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 --> 00:00:10.880 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. The Holy Spirit in the life of 3 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:15.680 somebody who will repent and look to Christ will heal this nation and I might 4 00:00:15.680 --> 00:00:19.520 add it's the only thing that will heal this nation. The answer's not going to 5 00:00:19.520 --> 00:00:24.960 come in the next election or in any other location or from any other power 6 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:30.320 on earth. This nation is doomed without God. It's evident. Look around for 7 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:35.760 crying out loud. 8 00:00:35.760 --> 00:00:42.240 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 9 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:47.360 Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in 10 00:00:47.360 --> 00:00:52.560 Christ then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us that's 11 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:58.000 like saying amen or yes then that rating will encourage others to listen. 12 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:04.320 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 13 00:01:04.320 --> 00:01:08.400 When God moves, when God works in our lives I like to think of it this way for 14 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:13.760 every single one of us. God's got a destination for our lives. 15 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:18.560 That's important especially when you think about the Holy Spirit being our 16 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:26.320 guidance system our GPS and that is this that God's destination for us is more 17 00:01:26.320 --> 00:01:30.880 like this that you and I would have a heart to seek after God more and more. 18 00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:34.800 Did you know that's God's destination for your life? That you and I would seek God. 19 00:01:34.800 --> 00:01:38.800 So ask yourself this question. Do you have a heart that's seeking after God? 20 00:01:40.720 --> 00:01:44.640 Do you want to read his word? I'm not saying, listen I'm not saying, 21 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:48.480 do you want to read his word because you wake up and that you can hear birds singing 22 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:54.560 and that's little sun rays coming through and it's illuminating your Bible and you know I'm 23 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:59.760 that saying but I am saying this I want to read the word but there's a battle before 24 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:05.120 even get to my Bible that's 20 feet away from me. It's almost like it's a war zone. 25 00:02:06.080 --> 00:02:11.920 Does anybody know what I'm talking about? I know I should read it. I want to read it. I know he 26 00:02:11.920 --> 00:02:17.680 loves me. I love him. I'm going to go read it and how is it that between here and there the phone 27 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:24.560 rings five times. There's somebody at your door and your back door and everything's going crazy. 28 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:30.320 What in the world is going on? A spiritual war is taking place. Listen if you don't believe 29 00:02:30.320 --> 00:02:35.200 a word I'm saying I promise you this. Make an appointment with God today that you're going to 30 00:02:35.200 --> 00:02:38.960 get on your knees alongside your bed or whatever you do and you're going to pray to him. 31 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:44.560 That's all I'm going to ask you to do. The opposition will prove to you that God exists. 32 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:54.640 Strangest thing but for God's power. He wants you near. He wants you seeking him. 33 00:02:54.640 --> 00:02:58.400 And another thing is he wants you to draw closer to other believers. Did you know that? 34 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:03.440 It's called Coenania. Isn't it amazing? Listen I'm laying this stuff out there for you to judge 35 00:03:03.440 --> 00:03:10.320 yourself if you're of the spirit of God or not. Believers love to be around other believers. 36 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:17.920 And God the Holy Spirit that's in us it's a remarkable thing is where you and I can meet someone 37 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:24.320 and know them for five minutes and if they're really a true Christian you feel like you've known 38 00:03:24.320 --> 00:03:30.640 them forever. It's called Coenania. Have you noticed that you've met somebody who's a Christian 39 00:03:30.640 --> 00:03:36.160 and there's something like oh no that this you don't know anything about them you just know I don't 40 00:03:36.160 --> 00:03:42.480 know let's wait and see it's very listen the first time I ever experienced that in power is 41 00:03:44.160 --> 00:03:55.920 just early 1992 landed in Moscow and got to