are not your own? 157 00:14:59.520 --> 00:15:04.960 Watch. For you were bought at a price there for glorify God in your body and in your spirit, 158 00:15:04.960 --> 00:15:09.440 which are gods. Isn't that amazing? I talked about younger people earlier and they're nice young 159 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:14.400 bodies and that's fantastic. But listen, you think you can do what you want with your body? 160 00:15:14.400 --> 00:15:18.960 Where did you get your body from? God gave you your body. And even this body of mine, 161 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:23.040 I'm patching it up and sewing it together and all that it's still, listen, 162 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:28.800 apparently to the moment you're laying on your deathbed, if you know the Lord Jesus Christ, 163 00:15:28.800 --> 00:15:34.160 you can tell your doctor, doctor, you need Jesus. I know exactly where I'm going when I breathed my 164 00:15:34.160 --> 00:15:41.680 last breath. Do you? And then you see doctors get all nervous. Why? Because they don't know the 165 00:15:41.680 --> 00:15:48.720 answer apart from Christ. Jesus loves you. He came and he made the way for you. And so we give 166 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:55.680 God our will. And so when you begin to think about how intricate all of this is, the detail of 167 00:15:55.680 --> 00:16:02.560 the human body, think about it. What is our human body for? What is our human mind for? The mind, 168 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:09.360 the body's the easiest. I mean, the body's amazing scientifically. It's amazing, but the mind, 169 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:14.560 what are we talking about here, the mind? You know, this is one of the great arguments, 170 00:16:14.560 --> 00:16:20.000 of course, you know this against evolution, is evolutionist to this moment cannot give you a 171 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:26.560 definition of human consciousness. They don't know where it comes from. And frankly, you and I 172 00:16:26.560 --> 00:16:32.720 would know where it comes from either unless God says so. God says, I've created you, the human, 173 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:41.200 in my own image. That's where your consciousness comes from. Your self-awareness, your thoughts, 174 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:48.640 deep thoughts, whatever they may be. God says, I did that. And you think about that for a moment. 175 00:16:48.640 --> 00:16:56.800 Here's it's either God or evolution or God or atheism. There are people in the world around us 176 00:16:56.800 --> 00:17:02.560 that we want them to think a certain thing about us. Then there's the person that we think about 177 00:17:02.560 --> 00:17:10.400 us really being. And then there's the person that God knows. And God is all about you being 178 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:17.200 not a contradiction, but a unified tricotomy, body, soul and spirit. And it's amazing to think because 179 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:23.920 there's also the human will as we've been talking about. And all of that comes together. The body 180 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:30.640 simply becomes obedient to the command. What's coming down from the central processing unit? 181 00:17:31.600 --> 00:17:38.160 And the mind is thinking. And the mind will make a decision. But all of that is based on the will. 182 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:43.360 Your will. What will you decide to do with your life? What do you will 183 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:53.280 to achieve in this world or what do you will to think about? What do you will to do with your 184 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:59.760 opportunity or your time? This is true for all of us. He says, do not be conformed to the image 185 00:17:59.840 --> 00:18:06.480 of this world. And write this down if you would and meditate on this. It almost sounds insane, 186 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:13.840 but you got to look at it and it's this. Your mind controls your body and your will controls your mind. 187 00:18:17.520 --> 00:18:22.160 What's the answer to this? It's circular. Yes, it is. But in the middle, you can put a 188 00:18:23.120 --> 00:18:30.960 axle. You can put a centerpiece in that centerpiece is, does Jesus Christ truly live inside 189 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:36.800 your life? Are you a real follower of Christ? I want to avoid the title Christian. I'm fed up with 190 00:18:36.800 --> 00:18:42.080 Christian. Everybody's a Christian. This is a Christian. That's a Christian. I went to a place 191 00:18:42.080 --> 00:18:48.080 out of state. I won't say just some state they had Christian donuts. What is that Christian donuts? 192 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:55.040 And I thought, that's Christian donuts. I wouldn't think it was so weird, but then I walked 193 00:18:55.040 --> 00:18:59.520 down the street. There's a Christian coffee shop. It was everything about it was Christian. 194 00:19:00.080 --> 00:19:07.840 It had a Christian theater. And I'm just like, what makes a theater Christian? 195 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:14.720 Can there be a actual Christian donut? And then the answer came to me. 196 00:19:15.600 --> 00:19:22.640 And the Greek is the language crispy cream. So of course there is. Yes, there are certain 197 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:29.040 donuts that are saved and going to heaven. But we have to be careful. See, why do I bring this 198 00:19:29.040 --> 00:19:34.240 up? To be that we're careful that we don't Christianize everything. Because you and I live in a 199 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:40.640 world that's a battle of the will. God is inviting you and Satan is pulling you. 200 00:19:42.240 --> 00:19:48.880 God is speaking, Satan is yelling. God has got his arms open, saying, I love you. 201 00:19:50.320 --> 00:19:54.000 And Satan has got his arms open and he's saying, let me lie to you. 202 00:19:55.840 --> 00:19:57.040 And that's the world we live in. 203 00:19:57.040 --> 00:20:05.920 This Jack Hibbs podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are 204 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:10.400 listener supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 205 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:16.880 Go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected.