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 --> 00:00:11.840 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Jesus walks before us and God says, 3 00:00:11.840 --> 00:00:18.760 walk where he walked. Didn't Jesus say, come and follow me. Put your foot in his 4 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:24.680 footprints is the command of God and every true believer longs to live that way 5 00:00:24.680 --> 00:00:30.280 thus we are in hot pursuit of Jesus Christ. 6 00:00:32.040 --> 00:00:38.440 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 7 00:00:38.440 --> 00:00:43.800 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 8 00:00:43.800 --> 00:00:48.680 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 9 00:00:48.680 --> 00:00:54.200 that's like saying, amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 10 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:59.560 Now, open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 11 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:07.280 He says, therefore, let us not judge one another anymore. The word in Greek means 12 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:14.480 stop it, but rather resolve and we'll see what this means in a moment. Not to put 13 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:19.240 a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother's way. And I'm not going to 14 00:01:19.240 --> 00:01:23.280 include this in our point because it's too important. It is the presiding, 15 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:29.840 overriding factor in our study all the way to the closing of the book of Romans 16 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:35.840 itself. Mark this down three key words in our note taking. Resolve. He says, 17 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:42.160 resolve this. No more judging each other. Stop it because we're prone to do that. 18 00:01:42.160 --> 00:01:47.000 He says, stop it. Just stop it now. When the thought comes up in your mind that you're 19 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:54.160 judging your brother or sister, rebuke that thought, hand it over to Christ, resist that. 20 00:01:54.160 --> 00:02:04.320 And do this with the same tenacity, resolve. It means all the more to go beyond, to be 21 00:02:04.320 --> 00:02:11.280 extravagant with this. I love this. Listen, in the Bible, we have what is known as the 22 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:19.480 parable or the illustration of the prodigal son, right? We all know this one, the prodigal 23 00:02:19.480 --> 00:02:26.480 son. And did you know, listen, it's pretty cool. We call it the section of scripture regarding 24 00:02:26.480 --> 00:02:31.760 the prodigal son. Even some Bibles will note it in the in the footnotes. This is about 25 00:02:31.760 --> 00:02:37.120 the prodigal son. Did you know that's actually an error? That's not in the Bible. People 26 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:42.160 put that in there. Are you saying that the prodigal son is not in the Bible? No, no. 27 00:02:42.160 --> 00:02:47.560 The prodigal son, as you and I know it, is in the Bible. Jesus spoke it himself, but 28 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:52.360 it's not about the prodigal son. I hope some of you remember this from yesterday. It's 29 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:58.160 all about the prodigal. Thank you. You're exactly right. She's got the answer, you guys. 30 00:02:58.160 --> 00:03:03.640 Come on. It's not about the prodigal son. You say, no, no, it's about the son who left 31 00:03:03.640 --> 00:03:10.120 his dad, took his inheritance early and went and lived like a maniac on all kinds of things 32 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:15.360 and then ruined his life and then crawled back home. It's about the prodigal son because 33 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:23.640 he went out and he lived extravagantly. That's what happened. No, it's about the extravagance 34 00:03:23.640 --> 00:03:29.960 of the father's love for his prodigal son. That's what it's about. The star of that 35 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:35.360 illustration that Jesus gives is not the son. It's not even the older son. Remember 36 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:40.120 the older son? He stayed home. He was a good boy. It's not about either one of the boys. 37 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:48.480 The boys are illustrations of how great the father's love is. He's the extravagant 38 00:03:48.480 --> 00:03:54.640 loving father. And so is our father above. That's what Jesus was communicating. And when 39 00:03:54.640 --> 00:04:01.240 we talk about being resolved, it's an extravagant decision. I, as a believer in the Lord Jesus 40 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:09.240 Christ today, resolve to do this. Our founding fathers, you can read those documents where 41 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:16.840 Patrick Henry, for example, very famously says, resolved. We will do this. Resolve. We 42 00:04:16.840 --> 00:04:22.680 will do the other. It's a declaration and one powerful word. And then the word is stumbling. 43 00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:28.600 We make this resolute. And that is this. We will not stumble, our brother and sister, 44 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:33.080 any longer, because we are Christians. We care more about what Christ cares about than 45 00:04:33.080 --> 00:04:38.480 what we care about. We are followers and we are disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. 46 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:44.560 Now I know what I just said a moment ago, flies in the face of the modern day. Please 47 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:49.560 serve me. Please make me happy. Please give me a sermon that makes me feel warm and fuzzy 48 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:57.000 and do all the worship songs that I like, kind of church, kind of churchy entity in America. 49 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:01.960 Why should I go to church? I'm surprised. Maybe, I don't know, maybe I'm missing it. 50 00:05:01.960 --> 00:05:08.080 Churches have gotten so carnal and so devoted to pleasing carnality that they, the whole church 51 00:05:08.080 --> 00:05:14.040 experience, they boast that it's come, come to our church. You'll be in and out in under 52 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:22.440 60 minutes. Now somebody might say, oh, that sounds good to me. I'm going to be honest. 53 00:05:22.440 --> 00:05:26.600 It sounds good to you because you don't care about the things of God, honestly. So what's 54 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:32.280 going to fruit? No, no, I'm just getting started. No, are you going to say, can you imagine 55 00:05:32.280 --> 00:05:36.360 if God said that to you? Can you imagine if you said, God, I need you to protect me and 56 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:41.720 watch over me through this battle of cancer? And God says, I will watch over you and I will 57 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:53.160 protect you through this battle of cancer for 60 minutes. No, the word stumbling is, I mean, 58 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:57.800 this is what we do not do. If we're doing it, we must stop now church and that is, don't set up 59 00:05:57.800 --> 00:06:04.600 or create a trip hazard to make an occasion of stumbling, to put an obstacle on a path. 60 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:13.880 The Bible says, don't do this, but how many times do you and I spend on Instagram or YouTube laughing 61 00:06:13.880 --> 00:06:19.560 or heads off at people who trip and fall over stuff? Have you noticed that? Let's be honest. I'm 62 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:28.120 going to come on. We are so evil that we will laugh when a 70-year-old man, wait, no, a 90-year-old 63 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:38.520 man, when a 90-year-old man gets on a unicycle, not a good combo, or some 80-year-old decides to 64 00:06:38.520 --> 00:06:45.640 ride his grandkids skateboard. And then the next thing you know, he's flying in the air. Everybody, 65 00:06:45.640 --> 00:06:49.480 why don't we laugh at that? Have you noticed the calamity? Somebody falls down and we go, oh my 66 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:55.800 gosh, that was so funny. There's some funny to it. This is not funny because it has nothing to do 67 00:06:55.800 --> 00:07:01.160 with falling down and getting a bruise or a broken bone. It's far worse than that. It's doing 68 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:06.040 something in your life and in my life that me as a believer, I think I'm so mature that I'm going 69 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:13.800 to die on this hill. And it might be that eating a bag of potato chips is very offensive to some 70 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:20.520 people. And they can't handle that, but you can. But you know that they can't handle that. 71 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:28.280 So what you do is you go get a bag of potato chips and you eat it in front of them just to exercise 72 00:07:28.280 --> 00:07:34.920 your Christian liberty. And you might think it's funny and cool and kind of laugh a little bit 73 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:40.440 because look at that, we should put it on YouTube. Look how offended it is for me eating potato chips, 74 00:07:40.440 --> 00:07:46.440 not funny, because it's not about bruising or breaking bones. It's about offending a soul, 75 00:07:46.440 --> 00:07:51.800 it's about offending the spirit. It's about the heart and the mind of the individuals that 76 