the streets the next day and gathered together 42 00:03:55.920 --> 00:04:02.000 some translators and we had crates and we stood up on these crates and we were going to preach 43 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:08.720 the gospel because Gorbachev had torn down the wall that Reagan told him about and it was just 44 00:04:09.920 --> 00:04:18.160 it was absolutely crazy in Russia and preaching the gospel and then somebody comes up 45 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:23.360 and they don't even speak English and you're talking with them through a translator and there's 46 00:04:23.760 --> 00:04:33.680 immediate bond and they're a believer God does that regardless of race by the way that's that's 47 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:38.320 the healing of our nation right here right now is the Holy Spirit living inside of you instead of 48 00:04:38.320 --> 00:04:43.920 you living inside of you the Holy Spirit in the life of somebody who will repent and look to Christ 49 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:49.920 will heal this nation and I might add it's the only thing that will heal this nation the answer's 50 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:56.480 not going to come in the next election or in any other location or from any other power on earth 51 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:01.760 this nation is doomed without God it's evident look around for crying out loud 52 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:09.040 and then what about this the destination of the Holy Spirit is to unlock the word of God to us 53 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:13.600 Jude chapter 1 verse 20 Jude 1 20 says this everybody 54 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:24.480 but you beloved building yourselves up on your most holy faith praying in the Holy Spirit keep 55 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:32.080 yourselves in the love of God looking for the mercy of the Lord Jesus unto eternal life that's 56 00:05:32.080 --> 00:05:38.320 his coming his rapture or death if you're going if you die or if the rapture were to happen today be 57 00:05:38.320 --> 00:05:45.040 looking for the mercy of the Lord Christ or Jesus Christ unto eternal life verse 24 now to him 58 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:51.040 not us him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you fault this before the presence of 59 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:55.840 his glory with exceeding joy this and Christian not only you're going to make it because the Holy 60 00:05:55.840 --> 00:06:00.240 Spirit will see to it when you arrive you're going to be very happy and excited about it it's 61 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:08.640 gonna be amazing Ephesians 2 verse 4 but God who is rich and mercy because of his great love with 62 00:06:08.640 --> 00:06:17.040 which he loved us even when we were dead in trespasses that is sinner made us alive together with 63 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:24.160 Christ for by grace you have been saved for verse 6 and raised us up together and made us 64 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:31.280 sit together notice the past tense this is wild past tense he loved us he made us alive he raised 65 00:06:31.280 --> 00:06:37.840 us up we sit together with him in the heavenly places verse 7 that in the ages to come he might show 66 00:06:37.840 --> 00:06:43.680 this is forever the exceeding riches of his grace and his kindness towards us in Christ Jesus is 67 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:50.080 that amazing it simply means this you guys you know when you walk by a jeweler store and the display 68 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:55.200 rack or whatever it is is draped in black but it's lit up with bright lights and you see the diamonds 69 00:06:55.200 --> 00:06:59.760 there in fact the lights are so bright and the background is so black you can't tell if they're 70 00:06:59.760 --> 00:07:04.240 diamonds or not whatever it is I mean you could put like a coke bottle there and it'd look amazing 71 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:09.680 that speaks to my heart because that's the meaning of that passage of that verse right there 72 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:18.240 is that for all eternity God is going to display his work that he worked in you this marvelous work 73 00:07:19.200 --> 00:07:26.640 it's absolutely amazing verse 8 says for by grace this is God's gift you have been saved 74 00:07:27.200 --> 00:07:33.840 past tense isn't that crazy is that amazing I'll explain in a moment and that not of yourselves it 75 00:07:33.840 --> 00:07:38.560 is the gift of God not of works less than anyone should boast you're not going to go to heaven by 76 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:44.160 being good you're going to get to heaven just like Nicodemus was invited to go to heaven and 77 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:51.520 that is Lord I can't save myself save me but notice the past tense past tense always past tense 78 00:07:51.520 --> 00:07:59.440 why watch this God in his theology you and I are living our life out right now in this world in 79 00:07:59.440 --> 00:08:03.760 this in this time are you with me you guys awake okay I just need a little bit of 80 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:17.680 so listen this is God in eternity this is life happening now and this is the end or eternity 81 00:08:19.520 --> 00:08:27.280 right now you and I are here God is eternal and this world had a beginning and this world will 82 00:08:27.280 --> 00:08:32.720 have an ending but the God of eternity is on both ends as two bookends think about that 83 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:39.280 and right now you and I are living our lives out having to choose between two worlds that were 84 00:08:39.280 --> 00:08:44.720 thrust upon us the world of darkness and evil that came to us by our original mom and dad Adam and 85 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:50.240 Eve because they chose they chose to rebel against God God made you the ability to choose and to 86 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:56.000 pick and to love or to hate and you've been you're the only thing in the universe created in this 87 00:08:56.000 --> 00:09:00.400 image he has a beginning and the as an end and what's being played out right here is a real 88 00:09:00.400 --> 00:09:06.560 issue of relationship how's it going to go are you in God's forever family have you chosen God 89 00:09:06.560 --> 00:09:12.320 does the spirit of Christ live in you and what are you doing with what he's given you at this time 90 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:22.800 so watch this all along the way he sees all he knows all imagine for a moment your kitchen table 91 00:09:22.800 --> 00:09:29.520 and there's an ant on the kitchen table walking around the earth is flat the earth is flat that's 92 00:09:29.520 --> 00:09:34.880 what he thinks he's on a kitchen table and you're looking does that ant have any idea that you're 93 00:09:34.880 --> 00:09:43.520 watching him not a clue and that end is there and you do one or two things you walk up and you 94 00:09:43.520 --> 00:09:53.440 just go with your thumb and he doesn't know anything it happens so quick it's over he's not like in 95 00:09:53.440 --> 00:10:03.920 eternity what happened bugs life gone kaput over or what if you put your finger down in the little 96 00:10:03.920 --> 00:10:07.840 ant crossed on your finger and you take him outside in the backyard and you put him on a rose 97 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:17.600 bush rapture heaven it's like how does happen he doesn't know what happened I tell us what happened 98 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:23.280 I was on a kitchen table that's all I could see and then all of a sudden I found myself being picked 99 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:30.640 and taken into paradise God's got to begin and God's got an end 100 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:39.360 and if you would think about that ant lifting up its front legs saying pick 101 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:46.480 pick me up right I want to know you God or you're so busy about living your life that you have 102 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:54.960 no time for God be very careful we also look at eternity when we see in verse 11 that he who 103 00:10:54.960 --> 00:11:01.280 raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies this is awesome mortal 104 00:11:01.280 --> 00:11:07.680 bodies meaning resurrection Christians do not believe in reincarnation that's an unbiblical view 105 00:11:07.920 --> 00:11:16.400 there is no recicitation there's resurrection what does that mean this is awesome did you know that if 106 00:11:16.400 --> 00:11:25.760 you if you got bit by a shark burned in a burned a death in a fire turned into dust we bury you at 107 00:11:25.760 --> 00:11:32.080 Rose Hills 35 years later we go back and we pick you up and there's nothing in there there's big 108 00:11:32.160 --> 00:11:38.560 wooden box and dust where is he did you know that every part of you but water is there 109 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:44.480 did you know that all the molecules that made up your flesh and your bones and your liver and 110 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:50.720 your kidney it's all there so man this I mean it's gonna look as big that's right that's about 111 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:59.200 that's about it look at me I'm an animated piece of flesh a lot a lot of moisture 112 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:07.360 but when that when listen when when my body dies it turns to dust scientifically your molecular 113 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:13.920 structure never changes molecules are still there is it a wild even though you can't see them 114 00:12:13.920 --> 00:12:22.800 perhaps or you can see a cluster of them when God resurrects he reassembles the actual parts of who 115 00:12:22.800 --> 00:12:29.360 you are this body of mine this body will be glorified it's this body that will be resurrected this 116 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:36.080 body will be changed it doesn't go away I don't get a new one like a new one I get a new one 117 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:43.680 that's refashioned but it's not anything less than resurrection why it's for eternity 118 00:12:44.640 --> 00:12:50.400 you should be comforted by that first Corinthians 15 verse four starts or verse 14 excuse me 119 00:12:50.400 --> 00:12:56.080 if Christ is not risen then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty verse 17 120 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:03.280 if Christ is not risen your faith is futile you are still in your sins verse 20 for now Christ is 121 00:13:03.280 --> 00:13:10.640 risen from the dead think about that for a moment Jesus is resurrected from the dead he rose from 122 00:13:10.640 --> 00:13:20.960 the grave you can't take a neutral position on this Jesus said bury me in three days I'll be 123 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:27.920 resurrected and people say well he was an enlightened one he's one of the great sages or gurus 124 00:13:27.920 --> 00:13:34.640 of all the religions of the world really when Jesus said if you die believing in me you'll live 125 00:13:34.640 --> 00:13:43.280 forever okay you know what that's those are the words of a lunatic unless the third day happens 126 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:51.760 Jesus says believe in me and your sins will be forgiven I'm going to die in the cross for your 127 00:13:51.760 --> 00:13:58.080 sins friends listen if you say that he's a good prophet if you say that he was a good person 128 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:03.600 frankly friend you know what you're talking about because if he didn't rise from the dead 129 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:10.320 he's the most mean wicked person that's ever lived because he gave promises of the ultimate false 130 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:18.560 hope but glory be to God on the third day the Bible tells us that not only God the Father raised 131 00:14:18.560 --> 00:14:23.440 him from the dead go figure this out God the Father raised him from the dead the Holy Spirit 132 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:28.800 raised him from the dead and Jesus said if I lay my life down I will raise it up again 133 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:35.120 God did that friends what an amazing thing and that will transform your life 134 00:14:36.640 --> 00:14:44.080 God want you to be living a resurrected life now that's why the Bible speaks to us in the past tense 135 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:50.480 you have been saved well my goodness if that's true then I don't need to walk around terrified 136 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:54.960 or questioning or wondering if I'm going to go to heaven or not or what I should do about this 137 00:14:54.960 --> 00:15:00.800 or that do the right thing he'll give you the power to do it you recognize the right thing do it 138 00:15:01.520 --> 00:15:09.840 but it's not popular do it truth the Bible tells us and 2 Corinthians 4 verse 16 therefore we do not 139 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:19.280 lose heart don't don't give up even though our outward man is perishing isn't that true how many 140 00:15:19.280 --> 00:15:27.840 if you had Advil before he came to church this morning yeah I should have we should have invested 141 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:31.440 in when I was younger I should have bought stock in that company I didn't know things were 142 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:37.600 going to go this way I thought Christ would come back before my back hurt this bed yet the 143 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:41.760 inward man is being renewed day by day isn't that awesome the inside of you is growing while the 144 00:15:41.760 --> 00:15:49.680 outside have used diminishing man that's exciting every time I feel the pain or I'm wondering 145 00:15:49.680 --> 00:15:56.320 is this it it's like oh no I'm serious you guys listen I don't know what it is man something 146 00:15:56.320 --> 00:16:01.520 about me and water three times I almost died and three times it was in water but I doesn't keep 147 00:16:01.520 --> 00:16:09.680 me from going to the water but swimming I told you this before swimming in Hawaii snorkeling around 148 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:17.280 and I should have known better but the tide I was in a shallow harbor or a shallow bay and that's 149 00:16:17.280 --> 00:16:23.760 not a good prescription when the tide is lowering you never want to be in a shallow location because 150 00:16:23.760 --> 00:16:30.000 it's like a Venturi effect when the water begins to drain it drains fast in shallow water so I'm 151 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:37.520 swimming back to shore and I'm going backwards and I'm probably 200 yards from shore and I'm not 152 00:16:37.520 --> 00:16:46.400 going to make it now I'm so tired I just said Lord this is it take care of my wife take care of my 153 00:16:46.400 --> 00:16:53.120 kids my grandkids God you've been so good to me I'm just talking to them I lay in my back because 154 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:57.680 I'm just laying on my back and I can't go anywhere I can't it's just not working it's just pulling me 155 00:16:57.680 --> 00:17:06.880 out and the next thing I know I'm just dragging and scraping on a reef that was just below the surface 156 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:15.360 and there's blood everywhere seriously I got let's just and I was so happy I'm bleeding and it's 157 00:17:15.360 --> 00:17:22.320 like I don't care I'll a shark come I'll put you out and then I had to wait for the longest time the 158 00:17:22.320 --> 00:17:26.480 the tide going out stopped and then it hit equilibrium and then I swim in and they've got to the 159 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:31.280 beach and I'm on the beach and I'm walking back to Lisa she's like this she knew nothing about 160 00:17:31.280 --> 00:17:40.560 how I'm out there and I'm walking and people are running up to me it was so it was so 161 00:17:40.560 --> 00:17:46.240 impressive that the sand where my feet were was it was red and people were are you okay are you 162 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:53.840 okay you're bleeding are you okay I'm fine thank you fine why the whole thing was this I it's not 163 00:17:53.840 --> 00:17:59.680 that I got saved by the reef that God allowed me to be placed on it's the fact that this is what I 164 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:06.000 was rejoicing about wow Lord I came that close and it's okay you and I are okay it's good 165 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:11.760 peace in that moment listen you want to know for sure you've got peace in that moment 166 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:19.600 you want to make sure that's certain I finally wanned with this in verse 11 is that and that is the 167 00:18:19.600 --> 00:18:26.080 spirit of resurrection is the spirit of glory glory I know this sounds weird and we're too humble 168 00:18:26.080 --> 00:18:34.400 falsely to say I want glory well you're gonna have glory God style and it's nothing like this world 169 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:40.240 does you know this world does glory for a little bit and by the way the glory that the world gives 170 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:47.200 it's this like really that's it and now you win this prize that's it if you're at a new car 171 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:53.040 and you like worship the thing but God's got your washing is not even dirty your washing it again 172 00:18:53.520 --> 00:19:02.240 and you know you got the bug when you park it way out in the parking lot of the mall it's way out 173 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:15.760 there and somehow God will send an angel to dent the door or he's I'd like I'm serious I don't know 174 00:19:15.760 --> 00:19:21.760 how this happens but you can be so careful and angel shows up with this wing it goes and you get 175 00:19:21.760 --> 00:19:25.920 out there and just like oh no and then like three days later you get over the trauma and then 176 00:19:25.920 --> 00:19:31.440 you're using the card of push shopping cards out of the way and you don't care anymore it's over 177 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:39.280 that's the glory of the world it's fleeting right it's fleeting but the glory that God gives 178 00:19:39.280 --> 00:19:45.760 it's forever it's through his spirit who dwells in you the spirit of God that dwells within you 179 00:19:45.760 --> 00:19:50.160 will never leave you the Bible says he's never gonna abandon you we've all been abandoned he'll 180 00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:53.520 never abandon you he'll take care of you 181 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:03.200 this jack hips podcast as well as all the broadcast out reach opportunities are listeners 182 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:10.800 supported will you consider partnering with us through a special gift go to jackhybs.com to learn 183 00:20:10.800 --> 00:20:17.840 more and stay connected this episode is brought to you by progressive insurance do you ever think 184 00:20:17.840 --> 00:20:22.240 about switching insurance companies to see if you could save some cash progressive makes it easy 185 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:26.400 just drop in some details about yourself and see if you're eligible to save money when you bundle 186 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:31.040 your home and auto policies 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