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 --> 00:00:10.600 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. When you're in trouble, if you 3 00:00:10.600 --> 00:00:15.160 don't confess it to God, you'll try to hide from God. How will you do that? You'll 4 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:18.620 try to act like it's normal. You'll go to church on Sunday. If you're really 5 00:00:18.620 --> 00:00:23.280 guilty, you'll show up on Wednesday and God sees right through your leaves. And 6 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:27.900 they're hiding it. Religion does that by the way. Religion without Christ will 7 00:00:27.900 --> 00:00:35.860 hide the issue. You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jack 8 00:00:35.860 --> 00:00:42.900 Hibbs.com slash podcast. Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to 9 00:00:42.900 --> 00:00:46.580 live a more fulfilled life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those 10 00:00:46.580 --> 00:00:52.660 five star ratings. To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will 11 00:00:52.660 --> 00:00:57.620 encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to 12 00:00:57.620 --> 00:01:03.500 you. Here is Jack Hibbs. We give God our attention because of what has been 13 00:01:03.500 --> 00:01:08.260 done for you, done for us. He says, I beseech you therefore brethren by the 14 00:01:08.260 --> 00:01:16.100 mercies of God. I love this by the mercies of God. The word by means on account of 15 00:01:16.100 --> 00:01:21.740 it's a simple accounting term, by the way, afterward the conclusion or the 16 00:01:21.740 --> 00:01:27.860 charge or the application, the application of the mercies of God. Galatians 17 00:01:27.860 --> 00:01:32.500 chapter four verse four tells us that when the fullness of time had come, God sent 18 00:01:32.500 --> 00:01:37.340 forth his son, born of a woman, born under the law. Why? To redeem those who were 19 00:01:37.340 --> 00:01:42.620 under the law, that's all mankind, that we might receive the adoption as sons. 20 00:01:42.620 --> 00:01:48.780 Okay? Just the right time God moved. The reason why Christ was born two thousand 21 00:01:48.780 --> 00:01:52.500 years ago is because it was forwarded by God that he would come into the world 22 00:01:52.500 --> 00:01:58.580 two thousand years ago. Not about you, but that excites me to no end. When you 23 00:01:58.580 --> 00:02:01.940 look at creation, when you look at Adam and Eve, when you look at the account of 24 00:02:01.940 --> 00:02:09.420 the Old Testament era and Israel and nation and nations and you come out to 25 00:02:09.420 --> 00:02:13.700 this moment of time now, it's a great warning to all of us or great 26 00:02:13.700 --> 00:02:19.180 encouragement to all of us that time is running out. We've never been this far 27 00:02:19.180 --> 00:02:25.380 down the timeline before than we are today and I, for one, get excited about that. 28 00:02:25.380 --> 00:02:33.300 Yeah, but Jesus hasn't come back yet. Not yet, but we're one day closer. He's 29 00:02:33.300 --> 00:02:37.700 going to come back someday. But listen, see the word mercies? This is cool. The 30 00:02:37.700 --> 00:02:44.340 word mercies, to have in your possession, to feel, to experience, to have 31 00:02:44.340 --> 00:02:51.180 compassion for our pity upon. We will discover that this God emotion will 32 00:02:51.180 --> 00:02:56.100 provide the justification needed for mankind to be saved more than that in a 33 00:02:56.100 --> 00:03:01.140 moment. Jesus Christ would come to take away our sins, watch this. The God of the 34 00:03:01.140 --> 00:03:09.220 Bible is merciful, meaning that He alone owns, governs and provides mercy. What 35 00:03:09.220 --> 00:03:14.100 is mercy? Mercy is not getting what you deserve. How many of you have kids? Raise 36 00:03:14.100 --> 00:03:17.580 your hands. You know a little bit about mercy. Your kid hasn't grown up enough yet 37 00:03:17.580 --> 00:03:23.620 to know, boy, well, we're my parents merciful to me. But we're like that. As adults, 38 00:03:23.620 --> 00:03:29.980 we don't realize, we