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:56.840 you and I love in the Lord Jesus Christ. And then the next word, check this out and then we'll move 77 00:07:56.840 --> 00:08:02.920 on. The word fall. It means to bait a trap. To us the word fall means something else. In the Greek 78 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:06.920 language, notice the word. I'm not even going to say it. Do you guys recognize the Greek word? 79 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:14.120 What does it remind you of? Say it. Scandal. Do not create a scandal in your brother's heart or 80 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:25.640 mind. And this goes to all kinds of ways. Listen, can I be direct? In this day and age with 81 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:33.960 sexual, our culture, our nature being sexually charged, everything sexual. You can't even see 82 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:40.840 a hamburger commercial with some girl half naked eating and they're still an hamburger. Listen, 83 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:46.440 this goes both ways. Guys, listen, you need, you need to get control of your eyeballs. 84 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:51.560 You need to control your eyes, look. You say, well, pissed, you're taking so hard, 85 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:58.040 because she just showed up and everything's out there. Yes, ladies, don't put everything out there. 86 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:07.080 Number one, the man falls, he allows himself, even though nobody may know. In his mind, 87 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:14.440 he falls into a scandalous situation before him and God. Why? Because he trips, he's baited, 88 00:09:14.440 --> 00:09:19.880 but he trips over the bait. He doesn't say watch. He doesn't say, oh my gosh, there's bait there. 89 00:09:19.880 --> 00:09:25.000 I'm going to walk away. Didn't job do that. Didn't job say, I've made a covenant with my eyes, 90 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:32.760 not to gaze upon a young woman. Job said that. And then the young woman, she needs to be careful 91 00:09:32.760 --> 00:09:41.160 how she dresses, because listen, okay, you're beautiful. God made you that way, but you're not on sale. 92 00:09:43.160 --> 00:09:51.080 You are a daughter of the living God. And listen, guys, control your eyes. You got to do that. 93 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:59.560 And women control the way that you look. Why? Because guys are weak and women are weak. 94 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:07.320 Guys are looking, women know it, women want to feel approved and accepted. And so they bait just enough 95 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:15.080 to think, I'm pretty. Let me tell you, I've never been a woman. I don't, even in California, 96 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:19.960 I do not plan on becoming one. I know it's a bit, I know it's a heavy thought, but here's the deal. 97 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:28.760 I've only been a guy, but I can tell you this. At some age of 12 or 13 years of age, a young man's 98 00:10:28.760 --> 00:10:38.040 life changes, and it's not for the good. He sees everything different. He's got supernatural 99 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:46.840 abilities like Superman to have extra vision. And anybody says he doesn't know he's talking about, 100 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:51.720 is lying to you? I'm telling you right now. And the men are going to scold me after service, 101 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:57.800 because they're going to say, what did you tell them or secret? But women, listen, women are more 102 00:10:57.800 --> 00:11:06.120 innocent on that end, but it's like, oh, he thinks I'm nice. He's thinking way more than that. 103 00:11:07.800 --> 00:11:14.120 Don't create a scandal. We need to be wise. And I'm looking, all you guys are going to write me 104 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:21.400 from both ends, both pendulums, that you were horrible today. It means to pressure or to 105 00:11:21.400 --> 00:11:27.240 coerse someone into doing what they believe to be wrong. In other words, I knew I should not have 106 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:31.160 done that. Have you ever heard that? Have you ever said that? I knew I shouldn't have done it. 107 00:11:32.280 --> 00:11:38.440 Boy, I got in trouble. People tell me they've stopped and they say, we feel like we know you. 108 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:42.840 As far as I know, I've withheld nothing from you. And here goes another one. 109 00:11:43.800 --> 00:11:49.640 Have you ever been at a stoplight when there's no one around? And there's no traffic any which way. 110 00:11:49.640 --> 00:11:54.680 And then you're waiting. And then here's my, it's like, it's been like five minutes. 111 00:11:56.680 --> 00:12:01.080 And then here's what I do of my justification. I know this. It's very fresh in my mind. I just did this. 112 00:12:04.280 --> 00:12:14.680 Any, any, any day now, any day, now, right now, nothing. 113 00:12:14.680 --> 00:12:24.440 So I looked left. I looked right. I looked straight ahead. And I looked in my river mirror. 114 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:31.320 And I concluded the city doesn't know that this light's broken. 115 00:12:34.520 --> 00:12:40.440 It's broke. I safely, like pulling up to a stop sign. 116 00:12:40.760 --> 00:12:44.520 Just like that, hear my justification. 117 00:12:45.880 --> 00:12:51.480 City needs to know I should call them. It's broken. I'm doing like a stop sign when the lights go out. 118 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:53.800 But this lights on. I know. But it's not moving. It's broken. 119 00:12:55.000 --> 00:13:01.080 And so I go. Forgetting that the Holy Spirit, I mean Lisa was sitting next to me. 120 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:08.040 And she said, what are you doing? 121 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:14.360 I thought it was fine, but my liberty in Christ stumbled my wife. 122 00:13:17.400 --> 00:13:19.880 I throw myself under the bus for your edification. 123 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:25.320 The same happens in your life. Maybe not that. Maybe something else. 124 00:13:25.560 --> 00:13:30.840 And we need to be very careful about this. This is still the introduction we're in. 125 00:13:32.520 --> 00:13:40.120 This is terrible. The conclusion is this, that we need to watch out where we step, where we're 126 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:46.760 walking with God. Listen, the conclusion is this, watch out where you step. Make sure your foot is 127 00:13:46.760 --> 00:13:56.760 following in his steps. Put your foot down where his was. We are followers of the Lord Jesus. 128 00:13:56.760 --> 00:14:01.880 Just like you go to the beach or maybe on a trail. You see the footsteps you follow in. 129 00:14:03.400 --> 00:14:11.160 Did you know that today to this very day? You can visit parts of Montana and Nebraska and Wyoming. 130 00:14:12.040 --> 00:14:19.880 And I believe it's still Eastern Oregon State where the ruts are still in the ground from the great 131 00:14:19.880 --> 00:14:28.280 migration when people migrated out west from the east coast. That the the wheels so many 132 00:14:29.880 --> 00:14:35.720 was so much weight with so much of their life and so many of them left and noble scar upon 133 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:41.720 the landscape of this nation and now it's a historical spot. Listen, they followed one after 134 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:48.360 another. Jesus walks before us and God says, walk where he walked. Didn't Jesus say, come and 135 00:14:49.160 --> 00:14:56.920 follow me. Put your foot in his footprints is the command of God. And every true believer longs to 136 00:14:56.920 --> 00:15:05.160 live that way, thus we are in hot pursuit of Jesus Christ. Lord, we pray put my foot where your 137 00:15:05.160 --> 00:15:12.360 foot was. So I please you and honor you and all that I do. Psalm 63 verse 8 says, my soul 138 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:18.440 follows close behind you. Your right hand upholds me. I love that. I love the old King James by 139 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:24.280 the way. The old King James says, my soul follow with heart after the I love that where you have 140 00:15:24.280 --> 00:15:29.640 this passion in a drive. I want to follow you God. I don't want my foot to fall anywhere else but 141 00:15:29.640 --> 00:15:34.760 where Christ prints are laid out before me. This is this is being a Christian. 142 00:15:36.200 --> 00:15:39.320 Did you know I like to look at this way? Did you know that when you leave this building today 143 00:15:40.280 --> 00:15:44.200 before you Christ has his footprints for you to follow him tomorrow when you wake up? 144 00:15:46.760 --> 00:15:57.160 Put your feet down every day. You think about that. At least tonight we're on vacation some 145 00:15:57.160 --> 00:16:01.480 years ago. We're up in northern California and we're in the redwoods and there was this little 146 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:07.560 shack and supposedly this guy has seen more sass squash than anybody else. Bigfoot. 147 00:16:09.640 --> 00:16:15.960 And he had these feet that had straps on him and they were giant supposedly bigfoot 148 00:16:16.920 --> 00:16:23.400 feet. So if you believe in bigfoot, so you know, okay, look people we didn't know guerrillas 149 00:16:23.400 --> 00:16:28.360 existed until like the 50s. Did you know that? Did you know that we did not know that guerrillas? 150 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:34.120 The silverback guerrilla did not exist until the I think 1950s. I'm not saying bigfoot exists. 151 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:40.360 I'm saying that there's people that have really big feet that could run around the woods. Unshavin. 152 00:16:43.080 --> 00:16:46.680 I'm describing a lot of people out of the 60s and 70s right now. 153 00:16:46.760 --> 00:16:53.800 But this guy had these giant fake sass squash feet that you could strap onto your own feet and run 154 00:16:53.800 --> 00:16:59.080 around the woods. And I just thought I want to buy those. I mean isn't it just kind of cool to think? 155 00:16:59.080 --> 00:17:06.280 It's like freak people out. But the thing is it's not your feet. It's fake. 156 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:16.200 His footsteps are real. And he says just come with me. Let's go. Let's walk. 157 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:23.800 And we walk with him. Isaiah 41 verse 10 says fear not for I am with you. Be not dismayed for 158 00:17:23.800 --> 00:17:31.560 I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. I will uphold you with my righteous 159 00:17:31.560 --> 00:17:38.680 right hand. That's the promise of God. And then I want to read this to you. 160 00:17:39.400 --> 00:17:48.920 So, as those who name the name of Jesus, notice the name name here, the word name is 161 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:55.080 capitalized. So it goes this way. As those who name the authority of Jesus Christ, that's what that 162 00:17:56.200 --> 00:18:03.960 means about his name. We are very aware that how we step and where we step leaves a trail of 163 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:11.000 footprints, footprints of evidence, evidence of faith that others will follow. Isn't that what we do 164 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:15.640 as a family? Isn't that what moms and dads are doing and big brothers and big sisters are doing? 165 00:18:16.440 --> 00:18:21.320 Isn't that what we're doing with one another? We are leaving footsteps. What we hope to be 166 00:18:21.320 --> 00:18:28.360 footsteps of faith? Paul the Apostle put it this way. As I follow Christ, follow me. 167 00:18:29.320 --> 00:18:35.240 Man, that's bold. Is it not? Can you imagine saying that? As I follow Christ, follow me. That's awesome. 168 00:18:35.240 --> 00:18:38.440 We should all be able to say that, but I don't know about you. Sometimes you get a little insecure. 169 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:44.840 I'm saying something like that. I would just rather tell my kids, follow Christ, because I'm afraid 170 00:18:44.840 --> 00:18:50.280 I'm messing it up. Mom and dad, you know what I'm talking about? We can live for Jesus. 99% of the 171 00:18:50.280 --> 00:18:55.480 time to make that one goof up and oh my goodness, we feel horrible. And then we have to tell our 172 00:18:55.480 --> 00:19:00.520 kids, which is still a powerful act of redemption. Hey, that one percent thing I just did by losing 173 00:19:00.520 --> 00:19:07.480 my temper or going across the light when it didn't turn green yet. Jesus is not like that. 174 00:19:09.960 --> 00:19:17.880 We can even redeem those areas in our life where we went south on the issue or the moment 175 00:19:17.880 --> 00:19:22.920 and we can tell our kids or our husbands or our wives. I did this and it was wrong and I repented 176 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:30.280 just know this. That was not Jesus. That's a very powerful church. Romans 12 verse 4 tells us 177 00:19:30.280 --> 00:19:37.720 Romans 12 forces for as we have many members in one body that's called the church, but all the members 178 00:19:38.760 --> 00:19:46.840 do not have the same function. So we many, being many members are one body in Christ and individual 179 00:19:46.840 --> 00:19:56.120 members of one another. What an amazing statement of what the church is. And everything that we do 180 00:19:56.120 --> 00:20:03.640 should be led by the therefore I will no longer live my life in such a way that I would be 181 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:09.240 putting in front of you a stumbling block by which you were put in the place of a scandal in 182 00:20:09.240 --> 00:20:16.600 your mind that you were so disillusioned by how I lived or how I dressed or the words I used or 183 00:20:16.760 --> 00:20:22.200 the things I invested in my time or energies. This is what being the disciple of Jesus Christ looks 184 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:29.080 like is that I'm going to follow him because we want to bring with us as many men and women and 185 00:20:29.080 --> 00:20:38.840 boys and girls into the kingdom as we possibly can. This Jack Kibb's podcast as well as all the 186 00:20:38.840 --> 00:20:44.280 broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported. Will you consider partnering with us 187 00:20:44.280 --> 00:20:51.720 through a special gift? Go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected.