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Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Everybody 2023 is just about

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up just about as it were to go into the annals of history whatever's been done

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is done can't do a thing about it believe it with God we'll learn how to do

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that in a moment but 2024 is right ahead of us what do we do stay tuned you'll

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find out you can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com

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you here is Jack Hibbs. Hey everybody we are just a days away from putting

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2023 into the history books and wow a lot of mixed emotions if you think

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about it we all have mixed emotions every single one of us regarding the

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ending of a year and the turning of a new year number one it's biblical it is

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God who says that he has set the seasons in the years the very running down so

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to speak of the clock of the dropping of the ball you know in a few days in New

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York at famous moment in Times Square that is a very telling truth in reality

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that no matter what the technology is no matter what's happening in the world

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no matter who says what and does what the bottom line is every single one of

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us realize that the clock is not ticking up there's an overwhelming sense in

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the human nature that the clock is running out the clock is running down that

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time is fleeting no one has ever lived life and said wow you know this this

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life of mine this week this month things just seem to be just blossoming in the

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sense of time no in fact the better your time is the shorter it feels isn't

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amazing as you get older I think it's a it's a it's a result of the fall of man

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as you get older time goes by faster do you guys remember when you were in

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elementary school and it seemed like nine months at least back in the in the

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you know 1800s when I lived in elementary school it you know we everybody in

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America three months off at summertime so we went to school for nine months and

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it seemed like nine months was three years how could three years be put in nine

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months I don't know but isn't it funny that junior high kind of felt the same way

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a little bit and then high school freshmen sophomore year was like when's the

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year going to be over and then junior senior year first year college sophomore

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college time is going by so fast you're like your face is stretched from the G

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force and the next thing you know you blink and you're 35 and then you blink

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again and you're like 66 like me to I mean almost 66 it's like what hey man it's

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crazy but it's also an indicator that we are rushing headlong to an

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appointment with destiny with eternity it's no doubt about it you know what I

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thought about giving you a year-end verse you know what's cool for the year

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end I thought about Psalm 65 11 that's my go to year year-end verse not gonna do

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it I thought about Jeremiah 29 11 hmm nope not gonna happen you know what as we're

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on the brink of a new year this is what I am praying for the last verse of the

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Bible Revelation chapter 22 verse 21 listen to this the grace of our Lord

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Jesus Christ be with you all amen the grace the grace who's great grace grace

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GRACE grace how Lindsay the guy that wrote late great planet earth how Lindsay if

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you've never read that ancient book I think it's from the late 60s or early 70s

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you ought to read it it's crazy because it was written back then and it's like

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today how Lindsay wrote the book the best seller one of the best sellers of all

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time by the way the late great planet earth um how Lindsay's the guy that

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coined the phrase he made grace an acronym grace the grace of our Lord Jesus

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Christ be with you all amen grace God's riches at Christ expense how cool is

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that God's riches at Christ expense grace to you grace for you grace upon you the

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grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all amen in the year to come in the

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year ending by by 2023 God's grace will fill in the gaps did you stumble this

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year did you mess up did you fall did you did you crash and burn you need God's

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grace did you persevere and march forward I want to believe I did check all the

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bases I know this that by God's grace we were able to accomplish more this year

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than we ever have in ministry and in life there's so many things that I could have

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done that I didn't do another words sins of omission where God gave me

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opportunity and I slept through it or God gave me the opportunity and I didn't

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act upon it I didn't move it up the list of priorities I kind of floundered and

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time expired yikes what do I do about not doing what I should have done God's

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grace is gonna cover that for me what about the things that I wasn't supposed to

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do and I did do God's grace and that's God's grace be upon you and the

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awesome truth is this my friend that as we look to this new year to begin the way

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that we end the this year is the way that we begin the new year God's grace

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it's got to be God's grace all the way through

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God's riches at Christ expense means whatever is before you whatever has been

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behind you God says I will take care of that you you just give it to me and I

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will manage that and so friends this year to come and I want to say this

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carefully and accurately with with what time we have is I guess I'm just gonna

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be I'm just gonna say honestly and bluntly and those who don't get it will not

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get it and those who know what I'm talking about they'll know what I'm dying

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out and that is that it's God's grace this year end and this year ahead it's

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God's grace that so develops you and envelops you and consumes you and

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possesses you that you delight in living your life every day for God and you seek

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to enjoy him at all times to know him in every situation and enjoy him in every

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situation that you're in that's an easy thing to say isn't it but I say it based

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upon what happened to you and I this last year what did happen to us what

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what happened what changed in your life more specifically what catastrophic

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thing took place that rocked you to the core if you've not yet found out that

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God was in it you're gonna be finding out soon that God was in it the thing

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that was the great crisis of faith in your life or still is at this moment is

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something that you're gonna find out that God is either a going to redeem you

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out of that temptation that Satan threw your way or you threw your way or it

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could have been a trial by fire sent to you by God it doesn't matter to the

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believer he's gonna redeem it for the very very good and so I want to have you

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in this year knowing what Romans 828 says all things work together for good to

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those who love God to those who are the called according to his purposes so

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the year ahead of us is surrounded by his grace so what do we do I'm gonna ask

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you to join me wherever you are in the world as for God's wisdom watch God's

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wisdom God's favor God's power so that listen God's wisdom is to have God's

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word in your life God's favor is to have his affection upon you his

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affection the fact that he can't keep his eyes off of you that's a fact third

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thing is the power of the Holy Spirit the Spirit of God active in your life

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moving in your life the Spirit of God you're dependent upon him and then this

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that if we get up on January 1st and determine you know scout's honor whatever

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Lord I'm gonna go full bore for you I'm gonna go full throttle for you this year

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I'm gonna be reckless imagine if somebody were to say to you you've got six

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months to live now if you're stupid or if you're lost lost people are not stupid

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but if you're a Christian and you do what I'm about to say you're stupid lost

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people are not necessarily stupid they're lost but we're to say to you right

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now give six months to live the world is going to go get drunk what what a

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dumb thing to do if you only got six months to live what are you gonna get

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drunk for long I'm gonna go do this I'm gonna do that I'm gonna well just know

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this you're wasting time it's running out that would be very silly if you're

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Christian and you think like that then you're really dumb because what you

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should be doing as a Christian and what you should be doing as a non-Christian

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is drawing closer to God the answer is still the same if you're not a Christian

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you should draw close to God if you have six months to live if you're a Christian

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you should draw close to God and the result should be this that we should live

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our lives this year as though listen it will be the only 2024 that we'll

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ever have because you want to know what it is the only 2024 that you will ever

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have whatever have whatever time you have remaining what do you do that true

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story I just found out in the news yesterday that a guy who was visited

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our church a few times he lives at a state Christian

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involved in a lot of things blessed by God wealthy man really good Bible

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teacher though he's not a pastor he's a businessman I just read in the news

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yesterday that his company was just bought by a company and it was a cash

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it was a cash deal and his company was bought by a company who handed him

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12 billion dollars and when I read that I told Lisa wow I would not want to be

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him unless I'm possessed by the Holy Spirit don't get me wrong yeah he had a

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couple of billion dollars to begin with but to be handed 12 billion cash if the

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believer doesn't look at that is 12 billion tools that could go to your heart

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or your head and goof you up but if the believer looks at that is wow God what

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am I gonna do a 12 billion tools to use for your kingdom in 2024 think about

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the time how do you spend 12 how do you use 12 billion tools in 365 days you might

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say well I wish I had that problem yeah guess what you do but you don't have

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it in billions because you don't even know what you do with your hundreds if you

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have a couple hundred bucks that you don't need to stay alive God is saying to you

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what are you gonna do with your couple hundred tools are you gonna use it for

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the kingdom of God or you're gonna buy a new buy a new flat screen I don't know the

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world goes out and does dumb things that's the world but for the believer this year

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2024 what have God prosperous you with time or with money or with influence as a

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believer all of those things in God's economy or tools Christian dedicate yourself

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this year to being a steward and God's toolbox to let him use you and the things

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that he's brought into your life and who knows if God grants us the year of 2024

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don't you want to end it this way the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you

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all amen and amen to you Father I pray Lord for my brothers and sisters and friends and

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haters and believers and unbelievers is a lot of different people that watch this podcast

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and we know that I'm asking you Lord that as your Bible says may the goodness of God lead

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a man to repentance so for those of you who are non believers or whatever you whatever

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you are but you're far from the kingdom it's my prayer that you look around and you see how many

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good things you have in life and that that goodness of God that's he's given to you that it would

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lead you to repentance that you'd come to Christ and for the believers in the house Lord that you

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would cause their lives my life our lives to be tools of love wisdom power righteousness holiness

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faith mercy grace the fruit of the spirit to one another to the church to the world around us

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so Lord we officially in Jesus name we give you 2023 we put it in envelope we seal it we send it off

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into your trust for 2024 it's a blank sheet and I'm sure I can hear you saying with the grace that

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I am giving you what are you going to do with it with the 200 tools or the 12 billion tools

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what are you going to do with it and Lord at the end of the year we're at the end of our

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lives this year to come whatever comes first may we found may we be found faithful in Jesus name

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amen God bless you guys have an awesome year end have an awesome new year in Christ Jesus

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