don't appreciate mercy until we come to Christ and mercy is 39 00:03:29.980 --> 00:03:41.660 not getting what you deserve. It's amazing. And it's very expensive. Mercy is 40 00:03:41.660 --> 00:03:52.460 expensive. Adam and Eve, when they send, I want to ask you this question, why 41 00:03:52.460 --> 00:03:59.300 didn't God, when he saw that Adam and Eve had sinned, just walk over to the 42 00:03:59.300 --> 00:04:06.860 grand cosmic toilet bowl handle and flush the entire catastrophe down the 43 00:04:06.860 --> 00:04:14.980 hole? Why didn't he just say, I'm going to start over? I know what we would do. 44 00:04:14.980 --> 00:04:19.020 That's come, that's be honest. If you and I were God, we'd walk over to the cosmic 45 00:04:19.020 --> 00:04:26.020 toilet and just go after Adam and Eve would have done that to us. And don't look at me 46 00:04:26.020 --> 00:04:31.900 so pious. You do that to people now, don't we? If somebody crosses you, if somebody 47 00:04:31.900 --> 00:04:36.860 attacks you, if somebody whatever they do to you, you just think like this while I'm 48 00:04:36.860 --> 00:04:42.300 not inviting them next year, don't you? You start thinking, I'm not going to walk down 49 00:04:42.300 --> 00:04:49.340 this street again. Are you hearing me? God, listen, all that's done to God in 50 00:04:49.340 --> 00:04:55.260 hyper levels. And God says, I'm going to extend you mercy. And man came through 51 00:04:55.260 --> 00:05:03.620 it back at him. Remarkable. God calls you and I to extend mercy to others. I 52 00:05:03.620 --> 00:05:13.340 conclude that I cannot without God. I need God to give that to me. Now prove it to 53 00:05:13.340 --> 00:05:18.420 you here. Genesis chapter 3, you kind of knew I was going to go here anyway. Before I 54 00:05:18.420 --> 00:05:25.300 read this here, this is a be beware. There's on your internet, on your YouTube or 55 00:05:25.300 --> 00:05:29.300 whatever. There'll be a thumbnail that pops up and you can sign up for a course on 56 00:05:29.300 --> 00:05:37.500 Genesis. Don't do it. First of all, it's not taught by a theologian. It's taught by 57 00:05:37.500 --> 00:05:43.260 somebody who is an English teacher, but I guess a million or so people have taken it in 58 00:05:43.260 --> 00:05:50.580 the class teaches Genesis as literature and poetic. It's not factual. And in the 59 00:05:50.580 --> 00:05:59.700 commercial, the professor mocks the ridiculous statement made in the Bible that the serpent 60 00:05:59.700 --> 00:06:03.820 would have to crawl on its belly from this time forward when the person says, how ridiculous 61 00:06:03.820 --> 00:06:08.340 is that? When serpents, that's all they can do is crawl on their belly. See, if you don't 62 00:06:08.340 --> 00:06:12.540 read the Bible and believe the Bible, you're going to think that's how it is. You're going 63 00:06:12.540 --> 00:06:18.660 to see in a moment that the serpent in Genesis didn't crawl on its belly. It was judged 64 00:06:18.660 --> 00:06:26.220 and then it had to crawl on its belly. But this course mocks God. And then it mocks the 65 00:06:26.220 --> 00:06:32.420 fact that Eve talked to a serpent. He said, well, that's kind of weird. It is weird in our world. 66 00:06:32.420 --> 00:06:40.900 But you have no idea what it was like in the Garden of Eden. We know it was perfect. That's 67 00:06:40.980 --> 00:06:52.500 all we know. Now the serpent was more cunning, remarkable. Something very great in God's creation, 68 00:06:52.500 --> 00:07:01.220 something very wise, probably beautiful, probably stood upright in some capacity. That 69 00:07:01.220 --> 00:07:05.460 kind of freaked you out for a moment, isn't it? I don't like snakes, period. If they're standing 70 00:07:05.460 --> 00:07:14.980 up or laying down, I just hate them. I hate worms because they remind me of snakes. Now the 71 00:07:14.980 --> 00:07:21.380 serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he, the 72 00:07:21.380 --> 00:07:29.700 serpent, said to the woman, okay, there you go. That's weird. So if this is weird to her, Eve, 73 00:07:29.700 --> 00:07:38.020 don't you think she'd say, this is weird. This is weird. We think it's weird. She didn't think it 74 00:07:38.020 --> 00:07:46.740 was weird, which did animals talk back then. Let me replace that. Do you talk to animals? 75 00:07:49.700 --> 00:07:56.420 You know what I'm talking about? We all do. Hello, Katie. Hi, Katie. And we turn into like, 76 00:07:56.420 --> 00:07:59.620 we look like idiots. Oh, look at my little boob again. 77 00:08:04.900 --> 00:08:10.260 You know, our dogs aren't you a pretty boy. I want to know what the dog's thinking. It's like, 78 00:08:10.260 --> 00:08:19.220 man, have some dignity. Will you? You got to wonder. Look for Eve. It's like, what's normal here? 79 00:08:19.220 --> 00:08:25.780 And he said to the woman, has God indeed said, you shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 80 00:08:26.580 --> 00:08:29.460 Excuse me. What does the Bible say? Do not add to the word of God. 81 00:08:32.820 --> 00:08:41.140 There's no doubt Satan has possessed this animal. He's speaking through it. Any time someone says, 82 00:08:41.140 --> 00:08:48.020 has God said, like I don't mean to upset anybody. In fact, maybe to save someone's life, has 83 00:08:48.020 --> 00:08:54.900 God said there's only two genders? Oh, you laugh, but this is costing people their lives. 84 00:08:57.060 --> 00:09:01.220 Who's taking their lives? Jesus said, I've come to give you life. Satan has come to take your 85 00:09:01.220 --> 00:09:05.380 life. When somebody says, oh, you can be, you can be whatever you want. You can be a furry. 86 00:09:07.860 --> 00:09:14.020 You can tell your mom and dad to get you a potty, a cat. What do you call that thing? 87 00:09:14.020 --> 00:09:23.780 A cat box. No, I'm serious. I'm not joking. Who's logic is that? It's not human. It's Satan. 88 00:09:27.060 --> 00:09:34.100 Yes, God said, you shall not eat of every tree of the garden. And the woman said to the serpent, 89 00:09:34.100 --> 00:09:40.420 we may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the 90 00:09:40.420 --> 00:09:45.700 midst of the garden. God has said, you shall not eat nor shall you touch it, lest you die. 91 00:09:46.660 --> 00:09:53.620 Then the serpent said to the woman, you will not surely die. Okay, now God's a liar. You see? 92 00:09:55.220 --> 00:10:04.340 Eve, he's holding out on you. You shall not surely die. For God knows that the day you eat, 93 00:10:04.500 --> 00:10:11.540 your eyes will be opened. Oh, now he's a philosopher. And you will be like God knowing good and evil. 94 00:10:11.540 --> 00:10:19.540 Any religion, any snake that talks to you and says, you can become a God. Follow us. It worked in 95 00:10:19.540 --> 00:10:25.220 the garden. It worked still today. You can be good enough to get into the kingdom of God. Yes, 96 00:10:25.220 --> 00:10:33.220 Jesus died for your sins, but we carry it now forward. Watch out, everybody. That's deception. 97 00:10:34.580 --> 00:10:42.340 And so, when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, 98 00:10:42.340 --> 00:10:48.100 hmm, tempting. It's good for it. This tastes great. Oh, it tastes so good. You should have some 99 00:10:48.100 --> 00:10:56.260 tastes so good. That it was pleasant to the eyes. Look at that. I'm convinced, by the way, 100 00:10:56.980 --> 00:11:05.860 commercials and catalogs are built off of this. Watch, seriously. Taste great. So beautiful. 101 00:11:06.900 --> 00:11:16.660 And look, it's desirable to make you wise. Wow. What does that mean? It means God made me deficient. 102 00:11:18.420 --> 00:11:23.540 It means he didn't give me everything that I should have had coming to me. This serpent's telling me 103 00:11:23.540 --> 00:11:30.820 some pretty enlightening things, even though there's a lift. But every time he says something, 104 00:11:32.660 --> 00:11:41.380 so easy. And this, you know, this gets really sad real fast. 105 00:11:43.780 --> 00:11:51.220 And then she took of the, it's fridinate. She also gave to her husband. By the way, that it appears 106 00:11:51.220 --> 00:11:56.580 that either, no one knows the answer to this. It's assumed that Adam was nowhere around. It's 107 00:11:56.580 --> 00:12:03.300 probably the case or as he would have stepped in. We don't know if she took the fruit to him 108 00:12:04.020 --> 00:12:09.380 or he showed up. But this one thing we know, the moment they partook or the moment she partook of 109 00:12:09.380 --> 00:12:18.420 the fruit, you'll see her light went out. When it says that they were naked and not ashamed, 110 00:12:18.820 --> 00:12:25.700 I love what the ancient rabbis teach, that they were not naked like we know nakedness. They were naked 111 00:12:25.700 --> 00:12:31.780 of clothing, but covered in light, Adam and Eve. Why? Because God is light. And he walks in the light, 112 00:12:32.340 --> 00:12:38.100 and they walked with him in the garden. But whatever it is without clothing, without fabric, she 113 00:12:38.100 --> 00:12:44.500 eats and he eats and they know they're naked instantly. What happened? The light went out. 114 00:12:44.660 --> 00:12:52.740 They're light went out. And so then the eyes of both of them were open and they knew that they 115 00:12:52.740 --> 00:12:59.460 were naked and they sowed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. Church, remember all the 116 00:12:59.460 --> 00:13:09.140 little cartoons, Eve's got little fig leaves here. She got a fig leaf there. And then Adam has 117 00:13:09.140 --> 00:13:15.540 fig leaf here. That's not how it was. I think you know just by reading it. They were covered in 118 00:13:15.540 --> 00:13:19.700 leaves. They covered themselves in leaves like the Jolly Green giant head leaves on the can. 119 00:13:21.060 --> 00:13:25.380 And maybe if there was anything, they had, their eyes were open to see something and maybe they 120 00:13:25.380 --> 00:13:32.180 had leaves on their eyelashes. I don't know. But they were covered. Why? We're hiding. Can you imagine? 121 00:13:32.180 --> 00:13:37.300 What are you doing? We're hiding from who? God, who sees everything? And he knows everything. 122 00:13:39.460 --> 00:13:45.220 Why are you hiding? Naked. Well, you don't look naked to me. You're covered in leaves. 123 00:13:45.220 --> 00:13:53.620 Our light went out. And they heard the sound, verse 8, and they heard the sound of the Lord God 124 00:13:53.620 --> 00:13:58.340 walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence 125 00:13:58.340 --> 00:14:02.500 of the Lord. Isn't that sad? Among the trees of the garden. By the way, when we sin against God, 126 00:14:02.500 --> 00:14:08.180 do we not hide? When we sin against God, listen, when you're kids, when you know, listen, 127 00:14:08.180 --> 00:14:13.460 when you're home and you've got kids and the house goes quiet, 128 00:14:16.420 --> 00:14:23.460 that's parents go, wait, something's wrong. Why? It's so quiet. What does that mean? 129 00:14:23.460 --> 00:14:28.020 That means they're doing stuff they ought not to be doing. Why? They're hiding and then you come 130 00:14:28.020 --> 00:14:35.620 down the hallway and they cover themselves because here comes Mom and Dad. This is evidence of our 131 00:14:35.620 --> 00:14:42.740 fallen, Adamic nature. When you're in trouble, if you don't confess it to God, you'll try to hide 132 00:14:42.740 --> 00:14:47.380 from God. How will you do that? You'll try to act like it's normal. You'll go to church on Sunday. 133 00:14:48.420 --> 00:14:54.820 If you're really guilty, you'll show up on Wednesday. I'm not, you know what I mean? If you go 134 00:14:54.820 --> 00:14:59.780 on Sundays and Wednesdays, that's what you do. But when you start all of a sudden going after the 135 00:14:59.780 --> 00:15:06.900 event, you're trying to cover, you're trying to, hey God, look, Sam here. It's all good. And God sees 136 00:15:06.900 --> 00:15:14.820 right through your leaves. And they're hiding it. Religion does that, by the way. Religion without 137 00:15:14.820 --> 00:15:26.340 Christ will hide the issue. And so he said, so God says, where are you? So he said, watch everybody. 138 00:15:26.340 --> 00:15:31.060 I heard your voice, Adam speaking in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I 139 00:15:31.060 --> 00:15:37.060 hid myself. Number one, everybody, church participate. Did God, did God have to ask where are you? 140 00:15:37.060 --> 00:15:40.740 Did he know where they were? He knew where they were at. Watch. I hope you're sitting down. 141 00:15:40.820 --> 00:15:47.140 This will blow your mind. The reason why God said, where are you? It's because he was trying to invoke 142 00:15:47.140 --> 00:15:54.740 a confession. Do you know, we know this 100% from biblical doctrine of the Bible, which never changes. 143 00:15:54.740 --> 00:16:04.340 If Adam and Eve would have said, time out, we blew it. We sinned against you God. Please forgive us. 144 00:16:04.340 --> 00:16:08.660 You know what he would have done? He either would have forgiven them on the spot or he would have 145 00:16:08.660 --> 00:16:15.460 shed the innocent blood of an animal and applied it to them on the spot. Everything would have been 146 00:16:15.460 --> 00:16:23.940 fine. We wouldn't have the traffic that we have today. So watch what happens. He was trying to get 147 00:16:23.940 --> 00:16:33.460 them to confess things that we won't do if we're proud. And so I heard your voice in the garden 148 00:16:33.460 --> 00:16:39.140 and I was afraid I was a naked. Verse 11, and he said, who told you that you were naked? 149 00:16:40.100 --> 00:16:46.100 Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat? Did God not know this? 150 00:16:47.300 --> 00:16:55.060 Confession. He sees dialing down. Adam is going to give you another chance. Just say you're sorry. 151 00:16:55.380 --> 00:17:08.180 Verse 12, then the man said, the woman whom you gave to me, to be with me, she gave me of the tree 152 00:17:08.180 --> 00:17:18.980 and ate. It's your fault, God. You gave me that faulty woman. And the Lord said, and the Lord 153 00:17:18.980 --> 00:17:24.900 God said to the woman, what is this you have done? And the woman said, that serpent deceived me. 154 00:17:25.620 --> 00:17:29.940 And I ate. You see, it's everybody's fault. Look, Adam didn't have a leg to stand on. He didn't 155 00:17:29.940 --> 00:17:33.300 have a leg to stand on. And then when God got down with his snake, he didn't have a leg to stand on 156 00:17:33.300 --> 00:17:42.500 either. Notice God's the one. Are you hearing this? God's the one that's in trouble. You did it 157 00:17:42.500 --> 00:17:50.260 all wrong. Do you not hear people saying that today? Nothing's changed. Unless we are born again 158 00:17:50.260 --> 00:17:59.060 and made brand new by the Spirit of God, the paracletos, we will think and act and live just like 159 00:17:59.060 --> 00:18:08.420 this. These are our parents apart from Christ. And we have their DNA, S-I-N positive. We have it. 160 00:18:09.380 --> 00:18:15.540 We gravitate to it. And then listen, this is in the new New Living Translation, verse 21, 161 00:18:15.540 --> 00:18:22.420 that's great. And the Lord God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and his wife. 162 00:18:23.940 --> 00:18:27.940 Okay, they're not going to repent. They're not going to repent. So what does God do? He covers their 163 00:18:27.940 --> 00:18:36.900 nakedness, an innocent animal that had nothing to do with this entire event, had to die. The first 164 00:18:36.980 --> 00:18:42.740 death in the Bible is an animal being sacrificed to cover the sins of Adam and Eve. 165 00:18:44.260 --> 00:18:52.180 I find that incredibly significant because listen, in a way, in a way, the last animal offered 166 00:18:52.980 --> 00:18:57.780 was for the forgiveness of all mankind. But of course, I mean that with affection, the Lamb of God 167 00:18:57.780 --> 00:19:04.820 who takes away the sins of the world, Jesus. But notice it is God who commits the first offering. 168 00:19:05.700 --> 00:19:14.180 Not man. It's God. He loves you so much that he's telling you this announcement that I 169 00:19:14.180 --> 00:19:20.660 beseech you therefore, written by the mercies of God. God's merciful to anyone who will say, 170 00:19:20.660 --> 00:19:29.300 Lord, I've sinned against you. Forgive me. And he'll wash you. He'll cleanse you and put you right 171 00:19:29.380 --> 00:19:39.140 where you need to be. 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