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 --> 00:00:12.040 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. The Bible warns us in the book of 3 00:00:12.040 --> 00:00:17.080 Romans chapter one. If you get your eyes off of God, you will wind up 4 00:00:17.080 --> 00:00:24.660 interpreting Romans one says, nature to be your God. It says that when you no 5 00:00:24.660 --> 00:00:30.060 longer believe in God, you will believe in four-footed beasts and creeping 6 00:00:30.060 --> 00:00:37.180 things on the earth and things that fly and you'll make those your origins in the 7 00:00:37.180 --> 00:00:40.580 Bible. 8 00:00:41.340 --> 00:00:47.740 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 9 00:00:47.740 --> 00:00:53.100 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 10 00:00:53.100 --> 00:00:57.780 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To 11 00:00:57.780 --> 00:01:03.140 us, that's like saying amen or yes. Then that rating will encourage others to 12 00:01:03.140 --> 00:01:08.620 listen. Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack 13 00:01:08.620 --> 00:01:15.900 Hibbs. Nature is suffering because of the sins of man. You look around this world 14 00:01:15.900 --> 00:01:19.500 people will say, I can't believe in your God. Look at this horrible world. Say 15 00:01:19.500 --> 00:01:23.300 dude, I agree with you with this horrible world. You got the blame going in the 16 00:01:23.300 --> 00:01:31.260 wrong direction. We did this. Our mom and dad did this. Not your mom and dad. Adam 17 00:01:31.260 --> 00:01:39.660 and Eve. They're the ones that crushed this thing. God creates a perfect. Hey 18 00:01:39.660 --> 00:01:47.660 listen, God creates a perfect ecosystem. Man ruins it. I'm gonna step on some toes 19 00:01:47.660 --> 00:01:59.700 here. We have to save the planet. Really? What makes your life so great that you can 20 00:01:59.700 --> 00:02:06.660 save the planet? It's gonna be a collective effort. Yeah? What are we gonna do? We're 21 00:02:06.660 --> 00:02:16.380 gonna recycle. That's great. What else? Have you ever stopped to consider how God 22 00:02:16.380 --> 00:02:25.500 cleans things up in this world? After us, we crash a bazillion gallons of oil in 23 00:02:25.500 --> 00:02:33.420 Alaska with the Exxon Valdez in whatever name that harbor was I forget. And we 24 00:02:33.420 --> 00:02:42.100 supposedly destroy the ocean sea bed for a thousand years they said. And 25 00:02:42.620 --> 00:02:48.620 everybody's crying and we've destroyed the world. We should all just end it all. And 26 00:02:48.620 --> 00:02:55.020 you gotta go look at the documentaries and find out what happened. It seems now we 27 00:02:55.020 --> 00:03:00.780 know that God built into the system the ocean's ability to scrub itself and clean 28 00:03:00.780 --> 00:03:06.420 itself in the face of disasters. And there's no problem or evidence of that oil 29 00:03:06.420 --> 00:03:11.700 spilled now at this time. And it's a matter of a documentary that you should 30 00:03:11.700 --> 00:03:16.660 say. Oh my gosh, this is happening. But a volcano goes off and pollutes the entire 31 00:03:16.660 --> 00:03:25.540 world and it winds up actually increasing the carbon. Carbon, don't see the word. No, 32 00:03:25.540 --> 00:03:40.660 no, no, you can't have trees or grass without carbon. No, gotta have it. I digress. But 33 00:03:40.660 --> 00:03:46.660 your battery ain't helping anybody out here. We need a... I'm not serious. It's 34 00:03:46.660 --> 00:03:51.300 amazing how God's... No, we gotta save the planet. Wait a minute. It was here 35 00:03:51.300 --> 00:03:56.700 before you got here and it's gonna be here after you leave. And it doesn't need 36 00:03:56.700 --> 00:04:07.500 our help. That just got me knocked off of YouTube right there. I can feel it. Nature itself 37 00:04:07.500 --> 00:04:13.660 is waiting for the redemption of the sons of God that's us. It's remarkable. Listen to 38 00:04:13.660 --> 00:04:19.100 what Dr. D. Martin Lloyd-Jones said. With the time we have lived, Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones, 39 00:04:19.100 --> 00:04:25.260 great preacher of yesteryear, pastor, great expositor at the Westminster Chapel in 40 00:04:25.260 --> 00:04:29.860 London, England. And he was a medical doctor on top of it. And you can hear him by 41 00:04:29.860 --> 00:04:33.860 the way. Even though he's been dead and gone for many decades, you can go to his 42 00:04:33.860 --> 00:04:40.860 YouTube channel and listen to him. He says, the pains of childbirth are real 43 00:04:40.860 --> 00:04:47.780 pains. Severe pains, but they are not endless pains. Such pain only endures for a 44 00:04:47.780 --> 00:04:53.220 time. Nor are they hopeless pains. On the contrary, they are filled with joyful 45 00:04:53.220 --> 00:04:59.060 expectations. Since, under normal circumstances, these pains produce the birth of a 46 00:04:59.060 --> 00:05:07.780 brand new child. That so describes the believers suffering. It's not something that 47 00:05:07.780 --> 00:05:13.940 befalls us. It's something that prepares us. And it's only for a season. Well, 48 00:05:13.940 --> 00:05:18.740 yeah, but what if things in death? Are you a Christian? Yes, you're going to 49 00:05:18.740 --> 00:05:26.540 heaven. Think of that. But we need to remember something. All of creation is 50 00:05:26.540 --> 00:05:32.180 under this expectancy, which is an interesting term. If you remove the emotional 51 00:05:32.180 --> 00:05:41.700 suggestion away from it, it means that the created universe is laboring in its 52 00:05:41.700 --> 00:05:51.300 mechanics, as it were, to do what it was designed to do. It's laboring. Think about 53 00:05:51.300 --> 00:05:57.780 you. That describes us. We're part of the physical creation. The sun is not 54 00:05:57.780 --> 00:06:04.460 only the only thing burning out. Everything is slowing down, including light 55 00:06:04.460 --> 00:06:12.700 itself. It's wearing out. You resemble that remark. You ever feel like that? It's 56 00:06:12.700 --> 00:06:17.420 okay for the believer. I told you before, I'll say it again. When you're young, 57 00:06:17.420 --> 00:06:22.700 it's great. You're supposed to be young. Do that. When you're older as a believer, 58 00:06:22.700 --> 00:06:26.660 I don't know what I could, man, if I was not a Christian, I'd freak out. But as 59 00:06:26.660 --> 00:06:31.900 you get older as a believer, it's like sweet. So you have a tune, you know, 60 00:06:32.020 --> 00:06:37.940 those golden years, golden my foot. What does that mean, golden? Oh, it means that 61 00:06:37.940 --> 00:06:46.900 your hospital gown is made out of yellow color, the golden years. But Paul, the 62 00:06:46.900 --> 00:06:49.820 Apostle would say, what's the problem? Well, Paul, don't you see you're like 63 00:06:49.820 --> 00:06:54.260 wired up to these tubes. I got this tank on you, your plug into a machine. Paul 64 00:06:54.260 --> 00:06:59.740 would say, to live as Christ, to die as gay. Think about that. That's true for 65 00:06:59.740 --> 00:07:05.180 all of us as believers for sure. You know, it's amazing. And then finally, well 66 00:07:05.180 --> 00:07:08.540 then with this part, just in verse 20, we'll pick it up next time. But it's the 67 00:07:08.540 --> 00:07:14.020 fact that when hope is increasing, we can know that the plan of God is unfolding. 68 00:07:14.020 --> 00:07:19.740 Friends, nothing's fallen apart. It's all coming into place. Yes, I am very, very 69 00:07:19.740 --> 00:07:27.380 much aware of the world economic forum and the EU and the USA and the, you know, 70 00:07:27.380 --> 00:07:34.460 I don't know, whatever those acronyms are. We're all aware of them. Don't, yeah. Don't 71 00:07:34.460 --> 00:07:38.380 don't worry about it. It's all coming together. You read your Bible. It's like, wow, look 72 00:07:38.380 --> 00:07:42.740 at this. Even though I know we're all we're all going to do the right thing. Don't get 73 00:07:42.740 --> 00:07:51.740 me wrong. But the results are in God's hands. And I'm glad he wrote us his Bible. But 74 00:07:51.740 --> 00:07:59.180 God's plan is unfolding. Man has his plans. Like how man's going to save the world, how 75 00:07:59.180 --> 00:08:06.420 man's going to save himself. So man creates artificial intelligence to save himself. And 76 00:08:06.420 --> 00:08:13.220 now it looks like it's turning on us to eat us alive. I just find that, I'm sorry, I find 77 00:08:13.220 --> 00:08:20.580 that very funny. We don't want God. We don't want God. We deny God. We'll play God. We'll 78 00:08:20.580 --> 00:08:29.740 create something. And boy, that thing turned on us real quick, huh? Back in the day, when 79 00:08:29.740 --> 00:08:35.340 Clinton was running for office, a bill Clinton was running for office. He had his campaign 80 00:08:35.340 --> 00:08:44.380 manager, what? Bill. I, I'm talking about Bill. 1992. James Carville. Remember James 81 00:08:44.380 --> 00:08:49.780 Carville? He said, listen, he's trying to tell the team. This is famous now. As soon 82 00:08:49.780 --> 00:08:53.620 as I say it, you'll know. He was telling, he was instructing the whole campaign team. 83 00:08:53.620 --> 00:09:01.300 You don't need to talk about anything else. The economy is so bad. The issue is this. It's 84 00:09:01.300 --> 00:09:06.540 the economy stupid. Remember those famous words? Those are legendary words now. It's the economy 85 00:09:06.540 --> 00:09:14.180 stupid. James Carville, you can look it up later. It's famous. Well, for the believer, listen, 86 00:09:14.180 --> 00:09:25.140 for us, it's the creation. Smarty pants. We can look at what God has made and it even 87 00:09:25.140 --> 00:09:39.860 announces to us that things are a skill. Logic and reason demand, the outcome of what's 88 00:09:39.860 --> 00:09:51.780 the word progress or progression. No, and never has order ever come out of disorder. For 89 00:09:51.780 --> 00:09:56.620 those of you who've had basic physics in the seventh grade, entropy is the second law 90 00:09:56.620 --> 00:10:04.140 of thermal dynamics. Everything is going from an ordered condition to a destroyed condition. 91 00:10:04.140 --> 00:10:11.980 Everything is running out, entropy. That's evidence of what God's Bible says, isn't it? 92 00:10:11.980 --> 00:10:18.860 He's going to reverse that someday. His plan is unfolding. When it says that, he's subjected 93 00:10:18.860 --> 00:10:26.820 it in futility in hope. It means that God, when sin happened in the Garden of Eden, there 94 00:10:26.820 --> 00:10:33.820 was this seismic wave throughout the entire universe, both spiritual and physical. God 95 00:10:33.820 --> 00:10:40.860 had built into that explosion the plan that in that futility, and it was subjected to 96 00:10:40.860 --> 00:10:46.700 emptiness or nothingness, that even in that, God had a plan to bring it back together 97 00:10:46.700 --> 00:10:51.740 before it ever fell apart. In other words, God was not surprised that Adam and Eve would 98 00:10:51.740 --> 00:11:00.820 turn their back on him. And yet, He loved them. That should come for you. It's been 99 00:11:00.820 --> 00:11:11.580 subjected in hope. And so I'll end with this. The Bible tells us the world that's to 100 00:11:11.580 --> 00:11:20.500 come. In Isaiah chapter 35, verse 1, in fact, this is a remarkable portion of scripture 101 00:11:20.500 --> 00:11:27.860 you guys because it's one of the evidences that Jesus, and I'm curious if you can catch 102 00:11:27.860 --> 00:11:36.820 it. Jesus used Isaiah 35 to tell John the Baptist disciples. Remember when John was in prison? 103 00:11:36.820 --> 00:11:43.180 He got arrested. John's in prison, John the Baptist. And his disciples come and they 104 00:11:43.180 --> 00:11:50.600 ask Jesus, Jesus, John wants to know, are you the one, are you the Messiah? Or do we 105 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:56.020 wait for somebody else? Well, number one, that's a shock because John knew exactly who Jesus 106 00:11:56.100 --> 00:12:04.260 was. But guess what? John was just like us. Sometimes we have laps in faith. John's in prison 107 00:12:04.260 --> 00:12:11.020 doesn't look like the kingdom to me. Hey, I'm following Jesus and I'm behind bars. What 108 00:12:11.020 --> 00:12:18.020 kind of a gig is this? Flies in the face, right, of modern day so-called Christianity. Hey, 109 00:12:18.020 --> 00:12:25.020 come and be a Christian. Send us your money and you'll be rich. How does that work? Right? 110 00:12:25.020 --> 00:12:30.020 Oh, if you just believe you'll never have any bumps in the roads that you drive on. Oh, 111 00:12:30.020 --> 00:12:39.500 if you just have enough faith, you'll never get sick. Really? Hmm. Jesus says, why don't you go back 112 00:12:39.500 --> 00:12:47.580 and tell John the things that he has seen and heard. And Jesus eludes or in some areas directly 113 00:12:47.580 --> 00:12:56.940 quotes Isaiah 35, written 743 years before Christ was born. It's talking about the kingdom of God 114 00:12:56.940 --> 00:13:03.420 coming. So technically it's about the second coming of Christ. The wilderness and the wasteland 115 00:13:03.420 --> 00:13:09.100 shall be glad for them and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. Think of the 116 00:13:09.100 --> 00:13:20.140 California desert. Think of the Arizona Sonora desert. Every needle on a cactus is a flower that 117 00:13:20.140 --> 00:13:26.060 never develops. Can you imagine the desert when Jesus comes back? I don't know. He's going to snap 118 00:13:26.060 --> 00:13:29.900 his fingers. He's going to speak a word. I don't know what he's going to do, but the desert. Can 119 00:13:29.900 --> 00:13:34.460 you imagine you're going to you're going to hold a barrel cactus and it's going to look like a bouquet. 120 00:13:34.460 --> 00:13:45.500 Wow. It shall bloom abundantly and rejoice even with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall 121 00:13:45.500 --> 00:13:51.820 be given to it. The excellence of Carmell and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, 122 00:13:51.820 --> 00:13:59.260 the excellency of our God. Strengthen the weak hands and make firm the feeble knees. Say to 123 00:13:59.260 --> 00:14:07.020 those who are fearful-hearted. Be strong. Do not fear. Behold your God will come with vengeance. 124 00:14:07.020 --> 00:14:12.460 You want justice? You want God to settle the score against evil? Oh, he will. With the recompense 125 00:14:12.460 --> 00:14:19.660 of God, he will come and save you. Verse 5. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened. 126 00:14:21.420 --> 00:14:26.540 Hey, that's what Jesus did when he walked on earth. And the ears of the dead shall be 127 00:14:26.540 --> 00:14:32.140 unstopped. Death people. They got your hearing back when Jesus walked on earth. Verse 6. 128 00:14:32.860 --> 00:14:40.300 Then the lame shall leap like a deer and the tongue of the dumb sing. For water shall burst forth 129 00:14:40.300 --> 00:14:47.580 in the wilderness and streams in the desert. The parts ground shall become a pool and thirsty land 130 00:14:48.220 --> 00:14:55.900 springs of water. Is that awesome? That's what God is going to do. Friends, listen. 131 00:14:57.740 --> 00:15:04.220 The Bible warns us in the book of Romans chapter 1. If you get your eyes off of God, 132 00:15:07.260 --> 00:15:16.300 you will wind up interpreting Romans 1 says, nature to be your God. It says that when you no longer 133 00:15:16.300 --> 00:15:22.780 believe in God, you will believe in four-footed beast and creeping things on the earth and things 134 00:15:22.780 --> 00:15:33.180 that fly and you will make those your origins in the Bible. Romans chapter 1, read it for yourself. 135 00:15:35.980 --> 00:15:43.580 Why would you do that when all of creation is groaning under the sway of the effect of sin? 136 00:15:44.540 --> 00:15:50.780 Let's be honest, believer and non-believer, we all agree this place is hurtful and painful. 137 00:15:52.860 --> 00:15:58.780 But God's not responsible for any of it. He bought us the way out of it 138 00:16:01.580 --> 00:16:07.820 and are suffering in it. It's like being pregnant for nine months. 139 00:16:08.300 --> 00:16:17.340 And you start feeling contractions, I'm told. I just want to make that clear here in California. 140 00:16:20.060 --> 00:16:27.340 You start having, what's this is going on? And then get the car. We're going. 141 00:16:27.500 --> 00:16:39.740 And to me, I think I speak on behalf of all of us guys. Women are a special creation 142 00:16:40.940 --> 00:16:51.020 because most men faint during delivery. It's like what? Wait, this is happening here, right? 143 00:16:57.340 --> 00:17:08.220 You've heard the mom to be saying, I can't wait to get this kid out of me. You ever heard 144 00:17:08.220 --> 00:17:13.100 mom say that? Mom to be, I've had enough of this. Let's just, I can't wait for this kid to come. 145 00:17:13.100 --> 00:17:18.060 And it's just like, you do know what's going to happen, right? Oh yeah, listen, it's so Christian. 146 00:17:18.060 --> 00:17:25.500 Oh yes, I do know. I'm willing to go through the pain because it's only for a season and the results 147 00:17:25.500 --> 00:17:32.300 are joy. Jesus said, a woman has pain and travail until the baby is born. And then she's 148 00:17:34.300 --> 00:17:40.620 singing with great joy. I've seen it when our kids came out, all the screaming and 149 00:17:40.620 --> 00:17:46.220 hollering and all that stuff that happens. And then the baby comes out and then Lisa goes in 30 150 00:17:46.220 --> 00:17:55.180 seconds, screaming, crying to, crying with a smile. It's, Jesus is that's how it is. And for us, 151 00:17:55.180 --> 00:18:05.340 as believers, we're in this world, it's not long. And so on, we'll enter the kingdom of heaven, 152 00:18:05.340 --> 00:18:14.060 that's why Jesus said, you got to be born again into the kingdom of God. And our crying will be 153 00:18:14.060 --> 00:18:18.460 turned into joy. Our weeping into laughter. 154 00:18:23.740 --> 00:18:27.900 This Jack Hibbs podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, 155 00:18:27.900 --> 00:18:32.620 our listeners supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 156 00:18:33.340 --> 00:18:38.940 Go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected.